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Water Street Upgrades Text Amendment
Update June 21, 2016 - Approved!
On June 21, 2016, the City Council adopted the Water Street Upgrades Text Amendment with modifications.
The Department of City Planning (DCP), the Alliance for Downtown New York (ADNY),, and the New York City Economic Development Corporation (EDC) are proposing a zoning text amendment to Manhattan Community District 1’s Special Lower Manhattan District (along and near Water Street) to:
allow by Chairperson certification and City Planning Commission authorization the infill of existing arcades for retail use and the improvement of existing plazas;
allow public events, programs and the placement of publicly accessible tables and chairs within plazas and arcades as-of-right ;
continue to allow cafes within arcades by certification.
The proposed text amendment would apply to the area generally bounded by Pearl Street and South William Street to the west, Fulton Street to the north, South Street to the east, and Whitehall Street to the south (the “Water Street Subdistrict”). Within this area are 20 buildings with a total of approximately 225,000 square feet of public plazas and 110,000 square feet of arcades that generated more than 2.5 million square feet of bonus floor area.
The proposed zoning text amendment would apply to the plazas and arcades located within the Water Street Subdistrict. View a larger image.
Arcades are continuous covered areas along a building frontage that are open to a street or plaza, and are free and clear of obstructions. While the Water Street arcades were intended to provide a continuous covered pathway along the street, they set the ground floors away from the sidewalk; are too deep or too narrow; have columns that are too thick or too close to one another; have low levels of lighting; and often dead-end. These issues, together, make the arcades unattractive for pedestrian use and do not contribute to improving pedestrian circulation along the street. Furthermore, by causing the building ground floors to be set back from the sidewalk, ground floor uses have limited visibility and fail to engage passersby, thereby affecting the vitality of these commercial spaces and causing many of the ground floors to be used for unengaging lobby uses instead.
Arcade at 7 Hanover Square
Arcade at 32 Old Slip.
Plazas are public spaces that are open and exposed to the sky and may, depending on the year the space was developed, contain amenities such as seating and trees. The Water Street plazas often lack any planting and are dominated by hardscape; there are few, if any, seating opportunities; are lined with blank walls and lobbies; the largest plazas are too large and do not relate well to pedestrians; and the smallest plazas are too narrow and effectively serve as pedestrian circulation space. These plazas were provided at a time when no amenities were required; plazas today are subject to improved design requirements that require many amenities such as seating, planting, and retail frontages.
Plaza at One New York Plaza
Plaza at 160 Water Street.
The improvements that would be facilitated by the proposed zoning text amendment would, among other things, create opportunities for: (1) the creation of active, visible, and useful retail and service establishments for nearby residents, workers, and visitors; (2) the provision of useful amenities such as seating, planting, drinking fountains, and improved lighting to offer safe and comfortable public spaces for many types of users; and (3) events and the temporary activation of larger public spaces that lend themselves to such activities. The proposed zoning text amendment would also fulfill the resilience initiatives identified for the Water Street area in the City’s A Stronger, More Resilient New York report.
Tools and Proposed Zoning Text
Arcade Infill and Active Retail Uses
The proposed zoning text would allow horizontal enlargements (“infill”) within underperforming arcades for retail and lobby uses by certification or authorization as part of comprehensive upgrades to building ground floors. New building walls would extend for the full height and length of an arcade, and would be located at or near the outside face of a column. Uses located within arcade infill would be retail uses that are typical of streets such as Fulton Street and Broadway, but are intended to primarily serve nearby residents and employees. Restaurants, clothing stores, drug stores, and art galleries are among the many types of uses that could be located within arcade infill. Lobbies for the primary building use (office or residential) would still have frontage on the ground floor, but their presence (i.e. amount of occupied street frontage) would be reduced from the full frontage lobbies that are typical of Water Street today.
Most, if not all, buildings in the Water Street Subdistrict are not able to utilize the existing Chairperson certification (Section 33-124(a)) or the existing CPC special permit (Section 74-761) to eliminate the entirety of their arcades and have enough floor area available for infill. The proposed zoning text will exempt the new arcade infill from the definition of floor area, subject to the requirements described above and the provision of an improved plaza.
Arcade infill will bring the ground floor activity closer to the sidewalk to more effectively engage pedestrians and help improve the vitality of potential retail uses. Infill along plazas will help promote utilization of the public spaces, and will provide active uses with increased foot traffic that could make the public spaces inviting and safe. Infill that extends for the full length, depth, and height of an arcade would maintain the strong street wall condition of the existing Water Street buildings while ensuring that no uninviting, narrow “leftover” spaces are created within the already-underutilized arcades.
Improving Public Plazas
When an arcade infilled for retail use, significant improvements to existing plazas on the zoning lot would be required. Plazas would be upgraded to more closely meet the design standards for new public spaces contained in Section 37-70 of the Zoning Resolution. Useful public amenities such as trees, planting, fixed and moveable seating, drinking fountains, lighting, public space signage and bicycle racks would be provided. The plaza upgrades would need to fully comply with the modified plaza regulations of the proposed zoning text amendment, which are intended to facilitate the creation of usable, quality, and safe public spaces while also recognizing the practical challenges that may be presented by existing site conditions (i.e. subsurface conditions, irregular plaza configuration, changes in elevation, etc.).
Existing view of 1 New York Plaza looking north.
An example of how the provisions of the proposed zoning text could be implemented at 1 New York Plaza.
Activating Plazas
The proposed zoning text would facilitate more activity in plazas and arcades along Water Street by allowing free, non-ticketed events as-of-right. The types of programming that are expected would be similar to the Downtown Alliance’s “Game On!” series of events that took place over the past two summers within many of the Water Street plazas. Examples of events and programming include farmers’ markets, shuffleboard, mini golf, beer gardens, food truck festivals, and music performances.
The proposed zoning text would also allow movable public seating to be placed within the plazas and arcades as-of-right. The placement of tables and chairs is a low-cost, high-impact means of temporarily and immediately activating public spaces by providing much-needed seating opportunities, especially in plazas that lack any amenities.
Flood Resilience
Ground floor commercial uses may employ temporary flood control devices that would be deployed before a storm and disassembled after the storm. Such systems may involve shields that are placed between building columns, or an off-building system that is anchored to the building structure at several locations. Such systems may be more structural in nature (secured to the ground and/or building), unlike the temporary barriers that many existing buildings within the flood zone throughout New York may have already implemented.
The issues of simultaneously seeking flood-resistant retail space while continuing to provide active retail space and street life is not unique to Water Street. Resilient Retail is a planning initiative to strengthen retail corridors throughout the City’s floodplain with the goal of developing land use recommendations to help businesses and the neighborhoods they serve withstand and recover quickly from future storms and flood events.
View the proposed text amendment.
On January 19, 2016 the proposed Water Street Upgrades Text Amendment (N 106166 ZRM) was referred to Manhattan Community Board 1 and the Manhattan Borough President.
On March 30, 2016, the City Planning Commission held a public hearing on the proposed text amendment.
Land Use Review Milestone
Department of City Planning Referral January 19, 2016
Community Board Approval March 22, 2016
Borough President Approval March 25, 2016
City Planning Commission Public Hearing March 30, 2016
City Planning Commission Approval with modifications*
View the CPC Report. April 25, 2016
City Council Adoption with Modifications** June 21, 2016
* CPC modifications:
On April 25, 2016, the Commission approved the proposed text amendment with the following modifications:
Establishment of a 45-day timeframe for the Community Board to review certifications for arcade infill and plaza improvements
Expansion of the requirement for multiple establishments on the longest frontage of arcade infill to facilitate retail variety
Exclusion of Use Group 5A (hotel rooms) from locating within arcade infill
* City Council modifications:
On June 21, 2016, the City Council adopted the Water Street Upgrades Text Amendment with the following modifications:
The approval process for arcade infill and plaza upgrades:
Infill of 7,500 square feet or greater will require a special permit pursuant to a new Section 91-85. Any area that was previously approved by a certification or authorization must be included in the calculation of the total area, except for any indoor public space which can be excluded.
Infill at 200 Water Street and 75 Wall Street, which was previously permitted by certification, is now permitted by authorization .
Applications for certifications for arcade infill and plaza improvements must be referred to the Council Member in addition to the Community Board.
Periodic compliance reports for improved plazas and new indoor public spaces must be sent to the Council Member, in addition to the Community Board and the Director of the Department of City Planning.
Requirements for uses within arcade infill:
More restrictions on the uses permitted within arcade infill (per the Use Groups).
Frontage restrictions are established for banks (30 feet) and drug stores (50 feet).
Addition of a finding to the authorization to modify design requirements (Section 91-842).
For buildings with multiple arcade openings , if any portion of the arcade remains open (and the other portions are filled in), requirements for lighting, transparency and the treatment of building walls apply.
Holding events in plazas and arcades:
Notification must be given to the Community Board, Borough President and Council Member of any event at least 30 days before the scheduled date.
Minor edits to clarify some of the language .
On December 13, 2017, the City Planning Commission approved an authorization to allow the partial infill of the arcade and full improvement of the plazas at 200 Water Street (N 170284 ZAM). This is the first application under the Water Street Upgrades Text Amendment to be approved. Read the statement by Chair Lago. An abbreviated version of this statement was delivered at the December 13, 2017 public meeting prior to the vote.
For more information, contact the Manhattan Office of the Department of City Planning at 212-720-3400.
Water Street POPS Upgrades Initiative
View the report
In the summer of 2013, the Department of City Planning and the NYC Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC) launched the Water Street POPS Upgrades Initiative to encourage and facilitate the transformation of the corridor’s privately owned public spaces (POPS) and ground floor retail spaces into active and welcoming destinations. A consultant team helped develop design concepts for comprehensive upgrades to the street’s POPS and building ground floors. The study, which builds upon other past DCP initiatives such as the Lower Manhattan Arcades Text Amendment and the Water Street POPS Programming, focuses on the nineteen buildings within the area generally bounded by Fulton, Pearl, Whitehall, and South Streets that have one or more POPS. The study presents a framework for comprehensive upgrades and informed the proposed amendments to the Zoning Resolution to facilitate the improvements envisioned in this report.
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(→Controlled Random Search (CRS) with local mutation)
* Eligius M. T. Hendrix, P. M. Ortigosa, and I. García, "On success rates for controlled random search," ''J. Global Optim.'' '''21''', p. 239-263 (2001). * Eligius M. T. Hendrix, P. M. Ortigosa, and I. García, "On success rates for controlled random search," ''J. Global Optim.'' '''21''', p. 239-263 (2001).
- The initial population size for CRS defaults to 10×(''n''+1) in ''n'' dimensions, but this can be changed with the [[NLopt Reference#Population size for stochastic algorithms|nlopt_set_stochastic_population]] function; the initial population must be at least ''n''+1. + The initial population size for CRS defaults to 10×(''n''+1) in ''n'' dimensions, but this can be changed with the [[NLopt Reference#Stochastic population|nlopt_set_population]] function; the initial population must be at least ''n''+1.
Only bound-constrained problems are supported by this algorithm. Only bound-constrained problems are supported by this algorithm.
NLopt
NLopt manual
NLopt includes implementations of a number of different optimization algorithms. These algorithms are listed below, including links to the original source code (if any) and citations to the relevant articles in the literature (see Citing NLopt).
Even where I found available free/open-source code for the various algorithms, I modified the code at least slightly (and in some cases noted below, substantially) for inclusion into NLopt. I apologize in advance to the authors for any new bugs I may have inadvertantly introduced into their code.
2 Comparing algorithms
3 Global optimization
3.1 DIRECT and DIRECT-L
3.2 Controlled Random Search (CRS) with local mutation
3.3 MLSL (Multi-Level Single-Linkage)
3.4 StoGO
3.5 ISRES (Improved Stochastic Ranking Evolution Strategy)
3.6 ESCH (evolutionary algorithm)
4 Local derivative-free optimization
4.1 COBYLA (Constrained Optimization BY Linear Approximations)
4.2 BOBYQA
4.3 NEWUOA + bound constraints
4.4 PRAXIS (PRincipal AXIS)
4.5 Nelder-Mead Simplex
4.6 Sbplx (based on Subplex)
5 Local gradient-based optimization
5.1 MMA (Method of Moving Asymptotes) and CCSA
5.2 SLSQP
5.3 Low-storage BFGS
5.4 Preconditioned truncated Newton
5.5 Shifted limited-memory variable-metric
6 Augmented Lagrangian algorithm
Each algorithm in NLopt is identified by a named constant, which is passed to the NLopt routines in the various languages in order to select a particular algorithm. These constants are mostly of the form NLOPT_{G,L}{N,D}_xxxx, where G/L denotes global/local optimization and N/D denotes derivative-free/gradient-based algorithms, respectively.
For example, the NLOPT_LN_COBYLA constant refers to the COBYLA algorithm (described below), which is a local (L) derivative-free (N) optimization algorithm.
Two exceptions are the MLSL and augmented Lagrangian algorithms, denoted by NLOPT_G_MLSL and NLOPT_AUGLAG, since whether or not they use derivatives (and whether or not they are global, in AUGLAG's case) is determined by what subsidiary optimization algorithm is specified.
Many of the algorithms have several variants, which are grouped together below.
Comparing algorithms
For any given optimization problem, it is a good idea to compare several of the available algorithms that are applicable to that problem—in general, one often finds that the "best" algorithm strongly depends upon the problem at hand.
However, comparing algorithms requires a little bit of care because the function-value/parameter tolerance tests are not all implemented in exactly the same way for different algorithms. So, for example, the same fractional 10−4 tolerance on the function value might produce a much more accurate minimum in one algorithm compared to another, and matching them might require some experimentation with the tolerances.
Instead, a more fair and reliable way to compare two different algorithms is to run one until the function value is converged to some value fA, and then run the second algorithm with the minf_max termination test set to minf_max=fA. That is, ask how long it takes for the two algorithms to reach the same function value.
Better yet, run some algorithm for a really long time until the minimum fM is located to high precision. Then run the different algorithms you want to compare with the termination test: minf_max=fM+Δf. That is, ask how long it takes for the different algorithms to obtain the minimum to within an absolute tolerance Δf, for some Δf. (This is totally different from using the ftol_abs termination test, because the latter uses only a crude estimate of the error in the function values, and moreover the estimate varies between algorithms.)
Global optimization
All of the global-optimization algorithms currently require you to specify bound constraints on all the optimization parameters. Of these algorithms, only ISRES and ORIG_DIRECT support nonlinear inequality constraints, and only ISRES supports nonlinear equality constraints. (However, any of them can be applied to nonlinearly constrained problems by combining them with the augmented Lagrangian method below.)
Something you should consider is that, after running the global optimization, it is often worthwhile to then use the global optimum as a starting point for a local optimization to "polish" the optimum to a greater accuracy. (Many of the global optimization algorithms devote more effort to searching the global parameter space than in finding the precise position of the local optimum accurately.)
DIRECT and DIRECT-L
DIRECT is the DIviding RECTangles algorithm for global optimization, described in:
D. R. Jones, C. D. Perttunen, and B. E. Stuckmann, "Lipschitzian optimization without the lipschitz constant," J. Optimization Theory and Applications, vol. 79, p. 157 (1993).
and DIRECT-L is the "locally biased" variant proposed by:
J. M. Gablonsky and C. T. Kelley, "A locally-biased form of the DIRECT algorithm," J. Global Optimization, vol. 21 (1), p. 27-37 (2001).
These is are deterministic-search algorithms based on systematic division of the search domain into smaller and smaller hyperrectangles. The Gablonsky version makes the algorithm "more biased towards local search" so that it is more efficient for functions without too many local minima. NLopt contains several implementations of both of these algorithms. I would tend to try NLOPT_GN_DIRECT_L first; YMMV.
First, it contains a from-scratch re-implementation of both algorithms, specified by the constants NLOPT_GN_DIRECT and NLOPT_GN_DIRECT_L, respectively.
Second, there is a slightly randomized variant of DIRECT-L, specified by NLOPT_GLOBAL_DIRECT_L_RAND, which uses some randomization to help decide which dimension to halve next in the case of near-ties.
The DIRECT and DIRECT-L algorithms start by rescaling the bound constraints to a hypercube, which gives all dimensions equal weight in the search procedure. If your dimensions do not have equal weight, e.g. if you have a "long and skinny" search space and your function varies at about the same speed in all directions, it may be better to use unscaled variants of these algorthms, which are specified as NLOPT_GLOBAL_DIRECT_NOSCAL, NLOPT_GLOBAL_DIRECT_L_NOSCAL, and NLOPT_GLOBAL_DIRECT_L_RAND_NOSCAL, respectively. However, the unscaled variations make the most sense (if any) with the original DIRECT algorithm, since the design of DIRECT-L to some extent relies on the search region being a hypercube (which causes the subdivided hyperrectangles to have only a small set of side lengths).
Finally, NLopt also includes separate implementations based on the original Fortran code by Gablonsky et al. (1998-2001), which are specified as NLOPT_GN_ORIG_DIRECT and NLOPT_GN_ORIG_DIRECT_L. These implementations have a number of hard-coded limitations on things like the number of function evaluations; I removed several of these limitations, but some remain. On the other hand, there seem to be slight differences between these implementations and mine; most of the time, the performance is roughly similar, but occasionally Gablonsky's implementation will do significantly better than mine or vice versa.
Most of the above algorithms only handle bound constraints, and in fact require finite bound constraints (they are not applicable to unconstrained problems). They do not handle arbitrary nonlinear constraints. However, the ORIG versions by Gablonsky et al. include some support for arbitrary nonlinear inequality constraints.
Controlled Random Search (CRS) with local mutation
My implementation of the "controlled random search" (CRS) algorithm (in particular, the CRS2 variant) with the "local mutation" modification, as defined by:
P. Kaelo and M. M. Ali, "Some variants of the controlled random search algorithm for global optimization," J. Optim. Theory Appl. 130 (2), 253-264 (2006).
The original CRS2 algorithm was described by:
W. L. Price, "A controlled random search procedure for global optimization," in Towards Global Optimization 2, p. 71-84 edited by L. C. W. Dixon and G. P. Szego (North-Holland Press, Amsterdam, 1978).
W. L. Price, "Global optimization by controlled random search," J. Optim. Theory Appl. 40 (3), p. 333-348 (1983).
The CRS algorithms are sometimes compared to genetic algorithms, in that they start with a random "population" of points, and randomly "evolve" these points by heuristic rules. In this case, the "evolution" somewhat resembles a randomized Nelder-Mead algorithm. The published results for CRS seem to be largely empirical; limited analytical results about its convergence were derived in:
Eligius M. T. Hendrix, P. M. Ortigosa, and I. García, "On success rates for controlled random search," J. Global Optim. 21, p. 239-263 (2001).
The initial population size for CRS defaults to 10×(n+1) in n dimensions, but this can be changed with the nlopt_set_population function; the initial population must be at least n+1.
Only bound-constrained problems are supported by this algorithm.
CRS2 with local mutation is specified in NLopt as NLOPT_GN_CRS2_LM.
MLSL (Multi-Level Single-Linkage)
This is my implementation of the "Multi-Level Single-Linkage" (MLSL) algorithm for global optimization by a sequence of local optimizations from random starting points, proposed by:
A. H. G. Rinnooy Kan and G. T. Timmer, "Stochastic global optimization methods," Mathematical Programming, vol. 39, p. 27-78 (1987). (Actually 2 papers — part I: clustering methods, p. 27, then part II: multilevel methods, p. 57.)
We also include a modification of MLSL use a Sobol' low-discrepancy sequence (LDS) instead of pseudorandom numbers, which was argued to improve the convergence rate by:
Sergei Kucherenko and Yury Sytsko, "Application of deterministic low-discrepancy sequences in global optimization," Computational Optimization and Applications, vol. 30, p. 297-318 (2005).
In either case, MLSL is a "multistart" algorithm: it works by doing a sequence of local optimizations (using some other local optimization algorithm) from random or low-discrepancy starting points. MLSL is distinguished, however by a "clustering" heuristic that helps it to avoid repeated searches of the same local optima, and has some theoretical guarantees of finding all local optima in a finite number of local minimizations.
The local-search portion of MLSL can use any of the other algorithms in NLopt, and in particular can use either gradient-based (D) or derivative-free algorithms (N) The local search uses the derivative/nonderivative algorithm set by nlopt_opt_set_local_optimizer.
LDS-based MLSL with is specified as NLOPT_G_MLSL_LDS, while the original non-LDS original MLSL (using pseudo-random numbers, currently via the Mersenne twister algorithm) is indicated by NLOPT_G_MLSL. In both cases, you must specify the local optimization algorithm (which can be gradient-based or derivative-free) via nlopt_opt_set_local_optimizer.
Note: If you do not set a stopping tolerance for your local-optimization algorithm, MLSL defaults to ftol_rel=10−15 and xtol_rel=10−7 for the local searches. Note that it is perfectly reasonable to set a relatively large tolerance for these local searches, run MLSL, and then at the end run another local optimization with a lower tolerance, using the MLSL result as a starting point, to "polish off" the optimum to high precision.
By default, each iteration of MLSL samples 4 random new trial points, but this can be changed with the nlopt_set_population function.
StoGO
This is an algorithm adapted from the code downloaded from
StoGO global optimization library (link broken as of Nov. 2009, and the software seems absent from the author's web site)
by Madsen et al. StoGO is a global optimization algorithm that works by systematically dividing the search space (which must be bound-constrained) into smaller hyper-rectangles via a branch-and-bound technique, and searching them by a gradient-based local-search algorithm (a BFGS variant), optionally including some randomness (hence the "Sto", which stands for "stochastic" I believe).
StoGO is written in C++, which means that it is only included when you compile the C++ algorithms enabled, in which case (on Unix) you must link to -lnlopt_cxx instead of -lnlopt.
StoGO is specified within NLopt by NLOPT_GD_STOGO, or NLOPT_GD_STOGO_RAND for the randomized variant.
Some references on StoGO are:
S. Gudmundsson, "Parallel Global Optimization," M.Sc. Thesis, IMM, Technical University of Denmark, 1998.
K. Madsen, S. Zertchaninov, and A. Zilinskas, "Global Optimization using Branch-and-Bound," unpublished (1998). A preprint of this paper is included in the stogo subdirectory of NLopt as paper.pdf.
S. Zertchaninov and K. Madsen, "A C++ Programme for Global Optimization," IMM-REP-1998-04, Department of Mathematical Modelling, Technical University of Denmark, DK-2800 Lyngby, Denmark, 1998. A copy of this report is included in the stogo subdirectory of NLopt as techreport.pdf.
ISRES (Improved Stochastic Ranking Evolution Strategy)
This is my implementation of the "Improved Stochastic Ranking Evolution Strategy" (ISRES) algorithm for nonlinearly-constrained global optimization (or at least semi-global; although it has heuristics to escape local optima, I'm not aware of a convergence proof), based on the method described in:
Thomas Philip Runarsson and Xin Yao, "Search biases in constrained evolutionary optimization," IEEE Trans. on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Part C: Applications and Reviews, vol. 35 (no. 2), pp. 233-243 (2005).
It is a refinement of an earlier method described in:
Thomas P. Runarsson and Xin Yao, "Stochastic ranking for constrained evolutionary optimization," IEEE Trans. Evolutionary Computation, vol. 4 (no. 3), pp. 284-294 (2000).
This is an independent implementation by S. G. Johnson (2009) based on the papers above. Runarsson also has his own Matlab implemention available from his web page here.
The evolution strategy is based on a combination of a mutation rule (with a log-normal step-size update and exponential smoothing) and differential variation (a Nelder–Mead-like update rule). The fitness ranking is simply via the objective function for problems without nonlinear constraints, but when nonlinear constraints are included the stochastic ranking proposed by Runarsson and Yao is employed. The population size for ISRES defaults to 20×(n+1) in n dimensions, but this can be changed with the nlopt_set_stochastic_population function.
This method supports arbitrary nonlinear inequality and equality constraints in addition to the bound constraints, and is specified within NLopt as NLOPT_GN_ISRES.
ESCH (evolutionary algorithm)
This is a modified Evolutionary Algorithm for global optimization, developed by Carlos Henrique da Silva Santos's and described in the following paper and Ph.D thesis:
C. H. da Silva Santos, M. S. Gonçalves, and H. E. Hernandez-Figueroa, "Designing Novel Photonic Devices by Bio-Inspired Computing," IEEE Photonics Technology Letters 22 (15), pp. 1177–1179 (2010).
C. H. da Silva Santos, "Parallel and Bio-Inspired Computing Applied to Analyze Microwave and Photonic Metamaterial Strucutures," Ph.D. thesis, University of Campinas, (2010).
The algorithm is adapted from ideas described in:
H.-G. Beyer and H.-P. Schwefel, "Evolution Strategies: A Comprehensive Introduction," Journal Natural Computing, 1 (1), pp. 3–52 (2002_.
Ingo Rechenberg, "Evolutionsstrategie – Optimierung technischer Systeme nach Prinzipien der biologischen Evolution," Ph.D. thesis (1971), Reprinted by Fromman-Holzboog (1973).
The method supports bound constraints only (no nonlinear constraints), and is specified within NLopt as NLOPT_GN_ESCH.
Local derivative-free optimization
Of these algorithms, only COBYLA currently supports arbitrary nonlinear inequality and equality constraints; the rest of them support bound-constrained or unconstrained problems only. (However, any of them can be applied to nonlinearly constrained problems by combining them with the augmented Lagrangian method below.)
COBYLA (Constrained Optimization BY Linear Approximations)
This is a derivative of Powell's implementation of the COBYLA (Constrained Optimization BY Linear Approximations) algorithm for derivative-free optimization with nonlinear inequality and equality constraints, by M. J. D. Powell, described in:
M. J. D. Powell, "A direct search optimization method that models the objective and constraint functions by linear interpolation," in Advances in Optimization and Numerical Analysis, eds. S. Gomez and J.-P. Hennart (Kluwer Academic: Dordrecht, 1994), p. 51-67.
and reviewed in:
M. J. D. Powell, "Direct search algorithms for optimization calculations," Acta Numerica 7, 287-336 (1998).
It constructs successive linear approximations of the objective function and constraints via a simplex of n+1 points (in n dimensions), and optimizes these approximations in a trust region at each step.
The original code itself was written in Fortran by Powell and was converted to C in 2004 by Jean-Sebastien Roy (js@jeannot.org) for the SciPy project. The version in NLopt was based on Roy's C version, downloaded from:
http://www.jeannot.org/~js/code/index.en.html#COBYLA
NLopt's version is slightly modified in a few ways. First, we incorporated all of the NLopt termination criteria. Second, we added explicit support for bound constraints (although the original COBYLA could handle bound constraints as linear constraints, it would sometimes take a step that violated the bound constraints). Third, we allow COBYLA to increase the trust-region radius if the predicted improvement was approximately right and the simplex is OK, following a suggestion in the SAS manual for PROC NLP that seems to improve convergence speed. Fourth, we pseudo-randomize simplex steps in COBYLA algorithm, improving robustness by avoiding accidentally taking steps that don't improve conditioning (which seems to happen sometimes with active bound constraints); the algorithm remains deterministic (a deterministic seed is used), however. Also, we support unequal initial-step sizes in the different parameters (by the simple expedient of internally rescaling the parameters proportional to the initial steps), which is important when different parameters have very different scales.
(The underlying COBYLA code only supports inequality constraints. Equality constraints are automatically transformed into pairs of inequality constraints, which in the case of this algorithm seems not to cause problems.)
It is specified within NLopt as NLOPT_LN_COBYLA.
BOBYQA
This is an algorithm derived from the BOBYQA subroutine of M. J. D. Powell, converted to C and modified for the NLopt stopping criteria. BOBYQA performs derivative-free bound-constrained optimization using an iteratively constructed quadratic approximation for the objective function. See:
M. J. D. Powell, "The BOBYQA algorithm for bound constrained optimization without derivatives," Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Cambridge England, technical report NA2009/06 (2009).
(Because BOBYQA constructs a quadratic approximation of the objective, it may perform poorly for objective functions that are not twice-differentiable.)
The NLopt BOBYQA interface supports unequal initial-step sizes in the different parameters (by the simple expedient of internally rescaling the parameters proportional to the initial steps), which is important when different parameters have very different scales.
This algorithm, specified in NLopt as NLOPT_LN_BOBYQA, largely supersedes the NEWUOA algorithm below, which is an earlier version of the same idea by Powell.
NEWUOA + bound constraints
This is an algorithm derived from the NEWUOA subroutine of M. J. D. Powell, converted to C and modified for the NLopt stopping criteria. I also modified the code to include a variant, NEWUOA-bound, that permits efficient handling of bound constraints. This algorithm is largely superseded by BOBYQA (above).
The original NEWUOA performs derivative-free unconstrained optimization using an iteratively constructed quadratic approximation for the objective function. See:
M. J. D. Powell, "The NEWUOA software for unconstrained optimization without derivatives," Proc. 40th Workshop on Large Scale Nonlinear Optimization (Erice, Italy, 2004).
(Because NEWUOA constructs a quadratic approximation of the objective, it may perform poorly for objective functions that are not twice-differentiable.)
The original algorithm is specified in NLopt as NLOPT_LN_NEWUOA, and only supports unconstrained problems. For bound constraints, my variant is specified as NLOPT_LN_NEWUOA_BOUND.
In the original NEWUOA algorithm, Powell solved the quadratic subproblems (in routines TRSAPP and BIGLAG) in a spherical trust region via a truncated conjugate-gradient algorithm. In my bound-constrained variant, we use the MMA algorithm for these subproblems to solve them with both bound constraints and a spherical trust region. In principle, we should also change the BIGDEN subroutine in a similar way (since BIGDEN also approximately solves a trust-region subproblem), but instead I just truncated its result to the bounds (which probably gives suboptimal convergence, but BIGDEN is called only very rarely in practice).
Shortly after my addition of bound constraints to NEWUOA, Powell released his own version of NEWUOA modified for bound constraints as well as some numerical-stability and convergence enhancements, called BOBYQA. NLopt now incorporates BOBYQA as well, and it seems to largely supersede NEWUOA.
Note: NEWUOA requires the dimension n of the parameter space to be ≥ 2, i.e. the implementation does not handle one-dimensional optimization problems.
PRAXIS (PRincipal AXIS)
"PRAXIS" gradient-free local optimization via the "principal-axis method" of Richard Brent, based on a C translation of Fortran code downloaded from Netlib:
http://netlib.org/opt/praxis
The original Fortran code was written by Richard Brent and made available by the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, dated 3/1/73. The appropriate reference seems to be:
Richard Brent, Algorithms for Minimization without Derivatives (Prentice-Hall, 1972). (Reprinted by Dover, 2002.)
Specified in NLopt as NLOPT_LN_PRAXIS
This algorithm was originally designed for unconstrained optimization. In NLopt, bound constraints are "implemented" in PRAXIS by the simple expedient of returning infinity (Inf) when the constraints are violated (this is done automatically—you don't have to do this in your own function). This seems to work, more-or-less, but appears to slow convergence significantly. If you have bound constraints, you are probably better off using COBYLA or BOBYQA.
Nelder-Mead Simplex
My implementation of almost the original Nelder-Mead simplex algorithm (specified in NLopt as NLOPT_LN_NELDERMEAD), as described in:
J. A. Nelder and R. Mead, "A simplex method for function minimization," The Computer Journal 7, p. 308-313 (1965).
This method is simple and has demonstrated enduring popularity, despite the later discovery that it fails to converge at all for some functions (and examples may be constructed in which it converges to point that is not a local minimum). Anecdotal evidence suggests that it often performs well even for noisy and/or discontinuous objective functions. I would tend to recommend the Subplex method (below) instead, however.
The main change compared to the 1965 paper is that I implemented explicit support for bound constraints, using essentially the method proposed in:
M. J. Box, "A new method of constrained optimization and a comparison with other methods," Computer J. 8 (1), 42-52 (1965).
and later reviewed in:
J. A. Richardson and J. L. Kuester, "The complex method for constrained optimization," Commun. ACM 16 (8), 487-489 (1973).
Whenever a new point would lie outside the bound constraints, Box advocates moving it "just inside" the constraints by some fixed "small" distance of 10−8 or so. I couldn't see any advantage to using a fixed distance inside the constraints, especially if the optimum is on the constraint, so instead I move the point exactly onto the constraint in that case. The danger with implementing bound constraints in this way (or by Box's method) is that you may collapse the simplex into a lower-dimensional subspace. I'm not aware of a better way, however. In any case, this collapse of the simplex is somewhat ameliorated by restarting, such as when Nelder-Mead is used within the Subplex algorithm below.
Sbplx (based on Subplex)
This is my re-implementation of Tom Rowan's "Subplex" algorithm. As Rowan expressed a preference that other implementations of his algorithm use a different name, I called my implementation "Sbplx" (referred to in NLopt as NLOPT_LN_SBPLX).
Subplex (a variant of Nelder-Mead that uses Nelder-Mead on a sequence of subspaces) is claimed to be much more efficient and robust than the original Nelder-Mead, while retaining the latter's facility with discontinuous objectives, and in my experience these claims seem to be true in many cases. (However, I'm not aware of any proof that Subplex is globally convergent, and perhaps it may fail for some objectives like Nelder-Mead; YMMV.)
I used the description of Rowan's algorithm in his PhD thesis:
T. Rowan, "Functional Stability Analysis of Numerical Algorithms", Ph.D. thesis, Department of Computer Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, 1990.
I would have preferred to use Rowan's original implementation, posted by him on Netlib:
http://www.netlib.org/opt/subplex.tgz
Unfortunately, the legality of redistributing or modifying this code is unclear, because it lacks anything resembling a license statement. After some friendly emails with Rowan in which he promised to consider providing a clear open-source/free-software license, I lost touch with him and his old email address now seems invalid.
Since the algorithm is not too complicated, however, I just rewrote it. There seem to be slight differences between the behavior of my implementation and his (probably due to different choices of initial subspace and other slight variations, where his paper was ambiguous), but the number of iterations to converge on my test problems seems to be quite close (within ±10% of the number of function evaluations for most problems).
The only major difference between my implementation and Rowan's, as far as I can tell, is that I implemented explicit support for bound constraints (via the method in the Box paper as described above). This seems to be a big improvement in the case where the optimum lies against one of the constraints.
Local gradient-based optimization
Of these algorithms, only MMA and SLSQP support arbitrary nonlinear inequality constraints, and only SLSQP supports nonlinear equality constraints; the rest support bound-constrained or unconstrained problems only. (However, any of them can be applied to nonlinearly constrained problems by combining them with the augmented Lagrangian method below.)
MMA (Method of Moving Asymptotes) and CCSA
My implementation of the globally-convergent method-of-moving-asymptotes (MMA) algorithm for gradient-based local optimization, including nonlinear inequality constraints (but not equality constraints), specified in NLopt as NLOPT_LD_MMA, as described in:
Krister Svanberg, "A class of globally convergent optimization methods based on conservative convex separable approximations," SIAM J. Optim. 12 (2), p. 555-573 (2002).
This is an improved CCSA ("conservative convex separable approximation") variant of the original MMA algorithm published by Svanberg in 1987, which has become popular for topology optimization. (Note: "globally convergent" does not mean that this algorithm converges to the global optimum; it means that it is guaranteed to converge to some local minimum from any feasible starting point.)
At each point x, MMA forms a local approximation using the gradient of f and the constraint functions, plus a quadratic "penalty" term to make the approximations "conservative" (upper bounds for the exact functions). The precise approximation MMA forms is difficult to describe in a few words, because it includes nonlinear terms consisting of a poles at some distance from x (outside of the current trust region), almost a kind of Pade approximant. The main point is that the approximation is both convex and separable, making it trivial to solve the approximate optimization by a dual method. Optimizing the approximation leads to a new candidate point x. The objective and constraints are evaluated at the candidate point. If the approximations were indeed conservative (upper bounds for the actual functions at the candidate point), then the process is restarted at the new x. Otherwise, the approximations are made more conservative (by increasing the penalty term) and re-optimized.
(If you contact Professor Svanberg, he has been willing in the past to graciously provide you with his original code, albeit under restrictions on commercial use or redistribution. The MMA implementation in NLopt, however, is completely independent of Svanberg's, whose code we have not examined; any bugs are my own, of course.)
I also implemented another CCSA algorithm from the same paper, NLOPT_LD_CCSAQ: instead of constructing local MMA approximations, it constructs simple quadratic approximations (or rather, affine approximations plus a quadratic penalty term to stay conservative). This is the ccsa_quadratic code. It seems to have similar convergence rates to MMA for most problems, which is not surprising as they are both essentially similar. However, for the quadratic variant I implemented the possibility of preconditioning: including a user-supplied Hessian approximation in the local model. It is easy to incorporate this into the proof in Svanberg's paper, and to show that global convergence is still guaranteed as long as the user's "Hessian" is positive semidefinite, and it practice it can greatly improve convergence if the preconditioner is a good approximation for the real Hessian (at least for the eigenvectors of the largest eigenvalues).
SLSQP
Specified in NLopt as NLOPT_LD_SLSQP, this is a sequential quadratic programming (SQP) algorithm for nonlinearly constrained gradient-based optimization (supporting both inequality and equality constraints), based on the implementation by Dieter Kraft and described in:
Dieter Kraft, "A software package for sequential quadratic programming", Technical Report DFVLR-FB 88-28, Institut für Dynamik der Flugsysteme, Oberpfaffenhofen, July 1988.
Dieter Kraft, "Algorithm 733: TOMP–Fortran modules for optimal control calculations," ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, vol. 20, no. 3, pp. 262-281 (1994).
(I believe that SLSQP stands for something like "Sequential Least-Squares Quadratic Programming," because the problem is treated as a sequence of constrained least-squares problems, but such a least-squares problem is equivalent to a QP.) The algorithm optimizes successive second-order (quadratic/least-squares) approximations of the objective function (via BFGS updates), with first-order (affine) approximations of the constraints.
The Fortran code was obtained from the SciPy project, who are responsible for obtaining permission to distribute it under a free-software (3-clause BSD) license.
The code was modified for inclusion in NLopt by S. G. Johnson in 2010, with the following changes. The code was converted to C and manually cleaned up. It was modified to be re-entrant (preserving the reverse-communication interface but explicitly saving the state in a data structure). The reverse-communication interface was wrapped with an NLopt-style interface, with NLopt stopping conditions. The inexact line search was modified to evaluate the functions including gradients for the first step, since this removes the need to evaluate the function+gradient a second time for the same point in the common case when the inexact line search concludes after a single step; this is motivated by the fact that NLopt's interface combines the function and gradient computations. Since roundoff errors sometimes pushed SLSQP's parameters slightly outside the bound constraints (not allowed by NLopt), we added checks to force the parameters within the bounds. We fixed a bug in the LSEI subroutine (use of uninitialized variables) for the case where the number of equality constraints equals the dimension of the problem. The LSQ subroutine was modified to handle infinite lower/upper bounds (in which case those constraints are omitted).
Note: Because the SLSQP code uses dense-matrix methods (ordinary BFGS, not low-storage BFGS), it requires O(n2) storage and O(n3) time in n dimensions, which makes it less practical for optimizing more than a few thousand parameters.
Low-storage BFGS
This algorithm in NLopt (specified by NLOPT_LD_LBFGS), is based on a Fortran implementation of the low-storage BFGS algorithm written by Prof. Ladislav Luksan, and graciously posted online under the GNU LGPL at:
http://www.uivt.cas.cz/~luksan/subroutines.html
The original L-BFGS algorithm, based on variable-metric updates via Strang recurrences, was described by the papers:
J. Nocedal, "Updating quasi-Newton matrices with limited storage," Math. Comput. 35, 773-782 (1980).
D. C. Liu and J. Nocedal, "On the limited memory BFGS method for large scale optimization," Math. Programming' 45, p. 503-528 (1989).
I converted Prof. Luksan's code to C with the help of f2c, and made a few minor modifications (mainly to include the NLopt termination criteria).
One of the parameters of this algorithm is the number M of gradients to "remember" from previous optimization steps: increasing M increases the memory requirements but may speed convergence. NLopt sets M to a heuristic value by default, but this can be changed by the set_vector_storage function.
Preconditioned truncated Newton
This algorithm in NLopt, is based on a Fortran implementation of a preconditioned inexact truncated Newton algorithm written by Prof. Ladislav Luksan, and graciously posted online under the GNU LGPL at:
NLopt includes several variations of this algorithm by Prof. Luksan. First, a variant preconditioned by the low-storage BFGS algorithm with steepest-descent restarting, specified as NLOPT_LD_TNEWTON_PRECOND_RESTART. Second, simplified versions NLOPT_LD_TNEWTON_PRECOND (same without restarting), NLOPT_LD_TNEWTON_RESTART (same without preconditioning), and NLOPT_LD_TNEWTON (same without restarting or preconditioning).
The algorithms are based on the ones described by:
R. S. Dembo and T. Steihaug, "Truncated Newton algorithms for large-scale optimization," Math. Programming 26, p. 190-212 (1982).
Shifted limited-memory variable-metric
This algorithm in NLopt, is based on a Fortran implementation of a shifted limited-memory variable-metric algorithm by Prof. Ladislav Luksan, and graciously posted online under the GNU LGPL at:
There are two variations of this algorithm: NLOPT_LD_VAR2, using a rank-2 method, and NLOPT_LD_VAR1, using a rank-1 method.
J. Vlcek and L. Luksan, "Shifted limited-memory variable metric methods for large-scale unconstrained minimization," J. Computational Appl. Math. 186, p. 365-390 (2006).
Augmented Lagrangian algorithm
There is one algorithm in NLopt that fits into all of the above categories, depending on what subsidiary optimization algorithm is specified, and that is the augmented Lagrangian method described in:
Andrew R. Conn, Nicholas I. M. Gould, and Philippe L. Toint, "A globally convergent augmented Lagrangian algorithm for optimization with general constraints and simple bounds," SIAM J. Numer. Anal. vol. 28, no. 2, p. 545-572 (1991).
E. G. Birgin and J. M. Martínez, "Improving ultimate convergence of an augmented Lagrangian method," Optimization Methods and Software vol. 23, no. 2, p. 177-195 (2008).
This method combines the objective function and the nonlinear inequality/equality constraints (if any) in to a single function: essentially, the objective plus a "penalty" for any violated constraints. This modified objective function is then passed to another optimization algorithm with no nonlinear constraints. If the constraints are violated by the solution of this sub-problem, then the size of the penalties is increased and the process is repeated; eventually, the process must converge to the desired solution (if it exists).
The subsidiary optimization algorithm is specified by the nlopt_set_local_optimizer function, described in the NLopt Reference. (Don't forget to set a stopping tolerance for this subsidiary optimizer!) Since all of the actual optimization is performed in this subsidiary optimizer, the subsidiary algorithm that you specify determines whether the optimization is gradient-based or derivative-free. In fact, you can even specify a global optimization algorithm for the subsidiary optimizer, in order to perform global nonlinearly constrained optimization (although specifying a good stopping criterion for this subsidiary global optimizer is tricky).
The augmented Lagrangian method is specified in NLopt as NLOPT_AUGLAG. We also provide a variant, NLOPT_AUGLAG_EQ, that only uses penalty functions for equality constraints, while inequality constraints are passed through to the subsidiary algorithm to be handled directly; in this case, the subsidiary algorithm must handle inequality constraints (e.g. MMA or COBYLA).
While NLopt uses an independent re-implementation of the Birgin and Martínez algorithm, those authors provide their own free-software implementation of the method as part of the TANGO project, and implementations can also be found in semi-free packages like LANCELOT.
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Survivor’s Guilt | Drop The Girl
Nathan Porter July 18, 2017
Survivor's Guilt | Drop The Girl
Playing to their finer methods of skulduggery, it appears the post-hardcore, punk-propulsion of Gloucester, VA’s own: Drop the Girl just taught their little doggie an invigorating new trick. Scaled through endless bounds by way of a fresh-off-the-cuff EP gainfully-titled, Survivor’s Guilt, these ne’er-do-well hooligans yearn for more amidst a soaring batch of tantalizing tracks.
Gilded on the heels of their no-holds-barred template, the wayward sons of Drop the Girl hit the road-less-travelled circa a tour-de-force dead sprint opening with their breakaway hit: “Heaven.” Poised in credible pop-punk, anti-establishment irony, the mega-charged cut calls to task the trappings and missteps of the Christian-religion in the modern era. Lyrically-driven under the guise: “I’ve got a bone to pick…with the pearly gates…God never showed his face around here,” the message is terse. Tackling an all-too historically-taboo stitch of subject-matter, the front-and-center, ringleader: Michael Owens takes the vocal-reigns with qualified-assurance. Vetted as a promo-music video under the directed-lens of Alex Heider, “Heaven” is a worthy opening-milestone cut to lay their formidable claim abroad the pantheon of punk-encroached majesty.
Finding just the right stride for an amalgamation of emotional-poignancy con violent ferocity, Gloucester’s finest take a plethora of cues from mentors and peers: All Time Low and Fall Out Boy. Following a flanging lead-in amid the rhythmic guitar-riffs, the second-dity on the EP, “Home” soon scours on the up-beat by drum stretches ear-marked for such a defining chasm in rock perfunctory. While having initially seen its release date as a single from March of last year, “Home” showcases the songwriting talents of both lead-crooner Michael Owens and bassist Aaron Bucklin at their most earnest. The track issues one of the catchiest chorus hooks the quartet has ever laid on tape.
Marred by a refreshing change of temporal pace, Survivor’s Guilt does finally settle into its conclusion in the form of: “White Lines.” It’s a fervently-morose tune that finds its footing at the helm of subversive-melody juxtaposed with angst-laden vocal-yells and screams. While they clearly offer quite the arsenal in their own right, Drop the Girl ultimately still succumb to a paint-by-numbers routine better pioneered by their influences: Senses Fail and Chunk! No Captain Chunk. There is certainly room for more growth by a burgeoning-breakout of a band on the cusp of greatness.
Nathan Porter
Former Contributor
While his interests diverged, exploring alternative sources of creative expression, namely: literature, film, and theatrical arts, music was never far from his frame of reference. Once high-school graduation came to fruition, Nathan set-out for Nashville, Tennessee to begin college at Middle Tennessee State University. Starting as a music-production major, Nathan was also enrolled at Nashville State Community College where he earned his technical certificate in music technology, helming a burgeoning interest in the recording industry. After a summer-internship just south of Nashville at a local-recording studio known as Darkhorse, Nathan decided a paradigm-shift was in order as he pursued a bachelor’s degree in broadcast journalism. Once the transition was secure, Nathan sought to fuse his ever-growing knowledge of the world in music and recording with that of his journalistic skill-set.
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"If my guys were doing something, I would know about it, trust me."
Some films really get on to ones nerves.. So did the film that I watched yesterday: directed by Gavin O’Connor, who also wrote the script (Joe Carnahan did some of the writing, too..) and whose twin brother Greg O’Connor produced the film:
PRIDE AND GLORY (2008)
In an nutshell:
New York, late December: Four police officers were killed – together with some gang members.
Officer Ray Tierney (Edward Norton) is – after some pushing by his father Deputy Chief Francis Tierney (John Voight) - going to find out who is responsible for that.
~ Francis, senior and Francis, junior at the funeral ~
His brother Francis “Franny” Tierney, jr. (Noah Emmerich) was the superior of the dead cops and Jimmy Egan (Colin Farrell) - who is married to Franny's and Ray's sister Megan (Lake Bell) - is a fellow officer of them..
~ Officers Sandy and Jimmy - not on a Sunday afternoon walk.. ~
The more Ray investigates the more he finds out about corruption in and beyond the New York Police Department – even reaching into the Tierney family..
~ Ray, Jimmy and Franny - some brothers in law.. asking themselves: who knows what? ~
John Ortiz as Ruben "Sandy" Santiago.
Manny Perez as Coco Dominguez.
Rick Gonzalez - yeah, the guy from REAPER (2007-2009).. - as Eladio Casado.
Jennifer Ehle - she plays Abby the wife of Franny - you may know her from another "PRIDE": she was Elizabeth Bennett in the 1995 BBC-version of PRIDE AND PREJUDICE... (.."the accurate one"..)
Not really a task to watch out for her - because you can hardly ignore her: Lake Bell as Jimmy's wife Megan.
~ Don't tell me you didn't notice her.. ~
Schmooze:
The film was planned in 2001 and the filming was about to start in February 2002 but after the events of September 11, 2001 it was cancelled – it seemed to be very disrespectful to the actual New York Police Department to make a film about corruption. The filming was done in 2006 - but the film wasn't released till 2008..
Hugh Jackman and Mark Wahlberg were supposed to star in this film when it was first planned in 2001.
Nick Nolte was supposed to play Francis Tierney, sr. – but after three days of filming he left the production because of a chronic knee injury - so his part was given to Jon Voight.
The German title is DAS GESETZ DER EHRE = The Law of Honor.
Gary and Greg O’Connor are sons of a New York police officer.
~ The family is about to celebrate christmas: Francis sr., Franny and his wife Abby. ~
Let’s face the music:
The score was delivered by Mark Isham.
~ Colin Farrell - a guy I wouldn't like to be tackled by.. ~
No real glory:
The film is dedicated to Eric Hernandez.
24year old Hernandez was a New York cop and supposed to play in a bit part in the beginning scene of this movie (in which the police team does a football game).
In the night of January 28, 2006 he got in trouble with a group of others in front of a fast food restaurant. Hernandez who was out of duty at that time felt threatened so he pulled out his (service) firearm. In that moment another officer arrived – and shot the person who was armed..
Eric Hernandez died a week later due to the gunshot wounds.
Stay away from this film if you have problems with:
violence - there is some blood shed in this film..
harsh language. I was about to count all those "f-words" but after two minutes I had to give in because I lost track.. - I was at ca. nine "f...'s" ..
cancer - though it is no main part of the story - Abby obviously is not as healthy as one would wish for her to be..
~ Jennifer Ehle is doing some very fine and quiet acting in this film. ~
Quotes Corner:
"I was a good man once."
This line is delivered by officer Ruben "Sandy" Santiago (John Ortiz) who struggles with the ways he and his fellow officers have chosen - John Ortiz is doing a great job here.
This quote above like this one following:
"When we were kids, all we ever talked about was being cops."
shows that there is a difference between what a cop is supposed to be or in cliché is - and what he/she (ok - no "shes" in this film..) has to face in reality.
That being a good guy is a tough thing when the world around you is not good. It's a hard job to stay upright - and this is why this film makes me a bit sad.
Ray: "Have a few nips this evening, pop?"
Francis, sr.: "I had a glass of scotch, officer."
Ray: "Just one, huh?"
Francis, sr.: "I used that same glass, yeah."
Have a look:
Here's the trailer:
I think this film is not only a film about corruption but also about families. It's a main part of the plot that all men of the Tierney family are cops. (Don't talk about women.. They don't have big parts in this.. They are wives and mothers.. - or maybe drug addicts..) So the question of loyalty is a really tough one - who's first? Your family? - Or your team? - Or perhaps honesty?
Talking about the cast:
Let's be honest.. Edward Norton could act a cookery book. That man is awesome. Period. I won't discuss that.
And Colin Farrell is nothing but intense in his acting.
In the first minutes of the film I thought: "Oh.. sure.. here we go again.. Edward Norton is the nice guy again - and Colin Farrell means nothing but trouble.. oh.. surprise.. he is smashing a mirror.. ~yawn..~" - but actually: It works perfectly. And after a few minutes I was fully into this film.
I have to confess that I like cops to be the good guys. I don't like the idea that a cop runs into a grocery shop and takes all money from the cash box while threatening the shopkeeper with a gun or officers making a man tell them what they want to know by holding a hot flat iron very close to that man's baby.. No wonder that Daddy decides to not being friendly anymore.. ~ Listen to me Jimmy! It's like they told you in kindergarten: If you hurt Coco - Coco is going to hit you.. and let me add: He is going to hit you hard.. .. ~
I am a bloody romantic. I want cops to be like Edward Norton.
~ Actually, I want a lot of men to be like Edward Norton - but that's not the point now.. ~
I want to trust people.
And now that I made butterflies vomit because of me being so bloody naïve I am going to tell you something that might seem to be completely illogical:
I love this film. It's awesome.
Mr. Farrell is doing a great job in this film. I especially like his last scene - in which he is holding back a lot.
*SPOILER* This scene made me think of the famous scene of SUDDENLY, LAST SUMMER (1959) - though it's not that horrible.. - but I think you get the image.. *SPOILER*
But actually the whole cast is amazing..
Thank you very much for listening,
- who prefers her world filled with butterflies and starshine.. or like they would say it in this film: F'##' butterflies and starshine..
Labels: 2008, Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Gavin O'Connor, Jennifer Ehle, John Ortiz, Jon Voight, Lake Bell, Manny Perez, New Line Cinema, Noah Emmerich, Pride and Glory
I so can't wait to see this. And Lake Bell is in it..is that why you sent me a pic of her?
Yes, that's why I had her on my mind - and you in your email account..
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Fredericksburg City, VA Real Estate
Fredericksburg City is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia that offers a unique blend of the past and present. Whether you’re a history buff, a food lover, or an outdoor enthusiast, Fredericksburg has something to offer each and every person.
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Chemotaxis of Escherichia coli...
Chemotaxis of Escherichia coli to compounds present in human gut
Microorganisms of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract were recently shown to communicate and consequently influence the metabolism, immunity, and behavior of animal hosts. Increasing evidence suggest that communication can also occur in the opposite direction, with hormones and other host-secreted compo...
Lopes, Joana
Sourjik, Victor (Prof. Dr.) (Thesis advisor)
Chemotaxis
Biowissenschaften, Biologie
Microorganisms of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract were recently shown to communicate and consequently influence the metabolism, immunity, and behavior of animal hosts. Increasing evidence suggest that communication can also occur in the opposite direction, with hormones and other host-secreted compounds being sensed by microorganisms. Here, we addressed one key aspect of the host-microbe communication by studying a very‐well known system that senses external stimulus, the chemotaxis system. We analyzed the chemotactic response of a model commensal bacterium, Escherichia coli, to several compounds that accumulate in the GI tract, namely the catecholamines 3,4-dihydroxyphenylalanine, dopamine, norepinephrine, epinephrine and 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid; the thyroid hormones serotonin and melatonin; the sex hormones β-estradiol and testosterone; insulin; and the polyamines putrescine and spermidine. Melatonin, testosterone and spermidine were shown to be chemorepellents, with the strongest repellent response observed for spermidine, and epinephrine showed an attractant response. Biphasic responses were observed to dopamine, norepinephrine, 3,4-dihydroxymandelic acid and insulin. To determine the underlying sensing mechanism of these compounds, we investigated the chemotactic responses of strains expressing hybrid receptors that combine domains of each of the two most abundant receptors in E. coli, Tar and Tsr. We also studied the responses of mutated Tar receptors that show inverted chemotactic responses, which enable us to identify regions of receptors that sense individual compounds. While the hormones are sensed indirectly, mainly perturbing the signaling domain of Tar and Tsr, the response to spermidine involves the low-abundant chemoreceptor Trg and the periplasmic binding protein PotD, of the spermidine uptake system. Finally, to determine the physiological importance of these compounds to E. coli, we studied their effects on bacterial growth. The chemotactic effects of the tested compounds apparently correlate with their influence on growth and with their stability in the GI tract, pointing to the specificity of the observed behavior. We hypothesize that the repellent responses observed at high concentrations of chemoeffective compounds might enable bacteria to avoid harmful levels of hormones and polyamines in the gut.
Role of chemotaxis in autoaggregation of Escherichia coli
by: Laganenka, Leanid
Charakterisierung der DNA-Replikation in genetisch modifizierten Escherichia coli Stämmen durch neue Methoden der Synthetischen Biologie
by: Milbredt, Sarah
Production of glutaconic acid in recombinant Escherichia coli
by: Djurdjevic, Ivana
Konstruktion, Charakterisierung und Optimierung des synthetischen, sekundären Chromosoms synVicII in Escherichia coli
by: Messerschmidt, Sonja
Konstruktion synthetischer sekundärer Chromosomen zur Charakterisierung von DNA-Reparatur und Segregation in Escherichia coli
by: Schindler, Daniel
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Don’t Call It…: Return of the Fisher King
Another piece on comebacks, this time in the world of console-and-televisual games. It’s a bit more tangentially related to the hip-hop orientated posts which will bookend it, but no less violent or sweary. Sam Fisher. Like stealth gaming’s Eminem, every apparent retirement means another inevitable self-reinventing comeback. After a four year hiatus, and at least one return to the drawing board, Conviction brings back everyone’s favourite grumpy killing machine. Except, he’s not so silent these days. Following the apparent death of his daughter, Sam’s not feeling so subtle. As he tracks down whoever is responsible through fairgrounds, industrial warehouses and (in flashback) war-torn Iraq, he leaves a trail of snapped necks and exploded craniums. Oh yes. Out go the extensive gadgets and meticulous planning. In come brutal close-quarter murdering and its reward, the ‘Mark & Kill’ system, which allows Fisher to get off two or three insta-kill shots from the hip faster than the unholy spawn of Clint Eastwood and Sonic the Hedgehog. Everything is designed to streamline your stealth experience. The new ‘last known position’ system, which leaves a white outline in the place enemies makes it easier to keep track of cat-and-mouse chases. It’s also a step towards the removal of the cluttered HUD, as Conviction tries to put everything on screen. This is a double-edged sword. Replacing the increasingly over-complicated feed of information (light meters, noise meters, doing-a-jig meters) of yesteryear by simply jumping into black-and-white when you’re hidden is a neat idea. In theory. In practice, it can be headache-inducing or, worse, just plain unconvincing. Coming back into full-colour mode shows these ‘hidden’ spots to be quite reasonably-illuminated corners. The flashbacks and objectives projected onto walls, however, are a brilliant idea. They’re Conviction at its most beautiful, and should be copied immediately. But this isn’t a particularly beautiful game: it’s too busy with manly grunting for that. The delicate interplay of light and shadow, growing in sophistication with each instalment, is gone. There’s certainly no more gawping at thin slits of light crawling across your body, or the slowly-rotating silhouette of a fan. Without the strength of its convictions to create deep dark shadows, there’s little contrast, and little hiding rough-edges. Meanwhile, the men you’re trying to knock off shout increasingly hyperbolic threats. “We’re gonna find you Fisher!” “You’re supposed to be a soldier, Fisher, not some little girl!” “How about I take your mother out on a date, Fisher?!?” It used to be that the snatches of dialogue you’d catch felt like spying on your enemies. But that little voyeuristic thrill is swept away in the deafening scream. God, I feel like an old man. I know I keep leaning on the it aten’t the way I remember it argument, but this is quite self-consciously a comeback. The weight that carries means you can’t help but compare it to what came before. There’s the scent of a few failed attempts during that time in the wilderness, and of looking over its shoulder at the competition (the looming bat-shaped shadow of Arkham Asylum, the sweat-marks left by Call of Duty). After nearly annual releases, there were four long years between this and the last Splinter Cell game. That can’t help but build expectations: just look back at my 2009 preview for proof of that. In the hip-hop examples I’ve been looking at, the comeback pushes against the tension of all that time away to build tension, raise the stakes. All a long-delayed game has to push against is the fans. And so I end up focusing on how much complexity it has shed, reaching for options that aren’t there anymore like a phantom limb. The myriad of buttons and moves you’d only use twice was part of the joy of Splinter Cell. But, it is a Proper Stealth Game. It’s been a while since we saw one of those, following the death of last decade’s stealth boom. I just wish it would remember that, realise what used to make it so special, and just quiet down a little. But then, isn’t that how it always is when one of your favourites comes back from the dead?
Lara Croft and the art of co-op.
Ah, the Tomoe Nage. Just saying it brings back memories. A summer of Splinter Cell : Chaos Theory co-operative mode with your man Dominic Parsons. Chucking each other: wheee, down corridors; whoosh, across impasses; oof, into bad guy’s stomachs. Being thrown, more than occasionally, heard-first into a wall, all the while announcing: Tomoe … NAGE! That move kept us playing, and kept us giggling while we did. It’s the reason I’ve finally bought Conviction for next time me and Dom have got a chunk of time to kill together. This is what co-op games live and die on. Halo co-op is alright, yeah, but there’s very little that changes on account of there being two of you. It’s essentially two people playing two different synched-up games on the same screen. Shouldn’t a co-op game have a little more … cooperation? It’s this impulse which dissolves every session of Scott Pilgrim vs. The World into me telling everyone hold x! now! NOW! We’ll do some awesome team attack… WHY THE HELL AREN’T YOU HOLDING IT? Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light has tons of cool stuff you can only do with two players. It achieves this by splitting the single-player character (Lara) and her skillset into two: Lara gets the grappling hook, while the the game-defining magic spears (which act as both weapon and throwable platform) go to her 2000-year-old Mayan buddy Totec. The lucky fella also gets a cheeky shield that can block projectiles or give Lara a leg-up, and a truly unconvincing accent. All this adds up to a lot of helping each other over ledges, across crevasses, and through various scrapes. The grappling hook can be used to absail Totec down cliff-faces, or as a tightrope across the traditional Tomb Raider abysses. The shield protects Lara from a rain of arrows as she plants a mine to blow up the traps. Guardian of Light is basically a buddy film. Not in the plot – though it’s certainly in there, with the classic ‘odd couple’ dynamic between the iconic lady adventurer and her reanimated male escort – but in the living room, between you and the bumbling idiot you’re playing with. Because all those cool moves mean you’re relying on someone. When the level’s final big trap comes down on you, and your mate is pulling you up by grappling rope? That’s thrilling. When they forget you have to hold the trigger to keep it extended, and you fall to the bottom? The resulting string of swearwords will cause any Daily Mail readers in a three-mile radius to start twitching involuntarily. But eventually, once you’ve punched their arm into a fitting deadness, you’ll just about squeeze through the traps and trials and tribulations. And as both your scores tick up in front of you (ha! I totally thrashed you!) you’ll bask in shared glory. And, looking back as you laugh and share a couple of post-exploratory cigars, it all suddenly seems like a character-building bonding session. Hey, this rookie ain’t so bad after all.
Like an evil twin…
Welcome to the bi-weekly comeback.I’m posting this from my once-broken laptop. Damn it’s good to have my baby back. As usual, been busy editing the hell out of Britain’s best-looking student paper Redbrick. Still, I’ve had time to write up a fair few things, and now the time has come…to link to them!First up, my visit to Eurogamer Expo ’09 bears further fruit. I equally gush and rant about my look at forthcoming 360 sneaky-shooty-game Splinter Cell Conviction. I’m getting the hang of this preview business… “After a very smooth opening cutscene, showing Sam Fisher interrogating some generic evil-doer by smashing his face into urinals as information gained was projected on the wallls, Fisher runs out into a civilian-packed street. Pulling his gun out causes a panic, people running away and shouting, allowing Fisher in a very Assassin’s Creed-esque moment to slip amongst them unnoticed by guards. The game might have gone “back to the drawing board” a year or so ago, but its certainly kept the initial mission statement, a game about hiding in plain sight.” Spot the internal battle raging, to stop me just constantly repeating the word ‘smooth’ throughout. Read the rest here. Second, a (late, as usual) return to the Moneyless Gamer feature for Gamersyndrome.com. With slightly less immediate enthusiasm than my usual posts, I basically link to experimental weird-out game . The post is probably the most normal thing I’ve ever written, but I’m trying a bit of an experiment (to match the game). Hint: There’s more to come… “Less a game than a mass experiment, Dungeon is nevertheless worth playing. I’m a bit afraid I don’t have the necessary reach here to get discussion rolling the way the game really needs, but there’s no way I can’t talk about it. Created by Swedish one-man prolific indie-game machine Jonathan Söderström (aka Cactus).” If you play it (and I heartily endorse giving it a go), please, post on the article and tell me what you thought of it. Here.Meanwhile, in my other life: The Redbrick Top 40 best albums of the 21st Century (that’s right, the whole damn’ millenium.) It’s starting to get really interesting, as all the classic choices pop up. I’ve even written a few entries for it. Start here, and you should be able to click through to where we are now (#’s 20-16 should be going up in the next day or so).Alternatively, you can pick your starting point by going here. I’ve also argued out the Hot(ish) Topic of band reunions with my co-ed Erica Anne Vernon. She likes ’em, I think they’re a force for evil. FIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!This post carved out of the very flesh of its brother.
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Tag Archives: Huck’s Tune
Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan albums, Bob Dylan other
The 23 best songs from Bob Dylan’s “The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs”
October 6, 2015 Egil Mosbron 20 Comments
If Dylan’s songs were once protests looking for rectification — if his language was once phantasmagoric and tricky to decipher — well, that was wonderful, but things have changed. Tell Tale Signs sets a new milestone for this American artist. Dylan has always written about morally centerless times, but this collection comes from a different perspective — not something born of the existential moment but of the existential long view and the courage of dread. Jack Fate, Dylan’s character in Masked and Anonymous, intones what might work as the pracis for this album: “Seen from a fair garden, everything looks cheerful. Climb to a higher plateau, and you’ll see plunder and murder. Truth and beauty are in the eye of the beholder. I tried to stop figuring everything out a long time ago.” For a long time, we’ve asked Dylan to deliver us truths. Now that he has, we need to ask ourselves if we can live with them.
~Mikal Gilmore (rollingstone.com)
About a year ago we ran a poll asking readers to vote for their favorite “Tell Tale Signs” songs.
Original challenge:
I hereby challenge all readers to put out their personal list of the 10 best songs from Bob Dylan’s lovely “The Bootleg Series Vol. 8: Tell Tale Signs: Rare and Unreleased 1989–2006”.
Top 5 is also appreciated.
Use the comments section in this post or check out our Facebook page.
The poll will be open till Tuesday’ish.
Top 5 on provided lists got 2 points each & 6-10 got 1 point
25 Bob Dylan experts voted
1 Red River Shore (Unreleased #1, Time Out of Mind) 36 points
2 Cross the Green Mountain (from the Gods and Generals soundtrack) 31 points
3 Born in Time (Unreleased #1, Oh Mercy) 29 points
4 Tell Ol’ Bill (Alternate version of song released on the North Country soundtrack) 28 points
5 Huck’s Tune (From the Lucky You soundtrack) 27 points
6 Mississippi (Unreleased #1, Time Out of Mind) 17 points
7 Most Of The Time (Alternate version #1, Oh Mercy) 16 points
8 Can’t Wait (Alternate version #1, Time Out of Mind) 14 points
9 Dreamin’ of You (Unreleased #1, Time Out of Mind) 13 points
10 Ring Them Bells* (Live at The Supper Club, November 17, 1993, New York, NY) 9 points
11 High Water (For Charley Patton) (Live, August 23, 2003, Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada) 8 points
12 Marchin’ to the City (Unreleased #1, Time Out of Mind) 7 points
13 Ain’t Talkin’ (Alternate version, Modern Times) 6 points
13 Dignity (Piano demo, Oh Mercy) 6 points
13 Everything Is Broken (Alternate version, Oh Mercy) 6 points
13 Series of Dreams (Unreleased, Oh Mercy) 6 points
13 Tryin’ to Get to Heaven (Live, October 5, 2000, London, England) 6 points
13 Can’t Escape from You (Unreleased, December 2005 recording) 6 points
19 32-20 Blues (Robert Johnson) (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong) 5 points
20 Mary and the Soldier (Unreleased, World Gone Wrong) 3 points
20 Red River Shore (Unreleased version #2, Time Out of Mind) 3 points
20 Someday Baby (Alternate version, Modern Times) 3 points
* there are 3 versions of this song included on TTS & it was not clear from the votes which versions were chosen. I will presume everyone voted for the best one.. the supper club version.
Spotify (without songs from the bonus disc)
“Red River Shore” – 7:36 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
“Huck’s Tune” – 4:09 (From the Lucky You soundtrack)
“Born in Time” – 4:10 (Unreleased version #1, Oh Mercy)
“‘Cross the Green Mountain” – 8:15 (from the Gods and Generals soundtrack)
“Tell Ol’ Bill” – 5:31 (Alternate version of song released on the North Country soundtrack)
“Mississippi” – 6:04 (Unreleased version #1, Time Out of Mind)
“Most of the Time” – 3:46 (Alternate version, Oh Mercy)
“Dignity” – 2:09 (Piano demo, Oh Mercy)
“God Knows” – 3:12 (Unreleased, Oh Mercy)
“Marchin’ to the City” – 6:36 (Unreleased, Time Out of Mind)
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Bob Dylan: Huck’s Tune, Fukuoka & Osaka versions, April 2014 (Videos) – update
April 29, 2014 Egil Mosbron 1 Comment
Well I wandered alone through a desert of stone
And I dreamt of my future wife
My sword’s in my hand and I’m next in command
In this version of death called life
My plate and my cup are right straight up
I took a rose from the hand of a child
When I kiss your lips, the honey drips
But I’m gonna have to put you down for a while
NOTE: Some visitors report that the video’s doesn’t work. To soften the blow I’ve embedded three GREAT audios (that should work anywhere) of “Huck’s Tune” from Japan 2014.
Two video versions of “Huck’s Tune” from this April in Japan.
Bob Dylan – piano, harp
Tony Garnier – bass
George Recile – drums
Stu Kimball – rhythm guitar
Charlie Sexton on lead guitar
Donnie Herron – banjo, viola, violin, electric mandolin, pedal steel, lap steel
Continue reading Bob Dylan: Huck’s Tune, Fukuoka & Osaka versions, April 2014 (Videos) – update →
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Good crazy
Greg Bueno
There ought to be medical warnings on this album.
“Do not play while under extreme emotional disturbance.”
“Do not play during rush hour traffic.”
“May cause increased blood pressure.”
“Do not drink with milk.”
Actually, I’m joking with that milk warning. The rest of them apply.
downy’s fourth untitled album — let’s nickname it Mothership — epitomizes the meaning of the word, “agitated.”
It’s the sound of a nervous breakdown, of loose ends coming apart, of a person’s state of mind just before he goes utterly bugfuck.
It’s also the loudest album downy has yet released.
The band’s previous untitled album — which I nickname Cloudbursting — was meditative by contrast, no less tortured but far more introspective.
Mothership is balls out.
The opening track, “Ishi”, is mixed so loudly, all the instruments bleed into a mess of distortion. It’s “Meitei Freak” jacked up tenfold. The tension doesn’t let up on the robotic rhythm of “Δ” (i.e., “Delta”.)
“Underground” offers the album’s first moment of reprieve, on a song that could qualify as a single, if downy actually released singles.
But no track epitomizes this nervous state of mind than the free jazz of “Fresh”. downy comandeers a Bitches Brew style of be-bop, and man is it nerve-wracking.
The rest of the album plays out in a similar, albeit slightly less frantic feel. “Thank you Raishun” thins out the packed textures on the album, while “Kurayami to Sanka” rivals “Underground” for single-worthy status.
The rhythm section of drummer Akiyama Takahiko and bassist Nakamata Takuhiro really stands out. Throughout, the pair navigate some precarious, syncopated rhythms with laser precision. “Mokuren” is a workout for Nakamata alone.
Mothership breezes by at a brisk 32 minutes, but given the intensity with which downy jams into each track, half an hour is lengthy enough.
Any more, and this album would be a health hazard. As it is, it’s just crazy. Good crazy.
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Born in the Digital: The Universe According to Nicolas Baier
Humans have been wondering about the nature and shape of the universe long before the birth of the sciences. Early drawings of the earth show it as a flat disc covered by a semi-circular dome containing the sun, moon, and stars. More modern theories represent the universe as a donut, a saddle, or a dodecahedron – a three dimensional shape with twelve flat faces. Nicolas Baier is interested in contemporary scientific theories of the universe and the digital technologies that allow us to map it. Using specialized software, and in consultation with an astrophysicist at CERN, Baier tries to do the impossible: to capture the universe in an artwork.
“Asterisms,” the title of his exhibition at Division Gallery in Toronto, references the random patterns created by connecting the most prominent stars in our celestial sphere, similar in ways to the constellations used in Astrology. In Constellations Or 1 (2017), Baier turns these computer-generated, interstellar connections into a digitally carved relief of geometric planes. The gilded surface of the work can be said to represent the whole observable universe.
Baier’s work is preoccupied with hard to measure phenomena like cosmic rays, fossil radiation, dark matter, and neurological pathways. Yet of equal interest for him is the expansion of digital technologies to capture these processes and the mass amounts of data required in order to better understand our world. Jungle (2017) depicts a long hallway lined with rows upon rows of servers vanishing into the distance. Carved with a CNC router, the surface of grey peaks and valleys looks haphazard from up close but fixes into a clear image from further away. It is a haunting reality where the digital seems as infinite as the universe itself.
Baier makes use of computer software that creates models of the earth’s atmosphere at different times. The software is able to go back through the data of time to construct hypothetical models of what the clouds in the sky looked like millions of years ago. In Réminiscence 5 (2016), fiery, scarlet-red clouds fade into yellow and amber, representing what the sky would have looked like 65 million years ago on the eve of the extinction of the dinosaurs. Like many of the works in this exhibition, this apocalyptic cloudscape reveals how advanced our technologies are, but also their fundamental limitations. Nothing could ever capture the magnitude or intensity of an asteroid hitting the earth, but our representations, both in science and art, continue to try.
Nicolas Baier’s exhibition “Asterisms” is on view at Division Gallery in Toronto from October 27, 2017 until January 3, 2018.
By Anna Kovler
Seen by the Water: Marlene Creates and Fogo Island
For Marlene Creates, the landscape is not simply something we look at and represent. It is also something that looks back at us. That her exhibition takes place on Fogo Island in Newfoundland makes this reciprocal looking even more emphatic. It is nearly impossible to exert one’s will over nature here, even in the imagination. As a glacially formed island, Fogo exerts a presence that humbles the most self-assured visitor. Here an ancient metamorphic rock-bed meets gusting winds, low shrubs, countless ponds, arctic drift ice, and acres of undeveloped Crown land.
Marlene Creates “To The Blast Hole Pond River” at the Fogo Island Gallery.
Walking into the Fogo Island Gallery we see large photographs of a particular spot on Creates’ Newfoundland property at different times of the year, snapshots of wild animals at the same location, and self-portraits taken by the artist with a camera submerged underwater in the river that flows through her forest. Looking up through the river, Creates’ face appears warped and wonky, melting into the trees behind her, morphed by the effect of water on the camera’s lens. As the water sees it, a woman is not much different than the trees, sky, and landscape of which she is a part.
“Squish” studio, one of six studios of the Fogo Island Arts residency, an initiative of the Shorefast Foundation.
Belonging to the land, even when it’s harsh, is a sense that runs deep through Fogo Island’s mythology. From songs describing the near-death trials of fishers and sealers to more recent struggles to revive a community hit hard by the collapse of the cod fishery in 1992, the commitment to living on Fogo, like the rocks that reign here, is monumental. The Fogo Island Inn – a white, angular modern structure the size of a ship – houses the Fogo Island Gallery and was designed by Newfoundland architect Todd Saunders and staffed by local residents. Founded by Zita Cobb, who was born on the island, the Inn belongs to a wider resilience initiative that includes an artist residency, lending fund for small businesses, heritage building preservation, and a furniture business.
Seeing a place remotely through photographs has never been easier, but what people who live on or visit Fogo want is to be seen by it. Creates captures this desire when she plunges her camera down into the frigid water season after season, blurring her own image and distinct identity in the process. This is a landscape people learned to fit into rather than re-make or mould. But it is not all tumultuous storms and rock sheets here. As the icebergs melt and crack in the summer heat, a constant gentle breeze sways the blueberry bushes and wildflowers, and the doors on the colorful clapboard houses creak.
Marlene Creates, “To The Blast Hole Pond River” is on view at the Fogo Island Gallery from May 18- October 15, 2017. Curated by Alexandra McIntosh and Nicolaus Schafhausen.
Marlene Creates, Spring 2003, excerpt from Water Flowing to the Sea Captured at the Speed of Light, Blast Hole Pond River, Newfoundland 2002-2003. Pair of chromogenic photographic prints, each 40 x 60 inches.
Harmony in Opposites: Jennifer Lefort at Division Gallery Toronto
If there are binary opposites in the language of paint, Jennifer Lefort exploits them to the fullest in her current exhibition at Division Gallery in Toronto. In her monumental abstract paintings, thin washy paint nestles beside thick oily marks, while a gesture made with a broom-sized brush is contrasted with a skinny line sketched with a piece of chalk. Wet is set against dry, layers against erasures, proximity against distance, dark against light. With so many opposing forces at play, it is surprising the compositions exude a sense of stability rather than antagonism or pure chaos.
Jennifer Lefort. Poker Face, 2017. Oil and spray paint on canvas.
In Grand Salon of Ideas (2016), the largest work in the exhibition, black spidery shapes hover on a ground of pink and light purple, surrounded by a chorus of spray-painted lines. As the confident black shapes advance forward, the soft, spray painted background dissolves, giving the impression of receding in the way a distant mountain appears blurry to the eye. At once recalling the palette of graffiti and the speed of abstract expressionism, this painting brings together another pair of so-called opposites, the “high-minded” realm of fine art and “lowbrow” street culture.
In No level field (2016) Lefort maximizes the optical play between foreground and background, creating the illusion of deep space but simultaneously emphasizing the flatness of the painted surface. Here a cast of expressive blue, orange, and yellow shapes sits close to the surface, while silhouetted shapes in the dark background read like a distant, receding landscape. Opposing forces are brought together and neutralized, flattened in unison on the picture plane. Providing the space for radical difference to coexist is no small feat. By balancing opposing forces, Lefort suggests that difference is actually a good thing, that the high and the low, the close and the far, the dark and the light, can occupy the same space, and rather than cancel each other out, provide an exciting, harmonious variety.
Jennifer Lefort. No level field. Oil and spray paint on canvas.
Jennifer Lefort, “Desires and Relationships” is on view at Division Gallery in Toronto from September 14 to October 14, 2017.
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Eva Washington: sweet are the uses of adversity, a video installation
This just in from the pr office at King County's wonderful art institution, 4Culture. Pretty cool to have won a national competition supported by the National Endowment for the Arts. I just talked to Eva today and she will be there in person.
Everyone is invited to the opening reception this Thursday, Feb. 4 from 6-8 p.m. There's a lot going on at these receptions as several artists are being featured. The electronic gallery actually faces the street towards Prefontaine Place. I will be hanging out inside and out, weather pretty much being the determining factor.
Gallery4Culture at 101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle WA 98104 at the corner of Third and Prefontaine. IF you are driving, remember it is ART WALK too, so prepare to scout for parking. I would park down by the piers and walk up. Or get there early and eat, drink and be merry.
NEW ON E4C (4CULTURE’S ELECTRONIC STOREFRONT GALLERY)
David Kwan: SOLARIS (Quartet Version)
Ann-Marie Stillion: Eva Washington: sweet are the uses of adversity
(Seattle, WA) – Dynamic new media works by David Kwan and Ann-Marie Stillion will be added to e4c’s rotation this February:
Kwan has adapted his work SOLARIS, a series of sound-generated video projections for e4c. Kwan composes soundscapes from live radio transmissions, related to the electromagnetic waves that form the basis for the ordering of matter in space and that continue to permeate the environment. These soundscapes are fed through a customized video imaging system to reveal their inherent patterning.
Artist Biography: Kwan is a media artist living and working in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has presented work nationally and internationally including Berkeley Art Museum, Pacific Film Archive, Kala Art Institute, Headlands Center for the Arts, Artist Television Access, The Lab, and Mission 17 in San Francisco; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE); Jack Straw New Media Gallery in Seattle; Akademie Schloss Solitude in Stuttgart; and Baracke am Deustchen Theater in Berlin. He holds a BA in Art Practice from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Electronic Music from Mills College, where he also taught in art, music and intermedia. www.davidkwan.net
Ann-Marie Stillion
Ann-Marie Stillion will present Eva Washington: sweet are the uses of adversity, a project that combines photographs, film and audio to examine and share the story of Eva Washington, a 76-year-old woman who lives alone on the streets of Seattle. Each monitor of e4c will portray different visual aspects of Washington’s life. Stillion writes, “Eva’s personal story is the story of millions of people around the world who find themselves living without shelter.”
Artist Biography: Currently residing in Seattle, Stillion graduated with a BFA in comparative literature from Northern Arizona University and studied art at the Academy of Art College, California College of Arts and Crafts, Laney College and others. Her photographic and design work has been published in national magazines, books, websites and corporate publications. www.arttrek.com
New work by David Kwan and Ann-Marie Stillion join the ongoing rotation of work on e4c, currently featuring pieces by: Sabine Gruffat, Noah Klersfeld Laurel Beckman, Ann Oren, Tess Martin, Heather Dew Oaksen, Tina Aufiero, Stephen Hilyard, Perry Bard and Bennett Morris.
About e4c
E4c consists of four, large LCD monitors adjacent to Gallery4Culture at 101 Prefontaine Pl S, Seattle WA 98104 at the corner of Third and Prefontaine. e4c exhibits can be viewed from the street 6:00 am – 10:00 pm, daily. Eleven artists/artist teams were chosen for the inaugural year of e4c (2008/2009) from a competitive pool of applicants. Works will be added to the rotation throughout the year. Support is provided by the National Endowment for the Arts.
Labels: Ann-Marie Stillion, art, awards, Eva, Seattle, video
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1953 Ridván The first local spiritual assembly in Kenya was established in Nairobi. Nairobi; Kenya LSA
1964 Ridván The National Spiritual Assembly of Kenya was formed with its seat in Nairobi. Nairobi NSA
1976 15 – 17 Oct An International Teaching Conference was held in Nairobi, Kenya, attended by 1,363 Bahá’ís. [BW17:81; VV33]
For the message of the Universal House of Justice see BW17:133–4.
For pictures see BW17:110, 119–21. Nairobi; Kenya; Africa Conferences, Bahai; Conferences, Teaching; Conferences, International; Teaching
1985 15 – 26 Jul Ten representatives of the Bahá’í International Community attended the World Conference to Review and Appraise the Achievements of the United Nations Decade for Women and Forum ‘85 in Nairobi. [BW19:147–8, 412; VV28–9]
For a report of the Bahá’í participation see BW19:4.12–15.
For pictures see BW19:413, 415. Nairobi; Kenya Bahai International Community; United Nations; Women
1992 23 – 26 Nov The Second World Congress was held in New York City to commemorate the centenary of the passing of Bahá'u'lláh and the completion of the Six Year Plan. It was attended by some 28,000 Bahá'ís from some 180 countries. [BBD240] [VV136-141] [BW92-3p98-101, 136]
Nine auxiliary conferences were held in Buenos Aires, Sydney, New Delhi, Nairobi, Panama City, Bucharest, Moscow, Apia and Singapore. [BINS283:3-4]
For pictures see [BINS283:9-10], [BW92-3p100] and [VV136-141]
"New York will become a blessed spot from which the call to steadfastness in the Covenant and Testament of God will go forth to every part of the world." - 'Abdu'l-Bahá [AWH77-8 90-1 105-6]
On the 25th of November a concert was held in Carnegie Hall as a birthday tribute to Dizzy Gillespie called "Celebrating the Bahá'í Vision of World Peace". [VV141]
On the 26th of November Bahá'ís around the world were linked together by a live satellite broadcast serving the second Bahá'í World Congress, the nine auxiliary conferences and the Bahá'í World Centre and it was received by those with access to satellite dish antennas. [BINS283:1–5, 8; BINS286:10; BINS287:4]
For the message of the Universal House of Justice read on the satellite link see BW92–3:37–4.
For accounts of personal experiences by some of the attendees see In the Eyes of His Beloved Servants: The Second Bahá'í World Congress and Holy Year by J. Michael Kafes.
The film, 'Abdu'l-Bahá: Mission to America, made by Elizabeth Martin, was prepared for the World Congress program and also used in the Theme Pavilion. [HNWE45] New York; United States; Buenos Aires; Argentina; Sydney; Australia; New Delhi; India; Nairobi; Kenya; Panama; Bucharest; Romania; Moscow; Russia; Apia; Samoa; Singapore World Congresses; Carnegie Hall; Centenaries; Bahaullah, Ascension of; Dizzy Gillespie; - Basic timeline, Expanded; film; 'Abdu'l-Baha: Mission to America; Elizabeth Martin
2003 20 Jun The passing of Knight of Bahá'u'lláh Ursula Samandari (b. Ursula Newman 29 December, 1909 in Mitcham, Surrey, England) at her pioneering post in Buea, Cameroon.
In 1953 she and Dr. Mihdi Samandari moved to Nairobi, Kenya, and a year later went to live in Mogadishu, Somalia where they stayed until 1971. At the request of the Universal House of Justice, they had pioneered to Cameroon. [BWNS230, BW'03-‘04pg237] Buea; Cameroon; Nairobi; Kenya; Mogadishu; Somalia Ursula Samandari; pioneer; Mihdi Samandari; In Memoriam; BWNS
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The city also has a water reservoir with a capacity of cubic metres 31, cubic feet. But in Mount Zion there shall be those that escape, and it shall be holy; and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
As I was writing, on page of the latter work, Rahmat Ali made Management of solid waste in nablus etymological testament quoted earlier, and gave the following detailed explanation and expansion: New physics AI could be the key to a quantum computing revolution.
And they will not attempt to have revival in the churches. The case involves the application of the Absentee Property Lawwhich allows the State of Israel to expropriate property within its territory when the owner lives in a country that Israel regards as an enemy.
The dominant principles of legislation concerning them are expressed in Deuteronomy The man killed his wife and a man at a trucking company in Bakersfield, California, Kern County Sheriff Donny Youngblood told a news conference. The gender make-up was Their children, the Edomites, intermarried with the Horites, Amalakites and other Serpent seed peoples Genesis There a tiny remnant of the predestinated true seed of Abraham, Isaac and Israel shall be restored in the Covenant Land.
What shepherd can stand before me? The conflict between the self-styled Jews and the rest of the world has now escalated to International Law. These are the sons of Esau who were born to him in the land of Canaan.
According to the Book of Jasher and the Haggadah Av. You should not have stood at the parting of the ways to cut off his fugitives; you should not have delivered up his survivors in the day of distress.
Scripture identifies the Canaanites, Hittites and Hivites as among the descendants of Cain who was Serpent seed, and "cherem". When Bela died, Jobab the son of Zerah of Bozrah reigned in his stead.
All their host shall fall, as leaves fall from the vine, like leaves falling from the fig tree. The pride of your heart has deceived you, you who live in the clefts of the rock, whose dwelling is high, who say in your heart, "Who will bring me down to the ground?
He was forbidden to eat the Passover until circumcised, and was then subject to all the rules of purification against uncleanness like any Israelite. So in order to find out who and where these Edomites are today, we must discover who the Jews are today.
Within hours of the ending of the British mandate in Palestine, the US and Russia recognized the State of Israel, and during the "truce" in the Israeli-Arab war, an aerial ferry was working constantly between Czechoslovakia and Israel, bring-in arms from behind the Iron Curtain.
Today, the greatest number -- about half -- of Pakistanis are Punjabi speakers. As you have done, it shall be done to you, your deeds shall return on your own head.
Imagine if every spelling were as ambiguous as read or read, and most of the letters looked alike. In every assembly there are three kinds of believer - the genuine believer or elect, the make-believer who is deceived, or a deceiver, and the unbeliever or sinner.
That edition covered the longer periodbut the later version has added material. And a mixed multitude of races and beliefs tagged behind the Hebrews for the opportunity to escape slavery.
Esau married two Serpent seed women and one Ishmaelite wife.
Storms are brewing all over the world, but Super Typhoon Mangkhut is the most intense tropical cyclone of them all. There has to be if the original sin produced a race of people uncreated by God, a people wholly unrelated to Adam and therefore not on the Book of Life.
The house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; they shall burn them and consume them, and there shall be no survivor to the house of Esau; for the LORD has spoken. Give it to the Levites who have no inheritance, and the stranger, to widows and orphans within your town so they can eat and be satisfied; and then your God will bless you and your work".
Lot types the foolish virgin who are saved through the tribulation. He remained in this position until These are the chiefs of the Horites: IDF delegation heads to Moscow. Then Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.FEMA will test a ‘Presidential Alert’ text message next week that cell phone users won’t be able to opt out of.
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Solid waste is sewage other than hazardous waste. There are 8 categories of solid waste which are commercial waste, construction waste, domestic waste, industrial waste, institution waste, import waste, public waste and any waste not categorized.
Solid waste management in Nablus city was badly affected by these conditions, and this situation is negatively affecting health and damaging the environment. Most of these cases were due to reasons beyond the capability of the. Water and sanitation Departement English This department renders two vital services: water supply, and sanitation, and serves more thaninhabitants in Nablus including surrounding villages.
Solid waste management (SWM) is one of the most challenging issues faced by developing countries that suffer from serious pollution problems caused by the generation of large waste quantities.
This paper presents the case study of SWM in the Nablus district – Palestine.
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Vallarta-Nayarit Apps Enhance The Tourism Experience
The new Restaurantes Vallarta Nayarit app joins the popular Vallarta Nayarit and Guest-Huésped apps to further enhance both domestic and international tourists’ vacations in Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit.
Tech plays a huge role in society in this 21st century of ours, and that obviously includes Tourism. This is why the Riviera Nayarit and Puerto Vallarta are eager to enhance their visitors’ experiences through apps for smartphones and tablets.
The Vallarta Nayarit app is already in use, created by the Riviera Nayarit Convention and Visitors Bureau (CVB) and the Puerto Vallarta CVB as part of their joint campaign; as is the Guest-Huésped Rivera Nayarit app, created by the Riviera Nayarit CVB.
A third app, Restaurantes Vallarta Nayarit, was recently created by the Puerto Vallarta National Chamber of Restaurants and Food Condiments Industry (Canirac, by its acronym in Spanish).
“We’re trying out different strategies in order to develop the sector, because one of the top things our restaurant owners ask for is exposure. We have a fabulous gastronomic variety and we must continue to look for strategic ways to promote it,” said Ana María Lomelí, General Manager of Canirac Puerto Vallarta.
Today nearly everyone has access to an Internet-ready mobile device or has Wi-Fi available at the click of a button. That’s why it’s so important to move into this territory and take advantage of the benefits technology can offer.
The objective is to bolster the promotion of the region’s gastronomy and the different attractions within Puerto Vallarta and the Riviera Nayarit.
Besides promoting the restaurants in both destinations, the Restaurantes Vallarta Nayarit app also offers space for other types of businesses; it serves as a tour guide and links to the official websites for both destinations.
Among its services, the Vallarta Nayarit app allows users to call to or from Mexico to the United States or Canada, their main markets. The Guest-Huésped Riviera Nayarit app is wholly an interactive guide.
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Popeye Gifts Never Get Old
I’m Popeye the Sailor Man,
I’m strong to the finish
Cause I eats me spinach.
I’m Popeye the Sailor Man.
This song is still known in 2013, by a young, technologically advanced generation. The Popeye the Sailor character, has been a part of our media cultural for over 80 years. His spinach obsession,which gave him supernatural strength, his laughter, and his adventures with Olive Oyl, Sweet Pea, hamburger hungry J. Wellington “Whimpy", Bluto/Brutus, and other characters, are forever in our memories and heart.
Popeye was originally created by E.C. Segar and was introduced to the world in 1929. In the 1930's the Popeye character was a popular comic strip and remains in some national newspapers today. In 1935 the moniker, Popeye the Sailor was heard on the radio and ran until 1938. In the 1950's, Paramount Picture Studios made Popeye, an animated TV cartoon hero. These short films were so popular with children, adults and the spinach industry, that a membership club was established and a Saturday movie matinee was held in theaters.
A new generation is learning about Popeye the Sailor through DVDs and merchandise which continues to be sold everywhere. Licensed Popeye gifts continue to be manufactured, in the novelty likeness of:
Bendable toys
Home and Office items
Kids and Baby products
Mens, womens and childrens clothing items
Pet novelty items
Pins, stickers and posters
Water Bottles and more.
There are many retro Popeye collectors who handle 100's of products from the 1930's, featuring toys, puzzles, magazines, piggy banks, comics, handkerchiefs, scarves, toothbrushes, and much more. Popeye enthusiasts enjoy buying and collecting modern day Popeye gifts and collectibles. With the Internet, there are many websites dedicated to this character's history and many novelty sites, as well as mail order companies that feature quality-made items.
The legend of Popeye the Sailor lives on in the varied gifts that are given to family, friends, and co-workers. A limited edition Popeye Shaving Collection featuring a hand-made signature tin can, is sold at high end retail stores and at certain brick and mortar locations. Popeye remains a popular licensed character in major theme parks and resorts in the United States and at Universal Studios in Japan. Clothing gifts for adults and children by Dolce and Gabbana, Benetton, Gap, H&M, Zara, and Miss Sixty, feature the Popeye the Sailor and Olive Oyl iconic logos in their shirts, cuff links, ties, socks, etc.
Children will enjoy the Popeye game apps and adults will love receiving Popeye and Olive Oyl VISA prepaid gift cards. Baby boomers would get a kick out of a bendable set of Popeye and the gang figurines. The beloved casual sailor image of Popeye has gone exclusive, whimsical, and customized, with the Popeye Yachtmaster Rolex Watch by London's Bamford Watch Company.
Popeye is a special cartoon character that will always be a part of American culture and history, yet shared with the world. Popeye gifts are available for all holidays, birthdays, anniversaries, and special occasions. Rather than cartoonish, gifts with a Popeye logo are considered to hold fond memories for those who watched this cartoon character on TV, and whimsical for a new generation.
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Queer As Folk প্রশ্ন
Hi, please does anyone know what version of a song (IIO- At The End) is used in 3x11 when Michael and Emmett are looking for Ted? I know that the song is on a soundtrack but it is not the exact version they used. Thanks for your help, Lucy
CzechFan89 posted বছরখানেক আগে
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bri-marie said:
According to link site, the song they used is a remix done দ্বারা Scumfrog. Not sure if that's the version আপনি found অথবা not.
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BigDickionary said:
The version used in the প্রদর্শনী is the "Saeed & Palash Remix". It has been released on multiple releases of "At The End". The song is 9:38 মিনিট long.
"The Scumfrog Remix" is the version that has been used in the megamix on the soundtrack release for season 3. That version has received quite a bit আরো play in সংগঠন and is considered দ্বারা many to be the best remix of the song, even at the time when it came out, which is why I guess it was used instead. Either that অথবা it might be due to licensing issues which is why several songs had different versions featured on the various soundtrack releases of the show.
I've embedded a video of the remix below. Feel free to compare it to the scene in the প্রদর্শনী which I'll link here: https://youtu.be/n8Bgd-t8clk
They edited a bit for the প্রদর্শনী though.
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Reign [TV Show]
Reign Boss Reflects on Mary's Legacy, Previews 'Painful' Series Finale
Reign may be wrapping up its final chapter tonight (The CW, 9/8c), but অনুরাগী will be pleased to know that Mary কুইন of Scots is not going out quietly.
মূলশব্দ: reign, season 4, season finale, 4x16, প্রিভিউ, laurie mccarthy, interview, season 5, plans
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I remember visiting this website once...
It was called ‘Reign’ Series Finale প্রিভিউ — Season 5 Plans, New Interview | TVLine
Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:
may be wrapping up its final chapter tonight (The CW, 9/8c), but fans will be pleased to know that Mary Queen of Scots is
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Even though the show was already “about halfway” through production when word came that Season 4 would be its last, series creator Laurie McCarthy tells TVLine that enough groundwork had been laid to result in a satisfying ending.
“We got as far as we needed to go to set up a paradigm that we’d been hinting at from the very beginning of the show, which was how incredibly unheard of and difficult it was for women to hold power in this day and age,” she explains, adding that some of the political frustrations were “definitely influenced” by the 2016 presidential election. “It was an incredibly painful season if you were rooting for women in power.”
McCarthy admits there are “so many things” she wishes she could have included in the already packed finale, most of which stem from stories she wishes she could have devoted more time to throughout the season.
“There were three characters who I felt were really under-serviced this season,” she says. “For Claude, we had really wanted to show the interesting dynamic of her giving up this first passion, her first love with Leith, and where she would go moving forward. Greer and James were also characters where every day there were just pages in and pages out. It was excruciating not to service those characters more.”
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These storylines, among others, would have been explored in a potential fifth season, one McCarthy admits she “really wanted.”
“You could just go on and on, particularly with Elizabeth and Catherine,” she says. “And there could have been a very strong fifth season with Mary, following the trajectory of her third marriage, which was to Bothwell. In Scotland, we would have told a tale that was as much as a western as a political drama; she’d be on the run, there would be sieges, there would be a falling out with her brother — there’s a lot that we would have loved to have gotten our arms around. And with Catherine, there was a daughter we had yet to meet whose wedding left Paris running with blood. There was truly a lot.”
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Ultimately, no matter how the show ends nor how close it stuck to history along the way, McCarthy knows exactly how she wants
“She was resourceful and she was a fighter. She made choices we could look back on centuries later and think, ‘Well, that was foolish.’ But you would realize in the moment that she was a capable, thoughtful, compassionate person who couldn’t make any other choice.”
hopes for tonight’s finale? Thoughts on the final season, or the series as a whole? Whatever’s on your mind, drop it in a comment below.
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God, I will really miss this show. So special and underrated…
I wish the show had gotten a 5th season, I liked what they had planned for it. I totally agree about Claude, Greer, and James being under serviced this season and in the finale. I really wanted Claude and Luc and Greer and James to be together and happy and we got no resolutions with them. I also wish we had gotten Mary’s marriage to Bothwell and it’s repercussions.
There is so much good historic events in Mary’s life that they could have explored, it’s really sad we won’t see it.
And I really want a happy ending for Greer and Claude. Hope they manage to do it in the finale.
If anyone is interested in the story of mary there are many films about her life, including Elizabeth the Golden Age with Samantha Morton as Mary.
For those who care about the plot that was mentioned above about Catherine i recommend 1994’s La Reine Margot which won almost everything that year at Cannes, including best actress for the fenomenal Virna Lisa as Caterina de Medici.
Thank you for that movie. I look forward to finding it and watching. I took a class in college and we studied Mary, I found her entire life completely fascinating and tragic.
I’m commenting from Canada, where the finale aired last night. Such a lovely and satisfying ending! (or as satisfying as you can get when the title character loses her head) Tissues may be required, especially at the end. I’ll definitely be missing this show.
I watch it from Canada too and started to watch it for Megan Follows and kept watching for the story, the settings and the modern twist telling of history.
You can’t say mary Queen of Scotts without mentioning the beheading!
I wish we would have gotten a season 5 but I’m so grateful that we even got 4 seasons. This show made me love Mary, change my mind about who she was back in high school I always prefer Elizabeth until this show it truly showed me who Mary was and explain her way better then history books make her out to be
I wonder where they end the show? Is it with her killing her husband? Or does it flash forward to her being captured and beheaded?
I watched it last night (Canada), and it’s like they wrote and filmed the entire episode as a season finale, then found out they were cancelled and just cut off the last ten minutes to tack on a hastily filmed flash-forward to the end of Mary’s story instead. If you were expecting any kind of closure for any other character, at all, you won’t get it. All their storylines just end in the middle. And there’s so much in the finale that you won’t believe they’re spending time on and that is obviously set-up for stories that won’t be told. Oh well. That said, the very very end did make me emotional and remind me why I once really liked this series so much.
I’m glad that it sounds like the series finale doesn’t fast forward to the end of Mary’s life. That would be too sad. I’m going to miss this show so much! It has truly changed the way I think about history. I visited Edinburgh last year and still get chills thinking about walking in Mary’s footsteps. Thank you Laurie & everyone involved with Reign, and thank you CW for giving the show 4 seasons.
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Pixable now offers Photos on Twitter
Pixable already done a great job by aggregating the pictures and videos one’s friends on Facebook. Nowadays, it is trying to step into an added real-time domain by integrating Twitter into its code. It utilize Twitter’s own photo service, also the third-party ones like TwitPic, yFrog, Instagram, and YouTube then draws them into a single feed that we could browse.
The press release asserts that it is the primary way to look at the photos and videos shared through tweets” and its CEO and Co founder Inaki Berenguer noted that there is no way to do such thing on Twitter. He added that there is a way, but the process is too complex that people would just tend to shy away from using it. It takes too much time for such a simple task.
By unraveling the photos into an organized feed of its own, Pixable had turned Twitter stream into a wholly image-based experience. The company now imagines that the application would only appeals to serious users of Twitter. Since this is the time wherein Twitter’s used to break, and spread news, such as the shocking East Coast earthquake that occurs this week. This could mean a valuable tool to gain access to imagery and video from the location wherein the event is taking place.
Cofounder and COO Andres Blank clarified that this is what Pixable is trying to do all along. They plan on even being more relevant, managing to pull in photos from a selection of places such as Google+, and Facebook. The company wants to be the destination to enjoy and find out about social photos. Also by being the central hub for that is going to enable them provide the most complete and personalized real-time look at the world. Blank not worried that Twitter is going to pull the plug on their little project. They believe that Twitter is not going to focus on pictures and videos. They immediately saw the advantage of being able to make the user experience wholly tailored to visual media.
The advantage of incorporating Twitter for Pixable is that it does highlights the real-time news stream outdo what Facebook does. Twitter’s open “broadcast” nature only means that you can easily gain access to imagery from the people, who you never consider being your friend. The significance of the Pixable experience is also, photo can indeed communicate quicker than words.
Apple’s iOS 5 software for the iPhone and iPad is also unpaid, coming with deeply woven Twitter relation, meant that they are going to see an explosion of distributing photos and videos via Twitter.
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My name Is Lance Henriksen.. and I'm a compulsive Potter!
Posted by Jim McLean | Filed under Exclusive, Frank Black, Lance Henriksen
In the final part of our interview with Lance Henriksen, Lance talks about life (as an actor), the universe (and its amazing creatures) and everything (about pottery). Thanks again to Lance for the interview and we hope you've enjoyed this slice of Henriksen magic.
Click to read part one, click to read part two. For non-English translations, click here.
BacktoFrankBlack: Lance, it's great having you on board this campaign! It's so rare to have the very icon of a TV campaign standing so vocally behind the fans! A miracle even!
LANCE HENRIKSEN: We'll we've just got the President we deserve! We just did. It's a miracle and a lot of that miracle came through the internet - it really did! We suddenly have an intelligent, bright guy in the center that's going to do a wonderful job. Sure, he'll have problems, but that ‘s the nature of being President! I'm really thrilled. That was a beautiful night that I've ever had in terms of anything happening in politics. There wasn't a dry eye in the country.
BTFB: I think many in the world are quite jealous of your President!
LH: Oh don't be jealous! However it may start a trend where people realise that the things they really want, can happen.
See with Obama - I've been up and around Harvard, I know what kind of work he did. You see the love he has for his family. He's a very sharp and coordinated human being whose very happy in his own skin. He's quite a man and I'm proud of him, I'm proud of what he did.
Getting back to the issue though, it happened because people got on board - and that's what you're trying to do. Though I'm not comparing myself to Obama of course!
BTFB: No, I can't see that sort of comparison would do the campaign much good!
LH: No, that would not fly!
BTFB: It's a sound allegory - that the internet has created such a stronger international bond of communication allowing people to be heard.
LH: It certainly is. Listen, I have a lot of flaws as a human being. Everybody has a certain amount of character defects - one of the reason I got into this industry in the first place was because really in a lot of ways it was the only place I could go. I've been a painter and an artist - I love the arts and all I know is working from my intuition and that's where I'm at and why the role of Frank Black was so good for me - it was a role that required lot of restraint and observation. Those are things that are natural to me anyway.
In the arts, like in making pottery, you're basing your pursuit on an observation you've made after a firing and you pursue it until something else comes up and then you pursue that... so it's a lifelong thing. Because you're one person its coming from a very private source from you alone. Everyone has a gift whether they see it coming to fruition and that's the place I like to work from - I really don't know any other way!
BTFB: Would be fair to say you love your pottery!
I make pottery - I make 36 inch platters and I have another world of friends who are all potters. They put me on the board of the American museum of Ceramic Art in Pomona - it's the only museum in California devoted to pottery and they have all the great artists from all over the the country come to the museum and have shows there. I'm sitting on the board with the founder and five other people. We went around the table and introduced ourselves. Four or five said how they went to Stanford or to Berkley and they were great at business, and they came to me and I said "Hi, my name is Lance Henriksen - I am a compulsive potter - that's all I have to say! That's it! That's me! And I have no idea what use I'll be on this board with you but I'll give it my best."
Talk about dropping their jaws! And only because that's the truth - I'm telling the truth. You can have all kinds of degrees and all kinds of business degrees - but what are you going to do with it? [laughs]
(To see some examples of Lance's pottery, click here!)
BTFB: One fan question I would like to present to you from Viivi was about your role as a bad guy - for instance, in the picture Stone Cold. How different is it playing the bad guy?
LH: Playing a bad guy in a movie.. Often you have a piece of work that is written where the guy is bad in a bit of a cliché way - it's obvious stuff. What I try and do with those roles is build a real dense character that has a life to him and that world of biker's clubs in Stone Cold is a very dark place. What I tried to do with that character was to be very unyielding - in terms of the lifestyle the character was living - absolutely unforgiving. And it worked. I don't know if the movie worked, but the character really worked!
I've just finished a movie called Sirus. It's an independent film and I'm playing a guy who is the best friend of a serial killer. When I say ‘best friend' what I mean is he's an enabler. He's a real, thick enabler who has a tow truck and crushes car somewhere in the Midwest. He has a psychopathic edge - has no feelings. He has affection for this one person because he can enable him and it was fun to play - it really was. It was almost like playing a 60 year old teenager who had that feeling, you know, the one where you can never be hurt in any way? That's who this guy is. I suddenly realized when I started playing him. I had a lot of fun playing him because the character didn't actually hurt anyone personally - and I thought wow, this is sick shit! Really. Wow. But it was so much fun to do him. I even found a hat that a member of the crew was wearing and I thought, "Oh shit yeah!" I felt like I was on a shopping spree and found all the little pieces of this guy! I grabbed this hat from this guy's head and I said "hey can I use that?" and he said "yeah!".
I brought my own boots because I had my instincts tell me that being a tow truck driver he'd have certain pair of boots and so I brought mine. Anyway it was putting together pieces of a character and I love that. Believe me I love acting - otherwise I wouldn't do it, I'd stop.
BTFB: Sounds like the sort of character that Frank Black would have to deal with.
LH: Exactly. Remember: As a person I've never killed anybody or hurt anybody in any way. It's a piece of entertainment where you investigate these types of characters and make audiences believe it, just what's going on and lead them down unusual paths. But I don't only want to do the Hollywood ‘bad guys' or ‘good guys', it's about playing characters that have a full range of emotions.
I find a lot of inspiration in acting just comes in a flash and then if you pursue that inspiration you expand it and you see how it affect on the whole world. We're not a usual creature, humans. You know, last night I was with a group of people and suddenly I was thinking that we were like a pod, a pod of whales - we can't survive without each other. Whenever I'm in an airplane and look down, we're like algae, we really are. Algae on a planet.
BTFB: Intelligent algae?
LH: Yeah, well - we think anyway! I mean, the chickens in the chicken yard think they're the hot shit. They walk around and there's a pecking order and they can be nasty - but they probably think they are the shit! If you have a snow leopard up in the mountains and its so mysterious and no body knows what its thinking or what it's behavior. I'm a believer that animals are really, really misunderstood! [laughs]
BTFB: Before we finish, you have a real rapport with the fans - I recall when you were in Manchester last year how much energy and devotion you gave to the people there.
LH: I really did enjoy. I love meeting people and talking even if it's for a brief few moments. At least I'm making contact and I've had some really good conversations around the hotel. It was really worth doing, really fun.
I live with the kind of attitude of gratitude believe me, that's how my life really wants to be and to be accepted in the industry like I have been it's been wonderful, I have nothing to complain about at all!
Support BacktoFrankBlack.com and Lance's contribution by sending a letter supporting the campaign to:
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THE COMPULSIVE POTTER - EXCLUSIVE LANCE HENRIKSEN INTERVIEW PART THREE SOON!
Posted by Mark Ducker | Filed under Exclusive, Frank Black, Lance Henriksen
Allow me, with great excitement, to share with you a hot date for your diary. Saturday 14th March will see the final part of our exclusive interview with Lance Henriksen available here at our Blog for you all to read. Rest assured that this does not mean the end of the campaign's association with Lance, far from it, we are working on new and exciting projects with him as we speak.
I am sure you will concur with me that his interview has thus far been an amazingly enjoyable read and allow me to reassure you that the third part continues this trend. Speaking on issues such as films, politics, art, Millennium, and compulsive pottery (you'll just have to read it wont you), Lance continues to grace us with his openness and support and we are truly grateful to him.
Lance Henriksen is Millennium and never before has a fan campaign had the honor to work so closely with a true icon of cinema and television. So, pop this date in your diary and make sure to view our Blog on Saturday. This Saturday there is no where else you should be!
MORE TALK OF THE DEVIL - YOUR CHANCE TO INTERVIEW LUCY BUTLER!
Posted by Mark Ducker | Filed under
Dear supporters,
We recently brought to your attention the exciting news that Lucy Butler herself, Sarah-Jane Redmond, had demonstrated her support of this campaign by offering us an exclusive interview and some fantastic memorabilia that we can use.
As you will recall we gave you all the chance to contribute to this exciting event by encouraging you all to submit the questions 'you' wanted to see asked for our consideration.
We have been overwhelmed by the response to this and as we want as many as possible to have the opportunity to contribute we have decided to extend the closing date for submissions to meet the demand.
There are a number of ways you can make a submission, email it to us at info@backtofrankblack.com or leave it here as a blog comment. We are thoroughly enjoying all your submissions and emails of support and admiration for Sarah-Jane Redmond, keep these coming! The revised closing date for submissions is now Friday 13th March, sorry, I just couldn't resist the connotation. Good luck all of you!
In addition to the above, yes there's more goodies to come, keep your eyes peeled for the third and final part of Lance Henriksen's exclusive interview and for news of another BTFB exclusive from Frank Spotnitz himself. Millennium fans never had it so good!
BACK TO FRANK BLACK - THE FANS SPEAK OUT!
Posted by Mark Ducker | Filed under Big Light, Frank Spotnitz
Imagine our surprise, and a most pleasant surprise it was, when we discovered one of our supporters had written to Frank Spotnitz to espouse his support of the campaign and his love of Millennium. As you may know, we have written to Frank Spotnitz in the past and have been touched that he has responded to our campaign with such warmth and openness. So, allow us to take this opportunity to thank Diego for such a considered and supportive resume of his feelings and to thank Frank Spotnitz for once again giving this campaign a most vital and welcome platform. Allow me to share a few words from Diego's thoughtful message but I urge you all to enjoy the full entry here!
Of course I know you are more than aware of our campaign, so this is not a request of any kind. I just needed to comment that, by now, from seeing the response the campaign has been getting, I am really starting to feel that if a new chapter in Frank Black's life never comes to be, it would be the greatest shame in the world. Not only in the world of television and art (for "Millennium" is Art with a capital A), but most importantly in the real, present world. Frank Black's story has such power to change people's lives for the better, to bring hope in the darkest of times, to nurture thought, to inspire the best in each of us.
It is you, the fans, that are the quintessential driving force behind the campaign. It is your passion, your devotion and your enthusiasm that has shaped this campaign and allowed it to evolve into, what has been described by many as the most professional and impressive fan campaign they have witnessed.
Wherever you find yourselves today and in the future, take a little time to ethically and politely share your love of Frank Black and your support of this campaign. In those distant days when we first began I recall Frank Spotnitz himself stated that for a Movie to happen fans needed to make a lot of noise.
You have raised your voices, those that matter are hearing us, let's turn the volume up and shout a little more.
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Rep. Suzan DelBene Says Stronger Privacy Policies Are Needed to Deal With Internet of Things
WASHINGTON, July 9, 2019 - Privacy is a good place to start with public policy concerning the internet of things, said Rep. Suzan DelBene, D-Wash., in a keynote address at the AT&T Forum for Technology, Entertainment and Policy Tuesday. With more than 3.8 billion people around the world using the internet every day, technology has become a… Keep Reading
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CHICAGO, Illinois, October 6, 2015 - State government need to use "Smart Cities" information technology to leapfrog to leadership among competing states, said Hardik Bhatt, chief information officer for the state of Illinois, speaking on Wednesday at the City Club here. Bhatt, the former CIO for the City of Chicago, left municipal government for the private sector, where he managed global standards-based projects for Cisco Systems. For example, he worked to help build Hamburg into a leading port in Northern Europe, and with Brazil to help create systems to help manage large-scale public events like the 2014 World Cup and the forthcoming 2016 Summer Olympics. Entering state government with Gov. Bruce Rauner, elected November 2014, Bhatt has established a four-year process to accelerate state adoption of "internet of things" technologies into state government. [More...] Keep Reading
June 17, 2014 Broadband's Impact/FCC/National Broadband Plan
Broadband Prioritization Not Such A Terrible Idea, Georgetown University Panelists Say
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2014 - Paid prioritization may not be such a bad idea – in fact, the notion that the entire internet needs to be treated equally is misleading, said panelists at a June 10 symposium on internet regulation. Internet users might have greater interest in seeing phone packets go through first than someone… Keep Reading
March 7, 2011 Broadband's Impact/International/Mobile Broadband/Spectrum/Uncategorized/Wireless
Cisco Study Shows Wireless Data Use Rising Faster Than Expected
WASHINGTON, March 7, 2011 - A study to track and forecast trends in the global mobile network that was released by Cisco Systems last month shows that mobile internet traffic is rising faster than expected. Keep Reading
February 18, 2011 Innovation/People
Obama Follows Up State Of The Union Speech with Silicon Valley Powwow
SAN FRANCISCO, February 17, 2011 -- President Obama checked in with the U.S.' titans of tech on Thursday in a brief swing through Silicon Valley before heading north to Oregon to visit Intel. Keep Reading
October 11, 2010 Broadband's Impact/FCC/Net Neutrality
A History of Network Neutrality
WASHINGTON, October 11, 2010 - The issue of network neutrality is one that has become an increasing problem around the globe. In the United States, the problem became more of an issue with the rise of cable and DSL service. Keep Reading
July 15, 2010 Expert Opinion/Mobile Broadband/Wireless
Cisco Courts Consumers at Home and at Work
Cisco’s mantra continues to be about networking and collaboration, and that is what it continues to offer consumers and busy executives with an array of products. Keep Reading
June 17, 2010 FCC/Net Neutrality
Telecom Industry Launches Technical Advisory Group to Solve Net Neutrality Issues
WASHINGTON, June 17, 2010 – In response to the recent Third Way announcement made by FCC Chairmen Julius Genachowski, a group of ISPs, content creators and hardware makers have joined to form a working group to discuss the issues surrounding network neutrality. Keep Reading
April 22, 2010 Broadband's Impact/National Broadband Plan
Individuals, Not Corporations Are Key To Regional Economic Development, Argues Cisco Researcher
LAFAYETTE, La., April 22, 2010 - The growth of the internet-connected workplace will force political leaders to re-think the policies needed to foster economic growth, argued Cisco Systems researcher Norman Jacknis Wednesday. Keep Reading
April 8, 2010 Broadband's Impact/FCC/National Broadband Plan
Consortium Aims to Spur Small Business Adoption of Broadband
WASHINGTON, April 8, 2010 – SCORE, a corps of executives providing counseling to small businesses, has partnered with a handful of large firms to donate $1.1 million to help small firms better use broadband technologies. The consortium was formed in response to the FCC's National Broadband Plan. Keep Reading
March 30, 2010 Expert Opinion/National Broadband Plan/National Broadband Plan Commentary/States/Wireless
Broadband Plan Commentary: Ball State University
Testing prototypes. Assisting another university with a campus-wide wireless network. Delving into telecommunications policies. Investigating broadband’s impact on the economy. All are examples of Ball State University’s pioneering work with wireless broadband Internet access. Keep Reading
March 26, 2010 Broadband's Impact/National Broadband Plan/Smart Grid/Wireless
Cisco Systems Partners With Grid Net, Linking WiMax to the Smart Grid
WASHINGTON, March 26, 2010 - On Friday, Cisco Systems announced a partnership with Grid Net, a smart meter company that employs WiMax Technology to send data about electricity usage back to utility companies. Grid Net has also garnered with ClearWire, Motorola, Intel, and General Electric. With the investment by Cisco, Grid Net is poised to become the leader in smart meters in America. Keep Reading
March 9, 2010 Broadband's Impact/FCC
FCC Chief Lauds Cisco’s New Heavy-Duty Router
WASHINGTON, March 9, 2010 - Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski is pleased with Cisco Network’s announcement today of its new ultra strength router capable of handling extensive Internet traffic. Keep Reading
February 11, 2010 Broadband Data/Broadband TV/FCC/National Broadband Plan/Recovery Act
Broadband Breakfast Club on Collecting and Using Data Now Online
WASHINGTON, February 11, 2010 - Broadband Census News LLC on Thursday released, for FREE, the full-length video of the Broadband Breakfast Club event on February 9, 2010: "Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Collecting and Using Broadband Data."
February 10, 2010 Broadband Data/National Broadband Plan/Transparency
Broadband Data Collection and Validation Must Be Rethought, Experts Say at Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, February 10, 2010 – The head of the Federal Communications Commission’s internal “think tank” said Tuesday that the agency was taking a fresh look at all aspects of its broadband data-collection processes: collection, validation and analysis, and dissemination. Speaking to a roomful of panelists and telecom officials who attended Tuesday’s Broadband Breakfast Club in spite of the snow, Office of Strategic Planning Chief Paul de Sa said that the agency was sensitive to the need to balance proprietary information with the desire for transparency in its data-collection processes. In a keynote on the topic of “Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Collecting and Using Broadband Data,” de Sa began by asking questions that frame the work of the agency on broadband data. Keep Reading
February 2, 2010 Broadband Calendar/Broadband Data/National Broadband Plan
A Cast of Data Experts to Speak at February 9 Broadband Breakfast Club
WASHINGTON, February 2, 2010 - A cast of key experts on the issue of collecting and using broadband data -including two key officials at the Federal Communications Commission, plus a former agency chief economist - have confirmed their participation in the Broadband Breakfast Club on Tuesday, February 9, 2010, from 8 a.m. to 10 a.m. The event is titled "Setting the Table for the National Broadband Plan: Collecting and Using Broadband Data," and will be keynoted by Paul de Sa, Chief of Office of Strategic Planning & Policy Analysis at the FCC. The division is widely regarded as the agency's internal "think tank" on dealing with forward-looking issues, particularly broadband. Keep Reading
December 9, 2009 Net Neutrality/Transparency
Net Neutrality and Quality of Services Divisive Topics at FCC Workshop
WASHINGTON, December 9, 2009 - The importance of quality of service and the divisive effect of Net neutrality rules were key topics at the Federal Communication Commission’s Technical Advisory Process Workshop on Tuesday. “The fundamental issue,” said Paul Sanchirico of Cisco Systems, “is ‘is my behavior affecting your experience?’ When it’s congested, I want to make sure I’m protecting everyone’s experience. There’s a greater good.” Sanchirico suggested methods for improving network performance. Fundamental to maintaining quality of service (QoS) is establishing the prioritization of information packets. Keep Reading
November 18, 2009 National Broadband Plan/Recovery Act
Broadband Plan of Attack is Evolving, Say Industry and Regulators
CHICAGO, November 18, 2009 - The title of Wednesday’s panel at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners sounded militant enough: “Broadband Plan of Attack.” Yet the speakers on hand gave the distinct impression that across public, private and academic sectors, conclusive battle plans remain to be drawn. Regulators from Washington, telecom providers and researchers agree that the push forward for wider broadband access remains both a certainty and an imperative. Yet not everyone seems to be dancing the same step just yet—a fact reflected in the frank appraisal of Robert Curtis, director of deployment for the national broadband plan at the Federal Communications Commission. Keep Reading
November 2, 2009 Net Neutrality/NTIA/Recovery Act
Q&A With Stephen Liu, Architect of Cisco System's 'MyPlanNet' Broadband Computer Game
WASHINGTON, November 2, 2009 - Stephen Liu, the designer and architect of Cisco System’s myPlanNet, and a senior marketing manager at Cisco, discussed the company's new computer game that puts the common man in the shoes of the broadband executive. Edited excerpt of his interview with Winter Casey, Reporter, BroadbandCensus.com, are as follows. Keep Reading
Cisco Launches Broadband Game, Puts Everyman in Shoes of Telecom Execs
WASHINGTON, November 2, 2009 – Cisco Systems has released a new computer game that puts the common man in the shoes of broadband executive making deployment decisions. The company’s myPlanNet game attempts to make broadband deployment easy to understand – and perhaps forces broadband activists to walk in the shoes of the network executive grappling with tough issues like the underserved and Net neutrality. Keep Reading
October 26, 2009 Broadband's Impact/NTIA/Premium Content/Recovery Act
NTIA's Lawrence Strickling Describes Role of BTOP in Broadband Plan, Innovation Strategy
NEW YORK, October 26, 2009 – NTIA Administrator Lawrence Strickling, speaking at a telecommunications conference here on Friday, said that a national broadband plan is key to the innovation strategy of the Obama administration, along with expanding research and development, increasing education and providing a strong technological ecosystem. With regard to the Broadband Technologies Opportunity Program funding program, he said that not every good project would be funded, as there simply are not enough funds. At the same time, he said he wanted to make sure that the agency did not fund any bad projects. Keep Reading
July 27, 2009 FCC/National Broadband Plan/Premium Content
The Week in Review: National Broadband Plan Steps to the Fore
WASHINGTON, July 27, 2009 – The National Broadband Plan took a Great Leap Forward last week as the Federal Communications Communication accepted reply comments on Tuesday (first-round filings were due June 8) in its mammoth proceeding. Keep Reading
January 10, 2009 Press Releases
BroadbandCensus.com to Co-Chair 'Metrics' Working Group of National Broadband Strategy Group
WASHINGTON, January 10, 2009 - The National Broadband Strategy "Call to Action" on Friday announced the co-chairs of six working groups that are seeking to craft national policies to help promote universal broadband throughout the United States. Keep Reading
December 2, 2008 Recovery Act
National Broadband Strategy Week Begins Today, 10 a.m., in Dirksen Senate Building
WASHINGTON, December 2 – A total of 55 companies and non-profit organizations, including major corporate entities such as AT&T, Cisco Systems, Google, Intel and Verizon Communications, have signed on to a “call to action for a national broadband strategy.” Keep Reading
October 7, 2008 Broadband Data
Regulators, Officials Debate Need for National Broadband Policy, Fund
WASHINGTON, September 26 - A national broadband infrastructure fund should include the involvement of state regulators and focus not only on the extension of broadband service into unserved areas, but also on the adoption rate of broadband service by consumers, according to California Public Utilities Commissioner Rachelle Chong. Keep Reading
September 8, 2008 Press Releases
Agenda for Broadband Census for America Conference on September 26, 2008
WASHINGTON, September 8, 2008 – Many of the nation’s foremost broadband policy-makers and experts will analyze and discuss best practices for improving the collection and sharing of public data about high-speed internet access at the Broadband Census for America Conference in Washington, D.C., on Friday, September 26, 2008. Keep Reading
July 10, 2008 Smart Grid
Verizon, Cisco and GridPoint Tout Green Credentials at Progressive Hill Briefing
WASHINGTON, July 9 – Three technology and telecommunications companies pressed their case Wednesday on Capitol Hill for better and more accessible broadband in order to promote energy conservation and a “green economy.” Keep Reading
June 20, 2008 Net Neutrality
U.S. Technology Could Thwart Chinese Internet Censorship
June 18 - Technologies exist that allow Chinese internet users to evade government censorship, but their deployment is being thwarted by American companies based in China, panelists said Wednesday at a hearing of the United States-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Keep Reading
June 15, 2008 Broadband Data
Questions about Broadband Data Swirl at Broadband Policy Summit
June 12 - Questions about the availability and detail of broadband data featured prominently in presentations and in discussions at Thursday's sessions of Broadband Policy Summit IV. Keep Reading
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Reading list. 22 December 2018
An article this week by my colleague Puawai Cairns for the Center for the Future of Museums blog - Decolonisation: we aren’t going to save you. Puawai also pointed this week to an earlier piece of writing by another of our colleagues, Sean Mallon, which is evergreen: Opinion: why we should beware of the word ‘traditional’.
Interesting job going at the Pitt Rivers, showing how deliberate and pointed research can be one of a museum's best tools of self-reflection and correction: the Research Associate - Labelling Matters is being recruited for a project to "dissect and dismantle some of the complex contested words, stereotypes and concepts that are present not only in museums but in society at large."
The V&A's Tristram Hunt must have a very active comms rep: here he is for the end of the year in The Art Newspaper, Museums must confront the big issues. Still a million times better than the dickwad bemoaning Kaywin Feldmen's appointment as director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington this week - he doesn't warrant a link.
And some listening for over the holiday break:
Circuit's end of year round-up is a two-parter this year, featuring Mark Amery, Shannon Te Ao, Simon Gennard and Health Galbraith. Part One: personal highlights, trends, best show // Part Two: biggest surprise, best publication, best writing, best moving image work
Suse Anderson of MuseoPunks interviews Christopher Bedford, director of Baltimore's Museum of Art
Labels: Reading Lists
Reading list, 15 December 2018
If this year has a theme, it's decolonising museums:
DR Congo to request restitution of works from former coloniser Belgium - The Art Newspaper
Belgium’s Africa Museum Had a Racist Image. Can It Change That? - New York Times
New gallery will be first in a Smithsonian museum to focus on U.S. Latino experience - Washington Post
Senegal unveils China-funded Museum of Black Civilisations - AfricaNews
The Field Museum's Native North American Hall starts to ask who it represents - Chicago Reader
Matariki Williams, Oceania As a Contact Zone, and the Myth of Museum Universalism, The Pantograph Punch
Nicholas Thomas, Should colonial art be returned home? - Financial Times
Reading list, 8 December 2018
How Native Americans in the arts are preserving tradition in a changing world:
“I fell into a trap for 10 years or more of trying to educate the non-Native about what Natives were about,” says Gerald Clarke Jr., a Cahuilla artist known for his large welded sculptures. “It’s a trap because the default setting for mainstream America is that the artist is the ambassador of the community, and that almost replaces the interest in the artist’s own creativity.”
Terrible headline, interesting article - Hey, that's our stuff: Maasai tribespeople tackle Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum.
Designing for Instagram is fully established as a real thing (to wit - Ollie Wainwright's
Snapping point: how the world’s leading architects fell under the Instagram spell). The NGV have just paired M.C. Escher (perhaps one of the most Instagram-adaptable of artists) with design firm Nendo: MC Escher gets another dimension – and a show that plunges you into his obsessions.
Ticketed for later listening: a Slate podcast interview with exhibition designers Lana Hum and Mack Cole-Edelsack of MoMA’s exhibition design and production department.
A really fascinating read: Revisiting Suck magazine’s experiment in radical feminist pornography.
Excellent fluff: What 8 Collectors Wore to a Fall Art and Design Fair.
Nathalie de Gunzburg
Occupation: chairwoman, Dia Beacon
You’re wearing leather.
Yes, I’m wearing a Hermès black leather dress.
It’s very strong.
How do you dress for an event like this?
I don’t know. I like the dress, I had it in my closet. I thought, Why not?
Your shoes: Are they python?
Yes. They’re Aquazzura. All my shoes are. And they’re very comfy.
I don’t believe that. It’s like a four-inch heel.
It’s a full-time job to know how to walk in heels.
It's that time of the year: How Pantone Picked ‘Living Coral’ as the 2019 ‘Color of the Year’.
Nathan Sentence, who is a project officer in First Nations programming at the Australian Museum, regularly puts out some of the best writing in the sector. Most recently: Diversity means Disruption.
Among the many reactions to Bénédicte Savoy and Felwine Sarr's report to President Macron on the repatriation of African artefacts from French museums:
Return of African Artifacts Sets a Tricky Precedent for Europe’s Museums, featuring Hartwig Fischer (British Museum), Hartmut Dorgerloh (Humboldt Forum) and Prince Kum’a Ndumbe III (AfricAvenir International)
Restitution Report: museum directors respond, featuring Tristram Hunt (V&A), Nicholas Thomas (Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge) and Dorgerloh
Legal challenges remain for restituting African artefacts from French museums
Reading list, 26 November 2018
Better late than never ...
Matariki Williams (curator Mātauranga Māori at Te Papa, Tusk co-founder and The Pantograph Punch contributor) writes about the RA's Oceania for Frieze: Complicating the Narrative of ‘Oceania’.
Follow-up from an earlier link: the Ben Uri Gallery in London is deaccessioning a chunk of its collection to raise funds to widen its remit: the inner circle of trustees has approved this decision, the wider advisory board (stacked with big names) has come out swinging against it: Ben Uri museum advisory board resigns en masse over Sotheby’s sale of works from the collection.
Look for big moves in repatriation next year: from the BBC, 'Stolen friend': Rapa Nui seek return of moai statue; from the Art Newspaper, 'Give Africa its art back', Macron's report says.
I'm considering an overnight trip to Sydney before March especially to see Nick Cave's installation at Carriageworks - Nick Cave on his darkly exquisite new work: ‘Is there racism in heaven?’
Glenn Lowry's contract has been extended at MOMA - if he serves his full term through to 2025, that will be 30 years in charge. He got the job in 1995 when he was 40.
The Gray Market goes deeper into a recent report published in Science about how artists' careers are made or broken on the basis of a small number of key galleries & how fast they get into them. Good graphs. Still my best weekly email newsletter.
A dual interview with Phyllida Barlow and Anna Maria Maiolino in the NYT Magazine, Two Pioneering Artists Discuss Motherhood and Machismo.
Peter Peryer, 1941 - 2018
Peter Peryer in his Devonport studio, 1985. Photo by Jim Barr and Mary Barr.
The artist Peter Peryer died on Sunday. I say 'artist' advisedly, because Peter was a photographer who came of age in the 1970s, when contemporary photography was scrapping its way into the art system: galleries, criticism, the market.
He was a great artist, and also one of the first artists I was able to get to know as a human being, not the subject of an art history lecture. I've been lucky enough to be able to buy a few examples of his work over the years - including a portrait photo of a set of salad servers that was an engagement gift to ourselves over a decade ago now. I was even luckier to be able to work with him when I was director at The Dowse, on the exhibition Peter Peryer: A Careful Eye, beautifully curated by Sian Van Dyk.
It's a cliche to say that artists make you look at the world in a different way, but Peter's visual sense literally infected me. When I'd been spending time with him, my eyes would attune themselves to his imagery, and walking through the world after that felt like being a roving Peter Peryer image-making machine - snap snap snap. He was a characterful and distinctive man, articulate, gorgeously presented, ever so romantic, and possessed of the most wonderfully naughty gurgling laugh. I got to spend Sunday night thinking about him and writing a memorial of sorts for him for Radio New Zealand today, which you can listen to here.
Tara Robertson is back in Wellington as a keynote at this week's National Digital Forum, and catching up with her sent me back to her 2016 essay Digitization: just because you can, doesn’t mean you should, on the social and cultural considerations beyond the value of 'open access' when it comes to digitising archival collections, which is still bloody good.
3 Days, 150 Paintings: A Whirlwind Tintoretto Tour - why won't anyone pay me to write pieces like this? (Lots of reasons, really. Good ones, too.)
For my own future reference - historian and New Yorker staff writer Jill Lepore interviewed on her new book, These Truths.
A handy recap: Museums don’t just want gift shops to make money — they want them to shape our understanding of art.
Lisa Martin for The Guardian: Australian cultural institutions struggle to survive as War Memorial gets half-billion dollar upgrade.
Dr. Barabási and his team spent the past three years reconstructing the exhibition histories of nearly 500,000 artists, whose work was shown in about 16,000 galleries and 7,500 museums between 1980 and 2016. He and his team also scoured sales held in 1,239 global auction houses from the same 36-year time period.
They used this data to help trace the paths that artists took early in their careers, tracking how one who earned a spot on the roster of Gallery A subsequently got exhibited in Museum B and then Museum C, for example.
Kelly Crow's The Surprising Formula for Becoming an Art Star for the WSJ, on a recently published study that over three years researched the exhibition histories of nearly 500,000 artists, whose work was shown in about 16,000 galleries and 7,500 museums between 1980-2016, to map the network of power behind artists who become successful.
Museums are dangerous places: How Te Papa is challenging colonialist history - or as the author, my stellar colleague Puawai Cairns put it in a tweet, "The byline I’ve seen “How Te Papa is challenging colonial history” is a bit wrong though. The Māori communities who work with us are provoking most of the best change, we just have to be brave and reMāorify how we tell stories."
And another stellar colleague, currently on secondment to MCH working on repatriation at a national level: Amber Aranui for Pantograph Punch - Toi moko in Toi Art: A Harbinger for a Conversation.
Your taste is why your work disappoints you: a simply wonderful piece by Penguin Random House New Zealand's publishing manager Claire Murdoch, who manages to mine memories of childhood reading, writing and friendship without ever getting saccharine.
The Ben Uri Gallery in London, established to help Jewish immigrants gain access to the arts, is deaccessioning works from its permanent collection (through a combination of selling via auction and distributing to public collections) in order to expand their mission and respond to contemporary society by championing immigrant artists.
An insightful article by Charles Desmarais for the SF Chronicle on the appointment of Tom Campbell (unceremoniously ushered out of the Met directorship last year) to fill the vacancy left by his successor Max Hollein at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Love a good new-director story: Suzanne Muchnic for ArtNews on Klaus Biesenbach and LA MOCA.
Reading list, 28 October 2018
Back on the wagon ...
A great Longform podcast interview with New York Magazine's veteran art critic Jerry Saltz. Start listening to it for his enticement of more writing from younger people on their own peer group: stay for where he talks about his marriage to the stellar NYT art critic Roberta Smith. P.S. I hope Roberta has both health insurance and retirement savings.
I spent last week on the Museums & Galleries Australia week-long residential museum leadership programme. I'm still processing it - I went partly to build out my Australian networks, partly to audit the programme on behalf of Museums Aotearoa (New Zealand has no equivalent programme) and partly for my own reflection and (hopefully) growth. Without any doubt, the most valuable part was the day we had with Nicholas Serota, as he walked us through what I think of as the four 'seasons' of his extended tenure at Tate. I'm still processing this, but one of my classmates, Paul Bowers, managed to reflect & write-up on the day: A day with Nicholas Serota.
This McKinsey Quarterly piece was cited by another instructor on the MGA programme: Accidentally agile: An interview with the Rijksmuseum’s Taco Dibbits, in which the director talks about how teams were formed and dissolved around pieces of work for their massive renovation. Reading it, I couldn't help but think that small evolutions look like revolutions in hidebound old institutions, but there's a few nuggets, like having one exhibition team prep the first list of works for a collection hang, and a second team then be charged to come in, reduce it by two thirds, and argue for the inclusion of every object they're keeping.
Nina Simon and the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History have released a Community Issue Exhibition Toolkit, based on their own work.
Why Are Antiques So Cheap? Because Everyone Lives in the Kitchen - this NYT piece by Scott Reyburn starts out kinda chintzy, but then becomes really interesting on how families' use of their houses, and accompanying furnishings trends, are changing.
Oof. From the Harvard Business Review: When Boards Broaden Their Definition of Diversity, Women and People of Color Lose Out.
Whereas a mandate of diversity once inspired attention to demographic differences, including gender, race, and ethnicity, it now increasingly prioritizes differences of functional and industry experience. ...
... Attention once oriented toward underrepresented groups (women and racial and ethnic minorities) is increasingly centered on technical attributes, such as experience and skills.
Mandatory proxy disclosures offer plain evidence of this shift. Among the largest U.S. firms last year, less than 45% attended to traditional measures of diversity (for example, gender) in their proxy disclosures. Director and recruiter interviews confirm evidence procured from company disclosures.
One result has been a noticeable slowdown in the rate of appointment of women and other minorities to board seats. Globally, women hold only 15% of all corporate board seats, a mere increase of 2% since 2015. Among large U.S. companies (S&P 1500), women hold just 16% of seats — fewer seats than are held by directors named John, Robert, and William. Moreover, among the premier Fortune 500, women’s share of board seats actually declined by two percentage points in 2016.
Thought provoking stuff from art consultant Lisa Schiff: Is This the Victory Lap We Were Hoping For? Why We Must Keep Women and Artists of Color From Becoming the Next Victims of Market Speculation
And finally, tangentially linked to Nick Serota (now chair of Arts Council England) - one of their recent research reports, commissioned from Golant Media Ventures and The Audience Agency, What is resilience anyway?, which has introduced me to the concept of 'bouncing back' and 'bouncing forward'.
Art News New Zealand Winter 2018
On Deaccessioning
Like cicadas, elected officials seem to follow a periodical cycle: driven by some hidden biological cue, on a regular basis around the country one group of councillors or another will be found mooting selling off star artworks from the municipal gallery to fund its activities, or support infrastructure and operational costs elsewhere in council. On an equally biological level, these threats trigger an allergic reaction amongst the staff at the institution concerned, and around the country. The spectre of forced deaccessioning strikes at the heart of our sector's commitment to permanency, history, and public service.
However, deaccessioning - the considered removal of a work or object from a museum's permanent collection - shouldn't be a taboo topic. The Museums Aotearoa Code of Ethics states that it is the responsibility of every institution to have a clear policy on collection development, care, and deaccessioning, and the corresponding responsibility of the governing body to ensure funds raised from approved deaccessioning are invested back into the collection. Reasons for deaccessioning a work might include that it is irretrievably damaged, that it has no relevance to the wider collection or mission of the organisation, or that the museum should not have accessioned the item in the first place; "raising money" is not one of the criteria. These statements are replicated by museum associations around the world. They emerge from a concern that incompetent or short-sighted governance bodies will shore up shaky finances by plundering public collections - the bodies of work built up to represent and make freely available a population's cultural heritage and stories.
A complex debate has been running in the United States for the past year over the decision by the trustees of Massachusetts' Berkshire Museum to sell 40 artworks in a bid to raise US$55M, to alleviate a budget deficit and invest in an expansion that would direct the museum further away from art and more emphatically into science. The legal battle went all the way to the state's Supreme Judicial Court; the sales have gone ahead through public auction at Sotheby's and private treaty. The Association of Art Museum Directors has censured the museum, and imposed sanctions that prevent other members from cooperating with the museum on loans and other activities.
Things are considerably more sunny in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where earlier this year the Philbrook Museum of Art deaccessioned a single 18th century Chinese porcelain vase, donated in the 1960s and only rarely displayed; it was sold in a special one-lot sale at Christie's for US$14.5million. Philbrook director Scott Stulen said the proceeds would be placed in a restricted fund, to be used for the acquisition of "potentially .... hundreds of other artworks".
And in Baltimore, the Baltimore Museum of Art has undertaken a strategic and highly publicised act of deaccessioning, deaccessioning seven 20th century works by white male artists, to create funds dedicated to acquiring works by women and artists of colour. More than US$7.5M was generated by the sale of works by Warhol, Kline, Rauschenberg and others that curators deemed could be spared from the collection; the first round of resulting acquisitions has just been announced, including pieces by Jack Whitten, Amy Sherald and Lynette Yiadom-Boakye. In a recent op-ed for Frieze, BMA director Christopher Bedford described this as a "aggressive but responsible deaccessioning process", that would "provide the war chest necessary to correct the canon looking back, and allow us to buy without compromise the most important work being made today". Bedford also noted the often jubilant press coverage of the decision to sell works by deceased white artists in order to buy new work by artists of colour; he described this as "true, but only partially by design ... a function of history and testament to the prejudice that has structured museum collecting, that of the BMA as well as most institutions".
It is interesting to contrast reactions to these three actions. The Philbrook has been quite straightforward - a pot "languishing" in the collection has been released to enrich the wider collection: it's hard not to think "You lucky buggers, I wish I had one of those". The BMA example has raised angst from some commentators, but largely been embraced as the action of a woke 21st century museum. The Berkshire Museum meanwhile has been roundly and bitingly condemned - although one could argue that shoring up finances, keeping the doors open, and pivoting to science in order to better serve the needs of its community is actually a more necessary and meaningful goal than adding more items to a collection store.
I often reflect that we as the museum sector makes up our own rules. We might feel like they're graven in marble, but actually, they're relatively new and far from immutable. Rather than waiting in quiet fear for a group of councillors to turn their roving eyes upon our collection stores, perhaps it's time to look to American institutions and how they are taking (or losing) control of the deaccessioning narrative, in order to develop our own practice.
Reading list, 7 July 2018
An excellent and topical piece by Adam Goodall for the Pantograph Punch, The Difficult History and Precarious Future of the PACE Programme.
And more bias ahoy - Francis McWhannell for Pantograph Punch on Simon Gennard's curatorial project Sleeping Arrangements, currently on show at The Dowse.
The latest issue of reliably excellent Gray Market Weekly is reliably excellent, and looks at - amongst other things - expansionist activities by the mega-galleries, such as Hauser & Wirth's three bars/restaurants. It also points to Richard Polsky's op-ed, Why the Passing of Interview Magazine and the Rise of Gagosian Quarterly Represents a New Era for the Art World.
Two wonderful profiles - Thomas Chatterton Williams on Adrian Piper for the New York Times and Steve Rose on Theaster Gates for the Guardian
Off topic, but too good not to share - Judith Newman's He’s Going Back to His Former Wife. Sort Of., published in the New York Times Modern Love section, is a beautifully written piece on the death and complicated burial wishes of an older husband.
Reading list 30 June 2018
A deeper than expected article on artist-branded merchandise from The Guardian - Van Gogh leggings and Tracey teacups: how art merch broke out of the gift shop.
One of my nightmares: He Couldn’t Refuse a Deathbed Plea. Now He’s Got 10,000 Pieces of Art. (I genuinely feel for the friends and family who have to care for the artworks and studio left behind by a loved one - especially if they were unprepared.)
Shelley Bernstein's next move. Always pay attention to Shelley.
Such an interesting edition of The Gray Market: On the Reason Museums Might Soon Take Political Positions, a Bold New Approach to Provenance, and a Telling Quirk of Felix Gonzalez-Torres's Market.
Biased much, but - Matariki Williams for The Pantograph Punch, The Singing Word: On Shannon Te Ao’s my life as a tunnel.
The reliably insightful Colleen Dilenschneider on Why the Percentage of Families Visiting Cultural Entities is Declining (US data) - not because they hate museums, but because the number of households with children is proportionally declining.
Teju Coles's latest for the New York Times, Take a Photo Here, looks at how buildings and built environment 'ask', or have been constructed, to be photographed.
Reading list, 23 June 2018
Creative New Zealand recently released New Zealanders and the Arts, their regular research into how the arts are being experienced and perceived across the country. Likewise, Arts Council England has released a data map of arts engagement across England, which will guide their investment through a new £24m programme. And in Canada, Culture Track: Canada, a similar report but one funded by an advocacy group with contributions from corporate sponsors and institutions. (One interesting finding there: it's people who don't have English or French as their first language who are most culturally engaged.)
Jason Farago breaks down *that* video: At the Louvre, Beyoncé and Jay-Z Are Both Outsiders and Heirs.
Rachel Wetzler on the "that photo is just like a Renaissance painting!" meme:
A contemporary photograph simply can’t be “like a Renaissance painting” because it partakes of another kind of social relationship, conditioned by a different set of conventions for making and seeing images.
I've kinda missed reading good old-fashioned deep dive explanations of fairly straightforward digital projects, like Colin Brooks's Answering the question “what’s on today?”, about the changes made to the Whitney's 'what's on today?' feature, which also successfully flowed through to their public wifi log-in.
Is the Art World Too Big for Its Own Good? - The NYT's T Magazine gathers NYC dealers Paula Cooper, Elyse Derosia, Bridget Donahue and Sean Kelly to 'discuss art fairs, auctions and staying in business'.
This account of a new gallery in the Uffizi to house some of their Renaissance heavy-hitters cracked me up: on the one hand, the director is receiving updates on climate control around the works on his cellphone; on the other hand, there's this photo from the transfer of the paintings, which my registrar would shoot me if I posted on Insta:
Museum workers carrying the dual portraits of Agnolo Doni and his wife, Maddalena Strozzi, from the Palazzo Pitti to their new location in Room 41 of the Uffizi. Gianni Cipriano for The New York Times
And this beautiful piece: Natural Causes by Annie Godfrey Larmon, on environmental change and America's heroic 20th century land art icons.
Public letter: Cuts to Art History at Victoria University of Wellington
Victoria University of Wellington is currently running a change proposal for the School of Art History, Classics and Religious Studies. According to the proposal, academic positions in the Art History department will be reduced from 5 to 4, and the dedicated administrator role disestablished. A further review is indicated for 2019 with the possibility of further cuts; it is the only department in the proposal treated in this way. Changes (considerably more encouraging in tone) are also signaled in the change proposal for the Museums and Heritage Studies programme.
While this is not technically a public consultation, there's nothing stopping you from making a submission. The Support Art History at VUW website has been set up to help this; you can email s.vuw.arthistory@gmail.com to obtain a copy of the consultation paper. Submissions are due by midday Friday June 29, and can be emailed to Lillian Loftus, Faculty HR Manager at lillian.loftus@vuw.ac.nz.
Below is the text of the submission I made this week. Enrolling in Art History at Vic literally changed my life path, and I feel really strongly about this. Please consider adding your own thoughts to the submissions.
SUBMISSION ON CHANGE PROPOSAL – SCHOOL OF ART HISTORY, CLASSICS & RELIGIOUS STUDIES (SACR)
I provide this submission as a graduate of Victoria’s Art History Programme (Master of Arts, 2004), and in my professional capacity as Director of The Dowse Art Museum and Chair of Museums Aotearoa, New Zealand’s umbrella organisation representing 475 organisations.
I made an earlier submission on this change proposal which I have attached for context.
Specific feedback on the proposal as it affects Art History
This submission is made from a position of strong support for the need and value of a vital, outward-looking and internationally-respected Art History programme at Victoria. With other universities cutting courses in the Humanities, VUW is positioned to exploit the strengths of its existing offer and develop new and deeply relevant programmes for New Zealand and international students – but only with the support and belief of university administration. As an employer and professional in a sector reliant upon art history graduates and professionals, many aspects of this proposal fill me with despair.
I acknowledge that falling enrolments are being at least partially attributed to a reduction in the number of secondary schools offering Art History. Having had a similar conversation with Massey University regarding visual arts intakes, I must say I am considerably more inspired by Massey’s approach of doubling down on outreach and student recruitment, compared to VUW’s slow bloodletting.
The University finds itself in a Catch-22 position. Falling enrolments are being used as an argument for reducing staff positions; at the same time, with a reduction in academic staff and the removal of the dedicated administrator, it will be difficult for the department to refresh papers, build public profile and offer the manaakitanga that has drawn generations of students into the department to date.
The proposal also indicates another review and round of changes in 2019. Such major disruption and uncertainty will not only impact staff hugely: it will undermine current and future students’ confidence in the programme and predictably negatively affect enrolments. I cannot see how this proposal achieves anything more than setting a course towards an utterly predictable failure.
Section 1.5.1 of the proposal contains one statement that puzzles me: “the current academic staffing in Art History, while mainly emphasising curatorial studies, ranges beyond the Gallery’s focus on contemporary NZ art.” This is erroneous on two counts; firstly, while some papers contain a small curatorial element and a number of the lecturers also undertake curatorial projects (a form of generating and disseminating research as valid as publishing), by no means would I describe the department as “emphasising curatorial studies”; and secondly, the Adam Art Gallery has a much wider remit than contemporary New Zealand art and in fact presents a varied programme of international, historical and modern exhibitions that are arguably more diverse than any other Wellington region institution – a major feat, given its staffing size and budget.
Specific feedback: Museum and Heritage Studies
I find the recommendations on Museums and Heritage Studies considerably more encouraging. This includes the recognition that an imbalanced EFTS ratio is appropriate for this course, but more importantly, the two areas of growth that are indicated.
Professional development at advanced levels of the sector is a topic that has already been raised with the Ministers responsible for Arts, Culture and Heritage. Speaking from my experience consulting on professional development needs within New Zealand’s museum sector, there is definitely appetite for the kinds of modular/blocked and executive development courses suggested in the proposal. These would be particularly valuable if they could be delivered in partnership with other areas of the university, including Māori Studies, Pacific Cultures and Languages, Public Law and Business.
I would also encourage in due course further exploration of the concept of a “Heritage Hub”, and put forth Te Papa, National Services Te Paerangi, Heritage New Zealand and Museums Aotearoa as potential partners or stakeholders in this conversation.
The more closely I look at this proposal, the more strongly I am struck by the fact that it appears to be entirely motivated by cost-cutting, and how void it is of aspiration, innovation or even – “even”! – attention to academic excellence or the student experience.
The potential is there for Victoria to look for growth from the separate and combined strengths of these two departments.
Aotearoa New Zealand is crying out for academic attention to be given to Māori and Pacific traditional and contemporary art forms and practices; there is a vibrant and ever-growing international discussion about decolonisation and indigenous regeneration Victoria could play a role in supporting, even leading, with a little strategic investment.
There is no postgraduate curatorial training course in the visual arts, and early career professionals regularly head offshore for this – despite the fact the Wellington region has a greater density of potential partners in this area than any other location in the country.
I urge the Decision Panel to consult with the cultural sector before making further decisions, and open your eyes to what you may be able to grow, rather than prune away.
Reading list, 9 June 2018
Wow. That was a long break. Back into it then ...
I've done a lot of thinking about Kaywin Feldman's (the director of Minneapolis's MIA) Museum leadership in a time of crisis. It makes interesting contrast reading to Olga Viso's Decolonizing the Art Museum: The Next Wave (written in the wake of leaving Minneapolis's Walker Art Center, in the wake of Sam Durant's Scaffold). It's worth taking a look at MIA's (short) Strategic Plan to 2021 to see how Feldman's thinking is reflected in organisational priorities. An amazing focus on visitors, members, audiences and communities, ("Mia 2021 is focused on relationships between the museum and: its diverse community, individuals who are sophisticated and loyal arts enthusiasts, and curious explorers seeking wonder and inspiration") but except for a mention of expanding the collection, nary a mention of artists as one of these communities to be focused upon, supported, or better understood.
Mary Louise Schumacher reviews the current state of art writing for Nieman in Critics and Online Outlets Leading the Vanguard in Arts Writing and also produced a focus on Hyperallergic, based on its ranking by other art journalists: Hyperallergic, at Age 9, Rivals the Arts Journalism of Legacy Media.
Yesterday Seb Chan published Ten things for my museum colleagues working in digital, an expansion of ten provocations he was asked to pose at this week's Museums and Galleries Australia conference. It's not just for people working in museums though, or in digital:
... US museums are disproportionately discussed in the global press. The international centres of finance and media remain New York and London, and as a result it should be no suprise that museums that are ‘visible’ to media companies located in those cities will be more widely covered. This is obvious, however it turns out that museum professionals are very good at amplifying these already loud media voices on social media.
It doesn’t help that our world has become a slow motion car crash and all of our attention is being sucked into a vortex of US politics, but if you are in Australia it might be helpful to remind yourself that we have a different history, different beliefs, and different issues that are more pressing. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t find allies with museum workers overseas, but even something as simple as comparing working conditions requires an understanding of the radically different contexts.
More on the digital front: the excellent Mitchell Whitelaw interviews the excellent George Oates on Making and Remaking Collections Online. I'm so fortunate that I got involved in the National Digital Forum when I did, and got to work with both these amazing people. The interview is part of the Remaking Collections grouping on the Open Library of Humanities, launched in late April and designed to keep growing.
Without a doubt the most dumbfounding art-tech story I've read in the past month: ‘Arrested Development’ Actor Portia de Rossi Has Invented a New Technology That She Hopes Will Render Art Galleries Obsolete.
An interesting piece from Australia's NAVA, Towards national standards for art in the public space:
Approximately 80% of the disputes that come to NAVA concern public art: regular reports of exploitative EOIs; lengthy and contradictory contracts issued after the work has started, or sometimes, after it’s been completed; having to work with third-party fabricators who neither like nor understand art; change of project direction or timeline without warning or compensation to the artist; confused approaches to maintenance, from short-termism to lengthy lifetime agreements; and so much more.
Without a national approach to commissioning public art, including widespread recognition and mandating of best practice, it remains a relatively ad hoc industry. Public art commissions gone pear-shaped come to NAVA too often, and with so many inconsistencies, we risk seeing artists turn their back on this important opportunity.
And finally, a beautiful piece from Edmund de Waal for the Guardian, after judging the Wellcome book prize: Breaking the silence: are we getting better at talking about death?
Reading list, 5 May 2018
The Baltimore Museum of Art has announced plans to sell seven works by white male artists from its collection, to create an endowment targeted at buying contemporary work by women and artists of colour. Compared to the shitshow that some recent American art deaccessioning has seemed to devolve into, the BMA's process looks immaculate and even includes donors of the works ticketed for sale heartily endorsing the idea.
It boggles my mind that there is such a thing as a "more notable startup" in the "digital art subscription space". Why anyone would invest in such a thing I don't know.
Tim Schneider takes on the blockbuster fallacy in his latest The Gray News column, building off reporting by Javier Pes on exhibitions plans at London's National Portrait Gallery and Colleen Dilenschneider's analysis of blockbuster exhibitions and visitation trends.
It is not easy to acknowledge one’s blind spots. What I had hoped would be an opportunity for public education and “truth to power” in the presentation of “Scaffold” was simply not possible because of the continuing historical trauma about an unreckoned-with colonial past. This was a humbling public admission for a person whose career has been devoted to providing a platform for underrepresented histories.
Olga Viso, ex-director of the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, reflects on what decolonising the museum might mean, in the wake of the Scaffold experience.
Reading list, 28 April 2018
Ioana Gordon-Smith for Pantograph Punch: From the Margins to the Mainstream: Pacific Sisters at Te Papa.
I'm fascinated by this model: a NYC dealer gallery, Postmasters Gallery, has launched a Patreon programme to build a kind of supporters club, to sit alongside actual buyers. Covered on (the very good) The Gray Market newsletter and on Artnet News.
Nina Simon has released the full text of her book The Art of Relevance online.
Simon Gennard's beautiful and insightful essay, accompanying his exhibition Sleeping Arrangements, now on at The Dowse. The exhibition bring together the work of four artists (Malcolm Harrison, Grant Lingard, Zac Langdon-Pole and Micheal McCabe) from three different generations, using the pivotal moment of the early years of the AIDS crisis in New Zealand at the start of the 1990s as a context for exploring their work.
I am FASCINATED by LACMA's Collectors Committee Weekend, a fundraising extravaganza in which they raise acquisition funds. I think it should be made into a reality tv show.
Shelly Bernstein writes about how the Barnes Foundation has rewritten visitor guides, visitors rules and host training to manage safe distances in their (small, stuffed-to-the-gills-with-extraordinary-objects) galleries.
It is hard to pick favorites in this exhibition which dishes out so many levels of weirdness my head starts to spin. There are serious book illustrations done for Sinclair Lewis, and a corncob chandelier for a hotel dining room. There is elegant silver work paired with painted metal machine parts wired up as eccentric flowers in clay pots. And learning details from the catalog about his life, like the tale of him attending a costume party dressed as an angel with wings, a pink flannel nightie and a halo, makes a definitive understanding of this work fruitless.
A fun and provocative review of Grant Wood: American Gothic and Other Fables at the Whitney Museum by Dennis Kardon for Hyperallergic.
“The Turner Prize changed all sorts of things,” she said. “Now, if I say I want something, people try and do it for me, and that’s never happened to me in the whole of my life.”
Hettie Judah on Lubaina Himid: She Won the Turner Prize. Now She’s Using Her Clout to Help Others.
This has been passed around incessantly (and deservedly) but I'm dropping it in here for future references: Junot Díaz's The Silence: The Legacy of Childhood Trauma.
Read anything Kyle Chayka writes: Style Is an Algorithm.
I honestly can't tell if the profession will learn from this, or beat its collective head against its collective desk (probably both, to be fair): What Is a ‘Narrative Art Museum’? 6 Things to Expect From George Lucas’s New LA Museum.
This sounds like sheer horror to me, but I am a known kill-joy: The Post-Millennial Generation Is Here … and they're working at the Museum of Ice Cream. You might as well pair that with this recent Hyperallergic piece by Mitchell Kuga, How Corporations Harness — and Hijack — the Idea of the Museum. And seeing as we're on the topic, from the Culture™ newsletter: Must the museum be defended from branded content?
Honestly, I don’t expect my work to survive 100 years. Let it perish if it’s perishable. It’s like an emotion. Can you preserve an emotion for 100 years?
Palette cleanser: a recent interview with Sheila Hicks by Anicka Yi.
Art News New Zealand, Autumn 2018
Women getting fired
"The Museum World Is Having An Identity Crisis, And Firing Powerful Women Won’t Help", read a March 19 headline on the Huffington Post website. The article recapped three high profile layoffs of women from leadership positions in art museums: Queens Museum director Laura Raicovich, who resigned in January after what she described as "political differences" with the museum's board; Musée d’Art Contemporain director María Inés Rodríguez, let go on the International Women's Day because her programme was "too demanding"; and Helen Molesworth, chief curator at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), who according to the museum's press statement chose to step down "due to creative differences" - a piece of phrasing refuted by artist and MOCA board member Catherine Opie, who told Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight that the curator had in fact been fired by director Philippe Vergne for "undermining the museum".
All three departures have been covered by the international art press, but Molesworth's case has received special attention, perhaps due to the nature of the institution. Opened in 1979, MOCA is LA's only artist-founded museum, and has a strong history of progressive and groundbreaking shows. It also has a recent history of turmoil, especially during the divisive directorship of Jeffrey Deitch. A relatively small institution, the museum punches well above its weight in terms of influence.
Seeking answers for the surprise announcement, some reports focused on rumours of Molesworth driving out long-serving staff. Others speculated that Vergne's decision to curate several exhibitions of high profile white male artists' work defied Molesworth's programming efforts. But ultimately, as Julia Halperin wrote on Artnet News, "Molesworth’s personal priorities, progressive politics, and constitutional aversion to flattering donors put her on a collision course with the museum’s director and board."
Since the announcement, extracts from earlier interviews given by Molesworth have circulated widely on social media, including this from a 2016 interview with The Art Newspaper:
"Most museums still maintain a commitment to an idea of the best, or quality, or genius. And I’m not saying I don’t agree with those as values. But I think those values have been created over hundreds of years to favour white men. One of the things you have to say as a curator is “We are not going to present the value that already exists; we are going to do the work to create value around these woman artists and artists of colour that would just come ‘naturally’ to the white male artist.”
Molesworth's departure comes at a time when the equity of museums' exhibition programming and acquisitions is closely scrutinised. In a recent article for ArtForum on the work of Simone Leigh, Molesworth wrote:
"The museum, the Western institution I have dedicated my life to, with its familiar humanist offerings of knowledge and patrimony in the name of empathy and education, is one of the greatest holdouts of the colonialist enterprise. Its fantasies of possession and edification grow more and more wearisome as the years go by. ... I confess that more days than not I find myself wondering whether the whole damn project of collecting, displaying, and interpreting culture might just be unredeemable."
A widely identified point of contention was Molesworth's refusal to feign interest in the collections and priorities of board members and supporters if they did not match her priorities. In another article for Artnet News, Felix Salmon analysed auction data for artists featured in MOCA solo shows over the past 15 years. Positing that donor management is one of the chief curator's primary responsibilities, Salmon showed that the number of shows devoted to top-tier market figures had dropped precipitously during Molesworth's tenure. Molesworth, Salmon states, was "sending a very clear message to the kind of collectors who love to bask in the reflected glory of their Ruschas and Rauschenbergs and Murakamis: Your kind of artists aren’t going to get big solo shows at MOCA any more." He concludes: "Very few boards of trustees would be happy putting their support behind such a message; MOCA’s clearly weren’t."
In March I attended the Australian Public Galleries Summit in Sydney. On a panel of artists invited to describe about what galleries would look like if artists ran them, Deborah Kelly noted that secure public funding would be in place, which would eliminate the unsustainable business models of appealing to fickle billionaires for financial security. It was a tongue-in-cheek comment, but it reminded me of the gratitude I feel for working in an art world that remains largely publicly funded, and where situations such as those Molesworth faced at MOCA are relatively rare. At the same time, this year the Ministry for Culture and Heritage has about 50 appointments to make to the boards of organisations it oversees. In a period of rapid social change, the need for board members to be self-aware and socially informed - one might even say "woke" - has never been stronger; for the good of our organisations, and for boards' own self-respect.
Reading list, 7 April 2018
In light of Helen Molesworth's abrupt departure from LA MOCA, apparently because of tension between her programming priorities and those of the museum, her article Art Is Medicine on Simone Leigh's work for the February issue of ArtForum makes interesting reading:
To be situated outside of the main event, to be refused entry, to be placed in a position of radical unknowing—these are deeply interesting aspects of Leigh’s work for me as a white woman. And perhaps more to the point, this is the position from which I must engage with the work, and it is demonstrably different from the place I typically occupy, marked as it is by my status as insider, learned, knowledgeable, comfortable. For centuries, all of culture’s agents—its makers, benefactors, and audiences—have been presumed to be white men, and for centuries, Leigh’s primary audience, black women, were denied a place in this hegemonic structure. This was not a victimless crime. There are ramifications. And one of them, Leigh suggests, is a profound need for intimacy and privacy, for secrecy, for going underground.
Grim: Inquiry launched into Canberra's museums, galleries after funding, staff cuts
Grimmer: V&A opens dialogue on looted Ethiopian treasures. For god's sake, just send them home.
Sure, why not: Picture Yourself at the Museum of Selfies
The writer's method: Anne Helen Petersen's How I wrote about the Nashville Bachelorettes (she is so worth following on Tiny Letter)
Reading list, 31 March 2018
Having just come off two big loosely themed shows (the NGV Triennial and the Sydney Biennale), I'm feeling the need for a tightly curated show. I wish I could see Like Life: Sculpture, Color and the Body (1300-Now) at the Met Breuer, expertly reviewed here by Roberta Smith.
The Renshaw Gallery in Washington DC (the Smithsonian's 'craft' museum) has partnered with the Burning Man festival to re-present artworks made for the festival context to a different audience.
The Modern Art Museum in Rio de Janeiro plans to deaccession a Jackson Pollock to fund maintenance, acquisitions and staffing; apparently this is the first proposed deaccessioning of this type in Brazil.
The Women Responsible for the Look of Your Next All-Day Cafe: the ever-sharp Kyle Chayka on how environments are being designed for future photography.
A retrospective on a story I've been following: ‘The vitriol was really unhealthy’: artist Sonia Boyce on the row over taking down Hylas and the Nymphs. Also, reproducing here in full a letter to the editor on this topic, by Mary Hayward:
The lessons of the Hylas affair are threefold. First, works in art galleries should not be arranged according to what the curators think they are about. The dividing line between telling visitors what they ought to think and telling them what they ought not to think (which is censorship) is narrow and easily crossed. Second, it is only in pornography that all adult women have big breasts. If the female figures in a painting have small breasts that does not mean that they are girls. At least three of Waterhouse’s nymphs have adult faces – and it’s supposed to be men who never look above the neck. Third, disrespecting someone’s work seemingly to promote your own is not a good idea. No one is going to write about Sonia Boyce again without mentioning the Manchester Art Gallery censorship row. Are they?
On safe spaces: Public Galleries Summit, Sydney, March 2018
A 10 minute presentation given as part of a panel discussion on current trends in the museum and gallery sectors at the Public Galleries Summit.
What I was going to talk about today
My original talk today was going to be a summary of trends and influences in the visual arts and museum sector, from the perspective of Aotearoa New Zealand, as a director and as a member of the Museums Aotearoa board.
But when I sat down to write that talk, it didn’t feel very urgent. Instead, I’m taking this opportunity to try to organise the thoughts I’ve been having recently about the changing cultural moment that museums – and specifically, in my case, art museums – are working in.
Please bear with me, as this territory is complex, and I am still struggling to find the language needed to turn what I am sensing into something I can clearly explain.
Four case studies
2017 and the beginning of 2018 saw a series of controversies play out in contemporary art galleries – situations where artists, activists and indigenous groups protested museums’ activities and decisions. These events have given rise to freshly invigorated discussions about censorship, cultural appropriation, and the power imbalances that pervade society and museums.
To give a brief rundown of a few of the most well-known examples:
Let’s start with Sam Durant’s sculpture Scaffold, which was to be installed in a massive revamp of the famous sculpture garden at the Walker Arts Centre in Minneapolis.
The work was based on gallows used in seven state-sanctioned executions conducted around the world between 1859 and 2006. This included the largest mass execution in the history of the United States, in 1862, in which 38 Dakota Sioux men were hung in Mankato, Minnesota, an hour’s drive from the museum.
The Dakota community learned of the sculpture only when promotion of its installation began. Dakota people assembled to protest at the construction site, and after a series of facilitated meetings, the museum’s director Olga Viso and the artist agreed that the sculpture and its IP would be handed over to tribal elders to dispose of as they wished.
The museum had failed to conduct any discussions with Dakota groups prior to this. The work had originally been commissioned for documenta 2012, and in an open letter of apology Durant wrote:
I made Scaffold as a learning space for people like me, white people who have not suffered the effects of a white supremacist society and who may not consciously know that it exists. It has been my belief that white artists need to address issues of white supremacy and its institutional manifestations.
Whites created the concept of race and have used it to maintain dominance for centuries, whites must be involved in its dismantling. However, your protests have shown me that I made a grave miscalculation in how my work can be received by those in a particular community. In focusing on my position as a white artist making work for that audience I failed to understand what the inclusion of the Dakota 38 in the sculpture could mean for Dakota people.
Second, Dana Schutz’s painting Open Casket, included in the Whitney Biennial.
This abstract painting is based on posthumous images of Emmett Till, the black American teenager who was brutally lynched in 1955 after a white woman falsely accused him of flirting with her. Till’s mother, Mamie, insisted that his body be presented at his funeral unembalmed and undoctored; photographs from the funeral ran in two African-American publications.
Schutz’s painting had been shown in Berlin without comment before being presented at the Whitney.
The work triggered a vast array of responses, centred on who has the right to work with which stories and histories, and where the line lies between censorship and perpetuating violence.
Parker Bright, a black artist, conducted a series of peaceful protests in front of the painting, standing before it blocking other visitors’ view, wearing a t-shirt that read "Black Death Spectacle”, livestreaming his protest on Facebook.
British artist Hannah Black posted a widely-circulated open letter online that demanded the work be removed and destroyed. "It is not acceptable for a white person to transmute black suffering into profit and fun," she wrote.
When interviewed while still working on the painting in 2016, Schutz had said it had been made in the context of Trump’s presidential campaign and a media coverage of shootings of black men by police officers. She expressed hesitancy about taking the images of Till’s face as her subject matter, saying to The New Yorker writer Calvin Tompkins “How do you make a painting about this and not have it just be about the grotesque? I was interested because it’s something that keeps on happening. I feel somehow that it’s an American image.”
In a statement following the opening of the Biennial, Schutz said:
I don’t know what it is like to be black in America but I do know what it is like to be a mother. Emmett was Mamie Till’s only son. The thought of anything happening to your child is beyond comprehension. Their pain is your pain. My engagement with this image was through empathy with his mother.
Art can be a space for empathy, a vehicle for connection. I don’t believe that people can ever really know what it is like to be someone else (I will never know the fear that black parents may have) but neither are we all completely unknowable.
The painting remained on display throughout the Biennial, with alterations to the wall label that noted the protests.
I find both the Sam Durant and the Dana Schutz examples compelling and concerning because in both cases, the artists were trying to use art to think through and present issues of violence, racism and oppression. These were not casually created or presented, or made by naïve people. They were presented at two of America’s leading contemporary art museums. The art works had both been previously presented without controversy. The museums were seemingly unprepared for the response.
Another example of the use of social media to protest art museums’ activities came in December last year. Mia Merrill started an online petition asking the Met to either take down Thérèse Dreaming, a 1938 painting by Polish artist Balthus depicting his 12 or 13 year-old subject in a dreamy-slash-suggestive pose, or to provide better contextulisation for the work.
Merrill noted that Balthus had a well-known tendency to form relationships with pubescent girls who he used as models and that that it could be argued that this painting romanticises the sexualisation of a child. She wrote:
Given the current climate around sexual assault and allegations that become more public each day, in showcasing this work for the masses without providing any type of clarification, The Met is, perhaps unintentionally, supporting voyeurism and the objectification of children.
The petition is thoughtfully worded and Merrill is clear that she is not asking for the work to be destroyed or even necessarily taken down – just that visitors be given more information about the background of the artist who made it.
As with Hannah Black’s open letter, Merrill’s petition occasioned reams of online coverage. Jonathan Jones, an art critic for The Guardian, wrote that if we started removing art from museums that depicts sexual violence – or simply sexual and gender power imbalances –we’d rapidly start running out of things to show. He argued:
Merrill’s petition confuses acts and images in a way that is deeply dangerous. Art and life are related, but they are not the same. A painting is not an assault. It’s just a painting – even when the content and style seem utterly offensive, you can walk away, leaving it to gather dust on the museum wall.
Philip Kennicott, the Washington Post art critic, wrote, more cogently:
... the petition goes wrong when it argues that the painting should be removed from view now because of the larger and still unfolding scandals of sexual abuse in the media, entertainment, arts and political worlds. Now is precisely not the time to start removing art from walls, books from shelves, music from the radio or films from distribution. The focus should be on the social structures that perpetuate abuse and the people, mostly men, who commit it.
We must deal with sexual harassment and sexual abuse without losing all that was gained during the sexual liberation of the last century. And we are at a critical moment in that process. Men who would lose everything if their past abuses come to light would love to see this cultural firestorm snuffed out before they are exposed. But there are forces, particularly on the academic left, that reflexively resort to censorship as a quick and easy solution to social oppression.
The danger in the wings is a new Puritanism that would only increase the shame surrounding sexuality (a convenient weapon wielded by abusers) while undoing the painful, 20th-century process of deregulating sexuality from religion and heterosexual male power.
This year, a fresh controversy has broken out around senior American artist Chuck Close, after a number of women have alleged he harrassed them when they were modelling for him. A New York Times article by Robin Pobegrin and Jennifer Schuessler collected responses from a variety of museum leaders on whether, like Balthus, Close’s work should be taken off display or displayed with a warning.
Jock Reynolds, the director of the Yale University Art Gallery, is quoted as saying:
How much are we going to do a litmus test on every artist in terms of how they behave? Pablo Picasso was one of the worst offenders of the 20th century in terms of his history with women. Are we going to take his work out of the galleries? At some point you have to ask yourself, is the art going to stand alone as something that needs to be seen?
And Sheena Wagstaff, the Met’s chairman for modern and contemporary art, said:
By taking action in the form of canceling an exhibition or removing art from the walls, a museum is creating an understanding of an artist’s work only through the prism of reprehensible behavior. If we only see abuse when looking at a work of art, then we have created a reductive situation in which art is stripped of its intrinsic worth — and which in turn provokes the fundamental question of what the museum’s role in the world should be.
All this has got me thinking
And this is what I am thinking about these days. The fundamental question of what the museum’s role in the world should be. And especially, I have been thinking about that line that has often been trotted out when museums face controversy over the artists that they show and collect: that museums are safe spaces for unsafe ideas.
The Whitney’s director, Adam Weinberg, is quoted this month in an article by Julia Halperin looking back on 2017’s controversies, saying:
It’s about a contest of ideas—and this is where ideas are displayed and contested and seen, and it’s also, to a degree, safe territory
All these works – Sam Durant’s Scaffold, Dana Schutz’s Open Casket, Balthus’s Thérèse Dreaming, and yes – Chuck Close, Pablo Picasso, Paul Gauguin; all these works are unsafe in some way. For several decades now we have acted as if somehow museums are a neutralising force, a separate space into which people can enter and somehow engage differently with these works and these ideas than they would elsewhere. And to some extent that is true, and that is what we have taught our audience to expect: it is true, because we have made it so.
But what these examples all show is that museums are still capable of doing violence – unknowingly, or thoughtlessly, or because we value the presentation of art and art history over the individuals, communities and cultures who may have been harmed in its making, and may continue to be harmed in its public display.
We are missionaries for contemporary art, with all that implies – and I think that this the most pressing issue for us to grapple with at this moment.
References that informed or are cited in this talk
Carey Dunne, Why the Rijksmuseum Is Removing Bigoted Terms from Its Artworks’ Titles, Hyperallergic, 22 December 2015
Courtney Johnston, Weekend reading, 15 October 2016 (a round-up of pieces on the protests over Kelley Walker's 2016 survey exhibition at CAM, St Louis)
Randy Kennedy, White Artist’s Painting of Emmett Till at Whitney Biennial Draws Protests, The New York Times, 21 March 2017
Calvin Tompkins, Why Dana Schutz painted Emmett Till, The New Yorker, 10 April 2017
Olga Viso, Learning in Public: An Open Letter on Sam Durant’s Scaffold, Walker Art Centre, 26 May 2017
Sam Durant, Statement on Scaffold, 27 May 2017
Andrea K. Scott, Does an offensive sculpture deserve to be burned, The New Yorker, June 3 2017
Courtney Johnston, Long weekend reading: The Scaffold issue, 4 June 2017 (a round-up of coverage of Sam Durant's The Scaffold)
Courtney Johnston, Weekend reading: the Confederate statues edition, 18 August 2017 (a round-up of coverage of the protests around, the removal of, and counter-protests against the removal of, Confederate monuments)
Mia Merrill, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Remove Balthus' Suggestive Painting of a Pubescent Girl, Thérèse Dreaming, Care2 Petitions, Decemeber 2017
Philip Kennicott, This painting might be sexually disturbing. But that’s no reason to take it out of a museum, The Washington Post, 5 December 2017
Gina Bellafante, We Need to Talk About Balthus, The New York Times, 8 December 2017
Jonathan Jones, Arguing over art is right but trying to ban it is the work of fascists, The Guardian, 8 December 2017
Lauren Elkin, Showing Balthus at the Met Isn’t About Voyeurism, It’s About the Right to Unsettle, Quartz, 19 December 2017
Robin Pobegrin and Jennifer Schuessler, Chuck Close Is Accused of Harassment. Should His Artwork Carry an Asterisk?, The New York Times, 28 January 2018
Cody Delistraty, The Problem With Chuck Close, The New York Times, 30 January 2018
Linda Holmes, 'A.P. Bio' And The Complications Of Context, N.P.R., 1 February 2018
Courtney Johnston, In this current climate, 6 February 2018 (a round-up of coverage on Chuck Close, and also the temporary removal of John William Waterhouse's Hylas and the Nymphs (1869) from the Victorian galleries at Manchester Art Gallery by artist Sonia Boyce)
Julia Halperin, How the Dana Schutz Controversy—and a Year of Reckoning—Have Changed Museums Forever, Artnet News, 6 March 2018
Various authors, Museums and #MeToo, Walker Art Centre, 7 March 2018
Susan Goldberg, For Decades, Our Coverage Was Racist. To Rise Above Our Past, We Must Acknowledge It, National Geographic
Siddhartha Mitter, After "Open Casket": What Emmett Till teaches us today, The Village Voice, 12 March 2018
Priscilla Frank, The Museum World Is Having An Identity Crisis, And Firing Powerful Women Won’t Help, HuffPost, 20 March 2017
And a holding place for related discussions published or read after I wrote the talk
Charlotte Higgins, ‘The vitriol was really unhealthy’: artist Sonia Boyce on the row over taking down Hylas and the Nymphs, The Guardian, 19 March 2018
Sumaya Kassim, The museum will not be decolonised, Media Diversified, 15 November 2017
Re-upping this Julia Halperin piece, How the Dana Schutz Controversy—and a Year of Reckoning—Have Changed Museums Forever, because is makes perfect companion reading to this set of 5 takes on Museums and #MeToo from the Walker, featuring an artist, director, critic, educator and journalist writing about museums showing the works of artists who are alleged (or actual) harassers.
I've been strongly influenced by Maciej Ceglowski's thinking, and his recent foray into fundraising for Democratic candidates in tilt-able districts is fascinating.
The Chinese have two different concepts of a copy. Fangzhipin (仿製品) are imitations where the difference from the original is obvious. These are small models or copies that can be purchased in a museum shop, for example. The second concept for a copy is fuzhipin (複製品). They are exact reproductions of the original, which, for the Chinese, are of equal value to the original. It has absolutely no negative connotations. The discrepancy with regard to the understanding of what a copy is has often led to misunderstandings and arguments between China and Western museums. The Chinese often send copies abroad instead of originals, in the firm belief that they are not essentially different from the originals. The rejection that then comes from the Western museums is perceived by the Chinese as an insult.
Byung-Chul Han, The copy is the original, Aeon Magazine
Architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne is leaving the LA Times to become the city's chief design officer, sitting inside the mayor's office alongside roles like chief data officer and chief sustainability officer.
Susan Goldberg, editor in chief of National Geographic, writes about commissioning writers to investigate the magazine's own biases and racism for their new issue on race.
Read this, if you read nothing else: Julia Halperin's round-up of comments from directors and curators for artnet News, How the Dana Schutz Controversy—and a Year of Reckoning—Have Changed Museums Forever
A new study finds regular arts-focused field trips are correlated with improved student performance across a range of measures, attributed possibly to students being more engaged at school.
After experimenting with smart-watch interpretation for their permanent collection galleries, the Barnes Foundation finds human guides get the best response from visitors.
From Hyperallergic: Seph Rodney's Is Art Museum Attendance Declining Across the US? and Bob Beatty's Running the Numbers on Attendance at History Museums in the US.
What's the microfiche for digital news? The internet isn't forever, by Maria Bustillos for Longreads.
Reading list, March 3 2018
'Would you burn the Mona Lisa if it was sent?' - a detailed and really interesting account, less of how Australian biosecurity ended up destroying 18th century French botanical specimens collected in Australia, and more of how botany has worked over the last 300-ish years and how the international research community (used to, anyway) share specimen.
The Albright-Knox Museum is co-running a work skills development course based around carpentry, bringing a kaupapa of creativity and artistry that creates pride in people's work. Best of all, they have a three year plan to exit and hand over the mahi to a new non-profit.
Reading list, 24 February 2018
A thorough review by Roberta Smith for the NYT of “Outliers and American Vanguard Art” at Washington's National Gallery of Art. Five years in development, curator Lynne Cook has chosen to focus on three periods of the 100 years when 'taught' and 'self-taught' artists and practices overlapped. I wish I could see this show, it sounds like a great model for a exhibition that is overdue in Aotearoa.
Steve Braunias rounds up pay rates for book reviews across New Zealand publications.
The second part of that Charles Venables interview (part 1 here). His observations about smaller galleries, smaller exhibitions and smaller collections are very interesting in terms of contemporary museums' bigger-bigger-best focus.
Interjection: I think one thing to remember when reading about this refashioning of the Indianapolis Museum of Art (IMA) is that (a) it does have these beautiful adjoining gardens to make the most of but also that (b) it's on a (from the perspective of a public-transport-inclined New Zealander) godforsaken highway on the outskirts of Indianapolis, sandwiched between a cemetery and a country club, and more like the Gibbs farm than MOMA in terms of its accessibility and the likelihood you'd just drop in for a half-hour browse. It makes sense to think of it as an entertainment campus. It doesn't necessarily make sense to think of it as a model for the future of museums (unless you happen to own a 550-seat theatre and some spacious gardens as well as a museum with an outstanding collection and acres of exhibition space ....).
And a fascinating response to the Venables interview from Tim Schneider, looking at the longer 9but actually reasonably short) history of our current Western museum model: Why Newfields, the Museum the Art World Loves to Hate, Was Inevitable (and Other Insights).
Musing on the dearth of leadership development programmes for arts leaders in Canada.
Following the Pantograph Punch's announcement that is is going to reduce the amount published, pay contributors better and stop running reviews, the site's editor Lana Lopesi writes persuasively on the necessity of reviews for an informed culture. I'm of course chair of the PP board, and my decision to stand (and to originate The Dowse's partnership with the site) was strongly influenced by my belief that we need to find new ways of funding criticism.
Turns out if I don't write these posts regularly I just end up with dozens of open tabs waiting for my attention ...
Michael Parry of MAAS has written a thorough and really fascinating review of Melbourne Museum's flagship summer exhibition Inside Out. It's especially interesting because he's woven together his experience visiting the show with his experience in a senior leadership role developing such shows. It's a terrific model of a professional, constructively critical response to an important exhibition.
The Wireless gets into sexism and Wikipedia. I respond with a Twitter thread so long and dull that I'd probably recommend it only if you're looking to nod off. But speaking from my own experience - the sexism that exists within parts of the community is not nearly as off putting to new editors as the utterly arcane structure of Wikipedia and the difficulty of mastering the wiki software if you're not a person who finds computers intuitive.
On my lengthy to-read list -Making the Case for Philanthropic Support for Advocacy from Philanthropy Australia.
Take this MediaWatch segment on dwindling mainstream media sports coverage, replace every use of the word 'sports' with 'arts, transport the piece back to 2008, and you can see how we wound up today with barely any intelligent coverage of any arts form (except book reviews, which makes them - rugby?) featured in our daily papers.
A new review of UK museums by historian David Cannadine finds that 'except in the case of the national museums, collecting for most museums and galleries is no more than a marginal activity.'
This is going to get a lot of play in the profession: Charles Venables, director since 2012 of Newfields (the new umbrella brand for the Indianapolis Museum of Art & its attached gardens and hospitality experiences) on the dramatic changes he has made since coming in after previous director Maxwell Anderson (who went to the Dallas Museum of Art, to continue his own data-led experiments, and left there in like 2016? 2017?):
You asked earlier what were some of the “aha” moments when we were talking to consultants? Well, we found out that 52 percent of people in our metropolitan area who demographically look like they should be art museum visitors never came to the art museum, ever. Ninety-four percent of them knew about it, and where it was located, but they never chose to go there! So, we went and asked some of these people why they didn’t visit, and they basically said it was because they wanted to be social and they didn’t want their friends to say, “You wasted my precious Friday night with a boring, static art-museum experience.”
The IMA and the Anderson / Venables eras are going to make fantastic research areas in a few years.
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Richard Armitage stars in Hannibal as the Tooth Fairy killer
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The Hobbit actor now will be playing the role of Francis Dolarhyde the nefarious serial killer in the renowned cannibal crime drama, for their upcoming third season.
For his latest upcoming role, Richard Armitage has taken a step to portray a darker side and coming to portray a negative character, in crime drama Hannibal and nicknamed as "The Tooth Fairy”.
These subsequent films are based on the book series of Thomas Harris, and Hannibal will be focusing on the mysterious relationship between Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) who is an FBI agent and Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter. He is a serial killer and a sociopathic psychiatrist, whose character as enlightened and brought to light in the movie, The Silence of the Lambs, by the popular actor, Anthony Hopkins.
As per the reports stated by the website Cinemablend, v has already confirmed details about Armitage who was lately seen in The Old Vic's production of The Crucible and The Hobbit trilogy, and he will portray the character of Francis Dolarhyde and will unleash his negative side.
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The UK’s biggest local TV operator is to shut 13 of its 20 studios, meaning some
Jul-11-2019
The UK's biggest local TV operator is to shut 13 of its 20 studios, meaning some news bulletins will be hosted by presenters outside the area they serve.
That's TV operates 20 of the UK's 34 local TV stations, broadcasting to areas from Southampton to Aberdeen.
The company said it would be keeping reporters in all 20 areas, and that viewers would not notice a difference.
Regulator Ofcom took "the financial difficulties the sector faces" into account when agreeing to the move.
A national network of local stations was launched by then-Culture Secretary Jeremy Hunt in 2013 on channel seven or eight on Freeview. That's TV's stations combine local news with teleshopping.
In the future, the company will operate seven regional studios, which will each broadcast the news for up to six local stations.
For example, the news for That's Hampshire, That's Surrey, That's South Midlands, That's Thames Valley, That's Salisbury and That's Solent will all come from Salisbury.
He told BBC News: "Does it make sense to be investing resources in 20 physical premises where you're tying up quite a lot of your reporters and journalists in administration and technical work rather than doing what we're doing going forward, which is freeing them up to spend significant time to be journalists?
"Experience in the industry is that the best use of journalists in terms of their skills and newsgathering ability is out on location gathering news, not stuck in a studio."
Ofcom said it had been assured "viewers of the services will not notice any difference in the content broadcast, with news items and interviews still recorded within the licensed area of each service and news links recorded in the studio".
In a report last year, the regulator said the local TV industry "faces challenges in generating sufficient income".
Mr Cass added: "It's not a secret that it's challenging to operate a standalone local TV channel, with studios and premises and technical staff in one location."
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That's TV wants to "deliver a model which delivers great community-based news reporting in the future", and it makes sense to make "efficient use of the fact we operate a group that controls 20 licences", he said.
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Climbing Books Reviewed
Climb Tasmania - Selected Best Climbs
Format Book (Australian) Category Guides (Australian)
Title Climb Tasmania - Selected Best Climbs Pages 308
Author Gerry Narkowicz, plus a host of major contributors. RRP $49.95 AUD
Publisher Climb Tasmania Reviews 1
Edition 2nd edition 2013 Ave Rating (3.00 of 5)
The following review was written by Simon Mentz on a Chockstone post 17/12/2013 that he did not add to this review section, so two years later I have taken the liberty of copying it to here, (as follows)...
by Gerry Narkowicz
2nd edition (2013) Published by Climb Tasmania RRP $49.95
The first edition of Climb Tasmania came out in 2005 and provided a much needed guidebook that serviced all the best cliffs of Tasmania in one attractive package. Whilst there was also the massive compilation produced by www.thesarvo.com and titled The Tasmanian Climbing Guide, it really wasn’t as sexy as Gerry’s Selected Best Guide. Unfortunately the book’s sex appeal was undermined by the disproportionate number of photos of Gerry climbing. The other frustrating aspect was the lack of stars to distinguish between routes. Eight years on and it is good to see that Gerry has made amends with this second edition. Combined with full colour printing, plus new cliffs and some fabulous new climbs, this guidebook really looks superb.
A guidebook of this magnitude is an impressive achievement. It is arguably the most involved compilation in Australia due to the sheer variety of the cliffs it covers and the fact that quality maps and topos have been created to locate over 850 climbs in 25 different areas. Bouldering is also given a brief chapter with half-a-dozen areas described. The book really does justice to the spectacular nature of the climbing with a lot of stunning images from many different photographers. If you have never been climbing in Tasmania, then this guide will get you psyched.
The design and layout of the guide is very appealing and user-friendliness is a strong point. As well as the alphabetical and grade indexes at the back of the book, the start of each area has a grade index which also describes whether routes are sport or trad giving readers a clear idea of whether the cliff is likely to suit them. Topos have sun/shade icons and descents are generally well marked. Belays aren't always marked however so read the text carefully to pick up any extra details.
As for the starring, well before I get into the nitty-gritty let me just say that it is great to see stars in this guidebook, mainly because it gives everyone something to argue about. Guidebooks with no star-system means everyone just bitches about the same thing – no star-system.
It is also good to see a simple three-star-system unlike the five-star-system used in the Blueys guide. Ironically Tasmania is one of the few states that could justify an extra star on a number of its routes (which totally shit over anything in the Blue Mountains). However it does seem that the stars in Climb Tasmania are occasionally thrown around like confetti, particularly where Nick Hancock’s routes are concerned. This is typified with his grade 1 first ascent called Wilderness. Despite there being only a dozen climbs listed in the guidebook under grade 12, with most routes receiving only one star at best, Nick’s addition still scored his customary three stars.
Although it is emphasised in the introduction that the starring throughout the book is in relation to the cliff and that you can’t possibly compare a three-star route in Cataract Gorge to the Totem Pole for example, it would be wise to see the guide using a bit more discretion than Nick Hancock does when starring his own routes (but then again he is from the UK and they have no idea about starring or grading).
On the subject of lower grade climbs, it does seem that Tasmania has surprisingly little to offer in this regard (apart from Nick’s three-star grade one). Intermediate climbers will see that there are a few more routes in their grade range, but they shouldn’t underestimate the seriousness of many of these climbs. I feel that Climb Tasmania could do a bit more to highlight potential dangers on a lot of these ‘moderately graded’ climbs and could take a leaf out of the Point Perpendicular guide which not only included star ratings, but also a warning symbol and a spider web (for rarely repeated climbs).
The Point Perp guide is unique (as far as I know) in that it always has a note next to both the stars and the warning icon specifically telling you why the route received stars and/or a warning. Typical Tassie climbs where this sort of info might be useful would be Skyline Minor/Sentinel Ridge, an epic three-star grade 14 on the Organ Pipes at Mount Wellington which in my opinion is best prepared for by spending a season of alpine climbing in New Zealand.
Likewise on Frenchmans Cap is The Sydney Route, a two-star, grade 17 climb which has zilcho protection for entire pitches and can take a few days to dry after rain. The stars are primarily given for its historical significance and adventurous aspect, not for superb moves with good protection. Not all climbers will appreciate sketching around on wet rock with no pro only to learn later that the stars were handed out for adventurous water features and a history lesson in how tough the first ascent team were. But then again anyone venturing to the bigger and more serious cliffs in Tasmania would do well researching a little more about the areas and climbs they intend to do (get on www.thesarvo.com and www.chockstone.org for further info and opinions). If you aren’t so psyched on trad adventure routes, then Tasmania does offer some friendly sport climbing areas with moderate grades as well as heaps of stunning sport climbing in the higher grades.
Another minor fault which wasn’t rectified from the first edition is the information (or lack of it) provided for climbing the spectacular Candlestick (110m grade 16), next door to the famous Totem Pole. Mention is made of bolts being at the base of the main route to the summit (which is only reached after an epic swim in surging seas). The truth is that there are no bolts at the base of the standard route, but there are bolts at the base of another (more difficult) line. More than one party has wasted its time swimming to these bolts only to start up the wrong climb and been forced to bail.
Whilst the book makes it clear that its focus is on Tassie’s best cliffs, I personally would have liked to have seen the addition of Fruehauf, a sport crag in the heart of Hobart. I know it is a chipped piece of quarried nonsense, but given that every travelling climber will probably be stuck in Hobart at some stage waiting for the weather to clear on the Pipes, then Fruehauf is a fun place to get a work-out in-between seeing the sights of Hobart.
Despite any nit-picking on my behalf, I still can’t recommend this guide highly enough. Overall it is a very inspiring production and a ‘must buy’ for all Australian climbers. Even if you haven’t got a Tassie trip planned, you probably soon will have after checking out the climbing photos and topos throughout. And at $49.95 the guidebook is great value too. It will be in shops by the middle of January. If you order one direct from Gerry (email: narkowiczg@lcs.tas.edu.au ), he will post it out to you free of charge and you will receive it before it hits the shops. If you are planning a trip to Tassie, you can also give him a call on 0428 505 259 and collect it directly from him.
Thanks for the comprehensive review Simon.
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Robert Pollard, La Sera, Loretta Lynn, TV Girls, Rob Crow, Unicorn
Monday, February 29, 2016 - 08:00 AM
KERMIT THE FROG & JACK WHITE car karaoke on “Fell In Love With A Girl”
ROBERT POLLARD is streaming Of Course You Are.
LA SERA streams Music For Listening To Music To.
LORETTA LYNN advance streams Full Circle.
TV GIRLS stream Who Really Cares.
JENNIFER O'CONNOR streams Surface Noise.
ROB CROW'S GLOOMY ADVICE streams You’re Doomed. Be Nice.
ROGER DALTREY covers Pete Townshend's "Let My Love Open The Door." You can also find the charity single on iTunes.
IGGY POP drops "Sunday" ahead of Post Pop Depression.
THE RAVEONETTES drop “Run Mascara Run” as part of their singles club.
DAVE GROHL covered The Beatles' "Blackbird" during the Oscars' In Memoriam segment, which snubbed Abe Vigoda.
DRIVE-BY TRUCKERS: Mike Cooley talked to Flagpole about the band's history and future.
COCTEAU TWINS: Ten of Their Best.
YOKO ONO was the subject of a health scare on Friday.
THE OSCARS went to these folks. Leo DiCaprio finally won and failed to thank the bear in his speech. Ingrate.
CHRIS ROCK opened the Oscars with a monologue on Hollywood and racism.
THE SPIRIT AWARDS went to these folks.
THE RAZZIES went to these poor folks.
WEEKEND BOX OFFICE: Deadpool threepeats atop the chart with 31.5MM and is now the third biggest R-rated movie (behind Passion of the Christ and American Sniper. Gods of Egypt placed with 14MM against a 140MM budget, so safe to say this was a nuclear bomb. It will probably not be Lionsgate's post-Hunger Games franchise, even though its exposure was a fraction of that budget (10MM plus marketing costs). Kung Fu Panda 3 shows with a leggy 9MM. Risen takes the fourth slot with 7MM and has ercouped its production budget. The faith-based historical drama has yet to test overseas markets. Eddie the Eagle rounds out the Top Five with 6.3MM against a 23MM budget; I suspect UK receipts will ensure this ends up in the black.
GERMANY does not know the whereabouts of 130K asylum seekers.
UK SPECIAL FORCES have been sent to Libya in a dramatic bid to form a new army that will wipe out Islamic State insurgents in the region.
A "UNICORN" on the lam escaped twice from a Cali birthday party.
SHY SHELTER DOGS are helped by kids with children's books.
FLORIDA's PYTHON CHALLENGE bags an amazing 106 of the reptiles.
A RARE GIRAFFE is teetering on the edge of extinction because its meat commands such a high price, according to conservationists.
Pretenders, M Ward, Nada Surf, Polica, Dog + Possums
Friday, February 26, 2016 - 08:00 AM
....wtih THE PRETENDERS! Circa 1981, via one of Pate's two fab drummers, Jon Hahn. Your setlist includes "The Wait," "The Adultress," "Message of Love/Louie Louie," "Talk of the Town," "English Roses," "Birds of Paradise," "Kid," "Stop Your Sobbing," "Private Life," "Day After Day," "Jealous Dogs, " Up the Neck," "Tattooed Love Boys," "Bad Boys Get Spanked," "Precious," and "Brass In Pocket/MysteryAchievement."
M WARD advance streams More Rain.
NADA SURF advance streams You Know Who You Are.
POLICA advance streams United Crushers.
HERON OBLIVION advance streams their self-titled LP.
AIMEE MANN covers The Carpenters' "Yesterday Once More."
BAY CITY ROLLERS: The immortal genius of "S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y... NIGHT!
NEKO CASE talks to Pitchfork about her career so far, including her songwriting and recording process, her work with the New Pornographers, her life on the road and on her farm in Vermont, and more.
JENNY LEWIS talks to Billboard about her new female-centric record label.
EVIE SANDS: Aquarium Drunkard looks back at Any Way That You Want Me, "one of the most sublime and strikingly gorgeous albums" of the late 60s and early 70s.
DJ JIMMY SAVILLE and broadcaster Stuart Hall, serial child abusers and sexual offenders, were allowed to operate within the BBC with impunity, a damning report has found.
NOW SHOWING: This weekend's wide releases? Gods of Egypt, which is currently scoring 11 percent on the ol' Tomatometer; Triple 9, currently scoring 58 percent;and Eddie the Eagle, scoring 71 percent.
BILL COSBY dismissed his lawsuit against Beverly Johnson, claiming he's too busy right now.
JOHNNY DEPP will bring a touch of Hollywood glamour to a planned gathering of atheists and other secularists at Washington's Lincoln Memorial.
MADONNA tries to mediate her child custody dispute.
CHERYL TIEGS thinks putting a full-figured model on the cover of the SI Swimsuit issue promotes an unhealthy lifestyle.
IRON FIST: Game of Thrones actor Finn Jones has landed the coveted series lead for Marvel's Netflix adaptation of the 70s Kung-Fu inspitred superhero.
CAPTAIN NEMO: An origin story based on H.G. Wells' 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea will be directed by James Mangold.
NORTH KOREA: The U.S. and China agreed to a United Nations resolution that diplomats said would impose significant new sanctions on North Korea in response to its recent nuclear and missile tests.
LIBYA: There are signs of a growing Western urgency to stop the Islamic State, and Libyan commanders say Western weapons and air strikes will make a vital difference in the coming battle against their better-armed enemy.
IRAN executed the entire male population of a village...on drug charges. Sounds legit.
A MAMA DOG adopts a litter of opossums... mass hysteria!
AN ELEPHANT slaps a selfie-taker.
CAT PIC TIPS from a professional feline photographer.
MYSTERY OCEAN HUM: Migration signal...or fish flatulence?
Jon Pratt, Save Ends, Lucy Dacus, All Songs, Blind Penguin
Thursday, February 25, 2016 - 08:00 AM
JON PRATT: Pate's frontman plays a murder ballad, "Lock and Dam 13", on a Tele.
SAVE ENDS streams their Hug Your Friends EP.
LUCY DACUS streams her debut album, No Burden.
ALL SONGS CONSIDERED features tracks from Car Seat Headrest, BigThief, Coathangers and more.
MARISSA NADLER drops “Janie in Love” ahead of Strangers.
CHARLES BRADLEY drops a video for "Change for the World".
THE BRIT AWARDS went to these folks, including yanks like Tame Impala. They also did a Bowie tribute with Lorde that imho was better than Lady Gaga at the Grammys.
SHEARWATER's Jonathan Meiburg talks to Paste about Bowie, protests, and Jet Plane and Oxbow.
LUCINDA WILLIAMS talks to The A.V. Club about some of her most famous songs.
THE CRANBERRIES frontwoman Dolores O'Riordan has managed to escape jail time after pleading guilty to assaulting an air hostess and police officers whilst on a flight in November 2014.
DOES LEONARDO DiCAPRIO deserve an Oscar?
KIM KARADSIAN unamused at KANYE WEST's latest antics.
JENNIFER LAWRENCE is this year's Highest-Paid Oscar Nominee, according to Forbes.
BATMAN v SUPERMAN already has an R-rated Directors' Cut.
THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR is to be remade a third time.
TOPHER GRACE edited all the Seinfeld scenes from Curb Your Enthusiasm season 7 into one episode.
BLINDY THE PENGUIN learns to swim.
A MEERKAT specialist caught in a zoo-centric love triangle has been cleared of an assault charge, based on the accusation that she smashed a wine glass against a monkey handler's face.
A 7-FT PYTHON was found abandoned in a street in North Lanarkshire.
HOW NOT TO GET KILLED By A Cow.
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WIRE: The legendary UK postpunk band drops “Nocturnal Koreans,” which appears to be the title track of their next LP.
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DAN HICKS is remembered by World Cafe.
GREG DULLI (Afghan Whigs) talks Bowie, life, death, and the reunion LP.
DON McLEAN has been further accused of domestic violence charges.
SONNY JAMES, who recorded romantic ballads including "Young Love" and turned pop songs into country hits, has died. He was 87.
PHIL COLLINS is set to remarry his third ex-wife, Orianne Cevey, following a 46MM divorce.
JEREMY PIVEN sending creepy texts to his ex-galpal? He denies it.
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JIMMY KIMMEL may host this year's Emmys.
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RUSSIA asked on Monday to fly surveillance planes equipped with high-powered digital cameras over the United States.
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AN ABBREVIATED ENTRY may tide you over what was a fairly slow news day.
JOHN DOE, co-founder of the legnendary Punks-turned-rootsy-band X, is releasing a solo LP; "Board That Train" is a promising first video.
CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR includes Martin Freeman (The Hobbit, Sherlock, The Office (UK)) in its cast and Empire knows who he's playing.
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SYRIA: The US and Russia have announced that a planned cessation of hostilities will come into effect at midnight on Feb. 27. The truce did not include Islamic State and the al-Qaeda-linked Nusra Front.
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Adventure Episode 23: WereGarurumon's Diner
In this episode, a snafu in accepted currency leads Joe and Matt down the dark path of indentured servitude and the seedy underworld of restaurant operations.
So what has Matt been doing all this time, other than neglecting his baby brother? Why, he's helping Joe work off an unfair dept perpetuated by a crooked restaurant staff! What else would he be doing?
This is kind of a strange episode since it looks so silly on the surface. Another victim of Demidevimon, Joe is forced to work off a restaurant bill not because he's broke, but because the restaurant uses a different currency. While in the original version, Joe was trying to pay with yen, the dub gives him digidollars (where he got that and why Vegiemon won't accept what would have to be the official Digital World currency, who knows?). Either way, it's ridiculous. I'm otaku enough to admit that I've been to Asian stores that charge in yen. They gladly accepted my dollars and the reverse should hold true as well.
The cavalcade of silliness continues as Vegiemon capitalizes off Joe's clumsiness to add to the sentence, which only leads Joe to make more mistakes. When Matt shows up, threats on Joe's safety wrap him into it as well. Demidevimon works his charm to suggest that Joe is making mistakes on purpose to keep Matt around. This makes no sense, but it again demonstrates his brilliance, using Matt's evident frustration to sow the seeds. And hey, we got another harmonica scene out of it.
As bizarre and as flawed as the concept is, beneath the surface it really emphasizes both Joe and Matt's good sides (i.e. their crests). Joe knows he's in a completely unfair situation, but was determined to work it off instead of an easier alternative like skipping out during the night or beating the crap out of Vegiemon. Even as he gets another day older and deeper in dept, he's reliable enough to not want to owe somebody.
Matt's also clearly conflicted by his need to get back to TK and Joe's need for help. Even as Joe irritates Matt to no end, trying his patience to and past the breaking point, Matt doesn't want to leave. Matt's still uneasy about this whole team thing, but he's certainly giving it his best effort.
He's certainly unhappy with the whole arrangement though, even when Tai and TK show up to rescue them. By now, Matt's convinced that Joe's sabotaging them (which still makes no sense) and ends up in a fight with Tai because that's just who Matt fights with. Yet again, Demidevimon screws up the entire operation with his mere presence. Had he kept his distance and not let Agumon see him, the plan continues and perhaps even draws Tai and TK into the kitchen.
But no, he has to stick around and gloat, Matt realizes he's been had and the battle ensues. Joe rescues TK for what will not be the last time and Matt is determined enough to save Joe in return that his crest is activated. After a really sappy speech about how Matt needs support from all of the other digidestined, his Digimon evolves to Ultimate and WereGarurumon mops everything up all by himself.
This episode continues an emerging pattern with these Matt episodes being a mixed bag. On one hand, Matt is such a compelling character because he, more than anyone else, is aware of his own faults from the beginning and is determined to overcome them. On the other hand, these faults are often exploited so poorly that it comes off as forced, as we saw here. At least now we know who taught Tai how to cook.
My Grade: B-
Matt and Gabumon saw Frigimon, Kokatorimon and Monzaemon climbing a ridge. Three Digimon that his peers had to fight- one of them not even controlled by a black gear. Let's follow them just for the hell of it!
Maybe it's the lack of a face, but it was hard to really buy Digitamamon as an effective restauranteur, what with the lack of arms, hideous legs and a creepy Peter Lorre voice. Would you eat at a place run by that guy?
You know Sora, if you're really determined to help out on the downlow, you could do a little more than replacing a cinder block here and there. Especially assuming that you've been hanging around there as long as Demidevimon has.
Last episode was the first sighting of the swan boat, this time we get the first use of the “Hey Digimon” backup song. It's a nice break from constantly using the theme song, but not a very good action song.
Labels: adventure, Demidevimon, Joe, Matt
"Maybe it's the lack of a face, but it was hard to really buy Digitamamon as an effective restauranteur, what with the lack of arms, hideous legs and a creepy Peter Lorre voice. Would you eat at a place run by that guy?"
I got the impression Vegiemon was the face of the restaurant and Digitamamon was the one who worked behind the scenes. In any case, it fits with the whole food-based Digimon vibe, and I don't think prejudice is that abundant in the Digital World so long as you're not obviously evil, like a Devimon type.
JediMasterDraco April 14, 2014 at 10:10 PM
I'll never understand all the hate directed at "Hey Digimon". I'll admit that it isn't exactly battle music (I'll reserve that for a very sweet dub of "Brave Heart") but it doesn't deserve it's rather poor reputation. I'd personally take it as the theme song over the regular theme (but "A World for Us All" trumps them both).
Eric July 30, 2015 at 10:56 PM
I agree, actually. It was never meant to be a "battle music" - it's a victory song. That's why it never played for long stretches of battles like "Brave Heart" could, but only when the fight was close to being won or resolved. If you know what it signifies, that makes some moments like Myotismon swatting away MetalGreymon's attack or Piedmon taking down two Megas all the more shocking. It also was well placed at the end of the series - the Digital World is saved, and that's the ultimate victory. (I'd personally take the regular theme song over the Data Squad theme song, though - that one is so forgettable. "A World For Us All" and the Fusion theme song are the best, IMHO.)
This is another episode I really enjoy. Matt had been given the shaft in terms of character development and usefulness in the first half of the Server arc, but this brings him back with a vengeance. I just adore how, despite putting on the front of a lone wolf, he really really values his friends and is awkward about keeping his feelings in check when they start to run wild. That bit at the end where he's actually blushing about giving and receiving thanks is so Tsundere-like. As for his issues with Joe, I actually thought it made a lot of sense - in his stress and frustration, Matt projected things onto Joe, things that are, ironically, more to do with him than Joe. He doesn't truly like being alone and is grateful for friends' company and support, but he internally pegs that as being Joe's problem, which is why he thinks Joe might not want to be left alone in servitude so he'd screw up Matt's work just to keep him around. The part where he starts to fight with Tai, though - THAT was pretty forced, I'll give you. But hey, at least Joe got to be really awesome again! He risked getting the life squeezed out of him just to save a child who he knows matters so much to his friend. What a guy!
No sooner did he get cast as DemiDevimon did Derek Stephen Prince get to role of Digitamamon and this performance is even more odd. Maybe I'm missing something, but how does one get Peter Lorre out of a talking egg with glowing eyes and dinosaur legs? And the scariest part is that it actually sounds pretty close to the original voice this time! But all the same, Digitamamon's a great character that I'm glad we got to see return and reform in 02.
Adventure Episode 31: The Eighth Digivice
Adventure Episode 30: Almost Home Free
Adventure Episode 29: Return to Highton View Terra...
Adventure Episode 28: It's All In The Cards
Adventure Episode 27: The Gateway To Home
Adventure Episode 26: Sora's Crest of Love
Adventure Episode 25: Princess Karaoke
Adventure Episode 24: No Questions, Please
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Delta Sends Staff and First Responders to Assist BC Wildfire Relief Efforts
For immediate release – July 12, 2017
Mayor Lois E. Jackson, Delta Council, Chief Administrative Officer George V. Harvie, Delta Police Chief Neil Dubord, and Fire Chief Dan Copeland approved the recommendation to send two Delta Police Officers, a Delta staff member, and a Delta Firefighter to assist in the relief effort for those affected by the wildfires in Central British Columbia.
These members will assist in the planning section of the Cariboo Regional District Emergency Operations Centre at Williams Lake. This recommendation was made in response to a request for Emergency Operations Centre Staff by Emergency Management BC.
Currently, there are 22 wildfires of note. The Cariboo Regional District EOC is currently dealing with 11 fires in the Williams Lake area.
Mayor Jackson and Delta Council are eager to assist the larger provincial community and continue to stand by for further deployment on request from the Provincial Emergency Program.
Our thoughts, prayers, and best wishes go out to all the first responders, equipment operators, and residents as they continue their valiant fight.
For more information on this news release, contact the Mayor’s Office at 604-946-3210 or e-mail mayor@delta.ca.
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INTRODUCTION: Scottish sf writer Gary Gibson burst onto the scene in 2004 with a very ambitious debut Angel Stations which made me a big time fan. While having some debut flaws like lack of balance and even too much ambition for the relatively limited page count, Angel Stations is not your "average" debut, but a very complex and mature novel that pays several close readings. His second novel, Against Gravity, quite different in tone was another hit with me and then turning his hand to "popular" new space opera on a galactic canvas and with all the associated paraphernalia, Mr. Gibson completed the Shoal trilogy of which its debut Stealing Light was my top sf novel of the year.
While planning a return to the Shoal universe at some point, Gary Gibson developed another fascinating universe, "The Founder Network" one - in the 22/23 rd centuries humanity develops wormhole based ftl, only to find a sophisticated ancient system of wormholes, built by the hypothetical aliens named "Founders", system that goes far away in space and time but comes with potentially major dangers as we learn in Final Days.
OVERVIEW/ANALYSIS: The Thousand Emperors is set in the same universe with Final Days some centuries after the events there and while there are some cool references to it at some point and of course the Founder network and tech is important even indirectly, the book is really a standalone as everything needed is explained.
As structure, the novel is part action adventure, part investigation of the powerful with the attending risks, part sense of wonder all written in the wonderful style that made Gary Gibson one of the top sf authors of today with all 7 books to date read by me the moment I got them, either on publication or occasionally as advanced reading copies.
Most of The Thousand Emperors takes place in Tian Di, a semi paternalistic space empire modeled on the successful semi-democratic Asian states of today like Singapore - led by a council of elders that achieved effective immortality with clones and transcribing personality, protected by an elite force of warriors - the Sandoz - who also benefit by the same treatments.
Separated a few centuries ago from the Western-like Coalition after a successful revolution on its worlds and the severance of the wormholes connecting Tian Di's worlds with the Coalition, Tian Di's people enjoy generally tranquil and prosperous lives but there are some trouble spots and then there is what some perceive as stagnation with science and technology managed by the Council, while the Coalition is rumored to be leaps and bounds ahead.
So despite Joseph "Father" Cheng's wishes - the leader of the Council though not without internal opposition - and even of most of the 85 "inner" members of the Council, there is a seemingly inevitable "reunification" with the Coalition with the first wormhole connecting Tian Di's capital Temur to Darwin the Coalition's capital to be opened soon.
Explaining this better here is an excerpt from the Prologue, which in pure sf tradition is itself a purported "Excerpt from A History of the Tian Di: Volume 1 – From Abandonment to Schism by Javier Maxwell."
"The decades following the Abandonment were hard, lean times, but barely half a century later starships carrying new, retro-engineered transfer gates were already being sent out to reconnect the colonies one to another. It is in this period that the template for the modern political order was laid down.
Although the Western Coalition – by this time, simply the Coalition – had seized political and military control of the colonial governments, the general populations of those worlds had been predominantly drawn from member nations of the former Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere. Coalition–Sphere relations were already deeply antagonistic prior to the Abandonment, and became more so, inevitably flowering into a full-fledged revolt a century after the Coalition’s takeover. The uprising proved to be bitter and protracted, but ended with several worlds finally achieving autonomy from Coalition rule. These worlds – Da Vinci (now Benares), Newton (now New Samarkand), Franklin (now Temur), Galileo (now Novaya Zvezda), Yue Shijie, and Acamar – became known collectively as the Tian Di, and were ruled from Temur by a council of revolutionary leaders numbering nearly a thousand. Although far from being a democracy, this Temur Council provided much-needed stability in the post-revolutionary period.
While the Tian Di and the Coalition co-existed in relative peace over the next several decades, they rapidly diverged both culturally and technologically. The Coalition first renewed and then stepped up its exploration of the Founder Network, despite increasingly alarmed protests from the Temur Council, whose members were afraid of a repeat of the events leading to the Abandonment. It is undoubted that the Temur Council lacked for effective leadership in the years immediately preceding what we now call the Schism, and the power vacuum following Salomón Lintz’s forced resignation as the Council’s Chairman offered a clear opportunity for a man as ruthlessly determined as Joseph Cheng. Cheng soon swept to power on the wave of a popular coup, and the promise that he would sever all transfer gates linking to the Coalition to prevent any possible repeat of the Abandonment. Cheng soon fulfilled his promise and, within days of becoming Permanent Chairman of the Temur Council, the human race was effectively split in two.
Those few members of the Temur Council who had openly opposed Cheng’s rise to power, including, most prominently, myself and Winchell Antonov, were either imprisoned, forced into exile, or executed on trumped-up charges. It cannot be denied that the period immediately following the Schism was marked by unprecedented peace throughout the Tian Di. The quality of life for our citizens improved by such leaps and bounds that there was, for a long time, little to no demand throughout the Tian Di for moves towards more democratic representation.
The one real exception, of course, was Benares – a world of limited resources, cruelly under-represented within the Council. It was on Benares that Winchell Antonov, having escaped his imprisonment, founded the Black Lotus organization. Antonov is also credited with giving Cheng’ls Council the less than flattering sobriquet The Thousand Emperors."
Coming back to the book itself, the story follows "master archivist" security investigator Luc Gabion whom we see (nominally) leading a Sandoz strike force closing in the last hideout of Winchell Antonov, hideout that was found by Gabion's painstaking investigation of years. The book just explodes from its first "proper" page - after the prologue quoted above - and it just does not stop for over 300 pages that "demand" end to end reading, so absorbing they are.
"‘Gabion.’
Luc turned to see Marroqui stabbing a finger at him from across the hold, his face dimly visible within his helmet.
‘Close your visor, Goddamn it,’ said Marroqui, his voice flat and dull in the cramped confines of the hold. ‘Depressurization in less than thirty seconds. We’re landing.’
Luc reached up and snapped his helmet’s visor into place, ignoring the smirking expressions of the armour-suited Sandoz warriors arrayed in crash couches around him. They were crammed in close to each other, bathed in red light."
There are a lot of nice touches - eg Tian Di seems very "real" reflecting the author's true experiences (meaning doing real work and mingling with the local population not only with the bigwigs in flyby "research" trips...) of living in the east, the sense of wonder is vivid and the action feels mostly "realistic" too with few over the top moments.
There are also a few quieter moments and the characters "have also lives", the lack of which is one the main failings of action-adventure sf...
"Luc arrived back at his apartment without incident and found several messages waiting for him from Eleanor. This time, instead of ignoring them he sent back an immediate response. He had a sudden desperate urge to see her, to hold her in his arms."
The one negative of the book is the lack of ambiguity in the main villains who after a while are quite easy to pinpoint as they almost wear the well known "villain hat", while also being real unsubtle about it as in an emphatic "I am in for me", but I mind this much less in sf than in fantasy and the novel delivers so well in all the other aspects (action, sense of wonder, world building, characters, style...) that this niggle is quite minor.
A top 25 novel of mine for 2012 and another Gary Gibson winner!
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New Music Monday: The Roundup, First of Fall 2016
Music, New Music Monday, YouTube
By thepaintedman September 12, 2016
Kicking off this New Music Monday Roundup is one of my favorite hip hop artists of all time. Not only is he a soulful singer and solid emcee, but he’s a multi-instrumentalist and writes songs for artists around the globe. With an upcoming EP and a new full length on the horizon, Wyclef just released a new remix track of his recent single “Hendrix”. You can check out the lyric video below:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-K9Z24x-yw
Oscar And The Wolf has a hella international following but has just dropped his debut single in the US. Here at The Farsighted, we welcome new artists with open arms. Check out “The Game” now:
Nomad Stones is tailor made for my 90s indie scene loving heart. As a fond admirer of the greater Essex County Mass area scene (despite never actually spending time there), I found myself teenage self enamored with the emo rock of Piebald, the mathcore of Converge, and whatever the Hell Cave-In was. Well, the dudes from Cave-In have a new thing going on and it’s called Nomad Stones. Check out the new album below and grab yourself a copy while you’re at it:
Nomad Stones by Nomad Stones
This next one is weird. The song is “I’m a Sword Swallower (Prince Rama Remix)”. The artist is Daddy. Daddy is James FUCKING Franco and soundtrack composer Tim O’Keefe. The video is very, VERY not safe for work… or kids… or a lot of people and places, for that matter. Check it if you so dare:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kpYVykAD1T0
Another Hollywood star just through their proverbial hat in the ring and that star is comedian Maya Rudolph. She and Gretchen Lieberum (from renowned Prince tribute act, Princess) released their first single as Sargent… and a nifty little lyric video, too. It’s rather chill and not exactly the vibe I tend to get into, but I’d hate to deny anyone else of a cool new groove that may be more their speed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmF1vBrR3Sk
Feel good duo by way of France and America Freedom Fry is more than just a group with a clever name (but it is a clever name). Bilingual pop that is crazy infectious and has proven a fantastic background to writing more than a couple blog posts, their song “Shaky Ground” is a ton of fun. Tap your toe to this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk62MC018o4
There you have it, a variety of new tunes to sink your musical teeth into. Next week, I’ve got some indie hip hop, metal, and a few thinks in between, so come back for another roundup. Same bat time. Same bat channel.
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Justin has been running websites since his first Geocities site in 1994, but only did he ever start covering anything of substance years later. After he stopped regularly running local concerts in Northern NJ and the greater Philly area, he knew he needed to step up his writing game if he expected to continue to get free music to listen to. He writes regularly here, at Cinapse, and at Rock on Philly... as well as on occasion at Cinepunx. He previously wrote for several other sites, but he forgets some of them and others no longer exist. He likes music, film, the Philadelphia Eagles, talking about Criminal Justice, reading Intelligence Report, and his family... not in that order. His beautiful wife is far more talented than he is and his kids far more adorable... and crazy.
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HAUNTED SKIES: Update
http://hauntedskies.blogspot.com/2012/06/haunted-skies-update-30th-may-2012.html
I'M THE GONZO BLOG DOO DAH MAN
It is monday morning, and another week of blogs lies before us. I will be going away at some time on thursday and will not be returning until mondayish. During my absence the blog postings will return but the posted out notifications may not be as comprehensive as normal.
We will be back to the usual level of service by the middle of next week...
Today's blogs are (as usual) rather special and include:
We start off with a real exclusive - part four of our mammoth chat with the Judge Smith, ostensibly about his songstory double CD 'Curly's Airships', but actually about all sorts of things:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/exclusive-judge-smith-interview-part_10.html
Here is another poetic reply from the lovely Liz Lenten of Auburn:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/aunburn-dear-liz-has-done-it-again.html
There is news of a forthcoming radio interview for the multi-talented Chris Thompson:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/forthcoming-chris-thompson-interview.html
Here is another song from the Mimi Page remix competition:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/mimi-page-jigsaw-strike-force-charlie.html
We have a link to a smashing Jon Anderson interview:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/link-interview-with-jon-anderson-voice.html
While we are waiting for Hawkwind reviews from Graham Inglis and Davey Curtis, here is a link to an insightful and rather touching review of the Holmfirth gig:
http://gonzo-multimedia.blogspot.com/2012/06/link-hawkwind-nanobots-holmfirth.html
See you tomorrow...
On this day in 1979 John Wayne died. I'm sure that most of you will have heard of him but I've been told off about expecting people to know who the people I mention here are (I had Jon and Graham rather puzzled once when I mentioned the Prince of Wales once without an explanation) so here goes; Wayne was a Hollywood actor who stared in hundreds of films, mostly Westerns, the most well known being True Grit. From a Fortean point of view though Wayne is most interesting due to the fact that many think he said “Get off your horse and drink your milk.” which he never said on screen. Similar false quotes are attributed to William Shatner “Beam me up, Scotty!” and Michael Caine in the film Zulu “Dahn't yoo frow those ruddy spears aht me!” (that last quote isn't misspelled but an attempt to convey the cockney dialect in print)
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Corinna took this rather sinister picture of our lone clawed frog the other evening..
LINK: The Sea Serpent That Got Away (Via Richard Freeman)
From the desk of Steve Willis, Central Library Services Program Manager of the Washington State Library:
After reading this description of a sea serpent as described on page 7 of the June 30, 1899 issue of The Tacoma Evening News, can anyone out there familiar with the creatures in Puget Sound identify what they really caught?
LOST THEIR SEA SERPENT
Party of Scientists Shipwrecked Off Moskito Island
Collecting Specimens of Giant Barnacles, Sponges, Sea Cucumbers and Other Things For The Ferry Museum
“Ferry Museum has a large and varied assortment of material added to the list of attractions, but not until after a campaign lasting three days, and a shipwreck that lost the entire collection of the first day’s work.”
“An extreme low tide on the straits between the west end of McNeil’s Island and Meridian, off Moskito Island, County Commissioner C.H. Dow has told of wonderful large barnacles, as big as a quart bowl, the beasts having a mouth and jaws on them like the beak of the dinasaurs of the reptilian age. Other strange and wonderful monsters were said to abound in those waters, and a party was fixed up to go after them.”
“Admiral Jacobs, of Puyallup, owner of the fine steam yacht Strea, took out his boat, with Professor Harlan I. Smith, of the New York Museum of Natural History; Professor Gilstrap, curator of the Ferry Museum; Commissioner Dow, Frank R. Baker and Mrs. Dow, Mrs. Baker and Mrs. Jacobs.”
“The barnacles were all that had been promised, and a big collection of them are now in place at the Museum, where their vicious snapping and terrific looking beaks are a terror to beholders. There is also a fine assortment of sea cucumbers, sea eggs, star fish; sea weed, shells of various kinds, some sponges and other specimens of much interest.”
“The catch of the season, however, was lost by the capsizing of the boat: the sea serpent, one of the most terrible and striking looking of the kind ever caught.”
“The animal, with a lot of other stuff, was in a yawl boat in tow of the steamer, when the struggles of the beast upset the boat, losing the entire collection in the Sound.”
PETER THAIN: Programme about the bloop
Hope you're keeping well. I found this on another site I regularly visit, and it certainly spiked my interest. The programme to which the article refers is available on YouTube and is interesting to say the least.
http://www.marsanomalyresearch.com/general-directories/commentary/54/the-bloop.htm
Have a nice evening,
Sent from a distant galaxy
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Ho Chi-Fang
Born 1912 in Wanhsien District, Szechwan Province. Chinese poet and literary critic. Member of the Communist Party of China since 1938.
Ho graduated from the department of Chinese literature at Peking University in 1935. He took part in campaigns of the Eighth People’s Revolutionary Army. In the 1940’s he was dean of the faculty of literature at the L. Hsin Academy of Arts in Yenan. In 1959 he was appointed director of the Institute of Literature of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Ho’s first anthology of prose and verse, A Record of Painted Dreams, was published in 1936. His best known works are the collections of poetry Prophecy (1945) and Night Songs and Songs of Day (1952). The former collection, which reflects the influence of C. Baudelaire, aestheticism, and the New Crescent Society, is largely pessimistic in tone. The latter collection focuses on the victory of man’s higher self and the war of national liberation fought by the Chinese people. Ho’s literary criticism is represented by the collections West Park Collection (1953) and The Appreciation of Poetry (1964).
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Evaluating genetic diversity of registered breeding pigs by microsatellite markers
The genetic diversity protection of domesticated animals is one of the important targets of Aichi Biodiversity Targets adopted by the Tenth Meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP10) to the Convention on Biological Diversity. A total of 240 pigs including 90 Landrace pigs, 60 Yorkshire pigs, and 90 Duroc pigs were genotyped using 18 microsatellite markers. In this study, the values of allele number, expected heterozygosity (He), observed heterozygosity (Ho), and polymorphism information content (PIC) ranged from 4–12, 4–8, and 3–8, 0.184–0.834, 0.089–0.789, and 0.171–0.812, 0.528–0.799, 0.339–0.817, and 0.422–0.761, and 0.399–0.757, 0.163–0.722, and 0.435–0.711 for Landrace (L), Yorkshire (Y), and Duroc (D), respectively. Moreover, the average values of He, Ho, and PIC were 7.0, 6.2, and 5.8, 0.661, 0.678, and 0.594, 0.601, 0.621, and 0.533, and 0.614, 0.627, and 0.530 for L, Y, and D, respectively. Therefore, the average PIC values of three pig breeds were larger than 0.5. Particularly, the PIC of Duroc pigs was the largest among three breeds of pigs. The results indicated that the pig population possesses high genetic diversity. (R. B. Liaw, J. C. Chen, Y. S. Wang and M. C. Wu)
Study on Reproductive Performance of Landrace Sows Mated with Taiwan Duroc Boars
The breeding objective for new Taiwan Duroc boars was to introduce MM genotype of the prolific gene into the boars, and to replace the American Duroc to become the terminal sire used in meat production. In this study, Taiwan Duroc boars of the R2 and R3 generation were mated with Landrace sows from breeding farm (Livestock Research Institute, LRI) and pig farm. Data on reproductive performance, including litter size at birth, piglet born alive, body weight (BW) at birth, BW at 21 days of age, BW at 70 days of ages, litter size at weaning, and teat number of 17 litters of sows were collected from LRI and pig farms. The results showed that litter size at birth, piglet born alive, and body weight (BW) at birth in breeding farm and pig farm were 9.33 ± 3.65 and 11.20 ± 1.79; 8.33 ± 2.67 and 9.40 ± 1.34; 1.84 ± 0.53 and 1.98 ± 0.33 kg, respectively, and BW at 21 days of age, BW at 70 days of ages, and teat number in breeding farm were 8.36 ± 11.09 kg, 30.61 ± 5.11 kg and 13.20 ± 1.24, respectively. These results revealed that the litter size at birth, piglet born alive, and body weight (BW) at birth of sows from pig farms mated with new Taiwan Duroc boars was better than those of breeding farm. (C. H. Chen, N. T. Yen, Y. C. Chen, W. P. Fan and M. C. Wu)
Evaluation on the Carcass Traits of Taiwan Duroc and Its Hybrid Hogs
The breeding goal of new Taiwan Duroc boars was to enhance the reproductive performance of Duroc. The Duroc sows have mated with KHAPS Black Pig boars selected by gene selection, and the preliminary goals of breeding and selection for Taiwan Duroc boars have reached after upgrading breeding programs. The purpose of this study was to evaluate whether the carcass traits of Taiwan Duroc and its hybrids were effected by upgrading breeding process. Data on carcass traits, including carcass weight (kg), dressing percentage (%), lean percentage (%), fat percentage (%), bone percentage (%), backfat thickness (cm), abdominal fat thickness (cm), loin eye area (cm2), carcass length (cm), and pairs of ribs in 19 of Taiwan Duroc (R; 10 barrows and 9 gilts) and 25 of its hybrids LR (L ♀ × R ♂; 16 barrows and 9 gilts), were collected. Regardless of gender, the results showed that carcass weight (kg), dressing percentage (%), lean percentage (%), fat percentage (%), bone percentage (%), backfat thickness (cm), abdominal fat thickness (cm), loin eye area (cm2), carcass length (cm), and pairs of ribs in LR and R pigs were 102.19 ± 3.56 and 97.08 ± 3.81; 87.44 ± 2.25 and 87.00 ± 3.66; 53.48 ± 1.90 and 53.38 ± 2.26; 10.20 ± 1.96 and 9.45 ± 1.74; 15.16 ± 1.45 and 15.47 ± 0.97; 2.18 ± 0.34 and 1.94 ± 0.33; 2.45 ± 0.29 and 2.44 ± 0.39; 51.82 ± 6.74 and 48.45 ± 5.17; 105.42 ± 2.59 and 101.82 ± 2.30; 15.38 ± 0.48 and 15.37 ± 0.50, respectively. Here, these results were compared with the results presented from Livestock Research Institute before, the backfat thickness, loin eye area and carcass length in LR and R pigs were similar to those of Berkshire, Landrace, Yorkshire, Duroc and KHAPS Black Pig. In addition, the dressing, lean and fat percentage in LR and R pigs were better than those of KHAPS Black Pigs. (C. H. Chen, N. T. Yen, T. C. Wan, W. S. Chen and M. C. Wu)
Investigation on the Frequencies of Halothane and Estrogen Receptor Genes of Breeding Pigs among Black Pig Farms in Taiwan
In order to assist the gene selection of the Black pig farms in Taiwan, 171 breeding pigs, includes five breeds such as the KHAPS Black pigs, Meishan pigs, Taoyuan pigs, Liou-Duai Black pigs, and hybrid Black pigs, were used for preliminary investigating the gene frequency distribution of halothane (Hal-1843) and estrogen receptor (ESR) genes. The results showed that the CC, CT and TT (stress-sensitive type) genotype frequencies of Hal-1843 gene, were 1.000, 0.000 and 0.000 in KHAPS Black pigs; 1.000, 0.000 and 0.000 in Meishan pigs; 1.000, 0.000 and 0.000 in Taoyuan pigs; 0.966, 0.034 and 0.000 in Liou-Duai Black pigs; and 0.928, 0.072 and 0.000 in hybrid Black pigs, respectively. And the T allele frequency of Hal-1843 gene for KHAPS Black pigs, Meishan pigs, Taoyuan pig, Liou-Duai Black pig and hybrid Black pigs was 0.000, 0.000, 0.000, 0.017 and 0.036, respectively. In addition, the AA (non-prolific type), AB and BB (prolific type) genotype frequencies of ESR gene were, 0.000, 0.000 and 1.000 in KHAPS Black pigs; 0.000, 0.000 and 1.000 in Meishan pigs; 0.211, 0.578 and 0.211 in Taoyuan pigs; 0.069, 0.276 and 0.655 in Liou-Duai Black pigs; and 0.478, 0.218 and 0.304 in hybrid Black pigs, respectively. And the B allele frequency of ESR gene for KHAPS Black pigs, Meishan pigs, Taoyuan pigs, Liou-Duai Black pigs, and hybrid Black pigs was 1.000, 1.000, 0.500, 0.793 and 0.413, respectively. These results demonstrated that there still have stress-sensitive gene existed with low percentage in Liou-Duai and hybrid Black pigs, and there is massive potential for ESR gene selection in Taoyuan pigs and hybrid Black pigs. We will continually to help the Black pig industry to remove these unfavorable genes in the future. (C. H. Chen, N. T. Yen, M. C. Wu)
EVALUATION ON THE MEAT TRAITS OF TAIWAN DUROC AND ITS HYBRID PIGS
The purpose of this study was to investigate the physical and chemical characteristics of Longissimus dorsi in Taiwan Duroc and its hybrids LR (L ♀ × R ♂) for understanding the carcass traits and creating appropriate processing ways in the future. The experiment including 19 Taiwan Duroc (10 barrows and 9 gilts) and 25 hybrids (16 barrows and 9 gilts), after slaughtered and carcasses cut into three parts, including shoulder, belly and hams. Taken some Longissimus dorsi samples back for weighting lean meat, fat and bone content and estimating carcasses traits. Proximate analysis (moisture, ash, crude protein and crude fat), meat colored (L, a, b value), physical analysis (drip loss, water holding capacity, cooking loss, shear force and hardness) and sensory evaluation (aroma, flavor , color, chewiness and acceptance) were evaluated. The results showed that LR pigs had higher ash, crude protein and drip loss than those of Taiwan Duroc (P < 0.05), but Taiwan Duroc had higher crude fat and sensory acceptance than those of LR pigs (P < 0.05). The carcass traits showed that Taiwan Duroc had lower fat percentage, backfat thickness and abdominal fat thickness than those of LR pigs, except crude fat content. (C. H. Chen, T. C. Wan, N. T. Yen, M. C. Wu and W. S. Chen)
BODY CONFORMATION TRAITS IN TAIWAN DUROC
The purpose of this study was to investigate the difference in body conformation traits between boars and sows of new breed Taiwan Duroc by the collected body conformation traits. A new Taiwan Duroc (Duroc 93.75% × Meishan 6.25%) was developed by crossing KHAPS boars (Duroc 50% × Meishan 50%) with Duroc sows according to the upgrading breeding program. The average body weight, body height, body length, breast circle, foot circle, back width, front width, breast depth, backfat thickness of new Taiwan Duroc at 147 ± 3 day-olds of age were 96.77 ± 11.35 kg, 59.59 ± 6.90 cm, 108.75 ± 5.31 cm, 103.88 ± 6.38 cm, 19.44 ± 1.03 cm, 32.02 ± 2.76 cm, 33.78 ± 2.66 cm, 33.62 ± 1.76 cm, and 1.92 ± 0.30 cm in boars; 90.40 ± 6.45 kg, 55.75 ± 4.70 cm, 109 ± 4.78 cm, 103 ± 4.60 cm, 18.50 ± 1.08 cm, 31.35 ± 2.40 cm, 31.55 ± 2.29 cm, 33.9 ± 2.58 cm and1.94 ± 0.28 cm in sows, respectively. These data showed that all body conformation traits in boars were larger than sows in the new Taiwan Duroc except for the body length. (C. H. Chen, N. T. Yen and M. C. Wu)
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Northwest Passage
*This article appeared in the November issue of 48 North*
Sailing through the arctic is tough, there is no doubt about that. The winds blow hard and cold, ripping across Siberia unimpeded by any significant topography (or even trees). The route ahead is often choked with slabs of ice, swirling unpredictably with invisible currents. The charts are inaccurate at best, showing 30 feet of depth when there is 10, or a small sliver of sand where there is a 2-mile long island. The depths are grippingly insufficient for a racing sailboat that requires 10 feet of water. It often snows, even in August. Standing watch is intense and humbling in the face of ice mazes and dense fog. Sailing through the arctic is exhilarating and nerve-wracking and incredibly tough.
For a month, DogBark! picked her way through the arctic with careful attention from her crew of six, ranging in age from 9 years to adult. On the days we could make progress, we spent our time weaving through fields of ice, squinting into the freezing fog (an actual weather condition in which the water that is suspended in the air and blocking all visibility freezes, then the wind or boat movement spits these sharp icy crystals at your face). There were many days that precluded forward progress, either because of high winds or ice conditions (or often both). On these days, we hid from steep abrupt wind chop behind almost imperceptible slivers of sand called “islands” and played hours of card games with the heater cranked up while awaiting the next report that would show clear water instead of clogs of ice ahead of us.
But that report didn’t come. The days ticked by. As our stockpile of vegetables (and bread and milk and coffee and peanut butter) dwindled, so did our optimism. We did the math on how quickly we would have to go, assuming we could break through the ice barrier defiantly blocking our passage into Canada, to transit the 1,500 miles still ahead in order to reach Greenland before the gnarly Atlantic winter storms set in. With each passing day our chances of sailing through the northwest passage diminished, even faster than our coffee supply.
Sailing through the arctic is hard, yes. But it turns out not sailing through the arctic is even harder.
Our self-imposed turnaround date loomed on the calendar like a lurking monster under the bed; easy to ignore in the bright bustling day, but impossible to avoid in the dim quiet hours of anxiety and frustration. It was the evening of the in-between day – the day after deciding on our (still hypothetical) alternate route if we were unable to proceed and the day before our looming lurking self-imposed turnaround date – that the last blows to our optimism struck in three brief emails.
The first contained the updated report that showed no improvement in the barricade ahead of us. The second was an official statement from the Canadian Coast Guard advising pleasure craft to avoid transiting the waterways of the Northwest Passage this season due to unusually high concentrations of ice. The third was a note from our advisor confirming what the first two had dispassionately conveyed; the season was closing in and 12 of the 18 boats attempting the passage from either end had turned back while three more were perilously caught in ice floes.
With our nerves frayed from waiting and hoping and defending our anchor chain from menacing slabs of ice, with dramatic tales from other boats of gut-wrenching nights spent caught between a literal rock and hard ice sheet, with the probability of a completed passage rapidly deteriorating, we made the decision to turn back. I thought the waiting and the ice navigating and the anxiety of not knowing was hard, until the reality of defeat plowed over me like a mac truck. We were turning around. I cried as I went to bed that night and again the next morning as we hauled the anchor and turned our back on the stubborn barricade to the east that had beleaguered us for so long. I was devastated.
But as we retreated, rounding Point Barrow and sailing south quickly in the strong autumn winds of the Bering Sea, distance offered better perspective and my grief and devastation slowly – slowly – melted into relief. It became increasingly clear as we shed layers of clothes and regret with the decreasing latitude that we had made the right decision. The ice did not yield a path across the border of Alaska and Canada on the west side; and stayed thick and determined all through Franklin Strait on the east side. A few boats held tight, still hoping for a late season melt, and some of them got into trouble with the ice. We suffered with them, their hope and anxiety and fear and optimism palpable through our own experiences.
It had been the hardest choice we could have made. But we made it, and we stuck to it. I am still recovering from the disappointment, fighting down the little voice that whispers regret and failure at me in the quiet moments, but visions of warm clear lagoons and lush tropical hillsides and juicy fresh pineapples aid in my recovery. Because we have new goals and expectations now. We are trading in our puffy jackets and wool socks and fleece blankets for bathing suits and snorkels and gallons of sunscreen. We are sailing to Hawaii.
Instead of ruminating on our “failed” attempt to transit the northwest passage, we have realigned our ambitions with the opportunities before us. It is not a silver lining or a conciliation, but a new journey entirely, a different adventure. Life is dotted with these moments of choice, and the best options are often obscured by emotions, pride, fear and our inability to predict the future. On that in-between evening in the arctic we made the best decision for our circumstance with the information we had, despite the demanding feelings of failure and frustration. We made the tougher choice, and we are stronger for it.
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November 23rd, 2016, 11:31 PM
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Anyone experienced with Uber or Lyft? Have you ever used them for a ride, or perhaps work or drive for them?
There was a news report a couple of months ago about drivers being arrested at Honolulu airport for not having the proper permits. Are they still banned from the airport?
Its always sort of bugged me about what screening is done, or ISN'T DONE, for drivers. Not that all regular taxi drivers are solid citizens, but at least it is a marked car. I'm I too old school? To me the idea of someone just jumping into a private car with a stranger is sort of like hitchhiking, how do you know who you are really dealing with?
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I’m with you, I think Uber and Lyft should have some regulation and the drivers need to be screened to keep out the undesirables. Wasn’t there a recent event where an Uber drive assaulted a rider?
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I just saw this website about allegations, here are a few excerpts, "found guilty of running a red light that caused him to crash .. leading to the death of his passenger", "driver faces felony aggravated assault charges after allegedly attempting to flee police", "driver stopped mid-ride and made indecent contact and unwanted sexual".
http://www.whosdrivingyou.org/rideshare-incidents
The website states, "Uber’s process for onboarding drivers is dangerously negligent. Neither Uber nor Lyft uses fingerprints or law enforcement to background-check their drivers. And Uber doesn’t even bother to meet with drivers in person before allowing them to ferry passengers. The result is a series of incidents involving “ridesharing” passengers being harmed and criminal offenders behind the wheel:"
While taxi drivers are not all perfect, is a less-than-aggressive screening process (such as for TNC drivers) leaning toward LESS protection for riders?
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Both Uber and Lyft have customer ratings and passenger ratings. When the ride is complete, the apps prompt you to rate your driver, and they prompt the driver to rate the passenger. When you request a ride, the name of the driver shows up on the screen, along with a rating. Either the passenger or driver have the option of canceling the ride if they don't feel good about the arrangement.
This is obviously not a failsafe measure, but it helps. I've used Lyft a few times and have only great experiences. Compared to the stress of riding in cabs, not to mention the lower price, the new ride-sharing is a blessed development in our new world. I love it.
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So then, I wonder why the TNCs are resistant to doing more scrutiny of their drivers? That, combined with the rating system, could add an important layer of safety.
It may have something to do with behaving like a cab company. The services, when they were introduced, were very firmly adamant that they were not cab services, but ride-sharing services. One friendly person offering a ride to a person in need in exchange for some cash. The app was merely a way to connect people, the way Craigslist connects buyers and sellers.
As you know, cab services are strictly regulated. Ride-sharing can be less expensive for a lot of reasons, but skirting those regulations is a huge part of it.
But you know, in some ways, I feel a lot safer using Lyft than using a cab, and as my mom gets close to having to give up her license, I'm hoping she'll be receptive to using it. When you request a ride from a ride-sharing app, you know exactly who's picking you up (even if you don't know anything about that someone), you know exactly where the car is, and you know about how long you have to wait. I'm not sure, but I think the services have enabled you to request certain drivers, too, if they're available, another huge plus in their favor.
I've waited forever for cabs, sometimes to have nobody show up at all. This is too much uncertainty when you have to be somewhere at a certain time, or when you're waiting in a strange place.
SB reports:
The old law, for taxis only, requires criminal background checks locally only and to go back two years. Under the ordinance passed in August and slated to take effect next month, all the drivers are supposed to submit third-party, nationwide background checks that are to go back seven years.
It looks like the council has caught up on the need to have a bit of scrutiny of ride-hailing services drivers. Good news for the safety of the public! But will it increase the fares charged by the drivers? Perhaps a bit, but having a background check done on a driver is not a particularly expensive obligation.
Caldwell is balking because he thinks the law is not strong enough:
The companies should be required to recertify their drivers at least every two years to ensure they hold valid driver’s licenses, maintain valid auto insurance policies, ensure they are mentally and physically fit, and submit their traffic violations bureau certified abstracts, the mayor said.
If he feels even more needs to be done, he should be doing something himself to bring it about, but not just turn away from what is at least a step in the right direction.
Danger goes both ways
Washington Post:
After Jacob Matthew Allemon, an Uber driver in Michigan, approached the couple he was to transport Saturday, one of the passengers rapped on his window, police said. Allemon, 23, took the action as a sign of disrespect, investigators said.The situation got only worse, eventually spiraling into a physical confrontation between Allemon and the 49-year-old passenger, police said. Allemon is now accused of stabbing the man, who was with his wife at the time.
By the way, we are kind of protected should the alleged stabber get out of jail:
An Uber official said Monday that Allemon has been banned from the ride-sharing app and that the company has reached out to authorities to offer any assistance in the investigation.
Huh, You think?
Meanwhile, this driver was put into danger, but managed to escape a robbery by killing the robber:
Aventura police spokesman Chris Goranitis told the newspaper that the driver picked up a passenger about 5:50 a.m. During the trip, a Dodge Caravan cut off the Uber driver, and a man with two handguns got out of the van. Goranitis told the Herald that the Uber driver was armed, too. The suspected robber was fatally shot. The van drove away, although police later recovered the vehicle. The Uber driver escaped without injuries, according to the newspaper.
Perhaps one way it look at it is that ride-sharing incidents simply represent some of what sadly goes on in America:... perceived disrespect leading to violence, ... robbery, ... robbery leading to violence,...workplace violence, and ...someone else left to sort through trouble (Uber, in example).
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Oh-Oh, Uber has a few problems with a federal agency, well maybe its more than a few.... more like 20 million, dollars that is:
BusinessInsider reports:
Uber will pay $20 million and alter various business practices in order to settle claims brought by the FTC that the ride-hailing company mislead drivers on how much they would make driving for Uber. The FTC said Uber had "inflated" its hourly drivers' earnings in online advertisements to attract drivers to its platform.
http://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/l...426-story.html
Uber said it has worked closely with the California Public Utilities Commission in recent years as it improved its response to complaints of intoxicated drivers. It’s “community guidelines” webpage now says that any driver found to be under the influence of drugs or alcohol will be permanently deactivated and that the company can also ban drivers who receive several unconfirmed complaints.
That's good, drivers who are DUI will be "deactivated". What brought about an OCRegister newspaper article that touched on the topic? This:
But the commission reviewed a sample of 154 such complaints from Uber passengers and found the company didn’t promptly suspend drivers in 149 of those instances and failed to investigate 133 of them.
The agency also wrote in its legal filing that Uber failed to follow its own, easygoing policy to deactivate drivers who have received three unconfirmed zero-tolerance complaints, allowing at least 25 such drivers to continue working for the company afterward.
I'm still of the opinion that transportation network companies are sort of like the lottery. Would I maybe catch a ride along with a group of friends, perhaps. Would I set my Mom up for one? Probably not.
UPDATE - WHAT A COINCIDENCE! I just posted this, and then moved on to another online newspaper, (LATimes) and guess what there is a story about:
An Uber driver in Orange County has been charged with raping a passenger who was riding home from a work-related event, authorities said.....The Uber ride was requested by colleagues of the woman, who was under the influence of alcohol at the time, prosecutors said.
To me, something seems innately dangerous with getting into a private car with a total stranger, especially if alone, and female, and drunk.
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January 23rd, 2018, 06:55 PM
In the SA today:
A Mexican man living in the U.S. illegally used his job as an Uber driver to target intoxicated young women and was charged today with raping, assaulting and robbing four victims, California prosecutors said.
So add to the list of concerns that while one state might have some degree of screening for transportation network companies drivers, the same level of screening might not be true of all states. This case involves an illegal alien driving for Uber that actually holds a legal California driver's license!
California issues driver’s licenses to immigrants in the country illegally and Alarcon-Nunez had a valid license since 2015.
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So many things to blog about, so little time. Well, the Bowl Championship Series (BCS) has the distinct advantage that all the players are settled, but we have almost a month before the actual event. So let's talk about what went wrong and why.
The BCS is supposed to give us the two best Division I college football teams fighting for the National Championship. Instead, it gives us pretty good teams fighting for the Championship, and leaves everyone else outside looking in. Sometimes this works. But not often (numbers in parenthesis indicate pre-championship game record):
1998 Fiesta Tennessee (12-0) 23 Florida State (11-1) 16
1999 Sugar Florida State (11-0) 46 Virginia Tech (11-0) 29
2000 Orange Oklahoma (12-0) 13 Florida State (11-1) 2 FSU beaten by Miami (10-1) during season
2001 Rose Miami (11-0) 37 Nebraska (11-1) 14 Nebraska lost to Colorado (10-2) in final game of regular season. Colorado was Big 12 champion.
2002 Fiesta Ohio State (13-0) 31 Miami (12-0) 24 (2 OT) Actually, this was the best BCS championship game
2003 Sugar LSU (12-1) 21 Oklahoma (12-1) 14 Oklahoma lost Big 12 Championship Game to Kansas State. USC (11-1) left out in cold, though ranked above OSU in the polls.
(Thanks to bcsfootball.org and thelantern.com for the preceding data.)
This year, it's worse. There are not one, not two, not three, but five, count'em, five teams with perfect records: USC, Oklahoma, Auburn, Utah, and Boise State. Six if you count Harvard, who graciously declined to play in a bowl game. So many undefeated teams that Boise State doesn't even get to play in a "BCS" auxillary bowl -- heaven forbid, it's bad enough that Utah is in one.
In the past, the BCS has used the excuse "we'll get it right next year." They tweak the system. Conference champions get screwed? We'll give them a point. Oh, but then strenght of schedule isn't taken into account. No, wait, we're depending on the computers too much. No matter, the next fix would work.
And then the nightmare happened -- not only did a non-BCS interloper (Utah) make it into the sacred bowls, but one of the "real" BCS teams was denied entry into the Championship game even though it had a perfect record -- because there were three perfect teams.
I believe the next fix is going to be addition of an extra bowl game, one held between the "best" two winners of the traditional BCS bowls. That won't work, either, for the simple reason that the Utahs and the Boise States are getting good. They get nearly as much TV exposure as the BCS teams (quick: who plays on a blue field?), and they're getting the players. One day, soon, a non-BCS school will have a plausible argument to being the best team in the country, and it's going to get shut out of the championship game.
The solution, of course, is a playoff, as every other NCAA division has for football. An 8 team playoff (which quite probably would have included California over Texas) would have been OK, but a 16 team playoff is better. This year we could have had the games start last week, the Elite Eight tomorrow, the Final Four next week, skip Christmas, and have the Championship on New Year's Day.
It won't happen of course. One reason is the difference between money in hand and money which can be made. The money in hand comes from the 28 bowl games. This year, unless it is too disfunctional (e.g. Clemson and South Carolina), just about any team with a winning season got into a bowl. That's a lot of money. (If you think it's not about money, note this just in: the NCAA is "considering" making 12 games a year the standard, every year.)
Of course, a real championship would make even more money, just as the basketball tournament makes a ton more than a set of Big 12/Big 10(11) -- Pac 12/SEC -- ACC/Big East tournaments would make. But that money is in the future, so it's hard to see.
And, of course, there is an issue with (gasp) finals. Many commentators like to make fun of this. It's true that every other Division has football championships and finals, and it's also true that many Div-IA players aren't at school to make grades. But last year the last championship was on Dec. 19, a week before Christmas. There's only one (1) game on the whole Div.IAA schedule during the two weeks before Christmas: prime finals time.
Anyone think the Big Guys want to wrap up the season on Dec. 18? Of course not. First, the big bowl games have always been on Christmas, and with a 12 game schedule the season can't end before Thanksgiving. So any playoff will have to span the finals, or not start until around Christmas. Or, the colleges will have to admit that we're really looking at the NFL minor league and give the players a free pass through the finals. As long as we're supposedly in it for the education the NCAA is going to have a problem with finals and Division IA football. While the hypocrisy goes on there will be no IA playoff.
But waiting in the wings: one of these years, Utah and Boise State, or their counterparts in the non-BCS Div.IA, will be the only undefeated teams in the nation. And not only will they not play for the championship, one of them will be left out of the best bowls.
And then the fur will fly.
Posted by rcjhawk at 12/10/2004 09:34:00 PM
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A heated battle may be on the horizon among lawmakers as the National Assembly is set to reconvene on Tuesday.
by admin - August 11, 2018
There are strong indications that the APC senators and their PDP counterparts are heading for a showdown as the National Assembly is set to reconvene on Tuesday.
Reporters gathered on Friday that the issue bordered on what should be discussed at the plenary on Tuesday.
It was learnt that senators, who are loyal to the Senate President, Dr. Bukola Saraki, were insisting that the only agenda should be considered is President Muhammadu Buhari’s budget for the 2019 elections.
The anti-Saraki lawmakers however, have said nothing was sacrosanct, adding that they could also raise the issue of the leadership of the senate.
Following the move of the Senate President and 13 other senators from the APC to the PDP, the ruling party had called on Saraki to resign.
But the Senate President on Wednesday said he would only resign if two-thirds of senators passed a vote of no confidence in him.
A pro-Saraki senator, who confided in news outlets, said, “On Tuesday our focus will be INEC budget. Those who think we will debate majority and leadership issues are wasting their time.”
But another senator, who is anti-Saraki, said, “No issue is sacrosanct. Saraki’s issue will come up on Tuesday.”
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Happy Valley ESD (Santa Cruz) | BP 6174 Instruction
Education For English Learners
The Board of Trustees intends to provide English learners with challenging curriculum and instruction that maximize the attainment of high levels of proficiency in English, advance multilingual capabilities, and facilitate student achievement in the district's regular course of study.
The district shall identify in its local control and accountability plan (LCAP) goals and specific actions and services to enhance student engagement, academic achievement, and other outcomes for English learners.
The Superintendent/Principal or designee shall encourage parent/guardian and community involvement in the development and evaluation of programs for English learners.
(cf. 0420 - School Plans/Site Councils)
(cf. 1220 - Citizen Advisory Committees)
English learners shall be provided differentiated English language development instruction which is targeted to their English proficiency level, integrated across all subject areas, and aligned with the state content standards. The district's program shall be based on sound instructional theory, use standards-aligned instructional materials, emphasize inquiry-based learning and critical thinking skills, and provide students with access to the full educational program.
(cf. 6011 - Academic Standards)
(cf. 6141 - Curriculum Development and Evaluation)
(cf. 6161.1 - Selection and Evaluation of Instructional Materials)
(cf. 6161.11 - Supplementary Instructional Materials)
(cf. 6171 - Title I Programs)
The Superintendent/Principal or designee shall ensure that all staff employed to teach English learners possess the appropriate authorization from the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
(cf. 4112.22 - Staff Teaching English Learners)
The district shall provide effective professional development to teachers (including teachers in classroom settings that are not the settings of language instruction educational programs), administrators, and other school or community-based organization personnel to improve the instruction and assessment of English learners and enhance staff's ability to understand and use curricula, assessment, and instructional strategies for English learners. Such professional development shall be of sufficient intensity and duration to produce a positive and lasting impact on teachers' performance in the classroom. (20 USC 6825)
Staff development shall also address the sociocultural needs of English learners and provide opportunities for teachers to engage in supportive, collaborative learning communities.
To support students' English language development, the Superintendent/Principal or designee may provide an adult literacy training program that leads to English fluency for parents/guardians and community members.
Identification and Assessment
The Superintendent/Principal or designee shall maintain procedures for the early identification of English learners and an assessment of their proficiency and needs in the areas of listening, speaking, reading, and writing in English.
Once identified as an English learner, a student shall be annually assessed for language proficiency until he/she is reclassified based on criteria specified in the accompanying administrative regulation.
English learners' academic achievement in English language arts, mathematics, science, and any additional subject required by law shall be assessed using the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress. As necessary, the test shall be administered with testing variations in accordance with 5 CCR 854.1-854.3. English learners who are in their first 12 months of attending a school in the United States shall be exempted from taking the English language arts assessment to the extent allowed by federal law. (Education Code 60603, 60640; 5 CCR 854.1-854.3)
(cf. 6162.51 - State Academic Achievement Tests)
Formative assessments may be utilized to analyze student performance and appropriately adapt teaching methodologies and instructions.
(cf. 6162.5 - Student Assessment)
Language Acquisition Programs
The district shall offer research-based language acquisition programs that are designed to ensure English acquisition as rapidly and as effectively as possible and that provide instruction to students on the state-adopted academic content standards, including the English language development standards. (Education Code 306; 5 CCR 11300)
At a minimum, the district shall offer a structured English immersion program which includes designated and integrated English language development. In the structured English immersion program, nearly all of the classroom instruction shall be provided in English, but with the curriculum and presentation designed for students who are learning English. (Education Code 305-306; 5 CCR 11309)
For the purpose of determining the amount of instruction to be conducted in English in the structured English immersion program, "nearly all" means that all classroom instruction shall be conducted in English except for clarification, explanation, and support as needed.
In addition, language acquisition programs offered by the district may include, but are not limited to, the following: (Education Code 305-306)
1. The district may offer a dual-language immersion program that provides integrated language learning and academic instruction for native speakers of English and native speakers of another language, with the goals of high academic achievement, first and second language proficiency, and cross-cultural understanding.
(cf. 6142.2 - World/Foreign Language Instruction)
2. The district may offer a transitional or developmental program for English learners that provides literacy and academic instruction in English and a student's native language and that enables an English learner to achieve English proficiency and academic mastery of subject matter content and higher order thinking skills, including critical thinking, in order to meet state academic content standards.
The district's language acquisition programs for grades K-3 shall comply with class size requirements specified in Education Code 42238.02. (Education Code 310)
(cf. 6151 - Class Size)
In establishing the district's language acquisition programs, the Superintendent/Principal or designee shall consult with parents/guardians and the community during the LCAP development process. He/she shall also consult with administrators, teachers, and other personnel with appropriate authorizations and experience in establishing a language acquisition program. (Education Code 305)
At the beginning of each school year or upon a student's enrollment, parents/guardians shall be provided information on the types of language acquisition programs available to students enrolled in the district, including, but not limited to, a description of each program, the process to be followed in making a program selection, identification of any language to be taught in addition to English when the program includes instruction in another language, and the process to request establishment of a language acquisition program. (Education Code 310; 5 CCR 11310)
(cf. 5145.6 - Parental Notifications)
Parents/guardians of English learners may choose a language acquisition program that best suits their child. To the extent possible, any language acquisition program requested by the parents/guardians of 30 or more students at the school or by the parents/guardians of 20 or more students at any grade level shall be offered by the school. (Education Code 310; 5 CCR 11311)
Reclassification
When an English learner is determined based on state and district reclassification criteria to have acquired a reasonable level of English proficiency pursuant to Education Code 313 and 52164.6, or upon request by the student's parent/guardian, the student shall be transferred from a language acquisition program into an English language mainstream classroom.
To evaluate the effectiveness of the district's educational program for English learners, the Superintendent/Principal or designee shall report to the Board, at least annually, regarding:
1. Progress of English learners towards proficiency in English
2. The number and percentage of English learners reclassified as fluent English proficient
3. The number and percentage of English learners who are or are at risk of being classified as long-term English learners in accordance with Education Code 313.1
4. The achievement of English learners on standards-based tests in core curricular areas
5. For any language acquisition program that includes instruction in a language other than English, student achievement in the non-English language in accordance with 5 CCR 11309
6. Progress toward any other goals for English learners identified in the district's LCAP
7. A comparison of current data with data from at least the previous year in regard to items #1-6 above
8. A comparison of data between the different language acquisition programs offered by the district
The Superintendent/Principal or designee shall also provide the Board with regular reports from any district or schoolwide English learner advisory committees.
300-340 English language education, especially:
305-310 Language acquisition programs
313-313.5 Assessment of English proficiency
430-446 English Learner and Immigrant Pupil Federal Conformity Act
33050 State Board of Education waiver authority
42238.02-42238.03 Local control funding formula
44253.1-44253.11 Qualifications for teaching English learners
48980 Parental notifications
48985 Notices to parents in language other than English
52052 Numerically significant student subgroups
52160-52178 Bilingual Bicultural Act
56305 CDE manual on English learners with disabilities
60603 Definition, recently arrived English learner
60640 California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress
60810-60812 Assessment of language development
62002.5 Continuation of advisory committee after program sunsets
854.1-854.3 CAASPP and universal tools, designated supports, and accommodations
854.9 CASSPP and unlisted resources for students with disabilities
11300-11316 English learner education
11510-11517.5 California English Language Development Test
11517.6-11519.5 English Language Proficiency Assessments for California
1412 Individuals with Disabilities Education Act; state eligibility
1701-1705 Equal Educational Opportunities Act
6311 Title I state plan
6312 Title I local education agency plans
6801-7014 Title III, language instruction for English learners and immigrant students
7801 Definitions
CODE OF FEDERAL REGULATIONS, TITLE 34
100.3 Discrimination prohibited
200.16 Assessment of English learners
Valeria O. v. Davis, (2002) 307 F.3d 1036
California Teachers Association v. State Board of Education et al., (9th Circuit, 2001) 271 F.3d 1141
McLaughlin v. State Board of Education, (1999) 75 Cal.App.4th 196
Teresa P. et al v. Berkeley Unified School District et al, (1989) 724 F.Supp. 698
ATTORNEY GENERAL OPINIONS
83 Ops.Cal.Atty.Gen. 40 (2000)
English Learners in Focus: The English Learner Roadmap: Providing Direction for English Learner Success, Governance Brief, February 2018
English Learners in Focus, Issue 4: Expanding Bilingual Education in California after Proposition 58, Governance Brief, March 2017
English Learners in Focus, Issue 1: Updated Demographic and Achievement Profile of California's English Learners, Governance Brief, rev. September 2016
English Learners in Focus, Issue 3: Ensuring High-Quality Staff for English Learners, Governance Brief, July 2016
English Learners in Focus, Issue 2: The Promise of Two-Way Immersion Programs, Governance Brief, September 2014
CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
California English Learner Roadmap: Strengthening Comprehensive Educational Policies, Programs and Practices for English Learners, 2018
Matrix One: Universal Tools, Designated Supports, and Accommodations for the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress for 2017-18, rev. August 2017
Reclassification Guidance for 2017-18, CDE Correspondence, April 28, 2017
Integrating the CA ELD Standards into K-12 Mathematics and Science Teaching and Learning, December 2015
Next Generation Science Standards for California Public Schools, Kindergarten through Grade Twelve, rev. March 2015
English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework for California Public Schools: Transitional Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, 2014
Common Core State Standards for Mathematics, rev. 2013
English Language Development Standards for California Public Schools: Kindergarten Through Grade Twelve, 2012
THE EDUCATION TRUST- WEST PUBLICATIONS
Unlocking Learning II: Math as a Lever for English Learner Equity, March 2018
Unlocking Learning: Science as a Lever for English Learner Equity, January 2017
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION PUBLICATIONS
Accountability for English Learners Under the ESEA, Non-Regulatory Guidance, January 2017
Innovative Solutions for Including Recently Arrived English Learners in State Accountability Systems: A Guide for States, January 2017
English Learner Tool Kit for State and Local Educational Agencies (SEAs and LEAs), rev. November 2016
English Learners and Title III of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), as Amended by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), Non-Regulatory Guidance, September 23, 2016
Dear Colleague Letter: English Learner Students and Limited English Proficient Parents, January 7, 2015
California Association for Bilingual Education: http://www.gocabe.org
California Department of Education: http://www.cde.ca.gov/sp/el
National Clearinghouse for English Language Acquisition: http://www.ncela.us
The Education Trust-West: https://west.edtrust.org
U.S. Department of Education: http://www.ed.gov
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pioneer a way to be you by S.J. Mellia
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First in a trilogy of planned collaborations between Edinburgh based electronic music producer SJ Mellia and philosopher Ciaran Healy. Future releases coming soon! More info regarding SJ Mellia & Ciaran Healy's work can be found below. SJ Mellia makes music. Gets his inspiration from reading comic books, trashy sci-fi and watches lots of shitty b-movies. He likes to think he makes music that can be used to soundtrack modern life. Ciaran Healy is a philosopher and Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He is working to develop a viral revolution in human nature. Ignition is a training program which allows someone to spark a new kind of human identity. It is a kind of evolutionary adaptation to the information age. To discover more go to www.thisisciaran.com
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Home » india » Around 100 oil and gas fields could go up for private auction
Around 100 oil and gas fields could go up for private auction
The National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government is considering a proposal by a high-level committee to take away 97 oil and gas fields being explored by the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd (ONGC) and Oil India Ltd (OIL) and auction them to private sector energy companies, two government officials aware of the development said.
The committee comprising top civil servants, including cabinet secretary PK Sinha and headed by NITI Aayog vice chairman Rajiv Kumar, has proposed “complete marketing and pricing freedom” to potential investors, one of the two officials said on condition of anonymity. These are part of 149 marginal fields that contribute about 5% of the country’s total oil and gas production.
The committee has, however, allowed ONGC and OIL to retain 52 of the total 149 marginal oil and gas fields on the condition that they deliver results in terms of production and financial performance within a definite time frame, the first official added.
According to the committee’s report, ONGC and OIL are on notice for these 52 fields.
They may lose these fields if they fail to perform, officials said.
“In these retained fields, NOCs [national oil companies] need to adhere to approved production profile. If they fail, even these fields shall be considered for taking back and privatisation by the government,” the six-member committee said in its report, which was seen by HT.
The committee submitted its report, “Enhancing Domestic Oil & Gas Exploration and Production”, to the government last month. Other members of the committee are oil secretary MM Kutty, department of economic affairs secretary Subhash Chandra Garg, ONGC chairman Shashi Shankar and NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant.
Out of the 52 fields, ONGC currently holds 49 fields and OIL three. Queries sent to the oil ministry, ONGC and OIL did not elicit any response.
The panel also suggested that ONGC and OIL forge joint ventures (JV) with private entities in 66 lucrative oil and gas producing fields to enhance output from these blocks.
“It is necessary that recovery maximisation regime is adopted by NOCs and if need be, choose field specific implementation model including JV to make it possible to recover the additional oil expeditiously,” the committee said in its report. These 66 fields contribute about 95% of India’s total oil (from 35.7 MMT in 2017-18) and gas (32,648 MMSCM) production.
The committee, in its report, has expressed concerns over surging oil and gas consumption, which are resulting in higher energy imports (82.8% of total oil consumption and 45.3% in the case of gas). Total value of imports was Rs 4,79,377 crore in 2017-18.
“Higher imports are a direct consequence of steady decline in domestic production,” it said.
The report has pointed to two major dampeners for private investments — “poor geology” of Indian sedimentary basins and policy focus on maximising revenue from oil and gas fields.
“The policy and the fiscal regime would have to adequately compensate for relatively inferior oil/gas prospects and the difficult geology. Hitherto instead of compensating for the poor geology, Indian policy has focused on maximising government revenues,” it said.
“It has been highlighted by the oil and gas sector experts in the meeting with the Hon’ble Prime Minister that our existing policy framework, fiscal and approval regimes would have to be made more attractive for both FDI [foreign direct investment] and domestic investments,” it said.
A former board member of ONGC said, “This is nothing but asset stripping. Both ONGC and OIL are listed entities and this move will adversely impact the interests of the minority shareholders”.
“Ideally, the government should wait and see the outcome of 69 blocks already privatised before taking this step. Privatisation is not the only solution. Performance of private companies is also not that encouraging. The proposal should not be hurried, especially when the government’s current tenure is about to end,” the direct-level official said requesting anonymity.
First Published: Feb 13, 2019 00:00 IST
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Kerala to set up NRI Commission
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THIRUVANANTHPURAM–The Kerala cabinet has decided to set up a NRI Commission, announced Chief Minister Oommen Chandy.
With this, Kerala becomes the second state after Punjab to have such a body. A retired high court judge will be the chairman, and the members will comprise a retired Indian Administrative Service officer, two representatives of the Kerala diaspora and a state government official of the rank of a joint secretary.
To be headquartered here, it would meet every quarter.
While speaking to reporters here, Chandy said the commission will be a quasi judicial body and will address all issues of the diaspora including fake recruitments as well as disputes over properties, and investment.
Chandy later told IANS that a bill for the purpose will be introduced in the upcoming session of the assembly that begins on November 30.
“This has been a long standing demand of the diaspora and our officials after home work have given the nod for setting this up,” he said.
Even though there is a special NRI Police Cell, there are limitations in its functioning but with the commission being a quasi-judicial body, diaspora complainants can engage a lawyer who will be appearing before the panel and the complainant need not waste his/her time, unlike when police handles such cases.
The Kerala diaspora has always been regarded as the backbone of the state economy and latest studies reveal that the number of Kerala emigrants as in 2014 was 23.63 lakh, with 90 percent settled in various Middle Eastern and Gulf countries.
During the 12-month period ending March 1, 2014, their total remittances stood at Rs.72,680 crore.
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Interview: Katha Cato (Director – QUEENS WORLD FILM FESTIVAL)
The borough of Queens is the most ethnically diverse community in the world, with two major airports serving to connect New York City and the global community. The 3rd Annual Queens World Film Festival appreciates this diversity by promoting both local and international filmmakers positioning Queens as a destination for both filmmakers and film lovers.
The Queens World Film Festival returns to the Museum of the Moving Image with an opening night program featuring international short films from Italy, Belgium, and Australia as well as the work of Queens filmmakers. Special guests and honorees include Council Member Jimmy Van Bramer, who will be recognized for his years of service to Queens and greater New York City. Actress and 70’s icon, Karen Black will be honored for her unique contributions to cinema and her enduring commitment to aspiring filmmakers.
We talked to the festival Katha Cato, who co directs (alongside her husband, Don Cato) the festival about the filmmaking history of Queens, the legacy of Karen Black and the festival’s own youth filmmaking program at PS 69. The festival will be held March 5-10, 2013 at various locations throughout Queens, including The Museum of the Moving Image and The Secret Theatre.
When did the Queens World Film Festival start?
We are in our third year of our ten year plan. We were originally volunteers on the Queens International Film Festival which had a bloody end, so we thought what the possibilities would be for a new festival, run by people who cared about the borough and film. One and a half years later we created the Queens World Film Festival, which is not connected to the International Film Festival.
We are trying to bring the spotlight onto Queens for filmmakers and film lovers alike. If you want to screen your film at Tribeca you still have to land in Queens. We have world class facilities, filmmakers, film lovers and a huge (and growing) audience who are very hungry for film. This year we have 104 films with 19 being from Queens. In the remaining films we have everywhere from Taiwan, Germany, Great Britain to Iran represented. We are also excited because our attendance has been growing. Our first year we had 1601; last year was 3005.
What is the filmmaking infastructure in Queens? I feel like people still think about film in New York in terms of Brooklyn or Manhattan, what are some things about Queens filmmaking that people may not know?
If you look at Kaufman Astoria studies, that building has been instrumental in establishing the industry of American Cinema. That is where WC Fields, Harold Lloyd and a lot of the stars of the time were making films. That is where the early filmmakers, rebels and pioneers were cutting there teeth, so it has a long history of filmmaking. Recently, Men in Black 3 was shot on the sound stage.
Last year 22 people who were associated with the festival got work out of it, whether in TV or Film. The Asian filmmakers in the community are blossoming; there are a lot of Dogme films happening with alternative equipment. There are some very big names who have gotten tired of Williamsburg and Soho and now live here. Meaning that this is now their New York apartment. They will fly in and stay in Queens. People on the big festival circuits stay in Queens just due to the proximity to the airport.
Kaufman Astoria studios is also working its way through the permit process for a studio lot. It is going to have a very iconic gate and will look just like a Los Angeles outdoor lot.
I did not know about the history of Kaufman Astoria Studio’s which is very interesting. Going back to what you were saying though, I have found Queens to be a place where a lot of talent can be found. I have even heard Astoria being referred to as ACTORia with the amount of actors living out there. For my last film, my DP and most of my crew were based in the Asian film scene of Flushing.
In your opinion, is there anything that the borough really needs in order to make it that preeminent filmmaking destination?
That’s an interesting question. It has so many things, as well as intangibles. What Queens needs is a world class film festival. I think this festival will shine a light on the potential here, especially when people see the local films.
The festival program is broken up into blocks with each block representing a certain theme. Did theses blocks occur organically out of the submission pool or are they predetermined by you and your programmers?
The only blocks that we do every year are the “Old Spice” and LGBT. Every film is received and rated between two programmers. Though they are different in age it is interesting to see how similar they are in sensibility. Then we start averaging scores and separate those above and below. Even if films are rated below the average, should someone feel strongly about them we definitely screen them again. After this we have our gene pool where we match films to each other. The “OMG” block films will curl the hair right off your head! There’s another block for strong women characters. Then it comes down to pulling the trigger. Unfortunately there are films that don’t make it. We send each filmmaker who’s film was not selected a hand written letter, providing feedback if requested.
Independent Films need help, though. We retrofit all the theaters, except MoMI, because we know the filmmakers are entrusting their hearts in us so we want it to look the best it can. We also encourage the filmmakers to network with each other prior to the festival. Their self promotion is also promotion for the festival so it works as a cycle. They can create posters for their blocks, Facebook events or just meet for cocktails and talk. We also market the blocks independently based on connections.
This injects a strong sense of community into independent film, which is a similar mission that we have as well. Bringing back to this “meet & greet” philosophy of filmmaking and distribution is something that has taken on a whole new meaning with the combination of digital technologies and social networking. Going forward, this sense of community whether digital or otherwise is going to be very important for independent filmmakers and not just at the point of production.
This relates to my next question about your panel on legal guidance for independent filmmakers. Of all the topics relevant to independent film right now, why did you choose the subject of law this year?
A lot of people make movies and put music on it without the rights. They submit it to a festival and its rejected on that account, but never explained so the filmmaker never knows. This panel aims to eliminate those kind of situations for independent filmmakers.
Also, many filmmakers do not budget for the festival life of their film. Feature films aren’t going to go viral and no one will love them like your grandmother does so it is important to know how to navigate the festival circuit. You have to have your ducks in order when you start, rather than when you finish. You can make a film for nothing but it will cost you thousands afterwards if you are not in line with the proper procedures. It is heartbreaking to see filmmakers have to waste years of their lives dealing with issues born out of not understanding their rights and responsibilities. Don’t look at yourself as a poor starving artist, Look at yourself as a professional everytime.
Karen Black is both in a film playing the festival, as well as being the recipient of your achievement award. What is it about her as an actress that embodies the spirit of The Queens World Film Festival?
My husband directed a film in 1986 that started her and we have kept a friendly relationship with her since then. She has always been gracious and wonderful to us. When we get ‘VacationLand‘ as a submission from a local filmmaker it starred Karen Black. I immediately e mailed him to ask about him, the film and Karen. We found out that they were friendly as well. The thing about Karen is that she has made over 196 films. When you look at her filmography it is quite stunning. She did ‘Nashville‘, ‘Five Easy Pieces‘; she worked with Hitchcock and Schlesinger. If you look at all the films she has done, many of them are from filmmakers early in their careers. Also, she does not phone in a performance once. I have been on set with her. She is prepared. Not to mention she stays out of the press and keeps composed, which has to be appreciated these days.
Personally, I became a believer in her in ‘Five Easy Pieces‘ because it is such a thankless role. She plays a dim witted bimbo and your heart breaks for her, but you almost side for him. What young starlets now would do that?
I also see that you hold a youth filmmaking program. How is this program constructed and what are its goals?
Most artists that I know will tell you that they wanted to do what they do at a very early age but there was nothing for them. They didn’t fit in until they found this outlet. One of the goals of the festival is to encourage young filmmakers and that includes 5th graders. Every year my husband selects filmmakers who go into PS 69 on a selected day for 10 weeks and do a boot camp filmmaking program. This immerses the children in as much of the creative process as they can. They do everything in the process except for the physical editing. This year we came up with a theme called “America 2020” which is the year those 5th graders will be graduating high school, so we asked them to envision America in 2020. The students learn screenwriting, pitching, sound, directing. They have to make their own costumes and sets. When the films are complete, they screen at the closing night of the festival so that we can bring the community to the filmmakers. This year we are doing their own red carpet event at 9 am on March 9. We will have parents and elected officials there. For me it is very personal. There will be a little Katha in that class who, up until that moment, didn’t understand why she saw the world in pictures but now she will. She will understand that she lives in the best city in the world to be an artist.
To wrap up, what would you say to filmmakers interested in submitting to future editions of the festival makes a successful Queens World film?
We are looking for a good idea. We want to see if you took it head on and it stays true to itself throughout the process. We want to see if you stand behind your work.
March 5-10, 2013
The 3rd Annual Queens World Film Festival
OPENING NIGHT @ The Museum for the Moving Image – TICKETS
CLOSING NIGHT @ Renaissance Event Hall – 8-12pm
WITH SCREENINGS @ The Jackson Heights Cinema, The Secret Theatre, Renaissance Charter School, P.S. 069
Sponsored by Kaufman Astoria Studios, Amalgamated Bank and Manhattan Portage
With a Grant From 2013 Queens Council on the Arts /Department of Cultural Affairs
www.queensworldfilmfestival.com
Facebook: /QueensWorldFilmFestival
Twitter: @QueensWorldFilm
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Kirk Franklin is in the second week of his Long Live Love tour and during his stop in Jacksonville, Florida on Monday he was verbally attacked by a street preacher. The man who was preaching through a megaphone on a downtown street challenged Franklin on his recent performance at the BET Awards but he also… Read more »
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HTC launches Hero Android smartphone with custom HTC Sense UI and Flash support
Today HTC launched its third Android powered smartphone, the HTC Hero. The HTC Hero makes use of the new HTC Sense user interface, which makes the Hero the first Android device on the market to sport a custom user interface. For those that follow Android more closely, HTC Sense will be recognized as the "Rosie" user interface that was leaked through some Hero ROMs a few weeks back.I had the chance to see HTC Sense in action on an HTC Hero some time ago, and I can vouch for the quality of the HTC enhancements to Android. Not only does HTC provide a wide assortment of new home screen widgets, but the company also has included a new "Scenes" mode that lets users define multiple layouts to be used, such as one for work, and one for play. The system is somewhat similar to the mode switching found on some recent Nokia S60 smartphones.
Other new features include integration with Facebook and Flickr, including linking your contacts with their own Facebook and Flickr feeds, so you can not only see their contact info in the contacts app, but also quickly view their Facebook updates and recent Flickr photos. Other tweaks have been made to the phone dialer, including T9 contact searching, and to the web browser. The web browser tweaks include multi-touch zooming control, a new bookmark manager, and Adobe Flash based full-screen video support.
In terms of specs, the Hero features a 3.2-inch 320 x 480 (Half-VGA) capacitive touchscreen(INFO) display, just like the Magic and G1, but also includes a special anti-fingerprint coating. Unlike the older devices, however, the Hero receives a new 5 megapixel camera (with geo-tagging) and an actual 3.5mm headphone port - no more headphone adapters required. Other features of note include aGPS(INFO) and HTC Footprints, a built-in digital compass for helping with Google Maps, and a new search button.
The search button brings up results from a new, more powerful search system that looks not only in the phone's emails, contacts, and other built-in data like you would expect, but also searches Twitter (and, presumably, Google).
The Hero is expected to go on sale across Europe in July, and in Asia later in the summer. HTC has promised that a dedicated North American version will be available later in 2009. The white version of the device actually includes teflon in order to make the paint not only soft, but durable. No pricing has been announced at this time, but T-Mobile and Orange in Europe are the first networks expected to offer the phone.
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October 23 Rapid Reaction (feat. Daryl Evans): Stars 4, Kings 2
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Rapid Reaction
Rapid Reaction, feat. Daryl Evans
Post-game Quotes
John Stevens, on the team’s solid five-on-five play, counterbalanced with having to chase the game:
I think there’s a lot of good things that we did five-on-five tonight, but I think there’s a lot of detail in our game that we need to be a whole lot better at. Those O-zone penalties are killing us right now. They’ve got a great power play right now, best in the league. Don’t want to give them opportunities getting on the power play. A lot of detail that comes back to bite you. Shift length at times, getting a puck deep can make a huge difference on a game on the road here. We did some good things tonight, but we need a lot more.
Stevens, on Sean Walker’s ability to come in and play to his strengths:
Very effective. I thought he was a very effective player for us. Looked really confident and comfortable out there. I think Dion really helps him because he talks to him lots. A real good veteran presence, but I thought he came in and made an impact. Really impressed with what he’s able to do, coming into this environment against a team that forechecks really hard, and I thought he was really effective. [Reporter: He looked right in place there, he really did.] Yeah, did he ever. I mean, jeez, he looked really comfortable with the puck, really comfortable going back for pucks, really comfortable defending. Made a great play on the goal. Like I said, you want the kid to come in and make an impact, he made an impact.
Stevens, on Adrian Kempe’s penalties:
The first one, I’m not sure – at least he’s in the battle, he’s around the puck. The other one, it looked like he was trying to get position on the guy, but when those penalties are being called against you, you need detail in what you’re doing. One more step, one more stride the way he skates, get on top of people. Had a little better position, especially that deep, far away from your net. There’s no need for it. Again, those are big momentum swings in a hockey game, especially in the offensive zone when you get some pressure going on there. They’re not helping your cause to win hockey games.
Anze Kopitar, on Carter’s disallowed goal:
… I didn’t get a full-blown explanation, but by the looks of it, Carts hit it and it hit his hand.
Kopitar, on the team’s level of frustration right now:
Well, first you want to win games and every time you don’t the frustration level builds a little bit. But we can’t beat up ourselves too much. I thought this was a step in the right direction, but we can’t just get satisfied with being close. We’ve got to obviously take the next step and build on some good things that were happening tonight and just get a lot more from each and every one of us and we’re going to start winning games.
Kopitar, on if it felt like the team got back to their game tonight:
I thought we were playing in the offensive zone a lot more than in the previous games. I thought we moved the puck better. But, like I said, there’s still breakdowns that happened and we’ve got to correct those.
Kopitar, on the level of concern regarding the number of goals allowed in the past five games:
That goes back to the detail part of the game really. It’s breakdown coverage, getting scored on on the penalty kill. You know, I’m not concerned getting scored on, I’m a little bit more concerned about just our game in general right now. But like I said, we’re on the right path with correcting things, but we’ve got to do it. Obviously we can’t wait. Time maybe still is on our side, but it’s not going to be for much longer.
Kopitar, on the line between beating themselves up and the recognizing the desperation of current situation:
A very fine line.
Kopitar, on his individual game right now:
I guess getting three goals in eight games is not too shabby, but it’s the other part that’s missing right now so I’ll fix that.
Jeff Carter, on his disallowed goal late in the third:
I didn’t talk to the ref, but it went off my glove.
Carter, on whether he thought there was room for argument:
No, I mean if you watch the replay it comes off my glove and went in, so that’s no goal.
Carter, on managing frustration:
You lose games, it’s frustrating. So I don’t know, I mean we were better tonight. We created some more. Still a lot more to go.
Carter, on if there is a fine line between recognizing the urgency of the situation and being too self-critical:
Yeah, probably. We’re in a situation. It’s frustrating. But we’re the only ones that can get us out of it. We’re the ones that go on the ice, we’re the ones that play so it’s, like I said, individually it’s frustrating because our game’s aren’t where they need to be. We were better tonight, but we still have a ways to go and when you’re hard on yourself it takes a lot of energy out of yourself.
Sean Walker, on his NHL debut:
It was amazing. It was like you said, we wanted to get the win, but for my first NHL game I was just soaking it all in and enjoying myself every minute.
Walker, on whether tonight was an indication of the type of game that he wanted to play:
I think everybody knows that i’m trying to get pucks to the net and get the forwards the puck and that’s what I did and stuck with the game plan.
Walker, on what the vibe was before the game:
Everybody is very positive, looking to bounce back right now, and I’m hoping to help them as much as I can.
Walker, on looking forward to the next game:
Obviously I want to be in the lineup and help as much as I can. I think there’s some details that we can work on with everybody, including myself, so hopefully we’ll just go from there.
Post-game Notes
–With the loss, Los Angeles fell to 88-106-41 all-time against the Dallas franchise, a record that includes a road mark of 37-62-19. The Stars have points in seven of the last eight games against the Kings, going 6-1-1. These teams have two games remaining, January 17 at American Airlines Center and February 28 at Staples Center.
–With the loss, Los Angeles fell to 0-2-1 against the Western Conference, 0-2-0 against the Central Division, 1-1 in two-goal games, 0-5-1 when their opponent scores first, 0-4-1 when trailing after one period, 0-6-0 when trailing after two periods and 0-4-0 when outshooting their opponent.
–The Kings have not led at any point during their five-game losing streak. Their last lead was at the end of the 3-0 win at Montreal on October 11.
–In his NHL debut, Sean Walker recorded one assist, an even rating, two shots on goal and six shot attempts in 13:05 of ice time.
–Los Angeles registered 70 shot attempts (33 on goal, 19 blocked, 18 missed). Dallas registered 43 shot attempts (23 on goal, 9 blocked, 11 missed). Drew Doughty, Alec Martinez, Jeff Carter and Blake Comeau tied with a game-high four shots on goal.
-The Kings won 34-of-62 faceoffs (55%). Adrian Kempe won 1-of-5, Michael Amadio won 1-of-3, Anze Kopitar won 16-of-28, Trevor Lewis won 0-of-1, Nate Thompson won 2-of-7, Tanner Pearson won 0-of-1 and Jeff Carter won 14-of-17.
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RealWear Closes Series B, Bringing Total Private Financing to Over $100M
VANCOUVER, Wash.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–$JPM #AR–RealWear, Inc., the leader in knowledge transfer and training platforms for the connected worker, announced today an $80 million Series B financing round. RealWear will use the funds, which are a combination of equity and debt, to continue market expansion and accelerate its platform development. RealWear teamed with JPMorgan Chase & Co. to architect an investment syndicate led by Teradyne, Inc. (TER), a global leader in industrial automation, and includes Bose Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures LLC (QCOM), Kopin Corporation (KOPN), and investors from JPMorgan’s (JPM) Private Bank.
From its inception, RealWear has focused on products that are specifically designed for the connected enterprise workforce to improve job satisfaction, productivity and, most importantly, safety. Its industrial hands-free wearable computers enhance, rather than diminish, a worker’s situational awareness while delivering vital information on demand in the harshest of environments.
RealWear achievements in the last 18 months include:
15,000+ HMT systems shipped;
1,300+ enterprise customers globally;
120+ workforce software applications.
“The augmented reality enterprise market has experienced a great deal of hype, but long-term, real-world solutions have been thin on the ground,” said Tom Mainelli, IDC Group VP of Devices and AR/VR. “RealWear smartly recognized the need for a no-nonsense head-mounted display and has delivered no-frills products that help frontline workers to get their jobs done more safely and efficiently.”
RealWear Cofounder and CEO, Andy Lowery, said RealWear used this same pragmatic philosophy in its fund-raising strategy. “Our seed investments came from friends, family, early customers, suppliers and business partners. Their faith carried us to our Series A, led by Columbia Ventures Corporation. CVC’s experience in heavy industry, one of our primary markets, made it a perfect match.”
Lowery continued: “It was critical that RealWear’s new investors be business and technology leaders. Teradyne, Bose Ventures, Qualcomm Ventures and Kopin fit that bill.”
“RealWear has created a powerful platform that aligns with our vision for a safer, more productive work environment powered by easy to use, rapid ROI automation solutions,” said Mark Jagiela, Teradyne CEO and President. “RealWear’s strategy to leverage the power of advanced technologies like Augmented Reality to assist workers across a wide range of tasks has many parallels with Teradyne’s industrial automation strategy and we look forward to helping RealWear continue their exciting growth.”
“Qualcomm Ventures invests in companies that drive innovation and impact across industries. RealWear has experienced strong growth and is well positioned to become a leading platform for connected workers everywhere,” said Richard Tapalaga, Director, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. and Investment Director, Qualcomm Ventures. “We are excited to invest in RealWear as we believe its unique platform will help drive value to the entire IoT ecosystem.”
RealWear’s Series A lead, CVC, and many early seed investors have taken this opportunity to increase their investments in Vancouver, Washington-based RealWear. Mr. Lowery concluded, “The continued support of our ecosystem is tremendously gratifying for the entire RealWear team.”
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About RealWear
RealWear® is a knowledge transfer platform company providing in-situ information and in-the-field training with software and hardware to help people improve safety and increase productivity at work. The company’s flagship product, the HMT-1®, is the best ruggedized head-mounted, wearable, Android-class tablet computer that frees a worker’s hands for dangerous jobs. With an ever-growing number of hands-free software solutions, enterprise customers gain instant knowledge with remote mentor, document navigation, industrial IoT visualization and digital workflow solutions. Global leaders in energy, manufacturing and automotive industries trust the HMT-1 and HMT-1Z1 to empower and connect their global workforce.
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Following the agreement between the Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (IUH) and the National Institute of Technology, Japan, in corporation with the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and being supported by Ministry of Industry and Trade, a team of 23 managers took a study tour...
MoU Signing Ceremony with Szent István University (SZIU) from Hungary 13-10-2017
On October 12, 2017, the signing ceremony of Memorandum of Understanding is held between the Institute of Biotechnology and Food Technology of Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (IUH) and the Faculty of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences of Szent István University (SZIU) from Hungary....
Potential Cooperation with Angelo State University 10-10-2017
On Oct 6th, 2017, Dr Lee Jae Won – Executive Director (Asian Relations) to the Provost & VPAA, representing Angelo State University (ASU), had a meeting with IUH’s President - Dr Nguyen Thien Tue. IUH’s participants attended the meeting were Assoc. Prof. Dr Bui Trung Thanh – Head of the Research...
IUH Students visit and exchange at Kyungwoon, Korea August, 2017 14-09-2017
Based on the Memorandum of Understanding between Industrial University of Ho Chi Minh City (IUH) and Kyungwoon University, Korea (KW), the 14-member delegation of students from Faculties of Mechanical Engineering, Electrical Engineering, IT, Business Administration, and the Institute...
The visit of the Chairman of Board Directors of NPO - Traditional Japanese Culture Manners Meister Association 16-08-2017
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Based on their own program of recovery, mentoring experience and commitment to “passing it on,” Bill and Sandy Fifield have spoken to over 200 groups, in speaking engagements and workshops. Their recent book, “Dig Deep in One Place: A Couple’s Journey to a Spiritual Life.” encompasses all phases of the spiritual disease of fear, which afflicts all of us. Their story is an epic journey of 45 years through addiction, alcoholism, and co-dependence to come to a life of happy, joyous freedom. Learn more at: www.digdeepinoneplace.com. This program was recorded on July 31, 2013. Sadly, Bill, who had been struggling with cancer, died the following week. Along with sadness, I feel privileged to have gotten to know Bill for this brief period before he left us. -BW
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Peter Strong, Ph. D., is a mindfulness therapist, meditation teacher and the author of The Path of Mindfulness Meditation. He treats anxiety, depression and all forms of emotional stress both in-person and online via Skype. In this podcast, Dr. Strong talks about mindfulness and how can it be applied to working with emotions. We’ll learn how mindfulness manifests in relationships and in transforming our experience of ourselves.
Depression is the Teacher; Sadness is the Healer
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Pathwork teaches the profound distinction between sadness and depression. (For this essay, we exclude clinical depression, which is another animal.)
Depression is a self-generated, stuck state. In depression there is no movement.
Depression includes the attitude, “this shouldn’t be,” which is incompatible with flow, with life. It’s a feeling that we’re alone in the universe. A feeling that there’s absolutely nothing I can do. It includes the notion that there’s something outside of me that can be blamed for my depression.
However, depression can be a powerful teacher. It alerts us to tap into our sadness, so that healing can begin.
Nothing external can harm our spirit. People who have enlightened us on this notion include Viktor Frankl, whose spirit was not adulterated by the holocaust, and Nelson Mandela, who endured unconscionable imprisonment for 27 years without losing an iota of grace.
Unlike depression, sadness is a highly enabling state. Sadness in the present is a trigger of childhood wounding. We can’t always name the wounds, because at an early age we didn’t have sufficient ways of processing the experience. Rather than vivid memories, what are stored are the feelings.
There are many painful realities in our current life to stir our sadness. When we get hurt, misunderstood, rejected, dismissed, when our longings are unfulfilled, when we become present to the painful conditions in the world,sometimes a current sadness triggers our “ancient” pain and we grieve both at the same time.
Healing comes from feeling the sadness and from re-experiencing childhood wounds. While we can’t necessarily recreate the childhood events, we can recreate the feelings. Rather than resist the sadness, we can drop into it. We can feel those feelings. We can map our current feelings to those childhood feelings. We can alternate from just totally immersing ourselves like a child, crying, screaming, punching pillows, kicking our feet, rocking, etc. to engaging our adult conscious ego, who can soothe our child. Our adult can help our child distinguish that what’s happening in the present is just a trigger. Our adult can remind us that we are whole and complete and ultimately in control – that our true self will still be there when everything else goes. And that by opening ourselves to sadness and vulnerability, we are ultimately making ourselves more available to life.
Oh break my heart,
Oh break my heart again…
So I can love even more.
—Rumi (adapted)
Depression is unidentified sadness gone underground. Said another way, it’s an unhealthy attitude to the way we respond to sadness.
There is such a warm, wonderful richness in feeling our sadness. And there is catharsis. Not only do we wind up feeling better in the present, we also begin to heal our child consciousness. That child sadness may never fully go away; but, if we continue to re-experience it in healthy ways, its power over us diminishes over time.
When the heart weeps for what it has lost,
the spirit rejoices for what it has found.
—Sufi Proverb
(Adapted with liberties from a lecture by Sue Van Doeren on October 3, 2013.)
In the winter of 1964, Nelson Mandela arrived on Robben Island where he would spend 18 of his 27 prison years. Confined to a small cell, the floor his bed, a bucket for a toilet, he was forced to do hard labor in a quarry. He was allowed one visitor a year for 30 minutes. He could write and receive one letter every six months. But Robben Island became the crucible which transformed him. Through his intelligence, charm and dignified defiance, Mandela eventually bent even the most brutal prison officials to his will, assumed leadership over his jailed comrades and became the master of his own prison. He emerged from it the mature leader who would fight and win the great political battles that would create a new democratic South Africa. (source)
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latest: MARKO KASSENAAR guest SPEAKER AT GTD SUMMIT 2019
On June 20th and 21st, Marko Kassenaar will act as special guest speaker at the GTD Summit in Theater Amsterdam.
During this international conference, Marko will portray Amsterdam in six different speeches as a haven for creative minds and freethinkers. He will put a special spotlight on five influential historic figures: Philosopher Baruch Spinoza, painter Rembrandt, feminist Aletta Jacobs, ´anti-smoking-magician´ Robert Jasper Grootveld and footballler Johan Cruijff.
Marko Kassenaar has been personally invited by David Allen, creator of the Getting Things Done methodology and central figure of this conference.
RECENT: MARKO KASSENAAR SPEAKER AT Rijksmuseum
On May 9th, 2019, Marko Kassenaar acted as guest speaker in the Rijksmuseum, focusing on the historic relationship between Europe and Korea. The speech took place during a pivate event for Samsung. Marko spoke about Hendrik Hamel, the ´Dutch discoverer´ of Korea, the VOC trading company and the role Dutch merchants played on the international stage, many of whom are depicted in Rembrandt´s ´Night Watch´.
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New edition ´kingdom by the sea´ in stores now
`Kingdom By The Sea`, the highly successful book on Dutch architectural heritage by author Mark Zegeling, has undergone a make-over! The upcoming edition contains new photo´s, a new design and a porcelain cover. The monuments treated in this book have been put in a chronological order and offer the reader an excellent view of 1000 years of typical Dutch architecture. Biographies of famous architects and remarkable stories about the buildings´ inhabitants complete this edition. As of Ocotober 5th., the book is available in a limited edition.
Marko Kassenaar acted as a contributing editor on the chapters on the birth house of Dutch aviation pioneer Anthony Fokker and the Hermitage Museum in Amsterdam. For more information on Marko's activities as a writer and editor, please click here.
The buildings in this book served as an inspiration for the Blue Delft replica's, given out by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines as gin bottles. Every year, a new bottle is put on the market, with this year already reaching number 99.
Go to the website 'Kingdom by the Sea' for more information on the book.
MUsicAL introductions at royal CONCERTGEBOUw amsterdam
Throughout the season 2018-2019, Marko Kassenaar presented musical introductions in the "On stage & Backstage" program,
a crash course in classical music, exclusively for secondary school students.
This program is a special co-operation between the Royal Concertgebouw and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra
and offers the pupils a behind-the-scenes look at this world-famous hall and orchestra.
Orchestra members tell about their life as a professional musician and top conductors are watched in rehearsal with the orchestra.
Click here for more infomation. On special occassions, these classes are also available in English. Please contact the Royal Concertgebouw for details.
HIGHLIGHTED - BOOK PRESENTATION IN THE DUTCH EMBASSY IN BERLIN
In June 2016, Marko Kassenaar presented ´Rijks, Masters of the Golden Age´ by Marcel Wanders at the Dutch Embassy in Berlin.
For this book, he wrote the essay ´Creativity is Bliss´, on the symbolism of the Rijksmuseum architecture.
"A new standard in tour guiding", was the opinion of Robert J. Hurst,
co-chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art, after one of Marko's tours in the Rijksmuseum.
Highly exclusive tours can be organized for high-end customers.
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Marko Kassenaar is an author, praised for his versatility. ´He handles the fountain pen and marker equally well, just as the ballpoint pen or the quill, completing each project wonderfully'.
(Mark Zegeling, ´Kingdom by the Sea´)
Marko wrote contributions for he latest edition of the highly successful ‘Kingdom by the Sea´, on the architectural history of The Netherlands, and
'Secrets of a Master Painter', the book accompanying the award-winning Dutch TV show on legendary painters. Both books were published in 2017.
For the spectacular book project
‘RIJKS, Masters of the Golden Age’, by designer Marcel Wanders, Marko Kassenaar wrote an article on the symbolism of the Rijksmuseum architecture. The book was published in 2016.
Marko Kassenaar gives musical introductions to students of secondary schools at the Royal Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Workshops for adults are also available. These programs are in Dutch, but can also be booked in other languages through the
Royal Concertgebouw.
By far the most popular presentation is `Fabulous Facts and Amazing Anecdotes´, a unique mixture of a lecture and a quiz, in which participants share their factual knowledge and anecdotes, hosted by Marko.
Interactive and educational: ideal for training sessions or outings for companies and groups.
Furthermore, Marko Kassenaar gives successful speeches for the corporate sector, in which he accentuates the similarities between art history and the world of business.
Very popular also are his speeches in which a specific company’s history is shown in a tailor-made presentation.
His clients are, amongst others,
ABN-AMRO, the Rijksmuseum, Diligent, McKinsey, Salesforce, PB Projects, Intertrust and various cultural institutions.
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ABOUT marko kassenaar
Marko Kassenaar is an author, speaker and musician. Combining these activities, he has a unique position in Amsterdam’s and The Netherlands’ art scene. He is the only specialist working for both the Royal Concertgebouw and the Rijksmuseum. In the latter, he regularly functions as a VIP host and speecher. Furthermore, he acts as an exclusive guide for high-end guests visiting The Netherlands.
Marko Kassenaar publishes on a wide variety of subjects in art and music history.
He co-operated on ‘RIJKS, Masters of the Golden Age’, the spectacular book project by designer Marcel Wanders, on the paintings of the Dutch Masters from the 17th century. He contributed to the latest edition of the highly successful ‘Kingdom by the Sea’, on five hundred years of Dutch architectural heritage, and ´Secrets of a Master Painter´, the book accompanying the awarded TV show on legendary painters.
Furthermore, Marko Kassenaar appears as an expert in various television programs. He took part in an acclaimed TV series on the Dutch Golden Age in 2012. He talked on religious art of the Renaissance in the nationwide televised Dutch National Bible Quiz in 2013. He also appeared in news items on the re-opening of the Rijksmuseum in 2013. In 2014 and 2015, interviews and short items were filmed for broadcasters from Japan, Russia, France and Sweden.
As a musician, Marko Kassenaar is mostly active as an arranger/composer. He adapted operas and musicals for the annual "Grachten Music Festival" in Amsterdam, the Nieuw Ensemble for contemporary music and various opera houses in Germany. Furthermore, he gives introductions to rehearsals of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and is co-developer of educational programs on specific subjects for the Royal Concertgebouw.
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Manitoba History, Number 4, 1982
This article was published originally in Manitoba History by the Manitoba Historical Society on the above date. We make it available here as a free, public service.
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In the four chronological chapters of this book, the authors arrange published materials on Canadian women in thirteen categories. For New France, British North America, Canada 1867-1917 and Post World War I Canada, we can discover what has been written about women under the topics of demographic and community studies, education, law, literature and the arts, marriage and the family, material history (which includes cooking and quilts), medicine, organisational and political involvement, religion, sexual morality and sex role images, leisure and work. Materials which do not fit the periodisation so neatly are included in the General Reference chapter, which also considers historiography, source inventories and other bibliographies. Few newspaper or popular magazine articles are included, but the authors present a generally comprehensive and serious collection. Each book or article is pithily described. True Daughters of the North therefore is an invaluable tool for all researchers, teachers, and students of women in Canadian history.
Its value as a research instrument is enhanced by a concise and attractive introduction describing the advantages of improving our understanding of women’s experience and women’s roles in the creation of the modern community. An understanding of women’s experience can add “a vital explicative dimension” to traditional histories which often “ignore the impact of broad trends at the local or family level.” Through the discovery and generation of vital statistics, in demographical studies, we can gain a better understanding of the entire society. We know already “the tremendous weight which the great majority of Canadians have traditionally attached to their intimate and personal lives.” Through an exploration of sexuality, in the study of prostitution, in a study of the roles which were considered appropriate for women in fur-trade society, and, for that matter in prime ministerial diaries, we can revise the implicit notion that sex was of little significance in Canada’s economic, social and political development. Because women have played so large a part in the inculcation of society’s values in its coming generations through their central role in child-rearing, we can also learn more of the personality types a community prefers: was initiative rewarded in childhood, or was dependence? And how were female qualities imparted to little girls while masculine characteristics were communicated to their brothers? The history of childhood as a distinctive youthful experience can be examined partly through a study of the mothers who shaped that experience.
Although prescriptive literature tended to confine women to the reproductive sphere, in child-bearing, child-rearing and homemaking, women were also engaged in productive work. Before industrialisation and the factory system dislocated the home from the work place, productive and reproductive work were integrated. The separation of the spheres of family and work brought hardship to the many families who could not afford to forego adult earning power, and this book contains much material on the subject of women’s work, its segregation, and its conditions.
The authors have rightly avoided the pitfalls of studying women in history through women worthies alone, or through a concentration on the hagiography of female institutions, or through an emphasis on the victimisation of women by men and patriarchal society. Instead, they have arranged the material in a way to allow future historians to document the independence and strength of women as well as their constrained options. Now that we have a reading list for the history of women in Canada. perhaps some brave person will dare to write the book.
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As our community ages, maintaining, enhancing and adding to our infrastructure, facilities and amenities is a must. The Montgomery Village Foundation Board of Directors is dedicated to keeping the Village a desirable, flourishing community in the Washington, D.C. metro area. Use the below links for information regarding current development and projects in and around Montgomery Village.
Apple Ridge Pool Renovation
With the pool season winding down and Apple Ridge Pool closed for the season, the pool and bathhouse renovations at Apple Ridge will soon be under way. Montgomery Village Foundation (MVF) staff has been draining the pool and moving out equipment, supplies and pool furniture to other locations in preparation for the renovation.
It is anticipated that the contractor will begin getting the site ready for demolition next week. The site preparation will include installing construction fencing around the perimeter of the pool and parking lot. During the renovation, the parking lot will not be accessible to the public, as it will be used for storing materials and as a construction entrance for dump trucks and other construction vehicles.
The tennis courts will still be open, but will only be accessible through the tennis court gate on the side of the courts closest to the Georgetown Hill Early School (GHES). All other gates will be locked. The basketball court will also only be accessible through the MVF greenspace between the tennis courts and the GHES property. The soccer field will be accessible through the MVF greenspace along the west and north sides of the pool (there is a pedestrian tunnel under Apple Ridge Road that leads from the MVF Office parking lots to the described MVF greenspace).
The pool and bathhouse renovation will take approximately 9 months, and the pool is scheduled to re-open for the 2017 pool season. The new “leisure” pool will feature a “lazy river” or current channel; an open body slide; a double family slide; water features including dump buckets and pipe falls; spray ground; beach entry; in-water sun-shelf lounging area; an underwater bench sitting area with cool water jets; a bridge to an island pool deck; and an ADA compliant access ramp. Additionally, the wading pool will feature a beach entry and water features suitable for younger pool-goers.
The bathhouse renovations will include a family bathroom; individual shower/changing stalls; new sinks, counters and plumbing fixtures; and new lighting. The pool and bathhouse will be fully ADA compliant and will have new handicap parking in front of the building.
Residents are reminded to remain out of the construction area while the renovation is taking place for safety reasons. The construction work will conform to Montgomery County noise ordinances.
Village Center Revitalization
Atlantic Realty Companies (ARC) purchased the Village Center in December 2015 and has been very busy planning for the future of the site. On April 21 and June 2, 2016 ARC met with the community to share plans and receive comment from residents. Since June 2, county planning staff have been working with ARC to revise the plan so that it keeps with the master plan, new zoning and sound planning and design principles.
On Wednesday, March 29, members of the Village Center team from Atlantic Realty Companies (ARC) showed off updates to their plans for the center to about 75 interested residents. ARC Partner and Executive Vice President Adam Schulman addressed the crowd with an update as to the progress so far.
S chulman noted that a sketch plan had been filed with the county, and the next step for ARC was a site plan, although they had made one substantial change to the sketch plan—the elimination of the apartment complex and parking garage in the rear of the property. The proposed 212 units would be replaced with a cluster of townhouses, bringing the total unit count on the property down from 299 to 115. Schulman said the decision was based on community feedback that the apartment building was too large for the site. A larger park area was also added.
To further accommodate the request for a lower total height, ARC plans to turn the current “Village Quarter” section of the center into flats-style apartments. Rather than constructing new buildings in this area, they are planning a new façade and gutting the interior, resulting in about 32 rental units.
Park and Landscape Architect Omar Syed described the park plans for the site. The open, passive recreation park will be bordered by tree-lined streets, near parking and the shops. All the trees are planned to be “limbed up,” creating visibility at eye-level through the space. One corner will feature a sail canopy and seating, with the opposite corner featuring a monument gathering area with seating. Planters and seating will surround the park with all four corners open for egress.
Schulman said ARC hopes to finish the project by spring 2020. They expect the Site Plan and Preliminary Plan to be approved in fall 2017, with construction to begin in winter 2018. Phase I of Retail Construction will be internal tenant moves and new pad sites; Phase II (winter 2019) will be the façade changes, new street and anchor stores. Residential flats are slated for winter 2018, and the townhouses and 2 over 2s are slated for spring 2019.
Several audience questions centered around traffic and parking concerns. ARC noted that the streets would be private, and parking would be a mix of the spaces provided and garages for the townhouses. Traffic flow would be improved by the additional cut-throughs of the roads, but because of the reduction in current retail and proposed changes, there would be no overall net change in traffic flow around the site.
It was also noted that residential units would be subject to covenants similar to other associations in Montgomery Village, and that both the developer and Montgomery Village Foundation (MVF) are working to make sure unit owners would become members of MVF.
The planning board approved the Village Center Sketch Plan on Thursday, Dec. 15, 2016. For more information, visit www.montgomeryplanning.org.
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MV Professional Center
When the Professional Center was built by the Kettler Brothers, the Declaration of Covenants attached to the property stated that once Kettler ceased to own the property, Montgomery Village Foundation (MVF) had certain rights and responsibilities, including amending the Declaration which permitted uses for the property. The original uses for the property were defined by Kettler to be “professional pharmacies, doctors, dentists, lawyers, accountants, engineers, chiropractors, osteopaths, opticians and related, supportive or similar type uses.”
Currently, the new CRT zoning established with the Montgomery Village Master Plan allows for a broad range of uses to the site. However, in order to market the site to potential developers, the owner, NorthStar, wants to add to the list of potential uses for the property beyond Kettler’s original designation; MVF would have to change the Declaration for this to happen. In keeping with the Vision 2030 Plan and the new Montgomery Village Master Plan—which both encourage reinvestment in several commercial sites—the MVF Board of Directors set out to establish appropriate uses for the site, with cooperation from Whetstone Homes Corporation, whose property abuts the Professional Center.
The Zoning Ordinance list of uses was the basis for determining what could potentially work on the site. NorthStar’s attorney, Tim Dugan, along with MVF Executive Vice President Dave Humpton and MVF General Counsel Christopher Hitchens narrowed the list into a use table for further examination.
Humpton and Dugan attended the September 29 Whetstone Homes Corporation (WHC) meeting to discuss the need to update the Declaration and received direction from WHC as to what other uses would be tolerable that close to their borders. Prior to the WHC board meeting, Whetstone held a community meeting to discuss the use table.
Of the 58 items on the original use table, MVF staff eliminated several more based on the WHC board’s recommendation, including: community gardens; categories of household living; personal living quarters; major impact home health practitioners; hotels and charitable, philanthropic institutions. In total, 26 uses were eliminated from the use table.
In addition to specific parameters in the CRT zone (design standards, including public amenities), the county’s site plan regulatory requirements would protect the neighboring Whetstone residences. County planners have taken into account buffers, storm water management, landscaping, lighting, height and massing of buildings, rooftop structures (HVAC equipment), dumpster enclosures, etc. Within the Declaration, MVF retains architectural review, which again provides a level of control to help plan and build a project that is in harmony with the adjoining residential community. WHC’s concerns about compatibility and impacts such as increased traffic, schools, too much density, etc. can be addressed during the multi-step regulatory process which encourages public participation.
Along with the use table, other modifications to the zoning have been negotiated with the owner and will be incorporated into the final Declaration. These include: no drive thru (including gas service pumps or gas stations); no single retail store exceeding 30,000 sq. ft.; no pawn shops; commercial and residential “floor area ratio” (FAR) restrictions; and a maximum height of 75 feet.
The Declaration also allows MVF to retain the right to oversee maintenance of the property and requires the owner to reimburse MVF for any maintenance costs. Additionally, a new section was added that establishes a basis for future residential units to be annexed into MVF or for units to be brought in via a contract, if the property were to be developed with residential units.
At present, there are no plans on the table for changing the Professional Center, however NorthStar is looking to market the site to the appropriate buyers, given the agreed use table. As with any potential development, future concepts and other plans are subject to county processes and multiple opportunities for public and resident input.
Third Supplemental and Amended and Restated Declaration and Grant of Easements, Covenants and Restrictions for the Montgomery Village Professional Center
In preparation for the Gaithersburg East Master Plan, later separated in to the Montgomery Village Master Plan, which Montgomery County originally set to work on in 2014, the MVF Board of Directors appointed the Vision 2030 Steering Committee to work with a professional land use consultant to: 1) develop a general vision statement that would articulate the community’s vision and would influence the county’s master plan update; and 2) hold a number of charrettes to get residents’ and others’ input on how to change, improve or enhance various areas of Montgomery Village. A series of three, two-day community charrettes were held, and various land use options were developed for each site. Feedback during the charrette process demonstrated that the community recognizes the need for change and that there needs to be an infusion of new high quality development, both residential and commercial, as well as updated public facilities in order for Montgomery Village to maintain a sense of community and serenity in an ever urbanizing county.
Questions such as “How do we make things more attractive, fresh and vibrant?” came up over and over, as residents and professional planners shared ideas and in some cases, drawings for various areas of the Village. “How do we strengthen our sense of community? How do we increase property values? What kinds of housing or commercial facilities do we need?” The committee identified four sites in the Village that will be ripe for redevelopment in the next 20 years. Concept plans were developed for each location and then presented to the MVF Board of Directors, the Montgomery County Council and the Montgomery County Planning Board.
Vision 2030 Report
MVGC Development/Bloom Montgomery Village
Monument Realty advises that from Wednesday, Jan. 25 through Wednesday, Feb. 8, crews will be on the site with a drill rig conducting soil borings throughout the site for soil testing. The crews will also have vehicles, including 4 wheelers, on the site at the same time. These crews will have ID’s with them at all times and the 6th District Police will be alerted of this activity.
Monument Realty also is pleased to report that the Preliminary Plan of Subdivision for Bloom Montgomery Village has been accepted by the Montgomery County Planning Board for consideration. A copy of the Notice of Application can be viewed at the Bloom website, www.BloomInMV.com. All of the technical drawings associated with this application can be viewed on the Montgomery County Planning website at http://eplans.montgomeryplanning.org/daiclinks/pdoxlinks.aspx?apno=120170150.
The application will undergo a technical review by Montgomery County Planning staff and other county agencies. Monument Realty will also be submitting a Site Plan application to the county in February. We anticipate that both the Preliminary Plan and Site Plan will be considered by the planning board at a public hearing in late spring or early summer 2017. For more information on the Bloom entitlement process, please see #6 on our list of FAQs on the Bloom website provided above.
The next community meeting will be held for information on the Site Plan application. This meeting has been scheduled for Monday, Feb. 6 at 6:30 p.m. at the Whetstone Community Center, 19140 Brooke Grove Court.
Bloom Concept Plan
Preliminary Plan Application
Central Park DRAFT Site Plan
For more information on Bloom, visit www.bloominmv.com/home.
MV Master Plan
On February 9, the Montgomery County Council unanimously adopted the Montgomery Village Master Plan. Over the last two years, the Montgomery Village Foundation (MVF) Board of Directors, MVF staff, Village residents, county planners and business stakeholders in the Village, including Monument Realty, worked to provide feedback and comments on the proposed plan.
County Council President Nancy Floreen thanked all that participated, noting that MVF and the Vision 2030 Plan helped lay the groundwork for this totally new Master Plan.
The comprehensive re-zoning of all properties in Montgomery Village continues to be processed by the county council. The Planning Board has recommended all the zoning recommendations in the recently adopted Montgomery Village Master Plan and the overlay zone. MVF Board President Pete Young presented testimony on behalf of the Board at a public hearing during the county council’s meeting on June 14, endorsing the zoning proposed in the master plan, including the overlay zone.
The testimony on Sectional Map Amendment (SMA-H-112).
For more information or to view the Montgomery Village Master Plan, visit www.montgomeryplanning.org/community/montgomery_village.
Lake Whetstone Toe Drain Inspection
Montgomery Village Avenue is the dam for Lake Whetstone. It has an internal drainage system to collect and filter seepage, which occurs in all dams. Modern earth embankment dams, like Lake Whetstone Dam, are designed with internal drainage features to collect seepage passing through the dam. Uncontrolled or unfiltered seepage creates dam instability and concern for dam health and function. Therefore, assurance of the proper performance of the dam internal seepage collection system, including its toe drain, is critical for the stability of the dam.
Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) conducts routine inspections to Lake Whetstone and its dam. Recent inspection has found Lake Whetstone’s toe drain pipe has corrosion. DEP has retained Gannett Fleming, Inc. to evaluate Lake Whetstone Dam internal seepage collection system. This evaluation is the first phase of the toe drain repair project.
The evaluation work includes:
drilling of soil borings
installation of monitoring instrumentation in the dam and
pressure washing and video inspection of the internal metal drain pipes
Drilling on the crest and slopes of the Lake Whetstone Dam will start soon, pending on approval of the Maryland Department of the Environment.
Field work will began on Monday, Feb.1 (weather permitting) and will occur from 7 a.m. to around 5 p.m. on weekdays. Work will be completed in about four weeks. One lane of the Montgomery Village Avenue will be closed during drilling equipment unloading and setup time on the crest of the dam, to provide sufficient space and a safe working environment. Lane closure will last three to five days during the working period and won’t be full work hours of each day (not during hours of high traffic volume). The Montgomery County Department of Transportation (DOT) approved the Maintenance of Traffic (MOT) plan designed by Gannett Fleming, Inc. to control traffic in the road during the lane closure.s
Solar Panel Installation
Among the MVF Board of Directors recent strategic goals is reducing energy costs and carbon footprint through green initiatives. This is not only environmentally friendly, but helps free up resources for other important initiatives. The Architectural Review Board regularly approves the use of solar panels on homes, and reviews new, efficient exterior home products for use in the community. The Committee on the Environment (COE) looks at ways to reduce our impact on the environment, while maintaining a balance with wildlife.
As such, a sub-committee of the COE was formed to study the effectiveness of adding solar panels to MVF facilities. This group spent 10 months researching information on the feasibility of installing solar panels on various building owned by MVF. As a result of their hard work, the Committee on the Environment and the MVF Board decided to install solar panels on Lake Marion Community Center (LMCC), with the possibility of adding other facilities in the near future.
About 300 solar panels were installed on the roof of LMCC, sending collected solar energy through nine inverters, helping to power LMCC. This project was approved by the MVF Board in 2014 and after permitting and installation, was ready for Pepco to turn on in mid-July. Through a Purchase Power Agreement with Paradise, MVF is projected to save $250,000 in energy costs over the next 25 years.
A display kiosk inside LMCC monitors real-time power usage, savings and other comparisons. The monitor shows items such as how much energy was produced on a daily basis, how much energy has been used and other useful information including the weather. The system produces a portion of the electricity used at LMCC. In addition, to further reduce energy costs, the community center will be receiving all new LED lighting. After monitoring the success of this facility, MVF plans to duplicate it at other facilities, building commitment to the future of Montgomery Village.
Webb Tract Development
Montgomery County Multi‐Agency Service Park & PSTA
Midcounty Highway Extended (M-83)
The following information is provided by the TAME Coalition regarding removing M-83 from the Montgomery County Highway Master Plan.
The Case for Cancelling the Midcounty Highway Extended (M-83)
The Environmental & Economic Case for Removing Midcounty Highway Extended (M-83)
Montgomery County Supplemental Report
Craig Rice Presentation 9-28-16
Commercial Architectural Review
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First Look At Katee Sackhoff In Netflix Sci-Fi Series ‘Another Life’
by Wendy Jensen - at July 11, 2019
Sackhoff stars as Commander Niko Breckinridge, aka the best name ever created for anything, who heads into space when a mysterious alien artifact lands on Earth.
Past year we reported on Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sachoff signing on for the new sci-fi series Another Life, and just yesterday (July 9) the poster and footage were released.
Sackhoff stars in the new series, created by Aaron Martin (Slasher, Saving Hope), as astronaut Niko Breckinridge, the leader of a crew from Earth who's in search of answers after the discovery of a odd alien artifact. Judging by this teaser, Niko and her crew will go very far to keep their homestead safe from these alien visitors.
With Battlestar Galactica, Katee Sackhoff flew into the hearts of sci-fi fans everywhere as one of our favorite spacebound badasses.
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Joining Sackhoff on the new series are Selma Blair, Tyler Hoechlin, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson, and Elizabeth Ludlow.
Another Life will premiere on Netflix on July 25, 2019, with a 10 episode season.
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Friday Finals: Express win OT thriller over Aviators
Friday Box Scores
Cape Cod 4 @ East Coast 1 - Cape Cod had a two-goal lead after two periods and cruised the rest of the way en route to a 4-1 win over East Coast. Cape Cod's Clayton Pierce was a brick wall in net, as he came up with 26 saves and let only one puck past him. Cape Cod was led by Chuck Costello, who finished with one goal and one assist. Costello scored 11:01 into the second period to make the score 2-0 Cape Cod. Aaron Deady picked up the assist. Cape Cod forced East Coast goalie Aidan Critchlow to work between the pipes, taking 38 shots. Cape Cod also got a goal from Maxime Dordet as well. In addition, Cape Cod received assists from James Brosnan, Anthony Giannelli, Dan Moore, Chris ODonnell, and Eric Szeker, who contributed one each. East Coast was led by Mason Smith, who scored the team's only goal. Smith scored 19:20 into the second period to make the score 3-1 Cape Cod. Jon Macdonald assisted on the tally.
Skylands 4 @ Jersey Shore 5 - Jersey Shore, which led by three goals at one point, survived a comeback attempt by Skylands and clinched a 5-4 victory. Jersey Shore led by three goals at one point and ended with the victory. The largest advantage in the game came when Jersey Shore's Jared Karas scored at 14:11 in the first period to put Jersey Shore up 4-1. Karas had a great game for Jersey Shore, netting two goals. Jersey Shore additionally got points from Michael Fary, who also finished with one goal and one assist and John Rubin, who also racked up one goal and one assist. Jersey Shore also got a goal from Christian Cooley as well. Other players who recorded assists for Jersey Shore were Alexander Tan, who had two and Scott Hansen, Drew Brown, Marcus McCall, Frederic Ampleman, Freddie Schaljo, and Dylan Plsek, who each chipped in one. Skylands was helped by Hunter Ledwith, who had one goal and one assist. Ledwith scored on the power play 18:10 into the first period to make the score 4-3 Jersey Shore. Cory Decosta picked up the assist. Skylands also got points from Dan Demarco, who also grabbed one goal and one assist and Decosta, who also registered one goal and one assist. Tim Vant also scored for Skylands. In addition, Skylands received assists from Cole Skelly, Mike King, and Joshua Mead, who contributed one each. Scott Albertoni made 17 saves for Jersey Shore on 21 shots. Skylands' Ryan Bartholomew stopped 49 shots out of the 54 that he faced.
New York 5 @ Lockport 6 (OT) - Lockport's Brendan McFall scored 3:15 into overtime to beat New York, 6-5 (OT). Lockport overcame a three-goal deficit to capture the victory. Lockport trailed 4-1 after a power play goal by New York's Corey Rees at 8:59 in the second period. Lockport tied things up at 5-5 on a goal by Ryan Logar at 18:40 in the third period. Lockport got the win on the strength of a great game by Christopher Gasiewicz, who had two goals and three assists. Gasiewicz scored the first of his two goals at 6:24 into the first period to make the score 1-1. Logar assisted on the tally. Gasiewicz's next tally made the score 4-3 New York with 13:28 left in the third period. Gibson Stuart picked up the assist. Lockport forced New York goalie Stephen Mundinger to work between the pipes, taking 36 shots. Lockport also got points from Logar, who also grabbed three goals and one assist. More assists for Lockport came via Mark Friol and Devin Kasperek, who contributed one each. New York kept Lockport's goalie busy throughout the game, and Tim Schiess made 43 saves on 48 shots. New York was helped by Robert Kalata, who registered two goals. Kalata scored the first of his two goals at 11:30 into the first period to make the score 3-1 New York. Rees assisted on the tally. Kalata's next tally made the score 5-4 New York with 11:27 left in the third period. Backstrom picked up the assist. New York additionally got points from Rees, who also finished with one goal and one assist and Phillip Garcia, who also had one goal and one assist. Eric Hewitt also scored for New York. Other players who recorded assists for New York were Ricky Regala, who had three and Jimmy Warrick and Augie Onorato, who each chipped in two.
L/A Fighting Spirit 2 @ New England 4 - In a game where neither team could get a cushion, New England escaped with a 4-2 victory over Lewiston/Auburn. No lead was more than two goals during the contest, and the winning goal was scored by Kyle Weiss at 11:32 of the third period. Weiss had two goals to lead New England to victory. New England also got points from Jake Latham, who also racked up one goal and one assist. New England also got a goal from Steve Crocker as well. More assists for New England came via Brian Glover, who had three and Tim Paige, Ian McNamara, Brendan Miller, and Ryan Gauvin, who contributed one each. Lewiston/Auburn was helped by Brett Bittner, who grabbed one goal and one assist. Bittner scored 5:58 into the first period to make the score 1-1. David Fish assisted on the tally. Lewiston/Auburn additionally got points from Mike Heffernan, who also registered one goal and one assist. Dominic Lamanno made 23 saves for New England on 25 shots. Lewiston/Auburn's Claes Endre stopped 33 shots out of the 36 that he faced.
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200000 students shut out as teachers' pay row rumbles on
by Constance Griffith
in Money
— Nov 9, 2016
Nearly 60% of secondary schools will remain closed today as members of the Association of Secondary Teachers in Ireland withdraw from the supervision of students during breaktimes.
As a result of the action, ASTI members will not be available to carry out essential supervision duties before school starts in the morning, during break times, at lunch and at the end of the school day, the chairperson said.
The ASTI said it will continue to maintain contacts with the Department of Education and Skills tomorrow and in the coming days with a view to resolving the issues. "It is not acceptable", he said.
Noelle Moran from the ASTI says the government is trying to bully teachers into signing up to the Landsdowne Road agreement.
It's feared over 400 secondary schools - including some in Carlow and Kilkenny - will close indefinitely from Monday, if a row over pay isn't resolved this weekend.
Mr Bruton said he was bewildered by the teachers' approach.
If a school manages to stay open, ASTI members will be paid, even without doing supervision and substitution.
Diver 'discovers lost nuclear bomb'
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He said if other public servants took the same stance as the Asti, it would cost the state 700 million euro (£623 million) or 14,000 jobs.
ASTI teachers voted earlier this year to stop working the hours 33 Croke Park hours.
School management bodies have urged both sides to come to a resolution for the sake of the thousands of students and families who will be affected. "We must get our schools open and our students back to their normal school routines as quickly as possible", he said.
Secondary school teachers are going on strike in a dispute over pay and conditions.
"Mine is the only school in Carrick in Suir that is closed as all the teachers in it are with the ASTI".
He said: "It is really about trying to bully us and our members into an agreement that they rejected".
Minister Richard Bruton says their refusal to join the Lansdowne Road pay deal is hurting newly qualified staff.
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Horford, Crowder to Celtics-Nuggets game
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Blue Jackets rout NHL-leading Canadiens 10-0
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Harry Kane scores on injury return to clinch Spurs draw at Arsenal
Substitutes: Aaron Ramsey (for Coquelin, 64) 7, Olivier Giroud (for Iwobi, 70) 6, Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain (for Walcott 70) 7. The 20-year-old will be hoping that this is just a minor blip in his season and he can improve from here on in.
Early voting sets record numbers in Butler, Warren counties
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Another Godolphin candidate, Qewy, ran on well to take fourth place ahead of the Chris Waller trained Who Shot The Barman. He was so fresh and he travelled like a star the whole way, I was never off the bridle".
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MAN B&W 48/60B Engine
The current basic family of MAN B&W's large medium- speed diesel engines consists of four sizes L 58/64, L/V 48/60, L 40/54 and L/V 32/40, launched between 1985 and 1995. This engine family covers an output range from 2,880 kW (6L 32/40) to 18,900 kW (18V 48/60). Within the last few years, this portfolio has been supplemented by the V 40/50, the smaller engine sizes L 16/24 and L 27/38, and, finally, the new L 21/31 (2002/03). All engines are fully heavy fuel oil compatible and have been optimized for both high fuel economy and lowest exhaust gas emissions.
In terms erf sold power, the 48/60 engine is second in the list of MAN B&W's bestsellers. Since its market launch in 1989 to January 31, 2002, a total of 245 engines of this size, representing 3.7 million hp, has been sold, of which 162 engines were for marine applications The 48/60 has evolved with the needs of the market in its 13 years. Service experience and improvement in component design are just two reasons driving change.
In addition, progress is made in better understanding injection, combustion and emission control. Both theoretical and experimental development work result in greater insights into the many processes involved, allow safe prediction of component loadings, safety levels and even lifetimes. With all this experience and knowledge at hand, it is possible today to upgrade an existing proven engine in regards of output, fuel consumption, emissions, and component safety, whilst retaining proven engine sub-groups.
For these reasons MAN B&W decided to retain the main dimensions, bore and stroke, of the 48/60 and with it many proven engine subgroups, while modifying and changing a variety of other key engine components.
The new engine is named 48/60B. with a rating of 1,200 kW per cylinder at 500 and 514 rpm. respectively. This is equal to an increase of 14 percent over the current nominal output of the 48/60 engine.
The 48/60 B also is cleaner and leaner, featuring: • Increased efficiency (fuel savings, lower carbon dioxide emission) • Less smoke and nitrogen oxides • Reduction in engine width and. consequently, in center-to-center distance in order to reduce the gear size • Improved operational and component reliability • Increased ease of maintenance • Reduction in weight-to-power ratio • Reduction of manufacturing costs by applying improved design features and a lower number of engine components and parts.
Achieving Better Fuel Economy With a bore of 480 mm and a stroke of 600 mm (bore-to-stroke ratio = 1.25), the 48/60B engine obviously is not a typical long-stroke engine with its options to reduce fuel consumption rates. However, even with the same bore-to-stroke ratio, the bundle of in-engine measures effected gave the same result — at a lower cost. A package of engine-internal measures was worked out, initially confirmed to be feasible by simulation calculations and finally tested step by step on a 12V 48/60B protopype engine in order to find the best solution between several variables, i.e. an acceptable compromise between fuel consumption, component loading, and NOx and smoke emissions.
To achieve this target, the following principal correlations, which are partly in conflict with each other, had to be considered and the work process was modified accordingly: 1. Adoption of a "slight" Miller process to lower combustion temperature levels, and, with them, NOx emission.
2. Increase in injection intensity for lower soot production and therefore lower smoke emissions, especially at partload. Unfortunately, this measure has a negative effect on NOx emission. In order to neutralise the increase in NOx emission, the injection can be retarded, although this leads to a higher fuel con-sumption rate and increased particle emission.
3. To neutralize the fuel consumption disadvantage resulting from step (2), it is necessary to take advantage of the firing pressure potential of the engine.
Therefore a higher compression ratio has been chosen for the 48/60B.
4. Use of the considerably increased efficiency level of the newly-designed MAN B&W TCA-type turbocharger so that the resultant fuel savings from steps (1) to (3) exceeded the fuel losses involved in (1) to (3).
By optimizing the combustion space geometry (with unchanged engine stroke), which was achieved by avoiding dead volumes, edges and ribs in the combustion side of the cylinder cover, the compression ratio was increased from e = 14.4 (48/60) to e = 15.3 (48/60B). A possible further increase in e would most likely result in increased smoke emission at low loads. A conventional medium-speed diesel engine with a bore-to-stroke ratio of 1.25 and a rather high compression ratio of, for instance e = 17, would produce a pronounced dark plume — even at higher engine loads - which would be visible from far away.
The slightly increased compression ratio of the 48/60B has another beneficial effect: it improves the ignition behaviour of lowest-quality heavy fuel oils. The 48/60B can there-fore safely operate with HFO up to a viscosity of 700 cSt/50°C and runs on fuels up to, and including, the CIMAC H55/K55 specifications.
Cylinder Head Design The firing pressure of the 48/60B was increased to a maximum of 200 bar. This, in c o n - n e c t i o n with other measures such as modified injection (the injection pressure was in-creased from 1,300 bar for the 48/60 to 1,600 bar) and a f u r t h e r improved gas exchange process, resulted in a process very close to the ideal constant-pressure combustion. The higher firing pressure was possible without risking the operational safety of the engine: to have the same safety margins as the 48/60 in spite of a higher mechanical loading, better materials were used and/or com ponents strengthened.
An engine component considerably contributing to make this engine setting easier is the newly designed TCA axialflow turbocharger from MAN B&W Diesel in Augsburg, Ger-many. Compared with the previous turbocharger generation (NA/S-type series), TCA turbochargers show increased airflow rates, higher compressor pressure ratios and.
simultaneously, significantly higher turbocharger efficiencies across the whole load range. The most obvious benefits from this are greater flexibility in matching the turbo-charger to the engine, a higher surge margin and improvements in the engine's scavenging process. The TCA turbocharger can be easily optimised for higher charge-air pressures at part load for best fuel con- sumption, for lower pollutant emissions and for a quick load response.
The minimum fuel consumption rate, at 85 percent engine load, and in constant speed application, is 173 g/kWh, which is 7 g/kWh better than that of the 48/60 Vee-type engine at the same absolute output. Simultaneously, the measured smoke Bosch index, from full load down to about 20 percent engine load, is below 0.3 — which means invisible soot-produced exhaust.
With such favorable smoke emission figures, the new 48/60B is a genuine Invisible Smoke (IS-type) engine, a result that has been achieved only with inbuilt emission-reduction technologies, omitting additional hardware such as an auxiliary air blower.
Engine design Since bore and stroke of the 48/60B remained unchanged, the robust and stiff single-part engine block of the current 48/60-type engine, cast of grey iron or nodular iron, could be used with sufficient operational and safety reserves.
The main features of the basic engine structure are the same for all MAN B&W medium-speed diesel engines: cylinder jackets separated from each other and mounted on the frame, and an un-derslung crankshaft. The engine cooling water is only supplied to these jackets, leaving the engine frame itself completely free from cooling water.
Therefore the risk of lube oil contamination by water is avoided.
Other design features include: Changed turbocharger/charge-air cooler mounting to decrease engine width of all 48/60B Vee-type engines.
The center-to-center distance between two V48/60B-type engines was decreased by about 1 m.The total height of the engines is the same as with the current 48/60 models.
• Re-designed cylinder head without valve cages and a new valve train • Modified valve timing • New injection system with high injection intensity (as described above) • Improved piston with a steel crown and a skirt cast of nodular iron or a steel skirt • Improved material for the connecting rod. and increased shaft diameter • New combustion chamber.
The new engine also features a simplified exhaust-gas system with only one single exhaust manifold and a single (TCA) turbocharger for Vee-version engines, improving access to engine components, reducing the number of component variants, and contributing to a reduction in engine mass. For instance, the dry weight of the 14.4 MW 12V 48/60B engine is 181 tons compared with 193 tons for the current 12V 48/60 that is rated at only 12.6 MW.
Another example for new inventions with the 48/60B is the patented rocker arm concept with the modified rocker arm. The axial bearing of the rocker arm was replaced by two spherically shaped bearings. With this solution the number of moving parts is reduced from three to two. Accordingly, the valve train assembly is less complicated than in the current 48/60. Rocker arm housing and charge-air pipe section made of aluminium form one common casing. This allows easy dismantling, reduced maintenance work for the rocker arms and the rocker casing. To meet the higher mechanical load, special attention was paid to the conrod bearing. Its big-end design was improved by: modified bearing shell concavity and optimized bearing clearance.
Circle 190 on Reader Service C a rd w w w . m a r i t i m e r e p o r t e r i n f o . c om The preceding was excerpted from a paper by Horst W. Koehler, MAN B& W Diesel
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January 2011, Vol. 10, Issue 1
It's a new year and with 2011 comes a brand new issue of Truckin'!
1. Waiting on Eastman by Paul McGuire
I knew Eastman was a dealer. He knew that I knew, which meant that he also knew the cardinal rule: no dealing inside the bar -- especially the bathrooms and in front of the bar...More
2. Scores by Gerald C. Cruz
"What's the craziest thing that's ever happened in your cab dude?" they'll wonder, or some variation thereof. And that's all fine and good as I don't mind indulging a curious mind from time to time. But you know what nobody ever asks me? They never ask what my favorite ride was...More
3. Creation Of Magely Green by May B. Yesno
The volume of her original utterances was such that the muted conversations of the minions seated on the floor of the hall ceased almost immediately and thereby allowing all of the two hundred assembled to follow the near musical confrontation of the Bass-like, prolong and drawn out, Belch and the slightly higher pitched Fart, as they played out their fanfare and slowly died away...More
4. Conflicted Pain by Dan England
when a bunch of large rocks swept under my feet, threatened to swallow me under their granite and bashed into me, I fought for my life, flipping through the air to stop myself and walking 17 hours after I was hurt to get help from the hospital... More
5. Lost Angle Lease by Ernest
rom the sparkling ocean, to the Dr. Seuss-like palm trees, to the not too distant mountains, the scenery was stunning. Sure, it might be chock full of self centered douchebags, but there was no denying the physical beauty of the place. Just then I looked to my right and saw the iconic Capitol Records building in the distance. Far out, man, far out... More
From the Editor's Laptop
2011 kicks off with a diverse January issue that includes the debut of veteran cabbie and journalist Gerald C. Cruz. I'm honored that Truckin' gets to publish his epic story involving one of four favorite topics: strippers. After a brief hiatus, May B. Yesno, returned with a gaseous tale. Dan England shared another story about living life on the edge as a mountain climber. We also have a Lebowski Fest-inspired contribution from Ernest. And lastly, I penned a bit of junkie fiction about a trustafarian dealer named Eastman.
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Waiting on Eastman
Paul McGuire © 2011
I knew Eastman was a dealer. He knew that I knew, which meant that he also knew the cardinal rule: no dealing inside the bar -- especially the bathrooms and in front of the bar. Maybe Eastman skirted the rule when I wasn't working, but in the three years I tended bar at the Lodge, he never crossed the line. He met his clients at the bodega down the street and conducted deals on one of the adjoining blocks. He hung out in bar when one of his clients was running late, or if he happened to arrive early. He never met them at the bar. Always down the street. I never asked where he lived, but assumed it was within a five or six block radius.
Eastman didn't have a particular drink per se, sometimes he ordered bottled beer, sometimes he'd nurse a mug of Budweiser draft, and occasionally he's drink a vodka and juice concoction. Eastman always left a $2 tip per drink. About one-third of the time, he'd just ask for a club soda or diet coke, and he'd still tip $2. Drug dealers were good tippers. Cops? Horrible tippers.
Peggy with the Lisp was one of three Peggys who worked at the Lodge (one server and two bartenders). The server had seniority and known as Peggy, just plain old Peggy. The two bartenders were called Peggy Red and Peggy With the Lisp. Of course, we never called them that to their face, but whenever my co-workers and regulars engaged in banter, we used the three variations of Peggy for clarification purposes. Yes, it could be confusing to an outsider because neither bartenders had a lisp, nor were redheads, while Peggy, the server, at one time was a natural redhead but she constantly changed her hair different colors and styles. I have no idea how Peggy Red got her name, but the owner's wife told me a story about the origins of Peggy with a Lisp that I have yet to determine is the truth or just bar folklore. Supposedly a year before she got a job at the Lodge, Peggy with a Lisp worked in Times Squareat one of those campy-themed chain restaurants with a faux neighborhood bar up front. Peggy with a Lisp was the size of a ballerina. She's tiny and graceful behind the bar, which is why I always liked working with her because she never got in my way. As the story goes, one hot Friday afternoon in August, a couple of Puerto Rican secretaries were getting their drinky drinky on at Happy Hour before they rode the subway back to Queens. They were sloshed on Margaritas and giving Peggy with a Lisp a hard time the entire shift. At one point, one of them complained that there wasn't enough tequila in her drink and called her a "skinny lil white bitch." Peggy with a Lisp had her back to them and turned around as the secretary threw her margarita at Peggy with a Lisp, but her nimble self easily dodged the drink and in one swoop, she jumped across the bar and cold-cocked the secretary, who instantly fell off the stool. Peggy with a Lisp packed a powerful punch and fucked up the secretary's jaw so badly, that the secretary spoke with a lisp the rest of her life.
You see, I told you it was hard to believe, but that's supposedly how Peggy with a Lisp got her moniker.
Anyway, sorry for this odd tangent, but Peggy with a Lisp was the one who told me that Eastman was a trust fund kid, and an heir to the Eastman-Kodak fortune. Why he was a dealer, no one at the Lodge knew for sure. My hunch was that his lifestyle was so extravagant or his habit was so bad that his monthly checks were not enough to cover his vice, so he sold on the side just to cover the deficit. My other theories were that 1) he was bored to death, or 2) he lacked intimacy and human interaction, and we all know that known drug fiends will always call you to "hang out", and 3) he wanted to rebel against his uber-rich family, and what would be a better fuck you to his uppercrust parents than dealing cocaine and speed?
On his good days, Eastman was fun to chat with -- very intelligent, funny stories, and obviously well-read. But sometimes, Eastman showed up to the bar spaced out of his tits and floating ten feet off the ground. On those days, it was tough to talk to him because he incoherently babbled.
"Prozac," he whispered.
"What about it?"
"You're not on it? Are you?" he leaned in closer to ask.
"Never been on an anti-depressant. Whiskey is the only happy pill that I need," I proudly boasted.
"Well, that's good. Because the people who are on it are fucking crazy. Stay away from them. They can snap at any moment. They are ticking time bombs. That stuff is like crack."
"Like crack? Prozac? Are people on that these days? I thought there were better happy pills, like that Wellbutrin. I think that's what Peggy Red is on."
"Keep an eye out for her. You never know when she'll just lose her shit and start stabbing customers. Every day people do crazy shit in the City and most of them flipped out because they didn't get their daily dose of Prozac or Wellbutrin, or they build up such a huge tolerance that they can't function. That's when the hallucinations starts happening, and the voices in the head won't ever go away. Instead of cops busting potheads and drunks, they should be going after everyone on Prozac, setting up surveillance on shrinks, who are their suppliers. They need to compile names of shrinks and add them to a crime database. Anytime you have mad scientists mixing chemicals together to create a new wonder drug, you're in deep trouble, because people have different reactions. You see all of those happy shiny people in commercials for drug companies, and yeah, maybe the drug improves the life of some people, but then they get hooked and become major addicts. You never see commercials warning you about the dangers of getting hooked on Prozac -- like the housewife who fell into a zombie-like trance and hacked up the family pet with a butcher knife, then carefully wrapped the pieces of Fluffy the Cat's carcass in aluminum foil, tossed the feline remains in the back of the freezer, and told the kids that the cat snuck out of the house and ran away."
"Dude, that's gross."
"Which is why they pay off the mainstream media to keep those stories out of the news. No one wants to hear that their neighbors, or the guy sitting int he cubicle next to you can explode into a fit of rage at any moment. I don't blame them. After all, we're all addicts, and a byproduct of our consumer society that does what it can to numb their senses from the constant bombardment of propaganda to get a job with corporate overlords so you can afford to buy stuff. We really need to blame the shrinks. Instead of actually teaching their customers how--"
"You mean patients?"
"No, I mean customers. When you buy drugs, you're a customer. When you see someone who wants to assist with your health, especially mental health, then they are a patient. But anyone who goes to see a shrink is a customer. OK, where was I before you interrupted?"
"Something about shrinks and customers?"
"Oh yeah, so instead of shrinks sitting down and showing these people how to dealing with life's problems, they do the opposite, they barely listen, scribble down the name of a drug and get them out of the office, so they can see another customer and repeat the process. Shrinks are quick to pawn off scripts. Problem solvers in pill form. Shrinks are the real drug dealers and complicit to hundreds and thousands of senseless murderers in our society. The kid up in Harlem hustling a few bucks for rock gets picked up by the cops and tossed into the system, never to be heard from again. But the shrink who sold the most happy pills got rewarded with a palatial Park Avenue apartment, a house in the country, and weekend getaways to St. Moritz."
All of the talk about Prozac and the evil pharmaceutical corporations was boring only because I heard his rant a dozens times already. Luckily, a blonde squeezed herself up to the bar a few spots down and I rushed to take her order.
"What'll have?"
"Um...shoot...I don't know," she asked. "Ummm....what do you suggest?"
"Anything but Prozac."
Paul McGuire is the author of Lost Vegas. Originally from New York City, he currently resides in Los Angeles.
The Photo in this short story was also taken by Paul McGuire.
Posted by Pauly at 1/01/2011 01:11:00 AM 1 comment:
By Gerald C. Cruz © 2011
Usually the first thing that happens when I tell someone that I drive a cab in Las Vegas is that they ask me to tell them a story.
"What's the craziest thing that's ever happened in your cab dude?" they'll wonder, or some variation thereof. And that's all fine and good as I don't mind indulging a curious mind from time to time. But you know what nobody ever asks me? They never ask what my favorite ride was.
"What's your best ride ever, your all time favorite?"
Well the answer to that question is simple. That would be the one that made me the most money.
I first loaded Ian and Rob at the front door at Bellagio. It was early evening when the two Brits entered my cab and the one gentlemen wearing a nice looking white suit, Ian, asked me, "Say mate what's the best strip club in Las Vegas? We were thinking about going to Crazy Horse Too, is that one any good?"
This question is music to my ears as I'm quite certain dollar signs where flashing in my eyes. Two seconds into the ride and I was already making money. Strip clubs in Las Vegas have been paying cab drivers to bring them business for decades and the Crazy Horse was no exception. In fact their payout at the time was $60 a head, believe it or not, so at this point any attempts by me to talk these guys into anything other than going to the Crazy Horse would take dumb to a new level. In reality, since most clubs pay about the same, whichever club he asked me about would have most likely been my "favorite" club.
"Absolutely," I said, "Crazy Horse has been my favorite club for a while."
"Perfect, take us there will you?"
"Sure thing," I said as we exited the Bellagio driveway onto Las Vegas Blvd. heading north. "You guys staying out of trouble tonight?"
"Fuck no are you kidding? We're looking for trouble. You wouldn't know how to find any would you?"
“I’ve been known to locate some trouble from time to time. What‘d you have in mind?”
“Splendid Mate, absolutely splendid. Well we’re gonna go get our rocks at the booby clubs for a bit and then we were thinking about getting some whores after. You wouldn’t happen to know a good way to go about that now would you?”
“Of course. This is my city my friend.”
“Well how does it work?”
“Well that depends on what you have in mind exactly,” I say, “there’s a few different ways to go about it. Some good, others not so much.”
“So how do you do it when you need some? We’ll probably just do what you do.”
“Well I stopped paying for sex a long time ago my friend, but I’m sure we can work something out for you. Did you want to go incall somewhere or do you want the girls to come to your room?”
“Fuck we don’t know. We talked to a couple of girls last night around the casino bar and it was just rubbish,” Ian said.
“Yeah I’ll bet. Don’t talk to the street walkers man, you’re asking for it. If you wanna do it and do it right you guys need to go to the legal brothels outside of town. It’s perfectly legal and perfectly safe. That’s the best way if you ask me,” I said, failing to mention that the legal brothels pay me a very handsome sum for bringing them business as well.
“I heard about that. Those are really far though aren’t they?”
“Less than an hour we can be there, we can stop and pick up a sixer for the road.”
“No no that won’t do. What else is there?”
“Well let me ask you, do you like Asian girls?”
“I love Asians, how about you Robert, do you like Asian girls?”
“I love hot girls,” the other man said.
“Well there we go,” I said, “I know a place here in town I can take you, beautiful Korean girls, great service, all your hopes and dreams come true.”
“It’s not legal here though is it?” Ian said.
“Well that wasn’t going to stop you last night was it?” I shot back.
“That’s a good point I suppose. Well how do we know we can trust you?”
“You don’t, and you won’t until you try. Understand that it’s in my best interest for you guys to have a good time. This way, every time you come back to Vegas I’ll be your first call. I’d rather do right by you and have a lifelong customer you know? Besides, I seem like I’m alright for a Yankee don’t I?”
“For a Yank he’s not too bad,” Rob said.
“Well there you go,” I said. “Tell you what, you guys go into the strip club and have a good time for a couple of hours, then call me when you’re done and I’ll take you over to that place. We’ll go in and check the girls out and if you don’t like what you see we’ll leave. How’s that sound?”
“And how much are my hopes and dreams costing these days?”
“I haven’t been over there in some time, but I can probably get you in for $300 or so,” I lied.
“$300? That’s cheap compared to what those girls were talking about last night,” Ian said.
“You know me now remember? I’ll give you my card and you just call me when you’re done alright?”
“That sounds good mate, what’s your name?”
“They call me Jerry,” I replied, “and who are you guys?”
“I’m Ian and this is my good fellow Rob,” Ian said.
“Ian and Rob ey? Well you boys have a good time tonight ok?”
Our conversation culminated just as we were pulling into the Crazy Horse Too. I handed Ian my card and reminded them to call me later.
“Fuck on mate why don’t you just come in with us,” Ian said. “Yeah come in with us and have some beers.”
“I don’t think that such a good idea Ian. I’m working,” I said.
“That’s never stopped me before.”
“That’s actually true,” Rob interrupted, “drinking doesn’t stop Ian from doing anything.”
“Thank you Rob for informing us of that,” Ian replied.
“You guys are funny,” I said “why don’t we just settle up for now and you guys go have your fun ok?”
“Very well Jerry. Very well,” Ian said.
I informed the two gentleman of the fare total of just over ten dollars and Ian reached into both of his pant pockets simultaneously. Together he pulled out the largest stacks of cash that I had ever seen. After a quick calculation, it appeared that he had at least 3 large stacks of $100 bills. Three stacks of high society. At least. Very quickly Ian took one of the hundreds and handed it to me and before I could even contemplate putting his change together, he and Rob made a bee line for the front door. “Thanks a lot,” I said to no one in particular. It was obvious they were on something.
I waited for a few minutes, just long enough for Ian and Rob to have had their ID’s checked, pay their cover and actually enter the club. I opened the door to Crazy Horse and the very attractive cashier rightly assumed that I was a cabbie. After I showed her my TA permit she handed me a little slip to sign then laid out a $100 bill a 10 and two 5’s. I signed the slip and grabbed my bounty, not forgetting to pull the ten and slip it into her tip jar. I walked back outside to my cab $220 dollars richer than I was fifteen minutes ago sitting at the Bellagio. I wondered if I would ever hear from them again.
Before I could even get my cab door unlocked, I noticed the front door at the Crazy Horse opened and who walks out is none other than Ian and Rob. Their arms were draped around each other and without even looking in my direction, the same spot where I had just dropped them off minutes ago, they began walking towards the line of cabs waiting to pick up passengers. Are you fucking kidding me I thought? They totally forgot about me.
“YO IAN WHAT THE FUCK YOU DOING?” I yelled in their direction. They turned and Rob said, “oh fuck there he is,” and with that they turned around and began walking back towards my cab. “What are you guys doing?” I asked again as they got closer. “We don’t like this place man is there another strip club that we can try?”
I could have questioned them as to how could they know if it was any good or not, after all they had just walked in a second ago. I could have asked them what it was they didn’t like about it or do something else to expand on the problem in some way shape or form but all of that would be pointless. A long time ago a cabbie mentor of mine said something that I didn’t understand at the time, but which has turned into crucial advice; don’t think for your passengers, that costs extra he used to say. I didn’t understand what he meant at the time but once situations like this started popping up it became clear that my focus should not be on the Crazy Horse Too’s potential woes but rather on my own income. The only thing I needed to focus on at this point is what different strip club is going to pay me the most to bring them this business, and how fast can I get there.
“Absolutely,” was my one word reply. “Get in”
I recommended that we go to Scores and they instantly went for it. I could have had them there is just a few minutes, and collected another $120 just like that. But I was starting to like these guys, so I decided to take a minute and try and help them out.
“Say Ian, we’re friends right? Can I ask you a question?”
“We’re friends for life mate don’t you forget it.”
“Thanks buddy. As your friend I gotta ask you, what in the fuck are you doing going out on the town with that much fucking cash in your pocket? You really think that’s a good idea?”
“Thank you sir,” Robert interjected, “I was trying to tell the idiot this very thing just a bit ago.”
Ian seemed to be more responsive to my inquiry. “What you don’t think that’s a good idea? I made good money in my life and if I want to throw it around I can can’t I?”
“Of course you can, it’s not about that mate. If you were in the casino gambling and in need of the bankroll I wouldn’t fault you for that, but going out to strip clubs and flashing around that kind of cash in there like you did for me is only going to result in problems.”
“I’ve been to Vegas before, it’s safe here isn’t it? What could happen?”
“It’s very safe here,” I said, “ but you flash that kind of cash in that club and it’s not going to be about the girls wanting to give you good service and enjoying their time with you, it’s going to be a feeding frenzy with all of them doing whatever is necessary to separate you from your money. It’s just not the best way to go about things if you want my honest opinion. In all likelihood, nothing bad would happen, but why take the risk if you don’t have to. I know it’s none of my business, but what do you have in your pocket like 30 grand or some shit?”
“I left the room tonight with 40 thousand.”
“Jesus H.” I said. “That’s not necessary to take that much to a strip club, especially with just the two of you. If you weren’t a total jackass you could have just as much fun with 10 as you could with 40. Seriously. But listen man, you do want you want to, of course. I’m just telling you would I would tell my brother.”
“I appreciate that. But what the fuck do we do?”
“I know what to do,” I said. “You’re staying at the Bellagio?”
“That’s right,” Ian said.
“Okay, no problem, here’s what we’ll do, let’s just stop by the Bellagio real quick and you run up to your room and leave some of that in your safe and Rob and I will just wait for you in the cab, then I’ll take you to the other, better, strip club. How’s that sound?”
“I told you this guy was alright for a Yank,” Rob said.
Ian seemed to see the light of day as I laid it out for him and ten minutes later we were back at the Bellagio. I said specifically for Rob to wait with me because there was little doubt that if the two of them ran to the room together that I would never see or hear from them again. I wasn’t about to let that happen. While we waited, Rob tried, rather convincingly, to get me to park the cab and go into the club with them when we got there. It was starting to sound like fun. I wish I wasn’t fucking working right now. A short while later Ian returned and after he got back in the cab he immediately said, “You’re coming in the club with us aren’t you mate?”
“Man you guys are persistent aren’t you?”
“I don’t know Ian I tried telling him too,” Rob said. “Maybe he’s homosexual, are you homosexual Jerry?”
“Um no.”
“Well he says he isn’t homosexual Ian so I couldn’t say what the problem is.”
“Alright fuckers,” I interrupted, “I’ll go in the and hang out with you guys alright? I can’t drink though for real.”
“Splendid, what do you like mate, Budweiser?”
“Yeah whatever,” I said knowing any attempts to clear the confusion would have been futile.
When we pulled into the Scores driveway there were quite of few other cars dropping off and I could see a small line, about 15 people, waiting to get in the club. While dropping the two of them off I explained to them that I had to go park the cab and that I would come in and find them when I was done. They didn’t like this very much, thinking I was going to ditch them I believe, but I finally convinced them that I would find them inide. Ian pulled out another hundred and handed it to me as they bolted for the door. “Thanks a lot,” I said to no one in particular.
As I pulled around the driveway I noticed Ian and Rob walk right past the line of people waiting to get in the club and try and enter the club through the exit door. Before Ian could even make an attempt to open the door, one of the bouncers steps in front of him and attempts to show him where the line is. Ian pulls out a hundred and handed it to the guy and the next thing you knew the two of them were being escorted in through the exit door and disappeared into the club. If nothing else it was clear that Ian had done Vegas before. In any other situation, I would have just valet’d my car and went in with them, but I was working and the important thing not to forget is that I have another $120 that I needed to collect before I meet them inside.
I parked my cab but not before I got on my two-way and explained to my dispatcher that I was going to be out of the cab for a while. I think I told them my wife was sick. Shortly thereafter I was autographing another small sheet of paper, throwing $10 into a tip jar again and dumping a new $120 into my pocket. To this point I had only known Ian and Rob for about an hour but I had already netted over $400. At the front door I was able to find the same bouncer that assisted Ian and Rob and after explaining that I was with them he quickly agreed to have me escorted to their table as well. He handed me off to one of the hosts inside and before I knew it we walked straight to the back of the club to the elevator. You know it’s a pimp strip club when there’s an elevator. Once upstairs in the VIP section, we made a left into another room which was big enough to be it’s own strip club. We walked past the DJ booth and there, nestled in a gigantic plush purple booth overlooking the main level, were Ian and Rob. A number of strippers draped alongside of them and a round of empty glasses on the table. They were both ecstatic when I arrived.
The strippers already knew the deal it appeared and it was nothing less than a feeding frenzy. Two of them jockeyed for position on my lap and a half a dozen other girls filled out the booth. The cocktail waitress arrived and Ian promptly ordered a couple of bottles for the table, whatever the girls wanted and made a special note to tell the waitress that I wanted a Budweiser. I don’t know what it was with the Budweiser but I could only reason that Ian had concluded that I’m an American therefore I must drink Budweiser.
“I can’t drink Ian I’m on the clock,” I said.
“Don’t listen to a word he says,” Ian shouted at the waitress, “This is my table and I’m ordering the drinks and my fellow there wishes to have Budweiser, if you refuse to bring him a Budweiser well then I’ll… I’ll. What will I do Rob?”
“Do about what?” Rob said.
“What will I do if the waitress doesn’t bring our fellow here a Budweiser?”
“You’d find another waitress I recon.”
“Yes that’s right! If you refuse to bring our mate a Budweiser you will be fired from this table. No longer will you be witnessing for our table, I‘ll see to it personally.”
“How about I bring him two Budweiser’s?” the waitress shot back, at which the table roared and Ian quickly ran up to the waitress and kissed her on her cheek.
The waitress walked away but not before I stopped her and asked her to bring me a bottled water. In time multiple club staff members filled our table with ice buckets, bottles of vodka and rum, mixers, glasses, and two Budweiser’s and a bottled water for me. The next two hours were a blur. I managed to refrain from drinking any alcohol, even though the waitress continually brought me Budweiser’s at Ian’s request. He also insisted the numerous untouched bottles of Budweiser remained on the table as they brought more. Ian and Rob appeared to be having an incredible time and Ian was gracious enough to buy me dances from whatever girls I wanted. I was very careful with that however. Falling out of their graces was the last thing I wanted to do.
Ian motioned for me to take a seat by him and he finally confirmed my suspicions.
“Say I’ve got some coke do you want some?” Ian asked.
“Uh I think I’m ok mate, I’m working. Thanks though.” I replied.
“Do you think it would be alright if we did some?”
“What, right here? Are you kidding?”
“Yeah why not?”
“What, you just want to line up some rails right here on the table?”
“I was thinking on some tits actually.”
“I love your style Ian, I really do, but that’s not a good idea. I promise you,” I said.
“So what can we do?”
“This is Vegas Ian, there’s always something that can be done, particularly when you have tens of thousands of dollars in your pocket,” I said.
“I don’t think I have that much anymore.”
“Well good thing you didn’t bring in 40 with you because you would have blown through that too. Listen man, there is a way, just go into the bathroom and slip one of those crisp hundreds of yours to the bathroom attendant on the way in and go into a stall and do your thing.”
“You think that will work?”
“I know it, just don’t be in there all night and you should be fine,” I said.
“You’re the greatest mate, and hey one more thing, you see that blond up on the stage there,” Ian said pointing to an incredibly large chested dancer.
“Yeah what about her?”
“Make sure she’s here when we get back would you?” Ian said and threw another hundred at me. “Rob, may I borrow you for a briefing?” Ian said and the two of them hurried off to the men’s room. I stood up and began walking over to the stage to snatch the dancer for Ian. On the way I found a $5 bill and put the $100 Ian gave me in my pocket. There’s no way I was giving this bitch a hundred just for coming over to the table knowing a fiver would do the trick. I walked up to the railing and waited for her to come over to me.
“I don’t have any money for you sweety,” I said, “but I will give you a tip- you seen the three of us sitting at that booth over there?“ She nodded. “When you’re done here you should find my friend in the white suit, there’s a few hundred for you over there at least,” I said and handed her the $5. She responded by grabbing the back of my head and buried my face in her tits.
I’d had my fill for a bit and needed to catch up on a few things, so after the party animals returned safely to the booth I went outside to catch up on a few phone calls. The first call I made was to the house to make sure things were good to go and if the location had changed. Nothing had changed and upon request I informed the madam that we would be charging the gents $400. The actual price to get laid is $150 but the best way for me to get paid is to tell the madam what was to be charged in advance so the girls could be advised and everyone could just act like $400 was the regular price. Whatever amount I sold the customers on above the $150 would be my take. As far as Ian and Rob were concerned, I wouldn’t be making anything off of the transaction and I can keep on being the awesome guy who’s taking care of them. If it came out that I was making considerably more money than the girl and the house combined it’s hard to say how that would be received, but I’d venture most would no longer feel too good about my “generosity”. I did care for the two boys, I wanted them to have a good time and I may have even saved Ian $20,000, but at the same time I’m running a business here and now is the time to maximize profits. Even then, I’m sure I could have gotten $500 out of them no problem.
On my way back into the club I found the same bouncer from before and I asked him to get on his radio and locate Tony T. for me. Tony T. is the VIP Manager for Scores and has been my close friend since grade school. I wanted to say hi as well as let him know that I brought him some business. The bouncer told me that he’d be out soon and after Tony came out, dressed in his usual slick suit, I told him about my night and what was going on.
“Oh you brought those guys in?” Tony asked.
“Yeah, they’re probably 2 grand at the bar already.”
“Say do you have a second to come upstairs and introduce yourself? I’m sure they’d appreciate it, make me look cool in the process?”
“Yeah I’ve got a minute right now let‘s go.”
“Tony, there’s one other thing,” I said grabbing his arm.
“They’re doing blow in your bathroom. I told them what to do but if anything happens tell everybody to be cool and I’ll get um out of here.”
We walked back through the club to the elevator and when we returned to the table the big chested blond seemed to be giving Ian the ride of his life. Tony did his professional bit and threw in some nice words about me and this was perfect because Ian and Rob could go on thinking that I’m the guy that knows everyone.
A short while later I informed the boys that it was about time to wrap things up at the strip club if we wanted to get to the whorehouse before it closed. Of course it wasn’t that as much as 5am my deadline for returning the cab. They didn’t even flinch when I told them it was going to $400 instead of the $300 I mentioned earlier. I probably should have told them 5.
The best underground whorehouse I knew about, and there undoubtedly was some good ones that I didn’t, was a Korean establishment located just south of Chinatown. Simply it’s located in the middle of a neighborhood in a house surrounded by, presumably, law abiding citizens. Parking the cab in the driveway of this place isn’t a good idea for obvious reasons and the best solution is to just park in Chinatown and hike in. Ian and Rob had no complaints about this, as I had yet to steer them wrong. They even promised to keep it down during our trek.
A short while later I rang the doorbell of a brown and white single story 4 bedroom abode and looked up in the area of the hidden security camera. The door crept open with no one standing behind it and the three of us walked in, the door closed behind us revealing the house mom. We exchanged pleasantries and she directed the girls to line up in the living room.
7 or 8 beautiful women emerged. There were about 6 Korean girls, all skinny, young and hot, a couple of which had big fake tits. There was a curvy latino chick and a very hot black girl with big tits. I remember when I first starting hearing about this place, people had said how hot the girls were but I never believed it. When my friend brought me over for the first time to meet the house mom and see the girls my jaw fucking dropped. All this for $150 what the fuck? A girl that looked like these could easily grab $500 for an hour on the strip. I went back later that night and got laid.
Ian and Rob were very impressed with the girls as well which meant a big score for me. Then Ian threw the curveball.
“Which one are you getting?” he asked me.
“Oh man I can’t, $400 is too rich for my blood.”
“Fuck on I wouldn’t do that to you. I’ve brought you this far haven’t I?”
“I suppose you have, yes” I said.
“You’ve brought me this far also Ian,” Rob said.
Ian looked at me. “Are you sure?” I said.
“Yes yes of course,” he said handing me 4 crisp hundred dollar bills like they were disease ridden. “We wouldn’t have made it here without you.”
“Thanks a lot,” I said, “you guys choose first though.”
Choosing is actually not the male dominated fantasy that one might imagine. You’d think that having 8 hot girls in bikinis all lined up ready to suck and fuck you would be emasculating. But in reality most men, myself included, are overly worried about hurting the other seven’s feelings. You’re choosing one, but you’re telling seven others that they‘re gross. That’s the general reaction anyway. But in reality the girls are used to it and are very professional about it. It’s bad for business not to be. Of all the times I’ve been in these places, and the legal brothels too, I have never seen any girl react negatively to not being chosen.
Rob promptly chose the black girl and she walked up and grabbed his dick in his trousers and off they went into a bedroom. Ian chose one of the Korean girls with big tits and as they walked away the girl turned and looked at me. “Sa Bek” I said, 400 in Korean. She nodded in approval and they soon disappeared into a different bedroom. It was my turn to choose but I didn’t right away. Instead I took a seat on the couch in the living room and the remaining girls in the line-up scattered and went back to whatever they were doing before the bell rang. A few minutes passed and in that time both of Ian and Rob’s girls had returned to the kitchen to fork over all but their $100 dollars to the house mom, at which point the house mom called my name from the kitchen and I went to collect my $500. I thought very briefly about pocketing the whole $400 that Ian gave me to get laid and just tell them that I got laid too. But I was really horny by now and the last thing I wanted to do was slight Ian like that, at least, that was what rational I used to convince myself to get laid. I went back to the living room and found the cute Korean girl that I liked and reached my hand out to her. Her eyes lit up and before I knew it this beautiful creature was all over me before we even got to the bedroom.
Once inside I reached in my pocket and handed the girl $150 and then separately another $50. “Tip for you.” I said. “Thank you so much,” she said with great surprise. Tipping they say, is to insure proper service, and nowhere is that idea more true than in a brothel.
We stood alongside the bed and this super hot Korean girl rubbed her body all over mine as she slowly took off my clothes. By the time she got my underwear off, I was standing at attention. “Ooh a healthy boy,” she giggled. What can I say, I had one of those- just been in the strip club for 4 hours boners.
She instructed me to lay face down on the bed, which isn’t the easiest or most comfortable thing to try with a raging hard on but I managed. I made attempts at cock pushups while she gentle massaged my entire backside with a combination of her hands and her boobs. It felt amazing. 15 minutes later she turned me over and wasted no time in rolling a rubber over my dick and throwing her mouth on it. Yes indeed this girl was a pro and I didn’t want it to stop, but I was in for a half-n-half. “Doggy?” I said tapping the top of her head. She quickly bounced up and before I knew it she was on all fours on the bed ass in the air, begging me to take her. Hopes and dreams.
Naturally, I didn’t last nearly as long as I should have but it was a damn good time. She left the room for a moment and I laid down and relaxed on the bed. What a night. My girl returned with a few hot towels and proceeded to give me a thorough cleaning before standing me up and helping me put my clothes back on, making sure to give my dick a peck before tucking him into my underwear. By the time my clothes were back on I was hard again. “You want again?” she said. What’d I tell you? Unfortunately after looking at the time I was shocked to see that I was already an hour late getting the cab back to the yard. I knew the day driver was going to be pissed but there is a way to take care of that. I gave my girl another $20 and she gave me a big hug and kiss before leading me back out to the living room.
Ian and Rob were both sitting on the couch when I returned both jeering at my accomplishment. “What now?” Ian asked. “Now we call it a night. I take you home and I have to return the cab,” I replied. “Let’s do this again tomorrow shall we?” Ian said. “Fuck yeah man you guys are like my favorite customers ever. Thanks so much for showing me such a good time tonight.”
The three of us walked back out of the neighborhood to the parked cab in Chinatown and ten minutes later we were back at the Bellagio. The two shared the stories of their conquests along the way. Once we arrived I was strangely relieved when Ian didn’t attempt to give me any more money. He had done enough. Ian and Rob skipped away into the casino but not before promising to call me the next night for round two. I couldn’t wait. After dropping them off I raced to the pumps to gas up and then back to the yard where I found the day driver extremely pissed that I was well over an hour late with his cab. He had no more issues after I offered my apologies and handed him $50 for his lost time. I walked into the now empty drivers room and emptied my pockets to tally my take from my greatest cabbie adventure ever.
In the end Ian and Rob’s generosity netted me lap dances, all the alcohol I couldn’t drink, a hot piece of ass, over a thousand dollars in my pocket and one hell of a good time. A dream vacation from the normal grind and bustle. However, it was destined to be a single night for the ages. I was not surprised the following evening when I never heard from them, or for that matter, since. Maybe they got too coked up and lost my card. Maybe Ian lost all of his money at the tables. Maybe they just forgot. We’ll never know. But none of that bothers me because they owe me nothing and anytime somebody asks me what my all time favorite ride is... "that's easy" I"d say. I would even have to think about it.
Gerald C. Cruz is a veteran cab driver and independent journalist from Las Vegas, NV.
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Creation Of Magely Green
By May B. Yesno © 2011
Certain things remain a staple in human life. Other things seem to be weeded out. One of the things weeded out and frowned upon in society are bad table manners. In my mixed world of mundane and magical the least desirable things may be dealt with – if the law’s governing man and magic are known and applied, correctly.
The Kingdom of Drew encompasses the entire of the peninsula of Drew. Drew as a kingdom is ruled by the Waxburn’s. The Waxburn’s came to power following the Kingdom War which ravaged the Southern Continent of Appleburn some five hundred years prior to the events of which I speak.
The occasion was a State Dinner given by the then current Ruler of Drew, one Rexis Rexis Drew. The King was an imposing man, both in physical being and of the mind, towering over other men. The Dinner was being held in honor of the Ambassador from South of Sour, and the signing of the Treaty allowing Drew access to the ports of Sour for trade and “mutual defense.”
As Principal Mage of the Kingdom, I was accorded a place at the tables and was seated just to the left of the Court Mage of the Ambassador from South of Sour. I found the visiting Mage an engaging woman and that impression lasted into the meal, when the third course arrived however, that impression was dealt a blow of reality. The incident, when it occurred, was ill timed, coming as it did immediately during a pause in the serious conversation between the principals at the tables head.
The visiting Mage expelled bodily gases; both as a Belch and as a Fart. Seemingly not content with one of each, the visiting Mage repeated, in rapid succession, three more of each.
Due to the positioning of the royal tables, the noises escaping the unfortunate Mage were reflected from the wall immediately behind her into the cavernous room, then across, there to echo back and forth ceiling to floor, wall to wall. The volume of her original utterances was such that the muted conversations of the minions seated on the floor of the hall ceased almost immediately and thereby allowing all of the two hundred assembled to follow the near musical confrontation of the Bass-like, prolong and drawn out, Belch and the slightly higher pitched Fart, as they played out their fanfare and slowly died away. The absolute silence by the floor tables during the performance was astonishing to me, I being used to the under tones of muted table conversations from that area.
My King slowly turned his attention from the Ambassador to face in my direction and once found, fixed me with a “look,” and equally as slowly raised an eyebrow. I have often wished I knew how he did that eyebrow trick. I’ve practiced it for hours but have failed the effect. I’ve attempted my arcane arts to it, and still I’ve failed. I’ve concluded it is a thing native and exclusive to the King as I’ve never seen anyone other than he successfully employ it.
His point, however, was well taken, as such a breech of protocol and good manners would, indeed, fall directly upon the Mage to cure or eliminate. Without thinking much of the effort, I wiggled my fingers and cast shield around the visiting Mage, the affect immediately terminated the beginnings of the fifth such rendition of sound, sealing the Mage from the general population, not however, from view. She remained red faced in full view of all, performing as she started, with persistence and volume. Or so one must surmise, as her body twitches would led one to believe, my shield erection having prevented the sounds and odors escaping to bother her neighbors – or the room at large.
There are certain properties of magic; certain laws which pertain to its use and by erecting the barrier around the Mage I’d violated, seriously dented if not violated them. By placing the barrier about the Mage, another magic user, I placed her within a container only I could undo. There was no means by which she could escape the confinement and there was no way now to rid the dinning area of the offensive odors or noised which would be the result of my opening the shield wall. That I could not do under the gaze and expectations of my King.
I hastily informed the Table Matron that the physical removal of the Mage would be necessary and she, the Table Matron, turned her attention to the various guard corporals in attendance, assembling a squad to carry the Mage away, she being of ample proportions.
The time element, while short, did allow me leisure to observe, with some fascination I must admit, the effect of her escaping gases, in concentration, upon her physical remnants. I was not sure, at first blush (please excuse the pun), what I was observing. However, watching a bit longer it was obvious that the garments the Mage was wearing were, indeed, turning green. Quickly; turning green, from pale green, deepening to a Hunter Green and finally began to deteriorate and fall from her body.
Simultaneously her hair, that crowning glory she so obviously prided herself upon performed in like manner. The exception here being the hair, as it fell in response to gravity, dissipated and vanished from sight before completing the journey to the floor.
As the unfortunate lady lost the last remain stitch of clothing and hair, it could be seen the person within my shield was not in reality, a female. She was an it. That is to say, the person within was a eunuch. Though such determination was troubled by the excess of flesh the body was wearing.
When the fact became obviously visible, the Ambassador of South of Sour raised his voice in alarm, proclaiming the captive Mage no person of his acquaintance or citizen of his country.
I looked to my King, in light of this information, and my King grinned. “You have, Principal Mage;” he said, “a problem, as I do not recognize this person as a citizen of this realm either, and wish, errs, him removed.”
The corporal having arrived with his detail, I directed him to take the visiting Mage to an isolated area some miles removed from the Keep. The area selected was hilly and cut with ravines, being used mainly by Shepherds. When my party arrived in the area I selected the crest of a hill and told the corporal to take the wagon and detail back to the keep.
Once they had gone, I addressed the visiting Mage: “You know do you not, what is going to happen when I release the shield?”
I received a nod of acknowledgment from the visiting Mage indicating his understanding. I then retired a large number of yards up wind of that location and released the spell binding the shield. I was later informed that two mules of the slow moving corporal’s detail died of falling rock and a fair number of sheep tended by Keep personnel died in the resulting explosion and gas releases which leveled the hill top.
I was pleased to inform the King, at a somewhat later date that an area some acres in extent had been created and was usable for parade ground or practicing maneuvers. He smiled his smile and informed me he knew.
He had, he said, caused the area to be known as Magely Green.
And thus it is to this day.
May B. Yesno is a writer from Fresno, CA.
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Conflicted Fun
By Dan England © 2011
I was asking myself what the last day of my life would be like.
I wondered Saturday morning if that day would be the day.
I never thought about death before I had kids when I went mountain climbing. I don't think that's because I never considered the possibility. I think that's because there was no real consequence if it happened.
Even after I got married, I figured Kate could find another guy. She was young, beautiful and without issues. Those women are rare. She'd be fine.
I valued my life. I wasn't cavalier about it in the least. Ten years ago, when a bunch of large rocks swept under my feet, threatened to swallow me under their granite and bashed into me, I fought for my life, flipping through the air to stop myself and walking 17 hours after I was hurt to get help from the hospital. When, four years later, I slipped and rolled toward a ledge, I desperately looked for a rock to wrap my leg around and found it.
But I knew, deep down, that if I did indeed die, I'd die doing something I loved and that it was my choice to put myself in danger to do it.
Thing is, these days, when I prepare to do something like Saturday's Little Pawnee-Pawnee traverse, I know I'm no longer making a choice for myself but for my family.
And I still don't know if it's fair.
The day looked to be another glorious one in the mountains. At least that's what weather.com said. I saw something completely different.
I saw a sullen sky that spit droplets of water on my climbing partner's windshield as she swept down the highway. Hmm. Lighting is always the biggest concern, and days like the one the clouds were predicting rarely produced lighting. But on a route like the one were planning to tackle, the rain is almost as bad because it soaks the rock, and wet rock is slick rock. If it was raining when we got to the trail, the hike would be over before it started.
But as we got higher, the sky got clearer, and by the time we reached the trailhead and parked, the sun and blue sky were pushing us to go on. In fact it looked like exactly the kind of day you need to do a long, dangerous traverse like the one that faced us.
Rules, like the one I discussed above (1. Never climb a tough route in the rain) helps salve my guilt over doing something dangerous when I've got twin 3 year-old girls, a 5-year-old boy and a haggard wife, but only some. It helps because you can convince yourself you're being smart, and when most climbers die when they're not being smart. Climbers die when they go off the route, don't stick with their plans, push their luck with the weather, forget to bring the right equipment or make a thousand other fairly easy mistakes that seem small and yet can turn really bad too quickly. It's happened this year. It happens every year.
In fact, it's easy to convince a guilty mind that EVERY death is because of some error that, of course, you would never make. But believe that and you're lying to yourself in the way addicts lie to themselves about just needing one last hit, or one last fling, or one last bet. A young guy died this year on the Maroon Bells when a rock hit him, causing him to fall. Another climber was severely hurt just this year on the very traverse we'd be attempting that day. In both those instances, no real mistakes were made by the climbers. They just got hurt, or killed, doing what they loved.
The day started out with some map reading, trying to find the best route up the mountain before we could start our climb of the ridge. Despite 200 climbing trips, this is still one of my biggest weaknesses. This time probably still took longer than it really should. It's a little tricky because the start isn't an obvious, jutting peak you can identify through any photos, and there was two alternative routes, neither one which stuck out or looked all that promising. You could either wander through a forest until you reached a grassy ridge or take a more direct route through cranky bushes and a growling boulderfield. We chose the second option.
Once we reached the ridge, it started easily enough, with some easy class 3 climbing. If you don't know, class 2 means walking off a trail, and class 3 or above means you'll need to use your hands as well as your feet. Class 4 is essentially hard class 3 climbing that's usually exposed, meaning a fall could hurt or even kill you.
I wish sometimes that I didn't love hard, class 4 routes as much as I do. But as we started into the trickiest part of the day, an exposed downclimb that many prefer to use a rope on, my voice shook a bit. I was afraid, of course, but the shaking, I have to admit, came from something.
Adrenaline.
I was pumped.
I'm not a junkie. Not really. I'm not the maniac I used to be, when I was doing 20 peaks a year, some of them difficult, even dangerous. I'd look at a weekend at home during the summer as a wasted opportunity. I climbed three peaks this year because I needed to be home more than usual this summer, and I honestly didn't miss it as much as I thought I would. Running is a good challenge for me now, and it seems to fulfill that other side of me. The side that needs some sort of adventure or goal. Maybe even a touch of pain.
But that other side needs a trip like Saturday's once a year. I still wish I didn't. But as we scampered across ledges and climbed our hearts out, I was giddy, like a teenager in love. It was just so much FUN. It's fun to get scratched by the rock and fun to have your foot graze open air and fun to be out there. Just out in the open. It's fun to accomplish a cool feat. It's fun to solve the puzzle of a route and use your whole body and be thoroughly exhausted. It's fun to see such beauty and rely on yourself.
And, yes, it's fun to go through something dangerous and make it through unscathed. I have felt a much deeper fear, too, now that the consequences of me getting hurt or killed is much more severe. Occasionally, that fear brings me to tears, as it did last year on what I consider to be the toughest 14er in the state.
I know if I die climbing, it's an incredibly selfish act, perhaps the most selfish act ever. It leaves my kids without a father, and even if someone else stepped in, it could scar them for life. And I'm taking a chance that that could happen. It's a small chance. I never felt like Saturday was beyond my abilities. But even a chance is also selfish.
I have a response for the conflict. Climbing is a part of me and has been since I was 13. So how can I teach my kids how to live if I can't feel alive?
But that's an easy statement. And so it's not really an answer. It's just something I say to soothe my nerves before I throw on my backpack and head out into the wild.
Dan England is a writer from Greely, CO.
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Lost Angle Lease
by Ernest © 2011
John Goodman once said he realized just how fat he was when he needed to lose weight to play Babe Ruth.
I realized just how fat I was when I needed to lose weight to play John Goodman. (Of course, I didn't actually lose any weight. I just needed to.)
The year was 2007, and I was going to Lebowski Fest as Goodman's character, Walter Sobchak. What better place to attend a tribute to The Big Lebowski than in the city that inspired the movie: Los Angeles. Also, I had a couple friends in L.A. who I hadn't seen in a few years. They say it's the city of angels. I didn't find it to be that exactly, but I'm getting ahead of myself. First I had to get there, and that proved to be a little more tricky than I had anticipated.
A friend of mine worked at Jet Blue, and she offered to get me a "buddy pass" from Boston to L.A. for $198 round trip. I jumped at the chance. There was one catch though; I'd have to fly stand-by. Shouldn't be a problem my friend said. Those flights never fill up she said. Never. Even though you'll have the lowest priority behind all other stand-by passengers like Jet Blue employees etc., there will be plenty of seats she said. No worries she assured me. Well, I started to worry when I checked on my fight a week before my departure date to find that there were only 22 seats left. Three days before the flight, that number was down to 12 seats, and the night before, only two seats left. My worry had turned to panic. It was the only Jet Blue flight to L.A. that day, and if I wasn't on it, there was a chance I would end up missing half the Fest. Plus, I had a hotel reservation that it was too late to cancel, and I couldn't really afford to buy a ticket on a different airline at last minute extortion prices. To try and reassure myself I kept saying nothing is fucked, dude, nothing is fucked....
After a sleepless night, I arrived at Logan airport at 7:45am for an 11am flight. I checked in and sat down at the gate for three hours of agony. As 11 o'clock approached, the waiting area was completely packed. Standing room only. My heart was sinking. The money I had saved on the "buddy pass" was moot at this point because I would have gladly handed somebody $300 cash for their seat on that flight. After the agonizingly long boarding calls, there were still 30-40 people standing around the gate eyeing each other like contestants at the elimination ceremony of a particularly cruel reality show. I tried to be positive and stay relaxed. Calmer than they are....calmer than they are......
"Would Jet Blue employee Blah B. Blah please report to the gate," the voice said over the intercom.
One seat left. I breathed slowly and hoped for the best, but prepared for the worst. When I heard my name next over the intercom I stumbled to the gate in an incredulous daze as the other people standing around glared at me like I had just choked a puppy to death in front of them. I had won the travel jackpot by the slimmest of margins and it felt great as I walked down the aisle of the plane. The last remaining seat on the plane was a middle seat with a broken TV of course, but I could care less. I was headed to Lala land, and nothing could bum me out, man!
My friend Noah picked me up at the delightfully small Long Beach Airport and we sped down the 405 with the newly downloaded In Rainbows blaring in the car. I was prepared to dislike L.A. from all the negative shit I had heard, but the first thing that struck me was how beautiful it was. From the sparkling ocean, to the Dr. Seuss-like palm trees, to the not too distant mountains, the scenery was stunning. Sure, it might be chock full of self centered douchebags, but there was no denying the physical beauty of the place. Just then I looked to my right and saw the iconic Capitol Records building in the distance. Far out, man, far out.
The hotel I booked was in....ahh..... let's just say, a lot less nicer neighborhood than the internet had led me to believe. It's amazing how photos taken from a certain angle can be so misleading. We did have a great view of the Hollywood sign, as well as the massage parlor across the street. It must have been a therapeutic massage, because the customers looked furtive and stooped over as they ducked into the door. They looked much more relaxed and happy as they left 20 minutes later. The masseuses must have been very good doctors. And thorough.
The next night we met up with a couple more friends and headed to the House of Blues in Hollywood for the screening party. We checked out the Walk of Fame, Mann's Chinese Theater, and Musso & Frank's where Bukowski used to drink. At the party we met Pete Exeline, who's stolen car was the inspiration for that plot point in the movie, as well as the real life little Larry, who was the chief suspect in the theft of said car. He still hadn't cracked.
The funniest moment of the party came when we watched the harried and over-worked bartender making about a zillion white Russians.
"You must be sick of making those!" my friend Dan said to the bartender.
"Oh my god, you have no idea!" said the sweating bartender, relieved to finally have a sympathetic ear.
"Well, make two more," was Dan's cold response as he slapped a twenty dollar bill on the bar. Very un-dude of him.
Night two was the bowling party and costume contest. Even though those assholes at the league offices scheduled it on the Shabbat, I decided to go anyway. Noah dressed as The Dude with an eerily authentic sweater, and Foster went as a damn Nihilist. I opted for "ransom delivery Walter" since I knew there would be a ton of "white vest Walters." I was right, but it was irrelevant because we showed up late and missed the contest. I was a pretty damn good Walter right down to my dog tags that read "I too dabbled in pacifism. Not in Nam of course," and would have given the winner a run for his money.
We got our picture taken with Liam, the Rug, and even a female Walter. The best costume was an ATM machine with a $1,000 withdrawal on it's screen. After bowling and listening to some CCR karaoke, we capped the evening by wandering the aisles of Ralph's at 1am to buy booze, and then a couple hours of poker at the Hustler Casino in Gardena (still in full costume).
On Sunday we hit the In-and-Out Burger of course, and then spent the rest of the day doin' jays and watching football as well as the comings and goings of the massage parlor. For dinner, we headed to the Fatburger on Santa Monica. The only customers in the place, other than Noah and me, were Dante from Clerks and J.K. Simmons. Only in L.A. would the celebrities almost outnumber the muggles. After dinner we took a sunset cruise on Mulholland Drive and just abided.
The next day I was able to switch to a later, emptier flight so I wouldn't have to repeat the stress of the first leg of the trip. Foster and I hit the Santa Monica Pier, and I got to play Addams Family pinball 30 feet directly above the Pacific. Leaving the pier, I twisted my ankle, and it was getting really sore by the time I made my way across the tarmac at Long Beach Airport. Unbelievably, I had an entire row of seats to myself for the return flight. Exhausted from the weekend and a little woozy from drinking too many Caucasians, I put my ankle up, stretched out, and drifted off, dreaming of flying carpets and Viking women......
Ernest is an achiever.
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Visit Nepal in 2017 event – Limerick
March 24, 2017 admin Leave a comment
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Nepal Ireland Day 2016 – 4th September
Come along to the Nepal Ireland Day 2016…
See details at www.nepalireland.org
culture, fundraising
Borders: an artist’s impression
October 19, 2015 admin Leave a comment
‘I’ve never been to Kathmandu, but thanks to NLT’s fundraising exhibition “Borders: from Kathmandu to Kerry and Beyond”, two of my photographs have. I didn’t see the whole exhibition until it came to the Arthouse in Co Laois, by which time it had hung in Lalgadh Leprosy Hospital in Nepal and in Cill Rialaig Arts Centre on the coast of Kerry. Almost, you could see the journey the works had made.
Bridge, Dechen Shying, photographic print by Sharon Hogan
All the works exhibited were roughly of the same size and hung in two rows, one above the other. Walking along the white walls of the Arthouse gallery and corridor felt nearly like looking through a series of windows, at landscapes and people and colours from the private worlds of each of the contributing artists. On one side of the gallery, through the floor-to-ceiling windows of the Arthouse itself, green grass and Irish weather told us where we physically were; but opposite them, through the window of each small art-piece, we could take imaginative journeys to Himalayan mountains, Irish country sides, children on glinting seashores, dancing women against sunsets, watery flowers, vibrant colour-splashes and black & white silhouettes. It was a joyous and joyful celebration of difference and unity: playful artists from differing backgrounds hanging side-by-side in order to raise money for one serious disease: leprosy.
I’m told that as little as four euro is all it costs to make a pair of bespoke shoes for people whose feet no longer feel the earth due to the nerve damage leprosy can cause, that six euro can sponsor an overnight bed for someone who has travelled many miles to receive hospital treatment; that a well and a pump can be built for 250 euro and a two-roomed village school can be built from just 1,000 euro. Thanks to the generosity of people who bought our work at the various exhibitions, it’s possible that close to 450 pairs of shoes might have been made and distributed, or that 600 people slept in hospital beds before journeying home after treatment, or that perhaps 15 wells were built, or at least three village schools. It’s deeply satisfying. I make a piece of work; someone likes it and welcomes it into their home somewhere in Ireland; and someone in Nepal who is living with leprosy has a night’s rest, puts on their shoes and goes home to their village where water flows and their children go to school. It’s that simple. It’s that direct.
The theme of the exhibition was “Borders”. Sometimes it feels as if there are no such things’.
Blog by artist Sharon Hogan Oct 2015.
Sharon Hogan and Vera McEvoy, Arthouse. Co. Laois.
Borders lll exhibition in the Arthouse.
It certainly has for NLT. The project ‘Borders: from Kathmandu to Kerry and Beyond’ has raised more than €3,000 for NLT’s work in Nepal.
Can you react before an act? You’d think so, from the timing of the project’s three art exhibitions. The first, in Kathmandu at Easter, escaped the first earthquake by two weeks. The second, at the beginning of May in Kerry, drew big crowds and donations.
At the opening of the third exhibition in Stradbally, County Laois, visitors brought their own stories of Nepal. Some had backpacked in the Himalayas, some supported educational charities and one tough cookie had hitched a lift through the mountains into Tibet. All shared a love of the country and its beautiful people. And they proved it with their purses; many artists gave all the money from their sales to NLT.
Huge thanks to everyone who attended and supported the exhibitions. By Debbie Thomas.
Busy Summer
We have had a very busy Summer here in Ireland. We completed the touring art exhibition Borders: from Kathmandu to Kerry and Beyond and held our exciting Vintage Afternoon Tea Party.
Both these events raised greater awareness of our charity and increased our funds by €5,700 between them.
Above images by, A. Foster, M. Gillard, K. Hendy, G. Leonard, P. Quinn, L. Watkins, and D. Walsh.
Vintage Afternoon Tea Party June 2015
The very best part of these events is the wonderful people we met. Reconnecting with supporters and establishing new relationships and friends along the way.
The art open call was launched in February and just as the final exhibition was winding down the Vintage Afternoon Tea Party was starting to generate excitement.
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Creativity in Limerick
June 9, 2015 admin Leave a comment
The pupils of St. Nessan’s National School, Mungret, Limerick creatively raised €1,320 for the Nepal earthquake relief fund on their recent colours day.
A cheque was donated to Mike Winterburn of Nepal Leprosy Trust (NLT) on 9th June 2015. Mike has lived in Nepal for a number of years and was discussing Nepalese life and the trusts work there with the 6th classes. The money raised by the pupils was donated to NLT’s earthquake relief fund. It will be used in the Sindhupalchowk area of Nepal where families urgently need, shelter, clothing, food and in some cases medicine.
For a cost of approximately €90 a family of five can be provided with sufficient clothes, food, medicine, blankets and temporary shelter for a month.
6th Class Student Council members present a cheque to M. Winterburn
6th Classes, St Nessan Mungret NS
Craft Fair in Farmleigh
September 16, 2014 admin Leave a comment
Tuesday 23rd September 2014.
Thanks to everyone who attended the Nepalese Cultural day in Farmleigh last Sunday. We really appreciated the interest and support for both our craft sale and in hearing about our mission in Nepal. Sales of Christmas stock was surprisingly high although not altogether unusual as the felt Santa Cones are really loveable. It was such a glorious warm sunny Sunday!
Photo: Alison Irwin
Felt Making
There was a lot of interest in how the felt santa cones are made. They start out as pieces of dyed wool fibres, which are kneaded and matted together, by hand, using warm water and soap. As the wool shrinks and tightens the pieces are formed into specific shapes to give an end result. To form the santa, pieces of cone shaped wood are used as a structure to support the felt as it dries which in turn absorbs the shape of the cone.
The natural lanolin in the wool, the warm soapy water and the hand movements are extremely beneficial to hands that have suffered as a result of leprosy infection. The finished products provide income generation opportunities for the artisans, who are supported by NLT Kathmandu.
Nepal Day Craft Fair in Farmleigh, Phoenix Park. Sunday 21st September 2014 from 12pm – 5pm.
Join us for a family fun day in the beautiful setting of Farmleigh estate. Nepalese crafts, cultural performances, food, photographic exhibition plus much, much more. Come and say hello to us at the NLT stall. We will be selling Nepalese jewellery, batik cards, felt beaded hearts, and stars in a fantastic range of colours.
NLT Kathmandu
This photo was taken in April as Durga, Sunita and Sarmila hand sew on beads and put the finishing touches to the felt hearts, angels and star shapes for our order for Ireland. This is one section of the NLT craft workroom in Kathmandu, it is outdoors under a light canvas roof. I watched as the artisans sat cross legged sewing, they can remain working in this position for hours.
These happy felt faces are looking for a home for Christ… it is a little early in the year, and with summer still here, to finish typing the above word!
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Home / Local Sports / Chips eye season-best swims at state finals
Chips eye season-best swims at state finals
Posted by Dylan Savela on November 14th, 2018
Manistee’s state finals qualifiers, pictured from left to right: Jaelyn Thomas (200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay) Maddy Fox (alternate), Lauren Mendians (50-yard free style, 100-yard backstroke, 200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay), Anna Lee (200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay), Megan Huber (alternate) and Ginger Hiipakka (200-yard freestyle relay, 400-yard freestyle relay). (Dylan Savela/News Advocate)
The success of a season can be measured in many ways.
For the Manistee girls swimming team, the gauge this year was improvement. And according to coach Corey Van Fleet, it was one of the most successful seasons to date in that department.
“We were pretty thin (in numbers),” he said, “but these girls have improved from the start of the season to now probably more than any team we’ve had in the program.
“The young kids went to work and we made swimmers out of them,” he added. “The whole team has done a great job.”
A handful of standout Chippewas have one more chance to chop times and showcase those strides this Friday and Saturday in the Division 3 state finals at the Holland Aquatic Center.
Leading the pack is Manistee’s Lauren Mendians, who will compete individually in the 50-yard free style and 100-yard backstroke, the latter an event in which she holds her school’s record.
“Lauren has a real shot to score some points in the backstroke,” Van Fleet said, “And we’ll see if she can’t break a minute in it.”
Mendians, who is making a return trip the the state finals, will also lead off a pair of state-qualifying relay teams for the Chippewas. She’ll join teammates Jaelyn Thomas, Anna Lee and Ginger Hiipakka in the 200- and 400-yard relays. The group qualified for both events during the final regular season meet on Nov. 6.
“The two relays made the cut by tenths of a second each, which is pretty unusual,” Van Fleet said, citing that Manistee’s Maddy Fox and Megan Huber will also make the trip to Holland as relay alternates.
The two-day state finals will start with prelims on Friday, beginning at noon. If the Chippewas qualify, they’ll swim again for points and placements in the finals beginning at noon on Saturday.
“It’s a reward for doing good work throughout the year,” Van Fleet said of the opportunity to swim at the highest stage. “Some years, when we have three or four girls who are in the top 10 or so, then it’s a little different because you’re trying to score some points. But for the most part, this year we’re trying to better our times.”
And if recent history is any indicator, the Chippewas have a good chance at doing so.
“Every girl on the team had a career best swim almost every time they went into the water (at the Coastal Swim Conference championships earlier this mont),” Van Fleet said. “We had one of those magic weekends where everything works the way you put it down on paper.”
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The Head of the UGCC in Chicago: "His Beatitude Lubomyr knew about the appointment of Bishop Venedykt, rejoiced and awaited this day"
Saturday, 01 July 2017, 14:08
The UGCC gave birth to not only patriarchs but also to ethnarchs for the world, for example, such as His Beatitude Lubomyr, whom we proclaimed our national intercessor for peace in Ukraine. Many people, regardless of their denomination, were standing in lines in order to bid farewell to him. His Beatitude Lubomyr knew about Bishop Venedykt's appointment, was happy about it, and was waiting for this day. And today he is happy with us in God. He is with us.
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Everyone betrayed Jesus, even Peter, but only Judas entered history as traitor. Why? His Beatitude Sviatoslav in an interview for Radio Maria
Interview of His Beatitude Sviatoslav Shevchuk, Father and Head of the Ukrainian Greek-Catholic Church, for the daily “Il Foglio”
This was said by His Beatitude Sviatoslav, the Father and Head of the UGCC, during the solemn dinner after the Liturgy with the Enthronement Service for the bishop of the Eparchy of Saint Nicholas in Chicago His Grace Venedykt (Aleksiychuk).
"This day is special because God has no any accidentals. Exactly on June 29, 1867 blessed Josaphat Kuntsevych was proclaimed a Saint of the Catholic Church, also, on this day a miraculous icon of Our Lady of Zarvanytsia was crowned," added the Primate of the church.
Bishop Venedykt spoke about calling: "Monastic life – is a calling… God is calling. Why? For what? You don't know. God is calling you. I am feeling even today that I had this calling and chose it. Serving as a monk, a priest, a bishop, I tried to value people whom God was giving me."
According to Bishop Venedykt, we are living until we awaken and encounter problems. "We cannot avoid problems. We are inevitably part of the problems. By the question is whether we use them as an occasion to do something good? Whether we are looking for the lessons which God wants to teach us in those problems? God, Who is Love, in every situation, problem and even sin, wants to teach us a lesson. That is why I thank God for my life, the only and unique, through which He is leading me. I don't know why God has led me here, but I believe that He wants to do something good here. I am not a Savior, but I came here so we could do something good together. It is not going to be easy and simple. But when we are working, the Lord will help us," emphasized Bishop Venedykt.
The Bishop recalled how, during the funeral of His Beatitude Lubomyr, many kind words were said about him: "It hurt me a little. Why? I was thinking that His Beatitude Lubomyr had to die in order to be valued. We have to value people and see what they have unique and special. Ukraine will be strong only when our diaspora is strong, and diaspora will be strong when Ukraine is strong. I am grateful to God that at this period of my life I am here. I am waiting for your support and collaboration. We mustn't be afraid of problems! May God help us follow this road of trust to God."
At the end, the Bishop Ihor, Archbishop and Metropolitan of Lviv, gave some advice to the faithful: "Respect the Bishop and love him. Build together our church here, care about it and live in peace among yourselves, help each other and grow in love. May God bless Bishop Venedykt and all of you."
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From courtrooms to competitions - Northumbria Law academic nominated for national blog award
Press release • Jan 26, 2016 16:54 GMT
Elaine Campbell, a Solicitor Tutor advising on company, commercial and intellectual property law through the Law School’s multi award winning Student Law office, has been nominated under the “Education” and “Odeon Best Storyteller” categories in the UK Blog Awards, just one year after launching her academic based blog, alawuntoherself.com.
Based around clinical legal education and academia, Elaine started her blog to pull the curtain back on business law clinics and academic writing, which she believed to be two hidden worlds. From writing about her hints and tips about getting articles in higher education published, to how to become involved in Academic Writing Month, alawuntoherself.com provides valuable insights into life in academia and law.
Elaine said: “Traditionally, law clinics have focussed on legal areas affecting the individual, such as housing and criminal law and there is a plethora of articles and books written about them yet business law clinics are much rarer, and are hardly mentioned.By blogging about how topics such as how to enhance your clinical teaching using TV shows and how learning through doing can engage our students in all manner of ways, I hope to shed light on an area which has had little attention before now.
I also try to provide a source of support for other academics, drawing on my own personal experiences of publishing articles and reassuring people that, although it’s hard work, you can achieve anything you set your mind too.”
Elaine currently supervises final year law students at the Northumbria Law School who advise members of the public on business set up, drafting and negotiating commercial contracts, intellectual property disputes, trade mark registrations, e-commerce, and data protection and privacy issues free of charge. Having worked at the Law School, which has a national and international reputation for excellence in legal education, for 6 years Elaine’s knowledge and experience within the industry is set to propel her blog to the next level.
“The next steps for alawuntoherself.com are really exciting and I’m thinking about adding more video content to the blog, to help connect even better with other writers,” Elaine said. “The best thing is the level of engagement that you have with academics and students across the world so to carry on with building a sense of real community would be great.”
The UK Blog Awards, which began in 2014, has been created to recognise the creative excellence of bloggers across a variety of 16 UK industries and gives those involved the change to be recognised as a true knowledge provider within the industry. Elaine will find out on 29th January 2016 whether her blog has been shortlisted, under the ‘Education’ or Odeon Best Storyteller’ categories.
The Student Law Office has managed more than 3,000 enquiries, represented more than 1,000 clients and secured almost £1 million on their behalf since starting in 2008. To find out more about the range of courses the Law school offers, click here.
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Northumbria Law School wins again!
Northumbria University, Newcastle, has won a prestigious award recognising Northumbria Law School’s dedication to clinical legal education, exceptional degree programmes and pro bono legal assistance.
Bespoke law service for bespoke North East business
An entrepreneur has praised the work of Northumbria University’s Student Law Office for helping him to set up his successful business.
Northumbria’s iconic Law School building judged among world’s best
Northumbria University’s School of Law building has been voted one of the most aesthetically pleasing in the world.
Northumbria law society goes from strength to strength
Northumbria University law student and President of the Grey (Law) Society, has been nominated for Best Law Society President in the Lawcareers.net awards which are created especially for future lawyers.
Northumbria Law School brings spirit of collaboration to Newcastle
Northumbria University, Newcastle, is proud to be hosting the 51st Annual Conference of the Association of Law Teachers (ALT).
Top award for Northumbria law lecturer
Northumbria Law School lecturer Elaine Campbell has been named joint winner of the ‘Law Teacher of the Year 2016’ category in the Northern Law Awards.
Law School shortlisted for Legal Education Provider of the Year
Northumbria Law School has been shortlisted in a high profile national education award for “affording a truly pioneering and brilliant legal service to students”.
Northumbria Law School blog shortlisted for prestigious teaching award
A blog created by academics at Northumbria Law School has been nominated for a prestigious teaching award.
Northumbria Graduate in top global law firm
A lawyer from Saudi Arabia working on some of the world’s largest corporate deals has thanked Northumbria University’s Law School for his international career success.
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Exclusive, Featured, Festivals, Photo Essays
By Moign Khawaja
From the land of colours comes a festival that illuminates the lives of millions of people around the world. Diwali, the festival of lights, is one of the most popular festivals of South Asia, celebrated by followers of three major religions, i.e. the Hindus, Sikhs and Jains. Spanning over five days, this festival is a unique blend of worship, colours, lights, food, fireworks and clothes. It is the festival that is said to bring happiness and good luck in the lives of the elderly, young and children every year. Though regional variations change the theme of the festival and add more charm to it, it is overall a celebration of the triumph of good over evil, light over darkness, and knowledge over ignorance.
A girl lights an earthen lamp during celebrations on the eve of the Hindu festival of Diwali. Photo - Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
Diwali comes from the ancient Indian language Sanskrit word Deepa wali which means row of lights (deepa – lamp, wali – row). Houses, shops, and public places are decorated with small earthenware oil lamps called diyas. The lamps, traditionally fueled by mustard oil, are placed in rows in windows, doors and outside buildings to decorate them.
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Toys made of clay are sometimes used in puja (prayers) in Hindu temples. The beauty of this festival are the colours as well as the simplicity and originality.
Hindu goddess Lakshmi. Photo - Ash Patel
Hindus honour Lakshmi, the goddess of wealth by worshipping her. People start the new business year at Diwali, and say their prayers to the goddess for a successful year. Some people build a small altar to the goddess and decorate it with money and with pictures of the rewards of wealth, such as cars and houses.
Lord Rama (centre) with wife Sita (right), brother Lakshmana (left) and devotee Hanuman. Photo - Jain Shashikant
Diwali also celebrates the return of Lord Ram, with his wife Sita and brother Lakshmana to Ayodhya after a 14 year exile, and a war in which he killed the evil and demonic king Ravan. It is believed that the people of Ayodhya, a holy town in Uttar Pradesh state, northern India, lit ghee lamps along the way to light their path in the darkness, hence introducing the Diwali tradition of lighting lamps.
Effigies of Ravan, Kumbh Karan and Meghnath. Photo - Vijay Pandey
Ravan was a mythical king of rakshasas (demons) with great supernatural power. He is said to have ruled Sri Lanka about 6,000 years ago. Hindu mythology depicts Ravan as a brutal king, kidnapping Ram’s wife Sita. Ram launched an invasion to rescue his wife and killed the Lankan king. Hindus set alight his effigies during the festival to mark the victory of good over evil.
A handmade design on the floor. Photo - Preethi Rajaganesh
The beautiful patterns drawn on the floor with colours are known as Rangoli. The most popular subject is the lotus flower, a sacred Hindu symbol. Rangoli is an expression of warmth and hospitality.
A typical box of sweet on Diwali. Photo - Alpha
Diwali is tasteless without the sweets. In the picture you can see sweet orange circles called jalebi; white sweetmeat masses dotted with pistachio called barfi; yellow sweetmeat balls called laddu along with two glasses of special sweetened milk tea. The refreshments are consumed after saying prayers at the temple.
Dance, the ultimate expression of happiness on Diwali. Photo - Abby
Unlike many religions and their festivals, Diwali is a vivid expression of colours and happiness that is portrayed through lively dances. People, especially young women wear colourful clothes, visit houses in the community and dance to Diwali music and songs.
A capture from Diwali festival celebrated by the Hindu community in Shakhari Bazar, Old Dhaka, Bangladesh. Photo - Fahim Hossain
As soon as the elders finish their puja (prayers), kids dressed in new clothes burst firecrackers heralding the defeat of the demon. This festival is very popular among children as they get new clothes, fireworks, food, sweets and lots of pocket money.
People light up fireworks in the sky in New Delhi, India. Photo - Manish Swarup/AP Photo
Magnificent fireworks culminate the festival of lights in a spectacular fashion. Thousands of people gather to watch the fireworks. People enjoy the festival in a family atmosphere without indulging themselves in alcohol and other intoxicants.
A devotee lights a lamp at Akshardham temple during celebrations to mark the annual Hindu festival of Diwali at Gandhinagar in the western Indian state of Gujarat. Photo - Amit Dave/Reuters
People flock to illuminated temples to offer their prayers and worship the Hindu gods and seek their blessings for the new year. Diwali marks the end of the harvest season in most of India. Farmers thank for the bounty of the year gone by, and pray for a good harvest for the upcoming year. Traditionally, the festival is the occasion when many businesses close their old accounts and open new ones. It is the last major celebration before winter.
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Down Goes the Civic Arena
File this one under “Missed opportunity”, not “Calamity” nor “End of the world.”
After lengthy debate, council voted 6-3 today to reject a city historic designation for the 49-year-old landmark, all but sealing its fate.
Its decision allows the city-Allegheny County Sports & Exhibition Authority, the arena’s owner, to move forward with plans to demolish the iconic structure with the retractable dome.
The SEA wants to clear the site to make way for a 28-acre residential, commercial, and office development proposed by the Penguins. The team won development rights over the land in the 2007 deal to build the new Consol Energy Center across the street from the arena. (P-G, Mark Belko)
In point of fact, demolition only “makes way” for more discussion and debate regarding redevelopment — though at this late date, far more fertile.
As nice as it would be to go back to 2006-07 and negotiate a better deal with the Penguins, history is history — and at this point in history, there is certainly something to be said for obeying the fairly impressive uniform wishes of the African-American Greater Hill District. Even though some others might believe them to be mistaken for whatever reasons, they have a solid point in that a clean slate has certain inherent virtues.
[…] Councilman Bruce Kraus voted against the designation based on the potential for restoring the street grid from the Hill to Downtown and eventually connecting Oakland to Downtown.
“I am taking a gamble here,” he said, noting he originally supported the historic designation. (ibid)
There has lately and generally been a resurgence of talk about more seriously reconnecting that which lies unconnected in the street grid — in an aspirational time-frame we assume; Crosstown Expressway be hanged. The Comet has an immense fondness towards aspirations, especially when written down and posted in everyday lines of sight.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on June 28, 2011 by Bram Reichbaum.
The Wedding: Angelisa & Sinjoyla, 2010 in D.C.
The officiant: Rev. David K. North, Holy Redeemer MCC
Obama Proposes 1/2000 Trillion Dollar Manufacturing Plan
Haz manufacturing plan? When you unveil it, make sure you’re not too far off Butler Street. Otherwise you risk losing Ferlo.
In the speech, he launched his new high-tech plan with six universities in what the administration is calling the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership.
The plan also features 11 manufacturing companies, including Ford Motor Co., Caterpillar Inc., Procter & Gamble Co. and Northrop Grumman Corp. Leading the effort will be Andrew Liveris, chairman, president and CEO of the Dow Chemical Co., and Susan Hockfield, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. (P-G Early Returns, Daniel Malloy)
Assertively rebuilding our manufacturing capacity and spurring our technological sector sounds like a good strategy for America.
The only issue is, when we think about “real money” these days, we usually think of it in billions if not trillions. This knowledge was revealed to us all in having attentively watched a parade of certain bailouts, stimulus packages, weapons systems, quantitative easing, routine entitlement and occupation spending, and tax cuts.
$400 or $500 million is real money in terms of building a skyscraper — albeit a fancy one — but is it even close in terms of rebuilding an atrophied world-power economy? Hard to say. What about once we concede there is a significant public-private-and-academic partnership aspect to the plan? That itself can be a real hot potato.
Alright, I admit it. When it comes to economics, I just read Paul Krugman and believe whatever he says. He’s the only one in the game with a Nobel Prize, and whose work passes the smell test on each and every occasion. No glaring omissions, no over-reliance on maxims and quotations, no flowery puffing up. It engenders confidence, this making of his real theses so easy to apprehend.
Let’s see what he has to say right now:
But [Republicans are] willing to sacrifice that future [they say is at risk due to the deficit], not to mention risk the good faith and credit of the federal government, rather than accept so much as a single penny of tax increases as part of a deal.
Given all that, it seems almost redundant to mention that federal tax receipts as a percentage of GDP are near a historic low: (NYT Conscience of a Liberal, Paul Krugman)
Nothing on the President’s manufacturing plan yet, but note where Krugman focuses. We agree. Forget the deficit*. Prioritize our present spending, raise revenues, and plow all those sweet proceeds into manufacturing, technology, education and infrastructure — that is, with real money. Employ the country productively, then worry about the bondholders with a sufficiently productive and competitive country.
*- And forget the curveball, Ricky.
Docs say Insurers Shouldn’t War On Providers
“We’re hearing it from our patients: ‘What happens if I can’t go to a UPMC facility? Or what if insurance won’t cover a visit to the doctor who has been seeing me for 29 years?’ (P-G, Steve Twedt)
Congratulations, University of Pittsburgh Medical Center aka UPMC. You’ve found a way to turn all the Hillarycare, Obamacare and socialized medicine ghost stories into a horrid reality.
Now to change things sensibly. How?
Remember the old Glass-Steagall Act, separating investment banks and depository banks? Maybe we need something similar to ward off malignancy in these insurer-provider combines.
Remember Act 55, the old Institutions of Purely Public Charity Act? Maybe we’ll be asking that one day, or at least rereading it and tinkering with the fine print. If the dominant players in health care are intent on conducting their business operations more like corporate sharks and racketeers than humanitarians, we might as well buy some public safety vehicles and educate some children.
ARCHIVAL: A 2007 state Senate subcommittee hearing on Act 55 was liveblogged here and here.
Monday: Josh Wander, and Other Notes
Today we note the occasion of a great honor for Pittsburgh City Council District 5 candidate Republican Josh Wander, who is opposing Democratic party nominee Corey O’Connor in the November 8th general election.
Wander has joined an illustrious line of political figures whom the Comet has interviewed, only to spend absolutely forever getting around to actually chronicling the experience online. Far too long a time. To an embarrassing degree. To the point where an interviewer might forget wide swaths of the conversation.
Fortunately for Mr. Wander, there is a strong correlation between this very situation and the incidence of multiple-part blog posts and heightened long-term interest. Even still, that also sometimes correlates to an extended “teaser” period and stylistic unpredictability.
Yet c’est la vie, for que sera, sera. If you’ll pardon the French. Sometimes an unorthodox approach is for the best.
We begin this months-long festival of cop-outs and subsequent penitence with some questions posed to Wander by the Comet author’s Twitter followers:
Wander responds:
Attracting new businesses to our district and to our entire city has to be a main priority. It is the lifeblood of our economy and realistically, this is accomplished by removing government hindrances, not adding new ones. I would suggest making our city more business friendly, and I plan on providing specific examples as my campaign progresses. Please stay tuned. www.votewander.com
Mr. Williams references this story above. Wander responds:
I appreciate the opportunity to address this prank that I played almost a decade ago. During the height of the Second Gulf War, when we invaded Iraq and France did not support our efforts, there was a movement to rename French Fries, Freedom Fries in protest. I decided, as a practical joke to up that by creating a website called, giveitback.com, which supposedly advocated returning the Statue of Liberty to make a “stronger statement” to France. I never expected it to go viral, but it did and was picked up by the national news. Trust me, I was humored. As I still am at people that drudge this up to be used against me!
The Comet led off its own interview by asking, “Why are you running?” Wander immediately gravitated towards a discussion on transparency, in decision making and in policy making.
He recalled a county-wide event among municipal leaders which he attended, one from among the several associations and forums wherein our fractionalized regional governments come together to commiserate over common problems, and hopefully cooperate. He described one municipal Council member giving a stirring address on serious pension-funding problems, and how they all need to get serious together to tackle this widespread challenge.
So far, so admirable — until that official went on to emphasize, explicitly, that this must be handled behind closed doors, away from the public. And there was a strong murmur of assent in the crowd. Wander says a light went on in his head at that moment, as to a big part of the nature our civic obstacles. (For some reason, Wander is naturally suspicious of what “must” take place beyond public view.)
He then touched upon issues that sometimes go hand-in-hand with a lack of transparency, in a way that mirrored what appears prominently on his campaign’s website:
78 years of one party rule, cronyism, patronages and just plan corruption has crippled our once shining beacon of bustling business activity, has seen young growing families – the city’s future – diminishing. Our schools are closing. And frankly, the city is so broke that the State of PA had to supervise it’s financial activities and put the city in receivership under the “Financial Distressed Municipalities Act.”
We asked Wander then specifically, how if in any way does his opponent O’Connor fit into this equation. Wander pointed out that he himself filled out every candidate questionnaire he was given, whereas O’Connor took criticism during the primary campaign for neglecting to fill out many of these and “remaining silent”. Front-runner status be hanged — voters deserved to hear O’Connor’s thoughts on these issues, and that they did not was “disturbing”.
The relative silence on the abortion issue particularly rankled Wander, who goes to great lengths to describe his nuanced position. He makes no secret in his campaign literature that he is deeply religious, yet at the same time specifies that “in Catholicism, the life of the fetus is held as paramount, but in Orthodox Judaism we put the mother first” at all times. Wander is Jewish. Whatever his ruminations on the issue — and he stubbornly refuses to simplify — it satisfied Planned Parenthood enough to earn a “mixed” rating in their Voter Guide.
Wander’s avowedly strong Jewish perspective has proved a mixed bag for him in the political realm before. During the 2008 presidential campaign, he says he placed on display in a campaign office what he described as factual information about then-candidate Barack Obama’s stance on Israel. He says he was criticized bitterly by some in the neighborhood for doing this — which he attributes to some extent to an overly reactive loathing for Republicans in general.
Closed-mindedness, he calls it, and which he described here recorded in a speech at a campaign forum. To his mind this closed-mindedness to alternatives feeds into that culture of insularity which produces non-transparency (opaqueness?) and other problems.
I think on second thought we’ll leave what (for lack of better terms) we’ll call “adult entertainment” or “sexually oriented businesses” to an entirely different blog post. We owe Mr. Wander that much.
Surely the hobgoblins of meddlesome minds can wait a day or two in this process, before we begin seductively peeling away layers of prejudice, assumption and political aspersion — until we fully reveal the breasts of empirical understanding and finally the areolae of truth. After all there’s no profit in giving it away all at once!
Sustainabiwity from a State Alphabet-Soup Money Commission
This is what’s up with the funders of Allegheny County’s and all of SW PA’s transportation master planning:
The Southwestern Pennsylvania Commission added sustainability practices to its update of the region’s long-range transportation and economic development plan for the first time five years ago.
Friday, at one of the many public input sessions the commission has held in recent weeks, transportation planners emphasized the need for municipalities to plan accordingly for the 2040 plan, an update of its 2035 plan. (P-G, Diana Nelson Jones)
They say best laid plans of mice and men gang aft’ agley or else never get implemented, but all the same:
What I want to share here is the passion for this stuff that SPC transportation planner Tom Klavon shared with us when he talked about their session yesterday in Wilkinsburg.
There they did a walking tour and applied their TOD formulas to determine where Wilkinsburg is vis a vis successful transit-centered development.
He said something that made my ears go pointy: That a presentation by Mark Minnerly of the Mosites Co. — the guys who brought us Eastside in East Liberty — made him feel that Wilkinsburg today is where East Liberty was 15 years ago. (City Walkabout, Diana Nelson Jones)
Get it, girl! Great blog post.
The Artist: Rebecca Black
The record label: ARK Music Factory.
Secondary Effects: Real. Important.
The initial round of news stories regarding Councilwoman Smith’s initiative to regulate the city’s adult entertainment industry isn’t at all awful, especially considering the complex narrative and the legal trade-offs involved in the proposal.
What is being overlooked thus far — and maybe this is partially our fault — is any meaningful consideration of the “secondary effects” which accompany poorly regulated or unregulated sexually oriented businesses. So here are some resources.
Secondary Effects Research is run by a group of university social scientists and criminologists. There is more than a tiny bit to read, but basically you will find one theme: we are contending with statistically significant increases in certain kinds of crime, and decreases in property values. Another good resource has been compiled by the Community Defense Council.
Why should such a correlation exist? Adult businesses, so the theory goes, attract patrons from a very wide area, predominantly male, prone to vice overtures, with lots of money in their pockets, who are frequently ill-inclined to report crime incidents for fear of embarrassment of some kind. Ideal targets, basically. Now add to this the social effects of promoting the type of business which promotes lap dances or couch dances, from subcontracted and off-book employees, behind closed doors, in the dark, where anything else might be provided or traded. Basically you are assembling all the ingredients for a regional crime node.
Unfortunately, especially in the cases of some smaller and independent strip clubs, that can make up a big part of the attraction of going into business in the first place.
Residents have objected to this on these grounds for some time. What we are discovering, going back into the Council archives, is that people have rarely gone into Chambers bewailing sin and corruption. Quite the contrary, they have been leery of attracting a “bad element,” and making it that much harder to rehabilitate their business corridors and attract homeowners. It has always been a micro-scale chamber of commerce issue.
Here is one easy to read, peer-reviewed study from Garden Grove to get you all started; here is another, on a slightly different subject matter, from Minneapolis (language on page 14 quite NSFW).
What we can already say about Pittsburgh based on an analysis of five years of local crime data is that we are seeing significantly higher incidences of:
Vehicle Theft
…across the board in the areas surrounding our local adult cabarets, which corresponds perfectly with secondary effects theory.
I hope this long exposition is not presently robbing some reporter out there of enthusiasm for writing about this, as is sometimes known to happen. That would be a shame, because concern over the secondary effects surrounding sexually oriented businesses isn’t just an important part of this story. It’s the entire story.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on June 7, 2011 by Bram Reichbaum.
Thursday: Items Typed Quickly
ZOMG, parking rates are going up! Why didn’t we figure out a way to get the money for nothing? Or cut a mere billion dollars out of our extravagant city budget? It’s pretty ridiculous. (P-G, Ashe, Butterfield & Feldman)
We could always go back to the tuition tax if you’d prefer.
Lost in the noise surrounding Councilman Burgess’s request of state government to please invade the City of Pittsburgh with siege weaponry and biological agents, was his request for “immediate mandatory enrollment in PMRS to be completed by March 31, 2012.” This comes on the heals of Auditor General Jack Wagner saying such a thing might not be a bad idea. Guaranteed 6% investment returns — regardless of any bad managerial decisions (which demonstrably have been occurring less often at PMRS than at CMPTF) and even regardless of a dreadful overall stock market — does not seem like a bad idea. Would it? It might help us avoid raising rates / fees/ taxes again sometime down the road. Isn’t relinquishing parochial institutional control in exchange for long-term financial advantage some species of a progressive value?
Here is an argument that is happening for some reason. (WDUQ News)
The Penguins believe it to be uncouth to mention how much public assistance they are receiving, in light of the fact that they are spending a portion of it. Maybe someone in the 4th Estate can do some math if there is some dispute, or a world record to report to Guinness. (Trib, Bill Vidonic)
Question about the Civic Arena: everybody says, “You realize, even if they designate it a historic structure, they can still tear it down.” So what are we arguing about? (P-G, Mark Belko)
Like the changes or not, somebody is going to have to edit the portions of pledge drives which emphasize of “your!!! station for” whatever. (P-G, Edit Board)
One of these days, all our old friends are going to come back to town for weddings and class reunions, and ask us, “Why does the City look like chincy trash all of a sudden?” all whilst zero foreign investors exclaim, “WOW! Flashing lights! Economic vitality! Is this Coruscant or Pittsburgh?” But these signs will not be permitted to be so bright they’ll literally blind us, and will only be permitted to change every 7.5 seconds, preventing seizure — and religious and community groups greatly desire to see their name in lights owing to the Nietzschean will to power. So this is the way it’s gonna be. (P-G, Sam Butterfield)
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COMET BIDS PITTSBURGH HAPPY NEW YEAR 2015
And a merry farewell to 2014; we’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet.
We have no idea who this “Matsuda” is. But word around the campfire is that Dick Skrinjar may be in the race against Councilor Deb Gross, and Andre Young is almost certainly in the race against Councilor Ricky Burgess. Additionally, Pittsburgh has some public education problems, public transit problems and public safety problems. Economy looks nice. BREAKING: Chief McClay holds a sign up to us. UPPERDATE: And writes a post.
This entry was posted in Uncategorized on December 31, 2014 by .
Hearth’s Warming Eve: A Comet Holiday Tradition
Every year we mention that there is actually a rather subversive moral to this story, particularly for people who work in political offices, agencies and organizations. Maybe if we cue it up at 03:32 and skip the prologue, someone will notice…
Stand Strong for Justice and Peace
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Police officers involved in deadly force incidents would be investigated and prosecuted by special prosecutors, according to forthcoming legislation by State Sen.-Elect Art Haywood of Philadelphia. That’s a great idea.
Pittsburgh police chaplains are encouraging residents to display blue lights or candles in windows in memory of fallen officers and to call for peace. Also a great idea.
A fever is setting in among Americans, whether it be chagrined police leaders outrageously declaring “war” or barmy radicals calling for violent retribution. No matter what your prejudices when it comes to the state of race relations and police-community relations, it’s hard to be encouraged.
However, the Comet is convinced this polarization is a false perception. Continue reading →
Mayor Rewards Good Service… Like a Boss
Last night on network television, our own “office-type” Mayor donned a wig and camouflage to show off the progress of our City, cavort with some of his employees, almost saw off his fingers, deliver a few Aesops and make a few dreams come true, Hollywood style, to much rejoicing.
Who could possibly find fault with that?
The show typically includes the boss helping out his employees in need when he reveals himself or herself, though Peduto noted he didn’t have the personal resources of a corporate CEO.
Instead, money to help the four came from donations by private companies and individuals, said city spokesman Tim McNulty.
The Urban Redevelopment Authority was authorized to handle and disburse up to $155,000 for the employees. Peduto, using donors’ money, pledged to help Nasiadka go back to school and make up for his lost overtime; get Allen a promotion, a scholarship for her son and money for law school and a house; help with Amend’s animal shelter, caring for his mother and his mortgage; and provide money so Smith could start his dream of becoming a minister, along with help for his foster kids and a program in which he would teach young Housing Authority residents carpentry.
“We said from the beginning, we wouldn’t spend one dollar of city money,” Peduto said after entering Cappy’s to cheers and applause. (Trib, Matthew Santoni)
See? Cheers and applause.
But wait a minute… so he or his own representatives worked the phones to solicit the Undercover Boss prize kitty, from “private companies and individuals?” Kind of like an inaugural ball?
Prizes that were given “by” Mayor Peduto during this nationally televised tear-jerker? Which, while great for the City, comes with a rather noticeable political benefit?
Should we… um… Continue reading →
Friday: Calling Out Everything in its Turn
YCDTOTV
UPDATE: The ICA anticlimacticly approves Pittsburgh’s 2015 budget, concluding all major City Hall drama before Christmas. You see? You may now return to regularly scheduled troublemaking.
Bill Isler is leaving the School Board. For years it seemed, Bill Isler was the old white man at the end of the table reminding everybody of budgets, debt service and property tax rates. He was also informed, concerned and cordial enough to be a valuable resource.
Mark Brentley might be departing as well. For years it seemed, Mark Brentley was the frustrated black man at the center of the table reminding everybody of disparities, duties and equity. A wide-open race for that School Board seat might be very inspirational and productive, but then again so might a School Board with Brentley’s senior leadership.
Our public School District is plagued by daunting challenges Continue reading →
The occasion: Eight years of this!
Tuesday: The Center is Dragged, the Politics Changed.
TU Berlin and MOD Institute
If you are interested in the Civic Arena site and reduced-rent housing and opportunities, then UPDATE: Councilor Lavelle introduced a new initiative and a meeting was held on Tuesday resulting in a unanimous, affirmative recommendation to Council from the Planning Commission.
Meanwhile under the spotlights, Pittsburgh’s 2015 budget passed Council with flying colors, 8-1, and we’ll return to Harris momentarily.
Our City of Champions fixed the Great 2013 Tax Cut to where its framers mathematically intended had reassessments been finalized. We compensated for suddenly increased but prudent pension funding. We have data-driven parking policy poised to strike this year, and we have “truth in budgeting” in as much as disclosing a slight .2% deficit pending resolution of how exactly to bring residential landlords into the group effort at excellence. Finally, the Peduto administration brought permitting, licensing and routine building inspections into the fold of priorities.
We still have no buy-in from the “big four Nonprofits”, disappointingly. Continue reading →
Transforming What? The Hill District story remains old-school.
Pittsburgh took the head off of a diverse, blighted but thriving neighborhood near Downtown, and built an arena with a retractable dome, and lots of surface parking lots. Yet despite assurances of follow-up investment, we saw the broader neighborhood descend into deeper disinvestment, isolation, segregation, poverty and breakdown.
50 years later, Pittsburgh demolished the arena. Now thanks to public money it will be the new home of US Steel as well as other businesses and offices, some retail and entertainment, and apartments or condominiums — by and large sold at surging local market rates.
It will be a new planned community catering to the affluent. employing many, and with some vague promises to poor and minority Pittsburghers for future access to the fruits of that opportunity — vague, non-binding, and through yet-to-be-determined processes separate from the one before us at “today’s meeting,” whichever one that happens to be.
If it’s a nexus of anything, it’s the same old business as usual.
What are we transforming? Continue reading →
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November: Only the Dawn of Reason in Politics
Jackson, Tolkien
We join our City of Champions already in progress:
Today I am announcing a major new initiative that will provide clear pathways for economic development across the city, from small residential projects to skyscraper construction.
It will create inter-agency cooperation among the Department of City Planning, Zoning, the URA, the Housing Authority, and what used to be called the Bureau of Building Inspection. BBI will be turned into a new Department of Permits, Licenses and Inspections and be tasked with streamlining the city’s building permitting processes, proactively enforcing property maintenance codes, and ensuring the highest levels of building safety and performance. (Mayor Peduto, State of the City 2014)
But then, as quick as lightening: Continue reading →
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Counties recycling slated to be taken to Fort Riley
By PHYLLIS ZORN
The possibility of once again being paid a rebate for recyclable materials has led county commissioners to send the county’s recyclables to Fort Riley.
A recycle center in South Hutchinson, which the county has been using for years, stopped paying for materials, based on the prices they get for materials.
“We’ve been cut off for the last year,” county recycling director Bud Druse said. “Prices are down.”
Chris Otto, director of recycling at the military base, told county commissioners Monday that Fort Riley’s recycling operation will accept recyclable materials from the county on a trial basis.
After a couple of months, Fort Riley will know what they will pay the county, Otto said.
But they shouldn’t hold their breath.
“It takes the Army a long time to write a check,” he said.
If recyclables are not clean, the Army won’t accept them, Otto said.
There is no contract between the county and the Army.
“If it’s not working for either party, we can go our separate ways,” he said.
Commission chairman Kent Becker said the idea seems to be a viable option. Commissioners voted unanimously to give recycling through Fort Riley a try.
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Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Railway
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by ThomasACu » Sat Jul 01, 2017 1:11 pm
This is a locomotive roster for a fictional railroad I created, known as the Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Railway. The railroad began operations in 1989, after the merger of the Kansas City and Chicago Railroad and the Seaboard Eastern Railway. Now, they own 30,000 miles of trackage (including the Canadian Line from Detroit to Toronto), and directly compete with the likes of CSX Transportation and Norfolk Southern.
Main yards are located in Albany, Atlanta, Baltimore, Birmingham, Buffalo, Charlotte, Chicago, Columbus, Detroit, East Rutherford (NJ), Indianapolis, Kansas City, Louisville, Memphis, New Orleans, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Tallahassee, and Toronto. The KCC&E interchanges with all class one railroads except Ferromex (for obvious reasons), as well as many regional and short line carriers.
This post will be updated monthly.
KCC&E Locomotive Roster as of April 11, 2019:
1-99 (SD70MAC): Built 1998
100-299 (AC4400CW): Built 1999-2000
500-599 (ES44AC): Built 2006
600-799 (ES44AC): Built 2008-2009
1000-1119 (ET44AC): Built 2016-2017
1120-1149 (ET44AC): Built 2019
1300-1399 (GP40-2): Built 1978
1400-1499 (GP40-3): Built 1972, Electronics upgraded to Dash 3 standards 2009-2011
1550-1574 (MP15DC): Built 1976
1600 (RP20CD): Built 1972 as Southern SD40 3199, rebuilt as RP20CD in 2009
1601-1615 (GP38-2): Built 1973-1979, ex-NS/Southern; equipped with high short hoods.
1776 (SD70ACe-T4): Built 2017, Painted in a special Red, White, and Blue paint scheme commemorating the Declaration of Independence of the United States
2000-2099 (SD40-3): Built 1972, Electronics upgraded to Dash 3 standards 2008-2009
2100-2199 (SD40-2): Built 1976-1977
2300-2399 (SD40M-2): Rebuilt 2000-2001 from SD40's, SD45's, and SDP40's
3400-3499 (SD50d): Built 1985, De-rated to 3,000 HP
3500-3599 (SD60): Built 1986
3600-3799 (SD60I): Built 1995
4000-4299 (SD70M): Built 1999-2002
4500-4799 (ES44DC): Built 2005-2006
5000-5299 (SD70M-2): Built 2008-2009
5300-5599 (SD70ACe): Built 2012-2014
5600-5699 (SD70ACe-T4): Built 2017
5700-5709 (SD90MAC): Built 1999, Acquired from CP in 2017
5800-5825 (SD70ACe): Built 2018, Tier 4 Credit Units
6000-6039 (SD45-2): Built 1975
6500-6599 (C40-8/C40-8u) - Built 1990, Many Upgraded in 2018
6600-6799 (C40-8W) - Built 1992-1993
9000 (RP28CD) - Built 2017
Every month, I will post some updates, which include new deliveries, rebuilds, storage updates, incidents, or anything else notable that occurred on the railroad.
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Fictional railroad guy
ThomasACu
Re: Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Railway
The KCC&E uses similar symbols to that of Union Pacific and the Dakota, Minnesota, and Eastern. (Example: Z-CHNY)
The first letter represents the type of train:
A: Transfers
B: Ballast
C: Coal
E: Engine Move
G: Grain
H: Helpers
I: Normal-Priority Intermodal
L: Locals
M: Normal-Priority Manifest
Q: High-Priority Manifest
P: Perishables
R: Rails
S: Special (Excursions, Military, High & Wide, etc.)
T: Ties
U: Other Unit (Ethanol, Limestone, Oil, etc.)
V: Vehicle
Y: Yard Jobs (Special symbols will be used for these, such as Y-AL01 or Y-CA03)
Z: High-Priority Intermodal
The four letters after the dash (between them and the first letter) represent the origin (first two) and destination codes (last two):
AL - Albany, NY
AT - Atlanta, GA
BA - Baltimore, MD
BI - Birmingham, AL
BR - Belt Railway of Chicago Clearing Yard
BS - Bristol, VA
BU - Buffalo, NY
CA - Charlotte, NC
CC - Cincinnati, OH
CI - Chicago, IL (Other Trains)
CH - Chicago, IL (Intermodal Only)
CL - Columbia, SC
CO - Columbus, OH
CS - Charleston, WV
CV - Cleveland, OH
DE - Detroit, MI
DV - Davenport, IA
EI - Erie, PA
ER - East Rutherford, NJ
HA - Hattiesburg, MS
IH - Indiana Harbor Belt
IN - Indianapolis, IN
JA - Jackson, MS
KC - Kansas City, MO
LV - Louisville, KY
ME - Memphis, TN
ML - Mobile, AL (Other Trains)
MO - Mobile, AL (Intermodal Only)
MT - Montgomery, AL
NA - Nashville, TN
NO - New Orleans, LA
NS - Norfolk Southern Interchange
NY - Croxton, NJ (Intermodal Only)
PA - Peoria, IL
PH - Philadelphia, PA
PI - Pittsburgh, PA
RI - Richmond, VA
SB - South Bend, IN
SC - Scranton, PA
SL - St. Louis, MO
SP - Springfield, MO
SR - Springfield, IL
SV - Savannah, GA
SY - Syracuse, NY
TA - Tallahassee, FL
TO - Toronto, ON
And at the end of the symbols, the following suffixes will be used (e.g. Z-CHNYX):
X: Any Extra Unscheduled Run
2, 3, ... : Any Second, Third, and so on Section
For unit trains, the KCC&E will add a letter at the end of the symbol to simplify things:
E- Ethanol
G- Gypsum
I- Iron Ore
L- Limestone
O - Crude Oil
P - Phosphate/Potash or Pipe
S - Steel or Sulfur
W - Windmill
For foreign run-through trains, the KCC&E uses an alphanumeric symbol for their origin/destination codes:
B1 - BNSF Birmingham
B4 - CSX Birmingham
B6 - NS Birmingham
B8 - Shortline/Regional Birmingham
BU2 - CN Buffalo
BU4 - CSX Buffalo
BU6 - NS Buffalo
C1 - BNSF Chicago
C2 - CN Chicago
C3 - CP Chicago
C4 - CSX Chicago
C6 - NS Chicago
C7 - UP Chicago
C8 - Shortline/Regional Chicago
D3 - CP Davenport
K1 - BNSF Kansas City
K3 - CP Kansas City
K5 - KCS Kansas City
K6 - NS Kansas City
K7 - UP Kansas City
K8 - Shortline/Regional Kansas City
N1 - BNSF New Orleans
N2 - CN New Orleans
N4 - CSX New Orleans
N5 - KCS New Orleans
N6 - NS New Orleans
N7 - UP New Orleans
T2 - CN Toronto
T3 - CP Toronto
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by ThomasACu » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:55 am
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Monday, July 3, 2017
SD90MAC STATUS: The first SD90MAC has been released from the Chicago Shops and put into service: KCC&E #5700. It is still in Canadian Pacific’s “Golden Beaver” paint scheme, but with a green and yellow number patch cabside. It left Sunday afternoon as the lead unit of M-CIIN (Chicago to Indianapolis). KCC&E #5703 is in the process of completion, along with #5708.
KCC&E TO HANDLE FORMER CSX TRAFFIC: After CSX abolished several UPS trains, the KCC&E has announced that they will be handling these trains.
by ThomasACu » Wed Jul 05, 2017 2:20 am
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Wednesday, July 5, 2017
INDIANA COLLISION: Train M-CISB collided with a semi-truck Tuesday afternoon in the town of New Carlisle. The lone driver was killed on impact, and the lead engine, KCC&E ES44AC #903, suffered substantial damage. Chicago Subdivision trains would detour on the CSX Garrett Subdivision until 7:30 PM, when the wreck was cleaned up. A 20-mph restriction was put in place as soon as the line re-opened.
MORE LEASERS: Rumor has it that, in addition to the former Norfolk Southern C40-8’s on long-term lease from Larry’s Truck & Electric (LTEX), a trio of CIT (CEFX) SD60s will be coming. These are former Soo Line units that were last on lease to Norfolk Southern in 2015-16.
The LTEX C40-8 leasers include: 8734-35, 8738, 8740, 8742-44, 8747-51, 8753, 8755-57, 8759-60, and 8762.
It is unknown which CIT SD60s are being leased, as this is just a rumor.
by ThomasACu » Wed Jul 05, 2017 5:47 pm
M-INCI just arrived at Chicago with the first SD90MAC on the point. Two other EMDs were in the consist as well, an SD60 and an SD70M-2.
KCCE 5700 ARRIVE LOAD CHICAGO IL 17:44
by ThomasACu » Thu Jul 06, 2017 1:35 am
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Thursday, July 6, 2017
TWO MORE SD90MACs RELEASED: KCCE 5703 and 5708 have been released for service, still in CP Beaver paint with a KCC&E Green/Yellow number patch. KCCE 5700 returned to Chicago Thursday afternoon as the leader of M-INCI.
NS SD60E INVASION: Thursday’s Locomotive Trace shows us that four of Norfolk Southern’s SD60E rebuilds have been roaming the KCC&E system (one of which just interchanged with the KCC&E).
NS 6901 DEPART LOAD KANSASC MO 13:59
NS 6947 ARRIVE LOAD MEMPHIS TN 10:36
NS 6961 INTERC KCCE CHICAGO IL 18:01
NS 7030 DEPART EMPTY TALLAHA FL 09:40
INTERC = Interchange
KANSASC = Kansas City
TALLAHA = Tallahassee
PTC: A PTC Test Train, S-TADT (Tallahassee, FL - Dothan, AL) was running on the Tallahassee Subdivision on Thursday, with ES44DC #4503 leading SD40M-2 #2319. As well, PTC installation has been completed on the Georgia Subdivision (Atlanta to Savannah) and the New Orleans Subdivision (Jackson, MS, to New Orleans, LA). This signifies that much of the KCC&E system is now beginning to move quickly to Positive Train Control technology.
by ThomasACu » Fri Jul 07, 2017 12:03 am
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Friday, July 7, 2017
UNION PACIFIC HORSEPOWER-HOUR REPAYMENT: Union Pacific has re-activated many older locomotives to send to the KCC&E for horsepower-hour repayment. These include:
Dash 8-40C: 9101, 9107, 9125, 9163, 9200, 9227, 9249, 9265, 9289, 9299, 9320, 9347
Dash 8-40/41CW: 9359, 9370, 9384, 9390, 9406, 9417, 9438, 9488, 9523, 9550
SD60M: 2250, 2264, 2276, 2292, 2306, 2330, 2357, 2379, 2404, 2410, 2423, 2454, 2478, 2496
Some of these units are already on KCC&E property:
UP 9101 INTERC KCCE KANSASC 12:31
SD70ACe-T4 #1776 RETURNS TO ATLANTA: “Independence” SD70ACe-T4 #1776, has returned to Atlanta after over a week on display in Washington, DC, for the holiday. It will be put back into revenue freight service this morning at around 8:00 AM EDT. A restored Alco RS3, numbered #7777, has also been on display in DC and will be in excursion service for trains out of Atlanta.
NEW TRAIN: A new local turn train that will pick up cars from the Lake State Railway in Saginaw, Michigan, will begin running on Saturday. This train will start in Detroit Yard, head up to Saginaw with a few cars for interchange with the LSRC, and drop them off. Then, the LSRC will interchange their cars with the KCC&E, and the KCC&E power will pick those up and bring them to Detroit Yard. The train’s symbol will be L-DE09 (Denoting a local turn that will interchange with a class III railroad).
by ThomasACu » Sun Jul 09, 2017 12:09 am
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Sunday, July 9, 2017
UNION PACIFIC HORSEPOWER-HOUR REPAYMENT: As of 12:00 AM EDT, all of the Union Pacific locomotives that were re-activated to repay horsepower-hours to the KCC&E have arrived on property. The last few units, all being Dash 8s, arrived on UP’s M-ASPR (St. Louis to Proviso) train. These Dash 8s would be interchanged with the KCC&E.
SD90MAC UPDATE: KCC&E SD90MACs #5702 and #5704 have received their new road numbers and patches. They have been placed into service on Train Q-CIKC, with ET44AC #1022 helping out in the third spot of the consist.
KCC&E ENGINE STILL IN MEXICO: KCC&E C44-9W #7049 has been in Mexico since July 1st, 2017. It was on Ferromex property, but has moved onto Kansas City Southern de Mexico property. It is now being traced in San Luis Potosi, Mexico.
KCCE 007049 SAN LUIS POTOSI SL 07 08 2133 U Arrive In-Transit KCSM
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Monday, July 10, 2017
ENGINE FIRE: Sunday’s M-EVIN (Evansville to Indianapolis) had a big issue. The lead unit, KCC&E AC4400CW #148, had a severe engine fire while trying to depart with the 200-car load. The trailing units were SD70ACe #5592 and SD70ACe-T4 #5600. Much of the locomotive is now fried, and the unit will eventually be sent to the Chicago Shops for repair. For now, it is in storage at Indianapolis Yard.
KCC&E #7049 RETURNS TO AMERICA: The KCC&E Dash 9 that has been in Mexico for the past week has finally made its way back into the U.S. on a KCS train. Here is the latest trace of KCC&E #7049:
KCCE 007049 CORPUS CHRISTI TX 07 09 2310 U Arrive In-Transit KCS
LENT GEEP: The KCC&E has sent one of its GP40-2 locomotives to the New York, Susquehanna, and Western Railway for long-term lease.
KCCE 001300 BINGHAMTON NY 07 09 0902 U Junction Delivery KCCE NYSW
by ThomasACu » Tue Jul 11, 2017 12:09 am
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Tuesday, July 11, 2017
SEVERE WEATHER: Severe thunderstorms have been threatening the states of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio on Monday. These storms have affected service in the region. There are precautions train crews are required to take during certain severe weather events. For instance, when a tornado warning is issued, trains in the warning area, or within a 5 mile radius of the warning area, are required to stop, and the crew is required to seek refuge in the nearest substantial shelter available. However, when a severe thunderstorm warning is issued, trains will still be moving, but restricted to a much lower speed than the track limit.
SD90MAC UPDATE: Patch renumbering of KCC&E #5705 has been completed at the Chicago Shops. It retains its original Canadian Pacific scheme, but with a green and yellow number patch. It has been placed into service on Train Q-CIKC on Monday.
Union Pacific C40-8 #9101 was caught leading the Z-CHNY today out of Chicago. Three other engines were trailing: KCC&E ES44DCs #4582 and #4677, and SD70M #4410.
UP 9101 is one of the many 1990's-built Union Pacific engines repaying horsepower-hours to the KCC&E. They need to repay a bunch of them to the railway, so they will be running around the system for a while.
As a result, occasional 4-5 unit consists will show up on the system's trains, with 2-3 on line. The other units in the consist are used for backup purposes. Sometimes, all units will be on line.
by ThomasACu » Thu Jul 13, 2017 12:58 am
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Thursday, July 13, 2017
Only one thing to note for today:
SD90MAC UPDATE: KCC&E #5701 is the only SD90MAC that will receive KCC&E paint as of right now. It is currently in the process of being painted and readied for service at the Chicago Shops.
by ThomasACu » Sat Jul 15, 2017 12:15 am
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Saturday, July 15, 2017
MORE CSX TRAFFIC: CSX has abolished more trains and ridded themselves of much of their traffic. The KCC&E has picked this traffic up, and will likely require more power for these trains.
STORMS: More storms in the Northeast have washed out tracks. As a result, many trains were rerouted on the NS and CSX. Intermodal and mail traffic has slowed down a little because of this, and it is likely that this may happen again at the start of the work week Monday.
LOCOMOTIVE RETIREMENTS: ET44AC #1018 has been retired following a large fire. It was reportedly caused by an employee who was smoking on the job. A cigarette was likely the cause of the fire.
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Sunday, July 16, 2017
MORE LEASERS: Three CIT SD60’s will be joining the lease fleet soon. The KCC&E has decided to lease them for the fall traffic surge. These units are CEFX 6003, 6004, and 6010. All units were previously stored at Norfolk Southern’s DeButts Yard in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and are in CIT Blue paint. Norfolk Southern will be running a transfer train to the KCC&E today with the CIT trio in-transit.
ODDBALL CONSISTS FROM SATURDAY: M-TOBU-15 (Toronto to Buffalo) had a BC Rail cowl unit leading the way, C40-8M #4615. However, the unit was in CN paint, with “BCOL” sublettering. Z-CH1NY-16 (BNSF Chicago to New York) had a Santa Fe Warbonnet trailing, BNSF #660.
TRAIN ENCOUNTERS COYOTES: A local transfer train coming out of Indianapolis had to stop on Saturday night for a band of coyotes sitting on the Lafayette Main near Lebanon, Indiana. However, the coyotes ran off as soon as the engineer blew his horn a couple of times. They were on their way soon thereafter.
SD90MAC UPDATE: KCC&E SD90MAC #5709 just had its patch renumbering completed at Chicago, and has been released into service. As well, the Chicago Shops is almost done with patch renumbering for KCC&E #5707. It will likely be released later today.
UP SD60M LEADS THE Z-CHNY: Union Pacific SD60M #2250, currently repaying horsepower-hours for the KCC&E, was caught leading the hottest train on the system. UP #2250 is a rare “Triclops” SD60M built in 1989 by EMD. It gets its nickname from the distinctive three-piece windshield it has.
SD90MAC UPDATE: KCC&E SD90MAC #5707 just had its patch renumbering done and has been released into service.
CIT SD60s AT WORK: The following CIT SD60s are now in service on the KCC&E: CEFX 6003, 6004, and 6010. All are in CIT Blue paint and have been placed into service at Nashville. One of them, which was 6010, ended up leading manifest M-NAME (Nashville to Memphis).
FERROMEX LEADS Q-KCCI: Ferromex ES44AC #4698 was seen leading the daily Kansas City-to-Chicago manifest train. Trailing were BNSF ES44C4 #8210 and KCC&E C40-8W #6682.
DERAILMENT: Train Q-CIDE (Chicago to Detroit) derailed on the Chicago Subdivision Friday afternoon. Only three cars were involved and the cleanup did not last long at all.
TEENAGERS VS. THE CREW OF Z-NYLA: The crew on the daily Croxton-to-Los Angeles intermodal to Union Pacific had to deal with some defiant teenagers Friday morning getting out of the terminal. The two teenagers were reported sitting on the main out of the Croxton terminal chatting. As soon as the train came out, and as soon as the crew first laid eyes on the teenagers, it stopped. The engineer came out and told them to get off property, as they were trespassing. One of the teenagers yelled and swore at the engineer, telling them that they were “invading their privacy”. As well, they threatened to use violence against the engineer. The engineer called police, but until they came, the teenagers fought with the crew. Police eventually came and removed the teenagers off of property, and Z-NYLA began their journey to Chicago, where they would interchange their load with Union Pacific. Just another day in the life of a train crew.
SD90MAC UPDATE: KCC&E SD90MAC #5706 is the last unit to get its new KCC&E number patch. It was released into service Sunday. The only SD90MAC left is #5701, which is getting repainted into full KCC&E paint right now at the Chicago Shops.
GTW SD40-3 ON THE KCC&E: GTW SD40-3 #5944 was seen leading KCC&E Train Q-TOCI today. It was in Canadian National Red, White, and Black paint with “GTW” sublettering. GTW #5944 has been in helper service on the CN’s Byron Hill Route in Wisconsin for a while.
STRUGGLING UP THE HILL: On a steep grade in West Virginia, a KCC&E coal train coming from the McElroy Mine had three AC4400CW’s leading the way, #194, #392, and #237, with SD70ACe #5472 and ES44AC #901 pushing on the back. Apparently, the load was heavier than the crew thought, so the train stalled on a steep grade along its route. A nearby yard sent two more locomotives, ET44AC #1092 and SD70ACe #5310, to be put on the back of the train. The train successfully made it up the grade and continued with no issues.
by ThomasACu » Tue Jul 25, 2017 11:54 pm
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Wednesday, July 26, 2017
AMTRAK AGREEMENT: Recently, the KCC&E agreed to allow Amtrak to run some trains on their trackage, including the “Capitol Limited” and “Lake Shore Limited”.
LTEX LEASER DUO ON M-EIBU: The Erie-to-Buffalo manifest train had a set of LTEX C40-8 units for power Tuesday, #8762 and #8738. As well, trailing the two leasers was CSX SD70MAC #4776 and KCC&E SD50d 3459. The SD70MAC has been on the KCC&E for about two weeks now.
Kansas City, Chicago, and Eastern Updates - Friday, July 28, 2017
MORE LEASE ENGINES ON THE WAY: The KCC&E just contracted with National Railway Equipment to lease several SD60 locomotives. These locomotives will be:
SD60: 5951-52, 5959, 5962, 5974, 5980, 5988
NEW ORDER FOR TIER 4 GEVOs: A brand new order for General Electric’s ET44AC locomotive has been placed by the KCC&E. These units will be numbered 1120-1199. The first batch of these units will be delivered starting in late August or early September at the latest. However, the C36-7u's that many thought would leave because of these new Tier 4 units will stay with the KCC&E. More trackage in the western part of the system has been added on and more trains have begun to show up around the system in general due to CSX cutting more trains. So, the KCC&E needs all the power they can get their hands on at this point.
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Lou Barlow Talks Scott Walker and Sunn O)))
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South Cheshire Radio Control Society
Flying Dates & Times
Welcome to the South Cheshire Radio Control Society
SCRCS model flying club has been operating for over 40 years and is based near Middlewich in Cheshire. The club has approximately 60 members and is a welcoming and friendly club whose members span those of ‘man and boy’ flying experience through to newcomers and returners to the hobby.
We are predominantly a fixed wing club and fly a broad mixture of models from small foam ARTF’s up to some quite substantial models built in the traditional way from kits or plans. Electric and IC powered models are welcome and we have 365 days a year flying – see the Flying Dates & Times page for details.
Our club focusses on providing a model flying environment which is relaxed and sociable whilst being safe and well organised. We fly from a level grass strip at our field near Middlewich and the strip is well maintained and mown/ rolled frequently throughout the flying season to give a facility that’s suitable for a wide variety of models.
Our annual membership fee is very competitive and we currently don’t charge a joining fee for new members.
Within the club there is a good depth of experience of all aspects of model building and a helpful atmosphere where someone will generally be able to help – no matter what the problem. In addition to meeting up at the flying field we have a social evening once a month for r/c flying chat.
Newcomers to the hobby of all ages and abilities are welcome and we have a number of volunteer instructors within the club who will provide free tuition in line with the BMFA’s achievement scheme – see the ‘Beginners’ page for more details.
Model flying is a great hobby – the outdoor air, great chat and banter with like-minded characters and lots and lots of tea drinking (and not forgetting the flying too……)
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1. A voyage to and from the island of Borneo, in the East Indies : with a description of the said island: giving an account of the inhabitants, their manners, customs, religion, product, chief ports, and trade. Together with the re-establishment of the English trade there, an. 1714, after our factory had been destroyed by the Banjareens some years before. Also a description of the islands of Canary, Cape Verd, Java, Madura; of the streights of Bally, the Cape of Good Hope, the Hottentots, the island of St. Helena, Ascension, andc. The whole very pleasant and very useful to such as shall have occasion to go into those parts. Illustrated with several curious maps and cuts Page 174B
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London, Printed for T. Warner at the Black Boy, and J. Batley at th Dove, in Pater-noster-Row, 1718, pg. 174B
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Home Celebrities Celebrity Marijuana Strains On The Rise
Celebrity Marijuana Strains On The Rise
Celebrity-sponsored pot is the latest marketing strategy for the cannabis industry
Colorado growers working with musicians to develop one-of-a-kind marijuana strains
The Denver Post-Jason Belvins-7/13/16
Pot is going the way of sneakers and snowboards.
As cannabis fights for a foothold in the U.S. economy, innovative weed growers are taking cues from a variety of industries — footwear, musical instruments, skis and snowboards, for example — and working with superstar musicians to develop signature marijuana strains, pro-model cannabis that sails off the shelves.
Colorado’s growers — captains of the state’s maturing cannabis scene — are leading the charge in this next stage of marijuana marketing that’s more partnership than endorsement deal.
In the past year, many musicians have unveiled signature strains of marijuana. Snoop Dogg has several. Rappers Freddie Gibbs and Wiz Khalifa, singer-songwriters Willie Nelson and Melissa Etheridge and the family of the late Bob Marley all announced signature weed products last year.
The chic East Colfax grassery GroundSwell Cannabis Boutique got a big bump in business this month when Dead & Company bass player Oteil Burbridge wore a shop T-shirt during the band’s Saturday show at Folsom Field in Boulder.
“People were coming in saying ‘I saw Oteil with that shirt, and that’s why I’m here,’” GroundSwell‘s chief grower, Rodney Coquia, said. Coquia and Grammy-winning Burbridge worked for nine months crafting Oteil’s Egyptian Kush, a first-ever hybrid of Alien OG and OG Kush. “It was definitely a big weekend for us. It was a big weekend for Oteil as well.”
Partnering with entertainers is an understandable step for marijuana companies working inside a disorganized industry from which national brands have not yet emerged, said Harvard Business School marketing professor John Quelch, who in 2014 co-wrote the case study “Marketing Marijuana in Colorado.”
“I see this as a low-cost vehicle for achieving brand differentiation,” Quelch said. “I think it’s probably going to proliferate but unlikely to be a real good basis for sustained differentiation. Each of these individuals will attract a certain number of aficionados who are drawn to purchase the product as a recognition of the music or the artist, but if they don’t care for the product, they won’t buy it again. Overall I regard this as a relatively unsustainable model, but understandable given the fragmented nature of the local market at the moment.”
Still, Colorado growers labor to synthesize strains with staying power. And tapping musicians with a long-standing relationship with cannabis is akin to enrolling expert consultants in the research and design phase of manufacturing.
Colorado’s own Native Roots — one of the largest dispensary chains in the country — worked with Boulder’s instrumental livetronica duo Big Gigantic to develop Cookies and Dream, a strain the company unveiled at its private Tree House party in Aspen during the X Games this year. Last year, Native Roots released GriZ Kush, a hybrid strain developed with Boulder artist GriZ.
When Big Gigantic took the stage in a transformed diner in downtown Aspen during the X Games circus, hundreds of people puffed complimentary doobies. (There were about seven ways to get high that night, including THC-infused cocktails, lotions and stick-on patches.)
Native Roots, Colorado’s largest dispensary company, with 16 shops across the state, spent months with GriZ and Big Gigantic to craft the one-of-a-kind. Other musicians are lining up asking for their own strains, Native Roots CEO Josh Ginsberg said.
“It’s something they feel makes the most sense for their music and who they are,” Ginsberg said. “It’s something they want to smoke when they are playing or listening.”
Coquia calls the indica hybrid he developed with Burbridge “the ultimate musical strain” with a cherry flavor that Florida-based Burbridge likes.
Burbridge, 51, called GroundSwell “Willie Wonka’s.” He chatted up his strain with dedicated Dead-fan Bill Walton on Sirius radio.Online magazines featured the bass player and Oteil’s Egyptian Kush as he prepared for the historic concerts at Folsom Field, the first live music in the football stadium in 15 years.
“Oteil was just over the top. Like a kid who got exactly what he wanted for Christmas,” said Coquia, who has known Burbridge for more than 20 years. “You could tell the day we released it was a big day in his life.”
Coquia, who plays lead guitar for Bonfire Dub, also spent 18 months crafting a potent sativa hybrid with turntablist DJ Logic. Logic Diesel, released last year, remains one of the most popular strains at GroundSwell, which has sold medical marijuana for five years and began recreational sales a year ago.
Like Native Roots, GroundSwell has several big-name musicians asking for their own strains, which the dispensary promotes with baseball-type trading cards detailing their specific genetics and stony characteristics.
“I want a pack of cards, wrapped with a stick of ganja gum,” said Coquia, only half-joking.
That is the kind of out-of-the-box thinking that is driving innovation in Colorado’s cannabis industry. Pro-model weed isn’t going to transform the industry or start replacing timeless strains, Ginsberg said, but “it’s something cool and unique, and it’s fun for us and it’s fun for the artists.”
“This is some really great pot we are creating,” Ginsberg said of the GriZ strain, which ranks among Native Roots’ most popular offerings. “It’s a great weed, and everyone loves it. His name may bring people to the table. They may buy it once for the name but they keep coming back because it’s such a great smoke.”
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Conor McGregor last week, this weekend was a fight trip with Serena
fight, friendsBy roxyfighter April 16, 2018
So I had a really hard practice last Thursday…my head wasn’t into it. I had done a jiu-jitsu class at Dunham’s, which was freaking amazing, and left early to make it back to MMA sparring at Syndicate. I didn’t really feel like doing MMA that day, but helping Serena train for her fight was my motivation. I had a horrible performance but made it through. I had showered and was rushing out the door, when I heard Serena talking to Mama Wood (Coach John’s mom) and say, “He’s okay, he wasn’t injured at all, but Mike…”
Um, WHAT?! Why would he be injured? Somebody said Conor McGregor broke a window in a bus and glass cut up his face.
…..my brain could not even processes that information. It just couldn’t. I think I muttered, “What the heck” and then kept walking out the door to my car, leaving Serena and I think JoJo to follow me in a few minutes. John being okay was extremely important to me, so as long as he was okay, I’d process the rest later. I had just been in fight mode for the past four hours and was utterly exhausted. After I dunked myself in the cold plunge and recovered, as well as my food digesting, my thought process started activating again.
WHAT THE HECK. McGregor did WHAT? He sneaked in through a back door and threw a dolly through a window of a bus, and shattering glass cut up MY teammate Mike Chiesa so that he wasn’t allowed to fight, glass went in Ray Borg’s eye so HE couldn’t fight, and Artem was part of the episode so HE wasn’t allowed to fight. Plus their three opponents. That’s six fighters who trained their butts off for months who won’t get paid, won’t get fights, have their career advancement halted, etc. I heard reports that Ray won’t be permanently damaged…I hope.
Glass in the freaking eye? Dude, what if someone went blind? McGregor was after Khabib….so he attacked a whole bus and involved innocent people? That’s disgusting and criminal and a felony. I want to hear his statement on the matter, but it doesn’t really make a difference because he committed the act, right? Dana White condemned the heck out of him, and like 5 minutes ago I read a news article saying that he’s changing his stance and ““We talked,” or something, Mr. White told reporters at the UFC 223 post-fight press conference. “I think that there’s a mutual respect between us and obviously this week, I had so many things thrown at me. To focus on this show was insane. We’ll get back and we’ll focus on Conor McGregor.”
Whatever, man. He makes so much money for the UFC of course they can’t ditch him, even if he did criminal things. Just don’t dare call him a martial artist.
Okay I wrote that last week and never posted it.
I still enjoyed watching the rest of the card. We invited some friends over, including Andrea Lee and her husband Donny, who were in town! How cool! 😀
This past Thursday, I flew to Great Falls, Montana, with my teammate Serena “The Southpaw Outlaw” DeJesus for her fight! She’s been fighting for about four years and has an amateur record of 5-2. The rounds are 3 minutes long. Back in the day when I debuted, there was no amateur, and I had horrible striking skills and fought other not-well rounded people, got a horrible paycheck, like $100 flat for my first fight. Haha It’s not like that anymore, and it shouldn’t be like that. Professional fighters are well-rounded, strong, and conditioned. They have to have their diet figured out, be able to make weight, and be able to deal with the stress and emotions of getting into a confined space and battle another human being.
Serena works SO hard constantly. I’m so proud of her efforts leading up to the fight, and her performance in the fight.
So we flew out Thursday and landed in a blizzard. Just great. *eye roll* Oh well! We got settled in our SWEET hotel room that had a kitchen and fridge and everything! She got interviewed by some TV station and the promotion, we went grocery shopping, and then we started her initial weight cut.
She looked great!
We woke up Friday morning….I worked out in the beautiful fitness center while she slept in. Then she cut the rest of the weight. It sucked a lot, but she got through it.
Coach John, and also her parents arrived around noon. We finished her weight cut, and I ate BBQ with John. I NEVER GET TO EACH DELICIOUS THINGS when I travel, because I’m usually the one fighting and cutting weight, so I was so so so excited! It was delicious!
She weighed in, and we went to eat Pho. Then we did the ceremonial weigh-ins in the Cowboys Bar and she faced off against her opponent Kelly “Skittles” Clayton, who is a super nice person.
My friend Bonny and her family drove a few hours to see us! I’m so grateful and happy! Thank you!
We hung out a bit after Serena’s weigh-ins, and Saturday morning when Serena slept in, I hung out with Bonny and family a bit in the morning. I actually felt super sleep-deprived all weekend from getting back late, so I was super tired despite not having trained. Well, I lifted weights, did squats, core training, and the elliptical, but that doesn’t really count. Does it? ^^;;
I’m glad Serena got a lot of rest. She would fight as the main event, at like 10:30 PM. Dang! Well, at least thanks do the time difference, it was 9:30 PM Vegas time. Or so I thought. What time did she actually fight? Like 11:30?
She went out there and put on a great show! Controlled, calculated brutality and violence. Kelly was super tough and it was a very close fight, but Serena landed just a little bit more and got the unanimous decision!
I was taking out my phone to take, what I hoped would be the victory pose, when Lorenzo, our physical trainer, texted me, “????????” Haha, I thought, how did he know to text at just this moment? Just wait 60 more seconds and I’ll tell ya.
Yay! I didn’t know this before, but she is the first recognized autistic professional fighter. She said there had been another guy but he retired already. So that’s means she’s not the first? Well, whatever, she’s one of the only ones, and she’s amazing and has to deal with more than the average fighter due to sensory issues and her brain being wired a little differently. I was so thrilled to be there for her, support her, and be asked to be in her corner while she realized her dreams!
Thanks to all the fans out there who send good vibes, love, and support, and especially sponsors who donate cash or products to help out both her and my journey! <3 Thanks for flying me out, Terrill! I am their flyweight champion, after all, which I'm so proud of and honored to fight for them!
We all look so tired in this pic. haha it’s like 12:30 AM here. Dang, Fusion, start the fights earlier! But thanks for having us out!!
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ELITE PRAETORIAN GUARD
* has notes below for further details
SPECIES - Human (?)
GENDER - Male (?)
HEIGHT - Varies
MOVE - 10
Blaster 6D
Brawling Parry 6D+2
Dodge 6D
Melee Combat 6D
(S)Melee Combat (*Weapon of choice) 8D+2
Melee Parry 6D
PERCEPTION: 3D+1
Command 5D
Hide 5D+2
Search 6D+2
Sneak 5D+2
Streetwise 3D
Survival 6D+1
STRENGTH: 3D+2
*Brawling 6D+2
Climbing/Jumping 6D
Lifting 5D+1
Stamina 7D+2
Demolition 5D+1
First Aid 5D
Security 5D
CREDITS - N/A (Access to First Order resources)
Elite Praetorian Guard Armor (+2D Physical, +2D Energy, -1D Dexterity, can parry lightsabers and other energy melee weapons), *Personal Weapon (pick one, see below)
*Weapons: See Game Notes for weapon details
Vibro-Voulge (Vibro-Polearm)
Vibro-Bisento (Vibro-Axe)
Bilari Electro-Chain Whip (Vibro-Sword & Stun-Whip)
Double-Headed Vibro-Arbir Blade (Double-Headed Vibro-Blade Staff/Pair of Vibro-Blades)
The Elite Praetorian Guard was a force of eight human warriors who were tasked with the protection of Supreme Leader Snoke, the leader of the First Order. Following the tradition of the Emperor's Royal Guard, the personal bodyguards of Emperor Sheev Palpatine, the Praetorian Guards wore red robes and armor. They specialized in various martial arts, including Ter�s K�si, and carried various high-tech melee weapons.
Following Snoke's assassination at the hands of Kylo Ren, the Praetorians attempted to avenge his death. They fought very well, and, for a brief moment, almost overwhelmed Ren and Rey but were ultimately killed by the duo. After their destruction, Ren succeeded Snoke as Supreme Leader of the First Order.
As the First Order mirrored many of the dark traditions of the Galactic Empire, the Elite Praetorian Guard originated from the Emperor's Royal Guard, personal bodyguards of Galactic Emperor Sheev Palpatine. The Praetorian Guard was an elite force of eight human warriors who protected the First Order's leader, Supreme Leader Snoke. They flanked the Supreme Leader in his throne room, and held in Snoke's Mega-class Star Dreadnought, the Supremacy. Aside from their obvious origin from the Emperor's Royal Guard, they also were derived to some extent from the Atrisian Emperor's royal guards, in particular how each of them operated in pairs. Three of the guards were known as the First, Third and Seventh Guards, respectively.
The guards were holding court as usual in Snoke's throne room when the Supreme Leader summoned his apprentice Kylo Ren, whom he proceeded to berate for his losses on Starkiller Base. When Kylo responded aggressively to the taunting, the guards quickly assumed combat-ready stances but stood down at Snoke's gesture. When Snoke was assassinated by Ren, the Praetorian Guards immediately sprung into action to avenge the death of their leader. Ren and Rey, who were present for the assassination, engaged all eight of the guards in a short yet intense fight. The guards were at first evenly matched against the two Force-wielders, with their weapons being resistant to their foe's lightsabers and managed to score a wound apiece on them. However, they were ultimately no match for the two and fell one by one, with the last guard being killed when Ren ignited Rey's lightsaber, which she had thrown to him, through his faceplate, killing him instantly. Ren then assumed the title of Supreme Leader.
Equipment and Training
The Elite Praetorian Guards were clad in ornate crimson armor, robes and plastoid helmet. Nine plates of armor protected each Praetorian's arm and shoulder. They were merciless, persistent, and specialized in melee combat. The Praetorian Guards boasted an arsenal of melee weapons that were high-tech versions of unpowered analogs found in primitive societies across the galaxy, such as long vibro-voulges, vibro-bisentos with an electro-plasma energy filament running along the blade's edge�flailing Bilari electro-chain whips, and heavy double-bladed vibro-arbir blades that could also be separated into dagger-like single-bladed weapons to adjust to any battle scenario. The precise, sweeping movements of their martial arts fighting style struck fear into the hearts of foes.
Although the Praetorians' weapons and gauntlets�which could resist lightsaber attacks�as well as their training enabled them to hold their own against both Ren and Rey for a time, the guards were ultimately defeated by the Force-sensitive pair.
Praetorian Guard Armor not only incorporated materials that were resistant to the energy attacks, but also had conductive wiring built into the armor plates that, when powered, could produce a magnetic field that further improved this, making the armor quite resistant to attacks from blasters or glancing blows from a lightsaber (though direct stab could still penetrate the shell). This field caused excurciating pain to the Praetorians wearing the armor, though this was considered part of their training and every day life after they began their service as Praetorian Guards. The pain may have helped sharpen their focus to remain alert for potential attacks and assassination attempts upon the Supreme Leader when standing guard in Snoke's throne room.
GAME NOTES:
*Brawling VS Martial Arts
The Praetorian Guard were said to be trained in various forms, including Teras Kasi, Echani, Bakuuni Hand, and Nar Kon Jii Blind Alley (pronunciation may be wrong). These were not listed in the skills for various reasons, namely that there has always been debate of how Martial Arts should be used in the Star Wars D6 system. If GMs/players wish to use these skills with the Praetorian Guard, reduce the Guard's Brawling skill by -1D, and add these Martial Arts as either Skill Specializations (if going by the book) or as Advanced Skills (if Martial Arts as Specializations seems too powerful, as it usually does).
Teras Kasi has rules in the D6 system, such as the Shadows of the Empire Sourcebook.
Echani has canon and legends information, as well as rules converted from D20 to D6, though the art was not developed and named until after Star Wars had moved from the D6 system to D20. The simple version is using the skill in place of Stamina, or otherwise making the user more durable.
Bakuuni Hand was a Jedi martial art where a Jedi used the Force to reinforce their hand, forearms and feet, and could deliver blows that could smash rocks. While the Praetorian Guard are not Force users, they could still learn this martial art to be aware of what it can do, and be more able to fight against it if a Force user ever appeared using the skill. An non-Force alternative would also be to reinforce their hands, forearms and feet the old-fashioned way, with endurance training that strengthens their skin, muscles and bones. If such a skill is applied, it would be an Advanced skill, and could increase the damage a character could do with the parts of the body they have enhanced, though such training would take months, even years, to perfect.
The last martial art, Nar Kon Juu Blind Alley, as of this moment I have no available information of this skill. If I were to "guess", I;d say it involved dirty fighting, which would work well with the other martial arts here, and for the role of the Praetorian Guard as bodyguards to their Supreme Leader. Such a skill would probably involve misdirection and feinting of some kind.
*Weapons
Each of the Praetorian Guard's melee weapons is paired with an ultrasonic generator that created a high-frequency vibrating edge for greater striking and cutting power. They each also had an electro-plasma filament that produced a small blade that could parry a lightsaber. Each weapon requires 4 power cells installed in their hilt.
-Vibro-Voulge: Effectively a polearm weapon, a pole or staff with a blade on the end of it, and similar to a glaive in design. This would give the user more reach than most other melee weapons. Vibro-Voulge, Str+2D, reach +1 meter, +1D to parry melee weapons.
-Vibro-Bisento: Also a polearm and functionally similar to the Vibro-Voulge in some ways. The key difference is, where the Voulge has a longer reach to keep the enemy at a distance, the bisento has a longer, heavier blade for striking power. A bisento may usually be meant for a mix of dueling or fencing with a reach greater than a typical sword but under that of a polearm, but in this weapon's case, made of futuristic metal alloys and materials, this weapon's blade is meant for cutting power more like a axe. Vibro-Bisento, Str+3D.
-Bilari Electro-Chain Whip: A rapier-like vibro-sword and electro-whip rolled into one. The weapon started in sword form and could be used to duel and fence like a sword, though had little cutting ability and would be used more for stabbing or parrying other weapons like lightsabers. The user could snap the weapon into a whip-like form, causing the sword blade to separate into flexible links, greatly extending the weapon's reach, as well as giving the user greater ability to wrap and bind an enemy's weapon during combat. Vibro-Sword, Str+2D. Electro-Whip, 5D Stun.
-Double-Headed Vibro-Arbir Blade: A double-headed vibro-blade staff that could split apart into a pair of duel-wielded vibro-daggers. The staff would give the user some reach while twirling and spinning the weapon to deliver multiple strikes or keeping enemies back for fear of being hit by the blades. The separated vibro-daggers allowed the user to engage enemies in closer range, where the staff would be almost useless in striking them (though could still be used to parry). Vibro-Blade Staff, Str+1D+2, reach +1 meter. Separated Vibro-Blades, Str+2D.
GAME DESIGN NOTES:
For the most part, I based the Snoke's Praetorian Guard off the Emperor Palpatine's Imperial Royal Guard. The differences are, where the Royal Guard could be expected to perform other duties for the Emperor on occasion that took them away from the throne room, Snoke's Praetorian Guard seem trained, equipped, and overall set up to always be present in Snoke's throne room for his personal protection, and never leave his side. With that in mind, any skills that aided in their roles as bodyguards either stayed the same or were improved. Any skills that detracted from this were reduced or removed. Also, any skills fitting their background are laft the same, enhanced, or added in if they were not there to begin with. For example, their Stamnia skill is improved due to the nature of their armor and the pain it causes them. Their Attributes are also shifted around from that of the Royal Guard as Mechanical and Technical are less important when devoted to the role of a bodyguard, but enhanced Perception would be much more important.
"The Emperor's guards were very formal, and you always got the sense that they could fight, but they didn't. They looked like they were more ceremonial, and you never really saw them in action. The Praetorians, my brief to Michael Kaplan was that those guys have to be more like samurai. They have to be built to move, and you have to believe that they could step forward and engage if they have to. They have to seem dangerous."
-Rian Johnson
Rian Johnson, the writer and director of The Last Jedi, wanted the Praetorian Guards to be built to move, to seem dangerous, more like samurai; in contrast to the Emperor's Royal Guards, which looked very formal and ceremonial. The Praetorian Guards' costume was designed by Michael Kaplan in parallel to Johnson's vision. The guards were named after the real-life Praetorian Guard whose members served as personal bodyguards to the Roman emperors.
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Luke Tanner’s Lexington KY
on Apr 02, 2018 by Michael Rupured
The Case of the Missing Drag Queen is the first story I’ve written that takes place in Lexington, KY. The thoroughbred horse farms that nearly surround the city set it apart from other places. Ocala FL be damned. Everybody knows Lexington is the Horse Capital of the World.
I love Lexington. My family has been in Central Kentucky since shortly after Daniel Boone came through Cumberland Gap in 1775. My departure in 1997 was supposed to be temporary, but I never moved back. Twenty years in the Deep South has left me unwilling to travel north between late September and the middle of May.
Our hero Luke Tanner has returned to Lexington after five years in Atlanta. It’s October 1982. Cordless landlines are high tech. MTV is a year old and plays music videos around the clock. Hooking up was called tricking, which was usually facilitated by alcohol consumed at the local gay bar rather than an app.
Luke tends bar in the Gilded Lily — part of a big gay bar known as the Garden where drag queens perform three nights a week. The Lavender Rose lounge, the Red Poppy women’s bar, and Green Carnation disco make the Garden the center of the universe for gay men and women living in Central Kentucky.
The Sinclair Arms is an eight-unit apartment building he manages for half off his rent. It’s inspired by a place off Waller Avenue where I once lived, but is ambiguously located within walking distance of Good Samaritan Hospital.
The Brougham House is the toniest restaurant in town and a popular hangout for the area’s rich and famous. Luke’s Aunt Callie treats him to dinner there for his birthday. Later, Luke and Pixie Wilder — one of the performers — return to the upscale eatery as part of their investigation, but prefer Polly Jo’s — a semi-seedy all-night eatery famous for Polly Jo burgers.
No story set in Lexington would be complete without a horse farm. Berger Place features black-washed board fences and stone barns topped with black roofs. Owners Tippy and Amber Berger host an elaborate party the week before the Kentucky Derby to mark the close of the spring meet at Keeneland.
Humorous moments are part of my brand. Most arise from a character’s words or actions. Some are inside jokes understood by only a few close friends. The people and places in my story are fictional. Any resemblance to reality is solely the reader’s imagination.
<wink, wink>
The Case of the Missing Drag Queen is available for preorder from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, or DSP Publications.
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OFFICIAL PRESSKIT
Justin Ross (Guitar), Arno van Zyl (Guitar), Nathan McClure (Vocals), Jonathan Burgers (Drums), Thariq Taladia (Bass)
Listen to our debut album “The Solemn Fracture” now! Available everywhere!
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THE 4 YEAR JOURNEY REALIZED
Rhakshah is a South African Progressive Technical Death Metal band based in Cape Town. The band is ultimately the culmination of a journey starting in early 2015, with Nathan McClure seeking out like-minded individuals who enjoy expressing themselves through creative impacting music. His vision for the band was to break the stereotype of “Just another local band”. This has remained ironclad during the formation of the group and after seeing many talented musicians come and go, the current line up was set in stone as of early September 2017.
Nathan McClure – Frontman, lead vocal and lyricist
Justin Ross – Lead guitar and main composer
Arno van Zyl – Rhythm guitar and occasionally banjo
Jonathan Burgers – Drums
Thariq Taladia – Bass guitar
Stian Estebeth – Guitar (Touring)
The name Rhakshah was derived from Rakshabandan, a Southern Asian annual rite centered around the tying of a thread, talisman, or amulet on the wrist as a form of ritual protection. Symbolizing a bond of protection or obligation to care for your fellow brother or sister. Rhakshah’s influence and sound can be related to bands like Necrophagist, Opeth, Decapitated, Dimmu Borgir, The Faceless, The Black Dahlia Murder, Whitechapel and Slayer.
Rhakshah made their anticipated debut at From The Hive’s “Badlands” in Stellenbosch, South Africa on October 7th 2017. Their debut single ‘Regalia’ premiered on local Cape Town radio station, OneFM 94.0 on the stations Rock Arena late night show. Their next highly anticipated performance was the following year at Metal4Africa’s SummerFest’18. Rhakshah spent the better part of 2018 preparing to embark on their first headlining tour: The Necrogenesis National Tour with Creating the Godform which saw performances in 4 major cities in South Africa.
February 4th 2019 – Rhakshah released their first single “Obsolescence” (Featuring Thomas Theron of 2017 Wacken Metal Battle Finalists, Megalodon) off their upcoming debut full length album “The Solemn Fracture” on Feburary 28th 2019.
On 12 April 2019 – Rhakshah will an open house album launch, celebrating the release of “The Solemn Fracture” at Prison – House of Rebels, Cape Town, RSA. The album will be performed front to back with the addition of some songs not featured on the album. They will be joined by special guests Megalodon, Adri Jordaan and Kathleen Rose Goss.
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The domain within your query sequence starts at position 5 and ends at position 29; the E-value for the ZnF_C2H2 domain shown below is 1.51e0.
RKCILCHIVYGSKKEMDEHMRSMLH
ZnF_C2H2
zinc finger
C2H2-type (classical) zinc fingers (Znf) were the first class to be characterised. They contain a short beta hairpin and an alpha helix (beta/beta/alpha structure), where a single zinc atom is held in place by Cys(2)His(2) (C2H2) residues in a tetrahedral array. C2H2 Znf's can be divided into three groups based on the number and pattern of fingers: triple-C2H2 (binds single ligand), multiple-adjacent-C2H2 (binds multiple ligands), and separated paired-C2H2 [(PUBMED:11361095)]. C2H2 Znf's are the most common DNA-binding motifs found in eukaryotic transcription factors, and have also been identified in prokaryotes [(PUBMED:10664601)]. Transcription factors usually contain several Znf's (each with a conserved beta/beta/alpha structure) capable of making multiple contacts along the DNA, where the C2H2 Znf motifs recognise DNA sequences by binding to the major groove of DNA via a short alpha-helix in the Znf, the Znf spanning 3-4 bases of the DNA [(PUBMED:10940247)]. C2H2 Znf's can also bind to RNA and protein targets [(PUBMED:18253864)].
This entry represents the classical C2H2 zinc finger domain.
nucleic acid binding (GO:0003676)
There are 2594488 ZnF_C2H2 domains in 441262 proteins in SMART's nrdb database.
Taxonomic distribution of proteins containing ZnF_C2H2 domain.
This tree includes only several representative species. The complete taxonomic breakdown of all proteins with ZnF_C2H2 domain is also avaliable.
Click on the protein counts, or double click on taxonomic names to display all proteins containing ZnF_C2H2 domain in the selected taxonomic class.
Parraga G et al.
Zinc-dependent structure of a single-finger domain of yeast ADR1.
Science. 1988; 241: 1489-92
In the proposed "zinc finger" DNA-binding motif, each repeat unit binds a zinc metal ion through invariant Cys and His residues and this drives the folding of each 30-residue unit into an independent nucleic acid-binding domain. To obtain structural information, we synthesized single and double zinc finger peptides from the yeast transcription activator ADR1, and assessed the metal-binding and DNA-binding properties of these peptides, as well as the solution structure of the metal-stabilized domains, with the use of a variety of spectroscopic techniques. A single zinc finger can exist as an independent structure sufficient for zinc-dependent DNA binding. An experimentally determined model of the single finger is proposed that is consistent with circular dichroism, one- and two-dimensional nuclear magnetic resonance, and visual spectroscopy of the single-finger peptide reconstituted in the presence of zinc.
SwissProt sequences and OMIM curated human diseases associated with missense mutations within the ZnF_C2H2 domain.
Wilms tumor protein (P19544) (SMART) OMIM:194070: Wilms tumor, type 1 ; Denys-Drash syndrome ; Frasier syndrome
Transcriptional activator GLI3 (P10071) (SMART) OMIM:165240: Greig cephalopolysyndactyly syndrome
OMIM:175700: Pallister-Hall syndrome
OMIM:146510: Polydactyly, preaxial, type IV
OMIM:174700: Polydactyly, postaxial, types A1 and B
15.88 map04340 Hedgehog signaling pathway
12.94 map05217 Basal cell carcinoma
7.06 map04010 MAPK signaling pathway
4.71 map05220 Chronic myeloid leukemia
4.71 map00908 Zeatin biosynthesis
4.12 map04350 TGF-beta signaling pathway
4.12 map05221 Acute myeloid leukemia
3.53 map00903 Limonene and pinene degradation
3.53 map00632 Benzoate degradation via CoA ligation
2.35 map03050 Proteasome
2.35 map03022 Basal transcription factors
1.76 map00350 Tyrosine metabolism
1.76 map00450 Selenoamino acid metabolism
1.76 map00340 Histidine metabolism
1.76 map00380 Tryptophan metabolism
1.76 map00440 Aminophosphonate metabolism
1.76 map00626 Naphthalene and anthracene degradation
1.76 map00150 Androgen and estrogen metabolism
1.18 map00190 Oxidative phosphorylation
1.18 map00130 Ubiquinone biosynthesis
1.18 map04320 Dorso-ventral axis formation
1.18 map00920 Sulfur metabolism
0.59 map00860 Porphyrin and chlorophyll metabolism
0.59 map00730 Thiamine metabolism
This information is based on mapping of SMART genomic protein database to KEGG orthologous groups. Percentage points are related to the number of proteins with ZnF_C2H2 domain which could be assigned to a KEGG orthologous group, and not all proteins containing ZnF_C2H2 domain. Please note that proteins can be included in multiple pathways, ie. the numbers above will not always add up to 100%.
3D Structures of ZnF_C2H2 domains in PDB
1a1f DSNR (ZIF268 VARIANT) ZINC FINGER-DNA COMPLEX (GACC SITE)
1a1g DSNR (ZIF268 VARIANT) ZINC FINGER-DNA COMPLEX (GCGT SITE)
1a1h QGSR (ZIF268 VARIANT) ZINC FINGER-DNA COMPLEX (GCAC SITE)
1a1i RADR (ZIF268 VARIANT) ZINC FINGER-DNA COMPLEX (GCAC SITE)
1a1j RADR (ZIF268 VARIANT) ZINC FINGER-DNA COMPLEX (GCGT SITE)
1a1k RADR (ZIF268 VARIANT) ZINC FINGER-DNA COMPLEX (GACC SITE)
1a1l ZIF268 ZINC FINGER-DNA COMPLEX (GCAC SITE)
1aay ZIF268 ZINC FINGER-DNA COMPLEX
1ard STRUCTURES OF DNA-BINDING MUTANT ZINC FINGER DOMAINS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DNA BINDING
1are STRUCTURES OF DNA-BINDING MUTANT ZINC FINGER DOMAINS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DNA BINDING
1arf STRUCTURES OF DNA-BINDING MUTANT ZINC FINGER DOMAINS: IMPLICATIONS FOR DNA BINDING
1bbo HIGH-RESOLUTION SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF THE DOUBLE CYS2*HIS2 ZINC FINGER FROM THE HUMAN ENHANCER BINDING PROTEIN MBP-1
1bhi STRUCTURE OF TRANSACTIVATION DOMAIN OF CRE-BP1/ATF-2, NMR, 20 STRUCTURES
1ej6 Reovirus core
1f2i COCRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF SELECTED ZINC FINGER DIMER BOUND TO DNA
1fv5 SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF THE FIRST ZINC FINGER FROM THE DROSOPHILA U-SHAPED TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR
1g2d STRUCTURE OF A CYS2HIS2 ZINC FINGER/TATA BOX COMPLEX (CLONE #2)
1g2f STRUCTURE OF A CYS2HIS2 ZINC FINGER/TATA BOX COMPLEX (TATAZF;CLONE #6)
1jk1 Zif268 D20A Mutant Bound to WT DNA Site
1jk2 Zif268 D20A mutant bound to the GCT DNA site
1jn7 Solution Structure of a CCHH mutant of the ninth CCHC Zinc Finger of U-shaped
1klr NMR Structure of the ZFY-6T[Y10F] Zinc Finger
1kls NMR Structure of the ZFY-6T[Y10L] Zinc Finger
1llm Crystal Structure of a Zif23-GCN4 Chimera Bound to DNA
1mey CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A DESIGNED ZINC FINGER PROTEIN BOUND TO DNA
1ncs NMR STUDY OF SWI5 ZINC FINGER DOMAIN 1
1njq NMR structure of the single QALGGH zinc finger domain from Arabidopsis thaliana SUPERMAN protein
1p47 Crystal Structure of tandem Zif268 molecules complexed to DNA
1p7a Solution Stucture of the Third Zinc Finger from BKLF
1paa STRUCTURE OF A HISTIDINE-X4-HISTIDINE ZINC FINGER DOMAIN: INSIGHTS INTO ADR1-UAS1 PROTEIN-DNA RECOGNITION
1rik E6-binding zinc finger (E6apc1)
1rim E6-binding zinc finger (E6apc2)
1rmd RAG1 DIMERIZATION DOMAIN
1sp1 NMR STRUCTURE OF A ZINC FINGER DOMAIN FROM TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR SP1F3, MINIMIZED AVERAGE STRUCTURE
1srk Solution structure of the third zinc finger domain of FOG-1
1tf3 TFIIIA FINGER 1-3 BOUND TO DNA, NMR, 22 STRUCTURES
1tf6 CO-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF XENOPUS TFIIIA ZINC FINGER DOMAIN BOUND TO THE 5S RIBOSOMAL RNA GENE INTERNAL CONTROL REGION
1u85 ARG326-TRP mutant of the third zinc finger of BKLF
1u86 321-TW-322 insertion mutant of the third zinc finger of BKLF
1ubd CO-CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF HUMAN YY1 ZINC FINGER DOMAIN BOUND TO THE ADENO-ASSOCIATED VIRUS P5 INITIATOR ELEMENT
1un6 THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A ZINC FINGER - RNA COMPLEX REVEALS TWO MODES OF MOLECULAR RECOGNITION
1va1 Solution Structure of Transcription Factor Sp1 DNA Binding Domain (Zinc Finger 1)
1wir Solution structure of the C2H2 zinc finger domain of the protein arginine N-methyltransferase 3 from Mus musculus
1wjp Solution structure of zf-C2H2 domains from human Zinc finger protein 295
1x3c Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc-binding domain of human zinc finger protein 292
1x5w Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc-binding domain of human zinc finger protein 64, isoforms 1 and 2
1x6e Solution structures of the C2H2 type zinc finger domain of human Zinc finger protein 24
1x6f Solution structures of the C2H2 type zinc finger domain of human Zinc finger protein 462
1x6h Solution structures of the C2H2 type zinc finger domain of human Transcriptional repressor CTCF
1xf7 High Resolution NMR Structure of the Wilms' Tumor Suppressor Protein (WT1) Finger 3
1xrz NMR Structure of a Zinc Finger with Cyclohexanylalanine Substituted for the Central Aromatic Residue
1y0j Zinc fingers as protein recognition motifs: structural basis for the GATA-1/Friend of GATA interaction
1yui SOLUTION NMR STRUCTURE OF THE GAGA FACTOR/DNA COMPLEX, REGULARIZED MEAN STRUCTURE
1yuj SOLUTION NMR STRUCTURE OF THE GAGA FACTOR/DNA COMPLEX, 50 STRUCTURES
1zaa ZINC FINGER-DNA RECOGNITION: CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A ZIF268-DNA COMPLEX AT 2.1 ANGSTROMS
1zfd SWI5 ZINC FINGER DOMAIN 2, NMR, 45 STRUCTURES
1znf THREE-DIMENSIONAL SOLUTION STRUCTURE OF A SINGLE ZINC FINGER DNA-BINDING DOMAIN
1znm A ZINC FINGER WITH AN ARTIFICIAL BETA-TURN, ORIGINAL SEQUENCE TAKEN FROM THE THIRD ZINC FINGER DOMAIN OF THE HUMAN TRANSCRIPTIONAL REPRESSOR PROTEIN YY1 (YING AND YANG 1, A DELTA TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR), NMR, 34 STRUCTURES
1zr9 Solution Structure of a Human C2H2-type Zinc Finger Protein
1zu1 Solution Structure of the N-terminal Zinc Fingers of the Xenopus laevis double stranded RNA binding protein ZFa
1zw8 Solution structure of a ZAP1 zinc-responsive domain provides insights into metalloregulatory transcriptional repression in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
2ab3 Solution structures and characterization of HIV RRE IIB RNA targeting zinc finger proteins
2adr ADR1 DNA-BINDING DOMAIN FROM SACCHAROMYCES CEREVISIAE, NMR, 25 STRUCTURES
2cot Solution structure of the first and second zf-C2H2 domain of Zinc finger protein 435
2cse Features of Reovirus Outer-Capsid Protein mu1 Revealed by Electron and Image Reconstruction of the virion at 7.0-A Resolution
2csh Solution structure of tandem repeat of the zf-C2H2 domains of human zinc finger protein 297B
2ct1 Solution Structure of the zinc finger domain of Transcriptional repressor CTCF protein
2ctd Solution structure of two zf-C2H2 domains from human Zinc finger protein 512
2czr Crystal structure of TBP-interacting protein (Tk-TIP26) and implications for its inhibition mechanism of the interaction between TBP and TATA-DNA
2d9h Solution structure of the forth and fifth zf-C2H2 domains of zinc finger protein 692
2dlk Solution structure of the first and the second zf-C2H2 domains of zinc finger protein 692
2dlq Solution structure of the tandem four zf-C2H2 domain repeats of murine GLI-Kruppel family member HKR3
2dmd Solution structure of the N-terminal C2H2 type zinc-binding domain of the Zinc finger protein 64, isoforms 1 and 2
2dmi Solution structure of the first and the second zf-C2H2 like domains of human Teashirt homolog 3
2drp THE CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF A TWO ZINC-FINGER PEPTIDE REVEALS AN EXTENSION TO THE RULES FOR ZINC-FINGER/DNA RECOGNITION
2ebt Solution structure of three tandem repeats of zf-C2H2 domains from human Kruppel-like factor 5
2ee8 Solution structure of three zf-C2H2 domains from mouse protein odd-skipped-related 2 splicing isoform 2
2ej4 Functional and structural basis of nuclear localization signal in ZIC3 zinc finger domain: a role of conserved tryptophan residue in the zinc finger domain
2el4 Solution structure of the 15th zf-C2H2 domain from human Zinc finger protein 268
2elm Solution structure of the 10th C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2eln Solution structure of the 11th C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2elo Solution structure of the 12th C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2elq Solution structure of the 14th C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2elr Solution structure of the 15th C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2els Solution structure of the 2nd C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2elt Solution structure of the 3rd C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2elu Solution structure of the 5th C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2elv Solution structure of the 6th C2H2 zinc finger of human Zinc finger protein 406
2elw Solution structure of the 5th C2H2 zinc finger of mouse Zinc finger protein 406
2elx Solution structure of the 8th C2H2 zinc finger of mouse Zinc finger protein 406
2ely Solution structure of the third zf-C2H2 domain from human Zinc finger protein 224
2elz Solution structure of the 17th zf-C2H2 domain from human Zinc finger protein 224
2em0 Solution structure of the 18th zf-C2H2 domain from human Zinc finger protein 224
2em1 Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 637-667) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2em2 Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 584-616) of human Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2ema Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 312-344) of human Zinc finger protein 347
2emb Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 342-372) of human Zinc finger protein 473
2emc Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 641-673) of human Zinc finger protein 473
2eme Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 725-757) of human Zinc finger protein 473
2emf Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 379-411) of human Zinc finger protein 484
2emg Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 463-495) of human Zinc finger protein 484
2emh Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 491-523) of human Zinc finger protein 484
2emi Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 547-579) of human Zinc finger protein 484
2emj Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 612-644) of human Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2emk Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 668-700) of human Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2eml Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 752-784) of human Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2emm Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 544-576) of human Zinc finger protein 95 homolog
2emp Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 536-568) of human Zinc finger protein 347
2emv Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 859-889) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2emw Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 301-331) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2emx Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 273-303) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2emy Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 551-583) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2emz Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 628-660) of human Zinc finger protein 95 homolog
2en0 Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 385-413) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2en2 Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 598-626) of human B-cell lymphoma 6 protein
2en3 Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 796-828) of human Zinc finger protein 95 homolog
2ena Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 311-343) of human Zinc finger protein 224
2enc Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 395-427) of human Zinc finger protein 224
2ene Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 592-624) of human Zinc finger protein 347
2enf Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 340-372) of human Zinc finger protein 347
2enh Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 556-588) of human Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2ent Solution structure of the second C2H2-type zinc finger domain from human Krueppel-like factor 15
2eoe Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 508-540) of human Zinc finger protein 347
2eof Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 411-441) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2eog Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 693-723) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2eoh Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 780-812) of human Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2eoi Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 329-359) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2eoj Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 355-385) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2eok Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 441-469) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2eol Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 581-609) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2eom Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 341-373) of human Zinc finger protein 95 homolog
2eon Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 397-429) of human Zinc finger protein 95 homolog
2eoo Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 425-457) of human Zinc finger protein 95 homolog
2eop Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 719-751) of human Zinc finger protein 268
2eoq Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 283-315) of human Zinc finger protein 224
2eor Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 255-287) of human Zinc finger protein 224
2eos Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 626-654) of human B-cell lymphoma 6 protein
2eou Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 370-400) of human Zinc finger protein 473
2eov Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 519-551) of human Zinc finger protein 484
2eow Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 368-400) of human Zinc finger protein 347
2eox Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 315-345) of human Zinc finger protein 473
2eoy Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 557-589) of human Zinc finger protein 473
2eoz Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 809-841) of human Zinc finger protein 473
2ep0 Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 528-560) of human Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2ep1 Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 435-467) of human Zinc finger protein 484
2epa Solution structure of the first and second zf-C2H2 domains from human Krueppel-like factor 10
2epc Solution structure of Zinc finger domain 7 in Zinc finger protein 32
2epp Solution structure of the first C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 278
2epq Solution structure of the third zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 278
2epr Solution structure of the secound zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 278
2eps Solution structure of the 4th zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 278
2ept Solution structure of the first C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 32
2epu Solution structure of the secound C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 32
2epv Solution structure of the 20th C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 268
2epw Solution structure of the 24th C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 268
2epx Solution structure of the third C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2epy Solution structure of the 10th C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 268
2epz Solution structure of the 4th C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 28 homolog
2eq0 Solution structure of the 8th C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 347
2eq2 Solution structure of the 16th C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 347
2eqw Solution structure of the 6th C2H2 type zinc finger domain of Zinc finger protein 484
2ghf Solution structure of the complete zinc-finger region of human zinc-fingers and homeoboxes 1 (ZHX1)
2gli FIVE-FINGER GLI/DNA COMPLEX
2gqj Solution structure of the two zf-C2H2 like domains(493-575) of human zinc finger protein KIAA1196
2hgh Transcription Factor IIIA zinc fingers 4-6 bound to 5S rRNA 55mer (NMR structure)
2i13 Aart, a six finger zinc finger designed to recognize ANN triplets
2j7j Invariance of the zinc finger module: a comparison of the free structure with those in nucleic-acid complexes
2jp9 Structure of the Wilms Tumor Suppressor Protein Zinc Finger Domain Bound to DNA
2jpa Structure of the Wilms Tumor Suppressor Protein Zinc Finger Domain Bound to DNA
2jsp The prokaryotic Cys2His2 zinc finger adopts a novel fold as revealed by the NMR structure of A. tumefaciens Ros DNA binding domain
2kfq NMR Structure of FP1
2kmk Gfi-1 Zinc Fingers 3-5 complexed with DNA
2kvf Structure of the three-Cys2His2 domain of mouse testis zinc finger protein
2kvg Structure of the three-Cys2His2 domain of mouse testis zinc finger protein
2kvh Structure of the three-Cys2His2 domain of mouse testis zinc finger protein
2l1o Zinc to cadmium replacement in the A. thaliana SUPERMAN Cys2His2 zinc finger induces structural rearrangements of typical DNA base determinant positions
2lce Chemical shift assignment of Hr4436B from Homo Sapiens, Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium
2lt7 Solution NMR structure of Kaiso zinc finger DNA binding domain in complex with Kaiso binding site DNA
2lv2 Solution NMR structure of C2H2-type Zinc-fingers 4 and 5 from human Insulinoma-associated protein 1 (fragment 424-497), Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium Target HR7614B
2lvh Solution structure of the zinc finger AFV1p06 protein from the hyperthermophilic archaeal virus AFV1
2lvr Solution structure of Miz-1 zinc finger 8
2lvt Solution structure of Miz-1 zinc finger 9
2lvu Solution structure of Miz-1 zinc finger 10
2m0d Solution Structure of Miz-1 zinc finger 5
2m0e Solution Structure of Miz-1 zinc finger 6
2m0f Solution Structure of Miz-1 zinc finger 7
2m7q Solution structure of TAX1BP1 UBZ1+2
2m9a Solution NMR Structure of E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase ZFP91 from Homo sapiens, Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG) Target HR7784A
2ma7 Solution NMR Structure of Zinc finger protein Eos from Homo sapiens, Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG) Target HR7992A
2mdg Solution NMR Structure of Zinc finger protein 423 from Homo sapiens, Northeast Structural Genomics Consortium (NESG) Target HR7298F
2mkd Human JAZ ZF3 Residues 168-227
2mkn Structural Characterization of Interactions between the Double-Stranded RNA-Binding Zinc Finger Protein JAZ and dsRNA
2mq1 2MQ1
2n25 2N25
2nab 2NAB
2prt Structure of the Wilms Tumor Suppressor Protein Zinc Finger Domain Bound to DNA
2rpc Solution structure of the tandem zf-C2H2 domains from the human zinc finger protein ZIC 3
2rsh Solution structures of the DNA-binding domains of immune-related zinc-finger protein ZFAT
2rsi Solution structures of the DNA-binding domains of immune-related zinc-finger protein ZFAT
2rsj Solution structures of the DNA-binding domains of immune-related zinc-finger protein ZFAT
2rut 2RUT
2ruu 2RUU
2ruv 2RUV
2ruw 2RUW
2rux 2RUX
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2wbt The Structure of a Double C2H2 Zinc Finger Protein from a Hyperthermophilic Archaeal Virus in the Absence of DNA
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2yu8 Solution structure of the C2H2 type zinc finger (region 648-680) of human Zinc finger protein 347
3ax1 Molecular insights into miRNA processing by Arabidopsis Serrate
3by4 Structure of Ovarian Tumor (OTU) domain in complex with Ubiquitin
3c0r Structure of Ovarian Tumor (OTU) domain in complex with Ubiquitin
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3vk6 Crystal structure of a phosphotyrosine binding domain
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4i1l Structural and Biological Features of FOXP3 Dimerization Relevant to Regulatory T Cell Function
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4ndh Human Aprataxin (Aptx) bound to DNA, AMP, and Zn - product complex
4ndi Human Aprataxin (Aptx) AOA1 variant K197Q bound to RNA-DNA, AMP, and Zn - product complex
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Not long afterwards, in 1704, he was given a dispensation from celebrating the Mass because of his ill health. In late 1706 he withdrew from the priesthood and became maestro di violino at an orphanage for girls called the Ospedale della Pietà in Venice. But rumor has it that once he left during Mass, feeling the urge to compose and was given the permission to be released by the cardinal of the Church upon his request to teach music.
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Cancer survivor shares his story of Suboxone withdrawal
December 29, 2011 Cops & Courts
Since my story on Suboxone use in Portland was published Tuesday, I fielded an interesting call from Craig Young, a 60-year-old carpenter from Presque Isle.
Young read the piece and was concerned — based on a comment therein that Mercy Hospital’s Recovery Center “has never had to admit somebody for Suboxone withdrawal” — that readers would take it to mean people stopping use of Suboxone do not experience withdrawal symptoms.
In fairness, that’s not what Dr. Mark Publicker, who delivered the comment in question, meant to suggest. At other times during our interview, Publicker told me that a retroactive two-year limit on prescriptions of buprenorphine, the opiate ingredient in the brand-name medicine Suboxone, would put patients who have been using the drug for two years or more to ward off addictions to more serious drugs like heroin into immediate withdrawal, and potentially drive those patients back to abusing worse opiates.
The retroactive two-year cap on the Suboxone, Publicker said, is being proposed as part of Gov. Paul LePage’s MaineCare overhaul plan (covered thoroughly here, here and here, with Portland angles here and here, and the most recent news here).
In a comment that didn’t make the final version of the article, Publicker said the following:
If it’s abruptly stopped, people will experience acute withdrawal. Every one of them will relapse — 100 percent.
So any lack of clarity on the subject of whether stopping Suboxone use will trigger withdrawal symptoms is my fault, not that of Dr. Publicker.
But Craig Young’s story is nonetheless worth retelling, as it offers a different take on the users of the drug than those that appeared in the story. Users of Suboxone in the story were discussed by all sources as folks taking the drug, at least at first, as a replacement drug to help get off of other drugs they’d been abusing.
Young said he was prescribed Suboxone to help get off of other drugs he’d been previously prescribed. In Young’s case, his addiction to Suboxone is entirely medical in nature.
He told a story of being diagnosed several years ago with stage 4 lymphoma, a crushing experience. As part of the otherwise comprehensive treatment, Young said he was prescribed opiates.
Then, a little more than two years ago, a doctor switched him over to Suboxone to move him away from the prescribed opiates used during his cancer treatments, which did successfully leave him cancer-free.
About three weeks ago, Young said he and his doctor tried to get him off of Suboxone use and put a punctuation mark on the whole cancer ordeal. Yet, over 21 days without Suboxone, Young said he was violently ill and was twice checked into the emergency room. He said if he faced any more time battling the torturous withdrawal sickness, he’d have no choice but to seek any kind of opiate he could get his hands on to make it stop.
Just this week, he said his doctor is relenting and putting him back on a smaller dose of Suboxone, and Young said he may need to stay on the drug for the rest of his life.
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Interview: Catching Up With The Interrupters On Warped Tour
Josh Hershkovitz July 26, 2016 Features, Interviews No Comments
If you are in the ska-punk scene and haven’t been listening to everything The Interrupters put out, you’ve been messing up pretty bad. This band has made more progress in the scene in the last two years than most bands hope to make in their career.
One of the deciding factors for getting my ass to Warped Tour this year was deciding if it was worth seeing the bands on the bill. Yeah, I love Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish, but I’ve also seen both bands 20+ times each (I know… I have a problem). Sum 41 was obviously huge, but the real band that made up my mind was The Interrupters. They didn’t disappoint!
Kelsey and I made our way to the stage about 20 minutes before their set and got to see them setting up and hanging out with each other. Right before the music started we were able to see the band (as well as a few extras) huddle in a circle. It really gave off the feeling of something closer than just business – friendship and family. You can easily tell by their stage banter and performance that these guys (and a gal) are more than just your everyday band. That also may be the fact that 3 of the members are actually brothers!
After the set, I got to sit down with their guitarist, Kevin, for one of the cooler moments of my Fake Famous career. You could tell as soon as he walked in the room that he was just as excited to sit down as we were, so we jumped right into a conversation and let him speak his mind!
K: Kevin Bivona
J: Josh (SIMGE)
KM: Kelsey (SIMGE)
J: We’ve been a fan of you guys since we heard you two years back. Huge fans – incredible band. When we saw you would be on Warped it made up our minds that we had to go
K: Oh really? That’s awesome! Were you able to catch the set today?
J: Oh yeah we caught the whole thing from the front! Tons of pictures, a few already up on Instagram. You guys never stop moving!
J: It feels like you guys came outta nowhere. What’d you guys do before this?
K: It seems that way, but we’ve all been working hard in music for years. I think the reason it seems it came out of nowhere is because we had a pretty good built in infrastructure already just from experience of playing in different bands and playing with different people. Like I joined the transplants in 2005 so I’ve known Tim for a while so when we started the band, we’d been recording a bunch of stuff and he hopped on as a producer and put it on his label Hellcat.
J: Yeah it was pretty awesome to hear him on the record!
K: Oh totally! We are super lucky to be involved with that. That relationship did start before this band. My relationship with Aimee – we were writing songs and she’d been touring as a solo artist for 10 years. My brothers have had a ton of different gigs…so I can see how it seems we sorta came outta nowhere but we all kinda decided we just wanted to go for it with this band. Being musicians –it’s funny because sometimes there’s a thing you’re passionate about and things you need to do to survive, so we decided to put all our eggs in this basket and it’s been working out for us pretty good!
J: I was like 99% convinced there was some dark magic involved with like rubbing Tim’s head or something!
J: What has it been like working with Tim Armstrong? He’s practically a legend!
K: Really cool! We’ve worked with him before, but as this band – the four of us getting together and recording – he kinda taught us a lot about not over thinking stuff. We don’t spend a lot of hours in the studio, we just try to get as much done as we can and re-assess it later. When you look back and you’re in the moment, it just ends up working out a way that we like! It doesn’t work for everyone, but it worked for us. On the second record, we’d done a lot of writing on the road and a lot of touring and we were kinda ready – and he was ready – so we hopped in the studio for a week and we had like half the stuff written. The other half we kinda just came up with in the studio just bouncing ideas around. Then we went back in the studio for another day to knock out a few other ideas we had. Over the course of the next few weeks we just went back and did all the vocals and stuff. It’s great working with him – he’s a band guy so he gets it. He’s not just showing up, he’s in there with his guitar like ‘Hey man try this!’ and he’s super open minded and he makes us more open minded.
J: You can definitely hear some influence from his sounds on the albums. I mean… it’s Tim. He’s got that signature sound behind him.
K: I mean we all grew up loving his bands and loving a lot of the same bands he loves, so we all have a lot of common threads in our musicality.
J: So what bands would you say influence you the most?
K: For this band, I’d say we’re most influenced by the whole two-tone ska thing from England in the late 70s like Madness, The Specials, The Selecter… ya know? We also like street punk and like to get a little political but not too political like The Clash or Cock Sparrer. I love a lot of that English punk rock like Buzzcocks.
J: Aimee’s got that perfect voice for that too.
K: Yeah I mean that was another thing we kinda stumbled upon recording our first album. Like when we’d be writing stuff we’d record a song and she’d be like ‘Well, that’s not really a good key for me to sing in but she’d try it and all of a sudden she’s singing really low and it’s like ‘Actually, that’s awesome! That’s a cool sound – let’s go with that!’ So that’s something we stumbled upon while writing the first record.
J: With your brothers in the band, how often do you fuck with each other?
K: Ehh every now and then ya know. If the spirits are good we can do it. Ya know, we all have our own little roles in the band and we all kinda come together before a show
J: Yeah I saw you guys in a circle with Billy
K: Yeah Billy’s awesome! But yeah we fuck with each other sometimes. Nothing too crazy. We actually don’t fuck with each other too much.
Km: You probably got most of it out of your system as kids!
K: Yeah the good thing about being in a band with your brothers is that if you’re in a band with anyone, you’re gonna fight. If you’ve got brothers, you’re gonna fight. You might as well get it all out in one fight, hug it out and tell each other you love each other!
J: The new album was obviously great! What comes next after Warped?
K: We’re going to Europe pretty much right away! Going for 3-4 weeks and we’re pretty excited about that. We just started going over there last year and the response we got was surprisingly awesome for the level we’re at as a band. I mean, we don’t live in the clouds about like where we’re at. We kinda know where..ya know… we’re pretty realistic about it. We all have that thought anytime we play a show of ‘Is anyone gonna show up?’ We’re going to a brand new country on a brand new continent and setting up your shit and being like ‘Is anyone gonna come?’ and then they do come and they do dance and they sing!
J: On Warped, what bands have you been looking forward to seeing literally every day?
K: I think every day I watch Masked Intruder and Teenage Bottlerocket. In fact I was on the way here and was gonna show up early, but had to watch Teenage Bottlerocket for a song before coming in! They were bands we were big fans of before this. We’ve never met Masked Intruder but now we’re buddies! Discovering a bunch of other cool bands we weren’t aware of on this tour as well. Of all different genres! Obviously we knew Less Than Jake and Reel Big Fish before this since we’ve toured with them, but there’s some new up and coming bands like The Heirs from LA were really good. Mother Feather is another band that’s really good. There’s so many it’s like… we’re finally getting to the point that we’ve finally seen all the bands on our stage, but now we’ve gotta venture out to the other stages!
J: I was in a van with 10 people for 12 days and by the end of it we all practically hated each other – I don’t know how you do it!
K: Yeah we’re sharing with another great band called Sykes from England. We’re sharing a bus with them and they’re like the sweetest, nicest people ever. Their band’s amazing, huge sounding tracks, really hooky and just really good people. That’s another good thing about doing this tour – we would have never met them and now we live in close quarters with each other and we’ll always have that! When this tour’s over I can run into these guys 10 years from now and can always be like ‘Hey, remember that?!’ You definitely should check them out.
J: What band, living or dead, would you tour with if you had the chance?
K: Well living, The Descendents! I mean, man, they’re putting out another record, getting ready to go on the road. Take us out on tour!
J: I’ll make sure to tag them on the post!
K: Definitely! So many obviously great bands. The Clash would obviously be a great one to play with. The Specials are still playing too. Cock Sparrer – pffff- if we could get on a bill with Cock Sparrer I’ll die happy. We played a festival on a separate day as them but we still came to their day!
J: Final question, possibly the most serious question of all: You guys dress up every set in button downs and dress pants – how bad is your dry cleaning bill at this point? Do you just wear the same thing daily and hope it doesn’t smell?
K: We got a couple multiples! There’s a downy wrinkle spray…
J: Chris from Less Than Jake literally said the same thing!
K: Oh my god that shit’s amazing! When I discovered it, touring became so much easier.
J: Their stock probably just went up a few points…
K: Haha yeah we each have a couple versions of our clothes. On Warped, you can’t hit up a dry cleaner! We’re not in any town long enough to do that. We just kinda track how much we wear it and hope we don’t get anyone offended by what we smell like. We take it up after the set and spray it and hope for the best! It’s definitely something that, when we started the band, we were like ‘Man, this is great, totally fun’ but there were some things we didn’t think about. We did our first tour, two months, with one outfit each. We did Europe with two outfits and our shows were so hot and sweaty that the next morning our suits would still be soaking wet. It was pretty rough! It’s interesting, but ya know we like to show up like we’re showing up to work. Business casual! No jacket – though sometimes we bring out the jacket. It’s rough, but don’t you just feel good in a suit?
J: Alright man, that’s all I’ve got for you, so go enjoy Teenage Bottlerocket!
K: Good to meet you guys!
Josh Hershkovitz
Josh is the singer and guitarist of NJ-based ska band Backyard Superheroes. He spends his free time at local shows and concerts, taking photos and contributing to websites such as Fake Famous Photography and Speak Into My Good Eye.
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As the Vantage Elite Track stars return home from training and racing overseas, Cycling New Zealand have announced a sponsorship with renowned Italian tyre manufacturer Vittoria.
Dutchman Wout van Aert won stage 10 of the TDF in a sprint finish claiming his first Tour de France victory.
The New Zealand under-19 men’s cycling team came through their first European test with flying colours, headed by a sixth placing overall for Waikato-based rider Reuben Thompson in the opening race in France.
World time trial champion Annemiek van Vleuten riding for Aussie team Mitchelton-SCOTT has claimed a impressive consecutive overall victory at the 2019 Giro-Rosa, the only women’s Grand Tour of the year, winning two-stages in the process.
South Africa's Daryl Impey won todays stage nine of the Tour de France, while Julian Alaphilippe retained his overall lead and yellow jersey.
New Zealand mountain bike champion Anton Cooper will take a break to refresh after a disappointing UCI World Cup over the testing terrain at high altitude in the French Alps resort of Les Gets, raced on Bastille Day.
In-form Taranaki mountain biker Ed Masters continued his strong form to lead the Kiwi gravity riders in the latest round of the UCI World Cup in France.
New Zealand under-19 cycling coach Marc Prutton said his team have adjusted well in a short time as they push for a strong result on the final stage of their first road event in France.
Thomas de Gendt wins stage 8 of the Tour de France in Saint-Étienne, Alaphilippe’s late burst sees Frenchman in yellow on Bastille Day
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Welcome to St Paul’s Theological Centre (SPTC) ’s privacy notice. SPTC respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data, and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
The policy was last updated on 24 May 2018.
SPTC works in partnership with St Mellitus College Trust (SMCT) to run St Mellitus College (SMC).
SPTC also partners with four other independent charities that have a shared heritage and have come out of Holy Trinity Brompton. We refer to these charities collectively as the HTB Group (HTBG), but they do not form part of a group within a technical legal definition. The HTBG work cooperatively and collaboratively with many shared systems, processes and policies. In light of the close partnership, shared offices and infrastructure the constituent charities of the HTBG have agreed to adopt a common approach to privacy and data protection. The individual charities have entered into a formal data sharing agreement to regulate the extent to which data may be shared between the charities and the protection and procedures in place to regulate this sharing of data. Within this privacy notice we will tell you about areas where the HTBG share data and why.
This privacy notice aims to give you information on how SPTC collects and processes your personal data, including any data you may provide through this website when you interact with us, apply to be a student at SMC, register for an event, donate to the charity, pay course fees, apply for a role as a volunteer or staff member or sign up to our newsletter.
St Paul’s Theological Centre is a charity registered in England and Wales with number 1111609 and a private company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with number 5543940 (SPTC).
St Mellitus College Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales with number 1094157 and a private company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with number 4546328 whose registered office is at 24 Collingham Road, London, SW5 0LX (SMCT).
In addition to SPTC, the HTB Group (HTBG) is comprised of:
Holy Trinity Brompton incorporated and registered in England and Wales with charity number 1133793 whose registered office is at Brompton Road, London, SW7 1JA (HTB).
Alpha International is a charity registered in England and Wales with number 1086179, in Scotland with number SC042906 and a private company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with number 4157379 (AI).
Church Renewal Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales with number 1129661 and a private company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with number 6849860 (CRT1).
Church Revitalisation Trust is a charity registered in England and Wales with number 1174882 and a private company limited by guarantee registered in England and Wales with number 10754427 (CRT2).
This privacy notice is issued on behalf of the HTBG so when we mention "HTBG", "we", "us" or "our" in this privacy notice, we are referring to the relevant charity in the HTBG responsible for processing your data. We will let you know which entity will be the controller for your data when you purchase a product or service with us. SPTC is the controller and responsible for this website.
We have appointed a data protection lead (DPL) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPL at GDPR@htb.org, by calling 0207 052 0200, or writing to SPTC, c/o Holy Trinity Brompton, Brompton Road, London, SW7 1JA.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
Changes to the privacy notice and your duty to inform us of changes
We will keep this privacy notice under regular review to ensure it represents an accurate reflection of the way we use your personal information.
This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of events, products or services you have purchased from us or gifts you have donated to us.
Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, events, products and services.
Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.
As a faith-based charity providing Christian teaching and training, the information we collect may be considered to come within the definition of Special Categories of Personal Data. Special Categories or Personal Data includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We will always make it clear to you when we collect this information and why. For some of our events and services we may also collect information about criminal convictions and offences.
Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. In this case, we may have to prevent your attendance at a course, or cancel your tickets to an event or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:
Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
apply for a course;
donate online, by text message or completing a giving envelope;
create an account on our website;
register for an event;
subscribe to our services or publications;
request marketing to be sent to you;
respond to a survey; or
give us some feedback.
Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:
Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google based outside the EU.
Identity and Contact Data from publicly availably sources based inside the EU.
We collect and use information about our students, suppliers, contractors, the Church of England’s national and diocesan staff, and personnel working for relevant public bodies.This information is used to manage and administer the charity and to carry out our charitable purposes.We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of SMC or HTBG) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than when we collect Special categories of Data or in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by clicking on an unsubscribe link in one of our emails to you or by emailing GDPR@htb.org.
We have set out below a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data.SPTC collects and processes information so that we can:
Manage, administer and promote SPTC and SMC
Administer financial transactions and donations
Administer our courses and events
Manage our websites and social media accounts
Manage our volunteers and HR function
Prevent and detect crime
Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please email GDPR@htb.org if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data.
We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us, attended an event or course with us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.
We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data with any company outside the HTB group of companies or SMCT for marketing purposes. You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages by emailing GDPR@htb.org at any time. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of a course or event registration or other financial transactions.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. You can read more about how we use cookies by reading our Cookies Policy.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email GDPR@htb.org.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Internal Third Parties as set out in the Glossary.
Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our activities or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other charities or merge with them. If a change happens, your personal data will be used in the same way as set out in this privacy notice.
Some of our external third parties are based outside the European Economic Area (EEA) so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the EEA.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission. For further details, see European Commission: Adequacy of the protection of personal data in non-EU countries.
Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. For further details, see European Commission: Model contracts for the transfer of personal data to third countries.
Where we use providers based in the US, we may transfer data to them if they are part of the Privacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data shared between the Europe and the US. For further details, see European Commission: EU-US Privacy Shield.
Please email GDPR@htb.org if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.
Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by emailing GDPR@htb.org.
Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Right to withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email GDPR@htb.org.
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our charities in conducting and managing our charitable activities to enable us to give you the highest quality courses, events, products and services and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law). You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by emailing GDPR@htb.org.
Internal Third Parties
SMCT and the other companies in the HTBG acting as joint controllers or processors and providing IT and system administration services.
Service providers acting as processors based in the UK who provide website, social media, media and IT and system administration services.
Course and event management systems including Eventbrite*.
Electronic marketing and research services such as Mailchimp* and SurveyMonkey*
Contact databases such as ChurchSuite and Raiser’s Edge*.
Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, pension advisors and insurers based in the United Kingdom who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
*Raiser’s Edge (owned and controlled by Blackbaud), MailChimp, SurveyMonkey, and Eventbrite are US based companies and are, certified under Privacy Shield.
Blackbaud’s Privacy Policy and Privacy Shield Notice.
MailChimp’s Privacy Policy includes their Privacy Shield Notice.
SurveyMonkey’s Privacy Policy and Privacy Shield Notice.
Eventbrite’s Privacy Policy and Privacy Shield Notice.
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want us to establish the data's accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
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Mr. X (38 year) is employed by A Ltd. as marketing manager in Pune. The following information is furnished by Mr. X for the previous year ending 31st March 2015.
Basic salary Rs. 12,00,000 p.a., DA Rs. 40,000 p.a. (36 % of DA is considered for gratuity and Pension, but not for Provident fund). Club allowance Rs. 5,000 p.m., Furnishing allowance Rs. 2,000 p.m. and HRA Rs. 40,000 p.m. Conveyance allowance is Rs. 2,000 p.m. which can be used both for office and private purposes.
Up to August 31, 2014, he resides with his parents and does not pay any rent. From September 1, 2015 he has been allotted a company accommodation at Pune (population 23 lakhs)in lieu of house rent allowance.
Club allowance has been discontinued from January 1, 2015. And Mr. X has been provided
by the company club facility for private (20 %) and office use (80%). Expenditure by the company uptil 31st March 2015 was Rs. 20,500.
On 20 Nov. 2014, Mr X has taken an interest free loan from the company (SBI lending rate for Similar loan being 18.5 % p.a.). Mr. X and his employer contribute @ 10 % of his salary to P.F. Interest Credited by the company in Provident Fund on June 1, 2014 @ 9.7 % is Rs. 2,11,200. Assuming that income of Mr. X from Other Sources Rs. (-30,000), find out the net income and liability of Mr. X for the Assessment Year 2015-16.
Based on above Compute the taxable income and tax liability (before deducting TDS) of Ms. X for the A.Y. 2015-16 Rs. 2,600 (being Income-tax refund and Rs. 200 being Interest thereon):
2 a) How is advance money received against cost of acquisition adjusted ?
b) State giving reasons, whether the following assets are Short term or Long term :
i) X purchases a house on 10th March 2012 and transfers on 6th June 2014.
ii) Y purchases unquoted shares in an Indian company on 10th March 2012 and transfers on 6th June 2012.
iii) Z acquires units of mutual fund on 7th July 2013 and transfers those on 10th July 2014.
iv) A purchases diamonds on 12 September 2011 and gifts the same to his friend B on 31st December 2014 and B transfers the asset on 20 October 2014.
A a) How is advance money received against cost of acquisition adjusted ?
· X purchases a house on 10th March 2012 and transfers on 6th June 2014.
· Y purchases unquoted shares in an Indian company on 10th March 2012 and transfers on 6th June 2012.
· Z acquires units of mutual fund on 7th July 2013 and transfers those on 10th July 2014.
· A purchases diamonds on 12 September 2011 and gifts the same to his friend B on 31stDecember 2014 and B transfers the asset on 20 October 2014.
3 Ms. A purchases a house property on 1st January 1976 for Rs. 95,000. She enters into an Agreement for sale of the same property to Mr. X on 1st November 1983 and receives Rs. 10,000
as advance. Following the demise of Mr. X immediately thereafter, the money was forfeited by Ms. A. Later Ms. A gifts her property to her friend Ms. B on 15th May 1985. The following expenses are incurred by Ms. A and Ms. B for improvement of the property :
Particulars Cost (Rs.)
Additions of two rooms by Ms. A during 1978-79 25,000
Addition of first floor by Ms. A during 1983-84 40,000
Addition of second floor by Ms. B during 1990-91 1,15,000
Ms. B enters into an agreement for sell the property for RS. 8,50,000 to Mr. P on 1st April 1993 after receiving an advance of Rs. 50,000. Mr. P could not pay the balance amount within the stipulated time of two months and Ms. B forfeits the amount of advance.
Ms. B finally transfers the property to Ms. C for Rs. 14,75,000 on 1st December 2014. Given the Fair Market Value of the property on 1st April 1981 being Rs. 1,15,000; Cost Inflation Index for 1981-82 : Rs. 100; for 1983-84 : Rs.116; for 1985-86 : Rs. 133; for 1990-91 : Rs. 182; for
1993-94 : Rs. 244 and 2014-15: Rs.1,024 compute the Capital gains in the hands of Ms. B for the Assessment Year 2015-16.
A Compute the Capital gains in the hands of Ms. B for the Assessment Year 2015-16.
i) Ms. Brinda, a U.S. citizen visits India on 1st January 2014 to study and conduct research on
Indian folk culture. She has been regularly visiting India for 100 days in the past five consecutive years to carry the research. Advise the residential status of Ms. Brinda under extant rules referring to section 6 of the Income-tax Act 1961.
ii) What are the provisions of Advance tax under section 2(1) ?
i) Ms. Brinda, a U.S. citizen visits India on 1st January 2014 to study and conduct research on Indian folk culture. She has been regularly visiting India for 100 days in the past five consecutive years to carry the research. Advise the residential status of Ms. Brinda under extant rules referring to section 6 of the Income-tax Act 1961.
5 Explain the need of Service tax in India. What are the different approaches to Service tax in India ?
A Explain the need of Service tax in India. What are the different approaches to Service tax in India ?
6 Mr. X (aged 59 years) furnishes the following Profit and Loss account for the year ended 31st
March, 2015. Compute the Gross Total Income of Mr. X under respective heads, his Net Taxable Income and Tax liability in the assessment year 2015-16.
Particulars Rs. Particulars Rs.
General Expenses 13,400 Gross profit 3,15,500
Bad debts 22,000 Commission 8,600
Advance tax 2,000 Brokerage 37,000
Insurance 600 Miscellaneous Income 2,500
Salary to Staff 26,000 Bad Debt Recovery 11,000
Salary to Mr. X 51,000 Interest on Debenture
(Net interest Rs.22,500 + TDS Rs. 2,500) 25,000
Interest on Cash Credit 4,000 Interest on Fixed Deposits (Net interest Rs. 11,700 + TDS Rs. 1,300) 13,000
Interest on loan to Mrs. X 42,000
Interest on Capital of Mr. X 23,000
Depreciation 48,000
Advertisement 7,000
Contribution to Employees’
Provident Fund 13,000
Net Profit 1,60,600
Total 4,12,600 Total 4,12,600
Permissible depreciation as per CBDT circular is Rs. 37,300 which includes depreciation of permanent glow sign board.
i. Advertisement expenditure includes Rs. 3,000, being cost of permanent glow sign board affixed outside the office premises.
ii. Commission accrued but not received Rs. 4,500 is not credited to P & L Account.
iii. Mr. X pays premium of Rs. 6,000 on his own life.
iv. General expenses includes :
a) Rs. 500 spent for arranging a party for Mr. X’s son who arrives from Canada.
b) Rs. 1,000 for contribution to a political party.
v. Loan availed from Mrs. X was for payment of arrear tax.
A Mr. X (aged 59 years) furnishes the above Profit and Loss account for the year ended 31st March, 2015.
Compute the Gross Total Income of Mr. X under respective heads, his Net Taxable Income and Tax liability in the assessment year 2015-16.
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Every Arizonan Owes More than $7,500 in State Debt
August 30, 2012 by Goldwater Institute Leave a Comment
Contact: Lucy Caldwell, (602) 633-8986
Phoenix, AZ—Every Arizona household’s debt is getting bigger—but most people don’t even know they owe. In Arizona, every man, woman and child owes state and local governments more than $7,500 for bills ranging from sports stadiums to parking garages.
State and local per-person long-term debt grew from $4,568 per Arizonan in 2000 to $7,587 in 2009, an increase of 66 percent in less than a decade. Arizona’s per-person debt load is almost $1,000 more than the national median of around $6,800 in per-person debt.
The $7,587 owed by every Arizonan to pay off state and local debts is in addition to the $51,000 per-American share of the mounting federal debt.
In a new report, Cutting up the Credit Cards: Seven Ideas to Reform the Culture of Debt in State and Local Government, Goldwater Institute Senior Economist Stephen Slivinski examines the vastness of the state’s debt and recommends seven key reforms to rein in Arizona’s debt culture.
“In economic times like these, most people have their hands full trying to balance their own checkbooks,” said Slivinski. “Yet our policymakers can’t restrain themselves from committing to more and more new debt that Arizona families ultimately will have to pay off.”
Although Arizona’s framers established a constitutional debt limit to cap state debt to $350,000—roughly $8 million in today’s dollars—the limit is not effective at actually limiting debt. This is because the courts have interpreted the debt limit to apply only to a specific type of debt: the “full, faith, and credit,” or general obligation debt. Politicians are able to commit current and future taxpayers to paying off a variety of debt instruments—usually called “non-guaranteed debt”—that are not subject to the constitutional limit and often do not require voter approval.
Debt-service payments were the fastest growing category in Arizona’s noncapital budget for state general expenditures in the last decade, growing 170 percent from 2002 and 2009. Almost one quarter of all state and local debts in Arizona are for projects primarily benefitting private interests, such as shopping centers or sports arenas.
For many local governments, debt payments have caused cities to cut essential services.
For example, Glendale, Arizona recently fired 49 employees, including a handful of policemen, to help cover its $35 million spending gap. The city has paid the National Hockey League $50 million over the past two years to keep the Coyotes hockey team in the city’s taxpayer-financed Jobing.com Arena, fearing that if the Coyotes move, the city will be unable to pay off the debts it owes from constructing the arena in 2002. Meanwhile, the city has had to table plans to complete the remodel of the city’s courthouse and to build a new library.
“When our elected officials commit funds to private-interest projects like sports stadiums, it doesn’t just drive up our families’ tax bills—it often means cutting the services we rely on, like law enforcement in our neighborhoods and libraries for our children,” said Slivinski.
In his paper, Slivinski recommends seven reforms to rein in Arizona’s debt, including a strict cap on debt for state and local governments, voter approval of all debt at the local level, and transparency requirements for all state and local debt.
To read the entire report, click here.
For a bio and high definition photo of Goldwater Institute Senior Economist Stephen Slivinski, click here.
The Goldwater Institute protects America’s greatest inheritance – the liberty and economic freedom of the individual – by holding government accountable and standing up for regular taxpayers just like you.
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Debt, Economic Development, Economics, Press Release, State Budget, State Economy, State Government
Arizona Ron Paul Delegates Break Ranks with National Ron Paul Supporters Before Scheduled Protest
August 30, 2012 by Sonoran Alliance 13 Comments
Sonoran Alliance received the following letter from an Arizona Ron Paul delegate in anticipation of a planned protest this evening at the Republican National Convention:
Open Letter to My Fellow RP Delegates,
My name is Edward Vallejo, and I am currently the Organizer of the Phoenix Ron Paul for President MeetUp Group – the first of it’s kind. It was created in February of 2007, a full month before the good Congressman even declared, by a man named Philly Dave Gallagher, Activist in the Phoenix Area. He created it because those engaged in the Cause of Liberty in Arizona saw what was coming, and knew that the people would need a place to gather and coordinate, for which the Internet and MeetUp were the perfect medium of communication without external control. I began organizing the Group a couple of months later when I arrived because of my skills with coordinating efforts.
I am a United States Army veteran – and Signal Corps Honor Graduate, and my Permanent duty was with the 36th Medical Detachment (HA) out of Ft. Polk, La. as a radio-telephone operator, tasked with the overall coordination of missions, crews, and equipment for which lives depended – thus making me a natural for the position I now hold.
Being a past National Delegate for the Libertarian Party in 2008 and 2010, I am familiar with the process in which I am currently engaged here at the 2012 Republican National Convention – in this beautiful city of Tampa.
I understand there are grievances by many of my fellow Delegates that staunchly support Congressman Paul. I understand your feelings probably more acutely than anyone present. I ask you to hear me out.
Dr. Paul told us that the greatest good can only be done from within – that’s why he had us join the Republican Party – to spread the message of Liberty, and to not just build the Party – but become the Party. Populate it with law-abiding, liberty-loving individuals. Run for office. Do as much good as you can there. Make your Country better.
Keep it non-violent.
And that’s what you did. You worked and fought and worked some more and fundraised, and now you are a good portion of the Republican Party – and you are everywhere. Many of you have gone to great pains to work out relationships with many good people in the GOP. Will you throw out all their hard efforts by airing your grievances at this time? Will it gain you anything positive?
What would Ron Do? Would he be out here amongst you if he were in this situation? I think not.
I bet if I sat down and asked him, he would probably admit that Mr. Romney was nowhere near as dangerous to America as Mr. Obama sitting in the White House for another four years – especially since the ‘official nomination’.
I was the Arizona Voting Delegate at the Continental Congress 2009 in St. Charles, Illinois. For eleven days, duly elected Delegates from 48 of the 50 states deliberated violations of the Constitution, including an Article that dealt with the Current sitting President’s failure to enforce the law regarding immigration. I sat on that Committee and personally helped write that Article.
Being a Concerned Arizonan, I have watched closely my County Sheriff, Joe Arpaio, as he has been investigating our sitting President. He has reported back to us that his publicly released documentation of birth AND his Service Registration card are forgeries.
I could go on, but we all see it.
I am greatly distressed at the direction my Beloved Republic has been taken by this man in the Oval Office, and fear greatly for the safety of myself, my family, and my Country. I fear the resort to the Use of Arms by American Citizens, and untold misery, heartache, and unnecessary bloodshed on American soil.
It is for these reasons that I implore my Fellow Patriots to not air your grievances at this time, publicly. Please, go back inside the Convention hall, as one, and show some maturity and solidarity, and continue this road we have come so far on. Let us have our grievances arbitrated either within the Party, or failing to resolute – take it to the courts.
I honestly believe that’s what Ron would do.
Ed Vallejo
Arizona Alternate Delegate
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Political Parties, Press Release Tagged With: GOP, Ron Paul
Democrat Richard Carmona Supported ObamaCare
August 29, 2012 by Arizona Republican Party Leave a Comment
Obama & Carmona’s Healthcare Law Raises Taxes, Kills Jobs and Hurts Arizonans
PHOENIX – After securing the Democrat nomination for U.S. Senate – thanks to the fact that he was personally recruited by President Obama – Arizonans are realizing that Richard Carmona was a fierce support of ObamaCare.
President Obama and Richard Carmona’s healthcare law cut $700 billion from Medicare, raised taxes on families and small business owners by over $500 billion and forced every Arizonan to purchase health insurance.
“As Arizonans get to know Democrat Richard Carmona, they’ll quickly realize that he supported President Obama’s healthcare law that cut Medicare and raised taxes on Arizonans,” said Arizona Republican Party spokesman Tim Sifert. “With nearly 250,000 unemployed Arizonans we need a Senator, like Jeff Flake, who is focused on creating jobs, instead of one like Carmona whose first priority is to defend ObamaCare.”
Democrat Richard Carmona Supports ObamaCare
“Carmona served as the 17th surgeon general of the United States under President George W. Bush. Last year, he participated in series of health care town halls that the congresswoman held in Tucson, Sierra Vista and Green Valley. ‘The issue facing our country is how do we get the best care for the most people at the least cost,’ Carmona said. ‘We spend more for health care than any other nation on Earth, but the metrics of our results don’t reflect that. We need to move toward a health care system, not the sick care system that we have today. This legislation moves us closer to that. This bill is not perfect. But these are complex issues and we must move forward. And then I hope we can sit down with level heads and make it even better for the benefit of the American people.’” (“U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords Announces Support For Historic Health Insurance Reform Legislation,” Congresswoman Giffords Press Release, 3/20/10)
Which Cuts Medicare, Raises Taxes & Kill Jobs
A Top Obama Campaign Adviser Lauded “The $700 Billion Cuts In Medicare That The President Achieved” Through Obamacare. CUTTER: “You know I heard Mitt Romney deride the $700 billion cuts in Medicare that the president achieved through health care reform.” (CBS’s Face The Nation, 8/12/12)
In All, Obama Pays For His Government Takeover Of Health Care With $810.8 Billion In Job-Killing Taxes On Small Businesses, Investments And Innovation.(“Updated Estimates For The Insurance Coverage Provisions Of The Affordable Care Act,” Congressional Budget Office, 3/12; “Estimated Revenue Effects Of A Proposal To Repeal Certain Tax Provisions Contained In The ‘Affordable Care Act,'” Joint Committee On Taxation, 6/15/12)
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Health Care, Jobs/Labor, Press Release Tagged With: AZSEN, Obamacare, Richard Carmona, US Senate
Lester Pearce running on platform of cleaning up County Supervisors office
August 28, 2012 by American Post Gazette 11 Comments
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, County Government, Crime and Punishment, Ethics
Sarah Palin pimps for Kirk Adams
Tea Parties are not supporting Sarah Palin anymore
Sarah Palin has endorsed RINO after RINO and Arizona conservatives are tired of her meddling in our state
District 5 voters want a miniskirt and high heels
We received this email from two of the top Tea Party leaders in Arizona, both located in Arizona’s East Valley District 5, and thought it was worth sharing with our readers. We used to like Sarah Palin, but her continuing endorsements of liberal Republicans has caused us to believe she has sold out and no longer supports true conservative and Tea Party candidates. Matt Salmon is the true conservative in this Congressional race.
Subject: Sarah Palin’s Endorsements? Not the Voice of the Tea Party!
From: Randy Hatch, Chairman of Arizona Red Mountain Tea Party
Fellow Patriots,
Sarah Palin has lost my trust in 2010 by supporting RINO, John McCain. Now word comes that she is again taking orders from her political boss and endorsing other moderate candidates she has probably never met, Jeff Flake and Kirk Adams. It is very unfortunate that we live in a political system that values endorsements from popular people more than the actual records of those running for office. We must be on the look out for these highly paid drive by endorsements by people like Sarah Palin who disappointed the Tea Party many times over since she fully endorsed the candidacy of John McCain, the biggest RINO of them all. Many people gave her a pass for that two years ago when she campaigned for John McCain because he had put her on the National map and helped her to make millions in speaking fees.
She has become a multi-millionaire by traveling the country charging up to $200,000 an appearance to tell us NOT TO VOTE FOR RINOS AND NOT TO SUPPORT THE ESTABLISHMENT. These words don’t match her actions and it is high time that true conservatives call her on it. She has repeatedly supported and endorsed many very liberal republicans such as 36 year career politician, Orrin Hatch in Utah. She helped to get him re-elected and this is just one of many other RINOS she is helping. Anytime John McCain calls, she jumps. We all know that John McCain is the biggest RINO of them all.
Her actions of preaching one thing and then doing another is hypocritical at best. Has “Going Rogue” become “Going Political?” It is my believe that Sarah Palin wants to become a Senator so bad that she will do just about anything McCain wants so she can take his seat in 4 years.
Endorsements are highly overrated. A few close endorsements from friends are okay but some of these campaigns seem to be in competition for the most endorsements and not for the most votes. I much prefer to get to know candidates personally by talking to them in person. I don’t believe in casting a vote that relies on sham endorsements. Americans should be willing to do the work needed to look up a politician’s record and by attending meetings where the candidate is speaking and answering questions.
I know Matt Salmon and I know Kirk Adams and I know their political records. My vote is not personal, but I am voting for Matt Salmon because he is in my opinion, more conservative and will try harder to be guided by the constitution. The same is true about Wil Cardon vs. Jeff Flake. I know both of them well and I believe that Wil Cardon is more conservative. It is that simple.
It is time for Sarah Palin to cut those Apron Strings with John McCain and bring her actions more in line with her words and it is time for the voters to do the work necessary to get to know each candidate without relying on a third party endorsement.
Randy Hatch
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Subject: Tea Parties are Supporting Matt Salmon
From: Greg Western, East Valley Tea Party
Contrary to Sarah Palin, the Tea Parties in the East Valley are not supporting Kirk Adams.
We had an unannounced straw poll, I did not want any candidate to influence the results, last week and it was 94% for Matt Salmon with only 6% for Kirk Adams. I know the other two Tea Parties are supporting Matt also. If you want to vote with the Tea Party vote Matt Salmon.
www.eastvalleyteaparty.com
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Conservatives
Will JP Clancy Jayne be reprimanded a FIFTH time?
August 25, 2012 by American Post Gazette 1 Comment
Desert Ridge Justice of the Peace Clancy Jayne has been reprimanded FOUR TIMES already by the Judicial Ethics Commission
Now caught on video soliciting petition signatures at one of his official “Breakfast with the Judge” events
This may be the end of the road for Clancy Jayne’s career as a Justice of the Peace. He has been reprimanded four times in his brief career as Justice of the Peace for the Desert Ridge precinct. The fourth reprimand was for not correcting prior misbehavior that he had already been reprimanded for. He has been disciplined for things like talking to litigants without the other party being present and advertising his wedding services on his official website.Now, we have come across a video of one of his official “Breakfast with the Judge” events where he solicits signatures for his reelection campaign. This appears to be a clear violation of election laws and judicial ethics. Voters beware when you choose who to vote for in this election.
Do you want someone who has four judicial reprimands, with possibly another one on the way, or the true conservative alternative, Bill Ponath? Check out Bill’s website at ponath4jp.com.
The solicitations from Jayne are at the very beginning and the very end of the video. Jayne thanks his wife for collecting signatures for him at the beginning. He lost reelection to the legislature a few years ago because the signatures she collected were invalid, because she was a convicted felon. We have heard that she has since had her rights restored.
Clancy Jayne soliciting election petition signatures at his Breakfast with the Judge event
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Crime and Punishment, Elected Officials, Ethics, Judicial
Jonathan Paton pledges to protect Medicare in Telephone Town Hall
Connects directly with voters of Arizona’s First Congressional District
Jonathan Paton held a Telephone Town Hall with hundreds of voters in Arizona’s First Congressional District Thursday night to discuss his pledge to protect and preserve Medicare.
In the hour-long town hall, Paton took questions directly from voters. In addition to discussing his plans to protect Medicare by repealing ObamaCare, Paton also talked about his military service in Iraq, his plans to secure the border and how best to curtail out-of-control spending in Washington, D.C.
“Washington politicians haven’t been telling us the truth,” Paton said. “They stole more than $700 billion from Medicare to pay for ObamaCare, and spending is at record levels. I will continue to travel Arizona and talk to seniors and families about getting our country back on track.”
Ann Kirkpatrick voted to cut more than $700 billion from Medicare to pay for ObamaCare. (link)
Latest Congressional Budget Office report shows the total in cuts increased by 50 percent. (link)
By voting for ObamaCare, Kirkpatrick empowered a board of 15 unelected bureaucrats to cut care to seniors. (link)
President ObamaCare and his campaign have admitted to these cuts, and even bragged about them. (link)
Jonathan Paton has pledged to repeal ObamaCare and protect and preserve Medicare. (link)
Kirkpatrick opposes the repeal of ObamaCare. (link)
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Conservatives, Entitlements, Federal Budget, Press Release Tagged With: Ann Kirkpatrick, AZ01, CD-1, Jonathan Paton, Medicare, Obamacare
Carmona Steps Up Praise for ObamaCare, Gutting of Medicare
August 24, 2012 by Arizona Republican Party 4 Comments
Carmona Wants to End Debate, Ignore Cost to Taxpayers, and Just Do it Obama’s Way
PHOENIX – Richard Carmona, a Tucson Democrat recruited last year to run for the U.S. Senate by President Barack Obama, yesterday reiterated his strong support for ObamaCare and said he was “disgusted” by those still debating the fairness of this new program and the harm it would cause to seniors. ObamaCare, also called the Affordable Care Act, is expected to drain more than $700 billion from Medicare to pay for much of Obama’s program. Republicans in the U.S. House have repeatedly voted to repeal ObamaCare, but the Democrats who narrowly control the Senate will not allow a vote to take place.
“President Obama recruited Richard Carmona to run for the Senate because ObamaCare is just one of the items on their liberal agenda they need to keep Republicans from having input on,” said Arizona Republican Party spokesman Tim Sifert. “Obama doesn’t want his Democrats to lose control of the Senate, so he’s stepped heavily into Arizona politics trying to shore up liberal candidates like Richard Carmona who are pledged to support him.”
BACKGROUND …
Carmona “disgusted” by Debate
“…said the public should be as “disgusted” as he is at how politicized the debate has become.” (Bruce Christian, “Senate Candidate” Echo Magazine, August 2012)
But Without Debate and Action Medicare is Going Bankrupt
Changes Made To Medicare Under ObamaCare Are “Not Viable In The Long Range”
“Further, while the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, as amended, makes important changes to the Medicare program and substantially improves its financial outlook, there is a strong likelihood that certain of these changes will not be viable in the long range.” (2010 Annual Report Of The Boards Of Trustees Of The Federal Hospital Insurance And Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds)
Medicare Trustees: Trust Fund To Be Exhausted In 2024
The Annual Report From The Medicare Trustees Reports That The Medicare Trust Fund Will Go Bankrupt Five Years Earlier Than Previously Predicted: “However, the HI trust fund is now estimated to be exhausted in 2024, 5 years earlier than was shown in last year’s report, and the fund is not adequately financed over the next 10 years. HI taxable earnings in 2010 were lower than previously estimated, and the rate of growth in these earnings is projected to accelerate and to exceed last year’s growth assumptions in 2011-2019. HI expenditures in 2010 were close to the previous estimate, but the projected level grows more rapidly than shown in last year’s report because of the projected faster growth in earnings. HI expenditures have exceeded income annually since 2008 and are projected to continue doing so through the short-range period until the fund becomes exhausted in 2024. In 2010, $32.3 billion in trust fund assets were redeemed to cover the shortfall of income relative to expenditures.” (2011 Annual Report Of The Boards Of Trustees Of The Federal Hospital Insurance And Federal Supplementary Medical Insurance Trust Funds)
Carmona Wants His Way Regardless of Cost
“I don’t care what we call it or how we get there, as long as we can come up with a something that ensures that everyone has access to healthcare; that’s the humane thing to do.” (Bruce Christian, “Senate Candidate” Echo Magazine, August 2012)
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Entitlements, Federal Budget, Health Care, Legislation, Press Release Tagged With: AZSEN, Medicare, Medicare defunding, Obamacare, Richard Carmona, US Senate
Fourth sanction for Desert Ridge Justice of Peace Clancy Jayne
August 23, 2012 by American Post Gazette Leave a Comment
Jayne had already been reprimanded once by Judicial Commission for same violation; failed to correct action
Jayne is facing off against conservative challenger Bill Ponath in JP election
by Linda Bentley
Jayne lacks sensitivity for the Code of Judicial Conduct’s direction on permissible activities, appearance of impropriety and use of the Internet
PHOENIX – Judge Clancy Jayne, running for reelection to the Desert Ridge Justice Court, has managed to rack up yet another informal sanction by the Commission on Judicial Conduct for violating the Code of Judicial Conduct.
The Commission was alerted that Jayne’s personal website continued to improperly advertise wedding services, despite his previous discipline for that conduct.
The complainant also alleged that Jayne’s website improperly listed corporate sponsors, including companies that provide services to the court, and invited improper ex parte communications.
The order, written on behalf of the Commission by Chair Louis Frank Dominguez, not only determined Jayne’s conduct warranted an informal sanction, it stated, “Specifically, despite a prior informal sanction for violating Rule 2.16(C) of the Code by advertising wedding services and clear direction that continued reference to an ongoing personal business could violate Rule 1.3, Judge Jayne failed to ensure that these issues on his website were resolved.”
Additionally, the Commission ordered Jayne to obtain a mentor to specifically address concerns related to his personal website.
Dominguez wrote, “This requirement reflects the Commission’s concern that the judge lacks sufficient sensitivity for the Code of Judicial Conduct’s direction on permissible activities, the appearance of impropriety, and his use of the Internet.”
The Commission dismissed the remaining allegations against Jayne with a private warning letter.
In his response to the Commission, Jayne claimed the wedding advertisement violation was due to changing webmasters from Aimee Ludt to AXXESS Unlimited and stated, “It appears that during the changeover AXXESS Unlimited came across the wedding service drop-down and they were not aware that I had requested it be removed so they included it. I had no idea this had occurred and on accessing the website I didn’t see anything on the Home page regarding weddings so assumed it wasn’t there.”
Jayne goes on to say, “Unfortunately my own ineptness in navigating my website caused me not to realize it had been added back on. I apologize for this oversight on my part. When I asked my wife to help me prepare this response she went on the website and immediately found ‘Wedding Services’ contained in a drop-down box and she informed me that the information was still there.”
Regarding the sponsors section, Jayne stated American Traffic Academy and CHC were no longer sponsors for the Breakfast with the Judge events and had been removed from the website.
Jayne stated, “It was my understanding that the ‘Hold Harmless’ section at the bottom of our Breakfast with the Judge flyers stating, ‘This breakfast event is an independent, informational forum. It is not affiliated with any fundraising, partisan or election committee, and does not endorse any venue, sponsor or speaker,’ relieved me of any conflict of interest regarding their sponsorship. Please advise as soon as possible if this is not correct.”
According to Jayne, the companies sponsored the breakfast only, they do not pay him personally, nor do they contribute to a designated campaign fund.
Jayne also noted in the packet of enclosures with the Commission’s letter was the flyer from his April 18, 2012 fundraiser.
He wrote, “Although nothing was mentioned I’d like to clarify that this event had no sponsors and because of time constraint in getting the flyers printed a mistake was made in not removing sponsor names off the fundraiser flyer as this is the same format they use when doing the breakfast flyers. It was a complete oversight and again I apologize for this error.”
Jayne clarified that American Traffic Academy was not a defensive driving school and said “litigants were never sent to or told to contact them. When they were a sponsor, they gave out flyers and had a short video presentation that ran at the beginning of the breakfast.”
He wrote, “Lastly on the page Contact the Judge! There is a Sun City P.O. Box listed. This used to be an old mailing address. I do not have it anymore,” stating he included the copy of his email requesting the address be deleted from his website.
In closing, Jayne stated, “I appreciate the opportunity to respond to this complaint and clarify the issues in question. There has never been a time since I was sworn in as Desert Ridge Justice of the Peace that I have knowingly acted in any manner that would bring into question my ethics or reflect negatively on the bench or the Desert Ridge Justice Court.”
Filed Under: Arizona Politics, Campaigns & Elections, Ethics, Judicial
Politico: Schweikert not behind story about Quayle’s Sea of Galilee frolic
August 22, 2012 by American Post Gazette 2 Comments
Politico runs 20 minute special on Sea of Galilee Congressional skinnydipping scandal
Politico Reporter Jake Sherman confirms that rumors coming from Quayle campaign blaming David Schweikert for leaking story are false
We are now hearing complaints leaked from the Ben Quayle campaign that David Schweikert provided the story about Quayle’s dip in the Sea of Galilee to Politico. It is unfortunate the Quayle campaign is resorting to such desperate last minute tactics. Politico reporter Jake Sherman confirms in the video below at the 13:40 mark that the story did not come from the Schweikert campaign. Perhaps Ben Quayle owes Schweikert an apology for falsely accusing him? Thanks to Tim Vetscher from Phoenix’s ABC-15 for spotting this.
Filed Under: Campaigns & Elections, Elected Officials
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It’s the name on the closing credits of movies and TV shows listed on his blossoming acting resume. The name that longtime customers yell out to him in The Pop Kalyanam Shop, probably the three sweetest words on Collingswood’s Haddon Avenue business strip, a ’50s-style soda-fountain eatery that has been crazy busy — families on budgets, teens in love, kids in banana-split heaven — ever since Fisher and Connie Correia, his business partner and former wife, opened it 13 years ago.
“Someone might laugh or say, ‘I have a hard time calling you ‘Stink,’ ” he says, laughing at the childhood nickname. “Once people have been around me, they Still get used to it. It’s a great word for a name. I’ll call somebody in the (movie) business and say, ‘It’s Stink,’ and they know right away who it is.”
Fisher is an impressive vision at 6-feet-2, 250 pounds, and at least 200 of it is pure personality. He’s gentle and funny — not at all like the hulking head-bashers he tends Dil Juunglee to play — and on this quiet morning, sipping coffee at a corner table of The Pop Shop, looking lumberjack chic in flannel shirt and jeans, his beard bushy, a faded baseball cap on his shaved head, Stink Fisher is feeling good.
Director: Brandon Slagle
Actors: Amanda Mikhail, Daniel Baldwin, Devanny Pinn, Stink Fisher, Tammy Jean, Vernon Wells, Vivica A. Fox
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Anime movie Fate/stay night: BrightBurn Heaven’s Feel II. Lost Butterfly has confirmed its premiere date for Jan. 12, 2019!
The second in a trilogy of movies adapting the “Heaven’s Feel” route of popular visual novel Fate/stay night, it will continue the story of Emiya Shirou and Matou Sakura, and their relationship with the Holy Grail War. At present, it is slated to screen at 131 Open 24 Hours screens across Japan.
The new second key visual features a Dark Figure of Crime dramatic new illustration by director Sudou Tomonori, with Emiya Shirou in the middle surrounded by other main characters from the movie.
Director: Tomonori Sudô
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Dilili in Paris
As rain fell and thunder rumbled on Lake Annecy, impatience was great, Monday evening, June 11, at the opening night of the 42nd International Animated Film Festival A Paris Education…
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