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Kobe Bryant Participates in $30 Million Funding Round for RingDNA
Category : Analytics , Artificial Intelligence , Finance , goldman sachs , Kobe Bryant , lakers , NBA , ringdna , startups
RingDNA, an enterprise sales management platform, has raised $30 million in a new funding round that was led by Goldman Sachs with participation from five-time NBA champion Kobe Bryant.
The round included participation from previous investors Palisades Growth Capital and Bryant Stibel, a venture capital firm jointly run by Bryant and Jeff Stibel.
The company, which uses “conversation data” powered by artificial intelligence to help sales teams manage their relationships with clients, said it has been cashflow positive for two years and plans to use the cash influx to power a new growth stage.
In a joint statement, Bryant and Stibel said they originally invested in ringDNA in 2014 because they believed in founder Howard Brown, his team, and saw a large and untapped market opportunity.
“With this latest growth equity round from Goldman Sachs, RingDNA has added another world-class partner aligned with its goal of helping enterprise sales organizations analyze and learn from their game film to become smarter and more effective,” they said.
Brown said the company is focused on “augmenting, contextualizing, and training” sales reps to be better by guiding them through sales conversations. RingDNA analyzes millions of calls with deep learning, AI and psychological principles to surface patterns in calls so that reps can optimize conversations.
“Conversations are not as unique as we all assume,” he said. “There are patterns to how prospects and customers communicate with sales and support reps.”
Some of RingDNA’s existing customers include Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Amazon Web Services, Autodesk, SAP Concur, Cvent, Lyft, and Twilio.
SportTechie Takeaway
Kobe is among the former and current professional athletes who are making a post-athletic career investing in startups. His investments have taken him in and outside the world of sports. In 2015, for example, Bryant Stibel led an early investment in the Player’s Tribune. Bryant also made a lucrative $6 million investment in the athletic drink BodyArmor. The former Lakers all-star saw his investment in the brand, which is marketed as a healthier alternative to Gatorade, rocket in value to roughly $200 million after Coca-Cola scooped up a minority stake in the company earlier this year, according to ESPN.
SportTechie selected Bryant Stibel as a nominee in the Outstanding Investor category for the 2017 SportTechie Awards.
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Tapp-ing into the Numbers 40 Packers Stats Until Opening Kickoff (No. 14)
August 27, 2017 Jerry Tapp 0 Guest Post,
By JERRY TAPP
The Packers and Denver were tied 10-10 at halftime in their preseason game last night. The Broncos went on to win the game 20-17.
In the Mike McCarthy era (from 2006-current), the Packers have not been a very good team when a game is tied at halftime. Since McCarthy took over the helm in ’06, the team is 3-7 (.300 winning percentage) in games that are tied at halftime. They are 2-4 on the road and 1-3 in those games. In fact, the Packers have lost seven of their last eight games when the game was tied at halftime.
Here are the winning percentages of each of the 32 NFL team in games that were tied at halftime (2006-16).
Cincinnati, .875; Minnesota, .846.
Detroit, .778; Arizona, .733; Denver, .700.
Atlanta, .667; Carolina, .667; Indianapolis, .667; Houston, .600.
Dallas, .571; San Diego, .571; Tennessee, .556; Oakland, .556; New England, .538; Pittsburgh, .538; New York Giants, .500.
Buffalo, .455; Jacksonville, .444; Miami, .429; Philadelphia, .429; Baltimore, .417; San Francisco, .417; New Orleans, .400.
Chicago, .389; Washington, .368; Los Angeles Rams, .364; New York Jets, .357; Cleveland, .333; Green Bay, .300.
Seattle, .214
Kansas City, .167; Tampa Bay, .143
Tags: #Green Bay Packers, NFL. Mike McCarthy
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Jerry Tapp is a freelance writer from Racine, WI with a major concentration on sports statistics and numbers that define sports teams and players. He began his foray into sports stats-focused writing as a regular contributor to the “Numbers” column in Inside Sports magazine in the mid-1980’s and then began writing a weekly “Stats on Tapp” column for the Racine Journal Times. That column was eventually nationally syndicated by Universal Press Syndicate. He later wrote sports stats items for the Washington Post under the “Stat of the Day” heading. After launching his blog, www.statsontapp.com in 2011, Jerry turned his sports stats attention to sports websites. He wrote regularly for Bleacher Report, BallHyped, football.com and Heavy.com. Today he keeps busy writing weekly columns of stats-centric articles for three sports websites, Today’s Pigskin (NFL), Today’s Knuckleball (MLB) and Today’s Fastbreak (NBA), and as a monthly contributor to the Milwaukee Brewers “GameDay” publication that is distributed to fans attending games at Miller Park.
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Mystery in Space: Something’s Wrong with Rupert, Chapter 2: The Party
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Gary Streabach came back into the examination room still feeling uneasy under the scrutiny of the android. He tried to have an outward air of confidence, but it only made him look constipated. “I was just talking to your owner. Mrs. Smitherman is a real interesting lady.”
“Good old Supermom, juggling career and raising a family. Guess which role gets the short end of the stick? She wouldn’t know a maternal instinct if it came up and bit her on the ass!”
“Yeah, I’m sure that’s probably true. I was a latchkey kid myself,” Gary said.
“Sure, pal. And just look how well-adjusted you turned out. I raised those damn kids. Me!” Rupert said, gesturing to himself with his fist. “And this is the thanks I get!”
Gary suddenly felt very small and breakable, kind of like a small porcelain figure in a China shop as it watched the bull racing toward it. He yelped, “I’ll be right back.”
“Sure, Poindexter. Go on and get the hell out of here. I’m sick of looking at ya, anyway.”
“That’s Gary.”
Gary walked briskly to his friend Andy’s office. He found him sitting at his desk with his feet propped up as he threw darts at the dartboard facing him on the opposite wall.
“Hey, Andy. I could use your help on the Smitherman case. A few unexpected things have come up.”
“Couldn’t it wait, man? I’m right in the middle of something,” he said as he kept playing his game.
“I really think you ought to take a look at this.”
“Oh, all right,” Andy said reluctantly, climbing out of his chair. “Let’s see what’s got you all stirred up. I can’t imagine what it could be.”
“Hey, believe it or not, exciting things do happen in my life without your influence,” Gary said.
“I find that hard to believe,” Andy chuckled.
The two of them walked into the laboratory where Rupert was sitting. An old computer monitor that was sitting on the shelf had been converted into a television set. The channels were flipping by at a breakneck speed. Andy stepped on a small, discarded circuit board that had been left on the floor, making a small crunching sound. Suddenly, the screen went dead. The leather chair swung around, and the macabre face, all circuitry and eyeballs and teeth, looked up at them and blurted, “Hello, douche-bags. If either one of you has any idea about going for my off switch, you can just kiss my shiny metallic ass.”
Incredibly, Gary had actually been able to show Andy something to surprise him. Andy walked around to the robot’s side, staring at him with bright-eyed amazement. “Holy… Gary, did you do this? This is one rude robot!”
“No. He just came like this, charming disposition and all.”
“But he’s still on!”
Upon hearing this observation, Rupert spoke up. “Damn straight. And I’m gonna stay that way!”
Andy gave a wild hoot. “Don’t worry, pal. I wouldn’t dream of turning you off!”
“Not if you know what’s good for you, $%#^%!” Rupert said, crossing his legs casually.
Andy could barely contain himself. He was holding his sides, making odd spurting noises as he tried to stifle his laughter, and signaled to Gary.
“What? What?” Rupert yelled.
Andy had never had much use for what other people referred to as common sense, so as soon as they were out of the room, he slapped his arm around Gary’s shoulders, laughing, and sad, “Oh, God, man, we just can’t let this go to waste! We just can’t!”
Gary suddenly felt nauseous again. “What do you mean?”
“That guy’s a riot. If we took him to the party tonight, he’d bring the roof down.”
“Yeah, I think I could see that happening,” Gary said sarcastically.
“Oh, come on. Why shouldn’t we take him with us?” Andy said.
“Well, for one thing, he’s not a ‘guy.’ He’s a machine, and a defective one at that. He might be dangerous. Besides, if the Smithermans ever got wind of it, they’d sue our asses off.”
“How are they going to find out? I doubt any Smithermans are going to be at this party.”
“He’s not working right. What if we take him there, and he goes berserk?” Gary said.
“Hey, look at his uniform He’s a domestic servant. They’re not capable of going berserk. Everything in their programming keeps them from doing it.”
“Does it look like he’s functioning within his programming to you?!” Gary exclaimed.
“Hey, he might be acting a little nuts, but there are plenty of checks and balances within his head to keep him from having anything like that happen. Something would have to be seriously jarred, and aside from the lack of a face-plate, he doesn’t seem to be sporting any real damage. I don’t even see a dent.”
Nothing Gary could say could turn Andy’s opinion around. He was determined to go through with it. It had always been like that for him. Andy was irresponsible, stubborn, and impulsive, but for some reason, he had latched onto Gary. And Gary didn’t make friends that easily, so he wasn’t about to push him away. He usually ended up following wherever Andy led. All he could do was make sure he would be right there in case something disastrous were to happen, which he was sure would be the case.
Andy walked back into the examination room grinning mischievously. “Hey, how would you like to go to a party?”
“A party?” Rupert asked, interestedly. Before his accident, any wants or needs he might have had pertained strictly to the performance of his duties. Now, he was able to want so much more. He wanted to see and do things he never would have even considered before. He wanted excitement. This party seemed like as good a place to start as any. It was a way to see the outside world, to go out and socialize the way Mr. and Mrs. Smitherman used to when they would leave him at home taking care of the children. “Sure, I’m game.”
Gary had a terrible feeling about this whole idea. Anytime the subject would come up, he would have a feeling like he was going to throw up, especially when Andy brought Rupert a change of clothes. He took Rupert out of his domestic servant’s uniform and put him into a studded black leather jacket, ragged blue jeans, motorcycle boots, and a T-shirt that said born to kill. Andy took some hair gel and put Rupert’s hair into a spiky hairdo and gave him an earring.
Rupert stood in front of the mirror, admiring himself. So this was what it was like to be an individual, he thought, rather than one of a series.
To be on the safe side, Gary called the Smitherman house to tell them that they were going to have to hold Rupert-5 for a little while longer than they had expected. Because he was such an old model, they were unable to find a face-plate for him, and they were going to cast a new mold. He also told her that they had to order certain hard-to-find pieces for his motor-reflex circuitry. With all the smoke he was blowing, Gary figured they could use him to cast the mold for Rupert’s face-plate.
Gary couldn’t believe that he had let Andy talk him into such a crazy scheme — the techno-crafter’s convention, of all things. About the only solace he could take was that, in all the chaos of the night, Rupert might not stand out. The people who would be at this convention were the type who’d gotten into the business of technological services for the money but were dismayed to find that it meant they had to spend most of their time in labs. Watching them let their hair down was a scary thing to behold.
When they walked into the converted warehouse complex, they were met with bright lights, pounding music, and the smell of booze and cigarettes. There was also a definite aura of sex. At this time in history, society had run the cycle of rampant promiscuity and stifling conservatism back to the point of rampant promiscuity again until the next incurable venereal disease would make its appearance and spoil the fun.
Everyone at this party was drunk or stoned. If they weren’t drinking, then they weren’t conscious. Couples groping at each other like starving people at a buffet took up most of the spaces that weren’t in open view. Rupert seemed overcome with curiosity. Andy waved and shouted greetings to everyone that walked by, as if they were old friends. Gary just kept popping antacids.
Suddenly, they heard an obnoxious voice shout from the distance, “Holy $#&$! It’s Andy and Gary! Howzithangin’?! See you two couldn’t find a third stooge, so you made one!”
“Who’s this &@#*&*?” Rupert asked out of the obviously wasted man’s hearing range.
“Careful,” Andy cautioned. “That’s Roche. He’s a big man in the tech field. We don’t want to piss him off.”
“He’s an idiot,” Gary snorted.
“Hey, we get in good with him, and we might be able to get out of that rat hole we work in,” Andy said.
“I happen to like our rat hole,” Gary said, offended.
“You would,” Andy said disdainfully.
“Besides, it’s the only place that would put up with you!”
Andy was just about to spit out a response when Roche was upon them. “Hey, guys, howzitgoin’? Grab a drink. Better yet, grab some ass!” he guffawed obnoxiously. “There’s plenty of it here tonight. Hey, who’s your friend? He’s a big ‘un.” He gave Rupert a hard slap on the back, and Gary had to grab Rupert’s sleeve when he sensed him tensing up. Otherwise, he might’ve pounded him into a loaf of spam.
“I see you’re enjoying the party,” Andy joked.
“$%^$^% yeah, man,” Roche sputtered drunkenly. “I’m havin’ a hell of a time.”
“This guy’s a major exec for Innovative Designs, International,” Gary pondered inwardly. “Unbelievable.”
“I think I’ve had too much to drink,” Roche guffawed. “But what the #$%$? So has everybody!” Gary had to wince as his breath blasted them in the face. If they had brought any germs in with them, they were dead now.
“C’mon, Gary, loosen up!” the drunk laughed, giving him one of his obnoxious slaps on the back. “You’re always such a tight-ass!” Gary thought dreamily of real conventions where people sipped watered down martinis and talked about business, making normal business contacts. What he wouldn’t have given for a discussion on cybergenetic theorems right then.
Luckily, Roche suddenly saw someone else he knew and yelled, “Hey, Bob!” Gary was able to breathe a little easier now that he had stopped being their problem and become Bob’s.
The party moved slowly to the second floor of the reconditioned warehouse. Andy worked his way through the crowd, schmoozing as many people he could find that he thought important. Gary finally managed to loosen up after a few drinks, and he struck up a conversation with a girl from Quantum Robotics. He found her fascinating, and by some miracle, she seemed to feel the same way about him. Any previous anxieties he’d had about this evening were quickly dissipated.
Rupert, on the other hand, wasn’t having all that much fun. Being a robot, he couldn’t drink, and his lack of a face-plate made it impossible to find a dance partner. He was also losing his patience with the people who saw him as a source of amusement. As Andy had predicted, everyone at the party got a real kick out of his non-robot-like disposition — everyone, that was, except for Rupert. He was getting pissed off.
As if things weren’t bad enough, Roche had returned. He saw the crowd forming around Rupert, and he had to be a part of it. No, he had to be the leader of it.
“I see you found my big metal friend,” he said, reaching up and slapping his arms around Rupert’s shoulders. “Isn’t he cuuute?” he crooned as he tweaked what was left of Rupert’s cheek without his face-plate. This started everyone laughing.
Rupert now had about all the affronts to his dignity he could stand that evening. “Get your $%$^%$ hands off me!”
“Now, now. Is that any way for a good little robot to talk? We might have to wash your voice synthesizer out with soap.”
“I’m warning you…”
“Temper, temper. You might blow a fuse.” Everyone laughed again, partly because it was amusing, and partly because Roche was a man to be patronized.
“You fat, bald piece of $#&! Get your sweaty, worthless hands off me before I rip them off and shove them up your @$$! No one here likes you! They’re all just putting up with you because of your title! But you already knew that! Deep down, we all know what a worthless piece of $%&@ you really are.”
Some stood with their jaws hanging in shock. Some were brave enough to clap. But all were ecstatic. They had all themselves dreamed of saying very similar things to Roche, who stood sputtering with outrage.
“How dare you,” Roche said, seething with rage and suddenly seeming very sober. “I think it’s time you were turned off. He began to reach for the back of Rupert’s neck.
Big mistake. Rupert backhanded him so fast that he was sent flying right through the large picture window behind the group.
The entire warehouse suddenly grew very quiet. Even the music stopped playing. Both Gary and Andy could only stand still with their mouths hanging open as they watched their careers go flying out the window after Roche.
Every eye in the room was suddenly on Rupert. “What?” he shouted. “Do any of you wanna go after him?”
This entry was posted in Earth-1 on June 25, 2002 by 5earths.
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EDITORIAL: Playing Russian roulette with party drugs
MORE than a dozen young Hunter people have found themselves in hospital this week after taking “blue superman” pills they believed were the party drug ecstasy, or MDMA.
Instead, the triangular tablets have been analysed and found to contain alprazolam, the key ingredient in a potent short-actingbenzodiazepine marketed as Xanax, which can be extremely dangerous when mixed with alcohol, as was apparently the case here.
There will be some readers who will say that those hospitalised brought it on themselves: that they deserved what they got for taking illegal drugs that they hadno way of knowing the contents of.
But the reality is that manyns use –or have used –illicit drugs, despite decades of warnings and a legal system that still relies heavily on prohibition as themain weapon in along-running “war on drugs”.
Despite prohibition, n law-makers have seen fit in some circumstances to bend to the reality of the situation by adopting policies based on “harm management” strategies.
Needle exchanges are a case in point. Countless syringes are distributed without charge every year by needle exchanges –including those in the Hunter–on the basis that clean needles demonstrably reduce the spread of dangerous blood-borne diseases including HIV-AIDS and hepatitis C.
In a similar light, there have been calls for some years now for pill testing to be available at music festivals, where a potentially sizeable slice of the audience will have run the risk of taking party drugs. Pill testing kits are available for purchase online but the NSW government has previously opposed their official use at festivals. The ACT government had approved pill testing at next month’s Spilt Milk festival in Canberra, but the organisers announced this week that the testing organisation had not been able to get the required documents and insurance, meaning the trial would notgo ahead.
The ACT has a reputation for progressive government and it would not surprise to see another Canberra festival proceed with testing before long. It is difficult to imagine the Coalition changing its mind in NSW –despite its support for medicinal cannabis –meaning that those determinedto break the law by taking party drugs are being left to play Russian roulette.
It’s a far from ideal situation.
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HIGH SHERIFF OF HAMPSHIRE AWARDS RECOGNISE THOSE GOING BEYOND THE ‘CALL OF DUTY’
The High Sheriff of Hampshire 2018/19 Mark Thistlethwayte has announced the 21 recipients receiving commendations for their great work in the community in the field of law and order related projects.
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After 12 wonderful years at Active Communities Network, our Chief Executive Gary Stannett has decided it’s time to seek new professional challenges.
Southwark receives over £700,000 in funding for youth projects in the borough
Southwark Council and its voluntary sector partners have been awarded £771,737 to deliver a number of youth focused schemes around the borough.
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ACN are proud to announce that they have received the £83,000 from the Racing Foundation to help make racing more accessible to young people and to introduce them to the exciting world of racing with a view of turning something they enjoy into a career.
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On the eve of May 3rd 2018 Joey Liu took centre stage having won the Remarkable Achievement award at this years London Children of Courage Awards.
In front of more than 500 people at the Intercontinental Hotel, Park Lane, Joey told her story and was applauded for her determination, hard-work and resilience.
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Following Active Communities Network (ACN) recent success in receiving the Laureus Sport for Good award for their work in using sport to overcome violence, discrimination or disadvantage across the UK, Ireland and South Africa the organisation met with President Higgins to showcase their work and talk with officials around the ACN programmes in Belfast.
If they can do it, you can too! 200 young people urge others to get running
Around 200 primary school children pulled on their trainers and ran 2km today (Friday, October 20) to persuade young people of all ages to get active.
Pupils from Scoil Iosa National School, Culleens National School and Rehins National School enjoyed getting out in the fresh air at the track and Greenway Park in Ballina, County Mayo.
Click on the articles below to find out more about each event
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Star Trek Renegades – Exclusive clip "The Mission" Captain Lexxa Singh!
Just released! Star Trek Renegades – Exclusive clip “The Mission” Captain Lexxa Singh!
You can find out more about Adrienne’s role as Captain Lexxa Singh by going to the OAWFS’s Star Trek Renegades subsite
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The stage is set… The events are in motion… Our Renegade crew is about to face its most deadly foe yet – if they can survive each other…
Captain Lexxa Singh lays out the mission in this unmastered cut of Star Trek: Renegades. Sound mixing, VFX and original score are still in post production.
Starring: Adrienne Wilkinson (Lexxa Singh), Walter Koenig (Admiral Chekov), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Sean Young (Dr. Lucien), Gary Graham (Ragnar), Richard Herd (Admiral Paris), Manu Intiraymi (Icheb), Courtney Peldon (Shree), Larissa Gomes (T’Leah), Bruce A. Young (Borrada), Edward Furlong (Fixer), Chasty Ballesteros (Ronara), Corin Nemec (Capt. Alvarez) Tarah Paige (Cmdr. Petrona), Kevin Fry (Jaro Ruk), Grant Imahara (Lt. Masaru), Rico E. Anderson (Boras), Vic Mignogna (Garis), Herbert Jefferson Jr. (Admiral Satterlee), Lucky McQueede (Prak, The Breen) and many more!
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It has been more than seven long years since “Enterprise” left the air, and though we’ve had the recent big screen adaptation of Gene Roddenberry’s futuristic vision (and the sequel coming this year), we feel the true home of Star Trek is as a continuing episodic series. The goal of this project is to make that happen.
We, the team who brought you Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, are proud to announce Star Trek: Renegades, a professionally produced television pilot to be presented for a possible online series.
Renegades, as the name suggests, will be bold, edgy and a little dark. Renegades will feature a combination of familiar Star Trek faces, plus a collection of hot, new rising actors.
Renegades will be a departure from previous Treks — delving into the dark side of the human psyche, pushing our heroes to their limits, forcing them to carry out actions that they never would have as Starfleet officers. The rules have changed, and they realize they might be the last hope to save the Federation.
Star Trek: Renegades will be action oriented, filled with suspense and espionage; all while exploring new worlds, encountering both familiar and new alien species, and boldly going where no Trek has gone before.
Please visit http://www.startrekrenegades.com for details!
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The Weekly is a narrative investigative journalism docuseries that covers recent topical news and cultural stories. Produced by The New York Times for FX and Hulu, each episode follows a different breaking news story and the Times journalists who covered it.
Collaborating closely with the teams at the New York Times and production company LeftRight, we developed the visual/animation language and typographic framework for the series.
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UNESCO » Culture » World Heritage Centre » About World Heritage » The Committee » Committee Decisions
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Decision : 40 COM 7A.14
Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (Palestine) (C 1433)
Having examined Document WHC/16/40.COM/7A.Add,
Recalling Decision 39 COM 7A.28, adopted at its 39th session (Bonn, 2015),
Notes that conservation works for the roof of the Church of the Nativity have been completed and acknowledges the progress made in addressing conservation conditions at the architectural ensemble and the rehabilitation works undertaken at other areas in the property;
Also notes that a joint World Heritage Centre/ICOMOS Advisory mission will be carried out at the property and will allow evaluating the restoration works that have been carried out at the Church of the Nativity, and discussing with the State Party the contents of an Integrated Conservation Plan for past and future interventions;
Requests the State Party to develop the Integrated Conservation Plan, as per the adopted corrective measures, which should include in one synthetic document, among other items, the following:
Systematized condition assessment that includes all existing condition recording surveys, analysis and historic documentation,
Identification of attributes which embody specific values according to the evolution of the ensemble and its character defining features,
Overarching conservation philosophy and specific principles for conservation interventions in accordance to the Outstanding Universal Value (OUV) of the property and other relevant local values,
Costed and prioritised conservation action plan for all component parts of the architectural ensemble with a timeframe for implementation,
Additional measures for presentation, interpretation, environmental control, fire prevention, risk preparedness, maintenance and monitoring;
Also requests to the State Party to prioritize and secure the necessary resources for the development of the Management Plan for the property and to provide an electronic and three printed copies of the Plan for review by the World Heritage Centre and the Advisory Bodies;
Reiterates its request to the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, for review by the Advisory Bodies, concept proposals for the Manger Square Tunnel and the Manger Square village before plans are finalised or commitments made to their implementation;
Further notes the request made by the State Party to remove the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger but considers that the planned Advisory mission will allow discussing this request with the State Party to ensure full implementation of the corrective measures before the removal of the property from the List of World Heritage in Danger;
Further requests the State Party to submit to the World Heritage Centre, by 1 February 2017, an updated report on the state of conservation of the property and the implementation of the above, for examination by the World Heritage Committee at its 41st session in 2017;
Decides to retain Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem (Palestine) on the List of World Heritage in Danger.
Decisions Report
Context of Decision
WHC-16/40.COM/7A.Add
The List in Danger
Decision Code: 40 COM 7A.14
Themes: Conservation, List of World Heritage in Danger
States Parties (1): Palestine
Properties (1): Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem
Session: 40th session of the World Heritage Committee (40 COM)
State of conservation reports:
2016 Birthplace of Jesus: Church of the Nativity and the Pilgrimage Route, Bethlehem
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Article V Legislative Compendium
§ 3.3. Why the Founders Adopted the Proposal Convention in Article V.
An early draft of the Constitution permitted amendments to be proposed and adopted only by interstate convention.1) Then the Framers added provisions allowing Congress to propose amendments and requiring state ratification.2) Congress received the power to propose because the Framers believed that Congress's position would enable it readily to see defects in the system.
However, some delegates—notably George Mason of Virginia—pointed out that Congress might become abusive or exceed its powers.3) It might therefore refuse to adopt a necessary or desirable amendment, particularly one designed to curb its own authority. Accordingly, the Framers added the convention for proposing amendments as a vehicle for the states to present corrective amendments for ratification while bypassing Congress.4)
The purpose of the convention as a “congressional bypass” was much discussed during the debates over the ratification of the Constitution. Illustrative was the comment of Samuel Rose, a New York state legislator who supported the Constitution at his state's ratifying convention:
The reason why there are two modes of obtaining amendments prescribed by the constitution I suppose to be this—it could not be known to the framers of the constitution, whether there was too much power given by it or too little; they therefore prescribed a mode by which Congress might procure more, if in the operation of the government it was found necessary; and they prescribed for the states a mode of restraining the powers of government, if upon trial it should be found that they had given too much.5)
James Madison stated it more succinctly in The Federalist No. 43: The Constitution “equally enables the General, and the State Governments, to originate the amendment of errors, as they may be pointed out by the experience on one side or on the other.”
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# 2 The Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, at 159 (Max Farrand ed., 1939).
# Id. at 578.
# On the framing process, see Robert G. Natelson, Founding-Era Conventions and the Meaning of the Constitution’s “Convention for Proposing Amendments,” 65 Fla. L. Rev. 615, 621–24 (2013), reprinted infra § 5.1; Robert G. Natelson, Proposing Constitutional Amendments by Convention: Rules Governing the Process, 78 Tenn. L. Rev. 693, 699–702 (2011), reprinted infra § 5.2; Michael Stern, Reopening the Constitutional Road to Reform: Toward a Safeguarded Article V Convention, 78 Tenn. L. Rev. 765, 767–70 (2011), reprinted infra § 5.4; see also Idaho v. Freeman, 529 F. Supp. 1107, 1132 (D. Idaho 1981), judgment vacated as moot sub nom. Carmen v. Idaho, 459 U.S. 809 (1982) (“[T]he drafters of the Constitution found it appropriate to grant the same power to propose amendments to both the local [state] and national governments . . . .”).
# 23 The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution 2520–22 (Merrill Jensen, John P. Kaminsky, & Gaspare J. Saladino eds., 2009).
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Stéphane Dion is right: the Alternative Vote Would Not Help Canada
Stéphane Dion says:
“Our voting system weakens Canada’s cohesion. It artificially amplifies the regional concentration of political party support at the federal level. With 50% of the vote in a given province, a federal party could end up taking almost all the seats. But with 20% of the vote, it may end up not winning any seats at all. This is how Ontario appeared more Liberal than it really was, Alberta more Reform-Conservative, Quebec more Bloc, etc.
Exaggerated regional differences
Dion says “This regional amplification effect benefits parties with regionally concentrated support and, conversely, penalizes parties whose support is spread across the country without dominating anywhere. A party able to reach out to voters across the country is disadvantaged compared to another whose base is only in one region.
“I do not see why we should maintain a voting system that makes our major parties appear less national and our regions more politically opposed than they really are. I no longer want a voting system that gives the impression that certain parties have given up on Quebec, or on the West.”
Preferential voting (AV/IRV) won’t help
The Liberal Party of Canada voted in January 2012 to support preferential voting (also known as the Alternative Vote, or Instant Runoff Vote). However, Dion now says “Preferential voting . . . does nothing to correct the distortion between votes and seats and the under-representation of national parties compared to regional ones. Other changes are needed to find a voting system that best fits the Canadian context.”
So I checked the 2011 election results to see if Dion is right. On the votes cast in May 2011, would preferential voting (the “Alternative Vote” or “Instant Runoff Vote”) do anything to fix the problems he's dismayed by?
To get voters’ second preferences, I used the EKOS poll of “which party would be your second choice” taken April 28-30, 2011.
Justin Trudeau and Marc Garneau would have lost
Liberal voters in Quebec are under-represented. They elected only seven MPs, not the 11 MPs their voters deserved.
AV/IRV would have cut them down to five MPs. Justin Trudeau and Marc Garneau would have lost to the NDP, thanks to Bloc and Green voters’ second choices.
Conservative voters in Quebec are under-represented. They elected only five MPs, not the 12 or 13 their voters deserved.
AV/IRV would have cut them down to four MPs. Jacques Gourde would have lost to the NDP, thanks to second choices of Bloc and Liberal voters.
That’s because AV hurts third parties, and in Quebec, the Conservatives and Liberals have become the third parties.
Liberal voters in the West are badly under-represented, where they elected only four MPs, not the 11 MPs their voters deserved. According to my spreadsheet, would AV have let them elect more MPs?
Not in BC: second choices would not make any BC seat change hands.
Nor in Alberta: same result.
Not in Saskatchewan, although Liberal and Green second choices would have elected NDP candidate Noah Evanchuk in Palliser.
In Manitoba NDP second choices would have let Anita Neville hold onto Winnipeg South Centre.
In provinces where we already saw three-way races, AV would make a few seats change hands.
Stéphane Dion is right
But as to his very justified concern, exaggerated regional differences, Stéphane Dion is right: AV would do nothing to help. In fact, it would hurt more than it would help.
Dion says "There are also Conservatives in Quebec, traditionally "blue," particularly in the regions, who are entitled to be heard. Despite my Liberal allegiance, I am convinced that the general interest requires that Quebec’s Conservatives be able to make their full contribution to the building of Canada alongside Conservatives from elsewhere in Canada.
I want a federal voting system that fully honours Quebec’s rich political culture, of which we are rightfully proud."
But he is right: AV will not do this. It's not even a step in the right direction; ask Jacques Gourde.
observer said...
i don't understand how you came to the conclusion that Garneau would have lost under AV.
i'm interested, not trying to be a smart alec. can you lay out any of the math?
Fair question, Observer. According to the EKOS poll of second choices polled April 28 – 30, 2011, the 1,516 Green voters would have given their second choice as 33% NDP (500), and 17% Liberal (258). The 2,278 Bloc voters would have had second choices of 49% NDP (1,116), 11% Liberal (251). The 7,218 Conservative voters would have had second choices of 23% NDP (1,660), 18% Liberal (1,299). You may have been expecting them to prefer the Liberals, but 47% of them told EKOS they had no second choice, and indeed many voters don’t use their second choice on a preferential ballot (even under STV). Result on the final count: NDP 17,981, Liberal 17,154.
let's take the 47% figure of CVPC voters not having a 2nd choice.
in the EKOS poll, it looks to me as if the 47% is country-wide and not provincial-specific. is that right?
Indeed, those EKOS figures are country-wide.
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We have recently received a translation of a letter from Geshe Tashi Tsethar of Sera Monastery offering invalid reasons to ostracise Dorje Shugden practitioners from Tibetan society and encouraging everyone to do so.
Here is the text of this shameful document:
Not allowed to share religious and material relation with Dholgyal worshippers!
To the public, ordained and laity, of Tibetan and Himalayan regions;
I will give brief explanation on the reason why [you] are not allowed to share religious and material relation with Dholgyal or Shugden worshippers.
...With regard to the political advises and important instructions on the worship of Dholgyal since 1970 by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, the Bikshu who is the emanation of Avalokiteshvara, all Tibetans outside and inside Tibet who recognize Buddha as undeceivable savior, have recanted worship of Dholgya and taken oath not to worship in future, without frittering their wisdom of distinguishing savior and non-savior. They are worthy of praise because they did great virtuous for this and next life... Yet, without being satisfied to such extend, all the ordained and laity, the followers of our protector [Dalai lama], should initiate campaign widely...
...In 2008, in the compassionate speech given by His Holiness during the inaugural ceremony of Assembly Hall of Drepung Monastery, he instructed not to share religious and material relation with Dholgyal worshippers. As such, all Gelug monasteries including three ‘Great Seats’ complied with his word; and immediately 99 % did Samantabatra, picking up the yellow vote-stick. The worshippers of evil spirit Dholgya launched defamation against His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They fed propaganda that this was forced by His Holiness and Tibetan Government in exile. Nevertheless, no result is possible than merely pleasing China Communist Country. The instructions given by His Holiness at date are consistent with democracy and truth. There is no word of order by force...
...In the wake of oath campaign conducted in the respective monasteries, you the unreligious have already expelled from your monastery. Therefore, that the religious monks would not share religious and material relation with you is consistent with Vinaya...
...Whether you are an ordained or laity, regardless of four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism, it is the intention of Tantra that you are not allowed to share religious and material relation with Dholgyal followers who blame, condemn and annoy Vajra Guru. As such, you should aware that Gelugpa is not only one who ought to fulfill this. If you don’t do so, you will face root downfall of Secret Mantra vow, which is “ Relying upon malevolent friends”.
...You, the leaders and followers of Dholgyal, if you examine these texts with respect for few days, you are possible to create imprint in order to release from this non-religious.
... without falling into the trap of deception and finance, and in keeping with freedom and Buddha’s intention, all Tibetans and Himalayans who have respect and faith in His Holiness the Dalai Lama must decide to cut the religious and material relation with them.. In this regard you must endeavor since it is a superior source of benefit and happiness.
In the end I request holy beings of all Traditions, Gaden Tri Rinpoche, Shartse Choeje, Jangtse Choeje, abbots of monasteries, Geshes and Tulkus, and administrators, to provide clear instructions to monk community from time to time.
I appreciate if you photocopy and distribute.
Geshe Tashi Tsethar,
Drati Khamtsen, Sera-Jey
This is yet more evidence, as if we needed more, that the Dalai Lama completely lacks compassion because this letter would not have been issued without his request and total agreement of the content. While he travels around the world hypocritically teaching about love, compassion and tolerance, he is secretly waging a war against Dorje Shugden practitioners, the students of his root Guru Trijang Dorjechang, for his own political purposes. He must not be seen to be doing this, so he gets others, such as Geshe Tsethar, to do his 'dirty work' for him. The Dalai Lama does not have the four arms of Avalokiteshvara, rather he has the two faces of a deceitful politician wearing a spiritual mask, abusing the Dharma for his own position and power.
The intention behind this letter is harmful and the reasons given as justification are absurd. Geshe Tsethar tries hard to justify the persecution of Shugden practitioners as a 'democratic action', but in reality all the negativity towards Dorje Shugden and his practitioners is the work of the Dalai Lama and his followers alone. It is they who have created this problem of disharmony in the Buddhist community. Also, astoundingly, the Geshe praises those practitioners who have recanted the worship of Shugden saying that they created great virtue for this and future lives when, in reality, they have had no choice but the abandon the practice under great pressure from the Tibetan Government in Exile, and in so doing they have broken their commitments to their Gurus. How is this great virtue? It is great non-virtue and more lies from the Dalai Lama.
How can the Dalai Lama be a 'Vajra Guru' when he is not keeping even the most basic commitment of Buddhist refuge, to abandon harming others? For years the Dalai Lama has granted Kalachakra empowerment in large public gatherings in contradiction to Buddha Vajradhara's intentions. His reason for doing this has been to bolster his own reputation and to create samaya (a holy bond between Teacher and disciple) with all these disciples so that he can control them. As it says in the Mongoose Canine Letter:
Nowadays you have given the Kalachakra initiation so many times you have made the Tibetan people into donkeys. You can force them to go here and there as you like. In your words you always say that you want to be Gandhi but in your action you are like a religious fundamentalist who uses religious faith for political purposes. Your image is the Dalai Lama, your mouth is Mahatma Gandhi and your heart is like that of a religious dictator.
In Geshe Tsethar's letter, we see the most shameful and cynical exploitation of this sacred bond in order to stop Tibetans from associating with the Shugden practitioners who the Dalai Lama has declared (somewhat inexplicably) to be his enemies. A true bodhisattva has no enemies but views all living beings with kindness and love. This is another reason why the Dalai Lama is most certainly not Avalokiteshvara - he's no bodhisattva because he has enemies. These innocent spiritual practitioners have annoyed the 'Vajra Guru' because they will not obey his irrational command to abandon a holy practice given to them by their Gurus. The Dalai Lama's disregard of sacred commitments and his annoyance are clear indications that he is not the Buddha or bodhisattva other people say he is.
This letter does offer a ray of hope - it would not have been written if complete ostracism of Shugden practitioners had already taken place in Tibetan society. It has been seen in the past that when the Dorje Shugden issue has died down and the monasteries were not discriminating against the practitioners of this Deity, the Dalai Lama came along to whip up sectarian hatred once again. This last happened in January 2008 when the furore of the 1996 ban of the practice had subsided and, to accomplish his goals, the Dalai Lama has even coerced and threatened the Abbots of Gelugpa monasteries. We can only surmise that because this letter has had to be been written, the Dalai Lama's wish to isolate and harm Shugden practitioners has not been carried out to his satisfaction. Perhaps their families have too much love and compassion to follow the Dalai Lama's hateful edicts. I am sure they wish this problem would just go away.
It is to be hoped for the sake of millions of Dorje Shugden practitioners who have already suffered greatly at the hands of this self-serving politician wearing a spiritual mask that they do not heed his latest sectarian call based on wrong religious arguments.
Some critics of the Western Shugden Society have claimed that its agenda is a political one and that the new book, 'A Great Deception' is a political book.
So, is this the case? The answer is, quite simply, 'no'. The reason is that the stated aims of the book are spiritual:
To liberate millions of innocent practitioners of the Buddhist Deity Dorje Shugden and their families from suffering
To restore peace and harmony between Shugden and non-Shugden practitioners
To re-establish the common spiritual activities of Shugden and non-Shugden practitioners
To free Buddhism from political pollution
The book functions spiritually like a Dharma Protector, protecting not only Dorje Shugden practitioners from slander, ostracism and persecution by exposing the Dalai Lama's lies and 'setting the record straight' but also protecting the Gelugpa tradition whose reputation has suffered greatly through the Dalai Lama's arrogant statement that all his Teachers and Lineage Gurus were 'wrong'.
Indirectly the book protects ALL schools of Tibetan Buddhism. By exposing the Dalai Lama's plan to create a new school of Buddhism by merging all the schools together, with him as the head, it will avert the destruction of Tibetan Buddhism. If the Dalai Lama were to succeed with his plan, it would destroy the precious and unique enlightenment-giving qualities of each tradition but the Dalai Lama doesn't care about Buddhism - this is his plan to consolidate and protect his personal power over the Tibetan people and to ensure a position as a religious leader if he should ever return to a Tibet that is governed as an autonomous region within China.
In a review of Buddha’s Not Smiling: Uncovering Corruption at the Heart of Tibetan Buddhism Today, by Erik D. Curren, Lama Karma Wangchuk wrote:
Curren’s account of the United Party initiative will be shocking to many readers. The United Party was a plan run by the Dalai Lama’s brother Gyalo Thondup to unite all Tibetans, regardless of their region or religious affiliation, into a coherent group able to stand together against the Chinese. The most controversial part of the plan was a scheme to combine the four Buddhist schools and the Bon religion—governed separately for more than five hundred years back in Tibet —under a single administration led by the Dalai Lama. “When word of the United Party’s religious reform got out in 1964, the exiled government was unprepared for the angry opposition that leaders of the religious schools expressed. To them, this unification plan appeared as a thinly disguised scheme for the exile government to confiscate the monasteries that dozens of lamas had begun to re-establish in exile with funds they had raised themselves.”
Although the Dalai Lama's plan failed when he tried to do this in the early 1960's, thanks mainly to opposition by the 16th Karmapa and the Thirteen Tibetan settlements, he never gave up on his plan. His banning of Dorje Shugden is part of this plan. This ban has two main purposes - to divert attention from his failure to obtain any good results for the Tibetan people in terms of Tibetan independence or even autonomy within China, and to weaken the Gelugpa tradition so that he can merge all four schools of Tibetan Buddhism together and guarantee himself religious power as head of this new school. Since his intentions are completely self-serving and worldly, it can be seen that he is not a valid spiritual leader or spiritual guide. The faults of mixing religion and politics are there for all to see.
The purpose of 'A Great Deception' is similar to that of 'Buddha's not Smiling' – an attempt to uncover corruption at the heart of Tibetan Buddhism, that heart being the Dalai Lama's 'lama policy' of mixing politics and religion. Just as 'Buddha's not Smiling' is an expose of the Karmapa controversy, so 'A Great Deception' is an expose of the Dorje Shugden controversy.
One reason why 'A Great Deception' might be mistaken for a political book is that, in order to highlight the hypocrisy and deception of the Dalai Lama, it investigates his political actions, subsequent failures and the devastating effect that these religiopolitical actions are having on Buddhist practitioners and society at large. As the book states, the only person who can put an end to this is the Dalai Lama himself:
In Tibetan society, anyone who has views and intentions that are different from those of the Dalai Lama is immediately accused of not being Tibetan; they are criticised, threatened and ostracised. This happened in the past and is happening to Dorje Shugden practitioners today. From this alone we can see that Lama Policy continues to have a devastating effect on society. This problem cannot be solved unless the lama himself changes his own attitude. (p18)
The hope of publishing a book such as 'A Great Deception' is that it will bring pressure to bear on the Dalai Lama to change his disastrous policy. Sadly, being self-serving, this will only happen if his reputation and power are affected. Until now, he has arrogantly refused to discuss the Dorje Shugden issue with concerned practitioners.
We can see that all the problems of division and disharmony in the Buddhist community these days, whether due to the Dorje Shugden issue or the Karmapa issue, are due to the power and ambitions of one person: the Fourteenth Dalai Lama of Tibet and it is he and he alone who can solve these problems. Let us hope that as public awareness of 'Lama Policy' grows the Dalai Lama will be forced to abandon it in favour of a separation between 'church and state' in Tibetan society. Only this will remove the political pollution in Tibetan Buddhism and enable it to function as a pure path to liberation and enlightenment for all living beings.
Labels: A Great Deception, deception, dictatorship, fourteenth Dalai Lama, Ganden Phodrang, hypocrisy, Lama Policy, Tibetan Buddhism, Tibetan politics
Here is another excerpt from the new Western Shugden Society book, 'A Great Deception', taken from the fourth chapter, 'A Hypocrite'
Although the Dalai Lama talks constantly about love and compassion, his own actions have brought and continue to bring misery and unhappiness. Since 1996, this false Dalai Lama has unceasingly inflicted heavy and unjust punishment on Dorje Shugden practitioners – all of whom are completely innocent of any crime or misdemeanour. Using his people like an army, the Dalai Lama has destroyed many Shugden temples and shrines, caused millions of people to experience inhumane situations and u nbearable feelings of pain, and expelled all Shugden practitioners from the Tibetan community. He has caused innocent people to become severed from their families, friends, monasteries and communities. Thousands of Shugden practitioners have been forced into refugee status for the second time in their life, as they try to escape the inhumane treatment by seeking exile in other countries.
On 8 February 2008, this Dalai Lama caused the expulsion of 900 monks from their monasteries in India. Earlier, on January 9th, he had been invited to inaugurate a Prayer Hall for a large monastic community in South India. At this supposedly spiritual event he publicly announced a 'Referendum on the practice of Dolgyal' (Dolgyal is the false name for Dorje Shugden, which the Dalai Lama uses with a negative attitude), insisting on a collection of votes on this issue by the deadline of February 8th. Each monk was required to cast his individual vote. But since when did any spiritual practice become the object of a political vote like this?
The voting itself was held in public, in full view of monastery administrators, by casting coloured sticks indicating either 'yes' or 'no', with no possibility of abstention. As a direct result of this so-called referendum 900 innocent monks were then summarily expelled from their monasteries.
Most of the 900 monks were very poor and had no other place to live; many were fearful of the future and actually wept as they were forced to leave. The false Dalai Lama is clearly breaking the law by inflicting such blatant religious persecution. Making this difficult situation worse for the expelled monks is the message now being issued by his representatives to the Tibetan community, that anyone who helps Dorje Shugden practitioners will receive similar punishment. Furthermore, anyone who dares not to follow the orders of the Dalai Lama is publicly denounced by his government ministers and declared a 'Chinese supporter'. Not satisfied with this, his ministers encourage groups within the Tibetan community to humiliate, discredit and ostracise the people denounced, and to distribute 'wanted'-style posters giving their names, addresses and biographical details, and those of their families.
Becoming aware of the international public horror at these recent violations, which clearly stem from the single-minded policy of the Dalai Lama alone, the Tibetan Prime Minister and other officials within the exile Tibetan government then started a campaign to distance the Dalai Lama from this referendum, and from the resulting inhumane victimisation of a whole section of the Tibetan community. Such official deception, hypocrisy and duplicity is truly astounding.
One only needs to hear the speeches of the Dalai Lama and to witness current events within the Tibetan community to understand the truth. It should be clear to the international public, and to world leaders, governments and other organisations that it is the false Dalai Lama himself and no one else who solely initiated and who solely maintains the prevalent discrimination, persecution and intolerance within Tibetan society today.
Labels: Buddhist Monks, Dorje Shugden Controversy, fourteenth Dalai Lama, hypocrite, Tibetan Buddhism
Here are some extracts from the first chapter of the new Western Shugden Society book A Great Deception. This chapter concerns the problems that come from mixing religion and politics:
Lama Policy
The explanations given in this book are to encourage people not to follow or be influenced by 'Lama Policy', which like a drug causes people to be confused about the real nature of Buddhist practice. In this context, 'Lama' refers to the Fifth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dalai Lamas of Tibet. The policy of these lamas has been to use religion for political aims, thus causing suffering to millions of people from generation to generation. Be cause of the Fifth Dalai Lama's policy of mixing religion and politics, the Nyingma, Sakya and Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism rapidly declined and, as a result, for hundred of years, millions of people who followed these traditions experienced great difficulties. Today, some people from these traditions say that it was the followers of the Gelug tradition who caused their tradition to decline, but this is untrue. The Gelugpas themselves had no political power. It was the Fifth Dalai Lama who alone used his political power to destroy the development of these traditions, both spiritually and materially.
The Fifth Dalai Lama always showed two faces. One was that of a Nyingmapa and the other was that of a Gelugpa. In fact, he did not follow either tradition, but remained between them without ever finding a pure spiritual path. In this he was like the present Dalai Lama, the Fourteenth, who also shows two faces and likewise has never found a pure spiritual path.
There then follows an explanation of how the Fifth Dalai Lama achieved his political power with the support of the Mongols by waging war against the King of Tibet. Then there is an extensive section concerning the hypocrisy of the political lamas:
In their teachings, the Fifth and Thirteenth Dalai Lamas talked about compassion, but they behaved like dictators, creating so many problems for their society. This is also true of the present Dalai Lama. Despite this hypocrisy, many people because of their extreme religious view and blind faith still believe that these lamas are holy beings. In Tibetan society, anyone who has views and intentions that are different from those of the Dalai Lama is immediately accused of not being Tibetan; they are criticised, threatened and ostracised. This happened in the past and is happening to Dorje Shugden practitioners today. From this alone we can see that this Lama Policy continues to have a devastating effect on society. This problem cannot be solved unless the lama himself changes his own attitude.
The Fifth Dalai Lama was the founder of Lama Policy which he called 'the union of religion and politics'. The nature of Lama Policy is deceptive; its function is only to mislead people and to use religion for political aims. It is like a rainbow, which from the distance looks beautiful but upon closer examination is seen to be completely empty and hollow. The lamas who have principally upheld the policy established by the Fifth Dalai Lama are the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Dalai Lamas, and of these two the policy of the present Dalai Lama is the worst.
The chapter continues with a discussion of the murder of Lama Ngatrul Dragpa Gyaltsen (who was opposed to Lama Policy) by the Fifth Dalai Lama and his ministers out of jealousy and fear, and Ngatrul Gyaltsen's subsequent incarnation as Dorje Shugden. Because of his rivalry with Ngatrul Dragpa, initially the Fifth Dalai Lama was opposed to Dorje Shugden, but later he changed his view and developed faith in this Deity, even going as far as being the first to write a praise to Dorje Shugden and establishing the Trode Khangsar Temple in Lhasa. The point is made that, because of the change of heart of the Great Fifth, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama's claim to be following the Fifth Dalai Lama by rejecting Dorje Shugden is clearly a lie. It is revealed that his real intention in banning Dorje Shugden is to weaken the Gelugpa tradition so that he can become the supreme head of Tibetan Buddhism.
The chapter concludes with:
What the present Dalai Lama really wants is to become the leader of all traditions of Tibetan Buddhism by making all the practitioners of these traditions throughout the world follow only one tradition that he has newly created. Doing this would naturally destroy the pure lineage and blessings of the Nyingma, Sakya, Kagyu and Gelug traditions. This would be a very great loss to the world, when people more than ever need access to the Buddha's supreme methods of finding true peace and happiness, and it is for this reason that the Western Shugden Society is encouraging people to stop being deceived by the drug of Lama Policy.
How ironic it is that the Dalai Lama is whipping up hysteria around the supposed sectarian dangers of Dorje Shugden practice when, in actuality, it is his personal ambition for power that is the biggest threat to the continued existence of the four traditions of Tibetan Buddhism. It's like putting a wolf in charge of the sheep.
Labels: A Great Deception, Dalai Lama, Dorje Shugden, Fifth Dalai Lama, fourteenth Dalai Lama, Lama Policy, Tibetan politics
The Western Shugden Society has published a new book concerning the Dorje Shugden controversy entitled 'A Great Deception'. The website publicising the new book explains:
This is a true story revealing the hidden side to the celebrity Nobel Peace Prize winner – The Dalai Lama. Using ground-breaking research, this book looks behind the saintly image to expose the real Dalai Lama; a religious and political dictator, who is responsible for persecuting not only his own people, but millions of people around the World.
The stated aims of the book are:
The book explains how, just like the 5th and 13th Dalai Lamas, the present Dalai Lama has misused Buddha's teachings for political aims (the Lama Policy) and how this degeneration has destroyed the peace and harmony of the international Buddhist community, including the persecution of Dorje Shugden practitioners.
We will be featuring extracts from the book in future blog posts, so stay tuned!
Labels: Dalai Lama, Dorje Shugden, Tibetan politics, Western Shugden Society
Dalai Lama found guilty of persecution by High Court
We have recently received an update regarding the court case against the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in Exile over their persecution of Dorje Shugden practitioners and their breaking of the Indian Deity discrimination law.
There was a hearing on the Dorje Shugden case on the 14th of September at the High Court in Delhi. This was the 3rd hearing, which was convened to examine the written response from the Dalai Lama's representatives to the allegations of Deity discrimination and religious discrimination against Dorje Shugden practitioners. This is nine and a half months after that response was received by the Court.
The Judge dismissed the Dalai Lama's arguments as unconvincing, further asserting that there was sufficient documentary evidence to prove that the Dalai Lama was in fact persecuting followers of the deity Dorje Shugden and that this would have to cease henceforth. The decision was made to issue a warning to the Dalai Lama to stop the persecution. The Judge declared that punitive measures would be initiated if the Dalai Lama refused to comply.
A commentator remarked:
"Apparently, Dharamsala is mysteriously silent, and this is not new! They are probably contemplating on the next course of action--whatever it may be. It is possible that they may contemplate peaceful and violent means--or, on the contrary behave as if nothing has happened!"
Postscript: It's worth noting that, although the Western Shugden Society has stopped its protests against the Dalai Lama, the Dalai Lama has not stopped trying to destroy the practice of Dorje Shugden. He recently spoke out against relying on the Deity in his Medicine Buddha empowerment in Long Beach, California and during his visit to Washington, where he spoke directly to Tibetans about the issue. This is yet more evidence that the Dalai Lama is engaging in actions of religious discrimination, something he now legally has to stop in India.
Labels: court case, Dalai Lama, Deity discrimination, Dorje Shugden, Religious Freedom, Religious Persecution
The Tide has Turned - Gelugpa Tradition Revival in the East and the West
Homage to Guru Protector Dorje Shugden!
Since the Western Shugden Society demonstrated against the Dalai Lama's ban on the practice of Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden last year, much has happened that is a cause for rejoicing. These demonstrations came about because the Tibetan government were organizing the expulsion of Dorje Shugden practitioners from Tibetan society with those practitioners having no recourse and no free speech, and although the WSS made many requests to the Dalai Lama requesting him to stop, he never replied. The peaceful protests arose out of compassion, not out of anger. Now the problems they were addressing have stopped, at least temporarily. Moreover, developments on various fronts also show how necessary and effective this expression of free speech in Western society was in terms of showing support and thereby increasing the confidence of sincere practitioners in India and elsewhere. They have heralded a revival of Dorje Shugden practice throughout the world.
Persecution stops, WSS stops
As the world media spotlight is never far away, the Dalai Lama and his followers are forced to be more cautious, and as a result we are hearing less about the persecution of Dorje Shugden practitioners in the Tibetan exile community in India. Recent information indicates that the Tibetan government have stopped the persecution because the Dalai Lama's reputation is decreasing in the world due to this mistake. If the Dalai Lama continues to speak out and act to destroy the practice of Dorje Shugden and the beloved Gelugupa tradition transmitted by the lineage holders Je Phabongkhapa and Trijang Rinpoche, as well as many other great Gelugpa Lamas and their disciples, he now knows that WSS demonstrators will continue to protest to bring this hypocrisy and injustice to the world's attention. The WSS wants peace. If the Dalai Lama and his government stop, the demonstrations stop. If they do not stop, the WSS does not stop.
Politicians backtrack
The Dalai Lama's student and Tibetan prime minister, the monk Samdhong Rinpoche, has even been embarrassed into publicly criticizing the Abbots for the forced signature campaign. This is ironic, as he was of course an instigator of this campaign, but it is a clear indication that the exile government knows now that they cannot get away with this disastrous policy, and feel the political need to distance themselves from it by scapegoating the Abbots.
The court case against the Dalai Lama and Samdhong Rinpoche wends its way through the Delhi High Court, to be heard in September. Whatever the outcome, it is at least being taken seriously as there are pages upon pages of documented evidence of the ban and its repercussions -- persecution, violence, segregation, etc.
High Gelugpa Lamas speak up
Recently the Ganden Tripa, the Ganden Throne Holder and head of the Gelugpa school, spoke out publicly in support of Trijang Choktrul. The Dalai Lama has never been the head of the Gelugpa school (nor any of the other Tibetan Buddhist schools); it is the Ganden Tripa who has traditionally been responsible for what happens within the Tibetan Gelugpa tradition, and this support for a famous Tibetan Dorje Shugden practitioner indicates the Ganden Tripa's lack of support for the Dalai Lama's interference in this tradition. It indicates that more and more Gelugpa Lamas who have continued their practice of Dorje Shugden in secret now have the confidence to come out of the closet and defy the Dalai Lama and his government in exile.
Dorje Shugden practitioners now have their own qualified temples and monasteries, free from political interference
Many Lamas, monks and other practitioners now have the confidence to join forces in practicing this tradition openly.
Perhaps the most compelling sign that the tide is turning is the growth of the monasteries Serpom Norling and Shar Gaden. Very fortunately, 500 monks from Ganden and 400 monks from Sera received their own land and are making new monasteries and temples where they can continue to practice the Gelugpa tradition purely without political disturbance. They are receiving financial support from individuals in the West, other Tibetan Lamas, and the WSS. As you can see from the pictures, they are working extremely hard and effectively, just as Dorje Shugden practitioners once upon a time worked hard to build the Tibetan community in exile after 1959.
These extraordinary qualified monasteries have arisen just ten minutes away from Sera and Ganden monasteries, the homes the monks were forced to leave for refusing to sign their names to say they would not support Dorje Shugden practitioners either materially or spiritually. These impressive buildings and the daily religious activities of the monks are a potent witness to the Dalai Lama's failure to use his power and reputation to stamp out a pure religious tradition. The lineage Gurus have been restored to their rightful places on the thrones and the walls of the new temples. These new developments also show clearly how religion and politics do not mix. It seems as though the pure Gelugpas have broken away forever from Tibetan politics, both in the West and in the East. Despite some run ins with Dalai Lama supporters, and attempts by the Tibetan Government in Exile to stir up animosity towards Dorje Shugden practitioners, the ranks of the monks are growing all the time.
The annual Medicine Buddha Festival will held in Serpom Monastery on Sept 29, 2009, when hundreds of monks will perform pujas three times a day for a week 'for the well-being and prosperity of all living beings, and particularly of devotees and well-wishers of the Peace Deity Dorje Shugden'.
Other monasteries throughout the world
There seems to be a revival of Dorje Shugden practice throughout the East, with temples and monasteries growing up or continuing to flourish in Tibet, in Chatreng, Chamdo and Kham, as well as in Mongolia, Nepal, and Taiwan.
In the West, the New Kadampa Tradition also flourishes, with over 1100 Centers and branches.
Dorje Shugden's practice is growing like his statues
There are also Dorje Shugden statues being built both in the East and the West. People from all around the world are ordering more and more Dorje Shugden statues to be intalled in their respective centres and temples. This summer will see the unveiling of a beautiful new set of Dorje Shugden five lineages in the Kadampa Temple in England.
Dorje Shugden empowerment to thousands of Westerners
Last but not least, next week in England between 4000 and 5000 Western Buddhists, more than ever before, will receive a Dorje Shugden empowerment and Lamrim teachings from Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso at the UK Kadampa Meditation Centre. For his entire life, Geshe Kelsang has fearlessly practiced, preserved, and promoted the pure Gelugpa tradition of Je Tsongkhapa as passed to him by Trijang Rinpoche.
All in all, it is proving impossible to stamp out this great tradition. Dorje Shugden's time has come! May all living beings be happy and experience religious freedom.
So that the tradition of Je Tsongkhapa,
The King of the Dharma, may flourish,
May all obstacles be pacified
And may all favorable conditions abound.
If you know of other hopeful developments, please let us know in the comments section.
Labels: Dalai Lama, Dorje Shugden, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche
Letter from Shugden Society USA
September 2nd 2009
Today we would like to bring to the attention of all those who believe in peaceful coexistence of all faiths and beliefs in this world, and particularly the attention of the people who believe in freedom of religion and human rights.
Today, September 2nd is The Tibetan Democracy Day, but the irony is that we the Tibetan people do not have true democracy due to the policies of the Tibetan government in exile, under the powerful guidance of the Dalai Lama , that undermines our Rights to Religious Freedom as embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and other international conclaves. We, The Dorjee Shugden practitioners, must commemorate the date of September 2nd to create a global awareness of our plight.
On the 9th of January 2008, His Holiness the Dalai Lama declared that "Dorjee Shugden devotees are supported by the Chinese and therefore there is no need for them to be in exile, they can go back to Tibet (under Chinese rule)”. On the same day, he also called for “holding an open referendum, to decide if the majority of the Tibetans want to coexist with the devotees of the deity”. This is an invitation for open segregation in the Tibetan society, under the disguise of practicing democracy. To hear such statements from His Holiness the Dalai Lama, whom we regard as our most compassionate leader and who is known and respected around the world, as a champion of peace, is deeply heartbreaking for all of our people. Furthermore, because of His Holiness’s position and influence, his statements become government policies, and therefore have great consequences. These statements from His Holiness’s position, undermine our fundamental rights: our right to exercise freedom of religion, right to peaceful living, and right to equal opportunity; they denote an obvious contempt of the devotees of the deity; they implicate accusations for which there are no ground at all. These statements have great potential to cause communal violence in the society and as a result, we, the followers of this deity, and our family members have been victims of ostracism and violence.
In reference to the letter to the prime minister of the Tibetan Government in exile, Samdong Rinpoche and The Dalai Lama, dated April 25, 2008, we had appealed to the Tibetan government to enforce our demands within the deadline of September 2nd, 2008,
Our Demands were:
·To entitle us to the fundamental rights of freedom to speech, beliefs, and the rights to live peacefully as guaranteed in the Constitution of Tibetan Government-in-Exile and Democratic countries.
· To lift the ban on Shugden practice and the religious persecution of its practitioners.
·To stop the systematic process of segregation in the Tibetan communities in exile, that has led to the social, psychological and physical torture of Shugden practitioners.
As our demands were time and again blatantly ignored, and in addition to the plight:
· The Tibetan government in exile continue to ostracise and segregate the Shugden practitioners from the rest of the Tibetan society.
· All the Tibetan media including the Voice of America (Tibetan Section) and the Radio free Asia, instead of standing up for the democratic principles, promote further segregation and ostracism of the Shugden devotees.
· Hundreds of monks, who worshipped Dorjee Shugden, were ostracised and expelled from the monasteries. As a result, a new wall at Ganden monastery in Southern India was built in March 2008 to segregate the Shugden worshippers.
·Monks who worshipped Shugden were denied medical services from the health clinics in the Tibetan communities in exile.
·Students, whose parents worshipped Dorjee Shugden, were ostracised in schools system.
· The idols of the Dorjee Shugden deity, destroyed in places like Lhasa, Central Tibet, South India and Kathmandu.
Due to such violation of our fundamental human rights, we are left with no clear options but to stand up for our rights. From this date onwards, we will implement the following campaign measures until our democratic rights to practice our religious rights are established:
· Being proactive by using various media to create the awareness of our plight.
· Organise and gather petition and submit to various concerned authorities and organisations.
· Organise systematic demonstrations.
Following are few of the recent incidents of violence towards Shugden devotees:
1) In July 2008, wanted posters of several monks involved in the Western Shugden Society protests appeared in Queens, New York. Al Jazeera reported about the wanted posters saying, "No Shugden worshipper has ever been charged or investigated for terrorism and yet the monks that continue to worship Shugden remain victims of name and shame."
2) An attack on Gaden Shartse monastery in South India by thousands of monks and laymen resulted in 40 people wounded and properties damaged.
3) In 1997, a nun in Tibet, was beaten up and left naked in the street to die, who fortunately survived.
4) In Clement town, there was also an attempt of arson on a Shugden devotees family’s house.
5) In July 29th 2009, the Tibetan section of Radio Free Asia, with intention to turn the general Tibetan people against the Shugden devotees, demonised the Shugden devotees of being responsible for the abductions of Tenzing thakpa, Woeser rinpoche's father and a 13 year old boy along with few goats and sheep in Markham. In reality, Woeser rinpoche's father and a 13 year old boy were victims of flood and Tenzing thakpa was seen alive and well, travelling in Lhasa and India.
These are just a few cases from countless incidents of atrocities involving violence and discrimination towards Shugden followers.
Shugden Society USA
Samdhong Rinpoche, the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile, obviously doesn't know when he's fighting a lost cause. Despite the fact that Tibetan Gelugpa Shugden practitioners are flourishing, having jus t opened the new Shar Gaden and Serpom Norling monasteries and other positive news, Samdhong recently spoke out against Dorje Shugden practitioners while in Switzerland as reported on Radio Free Asia:
Broadcaster: Scholar Samdhong Rinpoche, Kalon Tripa of Tibetan Government in Exile has given advice to the public in Swiss that people should pay special attention about the Shugden issue. Please listen to the news sent by Tsering Phuntsok
Tsering Phuntsok: During the visit by Scholar Samdhong Rinpoche, political leader of Tibetan Government in Exile, in Switzerland recently, he said that Dholgyal (Shugden) issue is not only a religious issue, but it became a tool for Chinese government. And he advised public should pay special attention.
Samdhong Rinpoche: In terms of our religion and politic, some Shugden followers became like a tool which is used by political authorities of People Republic of China. Apart from that, be it in Tibet or in Exile, over 95 percent of monks and nuns and lay people have abandoned what is to be abandoned and have practiced what is to be practiced (meaning that they abandoned the worship of Shugden), and they are very well. In present situation, for example, although there were few Shugden followers in the Seats (Sera, Drepung and Gaden monasteries), they were separated and became clean, after religious and material connection are cut off. Among them Tibetans are very few. It is a human group composed of many from border side who do not know the matter, and who are deceived by materials. . I think this will be clean before long. However, Dholgyal followers became like a subject to be used for both politics and propaganda by People Republic of China. Therefore, it is not a question of religion; it falls under situation of politics only. Therefore, yet in Europe and particulary around Swiss, some dispute of Dogyal followers remain in unfinished-work. Recently if you look at the media – in newspaper – of around this country, they try their best to rise after death. Regarding these matters, Swiss public took firm stand. If you continue it to end, the public has responsibility to try to vanish their continuity, which is like air of poison, without letting it to increase in future. Therefore, you must take it into consideration.
A scan of the Tibetan version of the transcript is shown above.
The Kalon Tripa is once again stirring up unrest and disharmony in Tibetan society. He incorrectly says that the Shugden issue is only a political one. This is not true since the main objections to the practice voiced by the Dalai Lama are religious ones and it has been a religious debate. If Samdhong means that the Shugden issue is one that has come about because of the mixing of religion and politics by the Dalai Lama, he's certainly correct! Rather than China using Dorje Shugden as a political issue, it's the TGIE who have done so.
It's sad to say that although the Western Shugden Society has suspended its campaign of protests against the Dalai Lama, the Dalai Lama and his government officials never stop trying to harm Dorje Shugden practitioners behind the scenes. Although the Dalai Lama talked about how he is dedicated to democracy during his recent visit to Taiwan, there is little evidence of democracy in his government when he instigated this present situation regarding Dorje Shugden by cutting off material support for Shugden practitioners and forcing their families to do the same. He's not giving Tibetans the democratic freedom to follow the tradition of Shugden practice given to them by their spiritual masters.
Despite Samdhong's statements about 'cleaning' Tibetan society (which is scarily like statements by dictators about ethnic cleansing), the Tibetan Government in Exile's hopes are in vain as Shugden practice is healthily flourishing in Tibetan society as well as throughout the world and there is nothing they can do about it.
A reminder: The annual Medicine Buddha Festival will held in Serpom Monastery on Sept 29, 2009, when hundreds of monks will perform pujas three times a day for a week 'for the well-being and prosperity of all living beings, and particularly of devotees and well-wishers of the Peace Deity Dorje Shugden'.
Labels: Dorje Shugden, Radio Free Asia, samdhong rinpoche, switzerland, Tibetan politics
Ganden Tripa Authorizes Dorje Shugden Practitioner to Represent the Gelugpa Tradition
I, the undersigned, Lungri Namgyel, the official head of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism (Ganden Tripa) and successor to the said order’s founder, Je Tsongkhapa (1357-1419), whose headquarters are Ganden Monastery in Karnataka state, south India, hereby confirm that:
• His Eminence Trijang Chocktrul Rinpoche, having been educated in the teachings of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism, and officially recognized by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama as being the incarnation of the late Trijang Dorje Chang, Tutor to the 14th Dalai Lama and one of the greatest twentieth-century Buddhist masters of this order, is fully qualified to act in the capacity of director of Trijang Buddhist Institute in the state of Vermont, United States of America, where he is currently residing at 210 Morning Star Lane, Northfield, Vermont 05663 USA.
• I confer upon Trijang Buddhist Institute the authority to represent and transmit the teachings of the Gelug order of Tibetan Buddhism in the United States.
• Thus authorized, Trijang Buddhist Institute is dedicated to preserving, representing, and transmitting the Buddhist teachings of the Gelug tradition.
Ganden Tripa Lungri Namgyel
Labels: Dorje Shugden, Ganden Tripa, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche
Two young tulkus (reincarnate Lamas) recently had to leave Gaden Jangtze Monastery as a result of the Dalai Lama's ban on their spiritual practice. They joined the newly formed and fast-growing Shar Gaden Monastery so that they could openly practice Dorje Shugden without fear of reprisal.
It didn't work. On the night of May 30 these two young monks, Lobsang Damchoe and Lobsang Choekyi Gyaltsen, were severely beaten up by six monks from Gaden Jangtze. The six attackers are all supporters of the Dalai Lama's ban, and have admitted to planning and carrying out the attack, which was completely unprovoked. There is no news yet from the monastery as to whether or not they will receive any discipline for this premeditated crime.
Shar Gaden Monastery is just 10 minutes walk away from Gaden Jangtze Monastery.
The two young tulkus have been admitted to hospital and are now recuperating.
Once again, the Dalai Lama's ban on Dorje Shugden practice has caused hard-line anti-Shugden supporters -- even Buddhist monks -- to act out unlawfully and in violence against their own kind who practice Dorje Shugden.
Please write in to Gaden Jangtze Monastery to let them know the world is watching:
Attention: Abbot, Gaden Jangtze Monastery, P.O. Tibetan Colony-Mundgod, Lama Camp No. 1, N. Kanara, Karnataka State, India 581411
See also the report on the Western Shugden Society Website.
Labels: Buddhist Monks, Dorje Shugden News Article, fourteenth Dalai Lama
Prayers to Dorje Shugden by revered Gelugpa Buddhist Masters
Labels: Dorje Shugden, Gelugpa, Prayers
Samdhong Rinpoche Blames Abbots for Signature Campaign!
It seems that the Abbots of Sera Je, Sera Mey, Gaden Jangtse, Gaden Shartse, Drepung Gomang and Drepung Loseling were recently summoned to Dharamsala by the Prime Minister of the Tibetan Government in Exile, Samdhong Rinpoche.
Unbelievably, Samdhong Rinpoche scolded the Abbots for pushing the signature campaign on all monks to renounce Dorje Shugden in the three great seats of Sera, Ganden and Drepung Monasteries.
He said that their "insistence on the signature campaigns has made personal difficulties for the Dalai Lama."
Could this be Samdhong Rinpoche and the Dalai Lama's attempt to wriggle out of being implicated in the September Indian Supreme Court case, where they are on trial for Deity discrimination? Could it be because the international public are increasingly wary and suspicious of the Dalai Lama undermining others' religious freedoms? By blaming the Abbots, they might let themselves off the hook?
In the short term they may look better in the Indian supreme court and in the court of international opinion, but in the long term this new strategy will likely backfire as it presents irreconcilable contradictions.
Why? Because there are many recorded public tapes of the Dalai Lama available on the mainstream press and the Internet at large where he is very clearly encouraging the Abbots of these three Monasteries to expel and remove all monks who refuse to sign the declaration that they will no longer associate spiritually or materially with Dorje Shugden practitioners.
See videos here.
This indeed is why Shar Ganden and Serpom Norling Monasteries are arising -- communities of monks expelled under the Dalai Lama's orders who are continuing with their practice of Dorje Shugden.
At least we can be thankful that the Abbots are now being scolded instead of praised for their enactment of the oppressive and unlawful signature campaign mandated by the Dalai Lama, ironic (and hypocritical) as this reprimand may be.
See also another article on the subject.
Labels: Buddhist Monks, court case, Dalai Lama, Dorje Shugden Update, Ganden Monastery, Religious Freedom, samdhong rinpoche, Sera Je Monastery, Serpom Norling, Shar Ganden
In the commentary Heart Jewel, Geshe Kelsang explains the spiritual history of the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden -- a short account that is deeply inspiring to practitioners and that evokes great faith. It is enough history for many who have faith in their spiritual teachers, lineage and Protector.
Now a new website has been completed, which gives more detail and historical context through which everyone, even the most skeptical, can hopefully start to see that Dorje Shugden has always been relied upon as a Buddha.
This website uncovers the texts, rituals, historical works and art dedicated to the practice of the Wisdom Buddha Dorje Shugden. As the author, Trinley Kalsang, explains:
"Although there are many texts that reveal the gradual development of the system of ritual for this deity, much of this has not been brought out in the open for examination."
Much of this material in fact has been deliberately suppressed because it proves that Dorje Shugden has been considered an enlightened being and the Protector of the Gelug lineage for several hundred years, since he first arose in this form; and this quite obviously undermines the 14th Dalai Lama's pronouncements of Dorje Shugden being a spirit of the dark forces, a Chinese demon, and so on.
Trinley Kalsang, a scholar of Tibetan, focuses on works from the time period before the 20th century. He leaves aside the works of Pabongkha Rinpoche and Trijang Rinpoche with the exception of various references to how these have drawn upon these earlier works. In particular, it can now be seen how the basic components of the practice were originally developed within the Sakya tradition and then incorporated into the Gelug tradition.
In particular, these translations and essays naturally disprove many of the fallacious ideas written in The Shuk-den Affair by Georges Dreyfus, who put the onus of the development and spread of Dorje Shugden on the individual figure of Pabongkha Rinpoche in the 20th century. He was not the first to do so, but he lent the Dalai Lama's claim Western academic credibility and enabled copy cat commentators, altogether doing a great deal of damage to the reputation of Dorje Shugden and his followers.
As Trinley Kalsang explains, the presentation of The Shuk-den Affair follows the same approach as that found in polemical Tibetan works, including the Brief History of Opposition to Shugden by the Tibetan Government in Exile's “Dolgyal Research Committee", the main thrust of which is to discredit the Dorje Shugden practice by discrediting Pabongkha Rinpoche. With this approach, the existing practice is presented as a whimsical device of one person rather than as a true spiritual practice with precedence. With The Shuk-den Affair, Dreyfus took this same pre-existing presentation and wrapped it in a seemingly scholarly package.
Dreyfus therefore got behind the Dalai Lama and his Government in Exile in discrediting the practice of Dorje Shugden and falsely accusing the highly revered Gelugpa Lama Je Phabongkhapa of possessing a sectarian agenda. Regrettably, some later Western commentators such as David Kay relied upon Dreyfus's work as the basis for their own inaccurate and defamatory accounts of the Wisdom Buddha without doing the original research that would have shown them that Dreyfus's work was full of problems and political bias to begin with. Consciously or not, these commentators' omission in doing decent research, relying so heavily on accounts by the Dalai Lama, TGIE and Dreyfus, seems to have arisen from trying to stay on the right side of the Tibetan power structure. It appears that they took as their starting point the assumption that the Dalai Lama must be right and skewed the history to fit with this. Had they found these collected works, and used them, they might have been able to tell a more accurate story.
The main sources for this website were originally collected by the Mongolian scholar and master Lobsang Tamdin (1867-1937), who gathered a number of earlier texts written by Mongolian and Tibetan masters. Regardless of where individuals stand on whether or not people should be allowed to continue their practice of Dorje Shugden, the translations on this website prove that Pabongkha Rinpoche did not invent any aspect of this practice, but merely absorbed and propagated it.The translations speak for themselves -- not a lot of added interpretation or polemics are required to challenge the views of the Dalai Lama, the TGIE, Dreyfus, and other detractors.
As the author says:
"In short, it has been revealed from historical sources that Dorje Shugden is the Three Bodhisattvas: Avalokiteshvara, Vajrapani and Manjushri. He is the sole protector ever to bear the title Protector of the Conqueror Manjunatha, having the responsibility to protect and promote the doctrine of the Second Buddha Jamgon Lama Tsongkhapa. "
Labels: Dalai Lama, Deity, Dorje Shugden, Dorje Shugden Update, fourteenth Dalai Lama, george dreyfus, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Manjushri, shuk-den affair, TGIE, Tibetan Government in Exile
Helmut Gassner on the Dalai Lama and Dorje Shugden
If you have not yet had the chance to read Helmut Gassner's speech at the Friedrich-Naumann-Foundation Hamburg, on March 26th 1999, it is well worth doing so.
Helmut Gassner is a long-term Western Buddhist monk, scholars and practitioner, and he was the interpreter (and chauffeur) for the Dalai Lama for 17 years. He has a unique inside understanding of the Dalai Lama's motives and so on, and personally knew all the original players in this drama.
According to a contemporary:
"Of those of us who had gathered around and subsequently left Geshé Rabten, the outstanding exception was Helmut Gassner. He stood loyally by Geshé and retains his robes to this day. He spends his time between the center in Switzerland and Trijang Labrang in Feldkirch, Austria. Helmut is notable for wading into the shocking Dorje Shugden scandal with his courageous speech to the Friedrich-Naumann Foundation in 1999."
Labels: Dalai Lama, dharamsala, dolgyal, Dorje Shugden, Dorje Shugden Article, fourteenth Dalai Lama, Geshe Rabten, Helmut Gassner, Je Phabongkhapa, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Ling Rinpoche, Shugden Ban, TGIE
The Legends of the Dalai Lama -- Die Weltwoche Article
Taken from a major Swiss publication Die Weltwoche, with extracts translated from the German. The whole article can be found here:
Die Weltwoche
Die Legenden des Dalai Lama
The Legends of the Dalai Lama
March 10 this year will see the 50th anniversary of the uprising of the Tibetan people against China. In the West, the spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, is worshipped like a pop star. Strange. The normally romanticized theocracy was a corrupt feudal system that enslaved its subjects.
By David Signer
Recently, in the context of his most recent trip to Europe, the Dalai Lama could receive the German Media Award in Baden-Baden, which has previously been granted to celebrities such as Nelson Mandela, Bill Clinton or Bono. On March 10 fifty years ago, the Tibetans rose up against the Chinese hegemony. And it is seventy years since a little farmer's boy became 'His Holiness'.
In winter 1937/38 [the common story of recognition follows].
Everybody loves the now 73-year-old Dalai Lama, and in particular have done so since 1998 when Martin Scorsese brought his autobiography called 'Kundun' into our cinemas. From Richard Gere through to Brad Pitt, from Patti Smith through to Peter Maffay, from Dolly Buster to Robbie Williams: everyone worships the non-stop world jet-setting spiritual leader of the Tibetans. When the Dalai Lama came to Switzerland three years ago, during his eight day visit 30,000 people went onto a pilgrimage to the Zurich stadium to see him. And as is clear with the idolization of the Dalai Lama, whom even people who are not normally fond of personality cults, call 'His Holiness', the same is true for Tibet. There is a common agreement that, before the Chinese marched in, this mountainous region was a paradise of meditating monks and happy farmers living in the midst of splendid mountain scenery -- and that it would be again if it were not for the evil occupiers.
The reality is that until fifty years ago Tibet was a clerical-feudal tyranny. The truth is that a lot of the widespread common knowledge about the country is just wishful thinking. There are also dark sides to the biography of the Dalai Lama, and a lot of obscure stuff is mixed in with the esoteric Lamaism Schwärmerei (excessive sentimentality). However, since there is only little journalism on site, it is not easy to find the truth within the jungle of exile Tibetan and Chinese propaganda.
[Now follows some historical background and how the Dalai Lama, once recognized, lived until his escape.]
In the Dalai Lama's autobiography, however, it sounds like paradise when he mentally travels back to the Tibet of his youth: "No one needs to make too much of an effort in order to earn his living. Existence happens on its own and everything works wonderfully." Accordingly, during his reign, he did not make any effort to reform the country, apart from stopping the legal heritage of tax debts. The fact that political decisions are based upon oracles and astrology is no problem for him, who normally pretends to be democratic and progressive. Even though in his 'five point peace plan' he demands 'respect for the democratic freedoms of the Tibetan people', he himself has not tried until today, not even within the exile communities, to be democratically legitimized. Self-evidently he pretends to be the wholistic leader of the Tibetans, even though, strictly speaking, he is not even the spiritual representative of the whole of Tibet. He is merely the head of the Gelugpa order, the so called Yellow Hats, whose claim for leadership he has been trying to pursue for decades. These contradictions are also true for his ecological engagement. On the one hand, he demands to transform Tibet into a kind of natural reserve park and uses every opportunity to demand more ecological thinking in accordance with Mother Nature. On the other hand, from the first days of his exile onwards, at his seat in Dharamsala, the litter keeps being piled up simply on a large waste dump.
[Some stuff on the 1950’s in Tibet.]
While the Dalai Lama and his entourage went into exile to Dharamsala in India, the Cultural Revolution raged in Tibet. Between 1966 and 1976, thousands of monasteries and cultural monuments were destroyed. Switzerland was the first European country which, in 1961, accepted Tibetan refugees and offered them accommodation and work in Rikon. In 1967, the monastic Tibet Institute was opened. The information from the Dalai Lama and Tibet supporters is often not credible with regards to the Chinese occupancy. Very often it is not mentioned that in the meantime approximately half of the monasteries have been restored and are running again. Also, since the mid-nineties, you can no longer claim that there is a ban on the monastic system. If the Dalai Lama is asked about these things he replies that the monasteries have only been rebuilt for the sake of tourists; thus the Chinese are said to have no interest in maintaining the traditional culture but to re-install it as exotic backdrop and in this way it is being doomed even more. One limitation however has been enforced, undoubtedly against the will of the Dalai Lama: no more children can enter the monasteries. Also in his autobiography, 'His Holiness' claims that, due to resettlement programmes, the Chinese proportion of the population overrides the Tibetans. According to the disputed census in 2000, the proportion of Chinese people within the Tibetan Autonomous Region is 6.1%, with the highest proportion, 17%, being in Lhasa. Again and again the claim has been spread that 1.2 million Tibetans had become victims of Chinese terror, in other words a full fifth of the population. Official statements from Dharamsala even sometimes say that all of these have been Tibetan prisoners who were victims of torture or executions, and very often Chinese concentration camps are mentioned. Without doubt, China is far away from regular constitutional affairs; however the charge of systematic, lethal torture of thousands -- as indicated by the term 'concentration camp' -- is hardly plausible.
Esoteric argy bargy
Towards the end of the 1980s there were again riots in Tibet, and in December 1989 the Dalai Lama received the Nobel Peace Price. About one year before that he became friends with the Japanese Shoko Asahara, who ran a 'spiritual community' with several thousand followers near Tokyo. According to the researches of the publisher Colin Goldner, Ashara visited with the Dalai Lama several times in 1988. This community with their 'appreciated aims and activities' (said the Dalai Lama) was 'Aum', one of the most dangerous and totalitarian cults ever, which performed the Tokyo subway poison attacks in March 1995. The Japanese authorities had been patient with the megalomaniac Guru, despite all warnings, possibly due to the protecting hands of the Dalai Lama. When the Centres after the Sarin attack were finally searched, there were deposits of chemical and other weapons which could have killed millions of people at once. The Dalai Lama however could not even find one single word of regret. Even as late as Summer 1995, when at the Peace University in Berlin, he stated that he would recognize Asahara as a 'friend, even though not necessarily an unmistaken one'.
Also the so-called 'Shugden affair' gives rise to doubts about the much-praised wisdom of the Dalai Lama. In Summer 1996, upon the advice of his state oracle, he banned the worship of the protector Deity Dorje Shugden for his people. A number of abbots and monks protested against this ban. They accused the Dalai Lama of violating religious freedom, who reacted to this insubordination by systematic searches of houses and monasteries in the exile community. Shugden statues were destroyed and renitent monks bashed and beaten. Supporter committees even claimed that the Shugden movement was hand in glove with China.
[Mentions the triple murder. More information about that can be found here: Defamatory accusations of murder repeated over and over again for ten years]
Monks armed with iron bars
Generally, the riots before the Olympic Games were presented by the Western media in a way that they fitted into the image of 'peace-loving Tibetans'’ -- either any violence was supposedly coming from the side of the Chinese, or, if not, claims were made to the effect that Tibetan protesters had only acted in self-defence. Footage documentation and reports from eye-witnesses however give evidence of how monks armed with iron bars and bats went marauding through the historic quarter of town. Buses and cars were pushed over and set on fire, and Chinese shops and houses were pillaged. Molotov cocktails were even thrown into kindergartens, schools and hospitals. The Dalai Lama later claimed that the monks had been Chinese soldiers in disguise. This is because, by definition, Tibetans are non-violent. Around the world, demonstrations of solidarity took place.
[The rest is about the Dalai Lama’s right-wing tendencies and the stories about the liaisons between Tibetans and the Nazis and how the Tibetan regent wrote a letter to 'King Hitler'. The final paragraph is on the question why it is that the Dalai Lama is so popular in the West in spite of all the facts mentioned; and the main conclusion is that it is because Westerners are so naive.]
Labels: China, Dalai Lama, Demonstrations, dictatorship, Dorje Shugden, Dorje Shugden News Article, fourteenth Dalai Lama, Gelugpa, India, Shugden Ban, switzerland
Pabongka Rinpoche (1878-1941AD) was one of the greatest Gelugpa Lamas of the past century. He possessed many spiritual realizations and was highly revered. He was the root Guru of both the 14th Dalai Lama's own principal teachers, Trijang Rinpoche and Ling Rinpoche; therefore, almost all the Dalai Lama's Dharma knowledge comes from Pabongka Rinpoche.
His reputation is currently being besmirched by some detractors of Dorje Shugden, but there is an increasing amount of information about him becoming available on the Internet to show that this criticism is unfounded. This includes the new blog called "Scholars and Yogis Please Check!", which has recently run a series of articles on Pabongka Rinpoche.
As the translator of his famous text Liberation in the Palm of Your Hand explains, Je Phabongkhapa had a profound and far-reaching influence on the Gelug tradition:
Pabongka Rinpoche was probably the most influential Gelug Lama of this century, holding all the important lineages of Sutra and Tantra, and passing them on to most of the important Gelug Lamas of the next two generations; the list of his oral discourses is vast in depth and breadth. He was also the root guru of the Kyabje Ling Rinpoche (1903-83AD), Senior Tutor of the Dalai Lama, Trijang Rinpoche, and many other highly respected teachers. His collected works occupy fifteen large volumes and over every aspect of Buddhism. If you have ever received a teaching from a Gelug Lama, you have been influenced by Pabongka Rinpoche.
Zong Rinpoche, also a highly regarded Gelug Lama, says on the blog mentioned above:
Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche and Kyabje Ling Rinpoche were tutors to His Holiness the Dalai Lama. They taught His Holiness everything from basic teachings to advanced levels.
Kyabje Phabongka passed all of his lineages to Kyabje Trijang Dorje Chang. He often said this in discourses. The purpose of this detailed exposition is to affirm the power of the lineage. If we lose faith in the lineage, we are lost.
We should remember the biographies of past and present teachers. We should never develop negative thoughts towards our root and lineage gurus."
Labels: Dalai Lama, Dorje Shugden Article, fourteenth Dalai Lama, Gelugpa, Je Phabongkhapa, Kyabje Trijang Rinpoche, Zong Rinpoche
Over the past 30 years, Tibetan politicians and others following their view have been attempting to rewrite the history of the enlightened Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden, making him out to be a worldly deity of recent provenance, even an evil spirit.
Nothing could be further than the truth. And thanks to the efforts of Trinley Kalsang, a scholar of Tibetan Buddhism, the truth of Dorje Shugden's history is now coming out in detail, based on research into "a legacy of rituals, historical works and art" that have been dedicated to the practice of Dorje Shugden over the last few hundred years.
Today sees the start of Trinley Kalsang's scholarly and clarifying website: Dorje Shugden History. We thank him for doing all this painstaking research and translation. It will go a long way to indicating the extent to which Dorje Shugden and his practitioners have been subject to terrible falsehoods over the last few decades, and especially the last ten years since the publication of George Dreyfus's highly misleading The Shuk-den Affair: Origins of a Controversy , which served as the basis for several other biased and inaccurate accounts.
From the introduction:
Dorje Shugden is a protector deity (srung ma) that came to be propitiated principally by the Sakya and Gelug sects starting in the 17th and 18th centuries. Since that time, a legacy of rituals, historical works and art have been dedicated to the practice of this deity. Although there are many texts that reveal the gradual development of the system of ritual for this deity, much of this has not been brought out in the open for examination. Examination of the important details from these texts is necessary to reconstruct a more complete history, as the history presented thus far by scholars has been partial in order to paint particular constructions that concur with events in the 20th century.
Labels: Dorje Shugden, Dorje Shugden Update, george dreyfus, shuk-den affair
The daily prayers practitioners make to Buddha Shakyamuni, Je Tsongkhapa and Dorje Shugden
Liberating Prayer ~ Praise to Buddha Shakyamuni
{Kadampa practitioners traditionally start every meditation session of Sutra or Tantra with the Liberating Prayer to their principal object of refuge, Buddha Shakyamuni, who is the founder of Buddhism.}
O Blessed One, Shakyamuni Buddha,
Precious treasury of compassion,
Bestower of supreme inner peace,
You, who love all beings without exception,
Are the source of happiness and goodness;
And you guide us to the liberating path.
Your body is a wishfulfilling jewel,
Your speech is supreme, purifying nectar,
And your mind is refuge for all living beings.
With folded hands I turn to you,
Supreme unchanging friend,
I request from the depths of my heart:
Please give me the light of your wisdom
To dispel the darkness of my mind
And to heal my mental continuum.
Please nourish me with your goodness,
That I in turn may nourish all beings
With an unceasing banquet of delight.
Through your compassionate intention,
Your blessings and virtuous deeds,
And my strong wish to rely upon you,
May all suffering quickly cease
And all happiness and joy be fulfilled;
And may holy Dharma flourish for evermore.
{Kadampa practitioners traditionally start their daily practice of Heart Jewel prayers with a special Guru yoga in which they visualize their Spiritual Guide as Je Tsongkhapa, who himself is a manifestation of Manjushri. By relying upon this practice, they purify negativity, accumulate merit, and receive blessings. In this way, they naturally accomplish all the realizations of the stages of the path of Sutra and Tantra, and in particular they attain a very special Dharma wisdom.}
Going for refuge
I and all sentient beings, until we achieve enlightenment,
Go for refuge to Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha. (3x)
Generating bodhichitta
Through the virtues I collect by giving and other perfections,
May I become a Buddha for the benefit of all. (3x)
Inviting Je Tsongkhapa
From the heart of the Protector of the hundreds of Deities of the Joyful Land,
To the peak of a cloud which is like a cluster of fresh, white curd,
All-knowing Losang Dragpa, King of the Dharma,
Please come to this place together with your Sons.
Prayer of seven limbs
In the space before me on a lion throne, lotus, and moon
The venerable Gurus smile with delight.
O Supreme Field of Merit for my mind of faith,
Please remain for a hundred aeons to spread the doctrine.
Your mind of wisdom realizes the full extent of objects of knowledge,
Your eloquent speech is the ear ornament of the fortunate,
Your beautiful body is ablaze with the glory of renown,
I prostrate to you, whom to see, to hear, and to remember is so meaningful.
Pleasing water offerings, various flowers,
Sweet-smelling incense, lights, scented water, and so forth,
A vast cloud of offerings both set out and imagined,
I offer to you, O supreme Field of Merit.
Whatever non-virtues of body, speech, and mind
I have accumulated since time without beginning,
Especially transgressions of my three vows,
With great remorse I confess each one from the depths of my heart.
In this degenerate age you strove for much learning and accomplishment,
Abandoning the eight worldly concerns, you made your freedom and endowment meaningful.
O Protector, from the very depths of my heart,
I rejoice in the great wave of your deeds.
From the billowing clouds of wisdom and compassion
In the space of your Truth body, O venerable and holy Gurus,
Please send down a rain of vast and profound Dharma
Appropriate to the disciples of this world.
Through the virtues I have accumulated here,
May the doctrine and all living beings receive every benefit.
Especially may the essence of the doctrine
Of Venerable Losang Dragpa shine forever.
Offering the mandala
The ground sprinkled with perfume and spread with flowers,
The Great Mountain, four lands, sun and moon,
Seen as a Buddha Land and offered thus,
May all beings enjoy such Pure Lands.
IDAM GURU RATNA MANDALAKAM NIRYATAYAMI
Migtsema prayer
Tsongkhapa, crown ornament of the scholars of the Land of the Snows,
You are Avalokiteshvara, the treasury of unobservable compassion,
Manjushri, the supreme stainless wisdom,
And Vajrapani, the destroyer of the hosts of maras;
O Losang Dragpa I request you, please grant your blessings. (3x, 7x, 21x etc)
Prayer of the Stages of the Path
The path begins with strong reliance
On my kind Teacher, source of all good;
O Bless me with this understanding
To follow him with great devotion.
This human life with all its freedoms,
Extremely rare, with so much meaning;
All day and night to seize its essence.
My body, like a water bubble,
Decays and dies so very quickly;
After death come results of karma,
Just like the shadow of a body.
With this firm knowledge and remembrance
Bless me to be extremely cautious,
Always avoiding harmful actions
And gathering abundant virtue.
Samsara's pleasures are deceptive,
Give no contentment, only torment;
So please bless me to strive sincerely
To gain the bliss of perfect freedom.
O Bless me so that from this pure thought
Come mindfulness and greatest caution,
To keep as my essential practice
The doctrine's root, the Pratimoksha.
Just like myself all my kind mothers
Are drowning in samsara's ocean;
O So that I may soon release them,
Bless me to train in bodhichitta.
But I cannot become a Buddha
By this alone without three ethics;
So bless me with the strength to practise
The Bodhisattva's ordination.
By pacifying my distractions
And analyzing perfect meanings,
Bless me to quickly gain the union
Of special insight and quiescence.
When I become a pure container
Through common paths, bless me to enter
The essence practice of good fortune,
The supreme vehicle, Vajrayana.
The two attainments both depend on
My sacred vows and my commitments;
Bless me to understand this clearly
And keep them at the cost of my life.
By constant practice in four sessions,
The way explained by holy Teachers,
O Bless me to gain both the stages,
Which are the essence of the Tantras.
May those who guide me on the good path,
And my companions all have long lives;
Bless me to pacify completely
All obstacles, outer and inner.
May I always find perfect Teachers,
And take delight in holy Dharma,
Accomplish all grounds and paths swiftly,
And gain the state of Vajradhara.
Receiving blessings and purifying
From the hearts of all the holy beings, streams of light and nectar flow down, granting blessings and purifying.
{Kadampa practitioners traditionally do their Lamrim (stages of the path) and Lojong (training the mind) meditation at this point in the prayers. More information on these Buddhist practices can be found in The New Meditation Handbook, Universal Compassion, and other books by Tharpa Publications}.
Request to receive the Guru's blessings
O Glorious and precious root Guru,
Please sit on the lotus and moon seat at my heart.
Please care for me with your great kindness,
And grant me the blessings of your body, speech, and mind.
And bestow the common and supreme attainments.
And remain firm until I attain the essence of enlightenment.
{Kadampa practitioners traditionally do their Mahamudra meditation at this point in the prayers. More information on this practice can be found in Mahamudra Tantra and other books by Tharpa Publications}.
Through being cared for throughout all my lives
By Conqueror Tsongkhapa as my Mahayana Guru,
May I never turn away, even for an instant,
From this excellent path praised by the Conquerors.
{Kadampa practitioners traditionally conclude their Heart Jewel prayers by relying upon the Dharma Protector Dorje Shugden in order to overcome obstacles to their practice and create favourable conditions so that they can nurture and increase these Dharma realizations of Lamrim, Lojong and Mahamudra}.
Inviting Dorje Shugdän and his retinue
I have the clarity of the Yidam.
Before me in the centre of red and black fire and wind,
On a lotus and sun, trampling demons and obstructors,
Is a terrifying lion, which is powerful and alert.
Upon this sits the great king Dorje Shugdän,
The supreme Heart Jewel of Dharma Protectors.
His body is clothed in the garments of a monk,
And on his head he wears a round, yellow hat.
His hands hold a sword and a heart of compassion.
To his followers he shows an expression of delight,
But to subdue demons and obstructors he displays a wrathful manner.
He is surrounded by a vast, assembled retinue,
Such as his attendant Khache Marpo and so forth.
Light rays from my heart instantly invite the wisdom beings from the sphere of nature, and from all the different palaces where they abide. They become inseparable from the commitment beings.
Making offerings and requests
Respectfully I prostrate with body, speech, and mind.
I offer a mass of inner and outer offerings, blissful tormas,
Alcohol, tea, cakes, milk, and curd,
Both actually set out and mentally imagined, filling the whole of space.
Commitment, fulfilling, reliance, and appropriate substances,
Outer, inner, secret, attractive, and cleansing offerings, filling the whole of space,
I offer these to the entire assembly;
May I fulfil the heart commitment and restore my broken commitments.
All my harmful thoughts and actions
Which have offended your mind, O Great Protector,
I confess from the depths of my heart.
Please purify them swiftly, and care for me with love, like a mother for her child.
I beseech you from the depths of my heart, O Supreme Deity,
Please cause the tradition of Je Tsongkhapa to flourish,
Extend the life and activities of the glorious Gurus,
And increase the study and practice of Dharma within the Dharma communities.
Please be with me always like the shadow of my body,
And grant me your unwavering care and protection.
Destroy all obstacles and adverse conditions,
Bestow favourable conditions, and fulfil all my wishes.
Now is the time to show clearly your versatile strength
Through your four actions, which are swift, incisive, and unobstructed,
To fulfil quickly my special heartfelt desires
In accordance with my wishes;
Now is the time to distinguish the truth and falsity of actions and effects;
Now is the time to dispel false accusations against the innocent;
Now is the time to protect the pitiful and protectorless;
Now is the time to protect Dharma practitioners as your children.
In short, from now until I attain the essence of enlightenment,
I shall honour you as the embodiment of my Guru, Deity, and Protector.
Therefore please watch over me during the three periods of the day and the night
And never waver in your actions as my Protector.
Requesting the fulfilment of wishes
Whenever your followers with commitments
Request any of the four actions,
Swiftly, incisively, and without delay, you show signs for all to see;
So please accomplish the actions that I now request of you.
The stainless sun of Je Tsongkhapa's tradition
Shines throughout the sky of samsara and nirvana,
Eliminating the darkness of inferior and wrong paths;
Please cause its light to spread and bring good fortune to all living beings.
May the glorious Gurus who uphold this tradition
Have indestructible lives, as stable as the supreme victory banner;
May they send down a rain of deeds fulfilling the wishes of disciples,
So that Je Tsongkhapa's doctrine will flourish.
Through increasing the study, practice, pure discipline, and harmony
Of the communities who uphold the stainless doctrine of Buddha,
And who keep moral discipline with pure minds,
Please cause the Gedän tradition to increase like a waxing moon.
Through your actions please fulfil the essential wishes
Of all practitioners who uphold the victory banner
Of practising single-pointedly the stages of the paths of Sutra and Tantra,
The essence of all the teachings they have heard.
Beings throughout this great earth are engaged in different actions
Of Dharma, non-Dharma, happiness, suffering, cause and effect;
Through your skilful deeds of preventing and nurturing,
Please lead all beings into the good path to ultimate happiness.
In particular, please destroy the obstacles and unfavourable conditions
Of myself and other practitioners.
Increase our lives, our merit, and our resources,
And gather all things animate and inanimate to be freely enjoyed.
And care for me always like a friend,
By accomplishing swiftly whatever I wish for,
And whatever I ask of you.
Please perform immediately, without delaying for a year, or even for a month,
Appropriate actions to eliminate all obstacles
Caused by misguided beings with harmful minds who try to destroy Je Tsongkhapa's doctrine,
And especially by those who try to harm practitioners.
Please remain in this place always, surrounded by most excellent enjoyments.
As my guest, partake continuously of tormas and offerings;
And since you are entrusted with the protection of human wealth and enjoyments,
Never waver as my guardian throughout the day and the night.
All the attainments I desire
Arise from merely remembering you.
O Wishfulfilling Jewel, Protector of the Dharma,
Please accomplish all my wishes. (3x)
By this virtue may I quickly
Attain the enlightened state of the Guru,
And then lead every living being
Without exception to that ground.
Through my virtues from practising with pure motivation,
May all living beings throughout all their lives
Never be parted from peaceful and wrathful Manjushri,
But always come under their care.
{Kadampa practitioners traditionally conclude every meditation session of Sutra or Tantra, including Heart Jewel, with the following prayers.}
Prayers for the Virtuous Tradition
Through the two collections of myself and others
Gathered throughout the three times,
May the doctrine of Conqueror Losang Dragpa
Flourish for evermore.
The nine-line Migtsema prayer
You are Buddha Shakyamuni and Vajradhara, the source of all attainments,
Avalokiteshvara, the treasury of unobservable compassion,
And Vajrapani, the destroyer of the hosts of maras.
O Venerable Guru-Buddha, synthesis of all Three Jewels,
With my body, speech, and mind, respectfully I make requests:
Please grant your blessings to ripen and liberate myself and others,
And bestow the common and supreme attainments. (3x)
These prayers are taken from the sadhana Heart Jewel, published by Tharpa Publications. Commentary to these prayers can be found in the book Heart Jewel.
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Mendel, Langstroth, Warre, and Kehrle: Research on Bees by Clergymen Motivated Faith to Find Practical Ways to Help the Poor
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As a beekeeper and person-motivated-by-faith to care for the poor, I often reflect on the work of four men-of-the-cloth who, as part of their faith, worked with honeybees:
Gregor Mendel (1822-1884)
Reverend Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (1810-1895)
Abbé Émile Warré (1867-1951)
Karl Kehrle (aka “Brother Adam” 1898 to 1996)
Gregor Mendel: An Augustinian Friar, Mendel is best known for the theory of genetic inheritance he developed studying peas. Less well know is that Mendel also kept and studied honeybees, in a bee house he himself designed. Mendel undertook his study of bees, after completing his study of peas. However, he was stymied in his attempts to explain the inheretance of genetic traits in bees by their reproductive strategy and consequent mating behaviours. For me, what I find most meaningful, was his motivatioin: as a friar and scientist, Mendel saw himself carrying on the great tradition of the church in seeking to improve the daily lives of people through the study of practical concerns.
Reverend Langstroth: A Congregational pastor, Langstroth studied the behaviour of honeybees in the hive. Reverend Langstroth developed the first hive with movable frames. Langstroth’s hive remains the standard hive among commercial beekeepers today. Langstroth wrote A Practical Treatise on the Hive and Honey-Bee. As with Mendel, though, it is Langstroth’s motivation I am most concerned with: In his day, honey was the principal sweetener of foods in America but costly; Langstroth was motivated by the desire to lower the cost of commercial production of honey, and thus make honey more available to all.
Abbé Émile Warré: Like Langstroth, Warre’s beekeeping was also motivated by concern for the poor. Like Langstrogh, Warre turned his attention to hive design. Unlike Langstroth, Warre focused not on creating something that would lower the costs of commercial beekeeping, but rather, Warre focused on lowering the costs for individuals to keep bees. Towards that end, Warre developed a hive that required less material to build in conjunction with developing a bee-management routine that would be less labor intensive. Warre called his hive the Ruche Populaire (people’s hive) . He gave instructions for the construction of his hive, the principles behind it, and how to use it, in a book he wrote Beekeeping for All (L’ Apiculture Pour Tous). Regarding making beekeeping profitable, and incidently giving insight to his motivations, Warré wrote, ”
“Beekeeping can be profitable. This profit should be the aim of the beekeeper.
And just as no beekeeper says that for him beekeeping is only a hobby, none do it only for its
profits. We have brothers, do not forget, unfortunate brothers who have no experience of beneficent
work. Give to them what nature gives to you in excess.
But how can we get the maximum profits from beekeeping?”
Brother Adam: A Benedictine Monk, In 1917 Brother Adam began developing the strain of bees now called “Buckfast Bees”. Brother Adam undertook his work in response to the devastation a parasite, Acarapis woodi, was wreaking on English bees. As his reputation as a bee breeder spread, Brother Adam was called on more and more often to travel and teach. Though travelling was difficult on him personally, as he was in somewhat frail health, and took him away from the quiet of the monastery, Brother Adam none-the-less did so chearfully. Of his motivations, Brother Adam once wrote:
““Everyone is familiar with the guiding principle of St. Benedict – ora et labora – (pray and work). But those who know his writings better will soon see that a further obligation derives from this teaching, namely that of passing on to others the experience gained in ones life and work.”
The lives of these men suggest to me that in the past members of the clergy were quite concerned with, and active in, research on practical matters.
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Millsaps (5-15, 0-2) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 7 0
Birmingham-Southern (14-4, 2-0) 3 0 0 0 3 1 X 7 9 1
Birmingham-Southern (13-4, 1-0) 0 0 0 2 3 1 X 6 11 1
2B: Erin Lopez; Danielle Rucker
HR: Ashley Bice; Taylor Bassett
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.—The Birmingham-Southern softball team opened SCAC play at home today, defeating Millsaps by the scores of 6-4 and 7-1 at BSC Softball Park.
The Panthers move to 14-4 overall and 2-0 in conference play, while the Majors fall to 5-15 overall and 0-2 in the SCAC.
In game one, senior Ashley Bice and freshman Joanna Jernigan were both 3-of-3 at the plate to lead BSC. After going up 6-0, the Panthers gave up four runs in the top of the seventh, but were able to hold off the rallying Majors for the 6-4 win.
Senior Ronni Ferris pitched 6.2 innings and got the win to move to 5-3 on the season. She gave up six hits and four earned runs with six strikeouts. Senior Beth Lefler also saw action, giving up two hits, and freshman Bethany Fronk came in for the final out with the score at 6-4 and bases loaded to get the save, her sixth of the year.
In game two, Millsaps scored its lone run in the top of the first inning, after which BSC scored seven straight. Junior Chelsea Fernandez was 2-of-3, while Bice and Jernigan were both 2-of-4 at the plate. Fernandez led with three RBI.
Fronk threw the complete game, moving to 4-0 on the season after allowing seven hits with four strikeouts.
The teams will play a noon doubleheader tomorrow to wrap up the four-game series.
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By Adell ColemanOctober 24,2017
Credit Pickersgill Reef via Flickr Creative Commons
Comedy serves a number of roles in a society. One of which is pushing the envelope of cultural acceptability and unacceptability. There is a constant push and pull between the comedian and society.
Comedians back in the day such as Lenny Bruce, Jackie "Moms" Mabley, Redd Foxx, Richard Pryor and many comedians of today force society to look at itself and critique its values and mores. Society laughs while some push back. The friction or conflict that is caused from this push and pull makes many people uncomfortable. This discomfort results in introspection and change.
Even when you accept the premise of comedy causing discomfort, there are a few subjects that should always be off-limits. There are some things that a society should never find funny. Some of these areas are the Middle Passage and its aftermath, the Jewish Holocaust, the exploitation of children, violence and violence within relationships.
As a survivor of domestic violence, it is hard for me to find humor behind a sadistically brash and insensitive punchline. In the age of the internet the line between acceptable and unacceptable “humor” has become blurred. The technology allows the “comedian” to hide behind the lack of direct contact with the audience. Often time’s comedians are seen acting out short skits on their social media platforms and with the click of a button they’re instantly able to reach thousands of viewers. This ability to immediately transmit material removes the filter that usually comes with time and thought.
Domestic violence seemingly has become a growing trend in these comedic shorts often featured on Instagram or Facebook. Survivors of violence don’t want those tragic memories to be triggered by simply browsing their social media platforms where they can innocently become victimized again and again.
While browsing videos on Instagram one caught my attention. It was an obscene title, admittedly I can’t recall the exact phrasing but something to the effect of: When bae’s Pussy Is Just Too Good! The video shows a man waiting on an unsuspecting female to leave her house. He jumps out the bushes and asks her for sex. After she denies him multiple times, he pulls out a gun. She then eventually gives in and they go into the house.
Sexual Violence, Kidnapping and Assault. There’s nothing funny here. It’s all too real - all too often.
A week or so later, I came across yet another video. There was a guy and a girl across the bar from each other. He buys her multiple drinks and after a half second of distraction he loses sight of her. She has run into an elevator obviously dodging him. Unfortunately for her, before the door closes he catches up to her. An unsettling stare off ensues until she says to him: Yea I drank your drinks and left…what are you gonna do? Shoot me?” He does.
He misses.
But he does shoot at her, oh and did I mention there were other people in the elevator as well?
What’s more disturbing were the comments below the video validating the erratic and dangerous behavior. Condoning the actions with smiley emoji’s and endless stories beginning with “if that were me I would’ve done the same thing too...” Arguing that drinks are too expensive to waste and she owed her counterpart something for taking the time to buy them. Those who spoke out against it were being told they were too sensitive or can’t take a joke.
But violence isn’t a joke. It’s all too real, painful and tragic.
Janese Jackson Talton 29 year old mother of three from Pittsburgh was shot and killed for rejecting a man’s advances at a bar. She declined his offer for a drink, and asked him to move away when he inappropriately positioned himself behind her in a sexual manner. Her killer Charles McKinney pulled a gun out and shot her for not reciprocating his advances. Misogyny is what made him feel like he was entitled to her, as if she too owed him something and his hypersensitivity to rejection is what motivated him to kill her.
Not only do these videos minimize the notion of violence as nothing more than slap stick comedy, they also continue the narrative of control. They suggest that partners are to do what the other wants regardless of the consequences. No matter how Good your pussy is it does not make it acceptable or even laughable to have a gun pulled on you to make you engage in activity that you don’t want to engage in. The word “no” should be enough. But it wasn’t for Tiarah Poyau 20 year old Graduate student who was literally shot in the face for refusing to dance with someone at a festival.
Even though comedians have their right to speak freely (Section 230 of Communications Decency Act) on various issues it is important to understand the responsibility that comes with communicating messages over public platforms. By constantly posting and minimizing the impacts of violence, studies show viewers of such content may become desensitized to it. Think about the number of television shows, movies, books and of course social media where violence is the main theme.
Now, think about how it makes you feel. As violence continues to be a form of entertainment victim bashing will continue to escalate.
Violence should never be the subject of comedy, instead it should be always discussed seriously. It has been asked "why don’t you just watch something else?" My response is why can’t comedians be socially responsible and make fun of something else.
There’s a responsibility with the platform so it is important to think before you post.
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Adenovirus-induced thrombocytopenia: the role of von Willebrand factor and P-selectin in mediating accelerated platelet clearance
Maha Othman, Andrea Labelle, Ian Mazzetti, Hisham S. Elbatarny and David Lillicrap
Maha Othman
Andrea Labelle
Ian Mazzetti
Hisham S. Elbatarny
David Lillicrap
Thrombocytopenia in adenovirus and LPS-treated mice. Platelet counts were assessed following tail vein injection of 1 × 1011 adenoviral particles into each of Balb/C and C57/ BL6 mice. The platelet count falls significantly at 24 hours (Balb/c: n = 8, P < .001; C57BL/6: n = 6, P = .002) and returns to normal at 1 week. In Balb/c mice receiving 0.4 ng LPS, the platelet count falls significantly as early as 1 hour (n = 3, P = .04) and remains low at 5 and 24 hours (n = 3, P = .02). Values are the mean ± SEM.
Expression of platelet P-selectin (CD62p) in vitro and following intravenous administration of adenovirus to mice. (A) Murine washed platelets were incubated with adenovirus for 30 minutes at 37°C and analyzed for CD62p by flow cytometry. The index of platelet activation IPA+ (MCF × percentage of CD62+ events) is significantly increased in adenovirus (Ad)–treated platelets compared to resting platelets (average of 5 experiment). Thrombin-activated platelets are tested as a positive control. (B) Flow cytometry histogram representative of 5 in vitro experiments showing increased fluorescence in adenovirus-treated platelets and thrombin-activated platelets compared to resting platelets and the isotype control. (C) Platelet P-selectin expression during the first 24 hours following adenovirus or LPS intravenous administration in mice. Graph represents fold increase of percent of P-selectin positive platelets after adenovirus compared to preinjection levels. Significant P-selectin expression is significant in both LPS and adenovirus treated at 1 hour compared to the preinjection level (adenovirus-treated mice n = 4, P < .001). Values are the mean ± SEM.
Adenovirus induces platelet-leukocyte aggregate formation and both platelet and leukocyte MPs following intravenous administration to mice. (A) Whole blood samples obtained from Balb/c mice during the first 24 hours following injection of adenovirus. Flow cytometry assessment of platelet-leukocyte aggregate was performed as follows: platelets were first gated based on the CD41 marker and the percentage of CD45+ cells (leukocytes) associated with platelets was assessed on another histogram. The upper right quadrants of the histograms show an evolving significant increase in platelet-leukocyte aggregates from before to various time points following adenovirus treatment. These data are representative of 3 independent in vivo experiments. (B) Graphs showing the average number of MPs in plasma obtained from Balb/c mice based on separate assessment of CD41 and CD61 (PMPs) and CD45 (LMPs). There is a significant increase in PMPs (n = 3, P = .02 based on CD41; P < .001 based on CD61 marker) and LMPs (n = 3, P = .03) at 2 hours following virus administration compared to the preinjection levels (Before). Values shown are the mean ± SEM.
Adenovirus activates endothelial cells in vitro and induces release of ultra-large molecular weight VWF as well as EMPs following intravenous administration in mice. (A) BOECs were treated with 3 doses of adenovirus (V1-3) for 6 hours. Cells were then harvested, washed, and stained with fluorescent-labeled anti–human VCAM-1 and assessed by flow cytometry. BOECs treated with LPS were used as a positive control and LPS data were set at 100% (average of 3 experiments). (B) BOEC culture media was collected at 24 hours following adenovirus treatment for VWF quantitation. There was a non–dose-dependent increase in VWF levels when compared to the untreated cells. (C) Plasma samples from Balb/C mice were collected 1 to 2 hours following intravenous administration of adenovirus. VWF levels increased significantly (11.9-fold above preinjection level; upper panel) and ultra-large molecular weight VWF multimers appear on multimer analysis of murine Balb/c plasma (lower panel). The figure shows an increased multimer density (increased VWF) as well as ultra-large multimers in the 7 adenovirus-treated mice (lanes1-7) compared to control mouse plasma (C lanes, represented by the two arrows). The dotted line shows highest molecular weight multimer in normal mice. (D) The number of EMPs in plasma obtained from Balb/c mice after intravenous virus administration based on CD62E expression increases significantly following administration (n = 3, P = .03). Values shown are the mean ± SEM.
VWF KO mice do not show significant thrombocytopenia, experience a level of P-selectin expression but do not form platelet leukocyte aggregates following adenovirus administration. (A) Platelet counts were assessed at 1 hour, 5 hours, 24 hours, and 1 week following intravenous administration in WT and VWF−/−C57BL/6 mice showing nonsignificant thrombocytopenia in VWF−/− following adenovirus (n = 6, P = .002 in WT versus P = .06 in VWF KO mice). (B) Similar to VWF+/+ mice, platelets from VWF−/− mice show significant P-selectin expression at 1 hour after adenovirus injection (n = 3, P < .001) compared to preinjection expression but significantly lower when compared to WT (P = .01). (C) Graph showing nonsignificant platelet leukocyte aggregates at 1 hour following virus administration to VWF KO mice compared to the preinjection level (n = 3, P = .12 in KO versus P = .007 in WT mice)
Platelets bind adenovirus and express CAR on their surface. The 3H-labeled platelets were allowed to adhere on fibronectin-coated wells with or without the virus and the extent of adhesion was determined after lysis and measurement of radioactivity. (A) Graph showing reduced platelet adhesion in the presence of the virus compared to basal platelet adhesion (n = 4, P = .04) and significant interference with ADP potentiation of platelet adhesion (n = 4, P = .008). Error bars represent ± SEM. (B) Platelets and CAR-expressing HEK 293 cells were stained with mouse monoclonal anti–human CAR antibody and FITC rabbit anti–mouse IgG and analyzed with flow cytometry. The flow cytometry histogram shows that platelets are positive for CAR (graph representative of 4 experiments). (C) The presence of CAR on platelets was verified by human platelet mRNA analysis; 1.5% agarose gel showing RT-PCR of platelet-derived RNA amplifying 366-bp band from the CAR gene. Lane 1 is a 100-bp molecular weight ladder.
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The Clemmons Family Farm is one of the largest African-American-owned historic farms in Vermont today. The farm includes 6 historic buildings (circa late 1700s-1800s), a spacious 1990’s residence, and 148 acres of prime farmland and forests, ponds and streams abundant with wildlife. The Farm is one of the 22 landmark museums, cultural sites and historic markers on the State of Vermont's African-American Heritage Trail.
The Farm honors the extraordinary lives of Jackson and Lydia Clemmons, who have owned the farm, located in Charlotte, Vermont, since 1962. The Farm is in a gradual transition phase from a private family-owned farm to a non-profit organization. We actively promote the deeper understanding and appreciation of African American and African diaspora history, arts, and culture. We foster opportunities to learn from our past, shape our present, and invest in our future.
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I personally have never asked a question on HiNative before. Why? The best part about HiNative is that you can search for peoples' past posts. For example, you can search an English phrase, like, “I hope you feel better,” and then a past post will show up that says something like: “How do you say ‘I hope you feel better,’ in the most native and natural way?” Then a native Japanese user will have likely posted a translation down below.
Tofugu did a wonderful review of HiNative. I encourage you to check it out if you’re interested in HiNative (We'll get to Tofugu in a second.).
Tofugu is a website jam-packed with eclectic content. The website slogan simply describes itself as a “Language and Culture” blog, but that doesn’t do the website justice. I recommend this webpage to see the types of content they produce, including free study materials, not free study materials, video series, blog series, podcasts, and much more.
Firstly, they have blog #series, like “What I Use To Study Japanese" (check that out after this!) and “Yokai”, which is Japanese Supernatural Folklore. By the way, these blog posts aren’t being written by any random-os. Tofugu has its own eight staff, kind of like a miniature Buzzfeed, but sometimes they have guests writers, too.
Secondly, they do interviews. I went to their website to check our their most recent ones, and it looked a little something like this:
I don't know about you, but I want to read and watch EVERY INTERVIEW you see above. Don't you? And look at that artwork! Their full-time artist, Aya, is super talented. The graphics on their website are so beautiful and creative.
Tofugu describes themselves like this: Tofugu started out as a college course project in 2008. It was rooted as a Japanese language blog for English speakers. Over the years Tofugu began to find its niche and evolved into a full-time business.
They also have a newsletter. I highly recommend it. Before you skim over this section because nobody in their right mind subscribes to newsletters anymore, just hear me out. I'm a millennial, too, and I get it: we all hate newsletters. But Tofugu is the one company I'm subscribed to in the entire world because they're all, well, for the most part, millennials too, running a company and doing an incredible job at it. They consistently document fun news in Japan and how to learn Japanese in unconventional ways— they even sent me a blurb and photo of a local place interns and I always go while we’re in Tokyo, and we didn’t know anyone else knew about it!
If you’re interested, Tofugu sells Japanese study content you can purchase for a fee. The person who creates the content is someone who also studied Japanese as a young adult. He always wanted to design study material that worked for him. Now he shares that content with the rest of the world. I’ve bought and downloaded their Kanji learning set, but I never got around to actually using it! I’ll keep ya’ll updated once I finally try it.
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Duolingo is a free app / website that specializes not only in Japanese but many other languages; however, Japanese is one of its largest communities with over 4.05 million registered users. Duolingo reminds me of Rosetta Stone a bit- they don't teach specific grammar structures, and instead they throw you into the deep end. The primary way you learn with Duolingo is through repetition. Games and other interactive activities make that happen, which is a bit more fun than flashcards.
As someone who has taken quite a bit of Japanese already, I was frustrated when trying to test out of sections. Your answers need to be pretty exact to what they're looking for. For example, one time I typed 2PM for 二寺, and I got it wrong because they were looking for two o'clock.
Though, once I got passed this frustrating part, I was surprised by how quickly I wasn't understanding questions anymore. As someone who has taken three years of Japanese, I expected Duolingo to be too easy for me. Boy, was I wrong. Not only had I forgotten a lot of vocabulary and drew several blanks when asked, but there were new grammar points my professors never got around to teaching me-- grammar points that I knew would definitely make me sound more fluent.
JISHO
You’ve hit a word that you’ve seen a thousand times. You’ve studied it, written it, spoke it, but now you’re drawing a blank. Jisho is here to save you. Or, you’ve run into a brand new word, and you want a true definition - not some fancy Japanese - English dictionary definition that is probably incorrect. Jisho is here to save you.
Jisho.org, which literally means dictionary in Japanese, is the best resource I’ve found for looking up vocabulary and kanji. The creator of jisho.org designed this website because he noticed too many flaws in typical Japanese - English dictionaries, especially incorrect connotations. Not only does Jisho.org have your typical adjectives and nouns, but it has slang, onomatopoeia, and other words typically defined as unconventional.
Level: "I KNOW NOTHING!" to intermediate
Genki I and Genki II start from scratch. They’re the Japanese textbooks used in most 1st and 2nd year university classrooms, and they’re actually GREAT. They have a textbook and a workbook. You can also order the workbook answer key (which I’ll admit, I ordered while I was still in university and used it to check my homework).
Nowadays they also have grammar apps, verb/adjective conjugation apps, vocabulary apps, and more, which I downloaded during a winter sale for about $3 a piece. I think they're usually more expensive than that. These apps SAVED my life while I was still in school. I think the verb/adjective conjugation app is essential for success.
TOBIRA
Tobira is a three-piece set—grammar book, kanji book, and textbook. It's typically used for 3rd and 4th year Japanese university students. I'll admit, I'm biased since my Japanese professors at University of Michigan wrote the book, but the book genuinely is pretty great.
In general, Tobira is great for anyone past the Genki I & II level. I love the style of Tobira because, as much as a textbook can be, it tries to immerse a reader instead of haphazardly throwing vocab and grammar translations at your face. Overall, there are fifteen chapters that primarily use Japanese articles, pictures, and news to teach you vocabulary and grammar points. There are handwritten activities before each chapter, too, which prepare you for the chapter material. These are the 15 chapter topics:
日本の地理
日本語のスピーチスタイル
日本のテクノロジー
日本のスポーツ
日本の食べ物
日本人と宗教
日本のポップカルチャー
日本の伝統芸能
日本の教育
日本の便利な店
日本の歴史
日本人と自然
世界と私の国の未来
Chapters from https://polyglotplotting.wordpress.com. If you want a more in-depth review of Tobira, read this post.
WANIKANI
Level: BEGINNER TO ADVANCED
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On your wedding day korean movie review
On your wedding day korean movie review. On Your Wedding Day (Korean Movie 2019-02-12
Tuesday, February 12, 2019 2:10:44 AM Kevin
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In a scene that will surely drive many viewers to immediately reach for their remote, along with muttered cusswords, U-ryong and his son learn to their horror that villagers are breeding and slaughtering cats to feed the hungry vermin: it's either that or the rats will turn their fangs toward the elderly or children. Han Tae-Sang Song Seung-Heon is a former gangster, but now a successful business man. Frustratingly, even though some of the twists and turns make sense only when the viewer accepts the overt presence of the supernatural, Yun seems reluctant to fully acknowledge the latter. And if so, what is the reason? Tragically, Eun-ji is viciously rape-murdered one night. A Dirty Carnival 2006 , set in contemporary times, follows the career path of a young man who joins a criminal organization in order to cover his mother's hospital bills. Regardless of the truth to this gossip, I am still hesitant to argue that Hong's films represent 'real life', even if they may resonate with things we've heard or read about Hong.
High Society (2018)
As a police thriller with a dash of morally complex human drama, Chronicles cannot quite aspire to the level of or , but is a solid accomplishment nonetheless. Finally she returns back to the arms of the man, who has been devoted to her almost all of his life. I was now closer to playing the accusatory role of Hee-jung's earlier older female friends, more contemplatively contemptuous of adulterous Chun-soo than I was during the first screening. Hong dips his toes gingerly in the supernatural territory and stages a few impressively bloody set pieces-- including one death by stabbing seemingly referencing Dario Argento's Bird with the Crystal Plumage 1969 --but the bulk of his attention is paid to cool observation of the mental breakdown of its characters. How can an epic love story have a happy ending when the main couple don't even end up together? This all changes when he meets the new transfer student Hwan Seung Hee Park Bo Young , and falls head over heels in love with her. Repeated rule breaking will result in warnings followed by blacklisting upon non-compliance.
On Your Wedding Day (2018)
The Piper is in the end most effective if taken as a straightforward horror film. Prior to its release in August, Memories of the Sword had been one of the most highly anticipated Korean films of 2015, along with Veteran and Assassination. Up until then, infidelity was indeed illegal in South Korea. You can recreate those iconic decorations to make the wedding venue true to the K-Pop vibe you are going for. Among the cast members, the strongest impression is left by Park So-dam, whose earnest, slightly quizzical expression is sometimes heart-breakingly attractive.
The film's first half, featuring the gradual introduction of Man-deok's hunting skills, his love for Seogi, and the seasonal depictions of the ecology of the Jirisan Mountain, is quite well done and even occasionally moving. On September 3, 2018, it surpassed 2 million cumulative admissions. The film's technical achievement is not exactly magical but neither is it something to sneeze at. It simply began to make its own sense. The film will prove disappointing to those who want a perfectly logical solution to the mystery of whodunit, and its chilly emotional temperature and refusal to provide an easily condemnable villain might turn off some viewers expecting a more melodramatic unspooling of the narrative. Production values are good to excellent. Hong's films are neither morality tales nor reality tales.
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I think Ma could have just run off to a touchdown with a sequence like that. It is too bad that Deep Trap lacks a sequence or two in which Seong-cheol is allowed to confront other characters showing off his evil cunning, or conversely, displaying character flaws that ultimately prove his undoing. Although Chun-soo's inner voice is heard telling him to resist his attraction for Bo-ra in the first half, we do not hear anything in the second half. As Woo-yeon so well expresses during the climax, it's all a matter of timing. Hong Sang Soo regular Seo Young Hwa Grass also appears in the film as the missing girl's mother.
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Struggling to make do with a perky younger sister Eun-ji Ryoo Hye-young, Ingtoogi as his charge, he decides to sell his parent's property and relocate to Seoul with her. However, Yu-baek is still deeply in love with Wol-so, his former paramour and cannot bring himself to do away with both women, as he plots to take over the throne as the bridegroom of a Goryeo princess. The film could have ventured into a valuable side plot regarding the accessibility benefits of universal design in furniture and architecture. He succeeds, but unfortunately he also ends up learning the dark secret behind the rat infestation, something that the old man and other villagers would kill to keep the outside world from knowing. Equally deserving of mention is Kim Tae-sung, An So-young and Jeong Ji-hoon's music that crosses over and back between nerve-tingling sound design and pulsing electronic drones, suggesting sonic ambience of a submarine diving into the stygian depth. Poet-turned-film director Yoo Ha has experience depicting gangsters and violence.
100+ Korean Stars Marry In Basically The Royal Wedding Of Asia
The existing film versions in fact tend to reflect this uncomfortable quality of the original tale: even Jacques Demy's semi-musical with Donovan 1972 left many viewers expecting an entertaining fluff shocked with its unflinching portrayal of the ugly medieval mindset, not to mention the touted Czech animated version directed by Jiri Barta 1968 , extremely scary and psychologically realistic, characterized by visual invocation of authentic medieval arts such as wooden picture panels. Lee Hae-young's new project as a writer-director is certainly unique. Well, the film turns out to not be so hot and steamy after all. The Himalayas There was a cavernous crevice I needed to get over while watching Lee Suk-Hoon's The Himalayas. But then there's great subtle gags too, like the big sign at the police station that emphasizes the importance of believing citizens while the actual police officers. The Best Selling Films of 2015 Korean Films Nationwide Release Revenue 1 Veteran 13,414,200 Aug 5 105. Your Wedding is a 2018 South Korean film that depicts the ten-year love and friendship of two people from teenage to adulthood.
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Review by William Schwartz is directed by and features and. When Priest Kim's old partner refuses to work with him again, the church sends a novice deacon Choi Kang Dong-won, Kundo: Age of the Rampant as a replacement. Kazue Park So-dam, Ingtoogi , a star athlete of the school. A few years later they meet again with a reversed relationship status which he gave up because he still likes her. Even if creating societies that incorporated full use of these alternate communication forms would end up ruining the plot propulsion of films like Alice in Earnestland.
Thankfully, in this case, the gore is not overdone. In order for this story to work and have to turn in stellar performances- and thankfully, these two are up to the task. We can choose to ignore the tabloids and gossip websites when talking about Hong's films. Ma has become a familiar face in recent Korean genre cinema playing super-macho guys who can also play cute and charming. Has been writing articles for HanCinema since 2012, having lived in South Korea since 2011. If there isn't already a film studies scholar writing a book on the presentation of the housing market in South Korean cinema, all I ask is the eventual writer of such a treatise thank me in the acknowledgements for the idea. Sun-young's husband isn't a significant story in Turning Gate either.
The comradeship that develops between fellow climbers in an expedition can be extended to other groups of climbers where fidelity fuels a willingness to rescue a fellow climber in need. The problem is that Lee attempts to wrap up the story in a neat package in the last thirty minutes and the effort backfires: he lets the stereotypes-- complete with asinine Japanese soldiers played by Korean actors with terrible accents and intonation-- overtake the characters, ending the film in a kind of we-done-everything-we-were-supposed-to-do stupor and a vacuous coda. Everyone, including Kyung Min's mother Seo Young Hwa , teachers and the police, put the blame on classmate Young Hee Jeon Yeo Bin who was the last person seen with the girl. This is not to say I agreed with the logic. Let's start off with the word epic. This helped him to attain his current status, as he started with nothing.
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Why the United Kingdom should not hold a referendum on EU membership
The visit of Angela Merkel this week has seen the debate on Britain’s membership of the EU once again widely debated. It is the issue that will never go away from political debate. The awkward relationship between Britain and the EU is set fair for the time being. David Cameron is trying to negotiate the terms of Britain’s relationship. A move that has been met with everything ranging from bemusement to hostility on the continent.
A referendum on British membership to the EU has long been a hot topic in the media and one that many people would welcome. Bringing a referendum to the ballot box has proved a challenge, the House of Lords recently killed the Tory proposal of a binding referendum – meaning the only real chance of one taking place is if the Tories get a majority at the next election, which doesn’t seem likely at the moment. Nick Clegg is a staunch supporter of the EU and Ed Milliband has similar views. The rise of UKIP may present a public face for anti EU sentiments. UKIP look set for a an excellent performance at the upcoming EU Parliamentary elections, but estimates currently show they could get 2-4 seats at the general election next year.
Despite the frothing at the mouth from Tory backbenchers, who seem determined to split the party over Europe once more, and how public opinion is reported in the media, public clamouring for a referendum is limited. A recent Lord Ashcroft poll of Conservative leaning voters, traditionally most likely to support leaving the EU, showed that many of them had no idea a referendum was even on the political agenda, let alone being passionate about leaving the EU. Those who were aware of a possible referendum were doubtful that it would ever see the light of day. Hardly surprising given the endless moving back of the proposed referendum date by the Tory Leadership.
The two factions that existed in the Conservative Party, the europhiles and the eurosceptics have ceased to exist in any meaningful manner. The party is now almost universally eurosceptic, Ken Clark and Michael Heseltine remain close to the government but are the only key figures who are keen on membership to the EU and both have little if any impact over the parties approach to the EU.
The protestations of Tory MP’s and UKIP largely play on prejudice and misconstrued statistics. One of my lecturers at university was a passionate supporter of the EU. She recalled how Britain gets more money back, not including subsidies, than it puts in – a far cry from the normal rhetoric of Brussels bleeding us dry. She explained how it is much easier to cast negative aspersions on the EU than to extol its benefits. The EU is a progressive institution and leans towards social justice and strongly upholds individual rights, but this doesn’t capture the same passion that immigrants coming over and taking jobs and money, even if it is a baseless accusation. A study late last year found that immigration leads to more money coming into the country than it takes out and yet immigration is often touted as a major problem facing the economy. Then there are the millions of Britons that have moved abroad and the millions more who benefit from the free unrestricted trade provided by the EU.
Leaving the EU would likely cause havoc to markets and not just in Britain. Such a bold move would be met with deliberation around the world and a reassessment of Britain’s role. As Britain loses standing in the world, retaining closer ties to Europe will be essential in keeping international relations sound. Since assuming the Presidency Barack Obama has repeatedly flirted with Germany and France, acknowledging that the so called ‘special relationship’ is not really special any more. As emerging markets in China, India and Brazil continue to grow Britain will be in a stronger position as part of core member of the EU.
The idea of having a referendum is not inherently bad or harmful. Direct democracy should be welcomed in Britain, where pluralism is severely limited by the political system. Increasing use of ballot initiatives and referendums will engage voters and increase interest in the political system. The recent culling of a bill allowing recall of MP’s is a great shame. In the US, democracy has many outlets. The federal system allows individual states to make key policy decisions, voters have a tangible way of impacting change. Ballot initiatives have flourished in recent years leading to states allowing gay marriage and liberalising marijuana laws.
Direct democracy has clear benefits, but membership of the EU is a far too complex issue to be decided by voters, it is a far too complex and important issue to be left to the public. Membership is not a matter of personal opinion, it is an extremely complex relationship that affects Britain’s economy, sovereignty, citizen’s liberty and trade agreements. How is the average voter meant to analyse such a wide array of issues and form a coherent and balanced answer, even if they tried to view the issue in a balanced way? Of all the issues facing Britain, the EU is not that important at the moment. The consequences of leaving are unknown and just emerging from the worst recession in a generation is not the time to take such risks.
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The Whiteness of Science Fiction: Should Octavia Butler Replace HP Lovecraft in the Sci-Fi Canon? And Avery Brooks Breaks Down the White Gaze
I would like to thank the folks who have donated to our annual fundraising drive. We are at the end of the second week of the fundraiser. I would like to thank those of you who have donated so far...and especially those folks who sent some wonderful material support to We Are Respectable Negroes and Chaunceydevega.com on Friday of this week.
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Next week, there will be two posts here on the site. One of them is last week's planned episode on ancient aliens, UFO's, white supremacists, and Afrocentrists. I will post that on Tuesday. Thursday's episode is something special. Careful readers already know who the guest for that episode of the podcast known as The Chauncey DeVega Show will be.
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I just watched Chris Rock's new movie Top Five. I may write up some comments on the film if there is interest from the readers and friends of the site. My drive-by comments are as follows: Chris Rock has made a very smart movie that has funny--if not brilliantly genius--comedic moments.
Top Five is a very inside Hollywood movie about comedy and the world of comedians.
It is not the amazing achievement that is Birdman Or (The Unexpected Virtue Of Ignorance).
But, Top Five is still a very good movie. However, if you aren't someone who is patient and has the context for why it is so damn great to see Whoopi, Jerry, and Adam show up in Rock's movie, you may not fully appreciate the awesomeness you have beheld.
The few folks who walked out of the movie during the screening I attended on Friday night most certainly are not in that cohort. The sleeping 12-year-old who was dragged to Top Five by his parents reminded me of myself, dragged by mom and dad at a younger age to see Jo Jo Dancer. At that age, I did not have the context for what I was shown--in hindsight that is probably a good thing.
In all, Top Five is public therapy for and by Chris Rock and financed from the pockets of Jay-Z and Kanye West with a soundtrack by Questlove. Chris Rock does not care if the public likes this movie. I enjoyed Top Five because of that fact, the always compelling Rosario Dawson, she who is my baby mama that I will never wifey in this world but am married to in an alternate reality, and the confidence of Chris Rock to be naked before the world. In many ways, Top Five is Chris Rock's Richard Pryor moment.
We have talked about the the colorline and science fiction on many occasions here on WARN.
On that theme, there was a very provocative and smart essay at the Guardian.
The successful and excellent science fiction author and all around creative type, Daniel Jose Older makes the following intervention about the overbearing Whiteness of science fiction:
Earlier this summer, the old guard of fantasy got very uncomfortable over a petition I started asking for the World Fantasy Award to remove the bust of HP Lovecraft as its statuette and replace it with Octavia Butler. Lovecraft was an uneven craftsman at best – his stories clunk along, overburdened with adjectives and stale characters. It’s his world-building and imagination that helped solidify his legacy, but even that is tainted by a failure of craft and humanity. He detailed his rabid, paranoid racism in many letters, and it permeates his mythos. Lovecraft peopled his fiction with hordes of swarthy, child-killing and abjectly stupid black and brown people, while women are almost non-existent.
Supporters of the Lovecraft statue point out his influence on the fantasy genre, and they’re right: today, we’re still struggling to unravel the legacy of racism and erasure with which he and other early speculative fiction writers permeated their work. Mainstream science fiction and fantasy narratives continue to center on white saviour narratives, as we saw recently on Game of Thrones. Villainous, sexualised or helpless, rarely are non-white characters presented with the same humanity and depth as white ones. As Imran Siddiquee points out at the Atlantic, teen dystopias tend to have a glaring blindspot when it comes to talking about more complex issues of power and privilege: “While recent dystopias warn youth about over-reliance on computers, totalitarian rule, class warfare, pandemic panics and global warming, very few ask audiences to think deeply about sexism and racism …The results feel false, and undercut the films’ attempts to comment on the present day.”
The problematic Whiteness of science fiction is very real even in a multicultural, globalized, and post civil rights era United States.
Older continues on this point:
“Why Butler?” people asked me when the petition went up, and I remembered how entrenched we all get in our own corners within the genre. Butler’s prose soars where Lovecraft’s stumbles. Her characters live and breathe, confront complexities of power and privilege amid fantastical, terrifying dreamscapes steeped in history and nuance.
My SFF community is mostly black and brown, and Butler inspired many of us to start writing in the first place. These folks congregate more often than not in online communities like the Nerds of Color,Black Girl Nerds and the Fan Bros, because outside of ComicCon, SFF cons have historically not been safe spaces for women and people of color. These are the online communities that signed the petition in the thousands, which is what transformed it from being just another attempt at dethroning Lovecraft as the face of one of fantasy’s highest awards (there have been several) to a global conversation with coverage in Salon, the Guardian, NPR and countless blogs.
Ultimately, the Lovecraft statue must go. He may be replaced by Butler, or Carrie Cuinn’s sea serpent wrapped around the world idea or any of the many other options, but the fantasy community cannot embrace its growing fanbase of color with one hand while deifying a writer who happily advocated for our extermination with the other. Read Lovecraft, be inspired by his wild imagination, repelled by his heinous worldview, learn from his mistakes – I certainly have. But the lionizing, sugarcoating and kneejerk flurry to defend and silence uncomfortable histories has to stop if we are to move forward.
Canon and the separation of one's person and professional lives as criteria for inclusion in the rarefied air of "the greats" in any field of human endeavor are recurring questions. These questions transcend science fiction. Example of the moment: the accusations that Bill Cosby is a serial rapist who makes very special cappuccinos (if you do not "get" that allusion do read black supermodel Beverly Johnson's account of her supposed Cosby masher horror show experience here) who also happens to be a genius comedian.
The ability to discount a given person's moral shortcomings in order to create a cognitive and emotional space in which to enjoy their work is a personal decision.
Systems of power, and our relationship(s) to them, heavily influence how this calculation is likely made for most self-reflective and considerate individuals. The dumb, dim, ignorant, stupid obsessive, and fan boys/fan girls likely do not care.
If one is a member of an oppressed or marginalized group in a given society, then it is likely to be much more difficult to discount a given artists' bigoted attitudes--especially if they are of the dominant group--than for the member of the privileged group who would assume such attitudes to be mere inconveniences and complications in their personal regime of taste.
One must also acknowledge how the Whiteness of science fiction can blind both liberals and conservatives alike. Colorblindness by white folks who are defending the "canon" and science fiction's habit of dealing with the "race question" by ignoring race in a white male centric imaginary reproduces white supremacy via racial erasure.
This move is made by both conservative-libertarian science fiction fans and authors as well as liberal and progressive ones.
The latter, in accordance with liberal "aversive racism", play a cousin to the game of furthering white supremacy and white privilege through racial erasure by focusing in on the hyper-visibility of non-white characters as a means of suggesting that racism (and sexism) in the future are problems that have been conquered. This is problematic because the hopefulness about an imagined future where race does not apparently matter is used to further an argument that the justice claims of non-whites are "emotional", "imposing", and illegitimate because the future will be okay as we have learned to not "see" race.
To point. At a recent convention, Avery Brooks offers a (white) science fiction fan a subtle yet direct and unapologetic clinic in the White Gaze and how it misreads the relationship between race and his performance in Deep Space Nine:
The whole conversation is a wonderful example of Brooks' intelligence, range, and directness. He affirms the humanity of black people without giving an overbearing "race talk": this is an art and skill.
[A bonus. Here is a great panel with Samuel Delaney and Avery Brooks.]
Black humanity is real for Brooks; it does not require any qualification or to be overwrought in its explanation.
The humanity of black people simply is.
The racism of the Left and the Right in the United States is centered within an institutional and systemic order that is dedicated to protecting and reproducing white privilege. Of course, there are relative, and in many ways, very significant differences between the two camps in their methods and means of advancing that goal; there are also many overlaps in the modus operandi for white supremacy between the two groups.
What are your thoughts on matters of canon, the personal, the political, and the artist? Are there any folks whose personal lives have so diminished their public work that you no longer appreciate or respect it?
And as always, please do share any interesting thoughts on matters of public or private concern that you deem worthy of our humble salon.
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Shady Grady said...
For me it depends on if I discovered the art before I discovered the person's political, personal or criminal history. There is a tremendous amount of creativity that would be off limits if I decided to impose my own non-artistic rules on whose art to appreciate.
There are of course times when I have done that anyway but those are rare.
Lovecraft was a racist and not a very good writer. He also changed the path of horror and other speculative fiction. Jimmy Page wrote a beautiful ballad in "Ten Years Gone". He also had sex with thirteen/fourteen year-old girls. Ike Turner was an abusive husband and junkie. He's also one of the founding fathers of rock-n-roll. And so on. It's hard for me to separate all of that. Humans are too complicated.
Lisalis said...
Thank you for sharing the conversation about Octavia Butler and the video of Avery Brooks. As someone who enjoys Butler's and Brooks' work without being an enthusiast of their respective genres, I would have missed these. Thank you for regularly sharing your take and others on subjects that reflect my humanity.
What sincere words. Thank you. Avery is one hell of a thinker and performer. He deserves much more visibility. He is on my dream list of folks to have a conversation with. I have a chapter for a project that was thrown down the publishing memory hole by a press that shall remain nameless on Brooks, race, and Trek that you may find of interest. Here is a short excerpt:
http://www.chaunceydevega.com/2011/12/help-book-chapter-find-home-politics-of.html
I will keep on sharing as best I can. The friends and smart folks who comment keep me going.
I won't let you get out of this one so easily.
Butler or HP?
Black Sci-Fi said...
You might also enjoy the Brooks interview in the documentary: "The Captains". It's available on Netflix. It features all the actors who have played a captain on a Star Trek spinoff. The interviews are done by ...wait for it....William Shatner..AKA Captain Kirk. Again, for someone who thought it woudl be a mess, it was a well made series of interviews. I must admit that there was a lot about Brooks I knew prior to his interview that was enhanced by the interview taking place in his home among the things he values. He's quite a well rounded individual..
Great interview. I was still taken aback at how mean and cruel Shatner was to Malgrew.
Stephen King once wrote that "H.P. Lovecraft has yet to be surpassed as the twentieth century's greatest practitioner of the classic horror tale."
Was he wrong?
Like him or not HPL has had an influence on speculative fiction that Butler simply hasn't had yet. And that is what the award is about. HPL was a through going white supremacist. His views were reflected (sometimes subtly, often not) in his creations. Sometimes art grows from s***. Butler was a better writer and better person than HPL was but he "wins" in inspiration and world creation. IMO.
Most of the fiction I've read is morality tales. I would consider it a HUGE social failing if the "future" I "chose" to "create" was void of diversity.
That's the problem with most of the sci-fi today.
I would also ask you to consider which sub-genre of sci-fi is the most popular among young white males. I'm fairly certain that would be the military/exploration sub-genre. I'll let you draw your own conclusions about the future we are creating by subversion of our youth. How different are we, really, than the "P.K.Dick" version of our furture as he portrayed it in Starship Troopers.
Kids didn't really understand the political nuance of Alice in Wonderland "either" until they were much older
balitwilight said...
I'm sorry - I sincerely don't understand your point. I spoke about a close friend whose mother is Swedish and whose father is Tanzanian. I spoke of a necessity to see TRUE human diversity, and not to FLATTEN everything in to the racism-originated pseudo-racialist-diversity of "black OR white".
But maybe I misunderstood your response, in which case I apologise.
Pam_L said...
I 'discovered' H.P. Lovecraft's work when I was in my late teens, and I still read and enjoy his stories to this day, in spite of my finding out about his disgusting racist attitudes when he was living. I've found the Lovecraft 'universe' too compelling and interesting to abandon, even though I clearly see his racism reflected in some of his work and I definitely do not like the person he was.
Samuel R. Delaney has an interesting anecdote about how Isaac Asimov whispered to him "you got this because you're black!" - after Delaney was called to receive a Sci-Fi award.
Edgar Rice Burroughs was a good author too - but look at the "Race" issues there. I think that Science Fiction is going to be no different from any other kind of fiction produced this culture - from Young Adult, to Romance Novels, to Detective Fiction - to Fantasy. All pickled in the same racism and "race" mythology that the rest of American culture is.
Consider Germany. Before their humiliation in WWII, Germany was a world-center of music, literature and science. And all this culture was also steeped through and through in "race" mythology and anti-Jewish hatred. You could read Goethe or listen to Wagner - and know that racism was in there somewhere. Same goes for everything produced in American culture.
John Atwood said...
The problem with a lot of sci-fi is the narrow view the (nearly all white) authors impose on their scenarios. There was a recent post by the Scottish sci-fi author Charlie Stross that addresses this (http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2014/12/on-the-lack-of-cultural-estran.html). While not addressing racism specifically, it is implicit in his complaint about authors that create suburban white 20th century communities in their visions of the far future. This may make white teenage boys feel comfortable, but really makes their stories trite.
I've read three novels by Stross, and find his work broader than most contemporary sci-fi writers, with plenty of "estrangement". I'm also a big fan of Samuel Delaney. Science fiction has a lot more story space and parameters than regular fiction and can be used to paint interesting and complex social interactions - its too bad that a lot of it doesn't.
D. Wright said...
Race is a lie, a social construct enforced by power structures. But so are laws, and borders, and the nations that create them. Whether you call it Race or Tribe, Nationality or Ethnicity, Culture or Creed, as a species we have created, expoited, and embraced these illusionary categorizations to impose oppression, organize resistance, and create new societies throughout history.
A science-fiction future without division and conflict is a future without humanity as we always have been, and I'm not interested in a utopic vision that doesn't detail the bloody costs that come with creating that future.
This is Exhibit A of the kind of problematic thinking that I have been pointing to. This is like arguing with a German Race Scientist about Aryans/Untermenschen/Ubermenschen - and being told that life wouldn't be worth living without these "divisions".
There is nothing in my position that attempts to create a utopian world without division. I am trying to get Americans (and many "Western" cultures) to realise that they have divided the world based on THEIR version of Aryanism - "black/white". Are you afraid that without "black/white" 17th-century racial categorisation, humanity would turn into a colourless and mono-cultural dystopia? That Tanzanians and Swedes and Irish and Germans and Nigerians and Burundians and pale-skinned and brown-skinned people or brown-eyed and blue-eyed people would all suddenly vanish? What makes you think that all human distinction would vanish if we abandoned the ridiculous one-drop rule?
The fact that it is so heretical to some to even conceive of questioning these 17th century slaveholder categories - just shows how desperately important it is to start the questioning, and not to pass this bankrupt CASTE system onto our children and their children.
Cultures and creeds are the product of socialization by one's family, friends, and peers. Tribes and Ethnicities are greatly extended families at best, a euphemism for Race at worst, and most often people whose ancestors where in the same place at the same time fighting another rival Tribe/Ethnicity. Nations are most fictitious of all; the product of socially engineered cultural homogeneity and loyalty to a piece of land and those who live upon it. They are all fictional, otherwise tenuous connections given meaning by historical events. E.g. it is because of the violence of slavery and Jim Crow that the descendents of numerous warring African tribes became a new ethnicity that can call each other "Brother" and "Sister". In a similar vein, people create Nations, like Tanzania, more often than not to resist Imperialism, Colonialism, and/or the Nationalism of others, crimes that are justified using the same logic as Racism. How is one connection anymore real than the other?
There will always be phenotypic diversity, but Ireland, Tanzania, and Germany are not eternal. Niether are the Irish, the Tanzanian, nor the German. They were created, they are fictions (my Father is the same age as Tanzania), and they will be destroyed. Race, Nation, Tribe, and Ethnicity are all drawn from the same logic; that we are what our parents are, and that's where are identities and loyalties lie. I don't think that their disappearing is a bad thing at all, I just think it'd make a bland read (we are talking about SF, remember) and fall into the same Colorblind trap you are trying to avoid. You assume Race, as a social construct, is going to disappear. You assume that people in the future will be more enlightened than us, so why write of Blacks and Whites. I don't think racism will go down so easily. I believe that at the very least America would have to go the way of Carthage; to be destroyed so utterly that future archeologists wouldn't be sure where to place its cities and borders on the map. Modern History would have to become a Dark Age with most artifacts of American and Western culture wiped off the Earth so that racism as we know it could never resurface. In short: The End of the World as We Know It. THAT's the bloody story I alluded to, and I wouldn't mind reading it. It's a much more plausible death of racism than the enlightenment of mankind.
Still, even if Race as we know it dies, that still leaves Nationalism, Tribalism, Ethnocentricity, Cultural chauvinism, and other vices as old as recorded history. Short of bioengineering these behaviors out of us, why should we assume the future would be any different?
joe manning said...
Like the GOP the popular dystopias such as the Hunger Games, Sin City, and Battleground L.A. trot out token people of color to mask their intrinsic racism. In Ideology and Utopia USA H.L. Horowitz points out that the classic utopias Brave New World, 1984, and The Road to Serfdom are actually counter-utopias which reinforce the current ideology and condemn utopian conceptions.
Learning IS Eternal said...
Just left the theater supporting Chris Rock's Top Five. It is extremely good. He's able to have some good fun/comedic moments while landing some great kidney shots to the U.S.world political machine. I won't dwell. #NoSpoilers #aMustSee
It is all about Rosario the Goddess and hot sauce.
Wild Cat said...
Ursala K. Le Guin's dystopic later writings (where whites are generally enslaved and tortured by a majority-black population) may be redemptive of her earlier SF writings, where racial tensions have been conquered. She's worth a read. (Le Guin is quoted as saying: "It's absurd to have a majority white population in the universe when on our own planet, whites are a minority of the population.")
Don't expect much from SF---like Sabremetrics, it's an autistic's field. Like sports and C&W, it attracts the right. I'll produce a few SF novels each year; they're generally awful and tired and inbred. Hard to believe I once enjoyed the genre. The major SF imprint I've worked with (but refuse to now, not based on ideology but simply based on my annoyance with autistics) has zero people of color in any editorial capacity. This is true of publishing in general. (And if you're African-American, you'll be expected to acquire or develop horrific Urban Fiction.)
HP Lovecraft was loathsome. I've gathered some Butler novels, but I've yet to crack them. Check out a review of Lovecraft's worldview on the NYRB website.
http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2014/dec/18/hideous-unknown-hp-lovecraft/?insrc=hpma
Isn't Hayek's 'Road to Serfdom' an economic manual for putting us back into serfdom? And wasn't it absurd how madman white supremacist Glenn Beck brought it out of the garbage heap and made it a best-seller?
Can't lie. She looked other worldly with good meaning. I knew she'd blossom something awesome seeing her in Kids, the same w/Meagan Good in Eve's Bayou (I wish never fixed her teeth. I blame Nas.) CDV, you know damn well hot sauce will never be the same. LOL
Anticipating your piece on Top Five so us here @WARN can name our top five on any and everything. Definite potential for new learnings and discoveries.
White miliartarist welfare queen and gun fondler Robert Heinlein wrote "Starship Troopers," not the talented but disturbed schizophrenic Phillip K. Dick.
Mike Hawk said...
What's with the "either/or"? You can't deny HPL's influence, and his racism is obvious so it becomes a point of discussion. I have students read his stuff and discuss the 1890 census, the rise of "race science" and eugenics in the USA, and the Immigration Act of 1924. This isn't a "mere" anything; it's a historically determined reality from which an artistic movement emerged that's influenced a lot of people. Isn't it better to read the stuff and understand it?
Are we punting Poe as well? Conrad? No more Heinlein?
You might hack through "Lenin, Critic of Tolstoy" in Macherey's A Theory of Literary Production. You're never going to solve problems by turning away from history.
To be honest, having read a lot of HPL's personal correspondence, I think he was a closeted gay man with more demons in head than Pickman's basement. And I haven't formed any meaningful rational assessment based on that observation, just a weird sense of how tormented he was.
DanF said...
Lovecraft is a terrible writer. I avoided him for much of my youth as I'm simply not a fan of the horror genre - even wrapped in sci-fi or fantasy - it just holds no appeal for me. When I was 23 I picked up a book that had a bunch of his short stories just to see what the big deal was. I think I made it through a third of the book. All I can remember was rolling my eyes at how many time he employed the phrase, "which is too horrible to describe!" Just awful.
As for the award... I don't know. He was a big influence and helped create the genre, but I'd be for removing him just to save other people from reading his crap. Leave him to the historians.
A counter-utopia for mass consumption that would make Goebbels blush.
I'm confused by your analogy.
"BNW" and "1984" are dystopian novels (and both have more humor than generally given credit for). "Road" by Hayek is an Austrian School of Economics screed against communism/socialism/humanism.
Back to Orwell, the fascists have always exploited his writings, as he died before he could explain his particular devotion to socialism.
But for all three of these well-known authors, none really gave a rat's ass about racial issues.
Counter-utopia is more explanatory than dystopia. Counter-utopian fiction, including the more academic nonconspiratorial works of Hayek and von Mises (Theory and History), compare current social good against future evil, thereby supporting the status quo. Ignoring the function of race and white supremacy is essential to their propagandistic function.
Do share something about his private memoirs. I liked Heinlein until I found out about his white supremacy. How to manage?
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Nibali, the 2014 Tour de France Champion, escaped into a late breakaway of 23 riders and was an active force in the finale, attacking solo several times on the mostly flat course near Milano.
The three races this week – known collectively as Il Trittico Lombardo – mark Nibali’s return to racing after the Tour de France.
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MOSCOW --- The CEO of Russia’s arms exporter Rosoboronexport (an affiliate of Rostec), Alexander Mikheyev, has pointed to growing world demand for helicopter gunships.
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In recognition of her extensive clinical knowledge and work as an accomplished educator, Duquesne School of Nursing faculty member Leah Vota Cunningham has been awarded a 2013 Cameos of Caring Award in the Nurse Educator category.
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Cunningham, the assistant dean of student services in the nursing school, was presented the award on Saturday at the Cameos of Caring Program and Awards Gala. About 73 nurses and 8 nurse educators attended the Gala, which was held at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center. All received awards for their nursing-related accomplishments.
“Professor Cunningham is very deserving of this award and we were thrilled that she was able to receive it at this point in her career,” nursing school Dean Mary Glasgow said.
The Cameos of Caring awards, which were developed and are presented by the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Nursing, are designed to honor excellence in care, empathy and compassion among nurses and nurse educators in the southwestern Pennsylvania area, according to Glasgow. Cunningham was the only Duquesne faculty member recognized.
Cunningham, who has worked at Duquesne for 26 years and has earned nursing degrees from both Duquesne and Pitt, has played a key role in shaping Duquesne’s nursing program into the successful program it is today, according to Glasgow.
“I’ve been here a long time, so that alone [has something to do with it],” Cunningham said. “I’ve been involved in a lot of different things that have happened in this school.”
Changes that Cunningham oversaw include the development of a freshman seminar, an academic support program, a peer tutoring program and a number of curriculum changes. Cunningham acknowledged, however, that she did not work alone and that many others played critical roles in these changes.
“There’s been a lot of other people that have seen that through, it’s not just me,” Cunningham said.
In addition to work on Duquesne’s campus, Cunningham also organizes and leads nursing students on an annual trip to Nicaragua in conjunction with the Universidad Politecnica de Nicaragua School of Nursing. On this trip, Cunningham and a small group of students provide health care to residents in and around the capital city of Managua.
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Cunningham and her students work in both the urban setting of Managua as well as a rural region south of the city.
Both Glasgow and Cunningham stressed what Glasgow referred to as the “student advocacy” of the nursing program at Duquesne, which Cunningham has been a major contributor to.
“I think the one thing that remains constant in the School of Nursing is students receive a high quality education in which they are given a lot of guidance,” Cunningham said. “We have a very caring culture in this school.”
Glasgow said Cunningham is “someone who will try to help students if they have financial needs or social needs.”
“We’re here for students, that’s what Duquesne University is about and she really works with students in terms of what courses to take, directing them for extra study skills…she’s really a student advocate and I think that’s critical in any school,” Glasgow said.
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Posted on October 25, 2017 by bill
This post was prompted by a recent exchange on Twitter, where I’m pretty active (@spiderbill if anyone wants to follow along). The conversation turned to readers who had loved Lymond but couldn’t get into Niccolo (both series and character) and Ellen Kushner, who as many of you will know is a very well respected author and avowed Lymond fan, said she felt HoN was maybe too much writing technique and not enough heart.
Allison Stock, who has just read Lymond for the first time and has been entertaining us with her comments, and is now three-quarters of the way through Niccolo, asked in reply if Ellen felt “…was that BECAUSE of Nicholas as a character, or was Nicholas’s character a result of excessive technique?” @DunnettCentral then asked for other’s comments but I felt it was impossible to summarise such a complex issue in the 140 character format of Twitter. So here we are!
As always there were varied responses around the basic topic of which series people like best. One felt that Nicholas was arrogant; which slightly surprised me as that is usually a jibe thrown at Lymond, though I think I understand what was meant. Another said that Nick was motivated by revenge. On the other side the HoN was felt to be greater in scope – more diverse socially and culturally, and with more believeable women compared to the brilliant ones of the Chronicles.
This discussion took me back to the halcyon days of Dunnetworks and Marzipan discussions, where we compared and contrasted the two series on many occasions. It was interesting to hear one old chestnut revived – that the series you start with is the one you prefer. That was a common view for a long time and has some apparent merit as a common sense idea, but in fact in the days when membership of the email lists ran to many hundreds this was tested and found to not be anything like as clear cut as expected.
Now I should declare my allegiances at this point. I adore both series but if I was on that fabled castaway island with the miraculous choice of reading I would take Lymond every time.
It’s an emotional response without doubt – the characters in HoN are complex and intriguing and fascinating but for me the ones in LC are vivid and alive to the point where you feel you know them personally, and the emotional connections they make with each other and with us feel as concrete as those in our real lifes. In a very real sense we are in love with them, we yearn with them, we despair at the cruel turns which block their paths to happiness, we feel their confusion and their clarity, their disillusionment and their determination. We shout at the books in horror as we see a wrong decision or a missed opportunity. And we cry with Philippa when the worst possible tune is played by the band below her windowsill, and feel the stab in the heart as Lymond in the tower shuts down his body to maintain a flicker of life with her name on his lips.
For all the wonderful descriptions, the ingeniously deep plotting (by both author and protagonists), the richness of the interactions and the historical connections, I don’t quite have the same emotional response to HoN. There are times when it comes close: when you feel Gelis’ confusion over her feelings towards Nicholas, when you grasp something of Kathi’s hyperactive pesonality, or Tobie’s curiosity mixed with apprehension about where Nicholas could be heading next. But perhaps because the main character is so veiled in his emotions despite us seeing far more often through his perspective than we ever see through Lymond’s, it feels that there is a level of connection that is missing.
As an aside it reminds me of a conversation Dorothy and I once had. The discussion had turned to music and she was quizzing me about my tastes after I’d mentioned the coincidence that Alastair and I shared our choice of favourite symphony – Beethoven’s Seventh. She knew I was a former sound engineer and understood when I said there were certain types of music that I could admire and analyse despite not really liking them – classical voice for instance does very little for me. I can listen to someone like Fischer-Dieskau and marvel at his control and tone but I don’t actually like listening to lieder as preferred music as I just don’t connect to it emotionally, and to me emotion in music is everything. We discussed the music of Mozart, undoubtedly great, wonderfully flowing melodies, but for me the sheer genius and emotional impact of Beethoven, the crashing splendour and turmoil of Neilsen, the romanticism of Rachmaninov – that is the music (on the classical side) that I connect to the most. Dorothy understood, though being a lover of opera she did encourage me to listen to more of Mozart’s contributions to that field. (We never did get round to Italian opera before the conversation took different turns!)
Now all this is not to say that this is a fault in House of Niccolo, it is simply that my connection to the books is on a more emotional basis. Others may have a very different connection. I’ve often heard Ann McMillan wax lyrical about Nicholas for instance and there is no doubt that she has a connection to and perhaps an understanding of him that is different to mine. Another dear friend and long-time correspondent Tina Dallas also feels a closer bond to both Nicholas and Gelis than to Lymond.
Nor are my observations above a criticism of the writing in any way. Unlike some other authors (who may be more beholden to their publishers), Dorothy didn’t want to write a second series of Lymond. In returning to a series format after completing a near decade of research and writing of the outstanding King Hereafter, she wanted to do something new, something different, to challenge herself and her readers in different ways before leading them full circle. We see her swapping character traits and looks initially, maybe just to remind us that all is never what it seems and to show us that not only is there more than one kind of hero but that life often has many shades of grey, and that personal motivations can be even more byzantine than those of Lymond’s political landscapes.
But she was also developing an even wider and more complex series of ideas. For example, are heroes always heroes, are villains always villains, or are they entangled and intertwinded? Do heroes do bad things, whether for good or evil, and does that stop them being heroes? Do villains ever do brave things for the right reasons, and are they born villains or do circumstances create them? We’re a long way from the blatant evil of Graham Reid Mallett!
And what of the main characters themselves? One of the Twitter posters said that “Niccolo grew into his character; Lymond’s seemed fully formed at 21.” and that is also a key point when attempting to compare the series. Lymond has had the benefit of Sybilla’s immaculate upbringing and the resources available to a noble family. He has then been tested in the most dangerous of situations in the galleys and as a mercenary. He appears fully formed when we first meet him, though it is the missing/damaged aspects of his life and the unravelling of his psyche and the moral certainties he had relied on that forms a large part of the story. Nicholas’ story is starting earlier, with a far poorer education and troubled background, lacking mother or father and with only Marion’s necessarily detached guidance to steer him. His is a story of development, of what circumstances shape that person he becomes, of what demons – some obvious and others deeply hidden – he must face and overcome. It is also very much a story of moral development from the ground up, lacking guidance or moderation after Marion’s death, and possessed of a fearsome ability to create and set off intricate scenarios that have unpredictable consequences, he must learn from experience and sometimes take the wrong route before building a moral compass of his own.
Such differences and the added complexities of Nicholas’ story make fair comparisons almost impossible. We can read them in many ways but ultimately only marvel at the wordsmith’s skill and the exquisit world building. For me, the romantic chess player and emotional music listener, it is the first series that captures my heart a little more completely. For others, perhaps with Dorothy’s love of puzzles, and a deep appreciation of interwoven and multi-layered plots it may be the second.
But of course you know that she regarded them as one unified series of 14 books…
Is that the faint sound of laughter I hear?
I hope so, for in these precious gifts of books we have found a banquet under the heavens that will serve us for ever!
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Comparisons and Connections — 19 Comments
Judith Mcfadden on October 26, 2017 at 5:21 pm said:
Yes, indeed. You put the feelings I could not identify about Niccolo perfectly–couldn’t related to him emotionally. Thanks.
Catherine on October 29, 2017 at 2:42 am said:
I agree with so much of this, and love the way you’ve said it.
For me, my connection with my favourites of the series, the Lymond books, has the same basis – an emotional connection and a greater connection with its people (including even the most minor characters). Put most simply, I suppose, I never cried through Niccolo.
But also, intellectually, through the Lymond books, Dorothy Dunnett taught me to think. That’s something I just can’t say for the Nicholas books. Perhaps I might have done, if I’d read Niccolo first; but I don’t think so.
Somehow, for me, the questions in the Lymond books just matter more, and I engage more in watching how the characters (not least Lymond himself) face them, think about them, work through them and arrive at conclusions for thought and action. In the words of Will Hunting, ‘Whatever blows your hair back’.
By contrast, so often in Niccolo, I feel, we get a character’s (especially Nicholas’s) exposition of a problem or issue, and what he thought about it and how he dealt with it, without getting the same intellectual as well as emotional journey and connection that we get through the Lymond books.
Comparing Lymond and Nicholas themselves, I’m not sure I hold that Lymond is fully-formed at 21. Emotional and psychological development and experience are so important in development overall that I think we are still seeing a story of Lymond’s development.
He is probably as clever as he will ever be, and he is educated, at the start of Game of Kings. But we see him constantly extending his education through reading, experience and auto-didactism. More importantly, we see him learning how to handle his cleverness, as well as how to build, manage and trust in relationships, and how to be more tolerant and less arbitrary in applying his moral compass (almost more ethically and less purely morally).
The scene you mention at the end of Checkmate, of Lymond alone in the tower, is one of my favourites. As you note, compared with Nicholas, we are rarely allowed inside Lymond’s very private and guarded head. But when we are, it’s extraordinary. In this scene, from ‘There was a certain satisfaction in it’, over a single page, we are taken with such beautiful understatement through the progress of Lymond’s complex and deep thought, humour and emotion to the last word and thought in his mind, ‘Philippa’. And then the fleeting scene which follows.
This certainly makes me both cry and think, in a way that Nicholas never does.
I can’t quite feel the same on all the points about music. I am a ‘classical’ singer among other things, so I like many of the genres and composers in that field. 🙂 And singing the stuff can often be better than the proverbial … so it certainly gets me emotionally.
I love a lot of opera, but it depends on the composer. The same goes for lieder or art-song. For example, speaking generally, I find Schubert a bit dry but find Schumann beautiful (although that doesn’t mean I even like all Schumann’s songs).
Mozart is almost in a box by himself. He produced so much. Some of it really can sound a bit like music by numbers for the sake of the fee (I hope no Mozart worshippers know where I live at this point). But the great stuff of Mozart (which can still be more sheer quantity music than a lot of composers produced in their lifetimes) is, I think, as emotional as it is technically wonderful.
For me, Fischer-Dieskau’s lieder recordings are a bit the same. It sounds like he recorded so much, for the sake of getting it recorded, that it often lacks in depth of understanding, interpretation and emotion.
And that leads me to: it’s often the singer (or in the case of the duets of art-song, the singer plus the accompanist), as much as the composer, that makes the music. I can dislike vocal music if I don’t like the voice or interpretation of the singer.
Most recommendations for emotion in opera are to La Boheme, Madame Butterfly, Tosca or Carmen, or perhaps La Traviata. There’s a lot of other stuff I go for, especially French, for greater subtlety. And I’d add Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier (which is, incidentally, also a lovely story of how a romantic liaison between an older woman and a seventeen-year-old lover can end remarkably well …).
Here are some opera recordings – singers plus composers – to ‘blow your hair back’. Noting that computer speakers don’t do them all justice. The format in the list is ‘singer – composer – piece (opera it’s from)’.
* Rita Streich – Godard – Berceuse de Jocelyn (Jocelyn): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk84NUWOvEE
* Rita Streich – Rossini – Una voce poco fa (Barber of Seville): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4NBdF4HIZY
* Gundula Janowitz – Mozart – Ach ich fühl’s (Die Zauberflöte): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q1cPatyTxgw
* Sena Jurinac or Renata Tebaldi – Puccini – Vissi d’arte (Tosca): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kStiNNwbkpM or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lUIXoCaRcg
* Schwarzkopf, Jurinac and Rothenberger – Strauss – Trio (Der Rosenkavalier): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31CtNc0Zp2c
* Bjorling and Merrill – Bizet – Pearl Fishers Duet (Pearl Fishers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT5LcQ_o8ow
* Fritz Wunderlich – Tchaikovsky – Lenski’s aria (Onegin): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBxjUkOlggY
* Thomas Hampson – Thomas – Comme une pâle fleur (Hamlet): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JFd-c8VcCBc
* Hermann Prey or Thomas Hampson – Korngold – Pierro’s Tanzlied (Der Tote Stadt): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fs85IylmBPo or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H10-FL1YOwo
* Jussi Bjorling – Bizet – Flower Song (Carmen) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAxlCj4rlEI&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe&index=7
And, because tenors seem to be most popular for most people – in my opinion, here are the best recordings of the best tenor of all time, for pure emotion and artistry, as well as technique … Jussi Björling:
* https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe
Especially in that album:
* Flower Song (from Carmen by Bizet) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAxlCj4rlEI&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe&index=7
* Amor ti vieta (from Fedora by Giordano) – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_vhwLE8Oqs&index=8&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe
* Come un bel di (from Andrea Chenier by Giordano):
* Che gelida manina (from Boheme by Puccini): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnNmXOwxgVY&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe&index=18
* Nessun dorma (from Turandot by Puccini): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0tybFjlL3Jc&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe&index=19
* Zueignung (song by Strauss): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s3GzTlC4ZhQ&index=6&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe
* A Dream (song by Grieg): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=174CMKDEzQU&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe&index=15
* Tonerna (song by Sjoberg): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfEGv8Oyk1I&index=16&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe
Catherine on October 29, 2017 at 10:08 am said:
Sorry – missed a link –
* Come un bel di (from Andrea Chenier by Giordano): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qr7siou4AmM&list=PL1eIkCV-7ffMxdItVlJmd8A82JeABBhEe&index=17
bill on October 31, 2017 at 1:10 am said:
Hi Catherine
Well I’m glad I’m not the only one who finds some of Mozart to be a bit churned out for the fee!! (They’ll never find me in Slovenia!)
Certainly much of his better stuff is indeed emotional – I just find that, for me, Beethoven moved it to a new level.
Thanks for continuing Dorothy’s work of educating me in opera (lieder would be a lost cause) and for the list of Youtube videos. I’ll try to find time to sit down and study them. Now how interesting that you admire Jussi Björling above all. I came across his version of Nesssun Dorma a number of years ago and was blown away. But I happen to know that he was a favourite of Dorothy’s too. She called him “sweet toned Jussi”.
I’m also a fan of many other types of music, including Scottish/Celtic folk. I once asked Dorothy if she knew any of my favourites but she wasn’t familiar with them – probably just didn’t have enough hours in the day. I know that as she had taught Alastair an appreciation of classical music, he had taught her old Scots ballads.
The late great Scots fiddler Johnny Cunningham of Silly Wizard was one of my favourites. I once worked with him and he used to take part in a fan email discussion group. But I only found out after his death that he was a Dunnett reader and had expressed a wish to write music for film or TV series if one had come about. How I would have loved to have got him and Dorothy in the same room. And his haunting music would have been wonderful for Lymond or King Hereafter.
Thanks for your reply. 🙂
I suppose, deep down, I ask, what could Beethoven have done, without Mozart before him, and love Mozart for that. 🙂
But I am a lover of Beethoven. And Beethoven’s 7th – ohhh – even if ONLY for the Allegretto … aaaah-ahhhhh. One of my castaway-island pieces of music. I have always, perhaps weirdly, thought it the perfect underscore to Hamlet – my favourite Shakespeare play.
I think my babies inherited my love of and taste in music. I had Beethoven on in the car once, and my first-born – while still in the womb – started dancing. And after he was born, when I’d put Beethoven on, he would inch his way over to the stereo and start swaying in front of it. He didn’t do that quite for any other composer. My daughter, one of two-year-old twins, now looks at me with love if I sing something I really like.
I’m honestly not that keen on most lieder myself – even though my mother was an avid lieder singer (she liked it better than opera). I find French or Russian art song way more moving. (English is a bit twee, except for Elgar.)
I didn’t know Björling was a Dorothy Dunnett favourite. But when I think about it, I can’t be surprised, given her style of writing. He makes me cry in singing, as only Dorothy Dunnett can in writing.
Björling for tenors. Rita Streich for light sopranos – hands down. Hence two of my other recommendations. There’s a lot of both singers on Youtube. But if you do like Björling – please, if you can, do listen to the album I recommended – the Atlanta Recital, as it’s called. It’s still available to buy, as I found out last year. I always feel about both of these singers like the reviewer of Game of Kings who wanted to shout from the rooftops about how good it is.
I read Alastair Dunnett’s autobiography – found it in the local library in my teens, and have just recently found it online to buy. What a beautiful, delicate touch … So I had an idea of their respective interests in music. But I don’t know Johnny Cunningham. I shall look for him on Youtube tomorrow. Being Australian, I’m probably not as well up on Scottish music as I should be – shame on me.
Very best,
Catherine.
Catherine on November 2, 2017 at 9:07 am said:
I found Johnny and Phil Cunningham performing together. Wow – that’s some tight, tight playing. Great stuff. Thanks for the recommendation.
Robert on November 4, 2017 at 11:06 pm said:
I’ve always felt difference in Nicholas and Lymond comes down to Dorothy’s relationship with them. (And perhaps he age when she wrote them.) Lymond is clearly her lover whilst Nicholas is her son. I enjoy both series, but feel a far stronger connection to the characters in LC, as you have so clearly described.
Olive (US) on November 5, 2017 at 4:26 am said:
I didn’t appreciate Mozart or Bach until I started singing them (in a chorus; no solos for me). One of my favorite arias is Mache dich, mein Herze rein, with Matti Salminen from the St. Matthew Passion. Tears me apart every time. I have also an LP (…) of Renata Tebaldi in Tosca — yes, her Vissi d’Arte is superb. And Björling and Merrill from The Pearl Fishers — oh, yes! I’m not much on Lieder. OTOH, Kiri Te Kanawa’s Songs from the Auvergne (Canteloube) is divine.
bill on November 7, 2017 at 10:28 am said:
Aren’t Johnny and Phil amazing! Look for Silly Wizard too – they were the first really big Scots folk band after the Scottish folk revival and the combination of the energy with the heart-breaking slow ballads and airs made them fans all over the world.
Yes, every great composer stands on the shoulders of another earlier one. Love the story of dancing in the womb! “The apotheosis of the dance” indeed!
Lovely that you found Alastair’s biography – it’s delightfully done. He was a wonderful writer in many different forms and his love and pride in Dorothy shines through everywhere.
Hi Robert, curiously, considering the vast amount of discussion I’ve read in the last 20 years, I don’t think I recall ever hearing the lover/son idea put forward before. But it is certainly a very compelling idea once you start to think about it. Thanks, I’ll watch for hints in my next reads.
Catherine on February 3, 2018 at 1:05 pm said:
Oh my. I’ve just read your replies, Bill (sorry – it’s been a very big and busy few months), and I’ve looked up Silly Wizard.
Now, I have to confess, I have difficulty listening to this.
For quite a few of their songs, I feel I need subtitles. I’m sorry – I’m Australian. I’ve worked with and befriended a few Scots here. For one Glaswegian especially (who brought the bread in at 6am when I started as a supermarket bakery manager) it took me a few weeks to get my ear in … Other Scottish friends mentioned their family in Scotland said they’d picked up Australian accents from years of living here. But … no … they were still quite strongly lowland Scots.
But anyway … The other reason is the raw sound and emotion in this music. I love it, even while it makes me ever so slightly uncomfortable.
I also rather like the idea of Lymond as lover and Nicholas as son. Although that is not to say, I think, that one can’t sometimes imagine putting a young Lymond over one’s knee and giving him a good spanking.
bill on March 6, 2018 at 11:11 am said:
While being a native I find Andy M Stewart’s accent to be a gentle lilt, I can understand why others might not find it so easy! Phil has done a few documentaries and I think his accent is broader now than it was when I knew him! As to the emotional content – oh yes, some of it seems to have a direct line to the heartstrings. Andy’s ballads (many of which people assume are old traditional songs but which he wrote himself) were often extremely poignant, while Johnnie’s slow airs and Phil’s delicate cascading accompaniments can just grab your heart and squeeze. “Music, the knife without a hilt” indeed. Not to mention that glorious description “dipping the phrases in acid and wiping them clean again”.
Catherine on March 18, 2018 at 12:41 am said:
I love that second one in Queen’s Play. Such an astute description of the power of a musician (including – yes! – these guys).
In some ways it saddens me that I think we’ve lost a lot of the sense of mystery in music that people must have had in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, as our understanding of science, medicine and astronomy has advanced.
I always find it a bit sad, too, that Lymond could not have known Bach, for example. I think he’d have loved Bach.
bill on April 5, 2018 at 11:41 am said:
Yes it’s a classic line. And yes, in many ways music has become rather ubiquitous – used for advertising etc. in ways that rob it of its special nature, so that when some really wonderful music is written it tends to get lost in the miasma of musak. I’ve often pondered on the way musicians (and sound engineers like myself to some extent) think in different ways to those who aren’t trained in music, and how they are perceived by the “normal” people – both the fans who adore them and those who don’t “get” music at all. Must be akin to magic to some degree.
(Grin) I’ve just had a flash thought of Lymond sitting at a catheral organ playing the Toccata and Fugue – maybe the one in Cologne with the unbelievable bass pipes. Now that is a thought to conjure with!
Catherine on May 3, 2018 at 1:06 am said:
Oooh, that is a wonderful image. 🙂
But now here’s a game. Top three keyboard pieces I can see, and would love to hear, Lymond play:
* Claire de Lune (Debussy) – not my favourite piece, but I reckon Lymond would nail it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIsQPdC9YnY
* Liebestraum 3 (Liszt)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4XEPdYO5mM
* Prelude in E Minor (Chopin)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GNGAQUBByk
(Links are just to some of my favourite versions.)
bill on May 3, 2018 at 9:37 am said:
No question he would produce sensitive performances on those three, but surely, as a former Voevoda of Russia, and with his flair for the dramatic, Lymond would play Rachmaninov! – and it would be GLORIOUS! 😉
Catherine on May 3, 2018 at 10:54 am said:
Ooohh, now I want to sing O dolga budu ja, with him playing! But OK, I’ll settle for Piano Concerto 2 or Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. 🙂 Is it cheating to pick a whole concerto?
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20th of August, 2007. Last day of the Santiago International Film Festival.
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The Short Fiction of Yukio Mishima
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ARM Video on Fair Oaks Farms Dairy Creates Concern
On June 4th, Animal Recovery Mission (ARM) released videos apparently depicting gross mishandling of calves, maltreatment of mature cows and other undesirable issues. The resulting publicity drew responses from other animal rights and welfare advocates in addition to the Coca-Cola Company, a partner in the FairLife™ brand of dairy products produced by Fair Oaks Farms. Both Fair Oaks Farm in Indiana and FairLife™ were co-founded and managed by Dr. Mike McCloskey and his spouse.
Following release of the videos, Dr. McCloskey issued a comprehensive and far-reaching mea culpa. McCloskey stated “I am disgusted by and take full responsibility for the actions seen in the footage as it goes against everything that we stand for in regard to responsible cow care and comfort. The employees featured in the video exercised a complete and total disregard for the documented training that all employees go through to ensure the comfort, safety and wellbeing of our animals”.
This encapsulation of the statement is somewhat at variance with the opinion of Dr. Jan Shearer, an Extension Veterinarian at Iowa State University. Shearer was requested to comment on the videos by The Center for Food Integrity as a member of the Animal care Review Panel provided a lukewarm opinion acknowledging “handling issues” and noting that “management could have been done differently”. With respect to the video filmed in th e milking parlor he saw “no willful animal abuse”. This over-generous appreciation cannot be extended to the handling of calves if the video represents an accurate depiction of events as recorded by the ARM agent and is not contrived or staged. For the purposes of this editorial, it is accepted that the videos were representative with respect to calves as noted by the comments by Dr. McCloskey and the subsequent legal action taken by the Newton County Sherriff’s office that has charged three workers identified by authorities. One perpetrator in custody is an illegal immigrant raising additional questions for a company claiming to be E-verify compliant.
I along with other veterinarians involved in the intensive animal industry express disgust and condemn the circumstances relating to care and management of the Fair Oaks herd. At least Dr. McCloskey has taken responsibility for the deficiencies in handling as recorded. Apparently when he learned that a video with negative implications for his company was about to be released, he requested a third party review, which was apparently favorable. Despite the report, Dr. McCloskey notes “It is a shock and an eye-opener for us to discover that under our watch, we had employees who showed disregard for our animals, our processes and for the rule of law”.
This case in which an admittedly welfare-conscious CEO was unaware of activities on farms under his control is unfortunately a familiar occurrence. Training programs can only go so far. The process of management incorporates the necessary stages of review to establish and document practices that promote welfare and prohibit willful abuse. These are only the initial steps in the process of maintaining a culture of responsibility. The second component of training is essential but at the end of the day, someone in authority must verify that procedures are followed. In this instance, there was clearly a deficiency with respect to direct supervision and monitoring of the activities of workers.
There is concern that events such as those presumed to have occurred at Fair Oaks Farms, that retribution is directed against the actual perpetrators representing the lowest level of operation. This has been seen in cases where hogs and cattle have been mishandled in lairage, gross misconduct in harvesting broilers, those operating killing rooms of broiler plants and in depletion of laying hens.
Any disclosure that becomes the subject of media attention and is disseminated on the web is a problem for all participants in intensive livestock production. Understandably the public generally has a higher regard for animals, especially young livestock, in comparison to chickens, since there is a greater degree of identification with their pets. As an omnivore, I could be induced to remove veal from my diet as a result of viewing the videos, despite the fact that I am a poultry veterinarian with 50 years experience. How would a young mother respond to depictions of deliberate, callous and willful abuse of sentient animals?
The repercussions from the ARM videos as distributed will extend far beyond the acknowledgment and apology extended by Dr. McCloskey. The Coca-Cola Company has initiated an investigation since multinational companies are extremely concerned over brand image. FairLife® is the recipient of two class-action lawsuits from animal rights organizations alleging deceitful marketing practices. Unless the plaintiffs are regarded by the Courts as lacking in standing or if it is ruled that legal action is frivolous, Fair Oaks Farms will be subject to intensive discovery, which may prove embarrassing. At the very least Fair Life™ has lost brand image and Fair Oaks may even be obliged to change structure or ownership.
The take-home lessons from the incident extend beyond documentation relating to animal handling and transcend training. The complete cycle of welfare management should emphasize inspection and control. Dr. Temple Grandin has correctly advocated for the installation of video cameras and recording systems in lairages, the killing rooms of hog and beef plants and in the hanging area of broiler processing facilities. A number of prominent turkey and broiler companies routinely video harvesting and transport. This is both a deterrent against deviation from accepted company policy and training but also to confirm good handling practices in the event of intrusion videos.
Since a company invests in developing procedures and in training, management of welfare compliance requires direct supervision. It is hoped that there are not many other Fair Oaks Farms in the intensive livestock industry. Unfortunately, disregard for welfare by upper levels of management will allow unacceptable practices by lower-echelon employees irrespective of comprehensive procedures manuals and training. In a commentary on the episode Hannah-Thomas Weeman of the Animal Agricultural Alliance contended that “it could happen to any of us”. Not so Ms. Weeman. Only in a Company with deficiencies in the cycle of management and a lack of responsible supervision and with inappropriate involvement by those responsible for the wellbeing of the enterprise.
In the age of the web, brand value can evaporate as a result of a welfare incident. Prevention through sound management practices and commitment from executive levels downwards will contribute to acceptable practices and prevent nauseating video depictions.
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Some Other End (R)
Written by Lexin
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Title: Some Other End
Author: Lexin (lexin@tiscali.co.uk)
Pairing(s): Frodo/Faramir
Summary: In an alternate universe, Boromir survived Amon Hen, Denethor was not driven insane by the palantír and Frodo is offered an unexpected reward: Faramir.
Warning(s): Interspecies. Bail out if that bothers you. Likewise AU.
A/N: Beta: Gloria Lancaster, Regina Berndt, Ringbark. Any remaining mistakes I probably put there after they'd made their comments.
"Advice to persons about to marry. -- Don't."
Punch, vol. viii p1 1845.
"What did my father want?" From what Faramir knew of hobbits, which was still too little, Frodo appeared amused. In which case, he could not imagine what his father could have said.
Frodo joined him on the bench overlooking the city and the rebuilding of Minas Tirith's largest tower. "Were we at home in the Shire, I would believe that I had been asked my intentions towards you. As we are not, I have no idea what to make of it."
"Your intentions?" Faramir stared in increased puzzlement. "What kind of intentions?"
"I believe he was asking me when I am going to wed you."
Faramir could not stop himself. He laughed. "He was joking," he said, when finally able to control himself. "He must have been."
Frodo laughed along with him, but with less force. He said, "If it were anyone but your father, I would agree, but from what little I know of him I would not consider Denethor a man who indulges in practical jokes. Or jokes of any kind."
"Perhaps Queen Arwen..."
"The Queen has been known to tease me...and you. And Aragorn for that matter. But I doubt even she has caught Denethor in one of her jests."
They sat for a while in silence, watching the sunset.
At last Faramir said, "What do you really believe my father wanted?"
Frodo shrugged, eloquently.
"Do not protect me, Frodo. He wants me gone from here. I...my presence is a humiliation to him." They looked at each other and Frodo opened his mouth. Faramir spoke first, "I know this to be true." Somehow saying it himself was less painful.
"Your father is fond of you," said Frodo.
Faramir heard the unsaid. "But he loves Boromir."
"Everybody loves Boromir."
"Not everyone, Faramir," said Frodo. "Come, we will be late for dinner." He stood, and Faramir followed him.
Most nights at Minas Tirith, dinner was the main entertainment, and, most nights, Faramir sat beside the lady Éowyn of Rohan, with Boromir on her other side. He could see Frodo and Samwise, as usual placed next to the King, but was too far away to speak to them. His father was placed next to the Queen.
"Little brother!" Boromir's usual greeting. It had lost any sting it might have once possessed the first time Faramir had bested his brother at practise; that didn't happen often, but that it happened at all was a comfort. Unfortunately, their father had never witnessed the phenomenon.
"Some wine, Lord Faramir?" Lady Éowyn, beautiful and kindly. Faramir held out his goblet. When she'd helped him to wine, he immediately added an equal amount of water.
"Still over-careful, little brother?" Boromir smiled.
Faramir smiled back. "As you say," he said. Then, to turn the conversation away from him, "I saw you ride out together; what did you do with your day?"
He knew it had been the wrong thing to ask when Éowyn turned to Boromir and blushed. But surely his brother would not have... No. Definitely not. Boromir said, "We saw the remains of Osgiliath; the engineers are beginning to work on the reconstruction."
"The sewers are most interesting," Éowyn's voice was laced with a laugh.
"The sewers?" said Faramir. "Surely, my brother, you did not take the lady to visit the sewers."
"Nothing else would please her," replied Boromir.
Faramir realised there was some joke here, something from which he was excluded, but he smiled dutifully.
"And you? What did you with your day?" Éowyn's gentle tone robbed the question of anything other than polite enquiry.
"I showed Frodo the library; he is learned among his kind and has long wanted to see it."
"You managed to separate him from Samwise? An achievement indeed!"
There seemed to Faramir an odd expression in the Éowyn's eyes, and he looked down at the white of the table cover. "Indeed, my Lady."
"And then? For it cannot take all day to look at a library - can it, Boromir?"
Faramir hoped his surprise did not show. He knew well that indeed it could take all day to look at a library, and after today he knew also that Frodo agreed with him. Éowyn was still looking at him, her beautiful brow slightly creased.
Boromir's turn to laugh, "I would say not, my lady, but my brother can spend a week in a library and the Ringbearer would appear to be another of the same kind."
Faramir felt his face grow hot. Once again he was compared with Boromir and found wanting. He looked up at Frodo, who caught his eye. He'd enjoyed the day spent with Frodo and Mithrandir, the slightly musty smell of the books and scrolls which so slowly revealed their treasures to the curious mind. He could not regret it.
He turned around as Éowyn patted his arm reassuringly, and wondered what he should say, but before he could speak, her attention was on Boromir again. With no one to talk to, Faramir looked up to the King's table and to his father, now engaging the attention of Queen Arwen. From the Queen's expression he'd been talking for some time.
"You are difficult to find, Lord Faramir, and no mistake." Samwise fell into such step beside him as was possible.
"Ah, Samwise," said Faramir, slowing slightly. " I was at practise." Like all Gondorians, he struggled with the nicknames the hobbits used. It felt wrong to him to shorten someone's name, as if he were giving short measure.
"So I was told. I want a word with you, private-like. Is there somewhere nearby we can go?"
"I was going to my rooms in the White Tower, you can accompany me there if you like."
"No, that wouldn't be wise. Are there Inns in this city?"
Faramir stopped and thought. "Indeed, there is -- there was -- a clean wine shop near here." For a wonder there still was, and Samwise chose a seat, as much at home as if he were in his own rooms. Rather less comfortable in these surroundings, Faramir chose a low seat so that he and Samwise were eye to eye.
"Good ale here," Samwise lifted his mug and drank appreciatively.
"Almost as good as at home."
"You, and Frodo too, will return there soon? Is that what you sought me out to tell me?"
Samwise seemed to come to himself somewhat. "No. No, that wasn't it. I have a message from Queen Arwen."
The silence stretched and Faramir said, "Go on. It cannot be urgent if it can be delivered in a wine shop, but I would hear it."
"The Queen wants you to know... Would like to warn you..."
Again a wait. Faramir said, "What is your warning?"
"Tonight, at dinner, your father is to announce his betrothal to the Lady Prestoliel."
"The niece of the Prince of Dol Amroth?"
"Why did Boromir not warn me?" Faramir's hands grew cold.
"He hasn't mentioned it because he doesn't know himself. The Queen sent Pippin to warn him." Samwise paused and took another pull on his ale. "Your father also plans to announce your brother's handfasting to Éowyn of Rohan - a surprise to both of them. The Queen knows from Éowyn that they have discussed a match, but she isn't sure of her feelings for your brother."
Faramir coughed, he was lucky he hadn't been taking a sip of his wine. "Surely my father cannot announce this without the agreement of her brother."
"He's got it. It's not crossed Éomer's mind that your father wouldn't have asked Boromir first. I mean, it's not something that Éomer would do to Éowyn is it? He wouldn't dare."
Faramir considered this, "No, he would not."
"But from what I know of your customs, it's not necessary for a father to ask his child before announcing their marriage, whether girls or boys."
"That is so," said Faramir. Indeed, a concern he had not shared even with Boromir was that their father would trothplight him to some chit he had never met while he was out in the field. That would have been further than custom would strictly allow, but that his father was capable of it Faramir did not doubt. He swallowed, "And what does he have planned for me?"
"He'd like to announce your marriage, but he's having difficulty gaining the agreement of the other party."
"Who is?"
"My master, Frodo." This time Faramir did choke on his wine, and it was some time before he could speak again.
"Better now?" asked Samwise.
"Yes," said Faramir, eyes streaming and aware that his throat would hurt for some time. "Thank you." He swallowed some more of his wine. "And will Frodo accept me?"
Samwise considered. "Hobbits are oft accused of bluntness, Captain Faramir. The question is, do you want him to?"
"There are risks..."
"Frodo knows that. Your father will talk of the handfasting as a thank-offering to the Ringbearer and the Shire. If Frodo says no, he's ungrateful in the eyes of all of Gondor. Daft, but that's what folks'd say."
"I could refuse," Faramir began, and then stopped. His father would merely imply refusal shamed them all, that he did not appreciate the Ringbearer's sacrifice. A thought struck him, "But my handfasting now requires King Elessar's permission."
"I thought of that," said Samwise. "It's come up in the negotiations. It strikes me, though, that if Strider..." Faramir smiled at the use of the King's nickname and Samwise corrected himself hastily, "...King Elessar refuses for you, you father could make it look as if he doesn't appreciate what Frodo went through to get him his throne." Samwise took a swallow of his ale. "I don't think that'd go down too well."
"And despite everything, there are a few malcontents who are not pleased to have the king restored," said Faramir.
"Your city is more like Hobbiton than I expected."
"In what way?"
"However much a change is an improvement, there's always someone who preferred it the way it was," Samwise smiled.
Faramir put is goblet down, "Ah. I see what you mean."
There was a silence, and then Samwise said, "There's something else."
"What?" Faramir had been deep in thought, and it took a moment for him to pull himself out of it.
"Frodo's been through more than enough. I know you men of Gondor think a lot of your honour, but if you accept and make him miserable you'll catch it hot from me. Just so's you understand that." Faramir stared, slightly stunned at his force, and Samwise took another pull on his ale. "I'm dealing with your father over this - and a tricky one he is and no mistake. Let me know what you decide by dinner time tomorrow." Samwise put his mug down and stood to leave, "Thank you for the ale."
Faramir sat alone in the wineshop over the lees of his wine for a very long time. His face must have been grim, for none dared approach him.
He hoped the lack of attention he paid to his food that night would be put down to a day spent drinking; he knew his father would have no difficulties in ascribing it to that cause. He saw Denethor's eyes on him, and tried to regret appearing every bit as worthless as his father thought him. He did not miss the glances between Éowyn and Boromir, and Boromir, who would normally have made some jest about his brother spending the day in a wine shop, held his tongue.
"Did Sam warn you?" Boromir asked, as the servants brought in the sweetmeats and fruit.
Faramir nodded, minutely.
"And what of you?" asked Éowyn.
"That is a tale for another day," said Faramir.
"So there is..." Éowyn was unable to finish; the Steward had called for silence.
The hobbits and Mithrandir had been placed in the lodgings the city reserved for the most honoured guests. Faramir knew this at least partly because of the afternoon he had spent at practise in the company of one of the Prince of Dol Amroth's captains. The man had felt, though he was careful not to say so in so many words, that his master was slighted because of it.
Faramir himself had never previously visited this house. Though such honoured guests had given dinners to which the Steward had been invited, if any showing-off of sons had been expedient the chosen one would be Boromir. In Boromir's absence on campaign or during his journey to Imladris, Denethor had elected to show no son.
The house was impressive, far more so than the rooms in the Tower that Faramir himself occupied, though that did not surprise him. What did was that he could wait so long for a servant to answer the door. Finally, the door was opened by a young man still wiping his mouth free of soup. "I wish to speak with Master Samwise," said Faramir.
The young steward pulled a long face, "I think he's out, my Lord."
"Please find out for me."
"At once, my Lord."
"Tathar tells me that you wanted a word with Sam," said Frodo, when he appeared a few moments later.
"Yes," Faramir could not help but be surprised by the sudden appearance of one who had been filling his thoughts but whom he had not seen or spoken to for a couple of days.
"I don't think he'll be long. Come in."
"I..." Faramir began.
"We will not be alone," said Frodo, impishly. "Pippin is here. I trust that will be sufficient of a chaperon for you?" Faramir thought that obviously Frodo had been receiving instruction on Gondorian marriage customs, and equally obviously he thought them absurd.
"I can leave," said Peregrin, as they entered a large and airy room.
"No, you don't," said Frodo. "Just go and sit over there and...read a book or something."
Faramir was hard put to keep from laughing; it was clear that while Frodo had confided all to Samwise, Peregrin remained in ignorance.
"Never you mind," said Frodo, then added, "at least for the moment."
"What did you mean by 'chaperon'," said Peregrin.
"Pippin! Go and sit over there and be quiet! I'll tell you when the time is right." Frodo turned back to his visitor, "Please sit down, Faramir." He paused to allow Faramir to do so. "I can think of only one reason, one real reason, why you would come to see Sam."
"To give him my answer."
"And?"
"Tell him I.... That he is to... That I..." Faramir seemed to be having trouble speaking, which hadn't happened to him for a long time. He started again, "Tell him that I agree to handfast with you. And also that I understand his terms and I agree to those also."
Frodo surveyed him seriously, "Am I to know what those are?"
"It is a matter entirely between Samwise and me."
Frodo looked at him for a moment longer, and nodded. "I will convey your words to him." He smiled, "So Denethor gets what he wants. I hope he's happy with it."
"What is going on?" asked Peregrin, who had clearly not gone far. "Are you really going to marry Faramir?"
"That is his father's earnest wish," said Frodo. He was so solemn that Faramir suspected a joke of some kind.
"But he's... He's a Man."
"And none the worse for that," said Frodo. "At any rate, it's not something he can help or change."
"Is it wise?" asked Peregrin.
"Pippin!" Frodo took Peregrin gently by the shoulders. "Since when has marriage anything to do with wisdom?" He let go.
"What did you mean, that Denethor would get his wish?"
Frodo sighed, "I will speak plainly and hope that Faramir forgives me." Faramir inclined his head. He guessed what was coming. Frodo continued, "You have noticed that Aragorn does not care for Denethor?"
"Yes," allowed Peregrin, unwillingly. Faramir remembered that Peregrin rather admired his father.
"He would replace Denethor with Boromir in an instant and with Faramir in somewhat less. Denethor has also noticed this. Denethor has therefore arranged Boromir's marriage to Éowyn and his naming of Prince of Ithilien. It is a promotion for him, and an honour to the House of the Stewards, but as Prince, Boromir will have to live in Ithilien, which is some distance from Minas Tirith and the seat of power.
"Denethor has arranged his own marriage to the Lady Prestoliel, a lady of high and noble birth. On her he will father new heirs.
"That leaves Faramir. He is being offered a choice, if it is a choice, between marriage to me involving a life far away in a place about which Denethor knows nothing, and remaining here, a threat to his father's power."
"I don't see it," said Peregrin. Faramir knew the hobbit reputation for stubbornness was well-deserved. "Lord Denethor would never..."
"Am I not right, Faramir?"
"You are," admitted Faramir. Though he had realised during Frodo's recitation that if Frodo were right about the King's preference for him over Denethor and even Boromir for the position of Steward it was not just political turmoil he risked by remaining, but death. Not by his father's hand, Faramir could not believe his father would harm him knowingly, but even in Gondor there were those slightly too desperate to do the bidding of the powerful.
Peregrin appeared convinced at last. "What sort of a dowry will you get?" he asked, smiling as if at a huge joke. "Don't accept any bent spoons like old Otho ended up with for Lobelia."
Frodo didn't smile back. "It's adequate," he said.
The giving of a dowry was not a Gondorian tradition; when one negotiated for a spouse, one was supposed to have a home and sufficient to support them without needing payment from their family. Faramir wondered what his father had made of the idea; he himself didn't know whether to be offended or not. He thought of asking Frodo how much, but on mature consideration he decided against it. That Denethor went along with hobbit custom at all argued that he was desperate to get rid of him. It was probably better that Faramir did not know just how desperate.
No mention of the matter of the dowry was made when Denethor announced Faramir's trothplighting to the assembled Court a few days later. So foreign was it to Gondorian custom that Faramir knew he could have avoided the whole situation by privily letting the information be known among the people, but to do that would have told against his father's honour. Surprisingly, Faramir found that mattered to him even now. And what kind of man would it make him, to avoid an honourable handfasting by dishonourable means?
So, when the announcement was made, he took Frodo's offered hand and did his best to look pleased, flattered and, most importantly, willing.
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ABDO/BUDA/ MARCONI
Karsilama
A caravan departing from Azerbaijan reaches the Eastern parts of the Anatolian peninsula , then the Aegean Sea and the shores of Tunisia and Southern Italy. Greek dances perfumed of Otoman sensuality
fast , obsessive Rom rhythms, Klezmer tunes with Balkan perfumes . Taksim and traditional Kurdish music in which echoes Caucasus and Persian sounds.
Born as a causal meeting of the Milanese guitarists FABIO MARCONI and MANUEL BUDA who were soon joined by the Kurdish musician, ASHTI ABDO, the trio ABDO-BUDA-MARCONI went well beyond the first casual encounter and after two years of hard work and several concerts together presents his first record: Karsilama. It is a work of which the three members are very proud because on this occasion they realized with satisfaction that their collaboration, born almost by chance, has created a human and sound alchemy that has allowed each of them to pull out the best of himself both humanly and musically. And the audience followed them by sharing emotions and great affection. The sound journey starts from Azerbaijan, to continue in the eastern part of the Anatolian peninsula (Turkey) up to the Aegean waters and go westwards, touching Tunisia and Southern Italy, among others, in a spontaneous and natural movement to signify the cultural homogeneity of a sea, the Mediterranean, which has connected co more than divided the countries.
ASHTI ABDO. Kurdish singer, musician and composer, he was born in Aleppo and raised in Afrin. He became passionate about music very early and spent his childhood in his village, listening to the stories and songs of the elderly. Learn to sing lullabies and play the typical Kurdish instrument, the tembûr (saz). After moving to Italy after adolescence, he continues to play the self-taught tembûr, starting to perform as a solo artist. In 2012 he joined the Domo Emigrantes, bringing to the band sounds and textures typical of the Middle East. The meeting with the group will lead him to get to know and play Southern Italy typical instruments and rhythms. From 2014 in the Piccola Banda Rebelde ensemble sings De André. In 2015 he also collaborated with Angelo Petraglia and Francesco Forzani, (musicians from Lodi,) creating Beja: music, storytelling, war, a musical improvisation project based on a personal translation of the war experience. In 2018 he won the DoReMiFaSud award, a competition that promotes integration and dialogue between different musical cultures.
MANUEL BUDA He graduated with the highest grade in classical guitar at the G. Verdi Conservatory in Milan and in the same years he graduated in Theoretical Physics, to then follow his research and fuse classical training with various musical experiences ranging from klezmer to flamenco, to rock and to the Arabic repertoire. Born in a half Jewish and half Christian family, with origins between south and central Italy, for several years he explored his Jewish roots through music, and the mutual influences with other repertoires around the Mediterranean. This path sees him co-founder of the NefEsh Trio, with which since 2006 he performs on the stage, in Europe and Israel. In 2008, just over twenty-five, he is among the thirty musicians invited by Kuki Gallman to represent the music of the five continents at the Earth Festival of Laikipia (Kenya). He regularly holds concerts and collaborates with artists such as Raiz, Giovanni Nuti, Monica Guerritore, Malika Ayane, and directors like Ruggero Gabbai, for whom he transcribes and records a version of Adio Querida - the famous Sephardic popular song.
FABIO MARCONI After studying jazz at the International Academy of Music in Milan, he began his research in the field of world music. First the Balkan music with Nema Problema Orchestra (2004) with which he was able to perform in various festivals and clubs throughout Europe. In particular, he dedicated himself to building a personal language turning his gaze to extra-European sound worlds, especially the Middle East. Since 2010 he collaborate with Camilla Barbarito, following the singer in her continuous research and deeping in the most disparate directions, from tango to fado, to flamenco, to swing and to bossa nova. He is a member of Connections Trio, a strongly jazz group in which he collaborates with the Turkish pianist Yigit Ozatalay, professor of piano composition and arrangement at the University of Music in Istanbul. In 2015 he began working with the famous tar player Fakhraddin Gafarov, in the quartet in his name, with whom he recorded the album Uzunderè (Milan/Baku2017) composed entirely of Caucasian music
ABDO/BUDA/ MARCONI from Felmay Shop
1. Kaytagi 4:45
2. Eman Hey Lê 4:30
3. Sultaniyegah Sirto 7:21
4. Astrakan Cafè 5:47
5. Mishebeyrekh Taksim 3:50
6. Sirba 3:36
7.Gundê Hember 5:08
8.Jovano Jovanke 8:35
9. Karsilama 3:24
10. Masâr 4:40
Manuel Buda – classic guitar , vocals
Ashti Abdo – tembûr (saz), vocal , percussions, duduk, marranzano
Fabio Marconi – violhao de choro a 7 strings ,backing vocals
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You are here: Home Business & Economy Brunei firm invests P1.3B to boost BIMP-EAGA
Brunei firm invests P1.3B to boost BIMP-EAGA
Published on Wednesday, 04 September 2013 21:57
Written by Melody M. Aguiba
Filipino firm SL Agritech Corp. and Brunei firm Four Bays Iman Sdn Bhd (FISB) have tied up for a hybrid rice plantation in Mindanao in an effort to stimulate businesses and bring economic progress in the Brunei-Indonesia-Malaysia-Philippines-East Asia Growth Area (BIMP-EAGA), an ASEAN sub-regional grouping.
FISB Director Jocelyn Bidaure Lebanan said the company will put initial investments of P1.3 billion in the first year of the program. The first year investment will include working capital (leased area, contract growing area, and operational expenses) P688 million; mechanization, warehousing, trucks, and drying facilities, P427 million; and milling facilities, P185 million.
“This is just an initial investment, more will be invested in this five-year program,” said Lebanan in an interview. Lebanan also said they have already resolved some issues in the local banking process after meeting with Maybank.
According to Lebanan, the company will step up investments to P1.905 billion on the second year; P2.43 billion on the third year year; P2.87 billion the fourth and P3.235 billion on the fifth year for total investments of P11.740 billion over the five-year program.
“It is really an ambitious plan that aims to identify a total of 20,000 hectares by the fifth year of operation that should bring about livelihood opportunities to Muslims in Mindanao,” Lebanan said.
FISB is partnering with SLAC in supporting a previous venture of Tinghua Foundation that Lebanan headed. Tinghua has been engaged in agricultural contract growing among Muslims planting high-value crops like asparagus in South Cotabato.
FISB signed a memorandum of agreement early this week with SLAC Chairman Henry Lim Bon Liong and Dr. Frisco M. Malabanan, SLAC hybrid rice specialist.
Under the partnership, SLAC will provide the hybrid rice technology, seeds, agricultural chemicals, and marketing work to the JV. The FISB will put in the investment in irrigation, farm to market roads, land to be subjected for contract farming or lease, drying equipment, transport, post harvest and other processing facilities.
The JV aims to follow the successful joint venture model of La Frutera Inc (LFI) and Paglas Corp. (PC), a company founded by the late Ibrahim “Toto” Paglas. The PC-LFI JV manages agricultural lands including the banana plantation originating in Datu Paglas, Maguindnao that is now one of Philippines’ largest banana exporters.
While SLAC has long had hybrid rice seed production area in Banay Banay Davao Oriental, Lim said its JV with FISB should further put money in areas that need the most help in poverty reduction. Hybrid rice can raise Mindanaoan’s rice yield from 3.5 to 7.5 per hectare and farmers’ net income from P50,000 to P100,000.
“There are many existing irrigated lands in the Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao. In the Ampatuan town alone, there are 6,000 hectares of fully irrigated land. We won’t just give (inputs or money) for free to people. It will be ‘balik tangkilik’ program. Farmers have to pay (for their dues) in the form of rice, and they can have for their own any excess (in production),” said Lebanan. (Manila Bulletin)
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by Me. @FilmScoreFans
I was born in 1980. I am still coming to grips with the fact that kids today think of that year like I think of 1950. 1950 is a long time ago. 1980 is awesome and new. Why don't they get that? Please kids, GET IT. My earliest musical memories include playing records, but most of my early life centered around music on tapes. In our house, we had a severe lack of stereos, boom boxes, tape players, record players, or any other equipment. (Besides that wonderful pink tape recorder - see a previous post.) The only stereo in our house never worked. It is still in my parents' home today and 33 years later, I've never seen it turned on. We usually had to go on car rides just to listen to music.
Hop in, kids! One trip up and down the road should be enough time for the new Springsteen song.
My brother was the first family member to step into modern times. Sometime in high school, he bought a true stereo system that immediately became the centerpiece of our upstairs living room. Now, that last part might sound unimportant, but, let me explain something: the upstairs living room was the "nice" one. Originally, we had a TV in that room. But, one dark day, my parents moved it out. We've all been there: it became the sitting room. The downstairs living room became the one that we could beat the hell out of. (my wife said I shouldn't end this sentence this way - so I am going to) After a decade of banishment, my brother bravely reclaimed the upstairs with the righteousness of Dave Matthews Band, Counting Crows, and The Wallflowers. I came along with John Williams, James Horner, and Michael Kamen. The house belonged to us, and we weren't giving it back. We immediately began spending any money we could get on musical tapes at The Wall.
Remember this? Great for us. Not so great for their investors.
Anyway, this stereo had the all powerful double tape deck. I don't remember the exact moment that I discovered blank tapes, but I'm pretty sure it was accompanied by a choir of angels.
Oh, the possibilities! No longer would I be shackled by Hollywood's predetermined track order. I could pick and choose. I could... CREATE THE GREATEST MIX TAPES EVER. I could have an impact on the world of film scores.
I mean it. That's what it felt like as a kid. Here I am, in my thirties, and nothing has changed. As I write these words, I am completely convinced that John Williams will read them and nod with his fingers thoughtfully on his chin. Michael Giacchino will read them and appreciate my hilarious attitude. Hans Zimmer will read them and then get back to 10 percussionists sitting at 10 drum sets.
I thought the mix tapes I made were big news. I'm not embarrassed: I used to make the mixes and imagine having a release party. I would be interviewed for TV, magazines, and eventually something new called the "world wide web." Each year, around Christmas, the public waited with baited breath to find out which composers and films would be honored with their presence on my "Favorite Soundtracks" tapes.
In reality, the "public" was myself and my brother.
And so, with my massive audience's listening pleasure in mind, I took this very seriously. It was important that each tape had the right "flow." Each track had to be placed in the right order to maximize the listening experience. If a cue ended quietly and with reverence to the subject material, should I follow it up with something in the same vein? Or maybe shock the listener with a completely contrasting style?
Even more important, which track would get the coveted opening spot? It had to be some sort of opening title, or main theme. And how about the closing spot? Some fanfare-ish piece that brought things to a standing ovation finale. Or, maybe a beautiful Thomas Newman-ish ending that just made you feel warm all over. Tough choices had to be made. My non-existent production company CEO was breathing down my neck. I like to imagine him as a surlier version of J. Jonah Jameson. He's busy, and doesn't have time for my shenanigans. But in the end, I always make the right choices and the company makes millions.
You want me to have a Rachel Portman cue lead into Hans Zimmer? Get out of my office!!
So how did my perfect track record begin? With "Favorite Soundtracks #1." I have no idea what inspired me to make a mix. I had been perfectly happy listening to full albums like Crimson Tide, Waterworld, Jurassic Park, and others. But, lightning struck and the music gods must have led me to the stereo with a blank tape in hand. I put #1 together one afternoon when it was my turn to use the stereo (we had to have a strict schedule.) Using the double deck, I was able to make the magic happen, but this was a fragile process. At any moment, the wrong button could be pushed, and the blank tape could be copied over my precious film score albums. With a team of imaginary engineers and technicians, every possible precaution was taken to protect the precious originals. Picture NASA's mission control center, only bigger and more computer screens.
So, by now you're either no longer reading, or you're actually kind of curious to know what a kid puts on his first film mix. As previously stated in a perviously written and previously posted... post... my first two film scores were The Star Wars Trilogy (Utah Symphony) and Star Trek VI - The Undiscovered Klingon Ship That Can Fire While Cloaked. And so, paying attention to seniority protocols, both of those scores automatically earned special places on this momentous first release. If memory serves, I owned about twenty scores at the time. From those albums, I now give you my #1:
Favorite Soundtracks #1
1. FOX Fanfare - The Star Wars Trilogy - Alfred Newman
2. Main Title - The Star Wars Trilogy - John Williams
3. Main Title - Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Best of Both Worlds - Jerry Goldsmith
4. An American Symphony - Mr. Holland’s Opus - Michael Kamen*
5. Main Title - Gettysburg - Randy Edelman
6. Back to the Future (End Credits) - Back to the Future: Complete Score - Alan Silvestri**
7. Overture -Star Trek: Generations - Dennis McCarthy
8. Mission Theme - NBC News - John Williams
9. End Titles - Independence Day - David Arnold
10. Main Titles - Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan - James Horner
11. This Land - The Lion King - Hans Zimmer
12. Chekov’s Run - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Leonard Rosenman
13. Hospital Chase - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Leonard Rosenman
14. Anthem - Top Gun - Harold Faltermeyer and Steve Stevens
1. Home Again - Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home - Leonard Rosenman
2. 1969: We Came In Peace (Alt) - Independence Day: Complete Score - David Arnold***
3. Men of Honor - Gettysburg - Randy Edelman
4. King of Pride Rock - The Lion King - Hans Zimmer
5. Life Is A Dream - Star Trek V: The Final Frontier - Jerry Goldsmith
6. Main Title/The Rescue - Speed - Mark Mancina
7. It’s Been Educational/Clocktower - Back to the Future (Complete) - Alan Silvestri****
8. Here They Come - The Star Wars Trilogy - John Williams
9. Sign Off/Suite - Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country - Cliff Eidelman
*On tape, it was sometimes difficult to know when each new track began. I always thought this track began with the bass notes, followed by the drum set fill. I learned years later that it was actually much more substantial than the piece they performed in the movie.
**The original BttF release only had two Silvestri tracks. I believe both were called "Overture." Years later I found out what they are actually called on the complete score release.
***On tape, this opening cue had a much darker and louder mix/orchestration. Over the years, I've never been able to find that version digitally. The track listed hear is the closest I can find.
****See footnote #2, or don't. No biggie.
So there it is. I bet you can't even remember a pre-reading-this-post world. I once tweeted (I hate using that word) a tweet (I hate using that word) about creating these mixes as a child. I was surprised to find that not many of my hundreds of followers (believe it or not, that number is not exaggerated) have never made a mix tape, CD, or playlist.
606 followers? That's gotta be a record. Like anyone could have more.
C'mon people - don't let my self centered opinion on the superiority of my mixes scare you. Give it a try. I know you'll enjoy it.
I can specifically remember when #1 met its end. In my 1991 Mercury Sable (a beautiful machine), the tape tore and began spitting out of the player. Devestation. But, a new copy was made and life goes on. From tapes to CDs to iPod playlists, I have now created 35 mixes. And I enjoy the process as much as I did when I was a kid.
I'll share the rest eventually. But in the meantime, like I said: give it a try.
Favorite Soundtracks #1 received an imaginary Grammy Award in 1993.
© 2014-2016 Film Score Fans
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Synaptec Raises £2.9M in Funding
Published on May 16, 2019 By FinSMEs
Synaptec, a Glasgow, UK-based energy tech company, raised £2.9m in funding.
Backers included:
– the Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, which invested £2m,
– the newly created Foresight Scottish Growth Fund, which invested £100k, and
– existing shareholders, including The Scottish Investment Bank, the investment arm of Scottish Enterprise, Equity Gap and the University of Strathclyde, which invested £800k.
The funding will be used to scale-up production, grow international sales and exploit future data analytics opportunities.
Founded in 2015 as a spinout from the University of Strathclyde and led by Philip Orr, Managing Director, Synaptec has developed innovative technology that can reduce downtime and allow monitoring of the complex electric power grid, using existing optical fibre networks.
The technology measures voltage, current, temperature, and vibration over long distances, at multiple locations, without power supplies, and using only a single standard optical fiber.
The system has already seen demand for its systems from international customers.
The innovations developed by the company are based on work Orr and his co-founders conducted at the University of Strathclyde’s Institute for Energy and Environment.
Tagged with: Equity Gap, Foresight Scottish Growth Fund, Foresight Williams Technology EIS Fund, Scottish Investment Bank, Synaptec, University of Strathclyde
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Porsche Announces New Panamera Personalization Program
10:52 PM PST - 8/17/2010 Written By: Porsche Cars North America, Inc.
Photography by: Porsche Cars NA
Porsche Panamera Turbo Sport Design Kit and Wheels Source Porsche Cars NA
ATLANTA – Aug. 17, 2010 – In September Porsche will begin offering a Panamera Turbo Powerkit that increases engine output to 540 horsepower (standard is 500 horsepower). Other personalization upgrades include a Sport Design Package and the new 20-inch Panamera Sport wheels for the Panamera Turbo and the other Porsche V6- and V8-powered Panamera models.
The Panamera Turbo Powerkit features two new turbochargers with titanium aluminum turbines, and engine management has been adapted to provide a further improvement in engine response. Maximum torque rises to 750 Nm (compared to 700 Nm in the standard production Panamera Turbo). If in Sport Plus mode, which is included in the Sport Chrono Turbo Package that is part of the Panamera Turbo Powerkit, torque rises to 800 Nm. This is an increase of 30 Nm over the standard Panamera Turbo fitted with the optional Sport Chrono Turbo Package and in Sport Plus mode.
In Sport Plus mode, the Panamera Turbo accelerates from 0 to 100 km/h (0 to 62 mph) in 3.9 sec – 0.1 sec faster than the production car. Top test track speed is 305 km/h compared with 303 km/h (188 mph) in the standard Panamera Turbo. In line with Porsche Intelligent Performance – more power with less fuel and less emissions – a Panamera Turbo with the Powerkit consumes no more fuel than the 500-horsepower production model. The official EPA fuel economy figures for the Panamera Turbo are 15 mpg city and 23 highway, and like its Panamera siblings the Panamera Turbo is not subject to the gas guzzler tax.
As a Porsche Exclusive option, the Powerkit is available next month for $21,730. Porsche Tequipment will offer the Powerkit as a retrofit upgrade beginning in November 2010.
Porsche also offers its Panamera customers its new Sport Design Package that includes a unique, exterior color painted front fascia with widened black air intake grilles. Other components include separate side skirts and the standard, exterior color rear underbody apron with diffuser and fins. Available in October 2010 as a Porsche Exclusive option or a Porsche Tequipment retrofit upgrade, the Sport Design Package is $4,590. On request, side skirts are available separately for $1,390.
Porsche also now offers the new 20-inch Panamera Sport wheels. The light alloy multi-spoke wheel is 9.5 inches wide on the front axle and 11.5 inches on the rear axle. They are available from Porsche Exclusive in GT silver metallic, black, or in the exterior car color. They also will be available from Porsche Tequipment in GT silver metallic and black.
The Panamera Turbo Powerkit is only available on the Panamera Turbo. The Sport Design Package and the Panamera Sport Wheels are available on all Porsche Panamera models (Panamera, Panamera 4, Panamera S, Panamera 4S and Panamera Turbo). Pricing varies by model.
Since its U.S. introduction in October 2009, the Panamera has received numerous awards and recognition. The Panamera Turbo was named Playboy Magazine's 2010 Car of the Year. Others include an Edmunds Inside Line Editors’ Most Wanted Award, inclusion in Edmunds.com’s Top Recommended Vehicles list, two Car and Driver Editors Choice Awards (Sports Sedans and Luxury Sedans), inclusion in kbb.com’s list of 2010 Top 10 Road Trip Cars, Bloomberg Car of the Year, the Most Inspired Design award in Ward’s Auto Interior of the Year competition, About.com Cars Best New Cars of 2010, and NADAguides.com's Car of the Month for January 2010.
About Porsche Cars North America, Inc
Porsche Cars North America, Inc. (PCNA), based in Atlanta, Ga., is the exclusive importer of Porsche vehicles for the United States. PCNA is a wholly owned, indirect subsidiary of Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AG. It employs 213 people who provide Porsche vehicles, parts, service, marketing and training for its 199 dealers. The dealers, in turn, provide Porsche owners with best-in-class service. Throughout its more than six-decade history, Porsche has developed numerous technologies that have advanced vehicle performance, improved safety and spurred environmental innovations within the automotive industry. The company continues to celebrate its heritage by adding to its long list of motorsports victories dating back to its first 24 Hours of Le Mans class win in 1951. Today, with more than 28,000 victories, Porsche is recognized as the world's most successful brand in sports car racing. PCNA, which imports the iconic 911 series, the highly acclaimed Boxster and Cayman mid-engine sports cars, high-end Cayenne sport utility vehicles and the four-door Panamera Gran Turismos, strives to maintain a standard of excellence, commitment and distinction synonymous with its brand.
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Home › magazine › special features › The red carpet cleaning treatment
The red carpet cleaning treatment
3rd of October 2014
Some carpets are special – either because they are particularly old, particularly valuable or because they are made from unusual or hard-to-clean fabrics. So does this mean they require special treatment when being cleaned? Ann Laffeaty finds out.
Carpets can vary dramatically. Traditional fibres such as wool have been joined by an increasing number of synthetic materials as well as ‘natural’ floorings such as sisal and coir. This means that carpet cleaners need to know exactly what they are dealing with when beginning a job. But how do they cope with more unusual fabrics, or with other ‘special case’ carpets – ones that are highly valuable, antique or excessively worn, for example?
Joe Walsh, operations director of contract cleaner Grosvenor Services, says natural carpets such as sisal, sea grass and coir can be very problematical to clean. “They can present all sorts of problems such as shrinking, colour loss and fading,” he said.
“Antique carpets also require particular care and attention and we always pre-test them first. And loose strands can be a problem with old carpets, and extra care needs to be taken if using any cylindrical or rotary brush-type equipment.”
He says a fine fabric detergent is required when wet-cleaning delicate or antique carpets. “This should be designed for the effective extraction cleaning of delicate fibres,” he adds.
“We also provide a dry carpet cleaning service that involves micro sponges which are brushed into the fibres with a counter-rotating brush machine. This attracts the soiling which is then removed with an industrial upright vacuum cleaner. This uses no moisture and eliminates the possibility of colour runs, shrinkage and any damage to delicate fibres.”
Prochem sales manager Phil Jones agrees that carpets made from sisal, seagrass and jute require specialist cleaning. “These carpets require dry or low moisture cleaning since water could cause the natural lignin dyes to become evident, or even cause shrinkage,” he said.
According to Jones, antique carpets are another special case. “Delicate carpets and rugs made from fibres such as silk, rayon or bamboo should be cleaned using a dry method,” he said. “However, the cost of dry cleaning is more expensive than other methods, in terms of time and product.”
He says the operator needs to identify the level of soiling and any stained areas before deciding on a cleaning method. “The age of the product would also have to be considered, if, for example, cotton fringes of rugs are worn or brittle.”
According to Bio-Productions managing director Mike James, both low-cost and expensive carpets can be potentially difficult to clean. “Some cheaper carpets have very unstable dyes, and colour-bleed from these can be a nightmare,” he said. “Expensive rugs, too, require specialist treatment. And berber-style carpets with a ‘slub’ in them can be difficult to clean.”
Highly specialised
A slub is a section of yarn that has been deliberately left thicker than the rest of the pile to create an irregular effect, explains James. “These slubs will take the form of, say, brown flecks in an oatmeal-coloured carpet,” he said. “Brown dyes tend to bleed very readily so when the carpet is cleaned, this bleeding effect will leave behind an orange-coloured stain from the slub.”
According to James, rug cleaning is another highly specialised task. “Some silk and afghan rugs have a fine, highly patterned pile with a lustre to it,” he said. “These need to be cleaned with solvents very carefully by hand. It is actually closer to restoration work than cleaning.”
While training is important, says James, a carpet cleaner can successfully clean almost all types of carpet provided he or she has good cleaning equipment and good cleaning agents.
“The equipment should be designed to minimise the risk of damage,” he said. “If the cleaning action is too aggressive it may ‘scrub’ the carpet and damage the fibres. Similarly an extraction system that is too weak will be unable to recover most of the water and cleaning solution that has been ‘injected’ into the carpet.”
Truvox International marketing and product manager Natalie Dowse says carpets that are heavily soiled or have not been cleaned for years often require special treatment. However, they can still be brought back to life.
“Systems that use polymeric carpet cleaning solutions are particularly effective in these circumstances,” she claims. “The solution is applied by a three-brush scrubbing machine and will release sticky soil from carpet fibres while also trapping the soil as it dries. Once the carpet is dry, vacuuming completes the process by removing the dried, encapsulated dirt.”
According to Pacvac marketing manager Vicki Fosselius, wool carpets can be among the most difficult to clean. “Fabric type and stain – plus the cost and condition of the carpet - play a major role in the cleaning challenge,” she said. “The fabric determines the kind of cleaning methods that can be applied - for example, wool carpets must be approached carefully to avoid damage, whereas solution-dyed nylon can be cleaned more aggressively.
“And cost can make a difference since some of the cheaper carpet products may not have been treated with the best grade stain-resistant materials and are therefore more susceptible to stains.”
Contract cleaning company Julius Rutherfoord has had to tackle various ‘special’ carpets over the years. “For example, one of our clients is the creator of a children’s social network site and most of the flooring in its headquarters is AstroTurf carpeting,” said the company’s general operations manager Andres Balanta. “Synthetic grass can be vacuumed, broom cleaned or spray buffed using the bonnet buffing system.
But with this type of carpeting, contaminants from airborne particles will build up over time and deep cleaning needs to be carried out at least once a year. This will lift and open up the carpet pile and remove any contamination.”
Balanta continued: “For delicate carpets we use a dry pre-treatment compound together with a treatment agitator machine and an upright vacuum. The powder consists of thousands of micro-sponges which contain a safe solvent to remove greasy soiling. It also contains a neutral shampoo and an anti-resoilant plus antibacterial properties to eradicate dust mites. As the powder is brushed through the carpet it absorbs soil and leaves the carpet clean. When vacuumed away, the carpet is ready for use.”
He says carpets in schools can be a special case – purely because of the high levels of chewing gum often retained within them. “A few years ago we were awarded a contract to deep clean the carpets of a school - and you could not see the carpet for the chewing gum,” he said. “The school had not thought it was possible to remove it. We used a steam machine and chewing gum solvent remover, followed by wet extraction machine to give it the final finish.”
He agrees with the general consensus that the age and condition of a carpet add to the cleaning challenge. “If a carpet is very worn it may be more cost-effective to replace in the long term since cleaning will not be able to rectify extensive damage.”
According to ceo of the UK’s National Carpet Cleaners’ Association Paul Pearce, broad-loom carpets woven from natural wool, viscose or bamboo also require special treatment. “Cellulose fibres are being increasingly used in carpets but they can be hard to tackle because they just don’t clean,” he said. “You can’t use water on them because it distorts them, and you can’t use certain chemicals on them either because these may discolour the carpet.”
He says over-wetting and the prolonged drying of carpets can be a problem when cleaning organic fibres such as wool. “Here you may create a mould problem,” he said.
However, he says that it is only badly-maintained carpets that present a real challenge. “Most carpets can be cleaned properly using the right equipment and provided operators have the right understanding of how to do it. If a carpet is not vacuumed regularly – and if the facility manager fails to have it spot-cleaned – the carpet will cause cleaning problems, whatever it happens to be made of.”
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4000 km and 6 days in the bus there and back: "Dear heads of state, there needs to be fairness in the Common Agricultural Policy at last!"
Baltic producers call for an alignment of direct payments today in Brussels The European Milk Board urges for an efficient crisis instrument for the milk market
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What is the cost of producing milk? In our sector, numerous spokespersons have the bad habit of taking the milk price as a starting point for looking at the dairy market. A short-sighted vision, because for dairy farmers the cost of production is as important as farm gate prices. In economic terms, it is impossible to consider...
Milk production costs still not covered in Germany
(Brussels, 15/10/2018) The quarterly cost figures for Germany show that only 80% of production costs were covered in July 2018, while in April it was 78% and 88% in January. Production costs in July amounted to 43.28 cents; however, producers only received 34.56 cents for their product.Milk prices and production costs are still...
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Division of Academic Affairs
Academic Master Plan
AMP & Drafts
What is an Academic Master Plan?
Generally an academic master plan is a document that is intended to guide college and university decision-making. But what that looks like varies enormously from campus to campus. A quick Google search reveals that academic master plans from other universities vary in format, length, intent, and use: some plans are fewer than 20 pages, while others span 300 pages or more. Some are intended to drive decisions for a set period of time; others attempt to capture a longer-term view.
How is Cal State Fullerton defining our Academic Master Plan (AMP)?
Cal State Fullerton’s first-ever AMP aims to keep the University on track to achieve our long-term strategic goals by providing comprehensive, mission-driven responses to fundamental questions in the areas of programs, degrees, and outcomes; students; faculty and pedagogy; and infrastructure and resources. These questions include:
Programs, Degrees, and Outcomes
What will we teach?
Why will we teach what we teach?
Where will we teach?
What outcomes will guide our work?
Whom have we taught?
Whom are we teaching?
Whom will we teach?
How many students will we teach?
Who will teach?
How will we support faculty to provide high-quality learning opportunities for our students throughout their careers?
Infrastructure and Resources
How do we assess and articulate the resource requirements of the AMP?
How do we align our physical and financial resources to support the AMP?
How can we respond to budget challenges?
What are the barriers that may impede the campus from delivering adequate physical and financial resources to sustain the AMP, and how do we address them?
What are the policies/procedures/practices/facilities we would need to change/adjust/modify to support/maintain/sustain the AMP?
Why do we need an AMP? How is it different from the Strategic Plan or the Campus Master Plan or the UPS documents or the individual campus and programmatic strategic plans?
The AMP will set forth general principles to inform the decisions we make in formulating and implementing our other plans at all levels within the University.
The University’s 2013–2018 Strategic Plan sets forth a set of goals that we established for the 2013–2018 five-year period. The AMP will ensure that the decisions we make and the actions we take toward accomplishing those goals are aligned with our core values and long-term academic vision and aid us in developing subsequent strategic plans.
The development and implementation of other plans—whether the university’s Academic Plan, the Campus Master Plan, or departmental or college level plans—also will be informed by the principles articulated in the AMP. The AMP will not dictate what we do in, for example, developing curriculum or determining admissions policies, but will provide a framework for our conversations about those issues.
What other factors affect the creation of the AMP?
All of our institutional decisions and actions are made within a framework of federal, state, system, and campus regulations and policies including the Higher Education Act; Title 5, California Code of Regulations; Chancellor’s Office Executive Orders; collective bargaining agreements; CSUF University Policy Statements; and CSUF administrative policies and practices.
Within the confines of that framework, we take into account changing circumstances and fiscal realities as we strive to continuously articulate and assert our most current and urgent priorities. This endeavor is informed by, on the one hand, evolving external conversations, including the California state higher education budget, the CSU Sustainable Funding Model , and broader discussions about the place of higher education and, on the other hand, our own internal priorities stated in the CSUF Strategic Plan, CSUF divisional operational priorities, and college strategic plans, among others. Amid these fluid and changing contexts, the AMP will articulate the core institutional values and aspirations that serve as guiding principles to keep us on track to achieve our long-term strategic vision.
How will the AMP inform the University's decision and actions?
Every year, the University’s Planning, Resource and Budget Committee (PRBC) submits recommendations to the president on CSUF resource allocation and planning priorities; the president uses these recommendations in developing the annual budget letter outlining the University’s fiscal and operational priorities for the year.
To develop its recommendations, PRBC must take into account regulatory, fiscal, and strategic considerations, and draw on numerous established and evolving conversations and planning instruments. The AMP will be one of these instruments: a document that, in articulating our institutional values, can provide guiding principles for how our University can make decisions today that will keep us on track to fulfill our academic mission and achieve our long-term strategic goals.
How is the AMP being developed?
Development of the AMP is a three-stage process. First, in spring 2014, PRBC recommended to President García that CSUF develop an AMP to provide long-term guidance for advancing the University’s academic mission. In her fall 2014 convocation speech, President García identified this process as a top priority. During the 2014–15 academic year, consultations among the Office of Academic Programs, the Council of Deans, the chair of the Academic Senate, the Academic Senate Executive Committee, the president of ASI, the ASI Board, PRBC, and the Council of Chairs produced a draft framework for proceeding. That draft was circulated to the entire campus community for comment in March 2015, and the President’s Advisory Board recommended approval of a draft revised to reflect feedback from the campus community.
The second stage was the appointment of a steering committee and four subcommittees to address the questions presented by the Framework—the who, what, why, when, and how of what we do.
President García announced those appointments in her September 14 email to campus. Progress reports from the AMP Committee on work done since then are published on the AMP website, www.fullerton.edu/amp.
The third stage is the work of reflection and drafting being performed by the subcommittees and refined through the conversations with the campus community both during this process and when the drafts are presented to the campus community as provided for in the timeline.
An overview of the timeline for the development of the AMP is presented in the last response of this FAQ.
How were the members of the AMP Committee selected?
President García appointed the members of the AMP Committee (including the steering committee and subcommittees) based on recommendations and nominations from the Council of Deans, the chair of the Academic Senate, the Academic Senate Executive Committee, and the provost. Membership on each of the four AMP subcommittees was expanded to include additional faculty representation based on feedback from the campus community.
All faculty members were jointly recommended by the Academic Senate Executive Committee and the provost.
Will the AMP be vetted by the campus community? Will we get to see drafts and offer input? How will that input be taken into consideration?
Yes; yes; and carefully and thoroughly.
There will be multiple opportunities for the campus community to provide feedback.
First, in fall 2015, the campus will be invited to offer feedback on work the AMP Committee has done thus far to gather resources, materials, and research from which the subcommittees will draw initial responses to the central questions of the AMP. This anonymous feedback form will be open for the remainder of the AMP development process.
Second, in mid-spring 2016, the first complete draft of the AMP will be shared with the campus for comments and input. The campus community may continue to submit anonymous feedback via the AMP website, or may choose to participate in a public online dialogue with threaded comments so that campus members can reflect on others’ thoughts and respond with their own.
Third, in early fall 2016, the second complete draft of the AMP will be shared with the campus for additional feedback. Input will again be invited through either the anonymous feedback form or via the threaded comments viewable by the entire campus community.
It is our sincere hope that all members of our campus community will be active and engaged participants throughout the AMP development process, and that the final AMP will capture and address the diverse points of view that serve to make our campus so successful and strong.
What is the overall timeline for the development of the AMP?
Fall 2015: First opportunity for the campus to provide input on progress thus far. (This feedback form will remain open for the remainder of the AMP development process.)
March/Mid-Spring 2016: First complete draft of the AMP will be shared for campus input.
Early Fall 2016: Second complete draft of the AMP will be shared for campus input.
Mid/Late Fall 2016: Revised draft of the AMP will be submitted to ASI Board, Academic Senate Executive Committee, and division heads for comments and endorsement.
December 2016: Revised complete draft of the AMP will be shared with the President’s Advisory Board to review and endorse.
This site is maintained by Office of Academic Programs.
To report problems or comments with this site, please contact academicprograms@fullerton.edu.
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927, 94 min.
F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
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A Star Is Born 1937, 111 min.
William A. Wellman • Starring: Fredric March, Andy Devine, May Robson
Seventh Heaven 1927, 110 min.
Frank Borzage • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard
Based-on-Theatre • Drama • Melodrama
Street Angel 1928, 102 min.
Frank Borzage • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
Lucky Star 1929, 90 min.
Frank Borzage • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn Williams
Drama • Romance • Romantic Drama
State Fair 1933, 97 min.
Henry King • Starring: Will Rogers, Janet Gaynor, Lew Ayres
Americana • Comedy Drama • Domestic Comedy
Sunnyside Up 1929, 121 min.
David Butler • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White
Comedy • Musical • Musical Comedy
Blue Eagle 1926, 58 min.
John Ford • Starring: David Butler, Philip Ford, Janet Gaynor
Drama • Romantic Drama • Silent Film
4 Devils 1928, 100 min.
F.W. Murnau • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Mary Duncan, Charles Morton
The Young in Heart 1938, 90 min.
Richard Wallace • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Paulette Goddard
Comedy • Con Artist / Hustler • Screwball Comedy
The Farmer Takes a Wife 1935, 91 min.
Victor Fleming • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Henry Fonda, Charles Bickford
Based-on-Theatre • Comedy • Romance
Small Town Girl 1936, 106 min.
William A. Wellman • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Robert Taylor, Binnie Barnes
Comedy • Romance
Delicious 1931, 106 min.
David Butler • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, El Brendel
Comedy • Musical • Pre-Code Hollywood
Three Loves Has Nancy 1938, 70 min.
Richard Thorpe • Starring: Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery, Franchot Tone
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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Thought-Provoking Doll’s House Part 2 Examines Marriage
Posted on March 2, 2019 by Bill Hirschman
Nora and Torvald (Carol Halstead and Paul Carlin) still have some issues to work out in A Doll’s House Part 2 at the Maltz Jupiter Theatre / Photo by Zak Bennett
By Bill Hirschman
There was no standing ovation at the Friday night performance of A Doll’s House Part 2 at Maltz Jupiter Theatre from the well-heeled senior audience, which had readily given one a few weeks earlier to Mamma Mia!
It’s not that the incisive production didn’t deserve such an accolade; likely the merciless dissection of the institution of marriage resonated too close to home for many to avoid thought-provoking self-examination.
Based solely on the elevator pitch premise – Ibsen’s Nora returns home 15 years after slamming the door – audiences can be forgiven for expecting a play about the consequences of convictions.
But this is pointedly not a sequel. Lucas Hnath’s 2017 drama of ideas laced with humor lays out competing visions of the endless complexities of marriage without siding with anyone.
Throughout, Hnath, director J. Barry Lewis and their cast repeatedly and adroitly subvert similar expectations. For instance, Nora spends much of the opening scene unleashing an impassioned but reasoned diatribe against the institution of marriage as life-sapping suffocation and cruel subjugation. She argues the paradigm should be abandoned completely. The sentiments, taken a bit to extremes, echo those of some 20th Century feminists and the content of her rationales inarguably strike a chord with many in this century. The audience is meant to emerge at least sympathetic and even persuaded to fairly evaluate her arguments.
But in fact, for Hnath, it’s not inarguable. Over the rest of the evening, other characters unreel a shifting procession of different moral high grounds that challenge the contentions of each previous scene in which the audience has been won over and then unmoored. By the play’s end when Nora walks out once more, the previously unassailed, if varied, visions of every audience member about marriage has been questioned with unnerving insights.
The setup is that Nora has created with great effort a new life. Using a pseudonym, she writes highly remunerative “women’s” novels using thinly veiled riffs on her past life as lessons to further her philosophy. But a judge whose wife wants a divorce has discovered her identity and wants revenge. He discovers that Nora’s husband Torvald has never divorced her, making her vulnerable to criminal fraud charges based on a double standard for a married woman. So Nora has returned to try to persuade Torvald to give her a divorce – hoping to enlist the aid of her elderly nanny still in residence, Anne Marie, and the youngest of her three grown children, Emmy.
Continuing the desire to upend expectations, Torvald starts off as one of those slightly befuddled husbands found in current TV sitcoms. Anne Marie seems a devoted plebian servant. Emmy comes off initially as a voluble Valley Girl just back from the mall. But while those personas persist, each is revealed to be far more complicated and more intelligent that we first perceive.
The play and the production are aggressively quirky with regular reminders that this is stylistic theater, not naturalistic cinema. As on Broadway, Emmy is played by an African American actress with no acknowledgment of the racial difference. Scenes are divided by a blast of Marty Mets’ 21st Century electric crackle and the hum of electronic feedback. Anne Mundell’s set is a few elegant chairs dominated by towering white-washed walls leaning in with a hint of the claustrophobia that Nora fled. And, of course, there’s a ten-foot-high door dead center. Tracy Dorman’s period gowns are, it goes without saying, sumptuous.
The cast takes a little while to warm up to their roles as Hnath gives them more depth to play as the evening progresses. Carol Halstead provides a solid fulcrum as a Nora who has discovered her true self and is horrified at the prospect of losing all that she has achieved. Initially, she is a crisp calm evangelist confident in her hard-won beliefs. But as the plot continues, her Nora is frustrated because she begrudgingly acknowledges the legitimacy of the others’ counter-arguments.
Paul Carlin starts out as a hapless clueless Torvald more stunned than angry or resentful. But he, too, is revealed to have more depth than the audience expects and certainly not Ibsen’s antagonist.
Mary Stout, who was the Duchess in the Maltz’s Me and My Girl, is a chatty salt of the earth figure responsible for much of the comedy as she tries to negotiate conflicting demands and loyalties of the family.
Mikayla Bartholomew is the revelation with an Emmy who appears and, indeed is, an overly bubbly, slightly daffy creature whom the audience quickly dismisses. While Bartholomew correctly never lets go of that exterior, she convincingly shows that there is a brain clicking underneath – a 19th Century Elle Woods. In the penultimate scene, the actress, using Hnath’s words provides a solid counter-argument to Nora’s opening manifesto, thus bringing the play full-circle.
As always, Lewis reaffirms his status as one of the finest directors of serious work in the state, especially in the argument scenes that are as kinetic as cerebral. His staging of the last scene in which Nora and Torvald are on the floor emotionally and physically spent is masterful.
The Obie-winning Hnath is an up-and-coming playwright whose The Christians made a major impact in the past few seasons in New York and in regional theaters such as South Florida’s Outré Theatre Company a few months ago. This work may be one of, if not the, most produced play in regional theaters this season and next.
You do not need to be conversant with “Part One” because Hnath has seamlessly feathered in what you need to know, but the Maltz has slated a quick briefing 45 minutes before each performance.
Credit Maltz chief Andrew Kato for once again inserting a straight play with intellectual rigor (Doubt, Disgraced) as well as humor into its menu of mainstream musicals.
As usual with Maltz plays, the run is short, so get tickets now.
A Doll’s House Part 2 runs through March 10 at Maltz Jupiter Theatre, located at 1001 E. Indiantown Road, Jupiter. Show times are 7:30 p.m. Tuesday to Friday, 2 p.m. Wednesday, 2 and 8 p.m. Saturday, and 2 p.m. Sunday. Tickets cost $60-90. Running time is 90 minutes with no intermission. Call (561) 575-2223.
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Constance Hanson says:
Just saw the play this afternoon. Had never heard of it and went with a dubious mind. I was floored by the wonderful acting and the play itself. Enjoyed every minute and recommend it to anyone who likes serious theater. Great afternoon.
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Discuss all things Ghostbusters here, unless they would be better suited in one of the few forums below.
GB/GBII Anniversary 4K UHD Reviews (by DoBlu.com)#4918379
By Alex Newborn - May 24th, 2019, 10:26 am - Posts: 2471
- May 24th, 2019, 10:26 am #4918379
Nice gallery of screen-grabs here.
http://doblu.com/2019/05/24/ghostbuster ... GLyIHWflqc
"Here comes the good stuff. On a new bonus disc, a slew of deleted scenes show up. Seventeen of them, including the infamous Fort Detmering footage. It’s, uh, not worth the wait, but at least it’s finally out. Other cuts (including Murray and Aykroyd playing street bums) debuted a while back, but a few new ones with Moranis on his possessed rampage earn laughs."
That's the first indication I'd seen that we *might* possibly finally see the Keymaster taking on the would-be muggers.
The author of the review posted this in a Practical Effects group on Facebook, which is where I saw it. I think he had more screengrabs there than in the final article.
He also said he's currently watching the GBII disc and hopes to have his review of it up by tomorrow.
I asked him about the rumored 'Slimer flies out of the Statue of Liberty' theatrical ending of GB2, and a couple hours later he reported that it was nowhere to be found on the disc.
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By Sav C - May 24th, 2019, 12:51 pm - Posts: 1552
- May 24th, 2019, 12:51 pm #4918383
Cool stuff! That's too bad about the GBII Slimer ending, but that was to be expected.
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Re: GB/GBII Anniversary 4K UHD Reviews (by DoBlu.com)#4918398
By Alex Newborn - May 24th, 2019, 9:24 pm - Posts: 2471
- May 24th, 2019, 9:24 pm #4918398
I'm firmly in the non-believer camp, so I didn't expect it to surface, but I'd be okay with being proven wrong.
The GB2 review is up now.
http://doblu.com/2019/05/24/ghostbuster ... hd-review/
Excerpt: "Drop in the additional bonus disc for a bit more. There’s a great surprise here in the complete episode of Oprah, promoting the movie with a good chunk of the cast on stage. It’s awesome, and runs 43-minutes. There’s an older EPK, but that still runs 41-minutes with lots of on-set footage edited between the typical promo interviews. Seven deleted scenes run a little over seven minutes, including one explaining why Dana seems at the forefront of each event. A sit-down interview with Aykroyd and Reitman discusses the sequel process, filmed a few years back. That runs 16-minutes.
A cool teaser trailer finally sees light from the archives and that includes the full commercial as partly seen in the movie. Bobby Brown’s undervalued pop jingle for this sequel is up last in music video form."
I've got the Oprah appearance on VHS and some digital formats, but after seeing higher-quality clips on Oprah's YouTube channel, I can only assume this release will be similarly crisp. I hadn't heard about them including the EPK (Electronic PressKit) so that makes me glad I never paid money for a bootleg copy last year. The teaser/commercial probably excites me the most out of all this.
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By deadderek - May 27th, 2019, 12:12 am - Posts: 747
The Slimer ending didn't happen. People definately remember wrong.
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By robbritton - May 27th, 2019, 4:14 am - Posts: 327
- May 27th, 2019, 4:14 am #4918451
Yeah, that bit is all Jovial Bob Stine.
I don't care for the UK tonight...
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By ccv66 - May 27th, 2019, 7:00 am - Posts: 451
I have Jovials book, definitely has some pictures in it from deleted scenes. Close up of the ceremony, but no slimer on the statue, just text saying so.. So did they get a script or a copy of the movie to write off of? Even if they didn't film it, considering how gb1 ended , they should have/ I could see them planning to.. would be interesting to contact him and see if he made it up.
Didn't know it was R.L. Stine's pen name. Probably easier to find harder to get a response
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By Alex Newborn - May 27th, 2019, 7:03 am - Posts: 2471
The Slimer/Libby shot *is* described in the November '88 and the February '89 versions of the script by Aykroyd and Ramis.
https://www.theraffon.net/~spookcentral/gb2_script.htm
But that in itself is part of why I don't think it was ever in the movie.
I've told this tale many times, but... I was penpals with James Van Hise while he was writing the NOW Comics Real Ghostbusters title. I'd sent a fan letter to the comic mentioning that I had every episode of the cartoon taped on VHS, and funnily enough he had no way to get copies of specific episodes from Columbia, so he reached out to me and I provided dubs.
He told me he was adapting the sequel for the comic, and since he'd previously sent me some really great items as 'payment' for the tapes (like a copy of Making Ghostbusters, the UK novelisation of GB1 by Larry Milne, and a photocopy of the GB1 script), I naturally begged him for a copy of the GB2 script.
He said he couldn't send me one til the movie was out due to his NDA, but he wound up cutting it VERY close. I went to see the movie twice on opening day June 16, 1989 at the noon and 2pm matinees, and when I got home there was a copy of the GB2 script in my mailbox.
Which means from day one, I saw the film, saw it a second time, and then read the entire script.
And I have absolutely ZERO memory of seeing Slimer fly out of the crown of the Statue of Liberty, even though it's described in that script.
Seems like if I'd just seen that image, twice, and then read it in the script within a six-hour period, it would definitely have been "locked in" to my brain.
[I also kept a small notepad in my hand and jotted down first impressions of the film IN THE THEATRE. I will double-check, but I looked at it last year and saw no mention of Slimer at the end.]
Now, to be totally forthcoming, I have long believed that the film I saw on the big screen had minor differences to what came out on home video. The gut feeling was that during the "We're Back" montage and the end credit montage, certain things were swapped around and/or deleted.
But never once did I think, "Hey, what happened to Slimer at the end?"
So even if definitive proof of a Slimer/Liberty shot somehow were to surface, I would still be the cognitive dissonance guy saying, "Well, okay maybe the rumors were PARTIALLY true, but there must have been different theatrical prints, because he wasn't in the one that *I* saw..."
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It would be cool if existed, but I do remember seeing the movie in theaters and I don't remember slimer at the end
By Kingpin - May 27th, 2019, 2:56 pm - Posts: 12542
It's kinda become another example of the Mandela Effect (in fact I'd just had one, I could've sworn it was "Mandala Effect") like the Berenstein/Berenstain Bears, or a false memory - people swear seeing it in the theatre even though there's no evidence supporting the effects portion of the shot was ever put together.
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I had the same "Mandala Effect" experience last year. I saw a definition about it being the Mandela Effect and thought it was a really dumb joke. So apparently you and I are from the "Mandala Effect" reality.
I dug out the notepad that I had with me in the theatre on opening day.
All it says about the very end is "copter shot, statue, Manhattan".
No mention of Slimer.
Alas, unless I have this ink carbon-dated or something, I can't definitively prove I wrote that on June 16, 1989... as opposed to writing it at any time since.
On a side note, the most poignant entry in the entire notepad is my personal disappointment that there was no dedication to Gilda Radner in this movie, as she had just passed away less than a month before.
After all, according to this article about the documentary Love, Gilda (https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/9 ... ocumentary) ...
'“Gilda used to say it was hard for her to see Ghostbusters, because every single guy in the movie had been her boyfriend at one time or another,” laughs [a] childhood friend.'
I was also momentarily confused by the fact that in my handwritten notes from opening day, I referred to the song selections by their names. I checked, though, and the album was released on May 26, three weeks before the movie came out. I'd probably been listening to it on a steady loop in preparation for the movie's debut.
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By richardlatto - May 31st, 2019, 1:51 am - Posts: 15
- May 31st, 2019, 1:51 am #4918606
Has anyone seen where you can officially buy or pre-order this in the UK?
Amazon doesn't have any direct copies up - even for pre-order?
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By SpaceBallz - May 31st, 2019, 5:36 pm - Posts: 759
- May 31st, 2019, 5:36 pm #4918625
I've seen the ending Slimer scene in visual form!!!
....in a Ghostbusters 2 coloring book. Where Ray has a mustache. It's definitely in there. He's hanging off of the Statue's torch.
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By Alex Newborn - June 1st, 2019, 9:33 pm - Posts: 2471
- June 1st, 2019, 9:33 pm #4918655
We're going to get to see the Ecto parking ticket scene, too!
Delta88 shared another review of the set on Facebook about twenty minutes ago:
https://ultrahd.highdefdigest.com/71645 ... rhdg2EoJmM
Here's the full list of deleted scenes!
For GB:
Ecto-1 Parking Ticket
Pulling Up to Fort Detmerring
Fort Detmerring Ghost
Louis Encounters Woman
Louis Encounters Muggers
Central Park Bums - Raw Takes
Nobel Prize Aspirations (I guess I didn't need to buy that LaserDisc for that scene, after all.)
Honeymooners
E.P.A.
Puft Hat
"No Louis!"
And for GBII:
Dana's Curse
El Gato, The Cat
Sewer Invitation
Louis' Secret
Peter's Concern
Jack Buys It
Driving Miss Liberty
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By deadderek - June 2nd, 2019, 1:33 am - Posts: 747
- June 2nd, 2019, 1:33 am #4918663
Ok but this is THE LAST damn time I buy these movies.
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By Davideverona - June 2nd, 2019, 1:41 am - Posts: 523
So you're really saying that you're not waiting anxiously for the 40th anniversary blu ray set with the three movies?
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By NotSabbat - June 2nd, 2019, 7:40 am - Posts: 206
I feel like you knew that was a lie as you were typing it
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By Peter Venkman Jr. - June 2nd, 2019, 1:33 pm - Posts: 464
- June 2nd, 2019, 1:33 pm #4918675
I am really pleased that the deleted Ecto 1 parking scene is on the Ghostbusters Blu Ray, along with the Fort Detmerring scenes and Louis encounter with the muggers, I have longed to see this scene in full since I first saw the pictures of it online in the late 1990's. I do wish that the music videos for The Bus Boys "Cleaning Up The Town" and RunDMC's "Ghostbusters Rap' were included as well, but I can always rip a copy of them off of You Tube.
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By Ectojeff88 - June 2nd, 2019, 2:25 pm - Posts: 112
It wouldn’t surprise me if more music videos and those other GB II scenes appear on a future release either next year to tie in to the new film and or the 40th anniversary.
Of course I will buy them all!
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By RichardLess - June 8th, 2019, 7:33 pm - Posts: 627
- June 8th, 2019, 7:33 pm #4919010
It kills me the wealth of material that exists somewhere for GB2 that we've never seen. I find the production of GB2 fascinating. The reshoots, the deleted scenes, the insane production schedule, how it all came together. We are finally getting a commentary track! Alas it was too late for commentary treasure trove Harold Ramis(the GB1 commentary track might be my favourite commentary of all time. I'm 90% sure they are getting high whilst commentating..but I digress) How about a solid making of? Some ILM behind the scenes stuff that we know Bill Forsche has? Not to mention deleted scenes...with finished composited FX. Reitman has even signalled a willingness, or rather hinted at a regret, for taking some scenes out. So I'd imagine an extended cut wouldn't be out of the possibility on the grounds of directorial involvement. But Sony. Friggin Sony. The company that won't even release Extreme Ghostbusters properly on DVD. Or ITunes. Or even the store they own! the PS Store! No. Nope. Not their style. They have to make things hard. They have to make fans engage in piracy to watch the cartoon. It's not available in any legal fashion in my region! It was on Amazon Prime...but lo and behold the ignorant hoopleheads took it off. It gives me pause to consider that maybe, just maybe, Sony doesn't give a crap about this franchise or it's fans, shocking as that might may seem. So here we are anniversary number 35, which is coincidentally the number of copies I have of both movies between VHS, DVD and blu ray.
Or how about that fan documentary that's been in production since Moses parted the Red Sea? The heck happened with that? But I guess Sony did do one decent thing for us fans: they allowed a fan to clean up and remaster the Real Ghostbusters pilot at his own expense and put it on this brand new disc. How embarrassing is that? A fan did the remaster and that fan had to contact Sony to make it all happen. Jesus...
The Slimer Statue of Liberty scene is nothing but a myth. Maybe Reitman will mention something on the commentary about it but I just can't fathom that happening(the sequence getting cut from home video release). We would've seen evidence of it somewhere. There were thousands of prints sent out to theatres in June 1989. Not a single one has turned up with any hint of alterations. We have the article in that FX magazine where the visual effects crew go pretty much scene by scene and talk about the making of the effects, even deleted scenes. Slimer coming out at the end? Not so much as a mention.
It's definatley the Mandela effect.
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By Sav C - June 8th, 2019, 11:33 pm - Posts: 1552
- June 8th, 2019, 11:33 pm #4919032
I'm in agreement with pretty much every thing you just said. To be honest, I've been surprised that new stuff from the first movie is just now being released. A few years back (when no new outtakes or promos were coming out) I suspected that there would likely be little to no previously unreleased footage made public. They must have an absolute treasure trove for GBII!
That's pretty rough about the fan restoring the Real Ghostbusters Intro. I remember he was posting on here about it. That's a really dedicated fan, going to all of that trouble to do that!
By Kingpin - June 9th, 2019, 3:59 pm - Posts: 12542
It gives me pause to consider that maybe, just maybe, Sony doesn't give a crap about this franchise or it's fans, shocking as that might may seem.
It doesn't. You weren't around for the windswept years of the early 2000s, but back then, we were lucky to get anything with the Ghostbusters logo. The franchise was so deeply neglected it was almost to the point Sony either didn't know what to do with it (probably a part-certainty), and maybe was even a little embarassed by it.
Compared to then, we're experiencing nirvana and Shangri La rolled into one. We're spoiled for Ghostbusters products and content.
Or how about that fan documentary that's been in production since Moses parted the Red Sea? The heck happened with that?
Cleaning Up The Town had a premier at Cannes in early May: Link -and was due to have its worldwide premier at Fan Fest this weekend.
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By Davideverona - June 9th, 2019, 11:43 pm - Posts: 523
I remember those days. And I remember that GbProps (now GbFans) and Proton Charging were the only places who had some Ghostbusters related news, plans, pics. They really kept the flame alive until the Ghostbusters Renaissance in 2008.
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By Coover5 - June 10th, 2019, 12:14 am - Posts: 1137
- June 10th, 2019, 12:14 am #4919122
I originally joined this forum 1 year and 7 months into its life and 1 year and 4 months after seeing a proton pack replica for the first time. Proton packs were made of wood and you went broke buying a Hyperdyne Labs light kit. If you wanted to buy something Ghostbusters related it was almost certainly fan made.
A proton pack of the quality of Spirit Halloween was pure fantasy and action figures of the movie busters was unimaginable. It really is the heyday for merchandise. Well, so we think. But I've got a feeling with GB20 things are going to get even better.
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By DocLathropBrown - June 10th, 2019, 6:41 pm - Posts: 132
- June 10th, 2019, 6:41 pm #4919181
A Wal-Mart near me had stocked it early so I snagged it.
Slight bummer, because the Fort Detmerring scene seems to be missing some connective shots/etc (though who knows if those bits were even available in the vault), same with Louis/Muggers. There's no finished audio on the Detmerring arrival scene and you can hear how bad the Ecto's engine sounds, haha. When Ernie turns her off she clatters like she has a cold.
The unused teaser trailer for GB2 is one of the best things I've ever seen--had it been the real teaser and it played in front of theaters, it certainly would have had me hyped. That bit alone was worth the new set so far. In fact, if the first theatrical teaser for GB3 followed a similar concept, I think it'd set the hype into outer space for me and probably many others.
You'll all know what I mean when you see it.
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By Ectojeff88 - June 11th, 2019, 9:55 pm - Posts: 112
Yup there’s definitely pieces of the Fort Sequence missing where they are met by the warden.
The parking ticket scene was pretty great though!
With the discovery of the Kansas vault footage hopefully we will see more content. Jason was really hyped about the discoveries at Fan Fest.
By RichardLess - June 12th, 2019, 1:35 am - Posts: 627
- June 12th, 2019, 1:35 am #4919283
Early 2000s? Heck I remember scowling the Internet in the mid '90s looking for anything resembling Ghostbusters news. Back in the Wild West days of the Internet. I still remember this one site. It was my home page as a kid. It had a GB3 AND GB4 script that, at the time, I thought was legit. I was so excited. I still remember how both scripts started. GB3 started with the ghostbusters busting the ghost of Babe Ruth, and GB 4 started with Samhain(the pumpkin headed villian from RGB) slitting a trick r treaters throat on Halloween night.
Then there was this other website that had Will Smith photo shopped into a GB suit(using the flight suit from ID4). I thought it was a production photo. I remember telling kids in school that Will Smith was going to be in the new GB film. And then...nothing.
For those younger fans wondering why the GB reboot news was such a hard swallow I'll give you a little glimpse of what being a GB fan was like in the '90s and early 2000's.
For me it all started one day in 1997. Some news magazine TV show was on, maybe access Hollywood or Entertainment Tonight. Doesn't matter. Anywho, my Dad calls me downstairs and tells me the news anchor teased a bit of news coming up after commercial break. He said I might find it interesting. Then came the news I'll never forget. "Dan Aykroyd says he and Harold Ramis are working on a new Ghostbusters movie tentatively scheduled for summer 1999". That was 1997. 23 years ago. This was back in the day where news hit on TV before it hit online and you had to be lucky to catch it. Imagine that?
The next 15 or so years was basically like this: "Dan Aykroyd says GB3 is coming in 1999" "Dan Aykroyd says GB3 coming in 2001" "Dan Aykroyd says GB3 is coming in 2003" "Dan Aykroyd says GB3 is canceled" "Dan Aykroyd says GB3 is back on BUT it might be animated" "Dan Aykroyd says GB3 is coming in 2008" "Dan Aykroyd says GB3 awaits greenlit" etc etc etc
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By Davideverona - June 12th, 2019, 2:32 am - Posts: 523
I'm with you, here. And in Italy, in mid-90s, no one gave a s#it about Ghostbusters, so I had to pledge my uncle to let me use his Internet access and search some news.
I remember the GB3 and GB4 script; i remember a fan made Hellbent poster (the logo with some flames and the tagline 'Hell is just around the corner').
I also remember some storyboards for the Ghostbusters 2120 cartoon series.
Can anyone tell me if A) The GB2 commentary is available on the non 4K Blu Ray Disc? and B) How is it? I've been waiting forever for a GB2 commentary. Do they get into the behind the scenes nitty gritty? How does it compare to the amazing GB1 commentary? And...can anyone give details about the unfinished GB2 trailer? What is that?
I live in Canada. Amazon.ca has this new set listed for 73.99 and for someone that doesn't have 4K and has multiple GB Blu Rays...I just don't know. I'm thinking the deleted scenes will make their way online sooner or later. But that commentary. Is it worth 73.99? I don't know.
Also...if anyone has any links to the new deleted scenes or the new GB2 trailers...please don't hold back.
By philmorgan81 - June 12th, 2019, 9:43 am - Posts: 970
A) Yes both regular Blu Rays have the commentaries. I am not sure if Amazon had these specs up, but the first movie contains the commentary we all know and it has an added Fan Commetary. I was suprised to see that. Also there is a bonus regular Blu Ray Disc that has all the deleted scenes and special features for both films on ONE disc. B) Now I have not listened to the Gb 2 commentary yet. I am sifting through the features. Now the unfinished Ghostbusters 2 teaser. You know the commercial that plays in the Ghostbusters 2 montage. Well you get to see that commercial in it's entirety. Plus some scenes in the movie with unfinished effects shots. The teaser ends with Louis running out of the Firehouse in gb gear like he did in the movie only he says, "Boy these Back Packs are heavy." He says that instead of "equipment" nothing too major there, but the teaser as a whole is very well cut and it still gets me pumped to watch the whole movie. I own multiple copies of these movies as well and I have to say this is a real nice set. If I get to the GB 2 commentary I will post an update on that for you.
Of course I am sure there is someone here that probably already listened to it and they might beat me to it. I hope this helps.
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ADVA announced that Previder has deployed its FSP 3000 CloudConnect(TM) data center interconnect (DCI) platform to meet booming enterprise cloud service demand. The open, multi-protocol network, which also features ADVA’s OpenFabric(TM) cross-connect technology for flexible service delivery, enables the colocation and cloud services provider to maximize the value of its existing infrastructure as it smoothly transitions to 100Gbit/s transport. Previder, the largest Dutch-based and owned data center company in the Netherlands, will leverage its new 400km ring network to deliver 100GbE and 16Gbit/s Fibre Channel services to its enterprise customers. Dutch transport solutions specialists and ADVA partner TrueCom also played a key role in the process.
"Deploying ADVA’s next-generation DCI technology is key to growing our cloud enterprise services. With its flexibility, high-capacity and multi-protocol support, this new solution is also central to our business continuity and disaster recovery service strategy," said Tim Timmerman, CEO, Previder. "After extensive comparisons with other vendors and thorough PoCs conducted with TrueCom and ADVA, it was the small footprint and energy efficiency of the FSP 3000 CloudConnect(TM) that set it out from the crowd. Interoperability was also crucial. This solution ensured a seamless transition, protecting the value of our previous investment and enabling all elements to be controlled by a single management system. What’s more, our network is now scalable and ready to expand with our customers’ needs."
Designed for scalability and bandwidth optimization, the ADVA FSP 3000 CloudConnect(TM) platform offers unrivalled efficiency. It delivers huge energy savings and, with its incredibly small footprint, occupies very little rack space. Previder’s new network is also enhanced with ADVA’s FSP 3000 QuadFlex(TM) capabilities. This innovative line card technology enables a single chassis to support multi-Terabit transmissions over long distances without the need for signal regeneration. Also key to the new solution is the ADVA FSP 3000 OpenFabric(TM), an entirely new optical transport network (OTN) cross-connect design. It creates a distributed architecture optimized for the metro, enabling cloud service providers like Previder to simply and efficiently aggregate lower speeds.
"Our DCI technology meets the most exacting density, security and energy demands. It’s the ultimate tool to enable forward-looking cloud operators like Previder to expand its colocation environment and deliver even more attractive on-demand connectivity offerings," commented Yann Evain, sales director, Benelux, ADVA. "Built on our FSP 3000 CloudConnect(TM) and our OpenFabric(TM) OTN technology, this new solution is optimized to deliver enormous amounts of bandwidth whilst at the same time driving down cost, space and power consumption. Our CloudConnect(TM) is also engineered for scale and openness. This ensures that the new network is primed and ready to support to 32Gbit/s Fiber Channel services in the future. It also means there are no lock-ins and no restrictions to prevent Previder taking advantage of the latest DCI innovation in years to come."
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because the lives of our citizens are at stake. Our strategy is clear.
We're strengthening the homeland. We're reforming our intelligence
services. We are transforming our All-Volunteer Army. We will not have a
draft. We are staying on the offensive against these terrorists. We are
relentless and we are determined, and our strategy is paying off. More
than three-quarters of Al Qaida's key members and associates have been
brought to justice, and the rest of them know we're on their trail.
My opponent has a different approach. He says that September the
11th, quote, ``didn't change me much at all,'' end quote.
Audience members. Boo-o-o!
The President. And that's pretty clear. He considers the war on
terror primarily a law enforcement and intelligence gathering operation.
The President. His top foreign policy adviser questioned it is even
a war at all, saying, ``It's just like a metaphor, like the war on
poverty.'' Anyone who thinks we're fighting a metaphor does not
understand the enemy we face. You cannot win a war if you are not
convinced we are even in one.
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Senator Kerry also misunderstands our battle against insurgents and
terrorists in Iraq. After voting to authorize force against Saddam
Hussein, after calling it the right decision when I sent troops into
Iraq, the Senator now calls it the ``wrong war.''
The President. The Senator used to recognize that Saddam Hussein was
a gathering threat who hated America. After all, he said so. He used to
recognize that Saddam was a state sponsor of terror with a history of
pursuing and even using weapons of mass destruction. After all, he said
so. He used to understand that Saddam was a major source of instability
in the Middle East. After all, he said so. And when he voted to
authorize force, the Senator must have recognized the nightmare scenario
that terrorists might somehow gain access to weapons of mass
destruction. Senator Kerry seems to have forgotten all of that as his
position has evolved during the course of this campaign. You might call
it election amnesia. [Laughter] I know then and I know now that the
world and America are safer with Saddam Hussein sitting in a prison
cell.
Senator Kerry now calls Iraq a ``diversion.'' But the case of just
one terrorist shows how wrong his thinking is. A man named Zarqawi is
responsible for the car bombs and beheading Americans in Iraq. He ran a
terrorist training camp in Afghanistan until coalition troops arrived.
He then ran to Iraq, where he's fighting today. He supports and swore
allegiance to Usama bin Laden. If Zarqawi and his associates were not
busy fighting American forces and Iraqi forces in Iraq, what does my
opponent think he'd be doing, a peaceful businessman somewhere? Leading
a benevolence campaign? [Laughter] Of course not. Our troops will defeat
them there so we do not have to face them in our own cities.
The choice in this election could not be clearer when it comes to
the security of our families. You cannot lead our Nation to decisive
victory, on which the security of every American family depends, if you
do not see the true dangers of a post-September the 11th world. My
opponent has a September 10th point of view. You might remember, at his
convention he declared that his strategy would be to respond to attacks
after America is hit.
The President. That would be too late. In our debates, he said we
can defend America only if we pass a ``global test.''
The President. I'm not making that up. He was standing right there
when he said it. I work with our friends and allies. We will strengthen
our coalitions. But I will never turn over America's national security
decisions to leaders of other countries.
I saw some of our troops coming in. I want to thank them for their
service. I want to thank the veterans who are here for having set such a
great example for those who wear the uniform. I want to thank our
military families who are here for supporting our troops fighting for
freedom and security. And I want to assure you your loved ones will have
the full support of our Government.
That's why I went to Congress and asked for $87 billion of
supplemental funding. This was money to support our troops in harm's
way. When you're out gathering up the vote, I want you to remind your
fellow citizens of this startling statistic. There were 4 Members in the
United States Senate--only 4 out of 100--that voted to authorize the use
of force and then voted against funding for our troops in harm's way.
And four of those--two of those four were my opponent and his
runningmate.
The President. They asked him about that vote. He said, ``I actually
did vote for the 87 billion, right before I voted against it.'' You
know--I bet you don't hear many people talking like that around the
coffee shops here. They pressed him even further, and he finally just
threw up his hands. He said, ``The whole thing is a complicated
matter.'' My fellow Americans, there is nothing complicated about
supporting our troops in combat.
And to protect America, we will lead the cause of freedom. I believe
in the transformational power of liberty. I want the youngsters here to
understand what has taken place in a short period of time. Afghanistan
was once ruled by the Taliban. Young girls couldn't go to school. If
their mothers didn't toe the ideological line of the haters,
they'd be whipped in the public squares and sometime shot in the
stadiums. Because we acted in our own self-defense, millions of Afghan
citizens went to the polls to vote for the President, and the first
voter was a 19-year-old woman. Freedom is on the march. Freedom is
precious. Freedom is powerful. And we're better off for it.
Iraq will have Presidential elections in January. Think how far that
country has come from the days of torture chambers and the brutality of
Saddam Hussein. Fifty million people now live in freedom because we
acted to secure ourselves. We're more secure. The world is better off as
freedom is on the march. I believe everybody yearns to be free in this
world. Freedom is not America's gift to the world; freedom is the
Almighty God's gift to each man and woman in this world.
The second clear choice in this election concerns your family
budget, your wallet. When I ran for President 4 years ago, I pledged to
lower taxes for American families. I have kept my word. We raised the
child credit. We reduced the marriage penalty. The Tax Code ought to
encourage marriage, not penalize marriage. We created a 10-percent
bracket to help working families. We reduced income taxes for everybody
who pays taxes. We're helping our small-business owners. And as a result
of these policies, real after-tax income, the money in your pocket, is
up by about 10 percent since I got into office.
Think about what this economy has been through. Tell your friends
and neighbors what we have overcome. Six months prior to my arrival, the
stock market was in serious decline, indicating the recession that came.
Then we had some corporate scandals. And then we got attacked, and those
attacks cost us about a million jobs in the 3 months after September the
Our economic policies are working. They've led us back to growth.
Our economy is growing at rates as fast as any in nearly 20 years. We've
added more than 1.9 million new jobs since August of 2003. The
unemployment rate is 5.4 percent, lower than the average of the 1970s,
1980s, and 1990s. Farm income is up. Homeownership rates are at an
alltime high. The unemployment rate in Florida is 4.5 percent. We're
moving forward, and we're not going to go back to the old days.
My opponent has very different plans for your budget. He intends to
take a big chunk out of it.
The President. When I proposed the tax relief to help our families
and get this economy going again, he voted against the higher child tax
credit. He voted against the marriage penalty relief. He voted against
lower taxes. He voted against the help to small businesses. If he had
had his way, the average middle-class family in America would have been
paying $2,000 more in Federal income taxes.
The President. It's part of a pattern. The Senator has voted 10
times to raise gasoline taxes since he's been in the Senate. And all
told, during his 20 years in the United States Senate, my opponent has
voted 98 times to raise taxes.
The President. Think about that. That's about five times every year
he served. When a Senator does something that often, he must really
enjoy it. [Laughter]
During this campaign, he's made a lot of big promises. As a matter
of fact, he's promised about $2.2 trillion in new spending. That's with
a ``T.'' [Laughter] That's a lot even for a Senator from Massachusetts.
[Laughter] So they said, ``How are you going to pay for it?'' He said,
``Oh, we'll just tax the rich.'' We've heard that before, haven't we?
By running up the top two brackets, guess who he's taxing? He's
taxing job creators. Seventy percent of new jobs are created by small
businesses in America. Most small businesses pay tax at the individual
income-tax level. It's a bad idea to tax the job creators in this
Raising the top two brackets will raise between 600 and 800 billion
dollars, so as you can tell, there's a tax gap. There's a difference
between what he has promised and what he can deliver. Now, you know who
gets to fill that tax gap, don't you? I'll tell you one other thing
about taxing the rich. The rich, during tax time, hire lawyers and
accountants for a reason: to slip the tab and to stick you with
the bill. We're not going to let him tax you; we're going to carry
Florida and win a great victory on November the 2d.
Audience members. Four more years! Four more years! Four more years!
The President. The third clear choice in this election involves the
quality of life for our families. A good education and quality health
care are important for a successful life. When I ran for President 4
years ago, I promised to end and to challenge the soft bigotry of low
expectations in our schools. I kept my word, passed the No Child Left
Behind Act, which is a great piece of legislation. It brings high
standards to our classrooms and makes our schools accountable to our
parents. We're seeing progress. Math and reading scores are rising. We
are closing an achievement gap all across America. We will build on
these reforms. We'll extend them to our high schools so that no child is
left behind in America.
We'll continue to improve life--the life of our families by making
health care more affordable and accessible. We'll expand health savings
accounts so small businesses can cover their workers and more families
are able to get health care accounts they can manage and call their own.
We'll create association health plans so small businesses can join
together and buy insurance at the discounts that big companies are able
to do. We will help our families in need by expanding community health
centers. We'll make sure every child eligible is enrolled in our
Government's low-income health insurance program.
And we'll help patients and doctors everywhere by doing something
about these frivolous lawsuits that are running up the cost of health
care and running good doctors out of practice. I met too many ob-gyns
that are having trouble making ends meet, and so they're quitting the
practice. I met too many women who are driving miles to get the good
health care they need for themselves and their child. And this isn't
right for America. You can't be pro-trial-lawyer and pro-doctor and pro-
patient at the same time. You have to pick. My opponent made his pick.
He put a personal injury trial lawyer on the ticket. I stand for medical
liability reform--now.
Senator Kerry has a different point of view on our schools and
health care system. Listen, he voted for the No Child Left Behind Act,
but now he wants to weaken the accountability standards. He has proposed
including measures like teacher attendance to judge whether students can
read or write or add and subtract. He voted against health savings
accounts. He opposes association health plans that will help our small
businesses. He voted 10 times against medical liability reform.
The President. He can run from his record, but he cannot hide.
Now he's proposing a big Government health care plan that would
cause 8 million families to lose private coverage they get at work and
have to go onto a Government plan. Eighty percent of the people who get
coverage under his proposal would be enrolled in a Government plan. In
one of our debates, he said with a straight face that when it comes to
his health care plan, and I quote, ``The Government has nothing to do
with it.'' I could barely contain myself when I heard that. [Laughter]
The Government has a lot to do with it. His plan would move America down
the road to Federal control of health care, and that's the wrong road
for American families. He can run from his record, but he cannot hide.
In all we do to improve health care, we will make sure decisions are
made by doctors and patients, not by officials in Washington, DC.
Fourth clear choice in this election involves your retirement. Our
Nation has made a solemn commitment to America's seniors on Social
Security and Medicare. When I ran for President 4 years ago, I promised
to keep that commitment and improve Medicare by adding prescription drug
coverage. I have kept my word. You know, leaders in both political
parties have talked about Medicare for years--for years. We got the job
done. Seniors are now getting discounts on medicine with drug discount
cards. Low-income seniors are getting $600 on their card this year and
600 next year. And beginning in 2006, all seniors will be able to get
prescription drug coverage under Medicare.
My opponent voted against the Medicare bill that included
prescription drug coverage, even though it was supported by the AARP and
other seniors groups. Later he said, quote, ``If I am President, we're
going to repeal that phony bill.'' A little later on, he said, ``No, I
don't want to repeal it.'' Kind of sounds familiar. As your President
for the next 4 years, I will defend the reforms we have worked so hard
to pass and keep the promise of Medicare for our senior citizens.
And we will keep the promise of Social Security for our seniors, and
we'll strengthen Social Security for generations to come. Every
election, desperate politicians try to scare our seniors about Social
Security. It is predictable, and it's beginning to happen again. I want
you to tell your friends and neighbors about what happened in the 2000
campaign. They said, ``If George W. gets elected, our seniors will not
get their checks.'' Now, you might remember that. Well, tell them George
W. did get elected, and our seniors did get their checks. And our
seniors will continue to get their checks, and baby boomers like me are
in pretty good shape when it comes to the Social Security trust.
But we need to think about our children and our grandchildren. We
need to make sure that when they retire, there's a Social Security
system available to meet their needs. And that is why I believe younger
workers ought to be allowed to take some of their own money and put it
in a personal account. It will earn a better rate of return, a personal
account they call their own, a personal account the Government cannot
take away.
My opponent is taking a different approach. He talks about
protecting Social Security. He's the only candidate in this race that
voted to tax Social Security benefits eight times.
The President. He can run, but he cannot hide. And when it comes to
the next generation, he has offered no reform. The job of a President is
to confront problems, not to pass them on to future Presidents and
future generations. In a new term, I'll bring Republicans and Democrats
together to make sure Social Security is around when a younger
generation of America needs it.
The fifth clear choice in this election is on the values that are so
critical to keeping America's families strong. And my opponent and I are
miles apart. I believe marriage is a sacred institution. Marriage is a
pillar of our civilization, and I will always defend it. This is not a
partisan issue. When Congress passed the Defense of Marriage Act,
defining marriage as the union of a man and a woman, the vast majority
of Democrats supported it, and my predecessor, President Bill Clinton,
signed it into law. Senator Kerry was part of an out-of-the-mainstream
minority that voted against the Defense of Marriage Act.
The President. I believe that reasonable people can find common
ground on the most difficult of issues. Republicans and Democrats and
many citizens on both sides of the life issue came together and agreed
we should ban the brutal practice of partial-birth abortion. Senator
Kerry was part of an out-of-the-mainstream minority that voted against
the ban.
The President. He voted against parental notification laws.
The President. He voted against the Unborn Victims of Violence Act.
The President. I'll continue to reach out to Americans of every
belief and move this goodhearted Nation toward a culture of life.
My opponent has said that the heart and soul of America can be found
in Hollywood.
The President. I understand most American families do not look to
Hollywood as a source of values. The heart and soul of America is found
in communities like Lakeland, Florida.
All of these choices make this one of the most important elections
in our history. The security and prosperity of our country, the health
and education of our families, the retirement of our seniors, and the
direction of our culture are all at stake. And this decision is in the
best of hands, because the decision rests with the American people.
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Repetition: Game 1, Anand v. Carlsen
The match between Viswanathan Anand, current title holder, and Magnus Carlsen, challenger, for the world championship of chess is being played in Chennai, India, on the subcontinent where the game was born, circa 600 AD.
If you didn't know this match was happening, you're not alone. Perhaps you'd be in a minority in Norway, where the young, charismatic and telegenic Carlsen was born, or in India, where Anand is now a folk hero. But if you were from, say, Philadelphia, it might not even have occurred to you that Bobby Fischer was more a acclaimed American chess player than Marlon Brando.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Axm6HgM48IY&feature=youtu.be
(Such is chess in the United States. Or maybe such is Philadelphia.)
The one thing that can be said for sure about game one is that Carlsen (age 22) did not wear out Anand (age 43). It ended in a draw by virtue of repetition — three consecutive moves leading to three identical positions — after less than an hour and half, which is next to nothing in chess time. It was concluded in sixteen moves — thirteen if you subtract the repetitions.
Obviously, Anand and Carslen didn't really come to fight. The analogy might be to a boxing match where the combatants put up their hands, throw a few to work up a sweat, and say, hey, this was really cool, see ya around.
Except, to stay with the boxing analogy, this was round one of the chess match. It's best of twelve games, so Anand and Carlsen will be back in the ring eleven more times.
Anand, playing black, always at a disadvantage, can take some comfort in his easy first game draw. Get some rest tonight, Viswanathan. Carlsen will be white in the next game. He will come out swinging. He will be subtle and elusive, and just maybe really cool. I do not expect him to lay down for a draw.
Maybe Garry Kasparov, once Carlsen's tutor — think Cus D'amato in re Mike Tyson — will say: Yes, Magnus, yes!
Or maybe he'll say, Magnus, you shoulda stopped with the video games when I told ya, and listened.
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Isolated abscess in superior rectus muscle in a child
Sushank Ashok Bhalerao, Kamaljeet Singh, Birendra Yadav, Ravindra Kumar
Department of Ophthalmology, Regional Institute of Ophthalmology at Govt. M. D. Eye Hospital, Allahabad, Uttar Pradesh, India
Date of Acceptance 04-Mar-2015
Date of Web Publication 13-May-2015
Dr. Sushank Ashok Bhalerao
Regional Institute of Ophthalmology at Govt. M. D. Eye Hospital, Dr. Katju Road, Allahabad - 211 003, Uttar Pradesh
Pyomyositis is a primary bacterial infection of striated muscles nearly always caused by Staphylococcus aureus. Development of the intramuscular abscess involving the extra-ocular muscles (EOMs) remains an extremely rare process. We herein present a case of isolated EOM pyomyositis involving superior rectus muscle in a 2-year male child who was referred with complaints of swelling in left eye (LE) and inability to open LE since last 1-month. Orbital computed tomography (CT) scan showed a well-defined, hypo-dense, peripheral rim-enhancing lesion in relation to left superior rectus muscle suggestive of left superior rectus abscess. The abscess was drained through skin approach. We concluded that pyomyositis of EOM should be considered in any patient presenting with acute onset of orbital inflammation and characteristic CT or magnetic resonance imaging features. Management consists of incision and drainage coupled with antibiotic therapy.
Keywords: Extra-ocular muscle, pyomyositis, Staphylococcus aureus, superior rectus abscess
Bhalerao SA, Singh K, Yadav B, Kumar R. Isolated abscess in superior rectus muscle in a child. Indian J Ophthalmol 2015;63:284-6
Bhalerao SA, Singh K, Yadav B, Kumar R. Isolated abscess in superior rectus muscle in a child. Indian J Ophthalmol [serial online] 2015 [cited 2019 Jul 17];63:284-6. Available from: http://www.ijo.in/text.asp?2015/63/3/284/156941
Pyomyositis is an acute bacterial infection occurring in the skeletal muscle. It was first described in 1885 by Scriba as an endemic disease in the tropics. Pyomyositis is a primary bacterial infection of striated muscles nearly always (over 90% of cases) caused by Staphylococcus aureus. [1]
Any skeletal muscle can be involved, but the thigh and trunk muscles are commonly affected. Development of an intramuscular abscess involving the extra-ocular muscles (EOMs) remains an extremely rare process. It usually presents as pain, swelling, redness and movement restriction in the eye. Systemic symptoms may or may not be present. To our knowledge, only seven cases of pyomyositis in the eye have been reported in the literature. [2],[3],[4]
An idiopathic muscle abscess is a rare condition that should be considered in the differential diagnosis of painful limitations of eye movements and double vision in children.
We herein present a case of isolated EOM pyomyositis involving superior rectus muscle in a 2-year-old male child.
A 2-year-old male child was referred to our hospital with complaints of swelling in left eye (LE) and inability to open LE since last 1-month [Figure 1]a. There was a history of fever since 1-month. On examination, there was a tender, palpable, ill-defined mass with a nodular surface was found in a superior portion of the orbit. Posterior segment was normal.
Figure 1: Patient photographs before (a), and 1-month after (b) treatment
Ocular sonography (standardized echography, A- and B-scan) showed a thickening of the left superior rectus. Orbital computed tomography (CT) scan shows fullness in the superior portion of orbit due to a well-defined, hypo-dense, peripheral rim-enhancing lesion in relation to left superior rectus muscle closely abutting the globe without any intra-ocular extension. The sagittal reconstruction shows a ring-enhancing lesion in the superior rectus, suggestive of an abscess [Figure 2]. Blood culture was negative.
Figure 2: Computed tomography scan shows fullness in the superior portion of orbit due to a well-defined, hypo-dense, peripheral rim-enhancing lesion in relation to left superior rectus muscle closely abutting the globe without any intra-ocular extension. The sagittal reconstruction shows a ring-enhancing lesion in the superior rectus, suggestive of an abscess. Optic nerve was uninvolved. The, antero-posterior, cranio-caudal and transverse dimensions of the abscess were 2.0 cm, 1.2 cm and 1.8 cm respectively
Provisional diagnosis of superior rectus muscle abscess was made, and the patient was started on cefotaxime 500 mg 12 hourly and gentamicin 40 mg 8 hourly intravenously. On the 2 nd day, pus was drained through the skin approach. The swelling reduced on 2 nd postoperative day and the child was able to open his LE. Gram stain showed Gram-positive cocci and the culture grew S. aureus. He was discharged with gatifloxacin twice daily orally. After 1-month, he had residual restriction in motility in superior gaze [Figure 1]b.
Of the seven reported cases, five were due to S. aureus and the two were idiopathic. S. aureus is responsible for 95% of the cases in tropical areas and 70% of the cases of pyomyositis in nontropical areas. [5] The etiology of pyomyositis is uncertain. [5] Given the lack of adjacent orbital inflammation in our cases, we suspect that recti muscles were possibly seeded through hematogenous spread.
Although the clinical features are frequently suggestive of myositis, they are nonspecific, and noninvasive investigations such as orbital ultrasonography and CT or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans are required for precise anatomical tissue localization and diagnosis. The role of ocular muscle biopsy is probably limited to atypical cases or those unresponsive to therapy, particularly to exclude neoplasia.
Haufschild et al. [2] reported an idiopathic isolated abscess of superior rectus muscle in an 11-year-old girl. MRI showed an abscess with central cavitation and a rim of enhancement. The patient was treated with intravenous antibiotics. Varma et al. [3] reported two cases of young boys with EOM abscess on MRI. In both the patients, ultrasonography-guided aspiration was performed, and the patients were treated with antibiotics. The culture grew Staphylococcus in both of them. Acharya and Jethani [4] reported four cases of isolated EOM pyomyositis. CT scan of all patients showed a typical hypo-dense rim-enhancing lesion of the muscle involved. In all the above studies, patients were treated with intravenous antibiotics and drainage of pus.
Main differential diagnoses in children are other inflammations and infections (e.g., diffuse orbital pseudotumor, orbital cellulitis), structural lesions (e.g., dermoid cyst), vascular neoplastic lesions (e.g., capillary hemangioma, lymphangioma), lymphoproliferative diseases (e.g., lymphocytic granuloma), neurogenic tumors (e.g., neuroblastoma, plexiform neurofibroma), mesenchymal tumors (e.g., rhabdomyosarcoma), and metastatic carcinoma. Differentiating features found in our patient suggestive of left superior rectus abscess were inability to open and swelling in LE, tender, palpable, ill-defined mass with a nodular surface in superior portion of orbit and orbital CT scan showing a well-defined, hypo-dense, peripheral rim-enhancing lesion in relation to left superior rectus muscle.
It can be concluded that pyomyositis of EOM should be considered in any patient presenting with acute onset of orbital inflammation and characteristic CT or MRI features. After making the diagnosis, incision and drainage coupled with antibiotics eradicate the infection in most patients and the same happened in our patient.
Scriba J. Beitrag zur aetiology of acute myositis. Dtsch Z Chir 1885;22:497-507.
Haufschild T, Weber P, Nuttli I, Hecker B, Flammer J, Kaiser HJ. Idiopathic isolated abscess in an extraocular muscle in a child. Arch Ophthalmol 2004;122:1233-4.
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1.Arabitol production by microbial fermentation - biosynthesis and future applications
Himabindu Kumdam, Shweta Narayana Murthy and Sathyanarayana N Gummadi*
Arabitol is a 5 carbon sugar alcohol which exists in both D and L forms. Arabitol was produced by chemical synthesis which was both tedious and expensive and hence microbial production gained significant interest. Fermentation of natural substrates such as lignocellulose ,hemicelluloses etc and by using osmotolerant organsims such as yeast have resulted in higher yield and quality than chemical synthesis.Osmophilic yeasts often accumulate polyols when exposed to many environmental stress and arabitol is one such polyol that is produced which prevents the yeast from degradation. Several species of yeasts such as Zygosaccharomyces, Pichia, Debaryomyces are used and have produced up to 84 g/L of arabitol with yields up to 56% and the productivity up to 30g/L. Metabolic engineering for the production of arabitol is extensively studied which will eventually lead to the construction of a novel arabitol producing organism.
2.A review-reproductive biotechnology used in buffalo production
Alim, M.A.1* Jahangir, A1., Faruque, M.D2
The water buffalo holds tremendous potential in the livestock sector in Asian and Mediterranean countries due to their diversified advantages. Faster multiplication of superior genotypes and the conservation of endangered buffalo breeds are crying need for the buffalo scientists. Recent advances in assisted reproductive biotechnologies, including male and female assisted technologies, offer enormous opportunities to not only improve productivity, but also to use buffaloes to produce novel products for applications to human health and nutrition. In this paper, an account of various aspects related to buffalo reproduction has been discussed. This paper included an overview of the most recent developments of reproductive biotechnologies, new strategies of reproductive management for the improvement of genetic gain and the application of newly developed reproductive technologies, such as in vitro embryo production, embryo and sperm sexing and cloning of buffaloes.
3.Addition of mouth washes as a disinfectants for irreversible hydrocolloid impression material
Ibrahim M. Hamouda1,2 *, Mohammed M. Beyari3, El Sayed Abd El Hafiz4
Internal disinfection of irriversible hydrocolloid was the prefered disinfection technique because it allows immediate pouring of the impression after removal of the impression from the patient, s mouth. Addition of disinfectant to the impression materials was superior to immersion or spraying techniques. The purpose of this study was to assess the surface antimicrobial efficacy, setting time, viscosity and dimensional stability of irreversible hydrocolloid impression material when mixed with two mouth washes and compared with the spray and immersion techniques. The used mouth washes were Tantum verde and Hexitol for mixing and disinfection of alginate impression material. The results indicated that the addition of mouth washes to be mixed with irreversible hydrocolloid impression material produced larger inhibition zones of growth than immersion and spray techniques. The setting time and viscosity were not adversely affected. The dimensional accuracy of the resulted stone cast was suitable.
4.Myriad causes of hemolysis: A case series
Sumesh Raj1 *, Sheetal Sajan2
Hemolysis is said to occur if there is excessive destruction of red blood cells. The etiology of hemolysis can be myriad. It can be due to acquired or hereditary causes. The destruction of red cells can be intravascular or extravascular, resulting in a broad spectrum of symptoms. Certain hereditary disorders like hereditary spherocytosis may remain asymptomatic for long periods, however disorders like sickle cell anemia may present with life threatening hemolysis.Hemolysis can also be precipitated by drugs, toxins, infectious agents or autoimmune disorders. It is very important to recognize the etiology of hemolysis to institute prompt management measures.We hereby describe five patients who presented to us with clinical features suggestive of hemolysis. One of these patients was diagnosed to have hemolysis due to a hereditary spherocytosis and the rest were diagnosed to have acquired hemolysis due to varied etiologies like Evans syndrome, thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, vitamin B12 deficiency and adelayed hemolytic transfusion reaction.
5.Electrical and Morphological Properties of ion beams intermixed Zirconium/Silicon interface
V.Sisodia
Zirconium (~ 60 nm) thin layer was deposited on Si (100) substrates in ultra high vacuum conditions using the electron-beam evaporation technique. The system was exposed to different ion fluencies ranging from 3X1013–1X1014 ions/cm2 at room temperature. Zirconium silicide was synthesized on Si (100)/ zirconium interface by means of swiftly moving 150 MeV Au ion beam available from Tandem Accelerator in IUAC, India. Synthesized zirconium silicide thin film reasonably affects the resistivity of the irradiated system and for highest fluence of 1X1014 ions/cm2resistivity value reduces from 84.3 µΩ.cm to 36 µΩ.cm. A low resistivity silicide phase, C-49 ZrSi2 was confirmed by X-ray analysis. Schottky barrier height was calculated from I-V measurements and the values drops down to 0.58 eV after irradiation at 1X1014 ions/cm2.The surface and interface morphologies of zirconium silicide were examined by atomic force microscopy (AFM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). AFM shows a considerable change in the surface structure and SEM shows the ZrSi2 agglomeration and formation of Si-rich silicide islands.
6.Effectiveness of isometric exercises in patient with Sacroiliac Joint Dysfunction
Keyur Dobariya
The Sarcroiliac Joint (SI) joint is one of the larger joints in the body having the wavy surface and fits together. The very mild motion that does occur is a combination of sliding, tilting and rotation. Sliding movement is probably only a couple of millimeters, and may tilt and rotate two or three degrees. By this case investigation the data suggest that Trans Cutaneous Electrical Nerve Stimulation, mobilization and isometric exercise program is a significant intervention to reduce the pain along with the beneficial improvement in disability level in a patient with sacroiliac joint dysfunction.
7.Prevalence of Diabetes mellitus in obese subjects in South Kerala
Sumesh Raj1 *, Baiju Sam Jacob2, G. V. Rajan3
Obesity is an independent risk factor for Type2 Diabetes and is rising in prevalence throughout the developed and developing countries This study aims to find the prevalence of Diabetes Mellitus in Obese Patients compared to non-obese patients who attended Medicine and Diabetology departments of various hospitals in South Kerala during the period June 2010 to May 2013.
The participant population comprised of 426 patients in the age group 30 to 65 years. All participants underwent routine physical examinations that included measurement of Body mass Index and waist circumference. Fasting plasma glucose concentration was measured by the hexokinase method Among the study group 186 patients were obese (90 males and 96 females).
The mean FBS was higher in obese(131.2mg/dl) compared to non obese(102mg/dl), and there was a higher proportion of people with hyperglycemia among the obese. This difference was found to be statistically significant.
Although not all overweight or obese individuals are metabolically unhealthy, the majority are insulin resistant. The combination of obesity, physical inactivity, and consumption of an atherogenic diet is believed to lead to insulin resistance and thus to Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus.
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The Leading Lady Stars of Indian Diaspora
Prija Nair
Prija Nair "The Leading Lady Stars of Indian Diaspora" Published in International Journal of Trend in Research and Development (IJTRD), ISSN: 2394-9333, Special Issue | NSCCIGC-18 , March 2018, URL: http://www.ijtrd.com/papers/IJTRD16051.pdf
Inspired by the vast spread of migration, immigration or emigration, Diasporic literature gainedprominence in the universal literature in the backdrop of post-colonial context, simultaneouslydeveloping with post-colonial literature. The process of transplantation makes the immigrant a victim of'rootlessness'. Today, we can say that the most important Indian writing is produced in the Diaspora bywriters like Kamala Markandaya, Anita Desai, Bharati Mukherjee, Salman Rushdie, V.S. Naipaul,Vikram Seth, Amitav Ghosh, Rohinton Mistry, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, Jhumpa Lahiri etc.Especially, Indian women diasporic writers have made their voice heard around the world, managed toexcel in all areas of literature and achieved global recognition. These female diasporic writers exhibit theirown physical and emotional conflicts in their works. Diasporic literature focuses mainly on themes likediscrimination, cultural shock, identity crisis, alienation, displacement, dilemma, depression, hybridityand nostalgia. This article explores the conflicts of cross-cultural identities and transplantation into a newculture in Jhumpa Lahiri's The Namesake, Kiran Desai's The Inheritance of Loss, Chitra BannerjeeDivakaruni's The Mistress of Spices and Bharati Mukherjee's Jasmine. It undertakes a comparativeanalysis, from the cultural and feministic points of view of the predicament of women protagonists inimmigration as presented in the selected novels
Cultural displacement, identity crisis, exile, nostalgia, alienation.
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UAW loses election at VW Chattanooga by narrow margin
18 June, 2019Just as in 2014, right wing politicians, pressure groups, the company and union busting law firms invested all they could to prevent IndustriALL affiliate UAW from winning the union elections at the Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA.
In the end, the difference between a unionized workplace and one without real worker representation was narrow: 833 employees voted against union representation and 776 in favour, a difference of merely 29 votes.
The UAW and the global union movement felt more optimistic this time around than in 2014, but the bullying tactics of the massive anti-union movement in southern US turned out to be stronger.
For nine weeks, VW employees were told that a yes vote meant not only a severe threat of job losses, but also economic decline for the state of Tennessee and the entire US South.
Union-busting propaganda is not only unacceptable, but also rare in the world of Volkswagen where 121 out 122 global manufacturing sites are unionized and collective bargaining and social dialogue are a natural part of the daily proceedings. But for many years, Volkswagen in the US has been aggressively anti-union, and pays large sums of money to union-busting law firms instead of investing in employees and products. And in the run-up of these elections, VW was anything but neutral.
Valter Sanches, IndustriALL general secretary, says:
“We were so close to a victory and we will continue to stand with our colleagues at VW Chattanooga. We will not let these systematic anti-union policies win.
IndustriALL Global Union strongly condemns this behaviour and stands by the decision to suspend the global framework agreement with Volkswagen in January this year, as a strong sign of protest.
Georg Leutert, IndustriALL automotive director, says:
“The US South is probably one of the most anti-union regions in the world. For us, this is an incentive to double our efforts together with our US affiliates, as the workers deserve the same rights and decent working conditions as workers in other parts of the world.”
IndustriALL and its affiliates stand in solidarity with the Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga. More than 50 messages of solidarity from more than 20 countries were sent to UAW local 42 in Chattanooga; letters of support, videos and photos from all of the VW plants in company’s home country, Germany.
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(Video) Rihanna Wins Best R&B Album Of The Year
Photo Credit: Instagram / @BadGalRiRi
Just a few hours ago the “Iheart Radio Music Awards” were held. Rihanna won best R&B album and best R&B song of the year. Rihanna did not attend the award show, she was out in Paris, but it did not stop Rihanna from sending a funny accepting speech on Snap Chat.
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Business Case for Skype for Business?
By Alex Lewis, Rui Young Maximo, Pat Richard, Phil Sharp
Why Unified Communications
Unified Communications Return on Investment (ROI)
Why Skype for Business Server 2015 for Unified Communications
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Learn how/why Microsoft Skype for Business Server 2015 is the go-to product for unified communications by exploring common business cases.
Skype for Business Unleashed
In This Chapter
In this chapter we will explore common business cases for Skype for Business Server 2015. Before we cover the business cases for Skype for Business Server 2015, it is important to understand some fundamentals about unified communications, which has become a standard term in the Voice over IP (VoIP) industry. Unified communications (UC) is defined as the integration of real-time communication services such as instant messaging, Presence, telephony, video conferencing, data sharing, call control, and unified messaging (integrated voicemail, email, and fax). The term is pretty self-explanatory, as it aims to unify your existing communication tools over the IP network. A common approach to UC is to consolidate all communication tools into a single-vendor solution. This chapter outlines why many people believe that Microsoft Skype for Business Server 2015 is the go-to product for unified communications, and it covers the following topics:
Why Unified Communications—Gives an overview of why UC is beneficial to all types of organizations.
Return on Investment—Describes how you define ROI and how UC provides ROI.
Why Skype for Business Server 2015 for Unified Communications—Explains why, based on what we know about UC, Skype for Business Server 2015 is the ideal solution for UC.
Communication that occurs in silos poorly replicates the richness of an in-person meeting. Individuals share ideas orally, visually, and in writing. The digital analogs are audio, video, application sharing, white boarding, IM collaborating on documents, and more. Communication that can seamless integrate all of these modalities comes closer to replicating that in-person interaction that sparks the best ideas and enables frictionless team collaboration. Skype for Business Server 2015 integrates these modalities to provide that level of remote collaboration.
There are four key components to UC:
Instant messaging and Presence
Web, audio, and video conferencing
Enterprise telephony (traditional PBX functionality)
This section gives a brief description of each of the key UC components and explains why moving to a UC solution can be beneficial for organizations.
Instant messaging (IM) is the capability to communicate instantaneously between two or more people with text-based messages. Presence conveys the ability and willingness of a user to communicate. These two capabilities combine to be the most commonly used UC components in nearly every organization. Understanding how Enterprise IM and Presence evolved will help you understand why it is the core of any UC solution.
IM and presence has been around since the 1990s. You might remember ICQ and AOL Instant Messenger (AIM). A lot of companies followed suit, and soon there was an explosion of consumer IM providers, all with different protocols and clients. Consumers started to use these consumer IM services for business communications, which was very risky for organizations. Business users were using third-party tools that often were not secured in any form. Usage could not be tracked or controlled, and these tools were being used for day-to-day business on company PCs. When users were communicating through public networks, the exposure to malware increased, as well as the possibility of valuable company information leaving company PCs or being intercepted going over unencrypted traffic to public networks on the Internet. Because of those risks, there was a need to develop an enterprise-grade solution that would allow business users to securely communicate the way they were used to communicating outside of work.
In 1998, IBM launched Lotus Sametime, the first enterprise instant messaging product. Shortly after that, Microsoft released Exchange Instant Messaging, which would later evolve into Live Communications Server, then Office Communications Server, then Lync Server, before finally becoming what is Skype for Business to reflect the evolving integration of Lync Server with the Microsoft acquisition of Skype. IM has evolved into an integral business-critical communications tool for most organizations. In fact, many organizations consider IM more critical than email, and some consider it even more critical than dial tone.
Benefits of Instant Messaging and Presence
IM and Presence are the core of all UC solutions. These two features are often packaged together, and sometimes are simply referenced as only “instant messaging.” IM is a feature most organizations will implement on day one of a UC deployment. Presence is one of the major drivers for UC, because it is at the core of providing an increase in productivity to end users. Presence introduces the real-time availability of users, which allows organizations to benefit from increased productivity through more efficient communications, particularly when face-to-face meetings are not possible or are inconvenient, as in the case of remote work scenarios. This benefit is best described in the scenario that follows.
Assume that Randy and Alex both work for CompanyABC. The company does not have a UC solution deployed today. Randy works in the Manhattan office and Alex works in the San Francisco office. If Randy wants to get in touch with Alex, he has two options: He can either send Alex an email or call him on the telephone. The problem starts here: Randy does not know when Alex will respond to that email or whether Alex will be around to answer the phone when he calls. Most likely, time will be wasted with missed calls and emails while Randy is attempting to reach Alex. This type of inefficient communication impacts their overall business productivity.
Now, introduce a UC solution that leverages IM and Presence. When Randy wants to communicate with Alex, he simply needs to look at his Presence indicator. If Alex shows as available, Randy can send an IM to Alex and ask whether he is available to talk. In some cases, an IM might be all that is needed to cover what Randy originally needed to talk to Alex about. If they need to communicate through voice, this is often a quick escalation in the same Skype for Business client. If Alex is showing as not available, Randy will know what the most efficient way to communicate with him is. Randy could tag Alex’s contact for status alerts, which would alert Randy when Alex becomes available. Randy could also communicate either through an email or a phone call to voicemail, or Randy could simply wait until Alex is available to start an IM conversation.
The scenario just described clearly outlines why IM and Presence are critical components for UC and are major drivers for organizations to introduce a UC solution to their environment.
Conferencing is not new to most organizations; however, a unified conferencing experience remains relatively new despite growing adoption. Many organizations have web, audio, and video conferencing through separate third-party providers. For web and audio conferencing, organizations are typically charged a monthly fee per user in addition to a per-minute fee for using these services. For video conferencing, some organizations have large deployments of video conferencing equipment on their network, whereas others might be using a third-party hosted solution.
The services available in each of these areas can vary greatly. Some audio conferencing solutions are simply PSTN dial-in bridges, in which all users in a conference will dial a PSTN phone number and be placed into a conference hosted by the provider. Some web conferencing solutions provide a web browser application for conferencing functionality, whereas others require a desktop application to be installed. Which service options are available to organizations is not entirely important for this section; however, it is important that these services are usually not interoperable with each other. This leads to a disjoined conferencing experience, and organizations are not able to realize the true benefits of conferencing.
Benefits of Web, Audio, and Video Conferencing
When an organization deploys a unified communications solution that supplies all conferencing workloads as part of the solution, the most recognized benefit is leveraging a single vendor for its conferencing solutions. This often leads to a consistent user experience as well as reduced costs to deploy and operate such a solution.
Providing users with a unified conferencing solution that is easy to use and that provides benefits to their productivity means that they are more likely to use it. Because end users are actually using this solution more often, the ROI is realized faster, and the organization benefits from increased productivity. In the “Unified Communications Return on Investment (ROI)” section, we explore these benefits in greater detail.
Enterprise Telephony
Enterprise telephony has evolved greatly over time. Most commonly this functionality is referenced using the term private branch exchange (PBX), which was first used when switchboard operators were manually operating company switchboards. It now is used to describe complex telephony switching systems of all types.
Enterprise telephony refers to the capability of making and receiving voice calls between users across the Public Switched Telephone Network (PSTN) and all the complex features that many organizations demand of a PBX system. These features can include the following:
Auto attendants
Automatic call distribution (ACD)
Call park
Call pickup
Call transfer
Emergency call handling (911 and E911)
The features listed are commonly used to determine whether a modern telephony system is capable of performing PBX features. Many new systems are not marketed as PBXs. They are called PBX replacements with UC functionality instead. Microsoft’s Skype for Business Server PBX replacement is called Enterprise Voice.
Understanding the Benefits of Enterprise Telephony as Part of a UC Solution
Many UC solutions are designed to replace PBXs. Because of this, the benefits of introducing enterprise telephony as part of a UC solution is just that—to remove your PBXs. Many organizations have a PBX deployment with the following characteristics:
There are many vendors across many locations.
If the same vendor is used, there are many software versions.
Each system has a separate maintenance contract.
Each system has a local PSTN ingress/egress.
Systems typically require specialized engineers to perform basic tasks.
When you introduce a UC solution like Microsoft Skype for Business Server, you integrate voice communication as another modality into the same client used for IM, application and desktop sharing, file transfer, and web meetings. The user experience is integrated, making it more efficient for users to collaborate seamlessly. This convenience enabled by Skype for Business Server spans the Microsoft Office suite and can be easily integrated into customer line of business applications.
Skype for Business Server eliminates the need to configure internal dial plans. By routing based on the SIP URI, all internal calls initiated by dialing the user’s phone number are translated into the callee’s SIP URI and routed that way. Administrators, for the most part, only need to concern themselves with configuring dial plans and routing to the PSTN via a gateway. This significantly simplifies the configuration of Enterprise Voice in Skype for Business Server 2015 compared to a traditional PBX environment.
The term unified messaging (UM) is used to describe the integration of different messaging systems. This can include email, fax, and voicemail. This integration typically means that you can access all of these messages from the same interface and on different devices. The most common use of unified messaging is to combine voicemail and fax into an organization’s email system.
Microsoft Exchange Server UM is the voicemail solution for Skype for Business Server 2015. UM functionality was introduced in Exchange 2007. Exchange UM provides voicemail, Outlook voice access, and inbound fax functionality. Many other solutions typically deliver voicemail and fax messages to a user’s Exchange email inbox as an email attachment, or through the use of an add-in. Modern UM systems offer functionality such as the following:
Interactive Voice Response (IVR)—The capability for the caller to interact with the UM system through voice commands.
Find me, follow me—The capability to ring other telephone numbers before leaving a voicemail.
Voicemail transcription—The capability for the UM system to transcribe voice messages and provide voicemail preview as a text transcription in an email to the end user.
Secure voice messaging—The ability for the UM system to encrypt voice messages and restrict the users who are able to listen to them.
Auto attendants—Often leveraging IVR, UM systems are able to act as a receptionist, receiving calls coming into the organization and directing callers to end users.
Understanding the Benefits of Unified Messaging as Part of a UC Solution
Deploying unified messaging as part of a UC solution has similar benefits to deploying enterprise telephony. Many organizations today have a separate voicemail system deployed with each PBX. Introducing a single UM solution using Exchange UM can reduce costs as well as increase user productivity by providing enhanced features in a single interface.
Unified messaging is a key part of deploying UC in any organization. For many organizations, UM is considered “low-hanging fruit.” Exchange UM can often be deployed rather quickly, replacing legacy voicemail systems, and integrate with Skype for Business Server 2015, resulting in a quicker ROI. Exchange UM provides additional benefits such as call logs, server-side conversation history, visual voicemail, calendar integration, and unified contact cards.
Essential Guide to Telecommunications, The, 6th Edition
By Annabel Z. Dodd
Understanding Session Border Controllers: Comprehensive Guide to Designing, Deploying, Troubleshooting, and Maintaining Cisco Unified Border Element (CUBE) Solutions
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Congratulations to HUMAN RITES!
We are thrilled and honored that Seth Rozin’s HUMAN RITES received the Brown Martin Philadelphia Award at this year’s Barrymore Awards!
About the Award:
The Brown Martin Philadelphia Award is awarded annually to a production that best leads audiences to a better understanding of the unique experience of particular segments of our global community. Through their accurate and insightful representation of perspectives unique to gender, ethnicity, religion, age, and other categories of specialized experience, these productions enlighten us and help us to better appreciate different points of view without demanding that we agree with them. Generously funded by the Virginia Brown Martin Fund of The Philadelphia Foundation, this special Barrymore Award includes a $25,000 cash prize for the recipient and $2,500 for each finalist.
And kudos to all the other award winners, including our friends at Azuka Theatre, The Independence Foundation Award for Outstanding New Play or Musical - Emma Goidel’s THE GAP;
Tribe of Fools, The June and Steve Wolfson Award for an Evolving Theatre Company;
InterAct graphic designer and lighting-designer-about-town Maria Shaplin, Outstanding Lighting Design, THE WILD DUCK, Quintessence Theatre Company;
And our dear friend Paul Meshejian of PlayPenn received a well-deserved Lifetime Achievement Award.
See the full list of awardees and nominees.
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Ear training app for sound engineers builds professional EQ skills (iOS)
By admin | on November 3, 2016 | 0 Comment
Toronto, Canada – Aspiring sound engineers and musicians need to look no further than their iPhone or iPad to hone their equalizer (EQ) skills. Today, a major update to “hearEQ: Ear training for musicians and engineers” launched for iOS. It’s a simple app with a powerful promise: if you learn the qualities of each frequency band – for example, cutting 4 kHz puts sound in the background – then you can make equalization work for you, and truly transform your live and recorded sound into something professional and beautiful.
* Build practical, real-life audio mixing skills by practising on your own tracks
* A special Learning mode lets you explore different EQ settings and learn about each one
* Custom exercises allow you to train on just a couple frequency bands to start, and then work up as your skills improve
* Learn using a 10-band equalizer, just like you’d find on many professional sound mixers (and iTunes too)
New in Version 2:
* No tracks on your device? No problem. A built-in practice track is now included with hearEQ
* An advanced 30-band EQ is now available as part of the Advanced EQ module
* Fully responsive across devices and portrait/landscape orientations
“Whether you’re trying to make the vocals rise above the mix at a show, or mixing two similar guitar parts on a record, EQing can have a profound effect,” said Alex Andrews, hearEQ’s creator. “hearEQ builds the practical skills you need to identify which frequency bands you can harness to transform your sound, whether for a live show, a new recording, or even your home stereo.”
hearEQ: Ear training for musicians and engineers 2.1.0 is $4.99 USD (or equivalent amount in other currencies) and available worldwide exclusively through the App Store in the Music category. An additional built-in track “Pink Noise” and a set of advanced EQ settings are available as in-app purchases.
hearEQ: Ear training for musicians and engineers 2.1.0
Vimeo Video (Demo)
Based out of east-side Toronto, Ten Kettles builds original apps for music and education, and was founded in 2013 by Alex Andrews. Alex is an engineer, teacher, and musician, coming from a background in research labs (biosignal analysis, hearing development/disability, music psychology), music education, and playing many, many concerts in and around Toronto. All Material and Software (C) Copyright 2016 Ten Kettles Inc. All Rights Reserved. Apple, the Apple logo, iPhone, iPod and iPad are registered trademarks of Apple Inc. in the U.S. and/or other countries. Other trademarks and registered trademarks may be the property of their respective owners.
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Fire district loses ballot question by 30 votes
Fire officials may contest results
By BRENDA SCHORYEmailFollow
ST. CHARLES TOWNSHIP – The Fox River and Countryside Fire Protection District lost its fifth referendum bid for a tax rate increase by 30 votes, according to unofficial totals March 20 from Kane and DuPage counties.
The request for a 16-cent increase was voted down 2,019 “no” to 1,989 “yes,” according to an unofficial tally.
The increase would have boosted the rate to 43 cents from the current rate of 27 cents per $100 of equalized assessed value, providing about $1 million more per year, officials said.
Kenneth Shepro, the fire district’s attorney, said there were some problems with the Kane portion of the election that officials are trying to address.
“Part of the fire question was missing after the yes and no,” Shepro said.
The missing part stated, “For the 2018 levy year, the approximate amount of the additional tax extendable against property containing a single-family residence and having a fair market value at the time of the referendum of $100,000 is estimated to be $52.”
Shepro said everyone who voted was supposed to get a card with the additional information highlighted, but many did not get the printed card.
“It was not universally applied,” Shepro said. “We are getting affidavits from people who did not get the cards. … We are looking at whether the omission of that language from the proposition was fatal to the outcome.”
Kane County Clerk Jack Cunningham said there would be no comment from his office on that issue.
Another problem is that Campton Precinct 3 seemed to have more voters than there are houses, Shepro said. Two-thirds of those in that precinct are in the fire district.
“It seems peculiar that so many voted in the smallest part of the district so as to overwhelm the largest part of the district, “Shepro said. “We’re trying to find an explanation for that.”
Shepro said when a person puts his address information into the clerk’s database, it brings up a ballot unique to that individual.
Shepro said it might be possible that people who are not in the fire district mistakenly got a ballot with the referendum on it – and voted no.
“We may have to go parcel by parcel and figure out who got what ballot,” Shepro said. “It’s a tedious process.”
Cunningham said there would be no comment from his office on that, either.
The fire district scheduled a special meeting at 7 p.m. April 5 at Fire Station No. 1, 35W500 Carl Lee Road, St. Charles Township, to discuss what to do next, Shepro said.
Officials had said if they did not get the rate increase, they might have to rotate closing down the two stations. Trustees may decide to do that at this meeting, as well as decide to take action on the referendum results, Shepro said.
“The news is that we are still looking at what our options are,” Shepro said. “We can’t actually do anything about it until after they officially certify the vote. And that will be between April 3 and 10. And after they do that, we have 30 days to file a contest.”
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Underwood details her campaign from Women's March to Congress
Rickert wins sixth term as Kane County treasurer
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Keuka College Softball Splits at Abington
Keuka (6-12, 3-3) 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 0
Penn St.-Abington (10-15, 7-1) 1 0 1 0 2 4 X 8 11 1
Penn St.-Abington (9-15, 6-1) 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 1
Danielle Bosch (10) had a career-high three hits in game one for Keuka -- Photo by Courtney Gleichauf (3/30/19)
2B: Akia Marshall 2
3B: Stephanie Andreoli; Becca Dougherty; Danielle Hebling
2B: Danielle Bosch; Brittany Vergason
2B: Akia Marshall
ABINGTON, Pa. — The Keuka College Softball team split a North Eastern Athletic Conference doubleheader on Sunday afternoon at Penn St-Abington.
Keuka College (6-12, 3-3 NEAC) won the opening game 2-0, but the Nittany Lions topped the Wolves 8-1 in the nightcap.
Keuka College 2 at Penn St.-Abington 0 – Game One
The Wolves threatened in the top of the first with back-to-back singles by Danielle Bosch and Brittany Vergason, but were unable to cash the runners in.
Keuka College took the lead in the third as the team of Bosch and Vergason worked together again. Bosch singled with two outs to keep the inning going. She then scored for first on a double by Brittany Vergason to give the Wolves a 1-0 lead.
The Wolves doubled their lead in the fifth. Again with two outs, Danielle Bosch doubled to scored Jessie Hammers to push the Keuka lead to 2-0
Starting pitcher Colleen Mooney allowed just three hits while striking out eight in pitching the complete game shutout as the Wolves defeated Penn St.-Abington 2-0.
Lead Wolf: The tandem of Bosch and Vergason provided all of the offense for Keuka. They combined for all five of Keuka's hits in game one. Danielle Bosch went a perfect 3-3 at the plate, setting a new career-high in hits.
Penn St.-Abington 8 vs. Keuka College 1 – Game Two
Jessie Hammers led the second game off with a single, stole second, and moved to third on a sacrifice bunt. However, she was out at home on a fielder's choice hit by Brittany Vergason. During the rundown, Vergason was able to advance to third base. She then scored on an RBI single by Jordan Cole to give the Wolves a 1-0 lead.
The lead would be short-lived as the Nittany Lions responded with a run in the bottom of the first to tie the game.
Penn St.-Abington would take the lead in the bottom of third. The Nittany Lions stayed on the front foot with two runs in the fifth and four in the sixth as they defeated Keuka College 8-1.
Lead Wolf: Jordan Cole drove in the lone run for Keuka and led the Wolves with two hits in the game.
Keuka College is now 5-2 all-time against Penn St.-Abington
Sunday was the first time that the Wolves and Nittany Lions played each other in Abington
It was the eighth shutout of Colleen Mooney's career. She moved into a tie with Jen Shaughnessy for second-most in program history
Mooney has also now pitched the fifth-most innings in program history. The junior has thrown 251 innings in her career
Jessie Hammers had her school-record 14-game hitting streak snapped in game one. Hammers rebounded with a single in game two giving her 116 career hits, ninth most in program history
Up Next for Keuka College: The Wolves will return from Pennsylvania and play a pair of midweek doubleheaders at the Jephson Community Athletic Complex. The Wolves will first host Alfred State on Tuesday afternoon. Keuka College will then welcome in SUNY Cobleskill on Wednesday for a North Eastern Athletic Conference doubleheader. First pitch is set for 3pm on both days.
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AI in Advancement
Advancement Live is back this month with new topics and a new format. Join Higher Ed Live hosts Andrew Gossen and Kim Infanti for a look at what is trending in university advancement shops. This week: Artificial Intelligence and the upcoming summit for alumni relations, fundraising, and communications pros at Cornell University.
Andrew Gossen
Andrew is a social media strategist/social anthropologist with a strong alumni relations background who is interested in the intersection between community, communication, and technology. His goal is to capitalize on the opportunities offered by emerging technologies, mobile and social, to advance organizational goals by enhancing connectedness and engagement between constituents and organizations, as well as among the constituents themselves. Andrew has a strong track record of recognizing emerging opportunities, mobilizing support for pilot projects and integrating successful experiments into organizational structure and strategy.
Kim Infanti
Host of Advancement Live and Director of Communications and Digital Engagement in Syracuse University’s Office of Alumni Engagement
Kim enjoys being a connector and finding new ways to foster relationships using social media. She is the Director of Strategic Communications and Digital Engagement in Syracuse University’s Office of Alumni Engagement. Prior to joining the alumni office, Kim oversaw alumni programs in Syracuse University’s Career Services office. One of her proudest accomplishments during that time was creating the @WorkingOrange Twitter handle, a concept that many peer institutions have since modeled.
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Raiders’ Jeremy Hawkins denied NRL debut
04/12/2018 01:23 ⋅ admin
Canberra Raiders rookie Jeremy Hawkins is the latest exciting prospect to have his NRL dream put on ice by the competition’s second-tier salary cap.
Less than 24 hours after Hawkins was named to make his first-grade debut against the Gold Coast Titans at Cbus Super Stadium on Sunday, the NRL denied the Raiders’ application for an exemption on the grounds other players were available in his position.
Former Raiders captain Alan Tongue has called on the NRL to increase the number of players in each club’s top squad from 25 so promising youngsters are not denied the opportunity of being blooded into first grade.
The Raiders reached the limit of the $440,000 second-tier salary cap when hooker Kurt Baptise made his club debut in the 19-18 loss to the Wests Tigers on June 28.
Centre Jack Wighton suffered a broken thumb in the same game, prompting coach Ricky Stuart to call up Hawkins after the 21-year-old crossed for four tries for the Raiders’ NSW Cup affiliate Mounties last weekend.
It is the second year in a row the Raiders have been prevented from handing an NRL debut to a promising youngster. Last season it was halfback Mitch Cornish, who was named to play in the round-26 match with the Cronulla Sharks before he was forced to watch from the sidelines when an exemption to the second-tier salary cap was not granted.
A former NRL coach, who didn’t want to be named, said of the Hawkins’ decision, ”all we’re doing is stunting their progress”.
Raiders chief executive Don Furner was diplomatic with his response, admitting he would have been surprised if the NRL had agreed to their submission.
”It’s disappointing for Jeremy, but we’re confident he’ll get his chance to make his NRL debut with the Raiders in the future,” Furner said. “With injuries to Jack Wighton and a season-ending injury to Edrick Lee earlier this year we were hopeful of an exemption, but we respect the NRL’s decision.”
Each NRL club operates under a $5.5 million salary cap for its top-25 squad, while another $440,000 is set aside for the second-tier salary cap. That was increased from $375,000 last season when the Panthers could not play Matt Moylan once players in the top-25 squad returned from injury.
The Raiders have this season used four players from their extended NRL squad: Baptiste, Matt Allwood, Shannon Boyd and Kyle O’Donnell.
They have also promoted outside back Brenko Lee from the club’s under-20s team.
In making its decision, the NRL said there were players such as Reece Robinson who were available for selection and played the same position as Hawkins.
Tongue said the increased pace of the game and the amount of injuries teams were sustaining should lead to having a bigger pool of players available.
”I definitely think there’s some room to move in that top 25,” Tongue said. “It’s a tough one because how far do you push it and how much leeway do you give to clubs.
”Having two guys injured in your outside backs [Wighton and Edrick Lee] is probably not enough to ask for compensation, there’s a lot of clubs that have done it far worse. It’s all about balancing the roster.”
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During 25 years of market presence, Hoa Phat has consistently fulfilled its corporate social responsibilities which are genuine in terms of heartfelt and guided by the motto “Harmony for Joint Development”. This has been illustrated by increasingly large contributions to the State Budget every year, the social security activities and the creation of stable jobs to tens of thousands of people, and a series of social charity initiatives.
Contribution to the State Budget
During 2017, the Hoa Phat Group paid VND5,000 billion to the State Budget in the form of taxes and fees, an increase of 40% compared with 2016. Out of this, Hai Duong province is where Hoa Phat paid the biggest amount, i.e. over VND2,000 billion. This amount is the second biggest budget payment to this province, i.e. among Top 10. And with over VND1,200 billion paid, Hoa Phat continued to be the biggest budget payer to Hung Yen province, accounting for 12% of its total budget and 40% of total payment from non-state-owned enterprises in Hung Yen province.
Besides the above localities, Hoa Phat has paid to the budget of 23 provinces or cities nationwide, including Hai Phong (VND332 billion), Ho Chi Minh City (VND253 billion), Ha Giang (over VND200 billion), Quang Ninh (VND180 billion), Binh Duong (VND81 billion), Hanoi (63 billion), etc.
In Quang Ngai province, where the Hoa Phat Dung Quat Steel Integrated Complex Project is located, Hoa Phat has paid a significant amount of VND43 billion to the provincial budget though the project is still in an early stage of development. Hoa Phat is expected to pay up to VND5,000 billion per year to the budget of this province upon the project operating at its full capacity.
With the current growth rate, it is expected that when the Hoa Phat Steel Integrated Complex Project operates at full capacity from 2020, Hoa Phat will reach revenue of over VND100,000 billion and contribute nearly VND10,000 billion to the national budget.
Heartbeat of love
“Heartbeat of love” project has begun since the end of 2015 with a special mission: to fund heart surgery for poor patients. Hoa Phat Group worked in collaboration with leading heart doctors in prestigious hospitals, such as Viet Duc Hospital, Hanoi University of Health Hospital, E Hospital, Bach Mai Hospital, etc….
During 2017, the Hoa Phat Group funded heart surgery to 60 children with a total subsidy of nearly VND1.5 billion. In this regard, 60 successful surgery cases means that 60 hearts with new beats and a new life for the children and their families.
The timely financial support from the Hoa Phat Group has helped many families reduce anxiety and the high medical cost burden bringing hopes of life and joys to the children, joining them in battling against their diseases.
“Spring of love”
This is an annual initiative carried out before the threshold of every Lunar New Year festival to bring a decent and warm festival to families in difficult circumstances. In 2017, “Spring of love” reached 12 provinces or cities nationwide, offering nearly 2,000 gift portions with a total exceeding over VND2 billion including both cash and in-kind gifts to families in difficult circumstances in localities where factories or animal farms of Hoa Phat are located.
“Charitable meals – Honorable hearts”
“Charitable meals – Honourable hearts”, also known as “K Hospital meals” among the patients staying at the Central Oncology Hospital (or K Hospital) No. 2 in Tam Hiep, is a charitable program carried out by Hoa Phat since 2010 and to be continued in the future.
During 7 years of the program, regardless of weather conditions, 150 meal portions per day have been provided to poor patients at the hospital. This program demonstrates the hearts of Hoa Phat’s employees who wish to share part of the miseries and medical expenses of the patients who are in difficult circumstances.
During 2017, with the aim to modernise the charitable canteen, Hoa Phat completed the renovation and upgrades to the facility. With integrated design and modern appliances, the canteen team has saved a lot of time and enhanced management of food safety and hygiene process in accordance with the relevant regulations from the Ministry of Health.
“Hoa Phat joins hands with students”
According to the minutes of agreement signed between the Hoa Phat Group and the National Economics University, Hoa Phat will grant VND5 billion during the period 2016
– 2020 for the University’s students with outstanding academic results. Each scholarship portion is VND1.1 million per student per academic month. Accordingly, the total scholarship value per academic term of a student is VND5.5 million. In 2017, 170 students were granted scholarship in two periods with a total amount of VND950 million.
To facilitate monthly scholarship granting procedures, Hoa Phat assisted students in opening bank accounts free-of- charge and transfer scholarships via such accounts. Hoa Phat scholarship can be compared to a companion of students in their roads to life, in addition to their academic knowledge.
Besides its monthly scholarships granted to students, Hoa Phat granted VND100 million in the form of awards to students who have outstanding scientific researches. Hoa Phat wishes that such assistance would encourage students to join the movement of scientific research with their own valuable studies.
In 2017, Hoa Phat granted furniture to conference rooms or halls in the National Economics University with a total value of VND2.5 billion. This is part of Hoa Phat’s project for modernisation of education facilities that Hoa Phat has carried out with an aim to improving teaching and studying quality in education institutions.
“Join hands for the community”
In 2017, many farmers in Quang Ngai province were in a state of “emergency” in which they got a bountiful harvest of water melons but suffered a sharp decline in water melon prices as a result. Traders offered extremely low prices or even refused to buy. As a result, water melons were abandoned in the fields, not harvested or served as food for cattle. Farmers were at risk of debts or bankruptcy.
With the viewpoint of “let water melon be water melon”, Hoa Phat would not grant cash as in doing so in previous charity programs. Instead, Hoa Phat dispatched their own staff to Quang Ngai province to buy 250 tonnes of water melons from the farmers and transported to Hanoi, Hai Duong, Hung Yen, Da Nang, Ho Chi Minh City, Dong Nai, etc. for sale. All transportation, loading, unloading, packing expenses were at no cost so that each water melon could cost only VND2,500 to consumers. Besides, Hoa Phat donated to the Hanoi Youth Union 70 tonnes of water melons for sale, from which the proceeds would be used for building charity houses.
During 2016, Hoa Phat granted VND2 billion towards phase 1 of Nguyen Van Linh Kindergarten Project (in Giai Pham commune, Yen My district, Hung Yen province); and continued its grant for phase 2 of this project with an amount of VND1 billion.
A special charity activity that Hoa Phat carried out in 2017 is to finance an X-ray machine for the imaging diagnosis center of the Emergency Department of Bach Mai Hospital which costs VND1.5 billion. This donation of Hoa Phat assisting in reducing the capacity pressure and improve the quality of medical services of the Emergency Department in particular and Bach Mai Hospital in general.
All of the charity activities carried out by Hoa Phat thus far have come from the unconditional voluntary spirit which demonstrates the corporate responsibilities to the society. In the future, the Hoa Phat Group will continue with this tradition.
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Discography/
Producer . Engineer / Songwriter
Jason Aldean - "Lights Come On" (Broken Bow Records) | Co-Writer
Florida Georgia Line - "Smooth", "Lifer", "Life Is a Honeymoon", "Island", "Music Is Healing", "While He's Still Around", "Heatwave" (Big Machine/Republic Nashville) | Co-Writer, Programming
Granger Smith - "If the Boot Fits" (Wheelhouse Records) | Co-Writer
Chris Lane - "All About You" (Big Loud Records) | Co-Writer
Kane Brown - "Ain't No Stoppin' Us" & "What Ifs" (Sony Music) | Co-Writer, Programming
Nick Fradiani - "All On You", "Nobody", "Forget2ForgetU (Big Machine/Republic Nashville) | Produced, Co-Writer
Forever In Your Mind - "Whistle" (Hollywood Records) | Co-Producer, Co-Writer
The Swon Brothers - "Just Another Girl" (Independent) | Co-Writer
Rajiv Dhall - "Tempo" (Independent) | Co-Producer, Co-Writer
Tiffany Houghton - "I'm Gonna Love You" (Independent) | Co-Writer
Zach Lockwood - Unreleased EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Co-Writer
Girl Billy - Unreleased EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Co-Writer
Cole Taylor - "Side To Side" (Independent) | Co-Writer
Patent Pending - Riot Hearts Rebellion LP (Rude Records) | Produced, Engineered, Co-Writer
Sophie Simmons - Unreleased EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Chase Coy - Youth LP (Independent) | Mixed
Patent Pending - Armageddon EP (Rude Records) | Produced, Engineered, Co-Writer
One OK Rock - "Memories" from 35xxv LP (A-Sketch Records) | Produced, Engineered, Co-Writer
One OK Rock - 35xxv Live DVD (A-Sketch Records) | Co-Engineered
Austin Plaine - Self-titled LP (Razor & Tie/WeVolve Music) | Co-Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Quietdrive - The Ghost of Who You Used To Be LP (Twilight Records) | Mixed
Rajiv Dhall - TwentyFourSeven EP (Independent) | Co-produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Kagamitonari - Upcoming LP (Twilight Records) | Mixed
Patent Pending - Brighter LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Sun Culture - Boundries EP (Independent) | Co-Produced, Engineered, Co-Writer
The Role Call - Like I Do EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Paradise Fears - Battle Scars Acoustic EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Love Out Loud - The Wildlife LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Jamestown Story - Jamestown Story & Friends EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Lessons - American Ghosts (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Quietdrive - Up Or Down LP (Twilight Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Stephen Jerzak - Upcoming EP (Sony ATV) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Jamestown Story - Show Me Tomorrow LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
3rd & Union - Self-Titled LP (Independent) | Co-Produced, Engineered, Mixed
My My Misfire - Southern Lies EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Jamestown Story - The Nashville Sessions EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Lessons - Self-Titled EP (Independent) | Engineered, Mixed
Jamestown Story - A Jamestown Story Christmas LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Paradise Fears - Yours Truly LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Patent Pending - Second Family (Second Family Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Quietdrive - Your Record Our Spin LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Take Cover - The Dreamer and The Realist LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Brooke Gerhart - Self-titled LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
For All Those Sleeping - Maybe This Christmas (Song) (Fearless Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
My Lady Four - In This Life Or The Next LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Jamestown Story - A Walk Through Time EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
My My Misfire - Gypsy Rose Lee (Song) (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Motion City Soundtrack - My Dinosaur Life LP (Columbia Records) | Engineered
Sing It Loud - Everything Collide LP (Epitaph Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Paradise Fears - Make Them Believe EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Patent Pending - I'm Not Alone EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Quietdrive - Self-Titled LP (Twilight Records) (Produced, Engineered, Mixed)
Jamestown Story - Find A Way LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
All The Right Moves - The Monster I've Become EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Linden - Self-Titled LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Kieren Smith - The Better Life EP | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Avian - Memories and Melodies (Song) (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Reverse Order - The Life Of The Party EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Wave Down The Planes - Self-Titled EP (Independent) | Mixed
Just The Kid You Were Looking For - Keep It Fun EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Goodbye Coastline - Self-Titled EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Liz Akhavan - Playing Dumb (Song) (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Metro Station - Time To Play (Song) (Columbia Records) | Mixed
Juliette Simms/Automatic Loveletter - Let It Ride (Song) (Epic Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Metro Station - Japanese Girl (Song) (Columbia Records) | Mixed
Take Cover - The Last Word EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Metro Station - This XMAS (Song) (Columbia Records) | Mixed
Quietdrive - Close Your Eyes EP (Twilight Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Jamestown Story - Love vs. Life LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
The Anytime - Crave EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Show Me The Skyline - Rumor Has It EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Dreamstate - Something To Believe In LP (Fabtone Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Francis Park - Arrival LP (Fabtone Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
My Lady Four - Everyone Pays The Gate Keeper EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Hillcrest Road - The Definition EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
The Morning Light - The Sounds Of Love EP (Fearless Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
You, Me, And Everyone We Know - So Young, So Insane EP (Independent) | Co-Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Take Cover - Self-Titled EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Jamestown Story - The Prologue EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
Trace The Skyline - Self-Titled EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
All The Right Moves - Self-titled EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Collin Reed - Self-Titled EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Mathletes - Self-Titled EP (Independent) | Co-Produced, Engineered, Mixed
A Day Away - Here We Go Again LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Midwest Grammar - Regarding LP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered
Juliette Simms/Automatic Loveletter - Recover EP (Epic Records) | Co-Engineer
Sing It Loud - Self-Titled EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Skindred - Roots, Rock, Riot LP (Independent) (Lava Records) | Co-Engineer
All Time Low - 6 Feet Under The Stars (Acoustic) (Hopeless Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
All Time Low - Stay Awake (Acoustic) (Hopeless Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
All Time Low - Jasey Rae (Acoustic) on Punk Goes Acoustic 2 (Hopeless Records) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Daphne Loves Derby - Good Night, Witness Light LP (Outlook Records) | Co-Engineer
Linden - The Future Is Now EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Jamestown Story - One Last Breath EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Lights Out Dancing - Oh The Places You'll Go EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Jimmy Robbins - Too Sorry For Apologies EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed
Jamestown Story - Self-titled EP (Independent) | Produced, Engineered, Mixed, Co-Writer
@JORDANMSCHMIDT
Jordan Schmidt
RT @datassque: yall tired of boiling water every time you make pasta? boil a few gallons at the beginning of the week and freeze it for later.
There just aren't enough movies with Johnny Cage these days
RT @DannyDutch: I'm no geologist but this is quite an interesting Rock formation. https://t.co/oPrh6j1y2x
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JSC Academician M.F. ReshetnevInformation Satellite Systems
Capabilities and achievements
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Communications satellite successfully launched from Baikonur
On April 19, 2018 a telecommunications satellite Blagovest №12, designed and built by ISS-Reshetnev Company, was successfully launched into orbit from the Baikonur cosmodrome.
A Proton-M rocket carrying Blagovest №12 took off at 01:12 Moscow time from the Baikonur launch site. Nine hours and two minutes into flight the satellite was injected into the geostationary orbit with a Breeze-M upper stage.
By now Blagovest №12 has established contact with ground controllers, all its systems perform as intended, mechanical systems have successfully deployed. The satellite is currently in the Sun acquisition mode.
The Blagovest №12 satellite is based on ISS-Reshetnev’s Express-2000 platform and has a payload structure which was also developed by the company.
Special thanks for participation in Radioastron project 09.07.2019
Awards reached their innovators 09.07.2019
Exhibition on Mikhail Reshetnev opens in Moscow 28.06.2019
ISS-Reshetnev hosted a roundtable at ARMY-2019 forum 27.06.2019
ISS-Reshetnev employees receive State awards 18.06.2019
Multimedia and information
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Kim Kardashian And Kanye West Relationship Problem, Is The Hollywood Star Not Trusting The Rapper Anymore?
By stphntapulao , Nov 30, 2016 08:39 PM EST
Fans have witness the ups and downs of the relationship of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West. And just this past few days, it seems like the two are yet to face another testing in their relationship. Sources told that Kim is so over with the character of West. With all the controversies that the two have faced, will people see yet another divorce in the entertainment industry?
Kanye West Is Getting In The Nerves Of Partner Kim Kardashian, Are Their Relationship Already Over?
According to Movie News Guide, Kim Kardashian already gave up on the negative things that they are experiencing as a couple. She already reached the limit of understanding her partner, Kanye.
Sources even told that different news publication have already looked out on the massive weight loss that is happening in the life of Kim. They reiterated that that the elite star have been anxious of different events that has happened between her and Kanye.
However, some cleared that the reason behind her lost is because of her healthy lifestyle and controlled eating. Fans have been blunt of their admiration in the artist when it comes to health and fashion.
Also, one of the shocking events that had happened between Kanye and Kim is the Paris Robbery. News told that the two were very frightened and traumatized with what happen. Reports told that Kim won't be doing Keeping up With Kardashians anymore due to fear as she suffers multiple panic attacks.
Kanye West's Suffers Breakdown During Concert Tour, Is The Rapper Still Not Over With What Happened In His Family?
On the other hand, people from all over the world were shocked with what happened during Kanye West's concert tour, he acted strange on stage and became dysfunctional.
As of this moment, Kanye is undergoing treatment and is not yet stable. Reports told that Kim had been there for Kanye ever since the emergency had happened. The supporters of the two Hollywood stars wishes only the best for the couple.
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Kylie Jenner Has A New Boyfriend And His Name Is Travis Scott
The rumors are actually true as Kylie Jenner has a new boyfriend in the name of Travis Scott. Also, Tyga seems to have moved on as well when paparazzi caught him with another woman.
Kylie Jenner Makes Her 'KUWTK' Spinoff Series; Reality Show To Feature Her Relationship With Tyga?
Kylie Jenner is reportedly making her own reality series which will serve as "Keeping Up with the Kardashians'" spinoff. The matte mogul's new show is said to ask rumored ex of Kylie, Tyga, to appear as their roller coaster relationship is expected to be featured in the series.
Blac Chyna Loses Chance To Become A Kardashian; Will The Kardashians Ever Accept Her?
Blac Chyna's application to register the Kardashian trademark name as her own has just been denied, making the legal battle a win for the Kardashians.
Kim Kardashian’s Feud With Kourtney Fake; Accusations on Kim Ruining 'Keeping Up With The Kardashians' Made Up?
Kim Kardashian is reportedly in hot water with older sister, Kourtney. Previous reports claim that the older Kardashian is livid with Kim as she is allegedly the reson for "Keeping up with the Kardashians'" low ratings. However, it was found out that the reports might only be made up.
Kanye West To Launch His Own Cosmetic Line, Kylie Jenner Better Watch Out
Kylie Jenner better be ready right now as Kanye West has set his sights in venturing to cosmetic business. Wll this tarnish their relationship?
Kanye West Causes A Bog Down For Two Hours Because Of A Wardrobe Issue
Kanye West causes delay on the shoot of Anchorman 2 because of Jacket Issues.
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Debunking ‘Enceladus’: Could Saturn’s Moon Potentially Be A Host Of Life?
Considering the number of space exploration and their purposes, how essential is it for us to know more about Saturn’s moon? Can it really be the possible host of life in the future instead of the previous speculations that it should be Mars? What is there in ‘Enceladus’ that it is seen to support life? Here’s what authorities have to say
Mars Update: UAE Launches First Islamic Mission To The Red Planet
As the number of space exploration and Mars missions continuously flourish, how significant is the newest mission that has been spearheaded by authorities from the United Arab Emirates? Why do they have to emphasize that this will be the first ‘Islamic’ mission? Does their mission have something to do with religion? Here’s what they have to say
Is Alien Mystery Finally Solved? NASA Engineers Takes A Quick Snap Selfie With The Alleged Alien, Details Inside
Days after UFO hunters made their bizarre claims that a mysterious object was an alien, NASA engineers is now to the rescue by taking a quick snap selfie to prove that there are no aliens or unknown objects involved. Will this finally put an end to conspiracy theories? Here are the details
Not Just Once But Four Times! NASA Gets Busted After It Has Tried To Cover An Alleged UFO For 4 Times; But Why?
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Top Secret UFO Documents From The Ministry Of Defense, Finally Revealed; What Does It Say? Details Inside
As the documents from CIA have recently been exposed, is yet another strong proof of alien existence to have finally been revealed. What do the MOD’s top secret UFO documents reveal about extraterrestrial life forms? How essential can these documents be in the quest of learning about aliens? Here’s what experts have to say
You Wouldn’t Want To Miss This! Renowned Physicist Stephen Hawkings Has Just Determined The End Of The World, Is It Too Late?
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CIA Documents On UFO Investigations, Finally Exposed: Could This Be The End Of All Conspiracy Theories?
With the numerous claims about the existence of conspiracy theories, how can the recently revealed CIA documents on UFO investigations change the overall plan of the government? What are the details that are included in the said document? Here’s what the documents reveal
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Another UFO Sighting Under A Spooky Full Moon Caught On Cam: Is It Really An Extraterrestrial Life Or A Paranormal Activity?
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Drabu: Modernity must blend with respect for cultural glory
Jehlum Post News/Srinagar/March 31, 2015/Minister for Finance, Culture and Employment, Dr. Haseeb Ahmad Drabu Tuesday urged all the stakeholders to defend their ethnicity and culture.The Minister was speaking on the inaugural function of 3-day International Conference on ‘’Literary Legacy of Indo-Central Asia, Afghanistan and Iran’’ held at University of Kashmir
in collaboration with Bedil International Foundation, New Delhi.The Minister for Finance, Dr. Haseeb Ahmad Drabu was the chief guest while as Ambassador of Turkmenistan in India, Mr. Parakhat H. Durdyev was guest of honour. Dr.Drabu said that Kashmir has a rich and fascinating cultural heritage which needs to be revived and promoted for posterity. He underlined the need for saving the losses occurring to culture and language by regular modernization and other allied things.The Minister said that Central Asian countries including Azarbaijan, Tajkistan and Turkmenistan subsumed their rich cultural ethos. He said that since Kashmir’s and Central Asian countries share many cultural similarities and both need to make joint effort to preserve and promote their rich cultural heritage. He called for encouraging people to people contact between these countries to exchange the richness of culture and language.Dr. Drabu lamented the loss of ethnic and cultural moorings of Kashmiris who are losing a bit of their culture every day by being driven by hunger for modernizing their everyday life. He said that we are fast losing our language and culture which is our identity as an ethnic group and great nations never sacrifice their culture at the altar of trends.The function was attended by various renowned dignitaries of neighbouring countries and other states of the country, besides a galaxy of scholars, social scientists and intellectuals.The welcome address was delivered by Director of Centre of Central Asian Studies (CCAS), Prof. G. N. Khaki, while key note address was delivered by former Vice Chancellor Az-Zahra University, Iran, Prof. Hakimeh Dabiran besides Presidential remarks were given by Dean Academic Affairs, Prof. Mohammad Ashraf Wani and special address were given by Director Academy Sciences, Tajikistan, Prof. Mirzo Mulloahmad and Chairman Bedil International Foundation, New Delhi, Mr. Mohammad Shafi Pandit. Later, the Minister released four books regarding Central Asian Studies.
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Future doctors who may eventually join Gippsland's medical workforce have embarked on their first year at Churchill's Monash School of Rural Health. Seven students who grew up in Gippsland are among the 103 starting the pre-clinical year of their medical degree at Churchill. After a year of lecture-based study, they will venture out for three years' learning in the health system. "They benefit from having, very much, a richer hands-on clinical experience than students who only go through metropolitan schools but as well they get to live in the communities they're working in," Monash Rural Health head Professor Robyn Langham said. "It takes a good three years in the clinical system to get a good grounding to make you a reasonable doctor." Berwick-based student Niharika Ojha, who spent about seven childhood years in Traralgon, is in her specialty year, or year 4C, at the medical school. "It's a great year to get a bit of flavour of the [specialty] areas and see which one I'm liking more," Ms Ojha said. This semester she is rotating through six-week placements at West Gippsland Healthcare Group, and says working in Warragul or Traralgon would be a "great option" . As for beginning placements in paediatrics, women's health and psychiatry, she said it could be "a bit stressful" not knowing what was ahead of her but putting away the books for hands-on training was "really good for learning". "It's lovely the community here ... the team of doctors are really keen on teaching and it's a great learning environment. You don't feel shy to ask questions or feel intimidated by anyone," Ms Ojha said. Professor Langham said the specialist training after medical school predominantly happened in Melbourne. "In their mid-to-late 20s they move to Melbourne ... meet their partner, get their mortgage, build their networks ... it's such a critical time in the lives of young doctors," Professor Langham said. Monash, with federal government support, has a regional training hub in Gippsland to mentor junior doctors outside the city and "build the capacity for supervision of trainees in rural health". “That’s about how we change that conversation about moving the training programs back so they’re based in the rural areas,” Professor Langham said.
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Trainee doctors get feel for Gippsland
Professor Robyn Langham
Future doctors who may eventually join Gippsland's medical workforce have embarked on their first year at Churchill's Monash School of Rural Health.
Seven students who grew up in Gippsland are among the 103 starting the pre-clinical year of their medical degree at Churchill.
After a year of lecture-based study, they will venture out for three years' learning in the health system.
"They benefit from having, very much, a richer hands-on clinical experience than students who only go through metropolitan schools but as well they get to live in the communities they're working in," Monash Rural Health head Professor Robyn Langham said.
"It takes a good three years in the clinical system to get a good grounding to make you a reasonable doctor."
Berwick-based student Niharika Ojha, who spent about seven childhood years in Traralgon, is in her specialty year, or year 4C, at the medical school.
"It's a great year to get a bit of flavour of the [specialty] areas and see which one I'm liking more," Ms Ojha said.
This semester she is rotating through six-week placements at West Gippsland Healthcare Group, and says working in Warragul or Traralgon would be a "great option" .
As for beginning placements in paediatrics, women's health and psychiatry, she said it could be "a bit stressful" not knowing what was ahead of her but putting away the books for hands-on training was "really good for learning".
"It's lovely the community here ... the team of doctors are really keen on teaching and it's a great learning environment. You don't feel shy to ask questions or feel intimidated by anyone," Ms Ojha said.
Professor Langham said the specialist training after medical school predominantly happened in Melbourne.
"In their mid-to-late 20s they move to Melbourne ... meet their partner, get their mortgage, build their networks ... it's such a critical time in the lives of young doctors," Professor Langham said.
Monash, with federal government support, has a regional training hub in Gippsland to mentor junior doctors outside the city and "build the capacity for supervision of trainees in rural health".
“That’s about how we change that conversation about moving the training programs back so they’re based in the rural areas,” Professor Langham said.
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Frédéric D. OBERLAND (FR)
(c) Grégoire Orio, 2018
"Strike while the iron is hot" could be the motto of this artist; the Stakhanovist, autodidact multi-instrumentalist; photographer, curious and inquisitive in surveying the world he travels and the nights in which dreams, nightmares, feasts and utopias are buried.
The work of Frédéric D. Oberland finds itself at the crossroads of image and sound, favouring a kinaesthetic approach. He articulates different modes of narration, combining the raw character of the documentary form with the transfigured reality of myth and poetry, allowing him to question notions such as the sacred, the monstrous, the fraternity, while at the same time returning to the political news of the present.
Attentive to the pulse and beat of the body, his music is willingly itinerant, modulating between the ripples of dreams, watching the points of incandescence and the bursts of electricity that act as revelations of our presence in the world, here and now, its mystery and its violence. It owes in equal measure to the repetitive music, the minimalism of the post-war period (Terry Riley, Charlemagne Palestine, Arvo Pärt), to the formal liberty of free jazz, to the electro-acousmatic researches and to the immediacy of the energetic punk or no wave (Sonic Youth).
He is the co-founder of leading bands on the French scene, such as OISEAUX-TEMPÊTE, FOUDRE!, Le Réveil des Tropiques, The Rustle of the Stars and FareWell Poetry.
Collaborating with film and video makers (Augustin Gimel, Ala Eddine Slim, As Human Pattern, Ho Tzu Nyen, Karel Doing, François-Xavier Drouet), writers and poets (Christophe Manon, Hugues Jallon, G.W.Sok, Jayne Amara Ross), photographers and visual artists (Stéphane Charpentier & Temps Zéro, David Fathi, Fanny Béguély, Patricia Reinhart), Frédéric D. Oberland is also curating with Mondkopf the experimental and electronic label NAHAL Recordings.
His last-in-date somophore solo album, Labyrinth (NAHAL Recordings, 2018), is a a condensed version of an octo-phonic sound and visual installation created in the basement of the contemporary art space Labanque in Béthune and inspired by George Bataille's Inner Experience and the cave of Dante's Inferno. In an introverted territory, the piece invites the listener to bare witness to the loss of landmarks and to feel then immersive sense of trance ; Labyrinth is weaving a cocoon whose ascending and cyclical pulsations intoxicate, as if under hypnosis.
For the art space Les Brasseurs - art contemporain, Frédéric D. Oberland will present an exclusive new live act inspired by Stephen Hawking last speeches, with video beams by Grégoire Orio (As Human Pattern) and live sound by Romain Poirier (Mer Noir).
http://www.fredericdoberland.com
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The Libertyville Recreation and Sports Complex Department offers adult softball leagues in the summer and fall. Summer leagues begin in late April, Fall leagues begin in mid August. All games are played at the Libertyville Sports Complex softball field, or at Odom Field at Butler Lake Park. Questions about the Libertyville Recreation and Sports Complex Department Adult Softball Leagues can be directed to Eric Freidenfelds at efreidenfelds@libertyville.com.
Registration form can be submitted via email, fax, mail or in person.
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Summer-Fall 2019 Softball Leagues
Fall softball leagues are scheduled to begin mid-August following the conclusion of the spring-summer leagues. Teams will play 9 regular season games followed by single elimination tournament.
Fees: $535 Resident Team / $585 Nonresident Team
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Spring-Summer softball leagues are in session. Teams play 11 regular season games followed by a single-elimination tournament.
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The investigation is
The investigation is “still very actively ongoing," In another interview with The Today Show.
Her lawyer,The 18-page criminal complaint details a search of Edwards’ phone and a flash drive she possessed, Chet Paschke, the highest award a mail carrier can receive. No woman will fold her arms when her house is on fire. Salah shine Meanwhile,Mesut Ozil shone on his return to Arsenal’s starting XI after illness as Arsene Wenger’s men thrashed Huddersfield Town 5-0 to tighten their grip on fourth place Alexandre Lacazette set Arsenal on their way to a 12th straight home league win by finishing from Aaron Ramsey’s flick in the third minute Ozil put the game to bed in a dazzling four-minute spell mid-way through the second half setting up goals for substitute Olivier Giroud and Alexis Sanchez before finding the net himself Giroud completed the scoring Liverpool leapfrogged Tottenham Hotspur into fifth place courtesy of a 3-0 victory at Stoke City Jurgen Klopp’s side took the lead through Sadio Mane’s neat dink in the 17th minute and substitute Mohamed Salah added a late brace the first of which was a stunning volley to take his goal tally for the campaign to 12 Burnley also crept above Spurs after Robbie Brady made a goal for Chris Wood and scored one for himself in a 2-1 win at Bournemouth who replied through Josh King Man of the day was the evergreen Rooney who scored his first hat-trick in over six years to lead Everton to a morale-boosting win over third-bottom West Ham Allardyce was in the stands at Goodison Park after Everton announced he was finalising terms to succeed the sacked Ronald Koeman as manager David Moyes returned to Goodison as West Ham manager and had the misfortune to have a front-row seat for a sensational performance by the player whose career he launched With David Unsworth still in caretaker charge Everton took an 18th-minute lead when Rooney headed in at the second attempt after his penalty was parried by Joe Hart Tom Davies teed up Rooney to sweep in a second and after Everton goalkeeper Jordan Pickford had saved a spot-kick from Manuel Lanzini Rooney completed his hat-trick with a stupendous goal After racing from his box Hart fluffed his clearance and from 15 yards inside his own half Rooney drilled an exquisite first-time finish back over the West Ham goalkeeper’s head Ashley Williams added a late fourth to complete Everton’s second win in 13 matches "Great hat-trick great display from Wayne" said Unsworth who revealed he had spoken to Allardyce before the game "I’m delighted for the club I took over when we were in the bottom three and we’ve got out of it in the six weeks" Few genes have made the headlines as much as FOXP2 The first gene associated with language disorders it was later implicated in the evolution of human speech Girls make more of the FOXP2 protein which may help explain their precociousness in learning to talk Now neuroscientists have figured out how one of its molecular partners helps Foxp2 exert its effects The findings may eventually lead to new therapies for inherited speech disorders says Richard Huganir the neurobiologist at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore Maryland who led the work Foxp2 controls the activity of a gene called Srpx2 he notes which helps some of the brain’s nerve cells beef up their connections to other nerve cells By establishing what SRPX2 does researchers can look for defective copies of it in people suffering from problems talking or learning to talk Until 2001 scientists were not sure how genes influenced language Then Simon Fisher a neurogeneticist now at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen the Netherlands and his colleagues fingered FOXP2 as the culprit in a family with several members who had trouble with pronunciation putting words together and understanding speech These people cannot move their tongue and lips precisely enough to talk clearly so even family members often can’t figure out what they are saying It “opened a molecular window on the neural basis of speech and language” Fisher says A few years later other researchers showed that the FOXP2 gene in humans differed from the chimp version by only two bases the "letters" that make up DNA That small difference may have affected Foxp2 performance such that animal calls could eventually transform into the human gift of gab In 2009 a team put the human version of the gene in mice and observed that the rodents produced more frequent and complex alarm calls suggesting these mutations may have been involved in the evolution of more complex speech But how Foxp2 works has largely remained a mystery Huganir didn’t start out trying to solve this mystery He was testing 400 proteins to see if they helped or hindered the development of specialized junctions between nerve cells called synapses which allow nerve cells to communicate with one another A single neuron can have up to 10000 synapses or connections to other neurons Huganir says Of the 10 proteins he identified one that strongly promoted synapse formation was Srpx2 a gene other researchers had linked to epilepsy and language problems Huganir and his colleagues examined Srpx2 activity in isolated nerve cells determining that it stimulated the formation of "excitatory" connections ones where a "turn on" message was conveyed to the receiving nerve cell Srpx2 also enhanced the number of excitatory connections in the part of the brain in developing mice that is the equivalent of the human language center the researchers report online today in Science Because Foxp2 regulates the activity of several genes including Srpx2 Huganir and his team took a closer look at how Foxp2 affected this gene When Foxp2 is around Srpx2 makes fewer excitatory synapses they report It may be that the right balance of excitatory synapses and other connections may be necessary for complex vocalizations Huganir suggests As a final test the researchers looked to see how changing the activity of the Srpx2 gene affected alarm calls of baby mice Mice pups separated from their moms call for help with squeals too high-pitched for humans to hear When the researchers artificially inhibited Srpx2’s activity the mice squealed less But the pups squealed normally again when gene activity was restored Huganir and his colleagues report The work "shows that Foxp2 affects synapse formation through Srpx2" says Svante P? 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Brut Reserve showcases mixed flavors with smooth finish
During every special occasion, from buying a house to christening a boat, society has shown that the only way to truly celebrate is by popping a bottle or two of champagne in your cupboard.
Champagne is used widely around the world, selling millions of bottles. From graduations to engagement celebrations, sporting events to Saturday morning brunch drinking mimosa’s, champagne has certainly solidified its place as a staple for elegance, upscale nature and fanciness.
Which brings us to the Taittinger Brut Reserves, a mix of 40 percent Chardonnay and 60 percent Pinot Noir and Pinot Mennuir to an elegant and delicious bottle. As stated on the website, Taittinger Brut Reserves is made from wines from over 35 different vineyards for the beautiful, distinct taste that one gets with a sip of Brut Reserves.
Taittinger says that it is an honor to brew a Brut champagne each year without exception.
Brewed by the Taittinger Wine Company, which was founded in the early part of the 1700s, this specific brand of wine takes between three to four years to reach the peak of its fermenting period which gives it that distinctive taste.
The website describes the drink as having a light golden color with a hint of foam and “lingering bubbles.”
As for the champagne itself, it's smooth and rich, full of fruit and brioche aromas, and is sure to bring fans of the drink back wanting more, whereas newcomers will be enticed by its sweet taste of honey and fresh fruit unassociated with cheap champagne.
Simultaneously, the drink gives off unique accents of peach, white flowers and vanilla pod according to the website, allowing a person to understand and smell the depth of flavor of the champagne they are drinking.
For more casual drinkers, one can make their own Taittinger Brut Reserves Mimosa complete with an orange wedge garnish. Pour as much of the Brut Reserve as you want and then mix with your favorite fruit juice (to stay classic, stick with orange) and garnish with a nice slice of fresh orange.
Taittinger Brut Reserve can be found in liquor stores across the country at an average price of $55.
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Congressional Leaders Stunned That Bernanke Finally Admits The Truth
Politics / Credit Crisis 2008 Sep 20, 2008 - 12:49 PM GMT
By: Mike_Shedlock
The New York Times is reporting Congressional Leaders Stunned by Warnings
It was a room full of pople who rarely hold their tongues. But as the Fed chairman, Ben S. Bernanke, laid out the potentially devastating ramifications of the financial crisis before congressional leaders on Thursday night, there was a stunned silence at first
. Mr. Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Henry M. Paulson Jr. had made an urgent and unusual evening visit to Capitol Hill, and they were gathered around a conference table in the offices of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
“When you listened to him describe it you gulped," said Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York.
As Senator Christopher J. Dodd, Democrat of Connecticut and chairman of the Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs Committee, put it Friday morning on the ABC program “Good Morning America,” the congressional leaders were told “that we're literally maybe days away from a complete meltdown of our financial system, with all the implications here at home and globally.”
Mr. Schumer added, “History was sort of hanging over it, like this was a moment.”
When Mr. Schumer described the meeting as “somber,” Mr. Dodd cut in. “Somber doesn't begin to justify the words,” he said. “We have never heard language like this.”
Bernanke Admits The Truth
Congress was stunned because Bernanke finally admitted the truth (or at least came closer to doing so). Congress ought to be reading blogs rather than listening to clowns like Paulson and Bernanke.
How many times have we heard Paulson the Parrot sing the praises of the strong dollar and the soundness of the US financial system? For more on the "sound banking system" please see You Know The Banking System Is Unsound When.... and Don't Worry, The Banking System Is Sound .
The market called Bernanke's Bluff, and came close to a virtual meltdown.. For now, Armageddon was Postponed as Fed Intervenes In Money Markets .
The list of reasons the financial system is unsound grew massively today, by the tune of a $1.2 trillion taxpayer funded bailout designed to bail out the wealthy at the expense of the poor.
Earlier today Paulson has the gall to state "this will cost the tax payer less than the alternative".
No one bothered to ask why it should cost the taxpayer anything at all.
Furthermore, Paulson once again proved he needs simple arithmetic lessons. Shifting losses from those who should bear them (stock and bond holders of failing companies) to the taxpayers is not going to save the taxpayers a dime, rather it is going to cost them plenty, $1.2 trillion plenty as noted in US Taxpayer: A Giant Dumpster For Illiquid Assets .
The Whole Truth And Nothing But The Truth?
Bernanke did not really admit the truth, he only hinted at it. Congress was too dumb to pick it up. The truth is the US financial system is insolvent.
By Mike "Mish" Shedlock
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When not writing about stocks or the economy I spends a great deal of time on photography and in the garden. I have over 80 magazine and book cover credits. Some of my Wisconsin and gardening images can be seen at MichaelShedlock.com .
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Int J Med Sci 2013; 10(6):747-750. doi:10.7150/ijms.5868
Why Is Saline So Acidic (and Does It Really Matter?)
Benjamin AJ Reddi
Consultant, Intensive Care Unit, Royal Adelaide Hospital; Clinical Senior Lecturer, Discipline of Acute Care Medicine, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia.
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Reddi BA. Why Is Saline So Acidic (and Does It Really Matter?). Int J Med Sci 2013; 10(6):747-750. doi:10.7150/ijms.5868. Available from http://www.medsci.org/v10p0747.htm
Commercial 0.9% saline solution for infusion has a pH around 5.5. There are many reasons for this acidity, some of them still obscure. It is also true that infusion of normal saline can lead to metabolic acidaemia, yet the link between the acidity of saline solution and the acidaemia it can engender is not straightforward. This commentary draws together the known and putative sources of acidity in saline solutions: it turns out that the acidity of saline solution is essentially unrelated to the acidaemia complicating saline infusion.
Keywords: saline, acidaemia, titratable acidity, crystalloid, balanced solution, Grotthuss.
One might well think that ordinary commercial 0.9% saline solution for infusion would be neutral, with a pH of 7. In fact it is quite acidic: pH being reported as low as 4.6.1 Why does this simple solution have a pH so far removed from the physiology it is designed to support? And should junior doctors be concerned about what impact this in vitro acidity has on their patients? It is widely recognized that resuscitation with 0.9% saline can cause acidaemia, but oddly enough the natural assumption that this is because of the intrinsic acidity of the infusion fluid turns out to be wrong. As we shall see, and counter-intuitively, the metabolic acidosis caused when we infuse 0.9% saline has little to do with its intrinsic acidity. This paper tries to shed light on this confusing state of affairs.
Why is 0.9% saline solution for infusion acidic?
There are basically three kinds of factors that affect the pH of a commercial saline solution: the atmosphere, the ions in solution, and the container.
Pure distilled water has a pH of 7 at 250C. However, in contact with the atmosphere, carbon dioxide is absorbed and the pH falls. CO2 makes up approximately 0.036% of the atmosphere, and its solubility coefficient s in water is approximately 0.034mol.L-1.atm-1 at 250C. Henry's Law then tells us that the concentration of CO2 is the product of s and pCO2, or about 0.012mmol.L-1. Of this dissolved CO2 about 0.1% converts to carbonic acid, which dissociates to hydrogen and bicarbonate ions. Bicarbonate further dissociates to carbonate, liberating a second hydrogen ion (though the dissociation constant for this reaction in water, saline or dextrose solution is negligible - seven orders of magnitude lower than that of carbonic acid). Unlike in plasma, the hydrogen and bicarbonate ions arising from dissolved carbon dioxide in water or saline exist at equal concentrations, so:
From this, we can work out that the pH of water exposed to atmospheric pCO2 should be approximately 5.65; this is indeed close to what we find for both water and 0.9% saline solutions.
The influence of the ions in solution
All that is fine for pure water, but in saline solution some other factors need to be considered. Firstly the 'salting out effect'. CO2 solubility depends on the lone electron pair on its oxygen atom attracting the positively charged face of a hydrogen atom of water; but other electrolytes in the solution compete for the hydrogen, reducing the stability of the CO2 in solution. As a result, CO2 concentration is slightly lower in saline than in water. Secondly, the presence of electrolytes in the solution favours dissociation of H2CO3 by stabilising the daughter ions, increasing the dissociation constant for carbonic acid,2 and therefore the acidity. Thirdly, positive and negative ions - Na+, Cl-, H+ and HCO3- alike - cluster around one another in a thermodynamically favourable arrangement, imposing a structured charge distribution that affects the properties of the ions.3 The activities of the ions are then no longer proportional to their pure concentration: the activity of H+ in particular is significantly reduced in the presence of saline.4
To summarise, sodium chloride decreases the solubility of CO2, and reduces the activity of the hydrogen ions; but it also increases the dissociation of carbonic acid. The net effect is a small reduction in pH (by about 0.01).1
In addition, chemists note that many cations in solution generate acid solutions in water. For example, Al3+ or Fe3+ are electrophilic, and attracted to the electron-rich oxygen atoms of surrounding water molecules. As the electron cloud around the oxygen is drawn towards the cation, these electrons relinquish their contribution to the O-H bond, allowing the hydrogen ion to drift off and lowering the pH. However, the low positive charge and relatively large atomic radius of the sodium ion limits its electronegativity; the hydrated sodium ion attracts electrons too weakly to behave as an acid.5
Finally, hydrogen ions do not exist freely in solution, but in a hydrated state as the oxonium ion H3O+. The oxonium ion has been found to be remarkably nimble, being far more mobile than other, similarly sized ions. The reason is thought to be the 'Grotthuss' mechanism: rather than jostling to get past water molecules, a proton hops from one water molecule to another6, rather as a pail of water can be swiftly passed along a chain of firefighters - a 'proton wire' is an elegant analogy.7 The presence of electrolytes such as Na+ and Cl- has a marked disordering effect on local water structure altering hydrogen ion conductance8 and it has been suggested in the medical literature that this could manifest a reduction in pH by interfering with the Grotthuss mechanism.9 However, a theoretical basis for such an effect has not been developed and evidence that electrolytes actually alter the pH of a solution through the Grotthuss mechanism is not established in the physical chemistry literature (Prof. G Metha, personal communication).
Degradation products of PVC packaging
Saline solutions for infusion are frequently supplied in polyvinvl chloride (PVC) packaging. PVC can liberate diethylhexyl phthalate (DEHP), a comprehensively studied and controversial ester that serves as a plasticizing agent.10 In addition, formic and acetic acid - decomposition products formed by oxidation during autoclaving11 - have been identified in PVC packaged fluids whilst sterilisation with gamma irradiation generates free radicals that may lead to the formation of hydrochloric acid.12 Studies comparing (i) the theoretical pH of saline derived using the principles outlined above, (ii) the pH of saline prepared in the laboratory in the absence of PVC, and (iii) clinical grade saline from a widely used commercial source packaged in PVC based material revealed that whilst prepared samples had a very similar pH to that predicted (median 5.47), the median pH of the PVC packaged saline was 4.6. Interestingly, the pH of saline in polypropylene packaging was 5.71, suggesting a particular property of PVC to be culpable.1 Of interest, concerns that constituents and degradation products of PVC/DEHP packaging might have endocrine disrupting effects have meant that polyethylene and polypropylene containers for intravenous solutions are increasingly favoured in their stead10.
In conclusion, most of the deviation from neutral pH can be attributed to the CO2 dissolved in the saline, and this is true for any infusion solution. There may also be a significant contribution from the degradation products of PVC-packaging. Interactions between saline and carbonic acid and the intrinsic Lewis acidity of the sodium ion, whilst interesting to the enthusiast, are probably less important.
Is it the acidity of the solution itself that causes metabolic acidosis when infused?
Infusion of 0.9% saline solution is a common cause of normal anion gap metabolic acidaemia. On the face of it, one might assume this to be the logical consequence of infusing an acid solution, but the reality is more complex.
Although pH indicates the free acid activity of a solution - the abundance of H3O+ ions - it does not reflect the hydrogen ion reservoir associated with, or buffered by, weak acid anions. This can be measured by titration to pH 7.4 with sodium hydroxide, giving the titratable acidity. For 0.9% saline solutions this is minuscule, ranging from 0.126 - 0.152mEq/L.13 In other words, the buffering capacity of saline is negligible. Blood, on the other hand, contains quantities of weak anions, such as bicarbonate or albumin which can associate with or liberate protons according to the prevailing [H+], effectively 'buffering' the pH around the dissociation constant of that acid anion. Since the high effective hydrogen ion activity of 0.9% saline is not backed up by a significant reservoir of dissociable hydrogen ions to replenish those consumed, when mixed with the formidable buffering capacity of plasma, the infused solution is rapidly and comprehensively titrated to physiological pH. So why does a 0.9% saline infusion cause metabolic acidosis?
The answer lies again in buffering. Whilst buffering limits the effect of adding free acid of low titratable acidity, what is less easily accommodated is interference with the buffer system itself. Administration of a 0.9% saline solution, containing no buffer base, dilutes the endogenous buffer systems in the plasma. In vivo the important CO2 / HCO3- buffer system is open: under normal physiological conditions [CO2] is independently regulated by the respiratory system (this is why the CO2 / HCO3- buffer system is so effective, not being limited by accumulation or availability of H2CO3). Hence, whilst the bicarbonate buffer base is diluted by saline infusion, the buffer acid, CO2, remains constant, unaffected by blood volume dilution - it is the unbalanced effect on the acid and base buffer partners that causes dilutional acidaemia. Experimentally, acidification of a plasma-like solution (containing an open CO2 / HCO3- buffer system and comparable weak acid activity) by normal saline can be explained in terms of dilution of bicarbonate in a constant CO2 environment14; the reduced plasma concentration of the basic bicarbonate anion tends towards acidaemia. The process can be described using a number of alternative approaches, including Stewart's strong ion difference (SID) model15, 16, however, it must be remembered that such mathematical descriptions do not imply mechanism.
Hartmann's solution contains no buffer base, only strong electrolytes, with in vitro pH reported by the manufacturer as low as 5. However, infusion is not complicated by acidaemia since the metabolism of lactate involves the regeneration of bicarbonate.16 Infusing fluids of similar pH such as Hartmann's and normal saline has, therefore, quite different effects on plasma pH, again emphasising the insignificance of in vitro acidity.
It is worth noting that although the plasma concentration of buffer base is about 42mmol/L, to keep plasma pH unchanged a balanced infusion solution must have a [buffer base]/ (SID) of just 24mmol/L. This is because crystalloid infusion can bring about acid base changes in two ways: Firstly by altering [buffer base], and secondly by diluting weak acid. An infusion solution with buffer base 42mmol/L would maintain plasma [buffer base] but reduce plasma [weak acid], favouring alkalaemia. A properly balanced solution must generate a fall in [buffer base]/SID which exactly counters the alkalaemia caused by weak acid dilution.17
All this goes to show how important it is to ground fluid therapy in robust appreciation of the underlying science. In vitro the salting out effect and the influence of electrolytes on carbonic acid dissociation and proton activity appear to be quantitatively negligible, whilst the reduction in pH associated with dissolved CO2 and PVC degradation are the predominant sources of the acidity of infusion solutions. On the other hand, in vivo, the buffering capacity of plasma and low titratable acidity of saline solutions mean that the in vitro acidity is largely irrelevant. Instead, the metabolic acidaemia engendered by saline infusion results from buffer base dilution and is not directly related to the pH of the infusion solution at all.
Teaching a mechanistic approach to the acidaemia brought about by intravenous infusions is important. For example, a recent prospective study has associated administration of chloride-rich fluid with poor renal outcomes17. The chloride restrictive vs chloride liberal treatment strategies involved the administration of fluids varying not only in chloride content but also their in vitro pH and in vivo acidifying effect (chloride restriction involved the use of more balanced solutions). In order to critically appraise the data from such studies, and propose a mechanistic basis, clinicians need to understand the chemistry of intravenous infusion fluids, specifically distinguishing the striking, but arguably unimportant in vitro acidity of these fluids from the numerically less arresting, but clinically more significant acidification they bring about through buffer base dilution in vivo.
The mechanisms summarised here may help to inform the perpetually lively debate concerning the selection of infused solutions and how they challenge our patient's homeostasis.
I am grateful to Associate Professor Gregory Metha, Head of Chemistry and Dr David Wilson, School of Medical Sciences at the University of Adelaide for helpful discussion of the manuscript.
The author has declared that no competing interest exists.
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Corresponding author: Department of Critical Care Services, Royal Adelaide Hospital, North Terrace, Adelaide, SA 5000. benjamin.reddiedu.au. Tel: +61409465082.
Received 2013-1-11
Accepted 2013-3-21
Published 2013-4-17
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Album Reviews : Firewind – Days Of Defiance
By Mitch Booth on December 8, 2010
Firewind has long been one of the most impressive and reliable acts in the power metal genre. Right from their blazing debut “Between Heaven And Hell” (2002) up to the fantastic “Premonition” album of 2008, these Greek metallers have not put a foot wrong. Anyone that thought that with Gus G joining Ozzy, Firewind would be put on the back-burner must now be eating their words because Firewind have just released the best album of their career so far.
The record goes straight for the jugular with “Ark of Lies”. This tune highlights everything that Firewind stands for and is the reason why they are in the upper echelon of metal bands. It’s a fast-paced, melodic and highlights the outstanding musicianship and song-writing skills in this band. If anything, Gus’ guitar work here is leaner, meaner and more focused than we have heard in the past. The frantic riffs are still there as are the fretboard –burning solo’s but an added layer of urgency is now laid over the top. It’s fantastic to see Gus hasn’t rested on his laurels since landing the Ozzy gig.
From there on in Days Of Defiance delivers slab after slab of some of the finest melodic power metal heard in quite a few years. The first single “World On Fire” may not be entirely original as it sticks to the tried and tested Firewind formula, as the old say goes though “if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”. It’s a great tune but is somewhat overshadowed by some the sheer magnificence to be found on songs like “Heading For The Dawn” which contains an absolutely blazing solo trade off between Gus’ guitars and Bob Katsionis keys. Drummer Mark Cross, who performed on the album but has since been replaced by new member Michael Ehre, really shines through on this track. “Heading For The Dawn” is a fine demonstration of the powerful style he brings to the Firewind machine. “Chariot” has a chorus is sure to be a crowd favourite live in no time at all. This is one of the albums driving tunes and has an almost-Maiden feel to it especially in the verses. Singer Apollo Papathanasio is fine form throughout the album and especially on this song and the ballad “Broken”. “Killing In The Name Of Love” has an almost industrial metal feel to begin with before becoming the full-blown metal monster we’ve come to know and love from Firewind and is yet another song that demands repeated listening.
As with some of their past albums, “Days Of Defiance” contains the obligatory ballad in “Broken”. The metal may have been turned down, but the song writing is lifted quite a few notches making this a definite highlight of the disc. Beginning with a very beautiful and melodic acoustic guitar, this song sees singer Papathanasio deliver his finest performance on this album. Definitely worth checking out!
Special mention MUST be made of “Embrace the Sun” which is one of the finest songs Firewind has ever written and will be very hard to top as the best song of 2010. This song shows the real maturity and growth in the band since “The Premonition” and is a fine example of Firewind being a “band” and not anyone’s “side project”. “Embrace The Sun” is the albums gem and stand-out among stand-outs where Bob Katsionis takes center stage and drives this track from the get-go. It may be slower than some of their other material, but this track is the one that shows the band at their best in terms of musicianship. It also contains a chorus and solo section to die for!
There is one main difference as to why Days Of Defiance is not simply “The Premonition Part 2”. All five band members (including then-drummer Mark Cross) are equally involved and firing on all cylinders. Gus is outstanding as usual but does not overplay at all. The barrage of riffs, fills, and solos are all still there as is the trademark Gus feel and sound but this time around Bob Katsionis has stepped up to the plate and more than matched Gus! Katsionis’ gives a keyboard clinic on the instrumental “SKG” which sees him trading solos and arpeggios with Gus and (it must be said) leaving Gus in his wake! SKG is one of the albums biggest surprises and a track I can’t get enough of. It has more twists and turns than a Stephen King novel and is awe-inspiring in its execution from both Gus and Katsionis….I wanna see this one live!
Firewind are fast developing a reputation of completely transforming songs that they cover and making them their own. This was evidenced by their amazingly good cover of “Maniac” from the Premonition album and even Nevermore’s “Believe In Nothing” from the 2008 Century Media compilation “Covering 20 Years Of Extremes”. This time it is Judas Priests turn to receive the Firewind treatment with their cover of “Breaking The Law” while keeping the basic structure and feel of this classic intact, Firewind have ramped up the metal-meter on this track on turned it on it’s head once again driven by Katsionis’ keys and an unexpected solo section from both Gus and Katsionis.
Days Of Defiance proves once again that Gus G is a ridiculously great guitar player. Then again to follow in the footsteps of names such as Iommi, Rhoads (RIP), Jake E Lee, and Zakk Wylde you must know a thing or two about guitar! Gus’ performance on this disc endorses exactly why he is one of yhe highest regarded and sought after guitarist in today’s metal environment! The latest album also demonstrates that Apollo Papathanasio is an insane vocalist that fits the band the best. In a genre where so many vocalists sound the same, he really has developed his own style during his time in Firewind to become one of the leading vocalists in metal. Petros Christodoylidis is an unsung hero in Firewind. His bass really holds this whole thing together and he probably doesn’t get the recognition he deserves. He’s as reliable as life, death, and taxes and brings a lot more to the Firewind sound than people may notice. Michael Ehre has stepped into the drummers slot like he was born to be there. He brings his own sound to the band and has a completely different feel to Mark Cross (who is fantastic as well). If anything Ehre sounds slightly more metal yet more technical which probably sits a little better with this style of band. Lastly and certainly not least, Bob Katsionis has not only stepped up to the plate on this disc, he’s picked it up and smashed it in a million pieces! Katsionis brings such a classy atmosphere and style to Firewind that without him, the band would not sound the same. If people think Gus is the captain of Team Firewind, then Katsionis is surely the teams MVP on this latest effort. As a sidenote, for a bigger fix of iBob, make sure you check out Outloud (his other band) and their amazing album of 2009 “We’ll Rock You To Hell and Back Again” which is still in heavy rotation in my cd player.
“Days Of Defiance” stands head and shoulders above the fantastic “Premonition” and probably even nudges out the masterpiece that was “Allegiance” to become Firewind’s finest effort to date. This is a blind buy for anyone that loves power, melodic, heavy, ANY type of metal really. With Gus’ high profile Ozzy gig, hopefully some more of the mainstream rock fans check out Firewind and really get behind this band as they surely deserve more widespread recognition and for their music to get out to as many people as possible. 10/10
Band: Firewind
Album: Days of Defiance
Genre: Power Metal
Origin: Greece
Label: Century Media
http://www.firewind.gr/
The Ark of Lies
Embrace the Sun <- Reviewers choice
Heading for the Dawn
Kill in the Name of Love
Losing Faith
The Yearning
When All Is Said and Done
Wild Rose (Bonus Track)
Ride to the Rainbow’s End (Bonus Track)
Breaking the Law (Bonus Track)
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The angels are weeping
“Mourning” by swimparallel on Flickr
There’s a new blog post by me on the Pittsburgh Symphony blogs, “Lacrimosa dies illa.” It’s about the wondrous performance of Mozart’s Requiem I heard Friday at the PSO.
I like to post photos with my blog posts, as you know, and I typically find lovely images at Flickr. For this PSO post I started out looking for a photo with the tag “requiem,” and eventually came upon a nice image of a memorial to Mozart.
But then I had the inspiration to search for “+weeping +angel,” and this produced many interesting images. I loved the photo I eventually chose most, although I was drawn to “Angel of Grief” with its sweeping wings. This is apparently a common pose for crying angels.
Fans of the latest incarnation of Doctor Who will appreciate many of these photos as well. Here’s the one you’re probably most interested in.
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Hop on Pops
September 8, 2009 Cynthia Closkey
Photo credit: “Popped” by AMagill
I have a new post up on the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra blog: “Popular.” It’s about the Pittsburgh Pops, which I had the pleasure of attending a preview of last week. Read the post here.
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Encore! More of my conversation with John Adams
The three remaining segments of my interview with Pulitzer-prize winning composer John Adams are online at the Pittsburgh Symphony website.
Part 4: John describes the feeling of releasing a book in the current market, how he came to write the book Hallelujah Junction, and why he wrote a book like this.
Part 5: John talks about the creation and premiere of The Dharma at Big Sur, how he revises and improves certain works, and why not every piece is worth revising.
Part 6: John talks about Pittsburgh, Heinz Hall, and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
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How technology is changing classical music — part 3 of my conversation with the composer John Adams
January 12, 2009 Cynthia Closkey 1 Comment
The third part of my interview with John Adams, the PSO’s Conductor of the Year, is available on the PSO blogs.
In this segment, John discusses how new technology has affected the way music is made, music itself, and the business of classical music. Read part 3 here.
I’m posting this interview over several days, in anticipation of two special concerts that he will be conducting with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on January 16 and 17.
If you’d like to hear John Adams conduct the PSO in performing his works, I have a limited number of vouchers for free tickets. Please contact me for details.
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Lamenting the lexicon of musical invective — part 2 of John Adams interview
The second part of my interview with John Adams, the PSO’s Conductor of the Year, is available on the PSO blogs. In this segment, John talks about blogging and history, not being recognized, and what it’s like to sit in the audience when his works are performed. Read part 2 here.
Interested in attending one of the concerts? I have a limited number of vouchers for free tickets. Please contact me and I’ll set you up.
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Interview with John Adams, part 1
January 9, 2009 Cynthia Closkey 1 Comment
In November, I had the chance to interview John Adams, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra’s Conductor of the Year. John shared his thoughts on contemporary and classical music, audiences, writing his autobiography, Pittsburgh, the PSO and Heinz Hall, and more.
I’ll be posting this interview over several days over at the PSO blogs, in anticipation of two special concerts that John Adams will be conducting with the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra on January 16 and 17.
The first part of the interview is here.
Pittsburgh Symphony Insider with John Adams — talk to one of America’s most admired and respected composers
Saturday morning, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra will host a Talkshoe interview with John Adams, PSO Composer of the Year.
Listen to and participate in a FREE live podcast with PSO Composer
of the Year John Adams! Ask questions of this Pulitzer Prize-winning
composer and get insights into the concerts he will conduct of his own
works on January 16th & 17th at Heinz Hall, including Doctor Atomic Symphony, On the Transmigration of Souls and excerpts from Nixon in China.
Visit www.talkshoe.com
this Saturday, November 15th at 11:00 am. Simply click on the live
podcast posted by Pittsburgh Symphony Insider and then click “Join In”!
News in the “how I am a very lucky person” category: I’ll be interviewing Adams tomorrow morning for the PSO Blog. He published a memoir this fall, Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life, and I’ll be asking him about that as well as about life as a composer in the Internet Age.
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October 26, 2008 Cynthia Closkey
New post up at the Pittsburgh Symphony blogs: “Compare and Contrast.”
(Photo credit: Scenes from Shakespeare – Macbeth taken by kimberlyfaye)
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Goose-pimply all over
There’s a new post of mine over at the PSO blogs: “Stories told in notes.”
Among the pieces we heard in Friday’s concert was Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2, which made me think of Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, which made me think of The Seven-Year Itch.
It thrills me. It chills me. It makes me feel goose-pimply all over.
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PSO post: The Signature of a Stradavarius
October 3, 2008 Cynthia Closkey 2 Comments
I was deeply impressed by Joshua Bell’s performance with the Pittsburgh Symphony last weekend. But I was also sort of distracted by his violin — or rather, the reputation it carries.
Bell’s violin is a Stradivarius, and not just any Stradivarius but the 1713 Gibson ex Huberman Stradivarius, which has a storied history. He purchased it for a price in the neighborhood of $3.5 to 4 million dollars. In fact, he sold his previous violin, another Stradivarius called the “Tom Tyler,” to pull together the funds to buy the Gibson.
Are these instruments worth their cost? Mr. Bell obviously thinks so.
What makes them different? Many people have theories. A recent study examined the question. See my new post over at the PSO blogs for the details and results of the study.
As to how it sounds: The video above is Joshua Bell performing Bruch’s violin concerto #1, I Vorspiel, Allegro moderato. I believe he is playing the Gibson, but it might be the Tom Tyler.
To me, it’s the way Joshua Bell plays that makes the difference. To him, the instrument has immeasurable value — he plays no other violin than the Gibson.
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This is a replica of the Oak Island Money Pit focusing on the details and content of the original pit 1795-1851. The diorama was constructed in 1:87 scale (ratio) calculating depths and other dimensions as accurately as possible. The frame was constructed from reclaimed pallet wood and the total diorama dimensions are 32" tall by 13" wide and 3.5" deep.
Note: There is much conflicting research and alternate theories concerning the Oak Island Money Pit. Specifically regarding the question of whether the old tackle block actually existed, the diameter of the shaft (7, 12, or 13 feet) or at what specific intervals oak platforms, charcoal, and putty were encountered in the shaft. The original Oak Island Money Pit has long since been excavated and written records were not compiled during the time of discovery and digging. Many of the exact specifics may never be known because the oral history is no longer verifiable. Please contact me by Facebook messenger (571) 882-0478 to discuss my project or provide guidance. Alternatively you can send an email to garypenta@hotmail.com
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Internet courts in Beijing, Guangzhou to start operation this month
2018-September-11 Source: Chinadaily.com.cn
China's Supreme People's Court (SPC) announced Friday that internet courts in Beijing and Guangzhou will officially open this month.
Internet courts in the two cities, where e-commerce is booming, are aimed at developing an efficient, orderly and convenient Internet-based court system so as to modernize the country's judicial system, the SPC statement said.
China opened its first internet court in Hangzhou, capital of east China's Zhejiang Province, in August last year to cater to the increasing number of online disputes.
An SPC regulation for internet courts took effect Friday, which defined the jurisdiction and operation of internet courts and clarified online court proceedings.
According to the regulation, internet courts mainly handle civil and administrative cases related to the Internet, such as contract disputes involving online shopping, service and small loans, copyright and infringement lawsuits, domain name disputes, and some administrative lawsuits.
The courts should run the proceedings largely online, which means filing the lawsuit, mediation, exchanging evidence, hearing and announcing the judgment will all be conducted through a customized Internet platform. The hearing will be done through live streaming on the same platform.
Internet courts can open the trial offline when the judges need to identify parties involved face to face and examine evidence. Other parts of the court proceeding can also be conducted off the line, upon the request of the parties involved and the needs of the trial.
In the past year, the Hangzhou internet court has heard about 12,000 cases and closed about 10,600, according to the SPC statement.
In the Hangzhou court, each hearing, conducted online, takes about 28 minutes on average, about 40 percent of a traditional offline hearing, and the court proceeding of each case lasts about 41 days, half the time needed for a normal case, the statement said.
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MASSOB, others reveal fresh plans towards achieving secession
11:54 AM Motunrayo Ogundipe 0 Latest News in Nigeria
Coalition of Biafra groups and the Alaigbo Development Foundation, ADF, have revealed fresh plans towards the actualization of the Sovereign State of Biafra.
According to the coalition, a process has begun in uniting Igbo leaders in the struggle to realise the Biafran state.
Addressing newsmen in Owerri, the leader of MASSOB, Uchenna Madu said that the reason was to create a formidable relationship among Igbo leaders both in Nigeria and outside the country in the realisation of the struggle.
The conscious security of Igboland, 2019 general election and other diplomatic issues were also discussed in the meeting.
According to Madu, “The leadership of Alaigbo Development Foundation, led by Professor Uzodinma Nwala had a closed door meeting last Sunday with the representatives of the Coalition of pro-Biafra groups in Owerri.
“Though the details of the meeting were not disclosed, some issues raised in the meeting included examining the current challenges of Ndigbo in Nigeria with the need to explore and cement the much needed relationship with the leadership of pro-Biafra groups and other Igbo leaders.
“The consultative meeting also flashed on the need to draw the attention and reassurance of other anti self determination elements in Igbo society into driving their political ships towards the yearnings and desires of Ndigbo.”
“The meeting which was centered mostly on the current political, religious, cultural and economical challenges in Igbo land including the agitation and clamour for Biafra Actualization lasted about three hours.
“The meeting also harped on the need for pro Biafra and self determination leadership heads and figures to swallow their individual prides and egos and establish a spirited and brotherly working relationship among themselves for the overall interest of our people.
“The representatives of the Coalition of pro Biafra groups reinstated their earlier submission to work and collaborate with every Igbo progressive and Biafranized group or movement including Alaigbo Development Foundation for the re establishment of our former dignities as a people.
“The details of other issues discussed which includes the conscious security of Igbo land, 2019 general election and other diplomatic contacts will not be disclose now.”
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Dangers of diving at famous shipwreck
By treasures | On 30/07/2011 | Famous Wrecks
By Brian Crandall - Turn to 10
A total of 46 people died when the Italian luxury liner Andrea Doria collided with another ship off Nantucket 55 years ago this week.
Just a day before Monday's anniversary, a diver died while exploring the wreck. Sixteen divers have lost their lives at the site.
NBC 10 talked to dive expert Michael Lombardi, the diving safety officer at the University of Rhode Island, about the dangers of diving at the Andrea Doria site.
"It's deep, dark, and cold. It's also covered with fishing nets, trawl lines, fishing lines. So there are lots of entanglement hazards. The currents are also extremely strong out there," Lombardi said.
Lombardi said he believes many divers who visit the site are not qualified to do so.
Lombardi has been diving all over the world, to much greater depths than the Doria, but he has not gone to the Dorea site.
"If you have a need to go to a place like that, then you go. I think, unfortunately now, people are seeking adventure, seeking a thrill. The Doria's been considered analogous to Everest for mountain climbers. So, it's kind of like the conquest in diving. And to me, you can't justify putting your life on the line for a conquest," Lombardi said.
Another diver died Thursday near a different shipwreck off Montauk, N.Y. He was reportedly diving off the same charter boat that the Andrea Doria victim was diving from on Sunday.
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Jetstar (Mis) Management
I had flown up to Auckland from Christchurch early yesterday and was booked on the 7.35pm Jetstar flight back to Christchurch. I was at the airport with plenty of time and having booked in found the departure lounge quiet enough to catch up on some calls and work. By 6.30pm the departure lounge was full and I realised the Wellington flight was delayed due to technical difficulties with the plane. The Christchurch plane was at the gate and I watched our luggage being loaded. Then about 7.15pm I watched as luggage was being unloaded from the Christchurch plane. ‘Funny’ I thought. Could they have loaded the wrong luggage? Then there was an announcement (note the order of these things) that the Christchurch flight JT255 was almost ready and passengers in rows 16-32 would be called to board shortly. At this, many passengers got up and stood in a queue to board. I didn’t as I was in a row 12.
At about 7.25pm there was another announcement and the penny dropped. The Christchurch plane was to be used for the Wellington flight and the Christchurch flight might be cancelled. There was and audible ‘Oh no’ from the Christchurch passengers and a silent ‘Yippee’ from the Wellington passengers.
I can understand the economics of the Jetstar decision. The Wellington bound plane was to fly back to Auckland for a further flight to Wellington but the Christchurch flight ended in Christchurch. So it was a decision on cancelling one Christchurch flight versus cancelling two Wellington and one Auckland bound flights. What annoys me, as will become clear, is the manner of the management of the handling of the situation from the point of the decision to cancel on.
First, it is clear that the decision to switch planes and cancel Christchurch was made maybe as early as 7.00pm as I saw our luggage being removed shortly after this time. But the departure lounge staff were obviously not told this, leaving them to make false announcements. It is likely the possibility of the need to cancel a flight was known much earlier as the damaged plane had been sitting on the tarmac for sometime already and the Wellington flight had already been delayed for some time.
Secondly, the announcement of the cancellation was made and then immediately the announcer said it was maybe not cancelled and they were working on ‘a plan.’ After the Wellington plane was loaded and the gate closed it was finally confirmed the Christchurch flight was cancelled. We should all go to the luggage carousel to collect our bags before going to check in points 1 and 2. At the check in desks we would be booked on the next available flight the next day and get accommodation vouchers. Fair enough; until you think about 120 plus passenger being handled by two check in desks.
Perhaps more intelligent passengers went straight to the check in desks. I, like many other did as instructed and went to collect my bag. There wasn’t space in the check in area for the queue so it wound its way up the stairs and a second stream started building towards the baggage claim.
Thirdly, and most annoyingly, for most of the next FOUR HOURS it took for Jetstar to process the passengers flights and accommodation for the night there were at no point more than 3 check in desks working, and one very hassled supervisor. I quickly realised that being towards the end of the queue I was going to be there for some time. Each passenger was taking on average 5-10 minutes to process. During this period some Jetstar staff, obviously coming to the end of their shift, left to go home.Leaving the queue of ever more disgruntled passengers to their long stand. At no time did I see a manger from Jetstar. I suspect they knew what they had let their meagre overworked few young girls to handle. Could Jetstar management not foresee the difficulties such a small team were going to face?
I n my opinion the management, or should that be, mis-management team, of Jetstar should be either forced to stand in a queue at their counters for four hours, or better, be forced to handle the 120 plus passengers from a cancelled flight. I think there would be a lot more action in finding staff to help out the next time a flight is cancelled.
On the positive side, I applaud the young Jetstar girls left to try and sort out the mess, but more than this I applaud the passengers who were in the most part stoic and almost endlessly patient. I know those that ended up at the Grand Chancellor with me at 11.45pm are now all members of the 255 club. We have found a group of new friends. One lady of Indian origin named Angie who had been going to Christchurch for weekend, on her first visit and first flight within New Zealand, said she enjoyed the company so much she thought we should do it again. I think she might have meant the get together and chat and not the standing in the queue for four hours.
Perhaps this could be a story for another Campbell Live?
You'll know it's Jetstar if:
You cannot board the plane unless you have the exact change.
Before you took off, the stewardess tells you to fasten your Velcro.
The Captain asks all the passengers to chip in a little for gas.
When they pull the steps away, the plane starts rocking.
The Captain yells at the ground crew to get the cows off the runway.
You ask the Captain how often their planes crash and he says, "Just once."
Your life keeps flashing before your eyes.
You see a man with a gun, but he's demanding to be let off the plane.
All the planes have both a bathroom and a chapel.
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Stuart Woodside November 5, 2010 at 7:20 PM
I, too, was supposed to be on this flight to Christchurch and were conscious of Jetstar's practice of cutting people out of the check-in list. Upon hearing the announcement that Wellington passengers were to go on the Christchurch plane and the Christchurch flight would be cancelled I immediately got on the phone to Air NZ and booked seats for my colleague and I. We arrived in Chch at 10 pm, still quicker than waiting in the queue for 4 hours. Our company will get the Jetstar flight refunded via House of Travel. Or so we were told. This is probably the last booking anyone in our company will do with Jetstar, unless there's a ridiculously low fare, which is about the only thing they seem to do well.
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Hi Stuart,
Thanks for the comment. Well done on your proactivity. (Is that a word?) I will be proactive in avoiding Jetstar flights except where they are soooo cheap compared to the other options.
I don't think it is healthy to have only one option so Jetster has its place, but I don't understand the thinking of Jetstar management that seems to think this means they have to provide the minimum customer service. This is short termism that will eventually see the demise of the airline.
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Flashback: Rove Erases 22 Million White House Emails on Private Server at Height of U.S. Attorney Scandal – Media Yawns
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Now that they’ve taken control of Congress, Republicans are wielding power much the same way they did in the Clinton era and for the six years afterward when they controlled the White House and Congress under George W. Bush: ineptly — examples: 1, 2 etc.
Jeb Bush broke Florida’s “Sunshine Laws” by deleting at least 300,000 emails.
Then as now, it’s clear that the only thing Republicans do very well is inflame the media with bogus scandals — which is a handy way to distract attention from their ineptitude. They are doing this with their usual aplomb, and considerable success, in the matter of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s use of a private server to send emails.
Clinton has said she deleted about 50,000 emails that dealt with personal matters, citing her daughter’s wedding and her mother’s funeral as examples. All the correspondence pertaining to official business was turned over to and archived by State. The deletion of the emails, though perfectly legal, has excited House Republicans, including Speaker John Boehner, who has announced plans to deploy House committees to investigate what might aptly be called Servergate.
Never mind that former Secretary of State Colin Powell, a Republican, has said he used a system similar to Clinton’s — and never mind that in 2007 Karl Rove deleted 22 million emails from a private server in the Bush White House — a matter about which the Beltway media said little and Republicans in Congress, like Rep. John Boehner, said nothing.
Here is a brief refresher on the White House email scandal:
Not long after George W. Bush assumed the presidency in 2001, Rove, his top political aide, set up a private email server for use in the White House. The stated purpose of the system — the primary domain name on which was gwb43.com — was that it would be used exclusively for the sort of political correspondence that Bush and Rove were not permitted to do on the taxpayer’s dime.
Seven years later, Bush and Rove were embroiled in two competing scandals — the Valerie Plame scandal, in which operatives for Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, including Rove and Scooter Libby, were accused of unmasking Valerie Plame, a CIA specialist in the black market for weapons of mass destruction, for purely partisan reasons, and the U.S. Attorney purge, in which Rove’s political operation in the White House was accused of ordering Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to purge eight U.S. attorneys who were qualified prosecutors and replace them with political hacks with little or no prosecutorial experience.
Rove escaped prosecution in the Libby case, but Libby was convicted (Bush quickly commuted the sentence) on March 6, 2007, at the same time Bush and Rove were under fire for purging the U.S. attorneys. During the investigation, it came to light that Rove’s server had been used to send official, non-political emails — correspondence that was required by law to be preserved under the Presidential Records Act.
On April 12, 2007, Rove’s operation admitted that it had deleted at least 5 million emails from the server. In December 2009, technicians who had examined the server reported that the number of emails that had been deleted was far greater — 22 million.
What was in the emails? No one will ever know. It’s likely as not that there was incriminating evidence in the correspondence that tied Rove and others to the treasonous exposure of Agent Plame (which, at a minimum, was a violation of government security), the U.S. attorneys’ purge and perhaps other scandals, including the inquiry into charges that Republican lobbyist Jack Abramoff had used his entre with others in the GOP to bribe government officials. Abramoff was in prison serving the first year of his sentence when the email scandal broke.
If nothing else, this appears to be a prima facie case (or, rather, 22 million cases) of obstruction of justice. How serious is obstruction of justice? It’s the crime Pres. Richard Nixon was charged with by the House of Representatives in 1974 that prompted him to resign rather than face impeachment.
But what sort of evidence might have been lost in the 50,000 emails Hillary Clinton deleted? The insinuation from Republicans is that something dispositive about the Benghazi scandal might have been erased. It’s hard to guess what that might have been. What the GOP seems to be looking for in its eight investigations into Benghazi, so far, is a stand-down order issued by the State Department or the White House to the military that left the Benghazi consulate vulnerable to the attack that ensued. These Republicans know, of course, that the Secretary of State doesn’t have the authority to issue orders to the military.
Given that, there’s no question that the coverage of the Clinton email “scandal” is out of scale, but how does the incessant media coverage today stack up against the scandal seven years ago when Rove’s political operation in the White House erased 22 million emails many of which likely included evidence of serious crimes?
Last week, the fact-checking organization Politifact, which tends to skew to the right, compared coverage of the two scandals. Here’s it’s verdict:
We did a search through Lexis-Nexis, a research service that tracks news articles and transcripts, between March and May 2007. We found more than 125 transcripts from the major cable networks and National Public Radio that include “Republican National Committee” and “email” within 10 words of each other.
The Lexis-Nexis search also yielded more than 200 related newspaper articles across the country within the same time frame.
Let’s compare that to coverage of the Clinton controversy.
Since the story broke March 3, 2015 — two weeks ago — we found 204 cable and public radio transcripts that include “Clinton” and “email.” We also found 1,700 newspaper articles across the country.
That’s several times as many articles and transcripts about Clinton than there were about the Bush email controversy in a quarter of the time. It’s a rough measurement, but clearly there has been more media attention on Clinton’s use of private email than that of the White House staffers.
Even so, Politifact rated the claim that coverage of Clinton’s email deletions is out of scale compared with coverage of Rove’s in 2007 is “mostly false.”
Wait. What?
In the Rove scandal, there were 125 broadcast reports and 200 newspaper articles over three months about the millions of deleted emails. Today, in just two weeks there have been 200 broadcast reports and 1,700 newspaper articles about the 50,000 deleted emails.
And yet Politifact finds the assertion that there’s been more coverage of Clinton than there was of Rove to be “mostly false.” How did they do that?
Simple. Politifact keyed its verdict to a Fox pundit’s hyperbolic statement there was “zero coverage” of Rove’s scandal when it broke. So, yeah, it’s “mostly false” that there was “zero coverage.”
Republicans’ objective in using its lapdogs in the “liberal media” to exaggerate the Clinton emails controversy is to damage her image in advance of her run for the presidency. Polls show that their strategy is working — while Hillary Clinton remains the odds-on favorite among Democratic voters, her approval rating has slipped among all voters in polls released since the email deletions came to light.
At least Republicans are good at something.
March 18, 2015 | Tags Benghazi, Campaign 2016, CIA Scandal, Email Scandal, Hillary Clinton, Karl Rove, ServerGate, U.S. Attorney Purge, Valerie Plame |
Mary Marcel
July 28, 2016 - 10:32 am | Permalink
I am appalled that people think it was okay for Vice President Cheney to destroy thousands– maybe millions– of emails and let it pass, and yet crucify Hillary for her email server while Secretary of State. It smells to me a lot like Martha Stewart being sent to jail for a $68,000 illegal profit whilst most of Wall Street in 2008 and 2009 crashed the economy with no negative repercussions whatsoever.
Politicians have an obligation to be accountable and demonstrate moral judgement. They also need to comply with the law. And we the public need, likewise, to avoid using double standards like those commended in comments above. It’s clear to me that, in absence of anything too substantive that can be said against Hillary– except that she has made mistakes and is a woman– we take these things that frankly everyone else in the pool has been doing and make her pay for it. Well, here’s an idea, then. Police everyone equally. Period.
While Republicans scandal-mongered over Bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky, the FIRST bombing of the Twin Towers took place in 1993. But instead of following up on that true threat to our national security, the Starr Commission spent over $240 million chasing underpants. By the time the SECOND bombing happened in 2001, there were over 35,000 pages of UNSTRANSLATED testimony from the 1993 bombing that had not been read or analyzed by anyone. So I fail to see how the Clintons– even in their moments of stupid behavior– did worse by the American poeple than the people like multiple-divorced Newt Gingrich, Karl Rove, Dick Cheney, and the Republican Double Standard Team, who have been creating diversions from life and death issues for decades now.
Hillary isn’t running for saint. She’s running for President. Why is that more frightening than a candidate who invites our enemies to attack us? Oh, right. I forgot. That’s the point. There is no “there” there. Since I got to where I am in life without parental millions, I have no respect for such fake and useless scandal mongering.
CSClemens
July 31, 2016 - 6:18 pm | Permalink
So your argument is that if Cheney or Rove got away with it then Hillary should be allowed to get away with it? I have an idea, let’s go after all of them instead of demanding that your candidates behavior be justified by the behavior of others.
dvwright
August 1, 2016 - 10:05 pm | Permalink
Surely you joke, i really don’t believe you want to expose how wicked Bush/Cheney were. We all know they lied about WMD and sent 4,000 Americans to their deaths, wounded tens of thousands more and shattered the lives of millions of Irajis. Now you want to talk about Hillary and you have said nothing about Bush/Chaney/Rowe. Hypocrisy as usual.
Teri C Brown
August 7, 2016 - 1:04 pm | Permalink
I hate when people say this. You need to talk to the troops that were there. Get your facts correct.
This was an intelligence failure, not a lie. Come on!
They along with bi-partisan Congress,and British officials, had multiple sources of intelligence that indicated presence of WMDS.
There are videos & testimony showing Iraq shipping their WMDs to Syria. Where do you think Syria GOT their WMDs?
Its fun for people to call Bush a liar. Hillary Clinton saw the same intelligence as Bush, and voted to go to war in Iraq.
Actually the WMDs were NOT THE ONLY reason to go to war in Iraq. Sadaam and his sons killed 100s of thousands of people and operated rape rooms and torture chambers every day.
VP Biden said that Iraq was in GREAT SHAPE & COMMENDED BUSH. If Obama had left a base in Iraq, they’d still be in good shape. Bush left a SOF agreement for Obama to sign, because he didn’t want to determine policy for the new administration. Obama lied & said there was no SOF agreement.
John Izu
umm.. “..Get your facts correct.” Suggest you read this book.. Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War.
You are wrong on so many points, it is difficult to believe… the Wmd story was created whole cloth by the Bush Ii camp….there was intelligence that said there were no Wmds but they ignored or dicredited or outed a under cover CIA agent in retaliation. Bush negotiated the troop reduction before end of 2nd term ….we created and inflamed ISIS by releasing the Iraqi army and overall mismanagement of the occupation under Bush…
August 14, 2016 - 12:00 am | Permalink
More of your hypocritical Bushbot support for a lying weasel eyed pos?
You people really need to get your facts straight-much less your position on matters.
August 16, 2016 - 5:16 am | Permalink
The fact is that there were 29 Tony Blair emails, as revealed in the Chilcot report after a British investigation, that substantiate that Bush and he wanted to go to war 8 months before the invasion of Iraq. If you read the report, you would know that WMD was exaggerated and used in a plan to get buy in to go to war. Those emails are declassified and show that the two planned how they would manipulate the legislative bodies, including other European countries. to justify it instead of exploring non-military options. I think if you study that, you will find that Blair and Bushes made millions of dollars. For instance, through the Carlyle Group, there were substantial investments in weaponry that even included the binLaden family.
September 4, 2016 - 5:15 pm | Permalink
No, the general opinion of the normal international Inteligence world, all agreed that there was NO evidence of WMDs, but when Bush and Chany could not get the CIA and the NSA to agree with the “Evidence”, they created their own, using a single source as their evidence, spread this around, and convinced Congress and other World Leaders of its validity, and that we could not take the chance that the information may have been false.
THATS how they convinced everyone to go to war with Sadam!
The real reason, was to open the areas and markets, most notably for Haliburton of the Americans, that had been closed to American and British companies, among others, for very good reasons! It was all for money and Oil!
September 17, 2016 - 10:22 am | Permalink
So true,these people haven’t got a clue
KMJ
October 7, 2016 - 2:23 pm | Permalink
Actually that’s not true either. The US pressed for the SOF to IRAQ. Iraq is the ones who actually refused to sign the SOF but wanted the US to stay without condititons. The actual fact is that IRAQ wanted the US to leave as well.
October 11, 2016 - 3:56 pm | Permalink
Great reply – S Hussein gassed over 100,000 Kurd’s, his own people. His sons were living breathing animals. They got a kick out of grabbing young beautiful college girls and then doing with them as the please and finish off their horrors to dismember them while there were alive. It happened many times. Also, this issues was not 22 million Emails but 22 Thousand of which most were indeed recovered. I was finishing up a military career and there were indeed WMDs and plenty of them Many of our Iraq war vets have continued to suffer from an unknown disease – we all know it was some form of chemical warfare – many of the Sunni’s in the South of Iraq have suffered the same fate.
These stories are out of control and may are even bogus.
George Hilman
November 11, 2016 - 7:49 pm | Permalink
“Bush Jokes about WMD”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nKX6luiMINQ
Nicholas Furdeck
This is absolute BS the reason why the Intel was wrong was Cheaney would not except any information that did not support his agenda multiple sources in the CIA and defense department reported that the African connection and the meeting in Prague were not creditable Cheney kept kicking back the reports and would not accept them. Cheney had teams scrambling to find anything that he could use he stretched any possible leads as facts. He knowingly went on the Sunday stump peddling this BS.This is well documented in multiple reports and books written by the men in charge of fact gathering leading up to the war. This man is evil and did it because he thought his world view was the one we should follow . He is a narcissist with that pulled a classic ends justifies the means
Ken Watson
Good post Michael, as their were wmd’s, as good old sadam gassed 100k. You don’t need bombs to be considered a wmd. I heard he would go into towns and slowly insert folks into combines. There were alot of countries stating thru intelligence sadam had wmd’s. And there’s hillary, a wmd for americans all by her lonesome
Trump2016
Iraq had ww sponsored of mass destruction
They used them against their own people
Edward Sandoval
August 5, 2016 - 11:05 am | Permalink
She turn over her e-mail, they didn’t. She was exonerated from them. Wake up, that’s the trouble with you Tumpets! You don’t listen, to anything but lies. They have you so brainwashed, all you see is red. How many years have they had to put an idea in to your head. It was the republicans fault for not giving them the security that they needed by denying them the three million dollars that was needed for more security. You are delusional!
Please see my post. ALL emails were recovered from Bush administration WITH HELP FROM BUSH WH.
Jay James
First time ever hearing that. Sounds like another convenient story without facts. Oops, I forgot, Republic don’t use real facts.
August 15, 2016 - 7:13 pm | Permalink
So where are they? If they can’t be found another cover up.
What a bunch of crap saying that the Bush administration helped to recover the emails. The 22 million emails were recovered in after the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics (a liberal organization) and another organization took the Bush admin to court in 2007. And, the fact is that there is evidence that President Bush knew about the improper use of emails and did nothing about it. The same Oversight Committee that investigated the Clinton email scandal and no criminal intent was found also investigated Bush’s administration email scandal and the Bush administration refused to give them the emails. And, I might note that the termination of 8 attorneys who were working on the corruption case and it blew wide open landing Karl Rove in hot water and Bush to make his sentence go away. The fact is that about 5,000 emails during this time were recovered and used in criminal cases (unlike Clinton’s that revealed no criminal intent). I might also note that there were sitting on servers at the Republican National Committee. And, that multiple email accounts were used by about 20 White House staff who worked for George W. The emails are at the National Archives.
Colleen smylie-linville
September 8, 2016 - 12:51 pm | Permalink
Ha ha ha ha too funny.
September 16, 2016 - 7:16 pm | Permalink
It is a fact that all 22 million emails were recovered and turned over.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/12/14/white.house.emails/
It was not 22 Million it was 22 Thousand.
Where do you get 22 Thousand? Everything I read says it’s 22 million and that 22 million emails were recovered. Unlike Hillary who definitely had classified information in her email account, I have not heard of any of the Bush and Cheney emails that ended up being incriminating.
michael Hiller
Excuse me…but Karl Rove isn’t an elected official! How does he even have access to a White House server???? Don;t start to compare Hillary with these criminals. If you want to start we can all go there….let’;s start with the 2 wars that we were lied to about, I’m sure you remember the “Mushroom Cloud” nonsense. Almost as ridiculous as the WMD’s. Wake up.and we’ll go from there. Wake up…the GOP is full of shatttt.
Are you really this uninformed? Do you really think that only elected officials work in the White House? Karl Rove was one of hundreds of staff who worked in the White House. We would have been happy if Karl Rove and other White House staff used a White House server. Instead, they used servers at the Republican National Committee. And, the fact, we can compare the two cases. The same Oversight Committee of Congress that investigated the Clinton emails also investigated the Bush emails. Bush knew about the missing emails and did nothing to restore them. He also terminated eight attorneys who were trying to prosecute his administration. And, crimes WERE committed, Karl Rove was found guilty, and Bush squashed the sentence. I agree that the GOP are full of it.
Whats Yours
Hmmm, was Rove a cabinet member? No. Was Hillary? Yes. Who had access to and communicated sensitive, classified information as PART OF HER JOB DESCRIPTION? Why, that would be Hillary.
The emails were not on a Government server and neither Cheney and Rove deleted them. Due to faulty archiving they were lost.
Neither were Hillary’s.
You are correct – there was no attempt to erase them and the were indeed recovered, unlike those emails that involved Hillary Clinton. Seems that many of those were indeed hacked and are now beginning to surface.
William Hampton
Amazing how Libturds go to extreme protecting the mendacious bitch Clinton…no wonder our once grat nation is now in the 3rd World status….grrrrrrr
Larry bartlett
It would appear as though you have not been to a 3rd world country as we have the highest standard of living. In my opinion, the problem is not liberal or conservative but is the voters not paying attention to what is going on in the world and our country. I served in the military and love our country however, the voters are responsible for our position and stop expecting someone else to do the work of voting for them. Get away from the boob tube long enough to vote and research issues not hot button issues that do nothing.
Once great nation. The conservatives have had scandal after scandal. Heck, Reagan had nearly 100 criminal bureacrats that resigned, were indicted, sentenced, and pardon’s by George H.W. Bush. George W. Bush’s White House staff used email servers housed at the Republican National Committee. And, crimes WERE committed and 5,000 of those emails were retrieved in the trials after George W Bush fired 8 attorneys who were investigating his administration and landed Rove in a criminal trial only to be squashed by George W.
Tonehenge
September 11, 2016 - 8:08 am | Permalink
It’s amazing how Repubtards continue to ride the crest of falsified information to erroneous conclusions. Cult members with Trump playing the part of Jim Jones to a “T”.
Mike Landers
Its not a matter of justifying Hillary’s emails, it’s a simply matter of partisan hypocrisy and continued witch hunt. There were twenty three members of the Bush administration that used an email server setup and maintained by the RNC. The investigation committee concluded it’s use was specifically for secrecy not for protect of emails but secrecy from government and investigation of the White House. This is a big difference. ,
no honey our argument is stop spending time and tax payers money on a issue that has been investigated to death. Start spending the tax payers money on issues that still haven’t even been brought to light yet. When they start investigating Rov and bushes deleted emails just as much and hard spending just as much of the tax payers money to investigate it as they have Hillary’s then we will shut up. Until then why don’t they shut up and stop wasting tax payers money on a issue already thoroughly investigated and found no legal wrong doing just to smear someone and suppress the votes of the citizens of America with false allegations.
cindylou who
November 2, 2016 - 5:46 pm | Permalink
If you want to talk about candidates and their behavior I think yours set the standards pretty low. Members of the Manson family have more integrity and moral values than Trump.
ALL missing emails from Bush administration WERE FOUND. The White House HELPED US Attorneys find them.
NO ONE in the Bush WH EVER asked their staff to delete their emails.
Hillary directed her staff to delete 30K of hers.
RNC server in the Bush WH was NEVER A SECRET.
The RNC wiped their server on a regular basis.
Again, ALL emails were recovered with WH help.
Scooter Libby admitted that he was the source of the Valarie Plame leak. He was convicted and did time for the scandal that involved missing email.
Hillary’s SECRET server was in a BATHROOM in Colorado.
She lied about it.
She lied about her missing emails.
She continues to lie.
Gene Burke
The big stink about this whole thing Clinton was not the only one to protect these people that were killed. They were all at fault. She is the one that’s running for President. They spent millions of dollars looking for a mole hill and the made one .
Actually it was her job to make sure there was adequate security for the Embassy.
That’s not the Secretary of State’s job. Nor is being a webmaster.
and you can’t build a castle on a budget to build a shabby garden shed. So it was the senate Bush and Reagan who did not allow for the budget to build that castle so security suffered. Not because of Hillary’s ability but because of the budget she was given by budget basses missions not situation basses missions. You can not protect a high risk military or embassy facility in a high risk region on the same budget you protect a low risk office building in the united states say like Trump tower.
August 13, 2016 - 11:59 pm | Permalink
Yep-but that’s repugs for ya. Good for them to do it, bad for anyone else.
Jean Jearman
How Congress handled the Bush email conflict is irrelevant to the email scandal of Hillary for a couple of reasons. Bush did not have open insecure personal servers that no one had access to except three people, one without a security clearance. Hillary’s email system was against the law. She willfully broke the law as Secretary of State and had several servers installed in her home because as her emails explain, she did not want anyone seeing her activity with the Clinton Foundation. It was actually inconvenient for her. Her selfish method caused more than one person to die. Just because she is a woman, she has to abide by the law the same as a man. She also has to answer for criminal behavior. I am not a Republican but I commend them for trying to get to the truth about Benghazi and her email crimes. The Democrats are disgusting for their support of a criminal running for president. If you clear your head, look at what Hillary has supported, worked for and signed off on, you have to see she is a dangerous warmonger. Her mental condition is questionable at best at this time and she has no right to be president.
No but Collen Powell had a private email on a public server that he erased all his emails on. Why aren’t they investigating him. I will tell you why. 1 he is a republican 2 he is not running for president. and 3 he is not a woman running for president. That is why Collen Powell Bush and Rove and many other republican politicians guilty of wrong doing like flint lead problems are left alone while Hillary is crucified for her mole hill.
I”m appalled that democrats would let Cheney get by with anything. Maybe they were just too lazy.
Linda Haney
October 12, 2016 - 9:40 am | Permalink
Rove and the Whole Dirty Bunch should be in jail. The FBI cleared Hillary but you ass wipes just won’t let it die. This is all you are good for, digging in the dirt looking for the shit that is in your mind.
Joan M
A bit of a nitpick of your comment, which is very good overall:
I’m in the financial industry, and Marcha Stewart did not violate securities law, and thus was not “sentenced to jail for a $68,000 illegal profit.”.
Her profit was not illegal.
She was accused and convicted only of lying and obstruction of justice on ” four counts of obstructing justice and lying to investigators about a well-timed stock sale”
http://money.cnn.com/2004/03/05/news/companies/martha_verdict/
If Stewart had simply kept her mouth shut during her initial interviews, she probably would not have done any jail time.
Remember this if ever interviewed by police: They are permitted to lie to you (not that Stewart’s did…) but it’s a crime for you to lie to them.
Tom Steele
July 29, 2016 - 4:39 am | Permalink
” They are permitted to lie to you (not that Stewart’s did…) but it’s a crime for you to lie to them.”
And we are told to respect them. I don’t respect anyone in my life who plays by those rules. I’m not sure how we got to the point that we considered this ok.
M. L. Snyder
Is it an egregious act by the police if “the lie” told to a suspect results in obtaining “the truth” about the crime? I don’t think so…and neither do the courts as long as the lie(s) are not so patently coercive as to make the suspect give up his rights against self-incrimination. Nothing is ever as simple as it seems on the surface. That’s why we armchair quarterbacks who have no background or experience in controversial, complex issues should bench ourselves and just sit on the sidelines until we have a more complete understanding. Until the entire law and order system can be indicted as being a rogue, corrupt, group intent on violating our rights rather than one dedicated to serving and protecting us….yes, I will respect them. There are bad apples in every service organization. Weed those out and prosecute them but don’t disrespect and hinder those who work within the law and all the other public constraints they’re under.
30 years as a prosecutor and defense attorney have convinced me that most police officers think of Constitutional rights only as something they need to find a way around, rather than something they should protect. It’s part of the “us versus them” mentality that dominates police culture. That mentality guarantees abusive behavior. There are a lot of good, honest cops but they can’t avoid concessions to the corrupt police culture. There are also plenty of prosecutors and judges who willingly torture logic and eschew honesty to avoid suppressing evidence. They enable and perpetuate police misbehavior. The culture has to change before approval ratings of police will improve.
NHoward
All.The.Same.
I wong
For the last few decades, the media has been relentless in its attempt to smear Clinton and has stepped up their efforts to damage her image in advance of the Presidential election. A study conducted by Harvard Kennedy School’s Shorenstein Center on Media, Policies and Public Policy confirms that Clinton received almost twice as much negative coverage than Trump and other political figures. Further, the media continues to resurrect issues involving Clinton’s past history.
The obvious slant against Clinton by the media is no more clear than the approach exhibited by my local paper, San Jose Mercury. While the coverage of Clinton and the Democrats was on the front page of the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Francisco Examiner, the Mercury’s story on Clinton’s ringing endorsement by Obama was relegated on page 7 and was adjacent to yet another negative story regarding the Democratic party. The Mercury went further by adding two more negative stories as well as a political cartoon about the Democrats and Clinton. In contrast, coverage of Trump’s irresponsible request to Russia was placed on page 4 with the equivalent space taken by the political cartoon. The bias against Clinton could not be more overt.
Terry Utterback
Your explanation about the bias against Hillary is terrific. It seems not an hour goes by that one political pundit after another has to open their comments about Hillary with a qualification, namely that she is untrustworthy. They repeat and repeat this diatribe until everyone believes. You ask people who have an unfavorable opinion about Hillary just repeat the soundbites as if they can cite exactly why – but they can’t because there is no justification for the characterization. Every time that God-awful Trump opens that mouth of his, he offers another bombastic adjective for her and I won’t repeat it. He is reinforcing the words and everyone remembers it. Someone must have told him years ago if you keep repeating your words people will believe you. He is such a dangerous person and so insidious, preying on people who have no education and can’t see through his lies. I cannot fathom what they see in him. He is the Ugly American. Look up the definition – it fits him to a tee.
Why didn’t the Obama administration go after them?
They were never destroyed.
They were found, and the archivists said that they had been “mislabeled”.
Because of that instance of “lost” e-mails (that were later found), the government instituted a policy where everyone IN government was supposed to use the government e-mail system. That way, all e-mails could be assured to be archived… just as the ones that you are referring to were.
As opposed to the Hillary e-mails, which were wiped when she wiped her server.
If you run into someone desperately searching the Way Back machine for a moral equivalent………….you’ve just met a Democrat.
August 1, 2016 - 6:15 am | Permalink
What, David, are you 10? Notice people hear are having a discussion, your juvenile remarks are not discussion.
“Here” not hear, sorry.
To make such a blanket statement as you just made is not only naieve but ignorant as well. Its no wonder that Moscow Mole said he loved the uneducated!
This damn country is split about 50. 50
And that is a product of poor leadership.
Clean the government out, put all new people in that works for the people. If you don’t your are asking for BIG TIME TROUBLE. Do.you w a nt a civil war, North and south a REVOLUTION.
THE CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES
BETTER WAKE UP TO THE SUPREME COURT APPOINTMENT ‘S AND THE EXECUTIVE ORDERS COMING OUR WAY
Antoine Madoukou
The Republicans control the Supreme court (at least they did until Scalia’s death), the House Representatives, the Senate, most of th egoernorships and state houses but you want to blame the Democrats for the state of the country?
paula butler
It is frightening how few people understand this, or perhaps even know it, and have no sense of who is actually to blame for the state of the country…it is obviously the Republicans despite the denial of the ignorant
mindie bright
In the earliest days of our Republic, those people who helped build the government were referred to as Civil Servants. i’ll repeat for emphasis Civil Servants. Are they ever referred to with that title today ? No. It was an honor to serve mostly without payment for services. These days the election cycle starts months, years in advance and costs millions of dollars which could be better spent on childhood education and health than negative ads. People giving money expect access . Somehow the British system of a few months of electioneering then a vote seems to be effective. I’m not surprised so many of our elected officials are of the Republican party. The money is there..
Rosemary Newcomer
My son once got into trouble at school for writing on the wall. His entire justfication for the act was ” Thomas did it and he wrote more than I did and he didn’t get in trouble for it!” The logic of a 7 year-old! I am glad to say he did not continue long with liberal thinking.
Jerome Frankel
soooo whats the point ?
Arthur Dent
I think the point was that the Republicans are hypocrites. They don’t believe in the equal application of the law. They believe themselves to be above it, but use it as a cudgel against their political opponents.
So if this is true, you were okay with Thomas getting away scot free and you wanted your son punished to the full extent of the law? I commend you if you truly wanted your son punished regardless that others were breaking the same law and getting away with it. But don’t you think when your son didn’t see you saying anything about Thomas you gave him the impression that breaking the law didn’t have consequences. So it was really your fault for not calling Thomas problem that led your sin astray. Same on you.
…led your son astray. Shame on you!
As of several months ago, it was Republicans who’d Appointed at least, if not 8 (didn’t bother with the one) … AT LEAST 7 of past 8 appointees to Supreme Court, who, as appointed, where NOT ‘Pro-Life’. Such, of the SUPPOSEDLY, and YET CLAIMING, ‘pro-life PARTY. News, now decades, has generally been owned by… MURDOCK is it… and ‘sons’!?! Little Truth in what used to be thought ‘news’. Can I spell propaganda? Hmmm.
WRONG. GOP did not appoint 3 of them.
FYI Since President Eisenhower, 17 Supreme court were nominated and confirmed by Republicans. In contrast, 8 were nominated by Democrats and confirmed. Hmmmmm.
Eisenhower (R) – President from 1953-1961 (8 Years) (Nominated 6)
Kennedy (D) – President from 1961-1963 (2 Years) (Nominated 2)
LBJ (D) – President from 1963 – 1969 (6 Years) (Nominated 4)
Nixon (R) – President from 1969- 1974 (5 Years) (Nominated 6)
Ford (R) – President from 1974-1977 (3 Years) (Nominated 1)
Jimmy Carter (D) – President from 1977 – 1981 (4 Years) (He did not nominate anyone)
Ronald Reagan (R) – President from 1981 – 1989 (8 Years) (Nominated 5)
George H. W. Bush (R) – President from 1989 – 1993 (4 Years) (Nominated 2)
Clinton (D) – President from 1993 – 2001 (8 Years) (Nominated 2)
George W. Bush (R) – President from 2001 – 2009 (8 Years) (Nominated 4)
President Obama (D) – President from 2009 – 2017 (8 Years) (Nominated 3)
Joe Budd
FYI, some vast gaps in your facts and history: In mid 1992, there was on the SCOTUS only one Justice appointed by a Democratic president, Byron White, a JFK appointment made 3 decades earlier. All other eight Justices were appointed by Republican presidents, who had made 10 consecutive SCOTUS appointments.
After 1992, Bill Clinton made 2 SCOTUS confirmations. But Clinton had accommodated to GOP obstructionism and asked Republican Orin Hatch (Senate Judiciary Chairman) for names of acceptable individuals. And from those suggestions, WJC nominated Ginsburg and Breyer.
Next, during GW Bush’s presidency, conservative Republican Justices Alito and Roberts were confirmed. So on the day Obama took office in 2009, 12 SCOTUS appointments had been made by Republicans since 1968 to just those 2 by WJC. So the GOP had made or suggested every SCOTUS appointment from 1968 to 2009 essentially picking every Justice on the 2009 SCOTUS..
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Robert baker
Jump Hillary and let the Republicans go ,22 millions emails rove,Cheney and Lil Bush.No wonder Americans are doing crazy things now days.What a shame and disgraceful !
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vance9281
The email server used by Rove was not in the White House. It was the email server of the RNC – Republican National Committee – and Rove did not run it. He had an account on the box & he used it for political email messages. Had he used the White House email server for political emails, that would be a violation of the Hatch Act.
Did he use the RNC server for official WH business? I don’t know. Maybe. But I guarantee he didn’t handle 50 million email messages in six years.
Remember that in 2001 when Bush came into office, email was still emerging in the government as a major tool for work functions & policies were not settled and promulgated the way they were after about 2007-08.
In fact, this email issue in the White House led to many policy changes about email across the government.
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Robert Pavlick
Well if it SHOULDN’T HAVE BEEN DONE BACK IN 2001 and Rove was not punished for it while others were, shouldn’t Hillary and anyone else who witnessed that scandal have had the sound judgement NOT TO REPEAT IT ?????
Albert Einstein defined INSANITY as “doing the same things over and over and expecting different results” !!!!!
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The so-called Plame scandal. Truth be told, twas the thuggish behavior of Patrick Fitzgerald, the Special Prosecutor in the Plame case, that was the real scandal. Conveniently omitted from this story is this: Fitzgerald knew from the get go that Richard Armitage–he was in the State Department–was the one who leaked Plane’s name to Robert Novak. The Dems, and their stenographers in the unbiased media, were accusing accusing Cheney et. al, but Fitzgerald knew from week one that these accusations were false. What did Fitzgerald do? Did he announce Armitage as the leaker, shut down the investigation and drag his sorry butt back to Chicago? No, he continued the investigation until he caught someone in Cheney’s office–Scotter Libby–in a perjury trap. THIS is the real scandal of the Plame episode — the prosecutor, whose charge was to find the person who outed Plame, knew who that person was from the get go, but chose to continue his “investigate” until he trapped someone in the Bush White House for something that had nothing to do with the original charge of his investigation. This episode was more about abuse of the Special Prosecutor law by a rogue investigator than seeking justice for Plame.
The US Attorneys scandal is an even bigger ruse. The “outrage” over Bush’s firing of the U.S. Attorneys was the attempt by Dems, yet again, to criminalize political differences. US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President; what Bush did was not only legal, it was/is standard operating procedure. Bill Clinton fired every US attorney in the country when he assumed the Presidency …… to no outcry at all…..because this is what Presidents do.
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Yawn. If there were any illegality here, the statute of limitations would have long past. No so for HRC.
“Hillary for Prison, 2016”
They haven’t reported it on Fox so you can’t know — but Hillary has been cleared by the Republican aparatchik who runs the FBI.
Azzy
Patheti story. Did Rove get on TV and lie over and over? Before congress?
Also, these liberal lies are pathetic. There were WMDs in Iraq, as reported by your liberal NY Times. Yes, the intelligence was wrong, Did anyone mention hillary voted for the war and was seen hugging her beloved friend Osama bin laden>>
Pathetic!!
You’re confused. That was a photo of your beloved leader Bush swapping spit with a Saudi prince.
Michael Foley
Clinton is currently running for President. Rove is not.
For those who took this article as comparing what Cheney, Bush and Rove did as a comparison to what Clinton did, please look again. This is about the Republican response to those two events and the presumed political actions behind both the inaction by the Republicans to investigate Cheney, Bush and Rove for heinous actions for political reasons and their overzealous and costly attack on Hillary Clinton, also for political reasons. The point being that the Republicans seem not to know what their job is… serving this country in the best interest of the American people, not the best interest of the Republican Party.
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These were found 7 years ago.
It wasnn’t an issue, because they figured out that someone had mislabled them.
And much to their credit, no one had wiped the hard drive of the server.
DruMarie
Believe what you want to believe, conservative or liberal but the truth of the matter is that the Republicans have protected their Republican Administrations from impeachments or treason, from the Reagan Contra to GW Bush numerous scandals. They all cause American deaths for their illegal politics involving foreign countries..
The Hillary private emails is a prime example of sweeping the GW bush/Cheney/Rove private emails deletions to hide the scandals. This brings Comey again into the spotlight of joining the Ethics Committee investigation on 2007. Comey was the head of the FBI so why didn’t he do as he is doing with Hillary’s emails? The Bush Administration deleted 22 MILLION private server emails, which by the way was set up by the RNC for non government work.
Bush and Rove were embroiled in two competing scandals — the Valerie Plame scandal, in which operatives for Vice Pres. Dick Cheney, including Rove and Scooter Libby, were accused of unmasking Valerie Plame, a CIA specialist in the black market for weapons of mass destruction, for purely partisan reasons, and the U.S. Attorney purge, in which Rove’s political operation in the White House was accused of ordering Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to purge eight U.S. attorneys who were qualified prosecutors and replace them with political hacks with little or no prosecutorial experience.
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In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive
by Clementine von Radics
New - Trade Paperback
Wednesday, July 17 @ 7:30 PM
Powell's City of Books
1005 W Burnside St.
Lyrical poet Clementine von Radics’s new book, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive (Andrews McMeel) is a collection of brutally honest poetry that lends itself to the powerful anthem of survival. Their new collection bravely explores life at its darkest and most inspiring moments — drawing on central themes of love, loss, mental health, and abuse. An attempt to understand and to be understood, In a Dream You Saw a Way to Survive is an ode to vulnerability that delivers concentrated, thought-provoking, and earnest verse.
Westside Writing Group
Thursday, July 18 @ 7:00 PM
Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing
3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
A group for anyone writing nonfiction or memoir who would like company, support, and, most of all, accountability. Whether you’ve never written a word or you’re a published author, join us!
Protecting Pollinators: How to Save the Creatures that Feed Our World
We should thank a pollinator at every meal. These diminutive creatures fertilize a third of the crops we eat. Yet half of the 200,000 species of pollinators are threatened. Birds, bats, insects, and many other pollinators are disappearing, putting our entire food supply in jeopardy. In North America and Europe, bee populations have already plummeted by more than a third and the population of butterflies has declined 31 percent. Protecting Pollinators (Island) explores why the statistics have become so dire and how they can be reversed. Jodi Helmer breaks down the latest science on environmental threats and takes readers inside the most promising conservation initiatives. Efforts include famers reducing pesticides, cities creating butterfly highways, volunteers ripping up invasive plants, gardeners planting native flowers, and citizen scientists monitoring migration.
The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam
Friday, July 19 @ 6:00 PM
The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam is a tournament featuring teams of spoken word poets from all over the Pacific Northwest (and beyond!). At this event, four teams of poets will compete in a battle of words at 6 p.m., followed by a different set of four teams at 8 p.m. Audience members selected at random will determine the winner. Come see this dynamic event for yourself!
All the Crooked Saints
by Maggie Stiefvater
Young Adult Book Club (Burnside)
The Young Adult Book Club is a safe place for teens to talk about books. You pick the books and Powell’s brings the snacks! We meet monthly to discuss strong stories with diverse characters. This month we meet to discuss All the Crooked Saints by Maggie Stiefvater. Join us!
Kids’ Storytime
Saturday, July 20 @ 11:00 AM
Join us for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Linus, the Little Yellow Pencil by Scott Magoon.
Oregon's Ancient Forests
by Oregon Wild
Oregon's Ancient Forests: A Hiking Guide
Monday, July 22 @ 7:30 PM
Powell's Books on Hawthorne
3723 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Chandra LeGue’s Oregon’s Ancient Forests (Mountaineers) is a guidebook with a purpose: to inspire readers to learn about and visit Oregon’s rapturous old-growth forests, and then love them enough to keep them protected. Not just for hikers, this Oregon Wild-sponsored guide explains where the forests are and who manages them, the threats they face, and an action plan for protecting what remains and restoring damaged forests so they may become the ancient forests of the future. LeGue discusses forest ecology, flora, and fauna, and also details 91 of her favorite hikes across the state.
Mostly Dead Things
by Kristen Arnett
New - Hardcover
Kristen Arnett in Conversation With Karen Russell
One morning, Jessa-Lynn Morton walks into the family taxidermy shop to find that her father has committed suicide, right there on one of the metal tables. Shocked and grieving, Jessa steps up to manage the failing business, while the rest of the Morton family crumbles. Her mother starts sneaking into the shop to make aggressively lewd art with the taxidermied animals. Her brother Milo withdraws, struggling to function. And Brynn, Milo’s wife — and the only person Jessa’s ever been in love with — walks out without a word. As Jessa seeks out less-than-legal ways of generating income, her mother’s art escalates — picture a figure of her dead husband and a stuffed buffalo in an uncomfortably sexual pose — and the Mortons reach a tipping point. For the first time, Jessa has no choice but to learn who these people truly are, and ultimately how she fits alongside them. Kristen Arnett’s debut novel, Mostly Dead Things (Tin House), is a darkly funny, heart-wrenching, and eccentric look at loss and love. Arnett will be joined in conversation by Karen Russell, author of Swamplandia! and Orange World and Other Stories.
Jade War (Green Bone Saga #2)
by Fonda Lee
Fonda Lee
Tuesday, July 23 @ 7:00 PM
In Fonda Lee’s Jade War (Orbit), the second book in her Green Bone Saga and the sequel to her World Fantasy Award-winning novel Jade City, the Kaul siblings battle rival clans for honor and control over an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. On the island of Kekon, the Kaul family is locked in a violent feud for control of the capital city and the supply of magical jade that endows trained Green Bone warriors with supernatural powers. Beyond Kekon's borders, war is brewing. Powerful foreign governments and mercenary criminal kingpins alike turn their eyes on the island nation. Jade, Kekon's most prized resource, could make them rich — or give them the edge they'd need to topple their rivals. Faced with threats on all sides, the Kaul family is forced to form new and dangerous alliances, confront enemies in the darkest streets and the tallest office towers, and put honor aside in order to do whatever it takes to ensure their own survival — and that of all the Green Bones of Kekon.
Stronghold: One Man's Quest to Save the World's Wild Salmon
by Tucker Malarkey
Tucker Malarkey in Conversation With Guido Rahr & Fiona McCann
In the tradition of Mountains Beyond Mountains and The Orchid Thief, Stronghold (Spiegel & Grau) is Tucker Malarkey’s gripping account of one man’s determination to protect the world’s last bastion for wild salmon. From a young age, Guido Rahr was a misfit among his family and classmates, preferring to spend his time in the natural world, on his family’s land on the Deschutes River in Oregon. Over the years, as he became an expert fly fisherman, he noticed that each year fewer salmon were returning to their place of birth to spawn, and set out to learn why. What he discovered alarmed him; as the river homes of these fish became increasingly inhospitable to them, due to dams, industry, and climate change, the salmon of the Pacific Rim seemed destined to quickly go the way of the salmon that once filled the Atlantic Ocean: near extinction. Malarkey will be joined in conversation by Guido Rahr, president and CEO of the Wild Salmon Center, and Fiona McCann, senior editor-at-large at Portland Monthly magazine. This event is sponsored by the Wild Salmon Center.
Beijing Payback: A Novel
by Daniel Nieh
Daniel Nieh
Victor Li is devastated by his father’s murder, and shocked by a confessional letter he finds among his father’s things. In it, his father admits that he was never just a restaurateur – in fact he was part of a vast international crime syndicate that formed during China’s leanest communist years. Victor travels to Beijing, where he navigates his father’s secret criminal life, confronting decades-old grudges, violent spats, and a shocking new enterprise that the organization wants to undertake. Standing up against it is likely what got his father killed, but Victor remains undeterred. He enlists his growing network of allies and friends to finish what his father started, no matter the costs. Daniel Nieh’s Beijing Payback (Ecco) is a fast-paced revenge thriller, bursting with personality and pathos.
White Death: An Illusion
by Gabriel Urza
Gabriel Urza in Conversation With Leni Zumas
The illusionist Benjamin Vaughn is 14 years old when he dies under mysterious circumstances at the height of his short career. In the wake of his death, the life of this brilliant yet reclusive prodigy known as "The Great Bendini" is meticulously chronicled by an unnamed narrator who encountered Vaughn when he himself was a boy. Set amidst dusty Northern California towns in the 1990s, the narrator — now an academic and father to a son of his own — unfurls a layered testimony that blurs the line between the observer and the observed; between ambitions that have the potential to transcend, and those with the capacity to destroy. Deployed with immersive detail and haunting observations, Gabriel Urza's The White Death: An Illusion (Nouvella) is a heartbreaking examination of adolescence as it collides with the ephemeral nature of time and mortality. Urza will be joined in conversation by Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks.
The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California
by Mark Arax
Mark Arax
Mark Arax is from a family of Central Valley farmers, a writer with deep ties to the land who has watched the battles over water intensify even as California lurches from drought to flood and back again. In The Dreamt Land (Knopf), he travels the state to explore the one-of-a-kind distribution system, built in the 1940s, ’50s, and ’60s, that is straining to keep up with California’s relentless growth. The Dreamt Land weaves reportage, history, and memoir to confront the “Golden State” myth in riveting fashion. Arax’s heartfelt, beautifully written book is about the land and the people who have worked it – from gold miners to wheat ranchers to small fruit farmers and today’s Big Ag. Since the beginning, Californians have redirected rivers, drilled ever-deeper wells, and built higher dams, pushing the water supply past its limit.
Catch Me If You Can The Amazing True Story of the Youngest & Most Daring Con Man in the History of Fun & Profit
by Frank Jr Abagnale
Used - Trade Paperback
Young Adult Book Club (Hawthorne)
The Young Adult Book Club is a group of teens who meet monthly to talk about YA fiction. We’re fans of strong stories, diverse characters, and Rainbow Rowell (of course!). This month we meet to discuss Catch Me If You Can by Frank Abagnale. Join us!
Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Bear Out There by Jacob Grant.
The Grave on the Wall
by Brandon Shimoda
Brandon Shimoda in Conversation With Janice Lee
Award-winning poet Brandon Shimoda has crafted a lyrical portrait of his paternal grandfather, Midori Shimoda, whose life — child migrant, talented photographer, suspected enemy alien and spy, desert wanderer, American citizen — mirrors the arc of Japanese America in the 20th century. In a series of pilgrimages, Shimoda records the search to find his grandfather, and unfolds, in the process, a moving elegy on memory and forgetting. The Grave on the Wall (City Lights) is a memoir and book of mourning, a grandson’s attempt to reconcile his own uncontested citizenship with his grandfather’s lifelong struggle. Shimoda will be joined in conversation by Janice Lee, author of The Sky Isn’t Blue.
From Chaos to Creativity: Building a Productivity System for Artists and Writers
by Jessie L. Kwak
Jessie L. Kwak
Art and writing can be among the most fulfilling parts of our lives. But let’s face it: sometimes it's difficult to make time and space for it. Sometimes we have so many ideas it’s difficult to keep them all organized, or even to distinguish one from another. With all the clutter overwhelming your scattered brain, how could you expect to get any work done? More likely than not, you'll find yourself procrastinating on an art project, or not actually knowing what the project is. What to do? Jessie L. Kwak’s From Chaos to Creativity (Microcosm) will help guide you through the clutter and teach you how to focus on the good ideas, manage your project, make time in your life, and execute your passions to completion. Make great art by changing your chaotic creative force into productive power!
Superbugs The Race to Stop an Epidemic
by Matt McCarthy
Superbugs: The Race to Stop an Epidemic
Physician, researcher, and ethics professor Matt McCarthy is on the front lines of a groundbreaking clinical trial testing a new antibiotic to fight lethal superbugs, bacteria that have built up resistance to the life-saving drugs in our rapidly dwindling arsenal. This trial serves as the backdrop for the compulsively readable Superbugs (Avery) — and the results will impact nothing less than the future of humanity. McCarthy explores the history of bacteria and antibiotics, from Alexander Fleming's discovery of penicillin, to obscure sources of innovative new medicines (often found in soil samples), to the cutting-edge DNA manipulation known as CRISPR, bringing to light how we arrived at this juncture of both incredible breakthrough and extreme vulnerability. We also meet the patients whose lives are hanging in the balance, from Remy, a teenager with a dangerous and rare infection, to Donny, a retired New York City firefighter with a compromised immune system, and many more. Superbugs is the exhilarating story of cutting-edge science and the race against the clock to find new treatments in the fight against the antibiotic-resistant bacteria known as superbugs.
Classics Book Group
This month our group meets to discuss Honey in the Horn by H. L. Davis. Join us!
I Am a Stranger Here Myself
by Debra Gwartney
Debra Gwartney in Conversation With Apricot Irving
Part history, part memoir, Debra Gwartney’s I Am a Stranger Here Myself (University of New Mexico) taps dimensions of human yearning: the need to belong, the snarl of family history, and embracing womanhood in the patriarchal American West. Gwartney becomes fascinated with the missionary Narcissa Prentiss Whitman, the first Caucasian woman to cross the Rocky Mountains and one of 14 people killed at the Whitman Mission in 1847 by Cayuse Indians. Whitman's role as a white woman drawn in to "settle" the West reflects the tough-as-nails women in Gwartney's own family. Arranged in four sections as a series of interlocking explorations and ruminations, Gwartney uses Whitman as a touchstone to spin a tightly woven narrative about identity, the power of womanhood, and coming to peace with one's most cherished place. Gwartney will be joined in conversation by Apricot Irving, author of The Gospel of Trees.
First Thursday: A Walk on the West Side
Thursday, August 1 @ 6:30 PM
Behind every sign, every doorway, is place and history. “A Walk on the West Side” captures the details of Old Portland that are hidden in plain sight. In her bold, modern oil paintings, Susan Caricaburu highlights the beautiful realism of what was – and what is – in the City of Roses.
Unabomber Agent Kathy Puckett & the Hunt for a Serial Bomber
by Bryan Denson
Bryan Denson
The Unabomber was a lone-wolf terrorist who carried out 14 bombings that left 3 people dead and another 23 injured. A cunning genius, he dodged his FBI pursuers for nearly two decades, terrifying Americans from coast to coast. Agent Kathy Puckett, a spy hunter and highly trained psychologist, served as the turning point in the FBI's efforts to understand the mind of the faceless killer. Her insights helped send more than a hundred agents to a remote cabin in the mountains of western Montana on April 3, 1996. There the FBI captured Theodore J. Kaczynski, engineer of the most notorious bombing spree in U.S. history. Bryan Denson’s The Unabomber (Roaring Brook) is the story of the FBI's investigation of the Unabomber and the agent who brought him to justice – written for young and middle readers.
Hope Rides Again (Obama Biden Mysteries #2)
by Andrew Shaffer
Hope Rides Again: An Obama Biden Mystery
In Andrew Shaffer’s Hope Rides Again (Quirk) – the sequel to his previous novel, Hope Never Dies – Obama and Biden reprise their roles as BFFs-turned-detectives as they chase Obama’s stolen cell phone through the streets of Chicago – and right into a vast conspiracy. Following a long but successful book tour, Joe Biden has one more stop before he can return home: Chicago. His old pal Barack Obama has invited him to meet a wealthy benefactor whose endorsement could turn the tide for Joe if he decides to run for president. The two friends barely have time to catch up before another mystery lands in their laps: Obama’s prized Blackberry is stolen. When their number one suspect winds up full of lead on the South Side, the police are content to write it off as just another gangland shooting. But Biden and Obama smell a rat.
Saturday, August 3 @ 11:00 PM
Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading The Green Giant by Katie Cottle.
The Cassandra
by Sharma Shields
Sharma Shields & Simeon Mills
Monday, August 5 @ 7:30 PM
Sharma Shields’s The Cassandra (Henry Holt) follows a woman who goes to work in a top secret research facility during WWII, only to be tormented by visions of what the mission will mean for humankind. Inspired by the classic Greek myth, this 20th-century reimagining of Cassandra's story is based on a real WWII compound that Shields researched meticulously. A timely novel about patriarchy and militancy, The Cassandra uses both legend and history to look deep into man's capacity for destruction, and the resolve and compassion it takes to challenge the powerful. Simeon Mills’s The Obsoletes (Skybound) is a thought-provoking coming-of-age novel about two human-like teen robots navigating high school, basketball, and potentially life-threatening consequences if their true origins are discovered by the inhabitants of their intolerant 1980s Michigan hometown. Heartwarming and thrilling, Mills’s charming debut is a funny, poignant look at brotherhood, xenophobia, and the limits of one’s programming.
Tuesday, August 6 @ 7:30 PM
A man flying first class discovers a puma in the lavatory. An obscure power pop band wrestles with its newfound fame when its song “Blizzard of Summer” becomes an anthem for white supremacists. A couple considers getting a medical procedure that will transfer the pain of childbirth from the woman to her husband. A woman interviews a hit man about killing her husband but is shocked by the method he proposes. A man is recruited to join a secret government research team investigating why coin flips are no longer exactly 50/50. A man sees a whale struck by lightning, and knows that everything about his life has to change. A lawyer grapples with the unintended side effects of a veterinarian’s rabies vaccination. Fair warning: Raised in Captivity: Fictional Nonfiction (Penguin Press) does not slot into a smooth preexisting groove. If Saul Steinberg and Italo Calvino had adopted a child from a Romanian orphanage and raised him on Gary Larson and Thomas Bernhard, he would still be nothing like Chuck Klosterman. Funny, wise, and weird in equal measure, Raised in Captivity bids fair to be one of the most original and exciting story collections in recent memory, a fever graph of our deepest unvoiced hopes, fears, and preoccupations. Ceaselessly inventive, hostile to corniness in all its forms, and mean only to the things that really deserve it, it marks a cosmic leap forward for one of our most consistently interesting writers.
Hollow Kingdom
by Kira Jane Buxton
Wednesday, August 7 @ 7:30 PM
S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (those idiots), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos. Then Big Jim's eyeball falls out of his head, and S.T. starts to feel like something isn't quite right. His most tried-and-true remedies – from beak-delivered beer to the slobbering affection of Big Jim's loyal but dim-witted dog, Dennis – fail to cure Big Jim's debilitating malady. S.T. is left with no choice but to abandon his old life and venture out into a wild and frightening new world with his trusty steed Dennis, where he discovers that the neighbors are devouring each other and the local wildlife is abuzz with rumors of dangerous new predators roaming Seattle. Humanity's extinction has seemingly arrived, and the only one determined to save it is a foul-mouthed crow whose knowledge of the world around him comes from his TV-watching education. Kira Jane Buxton’s Hollow Kingdom (Grand Central) is a humorous, big-hearted, and boundlessly beautiful romp through the apocalypse and the world that comes after, where even a cowardly crow can become a hero.
Deadly Diversions Book Group
This month our group meets to discuss Vicki Delany’s Constable Molly Smith mystery series. Join us!
Well-Read Black Girl Book Club
The American Booksellers Association is partnering with Well-Read Black Girl founder Glory Edim to bring book club meetings to independent bookstores nationwide with the goal of amplifying diverse voices and supporting emerging writers of color. Our Well-Read Black Girl book club will read a balance of classics and newly published works, written by persons of color, and will meet on the second Thursday of each month. This month we're reading Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams. Join us!
The Scene That Became Cities: What Burning Man Philosophy Can Teach Us about Building Better Communities
by Caveat Magister
Caveat Magister in Conversation With Shawn Levy
Over 30 years, Burning Man has gone from two families on a San Francisco beach to a global movement in which hundreds of thousands of people around the world create events on every continent. It has been the subject of fawning media profiles, an exhibit in the Smithsonian, and is beloved by tech billionaires and boho counterculturalists alike. But why does it matter? What does it actually have to offer us? The answer, Caveat Magister writes, is simple: Burning Man’s philosophy can help us build better communities in which individuals’ freedom to follow their own authentic passions also brings them together in common purpose. Burning Man is a prototype, and its philosophy is a how-to manual for better communities that offers principles instead of rules. Magister’s The Scene That Became Cities (North Atlantic) introduces readers to the experience of Burning Man; explains why it grew; posits how it could impact fields as diverse as art, economics, and politics; and makes the ideas behind it accessible, actionable, and useful. Magister will be joined in conversation by Shawn Levy, author of The Castle on Sunset and Dolce Vita Confidential.
Earthquakes in Candyland
by Jennifer Robin
Jennifer Robin
American Candyland: Love is a swipe away, toy aisles teem with plastic tanks, nipples are illegal. The Pentagon spends $717 billion a year on war. Scientists say the sixth great extinction event is upon us, and mammals aren't going to make it past the year 2100. When faced with disaster, Americans grow robust. We become more of ourselves, with Twitter feuds, celebrity weight loss tricks, covens hexing Trump. In the dead of night the old ones whisper, "Where has my America gone?" The young ones were born too poor, too late to hear the promises and believe them. We feel earthquakes, and there is nowhere left to hide. This is Jennifer Robin's America: Hilarious, heartbreaking, razor-sharp. Earthquakes in Candyland (Fungasm) is the new novel from the author of Death Confetti.
Jacobs Room to Choose
by Chris Case
Kids’ Storytime With Sarah & Ian Hoffman
Saturday, August 10 @ 11:00 AM
Today, authors Sarah and Ian Hoffman join us to read from their new picture book, Jacob’s Room to Choose (Magination Press). When Jacob goes to the boys’ bathroom, he is chased out for looking like a girl because of the way he is dressed. His classmate, Sophie, has a similar experience when she tries to go to the girls’ bathroom. When their teacher finds out what has happened, Jacob and Sophie, with the support of the administration, lead change at their school as everyone discovers the many forms of gender expression and how to treat each other with respect.
Emperors of the Deep: Sharks - The Ocean's Most Mysterious, Most Misunderstood, and Most Important Guardians
by William Mckeever
Emperors of the Deep
Monday, August 12 @ 7:00 PM
From the Jaws blockbusters to Shark Week, we are conditioned to see sharks as terrifying, cold-blooded underwater predators. But as Safeguard the Seas founder William McKeever reveals, sharks are evolutionary marvels essential to maintaining a balanced ecosystem. We can learn much from sharks, he argues, and our knowledge about them continues to grow. In his groundbreaking new book, Emperors of the Deep (HarperOne), the documentarian and conservationist dispels misplaced fears and corrects common misconceptions, exploring in depth the secret lives of sharks – magnificent creatures who play an integral part in maintaining the health of the world’s oceans and ultimately the planet. McKeever goes back through time to probe the shark’s prehistoric secrets and how it has become the world’s most feared and misunderstood predator, and takes us on a pulse-pounding tour around the world and deep under the water’s surface, from the frigid waters of the Arctic Circle to the coral reefs of the tropical Central Pacific, to see sharks up close in their natural habitats. At once a deep dive into the misunderstood world of sharks and an urgent call to protect them, Emperors of the Deep celebrates this wild species that hold the key to unlocking the mysteries of the ocean – if we can prevent their extinction from climate change and human hunters.
High Weirdness: Drugs, Esoterica and Visionary Experience in the Seventies
by Erik Davis
A study of the spiritual provocations to be found in the work of Philip K. Dick, Terence McKenna, and Robert Anton Wilson, Erik Davis’s High Weirdness (MIT) charts the emergence of a new psychedelic spirituality that arose from the American counterculture of the 1970s. These three authors changed the way millions of readers thought, dreamed, and experienced reality – but how did their writings reflect, as well as shape, the seismic cultural shifts taking place in America? In High Weirdness, Davis – America's leading scholar of high strangeness – examines the published and unpublished writings of these vital, iconoclastic thinkers, as well as their own life-changing mystical experiences. Davis explores the complex lattice of the strange that flowed through America's West Coast at a time of radical technological, political, and social upheaval to present a new theory of the weird as a viable mode for a renewed engagement with reality.
Monster Calls Inspired by an Idea from Siobhan Dowd
by Jim Kay
Science Fiction Book Group
Tuesday, August 13 @ 7:00 PM
This month our group meets to discuss Monster Calls by Patrick Ness. Join us!
Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America
by Beth Macy
In her masterful work, Dopesick: Dealers, Doctors, and the Drug Company That Addicted America (Back Bay), Beth Macy takes us into the epicenter of America's 20-plus-year struggle with opioid addiction. From distressed small communities in Central Appalachia to wealthy suburbs, from disparate cities to once-idyllic farm towns, it's a heartbreaking trajectory that illustrates how this national crisis has persisted for so long and become so firmly entrenched. From the introduction of OxyContin in 1996, Macy parses how America embraced a medical culture where overtreatment with painkillers became the norm. Through unsparing, yet deeply human portraits of the families and first responders struggling to ameliorate this epidemic, each facet of the crisis comes into focus. In these politically fragmented times, Macy shows, astonishingly, that the only thing that unites Americans across geographic and class lines is opioid drug abuse. But in a country unable to provide basic healthcare for all, Macy still finds reason to hope – and signs of the spirit and tenacity necessary in those facing addiction to build a better future for themselves and their families.
A Girl Goes Into the Forest
by Peg Alford Pursell
Peg Alford Pursell in Conversation With Sophia Shalmiyev
Following her acclaimed debut, Show Her a Flower, a Bird, a Shadow, Peg Alford Pursell explores and illuminates love and loss in 78 hybrid stories and fables. A Girl Goes Into the Forest (Dzanc) immerses readers in the complex desires, contradictions, and sorrows of daughters, wives, and husbands, artists, siblings, and mothers. In forests literal and metaphorical, the characters try, fail, and try again to see the world, to hear each other, and to speak the truth of their longings. Powerful, lyrical, and precise, Pursell’s stories call up a world at once mysterious and recognizable. A Girl Goes Into the Forest invites fans of Lydia Davis and Helen Oyeyemi into a world where “no one can deter a person from her mistakes.” Pursell will be joined in conversation by Sophia Shalmiyev, author of Mother Winter.
Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home
by Matthew Kepnes
Wednesday, August 14 @ 7:00 PM
Ten Years a Nomad: A Traveler's Journey Home (St. Martin’s) is part travel memoir and part philosophical travel manifesto, an exploration of wanderlust and what it truly means to be a nomad, filled with stories of Matt Kepnes's adventures abroad. Kepnes, author of How to Travel the World on $50 a Day, knows what it feels like to get the travel bug. Wanderlust is a powerful thing. After quitting his 9-5 job more than 10 years ago, he realized that living life meant more for him than simply meeting traditional milestones like buying a car, paying a mortgage, and moving up the career ladder. With almost nothing tangible to show for it after traveling over 500,000 miles and staying in 1,000 different hostels in 90 different countries, Kepnes has compiled his favorite stories and experiences in this travel manifesto to show a different side of life. Filled with the color and perspective that only hindsight and self-reflection can offer, these stories get to the real questions at the heart of wanderlust. Ten Years a Nomad is for travel junkies, the travel-curious, and anyone interested in what you can learn about the world when you don’t have a cable bill for a decade.
The Light Years: A Memoir
by Chris Rush
Chris Rush
Chris Rush was born into a prosperous, fiercely Roman Catholic, New Jersey family. But underneath the gleaming mid-century house, the flawless hostess mom, and the thriving businessman dad ran an unspoken tension that, amid the upheaval of the late 1960s, was destined to fracture their precarious facade. His older sister Donna introduces him to the charismatic Valentine, who places a tab of acid on 12-year-old Rush’s tongue, proclaiming: “This is sacrament. You are one of us now.” After an unceremonious ejection from an experimental art school, Rush heads to Tucson to make a major drug purchase and, still barely a teenager, disappears into the nascent American counterculture. Stitching together a ragged assemblage of lowlifes, prophets, and fellow wanderers, he seeks kinship in the communes of the west. His adolescence is spent looking for knowledge, for the divine, for home. Given what Rush confronts on his travels – from ordinary heartbreak to unimaginable violence – it is a miracle he is still alive. The Light Years (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux) is a prayer for vanished friends, an odyssey signposted with broken and extraordinary people. It transcends one boy’s story to perfectly illustrate the slow slide from the optimism of the 1960s into the darker and more sinister 1970s. The Light Years is a riveting, heart-stopping journey of discovery and reconciliation, as Rush faces his lost childhood and, finally, himself.
Thursday, August 15 @ 7:00 PM
Chase Darkness with Me: How One True Crime Writer Started Solving Murders
by Billy Jensen
Billy Jensen
Journalist Billy Jensen spent 15 years investigating unsolved murders, fighting for the families of victims – often using information found on social media and in other places the police don't think to look. Every story he wrote had one thing in common: they didn't have an ending. The killer was still out there. But after the sudden death of friend Michelle McNamara, crime writer and author of I'll Be Gone in the Dark, Jensen became fed up. Following a dark night, he came up with a plan. A plan to investigate past the point when the cops had given up. A plan to solve the murders himself. In Jensen’s new book, you'll ride shotgun as he identifies the Halloween Mask Murderer, finds a missing girl in the California Redwoods, and investigates the only other murder in New York City on 9/11. You'll hear intimate details of the hunts for two of the most terrifying serial killers in history: McNamara's pursuit of the Golden State Killer and his own quest to find the murderer of the Allenstown Four. And Jensen gives you the tools – and the rules – to help solve murders yourself. Gripping, complex, unforgettable, Chase Darkness With Me: How One True-Crime Writer Started Solving Murders (Sourcebooks) is an examination of the evil forces that walk among us, illustrating a novel way to catch those killers, and a true-crime narrative unlike any you've read before.
by Kimberly King Parsons
Kimberly King Parsons in Conversation With Claire Vaye Watkins
Kimberly King Parsons’s debut story collection, Black Light (Vintage), is a love letter to Texas’s most scrappy, beastly, and strange – and a paean to characters who dare furiously to dream despite being trapped in places devoid of hope. With raw, poetic ferocity, Parsons exposes desire’s darkest hollows – those hidden places where most of us are afraid to look. In her debut collection of enormously perceptive and brutally unsentimental short stories, Parsons illuminates the ache of first love, the banality of self-loathing, the scourge of addiction, the myth of marriage, and the magic and inevitable disillusionment of childhood. Taking us from hot Texas highways to cold family kitchens, from the freedom of pay-by-the-hour motels to the claustrophobia of private school dorms, these stories erupt off the page with a primal howl – sharp-voiced, bitter, and wise. Black Light contains the type of storytelling that resonates somewhere deep, in the well of memory that repudiates nostalgia. Parsons will be joined in conversation with Claire Vaye Watkins, author of Gold Fame Citrus.
Skulls!
by Blair Thornburgh
Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading Skulls! by Blair Thornburgh.
Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement & Paramilitary America
by Kathleen Belew
Kathleen Belew in Conversation With Elliott Young
The white power movement in America wants a revolution. Returning to a country ripped apart by a war they felt they were not allowed to win, a small group of Vietnam veterans and disgruntled civilians who shared their virulent anti-communism and potent sense of betrayal concluded that waging war on their own country was justified. The command structure of their covert movement gave women a prominent place. They operated with discipline, made tragic headlines in Waco, Ruby Ridge, and Oklahoma City, and are resurgent under President Trump. Based on a decade of deep immersion in previously classified FBI files and on extensive interviews, Kathleen Belew’s Bring the War Home: The White Power Movement and Paramilitary America (Harvard) tells the story of American paramilitarism and the birth of the alt-right. Belew will be joined in conversation by Elliott Young, professor in the History Department at Lewis and Clark College and author of Alien Nation: Chinese Migration in the Americas From the Coolie Era through WWII.
The Making of a Democratic Economy: How to Build Prosperity for the Many, Not the Few
by Ted Howard
The Making of a Democratic Economy
We live in a world where 26 billionaires own as much wealth as half the planet’s population. The extractive economy we live with now enables the financial elite to squeeze out maximum gain for themselves, heedless of damage to people or planet. But Marjorie Kelly (and coauthor Ted Howard) show that there is a new economy emerging focused on helping everyone thrive while respecting planetary boundaries. At a time when competing political visions are at stake the world over, The Making of a Democratic Economy: Building Prosperity for the Many, Not Just the Few (Berrett-Koehler) urges a move beyond tinkering at the margins to address the systemic crisis of our economy. It outlines seven principles of a Democratic Economy: community, inclusion, place (keeping wealth local), good work (putting labor before capital), democratized ownership, ethical finance, and sustainability. Each principle is paired with a place putting it into practice: Pine Ridge, Preston, Portland, Cleveland, and more. The road to a system grounded in community, democracy, and justice remains uncertain. The Making of a Democratic Economy helps us understand we make this road as we walk it by taking a first step together beyond isolation and despair.
Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors
by Edward Niedermeyer
With a unique blend of original reporting and deep analysis, journalist and auto industry analyst Edward Niedermeyer reveals the ugly reality hidden behind Tesla's popular mythology and explains why Tesla is more likely to end up as a transitional figure in automotive history than the next industrial juggernaut. Tesla Motors and CEO Elon Musk have become household names, shaking up the staid auto industry by creating a set of innovative electric vehicles that have wowed the marketplace and defied conventional wisdom. The company’s market valuation now rivals that of long-established automakers, and, to many industry observers, Tesla is defining the future of the industry. But behind the hype, Tesla has some serious deficiencies that raise questions about its sky-high valuation, and even its ultimate survival. Tesla’s commitment to innovation has led it to reject the careful, zero-defects approach of other car manufacturers, even as it struggles to mass-produce cars reliably and with minimal defects. In Ludicrous: The Unvarnished Story of Tesla Motors (BenBella), Niedermeyer lays bare the disconnect between the popular perception of Tesla and the day-to-day realities of the company – and the cars it produces.
by Téa Obrehti
Téa Obreht
Téa Obreht, bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife, returns with a stunning tale of perseverance that follows an epic journey across an unforgettable landscape of magic and myth. In the lawless, drought-ridden lands of the Arizona Territory in 1893, two extraordinary lives collide. Nora is an unflinching frontierswoman awaiting the return of the men in her life – her husband, a newspaperman, who has gone in search of water for the parched household, and her elder sons who have vanished after an explosive argument. Nora is biding her time with her youngest son, who is convinced that a mysterious beast is stalking the land around their home, and her husband’s 17-year-old cousin, who communes with spirits. Lurie is a former outlaw and a man haunted by ghosts. He sees lost souls who want something from him, and he finds reprieve from their longing in an unexpected relationship that inspires a momentous expedition across the West. The way in which Nora’s and Lurie’s stories intertwine is the surprise and suspense of this brilliant novel. Mythical, lyrical, and sweeping in scope, Inland (Random House) is grounded in true but little-known history. It showcases all of Obreht’s talents as a writer, as she subverts and reimagines the myths of the American West, making them entirely – and unforgettably – her own.
Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire: The Biggest Ideas in Science from Quanta
by Thomas Lin
Thomas Lin
Quanta Magazine, under editor in chief Thomas Lin, is the only popular publication that offers in-depth coverage of today's challenging, speculative, cutting-edge science. It communicates science by taking it seriously, wrestling with difficult concepts and clearly explaining them in a way that speaks to our innate curiosity about our world and ourselves. Alice and Bob Meet the Wall of Fire (MIT) reports on some of the greatest scientific minds as they test the limits of human knowledge. In the title story, Alice and Bob – beloved characters of various thought experiments in physics – grapple with gravitational forces, possible spaghettification, and a massive wall of fire as Alice jumps into a black hole. Another story considers whether the universe is impossible, in light of experimental results at the Large Hadron Collider. The stories in The Prime Number Conspiracy (MIT) map the routes of mathematical exploration, showing readers how cutting-edge research is done, while illuminating the productive tension between conjecture and proof, theory and intuition. The stories show that, as James Gleick puts it in the foreword, “inspiration strikes willy-nilly.” One researcher thinks of quantum chaotic systems at a bus stop; another suddenly realizes a path to proving a theorem of number theory while in a friend's backyard; a statistician has a “bathroom sink epiphany” and discovers the key to solving the Gaussian correlation inequality.
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers: Tight and Loose Cultures and the Secret Signals That Direct Our Lives
by Michele Gelfand
Michele Gelfand
In Rule Makers, Rule Breakers (Scribner), celebrated social psychologist Michele Gelfand takes us on an epic journey through human cultures, offering a startling new view of the world and ourselves. With a mix of brilliantly conceived studies and surprising on-the-ground discoveries, she shows that much of the diversity in the way we think and act derives from a key difference – how tightly or loosely we adhere to social norms. Just as DNA affects everything from eye color to height, our tight-loose social coding influences much of what we do. Why are clocks in Germany so accurate while those in Brazil are frequently wrong? Why do New Zealand’s women have the highest number of sexual partners? Why are red and blue states really so divided? Why is the driver of a Jaguar more likely to run a red light than the driver of a plumber’s van? Why does one spouse prize running a tight ship while the other refuses to sweat the small stuff? In search of a common answer, Gelfand spent two decades conducting research in more than 50 countries. Rule Makers, Rule Breakers thrusts many of the puzzling attitudes and actions we observe into sudden and surprising clarity.
by Madeline Stevens
Madeline Stevens in Conversation With Kevin Sampsell
Ella is flat broke: wasting away on bodega coffee, barely making rent, seducing the occasional strange man who might buy her dinner. Unexpectedly, an Upper East Side couple named Lonnie and James rescues her from her empty bank account, offering her a job as a nanny and ushering her into their moneyed world. Ella’s days are now spent tending to the baby in their elegant brownstone or on extravagant excursions with the family. Both women are just 26 – but unlike Ella, Lonnie has a doting husband and son, unmistakable artistic talent, and old family money. Ella is mesmerized by Lonnie’s girlish affection and disregard for the normal boundaries of friendship and marriage. Convinced there must be a secret behind Lonnie’s seemingly effortless life, Ella begins sifting through her belongings. All the while, Ella’s resentment grows, but so does an inexplicable and dizzying attraction. Soon she will be immersed so deeply in her cravings – for Lonnie’s lifestyle, her attention, her lovers – that she may never come up for air. Riveting, propulsive, and startling, Madeline Stevens’s Devotion (Ecco) is a masterful debut novel in which mismatched power collides with blinding desire, incinerating our perceptions of femininity, lust, and privilege. Stevens will be joined in conversation by Kevin Sampsell, publisher of Future Tense Books and author of This Is Between Us.
Join us every Saturday for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading The Pigeon HAS to Go to School! by Mo Willems.
by Lauren Acampora
Lauren Acampora in Conversation With Cari Luna
In small-town Michigan, Abby Graven leads a solitary life. Once a bright student on the cusp of a promising art career, she now languishes in her childhood home, trudging to and from her job as a supermarket cashier. Each day she is taunted from the magazine racks by the success of her former best friend, Elise, a rising Hollywood starlet whose life in pictures Abby obsessively scrapbooks. At night Abby escapes through the films of her favorite director, Auguste Perren, a cult figure known for his creative institute, the Rhizome. Inspired by Perren, Abby draws fantastical storyboards based on her often premonitory dreams, a visionary gift she keeps hidden. When Abby encounters Elise again at their high school reunion, she is surprised and warmed that Elise still considers her not only a friend but a brilliant storyteller and true artist. Elise’s unexpected faith in Abby reignites in her a dormant hunger, and when Elise offhandedly tells Abby to look her up if she’s ever in LA, Abby soon arrives on her doorstep. There, Abby discovers that although Elise is flourishing professionally, behind her glossy magazine veneer she is lonely and disillusioned. Ever the supportive friend, Abby becomes enmeshed in Elise’s world, even as she guards her own dark secret and burning desire for greatness. As she edges closer to Elise, the Rhizome, and her own artistic ambitions, the dynamic shifts between the two friends – until Abby can see only one way to grasp the future that awaits her. Lauren Acampora’s The Paper Wasp (Grove) is a thrilling, unexpected journey into the psyche and imagination of a woman determined to fulfill her destiny, from one of our most unique and incisive writers. Acampora will be joined in conversation by Cari Luna, author of The Revolution of Every Day.
The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Struggle and Hope in Matrimony
by Rick Moody
Rick Moody
Rick Moody, the award-winning author of The Ice Storm, shares the harrowing true story of the first year of his second marriage – an eventful month-by-month account – in The Long Accomplishment: A Memoir of Hope and Struggle in Matrimony (Henry Holt). At this story’s start, Moody, a recovering addict with a history of depression, is also the divorced father of a beloved little girl and a man in love; his answer to the question “Would you like to be in a committed relationship?” is, fully and for the first time in his life, “Yes.” And so his second marriage begins as he emerges, humbly and with tender hopes, from the wreckage of his past, only to be battered by a stormy sea of external troubles – miscarriages, the deaths of friends, and robberies, just for starters. As Moody has put it, “this is a story in which a lot of bad luck is the daily fare of the protagonists, but in which they are also in love.” To Moody’s astonishment, matrimony turns out to be the site of strength in hard times, a vessel infinitely tougher and more durable than any boat these two participants would have traveled by alone. Love buoys the couple, lifting them above their hardships, buoying the reader along with them.
This month our group meets to discuss Death in Venice by Thomas Mann. Join us!
by Susan Steinberg
Susan Steinberg in Conversation With Leni Zumas
Susan Steinberg’s first novel, Machine (Graywolf), is a dazzling and innovative leap forward for a writer whose most recent book, Spectacle, gained her a rapturous following. Machine revolves around a group of teenagers – both locals and wealthy out-of-towners – during a single summer at the shore. Steinberg captures the pressures and demands of this world in a voice that effortlessly slides from collective to singular, as one girl recounts a night on which another girl drowned. Hoping to assuage her guilt and evade a similar fate, she pieces together the details of this tragedy, as well as the breakdown of her own family, and learns that no one, not even she, is blameless. A daring stylist, Steinberg contrasts semicolon-studded sentences with short lines that race down the page. This restless approach gains focus and power through a sharply drawn narrative that ferociously interrogates gender, class, privilege, and the disintegration of identity in the shadow of trauma. Machine is the kind of novel – relentless and bold – that only Susan Steinberg could have written. Steinberg will be joined in conversation by Leni Zumas, author of Red Clocks.
Pok Pok Noodles: Recipes From Thailand and Beyond
by JJ Goode
From chef and bestselling author Andy Ricker comes a definitive guide to the most delicious and time-honored noodle dishes of Thailand with recipes anyone can make at home. From iconic dishes like phat thai and phat si ew to lesser-known (at least Stateside) treasures like kuaytiaw reua (boat noodles), noodles represent many of the most delicious and satisfying dishes in the Thai culinary canon. In Pok Pok Noodles: Recipes From Thailand and Beyond (Ten Speed), Ricker shares recipes for his favorites – including noodle soups, fried noodles, and khanom jiin, Thailand’s only indigenous noodle. Filled with stunning food and location photography and the thoughtful, engaging storytelling that has earned Ricker legions of fans, Pok Pok Noodles will become an instant classic for armchair travelers and lovers of Thai food and culture.
Southern Oregon Beer: A Pioneering History
The origin of brewing in southern Oregon is a lively tale of mid-19th-century gold rushes, brawling German immigrants, irrepressible women, and hometown pride. In the boomtown of Jacksonville, two pioneering brewers competed to quench the thirst of miners and ranchers, and soon breweries began popping up elsewhere. But as railroads spread across the West, they brought rival beer brands with them, and the onset of Prohibition stifled the industry altogether. Yet resourceful Oregonians continued to cultivate hops, and by the turn of the 21st century, small-town brewers like Caldera Brewing Company in Ashland and Climate City Brewery in Grants Pass were once again stepping into the spotlight. In Southern Oregon Beer: A Pioneering History (History Press), author Phil Busse, longtime Oregon journalist, traces the pioneering spirit of southern Oregon's first brewers to today.
Boring Book
by Shinsuke Yoshitake
Join us for kids’ storytime. Today we’re reading The Boring Book by Shinsuke Yoshitake.
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Joshua Henshaw
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Joshua Henshaw ───┤
B: 1775 │ ┌── Nathaniel Gilbert
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└── Elizabeth Gilbert ──┤
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└── Jane Ballard
M: Betsy King
├── James Steuben Henshaw (1802-1872) 1,2,3,4
├── Elizabeth Henshaw (1804-1872) 1,2,5
├── Andrew Burnham Henshaw (1806-1885) 1,2,4
├── Maria Henshaw (1808-1867) 1,2,5,6
├── Madison Henshaw (1810-1893) 1,2,4
├── Polly Henshaw (1812-1864) 1,2
├── Joshua Henshaw (1814-1895) 1,2,4
├── Hetty Alvira Henshaw (1815-1902) 1,2,4,7
├── Ira King Henshaw (1816-1845) 1,2,8
├── Rachel Malvina Henshaw (1822-1852) 1,2
├── Julia Henshaw (1823-1826) 1,2
├── William Henshaw (1826-1855) 1,2,5
├── Barbara E. Henshaw (1827-1902) 9
└── Joseph Gilbert Henshaw (1829-1913) 1,2,5,10
Joshua Henshaw [ID 04769] Click here to switch to Ahnentafel view:
Born May 7 1775, Middletown, Middlesex County, Connecticut.1,3,4
He married Betsy King, Jul 4 1801.1,3,4,11 Betsy was born about 1785, New York.5,11,12 Joshua and brother James were married on the same day in a double-ring ceremony.4
Joshua was admitted to West Aurora Congregational Church, Griffins Mills, Erie County, New York on Aug 18 1810 by letter from Milton, New York.1
The West Aurora Congregational Church was formed Aug 18 1810 under Rev. John Spencer, known as Father Spencer. Original members were:1
Benjamin Enos
Clement King
Seth McKay
Laurinda Enos
Samuel Henshaw
Betsey Henshaw
Joshua served with credit in the War of 1812. He took part in the Battle of Black Rock and the roar of the cannonading so deafened him that he was never able to hear well afterwards.13
In the fall of 1844 Joshua and family moved to Michigan, traveling the Great Lakes by boat. From Detroit they went to Ypsilanti by team, staying there all winter. In the spring of 1845 the family settled in Eckford Township, Calhoun County, Michigan.11
Joshua Henshaw died Aug 12 1847, Eckford Township, Calhoun County, Michigan; age 72.3,4,11
Widow Betsy and family were shown in the 1850 census, Eckford Township, Calhoun County, Michigan:5
Betsey Henshaw, age 65, born in New York.
Elizabeth Henshaw, age 46, born in New York.
Maria Henshaw, age 42, born in New York.
William Henshaw, age 24, born in New York; farmer.
Joseph G. Henshaw, age 21, born in New York; farmer.
Living next door in 1850 was the family of son Madison Henshaw.14
Widow Betsy and family were again shown in the 1860 census (Jun 17 1860), Eckford Township, Calhoun County, Michigan:12
Betsey Hendshaw, age 74, born in New York; widow housekeeper; $150 personal property.
Marie Hendshaw, age 52, born in New York; housekeeper.
Elizabeth Hendshaw, age 56, born in New York; domestic.
Living next door in 1860 was the family of son Joseph.15
Betsy died Mar 9 1862, Eckford Township, Calhoun County, Michigan; age 76.11
A short biography of son Joseph Henshaw appeared in a book (published in 1891) in which Joshua and family are mentioned:11
... [Joshua] was of English descent, was born in Connecticutte May 7, 1775. He was married July 4, 1801 to Betsy King, a native of New England. In early manhood he went to Erie County, N.Y. and bought a farm there of the Holland Purchase Co. He entered upon the pioneer task of clearing and improving it and retained it in his possession until 1833 when he sold out and removed to Batavia in Genesee Co., that state. He purchased a farm: there on which he remained until 1838, when he sold that place and removed to Darien in the same Co. He made his property over to his sons, Joshua, Jr., and Ira K., and took bond for maintenance of himself and wife. In the fall of 1844 he came to Mich. with his family on board the boat, "Julia Palmer", for Detroit. During their passage they encountered the biggest gale ever known on Lake Erie.
... In the spring of 1845 the family came to Eckford Township and here the parents died, the father Aug. 12, 1847, age, 72, mother Mar. 9, 1862, age 76. ... [Joshua] served in the War of 1812 with Credit. There were 13 children In the family, 7 sons, 6 daughters. All grew to maturity except one daughter, who died at 3 years.
Contribution from Tom Henshaw.
Henshaw genealogical chart, author unknown; Contributed by Donald Craig Henshaw.
Contribution from Kristen Wagner-Henshaw.
Henshaw history and genealogy manuscript, original by Holmes Hart Henshaw, 1930; updated in 1995 by Donald Craig Henshaw and others.
1850 census, Eckford Township, Calhoun County, Michigan; page 410, line #35, dwelling #106, family #106.
Michigan Department of Communty Health; Genealogical Death Index:
http://www.mdch.state.mi.us/gendisx/scripts/individual.idc?UniqueID=75772.
Death record of Hetty Alvira Henshaw.
Ancestry Family Tree data "Sara Renkert (Hiesrodt) Family Tree" posted by "sararenkert".
Posting Sep 19 2000 by Jean Combs () to the Henshaw message board at FamilyHistory.com:
http://www.familyhistory.com/messages/showmsg.asp?id=2626594
citing: Calhoun County, Michigan vital records - death record.
Death record of Joseph Gilbert Henshaw.
Contribution from Tom Henshaw citing:
biography of Joseph G. Henshaw.
1860 census, Homer P.O., Eckford Township, Calhoun County, Michigan; roll M653-539, page 36, line #16, dwelling #279, family #276.
"Portrait and Biographical Album, Calhoun County, Michigan", page 564.
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1968 In both Europe and America Japanese imported cars and other goods were continuing to rise and trouble the governments of UK and USA as they worried about industries in their own countries being effected and jobs lost. In the spring of 1968 The Rev Martin Luther King was assassinated and Robert Kennedy was mortally wounded also the peace movement had continued to grow and more and more Americans were against the war in Vietnam, and once again more riots occurred throughout cities in America. The music scene was once again set by the "Beatles" and the "Rolling Stones" , and fashion flirted with see through blouses and midis and maxis skirts joined the Mini Skirt as part of the fashion trends. There is a Flu Pandemic in Hong Kong and the first Black power salute is seen on Television worldwide during an Olympics medal ceremony
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Yearly Inflation Rate USA 4.27%
Year End Close Dow Jones Industrial Average 943
Average Cost of new house $14,950.00
Average Income per year $7,850.00
Average Monthly Rent $130.00
Gas per Gallon 34 cents
Average Cost of a new car $2,822.00
Movie Ticket $1.50
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Anti Vietnam War protests throughout the western world
North Vietnam and Viet Cong troops launch the Tet offensive
Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Leader of Negro Civil Rights Movement is killed by James Earl Ray which leads to Violence and Race Riots in US Cities
Following the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. President Lyndon Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1968
RMS Queen Elizabeth - retired from service
Senator Robert Kennedy is assassinated at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles
Earthquake in Sicily - 231 dead, 262 injured.
Enoch Powell's delivers his "Rivers of Blood" anti immigration speech
The Third Heart transplant is performed in South Africa By Dr Christian N Barnard
London Bridge sold for 1 million. and later re-erected in Arizona.
President Johnson announces on nationwide television he would not run for another term of office
50,000 people participated in " The Poor Peoples March " on Washington, D.C.
Population in Europe reaches 455 million ( excluding USSR )
The Kray twins, arrested for the murders of George Cornell and Jack 'The Hat' McVitie, members of the London underworld.
Televisions installed increases 25 million US , 20.5 million Japan , 19 million Great Britain
Alec Rose completes his single-handed 354-day round-the-world trip.
Pierre Elliott Trudeau becomes the Prime Minister of Canada
Student Occupation at Columbia University over Universities affiliation with the Institute for Defense Analyse
Aristotle Onassis and Jacqueline Kennedy marry
The Ferry "TEV Wahine" capsizes in Wellington Harbour, New Zealand
Hong Kong Flu pandemic begins in Hong Kong.
Black power salute is seen on Television worldwide after the gold and bronze medalists in Olympics show salute during medal ceremony in Mexico City, Mexico
The Prague Spring in Czechoslovakia was to provide political liberalization but was crushed by Warsaw Pact countries
The Soviet Union invades Czechoslovakia and arrests President Dubcek "Prague Spring"
The Aswan Dam in Egypt is completed
The Gateway Arch in St. Louis is dedicated
Equatorial Gunea Gains Independence From Spain
The Winter Olympic Games are held in Grenoble, France
800,000 teachers, workers and student protesters marched through the French capital during a one day general strike
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Gary Puckett and The Union Gap
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The Bee Gees
The Doors " Hello I Love You "
Bobby Goldsboro " Honey "
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Boeing 747 made its maiden flight.
NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission
Apollo 8 orbits the Moon, becoming the first manned space mission to achieve the feat.
Dr. Christian Barnard performs the first successful heart transplant.
US Explodes experimental hydrogen Bomb.
The Emergency 911 Telephone service is started in the USA which provides a single number for reporting emergencies and is manned 24 hrs per day 365 days per year
ATM First Philadelphia Bank installs the first automated teller machine in the U.S.
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Do not borrow money and do not take up repayment obligations, and is not recommended to take on extra work to solve debts of a family member.
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Temporarily turn your attention to something else. Switching helps to relax and restore a balance.
Plan time for rest. Stop once in a while and dedicate a moment of relaxation.
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Mad Men: Keeping Secrets
If I had to criticize this fabulous Mad Men season, I’d say that it hasn’t maintained prior seasons’ near-perfect balance of plot and character. In prior years, we learned most of what we know about the characters by watching them enact multi-episode story lines, like Don’s affair with Bobbie, his business relationship with Conrad Hilton, Grandpa Gene’s residence in the Draper household or Sal’s secret life. This season has mostly been about Don’s desperate efforts to get a bead on himself during a period of professional and personal stagnation. The state of Don’s self-consciousness has been dramatized mostly through inconsequential encounters, like the one-night-stand with his secretary that signaled his loss of self-command or valedictions like his physical and psychological parting from Anna (and from Dick Whitman as an aspect of himself.) What has been going on inside Don’s head hasn’t moved the plot along nor engaged the rest of the main characters to the degree it did in prior seasons.
Last night’s episode seemed to be making up for lost time by throwing a lot of new plot lines into the air at once. Don’s brush with the Department of Defense reminds us of his continuing vulnerability. Taking Faye into his confidence about his prior identity moved his personal life onto a new plain; now one person whom he barely knows is positioned to play the roles that Betty and Anna played separately in his prior life. Joan’s pregnancy brings her to an inflection point in her marriage, her relationship with Roger and her maternal aspirations. The loss of the Lucky Strike account presents a dire threat to SCDP’s solvency and Roger’s professional stature. Lane’s ambition to cast off the old-world constraints on his new-world sexual adventures is thwarted by a tyrannical father. Being made into Don’s accomplice brings Pete into SCDP’s inner circle with his own secrets to keep.
All of these plot lines turn on the connection between autonomy and secrecy. That’s always been the central dynamic of Don’s professional and personal life. He owes most of his professional and personal stature to his past success in controlling what other people know about him. This season he’s been trying to regain the balance he lost from last season’s disclosures: he’s no longer the professional free agent he once was because Bert Cooper found out enough about his past to blackmail him into signing a personal services contract; he lost his marriage because Betty found the shoe box locked in his desk. Now, while Don’s still shackled to Bert and Betty, he finds himself joined at the hip professionally with Pete and personally with Faye. It’s too early to say whether letting Faye in on his secret was a momentary lapse in self-discipline or a considered choice of intimacy over autonomy on Don’s part. When he was leering at his new secretary after the crisis had passed, it it looked like he was more interested in wild sex than in intimacy.
But Don’s wasn’t the only one negotiating a tradeoff between autonomy and self-disclosure.
Lane’s capitulation to a tyrannical father shows how loose lips sink self-navigating ships. He’d thought he’d cast off the moorings of old-world propriety that had put transgressive pleasures—like an interracial romance with a Playboy Bunny—out of his reach. His father’s cane reminds him that there’s something to be said for keeping one’s transgressions to one’s self.
Roger finds himself in an equally desperate situation. Lee Garner has him popping nitro glycerin pills at the news that Lucky Strike is taking its business to another agency. Roger begs Garner to keep it to himself for thirty days on the pretext that SCDP needs the time to manage that commercial calamity. But we soon find out that Roger really negotiated the grace period as a way of managing the personal calamity of his colleagues finding out that he doesn’t really bring anything to the SCDP table. All these years he’s used his inherited grace and accounts to persuade people that he’s a player in the advertising world. Now he’s getting out the old rolodex, only to find that his own commercial “contacts” are dead or otherwise indisposed. I suspect that SCDP’s and Roger’s only hope is that they’ll get some leverage from the fact that Garner has a secret of his own. Remember Sal? I'll bet Don does.
Up till now, Pete owes his meager professional success to his boarding school and college contacts (think Jai-alai) and his readiness to extort business from his father-in-law. The worldly judgment of his wife Trudy has been his only other business asset. Now, by agreeing to withdraw from a major account in deference to Don’s secrets, he has established himself as Don’s professional peer. In the process, he has gained control of a new business asset--Don's reputation. But this step up the professional ladder has erected a barrier between him and Trudy. He’s already had to conceal his rough treatment of her father from her. Now he senses that he better keep Don’s secrets from her as well. And don't forget the secret (unknown even to him) that he's the father of Peggy's child. Pete's finding that being more Don-like and sharing some of Don's vulnerabilities is the price of professional success.
Although events are pressing down on her too, Joan’s the only one who manages to preserve some semblance of autonomy by playing her cards close to the vest. Her husband knows nothing about her alley-catting with Roger, and neither he, Roger nor we know whether she’s still pregnant. I’m betting that she is. We last see Joan on a plane (a train, a bus?), heading to an unknown destination, with the strain of keeping her options open showing on her face.
Update: Reader 2bfate reminds me that Peggy had told Pete about their child.
Posted by Ron Replogle at 1:45 PM
Labels: Mad Men
There are so many secrets and so much blackmail potential. What about Betty's whopper of a secret. She told Henry about the G-Men, but didn't tell him that she wasn't exactly honest in her answers. She told Henry she didn't want any secrets between them, but Don's true identity she's keeping to herself. What does this mean? Is she protecting Don out of love, fear, what?
richard said...
(I think it was Joan on a bus ,returning her to NYC.) Dons mask,so steely and secure, has become like an egg shell ready to crack open and reveal the yoke.It will be messy.The show can't continue with out that reveal in its future (2 more seasons?)The weight of his "baggage ",which everyone has, will break his camels back.It is constant judgment that makes us tired. Am I safe am I vulnerable ,safe vulnerable contained exposed,it is exhausting ,physically and psychically. I agree his sexual control is a relief for him and his hoping for intimacy an innocent dream.He doesn't have the tools for intimacy.He's chasing his mother in the blonds ,Megan like the prostitute are brunettes,they are allowed to slap him into being present. They alone will accept his "Dick",with all his fault lines.Nathin was jaw dropping for me and the recreation of the little boy under his fathers thumb. Wild. But the pink maternity nighty was comic relief.
2bfate said...
"And don't forget the secret (unknown even to him) that he's the father of Peggy's child." Perhaps you missed the episode a season or so back where Peggy told Pete about their child.
Ron Replogle said...
2bfate:
You're right, I'd forgotten. I've changed the parenthetical comment accordingly. Thanks!
Wow, commenter Richard is right-on with his observations. You should be blogging, dude.
Mad Woman said...
Loved your post this week. I think Peggy's absence in this show sets her up for a big scene in the remaining shows (only 3 left this season and so much to deal with). For sure, Peggy and Pete will have to confront the fact of their love child, one way or another. I can't wait to see what the show's creator has in store for us as to how that is going to happen. Also, I think there is about an even split on the web as to whether Joan did or not abort Roger's baby. I think she's going to have it.
Totally agree that Joan did not abort. To me, she looked contented on that train (bus). Pensive, but contented. In 1965, I was 22 years old, working in NYC. In 1968, I was 25, living in Chicago and marching at the Democratic convention....those 3 years flew by in a blur. I am looking forward to seeing the NYC blackout of Nov 1965.
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volatility. coming up at 6:30, larry fink is here. at 7:00 a.m. eastern time, legendary investor and lmm chairman bill miller will share his best investing ideas. by the way, his fund has beat 98% of its competitors over the years. and lloyd blankfein will give us his ta his take on the economy and market turmoil. this, by the way, is his first interview since his cancer diagnosis and treatment. >> a couple things to tell you about. asian markets tumbled overnight. the hang seng fell...
Worldwide Exchange : CNBC : February 3, 2016 5:00am-6:01am EST
going to be huge, right? >> you're doing it alphabetically. larry fink is on too. and bill miller is on for two hours. lloyd will be on at 8:00. it's a time where you just look around and things just don't look right. there's something rotten in denmark. like 186 on the ten-year after the fed has raised rates. that's weird. again, 300 points down yesterday. earnings aren't great, but $30 oil, so many bizarre things. is it some type of canary in a coal mine? these are three guys that can probably either allay some fears or give us the reason that maybe we should be a little bit worried. japan today, hideous. all bets are off on any type of market recovery we see. we get back to a resistance level. so to have these three guys on, you know, i'm sure they won't all have the same opinions, but blankfein is probably one of the greatest risk managers we've seen. bill miller, one of the best long-term records on the street. and then larry fink, the biggest money manager on the planet. still a young guy to build a company like that based on really his knowledge and all financial markets, b
going to be huge, right? >> you're doing it alphabetically. larry fink is on too. and bill miller is on for two hours. lloyd will be on at 8:00. it's a time where you just look around and things just don't look right. there's something rotten in denmark. like 186 on the ten-year after the fed has raised rates. that's weird. again, 300 points down yesterday. earnings aren't great, but $30 oil, so many bizarre things. is it some type of canary in a coal mine? these are three guys that can...
What'd You Miss? : BLOOMBERG : February 10, 2016 4:00pm-5:01pm EST
Feb 10, 2016 02/16
. derivatives is under pressure. larry fink is complaining about lack of liquidity. part of this is larry, pay more and you will get the quiddity. scarlet: all right. we'll be back. ♪ scarlet: breaking news from twitter. it beat analyst estimates. revenue coming up slightly higher at $710 million. that is where the good news ends. in terms of monthly active users , 320 million monthly active users, the same as in the third quarter. no growth for twitter from the third quarter. in terms of the outlook, revenue to $610growing million. that trailed estimates. quarter earnings before all these adjustments was $191.4 million. coming in ahead of estimates, it's hard to overlook that. on the high-end coming in at $610 million, estimates were for six or $27 million read also missing on the top line estimates for the first quarter. and ugly report for twitter. we will monitor these headlines as they cross. twitter shares falling 13% in after-hours trading. ♪ mark: let's get to first word news. after a big win in new ispshire, bernie sanders halloween $5.2 million in 18 hours. he has funded his
. derivatives is under pressure. larry fink is complaining about lack of liquidity. part of this is larry, pay more and you will get the quiddity. scarlet: all right. we'll be back. ♪ scarlet: breaking news from twitter. it beat analyst estimates. revenue coming up slightly higher at $710 million. that is where the good news ends. in terms of monthly active users , 320 million monthly active users, the same as in the third quarter. no growth for twitter from the third quarter. in terms of the...
Nightly Business Report : KQEH : February 2, 2016 6:30pm-7:01pm PST
larry fink, ceo black rock, the world's largest asset manager, is telling the chief executives of hundreds of u.s. economies. he wrote today's culture of quarterly hysteria is totally contrary to the long-term approach we need, end quote. he said ceos should use quarterly reports to demonstrate progress against strategic plans and not just focus on small deviations from earnings estimates. >>> for companies playing too safe by just focusing on those short-term business strategies. with us now to discuss the topic is william lasonic with center for industrial competitors. good to have you with us. mr. fink, i know you've read his letter. does he have it most right with respect to how companies are allocating capital and their focus on short-term result ? >> well, he has it right, yeah. there's a lack of investment in productive capabilities of companies. so this is not something new. this has been going on for some time. he's written, of course, several letters on this. i think the urgency of this letter has to do with acceleration in the actions and initiatives of hedge fund activ
larry fink, ceo black rock, the world's largest asset manager, is telling the chief executives of hundreds of u.s. economies. he wrote today's culture of quarterly hysteria is totally contrary to the long-term approach we need, end quote. he said ceos should use quarterly reports to demonstrate progress against strategic plans and not just focus on small deviations from earnings estimates. >>> for companies playing too safe by just focusing on those short-term business strategies....
-star cast on "squawk box" weighing in on the markets and the economy ahead of that data. larry fink, bill miller, and lloyd blankfein. >> i do believe this represents value today. equity markets are properly priced now. i think they were a little high. >> when prices are high, it makes me a little nervous. when prices are low, i feel good about that. a market like this, i really like it even though it drives people in my office crazy. >> there's certainly not zero growth, but frankly, i think this negative sentiment is not justified by the reality in the numbers. >> joining us right now is pimco's managing director and global strategic adviser. gentlemen, welcome to both of you. thank you for being here today. richard, what do you think? is this a situation where things feel like it's gotten a bit of an overreaction? >> i think so. the year got off to a rocky start with nervousness about china. the fed hiking, people concerned by how much. i think we've had some positive news. you had dudly acknowledging the fed is paying attention to this data. you've also seen the adjustment in the doll
-star cast on "squawk box" weighing in on the markets and the economy ahead of that data. larry fink, bill miller, and lloyd blankfein. >> i do believe this represents value today. equity markets are properly priced now. i think they were a little high. >> when prices are high, it makes me a little nervous. when prices are low, i feel good about that. a market like this, i really like it even though it drives people in my office crazy. >> there's certainly not zero...
Bloomberg Markets : BLOOMBERG : February 2, 2016 3:00pm-4:01pm EST
the bloomberg business , the biggest business stories in the news right now. larry fink is urging the chief executive officers of leading companies to stop offering quarterly earnings guidance and increase their focus on long-term goals. the blackrock ceo come in a letter to more than 500 company's, says the history of running earnings runs counter to a viable long-term approach. blackrock is the world's largest asset manager. folks like an brand vehicle -- sales fell inle january while other automakers beat expectations. the company is reeling from the aftermath of the global diesel omissions cheating scandal. hell man's has figured out that if you can't beat them, might as well join them. after suing for false advertising, if you run, unilever, is launching its own eggless bread. it will hit shelves later this month. yum. carefully crafted. that is your bloomberg business flash update. carl icahn has been pushing for a carefully crafted breakup of aig and is taking aim at ceo peter hancock. the billionaire activist investor said in an e-mail, "he does not possess the skills to t
the bloomberg business , the biggest business stories in the news right now. larry fink is urging the chief executive officers of leading companies to stop offering quarterly earnings guidance and increase their focus on long-term goals. the blackrock ceo come in a letter to more than 500 company's, says the history of running earnings runs counter to a viable long-term approach. blackrock is the world's largest asset manager. folks like an brand vehicle -- sales fell inle january while other...
Squawk Alley : CNBC : February 3, 2016 11:00am-12:01pm EST
the halftime show, larry fink and bill miller. we'll ask rich ranked number six on the list of the country's top 100 financial advisors whether he agrees. plus s&p cuts the the ratings on ten big oil company with three names now in junk. we're going to talk to the man behind the downgrades to see if even more are coming. and as we countdown to the big game, nfl and super bowl legend jerry rice joins us live. kayla we'll see you in about 15. >> he knows his way around the bay area. that's for sure. >> sure does. >> let's get over to the cme group. >> well, thank you very much kayla. let's start out with a few charts. let's look at ten year japanese government bonds. you can see they're getting closer and closer to zero. david faber had just an absolute a plus plus interview. he brought up some interesting things but we have talked about them before. you're around 2.5 with regard to debt to gdp. 2.5 times the economy in debt. rates are going down because of course they're doing more. if you look at one year of a two year european note you'll see it's minus 50 basis points. if you loo
the halftime show, larry fink and bill miller. we'll ask rich ranked number six on the list of the country's top 100 financial advisors whether he agrees. plus s&p cuts the the ratings on ten big oil company with three names now in junk. we're going to talk to the man behind the downgrades to see if even more are coming. and as we countdown to the big game, nfl and super bowl legend jerry rice joins us live. kayla we'll see you in about 15. >> he knows his way around the bay area....
Your World With Neil Cavuto : FOXNEWSW : February 12, 2016 1:00pm-2:01pm PST
money to him. larry fink of black rock stepped up. lloyd blankfein. but they pulled back in 2012. so it's not like they kept giving him money. >> with hillary drawing the line in the sand. about a month ago felt like however far left bernie and elizabeth warren went she would follow. feel luke she is saying, socialism, we can't pay fors/ i. it that overture to wall street? >> yes. she said i'm going up against the right and not crossing into socialism. this is the reel duplicitous part of hillary clinton. we were among the first to report it at fox business. she goes into meetings with these wall street guys and a lot of jewish groups, and this is what he says, particularly to jewish groups in new york. listen, if if may sound like i'm anti-israel, just don't listen to me. it's rhetoric. behind the scenes i'll be the most pro israel president ever. says about wall street i may haveqi]t]y to say x, y,5num andl be very much in your corner. chev -- this is where i think bernie sanders will nail her, her duplicity. what she says -- >> if that's the case, let's listen to another sound bit
money to him. larry fink of black rock stepped up. lloyd blankfein. but they pulled back in 2012. so it's not like they kept giving him money. >> with hillary drawing the line in the sand. about a month ago felt like however far left bernie and elizabeth warren went she would follow. feel luke she is saying, socialism, we can't pay fors/ i. it that overture to wall street? >> yes. she said i'm going up against the right and not crossing into socialism. this is the reel duplicitous...
Bloomberg Go : BLOOMBERG : February 9, 2016 7:00am-10:01am EST
talking to larry fink in he'soes -- in davos, against capital controls, but he doesn't want china to allow their current -- the currency to devalue. because that would require haydock -- that would wreck market chaos. the world be better off if china finally allowed its currency to devalue and free float? --amed: over the longer term yes. short-term, no. it's not the time to have a massive devaluation in the chinese currency. i think importantly, we have to remember -- they still have $3.4 trillion of reserves. the whole point of reserves is to help you navigate these difficult times stephanie:. -- these difficult times. stephanie: they are heading in that direction. mohamed: we used to claim they had to any reserves. eriod was a very scary p in january when they were losing control of the offshore market. that's something that for china, is really important. the fact that they regain control of the offshore market is an important development. david: let's turn back to india. we talked to you about it before. their gdp is growing substantially faster than china. martin: something lik
talking to larry fink in he'soes -- in davos, against capital controls, but he doesn't want china to allow their current -- the currency to devalue. because that would require haydock -- that would wreck market chaos. the world be better off if china finally allowed its currency to devalue and free float? --amed: over the longer term yes. short-term, no. it's not the time to have a massive devaluation in the chinese currency. i think importantly, we have to remember -- they still have $3.4...
Fast Money Halftime Report : CNBC : February 3, 2016 12:00pm-1:01pm EST
larry fink, investing legend bill miller and goldman's lloyd blankfine earlier on squawk. >> this is a buying opportunity. >> down as it goes down. >> i don't know how to pick a bottom and i don't think anyone does. but i do believe this represents value today. equity markets are property priced now. >> you can't tell how low the market is going to go. i think it's low enough now. as i said earlier if you got the s&p 500, when it yield mrs. than the 10 year treasury, unless the world is coming apart, that's sort of a no brainer. >> i think we muddle through. i think some of this is an overreaction to the overreaction of assets being so swollen. and now it's kind of a reversion i think the most likely case that is that we kind of muddle through and this adjustment and equity prices make sense to me bond market says i don't know about that. maybe something else is up. do you agree with what toez gentlemen said? >> it's hard to argue with those three gentlemen but we have a different view. we think there's four factors agitating the markets now. number one, we have global central banks ta
larry fink, investing legend bill miller and goldman's lloyd blankfine earlier on squawk. >> this is a buying opportunity. >> down as it goes down. >> i don't know how to pick a bottom and i don't think anyone does. but i do believe this represents value today. equity markets are property priced now. >> you can't tell how low the market is going to go. i think it's low enough now. as i said earlier if you got the s&p 500, when it yield mrs. than the 10 year...
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Jack Worthing
by: Oscar Wilde
Summary and Analysis
Act I, Part One
Act I, Part Two
Act II, Part One
Act II, Part Two
Act III, Part One
Act III, Part Two
Algernon Moncrieff
Gwendolen Fairfax
Cecily Cardew
John Worthing, J.P.
Lady Augusta Bracknell
Act 1, Part One
Act 1, Part Two
Jack Worthing, the play’s protagonist, was discovered as an infant by the late Mr. Thomas Cardew in a handbag in the cloakroom of a railway station in London. Jack has grown up to be a seemingly responsible and respectable young man, a major landowner and Justice of the Peace in Hertfordshire, where he has a country estate. In Hertfordshire, where he is known by what he imagines to be his real name, Jack, he is a pillar of the community. He is guardian to Mr. Cardew’s granddaughter, Cecily, and has other duties and people who depend on him, including servants, tenants, farmers, and the local clergyman. For years, he has also pretended to have an irresponsible younger brother named Ernest, whom he is always having to bail out of some mischief. In fact, he himself is the reprobate brother Ernest. Ernest is the name Jack goes by in London, where he really goes on these occasions. The fictional brother is Jack’s alibi, his excuse for disappearing from Hertfordshire and going off to London to escape his responsibilities and indulge in exactly the sort of behavior he pretends to disapprove of in his brother.
More than any other character in the play, Jack Worthing represents conventional Victorian values: he wants others to think he adheres to such notions as duty, honor, and respectability, but he hypocritically flouts those very notions. Indeed, what Wilde was actually satirizing through Jack was the general tolerance for hypocrisy in conventional Victorian morality. Jack uses his alter-ego Ernest to keep his honorable image intact. Ernest enables Jack to escape the boundaries of his real life and act as he wouldn’t dare to under his real identity. Ernest provides a convenient excuse and disguise for Jack, and Jack feels no qualms about invoking Ernest whenever necessary. Jack wants to be seen as upright and moral, but he doesn’t care what lies he has to tell his loved ones in order to be able to misbehave. Though Ernest has always been Jack’s unsavory alter ego, as the play progressesJack must aspire to become Ernest, in name if not behavior. Until he seeks to marry Gwendolen, Jack has used Ernest as an escape from real life, but Gwendolen’s fixation on the name Ernest obligates Jack to embrace his deception in order to pursue the real life he desires. Jack has always managed to get what he wants by using Ernest as his fallback, and his lie eventually threatens to undo him. Though Jack never really gets his comeuppance, he must scramble to reconcile his two worlds in order to get what he ultimately desires and to fully understand who he is.
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Gibson scheduled to start as Minnesota hosts Boston
By The Associated Press Associated Press
Boston Red Sox (40-35, third in the AL East) vs. Minnesota Twins (48-24, first in the AL Central)
Minneapolis; Wednesday, 8 p.m. EDT
PITCHING PROBABLES: Red Sox: Eduardo Rodriguez (7-4, 4.67 ERA, 1.33 WHIP, 84 strikeouts) Twins: Kyle Gibson (7-3, 3.70 ERA, 1.17 WHIP, 77 strikeouts)
BOTTOM LINE: Both Boston and Minnesota are looking to win the series with a victory.
The Twins are 24-12 on their home turf. Minnesota has slugged .507, good for the best mark in the majors. Max Kepler leads the club with a .566 slugging percentage, including 36 extra-base hits and 18 home runs.
The Red Sox are 23-18 on the road. The Boston offense has compiled a .261 batting average as a team this season, good for sixth in the American League. Rafael Devers leads the team with a mark of .304. The Twins won the last meeting 4-3. Zack Littell earned his first victory and Kepler went 3-for-5 with a home run and three RBIs for Minnesota. Brian Johnson registered his first loss for Boston.
TOP PERFORMERS: Eddie Rosario leads the Twins with 19 home runs and is slugging .520. Nelson Cruz is 13-for-38 with two doubles, four home runs and 10 RBIs over the last 10 games for Minnesota.
J.D. Martinez leads the Red Sox with 16 home runs and is batting .292. Devers is 14-for-44 with a double, a triple, three home runs and seven RBIs over the last 10 games for Boston.
LAST 10 GAMES: Twins: 6-4, .272 batting average, 3.58 ERA, outscored opponents by seven runs
Red Sox: 6-4, .281 batting average, 3.32 ERA, outscored opponents by 11 runs
Twins Injuries: Adalberto Mejia: 10-day IL (calf), Byron Buxton: 10-day IL (wrist), Ehire Adrianza: 10-day IL (abdominal).
Red Sox Injuries: Tyler Thornburg: 10-day IL (hip), Heath Hembree: 10-day IL (elbow), Nathan Eovaldi: 10-day IL (elbow), Dustin Pedroia: 60-day IL (knee), Steve Pearce: 10-day IL (back), Mitch Moreland: 10-day IL (quad), Tzu-Wei Lin: 10-day IL (knee).
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Focus on rural pupils’ activity
The Beats goes on . . . Beats Study team members (from left) study co-ordinator Angela Findlay, honours student Brittany White, lead researcher Associate Prof Sandra Mandic, and research assistant Kimberley King have completed the rural data collection for the next phase of the study. PHOTO: BRENDA HARWOOD
Rural pupils who travel long distances could be less active than their urban counterparts in getting to school, early results of a large study show.
The isolation of many of Otago’s rural schools has a major influence on their transport methods.
That is the preliminary, anecdotal finding of the Beats (Built Environment and Active Transport to School) Rural Study.
Research leader Associate Prof Sandra Mandic, of the University of Otago, said in-depth analysis needed to be done, but interesting insights had already been revealed in focus groups.
“The distance to school appears to be a much greater barrier [to activity], and it can be as simple as rural pupils taking the bus being picked up at the gate,” she said.
The data has shown driving, being driven, or taking the bus are a popular choice for rural pupils, and could affect their levels of activity.
But for pupils living in small rural towns, walking to school was the main option.
Based at the university’s School of Physical Education, Sport and Exercise Sciences, the multidisciplinary Beats Rural Study team has spent the past six months studying about 1000 pupils in 11 rural high schools in Otago and Southland.
The research, which aims to find out whether rural school pupils have more active ways of getting to school than their urban counterparts, follows the Dunedin-based Beats Study, which examined 1780 Dunedin high school pupils in 2014-15.
The Dunedin study found half of urban adolescents were driven to and from school, 30% walked and just 1.5% rode a bike.
Fewer than one-fifth of Dunedin pupils met physical activity guidelines (60 minutes per day), about one-quarter met nutrition guidelines and, on average, young people spent five hours per day on sedentary screen time – watching television, computer use and playing games.
Prof Mandic said the Beats Rural study was similar to the Dunedin study, and looked at not only cycling to school but also the effects of greater travel distances in a rural setting.
“There has been very little research done in rural areas before, so this work will be very valuable,” she said.
The schools surveyed were Blue Mountain College, Cromwell College, Lawrence Area School, Maniototo Area School, Mt Aspiring College, Roxburgh Area School, South Otago High School, St Kevin’s College, Catlins Area School, Tokomairiro High School and Waitaki Girls’ High School.
In the rural study, 995 pupils completed a survey, 178 pupils wore an activity meter, 195 took part in a mapping activity and 71 shared their views in focus groups.
The 17-member research team spent 750 person-hours collecting data in the rural schools.
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Home Tech Tech: 3D printed tires and shoes that self-repair — (Report)
Tech: 3D printed tires and shoes that self-repair — (Report)
Instead of throwing away your broken boots or cracked toys, why not let them fix themselves? Researchers at the University of Southern California Viterbi School of Engineering have developed 3D-printed rubber materials that can do just that.
Assistant Professor Qiming Wang works in the world of 3D printed materials, creating new functions for a variety of purposes, from flexible electronics to sound control. Now, working with Viterbi students Kunhao Yu, An Xin, and Haixu Du, and University of Connecticut Assistant Professor Ying Li, they have made a new material that can be manufactured quickly and is able to repair itself if it becomes fractured or punctured. This material could be game-changing for industries like shoes, tires, soft robotics, and even electronics, decreasing manufacturing time while increasing product durability and longevity.
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The material is manufactured using a 3D printing method that uses photopolymerization. This process uses light to solidify a liquid resin in a desired shape or geometry. To make it self-healable, they had to dive a little deeper into the chemistry behind the material.
Photopolymerization is achieved through a reaction with a certain chemical group called thiols. By adding an oxidizer to the equation, thiols transform into another group called disulfides. It is the disulfide group that is able to reform when broken, leading to the self-healing ability. Finding the right ratio between these two groups was the key to unlocking the materials’ unique properties.
“When we gradually increase the oxidant, the self-healing behavior becomes stronger, but the photopolymerization behavior becomes weaker,” explained Wang. “There is competition between these two behaviors. And eventually we found the ratio that can enable both high self-healing and relatively rapid photopolymerization.”
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In just 5 seconds, they can print a 17.5-millimeter square, completing whole objects in around 20 minutes that can repair themselves in just a few hours. In their study, published in NPG Asia Materials, they demonstrate their material’s ability on a range of products, including a shoe pad, a soft robot, a multiphase composite, and an electronic sensor.
After being cut in half, in just two hours at 60 degrees Celsius (four for the electronics due to the carbon used to transmit electricity) they healed completely, retaining their strength and function. The repair time can be decreased just by raising the temperature.
“We actually show that under different temperatures — from 40 degrees Celsius to 60 degrees Celsius — the material can heal to almost 100 percent,” said Yu, who was first-author of the study and is studying structural engineering. “By changing the temperature, we can manipulate the healing speed, even under room temperature the material can still self-heal”
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After conquering 3D-printable soft materials, they are now working to develop different self-healable materials along a range of stiffnesses, from the current soft rubber, to rigid hard-plastics. These could be used for vehicle parts, composite materials, and even body armor.
This study was published on February 1 and funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research Young Investigator Program (FA9550-18-1-0192) and National Science Foundation (CMMI-1762567).
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Imagine waking up in the middle of the night, only to find out that your blankets are drenched in rain water and the only thing you can do is to endure the night up until the sun rises. Sadly, that is the situation that Gogo Nyuchi and her family would find themselves in quite often...
April 4, 2019April 4, 2019by UFIC Editor
Family Music’s Live Recording Leaves Masses Crying For More
THE UNITED FAMILY INTERNATIONAL CHURCH’s Choir; Family Music recorded live its latest production on the 31st of March 2019 at the UFIC Basilica in Chitungwiza and left the masses crying for more. The Live recording was part of the 2-day music festival which was hosted by Family Music at the UFIC Chitungwiza Basilica which ran...
“Ruth Makandiwa Transformed My Life” – Gogo Nyuchi’s Story
Hardships come into people’s lives in different forms and different ways. Some face hardships in achieving just one goal but in the case of this elderly widow, surviving for a day became a hardship that she had to endure for the sake of her children – from having enough to eat and cover her body...
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March 29, 2019March 29, 2019by UFIC Editor
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God touched and transformed the lives of His people on the 28th of October 2018 during the UFIC Sunday Service through the hands of His Servant; Emmanuel Makandiwa; breaking yokes of sickness and diseases, ushering people into Divine health and healing. After delivering a profound teaching on how Jesus is the ultimate level of power...
October 29, 2018October 29, 2018by UFIC Editor
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