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New York Judge, 57, Dies After Having a Heart Attack on the Bench
Putnam County Court Judge James Reitz died after suffering a heart attack on his bench Friday morning, reports say. The 57-year-old judge — known for his rehabilitative drug court program — had just finished a case in his courtroom in upstate New York and was preparing for the next one when he suddenly collapsed after asking […]
Seven suffocate to death while cleaning septic tank at hotel in India
Fox News Flash top headlines for June 15 Fox News Flash top headlines for June 15 are here. Check out what’s clicking on Foxnews.com Seven people died while cleaning a hotel septic tank in India on Friday after going in without safety gear, according to officials. The incident happened at the Darshsan Hotel in the […]
Hong Kong man falls to death while protesting extradition bill
Hong Kong protester, 35, falls to his death from the roof of a shopping centre while hanging a banner condemning the controversial extradition bill as thousands gather for a fresh mass rally today Man, surname given as Leung, had climbed scaffolding on Pacific Place Mall in Admiralty district on Saturday Mourners laid flowers, said prayers […]
Motorcyclist Hit by Lightning in Florida Crashes and Dies
A 45-year-old man is dead after lightning struck him while he was riding his motorcycle. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the motorcyclist was riding on Interstate 95 in Florida on Sunday afternoon when a lightning bolt struck the top of his helmet, causing him to lose control of his 2018 Harley Davidson. He was subsequently thrown […]
Sixteen people face the death penalty for burning pupil alive after she accused her head teacher of sex abuse in Bangladesh
SIXTEEN gang members face the death penalty for burning a school pupil alive after she accused her head teacher of sex abuse. Nusrat Jahan Rafi, 19, was doused in petrol before being set alight on an exam hall roof in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and died five days later. The group of girls doused the teenager with […]
Cole Younger death: Tributes pour in after inspirational LA photographer dies
Popular Los Angeles-based photographer Cole Younger has died. The influential photographer is best known for capturing stunning images of the city of LA on Instagram. Before becoming a photographer, Cole Younger struggled with drug use, and started his career to deal with depression. He became known for his visually beautiful photographs, raising awareness of homelessness […]
Austin Eubanks, Columbine Shooting Survivor and Public Speaker, Found Dead at 37
Austin Eubanks, who was previously candid about his addiction to opioids after surviving the 1999 massacre at Columbine High School, died of an apparent accidental drug overdose. Eubanks, 37, was found in his Steamboat Springs, Colorado home about 6:30 a.m. Saturday by his father, who called 911, Steamboat Springs Commander Jerry Stabile tells PEOPLE. An […]
Caroline Stanbury Says Her Late Ladies of London Costar Annabelle Neilson Was 'a Tortured Soul'
Reality TV was not the best fit for the late Annabelle Neilson, according to her former Ladies of London costar Caroline Stanbury. The former fashion stylist appeared on Thursday’s episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey and opened up about Neilson, who died from a heart attack at the age of 49 last July. “Annabelle […]
Death agony, Ben murder plot, shocking decision and 7 more EastEnders spoilers
Recent and less recent deaths are causing painful aftermaths in EastEnders as the passing of Dinah leaves Keegan and Mitch Baker (Zack Morris and Roger Griffiths) in dark places while the anniversary of Shakil’s death has very different emotional responses from Kush Kazemi (Davood Ghadami) and Bex Fowler (Jasmine Armfield) Elsewhere, the death may not […]
Brazilian Model Caroline Bittencourt, 37, Drowns After Jumping in the Ocean to Save Her Dogs
Brazilian model Caroline Bittencourt died in São Paulo on Sunday after she drowned in an attempt to rescue her dogs who fell out of the sailboat she was on with her husband, Jorge Sestini. She was 37. According to TMZ, the devastating accident happened after a storm hit the couple’s boat and left their catamaran […]
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Cinema Review: Iron Man 3
DIR: Shane Black • WRI: Shane Black, Drew Pearce • PRO: Kevin Feige • DOP: John Toll • ED: Peter S Elliot, Jeffrey Ford • DES: Bill Brzeski • Cast: Robert Downey Jr, Gwyneth Paltrow, Don Cheadle, Guy Pearce, Ben Kingsley, Jon Favreau, William Sadler, Rebecca Hall
After making his name with his ground breaking screenplay for 1987’s Lethal Weapon, Shane Black went on to achieve writing credits on films such as The Last Boy Scout, The Last Action Hero and The Long Kiss Goodnight. He then disappeared off the Hollywood radar for close to a decade, before returning in some style with his 2005 directorial debut, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang.
Despite not being a major player at the box-office, this film re-established Black’s standing in the industry, and gave its stars Robert Downey Jr and Val Kilmer roles to die for. While Kilmer has only occasionally threatened to build on his performance under the stewardship of Black, the previously troublesome Downey Jr has seen his career going from strength to strength, to the point that he is now the face of two major franchises, Iron Man and Sherlock Holmes.
Along with last year’s Marvel Avengers Assemble, and his brief cameo in The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man 3 marks Downey Jr’s fifth appearance as Tony Stark and his alter-ego, and with Black returning to the director’s chair instead of Jon Favreau, it is clear that the careers of both men have come full circle.
Having helped his fellow Avengers to defeat Loki and the Chitauri in New York City, Stark is suffering from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) when a mysterious terrorist leader known as The Mandarin (Ben Kingsley) announces himself to the world by committing a number of atrocities across the globe. His relationship with Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow) becomes strained as a result, and with figures from his past re-surfacing in the shape of Guy Pearce’s Aldrich Killian and Rebecca Hall’s botanist, Dr Maya Hansen, matters quickly become complicated for Stark and those close to him.
Taking its cue from the ‘Extremis’ (a highly advanced virus created by Killian) story arc developed by Warren Ellis, Iron Man 3 has a tough act to follow after the overwhelming success of Marvel Avengers Assemble. In addition, the last stand alone adventure for the wisecracking superhero (Iron Man 2) was somewhat disjointed, despite being enjoyable in the most part, meaning that there were some necessary adjustments to be made this time around.
With all that in mind, it is pleasing to report that the latest chapter in the big-screen adventure of Tony Stark is consistently entertaining and gripping, making it arguably the finest film of the Iron Man series thus far. As ever, the chemistry between Downey Jr and Paltrow is right on the money, and Don Cheadle now looks fully comfortable in the combine roles of Colonel James ‘Rhodey’ Rhodes and War Machine.
Upon taking control of the film, Black talked about taking a step away from the premise of Iron Man facing off against another giant robot, and certainly the threat this time is an altogether more human and real-world based kind of threat.
It is also significant that Stark is taken out of comfort zone for a large section of the film, as circumstances mean that he is stranded in Tennessee (when he is presumed dead), where he has to rely on all his ingenuity to repair damage of his own making.
With one $15 million dollar film to his name before taking on this task, there were some question marks about how Black would handle the pressure of a film with such a major budget. His handling of the major set-pieces is extremely efficient, though, and in unison with co-writer Drew Pearce, he has maintained the sharp wit that has been synonymous with his work over the past couple of decades.
This framework was established by Favreau (who reprises his role as former bodyguard turned head of security Happy Hogan) in the earlier films, and blossomed under Joss Whedon in last year’s superhero team up, which makes the decision to hire Black for this film all the more obvious.
If there was a criticism to be labelled at the film, it does become slightly overblown in the extended finale, but considering all that gone before it, the filmmakers had more than earned the right to turn outlandish during the final act.
Stepping up to the plate alongside reliable regulars Downey Jr, Paltrow and Cheadle, Pearce and Kingsley offer plenty of menace, while the often under-appreciated Hall also makes the best of the screen time she is afforded.
With a sequel to Marvel Avengers Assemble (those who are intrigued by that prospect should wait around the end credits) very much in the pipeline, this will not be the last we see of Tony Stark in his iron suit, and on the basis of this film, that can only be a good thing.
Daire Walsh
12A (see IFCO website for details)
Iron Man 3 is released on 25th April 2013
Iron Man 3 – Official Website
Cinema Review: Contagion
DIR: Steven Soderbergh • WRI: Scott Z. Burns • PRO: Gregory Jacobs, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher • DOP: Steven Soderbergh • ED: Stephen Mirrione • DES: Howard Cummings • CAST: Matt Damon, Laurence Fishburne, Jude Law, Jennifer Ehle, Marion Cotillard, Kate Winslet, Gwyneth Paltrow
Premiered at the recent Venice Film Festival, there’s a huge amount of buzz around Contagion
– so much so that the US release date was brought forward to the weekend of 9/11, a time when people are remembering a terrifying event that affected – and killed – thousands of people.
This marketing tactic might be a lucky coincidence, but either way, does Contagion – a story about the fictional MEV-1 virus that wreaks havoc across the world – live up to the hype? It certainly starts at a breakneck pace with scary scenes that’ll ensure you wash your hands more often and stop touching your face (you do it about 3,000 times a day).
Contagion actually begins with the sound of a cough. It’s Day 2, and in a Chicago airport Beth Emhoff (Paltrow) is calling her lover. She’s been away on business in Hong Kong and is now going home to her husband and kids. Within a day she’s having seizures, and soon after she’s on the slab. They buzzsaw her skull open, check out her brain, and the Medical Examiner says those classic words: ‘Call everyone’.
Her son dies right afterwards too, leaving somehow-immune husband Mitch (Damon) and his daughter Jory (Anna Jacoby-Heron) separated by a temporary quarantine and unwilling first witnesses to the fury of an unknown and deadly virus.
Others are falling like flies in London and Hong Kong, and soon the hunt is on to find what’s killing everyone. At the Center for Disease Control in Atlanta, head honcho Dr. Ellis Cheever (Fishburne) is trying to stay in control as Homeland Security starts getting twitchy, and Dr. Erin Mears (Kate Winslet) is beginning to organize what the mounting numbers of sick and dying are going to need.
As the virus slowly infects the planet, World Health Organization doctor Leonara Orantes (Cotillard) is trying to find Patient Zero: who they were and where they were infected on Day 1, while back in Atlanta in the CDC lab, Dr. Ally Hextall (Ehle) is trying to isolate the virus and find a vaccine.
Out on the streets in San Francisco is Alan Krumwiede (Jude Law, sporting a ridiculous pair of gappy front teeth and showcasing an Australian or possibly South African accent), a blogger and conspiracy theorist who believes the Government and chemical companies are all in cahoots, and that there might be another antidote. He fuels the fire of panic, and soon State borders are closing and the National Guard are on the streets… yet still the death toll rises.
Director Soderbergh brings his slick, crowd-pleasing Ocean’s 11 skills to bear here, setting up a cracking premise quickly and laying the path for a story that promises to have everything; an unseen enemy, a hopeless situation, a cast of heroes fighting for their fellow humans (even if it means their own sacrifice) and a race against time.
We’re in classic disaster movie territory, yet Contagion falls short of the mark because it fails to give anything emotional for the audience to connect too. Sure, people are dying by the truck load – including cast members – but with so many of them in so many places, there’s never enough time to get to know them.
With barely any idea of what’s at stake for them – and what decisions they might make as a result – it’s hard to care that much. Also, sometimes it’s so long before you come back to a character that you’ve not only almost forgotten about them, but didn’t see how they reacted to the escalating disaster: they weren’t frozen in amber, were they?
In attempting to raise the level of tension and make this a film that appeals to everyone across the world – infectious diseases are no respecter of boundaries or oceans – it actually distances the audience, seeming too often to be more of an extreme environmentalist video about ‘what might happen one day.’
The chronic lack of action – it’s all about boardrooms – is a problem too, and at times the film really drags. That’s not a good thing when there’s a parasitic time bomb exploding, soldiers on the streets and people looting and killing – the bubble around the cast needed to be broken.
The much-trumpeted desire to be scientifically accurate but not boring (screenwriter Scott Z. Burns and Soderbergh worked for several weeks with Dr. Ian Lipkin, a scientist renowned for his work on SARS and the West Nile Virus) is something the film accomplishes well, but sadly it isn’t enough to compensate, and instead ends up diverting the human focus even more.
Finally, it stretched credulity beyond the borders of belief when, throughout the film, Matt Damon’s family home always seemed to have electricity, his daughter her mobile phone, and Jude Law his website. In the US at least, hot weather regularly causes power cuts, and everyone knows how often their internet access crashes or their mobiles suddenly cut out, yet in the midst of disaster the Emhoff lights were blazing. Really? With society in chaos and disarray?
It was just another thing that made Contagion far less thrilling – and believable – than it clearly meant to be (and probably really is), so overall it’s an entertaining but forgettable diversion, one that – I admit – did have me shifting in my seat every time someone in the cinema coughed…
Rated 12A (see IFCO website for details)
Contagion is released on 21st October 2011
Contagion – Official Website
Country Strong
DIR/WRI: Shana Feste • PRO: Tobey Maguire, Jenno Topping • DOP: John Bailey • ED: Carol Littleton, Conor O’Neill • DES: David J. Bomba • Cast: Garrett Hedlund, Gwyneth Paltrow, Leighton Meester
Country & Western music lends itself to clichés, and movies about Country & Western music suffer from the same triteness and predictability. Even when based on ‘truth’, as with Walk the Line, they cannot quite escape the grips of melodrama and over-emotionalism. Country Strong is no different – every tear-inducing trick in the country-book is hauled out and dusted off. There is something strangely compelling, though, about this genre of music and way of life – it echoes a dying past filled with ballads, Stetsons and desert winds. Hackneyed and elementally corny it might be, but rough-diamond cowboys and resilient country women resurface again and again in America’s stories. In this case, it is the tale of a broken country star, intent on redemption – a story as old as the chords of in one of the many songs.
It’s rumoured that the writer/director Shana Feste based the lead character, Kelly Canter (Gwyneth Paltrow), on Britney Spears – building on the idea of a girl who has become a woman without ever learning what it is to be an adult. Certainly comparisons can be easily made, and it is in Kelly’s weaknesses that the story has its greatest moments of clarity and depth. We begin with cowboy singer Beau Hutton (Garrett Hedlund) playing in some battered honky-tonk – from which he goes back to his day job in a rehab centre. Clearly smitten with the incumbent star, Kelly, they sing together before her husband James (Tim McGraw) arrives to check her out of rehab a month early, in order to begin a three-city redemption tour. Kelly is clearly not ready for her exit, and a loved-up Beau advises against it, posing as her sponsor. James is adamant, assuring Kelly that he has found a perfect back-up singer in the guise of beauty-queen Chiles Stanton (Leighton Meester), though he also concedes to Kelly’s request that Beau be brought along. (Yes, these names are all real.) Beau despises Chiles’ ‘country-barbie’ style, as he writes his own songs and music – putting heart and feeling into every one. Her innocence and foolishness begins to wear him down, however, especially in the shadow of Kelly’s continued alcohol and personal abuse on tour.
Paltrow has been working towards recognition as a songstress for quite a while, her present work on the horrific High-School-Musical-for-adults show Glee being a case in point. Country Strong seems be another valiant attempt to showcase these abilities, but what the film really provides is the reason why she is on our screens in the first place. Not for her voice, but for her considerable prowess as an actor – an aspect of Mrs. Coldplay that might have been recently overlooked. Playing a fractured ex-country star, fresh out of rehab and dealing with demon upon demon, she excels in both the occasional comedy and persistent drama of the role, giving some direction in an otherwise cliché-ridden flick.
With multiple tales of love and loss, and redemption as well as sorrow in every bittersweet set-up, this is storytelling at its simplest. Injections of humour aside, it runs a course obvious from the get-go, and there are no surprises in script to keep you guessing. What is nice about the movie, though, and what holds it together, is the exposition given to the central four characters; there are no demons or saints in the basket, and each one is given depth and emotion. In the end, they are the only tangible gratification in an otherwise thoroughly guilty pleasure: melodrama at its best, but then the ‘best’ of melodrama is rarely all that good.
Country Strong is released on 125th March 2011
Country Strong – Official Website
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To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what plans the Commission has to increase the level of (a) recycling and (b) reuse to reduce the use of single-use plastic.
<p>On increasing recycling and re-use, Parliament’s Environment Team works in close partnership with its waste contractor to respond to new and emerging opportunities to recycle and recover waste. The waste contract includes a requirement for driving continuous improvements in Parliament’s recycling performance.</p><p>Parliament achieved a recycling rate of 59% in 2018–19, with a long-term target to recycle 75% of waste (by weight) by 2020–21.</p><p>On reducing single-use avoidable plastics, in May 2018 Parliament announced a comprehensive range of initiatives to drastically reduce its consumption of single-use avoidable plastics:</p><ul><li>Eliminate plastic bottled water</li><li>Eliminate condiment sachets (through substitution)</li><li>Eliminate plastic-lined hot drinks cups, alongside introduction of a ‘latte levy’</li><li>Sell and incentivise the use of re-usable ‘keep cups’</li><li>Substitute disposable catering take-away items with compostable alternatives, alongside the introduction of a compostable waste stream</li><li>Substitute plastic tumblers with compostable alternatives</li><li>Substitute plastic carrier bags with paper ones</li><li>Implement a ‘green stationery’ catalogue</li><li>Pilot a re-usable delivery container scheme at the Offsite Consolidation Centre</li><li>Produce procedures for incorporating the environmental impact of packaging waste into the weighting of relevant procurement exercises</li></ul><p><br>Except for the delivery container pilot scheme, for which a feasibility study has been completed, all single-use plastic initiatives have been fully implemented.</p>
House of Commons: Security
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, for what reasons security officers in the House of Commons are entitled to a break of two hours and 15 minutes in each eight hour shift; and what assessment the Commission has made of the comparative value for money of such contracts.
Daniel Kawczynski
<p>House Staff are paid for working hours only, i.e. 36 hours net per week for full time staff. In accordance to their contracts, full-time staff have a one hour unpaid break each day / shift. The rest of the breaks received by the Security staff, which are over and above their contractual arrangements, are a legacy carried over from the Metropolitan Police working practices since 2016. The House is currently in discussion with the union about the introduction of a new roster and rest breaks.</p>
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Members' Staff: General Practitioners
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether Members' staff can (a) register with and (b) access an on-site medical doctor.
Frank Field
<p>Members’ staff cannot register with nor access an on-site medical doctor as there are none on-site. There are occupational health physicians who work within the Parliamentary Health and Wellbeing Service (PHWS) via a contract with Guys and St Thomas’ hospital. Managers can refer their staff to PHWS for advice and support if they feel that their health is being affected by their work. Members of Parliament can seek occupational health advice for their staff via the Members HR advisory service.</p>
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Parliament: Veganism and Vegetarianism
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what plans the Commission has to (a) increase choice in parliamentary catering for vegetarians and vegans and (b) set prices that reflect the true cost of producing food.
<p>Catering services have increased the number of vegetarian and vegan options across all menus over the past year and there are plans for the range to continue to grow this year. Catering services will continue to support National Vegetarian week and Vegan Month. Some chefs have also attended a two day training course looking at new ideas in plant-based foods to enhance the menus, with further development opportunities planned.</p><p>Catering prices are reviewed on an annual basis and amended to reflect one year’s change in the food price index (a subset of the consumer price index) and applied as a standard percentage increase across the whole product range. New prices come into effect in April, at the beginning of each new financial year.</p><p>The Finance Committee sets the overall budget direction and targets, and the Administration Committee confirms that the pricing percentages work within the overall budget direction and target once they have been presented to them on an annual basis. The House of Commons Commission is asked for a final decision if agreement cannot be reached with both Committees.</p><p>The catering budget set for 2019/20 for food gross profit is to achieve a 62% gross profit margin. This food gross profit covers the cost of food production across all venues on the estate.</p><p>Any prices which need to adjust mid-year due to significant market supplier increases (a previous example being the increase in the price of salmon by 40% in 2016/17) will be reported back to Committees separately.</p>
Parliamentary Estate: Poultry Meat
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether all chicken served on the Parliamentary estate is free range.
Mr Barry Sheerman
<p>None of our chicken is free range. Unless especially requested for an event, all standard poultry for cafeterias and restaurants is British Red Tractor farm assured but not free range.</p>
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House of Commons Commission: Living Wage
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what proportion of organisations that hold contracts with the Commission pay the National Living Wage.
Justin Madders
<p>The House of Commons is accredited by Citizens UK as a London Living Wage Employer. The terms of its accreditation licence require that contractors and sub-contractors with dedicated staff who are based on parliamentary premises are paying those staff at least the London Living Wage.</p><p>Contractors and sub-contractors which provide services in relation to our contracts, while not having a presence on parliamentary premises, are required to pay dedicated staff at least the London Living Wage, or the UK Living Wage if based outside London.</p><p>We can confirm that to our knowledge, all dedicated staff are being paid either the London Living Wage or the UK Living Wage.</p>
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House of Commons: Repairs and Maintenance
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what steps are planned to be taken to improve the digital accessibility of the House of Commons through the Restoration and Renewal programme.
<p>Plans to improve the digital accessibility of Parliament as part of the Restoration and Renewal programme have not yet been agreed, as this work is still at an early stage. However, recognising the importance of this matter, the shadow Sponsor Board has agreed a strategic approach, which commits the programme to deliver a building which supports Parliament’s core function as a working legislature using high-quality design and technology, as well as encouraging wider participation in the work of Parliament, including through improved digital access. This strategic approach has also been endorsed by the Commissions of both Houses.</p>
Parliament: Magazines
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the Commission funds the Parliamentary Review magazine.
<p>The Commission does not fund The Parliamentary Review.</p><p>Information about funding of the magazine can be found on The Parliamentary Review’s website:</p><p>(<a href="https://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.uk/faqs" target="_blank">https://www.theparliamentaryreview.co.uk/faqs</a>).</p>
Parliament: Pensions
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, whether the parliamentary pension fund plans to divest itself of investments in fossil fuels.
<p>The Trustees of the Parliamentary Contributory Pension Fund are responsible for managing the Fund’s investments. Therefore PCPF matters are not for the House of Commons Commission.</p>
Parliamentary Estate: Food
To ask the right hon. Member for Carshalton and Wallington, representing the House of Commons Commission, what proportion of food stuffs sourced for food outlets on the Parliamentary estate were produced in the UK in the latest period for which figures are available.
Jo Stevens
<p>Although all of our products are fully traceable to source, the House Service does not record or hold the information in respect of sourcing from one particular country or region. This information is held by the relevant suppliers. Whilst suppliers are able to provide full traceability on any given product, for logistical reasons they would not be able to provide information to the level of detail requested because where our products are sourced may change from time to time.</p><p>The vast majority of fresh products, such as meat, poultry, dairy, eggs, bread, ice cream, and most fruit and vegetables when in season are sourced from within the UK. This is possible because, in the first instance, we demand that UK or equivalent standards of welfare and production must be met as this is a consideration of ethics and quality rather than origin.</p><p>The House Service sources products that are produced to higher environmental standards where possible.</p>
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Sovereignty: Northern Ireland
What recent assessment she has made of the benefits to Northern Ireland of being part of the UK.
Ross Thomson
<p>This Government has made clear on many occasions that we will never be neutral in expressing our support for the Union.</p><p>Northern Ireland benefits hugely from the Union and my steadfast belief is that Northern Ireland’s future is best served within a stronger United Kingdom.</p>
Karen Bradley
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David T. C. Davies
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Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013: Northern Ireland
Whether she has plans to extend the provisions of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Act 2013 to Northern Ireland.
<p>As I have said on many occasions, I voted in support of same sex marriage in England and Wales and I hope that this can be extended to Northern Ireland in the future.</p><p> </p><p>However, marriage is a devolved matter in Northern Ireland and an issue I want a restored Executive to resolve.</p>
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Hospitals: Parking
If she will hold discussions with the Northern Ireland Executive on the abolition of hospital car parking charges in Northern Ireland.
Robert Halfon
<p>The matter of hospital car parking is devolved in Northern Ireland and it would not be appropriate for the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland to intervene.</p><p><br>In the absence of devolved government it remains for NI Permanent Secretaries to take the decisions they believe necessary in line with the guidance the Secretary of State set out last November, to keep the country running.</p>
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Common Travel Area: Northern Ireland
What recent steps she has taken to ensure the maintenance of the Common Travel Area between the UK and Ireland after the UK leaves the EU.
Bill Grant
<p>On 8 May, the United Kingdom Government and the Irish Government signed a Memorandum of Understanding codifying the Common Travel Area (CTA) and associated reciprocal rights.</p>
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Beaches: Sewage
To ask Her Majesty's Government what steps they are taking to prevent the leaking of sewage onto beaches at (1) Sunderland, and (2) Whitburn.
Baroness Bakewell of Hardington Mandeville
<p>Continuous improvements have been made to the sewerage system in the area, with the latest being the completion of a scheme to reduce storm sewage discharges from the Whitburn long sea outfall in December 2017. This has reduced the frequency in discharges from the system by around 40% compared to the average from the old system.</p>
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Overseas Students: EU Nationals
To ask Her Majesty's Government whether EU students enrolling on higher education courses in England in the 2020–21 academic year will be eligible for home fee status and financial support.
Lord Bassam of Brighton
<p>The department recognises that staff and providers are concerned about what EU exit means for study and collaboration opportunities.</p><p>To help give certainty, on 28 May 2019, the department announced guarantees on student finance for EU nationals. EU nationals (and their family members) who start a course in England in the 2020/21 academic year or before will continue to be eligible for ‘home fee’ status and student finance support from Student Finance England for the duration of their course, provided they meet the residency requirement. These guarantees are not altered if the UK leaves the EU without a deal.</p>
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To ask Her Majesty's Government when they intend to set out the (1) fee status, and (2) loan eligibility, of EU undergraduate students commencing courses at English higher education providers in the 2020–21 academic year.
Crimes of Violence: Emergency Services
To ask Her Majesty's Government how many individuals have been charged with offences under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018; and how many of those incidents occurred in connection with the provision of services by the NHS.
Lord Clark of Windermere
<p>The Home Office does not hold information on the number of individuals charged under The Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act, which came into effect on 13 November 2018. However, police forces in England and Wales provide the Home Office with data on the number of offences recorded of Assault or assault by beating of a constable or emergency worker that resulted in a charge.</p><p>Between 13 November 2018 to 31 December 2018, there were 947 offences recorded under the Assaults on Emergency Workers (Offences) Act 2018 that resulted in a charge. However, this provides an incomplete count of all individuals charged under this Act because some offences will result in more than one offender being charged and more serious incidents may result in a higher charge such as Grievous Bodily Harm.</p><p>The Home Office does not hold data on whether or not the incident occurred in connection with the services provided by the NHS.</p>
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Aviation: Scotland
To ask Her Majesty's Government what assessment they have made of the sufficiency of competition in the provision of air services from Scotland to London.
Lord Forsyth of Drumlean
<p>The aviation sector operates in a competitive, commercial environment, investing to attract passengers and responding to demand when determining routes to operate.</p><p> </p><p>Scotland is well-served by air services into London, with at least two airlines operating direct services from each of Scotland’s four largest airports into the London system.</p>
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Visas: Families
‘To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, how many family visit visa applications from non-EEA countries have been declined in the last 12 months.
<p>The family visitor visa has been replaced by the standard visitor visa <a href="https://www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/standard-visitor-visa</a></p><p>The information on total entry clearance visitor visas granted is released quarterly as part of the Home Office’s Immigration Statistics, available at the .<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GOV" target="_blank">GOV</a>.<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK" target="_blank">UK</a> website.</p><p>The most recent published visas statistics are available at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/immigration-statistics-year-ending-june-2018/list-of-tables#visas</a></p>
General Practitioners: Data Protection
‘To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many subject access requests have been made to GP surgeries since the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation.
<p>This information is not held centrally.</p>
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Universal Credit: Personal Savings
whether savings held in the name of children are taken into account in applications for universal credit.
<p>Savings and other capital held in the name of children are not taken into account in the assessment of Universal Credit entitlement. As with other means tested benefits, however, there are rules to prevent claimants depriving themselves of capital in order to claim Universal Credit or increase their entitlement to Universal Credit. If claimants deprive themselves of capital by gifting the capital to their children or placing it in a child’s account, notional capital of the amount deprived may still be taken into account when assessing entitlement to Universal Credit.</p>
Damian Hinds
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Department for International Development: Staff
what proportion of her Department's staff are (a) female and (b) male.
<p>As of 28 February 2018, DFID have 55.4% female and 44.6% male employees.</p>
Honduras: Electronic Surveillance
to ask the Secretary of State for Intentional Trade, with reference to the statement from the Honduran office in the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights condemning the use of force of force by the Honduras Government against protesters, if he will suspend the license for the unsent order of surveillance equipment to Honduras.
Lloyd Russell-Moyle
<p>The goods on this licence were presented to UK Customs for export on 22 February 2018. This licence is now exhausted.</p><p>United Nations reports are considered as part of the application process. The issue of the licence was consistent with the Consolidated EU and National Arms Export Licensing Criteria and remained so at the time of export.</p>
Graham Stuart
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to ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, with reference to the report entitled, Right treatment right time, published by Rethink Mental Illness, what assessment he has made of the accuracy of the conclusion that the average waiting time of assessment by patients with severe mental illness is 14 weeks.
Rosie Cooper
<p>Information on the average waiting time of assessment for patients with severe mental illness is not collected.</p><p> </p><p>The waiting time standard for people with first episode psychosis is for 60% to start treatment in an Early Intervention in Psychosis service within two weeks of referral. In 2017/18 this standard was exceeded, with 76.2% of people accessing services within two weeks in November 2018.</p>
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Hereditary Diseases
to ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what lessons have been learned from the 100,000 Genome Project which will help when deciding what genetic diseases should be screened for at birth.
<p>The 100,000 Genomes Project is focussed on recruiting patients, including children, with rare diseases (and their family members) and those with common cancers. These are areas where whole genome sequencing may offer the best opportunity to diagnose disease. From the Project’s pilot phase we have found actionable findings in 20-25% of rare disease patients.</p><p> </p><p>The scope of the project does not include screening at birth. The Chief Medical Officer, in her annual report Generation Genome, recommended that that the National Screening Committee conducts a systematic evaluation of the opportunities offered by genomics for present and potential screening practices.</p>
Department for Exiting the European Union
Exiting the European Union
Financial Services: Technology
to ask the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, with reference to his Department's publication Ministerial Meetings: January to March 2017, if he will publish the names of the attendees at the Fintech Roundtable attended by Robin Walker MP.
<p>Details of ministerial and senior official meetings are published in the Department’s Quarterly Transparency Returns, which are made publicly available on<a href="http://gov.uk/" target="_blank"> GOV.UK</a>.</p>
Mr Steve Baker
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Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport : Annual Reports
to ask the Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport, which agencies and other public bodies accountable to him will not have published their annual report and accounts for 2017-2018 by 31 July 2018; and what the reasons are for each such body not having done so by that date.
Mr Clive Betts
<p>A list of agencies and other public bodies which are accountable to the Department are listed on gov.uk (https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations). All accounts that are published will appear on the bodies’ websites. As per the Government Resources and Accounts Act (2000), there is no legal requirement for agencies or other public bodies to publish their accounts before the January following year end.</p><p> </p>
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Sri Lanka: Human Rights
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what recent discussions he has had with his Sri Lankan counterpart on the implementation of UN Human Rights Council resolutions regarding the aftermath of the Sri Lankan civil war.
<p>The UK continues to encourage and support Sri Lanka to deliver the commitments it made to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) through Resolutions 30/1, 34/1 and 40/1. We firmly believe that this is the best framework for establishing truth and achieving justice and lasting reconciliation. The Government has made these points regularly to Sri Lankan Ministers, including during a Ministerial visit to Colombo in October and in a number of meetings since. The British High Commissioner in Colombo also holds regular discussions on the implementation of the UNHRC resolutions with the Government of Sri Lanka.</p><p>In March the UK welcomed the Annual Report of the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, which assessed progress made by the Sri Lankan Government in the implementation of UNHRC resolutions 30/1 and 34/1. The Report found that the Government of Sri Lanka had taken some steps to address human rights concerns and to introduce more democratic and accountable government, including the return of some military-held civilian land, the establishment of an Office of Missing Persons and the ratification of the Convention on Enforced Disappearances.</p><p>However, more needs to be done. The UK has urged further progress on these issues, and encouraged the Government of Sri Lanka to deliver meaningful devolution through constitutional reform, and to establish and then utilise credible mechanisms for transitional justice. We continue to urge the Government to prioritise the steps required to deliver fully on the commitments it made in resolutions 30/1, 34/1 and 40/1, and to develop a comprehensive and time bound implementation strategy.</p>
Ahmed Mansoor
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, if he will make representations to his counterpart in the Emirati Government to allow Ahmed Mansoor access (a) to an independent lawyer of his choice and (b) regular family visitation rights.
Paul Farrelly
<p>The case of Ahmed Mansoor was raised by my officials with senior Emirati officials in the United Arab Emirates Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation. The UK urges all countries to comply with their human rights obligations. When we have concerns in this regard, we raise those concerns at senior level levels with foreign governments.</p>
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Diego Garcia: Roads
To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, to which nation the road named national highway on Diego Garcia in the British Indian Ocean Territory refers.
<p>The main road on Diego Garcia that links different areas of the island is officially named Britannia Way. It is more commonly known as DG1 or National Highway.</p><p> </p>
Overseas Aid
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps his Department is taking to ensure the UK meets its ODA obligations in the event that the UK leave the European Union without a deal.
Mr Gavin Shuker
<p>The Department, working with Treasury and other Government departments, is always planning for contingencies to ensure that the UK meets its ODA obligations. The consequences of leaving the European Union without a deal come within this broader contingency planning.</p>
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Occupied Territories: Health Services
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what steps he is taking to help ensure that (a) health workers in the Occupied Palestinian Territories are protected from attack and (b) perpetrators of such attacks are held accountable.
<p>The UK is clear that no health workers or aid workers should be at risk of violence, that they must have the protection they need from the responsible authorities to allow them to do their jobs in safety, and that the rule of law must prevail to deal with perpetrators.</p>
Gaza: Patients
To ask the Secretary of State for International Development, what recent assessment his Department has made of the effect of permit restrictions imposed by the Government of Israel on (a) medical patients and (b) companions of those medical patients seeking to exit Gaza.
<p>Restrictions on movement and access imposed by the Israeli authorities on Gaza have resulted in a worsening of the already poor humanitarian situation. In May, 2,206 permit applications were made to the Government of Israel to enter Israel at the Erez crossing for healthcare, with 61% approved, 8% denied and 31% delayed. In the same month, 2,426 patient companion applications were made with 47% approved, 13% denied and 40% pending. The UK regularly raises and will continue to call on the Israeli government to ease access restrictions further and for Israel and the Palestinian Authority to work together to ensure a durable solution for Gaza. In addition to our diplomatic efforts, we have recently announced a new £1.6 million package of support to be delivered through the World Health Organisation which will help to provide life-saving treatment to more than 380,000 people in Gaza, including a new limb unit.</p>
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Elfyn Evans is a Welsh rally driver who displays an unusually impressive level of speed. Based in Dolgellau in Gwynedd, the 29 year old has already established a track record of success at every level he has tackled to date.
In 2012, Elfyn secured the FIA World Rally Championship (WRC) Academy title, which led to him competing on a programme of events in a WRC2 car during 2013. This programme resulted in Elfyn winning the WRC2 category on the Wales Rally of Great Britain and finishing second in WRC2 in both Germany and France. In addition, he made his debut in a World Rally Car in Italy, where he finished sixth overall – the best- ever performance by a Junior WRC champion making their debut in a ‘full’ WRC car.
In 2014, Elfyn and his co-driver Daniel Barritt joined the M-Sport team and competed in a Ford Fiesta World Rally Car on every round of the WRC. The pair finished fourth in both Mexico and Germany and also won the Power Stage on the ADAC Rally Deutschland.
For 2015, Elfyn and Dan again competed for the M-Sport team, driving a Ford Fiesta RS WRC. Their best result was second place in Corsica, while they scored another podium finish (3rd) in Argentina.
In 2016, Elfyn teamed up with new co-driver Craig Parry for a programme of events in the WRC2 championship in the M-Sport Ford Fiesta R5 . The pair also won the British Rally Championship (BRC) in a DMACK Ford Fiesta R5.
2017 saw Elfyn reunited with Dan Barritt and the pair contested every round of the WRC in the DMACK Ford Fiesta WRC as part of the M-Sport team. The year saw Elfyn record his first ever WRC victory when he won his home event, Wales Rally GB.
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To do what Elfyn did in his first year in a World Rally Car, well, he’s probably as good as anyone we’ve seen in the last ten to fifteen years.
Given the level of sporting talent that Malcolm Wilson has worked with over the years, that is high praise indeed and should give an indication of what’s to come in the future for the Wales’ local hero Elfyn.
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Forestry Bureau, Kinmen County tout otter conservation center plans
Forestry Bureau Deputy Director-General Liao Yi-kuang (廖一光, back, left) and Kinmen Magistrate Yang Cheng-wu (楊鎮浯, back, right) / Photo courtesy Kinmen County government
Taipei, May 14 (CNA) Forestry Bureau officials under the Executive Yuan's Council of Agriculture met Kinmen County officials Friday to discuss plans to establish a conservation center for otters in the county this year, with the aim of ensuring the county's ecological diversity.
Kinmen Magistrate Yang Cheng-wu (楊鎮浯) said he fully supports the Forestry Bureau-backed plans to establish the otter conservation center.
In terms of construction, Yang said that more communication is needed and that integration of resources and consensus among all the relevant offices and departments involved will be the project's top priority.
Forestry Bureau Deputy Director-General Liao Yi-kuang (廖一光) said the ecosystem of the county can easily be destroyed by invasive species and other factors, hence the need for a proper balance between people's livelihoods and the county's development.
To that end, long-term monitoring and the application of new engineering techniques are needed to provide an environment in which people and nature can live in harmony, Liao said.
Kinmen's Economic Affairs Department said a NT$15.15 million (US$486,799) package was granted to the county government in 2018 to cover a range of conservation efforts, including wildlife shelter renovation, ecological rejuvenation of firefly habitats, and an evaluation of the establishment of the otter conservation center.
Using 32 cameras operated by Taichung's Tunghai University, more than 276,609 hours of footage was obtained between 2018 and spring of 2019 that recorded a total of 32 new baby otters, meaning that the species is continuing to multiply and grow, the department said.
The growth in otter numbers is also linked to the county's management of stray dogs that prey on the otters, the department added.
(By Huang Huei-min and William Yen)
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The Secret of Life
NOT JUST FOR SCIENTISTS
Why do foxes give birth to baby foxes and turtles give birth to baby turtles? The answer is DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), a molecule within the cells of living things, that contains genetic instructions. In the early 1950’s, the race was on to identify the structure of the molecule, and this knowledge would later become the foundation for endeavors as wide ranging as disease prediction and prevention; paternity and ancestry confirmation; criminology procedures; and food innovation. This finding would be declared by many scientists to be the most important discovery of the 20th Century.
The quest to discover DNA’s structure is the platform for Bruce Coughran’s The Secret of Life, which is a true-life drama about the search and the great minds and personalities that pursued it. The seventy minute play is a compact, suspenseful, and engrossing rendering of the events leading to the discovery. In addition to public accounts, Coughran scoured original sources such as Rosalind Franklin’s letters and notes to provide a more complete picture than accepted wisdom. Along the way, the playwright depicts not only the application of deductive reasoning in the scientific method, but also the flashes and hunches that often bear fruit. The action takes place between January 1951, and February 1953, in two scientific labs, save for pub visits.
Luke Brady as Raymond Gosling, Laura Lowry as Rosalind Franklin and Matt Weimer as Maurice Wilkins
The less remembered lab was at Kings College London. Newly arrived Rosalind Franklin is shown as the most determined and accomplished DNA scientist, and Laura Lowry sizzles as the antisocial, no nonsense Franklin. She brooks no interference and bridles at the notion that she should assist senior scientist Maurice Wilkins. As the flummoxed Wilkins, Matt Weimer aptly depicts frustration and embarrassment when the “Dark Lady” creates better crystallography images of DNA than Wilkins himself. Luke Brady is appropriately fawning as subservient assistant, Raymond Gosling, who largely serves as a sounding board for Franklin to reveal herself beyond her tightly wound professional persona.
Many informed persons know the names Francis Crick and James Watson as Nobel Laureates for the discovery of the double-helix structure of DNA, so hopefully, that is not a spoiler. They were then at the other lab in question, University of Cambridge’s Cavendish Lab and researched DNA only part-time as an unauthorized skunkworks project.
Sam Tillis as Francis Crick and Alan Coyne as James Watson
Sam Tillis as Crick and Alan Coyne as Watson depict how the two officemate scientists quickly bonded. Both actors play their parts well, but more conflict between the two would add desired dramatic tension. After all, Watson was an American, one year beyond earning his PhD at age 23, yet the DNA topic was outside of his area of expertise. When he became a famous personage, he was shown to be fractious and controversial, but not in this depiction. Englishman Crick was 12 years older and had conducted research in DNA, but was still a doctoral candidate, in part because of wartime service. Toward the final push in the search process, a potential mole in this research group is newly arrived Peter Pauling. Yes, he was the son of Linus Pauling, who would not only be awarded the 1954 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, but who was also one of the contestants for DNA’s holy grail. Robert Shryock delivers a fine performance as the conflicted younger Pauling.
The action proceeds to its historically accurate conclusion, revealing facets of the scientific community and facts leading to the discovery of DNA’s structure that are likely not familiar to most, adding plot and associated disputes. One of the artistically challengeable aspects of the script is the amount of scientific detail that is heaped on the audience. The playwright could not expect many to follow all of the descriptions about the DNA molecule and the procedures used in testing. But in an informal survey of my theater party, three of four find that the critical scientific points are clear and that the more arcane technical details add credibility to the dialogue, while comprehension of the latter is not required. An informative epilogue discusses the participants’ storied lives after this phase of their careers.
While it is tempting to divulge more specifics, it would be hard to avoid spoiling otherwise interesting revelations. Those who see this deserving work will likely try to assess what the critical accomplishments were in the process of revealing DNA’s structure; who most deserves credit; what, if any, ethical boundaries were breached in the process; and finally, whether the press acts to advance newsworthy icons rather than provide balanced coverage (does the name Donald Trump come to mind?).
Playwright Bruce Coughran is also the Director of the play and Artistic Director of the producing company, Indra’s Net Theatre, which specializes in plays with scientific content. Having limited resources, Coughran manages the action well using minimalistic staging. Separate areas of the small stage, set off by lighting changes, represent the two labs. The Secret of Life plays at Berkeley City Club through January 17.
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Hammond warns no-deal Brexit will crush spending plans
By Caoimhe Toman
Date: Thursday 20 Jun 2019
(Sharecast News) - The new UK prime minister would be forced to abandon spending plans if he went ahead with a no-deal Brexit, finance minister Philip Hammond was set to warn on Thursday.
The warning, to be delivered in Hammond's Mansion House speech to business leaders, was apparently directed at leading candidate Boris Johnson, who has threatened to take the UK out on October 31 without a deal.
Former foreign secretary Johnson is the candidate most likely to replace Theresa May as PM after he won the third round of votes in the party on Wednesday evening. Sajid Javid, Jeremy Hunt and Michael Gove are the remaining contenders.
The final ballots were scheduled for Thursday to decide the final two candidates who will be put to Conservative Party members.
Pro-EU Hammond is likely to lose his job if Johnson is elected. He was expected to tell business leaders that any leadership candidate must have a plan B if renegotiations with the EU fail, or their "job will be on the line".
He will say the two "core, unshakeable, beliefs" of the Conservative party are under threat - meaning belief in prudent management of public finances and in the four nations of the UK.
According to Hammond a no-deal Brexit would soak up £26.6bn of "fiscal headroom" that has been set aside potentially to be used to increase spending or cut taxes.
"There is a choice. Either we leave with no deal ... or we preserve our future fiscal space. We cannot do both," Hammond is expected to say.
Hammond will say that a hard Brexit will leave the UK economy permanently smaller and urges the candidates to be honest with the public: "The leadership contenders need realistic strategies for taking the UK economy out of the holding pattern in which it has been stuck for the last nine months and landing it safely on the runway marked 'prosperity Brexit'".
"If the new prime minister cannot end the deadlock in Parliament, then he will have to explore other democratic mechanisms to break the impasse, because if he fails, his job will be on the line - and so, too, will the jobs and prosperity of millions of our fellow citizens." Hammond was expected to add, hinting at a second referendum, or even a general election.
(Additional reporting by Frank Prenesti)
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Welcome to The Fishing Capital of the World.
Mention Islamorada (pronounced EYE-la-mor-AH-da) and visions of game fish leaping into the air pop into your mind. Think of two completely different bodies of water brimming with some of the world’s most sought after gamefish, just a few short miles apart. Sailfish, Marlin, Tuna and Dolphin in the deep water of the Atlantic. Bonefish, Tarpon and Permit in the shallow water of the backcountry waters of Florida Bay. Add Snapper, Grouper, Shark and Barracuda throughout all the waters and mix in some of the finest charter boat captains and backcountry guides, and you have the recipe for Islamorada, Sport Fishing Capital of the World.
Everyone including Landlubbers will enjoy viewing these denizens of the deep at Theater of the Sea or feeding the Silver King (tarpon) at Robbies.
Islamorada Area Parks
Indian Key State Historic Site
During the 1830s, Jacob Housman advertised his hotel on Indian Key as a therapeutic retreat for the ailing. During his short tenure on this 11-acre island, Jacob managed to add vast improvements, increasing the population to over 100 residents.
Indian Key is less than a mile SE of Lower Matecumbe Key. 10 acres in size and with no bridge from the Overseas Highway, it doesn’t look like a place of historic significance. Yet Indian Key has had a very colorful past. A past quite important to early Florida history. Prior to the 1830 this island was occupied by prehistoric Native Americans. Beginning in the 1830s this small key was the seat of newly created Dade County. The foundations of buildings and cisterns on the island date back to this prosperous time.
Tour boat service to the island is available through “Robbie’s Marina.” For reservations and fees, please call (305) 664-9814. Tour boat departs 1/2-hour before listed tour times.
More Indian Key Information
This islands charm is revealed in the a portion of the parks name “Botanical”. You’ll will enjoy seeing many more than plants and trees on this 280-acre island then any other in the Keys. You’ll have plenty of bird species identify and photograph.
One of the prize finds here are the tiny tree snails unique to the Keys. These snails were more highly prized than escargot. Collectors around the world couldn’t get enough of these beautiful shells. Locals realized their value and were more than happy to provide them. The shells had different color variations and patterns from key to key.
It became common for shell collectors to set fire to an island, after collecting as many shells as they could, in order to increase the rarity and therefore their selling price.
Fortunately Lignumvitae Key was never burned and so contains one of the last virgin hammocks in the Keys. The snails here are quite beautiful with cream-colored shells with bands of red and green.
The lignumvitae tree is believed to live a thousand years. It is a native of the Caribbean with seeds brought to the Keys by wind and wave.
Ranger-led tours are conducted on the island Thursday through Monday at 10:30 am, 1 pm, and 2:30 pm. If the state-run boat is not operating, you will need to hire a boat from a local marina, and the ranger must be notified to meet you at the docks. For complete information call (305) 664-4815.
More Lignumvitae Key Information
For those looking for something different the shops and galleries along the Overseas Highway in Islamorada and at the Rain Barrel on Plantation Key reveal another type of Keys Treasure; arts, crafts, and other creative island treasures.
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Anti-Symbolic Space Future Expansion
Washington should unsettle us more. We live in a country of individuality and pop celebrity, with functioning myths of reinvention and mobility streamed in from reality TV and social networks. This is a country obsessed with a two-century-old act of rebellion, so why don’t we spark at the friction of Washington’s rigid architectural hierarchy and relentless historicism? The city foregrounds the symbolic power of architecture for historical purposes as much as any other urban center. Its height limits and wide boulevards create a horizontal city in which verticality and spatial position at the end of the grand cutting avenues are planning tools that permanently highlight privileged buildings and all of the metaphorical baggage that comes with them.
In Washington, a building’s physical attributes like height, bulk, spatial isolation and iconic form are symbols for civic virtue. These same attributes make them excellent platforms for viewing all of the other buildings representing the same civic virtues. For example, the Mall’s long, flat sprawl is punctuated by the Washington Monument, a memorial and observation tower with aerial views of the city that expose a web of other symbolic structures. It is a redundant urban scheme, with everything emphasizing the same qualities in everything else and no contrast. The Mall has the potential to be that contrast, the messy forward-facing antithesis to Washington’s stonework and gravitas. It could be the beating heart of the stiffly metaphorical city, an anti-symbolic space absorbed by the present and shaped by activity, impulse, and meaningless daily activity. The ironic coexistence of ‘upward mobility’ with rising income inequality and of ‘personal responsibility’ with ‘too big to fail’, which produce the unique schizophrenia of our American experience, could then be channeled into constructive potential.
What would an anti-symbolic space look like? The Mall’s amorphous shape west and south of the Washington Monument already suggests a physical informality opposed to the overshadowing and didactic enclosure of the museums along the eastern periphery. Likewise, the dominating presence of General Washington’s Monument needs a dose of Founding Father-style plurality to play up the disagreement and personality that makes the country’s establishing story so compelling. We should obscure, multiply, and otherwise suggest new physical relationships between the Mall, the obelisk, and the symbolic city beyond. Instead of a place where protest and tourism are temporary pursuits, the Mall could be a pocket of active architectural openness inside the structured symbolism of the city—the structure supporting the openness and, ultimately, the openness legitimizing all that structure.
Originally Published in CLOG : NATIONAL MALL
Washington Monument camouflaged as a cellphone tower camouflaged as a tree.
Left to Right: Observation deck for observing citizens (ground level), for observing monuments (aerial), inaccessible.
Mountable scaffolding allows for infinite views of the city and indicates expansion potential.
Landmark Envy
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Prof. Bae (ID+IM Design Lab.), the Silver Award prize winner of the World Renowned IDEA 2008
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Professor Bae and his team members (ID+IM) have exhibited Nanum MP3 Player on the "2008 IDEA Contest". They have received Silver Award on the actually manufactured goods of "Entertainment" category. This Nanum Project was held by the "World Vision" to contribute to the society through design by granting all the profit (approximately $500,000) as scholarship for the students who need financial aids. IDEA (International Design Excellence Awards), the contest of the U.S,, is among the 3 top design contests along with IF(International Forum) of German and the Reddot . Exhibits of the IDEA are screened and awarded by IDSA and Business Week. This award winning news was published on Business Week and The New York Times, magazines of the U.S and CNN as well. There will be a ceremony of awarding the Prize in Phoenix, USA this coming September.
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Pocatello High School
Conference: 4A District 5-6 Conference
Classification: 4A
Head Coach: David Spillett
Years as Head Coach: 1st Season
Previous Experience: 14 years at Century, 5 as Head Coach
State Titles: 1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 2006
Robert Blevin – Offensive Line
Jeff Davenport – Wide Receivers
Artie Holmes – Defensive Coordinator/Defensive Backs
Willie Walker – Linebackers
Rick Call – Defensive Line/Special Teams
Keaton Campbell
Joe Green
Stan Hales
Daniel Pape
Tyler Holm
Brock Gunter
Jarod Cooper
Levi Gribas
Nate Stradinger
Vinnie Benavidez
Dexter Gunter
Dylan Jorgensen, DB
Colter Brown, LB
Jacob Oblea, FS
Jeremiah Kempworth, LB
Photo By: Kyle Riley - #24 Dylan Jorgensen
Tristan Villano, LT, Senior
Antwon Johnson, WR, Senior
Jarom Campos, WR/RB, Junior
Will Schumber, QB, Junior
It was time for a changing of the guard at Pocatello High School. The football program needed a new vision and a new direction. So who better to bring in than a former Pocatello Indian who understands the rich tradition and history?
New head coach David Spillett returns to his alma mater to take over a program that had fallen from graces on the field in terms of winning and also off the field, as a bullying scandal cast a haze over the team last season. The former head coach at cross-town rival Century said that he wants to bring a fresh, new mentality to the program and inject enthusiasm all across the board.
“We are going to look a lot different this year compared to previous years,” he said.
That all starts will who he has coming back to suit up for the Indians. Spillett’s squad returns seven starters total, including three on offense and four on defense. His team is young, but very talented.
“We will have plenty of weapons to work with this season, including Dylan Jorgensen, Jeremiah Kempworth, Jarom Campos, Antwon Johnson, Colter Brown, and Dawson Keller,” Spillett said. “We want to attack offensively with our no huddle spread offense and get the ball to our playmakers. We want to use our tempo to try to gain an advantage.”
No huddle? At Pocatello High School? It’s about as much of a contrast as you can get compared to the slower style employed by the previous regime. It’s a style that Spillett believes in and had success with while at Century. But who is going to trigger that offense?
Fall camp allowed for a quarterback competition for the starting job between juniors Will Schumber and Bryant Kimbrough. Spillett told the Idaho State Journal that whoever wins the starting job makes it a win-win for Pocatello as both players fit his scheme well as quarterback or receiver.
Defensively, the Indians return four players from last season, including shutdown corner Dylan Jorgensen. Spillett said he expects Kimbrough to have a great impact at free safety with Colter Brown captaining the defense from the linebacker position. There are a lot of holes to fill on the defense, however.
“We want to mix things up defensively and we need to have more trust in each other and just do our job every play,” said Spillett.
The learning curve will be quick for the Indians this season as they try to make their way through the tough 4A District 5-6 Conference in eastern Idaho. The conference is regarded among the toughest in the state and nothing less than the best will do to achieve postseason aspirations.
“We live in an area where each week you get a chance to see some of the best football in the entire state,” said Spillett. “I can promise that each week these young men will give everything they’ve got and you won’t regret coming out to support the Pocatello Indians. We play in one of the best conferences in the state with some of the best coaches around.”
The Indians will only play an eight-game schedule, which is uncommon compared to all other 4A and 5A schools around the state, who normally play a nine-game regular season schedule. Pocatello opens up the season on the road at Twin Falls, before returning home for a two-game homestand against cross-town rival Highland in the annual ‘Black n’ Blue Bowl’ before hosting Jerome on September 11th.
The team then travels up I-15 for a date at Ravsten Stadium versus the Idaho Falls Tigers in their final non-conference tilt before the conference slate begins. Fortunately for Pocatello, their first three conference games are all at home, as they host Preston, Century, and Rigby in consecutive weeks before finishing out the regular season on the road at Blackfoot on October 16th.
Even with the difficult schedule ahead, Spillett is well aware of a factor that can derail even the best teams’ season.
“Just like most teams, we need to stay healthy and put the team success over individual accolades,” he said. “That is the X-Factor to us having success this season."
As much as Spillett wants to see success on the field, he really tries to focus on finding success off the field, as that success will hopefully breed more success down the road for these young men.
“Our motto this year is “Be The Best”, meaning that I want our kids to strive to be the best in everything they do on and more importantly off the field,” he said.
He added that this year’s motto is just an addition to one that he wants to follow the program each year: “Play Like A Champion and Win The Day.”
“This was the motto of my best friend and former assistant coach Travis J. Kunz, who passed away a few years ago,” Spillett said. “Travis lived his life this way and I want our kids to know the importance of this every year.”
The coach said that he understands how critical this period of a teenagers’ life is and how important it is to take an interest in each and every kids’ well-being.
“The reason I coach is simple – as a coach, you are placed in a situation where you are a role model whether you like it or not and it’s so important to me that me and my staff take every opportunity to help the players learn life lessons while they are a part of our team,” he said. “I would hope that after a player goes through our program they not only have a great knowledge of the game of football, but we as coaches have also given them a great foundation to become better people and the examples that we set and the lessons we teach allow them to be successful long after their playing career.”
While trying to mold and shape his players’ lives, the new coach hopes to do the same to the overall program at Pocatello.
“I’m most excited to see the change in our program. It’s been great as we’ve been trying to transform this group of great young men from a team to a football family,” he said. “I love to see the players, coaches, families, school, and community really buy in to what’s happening with Pocatello football right now. There’s a great buzz surrounding the football program right now and it’s been great to be a part of the change.”
Spillett loves his alma mater. He feels that there is a true sense of community at the downtown Pocatello high school.
“I believe that Pocatello High School is truly a special place starting with the leadership and guidance of our principal, Lisa Delonas,” he said. “Pocatello is a school where everyone matters and everyone is treated as equals.”
The new coach hopes to take that sense of equality at Pocatello and combine it with his ‘football family’ mentality to create a solid, strong program for years to come. He even takes it to a literal level.
“It’s great to be coaching alongside family as Joe Green, my cousin, serves as the junior varsity head coach,” Spillett said, noting that Green also is the head boys basketball coach. “I love that all of the athletic programs are in full support of each other and that they work well together and support all of our student-athletes. Pocatello has great coaches at every sport now and the coaches truly care for these student-athletes.”
Change doesn’t just happen overnight, but key and fundamental building blocks to that change can be put in place instantly. Spillett appears to have done that at Pocatello, and now it’s up to him and the Indians football family to evoke a change that, for the Pocatello faithful, will return them to prominence and contention for years to come.
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TV speakers: Which are the best around?
Thin, flatscreen TVs tend to come with thin, flat sound, but a soundbar, home cinema system or wireless speakers can improve your viewing experience. We’ve selected sound options for all budgets.
By Sam Kieldsen
Last updated: 8 February 2019 - 3.44pm
Most TVs don't sound great on their own. To enjoy quality sound that matches the high-definition pictures of today's top TVs, you need an external speaker.
But how do you know which is right for you? We've broken down the best around by type and who they'll suit, so you can easily find your perfect speaker. Your films and TV shows are about to sound a whole lot better...
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Are you short of space? Consider a soundbar
One of the simpler, more elegant options for boosting TV audio is a soundbar: an elongated, narrow loudspeaker designed to be placed below the TV screen. Due to their one-piece design and easy connectivity - they generally require no more than two cables: one to the power socket and one to the TV - they’re an ideal choice when space is limited.
Thankfully, they don't have to cost the earth. In fact, a decent one can be had for under £100. If you want to spend a little more, then you'll get even better sound - the Sonos Beam can stream to other speakers around the room and house. Money no object? Look no further than the Dali Kubik One, which has an eye-catching design and plenty of connectivity options.
Are you a movie fan? Consider a home cinema system
If full surround sound is what you’re after, a home cinema speaker package is the way to go. Usually consisting of five satellite speakers to provide sound effects from different locations, and a subwoofer to serve up low-frequency bass effects, they usually need to be connected to and driven by a receiver. They give great sound, but do tend to crowd your lounge, as they come in a lot more parts than a single simple soundbar.
Because they have more elements, home cinema systems tend to be more expensive than soundbars. At the budget end of the scale is the Wharfedale DX-2, a stylish and compact system that ticks all the boxes. The Q Acoustics 3010i is a little pricier, but comes in more colours and finishes and its subwoofer is over twice as powerful, so should provide plenty of rumbling bass. If you want to spend big, you want the Monitor Audio Silver 200 AV12 - it was designed with the help of the National Physical Laboratory (the UK's leader in precision measurement) to ensure optimum sound.
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Are you a minimalist? Consider wireless speakers
No speaker designed for TVs will be completely wireless – at minimum, it’ll need to connect to a power socket. But 'wireless' models require fewer wires and stop cable spaghetti spoiling your living room’s clean lines.
The Naim Mu-so is really an audiophile-grade wireless speaker designed for audio, but it can be plugged into your TV too to work as a soundbar. And if you have a TV with Apple's AirPlay 2 technology (or an Apple TV streaming box), you can beam TV audio to it too. The Sonos PlayBar also has a soundbar design, but it too is wireless, plus it integrates seamlessly into Sonos' multi-room systems, so you can buy more speakers to place around the room/house and expand your system over months or years. The Harmon Kardon Aura connects to your telly wirelessly using Bluetooth, and like the others here, can also be used to play music wirelessly from a phone, tablet or PC.
Are you not all that mobile? Consider a smart speaker
Smart speakers are very clever little devices. They each contain a digital assistant like Google Assistant, Amazon's Alexa or Apple's Siri, to obey your every command. That means you can control it - and other smart home devices connected to it, like your smart TV - just by speaking. So you can turn the lights on and adjust the room temperature without getting up off the sofa. Not only are they great for showing off to guests, they're also a lifesaver if you're of limited mobility.
Google Home Max is Google's top-of-the-range model, offering oddles of bass and a rigid case to stop vibrations interfering with the sound quality. Apple's HomePod automatically adjusts depending on where you place it in order to optimise the sound quality. And the Amazon Echo Plus has thousands of 'skills' which are like apps made by other companies, to expand its abilities. Want to play games, track your activity or fall asleep to rain sounds? There's a skill for that.
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Tornier Announces First Implant in U.S. Clinical Study for the Simpliciti™ Stemless Shoulder Joint Replacement System
Simpliciti System Also Recently Launched in Europe at Prestigious Annecy Shoulder Course
AMSTERDAM--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Tornier N.V. (NASDAQ:TRNX), a leading global medical device company focused on serving extremities specialists who treat orthopaedic conditions of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hand, ankle and foot, today announced two milestone events for the Company's new SimplicitiTM stemless shoulder joint replacement system. Tornier announced that the first patient has been enrolled and treated successfully with the Simpliciti prosthesis as part of an FDA Investigational Device Exemption (IDE) clinical study. The Company also announced the commercial release of the Simpliciti system outside of the United States at the Annecy Live Surgery International Shoulder Advanced Course, held in Annecy, France, June 2-5, 2011.
The first patient in the Simpliciti IDE study was treated on July 29, 2011, at Saint Agnes Hospital in Fresno, Calif., by Thomas W. Thomas, MD, an orthopaedic surgeon specializing in shoulder surgery. Tornier is the first orthopaedic company to participate in a multi-center, prospective FDA-approved clinical trial for a stemless shoulder prosthesis. The trial is designed to enroll 157 patients who will be followed for two years.
Thomas commented, "Simpliciti is an exciting alternative for patients needing a shoulder replacement that preserves humeral bone, simplifies the surgical approach and renders potential future interventions much less complicated. I was impressed with the straightforward nature of the Simpliciti operation, the intuitive instrumentation, and, in particular, the humeral metaphyseal fixation."
Prior to the commercial launch outside of the U.S., Tornier received European CE Mark clearance on February 28, 2011. The first Simpliciti implant procedure was completed on April 7, 2011, by Mr. Gavin Tait, consultant surgeon and clinical director at Crosshouse Hospital, Ayrshire & Arran NHS in Glasgow, Scotland.
Tornier's Simpliciti stemless shoulder system bridges the gap between humeral bone resurfacing and traditional shoulder arthroplasty systems. The Simpliciti system has been designed to provide the bone-preserving benefits of stemless resurfacing implants while also providing total joint system clinical benefits and necessary surgical access. The Simpliciti system, featuring the preservation of the humeral canal and cementless "press fit" fixation, has been designed to facilitate revision surgery for younger patients who may require a further shoulder joint replacement procedure.
Kirsten Harrison, +1-952-426-7600
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Rohrschach-derived poetry
KWH's art gallery
A few days back--Jan. 19--the newest exhibit in our art gallery was celebrated at an opening party and presentation.A few days back--Jan. 19--the newest exhibit in our art gallery was celebrated at an opening party and presentation. The show is titled "Uncommonly Selected: Rorschach Drawings by Jessica Nissen," and the opening featured a talk about Rorschach-derived poetry by Diana Sue Hamilton. As is almost always the case, if you go to our web calendar entry for this event you will see links to the video recording (streaming video) and audio recording (downloadable MP3).
Jessica Nissen splits her time between NYC, where she works as a scenic artist for the entertainment industry and Vermont, where she keeps a studio and occasionally teaches in the Art Dept. of Middlebury College. Nissen received an MFA in painting from the Tyler School of Art in 1998, a BA from Middlebury College in 1990 and earned undergraduate credits from the Rhode Island School of Design and Tyler. She has been a fellow at The Corporation of Yaddo and the Chautauqua Institution. Since 1991 she has exhibited extensively and has participated both as an artist and as an organizer/curator in several large-scale interdisciplinary art events.
Judeo-Spanish in Greece
Emma Morgenstern gave a lunchtime talk recently at the Writers House to present her research into the survival of Judeo-Spanish language and culture in GreecEmma Morgenstern gave a lunchtime talk recently at the Writers House to present her research into the survival of Judeo-Spanish language and culture in Greece. She travelled to Rhodes and Thessaloniki on a grant given her through our Heled Travel & Research Grant (made possible by my former student, Mali Heled Kinberg in memory of her mother). Audio and video recordings of the event are now available. Links to both are here.
Writers on radio
At Kelly Writers House we are preparing to present the 79th episode of our monthly radio program, aired on WXPN-FM (xpn.org), called "Live at the Writers House." (So-named because during the first two seasons we actually went live to the air from 3805 Locust Walk in Philadelphia. Holy cow.) Here is an announcement about our newest episode, with a bit of looking back at the show's 13 years.
Giving thanks at PennSound
We at PennSound wish you a happy Thanksgiving by way of a new episode in the PennSound Podcast series. Here we feature excerpts from six poems of giving thanks. Hardly Rockwellian but we think you'll be stirred by this little grateful anthology all the same. I'm especially moved by Robert Creeley's poem here.
This is the 19th in our podcast series. For links to all the others, just go here.
Alf teaches poetry virtually
Here "I" am - my avatar, Alf Fullstop - teaching modernist poetry last night to a group of folks from around the world (one from Puerto Rico, another from Hong Kong) in Second Life's virtual Kelly Writers House.
The whenever-we-feel-like-it aesthetic thrives
"Whenever We Feel Like It" is a new poetry series. It's put on by Committee of Vigilance members Michelle Taransky and Emily Pettit. The Committee of Vigilance is a subdivision of Sleepy Lemur Quality Enterprises, which is the production division of The Meeteetzee Institute. Yeah, yeah. There have been three readings so far, the most recent quite recent: October 21. Click here for information about all three events and audio recordings divided by poet. On October 21: Sanae Lemoine, Joshua Harmon, and Andrew Zawacki.
Six poets each teach a poem
A few weeks ago I wrote about having invited six poets each to teach a short poem to high-school student. I commented in particular about teaching the constraints of the haiku and its possible special connection to high-school kids’ understanding of poetry today — what with their sense of extreme limits (texting, Twitter’s 140 characters, etc.).
Courses using PennSound
University of Pennsylvania: PENNsound, writing.upenn.edu/pennsound and Kelly Writers House webcasts. A stellar project at Penn, PENNsound is “committed to producing new audio recordings and preserving existing audio archives.” Here you can listen to readings from 1950s to today and often find great extras and links to other exciting websites.
I, the people
In her 1986 book Parts of a Wedding, Alice Notley published a poem I especially admire, called "I the People." (It was republished in Grave of Light: New & Selected Poems, 1970-2005.) The text of the poem is here.
PoemTalk starts talkin'
I am the host of a new podcast series called "PoemTalk." At least we think it'll be a new series. On August 2, we recorded a pilot show and now friends and colleagues are having a listen. Once we've heard their responses, we'll decide whether we will go ahead. The plan is to produce a new show every two weeks, beginning in September. In each show I introduce and play a PENNsound recording of one poem, and then I, with three guest poet-critics, discuss it, its influences and manifestations, for about 30 minutes.
Recently in Jacket2
Near/Miss launches
New from University of Chicago Press: paper, cloth, e-book
Audible.com has also published an audiobook of my reading of the full work.
Pt. 6
Cerith Wyn Evans, ‘Acephale’ (2001).
For a long time we have divined both order and disorder in the world and projected these as measure and excess. But every poetics led us to believe something that, of course, is not wrong: that excessiveness of order and a measured disorder exist as well. The only discernible stabilities in Relation have to do with the interdependence of the cycles operative there, how their corresponding patterns of movement are in tune.
So she wrote
Brianne Alphonso
Brianne Alphonso writes on three 2017 poetry titles centered around feminine histories, bodies, and rebirths: Mary’s Dust by Melinda Mueller, Alchemy for Cells & Other Beasts by Maya Jewell Zeller and Carrie DeBacker, and Silk Poems by Jen Bervin.
Brianne Alphonso on feminine histories, bodies, and rebirths.
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Flip-Flopping Education Ministry Criticized by Private English Academies
Posted on January 25, 2018 by Korea Bizwire in Social Affairs, Top News with 0 Comments
On January 24 at the Diplomatic Center located in Seoul’s Seocho District, members of the Korean Association of Foreign Language Academies (KAFLA) held a rally criticizing the education ministry’s olive branch to upset parents as an “anachronistic way of thinking”. (Image: Yonhap)
SEOUL, Jan. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Private English tutoring academies, referred to as “hakwons” locally, are raising their voices in protest after the Ministry of Education, in a move to appease an outpouring of public unrest, followed up its postponement of a ban on after school English classes at preschools and kindergartens with a statement that it will first look to regulate English hakwons.
On January 24 at the Diplomatic Center located in Seoul’s Seocho District, members of the Korean Association of Foreign Language Academies (KAFLA) held a rally criticizing the education ministry’s olive branch to upset parents as an “out-dated way of thinking”.
The KAFLA accused the ministry of misunderstanding the nature of the educational programs currently offered by English hakwons for young children, and pointed out that foreign education attainment schemes carried out domestically were consistent age-wise with those abroad.
“Rather than focusing purely on knowledge acquisition, today’s English education programs for young children center on learning about foreign cultures through songs, stories and games that are commensurate with the cognitive development curve of children,” said the KAFLA. “To confuse these methods as prerequisite learning measures and subsequently restrict them is an incomprehensible decision.”
The rally asserted that early foreign language learning was a trend increasingly adopted worldwide, and as evidence, cited data which stated that the number of European Union nations that had adopted early foreign language learning had increased from 44 percent to 53 percent from 2012 to 2017.
The KAFLA added that Asian neighbors Singapore, Japan and Hong Kong were adopters of early foreign language learning as well.
The KAFLA accused the ministry of misunderstanding the nature of the educational programs currently offered by English hakwons for young children, and pointed out that foreign education attainment schemes carried out domestically were consistent age-wise with those abroad. (Image: Yonhap)
“Despite facing a variety of regulations and restrictions, South Korea’s education hakwons for young children grew into the world’s premier foreign language institutes, pouring cold water on the past boom in study abroad programs for young children and presenting a solution to the problems of draining national wealth and ‘gireogi appa’, all the while bringing in foreign monies via the export of our educational models and know-how,” the KAFLA said.
Meaning “goose father”, a gireogi appa is a father who remains behind in South Korea while his children and wife live in an English-speaking nation in the hopes of providing a better education and learning environment.
The KAFLA demanded that the private English education sector’s opinions be consulted and included in the Ministry of Education’s final decision on whether to ban English hakwons or not, and also called for the government to grant subsidies to the industry.
Lina Jang (linajang@koreabizwire.com)
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Christmas Horror Stories: "All the Creatures Were Stirring" a rare but uneven low-budget Christmas horror anthology
All the Creatures Were Stirring (2018)
80 min., not rated (equivalent of an R).
Available on DVD, On Demand and Digital Video, the film will also be premiering on Shudder on December 13th.
Husband-and-wife filmmakers Rebecca and David Ian McKendry make their shared writing-directing debut with “All the Creatures Were Stirring,” a rare low-budget anthology film of horror tales set on Christmas Eve and featuring a smorgasbord of actors recognized in the horror community, as well as the fresh-faced Constance Wu (2018’s “Crazy Rich Asians”). Enticing in conception but not always successful across the board in execution, the film is rough around the edges, even more so than anthologies can often be. There is an inherently mixed-bag quality to the omnibus structure, as not every storyline can possibly be tantamount to a bull’s-eye, and in the case of “All the Creatures Were Stirring,” only two out of the five are solid.
“All the Creatures Were Stirring” is framed through an awkward first date between Jenna (Ashley Clements) and Max (Graham Skipper), who meet up to attend a play called “All the Creatures Were Stirring” at a Los Angeles community theater. As the director (Maria Olsen) comes out on-stage with a title card for five short tales and the actors put on their amateurish performance in an avant-garde way with few props, each story plays out. First up is “The Stockings Were Hung,” in which a low-key Christmas office party with a gift exchange goes horribly wrong when a Jigsaw-like mastermind rigs the presents with different surprises. It works up suspense, but ends before it really has a chance to get going. “Dash Away All” involves suburbanite Eric (Matt Long), already late to get home to his wife and parents for his birthday/Christmas dinner after doing some shopping, locking himself out of his car with his cell phone inside. In the parking lot, he comes across a van, occupied by Sasha (Catherine Parker) and Frankie (Makeda Declet), and asks to use their burner phone to call for assistance. Little does he know that these good Samaritans need him, too. This thread stands out the most for being deceptively fiendish and unpredictable.
“All Through the House” centers on Christmas scrooge Chet (Jonathan Kite) on December 24th, defacing his neighbor’s lawn decorations and denying a donation for his neighbor’s child before sitting at home alone. Before he knows it, Chet is visited by three ghosts to teach him a lesson about the spirit of Christmas. It’s an off-kilter Dickensian tale—our coke-snorting scrooge doesn’t realize he snorts tinsel—but never as amusing as it thinks it is being. “Arose Such a Clatter” might be the weakest in which private investigator Guy (Mark Kelly) accidentally hits Blitzen, the reindeer, on the road and then finds himself being stalked by a vengeful Rudolph. This one could have been a lot of fun, and though there are knowing noir and giallo touches in terms of color filters, editing, shooting style, and production design, the story itself feels like forgettable filler.
“In a Twinkling” stands as the most refined and confident segment from a production standpoint in which Steve (Morgan Peter Brown) prepares for a full moon, getting ready to chain himself for the night right before his group of friends (led by Constance Wu) knock on his door to party. As lycanthropy shifts into ‘50s-style extraterrestrial mode and black-and-white with splashes of color (not to mention a shot from 1964’s awesomely bad “Santa Claus Conquers the Martians”), this “Twilight Zone” story is amusingly weird, and it’s fun to see the adorably funny Constance Wu. Finally, the last story, “And To All A Good Night,” circles back around to the wraparound segment, and while it has a creepy, David Lynchian vibe, it underwhelms like everything else.
While it might not be the McKendrys’ aim to elicit any major frights, one doesn’t take away much of anything from this spotty collection of darkly tinged holiday stories. Under these low-budgeted prospects, “All the Creatures Were Stirring” seems to have been a labor of love by its makers, but the project is ultimately hurt by its lack of resources. Even though it’s set in Los Angeles, the film displays little specificity when the majority of the stories are shot in dull interiors. In spite of budgetary restraints, it can’t get a pass for feeling like a disappointing missed opportunity.
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Kansas State University Libraries Case Study (Part 3)
Part 3 of a three-part guest post from Tara Coleman, Joelle Pitts, and Harish Maringanti.
You’re probably wondering how many pages we have now - approximately 1354 pages. We’re doing much better but we still have a long way to go. We have a couple of things in the works that will greatly decrease our page numbers.
This de-cluttering process helped us to address the information architecture needs of our library and put the focus on the customer. Additionally we were able to define the role of content creators and provide appropriate tools for their workflows. As a result, we stopped hoarding content in a static, all purpose website and started creating content in more dynamic, purpose driven systems such as libguides, archon, etc. The Scream Test method also helped prevent us from further diluting the K-State Libraries branding by migrating out-of-date, internal, or value-less content to the new CMS. So in the end, it took three not-so-easy steps to get to the point where we can finally heave content without the emotional breakdown, but the clean(er) house is absolutely worth it!
Redesigned Kansas State University Libraries Web site.
Did you miss Part 1 (why they did it) or Part 2 (the problem and approach) of this case study?
Have questions? Post below or contact the authors directly:
Tara Coleman, Web Services Librarian
Joelle Pitts, Instructional Design Librarian
Harish K. Maringanti, Integrated Technology Services Coordinator
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From Hoarder to "Heave-It" in Three Not-So-Easy Steps
The Problem: unused, dated content on the site
Once a comprehensive list of the Libraries' web pages and statistics was created, the content audit began. The content audit plans were framed around the article “Spring Cleaning: Finding your lost sock. The guide to content audits.” published by Nick DeNaardis on the website .eduGuru. His article advised inventorying every page on a site and compiling a document with components such as: page title, owner, last updated, visits, and currency. DeNaardis advised that once the data was compiled, the team should inspect the data, remove outdated content and edit. The original goal of the Libraries’ audit was to identify which pages were published, remove out-of-date and irrelevant information, and update pages determined of value to the organization. The article provided sound advice, but the Web Services Librarian quickly discovered the content audit was going to be a challenge. This was the first content audit the Libraries undertook. Over 3,500 published pages were discovered (more than the number of freshman students admitted to the university every fall). Not only were there a lot of pages, many of them were unlinked and forgotten until the audit began. Because they were forgotten, many of them were out of date.
Due to the size of the organization, the specialization of the information online, and the large number of published pages, the content audit was distributed amongst library staff. Pages were grouped together by department or content owner/expert. Pages that had no obvious content owner were reviewed by the web services librarian. Each content owner was sent an excel spreadsheet of links and statistics and asked to review each page listed on the spreadsheet. Content owners were asked to decide if pages should be kept online with the understanding that they would either be updated if necessary, or archived and deleted. In other words, the pages were taken offline but a copy of the local file was kept for archiving purposes.
On first glance, the content audit seemed an easy first step in the overall redesign process, but once begun, the challenges of the work became apparent. The review of over 3,500 web pages was overwhelming for some. The distribution of the web pages was also uneven. The review of department and unit web pages was, of course, not a high priority for many content owners, making the review process time consuming. Additionally, while many of the pages had low usage statistics, once discovered, many content owners wanted to keep pages they did not realize were published, a decision making process made more difficult by the fact that no previous standards or benchmark for deleting old pages was in existence. These factors contributed to a very lengthy, frustrating process which prevented the website redesign team from moving forward on schedule.
Step 2: Targeted Clusters
Once we realized our content audit wasn’t working we decided to take a different path. Our User Experience team clustered similar content together and evaluated each cluster based on page hits and content, then approached the content owner with our decision. While this method was somewhat faster, it did not alleviate the emotional attachment some individuals had with content or the problem of content owners wanting to keep every piece of information online irregardless of use or value. After a few months of this process we decided it was time to try something different.
Step 3: The Scream Test
That something came (ironically )in the form of a work-life balance seminar that emphasized the Scream Test approach to prioritize projects. So we had a new plan. Our User Experience team would decide what would be migrated over and what would be archived. In most cases we didn’t consult with content owners, we just retired the pages. If someone screamed “Where’s my page?” we would work to address the concern and decide if the page should stay archived or if it should be up (and how it should look etc).
The Scream Test method was by far the best of the three for our organization. We did it with full support of our administration and it has helped to speed along our process immensely. If you can, we would recommend that you use this process when it comes time for you to migrate over content.
Did you miss Part 1 of this case study?
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Cutting content is tough. And not every strategy works for every organization. But you can go from hoarder to “heave-it” after working through the emotional attachment some folks have with the content they helped create.
The Kansas State University Libraries Web site before its redesign.
In the spring of 2011, K-State Libraries started a major website redesign. Our website had not truly been reviewed or redesigned in ten years. The look was dated and the content and organization no longer reflected the organizational structure of the Libraries.
At the time the redesign, our site hosted a staggering 3,500 published web pages. It quickly became apparent that a large portion of the pages were created and uploaded during the previous ten years by staff with changing responsibilities and web privileges, thus making many pages obsolete and in some cases, forgotten altogether. Additionally, pages with current authors and content were not promoted or linked from appropriate locations.
The biggest challenge in our redesign was the migration process. Rather than moving everything over, we wanted to take the opportunity to evaluate what we had and decide if it was still needed.
Intrigued? Stay tuned for Part 2 (the problem and approach) and Part 3 (the outcome).
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Remove features?
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Found this long-lost tweet from Lean UX Denver and realized I never shared it here! Oops.
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ON THE LOOP: CHASE GOEHRING - Local Wolves
ON THE LOOP: CHASE GOEHRING
Interview by Jasmine Rodriguez & Photography by Megan Cencula
Chase Goehring’s (CG) artistic integrity is illustrated through his candid introspection on the Jaded EP. His authenticity as an independent artist has given him an outlet to experiment with evolving sounds and become a key perfectionist when it comes to crafting a musical project. Chase Goehring talks with Local Wolves on his instrumental roots with a certain Green Day song, doubling as a realist and a romantic, and aspiring for critically acclaimed hits this year.
Your EP, Jaded, made it onto the iTunes chart where you landed a rightful spot next to a fellow ginger, Ed Sheeran, what went through your mind when you saw that Jaded was on the rise in the charts?
CG – It honestly blew my mind. I never would have thought that my music would be right next to Ed Sheeran’s music on the charts. He͛s a legend and I would love to be as successful as him in the music industry some day.
How have you evolved as an artist since being on the X-Factor?
CG – My time on the X-Factor was basically my beginning. It’s where I decided that I wanted to be in the music industry for the rest of my life. Since then I’ve taken my vocal skills to a new level, making my X-Factor performances kind of embarrassing. But hey, we all start somewhere right?
The state of Tennessee often conjures up the notion of country singers paying homage to their trucks. How were you able to defy your hometown’s archetypal mold of what a singer from Tennessee should be?
CG – As a singer/songwriter I’m definitely not country… at all… However, I think its good for songwriters in general to have some knowledge on all genres of music. For example, you could write what would sound like a rap lyric and throw it into a country song and have a hit. Songwriting is all about putting the right pieces together to make something unique and that’s always been my goal for every song.
Regarding your song titled “California”, do you ever dream of moving out to California and expanding your musical style by collaborating with LA artists?
CG – I was born in Long Beach, CA, so LA is where I aim to end up at. I feel more at home when I’m out there and the vibe suits me more so than Nashville. But, until I get there I’m always looking for opportunities in Nashville.
How does your decision to become an independent musician influence the formation of your future music? Do you feel that being an independent artist helps clarify your vision on what you want to do whether than having a label constrict your creativity?
CG – Since I am currently an independent artist I’m basically the boss when it comes to what my music sounds like. I have to experiment and grow on my own and that may sound like it makes things easy but it can be the opposite at times. I believe if you blend well with a record label, they can help bring out your unique sound and maximize it with the knowledge and experience they have.
You recently did a song in remembrance of the talented Christina Grimmie, how did she inspire not only you but an entire community of singers?
CG – Firstly, I have to thank everyone that shared that song so that her legacy could live on through it. I remember her being the first singer/YouTuber that I knew about. Her covers were so amazing and she was so consistent and talented. She inspired countless people by showing them to do what you love, put yourself out there and not be afraid of the world. She lived a perfect testimony.
When you are engaged in the songwriting process, do you formulate a melody before the lyrics come to you or vice versa?
CG – When I sit down and write a song about 90% of the time I start with a chord progression and then fill in the blanks with lyrics and melodies. Other times I’ll think of a cool melody or lyric that I’ll record with the little voice recording app on my iPhone and start with that. Honestly, I have no set-in-stone writing method.
Are you a perfectionist when it comes to all the songwriting you composed on Jaded?
CG – Absolutely. If it doesn’t meet my standards then I wont publish it. That goes for covers too, sometimes I’ll spend hours perfecting the way I sing a cover until its just right.
Would you ever want to shy away from your comfort zone and experiment with other instruments in future projects? Or do you think the classic pairing of acoustic guitar and vocals has become your signature style?
CG – I can play a couple instruments actually; guitar, piano and ukulele. I started taking piano lessons in middle school and continued that for about 4 years. I taught myself ukulele around the same time as well but when I started posting content on social media, I taught myself the guitar as well. My favorite instrument is the piano but traveling with a guitar is much easier!
Is there one song in particular on Jaded that is representative of who you are as an artist?
CG – No. All of the songs on Jaded are what I call “story songs”. However, my song “A Capella” perfectly describes what I’m about as a person and as a performing artist. It was my first single released on iTunes, Spotify, etc.
When writing songs regarding the concept of love, do you consider yourself a romantic or a realist?
CG – I tend to jump back and forth between the two. On my EP, Jaded, “Hurt”, “Illusion” and “Jaded” are on the realist side where as “California” is on the romantic side.
If you were able to form your own music festival, who would you have on the lineup?
CG – I would have Passenger, Lukas Graham, Twenty One Pilots, Ed Sheeran, Charlie Puth, Justin Bieber and myself. That would be epic.
Do you remember the first song you ever learned to play on guitar?
CG – Oh man this goes way back, the first song I ever learned to play on guitar was ‘Boulevard Of Broken Dreams’ by Green Day.
How are you able to project the emotional devotion found in your lyrics onto the stage?
CG – Most of the songs I write have nothing to do with my personal life so this can be hard at times. The majority of my songs are just stories that I made up, so I try to feel what the protagonist in the story is feeling and convey that to the audience when I sing.
What does the rest of 2016 have in store for you?
CG – I plan on writing a lot and really perfecting my craft so that I can pump out hit songs, whether that’s for me or other big artists in the industry.
Connect with Chase Goehring: Twitter / Instagram / Facebook
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Shazam! (Spoiler-Free)
Shazam(Captain Marvel) and Freddy sharing a root beer.
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Caleb Hignite, Contributor
Shazam is the second film in the Post-Justice League DC Cinematic Universe and in the same vein as its predecessor, Aquaman, Shazam is heartfelt, funny, and an overall lighthearted joy to watch.
Most of the success of this movie is in great thanks to the title character, Shazam, played by Zachary Levi. He brings a charisma and a childlike quality that not only makes him lovable and fun to watch but incredibly fitting for the role of Billy Batson’s alter ego. His comedic chops are on full display and he absolutely leaves it all out in this performance.
The center of Billy’s story is the heart and the importance of family. This is not an action blockbuster or an everyday superhero flick. Shazam made the story feel small and contained, heartfelt, relatable and warm in a way that many DC movies have failed at for quite some time. When the action is ramped up, however, it can often feel underwhelming and dull. The comedy and tenderness of the writing and story though far outweigh any slights in lack of well-plodded action and make it easy to look over.
The supporting cast is often one of the most entertaining parts to a scene with Freddy Freeman, played by Jack Dylan Grazer, being a particular scene stealer. The family feels raw and real and the dynamic is all the better for it. The villain dynamic is a tough one to nail down, however. Dr. Sivanna, portrayed by Mark Strong, is the main threat to Shazam, accompanied by the Seven Deadly Sins who do their part of being creepy and powerful due in part to incredibly designs and wonderful CGI. Mark Strong’s villain starts strong but does seem to lose his flair as the movie goes on though.
Overall, the DC Cinematic Universe has taken a dramatic shift in the past couple years and Shazam is proof that maybe that is not such a bad thing. Audiences stayed laughing, stayed engaged, and stayed invested and that is more than many fans have done for many previous installments in the franchise. With an incredibly charming lead, great comedy, and a story more character driven than action, no wonder Shazam is shocking audiences around the world!
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Packard Plant owner vows to pay $185,000 tax bill to avoid foreclosure
JC Reindl | Detroit Free Press Updated 10:43 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2019
Once a symbol of industrial might and now ground zero for rustbelt blight, the Packard plant in Detroit has become an urban explorers' delight, graffiti artists' canvas, scrappers' cash in a city beleaguered by decay.
The Spanish-born owner of the Packard Plant in Detroit has pledged to pay the property's overdue bills to avoid losing his portions of the massive factory ruin to foreclosure, his local attorney said Friday.
“There is no danger of this going to foreclosure," said attorney Joseph Kopietz of Clark Hill.
Packard Plant owner Fernando Palazuelo talks with the press after taking part in a groundbreaking ...more
Packard Plant owner Fernando Palazuelo talks with the press after taking part in a groundbreaking ceremony for the Packard Plant rehab in Detroit on Tuesday, May 16, 2017.
Ryan Garza, Detroit Free Press
Arte Express Detroit, the development firm belonging to Packard Plant owner Fernando Palazuelo, was hit with a $185,000 bill for unpaid 2016 property taxes and last month appeared on a list of Wayne County properties that are at risk of tax foreclosure and forced auction in the fall.
Kopietz said the Packard Plant's overdue balance is not actually for property taxes, but rather city storm water drainage fees that hadn't been paid. Those fees were then administratively added to the property tax bill, Kopietz said, even though Palazuelo was current on property taxes.
"The taxes were actually paid timely," he said.
A spokesman for the Detroit Water and Sewerage Department confirmed Friday that it is indeed department policy to put commercial properties' unpaid water, sewer or drainage bills on their tax bills.
Kopietz said that Palazuelo told him this week that he intends to pay all of the overdue balance by the end of the month. The large size of the balance is more reflective of the vast size of the 40-acre plant, not late payment penalties.
Kopietz said he didn't know why Arte Express's drainage fees had gone unpaid. Palazuelo will likely seek to negotiate lower water drainage fees, the attorney said, perhaps by highlighting the nearly $6 million Arte Express has spent at the Packard Plant since purchasing the 40-acre site for $405,000 in 2013 at a tax foreclosure auction.
The expected completion date for first phase of the Packard Plant's redevelopment was recently pushed to 2020 from late 2019.
More: Owner of Packard Plant owes over $185,000 in Wayne County taxes
More: Packard Plant bridge in Detroit collapses: See photos
City demolishing
On a separate front, the City of Detroit is making progress on demolishing a five-story, 300,000-square-foot building on the opposite end of Packard Plant that Palazuelo doesn't own.
That city-owned parcel was blighted and holding back the surrounding neighborhood, according to Brian Farkas, director of special projects for the Detroit Building Authority. The demolition has been planned for years and marks the third city-owned Packard Plant structure to be razed.
Demolition has begun on parts of city-owned Packard Plant structure in Detroit, Friday, Feb. 8, ...more
Demolition has begun on parts of city-owned Packard Plant structure in Detroit, Friday, Feb. 8, 2019.
“I don’t think anyone wants to invest next to a structure that is collapsing," Farkas said.
The building is expected to be completely down by late May at a cost of $1.3 million from the city's general fund. A city spokesman said there are no current plans to redevelop the site once the building is gone.
The city did not tap federal Hardest Hit Funds for the demolition because those dollars can only be used for residential projects, Farkas said.
Aerial map shows city-owned parcels of Packard.
City of Detroit
Nature takes down bridge
So far, 2019 has been an eventful year for Packard Plant demolition — deliberate and otherwise.
Last month's temperature swings between thawing and freezing caused the unplanned collapse of the plant's famous bridge over East Grand Boulevard. No one was injured and city crews quickly cleared the roadway of debris.
Contact JC Reindl:313-222-6631 or jcreindl@freepress.com. Follow him on Twitter@jcreindl. Read more on business and sign up for our business newsletter.
Originally Published 6:03 p.m. ET Feb. 8, 2019
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Friday, December 14th, 2018 | Posted by KanelkaTagba
Yemen: Warring sides agree to pull out from Hodeidah port & city
Yemen rival sides, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi-endorsed regular forces, reached on the last day of UN-brokered talks in Sweden a cease fire in the vital Hodeidah port city.
UN Secretary General, Antonio Guterres Thursday said the two sides represented by Yemeni Foreign Minister Khaled al-Yamani and rebel negotiator Mohammed Abdelsalam agreed to withdraw from the city and the port to allow the global body take control of the port facility and enable aid access for civilian population.
“We have reached an agreement on Hodeidah port and city. We will see a neutral redeployment of forces in the port and city and the establishment of a governorate-wide ceasefire,” Guterres told a press conference in Rimbo, outside Stockholm.
Hodeidah and the Red Sea port had been under rebel control but had been for many months under siege by International forces led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) that have been providing support to forces loyal to ousted President Mansour Hadi.
The Houthi rebels overran capital Sanaa in 2014 forcing Hadi and his government to relocate in the southern city of Aden.
The Saudi-led coalition entered the conflict in 2015 in a move to restore Hadi’s government but the drive has rather compounded the conflict, which has caused over 10,000 death mostly among civilians.
Guterres noted that both sides also agreed to silence guns in the Yemeni third city of Taiz, which has also been a scene of fierce fighting.
The protagonists will be meeting next month for a new round of talks to discuss a political framework for peace negotiations, the UN Chief said.
Several issues including the future of the airport in the capital Sanaa or economic measures needed to spare the population from further hunger have not been resolved, reports say.
Saudi Arabia and its allies have come under intense international pressure mainly from western countries led by the US to halt the conflict. The western allies have provided technical assistance and experts in the conflict, which the UN has described as the worst humanitarian crisis of all times.
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You have the everyday Joe Blow lawyer accountant who's got kind of a wild streak to them who wants to be in it. I think only one out of those people didn't want to be in the movie, only one. Although implied by the title this is by no means a representation of the population of Las Vegas as it is self-selecting process.
You find people however you can find them. You might snicker a little. Of course; it's a film versus a book, a film versus an art project.
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In the film, I talked about the lack of pubic hair and then -- Oscar Goodman's the mayor of Vegas -- I say as a joke, "Yep, it's almost like Oscar Goodman put out a mandate: If your just walking down the street you are most likely never going to encounter nudity. How did you find it? I have seen your show and am going to buy your books. When they're naked they're on [an equal] playing field because there are no demarcations of what they do for a living, their wealth or their poverty or whatever.
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Next-Gen Smart Car Technologies at Seoul Motor Show 2013
SEOUL, KOREA – At the Seoul Motor Show 2013, which broke the 500,000 mark in the cumulative number of visitors on Tuesday, Korean makers of auto parts caught the eye of visitors with their next-generation electronic auto parts designed for smart cars. At the Seoul Motor Show themed “With Nature, For the People,” green auto parts technologies also have drawn great attention.Korean auto parts maker
Seoul Motor Show | Korea IT Times (info@koreaittimes.com) | 2013-04-03 21:50 Read more
SPIRRA CREGiT's Innovative Design Wows Visitors at Seoul Motor Show 2013
ILSAN, KOREA - The finale of the Seoul Motor Show Press Day on March 28, 2013, was Oullim Motors’ Korea’s first hand-made super car SPIRRA CREGiT announcement.SPIRRA CREGiT uses most of the parts, chassis and etc. from previous SPIRRA model, but its exterior body and engine is completely new. The special characteristics of this car are as follows: interchangeable parts with previous SPIRRA model
Ssangyong Reveals LIV-1 Premium SUV Concept
ILSAN, KOREA - Ssangyong Motor revealed the LIV-1, a large-sized SUV concept car, presenting the present and future of the premium line-up of Ssangyong Motor, at the Seoul Motor Show 2013.LIV-1 (Limitless Interface Vehicle) is a large-sized premium SUV concept vehicle. The LIV-1 shows off the authentic beauty of an SUV based on “Dignified Motion,” whose motive comes from its design philosophy “N
Hyundai Mobis - Gateway to New Technology
ILSAN, KOREA - Jang Yoonkyung, Vice President of Hyundai Mobis, spoke with Korea IT Times about its eco-friendly technologies and what consumers can expect from Hyundai Mobis at the Seoul Motor Show 2013.Could you tell us about Hyundai Mobis’s theme “Gateway to New Technology”?Hyundai Mobis’s ultimate vision is to promote safety and lead environmental protection efforts by developing forward-l
Automakers Seek Youth and Luxury at Seoul Motor Show 2013
SEOUL, KOREA – At the Seoul Motor Show 2013 that kicked off on March 29, global automakers are eager to make their brand images look either younger or more luxurious. In a bid to make brand Hyundai look classier, Hyundai Motor took the wraps off the Equus by Hermes - its flagship luxury sedan Equus in collaboration with luxury brand Hermes. After two years of collaboration with the French fashion
Hyundai and Kia at Seoul Motor Show 2013
SEOUL, KOREA – Hyundai Motor is determined to evolve from a “fast follower” into a “market creator” in technology and product sectors. To that end, Hyundai will increase investment in green vehicles and the development of electronic control technologies and nurture human talent.At Seoul Motor Show 2013, Hyundai's CEO Kim Chung-ho told reporter on Thursday, “One-uping our competitors in advanced na
Demonstrating “Gateway to New Technology” of Automotive Industry: Hyundai Mobis
SEOUL, KOREA - From March 28 through April 7, Hyundai Mobis will be participating in Seoul Motor Show 2013, held at Korea International Exhibition Center in KINTEX, Ilsan, Korea, showing off its new automotive technologies. At the motor show, themed “With Nature, For the People”, Hyundai Mobis plans to illustrate its identity of bridging the gap between the technology and humans under its own ove
Seoul Motor Show | Kim Dae-yong | 2013-03-20 23:05 Read more
Mercedes Benz: The New B-Class
SEOUL, KOREA - Representing the compact class with a heart of intelligent “Big-Car”: Mercedes Benz, The New B ClassOne of the most comprehensive model changes ever undertaken by Mercedes-Benz, the B-Class represents a quantum leap for the compact class. At its heart lies a raft of intelligent “big-car” technology including Attention Assist and, standard for the first time on a car in this class
Hyundai Unveils Green Cars at Seoul Motor Show 2013
SEOUL, KOREA - Hyundai has created a concept of Blue Drive that guides Hyundai in its effort to become the automotive leader in sustainability. Such philosophy has helped focus its engineers and designers on creating lighter vehicles, developing more efficient power trains and even inventing proprietary hybrid technologies. In the future, Blue Drive will expand to include plug-in hybrid vehicles,
World’s best premium luxurious SUV: The all-new Range Rover
SEOUL, KOREA - With the adoption of the latest body and technology, the all-new Range Rover has been newly constructed to be the best Range Rover ever, improving the vehicle’s all-terrain off-road performance as well as its on-road handling and refinement. The all-new Range Rover is intuitively designed for the most comfortable ride. Whilst still
A vision of Zero Emission luxury ‘Infiniti LE Concept’
SEOUL, KOREA - Global luxury brand Infiniti’s first performance zero emission luxury sedan, Infiniti LE concept. April 5, 2012, Infiniti unveiled its dramatic new Infiniti LE Concept, a near-production version of the performance luxury brand’s first zero emission luxury sedan at 2012 New York International Auto Show. This luxury 5-seat sedan is Infiniti's ultimate expression of future mobility: po
BMW i8 Concept:The future of urban mobility with the most progressive sports car
SEOUL, KOREA - BMW i stands for visionary electric cars and mobility services, inspiring design and a new understanding of premium that is strongly defined by sustainability.As more people are living in urban areas than in rural communities since 2008, the innovative thinkers in BMW have set up a project and, after vigorous research and planning, BMW has came up with an approach that has radical
Volvo Introduces Premium Hatchbacks at the Seoul Motor Show
SEOUL, KOREA - The Scandinavian automaker, Volvo, is introducing its line-up for Korea Market at the 2013 Seoul Motor Show. This year, Volvo has added two new models, the all-new V40 and V60 D5 R-Design, both of which are premium hatchbacks aimed at satisfying dynamic lifestyles of their drivers.The All-New Volvo V40Volvo V40 is a next-generation premium 5-door hatchback leading Volvo’s new l
Seoul Motor Show | Yoon Jong-woo (info@koreaittimes.com) | 2013-03-18 20:28 Read more
Peugeot to Unveil Its Citroën DS Series at Seoul Motor Show 2013
SEOUL, KOREA - Here's what Peugeot will unveil its Citroën DS Series at Seoul Motor Show 2013.DS3Citroën DS3 signals the splashy revival of DS known to be the ‘the most beautiful automobile of the 20th century’ and announces the start of French premium DS line-up. DS3 is a luxury hatchback with creative appearance carved by the innate uniqueness of Citroën, with the touch of French design elem
Ford Unveils New Hybrid Cars at Seoul Motor Show
SEOUL, KOREA - Ford Unveils New Hybrid Cars at Seoul Motor Show 2013. The All-New Fusion Hybrid comes equipped with 2.0 in-line four all-new Atkinson Cycle Engine that saved all the performance of a 2.5 liter engine in a smaller size to achieve 19.9km/L (47mpg by the U.S. official standards) city mileage and 18.6km/L (44mpg by the U.S. official standards) highway mileage. The all-new Fusion Hybrid
The 7th Generation Golf Debuts of Volkswagen in 2013 Seoul Motor Show
SEOUL, KOREA - Volkswagen Korea is introducing the 7th generation Golf at 2013 Seoul Motor Show, not only for the premiere of the new model to Korea, but also for the Asian market. Born in 1974 as the automobile for every folks, Golf had been the core model of Volkswagen which had evolved over 6 generations. Production of the famous model continued for 38 years, and total of 29.1 million of them w
Seoul Motor Show 2013 Ready to Showcase the Latest Global Trends
SEOUL, KOREA - With the 2013 Seoul Motor Show ready to kick off from March 29 to April 7, 2013, questions abound as to which direction the future of automobiles are headed. A partial component of the show itself is surrounding various trends and directions for future vehicles. In order to gain some insight into these trends, a look at the direction the global automobile market is heading may be wa
Seoul Motor Show | Travis Allen(info@koreaittimes.com) | 2013-03-14 00:51 Read more
Seoul Motor Show 2013 Holds Press Conference
SEOUL, KOREA - The Organizing Committee for Seoul Motor Show 2013 held a press conference on February 27, a month before the opening of Seoul Motor Show 2013. At the press conference, held at Lotte Hotel Seoul located in Sogong-dong, the ongoing preparations for Seoul Motor Show 2013 and a list of exhibition items were revealed. Under the theme of “With Nature, for the People,” Seoul Motor Sho
Seoul Motor Show 2013: Bike Tour in DMZ Registration Now Open
SEOUL, KOREA - With “Seoul Motor Show 2013” about 30 days ahead, its organizing committee is planning to convene a cycling tour for those who are fans of automobiles.“DMZ Bike Tour with Seoul Motor Show 2013” hosted by the Organizing Committee for Seoul Motor Show and Gyeonggi Tourism Organization will be held on February 24 in Imgingak Pyeonghoa-Nuri Park. Demilitarized Zone or DMZ is a civ
"The Car Design Contest 2013 for College Students" to be held
SEOUL, KOREA - It would be great to turn the car only in your imagination into a real one. Here is a good news for those who have much interest in and have a taste for car design. The Car Design Contest 2013 for College Students is set to be held, where young people can show off their creative ideas. The "future automobiles"-themed contest is co-hosted by Korea Automobile Manufacturers Associa
Seoul Motor Show | Kim Sung-mi (info@koreaittimes.com) | 2013-01-26 00:35 Read more
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Detailed Review of Tiger
Fri Apr 29 18:31:00 2005
Ars Technica has a detailed review of Tiger available. I haven't upgraded yet, but I plan to upgrade at least one system over the weekend.
Is WS-MetadataExchange Really Necessary?
Thu Apr 28 10:35:00 2005
I'll admit it: I don't really get WS-MetadataExchange (or WS-MEX, as it's affectionately known). I understand why someone might want to get the Schema, WSDL, and WS-Policy data for a service. I'm just not clear on why a simple URL isn't good enough. Why do we need to invent new RPC-style request/response pairs? I guess I can see that this allows me to have one URL for the service that can be interrogated for all three in a standard way. Otherwise, I have to tell you three URLs to give you the metadata instead of one, but couldn't we
Visa and MasterCard Cracking Down on Small Merchants
Visa and MasterCard are cracking down on the security of small merchants who take credit cards online. The card associations have required security assessments from larger merchants for some time, but this is the first time they've required smaller merchants to certify. An article in the Wall Street Journal notes that it's for the merchant's own good: The credit-card companies have little choice but to crack down. While it's true small companies may be less attractive targets than large ones, size is not a good measure of risk, experts say. Hackers regularly use automated programs to scour the Internet
Ten Laws of the Modern World
Randy Gordon wrote to point me at a great little article at Forbes called Ten Laws of the Modern World. You've probably heard them before, but its a great write-up and interesting to see them all in one place. I'd add another: Reed's Law. But of course, who wants 11 laws?
Podcasting: Open Mike
Wednesday Infinity Broadcasting announced that one of its San Francisco radio stations will carry nothing but podcasts. What's interesting is that these podcasts will come from the users. Rather than creating podcasts for people to download, this station will broadcast podcasts that people upload to it. Beginning on Wednesday, users can upload their podcasts for free at (http://www.kyouradio.com) where it will be eligible to be selected for broadcast on San Francisco's 1550 KYCY-AM, which has been one Infinity's underperforming stations. From Top Technology News Sponsored by Audi | Reuters.comReferenced Thu Apr 28 2005 08:07:53 GMT-0600 (MDT) I'll be interested
Legislating Identity Contexts
Wed Apr 27 20:53:00 2005
Identity credentials have contexts. When I was talking to Kim Cameron this morning, he used the example of a Government issued passport and coffee club card. The context for the passport is a border crossing. The context for the coffee club card is buying coffee. But identity credentials are often used out of context. Sometimes, out of context use doesn't make sense--think of presenting the coffee club card during a border crossing. Other times, however, it's a critical part of establishing a relationship or transferring trust. As an example, you might use a credit card to pay for your
FundingUtah.com
Tue Apr 26 13:09:00 2005
Paul Allen, with the help of some friends, has put together a Web site aimed at bringing investors and entrepreneurs together. The site is called FundingUtah.com and had its official coming out party today at a lunch featuring Governor Jon Huntsman. "In my work with scores of great entrepreneurs, it became clear that virtually every new business struggles to find financial backers," stated Allen. "At the same time, there are thousands of wealthy Utahns who might become angel investors if they knew about some of the exciting ideas and teams that are being created here. FundingUtah.com enables and accelerates
At Microsoft Wednesday
Mon Apr 25 14:23:00 2005
I'm going to be at Microsoft Wednesday morning talking to Kim Cameron. It's kind of a quick trip: in Tuesday evening and out Wednesday afternoon late.
Dan Solove on Privacy
My interview of Dan Solove is live at IT Conversations. Dan doesn't use the familiar metaphor of "Big Brother" when he discusses privacy, rather he uses Kafka's play "The Trial." Dan says we're not as much in danger of having our privacy violated by someone with evil intent as we are of having our lives turned upside down from the interactions of unapproachable and faceless corporations and bureaucracies. Dan speaks of privacy architectures and says that we currently have an architecture of vulnerability. Many of our privacy problems, like identity theft, are structural. Unlike some who view privacy as
Provo River Bike Path Avalanche Pictures
Sat Apr 23 22:30:00 2005
Provo River bike trail closed due to an avalanche I road my bike up the Provo River trail this afternoon. An avalanche at Bridal Veil Falls has closed the path since February. The snow's mostly gone now, but the dirt, rocks, and broken trees remain. I took pictures of the avalanche area. I could still smell the pine sap three months later from the broken trees now that its warming up. I road around and got some pictures from across the river as well. Amazing force.
Moving Netware Customers to Linux
The InfoWorld Test Center has reviews Novell OES, the product aimed at bring Netware customers to Linux and introducing Linux customers to Netware. This is a product Novell has needed for five years now. I hope they're not too late.
Ubuntu: A New Linux Ditro
I wrote about Unbuntu a new Linux distro from Mark Shutleworth over at Between the Lines a few days ago and pointed to some things Doc Searls is saying about it. This morning, Sam Ruby posted about getting Ubuntu booting on his T-40 laptop. I haven't tried it yet, but the reports are that it's very easy to get running. Ubuntu isn't aimed at the enterprise space, but rather the home and hobbyist market.
Ray Schulte's Talk
Fellow ZDNet blogger Bitton Manasco posted a teaser about Ray Schulte's talk on virtualization information assets at the Gartner Application and Integration and Web Services Summit, but doesn't give many details. If anyone has detailed notes from the talk, or better yet slides, I'd love to see them.
Ward Spangenberg's Fly Fishing
Ward Spangenberg wonders where his Google rank went. I care what Ward says, so I'll vote with my link. Post some more Ward!
Python Programmers Wanted
Aradyme, a local start-up I help with product and CTO functions is looking for Python programmers. Aradyme has a dynamic datastore. Right now they use it a lot in data cleansing work and Plone/Zope is the platform that they use to provide custom portals for each of their customers. Python is also used to drive the data engine for some of this work. Of course, if you're a strong C++/C# programmer and would like to learn Python, we're willing to teach you. Apply.
Geoffrey Moore on Orchestrating the Stack
Geoffrey Moore is most famous as the author of "Crossing the Chasm." I really enjoyed listening to Geoffrey Moore's talk on Orchestrating the Stack from Software 2004. I would have enjoyed it even more, however, if I'd discovered his slides online beforehand since there's a lot that he references in them that doesn't come across well with just the audio alone. The subtitle of Moore's talk is "Next generation developments in enterprise computing," but I was as much interested in what he considered the review before the real talk began. Apparently, he's been talking for some time about "systems
Hitting the Quicksilver hot key combo brings up this window which shows the top match on the left and the available actions on the right (launch is the default) As I've played more with Quicksilver, I've come to the conclusion that if you didn't know about command line terminals and you sat down to design a CLI for a GUI-based machine, Quicksilver's what you'd come up with. At first blush, Quicksilver is a launcher, but its much more than that. It has an adaptive search that targets almost any data source you can think of. What's more, it has
Vint Cerf on Internet Challenges
Vint Cerf ponders a question while sporting his new Utah hat during the 2005 Organick lecture. I drove up to the Univ. of Utah this afternoon to hear this year's Organick Lecture by Vint Cerf, one of the inventors of the Internet (I believe he and Al Gore were lab partners). Vint is currently Senior VP for Technology Strategy at MCI, Chairman of ICANN, and a recent winner of the ACM Turing Award. Where is the science in CS? Here are places some with underlying theory: Automata theory (strong) Compiler and language theory (strong) Operating system design (weak) -
Tiger Rebate
If you order Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger [DVD] from Amazon, you can get a $35 rebate. Not a bad deal. I ordered Panther online and it was shipped to arrive on the date of release, so I got it the first day. Apple's got a list of 200 new features in Tiger. I heard from Glenn Fleishman today that the Tiger edition of his Take Control of File Sharing ebook is available for pre-order, to ship on April 29th, when Tiger ships.
Four Identity Laws Broken at One Blow
Kim Cameron, who thinks as deeply about identity as anyone I know, points out that the most recent loss of identity data by the Univ. of California was the result of breaking four of his laws of identity at one blow. I expect this information disaster came about by breaking four identity laws at once. What a run! Were users in control of what their information was being employed for? Were they told where and how it was being used (law of user control)? Was there really a need to store social security numbers rather than some local or
Huntsman Names New Utah CIO
Gov. Huntsman has named Stephen J.Fletcher, who's currently serving as the CIO for the US Dept. of Education, as the new CIO for the State of Utah. I think this is a great choice. Having served in the public sector, he won't have any fanasies about "private sector thinking" but he'll also be used to having the authority and autonomy needed to get things done. I expect him to kick butt and take names. Here's the press release:
CoreSV Brings Management Simplicity to Web Services
It starts simply enough. First someone builds a SOAP interface for an internal system; then the next upgrade to your financial package sports a Web services API. At some point you wake up and realize that all these services need to be managed. Web services management includes not just monitoring but also critical activities such as controlling access, logging transactions, and performing version control. CoreSV 4.0 from Oracle is a Web services management platform that provides all these capabilities in an easy to install and understand package. From Exclusive: CoreSV brings management simplicity to Web services | InfoWorld |
Griffin's Problems with Truthful Labeling
I'm just a little angry at Griffin Technology today. A while back, I picked up one of their products called a USB-Audio Hub. From the title, and from a look at the product, I thought it was a 4-port USB hub integrated with their iMic product. In fact, the unit has LEDs on the front that can easily be mistaken for mini audio jacks. Such is not the case--it's just a 4-port hub. Nothing more. They claim that its "optimized for Audio" but I see nothing to support that its any better than any other hub for audio.
JavaScript in the Context of a Web Page
Jon Udell has extended his LibraryLookup bookmarklet so that it modifies an Amazon book page to show, right on the page, whether that particular book is available at your local library. He has a screencast showing how it works. And Jon explains this more in his most recent column at InfoWorld. I was thinking "this is cool" but I was totally blown away at the end when he shows how he used Amazon Wish Lists and the Amazon Web services API to create an RSS feed to remind him of books that had previously been checked out of his
Continuations for Curmudgeons
Sam Ruby does a great job of explaining continuations in his Continuations for Curmudgeons piece. I also discovered through Sam an article on using conitnuations in user interfaces.
Comcast Outages
This Comcast outage is what I was talking about a week ago. The problems I was having before the two big blowouts were DNS because I could ping the Comcast gateway, but was getting about 50% packet loss to the DNS machines. So, the question I have is this: did Comcast know of the problems early on and just didn't get them cleared up before they became massive or were my problems early warning signs of problems that hadn't reached "get the story in c|net" proportions? Somehow I think it was the latter. Comcast was unable to use the
SOA Executive Forum Panel: Topics for Discussion
I'll be moderating a panel at this year's InfoWorld SOA Executive Forum. There are actually two events, one in San Jose on May 5th and one in New York on May 17th. I'm doing the same panel both places. The topic of my panel is "Services and Contracts" and I'll be joined by David Linthicum, CTO at Grand Central Communications; Rick Caccia, Senior Director of Product Management at Oracle (nee Oblix); and Jim Bole, Vice President of Products at Infravio. In my reviews of Web services intermediaries in the last two years, the issue of contracts, SLAs and the
A Program for Converting RSS to Email
The email that is sent to the mailing list on Technometria is generated automatically from the RSS feed for the "Newsletter" category on my blog. As I write my blog, I just properly categorize anything I want to be sent to the newsletter and it happens. The magic is a little python program called rss2email.py by Aaron Swartz. I modified the program to make it usable for my newsletter application. The problem is that the program was designed for one feed and one email address. I've wanted to do regular mailings to the UtahPolitics.org mailing list in the same
Your Company's Leaking Knowledge
My April column for Connect Magazine is online now. Its entitled Your Company's Leaking Knowledge. You might think its about security, but actually its about the brain drain that happens when key employees leave and the role of the CTO in combating it. The basic idea is creating company nomenclatures. If this sounds like marketing to you, then give yourself a prize for being one of the few that recognizes marketing for being more than PR and creating slick brochures. Who's job is it? At iMall, the product marketing team reported to me and I think that worked out
GMail as a Spam Filter
Here's a nice recipe for using GMail as a Spam filter. You get an offline back-up of all your email as a bonus. Nice idea.
Legislative Podcasting
A story in today's Salt Lake Tribune highlights some of the Utah Legislatures eGovernment initiatives. The Legislature's site does a good job of letting you find bills, see amendments, find out who voted for what, and so on. The have a bill tracker system that will email you changes to the status of a bill. I'm not sure why they haven't yet added RSS feeds for that as well. They do have an RSS feed for legislative news items which is helpful. Apparently they're giving some thought to legislative podcasting as well: The Legislature already has ventured into cyberspace
Distributed Back-up Systems
I've been interested in distributed back-up systems for some time. For example, I'd love to see a P2P client given to BYU students that allows them to commit a percentage of their disk to a distributed back-up system in exchange for that much storage on the overall system. Rather than the University having to commit capital to a back-up system for students files, excess direct-attached disk and software would solve the problem. I've also be enamored with erasure codes for reliability. Using erasure codes would allow the distributed back-up network to provide reliable storage in the face of a
Chad's Under Attack!
Sat Apr 9 18:29:00 2005
InfoWorld's Chad Dickerson has the nerve to question the practicality of supporting OS X in a small shop and the Mac faithful took him to task. Give me a break guys! The fact is that getting all the pieces to work together in even a relatively small IT environment can be difficult. Legacy systems, PC-only applications, and even IE-based Web applications all take their toll. There's only so much money and so many hours in a day. Making a Mac work in a PC-friendly world is doable, but there are pitfalls all along the way. A small example: just
AJAX and CMS
Tony Byrne, CMSWatch has created a nice screencast showing how AJAX techniques can be used to enhance the user interfaces of CMS systems. He highlights four specific things done in four different systems. Its short and informative.
Keyhole Data at Google Maps
Fri Apr 8 18:30:00 2005
When I was CIO for Utah, I played with a tool call Earthviewer that was based on Keyhole satellite data and let you zoom in on satellite images anywhere in the world. I blogged it and still get some traffic from people googling "earthviewer." We were contemplating buying it for Homeland Security uses. Now it turns out that you can get a lot of the same functionality from Google for free. When Google bought Keyhole, the satellite image company who owns the data that makes Earthviewer work last year, I wondered what they'd do with it. Now, we know.
VMWare Performance on Linux
Thu Apr 7 08:16:00 2005
Harsh, one of my students, has posted some initial results for Linux performance on VMWare ESX. The inital results show better IO throughput for Linux on VMWare at load than for Windows. There's still much to do, but this is a start.
KSL Radio Has a Podcast
Back in November, I suggested that KSL radio start a podcast and they've delivered. In fact, they've got five of them for their most popular local shows, including the BYU Coaches show--who couldn't love that!
Power Laws, Longtails, and Software
Wed Apr 6 16:03:00 2005
I'm speaking to a couple of classes at UVSC this evening on Power Laws, Longtails, and Software. The message is a combination of some things I've thought lately as I've listened to some of the Software Development Distinguished Speakers Forum at IT Conversations, read Paul Graham, listen to Jason Fried on Building Basecamp, read Peter Denning, listened to Chris Anderson, and talked with friends at Aradyme and Sento. The talk starts with a discussion of why computer are ruled by power-law distributions instead of gaussian distributions, moves into longtail concepts, and then applies those lessons to building software. If
Interface Descriptions
Tue Apr 5 06:17:00 2005
I wrote a bit about Harold Carr's visit to my class yesterday and the thoughts it prompted about interface descriptions over at Between the Lines.
Dean Meyer in CIO Magazine
Mon Apr 4 17:41:00 2005
I first heard of Dean Meyer when I read his book Decentralization: Fantasies, Failings, and Fundamentals. From the title, you can guess what its about, but you'd be surprised by some of the conclusions. I had Dean out to Utah for a day with the IT Directors when I was Utah's CIO. He was a great facilitator and led us in some importance directions. If you're trying to do some reorganization of your IT department, then reading Dean's books is well worth your while and having him out for a visit is even better. I mention Dean because I
I Love Calling Comcast
Today, for the third time in a week, I came home and my son told me the "Internet is down." I checked and just like all the other times, I actually could ping the Comcast gateway and so I knew the Internet wasn't "down." What's actually going on, however, is that the DNS isn't working for some reason. For the third time I called Comcast. Not so much because I have to, but because I like to. They're actually fairly helpful (if pedantic) and polite. Besides I still have 50,000 shares of ATHOME stock for which I need to
Support KCPW
KCPW has provided support for the Utah blogging community through their news coverage and their "Blogger Friday" segment on Midday Edition. KCPW is now in the middle of their pledge drive and needs your support today. KCPW is a community licensed radio station � meaning nobody owns it � so it's truly an independent news organization. 85% of their operating budget comes from the public � and that means you. Visit www.kcpw.org or tune in to make a pledge and support outstanding news coverage in Salt Lake City.
Using GDBM with Scheme
I've finished an update to the mzgdbm extension for PLT-Scheme that lets it work with PLT-Scheme v299.100. The update mostly involved how its built and making allowances for v299.100's use of UTF-8 strings. You can download the package here
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Concierge Auctions Announces Its April/May 2016 Lineup And Now Has Over 25 Property Auctions On The Books From Around The World
Leading luxury auction marketplace launches upcoming sales in five US states and four international countries
Tuesday, April 5, 2016 (10:00am)
NEW YORK, April 5, 2016 /PRNewswire/ -- A prestigious oasis overlooking the lights of Las Vegas, a Caribbean escape built for entertaining, and a grand California compound with historic pedigree are among more than a dozen luxury properties announced for auction today by industry leader Concierge Auctions.
"From North America to Europe, our spring lineup curates every angle of an exemplary lifestyle," said Laura Brady, president and founder of Concierge Auctions. "Our team is skilled at pairing unique real estate with qualified buyers and facilitating easy, market-driven transactions. With more than a dozen of the world's most elite properties available for bidding next month — the majority of which will sell without reserve — the chance to own one's dream home is now."
Las Vegas/Henderson, Nevada — April 30, 2016
1611 Milano Villa Avenue
Nestled along mountain ranges within the gated Terracina Estates, the most affluent development in the prestigious Seven Hills community, 1611 Milano Villa Avenue includes a spacious main residence and two guest homes. Currently owned by sports betting icon Bill Walters, its stunning architecture and design — including massive windows and ultimate outdoor entertaining areas — grant panoramic views of Las Vegas's city lights and the acclaimed Rio Secco Golf Course, where Tiger Woods holds the record score. Previously offered for $4.9 million, the property will sell without reserve in cooperation with Donna Ruthe of Today's Realty, Inc.
"Located within the prestigious Seven Hills gated community, this affluent estate has it all," Ruthe stated. "Its modern architecture, high-end finishes and open outdoor spaces come together to create an incomparable desert home, not to be outdone by its panoramic, unobstructed views of the downtown lights of Las Vegas."
This is the third time Walters has teamed with Concierge Auctions. In 2014, he sold his 9-acre estate in Rancho Santa Fe, CA alongside Concierge for $14.3 million, and just last week Walters placed another California property under contract with the firm.
"The Concierge Auctions platform has proved effective for me in the past, so what better place to team up again than in Las Vegas?" Walters stated. "The transparent process is proven to attract buyers globally, many of whom would never know certain properties are for sale without the Concierge network."
Anguilla, British West Indies — May 19, 2016
Santosha Estate — West End Block, 811B, Parcels 208 and 237
Elegant island escape meets impeccable design at Santosha Estate, ideally situated on Anguilla's secluded Long Bay Beach upon three acres of rare beachfront property. One of the largest and most private estates on the island, Santosha Estate offers spacious rooms and amenities, wraparound porches, an infinity pool with ocean views, on-site staff, gym and outdoor Jacuzzi. Built to entertain with large open spaces, the 37,000-square-foot-plus estate offers seven en-suite bedrooms spaciously divided between the main home, and two guest cottages. Previously offered for $15 million, the property will sell without reserve in cooperation with Steve and Debbie Haines of Trophy Properties Ltd.
"One of the largest and most private estates on the island, Santosha — simply put — is paradise," Debbie Haines stated. "Not a detail was missed in the construction of this estate, which seamlessly marries indoor and outdoor living, embracing ocean views from every room. Perched upon an expansive and secluded piece of beachfront property, the auction presents a rare opportunity to own a tropical oasis at one's own bid price."
Anguilla is comprised of 33 white sand beaches offering snorkeling, fishing, horseback riding, world-renowned cuisine and relaxing spa selections, just a short ferry ride from St. Martin and St. Barts.
Santa Barbara, CA — May 21, 2016
Deer Lodge — 6284 San Marcos Pass Road
Conveniently located between beautiful Santa Barbara on the Pacific and the Santa Ynez wine country, Deer Lodge is a historic family compound like no other. Originally purchased in 1893 and comprised of approximately 187 acres of oak woodlands, the property has an impressive pedigree of ownership, including an early Ford Motor investor, the John Deere family (which owned the estate for seven decades), award-winning comedienne and actress Whoopi Goldberg, and the current owner, retired Chairman and CEO of the Raytheon Company. The massive estate boasts 13 structures, including the fully updated original house, which is thought to have been a hunting lodge. Previously offered for $14 million, Deer Lodge will sell without reserve in cooperation with Mike and Micah Brady of Santa Ynez Land Sotheby's International Realty.
"Deer Lodge has something for everyone, every age, with acres of quiet space and wonderful family gathering spots," the seller stated. "My family is still furious at my wife and me for our decision to sell Deer Lodge, our family retreat for nearly 20 years. But if we are to do this, we will do it right, and I am convinced auctioning is the right way to deliver value for unique properties. We selected Concierge Auctions because we know they will generate interest from qualified prospects around the world."
In addition to the woodlands, the sandstone boulder formations and the 300-vine vineyard of Syrah and Grenache grapes, the recreational opportunities at Deer Lodge are endless. You may choose to swim in the pool, relax in the spa, read by the indoor or outdoor fireplaces, gather in the game room, play bocce, ride the zip line, climb on the tree house or play fort, compete in a basketball game, sip wine at the remote picnic site, hike or ride the trails, gather for family meals indoors or BBQ on the deck.
"Deer Lodge has all the elements of a first class retreat. It is a private, spectacular setting with vistas in one of the most beautiful places in the world," said Mike Brady, who has been an agent in the Santa Barbara area for more than 35 years. "Fine dining and upscale shopping can be enjoyed nearby, both close to the beaches and in the quaint towns of the internationally renowned Santa Ynez Valley wine region. This auction represents a once-in-a-lifetime chance to purchase the best of the best California lifestyle."
Additional upcoming auctions launched this month by Concierge Auctions include:
Rosale Plantation — St. Francisville, LA — April 5, 2016
In cooperation with David McKey of Coldwell Banker ONE
Villa Ballena — Punta Mita, Nayarit, Mexico — April 12, 2016
In cooperation with Alex Guzman of MC Luxury Estates
Lighthouse Bay Villas Resort — Barbuda Bay, Barbuda — April 13, 2016
In cooperation with Terry Schad of Century 21 Tripower, Inc.
Golden Pavilion Villa — Tortola, British Virgin Islands – April 14, 2016
In cooperation with Maritha Keil of British Virgin Islands Sotheby's International Realty
Hope Town Cottage 50 — Abaco, Bahamas — April 15, 2016
In cooperation with Kristi Hull of The Abaco Club at Winding Bay
Villa Viviana/Tryall Club — Hanover, Jamaica — April 26, 2016
In cooperation with Nigel Pemberton of Graham Associates Limited
The Greer Farm and Rocky Branch Ranch — East Texas — April 28, 2016
In cooperation with Allie Beth Allman and Kyle Crews of Allie Beth Allman & Associates
360 N. Blue Wave Lane — Vero Beach, FL — April 29, 2016
In cooperation with Cindy O'Dare and Clark French of Premier Estate Properties
980 Crescent Beach Road — Vero Beach, FL — April 29, 2016
2 Shakespeare Court — Rancho Mirage, CA — May 3, 2016
In cooperation with Mike and Maria Patakas of HOM Sotheby's International Realty
Casa Aranza — Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — May 3, 2016
In cooperation with Jacobo Turquie of Snell Real Estate
Villa La Ponche — Saint Tropez, France — May 5, 2016
In cooperation with McIntosh International Prestige Property Sales
12 Front Light Walk — Daufuskie Island, South Carolina — May 5, 2016
In cooperation with Robbie Bunting of Hilton Head Properties
Casa Tokase — Cabo San Lucas, Mexico — May 10, 2016
In cooperation with Andrew Stephenson of Snell Real Estate
Concierge Auctions offers a commission to the buyer's representing real estate agents. See Auction Terms and Conditions for full details. For more information on any of these auctions, or if you have a remarkable property to submit for consideration to the Concierge Auctions platform, call 212.257.5018.
About Concierge Auctions
Headquartered in New York City with additional offices in London and Austin, TX, Concierge Auctions is the dominant marketplace for buying and selling the world's finest properties. Since its founding in 2008, Concierge's business has spanned 32 US states and 11 countries, resulting in over $950 million in sales and many record-setting transactions. Concierge received the "Best Overall Marketing" award from Who's Who in Luxury Real Estate, a global collection of more than 130,000 real estate professionals in more than 60 countries, and has been named one of America's fastest-growing companies by Inc. Magazine for the past two years.
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By Dan Hemerlein Current, Reviews July 16, 2015
Lee Meadvin: Waking Up EP
On June 9th, NYC songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Lee Meadvin quietly released his Waking Up EP. Co-engineered and co-produced by Meadvin’s collaborator Eli Goss, the genre bending record is a true statement of individuality. The EP also features guest appearances by Tommy Goodkin on vocals and Connor Parks on drums. Promoted only by a few isolated Facebook posts by those close to Meadvin (he doesn’t have social media) and word of mouth, I’m of the opinion that these songs deserve a little more love from the college music audience, which is why I’ve deiced to tackle them here in this article.
Waking Up EP by Lee Meadvin
Released just weeks after Meadvin completed his junior year as a Jazz Studies major at NYU, the EP is perhaps more evocative of the unforgiving winter months in New York during which the collection was written and recorded. With references to feedback loops, aged whiskey and fairy tale characters, Meadvin’s lyrics seem preoccupied with that which is repetitive or, similarly, that which remains present as time passes. There is irony in the observation that there are very few refrains or repeated sections in the lyrics themselves. Meadvin performs most of the non-percussive sounds on the EP and even tasked himself with singing lead vocals on six of the seven tracks. Those who know him might be surprised to hear that Meadvin’s studied guitar playing actually takes a backseat to his singing and synth programming at times.
Though each song is deserving of focused listening in its own right, the most accessible entry point on the EP is ‘Drink Coffee’ which gives way to the penultimate track ‘First Crisis, Second Crisis.’ In Drink Coffee, Meadvin reckons with his own mortality while alluding to the regularly self-prescribed remedy for existential issues: drinking coffee. The lyrical theme carries into First Crisis, Second Crisis though Meadvin’s rounded guitar and bass playing is replaced with his attempts at synthesizer and piano. Meadvin’s boyish voice delivers Crisis shyly with a cadence that is seemingly unconcerned but not unaware.
The EP’s melodic and lyrical peaks come on its first track. Set at no tempo, the through-composed lyrics to ‘Waking Up’ sit atop a brooding melody making its way through dense harmony. However, the precision of the composition seems unappreciated by the orchestration. Commendable songwriting falls victim to somewhat unadventurous instrumental and vocal interpretations. This seems to be the case with several tracks on the EP. By the EP’s final track, Meadvin’s voice and synth playing feel exhausted to the point where the listener might be more inclined to doze off rather than wake up.
It’s possible that Meadvin was aware of this during post-production as we can appreciate the placement of ‘Chinatown Is For Lovers,’ consisting only of voice and acoustic guitar, dead center in the EP as an attempt to break up the full band tracks. Granted, Meadvin did produce the record with no budget while studying full time and juggling numerous other projects, and that in and of itself is a worthy feat.
You can stream the album on Lee’s bandcamp, but God help you if you want to follow him on social media. This has been a guest post by Dan Hemerlein, bassist of NYC band Modern Diet – see more of his work on his website!
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It is one of those weeks where every day feels like Monday. You unfurl from your bed, squinting and grumbling at the impending daylight….
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Open Water Daily
Noah Zhang, Alison Hayden Win Swim For Alligator Light
Courtesy of Andy Newman of Florida Keys News Bureau, Swim For Alligator Light, Islamorada, Florida.
Noah Zhang and Alison Hayden won the 9.2-mile (14.8 km) Swim for Alligator Lighthouse today in Islamorada in the Florida Keys. The marathon swim took soloists and relays (duos and quads) from Islamorada, Florida around the Alligator Lighthouse and back.
17-year-old Zhang from Florida and Hayden from New Jersey (4:02:38) topped the 180 athletes in the 14.8 km ocean swim in the Atlantic.
Zhang completed the swim in 3 hours 46 minutes. “This is the craziest race I have ever done. When I came around the lighthouse I saw two turtles and a couple of barracudas. I snorkeled the reef at the lighthouse as a kid, so this was a great excuse to come back to the Keys.
“I wanted to get out fast, keep a good pace and stay there. The guy behind me (Diego De Los Rios of Miami Beach) pushed me, which was good.”
Local Islamorada swimmers David Jacobson, Tracy Collett, Robert Kelley and Eric Wunderlich won the four-person quad relay division with a time of 4:09:18. Hollywood, Florida residents Bennett Rodriguez and Carly Hyman teamed up to win the two-person duo division with 3:50:05.
Hayden won the women’s division with a time of 4:02:38.
“The event was staged as a college scholarship fundraiser for Keys students interested in competitive swimming, but also to raise awareness of a need to preserve the 143-year-old Alligator Reef Lighthouse and five other aging lighthouses off the Florida Keys,” explained race director Jonathan Strauss of Miami.
Race organizer Jonathan Strauss provided a video of the competition here.
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Device drivers constitute a significant portion of an operating system's source code. The effort to develop a new driver set is a sobering hurdle to the pursuit of novel operating system ventures. A practical solution is to reuse drivers, but this can contradict design goals in a new operating system. We offer a new approach to device-driver reuse, with a focus on promoting novel operating-system construction, which insulates the new operating system from the invariants of the reused drivers, while also addressing development effort. Our solution runs the drivers along with their original operating systems inside virtual machines, with some minor reuse infrastructure added to the driver's operating system to interface with the rest of the system. This approach turns the drivers into de-privileged applications of the new operating system, which separates their architectures and reduces cross-influences, and improves system dependability.
Virtual machines help reuse drivers, but they also penalize performance. The known solution for improving virtual machine performance, para-virtualization, modifies the operating system to run on a hypervisor, which has an enormous cost: substantial development effort, and abandonment of many of virtualization's benefits such as modularity. These costs contradict our goals for driver reuse: to reduce development effort, and to easily reuse from a variety of operating systems. Thus we introduce a new approach to constructing virtual machines: pre-virtualization. Our solution combines the performance of para-virtualization with the modularity of traditional virtual machines. We still modify the operating system, but according to a set of principles called soft layering that preserves modularity, and via automation which reduces implementation costs. With pre-virtualization we can easily reuse device drivers.
We describe our driver-reuse approach applied to a real system: we run virtual machines on the L4Ka::Pistachio microkernel, with reused Linux drivers. We include an evaluation and demonstrate that we achieve throughput comparable to the native Linux drivers, but with moderately higher CPU and memory utilization. Additionally, we describe how to apply pre-virtualization to multiple hypervisor environments. We include an evaluation of pre-virtualization, and demonstrate that it achieves comparable performance to para-virtualization for both the L4Ka::Pistachio and Xen hypervisors, with modularity.
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author = {Joshua LeVasseur},
title = {Device Driver Reuse via Virtual Machines},
school = {University of New South Wales},
address = {Australia},
month = may
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Staceyann Chin’s MotherStruck! Strikes All the Chords
December 8, 2015 December 8, 2015 Deborah
Traveling over every inch of stage and weaving in between aisles and making eye contact with audience members, Staceyann Chin will take you with her on a journey from menarche to motherhood in her autobiographical show MotherStruck! at The Lynn Redgrave Theater. You’ll bear witness to all the hardships and obstacles that she, a single, Caribbean, Asian, lesbian, poet faces along the way to motherhood in New York City.
Directed by Cynthia Nixon (Sex & the City), MotherStruck! is Staceyann Chin’s ode to women who want to be mothers but discover how difficult it is when your healthcare system and your wallet and your body conspire against you.
Author of the memoir, The Other Side of Paradise, Chin is no newcomer to the stage. Upon moving from Jamaica to New York City, she quickly found her place at open mic night at the Nuyorican Poet’s Cafe. She co-wrote and performed on Broadway in Russell Simmons Def Poetry Jam and performed in three one-woman shows before creating MotherStruck! It is no surprise that Cynthia Nixon chose to work with her on this most recent project.
She is leading a remarkable life that is fascinating to hear about because of the many seemingly insurmountable obstacles she has overcome, but it is also fascinating because of the way in which she chooses to tell you about it – the humor, the drama, the poetry, the political backdrop, the jaw-dropping specificity – that compels you to listen as long as she is speaking.Cynthia Nixon
Staceyann Chin’s experiences and observations about pregnancy and motherhood expose a society that smiles upon the young and wealthy, hetero-married while making motherhood painfully difficult for those who do not have both womb and sperm or cash to cover the cost of fertility treatments.
From insemination to pregnancy to birth, we are a part of Chin’s journey, experiencing the frustrations, disappointments, and triumphs in every scene. We hold our breath until she gets pregnant, exhaling to laugh at the absurd and comical-grateful for the humor embedded even in the most stressful situations. Some of my favorite scenes combine vivid imagery with acrobat-like physical comedy as she moves and contorts her body so that we can fully appreciate each message and every emotion.
You’ll most likely connect to a number of Staceyann’s experiences as a woman on a mission to mother, and you’ll certainly understand the reality that sets in for all mothers after a baby is born. “Now what?” she asks after she realizes that the real work begins when we take responsibility for another life. Are we good enough? Will we make the same mistakes that our mothers made? Do we have to sacrifice all that we are for all we want for our children?
A scene that speaks to the priorities that change once we have children is the gentrification reality check. Chin describes what happens when wealthy, white people move to “up and coming” neighborhoods. She tells us how they inflate rents and force the less affluent, brown people out, and the audience bristles with disgust. And then she tilts the prism to reveal another reality. Gentrification brings a variety of shops and restaurants, sure, but it also brings cops who actually protect the neighborhood, making it easier to be a dyke and safer for dykes to raise children, even though all of the children are white. What’s a cash-poor, lesbian of color with a child supposed to do?
We feel the power of MotherStruck! when we connect to Chin’s truth and to each other in the process. Publishing VillageQ has always been about connecting a community that so often feels disconnected. VillageQ provides an online space where we can share our queer stories, validate our experiences, and inspire conversation. I am grateful for Staceyann Chin who shares her story with fierce, unapologetic words. I hope that the VillageQ community and Peaches & Coconuts readers are able to check out MotherStruck! and further connect with each other as well as support a talented poet mama!!
CLICK HERE FOR DISCOUNTED TICKETS!
Opening Night is Monday, December 14 at The Lynn Redgrave Theater, 45 Bleecker Street (at Lafayette), New York City.
Showtimes:
Tuesday through Thursday at 7:30pm
Friday at 8pm
Saturday at 4pm and 8pm
Sunday at 5pm
In the meantime, treat yourself to LivingRoomProtests featuring Staceyann and spectacular daughter Zuri! Here’s the first installment:
I participated in the MotherStruck! blog program and received compensation but all opinions are my own.
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Clint Eastwood, Ed Harris, Gene Hackman, Laura Linney, Judy Davis, Scott Glenn, E.G.Marshall, Denis Haysbert, Melora Hardin.
Directed by Clint Eastwood.
As we know, this power corrupts absolutely. Here the power is at the US top, a cover-up of a crime to protect the powerful. But, the key to the exposure of the crime is an ageing thief with a sense of honour. Clint Eastwood both directs and acts as the thief. The film is a good-looking thriller with a strong cast including Gene Hackman as the President, Judy Davis as his chief of staff and Ed Harris is chief detective. There is also an interesting father-daughter theme accompanying the conspiracy which gives it all the more human interest. Not as intense as some thrillers but stylish and absorbing.
1.The focus of the title, the saying about absolute power corrupting absolutely? America and absolute power, in the form of the American President, his government? The contrast with Luther Witney as the loner and his absolute power and exercise of it to confront the corruption of the President?
2.The conventions of the thriller, the action drama, the detective thriller, the political thriller? The combination of these elements? The build-up to a political coup and the overthrow of a government?
3.The Panavision photography, the affluent world of American politics, the contrast with Witney's environment and home? Washington, homes, receptions, the White House? The musical score? (And Clint Eastwood's contribution to the music?)
4.A film by Clint Eastwood and his perspective: his work as director and his finesse in making this thriller, as an actor and his screen persona, the background of the westerns, his coming into the city, the criminal with his code, the witness to evil and his becoming the avenging angel wanting to right wrongs? Yet doing this unobtrusively and behind the scenes? His interest in political themes?
5.The introduction to Luther Witney: the art gallery, the religious motifs, his copying the paintings, going home, the place of the key, his meal, his orderly life, the drawing of the mansion and the transition to the mansion? His entering the house, his skill with disarming the security system? The close attention to the details of the theft, the wealth? The tension with people coming into the house? His being caught, sitting in the chair (and its later irony), watching, his inaction, his horror? The ingenuity of his escape? The pursuit by the security guards, even with their lights for the darkness? His getting away?
6.Clint Eastwood's depiction of Luther Witney: age, craggy, his life and crimes, his absence from his wife and daughter? His grief over his wife's death and her devotion to him? His watching over Kate - without her realising it? Going to ceremonies, the collection of photos, fixing the food in her fridge? Going to see her when she was jogging? His decision to leave? Going to the woman to get a false passport and disguise? The dangers for him in his seeing what the President did? The build-up to his leaving, going to the airport, watching the television press conference and his disgust at the President, his returning? Seth seeking him out and their hypothetical discussion about how a thief could get into the building and disarm the security? The White House tour and his presence, leaving the photo? The jewellery for the Chief of Staff? Forging the President's signature? The discussions with Kate, the build-up to the set-up, the shooting and his being a target of the police as well as the wealthy man's hitman? His shrewdness in escaping as a policeman? His being in Kate's house, overhearing the conversation with Seth? The fridge? The phone call, his concern about Kate, his return, finding the crashed vehicle? Going to the hospital and killing the security guard trying to murder Kate? His turning up as the chauffeur of the wealthy man? Their discussions, delivering him at the White House, his manoeuvring of the President's death? His listening to the TV about what had happened? His return to Kate, the suggestion that she have Seth over for dinner? The loner with the crooked and criminal background yet having the sense of honour to rectify everything corrupt in the American political system?
7.Kate and her studying of law, jogging, relating and not relating to her father, their discussions, her fear that he was the killer? The questioning by Seth, her resistance, her liking Seth? His persuading her to the set-up? Her arrival, the discussions with her father, the shots? The jogging and the Secret Service man pushing her car over the cliff? Hospital, the attempt on her life in hospital? The reconciliation? Her growing awareness of her father's love for her, especially by the photos in his house? A future with Seth?
8.Seth and his staff, their skill at their work? The detail of police and detective work? His discussions with Luther in the bar? The contact with the wealthy man behind the President? The Secret Service and their wanting co-operation (and bugging his phone)? The decision to have the set-up, the plan, the briefing, the shooting and the chaos? The revelation of the truth? His arresting Gloria? The Secret Service men and their deaths? His relationship with Kate, his shyness and awkwardness, a future?
9.The build-up to the incident with the president? The presumption of the president, his character, carrying on with Walter Sullivan’s wife? His friendship with Walter Sullivan, the betrayal? The interaction, the sexual frenzy, the reaction, Christy and her behaviour? The violence of the president? Christy’s death? Luther watching, helpless? The knife? The Secret Service and their shooting? Gloria and her arrival, the detailed cleaning up, the cover-up? The realisation about Whitney? The pursuit of him, his escaping through the woods? Leaving behind the letter-opener?
10.The social background of the president, his calling the press conference, his expressions of grief? The style of leadership, the president and his double standards, hypocrisy? Popularity? His concealing the facts, the Secret Service helping? Gloria and her promotion, dancing with the president, thinking that the gift, left by Whitney, was from him? Her own downfall?
11.The Secret Service agents, their background, the setting up of the assassination of Whitney? The bugs? The tapes? The violence in the name of security for the president? The attempt to kill Whitney’s daughter, pushing the car over the cliff? Attempting to kill her in the hospital? Whitney encountering him, the lethal injection, his being killed with the syringe? The change of conscience for Bill Burton, his feeling bad? His suicide? The film’s comment on loyalty to the president? Power at all cost? Loyalty at all cost?
12.The character of Gloria, her role in the White House, her taking charge in the Sullivan Room? Her skill in the cover-up? Her own personality, ambitions, nervy? Ultimately ruthless? Finding the necklace, presuming it was from the president? Dancing with him? Her arrest?
13.Walter Sullivan, his role as the elder statesman, his relationship with the president? His marriage, the behaviour of his wife? The president’s statement, support and sympathy? Whitney and his communicating with Sullivan, indicating the truth, the evidence of the letter-opener? Sullivan and his disillusionment, his going to see the president, confronting him?
14.The finale, the story on television, the president killing himself with the letter-opener? The arrests? Justice not seen to be done – but done? The contrast with Whitney, the possibility of a life, reconciliation with his daughter?
15.A satisfying political thriller?
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Adam and Paul
Ireland, 2004, 83 minutes, Colour.
Tom Murphy, Mark O’ Halloran.
Directed by Leonard Abrahamson.
The Irish are prolific users of what has been called the ‘multi-purpose’ f word. We might remember it from The Commitments and more recent stories of terrorism. It is a dialogue staple of Adam and Paul.
It starts as one of those offbeat comedies with two seemingly hopeless junkies wake up and wander Dublin, getting into trouble, seeing their mates, looking for a score and generally messing up. But, after a while, thoughts of Samuel Becket and Waiting for Godot, tramps and existential conversation, come to mind and we begin to respond to the underlying humour and humanity of this very odd couple.
Mark O’ Halloran, the writer (who also acts as the taller tramp – we don’t know who is who as everyone greets them as Adam and Paul) says he also had Laurel and Hardy in mind as a model for the interdependence and the comic routines. Because of the picaresque adventures that are one minute warmly laughable and the next moment disconcerting (just as we begin to like them, they harass and rob and nice Downes syndrome young man at a bus stop).
This is a contemporary Irish yarn of the homeless and the druggies, the cons and the pubs – a comic-serious reflection on ‘Such is Life’ with a touch of blarney.
1. A popular Irish film? Yet an oddball impression of Ireland and Dublin? Irish lifestyle? The 21st century and drugs? Irish humour, comic personalities? The serious aspects? Audience sympathies? The overall impact – and the film winning many awards?
2. The tradition of Samuel Beckett, his theatre, Waiting for Godot? The film-makers acknowledging their debt to Lauren and Hardy? The juxtaposition of events for comic and serious effect?
3. The Dublin settings, the streets, the houses, the police stations, flats? The structure of the day in Dublin? The landscapes, the fringe of Dublin? The working-class areas? Non-working-class areas? The drug world? The musical score?
4. The title, the focus on Adam, on Paul, their relationship, dependency?
5. The day and the events, Adam and Paul as homeless? Intelligent or not, using their wits? Nice or not – and the audience unable to anticipate their behaviour, humour, seeming friendly, and then exploiting people? The drug world – and the possibilities of death?
6. The cumulative effect of all the incidents, the coat and the mattress, the shop and the bread, the milk and the Bulgarian, Martin and the drugs, the beggar, the injuries, the excrement, the episode with the baby and Janine, the baby and responsibilities, care for the baby? The Downs Syndrome boy, the brutality? Robbing him? The issue of the television, finding it, stealing it, breaking it? The inefficient robberies? The bunker, the mother? The cigarettes and being sent off? The drugs and the fall, the night, death? The end and cigarettes? The overall impact?
7. The characters of Adam and Paul, their age, experience, not having their background, their friendship, Janine, issues of drugs, death, smart or not, who was the leader, the language and reactions to their language, their hurting people, ability to survive or not? Issues of luck?
8. The portrait of the Bulgarian, his being in Ireland, the background, issues of migrants and the European Union and Ireland’s place? The milk?
9. The character of Janine, the baby, relationships, the dangers with the baby?
10. The drugs, the drug dealers, the prevalence of drugs in Dublin, the drug culture?
11. Stealing, fencing goods, the television, the humour of going to the room to get the television, getting it down the steps, transporting it, the man fencing it – and the breaking?
12. The background gallery of characters, Clink, the beggars, people in the pub, the other addicts?
13. An entertaining experience – wry humour, Irish humour, social comment and critique through satire?
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All the Queen's Men
ALL THE QUEEN’S MEN
Austria/Germany/US, 2001, 84 minutes, Colour.
Matt Le Blanc, Eddie Izzard, James Cosmo, Nicolette Krebitz, David Burkin, Edward Fox, Udo Keir, Karl Markovics, Pip Torrens.
Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky.
All the Queen’s Men is a very moderate comedy-drama about espionage in World War Two. It goes over some of the familiar ground of those espionage and war thrillers of the 1950s.
However, this film has a different twist. A group of men are recruited to steal an Enigma machine from a factory outside Berlin. The difficulty is that it is staffed entirely by women.
Matt Le Blanc plays (not quite convincingly but more intelligently than might have been expected from his role as Joey in Friends) an OSS crack espionage leader. The film opens with him escaping with an Enigma machine only to meet a British officer twit who insists on regulations that all non-army equipment should be destroyed and so destroys the machine. Le Blanc finds himself in a prison, playing rugby in the mud, so welcomes this opportunity for a new mission. However, they have to be trained to appear as women. This task falls to Eddie Izzard, able to indulge his alleged penchant for cross-dressing in this film. James Cosmo, not likely to deceive anyone as a woman in disguise, is also present as the leader of the mission. An Enigma expert, David Burkin, much more recognisable as a woman, completes the group. They meet their contact, a librarian, Nicolette Krebitz, in Berlin. They also meet Eddie Izzard’s former lover and former wife.
The film also stars Edward Fox, embodying all that is pompous about British officers.
The film was directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky. Audiences and critics would have been very surprised in the time that he made the film to know that within six years he would have won the Oscar for best foreign language film with The Counterfeiters (and the star of the film, Karl Markovics, appears here as the German officer).
The film reflects a more permissive time in view of sexual orientation. However, Matt Le Blanc’s character seems to be at pains to uphold traditional views – with some macho edge.
1.Entertaining, interesting, comedy-drama? World War Two and espionage?
2.The Continental settings, Berlin and Germany? England? The atmosphere of World War Two? Action sequences? The period, costumes and décor? The musical score, the songs, the Marlene Dietrich tradition? The operatic excerpts, from Carmen?
3.The title, the theme, the cross-dressing, for the sake of espionage? Eddie Izzard and cross-dressing, his character, performance, songs, relationships, wife, lover?
4.The opening, World War Two, O’Rourke? and the pursuit, his derring-do, the tank, escape over the wire? The confrontation with the British officer, the idiotic conversation, the officer, the regulations, shooting the Enigma machine? O’Rourke? and his insults, finding himself playing rugby in the prison?
5.Aitken, the British official? Summoning O’Rourke? The explanation of the mission, the Enigma machine, the need for decoding the German messages? Johnno and his skills and languages? Meeting Tony, past army service, life in Berlin? Cross-dressing? Archie and his being big and burly, the secretary? Put in charge of the mission? Aitken and his explanations?
6.The collage of training, Tony helping them to be feminine? The contrast with O’ Rourke training them to be macho soldiers? Going into Germany, the parachuting? Assembling, donning the women’s clothes, the hitch-hike? Getting to the library, the wrong lead, the contact from Romy? The haupsturmfuehrer and his relationship with Romy? The pursuit, Romy feigning being attacked, helping them escape? Assembling at her house?
7.The poor information from England? O’ Rourke and the rooftop communicating with them? How to find the factory? The various theories? The fairy tales, the children and toys, Romy looking up documents in the library?
8.The characters, O’ Rourke and the very American OSS style? Archie and the Scot, his embarrassment in being disguised as a woman, unconvincing? The little girl following him around calling ‘Mother’? Johnno, adapting – and the difficulties with the toilet and the toilet seat, getting them into difficulties? Tony, his Berlin contacts, meeting Franz again, meeting Paloma?
9.The Germans, the touch of caricature? The haupsturmfuehrer? The general? His fascination with Gina, the sadomasochism, O’ Rourke and his raiding the safe? The general at the performance by Tony?
10.The various adventures in Germany, the dangers? The plan? Archie and the little girl, getting into the car? Tony and his performance in the club, taking Franz with him for the escape? Johnno and his being wounded, having to be carried? O’ Rourke, in the factory, with the women, with the guards, getting the machine, the escape? Getting to the plane? Going back, rescuing Archie who had given himself up and was being tortured, saving Romy?
11.The realisation of the plan, that they were merely decoys, that they were to be caught? The plane and the escape, the debriefing with Aitken? Archie attacking him?
12.The humorous touches, the serious touches, the 21st century perspective yet the 1950s style of film-making?
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By Rachel Baker
Photo: Timothy Devine
The Place: Times Square’s brand-new, hypersanitized, 45-lane dining-drinking- dancing-bowling theme park, Bowlmor.
The Time: Wednesday, 12:10 a.m.
The Mission: Chat up every bowler in sight.
1. David Zinn
42, theater designer
“My very old friend and colleague is visiting and he wanted to go bowling, so here we are, drinking and bowling and talking. I am having fun, but I like my experiences dirtier and weirder than this place promises.”
2. Breanne Madigan
30, banker
“I kind of dread Times Square, but this is a really cool concept—especially for tourists after a Broadway show or something.”
3. Jessica Forst
26, event planner
“I’d so rather be at a new place than an alley that’s gross and sweaty with smelly, old bowling shoes. They don’t police you here, either. We were just dancing in the lanes and on the booths.”
4. Nadia Moshtaghi
28, real-estate finance
“The music is a mix of, like, ‘99 Luftballons,’ then a rap song. The food and drinks are pretty great for a place like this—sliders, tacos, calamari. And I’m surprisingly a really good bowler. At least tonight.”
5. Jennifer O’Hara
26, sales administrator
“This is over-the-top in a good way compared to, say, Lucky Strike Lanes. The different theme rooms are kind of exciting—what those themes are, exactly, it’s hard to say. We’ve been here for a good four hours. After a couple drinks I’m a better bowler. It’s like beer pong—you’ve got to warm up to get good.”
6. Scott Haladay
34, consultant
“I live in Portland, where people are into kitschy throwback random sports. There are a couple bowling alleys at home that have recently been redone into nightclubs, but it’s funny to see that in New York, too.”
7. Tricia Murray
30, interior design
“I’m here with my husband, Frank, who is definitely the better bowler. I’m improving, but I’m not ready to get my own ball or anything.”
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Connecticut: The "Connecticut Option" package ends up a shadow of its original self
Politically, it's generally better to underpromise and overdeliver. Unfortunately, when it comes to the actual legislative process it's usually the other way around.
Case in point: Connecticut.
It was just twelve days ago that Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont rolled out his proposed ACA improvement policy package, which included a bunch of key elements including the ballyhooed "Connecticut Option"...a Public Option which would have opened up the existing state employee healthcare plan to anyone on the individual or small group markets.
The full suite was supposed to include nine major provisions:
Read more about Connecticut: The "Connecticut Option" package ends up a shadow of its original self
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Oregon: Bill introduced to establish Medicaid buy-in & re-establish Individual Mandate Penalty
This actually happened back in March but I missed it at the time:
Lawmaker proposes Medicaid buy-in and individual mandate for Oregonians
Representative Andrea Salinas, the new Chair of the House Health Care Committee, recently filed a bill that aims to establish a Medicaid buy-in option for Oregon residents. The bill, HB 2009, would also establish a “shared responsibility penalty,” or an individual mandate for Oregonians.
HB 2009 would essentially allow individuals who do not qualify for Medicaid, or for premium tax credits under the Affordable Care Act, to enroll in CCOs by paying premiums to cover their health services.
(Note: "CCOs" = "Coordinated Care Organizations", which I believe is how Oregon designates their Medicaid program.)
Read more about Oregon: Bill introduced to establish Medicaid buy-in & re-establish Individual Mandate Penalty
Individual Mandate
Medicaid Buy-in
Connecticut: Comptroller claims Cigna has already blackmailed state into dropping the "Connecticut Option"
Welp. That didn't take long...just a week ago, Connecticut Governor Ned Lamont announced that he and the state legislative leaders had put together a robust package of impressive healthcare reform bills, including:
expanding subsidies to at least some of those eanring more than 400% of the Federal Poverty Level (like California is in the process of doing)
expanding Medicaid up to 170% FPL (it used to be 201% FPL but was dropped down to 155% a couple of years ago)
reinstating the ACA's individual mandate penalty (similar to what Massachusetts, New Jersey and DC have done and what California is in the process of doing)
implementing a state-level reinsurance program (as over a half-dozen states, including several GOP-controlled ones, have done)
Read more about Connecticut: Comptroller claims Cigna has already blackmailed state into dropping the "Connecticut Option"
CONNECTICUT: HUGE! Gov. Lamont rolls out "Connecticut Option"!
Last October, shortly before the midterm election, Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ned Lamont of Connecticut announced that if elected, he'd push hard for a robust reinsurance program along the lines of other states which have successfully implemented reinsurance 1332 waivers under the ACA:
HARTFORD, CT — Democratic gubernatorial candidate Ned Lamont has much lower expectations for what he’s going to be able to do to improve the health of Connecticut residents than one might expect from a Democratic candidate this year.
Sounds like Lamont would not push for CT to reinstate the ACA individual mandate penalty:
...Does he believe everyone in Connecticut has to purchase health insurance now that it’s not mandated by the federal government?
Read more about CONNECTICUT: HUGE! Gov. Lamont rolls out "Connecticut Option"!
Washington State's Public Option: Do I hear 100%? 150%? SOLD for 160% of Medicare rates!
Sun, 04/28/2019 - 11:59pm
A couple of weeks ago I wrote an extensive piece laying out what seemed, at first glance, to be a bona fide state-level Public Option bill quietly working its way through the Washington State legislature:
Democrats in Olympia push through governor’s 'green' agenda and public healthcare coverage bills
...Another key item on the governor’s agenda is the so-called “public option” socialized health care coverage measure, SB 5526. This bill would create subsidized state-funded public health plans managed by regulated insurance companies. It would require the State Insurance Commissioner and the Health Care Authority to set up the socialized plans by 2021.
,,,These plans would be available through the state’s health care exchange to all residents, but the state would pay subsidies to individuals with incomes of up to five times the poverty level. Premiums would be limited to no more than ten percent of adjusted gross income, and payments to doctors and other health care providers would be restricted to Medicare-level limits.
Read more about Washington State's Public Option: Do I hear 100%? 150%? SOLD for 160% of Medicare rates!
Colorado following Washington State's lead on a Public Option, potentially with more forethought?
via the Lexington Herald-Leader:
Colorado's Senate advanced another piece of Democratic Gov. Jared Polis' health care agenda on Tuesday by tentatively endorsing a study on creating a state-run health insurance option.
The bill would direct state agencies to recommend a plan that would compete with existing private insurance plans and those offered on Colorado's health care exchange. Another Senate vote sends the study bill to the governor. It's already cleared the House on a bipartisan 46-17 vote.
On the surface, this sounds pretty much like the state-level Public Option bill which has quietly been rushed through the Washington State legislature over the past few weeks. Unlike the Washington bill, however, it looks like the Colorado legislature is covering a few more bases...particularly funding:
Read more about Colorado following Washington State's lead on a Public Option, potentially with more forethought?
UPDATE x4: So Washington State just passed an ACA Public Option...
Back in January, 2nd-term Washington Governor and Democratic Presidential candidate Jay Inslee jumped fully onboard the Public Option train:
Inslee proposes ‘public option’ health-insurance plan for Washington
The proposal, which Inslee said is the first step toward universal health care, is geared in part to help stabilize the exchange, which has wrestled with double-digit premium increases and attempts by Republicans in Congress and President Donald Trump to dismantle the Affordable Care Act.
...The proposal would have the state Health Care Authority contract with at least one health-insurance carrier to offer qualified health coverage on the Washington Health Benefit Exchange, according to a summary of the proposal.
Read more about UPDATE x4: So Washington State just passed an ACA Public Option...
Connecticut legislators jump onboard the Public Option Express (and more!)
With useful healthcare legislation extremely unlikely to pass the U.S. Senate until at least 2021, state-based public options will be all the rage for the next couple of years...
Connecticut lawmakers are joining other states that have unveiled proposals to expand government-run health coverage, with plans to extend state health benefits to small businesses and nonprofits, and to explore a public option for individuals.
Under two measures announced Thursday, officials would open the state health plan to nonprofits and small companies – those with 50 or fewer employees – and form an advisory council to guide the development of a public option. The legislation would allow the state to create a program, dubbed “ConnectHealth,” that offers low-cost coverage to people who don’t have employer-sponsored insurance.
Read more about Connecticut legislators jump onboard the Public Option Express (and more!)
Public Options: Big Things Are Happening in New Mexico & Minnesota!
Things have been happening so quickly of late that I'm getting farther and farther behind on some important healthcare policy developments, particularly at the state level. There are two extremely important Public Option announcements which could be game changers if they make it through the legislative process.
Since I don't have time to do full write-ups on either one right now, I'll just present these summaries:
My friend and colleague Colin Baillio, policy director of Health Action New Mexico, has been working on this for a long time, and it looks like this project has finally entered the legislative stage:
LUJÁN APPLAUDS INTRODUCTION OF MEDICAID BUY-IN LEGISLATION IN NEW MEXICO
Read more about Public Options: Big Things Are Happening in New Mexico & Minnesota!
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Washington State: Gov. Inslee jumps on board the Public Option train
Something is definitely in the water this week, and I believe it's called "Democrats hitting their stride on healthcare reform":
Friday: Newly sworn-in Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi publicly declares House Dems will be pushing hard for raising the ACA's subsidy cap and reinstating ('replacing') the individual mandate
Monday: Newly sworn-in California Governor Gavin Newsom announces he's pushing for further Medicaid expansion to undocumented young adults; reinstating the mandate penalty; raising the subsidy cap; going All-Payer on prescription medications; and creating a state-level Surgeon General position
Today: NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio announces a Guaranteed Healthcare program for all 600,000 uninsured New York City residents
And now, this:
Gov. Jay Inslee and Democratic lawmakers Tuesday announced proposed legislation for a new “public option” health-care plan under Washington’s health-insurance exchange.
“We are proposing to the state Legislature that we have a public option that is available throughout the state of Washington so that we can increase the ability to move forward on the road to universal health care in the state of Washington,” said the governor, who is considering a run for president in 2020.
Read more about Washington State: Gov. Inslee jumps on board the Public Option train
"Medicare for All": New survey results hit the crux of the problem right on the head.
With the 2019 Open Enrollment Period starts in less than 24 hours, it probably isn't the best timing for this, but with the elections also coming up in just six days, perhaps it is.
Axios just published a new national survey via SurveyMonkey which asks two simple but important questions:
Generally speaking, when you hear candidates talking about “Medicare for All,” what do you think they are proposing?
A single, government-run health insurance program to cover all Americans
An optional government-run program that would compete with private insurance
Neither of these
And which of the following options for health care would you favor most?
The results are pretty telling:
Read more about "Medicare for All": New survey results hit the crux of the problem right on the head.
Medicare Extra
Clinton supports Public Option/Medicare Buy-In even when she "doesn't need to anymore."
Given that Hillary Clinton has long supported a "public option" being included with the ACA and that she reiterated support for the public option (at the state level, since she recognizes that the odds of getting anything useful through a GOP-controlled Congress at the federal level is likely pretty slim) in late February, this piece by Sahil Kapur of Bloomberg Politics may seem like a nonstory:
At a campaign stop Monday in Northern Virginia, Hillary Clinton reiterated her support for a government-run health plan in the insurance market, possibly by letting let Americans buy into Medicare, to stem the rise of health-care costs.
Read more about Clinton supports Public Option/Medicare Buy-In even when she "doesn't need to anymore."
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Right on: the only museum dedicated entirely to human rights
Posted on July 28, 2015 by Steve Caplan
Technology and hands-on exhibits make the Canadian Museum for Human Rights accessible for visitors of all ages
When I last visited family in the city of Winnipeg, Canada, I had the opportunity to do a tour of the outside of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), as it was not yet opened for the public. On this visit, 2 years later, this one-of-a-kind museum located at the Forks — the meeting place of the Assiniboine (east-west) and Red (north-south) Rivers is now hosting over 800 paid visitors per day.
The CMHR — not my photo
I found the idea to be unique — important and intriguing, although I was very skeptical before seeing the exhibits. My childhood in Canada had caused me to anticipate a very back-slapping and self-righteous museum, in which Canadians would denounce others and proudly announce their own commitments to human rights, without mentioning the many failures. I was wrong.
A display seen from one of the many alabaster bridges that work their way up the building.
The CMHR is not perfect — but no museum is. However, it makes a sincere attempt to reconcile Canada’s past with its many errors. These include, but are not limited to the assignment of First Nations’ children to Christian religious boarding schools over the past 100 years (indeed, until the 1990s) — what was conceived as an attempt to remove any traces of native Canadian First Nation culture. Also included was a serious discussion of Canada’s abysmal record of turning away immigrants (mostly Jews) who had managed to escape from Nazi Germany during the 2nd World War. Many of these immigrants ended up returning to the shores of Europe only to die in Hitler’s gas chambers.
In the history book “None is Too Many: Canada and the Jews of Europe 1933-1948” the authors address Frederick Blair — the head of Canadian immigration — who reportedly was asked how many Jews would be allowed into Canada as refugees after the war — and his answer was “None is too many.”
The museum is unique in that it is focused mostly on personal stories — victims and heroes — and typically shies away from too much emphasis on blame. More important is the attempt to understand how the violation of human rights led to atrocities, and how this could have been stopped.
An exhibit hall on the 3rd floor
Women’s rights. 50% of the population, and many countries
Women’s rights are an incredibly important part of the exhibits — and the problems presented are not limited to third-world countries. The museum does not shy away from showing western commercials and advertisements that present women in a demeaning manor — ads for shoes and clothes and fashion models. Seen as part of a gradient of sexism, this is very compelling.
Very few women in Saudi Arabia are permitted to drive
Interactive displays have movies and stories on a multitude of human rights issues
The Holocaust and at least 11 documented recent atrocities
Reading about the museum, I was informed that there were demonstrations by certain communities against the museum for its “unequal exhibits.” I read that some members of the Canadian Ukrainian community felt that the Holocaust received ‘too much’ attention as opposed to the Holodom0r, the man-made famine forced upon Ukrainians by the Soviets in the pre-WWII era, where anywhere between 2-7 million people perished.
The Holodomor was presented as part of a permanent exhibit that includes 11 horrific atrocities in the 20th century. The Holocaust received its own exhibit. Part of the complaints, as I have been informed, stem from the fact that a wealthy Jewish donor contributed a lot of money to the museum, and there is/was a perception that this may have influenced the museum’s content. While any human suffering is horrible, I do feel that the Holocaust deserves special treatment, as it was a very unique situation. Not land disputes or fighting between tribes — but rather an entirely scientific plan to murder millions of people — even at the expense of losing the war. Nothing like this has ever been perpetrated on humankind, and understanding how this could have occurred really does deserve special attention.
View of the city and into French-speaking St. Boniface from the CMHR tower
In summary — I strongly recommend to anyone who has an opportunity — if they end up in the middle of nowhere in central Canada — to visit the CMHR. Well worth a full day’s visit, and should be a must for every school child.
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2 Responses to Right on: the only museum dedicated entirely to human rights
Richard Wintle says:
Thanks for the review, Steve. The museum wasn’t yet open when I visited the ‘peg a couple of years ago. Unfortunately, at that time most people seemed intent on discussing the cost of the thing rather than its cultural and social importance.
I’d be interested to know how the internment of Japanese nationals (and Japanese *Canadians*) during the Second World War was treated… another time in Canadian history of which we can’t be proud.
Will be visiting this museum for sure should I find myself in Winnipeg in future. Thanks again for the post.
Steve Caplan says:
It is an excellent museum, and surprisingly, there seemed to be no attempt to sweep any facet of (Canadian) history — no matter how poorly it shed light on Canada — under the rug. This includes failed attempts at UN peacekeeping missions and many other issues. This was by far the most impressive thing about the CMHR. With regard to internment of those Canadian citizens of Japanese origin during WWII (similar to the abysmal treatment of Japanese immigrants in the US), I don’t specifically recall seeing an exhibit. However, the museum is huge, and given the very comprehensive nature of the exhibits, I suspect that I simply missed it. For example, I did read about the “head charges” that were levied on immigrants from China for many years, and the fact that the Canadian government was finally trying to correct this discriminatory behavior by returning money to the immigrants or their offspring.
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Results tagged ‘ Evan Longoria ’
The Phillies dominated the Rays in Game 4 on Sunday night, and they’ve the huge World Series lead and all the momentum on their side with their best starting pitcher, Cole Hamels, all lined up for what Phillie fans hope will be a home clincher on Monday.
Hard to name the biggest moment for the Phillies on Sunday, so here’s two:
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And here’s a third:
There was one more home run by Jayson Werth, but the way the Phillies pitched it didn’t matter at that point.
The bottom line is that the Rays have gotten absolutely nothing in this Series from Carlos Pena and Evan Longoria, and if those two don’t start hitting against Hamels, it’s over.
Then again, the Phillies have three wins, not four, so, as we all know, it’s not over yet. It isn’t over in October until the final out.
Can the Rays come back? Let me hear your thoughts.
Tags: Carlos Pena, Cole Hamels, Evan Longoria, Jayson Werth, Joe Blanton, October Gonzo, Phillies, Postseason, Rays, Ryan Howard, World Series
If that game wasn’t worth the wait, I don’t know what is. Seriously, it was almost 2 in the morning in Philadelphia when Eric Bruntlett scored the winning run in the Phillies’ 5-4 victory over the Tampa Bay Rays, and I was wide awake taking it all in. I’m sure you were, too.
Here are some thoughts:
* What can you say about Jamie Moyer? Dude’s going to be 46 years old next month and flat-out did his job. Too bad he didn’t get that call on the diving play at first base. He deserved it, right?
* This following clip is something that we’ve all been waiting for and something the Rays probably don’t want to see again this October.
* Either credit the Phillies’ pitching or say the Rays’ hitters left their bats in the American League Championship Series, because Evan Longoria and Carlos Pena have been absolutely silent so far in this World Series. They better get that figured out soon.
Good matchup coming tonight in Game 4, with two crafty right-handers in Tampa Bay’s Andy Sonnanstine and Philly’s Joe Blanton. Neither guy can overpower hitters, so they rely on location, deception and old-fashioned moxie. I like watching guys like that.
Tags: Andy Sonnanstine, Carlos Pena, Carlos Ruiz, Eric Bruntlett, Evan Longoria, Jamie Moyer, Joe Blanton, October Gonzo, Phillies, Postseason, Rays, Ryan Howard, World Series
There’s been a lot of talk about the u30ws, a.k.a. the Under-30 World Series, because 24 players in this Fall Classic are under the age of 30 — and because a new breed of young fans who weren’t even alive when the Phillies last won the World Series (1980) are pumped up about the new team from Philadephia and the upstart Tampa Bay Rays.
Well, I’m here to tell you that the key players in Tampa Bay’s 4-2 win in Game 2 that knotted this World Series with the Phillies at a game apiece were all about u30ws, from Rays starter “Big Game” James Shields to 23-year-old reliever David Price to 20-something RBI men Evan Longoria, B.J. Upton and Jason Bartlett.
Shields put a stop to the momentum the Phillies gained in their road win in Game 1, killing rally after rally with big outs like this one:
Upton didn’t have to hit a homer on this night – he set up the big two-run first inning right here:
And Price bent a little but didn’t break, going more than two innings to close out the first World Series win in Tampa Bay history:
The u30ws hits the road tomorrow, so we can get a little bit of rest before Game 3 — American League Championship Series MVP Matt Garza takes the hill against crafty vet Jamie Moyer — at Citizens Bank Park on Saturday night.
Let’s get some serious conversation going before then.
Tags: B.J. Upton, David Price, Evan Longoria, James Shields, Jamie Moyer, Jason Bartlett, Matt Garza, October Gonzo, Phillies, Postseason, Rays, u30ws, World Series
Rays the roof!
If the cover of Tropicana Field were ever to come off its hinges, it would have happened last night when the Tampa Bay Rays finally knocked off the defending champion Red Sox in the seventh game of the American League Championship Series. Have you ever heard that place that loud? Unreal. What a series. From the epic back-and-forth, five-hours-plus Game 2 to the sick comeback by the Sox in Game 5 to the nail-biter of a Game 7 pitchers’ duel with Matt Garza outpitching Jon Lester and rookie David Price closing it out, there was something for everyone.
And now the Rays go from worst to first to the World Series, with the National League champion Philadelphia Phillies heading to St. Pete for a Wednesday night Game 1 date.
Before we get those blog posts started, here’s a quick rundown of Game 7:
* I wonder how many Boston fans thought it was going to be a rout when they saw my AL MVP this year, Dustin Pedroia, do this to Garza in the first inning:
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* I wonder how many Rays fans, including Dick Vitale, breathed a huge sigh of relief when they saw Evan Longoria tie it up:
* And what about Willy Aybar? Seriously … the dude has been raking all October, bringing to mind countless unsung heroes that spring to life at the right time of year.
* Two words. David. Price.
So … let’s get the World Series started already!
Give me your picks and let’s get some discussions going. Only two more days until showtime!
Tags: ALCS, David Price, Dick Vitale, Dustin Pedroia, Evan Longoria, Game 7, Jon Lester, Matt Garza, October Gonzo, Phillies, Postseason, Rays, Red Sox, Willy Aybar, World Series
One big win away
The Rays have put on an unbelievable display of offense over the last three games of the American League Championship Series, but the Red Sox aren’t finished yet. Just ask anyone on the 2004 Yankees or the 2007 Indians. On to Tuesday night’s remarkable Game 4:
RAYS 13, RED SOX 4
It’s hard to pick highlight clips of the Rays’ explosion of runs, but Carlos Pena’s first-inning homer set the tone. The quiet first baseman might not be getting the headlines this October like teammates B.J. Upton and Evan Longoria, but he’s been a constant in the heart of the order when he’s been healthy, and he showed why he’s so valuable last night.
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Still, you can’t underestimate the importance of pitching, even in a blowout win. Andy Sonnanstine has been another unsung hero for this team, and he shut down Boston hitters all night, making him 2-0 this postseason.
And then there’s the Rays’ defense, which has been fantastic all year and was as slick as ever in Game 4.
But one thing kept gnawing at me at the end of the game, while I was watching a silent Fenway Park empty out onto Yawkey Way.
These are still the Boston Red Sox and this is still the ALCS. The Sox have been here before and the Rays haven’t. The Sox came back from a 3-1 deficit to Cleveland last year and the memorable 3-0 deficit to the Yankees in 2004. The Rays have to keep the pressure on and put them away, because they won’t go down easily.
Do you think the Rays will wrap it up in Boston on Thursday night or send it back to St. Pete?
Let me hear your thoughts.
Tags: ALCS, Andy Sonnanstine, B.J. Upton, Carlos Pena, Dodgers, Evan Longoria, NLCS, October Gonzo, Phillies, Postseason, Rays, Red Sox
L.A. Story
Thursday’s Division Series games once again blew my mind. You want October amazement? You got it yesterday, big-time. Let’s recap the games.
DODGERS 10, CUBS 3
I don’t remember the last time I heard Wrigley Field so quiet, and for long-suffering Cubs fans, this was a tough one to swallow. The Dodgers offense has come to play, and for the second straight night, they got great pitching, too. In Game 2, it was Chad Billingsley dealing. But enough about the Dodgers. What about the Cubbies? The best record in the National League and they lose two in a row at home? Unreal. But remember, folks. Strange things happen in October. The Yankees went down 2-0 at home in 2001 and came back and beat the A’s in their Division Series. It can happen.
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PHILLIES 5, BREWERS 2
This one was all about Shane Victorino’s grand slam, and maybe about a team finally finding its postseason groove after getting swept in the first round last year. The Phils left for Milwaukee on a serious high point and can you blame them? They did something that hardly anyone could do down the stretch — beat CC Sabathia — and now have huge numbers in their favor. Teams with a 2-0 lead in NL Division Series have won their last 16.
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RAYS 6, WHITE SOX 4
And how about those Rays? Experts claimed they didn’t have enough talent to make it to October, and they shot that down. Critics said they didn’t have the experience to make it all the way through October. Well, maybe they don’t, but they certainly didn’t look intimidated yesterday in improving their league-best home record. And who did a huge portion of the damage? The probable AL Rookie of the Year, Evan Longoria, who looked about as ready for the postseason as anyone ever has in his first crack at it.
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It’s starting to get crazy in these series, and I’m watching every inning. Now I want to hear from you. What was your favorite Thursday moment? Did any team make a major statement? Will the Cubs rally? How far can the Rays go?
I’m all ears.
Posted on October 3, 2008 at 2:44 pm
Tags: Brewers, CC Sabathia, Chad Billingsley, Cubs, Dodgers, Evan Longoria, October Gonzo, Phillies, Postseason, Rays, Shane Victorino, White Sox, Wrigley Field
The tight pennant races are getting tighter, and I’m feeling the intensity every night as the Twins and White Sox battle it out for the last Postseason spots in the American League. I’m sure you are, too.
Meanwhile, as the Mets and Brewers try to keep the pace in the National League, the Mets are set on prolonging the life of that charming 44-year-old ballpark in Queens called Shea Stadium that’s going to make way for the new Citi Field next year.
What does it all mean? It means we’ve got less than a week to go until October, and the first five teams that have clinched as I write this are waiting along with the rest of us to see how it’s all going to shake out.
And those teams still have so many unanswered questions, too.
Can the Dodgers keep up the excitement and ride the hot bat of their newest star all the way through October?
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Can a healthy Evan Longoria help the Rays continue to prove the doubters wrong?
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Do the Red Sox have another magical run in them?
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Is it THE year on the North Side?
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Or will the team with the best record in baseball live up to its billing?
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Vote in the poll and let me know how you think it will all play out. The good news is we won’t have to wait very long to see what happens.
Tags: Angels, Brewers, Cubs, Dodgers, Evan Longoria, Mets, October Gonzo, Postseason, Rays, Red Sox, Shea Stadium, Twins, White Sox, Wild Card
Rookies Rule
Sitting here at my computer all the time, I’m thinking when I’m not blogging. And lately I’ve been thinking about rookies and how these first-year phenoms can make things happen for teams in September and then all the way through October.
You don’t even have to be on the 25-man roster in the first three months of the season to make your presence felt when it counts.
Frankie Rodriguez did it almost every night for the Angels in 2002 at the age of 20 after making his Major League debut in late September! Six years later, K-Rod’s team is a lock for October and he’s closing in on the all-time single-season saves record.
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How about Jacoby Ellsbury last year? Did anyone see that coming – besides Theo Epstein and the Red Sox brass?
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I can’t wait to find out which rookies will rile things up in this year’s Postseason, and I’ve got two in mind that I think might just etch their own names into the October history books.
One of them hits a ton and plays the hot corner like a veteran even though he zoomed through the Minors.
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One of them crouches behind the plate, calls the games for a top pitching staff, and does just fine with the bat, thank you very much.
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Both of these young stars have been in their leagues’ Rookie of the Year conversations all season, and they’re the favorites for that hardware.
But something tells me it’s not the only hardware they want.
Now you tell me: Which rookies will make the biggest impact this month and through October.
Posted on September 9, 2008 at 12:07 pm
Tags: Evan Longoria, Francisco Rodriguez, geovany soto, jacoby ellsbury, rookies
Here’s a trio of random O.G. blog-servations from the heat of early August… only seven weeks from October, but who’s counting?
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*Have you been watching the Cubs? Signs throughout Wrigley say “It Will Happen,” and I can’t really argue when I watch these guys play. Sweet Lou has them feeling it, Ryan Dempster’s out of his mind, and Kerry Wood’s coming back, too. They’ve pulled away from the Brewers a little bit and might be ready to finally give the North Side some World Series championship love for the first time in exactly 100 years.
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*No matter how you feel about the Yankees (and I think I know how a lot of you outside New York feel), it’s a bummer that Joba’s hurt. The Yanks already don’t have Chien-Ming Wang and Phil Hughes right now, so now we’ll see what this kid Ian Kennedy is made of. We might also get a Carl Pavano sighting soon. Who knows? Maybe the fresh arms will get the Bombers back on top. Stranger things have happened in October.
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*I’ve got one more for you and it’s got three words: Tampa Bay Rays. OK, two more words: Still there. These guys keep winning games in crazy fashion, they’re absolutely ridiculous at home, and their manager, Joe Maddon, has them believing there’s nothing they can’t do. I’m here to tell you that when you have a little confidence, you can rule the postseason — even if you’ve never been there before. Joe saw it close up when he was the bench coach of the ’02 Angels. And now he’s got Evan Longoria and Carlos Pena. That doesn’t hurt, either.
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More coming soon as we march toward October memories… are you getting fired up?
Posted on August 8, 2008 at 10:07 am
Tags: Carl Pavano, Carlos Pena, Chien-Ming Wang, Cubs, Evan Longoria, Ian Kennedy, Joba Chamberlain, Joe Maddon, Kerry Wood, Lou Piniella, October Gonzo, Phil Hughes, Postseason, Rays, Ryan Dempster, Yankees
What have we learned so far?
The countdown to the 2008 postseason began right after the All-Star Game, and we’ve definitely learned a few more things.
In case you didn’t believe it, the Angels are really for real. A home sweep of the Red Sox set that in stone, even though Boston still needs Big Papi to get rolling again. But right now, Vlad Guerrero and the boys have the best record in the Majors. This is Vlad’s shot that got things started:
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The Tampa Bay Rays got their groove back with a few wins and took back the division lead over the Sox, while the Yankees took care of the A’s in the Bronx. That means things are starting to get a little crazy in the American League East. Check out Evan Longoria’s grand slam against the Blue Jays:
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How about the Dodgers? A major comeback over the D-backs and all of a sudden we’ve got a tie in the National League West. Here’s the big ninth inning:
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There are almost too many storylines developing to blog about in one post. The Cardinals continue to surprise everybody, including me. Cliff Lee of the Indians already has 13 wins. The Mets are still on fire.
The suspense is building. Can you feel it?
Posted on July 22, 2008 at 12:09 pm
Tags: Angels, Big Papi, Cardinals, Cliff Lee, D-backs, Dodgers, Evan Longoria, Indians, Mets, October Gonzo, Rays, Red Sox, The Postseason, Vladimir Guerrero, Yankees
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B/X is my Favorite
Below are a number of reasons why the Moldvay/Cook edition of Dungeons & Dragons is my favorite. I know that a number of them are not exclusive to the B/X version but, when combined with the aspects that are unique, I find the complete system and how all of the pieces interact make this the best version for my games.
These are in no particular order.
1. A complete system in 128 pages
2. Unified bonuses & penalties due to attributes
3. Strong archetype classes
4. Race = Class and meaningful level limitations
5. Clerics have to prove their worthiness to their deity before getting a spell at 2nd level
6. Fighters are good with all weapons
7. The spellbook system
8. A tight power scale with a max of 14th level - I know this one is serendipitous given the unpublished Companion Supplement but I think the power level of the Expert set is about perfect for my games.
9. Complete but small subsystems for adventuring in dungeons and the wilderness
10. The Reaction Roll subsytem
11. It takes about 5 minutes to make a character.
12. It is unapologetically gameist in nature - doors in dungeons are stuck closed. You need to roll to force them open. Why? Because the rulebook says so and it is fun.
13. The importance of retainers.
16. The BEST morale system EVER!
17. The examples of play - I don't know how many times I have read through the exploits of Black Dougal and his ungrateful companions
18. The roster of monsters - I find the roster of monsters in B/X to be very interesting and a large part of why B/X feels the way it does - a subject for a future post.
19. A "magical" array of magic items.
20. Intelligent magic swords
21. The entire "Dungeon Master Information" section - how to make a dungeon (see my Pit of Tortured Souls, which I really need to do some work on) and how to make a wilderness.
22. The first appearance of Save vs Abilities
23. A simple and very concise Spell Research system that is very important given the spellbook system.
24. An endgame
25. Three alignments and not good vs evil but instead law and society vs chaos and anarchy
Edit: 26. Erol Otus I can't believe I missed that one!
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Jeff Rients April 20, 2009 at 12:48 PM
JimLotFP April 20, 2009 at 12:54 PM
I'm coming to this conclusion as well. I really don't like the ambiguity of OD&D (and use Holmes or B/X to fill in the holes), and AD&D is just too much and I don't use most of the subsystems anyway when I play. B/X just seems to be D&D that has a robust enough set of rules to follow, without being complicated and including a million things nobody would ever use.
Chris April 20, 2009 at 1:41 PM
Truth. I had the Basic D&D 'epiphany' last Easter Monday. It feels like I've finally come home after a long journey.
Santiago April 20, 2009 at 2:48 PM
26. Erol Otus art.
P_Armstrong April 20, 2009 at 4:13 PM
Nice Santiago!
Superhero Necromancer April 20, 2009 at 4:18 PM
I think you're right about this, too. And I say that even though Mentzer is the version I started with, and I still have fond memories of it. It's a great version to learn from. But B/X is just an all around better reference and book to play from.
I also prefer it for other reasons. It's more coherent, the level span seems just right (with an "endgame" at name level when it's stronghold building time), and the thief progressions in B/X are also more satisfying than the slowed down versions in Mentzer.
In terms of professionally published versions of D&D, B/X is ALMOST my favorite. I can't argue with any of your 26 reasons.
But I can't shake my first love: the Holmes-edit of D&D. Who needs more than 3 levels? If the DM isn't fudging or throwing softballs, the chance of reaching 4th level is effectively nil.
In any case, beautiful post. And I love the bright colors of the covers of B/X. Thanks for posting this. :)
Ah, Geoffery...
You know I am with you on Holmes. It is my second favorite.
FASERIP April 20, 2009 at 7:45 PM
I agree. Moldvay/Cook/Marsh is the best version of D&D.
I wish Labyrinth Lord had #5 as well.
>>I wish Labyrinth Lord had #5 as well<<
There are just a few things that keep me from playing LL.
- Clerics getting a spell at 1st level
- Magic-user spellbooks
- the reversed bonuses for charisma
Honestly, they are all minor and could easily be houseruled.
But I have 8 copies of B/X and it is exactly the way I like it so why change.
Will April 21, 2009 at 10:14 AM
I honestly don't get the mystique behind first level clerics not being able to cast spells. Why not just assume that the first level cleric wouldn't be a cleric at all if he hadn't already "proven himself" to his god? Why not make the M-U start without a spell and roleplay his apprenticeship or start the fighter not knowing how to use a sword?
Anyway, can you be more clear on how LL differs in the way it handles spells and charisma? It seems the same to me, but I've never looked at both books side-by-side.
>>can you be more clear on how LL differs in the way it handles spells and charisma?<<
B/X has a very unique method for magic-user and elf spellbooks. LL is much more like other editions of D&D. See my post:
http://ode2bd.blogspot.com/2009/03/bx-magic-user-spellbooks.html
The charisma issue is a small thing. It represents a bonus as a negative and flips the reaction table so that lower is better. Like I said, a small thing but a small thing that bugs me.
Will April 21, 2009 at 2:06 PM
Interesting. You know, I don't think I've ever played spellbooks like that. I always went with the typical "M-Us can have as many spells in their books as they can find/research" and assumed that the numbers in the rulebook were only meant to be minimums.
Learn something new every day, I guess.
Santiago April 22, 2009 at 5:17 AM
IMO, B/X is the players handbook.
OD&D is the DMG.
What I really miss in B/X is the illusionist, and demons and some other critters from AD&D.
P_Armstrong April 27, 2009 at 10:24 AM
I find the monster selection in Moldvay/Cook to be an important part of what gives this version of D&D its unique feel. No standardized demons, devils, etc forces a DM to be more creative. Zargon from B4 The Lost City is how demons should be.
JB May 22, 2009 at 9:22 PM
I dig on absolutely all your 26 reasons...I remember switching to AD&D and absolutely hating parts of it (like how to use Intelligent swords!). And ditto on Black Dougal and his "ungrateful friends." Ha ha ha! I love those examples!
Stuart June 12, 2009 at 5:02 PM
Excellent list of reasons to love B/X.
I don't like #12 though... but that's not B/X jargon. ;)
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Aquarium Invertebrates: Metasepia pfefferi – the aptly named Flamboyant Cuttlefish
08. October 2010 · Write a comment · Categories: Advanced Aquarist Online, Article, Cephalopod breeding, Cephalopods · Tags: AA, Advanced Aquarist, cuttle, Flamboyant, Metasepia, Reef Life
From Advanced Aquarist Online and Reef Life Magazine.
The Flamboyant cuttle is one of the most amazing animals I have encountered in the wild or in captivity. They are beautiful, masterful predators that live fast and die young. It is my hope that one day they will be bred in captivity and readily available for all cephalopod enthusiasts.
Cuttlefish are the artists of the sea. . They float through the water like oceanic ballet dancers. Their feeding tentacles shoot forward with a speed, accuracy and control that would make a martial artist weep. One minute they have the color and texture of a smooth rock; the next they flash complex three dimensional patterns and suddenly resemble a monster out of Greek myth. While all cuttlefish share these abilities, there is one species that takes these arts to an apex, making the rest look like dull amateurs – the aptly named Flamboyant Cuttlefish.
Hatchling Metasepia with a mysid shrimp in the background for scale. The ‘rocks’ are grains of sand.
The Flamboyant cuttlefish, Metasepia pfefferi, is an astonishing little animal found primarily in muck habitats. These vast, rolling underwater plains of settled silt and mud appear desolate at first glance, but are in fact populated by an unexpectedly large number of strange animals including frogfish, ghost pipefish and a stunning array of nudibranchs. Fitting right in with these odd neighbors, the Flamboyant is normally a master of camouflage blending in completely with the grey substrate. When startled, however, those previously subdued colors change to bright purples, reds, yellows and whites. The colors shine out in coruscating patterns along the animal’s body.
Flamboyants are incredibly bold, even when startled, and will hold their ground while putting on their color show for an amazingly long time. These fantastic displays have helped make ‘muck’ diving popular, have put Flamboyant cuttlefish on the top of underwater photographer/videographers “must shoot list” and have made them a pined-for-but-rarely-obtained aquarium specimen.
Hatchling Metasepia on sand, with all the coloration that adults have.
The ‘Flamboyant’ part of the common name is easy to understand, but the ‘cuttle’ or the ‘fish’ part might be a little less straightforward.
The origins of the word ‘cuttlefish’ or ‘cuttle’ have not been been nailed down. According to cephalopod researcher John W Forsythe, “The name Cuttlefish originally came about as the best guess of how to spell or pronounce the Dutch or perhaps Norwegian name for these beasts. It is derived from something like ‘codele-fische’ or ‘kodle-fische’. In German today, cuttlefish and squids are called tintenfische, meaning ‘ink-fish’. I’ve been told that the term fische actually refers to any creature that lives in the sea or are caught in nets when fishing, not just fishes. Anyway, that’s what I understand the derivation of name to be.”
Adult Metasepia.
Recently there has been a movement, at least in public aquariums, to make the names of certain animals more ‘correct’ to avoid confusion. For instance, neither Jellyfish nor Starfish are fish, thus they are now referred to as Jellies and Sea Stars respectively. Perhaps it is time to refer to cuttlefish as cuttles, because they aren’t fish at all. Cephalopod researcher Dr. James Wood sums it up clearly; “Octopuses, squids, cuttlefish and the chambered nautilus belong to class Cephalopoda, which means ‘head foot’. Cephalopods are a class in the phylum Mollusca which also contains bivalves (scallops, oysters, clams), gastropods (snails, slugs, nudibranchs), scaphopods (tusk shells) and polyplacophorans (chitons)”, however unlike their relatives, cephalopods move much faster, actively hunt their food, and seem to be quite intelligent.”
There are actually two species in the Metasepia genus, Metasepia pfefferi, the Flamboyant cuttlefish, sometimes referred to as Pfeffer’s Flamboyant cuttlefish, found from the Indonesia to northern Australia to Papua New Guinea, and Metasepia tullbergi, the Paint pot cuttlefish, found from Hong Kong to southern Japan. Both species are small, having a mantle length of 6-8 centimeters, with the females’ being larger than males. Distinguishing the species visually is difficult, and telling them apart relies on subtle differences in the animals’ cuttlebones.
Metasepia, like all cephalopods, have three hearts (two branchial or gill hearts, and systemic heart that pumps blood through the rest of the body), a ring shaped brain, and blue, copper based blood. They have 8 arms, with two rows of suckers along each arm, and two feeding tentacles tipped with a tentecular club. The shafts of the feeding tentacles are smooth, while the grasping face of the club is covered with suckers, some of which are proportionally huge. The tentacles and tentecular club shoot forward to snare prey and pull it back to the arms. Once gripped by the arms, the preyis manipulated to a beak-like mouth and a wire brush like tongue called a radula, both of which help reduce the prey to appropriate size to be eaten. Reducing the food size is critical because the esophagus actually runs through the middle of the cuttle’sring shaped brain; swallowing something too big might damage the brain.
The Flamboyant’s striking color changes are accomplished by organs in the skin called chromatophores The chromatophores are neurally controlled and allow for instant color changes over the entire skin of the cuttlefish by triggering muscles to change the amount of pigment that is displayed. The skin patterns aren’t necessarily static either, they can move, like animation on a TV screen, and are thought to aid in communication, hunting and camouflage. This is evidenced on the dorsal surface of the mantle where violet stripes can often be seen pulsing across the white areas Metasepia.
In addition, to evade predators or hide from prey, Flamboyants can also change the shape of their skin by manipulating papillae across their bodies to break up their body outline. The larger papillae on the top side of the Flamboyant cuttlefish’s mantle don’t change at all.
Flamboyants use a three-tiered approach for movement. They have a fin that girds their mantle that allows for fine movement, and they can use jet propulsion via water pumped over the gills and through their funnel, which allows for surprisingly fast movement. Most amusingly, Flamboyant cuttles often amble or walk across the substrate using their outside pair of arms and two lobes on the underside of their mantle as ‘legs’. In my experience, Metasepia prefer this walking to swimming and only leave the substrate when extremely threatened or are overly harassed by groups of divers overzealously trying to get the perfect photo.
One of the most well known features of cuttles is the cuttle bone, which is often used by pet owners to provide calcium for caged birds. Cuttlefish use this multi chambered internal calcified ‘shell’ to change buoyancy by quickly filling or emptying the chambers with gas. Interestingly, while the cuttle bone of most cuttles is as long as the animal’s mantle, the diamond shaped cuttlebone of the Flamboyant is disproportionately small, thin, and only 2/3 to ¾ of the mantle length. The small size of the cuttlebone may make swimming difficult and may accounts for the Flamboyants preference to ‘walk’ along the bottom.
Like other cephalopods, Flamboyant cuttles can also produce copious amounts of ink if startled. It is thought that the ink acts as a smokescreen to allow the cuttlefish to escape predation, but most of the Metasepiainking events I have seen have been more along the lines of ‘pseudomorphs’, or blobs of ink that are thought to further aid in escape from predation by presenting the predator with multiple targets.
Recent research by cephalopod researcher Mark Norman, as reported in the episode of the television series NOVA – Kings of Camouflage, takes a step at explaining the weird colors, the fearlessness, and walking behaviors of the of the flamboyant cuttlefish.
According to Norman “Well, it turns out the flamboyant cuttlefish is toxic. It’s as toxic as blue-ringed octopuses. And blue-ringed octopuses have killed humans from their bites, so we’ve got the first deadly cuttlefish in the world. And it’s amazing on a couple of levels. First of all, it’s actually poisonous flesh, the muscles themselves are poisonous. So this is the first time that flesh that is deadly has been reported in any of these groups of animals. And secondly, the toxin itself is not known. It’s some completely different class of toxins. And toxins like those could be the key to whole new discoveries for lots of human medical conditions… This is a fantastic result, because it makes sense of what we’re seeing in the wild. And this toxicity, this poisonousness is probably what’s underpinning the whole weird behavior of the animal. And the fact that a group of animals that normally swim around or spend a lot of time trying to be camouflaged, have become so obvious, have given up swimming, are walking everywhere, it’s like a major step towards a whole new line in the evolution of these animals.”
It is also possible the bite and ink of the Flamboyant contains toxins, so any handling of these animals should be taken with a good deal of caution and forethought.
Metasepia begin life as tiny eggs laid in crevices or under overhangs or sometimes hidden inside a sunken coconut husk. The eggs are laid individually, and are approximately 8 mm in diameter. Unlike some cuttlefish species, the female does not incorporate ink into the egg mass, so the egg appears to be white or translucent. This makes it easy to see the developing cuttle inside., Hatchlings are roughly 6mm in length at hatching and are miniature versions of adults. These are instant predators ready to get out into the world and start changing colors and eating a diet of mostly small crustaceans, stomatopods and sometimes fish.
A 2 day old hatchling Metasepia. Note the coin is under the container holding the animal.
Like all cephalopods, Metasepia grow very quickly and can reach adult size somewhere between 4 and 6 months after hatching.Adult female Metasepia are larger than males, reaching 8 centimeters in mantle length while males top off at less than 4-6 centimeters in mantle length; this may account for the size discrepancy in descriptions of these animals. Like most cuttles, Metasepia mate by coupling head to head. The male deposits a packet of sperm called a spermatophore, via a groved arm called a hectocotylus into a pouch in the female’s mantle. The mating is very fast, the male darting in, making his deposit, and darting away, perhaps due to the threatening size difference of the mates.
Metasepia have a lifespan of about a year, and the end can be ugly as the animal enters into what is known as senescence. Motor control begins to fail, lesions can appear on the skin, and the cephalopod seems not to care about anything, including food or having arm tips eaten by bristleworms or hermit crabs.
Keeping Metasepia: Ethical considerations
The idea of keeping the more exotic cephs – Wunderpus photogenicus, Thaumoctopus mimicus, and bothMetasepia spp – has generated much discussion in cephalopod circles, mostly because the size and health of their wild populations is unknown. Even the sharing of information, photos or video of these animals in captivity can be controversial. Some fear that detailed information and attractive photos may encourage inexperienced saltwater aquarists to obtain specimens and encourage over-collection, perhaps impacting the ability of wild populations to recover.
Personally, believe that the admiration of a species can be of benefit to its preservation in the wild rather than its detriment. Experienced cephalopod keepers can and have made positive additions to the overall knowledge about these animals. My hope is that the open sharing of information empowers aquarists to make sound, rational decisions regarding the advisability of keeping these animals.
Keeping Metasepia is not something that should be entered into on a whim and even experienced cephalopod keepers with mature tanks should think long and hard before obtaining this species. Their needs are resource intensive, specific, and not yet fully understood, so if you do decide to take give it a go, take your time and please document your efforts so others can learn from your successes and mistakes.
Getting an animal
The biggest drawback to keeping any cephalopod in aquaria is getting one. Cephalopods are notoriously terrible shippers, often arriving at their destination dead in a bag of ink-filled water. This may have to do with an inherent inability of the animal to deal with the stress of shipping, or it may be because the time and effort needed to ship these animals successfully is not well understood. Either way, currently importers are wary of ordering these animals because of their poor survival rate through the chain of custody.
The aquarium trade does not distinguish between the Metasepia species, and if you are lucky enough to find one, and willing to pay between 300 and 800 dollars US per animal, you really can’t be sure which species you have. I do think that most of the animals that make it into the trade are actually Metasepia tullbergi from Japan where they have been tank raised. Metasepia pfefferi, to be best of my knowledge, have not tank been tank raised anywhere.
What’s even worse about trying to obtain one of these animals for your aquarium is the idea that most of the animals imported are single adult males, which means they may only live for weeks or months and there is no possibility of eggs or breeding. Over the past 7 years I have been able to obtain 3 live Metasepiaspecimens, once driving from San Francisco to Los Angles and back in the same day to give the animal every chance to survive. All were adult males and lived between 2 and 4 months.
A mature aquarium with stable reef like water quality is necessary for housing Metasepia. Water temperature should be approx 78f (25.5c), salinity 33.5-34.5 ppt, pH 8.1-8.4, with ammonia, nitrite and nitrate as close to 0 as possible. Ammonia seems to be particularly problematic for cephalopods so regular testing and an ‘ammonia alert’ card are useful to determine the frequency of needed water changes.
Metasepia and the authors wife in Lembah, Suliwesi.
A good skimmer is necessary to provide oxygen and nutrient export as well as to provide “insurance” for any inking events. Carbon, along with mixed and heated saltwater for water changes is good to have on hand as well for any inking. A good amount of live rock and/or macro algae is a good “bonus” for filtration and shelter.
A substrate area of at least 36×12 inches (standard 30 gallon breeder aquarium) is recommended to provide enough ‘walking’ room for a single animal. I prefer to use a muck substrate substitute like Carib-Sea mineral mud, in combination with 4×6 inch sections of any of the ‘mud’ products available, but since Metasepia don’t dig, a fine sand bottom will also work adequately.
Simple fluorescent lighting is enough for the Metasepia, though something more powerful may be necessary if keeping macro algae or simple non-stinging (Discosoma, Nepthea, Xenia etc) corals along with the cephalopod. High intensity lighting should be fine as these animals are diurnal.
When possible, I like to keep my cephalopod tanks plumbed into a larger reef system. This allows for a larger overall water volume, more stable water conditions and alleviates the need for extra equipment. SinceMetasepia don’t escape from aquariums like their octopus cousins, a tight fitting lid isn’t needed and plumbing into an existing system is easy. Best of all, a tank plumbed into a larger system can be taken off line and put on line very quickly given the availability of Metasepia.
I prefer to not keep any other fish or ceph with the Metasepia. Either the Metasepia will eat the fish or the fish will harass the Metasepia. In reality, these animals are so rare in the trade that I am an advocate of anything that gives them a better chance at survival… which means avoiding annoying tank mates. Clean up crew animals such as snails, hermit crabs in moderation, and bristle worms won’t be eaten by the Metasepia, and will help clean up any uneaten food.
If the Flamboyant arrives in good condition, it may start eating right away – the three I have been able to obtain over the years have eaten within minutes of being released into the aquarium. Metasepia seem to need to eat more than other cuttles, and I suggest feeding them at least 3 times a day. If the animal doesn’t get enough food, it may begin to float at the surface and not be able to fully submerge; it seems lack of food may be related to poor buoyancy control. I have heard accounts of the backs of under-fed Metasepia actually drying out from the animal not being able to get away from the water’s surface.
Almost any live shrimp will be eaten with gusto. I have used live and frozen saltwater ghost shrimp(Palaemontes Vulgaris) and local San Francisco bay bait shrimp (Cragnon spp) with great success. Start with live and then experiment with thawed frozen because one of the most important things you want from a newly imported Metesepia is to get the cuttle eating. Live crabs seem less interesting to Metasepia than to other cephalopods, and thawed frozen krill has been flatly ignored.
After 8 years of fruitless effort, I was able to obtain a group of Metasepia for captive breeding at the Steinhart Aquarium in the California Academy of Sciences. While the group suffered 80% loss in the first week, 90% in the first month, we were able to mate one male with several females which then laid eggs. Some of the eggs have developed, and at the time of writing, we have two hatchling Metasepia and several more eggs developing. This is a good, but baby step on the road to being able to keep and breed these animals in captivity. I am working hard to keep the hatchlings alive.
What this experience tells me is that even with all the resources of a Public Aquarium, wild caught, adult Metasepia are difficult to keep alive for any length of time. However, the small success means there is hope on the horizon for studying, appreciating, and breeding this amazing cephalopod in captivity.
If you are interested in keeping cephalopods, there are several species that are easily available, better understood and make better starter cephs than Metasepia. Please do some reading on www.TONMO.combefore purchasing any cephalopod.
References and other sources of Information
Hard Copy:
Dunlop, C and King, N. 2008. Cephalopods: Octopuses and Cuttlefish for the Home Aquarium. TFH Publications. 269 pages
Hanlon, RT and Messenger. 1996. Cephalopod Behaviour. Cambridge University Press. 232 pages
Jereb, P. and Roper, C.F.E. (editors). 2005. Cephalopods of the world. Issue 4, Volume 1, FAO. PP 60-62
Norman, Mark. 2000. ‘Cephalopods a world guide’. ConchBooks : pp.86-89
Nesis, KN. 1987. Cephalopods of the World. TFH publications. 351 pages
Nova, Kings of Camouflage; http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3404_camo.html
Wood, J and Jackson, K, How Cephalopods Change Color;http://www.thecephalopodpage.org/cephschool/HowCephalopodsChangeColor.pdf
CephBase; http://www.cephbase.utmb.edu/TCP/faq/TCPfaq2b.cfm?ID=4
www.TONMO.com
www.DaisyHillCephFarm.org
www.TheCephalopodPage.org
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River Thurne
Postcards from the Norfolk Broads.net
River Bure
River Ant
River Yare
River Waveney
Lower River Bure
Early Days & Art Cards
The River Thurne
Thurne Dyke
Reproduced with permission from Jarrold & Sons Ltd
Thurne Dyke and Mill near the junction of the rivers Thurne and Bure. Thought to be photographed in the late 1940s. The mill was acquired by Mr. R. Morse in 1949 and he restored the building externally. Since then it has become well known as the ‘White Mill’ and is thought likely to be the most photographed mill on the Broads, if not in the UK?
There is nothing to help identify the Yacht in the foreground, although moored behind her are two Herbert Woods yachts of the Leading Lady type.
This yacht nearest the camera appears about to leave on a broad reach. Of course, you couldn’t actually do that, its almost a lee shore. The yacht crew would need to raise sail with the bows facing upstream and then turn to sail away off the wind, probably helped by the quant or backing the jib.
At times, on the Broads, when sailing with a [more or less] constant following wind direction but with each ‘reach’ of the river requiring a new course, sailing can be almost akin to tacking ‘down wind’ and it may be that this is what is happening here? I doubt this however, due to the yacht’s proximity to the bank.
Photo © John Hinde Ltd
Here is my first mystery challenge, 2009:
This is Thurne again but, I believe, some years later. Probably around 1965 -70? (posted 1975) Again, we clearly have a ‘Leading Lady’ (see addendum below) on the moorings but the smart yacht in the foreground has all but defeated me.
She looks to be just over twenty foot and is clearly well maintained and in hire, note the Blakes Yacht Owners Association plaque. She is still ‘in varnish’ but is not a Hunter yacht. The twist in her mainsail may suggest a gaffed rig but given the length of mast visible I would lean more towards a Bermudan.
Her lines remind me of the older Wroxham yachts or ‘Reverie’ (Gunter) and ‘Squall’ (Bermudan) built by Fred Press and on hire from Chumley & Hawke at Horning, after the war, and latterly from Eastwood Whelpton (at nearby Upton) where they were presented with white hulls. Unfortunately, I cannot confirm this, their numbers do not match and I do not have a good picture of these yachts in varnish. Her trunk lifting roof could be a clue but it has not helped me in this case.
Exceptionally, her number: A 992 is very clearly visible in the original picture. This should be a rare gift but I have failed to trace her, even with the help of Craig Slawson’s excellent database at www.horning.org.uk/boats
The Answer: 15th May 2009. Thanks to the help of Craig Slawson himself, I am now confident that the craft above is 'Pimpernel' a 23 ft 6inch 2-3 Berth Auxiliary Yacht from the yard of Ernest Collins at Wroxham. I had also acquired another picture showing her to be Gunter rigged and sailing with the optional self-tacking jib. With hind sight and when you know her rig you can just make out her gaff in the picture. it is not obvious because it is aligned perfectly with the mast. The Pimpernel class were auxiliary sisters to the engineless but otherwise similar 'Mayfly' class.
© Blakes Holiday Boating 1966
Craig has kindly provided me with this image from the 1966 Blake's catalogue.
Addendum (2) September 2015: I am pleased to say that another visitor to this site has been able to assist in the identification of the other yacht, in this view, which I had too hastily assumed was a 'Leading Lady' class. I wrote the above article back in 2009 and now I have to agree with Peter Baynton that it is surprising that he is the first person to question this identification? Back in 2009 I took one look at the long foredeck and the centrally raised roof section with side windows and jumped to my conclusion. At the time I thought that this was a feature exclusive to the 'Perfect' & 'Leading Lady' classes. All the smaller Herbert Woods' group yachts had variations of the, more common, one piece roof design; although the rather different 'Twilight' class did have a central section but that tilted up from hinges at the forward bulkhead. To this day I was not aware that the Fair Lady class (which, until now, I believed was simply the Auxiliary version of the 'Fine Lady' class) also enjoyed this full length feature.
I am grateful to Peter who was a regular hirer of these yachts, and thus very familiar with them, for pointing out the correct identification to me.
Here are the details of 'Fair lady' from 1975, unfortunately Blakes used the same picture for many years and this is the best I could find. The first two of these yachts were introduced as a new class rather than an upgrade, in the early 1960's. They remained in hire at Herbert Woods' Ltd. until the early 1980's when that company finally disposed of their remaining yacht fleet. Following that, examples were available for hire from Barnes Brinkcraft and Mike Barnes' Norfolk Broads Yachting Company. There is a rather better picture of 'Fair Lady' to be found on the River Ant page.
Finally, my earliest details of 'Fair Lady' yachts which are from 1962. From the information I have: the first examples must have been built between 1960 and 1961. I just need to check now that it is actually Thurne Mill in that postcard!
Another favourite for its atmosphere. Thurne Dyke circa 1965.
For me, Thurne retains the flavour of rural Norfolk villages having thus far avoided the attention of the property developers. I remember visiting the shop on the quayside, but this is now an extended private home. In the distance you can distinguish a Martham Boat Building and Development Company cabin cruiser, perhaps of the ‘Janet’ or ‘Judith’ class, and the River Commissioner’s Launch nosing into the dyke on its patrol duties. Outside the store is an Austin A40 ‘Dorset’ a model that was produced from 1947 to1951 but the little green Reliant is possibly even more nostalgic. It is a Reliant ‘Regal’ Mark III, a model that was first sold in November 1956 and superseded in November 1958.
It is perhaps surprising to find that this picture is probably over forty years old? Certainly the young couple enjoying the view do not especially give that away. This actual postcard is postally used and bears a Queen Elizabeth 11 2½d stamp. Unfortunately the date on the post mark is illegible but I believe that these stamps were replaced in 1967, where-after one separate 1/2d stamp was used in combination with all other whole amounts. In any event I sent a copy of this very card to my own girlfriend in 1967.
I returned there, with her, in 1970; on the occasion of my twenty first birthday. It was also the occasion of my first little yachting incident. Something that all Broads yachtsmen will have experienced - being cut up by a motor cruiser! That holiday was my first attempt at yachting on the Broads and at the time, I was a very inexperienced sailor. The humorous writer Michael Green defined his ‘Coarse Sailor’ as someone whom, in an emergency, forgets all nautical language and shouts “for God’s sake turn left!” That’s pretty much what happened to us, this day.
We were sailing back from Horsey Mere and had decided to put into Thurne Dyke for the night. When we got there, the wind was fairly fresh and blowing straight down the river. I put our yacht onto a beam reach opposite the dyke with the intention of luffing up into the wind and stopping neatly at the dyke entrance; where it is widest by the mill. From there we could motor into the dyke and moor up in a smart and seamanlike fashion. Good plan eh? I thought it was too until, just as I was about to luff, a bloke in a motor cruiser decided to overtake me on my windward side! I suppose that, if I had been quick witted, I might have put up my helm and gybed around for another try but I was neither quick witted or brave enough to attempt this and I found myself sailing full-pelt up Thurne dyke; between the moored boats and not much idea of how to stop. There wasn’t even room to ease off the mainsheet and spill some wind! So at the first gap in the moored boats, to windward, I turned left! There was probably less than the yacht’s own length to stop in and we hit the piling with a pretty hard bang. Fortunately, as far as I could tell there was no real damage done but it was a bit nerve wracking for a while there. My first case of rhond rage!
This recollection of Michael Green’s quotation prompted me to root out my copy and re-read his book for the first time in many years. I was very amused to hear him recall a similar incident when he sailed up Thurne dyke [in his case] with a following wind. He doesn’t explain how he came to be in that predicament (temporary insanity of ship’s captain perhaps?) but his solution was to bring the mud weight aft and drop it over the stern! I suppose that might help? I do know that if you let one fall off the fore deck, when heeled, you end up tacking around in ever decreasing circles until it dawns on you what has happened!
© www.judges.co.uk
I couldn’t have resisted this one! It is the first cabin cruiser my family ever hired, on the Broads; ‘Royal Times’. She was also the first Cruiser built by Ernest Royall when he founded his own fleet, at Norwich, around 1950. ‘Royal Times’ was soon followed by her sister ‘Royal Trail’ and it would appear that both the cruisers were present when this picture was taken; although it is not possible to be certain which is which? For many years ‘Royal Trail’ was presented ‘in varnish’ but this photograph (which must date from the late 1960’s or early 1970’s) shows the boats after they had been updated. The most obvious modification being the wooden wheelhouse sides and roll-down canopy. Originally they had a solid canopy and canvas side curtains. A third cruiser ‘Royal Tour’ was listed in the 1950’s but disappeared soon after. I do not know what happened to her and can only imagine she was a casualty of some sort; perhaps the classic Calor Gas leak?
These boats were replaced in the early 1970’s by the ‘Royal Command’ class which was based on the Bourne 30’ GRP Hull.
Womack Water - Ludham
A 'Colour Master - International' Postcard
Cruisers moored ‘stern-to’ at Ludham Staithe - Womack Water, thought to be around 1970.
S887 ‘Fiesta’ is a 36 foot, centre cockpit cruiser of 6 berths, on hire from Stalham Yachting Station.
Alongside her is W110 ‘Fair Quest 1’ A 28’6” aft cockpit cruiser of 3 berths. On hire from Herbert Woods Ltd - Potter Heigham. It is believed that this cruiser was originally ‘Dawn Falcon’ of Dawn Craft - Wroxham.
It was during this period, some time after the death of Herbert Woods that his group had been taken over by Ladbrokes and many ex-hire boats were bought up from other companies. A good example being a number of the ‘Vesta’ 4 Berths from ‘Landamores’ of Wroxham who disposed of all their hire cruisers after the 1967 season.
I had initially taken the boat lying to her mud weight, in the background, to be a Collins’ Silver Emblem or White Emblem as, like them, she is clearly of the Bourne 35 class. (See: Horning Ferry Reach)
This was questioned by Craig Slawson and after some discussion, and much magnification, we agreed that she is ‘Congressman’ built by the Norfolk Broads Yachting Company at Wroxham. She was a six berth, centre cockpit cruiser, of 35 foot and she was later moved to Compass Craft at Horning.
The hulls for these boats were supplied by Bourne Plastics (Nottingham) and, initially the Broadland boat builders finished them with wooden superstructures. I imagine that the designer drew the lines for the topsides but there would have been some latitude for variety in the design and finish of the final builds.
I hope that this illustrates, it is not always as easy as it may appear to identify boats from such old pictures and that I am always happy to receive input from others.
This is [for me] a more interesting view of Womack Water and Ludham Staithe. The land opposite is undeveloped and judging by this and the boats I believe it to have been photographed around 1960.
In the foreground is moored A276 ‘Gliding Stream’ she is a 2 berth, Woods ‘Starlight’ class on hire from the Southgates main-yard at Horning which was part of the Herbert Woods group.
The tiny cruiser, setting off, is T88 ‘Petit Barsac’ (5) a 19ft, 2 berth cruiser design unique to the firm of R. & C. Bondon of South Walsham who named all their craft after French wines.
The larger cruiser moored stern-to is clearly an early build of R. Richardson’s, of the ‘Wayfarer’ type but unfortunately I have been unable, thus far, to pinpoint which class she is?
In the far background we can just make out a Moore’s cruiser which appears to be of the ‘Benmore’ type with the small viewing cockpit forward and a Herbert Woods’ cruiser, probably one of their larger classes.
Copyright J. Salmon Ltd., Sevenoaks, Kent ©
“Royal Command I” slips past the moorings at Womack Boats on her way to the Ludham Staithe, in the early 1970’s.
This class is instantly recognisable to me and a personal favourite because I enjoyed two weeks charter of Royal Command II myself, in 1974, she had a GRP hull and mahogany topsides. Royall’s are a long established family firm of the very highest repute and are surely one of the very few firms still to be run by members of the founder’s family? You can find photographs and the story of this holiday of mine at their web-site: www.royallsboatyard.com / Journals / Memories from the 1960’s & 1970’s.
© Hoseasons Ltd 1976
I am not so familiar with Womack Boats who only appear to have been trading from here for a few years? The cruiser behind ‘Command’ is “Lady Sacha” and the little cruiser, facing her, with the windows in her upper hull is “Sacha Maid”. Nearest to the camera is “Sachina”; hmmm am I starting to see a trend here? I don’t know the identity of the blue boat (or if she was really blue, for that matter!) but she has the look of a Peter Pan class from
H. T. Percival of Horning
Ludham Staithe © Brian Kermode 2004
Womack Water, these days, with ‘Gala Girl 1’ a Sheerline or Aquafibre type, 28' 2-3 berth cruiser, on hire from Summer Craft of Wroxham in 2004. Summer Craft is a family run business with a reputaion for immaculate hire craft and was established in the 1950's with a small fleet of cruisers built by Moores of Wroxham and Brooms of Brundall. Undeniably two of the finest boatbuilding firms in the region at that time.The Summercraft yard at Brimbelow Road was also the location where Ernest Royall first established his business at Wroxham - Hoveton.
The Yacht moorings at ‘Herbert Woods’ Broads Haven - circa 1950.
This earliest of Broads marinas was initially completed in 1931 and had a footbridge over the entrance dyke for those who must walk along the rond to reach the numerous riverside bungalows of Potter Heigham on the west bank.
Moorings on the main river bank, were usually reserved, for the yard’s many yachts so that they did not need to pass under the foot bridge, into the main marina. That would require that they lower their masts to enter or leave. It also provided a likely spot for visiting yachts to stop and lower their mast before proceeding under the bridge.
The nearest boat appears to be of the ‘Leading Lady’ class (although the possibility that she is Ladybird cannot be ruled out - see Lower River Bure) Leading Ladies were 32 foot, 5 berth yachts distinguishable by their full length lifting cabin tops which had hinged mahogany side elevations with windows. This was an innovative ‘Herbert Woods’ design feature of the ‘Leading Lady’ and ‘Perfect Lady’ classes which were designed and in-hire before the 2nd World War. Originally, they were presented with their mahogany hulls in bright varnish. It is probable that the yacht further back is of the slightly smaller (28 foot 4 berth) ‘Perfect Lady’ class?
Realistically, these yachts are distinctive in themselves but it is not always possible to distinguish between the two classes in a picture postcard. The two designs’ appearances are very similar albeit the four foot longer ‘Leading Ladies’ had a proportionately longer fore deck and a flatter sheer line. Therefore a little guess work is inevitable and hopefully will be forgiven.
Thankfully we can be a little more confident about the identity of the two cabin cruisers on the moorings. Nearest the camera is B761 one of the ten ‘Starlight’ class, 24 foot, forward cockpit, 2 berth cruisers from the fleet of Herbert Woods.
Astern of ‘Starlight’ is B140 ‘Gipsy Maid 2’ a cute (well, I think so!) little pre-war cruiser showing the “trunk roof” style, popular when she was built. That is to say that the hull sides were raised to allow almost full headroom in the forward cabin. The foredeck would be flush or (as in this case) the central area would be further raised, usually incorporating side windows, to allow full headroom where it was most needed. The 23 ft. Gipsy Maid 2 had three berths in two cabins and could be hired from Eastwick’s Yacht Station at Acle Dyke. If you look carefully their burgee can be clearly seen on Gypsy Maid’s bow.
In 1939 a week’s holiday in the high season, just before war broke out, would have cost £10. That is around £490 today.
Postcard by ‘Marlyn Art’ Co. Ltd. Westcliff-on-Sea
The view into ‘Broads Haven’ marina from the footbridge. Thought to be around 1960.
In the foreground is A315 ‘Spray’ She was a 33ft.6in. 'Eastick's 34' design, four berth cruiser. 'Spray' was built in 1954 and was in hire from Turner’s Boatyard (Horning) Ltd. for approximately thirty years. By 1965 she had received a face lift which included the painting of her hull in white. This yard's small hire fleet was founded by Alfred Turner after the 2nd World War but was later sold to Mr Dennis George, who changed the name and the pennant, this was probably in 1953.
'Spray' and the Auxiliary Yacht 'Daffodil' were the first new additions to the fleet for the 1954 season; after the change of ownership. The remaining fleet of four yachts, two motor cruisers and several houseboats was eventually sold off in1983. Recently I was pleased to discover that 'Spray' is still around and cherished by her current owners in really nice original looking condition. She even retains her proper name, a nice touch which always appeals to a nostalgia junky such as myself. Here's a recent photo:
Photo Courtesy of Hayley Warne
Moored alongside (in the postcard) is S188 ‘Osprey 2’ a 41ft 6in. 7 berth on hire from R. Richardson (Pleasure Craft) Ltd. at Stalham. Osprey 2 differed in appearance from the rest of her class with her varnished hull and in that her Galley and Heads were in the fore cabin. This gave her forward windows a distinctly different look to that of her six sister craft.
I have not attempted to identify the craft in the moorings behind, except to say that the white hulled cruiser directly behind ‘Spray’ is similar to W766 Waveney Cruisers’ ‘Anglian Sonnet’
The present day Potter Heigham Staithe, Repps bank, probably in the late 1960’s. A day boat looks to be leaving a little too much wash for comfort on the moorings?
Across the river can be seen the previously mentioned footbridge over the entrance to ‘Broads Haven’ In those days, visiting craft who wished to proceed upstream under the road bridge would call here to take on board the bridge pilot. His technique would include a confident approach followed by a slight cut back in power on entry and a burst of throttle under the bridge to make the boat’s stern sit down lower in the water. If the pilot was in luck you may meet another craft coming downstream and he would step across to her without the need to stop. You are well advised to use the pilot service. Many hirers have ignored this rule and come to grief; at times, much to the morbid amusement of the onlookers, both locals and visitors.
On the right we have ‘Princess of Hearts’ a 36 foot cabin cruiser of 7 berths from Hearts Cruisers of Thorpe - Norwich. She carries the yard’s signature life belt, bearing her name, and one piece sliding wheelhouse which was a pioneering design when these craft were built. The company later became part of the Herbert Woods group.
On the yacht moorings one can identify a ‘Gay Lady’ and a yacht of the Leading or Perfect Lady classes. Perhaps more intriguing is the yacht in mid stream that appears to be under [lowering] sail with her boom in the long crutches and the cabin roof raised.
Broads yachts are supplied with two pairs of crutches. A long set to support the boom and awning overnight and a short pair to support the spars and lowered mast when passing under bridges. Even with her mast lowered it seems doubtful that she would make it under the bridge rigged in this way?
An ‘Ernest Joyce’ of Norwich postcard
Just down stream of the famous ‘Potter Heigham Bridge’, River Thurne. Thought to have been photographed in the early 1960’s or perhaps even the late 1950’s?
‘Vesta’ 2 (About to pass under the bridge) is evidently still on hire from her builders E.C. Landamore & Co. of Wroxham. Landamores disposed of all the motor cruisers in their hire fleet in post-season1967. In this photograph Vesta still bears the images of their burgee embossed on her transom.
Vesta 2 was one of those craft that later remained in hire from the Ladbrokes/Herbert Woods Group. She was 32 foot long and had berths for a party of four. In any event this card has been seen postally used four years earlier in 1963.
The yacht, midstream is most likely the ex-Applegate's 'Peggy'. A 26 foot 2 berth, Gaffer. A rig which was less common from Herbert Woods, who was an advocate of ‘Bermudan’ rigged Broads yachts, but she was built by George Applegate Jnr., whose firm was taken over by Herbert Woods, and later absorbed into the Broadshaven fleet. From her position and the wind direction, it seems likely that ‘Peggy’ is about to turn into the wind (although she may have to ‘bear away’ a little first to avoid the cruiser passing across her bows!) and come alongside the Herbert Woods yacht moorings, ahead of ‘Gay Lady’ perhaps to lower her mast and make her way upstream to enjoy the sailing at Horsey Mere and Hickling Broad?
The ‘Gay Lady’ class yachts were 24 foot, 2 berth, Bermudan rigged craft, also on hire from Herbert Woods’ famous ‘Broads Haven’ at Potter Heigham. They could be distinguished by their stepped side decks and were also built for hire from the Southgate's and Applegate's yards where they were known as the 'Fair Breeze' and 'Freedom' classes.
Aren't these older cards atmospheric? I love them. This is the yard of George Applegate Junior, near Potter Heigham Bridge in the late 1940’s. Herbert Woods bought this yard in the early 1950’s but it continued to operate under its original identity for some years. The yard had a small fleet of cabin cruisers, yachts (such as the popular Winsome and Welcome class) and half deckers like the boat being prepared for a hirer here.
The cruiser moored alongside is ‘Saint Felix’ a 26 ft. aft cockpit craft with two berths. This boat was part of the original Applegate fleet and was replaced in the early 1950’s. Herbert Woods wished to preserve the, perhaps, more personal small yard atmosphere of this business; for customers who preferred that, and built several new craft which retained the classes’ “Saint” names and livery of Applegates.
The fact that the boatman chooses to prepare the day boat mid-stream surely indicates quieter days on the River Thurne but perhaps he is just bringing her across from the firm’s moorings opposite? Those moorings on the south bank were originally the location for George Applegate Senior’s boat hire business and, famously, that gentleman stayed in a quirky little, round, thatched cottage by the bridge which became known as the “Peggotty House,” presumably because it reminded people of the character in Charles Dickens’ ‘David Copperfield’ who lived in an upturned boat.
The house stood near where the white launch is moored in this picture. When I saw this building whilst browsing through some old postcards, I was surprised how familiar it looked. I could not possibly have remembered it in reality. Then I recalled the Coot Club books and found that the building appears in Arthur Ransome’s pen and ink drawing of Potter Heigham Bridge which is in both of those books. I cannot be precise but it seems to me that the Peggotty house was demolished around the time of, or during, the 2nd World War. It would be interesting to hear from anyone who can help with this.
In 1948 ‘St Felix’ or her sister craft ‘St Winnold’ could be hired for £22/10/0d a week in the high season or £613 in today’s money.
A view of Potter Heigham Bridge from upstream, thought to be around 1970 and, judging from the elevated view point of the camera, photographed from the new road bridge, which opened in 1968.
The wherry left me slightly mystified at first. I thought it might be ‘Albion’ during a period of maintenance but that usually takes place during winter and at Lake Lothing, Lowestoft. I have come to the conclusion that the wherry was that of Di (Dionysius)Thain whose father, of the same name, was a coal merchant and Wherry owner from the West Somerton / Martham area. Up to the 1960’s Di Thain Junior's family operated motor wherries in this area, latterly carrying out maintenance work such as dredging. Di would have been in his seventies by then but I am unsure when the business ended. I don’t believe that this is ‘The Fir’ but it is probable that she is ‘I’ll Try’.
In the foreground, approaching the bridge is ‘Commando’ first on-hire in 1958 from Waveney Yacht Station at Burgh St Peter she was 30ft. and had 4 or 5 berths. I hope the family are planning to stop for the bridge pilot because I wouldn’t like to be sitting on the stern there, going through!
‘Commando’ was sold to R. Richardson’s at Stalham but, judging from her turn out here, the artist's brush has been brought into play again. When new the boats ‘Commando’ and her sister ‘Grenadier’ (also the similar ‘Grebe’ from J.E. Fletcher at Oulton Broad) were finished in bright varnish, showing off their mahogany hulls. Later still: she was sold into the fleet of Womack Cruisers and her name was changed to ‘Sir Percivale’
Moored further downstream, by the Bridge Hotel, the white cabin cruiser is one of Fowler’s ‘Cheerful Waters’ class, of 36ft, 6 berth craft from their base at Oulton Broad. This class had their galley in the fore cabin which is the reason for the front facing window and skylight which can be seen in this picture. She was built around 1960 and displays the down turned rubbing strake that was a signature of the original Austin Marine 'Ohio' and 'Barracuda' designs.
Fowlers took over that fleet around 1963-4 and renamed them in-line with their ' Waters' boats which also displayed a distinctive yard style and included Fowler's ‘flying cockpit’ designs. We know that after Fowlers took over the Austin Marine fleet they remained with Blakes for a few years, until 1969 when they switched to Hoseasons. The photographer's location and the Bluebird emblems both suggest that the photograph was most likely to have been taken in the late 1960's or early 1970's. Fowlers ceased trading from Oulton Broad in 1972, following the purchase of the land where their yard and those of several others were purchased by the Greater London Council. From 1973 their fleet was operated from Ripplecraft at nearby Somerleyton; who eventually bought up the craft in 1977. Please see the Acknowledgments page ref. Peter Waller.
© Hoseasons Holidays Ltd 1969
‘Calm Waters’ class. Included to illustrate the ‘flying cockpit’ dual steering style referred to above:
This is the dyke at Martham Ferry Boatyard in the early 1960’s. Most likely a Saturday morning before the hire craft had departed on their week’s charter? The actual ferry across the nearby River Thurne is not so much a ferry as a floating pontoon that can be swung into place, bridging the river and enabling vehicles to cross.
The original ‘Laura Craft’ yard had some nice cabin cruisers built but after a change of ownership the yard was probably best known for their ‘Cresta’ yachts built in strip mahogany to their own designs and intended to provide both spacious accommodation and good sailing performance. They had a distinctive style and appearance, shared throughout the fleet, that made them instantly recognisable.
Unlike the generic Broads yachts, Crestas had no lifting cabin top. Instead they employed a little more ‘freeboard’ and the saloon cabin was raised ‘dog-house’ style to provide an ever ready and spacious interior. There was also a sliding hatch which could be opened under the awning to allow full standing headroom when on moorings.
The yachts were all Bermudan rigged (with roller reefing) and had their masts mounted in a tabernacle on the cabin roof. This arrangement was quite unusual (for the Broads) and meant that, there was no counter weight to assist in lowering and raising the mast for bridges. To compensate an ‘A’ frame supported the mast whilst a winch was employed under the fore cabin deck head. This design meant that it took a little longer to raise or lower the mast, than in traditionally equipped yachts, but resulted in the advantage of greater space below. A similar arrangement is to be found on A.D. Truman’s yachts which were also of distinct design and had similar specification but not appearance. (See: River Ant)
That said, the yacht nearest the camera is B673 ‘Vagabond’ one of [part owner] Bernard Sinclair’s earlier hire fleet and a well known and powerful 27ft. Gaff Sloop of 2 to 3 berths built in the traditional Broads style. She could be hired for £22/0/0d (or £26/10/0d with an outboard motor) per week in 1969 and was described in Hoseason’s brochure as “built for the enthusiastic and experienced helmsman.” In other words “far too much of a handful for a novice, best not bother applying!” Vagabond is now in private ownership and still races in the ‘river cruiser’ class.
Addendum-March 2010: I was delighted recently to receive feed back from Mr Tim Harding who has owned and raced 'Vagabond' since the mid 1990's. I am grateful for Tim's assistance which has helped me to clarify some more of her fascinating history. 'Vagabond' and her sister 'Rogue' were built, in 1914 by the original Norfolk Broads Yachting Company which had bases at Potter Heigham, Wroxham and Brundall. After that firm's founder died the business was continued at Wroxham, only, by the Potter Heigham foreman Alfred Pegg whom, Tim believes, probably designed and built the yacht . In any event she remained within his hire fleet up until the 2nd World War where-after she was sold into private ownership. Her known owners being a Mr. Laws and Mr Oleranshaw, a stalwart of the Royal Cruising Club. Finally, Bernard Sinclair bought her and returned her to hire; where she remained in the Martham Boats fleet after he became a partner there.
The ‘Cresta’ classes were similar to each other in appearance but came in different sizes to accommodate the numbers in the visiting crew.
The smallest class was the 21ft, 2 berth ‘Crestette’ an example of which lies astern of Vagabond. Then came ‘Cresta’ at 26ft. and 2 or 3 berths (it was a common feature of these craft that one saloon berth could be extended into a double), ‘Cresta Maria’ at 28ft. 6in. and 4 or 5 berths and the slightly larger but similar 30ft. ‘Crestella’. As far as can reasonably be told, these classes seem to be represented in the picture with Cresta Maria and her sister Crestonia ahead of Crestette and Cresta in the distance.
Crestella was the last of their type and enjoyed the advantages of an alloy mast and jib furling gear. Later the ‘Cresta’ name was continued with but the firm employed the practice of buying in stock yachts and adapting them for Broads use. ‘Cresta Nova’ was such an example being based on a Sabre 27 and ‘Cresta Belle’ a Kent 8 metre, both described as motor sailors.
This was a sign of the times as the skills of the designer and boat builder fell into decline with the advent of mass produced GRP boats. Increasingly, yards bought in ready assembled ‘bare boats’ and fitted them out or recycled ex-hire boats sold off by other firms.
This trend was probably less evident, as a means to expanding their fleets, in yards which kept yachts in hire. Nevertheless, as Broads sailing, itself, declined in popularity and became more of a niche market many firms seemed to see no future in building yachts for hire and abandoned this side of their businesses. There are now only a handful of devoted yards that preserve the remaining broads yachts, on an independent basis, and sadly the ‘Cresta’ fleet is one that has, as such, disappeared.
'Cresta' in Hickling Dyke c.1970
Postcard by ‘Coastal Cards’ of Holland-on-Sea
As we leave the River Thurne, near Martham, our cruise takes us into Kendal Dyke, sometimes referred to as Candle dyke, and on through Heigham Sound to Hickling the largest of the Broads. There seems to be some confusion about the correct origin of the name for Kendal Dyke but my personal theory is that Candle is how the former sounds in a Norfolk dialect?
This is the ‘Pleasure Boat Inn’ dyke at Hickling Broad, around 1946.
Prince Phillip, perhaps then better known as the ‘Duke of Edinburgh’, famously stayed at this pub when a guest of Lord Desborough at the annual winter ‘Coot Shoot’ because the usual accommodation at nearby Whiteslea Lodge was flooded. I think that was in 1959.
The Cabin Cruiser nearest camera is of the ‘Tuscan’ class. There were four examples but, despite knowing that this is B150, I am unable to be more precise. Tuscan’s sisters were: Trojan, Talisman & Toreador. These were 30 foot 4 berth cruisers, in the raised fore-deck style, popular before WW2. She was on-hire from Ernest Collins & Sons (the first yard signed to Blakes in 1908) at Wroxham and appears to reflect the high standards of presentation for which that yard was known.
Blakes Holiday Boating1959
In 1948 a week’s holiday in Tuscan, during the high season, would have cost £31/10/0d. i.e. £858.40 in today’s money (2008)
The craft moored ahead of Tuscan is thought to be one of the double-cabin, 34 foot, Gaff rigged ‘Ripple’ class yachts, of 6 berths. Note the distinctive feature, that is her lifting cabin top to the after-most cabin only. The fore cabin would have had a large skylight. Ripple1 was built in 1922 and two more examples appeared in the next few years. There was also a smaller (28 ft. 4 berth) sister yacht Buzzard but she did not appear until a few years before the 2nd world war. The two classes remained in hire from the firm of the accredited founder of Broadland boat hire: John Loynes at Wroxham until 1973 or 1974. By which time they were the only surviving yachts in the firm’s fleet. This was about the time that sailing holidays were in general decline. John Loynes himself, of course, had already passed away by then, in 1939, when he was 96 years of age, and the Loynes family had sold off their interests in the firm by 1959.
So, not quite a record but very long service for the original Ripple, in fact, just over fifty years in hire. Luckily this yacht is one of those which are still loved and survive to this day, in private hands, and registered in the Cruiser Class. Her current owner, Josh Slater, was kind enough to send me this picture of her looking spectacular on Barton Broad. Her crew have taken in a reef here but I expect she will be carrying a slighter more powerful rig than that of her hire fleet days anyway? In fact if you compare Josh's photo with the 1926 brochure image it is plain to see how much more canvas she carries these days. Who knows, maybe Josh will need to invest in a full set of signal flags for her centenary in a few years?
Image courtesy of Josh Slater © 2013
When this class was new: a week’s holiday aboard ‘Ripple’ (during high season) would have cost £11/10/0d. (£11.50 if you’re under 50, or so) which is the equivalent of £595 (in 2013) Nevertheless that’s around 15 to 20% less than the cost of hiring a similar sized yacht these days.
Another similar view of the Pleasure Boat dyke, you can just see the Inn through the trees to the left. This picture is also thought to have been taken around 1946
The only identifiable craft here is ‘Truant’ a 29ft. 4 Berth, Auxiliary yacht on hire from Eastick’s Yacht Station at Acle Dyke for £20/5/0d in high season1947, including a rowing dinghy. Truant was fitted with her engine for the 1948 season and her charges were increased to £29 per week.
Horsey Mere
Before we leave this beautiful area and make our way back to the River Thurne, why not make one last diversion? Just off the northern end of Heigham Sound, to our left, is the entrance to Meadow Dyke; a narrowing waterway of around a mile long. This waterway leads to Horsey Mere; a pleasant, reed fringed broad, popular with yachtsmen for some fast, open water sailing. However, depending upon the wind direction, they may need to quant or motor through the narrow dyke to get there?
At the eastern extremity of the broad are public moorings at the Staithe. The mill, at the end of the dyke, is popular with photographers and is open to the public. Horsey Mill is one of the few, locally, to have an external gallery. The gallery can be seen here, just below the fantail and visitors are allowed to climb to the top of the Mill and enjoy the panoramic views from this vantage point.
Visitors to this website will probably know, by now, that the cabin cruiser moored in the foreground is a ‘Janet’ class, from Martham Boat Development Company. In this case: Janet 2. These craft were modernised in the late 1970’s and lost their ‘stepped’ deck. The fore cabin superstructure was renewed to join a new flush deck and give a rather more up to date appearance. Nevertheless their distinctive hull style remains very recognisable:
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Growing up in the shadow of grief
How a soldier’s death ripples through his San Antonio family
Xavier Turner tucked his hands into the straps of his backpack as he waited for his mother, Kat. She was late picking him up from school. His phone rang. “Mom is about to pull up,” Kat said. “I’ll see you in a sec.”
The teachers and counselors at Jose Lopez Middle School know Xavier by the toothy smile they say can light up a room. The 12-year-old with a moon-like face spends a lot of time daydreaming about impossible things.
Xavier’s dream is to build a time machine when he grows up. Then with luck he can travel backward and save his father, Wardell Turner, 48, who died in combat in Afghanistan in 2014.
He clambered into his mother’s car when she arrived. Kat apologized for being late and handed her youngest son a cup of horchata. “This is so good,” Xavier said.
The mother of five asked Xavier about school. Worry lined her words. Xavier began struggling in school after Wardell died, an event Kat calls “the loss.” His teachers said Xavier’s attention drifts away, especially near days special to him and his father. Concerned about Xavier’s academic progress, they scheduled tutoring for the state’s year-end standardized tests.
Xavier, his seat belt on and sipping on his horchata, said school had been OK. His smile disappeared, replaced with words that were low and noncommittal.
In almost three years since his father’s death, Xavier has grown up in the shadow of grief. He is one of an estimated 12,600 military children who lost parents to combat, accidents and suicide and other causes during America’s war on terror. These children were on average 10 years old at the time of their parent’s death. The years that form their identity are spent coping with sudden loss.
A national study by the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress analyzed records of the families of the 15,938 service members who died between 2001 and 2011. Among families that lost a service member, 44 percent had one child, 36 percent had two children, and 20 percent had three or more children.
Conversations with Kat and her family over the course of five months offer a glimpse of how the nation’s wars impact those who lost spouses, parents, role models.
Kat said there are many days when she wishes Wardell, the stern sergeant major, was still around to take care of Xavier, to help him with schoolwork like he used to. There are days when the grief hits Kat so hard she doesn’t want to stand up. There are days when Kat wonders if she’s good enough to grieve and mother at the same time.
“When you lose a spouse, you don’t feel like a good parent,” she said. “Together, we were amazing, but it doesn’t feel so awesome now.”
Experts say children working through grief regress in some ways and mature far beyond their age in others. Xavier’s story is one of confronting, at an earlier age than most, an eternal and bedeviling question: how do we think about death and loss?
He said he knows his mother, his teachers, and his school counselors are all working to help him. His worries that low grades take away the smiles he usually beams to others.
Whatever feelings he has, he said it’s important for him to present a smiling face to the world. This keeps everyone happy. This ensures no one worries too much about him. The only thing, Xavier said, is that every so often, he just wants to run away.
A last fishing trip
A framed photo of Wardell is one of the first things visitors see when they enter the Turner’s family home. He stands straight and tall in his Army dress uniform in the picture with all his medals and ribbons on. Anyone who walks through the house passes under his steadfast gaze.
Kat hurried past the photo one Sunday in February as she cleaned the house before dinner. She always wants the house presentable before people come in. The special occasion: her middle son Devin was visiting home from Fort Hood.
Chicken warmed in the oven for a Sunday dinner. The family always ate together, Kat said. They did everything together. Wardell and Kat had a rule: if any of the five children participated in a sport, everyone supported them, for as long as the game or match or race lasted.
“Wardell,” Kat said, “used to tell our friends, ‘you keep the kids as close to home as long as possible, because in that way, they are much less expensive.’”
The pair met in high school and married in 1991. Their five children arrived during Wardell’s 24 years in the Army. A daughter, Shayla, then four sons: Quinton, Devin, Chase and Xavier.
On deployments, Wardell tried to talk to Kat every day, if he could. In a letter he wrote to Kat from Afghanistan, Wardell recalled how back in the day he used to send her letters from Bosnia and how he used to pay out the nose for phone calls from Germany. In Afghanistan he could simply text her every night. “I just wish I am around to see what’s next ... maybe a teleporter!” Wardell wrote.
Wardell, an Army drill sergeant and military policeman, never brought the “big bad sergeant” act home. Kat wouldn’t let him. His philosophy was to lead his children to the edge of the nest and let them either fly or fall. For Kat, on the other hand, the only option was to succeed. Her children were going to fly.
Devin, the middle child, arrived at the dinner table with the youngest, Xavier. Chase, the fourth child, silently set the table. Representing Shayla, the oldest child, were her two sons, Elijah and Gabriel. There was no place set for Quinton, the oldest son, away in El Paso.
Kat sat at the head of the table. The family dined on chicken, red potatoes, and cheesy broccoli. Devin poked at his chicken and settled the occasional dispute. Xavier was the goofy one, “a goober” as his mother calls him, the focus of everyone’s jokes.
Wardell and Kat were parents for 20 years by the time Xavier was born in 2005. Xavier was the baby of his family, as Wardell was in his. Wardell wanted to be there for him. He was always coaching him in peewee sports. Xavier said his earliest memory is of playing golf with his dad in South Korea.
Wardell told Kat that Afghanistan was his last deployment. He talked about retiring, about setting roots. The family went on a fishing trip in upstate New York before he left, catching only small fry. Still, in photos Wardell holds up each fish like a prize catch.
After dinner, Kat passed the portrait of Wardell as she ascended the stairs. She turned right past her boys, who had reassembled in the video game room they call “the man cave.” She walked past Xavier’s room to a small alcove where she keeps her husband’s mementos. In this room are photos of her and Wardell in high school, his old uniforms, his letters to her from Afghanistan. This is her refuge, a room her children can enter only with her permission.
Kat learned about her husband’s death after a string of phone calls on a Monday morning in November 2014. Two men in uniform wanted to see her. They came to her workplace, a manila envelope in hand. Their words emerged in slow motion. Wardell served as the top enlisted soldier for a unit training Afghan troops. On a convoy in eastern Kabul, a truck bomb blew apart Wardell Turner’s vehicle, killing him and another soldier.
“When they said ‘Sergeant Major Wardell Turner was injured by an IED, I was still holding hope,” Kat said. “Then they said the words, ‘has succumbed.’ That’s all I needed to hear, the word, succumb.
In the weeks afterward, Kat said she and the rest of the family felt like zombies. Devin had joined the military and had deployed to Afghanistan at the same time as his father. He came home in the back of the transport plane carrying his father’s casket.
That Christmas the family grieved in their home in Fort Drum, N.Y. Xavier spent most of the winter break watching Christmas movies: “Home Alone,” “Frosty the Snowman,” “A Charlie Brown Christmas.”
After the loss, the once outgoing child was like a turtle who hid in his shell, Kat said. Nearly 15 percent of family members have grief with a moderate to severe impairment, a 2016 study in the Journal of American Psychiatry found. Kat said she took Xavier to a psychiatrist, who diagnosed him with depression. “He became this little ball of introversion,” Kat said.
After the school year ended, Kat moved the family from New York to San Antonio. They had lived in Texas once before, and Kat wanted to go back.
“There was no place we went where we could smile,” Kat said, “and I could do that in San Antonio.”
Captain America flashback
Before the beginning of each school year, Kristen Latronico-Limon checks the incoming students for military children. Latronico-Limon, 40, has watched hundreds of children of active-duty soldiers walk through the halls of Lopez Middle School in her nine-year career as counselor. Xavier was her first student who lost a parent in combat.
Studies of child grief show rates of depression as high as in adults. A 2009 study in the American Journal of Psychiatry followed 176 bereaved children over 21 months and found high rates of anxiety as well as depression, alcohol and substance abuse. Research also shows grieving children score lower grades than their peers.
From his first week of sixth grade at Lopez, Xavier struggled. At school, he struggled with staying on task and completing his work. At home, he had days where he’d go to his room and fall asleep. The sleep didn’t make him feel better, but it burned up the time. There were days he wondered why he had to go to school or why he had to pretend to be happy.
His grief was most evident in the days surrounding the anniversary of his father’s death. His teachers said it was as if he would go into a trance.
“They would have to remind him five times to put his name on the paper,” Latronico-Limon said. “He shut down, he just would sit there in class.”
Sometimes, Latronico-Limon would bring Xavier into her office to talk. She has a journal for him there. Blank pages for his thoughts. She said sometimes Xavier writes in it. Sometimes he writes one word. Sometimes he stares at the paper.
Children have a harder time communicating than adults. As a result, their grief emerges in their behaviors. It’s common for bereaved children to act younger and more immature, according to Carla Stumpf-Patton of the Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors (TAPS), a national nonprofit.
Cheryl Lankford, widow of Command Sgt. Maj. Jonathan Lankford who died in Iraq in 2007, said her then 2-year-old son lost the ability to speak afterward. Her son was potty trained, could speak, could dress himself, could sleep through the night. He had to learn those life skills again, she said.
“For a young mind, it takes a little time,” said Lankford, whose son, now 13, sometimes plays with Xavier.
The paradox is children grow immature while dealing with questions their elders struggle to handle. “You can see a regression in their behavior,” Strumpf said, “and in some ways, they’re forced to grow up.”
This reaction is normal, psychologist Vanessa Jacoby said. “The fact that a child is struggling emotionally or academically does not mean something is wrong,” said Jacoby, who works with military children at Fort Hood. “That’s OK.”
Nearly every adult in Xavier’s life wonders whether his inattentiveness is the result of his grief, or the result of being a kid. Cory Hebert, a fourth-grade teacher near Fort Drum, taught Xavier before and after the loss. Xavier was inattentive at times but his grades were always good, Herbert said.
Delva Perez, Xavier’s counselor in fifth grade, said they took the stance that his struggles came from his coping. “Did he have attention issues previous to this? A little bit, but not to the extent of where it is now,” Perez said.
In November, before the anniversary of his father’s death, Xavier came into Latronico-Limon’s office after leaving his theater class. The students had been learning improv. Another student made a silly superhero pose.
One of the last films Xavier saw with his father was a superhero movie, starring Captain America. Another student hammed it up the same way Wardell used to do when he play-acted with Xavier. Xavier, who had not told his classmates about his father, broke down and cried in front of them.
On that day, Latronico-Limon said Xavier drew in his journal the bulls-eye shield of Captain America. “Circles, over and over and over,” she recalled. “The paper was a little wet from his tears.”
The family foundation
Whenever Xavier climbs into his brother Devin’s car, he always sits in the backseat. “He’s adamant about that,” Devin, 23, said. “I tell him, I’m not your chauffeur.”
Devin, home again from Fort Hood, pulled out of his mother’s driveway. Kat had dispatched Devin and Xavier to buy chicken legs, a foil baking pan and ginger ale for the night’s supper.
Each soldier’s death deeply affects around 10 people, according to TAPS. When Wardell died, the loss rippled outward like an earthquake and shook each of Kat’s five children, in their own ways, to their very foundations.
Devin asked for a reassignment to be near the family after the loss. Now, with only a few months left on his Army contract, he looked forward to moving out on his own.
“I think I’m going to write a book,” Xavier said from the back seat of the car.
“About what?”
“This character, Bisquit Truflame,” Xavier said. He explained the protagonist of his book was a biscuit who becomes a warrior to save the kingdom.
As he drove, Devin recalled how Kat had made all her children write to keep busy. He argued with Xavier over whether being invisible — specifically not being able to see your own feet — would hamper movement.
“What if you’re going down stairs?” Xavier said.
“Do you look at your feet when you’re going down stairs?” Devin asked.
“Yeah,” Xavier replied, “if it’s a long stairs.”
The two brothers arrived at the grocery store and wandered the aisles as they ticked down their list. Xavier trailed his brother by a few feet. He bumped his hand back and forth against Devin’s arm. Devin struck back in the meat section with a brotherly karate chop to Xavier’s ribs.
Then the banter stopped in the greeting card aisle. Xavier began talking about Devin’s plans after leaving the military. The older brother’s eyes narrowed. His face grew severe. His younger brother had broached a sensitive topic: his plans for autonomy.
He had gotten defensive, Devin explained when the two arrived home. Xavier is his brother, but he’s also a child who sometimes doesn’t know the messy rules and boundaries of adulthood. Devin dropped off the chicken legs and left to meet a friend.
Shayla, at 33 the oldest child, arrived at the home with her two sons shortly after. She put sausage on the stove as she helped her mother cook. Shayla had grieved the same way Xavier did, Kat said.
Shayla said she tried to suppress her grief. Wardell was a father figure for her two sons, Elijah, 11, and Gabriel, 8. She needed to act strong for them. “They’re not used to seeing me cry,” the single mother said. She coped in the same way when her father left for deployments growing up. “I could act like my dad was still deployed.”
Then this year on her birthday the grief caught up to her, and she broke down because her father always used to call her each year, no matter what, no matter where he was. “Hey there Sally,” Wardell would say, using the goofy nickname he coined for her.
Quinton, the oldest son, fell furthest after the loss, Kat said. He was always rebellious, always had his problems, but after the loss his drinking grew out of control. Shayla said she worried her brother would drink himself to oblivion. Kat recalled how Quinton skipped court-mandated grief counseling. Today Quinton, 26, sits behind bars in the El Paso County Jail on an assault conviction.
“He spiraled all the way down,” Kat said.
The sausages on the stove began to burn. Shayla turned the heat down. She said hello to Chase, who came home from his work as a child care provider.
Chase attended college in upstate New York at the time of the loss. He withdrew from school and came home to help with Xavier. “He told one of his friends that he was going to take care of me now. He wasn’t going to leave until I was all right,” Kat said.
In San Antonio, Chase’s work with children helped the 22-year-old grow up, Kat said. She and Wardell tried to set a strong foundation for the family. “All of them had their own individual struggle,” Kat said. Chase is applying to colleges. Devin is leaving the military. Quinton is in jail. Shayla recently started a new nursing job.
With Xavier, Kat said she can see him become more and more like his father. She wept in her bed one night — a hard cry, she recalled. Xavier came to her and asked her what was wrong. Kat said it was important that Xavier know it’s OK to feel sad. She said she could see Xavier was trying to act strong for her. And in the words Xavier used to reassure her, he reminded her of Wardell.
Peeling the layers
On a Wednesday morning in April, Xavier entered the atrium of Lopez Middle School. He walked downstairs where Kimberly Welch — Ms. Welch to Xavier — waited in her first-floor chemistry classroom, the one with a skeleton with a sombrero.
“Are you caught up in your homework?” Welch asked him.
Xavier emptied his backpack. He clasped his hands below the table. He told her no.
Welch had been tutoring Xavier before class each week. She is one of several tutors for Xavier. Others focused on helping Xavier prep for the State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, or STAAR test.
Welch said she noticed him in her class right away. “He is the sweetest pie, and he has the biggest smile that can light up any room,” Welch said.
Still, Welch said she did not know how to approach Xavier’s inattentiveness. Welch clashed with Kat at a parent-teacher conference earlier in the year over emails about Xavier’s homework.
Clad in blue running shorts and a long-sleeved basketball T-shirt, Welch read from the homework: “Which of the following statements best describe a compound?”
Xavier ran the back of his hand across his brow. His chin hit the table and his feet tilted from side to side as he stared at the paper. Welch watched him. As if sensing her gaze, Xavier looked up and smiled. She hunched down to the point her head was almost at table level, almost like Xavier’s.
“Take your time,” Welch said.
Welch said it took her from August to early February to figure out how to get through to Xavier. Xavier and Kat traveled to Orlando in February for a TAPS event. They visited Disneyland and attended the NFL Pro Bowl.
When Xavier got back, he was behind in all his classes, Welch said. She was talking to Xavier about his late assignments when she noticed Xavier’s head and shoulders had dropped. She had been stern, and Xavier said even if she wouldn’t show it, he could tell she was mad.
“His expression when he didn’t have that work just broke my heart,” Welch said. She said she realized teachers had read him the riot act in each of his six classes that day. Welch said she thought, “Omigosh, I feel like a b-word.”
Welch recently lost her grandfather. She said she can’t imagine losing a parent. The power dynamic between teacher and student flipped as she put herself in his shoes.
“He’s a kid who’s experienced more in life than I have,” Welch, 29, said. She said her relationship with Xavier improved, and a few times Xavier even opened up about his father.
Grieving children are often afraid of showing others they are grieving, and the stigma attached to death may make adults less able to help them. “Sometimes when adults are too quick to close a conversation about death with a child, we can actually communicate that the topic is dangerous or forbidden,” Stephen Cozza, associate director of the Center for the Study of Traumatic Stress, said.
These children have layers like onions, said Anton Simon, a counselor at TAPS who is an expert on interacting with grieving children. He interacted with Xavier at the event in Orlando. “You have to peel a little at a time just to get to the core of that issue,” Simon said. “They want to talk about it, that entry point will always come.”
In the classroom, Welch asked Xavier about first planet from the sun. She prodded him: “What’s in thermometers?”
“Oh, Mercury,” Xavier said.
Welch congratulated him. She drew in yellow highlighter the solar system — circles inside circles. The morning bell chimed. Welch looked at Xavier and told him he was all caught up. She paused, waiting for a reaction by Xavier. In the absence of one she exclaimed “Woohoo!” and celebrated by shaking her fists at eye level.
Slowly coping
The night before Xavier’s first STAAR test, Kat said she was in a mood. The house was a bit of a mess. Some days, Kat said, she cannot maintain the façade of a happy mom and a spotless house.
Despite how she felt, Kat brushed aside the Sunday newspaper she combs through each week. She began sifting through Xavier’s backpack as she prepared him for the week of testing ahead.
She quizzed him: “What causes consumer shortages in countries like Russia and China?”
Kat and Wardell’s dream of building a perfect life for their children ended in the fatal blast. After learning of Wardell’s death, she said she made a decision that day not to tell Xavier until he came home from school. It was a lie of omission to allow him one last day of normalcy. Kat said she feels guilty about that decision to this day.
Xavier came home on the bus later that afternoon. Everyone in the house watched him walk from the bus to the front door. She recalled his face as she told him what happened. “I just watched my baby, whose life was perfect, and it was like I just ruined his whole life,” Kat said.
Her approach to parenting changed in the aftermath. The little things didn’t matter so much. She balances Xavier’s grief along with her own. “You don’t have to take care of me,” Kat told Xavier one afternoon. “I’m not the first to lose a husband.”
Kat and Xavier go every other week to the Children’s Bereavement Center of San Antonio. Xavier found his time machine there, in the center’s replica TARDIS from the British TV show “Dr. Who.” Kat said that, as time goes on, she’ll take Xavier fishing again, if he wants to.
Many of the teachers and counselors in Xavier’s life lauded Kat’s “mama bear” desire to help her son live a healthy life. Kat recalled the hours spent helping Xavier with extra work. “It looked like he wasn’t going to get out of the sixth grade,” she said.
By the end of the year, Xavier’s grades and behavior improved over the fall semester, Latronico-Limon at Lopez Middle School said. The counselor met with Xavier on the last day of sixth grade. She high-fived him. She said she hopes the preteen can one day say: “This is why I am who I am, and this is what I’m doing to do to honor my father.”
Xavier said he thinks about running away sometimes. He envisions a tree house in woods beyond his backyard, its secret location known only to him. No one would have to know he was gone. And yet he stays in the house where his father’s picture hangs.
“Having a connection, that’s why I stayed here,” Xavier said. “We came down here to like, stay connected to his legacy. We do what would make him happy.”
For Xavier, time is a river. He feels he is downstream of events that have altered the course of his life. “Every death is like a block in the current, which leads to a new path,” he said.
His father left Xavier one final gift: scrambled eggs. Wardell taught him how to cook eggs before leaving for Afghanistan. His father loved to cook. He wanted to give his children independence.
One afternoon in the family kitchen, Xavier broke two eggs and mixed them in a red dipping bowl with a tiny whisk he twirled by the tip. He poured the eggs into the pan and scrambled them. “The more I move it, the more flavor it has,” Xavier said.
The first time Xavier made eggs his father asked him why he didn’t cook them all the way. Xavier told his father he liked to cook his eggs wet. His father tasted the eggs and said Xavier had been right to take his own direction.
The cooking complete, Xavier scooped the eggs onto a paper plate. They were light and fluffy, full of flavor, the way he liked it.
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Groups Oppose S. 1140
May 19, 2015 | Uncategorized
American Rivers • BlueGreen Alliance • Clean Water Action • Earthjustice • Environment America • League of Conservation Voters • Natural Resources Defense Council • Prairie Rivers Network • Sierra Club • Southern Environmental Law Center
May 15, 2015 (Download the letter here)
Dear Senator:
The undersigned organizations, and our millions of members and supporters, oppose S. 1140, the so-called “Federal Water Quality Protection Act,” which will be the subject of a hearing in the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, Subcommittee on Fisheries, Water, and Wildlife, on May 19, 2015.
Contrary to its title, this legislation attacks clean water protections. In fact, this legislation would halt an ongoing rulemaking to clarify and restore Clean Water Act protections for countless water bodies, including streams that contribute to the drinking water of one in three Americans. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Environmental Protection Agency are close to completing their Clean Water Rule, but S. 1140 would stop this important, scientifically rigorous rule before the public has even had the chance to see the finished product.
The agencies undertook a very transparent and thorough process in developing the Clean Water Rule, holding more than 400 stakeholder meetings and providing more than 200 days for public comment on the proposal, and conducting a detailed and open analysis and peer review of the science on which the rule is based. All stakeholders, including the over 800,000 members of the public who commented in support of these protections, should be given the opportunity to review the final rule.
This troubling legislation blows up the current rulemaking and forces the agencies to go back and solicit input from stakeholders they have already consulted, consider factors they have already considered, and then propose a rule (as they have already done). The Clean Water Rule has essentially been in the making for more than a decade and stakeholders from all sides of the issue have asked for a rule to provide certainty and reliability in the permitting process for waters covered by the Clean Water Act. There is nothing to gain by forcing the agencies to repeat years of analysis and consultation concerning this rule. Rather, this bill is simply a last-minute and thinly-veiled attempt at blocking these crucial protections and leaving our nation’s waterways at continued risk of pollution and destruction.
This legislation would not only halt the current rulemaking process, but also would create new impediments to protecting important waters and creates far more confusion than it resolves. The legislation would make it harder to protect streams and wetlands and would outright direct the agencies to exclude so-called “isolated waters” from being covered by the Clean Water Act. All of these new limitations on the Act’s coverage ignore the copious scientific evidence revealing the important role of headwaters and seasonal and rain-dependent waters on downstream water quality. The bill also includes new vague provisions that would add to the confusion, rather than clarify which waters are protected.
This legislation is also a waste of taxpayer money. It requires the agencies to jump through numerous procedural hoops as a new rule is created – to no evident purpose. The legislation also directs the agencies to map all protected waters in the country, even though most water bodies never need a determination of their status under the law; that typically becomes necessary only when a discharger seeks to release pollutants into water bodies.
Finally, the legislation lays out a time frame that is all but certain not to be met, thereby setting the agencies up to fail.
For all of these reasons, we oppose this legislation.
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Does anyone know how to contact Cyphre?
I would like to hire Cyphre to port R3-GUI, if he's still interested. If anyone knows how to contact him, please let me know. Or if anyone is still talking regularly with Carl, I'm willing to pay his rate for a port of R2/View to some new platforms. Or if anyone else wants the work...
posted by: Nick 19-Feb-2018/15:31:20-8:00
I could make a token contribution to the R2/View project. My approaching fixed-income status would keep it a small contribution. Sometimes something that works is better than something that is perfect but does not exist.
posted by: Steven White 19-Feb-2018/17:44-8:00
I appreciate that Steve :)
why are you asking for this ?
What about funding together an unified engine made of R3GUI and R2VID and the bestpart of other engines like VID EXT KIT, RebGUI...
Henrik, Cyphre and Rebolek could work together on this....
I'd like to see the rich history of code written in R2 run on modern platforms.
posted by: Nick 24-Mar-2018/23:17:46-7:00
I'd be happy to see any full featured version (with GUI, graphics, networking (with a full suite of protocols), sound, etc.) of any Rebol language (R3, Red, etc.), working in the browser, on iOS, and on Android. Until then, no Rebol language will be used as a mainstream tool, and the community will stay small. All I've ever wanted to see is a bigger community. With a big community, the ecosystem flourishes and tools, examples, etc. stay current.
I still do not have the "big picture". Since VID relies on REBOL like language, are you talking about a full port, including REDBOL or some other approach ?
m s g
posted by: Giuseppe Chillemi 27-Mar-2018/2:24:01-7:00
I'm talking about porting all of R2, or some other feature complete version of a Rebol language to run in a web-brower, iDevices, etc., in the same way the Cyphre ported R3 and R3-GUI to run on Android, so that a complete Rebol environment exists to develop and deploy apps on those platforms.
Nick, after months of hard work we are very close to VID in the browser. Brian has now nailed the basics with the help of the emscripten authors to help fix their side of the equation.
Now, we need to decide on what dialect we want to support i.e. VID or something else. And since Brian isn't interested in actually writing the JS widgets, we will need to find a coder to do that tedious side of things. But the heavy lifting has been done. We could just use a JS GUI but the preference is not to make it that heavy.
posted by: Graham 8-Jul-2018/16:28:04-7:00
By the way, I don't think we really want VID on Android. VID as written is a desktop GUI with no support for gestures, pagination etc. We need to be able to build a native Android GUI presumably using a Java bridge.
That's fantastic to hear! Where can I follow progress?
posted by: Nick 9-Jul-2018/12:11:39-7:00
Chat is where we discuss this https://chat.stackoverflow.com/rooms/291/rebol
As mentioned above, we need funds to pay for a JS programmer. An intern for Brian.
posted by: Graham 10-Jul-2018/0:53:13-7:00
A very alpha rebol in browser is here http://hostilefork.com/media/shared/replpad-js/
Are there any estimates of cost and time required to complete an actually production-ready /View + /VID (or whatever variant GUI)?
posted by: Nick 10-Jul-2018/6:52:09-7:00
I don't think we've reached that point yet.
posted by: Graham 10-Jul-2018/21:14:01-7:00
But some input as to what is wanted is needed. I very much doubt I will be developing apps in the browser using VID so those that want this need to speak up.
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Top Evanescence December Search Queries
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Since the end of November, Evanescence has gone from exactly zero searches to a ranking of roughly #80, just below the Lycos 50. Right now Evanescence is blowing the critical darlings of 2002 away. They are about twice as popular online compared to The Strokes at their peak, and four times as popular as The Vines or The White Stripes at their peaks. Meanwhile, All American Rejects have racked up more searches last week than Limp Bizkit, and A.F.I. have reached an online popularity of Snoop Dogg.
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Searches for Goo Goo Dolls during the month of November on pay-per search engine Overture.com were quite strong. The veteran act received 75,973 searches for the month, while their most popular tune remained ‘Iris’, and their most popular member was by far frontman Johnny Rzeznik, even with the tough to spell name.
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Today’s Lycos 50 focused on the bands getting the most searches for guitar tablatures over the past year, with Nirvana leading the pack. Aaron Schatz told readers, “Nirvana is far and away #1 over the past month. You can probably blame their new greatest hits album for inspiring a whole new generation of guitarists to learn to play Nirvana tunes.” Next up was last year’s #1, Metallica followed by Incubus.
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Per Gessle at Ola 21:trettio (2003) - funny interview
Wed, 04/11/2012 - 17:14 — Nico
Girl (running): He has been a king since ’81!
Rep: He has been a king since 1981, here comes Per Gessle, ladies and gentlemen! Hi, welcome! Here he is!
Per: Thanks!
Rep: Do you feel well?
Per: Yes, I think that.
Rep: Great. Do you know what this is? now…now…
Per: Exactly, I know it! (laughs)
Rep: now…now…
Per: This is, well, we were in the studio, working with something. It was Joyride’s hay days and they said that they sold a Joyride-album every 14 seconds all over the world. And we were watching the clock: now, now… and so on. It was great.
Rep: It must have been a fantastic feeling.
Per: How do you know it?
Rep: I know such things. 55 million sold records all over the world. Shall we say this information? Shall we understand that there are hundreds of millions of people who listen to what you have done?
Per: I don’t know. It’s really powerful and remarkable.
Rep: Do you think about numbers sometimes?
Per: No, I don’t do that.
Rep: “Room Service”, Roxette’s latest album, has never been released in the USA.
Per: No…
Rep: Does it bother you? Do you get irritated or angry because of that?
Per: Well..
Rep: Because it is said that you are quite competitive.
Per: Not right now, but I was that before, in the middle of the ‘90s, after we had had a fantastic moment in the USA with our four number ones. I think we were neglected by the record companies because we were neither English people nor Americans. So I think that there are songs from Roxette album that should have better chances. But it is like that, we come from nowhere and we have already had our fantastic years. I can’t explain exactly.
Rep: Nowadays people discuss a lot about internet, about downloading songs, about the rights of the record companies. There are many people who download songs. What do you think about that?
Per: Well, I have my doubts about that. I don’t think that it is good to steal somebody else’s things. It’s nothing funny with that, it’s like you record by yourself on a cassette. I don’t think tghat you can do something against that. But what is it wrong with that? Is there anything wrong on the record or are there boring products? Can one do better records or better booklets? I don’t know, it is difficult to answer that question.
Rep: What do you think?
Per: I think it is the fact that on a CD-record there are only one or two songs which are good, the rest is just crap. It is also about the music climate that you want to have. It is very rare when you buy a record and you get crazy for all 12 songs or 13 or how many they can be. It was like that before. Now it is mostly the music climate that matters.
Rep: Would you get angry if people downloaded your songs? I download one Roxette-song a day. (they laugh)
Per: I don’t believe you.
Rep: It is true.
Per: No, as I said before, I have some doubts about that. I think that when you download a song means that you haven’t seen it yet. It gives an effect for the stage. I don’t know, it is difficult to answer.
Rep: Is it true that you had 100 LPs when you were 10 years old?
Per: Yes, something like that. You know that pop music has always been my biggest interest since I was 6 – 7 years old. My brother who was 7 years elder was teen-ager that time, at the beginning of the ‘60s.
Rep: Because you are still a big fan as you were that time.
Per: Yes, but after a while you lose from your interest. There come other things in life, like family and you grow up a bit… children, yes.
Rep: Children.
Per: Cars and such things.
Rep: Children and cars.
Per: Yes, children and cars. You don’t know exactly if you are so good in music. When you hear or write a good song, it is difficult to make it in another way. Of course I am still involved very much.
Rep: Your latest album, Mazarin…it feels that it has very much from you, compared to other albums, I mean it’s a bit private.
Per: Yes, it was planned to do an album in my own way, so not taking into account the rules that exist. I went in Skåne and worked in Christoffer Lundquist’s studio. I was there in the cold winter and lived in a cheap hotel. And Mazarin was born there.
Rep: Why did you live at a cheap hotel?
Per: Because there was nothing else open.
Rep: You know how it is in a cheap hotel, up and down.
Per: Well, there is no sport. (laughs)
Rep: No sport?
Per: But we wanted it to be like that.
Rep: Little action…
Per: Yes, something like that. And at 10.00 or 11.00 there was breakfast in my room and we started to work at 12.00 and we kept on working until 3.00-4.00 in the night. We do quite much music and it is very exciting. It was long time ago when we worked like that. Many years you just went to the studio and sat there, without going out, and it was boring. This time it felt like an experience from some point of views. It was like: you sit here near the bass, then you have to play bass and I am listening to you. It is perfect. We take it. Almost…
Rep: In which songs do you play bass?
Per: I play bass in a few songs. I can’t do that, but it sounds quite cool. (laughs) But it is like that. The attitude we have had and Mazarin is the most honest album we have done so far. It is much more difficult to be yourself if you write it in English.
Rep: As you said, you feel very courageously now at 44 years old...
Per: Have I said that?
Rep: Yes, you have said that. (laughs)
Per: Ok.
Rep: You said that, also when you were in Gyllene and later in Roxette with Marie.
Per: Well, it can be like that. The latest tour I have finished shows that I work differently.
Rep: A bit carefully, because you are 44 years old.
Per: Yes, something like that. (laughs) And with this album, I don’t want to prove something, I just want an album which represents me and which shows what I want to do.
Rep: Are you a god father?
Per: I don’t know, I try to be that sometimes. (laughs) I don’t know, it’s difficult to say. I hope so.
Rep: Is it scary to be a father? I don’t have any children, I am not a father.
Per: If it is scary? I don’t know how scary it is, but it is quite difficult. Perhaps all parents say the same... it is difficult.
Rep: Aren’t you afraid of dropping them on the floor? (laughs)
Per: Yes, but my son is 6 years old.
Rep: Yes, but you can remember since he was little.
Per: Yes, it was a bit scary at the beginning. I remember when Gabriel, my son, was born and was crying a lot and you had to hold him about 20 minutes... without any help... it was very strange, but of course that it was fantastic. But you can’t drop him on the ground!
Rep: You can’t?
Per: No... you don’t have to be scared! (laughs)
Rep: Well, I don’t know. (laughs) So I have to start, I have to get a baby soon.
Per: I think so.
Rep: Now we will listen together to your first experience.
Per: Great.
Rep: Ok, listen to this!
Per: Fantastic.
Rep: What is this?
Per: It is the intro of “I Feel Fine” with Baetles. It was the first great guitar sound that I heard. A great experience. (to the audience) Doesn’t it sound well? (laughs)
Rep: (to the audience) I don’t think they realise what it is. Perhaps they should listen to the first part of the song to see what we are talking about. But you didn’t care about what was coming next. You were just listening to the intro.
Per: Yes, to the intro. I have been like that since I was little. There can be such great sounds that you can listen to 1,000 times. It can be a little detail or some guitar sound like this.
Rep: So you give the first feedback, and then you play the song.
Per: I do that with almost all songs. There are many who get inspired from this kind of things. But in my world it is like that.
Rep: How old were you when you were listening to this?
Per: 6, 7 years old, perhaps.
Rep: 30 times in a row.
Per: Yes, something like this. When I grew up in the district called Furet, in Halmstad, I obliged my friends, to mime all these sounds on some special sticks that we used to play with and I was always John Lennon who played guitar.
Rep: Nice.
Per: You can still notice it.
Rep: So you are still John Lennon. (laughs) I see. But you haven’t done too much advertising.
Per: Not so much.
Rep: You haven’t done any advertising.
Per: Yes, but not so much.
Rep: What kind of advertising?
Per: When I was in Gyllene Tider, we had some promotional clips for Jordans Jeans, then we had an advertising for a milk-based drink called Big M – voluminous and important goods (laughs)... I think that we have done more advertising clips... like for Äpple Mer or something. Then we didn’t do so much, as far as I can remember.
Rep: Then you have done this commercial, too. Look here!
Per: Rickenbacker!
Rep: Rickenbacker.
Per: But it was not really a commercial. We had got those guitars and we had them in the picture. It was stupid! (all laugh) Well, Rickenbacker was an important label in my life.
Rep: Why Rickenbacker? Is it the same guitar that Lennon played?
Per: Yes, as well as Tom Petty and The Birds and others. Great music has been made with Rickenbacken guitars.
Rep: How many do you have?
Per: I don’t know, 5 – 6 pieces.
Rep: Is there a better sound from these guitars than from others?
Per: No, but they are different anyway.
Rep: Can you describe it?
Per: Well, Rickenbacker is the best when you want a 12-string guitar. You sound like The Birds, all those Birds hits that you remember since before you were born. (all laughs)
Rep: Yes, all those? (laughs)
Per: Yes. Well, perhaps there is somebody here in the audience who remembers Birds.
Somebody in the audience: Of course.
Per: Eight Miles High, Mr. Tambourine Man, the classical Rickenbacke. Then we have Tom Petty, who followed the tradition.
Rep: Do you use much Rickenbacke guitars on “Mazarin”?
Per: Yes, the refrain of the first song Vilket hall du än går, a big “party” with 12-string Rickenbacke guitar.
Rep: You know what priorities you have in your life. But can you understand that certain people think that you are more a business man than a musician?
Per: I don’t know, I like to organize things, I like to control everything, I have my texts in alphabetical order and every disk is in order. It is easy to live like that, it works quicker.
Rep: Impressing.
Per: I am a control-nerd, you know.
Rep: Are you?
Per: Yes. I think so.
Rep: How is it with this order from the other point of view? Do you have all your socks in order? And your shirts and so on?
Per: I thought I have put on black and white socks today, but now I can see that they are blue and white, can you see it here?
Rep: I can see that.
Per: I missed it.
Rep: Indeed. Oh, God! (people laugh)
Per: But I am like that. I have all my shirts in order, in fact. I have my records in alphabetical order. So yes. Short answer: yes. (all laugh) There are some exceptions, but, well, I have a family and it happens that my things are moved sometimes.
Rep: Do you get furious on Gabriel that he has moved one of your records to another place?
Per: Well....
Rep: Well... (all laugh)
Per: Not really furious, but somewhere there. But it happens to get a bit irritated, perhaps. (all laugh)
Rep: Don’t move your father’s things! Don’t move your father’s things!
Per: Sometimes our friends come to us and eat lunch and they point at any book or something, and I have all my books in a straight line, so when they touch them, they push them a bit inside. They think it is funny.
Rep: Have you never thought about any therapy?
Per: Yes, I have. (all laugh).
Rep: Have you been to any therapy?
Per: No. But it sounds cool.
Rep: Yes, I know it.
Per: How do you know? Have you been there?
Rep: No. In fact I have been there once. But I gave up because it was something too difficult.
Rep: But isn’t it difficult to live like that?
Per: No, I am used to that.
Rep: I wish I were the same, but I am the opposite. I am always very chaotic/disorganised.
Per: Well, I am like that. For example if the room is not cleaned, then I start to clean it. Clean all the time.
Rep: You know, on Friday I was thinking to invite you to my house to eat dinner. So you are welcome!
Per: I will come around 3.00 – 4.00 – 5.00. (all laugh)
Rep: So you come that time, how nice! Is it true that you have never watched a competition for music talents?
Per: I remember once when I was at my apartment in Halmstad together with Marie and we were watching “Dynastin” on TV, we were drinking red wine and watching TV.
Rep: No music talents competition.
Per: Like that you mean?
Rep: I was thinking about Fame Factory and so on.
Per: No. Such programmes are boring.
Rep: But there are artists, at least they will be artists.
Per: No, I can’t stand it. (all laugh)
Rep: You have your own beer, Per.
Per: Have I? Ah, you mean at the hotel.
Rep: Yes.
Per: Well, it is something modified by me. I have my own label.
Rep: I was thinking if you can do it here.
Per: Beer test?
Rep: Yes, a beer test. Jimmy Fun Lager is its name and it is only at the hotel, right?
Per: Yes, if you say so.
Rep: But you said that you are a control nerd.
Per: Yes, but not these things. I am a control nerd for something that I am interested in.
Rep: Aren’t you interested in beer, as well?
Per: Not so much. I like wine mostly.
Rep: Then we can try wine.
Per: What price-category? (they laugh)
Rep: Wine of 50 crowns.
Per: Well...
Rep: You haven’t drunk that for 20 years. Let’s say 200 crowns.
Per: I have bought a nice sort of wine – Kenty. I think that is very good.
Rep: Here we have the third sort of beer.
Rep: One of the 3 sorts of beer is your own beer from your hotel. (They write that Beer number 2 is from Gessle’s hotel) Jimmy Fun Lager or how is it called now...Leif’s Lager. (lager = storage)
Per: Shall I try them? Beer number 1.
Rep: You don’t have to say what the other 2 sorts are.
Per: No... Shall I drink some water after each sort of beer, perhaps?
Rep: I don’t know. You can do that when you test beer.
Per: Yes...
Rep: You can vomit if you want. (they laugh)
Per is testing from the second glass of beer: I hope it is not this one. (people laugh)
Rep: What did you say?
Per: I hope it is not number 2.
Rep: Now you have to taste number 3, too.
Per: I like just number 1.
Rep: You like beer number 1.
Per: Yes.
Rep: Then I tell you: number 1 was Carlsberg, number 3 is Åbro (all laugh) and number 2 is in fact Jimmy Fun Lager. Perhaps good luck that it is only at the hotel. But the taste is a bit strange. Is it you who has done the label?
Per: Yes, that is my drawing.
Rep: How nice you draw!
Per: Thank you.
Rep: You can say “hello” to your audience. I know that some of you have sent me some questions. Tommie?
Tommie Hansson: Well, Per, I wanted to ask you if you have got tired of the tour life and you have planned any digital concert like David Bowie had yesterday, which could be seen in the whole world.
Per: No, I haven’t got tired. I have never been tired on tour life, on the contrary, I like them. The latest Roxette tour of 2001, as well as Mazarin tour have been wonderful. In fact, you are another person when you get older, you have more self-confidence. We have great songs both in English and in Swedish. In case of Roxette, if we play 26 songs, 24 of them are hits. It’s just the years that can give them to you. I think I will keep on touring.
Rep: But how is it with your body? You had a disc hernia. How is it?
Per: well, I succeeded to lose a lot of weight and that helped me very much. I don’t have any problem with that, I train very much.
Rep: Anna?
Anna Lundmark: I wonder why your summer tour was just until Sundsvall and no more places.
Per: That is a good question. It was like that. It was not a longer tour. We should have gone a bit higher up.
Rep: Are you angry on him?
Anna: Yes, a bit.
Per: In fact, we hurried a bit. We have talked about that. We haven’t been higher up when Gyllene Tider had a comeback either. I don’t know, we will try to repair it.
Rep: You must have a tour in the Northern part of Sweden. Only Northern Sweden, don’t play here in the South.
Tommie: So it was a good idea with a digital tour. (people laugh)
Rep: Elisabeth? Ah, you are sitting there!
Elisabeth Hellerström: I wonder which qualities are important, in your opinion, for different types of music in this branch.
Per: Well, I will try to think about myself, it is...
Rep: Meticulous. (Per laughs)
Per: Well, I am not a very talented musician, or a special singer. I can’t read or write musical notes. In my case it is that I know how it should sound like, I know what I am looking for. Then I have a lot of people who work with me. Then I feel that these people that I work with work also with other people, where they do totally different things than they do with me. So I have done what I wanted to do with their help. It is difficult to answer this question. I don’t know.
Rep: You father died of cancer exactly when Gyllene Toder broke through. Was it difficult? Well, of course that it was difficult because your father died, but was there anything that he had never been able to experience? Something related to Per Gessle.
Per: Well, Mats Olsson wrote in Expressen that he liked Gyllene Tider. My father died the same day when the first article about Gyllene Tider was written in Expressen. Strange, perhaps. And after one week, my mother, who still lives, told me that my father could have never accepted that I became a musician. Then his brother told me that it could have been the main conflict in the family if he had been alive. So I don’t know. I don’t know exactly what could have happened. It was 1978, so long time ago.
Rep: Are you the happiest person?
Per: The happiest? Well, that is a difficult question.
Rep: When were you happy the last time?
Per: Well... Well... for example I like to fly. Yesterday I flew from France to Stockholm and I was very happy. (they laugh)
Rep: So we have to celebrate it. (laugh)
Per: Well, I have flown a lot, especially with Roxette. I like that a lot.
Rep: So we say like that.
Per: Yes, we can say like that.
Rep: Now you take your beer number 1 and I take number 3, so we leave here number 2. And Cheers!
Rep: And thank you for coming here. On Friday you will meet another singer.
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Nico, multumim frumos ca ai
am modificat, asta este
ok, scuze... chiar m-am
Here’s hoping that Romania
Eu l-am citit inainte sa-l
aaa, trebuie tradus :)) acum
Poze, filme si alte impresii de la concertul Cluj 2012
Roxette - poveste fără sfârşit
A dream fulfilled
After party Cluj
Roxette vine la Cluj
Organizare concert Cluj
vand 2 bilete la GOLDEN CIRCLE 150 IN LOC DE 220
2 bilete Golden Circle - 200 lei ambele
Campanie de ajutor pentru Tessa
drumul pana la cluj pentru concert
TDR calls all fans
link-uri Marie
Link-uri cu Roxette
Intalnire fani Bucuresti
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Однажды в сказке
Once Upon a Time premiere recap: 'The Savior'
A dream reveals Rumple's promises of being better is nothing еще than a tale as old as time
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It was called Once Upon a Time premiere recap: Season 6, Episode 1 | EW.com
Here's some stuff I remembered seeing:
Nick Jonas, Janelle Monae, James Corden and more at EW\'s ultimate pop culture festival.
'Once Upon a Time' bosses preview perilous times ahead in season 6
this season. I tend to consider myself a bit of a Regina with Belle undertones, because I’m a hardworking lady with a penchant for inconvenient naps, but that’s just a little about me. In short, work with me, tell me your thoughts, and maybe we’ll
find our happy endings this season — probably not, but still. You didn’t come here for that; you came to see how our Heroes are going to bounce back from the tomfoolery of last season.
), a man riding a horse, and another man on a magic carpet who is not the greatest shot with his laser magic. The man goes to visit a new Savior (
Emma), but the Savior isn’t seeing anyone today. And that’s when our boy, Jafar, rolls in, kills our friend on the horse, and then throws a nice lady against a wall. That leaves the Savior, who stands up to confront Jafar, and of course, it’s none other than Aladdin. Jafar gives him a speech about being a Savior and we get a little insight into the role… After giving and giving and giving, it appears Saviors do
live happily ever after. He leaves Aladdin shaking in his nice burlap wrap.
Back in Storybrooke, Hook and Emma are having a TIME making out on the couch like a couple of kids. But they’re interrupted when the house begins to twitch (the roof to pitch?). Nope, instead it’s a giant ship/blimp floating through the sky, and the residents of Storybrooke come out to see the shlimp (?) from the Land of Untold Stories. Of course, that’s when Hyde announces it’s just a few of his friends coming into town. Emma and Regina try to fight him, but it’s of no use.
Once the shlimp lands, Hook and Emma go to explore with the other residents, but no one is there. The team begins to savage the wreckage, but when a shield is thrown, it sends Emma into some PTSD-like flashbacks and she, too, gets the Aladdin tremors…it’s concerning, to say the least. But how did Hyde and his friends even get here? That deal with Rumple. So Rumple turned over Storybrooke, got Pandora’s box, and in turn was revealed a place called the Temple of Morpheus, which will allow him to walk through Belle’s dreams and wake her. He goes all
into Belle’s dreams and meets Morpheus, who asks if he’d like to wake her up, NBD.
Elsewhere in Storybrooke, Regina heads home to find new bestie/roomie/sister-friend Zelena watching over the new baby. Zelena mentions she has a feather Robin left her, but she can’t find it. It’s a little funny, because I am 100-percent HERE for Zelena and Regina being roommates. Snow finds Regina in the graveyard, sealing off her tomb, and confronts her. Regina reveals the little roommate tiff. Snow’s sympathetic, but my go-to would have been, “Hey girl, you bummed that your sexy, altruistic bud Robin died? Yeah, me too.”
While important, they all understand the real issue is dealing with Hyde. So the Heroes head to Hyde’s place and offer up Jekyll, but Hyde reveals he’s not as scared of Regina as he was the Evil Queen. He grabs Regina as Emma has another tremor-laden flashback, nearly getting Regina choked out in the process. Fortunately, Emma jumps into action and foils Hyde, but in the meantime, Hyde reveals he might know some information about being the Savior that Emma would probably like to know. (Ugh, don’t you hate a passive-aggressive mad genius? Same.) Still reeling from the shakiness, Snow and David send Archie into the woods to check on Emma. When you look at the transition it takes to move from New York to a small town where you’re constantly saving humanity…that’s a lot on your shoulders.
Instead of taking a rest like Archie suggests, she heads over to where Hyde is being kept to have a chat. He immediately calls out that she knows what it’s like to be imprisoned, and she folds and sits down with him. But she gets the upper hand and says she remembers the loneliness, and he can either tell her what he knows or she’ll never come back. In classic Hyde fashion, he loses all chill and tries to choke her, but is stopped by his chains. He tells her to “follow the red bird.” Hold on to that, because it seems important…
Back in Belle’s dreams, Morpheus leads Rumple to a castle, where Belle is
a beast. If that’s not super frustrating, Morpheus reveals Rumple has one hour to wake Belle up, otherwise she won’t wake up ever. So Rumple takes on the challenge, planning to just make Belle fall in love with him again. Aw, Rumple… Don’t you love rooting for him when he’s not being AWFUL and trading Storybrooke to super-attractive lunatics? The problem is, the castle is much worse than it ever was when Belle and Rumple met, so he has his work cut out for him.
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Once Upon a Time Recap: The Secret Behind the Queen's Curse Revealed!
Once Upon a Time: Kiss and Wake Up
"Once Upon a Time" Continues to Captivate Audiences in "Snow Falls"
"The Shepherd" Recap: Charming's Story, David's Choice
That Still Small Voice Recap: Jiminy Cricket's Conscience
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Offline Recognition System for Isolated Arabic Handwritten Characters using Hidden Markov Models
College of Computer Science and Information Technology
PhD theses : Computer Science and Information Technology
Ahmed, Rawia Ibrahim Omer
The researches in Optical Character Recognition (OCR) area by using Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) are continuing until this moment. The work presented in this thesis is proposed for recognition of offline isolated Arabic handwritten characters using HMMs as classifier and Freeman chain code as feature extraction method. we use scheme to recognize the bodies of the characters only since many characters might share the same body. Characters with similar bodies are grouped as one class, then each class represented by one-character body. This scheme decreases the number of the characters in dataset from 34 characters to 18 characters. The dataset used in this thesis is isolated Handwritten Arabic Characters (IHAC) dataset, which collected by Arabic Language Technology Research Group at Sudan University of Science and Technology. Most systems attempt to segment characters into sub-characters however, segmenting handwritten characters is very difficult. So, to avoid this, characters are treated without segmentation. Moreover, this work is divided into three main phases to provide a recognition system. The first phase is the preprocessing, which applies efficient preprocessing methods which are essential for optical character recognition. In this phase, methods for normalization and digitization are implemented. Then dots are removed from some characters, then characters' bodies are thinned. The second phase is feature extraction. This phase makes use of the thinned images to extract features that are essential in recognizing the images. Features are extracted by implementing Freeman chain code (FCC) method, then it normalized to 10 digits for each sample. The third and final phase is the classification of characters' bodies by Hidden Markov Models (HMMs) classifier. 25179 samples from SUST/ALT dataset are used for training (70%), and testing (30%). Several experimental were examined and a best recognition performance of 59.39% is achieved for testing dataset and 80.86% for training dataset. The results were acceptable. One of the important finding of these set of experiment is the high confusion between some classes, this due to the variation of writers' styles which case similarity between characters. Moreover, error may occur due to inadequate capability with the features used. The proposed system has been implemented and tested on MATLAB R2010b environment.
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Amanullah De Sondy
Study of Religions Department Staidéar Reiligiún
Study of Religions
Amanullah De Sondy joined University College Cork in 2015 as Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam.
Amanullah holds a concurrent B.A in Religious Studies and Education Studies with the Diploma in Education from Striling University. This led to a short but illustrious career as a secondary school teacher of Religious Education (RE) in Scotland where he taught in many different schools, held senior positions in national RE organisations, led a number of in-service events for teachers, consulted the Scottish Government's non-departmental public body, Learning Teaching Scotland (LTS), authored two key texts on teaching Islam and lectured part time at Strathclyde University's teacher training courses on RE at Jordanhill College, Glasgow.
Amanullah then completed an M.Litt in Islamic Jerusalem studies at the University of Abertay Dundee which focused mainly on the history of the city and its religious connections. Amanullah then returned to his home city, Glasgow where he completed his Ph.D in 2009 in Theology and Religious Studies with a specific focus on Islamic Studies. While at Glasgow, he was short-listed for the Teaching Excellence Award and was the lead researcher on "Philanthropy for Social Justice in British Muslim Societies," a project funded by the Ford Foundation. Amanullah moved to the USA thereafter, where he taught Islamic Studies at Ithaca College (1 year) and the University of Miami (5 years) in 2010.
He has studied Arabic and Islam in France, Jordan, and Syria and has particular interest in Urdu and Punjabi poetry, or ghazals. His first book, The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, was published with Bloomsbury Academic in January 2014. The book has been reviewed in The Times Higher Education, New Books in Islamic Studies USA and BBC Radio Scotland's 'Sunday Morning with...'. Amanullah is currently working on book projects relating to themes on contemporary and historical Islam and Muslims.
Amanullah has played a significant international role in the public understanding of Islam. He has contributed articles and interviews in the print media by invitation to The Scottish Herald, The Sunday Times UK, The Irish Times, The Irish Journal, Cork Evening Echo, The Catholic Herald, The Catholic Tablet, The Times Educational Supplement, The Scotsman, The Guardian and the Washington Post. Aman has also been invited to present on Cork's 96FM, Newstalk 106-108fm, BBC Radio 4, Glasgow Radio Ramadhan, Glasgow Radio Awaz, BBC World Service, BBC Panorama, WPBT2 Florida TV, NBC6 South Florida TV and Fusion Miami Live TV. In 2008, BBC Radio Scotland broadcast a full length program ‘A Life in Question - Amanullah De Sondy’ hosted by Colin McKay.
In his spare time, he has twice served as an umpire at the Wimbledon Tennis Championships in London and has ran four Scottish half marathons, the Miami half marathon, the Serena Williams Ultimate Quarter Marathon South Beach Miami and most recently the Cork half marathon in 2016 & 2017. Amanullah has twice been invited to lead Time for Reflection at the Scottish Parliament and has been a regular contributor to BBC Radio Scotland's 'Thought for the Day' for over ten years. Amanullah's parents arrived in Scotland from Sialkot (Pakistan) in the 1960s and he was born and raised in Glasgow.
Amanullah De Sondy connects the study of Islam to the key themes of gender, ethnicity, race, and pluralism. In his published works, he has focused especially on gender and sexuality in classical and contemporary Islam in relation to Islamic practice and the Qur’an. His research tends to focus on the Middle East in terms of Islam’s formative period of texts and traditions, yet always aims to expand to a more global discussion on the issue, particularly through the lens of South Asia, in particular India and Pakistan, because that complicates any reductionist view of Islam. Amanullah's first book The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014) is the first monograph on the construction of manhood in the Qur’an and South Asian history. Additionally, Amanullah specialises in Muslims in Celtic lands (Scotland and Ireland)/Europe/Pakistan and Religious Education (RE) in high schools in these global locations. He is current member of the Board of Women's Studies here at UCC and a member of its M.A. teaching staff. Amanullah co-teaches the ACE evening course on 'Islam and Muslims: An Introduction' with Dr. Rachel Woodlock (Visiting Lecturer in Islam at UCC)
(2019) Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism.
Amanullah De Sondy, Michelle A. Gonzalez Maldonado and William S. Green (2019) Judaism, Christianity and Islam: An Introduction to Monotheism. London, UK: Bloomsbury Academic. [Details]
(2013) The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities.
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities. London, England: Bloomsbury Publishing. [Details]
(2005) Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies – World Religions – Islam.
Amanullah De Sondy (2005) Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies – World Religions – Islam. Glasgow, Scotland: National Qualifications Curriculum Support, Learning Teaching Scotland (LTS). [Details]
(2005) Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies – Morality in the Modern World – Islam.
Amanullah De Sondy (2005) Religious, Moral and Philosophical Studies – Morality in the Modern World – Islam. Glasgow, Scotland: National Qualifications Curriculum Support, Learning Teaching Scotland (LTS). [Details]
(2019) 'Madam Noor Jehan's Challenge to Muscular Islam'
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) 'Madam Noor Jehan's Challenge to Muscular Islam' In: Justine Howe (eds). The Routledge Handbook of Islam and Gender. London, UK: Routledge. [Details]
(2018) 'The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities: A Far Reaching Inquiry'
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) 'The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities: A Far Reaching Inquiry' In: God’s Own Gender? Masculinities in World Religions (Series - Religion in der Gesellschaft). Würzburg: Ergon-Verlag. [Details]
(2016) 'Muslim Traditions: Belief, Practice, and Embodiment'
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) 'Muslim Traditions: Belief, Practice, and Embodiment' In: Kent. L. Brintnall (eds). Religion: Embodied Religion. USA: Macmillan Reference. [Details]
(2013) 'British Pakistani Masculinities: Longing and Belonging'
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) 'British Pakistani Masculinities: Longing and Belonging' In: Lucy Delap, Sue Morgan (eds). Men of Faith: Men, Masculinities and Religious Change in Twentieth-Century Britain. New York City, NY, USA: Palgrave Macmillan. [Details]
(2013) 'Searching for the Colorful Faces of Muslim Men'
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) 'Searching for the Colorful Faces of Muslim Men' In: Shira Tarrant (eds). Men Speak Out: Views on Gender, Sex and Power. New York City, NY, USA: Routledge. [Details]
(2012) 'Exploring Islamic Masculinities through the Qur’anic Adam'
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) 'Exploring Islamic Masculinities through the Qur’anic Adam' In: Stephen J Hunt, Andrew Yip (eds). The Ashgate Research Companion to Contemporary Religion and Sexuality. Burlington, Vermont, USA: Ashgate Publishing. [Details]
(2012) 'Guanyin: A Gendered Symbol of Compassion and the Challenge to World Religions for Peace'
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) 'Guanyin: A Gendered Symbol of Compassion and the Challenge to World Religions for Peace' In: Perri Lee Roberts (eds). From the Vault: Building a Legacy, Sixty Years of Collecting at the Lowe Art Museum, Miami. Miami, FL, USA: Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. [Details]
(2012) 'Why Masculinity Matters in the Study of Islam and Muslims'
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) 'Why Masculinity Matters in the Study of Islam and Muslims' In: Kecia Ali, Juliane Hammer, Laury Silvers (eds). A Jihad for Justice: Honoring the Work and Life of Amina Wadud. Online: 48HrBooks. [Details]
(2017) 'Why Queer Islamic Studies?'
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) 'Why Queer Islamic Studies?'. The Scholar and Feminist Online, (14.2) [Details]
(2011) 'Prophecy and Masculinities: The Case of the Qur’anic Joseph'
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) 'Prophecy and Masculinities: The Case of the Qur’anic Joseph'. Cross Currents, 61 (4):529-539 [DOI] [Details]
(2007) 'To Israel and Back'
Amanullah De Sondy (2007) 'To Israel and Back'. Interreligious Insight: A Journal of Dialogue and Engagement, 5 (3):76-82 [Details]
(2019) Review of Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace by Irfan Ahmad.
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Review of Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace by Irfan Ahmad. Book Reviews [Details]
(2018) Review of Female Personalities in the Qur’an and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi’i Islam. By Rawand Osman.
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Review of Female Personalities in the Qur’an and Sunna: Examining the Major Sources of Imami Shi’i Islam. By Rawand Osman. Edinburgh, UK: Book Reviews [Details]
(2016) Review of Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures by Gul Ozyegin.
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Review of Gender and Sexuality in Muslim Cultures by Gul Ozyegin. Book Reviews [Details]
(2015) Review of Sovereign Masculinity – Gender Lessons from the War on Terror, by B. Mann.
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) Review of Sovereign Masculinity – Gender Lessons from the War on Terror, by B. Mann. Online: Book Reviews [Details]
(2011) Review of Homosexuality in Islam: Islamic Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by S. Kugle.
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) Review of Homosexuality in Islam: Islamic Reflection on Gay, Lesbian, and Transgender Muslims, by S. Kugle. Book Reviews [DOI] [Details]
(2009) Review of Islam, Christianity and Tradition: A Comparative Exploration, by I. Netton, British.
Amanullah De Sondy (2009) Review of Islam, Christianity and Tradition: A Comparative Exploration, by I. Netton, British. Book Reviews [DOI] [Details]
(2007) Review of Speaking the Truth: Zionism, Israel and Occupation.
Amanullah De Sondy (2007) Review of Speaking the Truth: Zionism, Israel and Occupation. Book Reviews [DOI] [Details]
(2007) Review of Introducing Islamic Jerusalem, by A. F. El Awaisi.
Amanullah De Sondy (2007) Review of Introducing Islamic Jerusalem, by A. F. El Awaisi. Book Reviews [Details]
Encyclopedia Entries
(2012) Hali, Altaf Husayn.
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) Hali, Altaf Husayn. Dordrecht, Germany:Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Springer Press. Encyclopedia Entries. [Details]
(2012) Ghalib, Mirza.
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) Ghalib, Mirza. Dordrecht, Germany:Encyclopedia of Indian Religions, Springer Press. Encyclopedia Entries. [Details]
(2019) Taoiseach’s limp condolences fail the victims of this Islamophobic atrocity.
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Taoiseach’s limp condolences fail the victims of this Islamophobic atrocity. Dublin: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2019) 'It's time to fight Islamophobia'.
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) 'It's time to fight Islamophobia'. Karachi, Pakistan: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2017) 'We are not that different from Saudi Arabia'.
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) 'We are not that different from Saudi Arabia'. Ireland: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2016) Why Islam has to thrash out thorny issues of sexuality, women and its idea of masculinity.
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Why Islam has to thrash out thorny issues of sexuality, women and its idea of masculinity. Glasgow, Scotland: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2016) The relationship between Muslim men and their beards is a tangled one.
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) The relationship between Muslim men and their beards is a tangled one. London, UK: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2016) LGBT Muslims do exist, and they are grieving. It’s time for acceptance.
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) LGBT Muslims do exist, and they are grieving. It’s time for acceptance. USA: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2014) Muslim Men: Please Shut Up about Women!.
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) Muslim Men: Please Shut Up about Women!. USA: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2012) Colourful Shades of Islamic Belief.
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) Colourful Shades of Islamic Belief. Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2012) Clash of the (Scottish Islamic) Tartans.
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) Clash of the (Scottish Islamic) Tartans. USA: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2010) New Ties in the New World – Classical Music between Pakistan and the USA.
Amanullah De Sondy (2010) New Ties in the New World – Classical Music between Pakistan and the USA. Pakistan: Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2007) Islam's Silent Majority Are Happy in Secular Scotland.
Amanullah De Sondy (2007) Islam's Silent Majority Are Happy in Secular Scotland. Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2006) After Regensburg: Rescuing the Dialogue.
Amanullah De Sondy (2006) After Regensburg: Rescuing the Dialogue. Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2006) The Truth Behind Islamic Images.
Amanullah De Sondy (2006) The Truth Behind Islamic Images. Newspaper Articles [Details]
(2005) Faith in Tolerance Can Defeat Terror.
Amanullah De Sondy (2005) Faith in Tolerance Can Defeat Terror. London, England: Newspaper Articles [Details]
Radio Presentation
(2016) BBC Radio Scotland, Thought for the Day, broadcasting for over 10 years.
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) BBC Radio Scotland, Thought for the Day, broadcasting for over 10 years. Radio Presentation [Details]
2014 Wabash Center Grant - $20,000 Wabash Center
2013 Center for the Humanities Faculty Fellowship University of Miami
2013 University of Miami Summer Institute Fellow for the Arts and Sciences $2,000 University of Miami
2008 Findlanter Prize for Excellence in Divinity - £800 University of Glasgow
2008 International Summer School on Religion and Public Life Expenses Grant Birmingham University, UK
2007 Teaching Excellence Award (short-listed) University of Glasgow
2005 Institute for International Education Travel and Subsistence Grant. $2,000 Institute for International Education (IIE)
2004 Ford Foundation New York Additional Grant for Final Findings. $52,000 Ford Foundation New York
2004 Ford Foundation New York Travel and Subsistence Grant. $2,000 Ford Foundation New York
2003 Ford Foundation New York Project Grant. $100,000 Ford Foundation New York
(2020) International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (ISRLC) - Transmutations and Transgressions,
Amanullah De Sondy (2020) Convenor of Islam panel on transnational Muslim identity as it connects to the relationship that second and subsequent generation Muslim immigrants have to poetry and music from their parents’ homeland. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], International Society for Religion, Literature and Culture (ISRLC) - Transmutations and Transgressions, University of Chester, UK , 11-SEP-20 - 13-SEP-20. [Details]
(2020) The Armstrong Lecture 2020,
Amanullah De Sondy (2020) Invited to present The Armstrong Lecture at Kalamazoo College, USA. The lectures are made possible by the Homer J. Armstrong Endowment in Religion. Established in 1969 in honor of Dr. Homer J. Armstrong, eminent pastor and long-time trustee of Kalamazoo College. The fund was provided through the generosity of numerous friends of the College. [Keynote Speaker], The Armstrong Lecture 2020, Kalamazoo, USA , 28-APR-20 - 29-APR-20. [Details]
(2019) American Academy of Religion (AAR),
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Respondant to Contemporary Islam Unit panel on Gender Politics in Contemporary Muslim Discourse. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], American Academy of Religion (AAR), San Diego, USA , 26-NOV-19 - 26-NOV-19. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Presiding on Author Meets Critics: Harshita Mruthinti Kamath’s Impersonations: The Artifice of Brahmin Masculinity in South Indian Dance (University of California Press, 2019). [Invited Lectures (Conference)], American Academy of Religion (AAR), San Diego, USA , 25-NOV-19 - 25-NOV-19. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Panelist on Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee panel pn LGBTIQ Special Topics Forum: Precarity and Non-normativity. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], American Academy of Religion (AAR), San Diego, USA , 24-NOV-19 - 24-NOV-19. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Panelist on Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, and Queer Persons in the Profession Committee - LGBTIQ Creating Connections Lunch. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], American Academy of Religion (AAR), San Diego, USA , 23-NOV-19 - 23-NOV-19. [Details]
(2019) Integration of Muslims in the West; Challenges and Solutions,
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Lecture at International University for Intercultural Leadership 2019. The program was launched in 2013 under the auspices of UNESCO and is supported by the European Commission. Initiated by the Aladdin Project, it has grown into a partnership that includes 40 prestigious universities from around the world. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Integration of Muslims in the West; Challenges and Solutions, Bahçeşehir University, Istanbul, Turkey , 15-JUL-19 - 19-JUL-19. [Details]
(2019) 'Qur'anic Colours' - a Lecture hosted by the Friends of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin,
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) The Qur’an is understood as an inimitable and divine scripture that Muslims all over the world hold dear to their faith and practice. This talk will examine the many ways in which the Qur’an is venerated through its decoration and interpretation. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], 'Qur'anic Colours' - a Lecture hosted by the Friends of the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin, Dublin, Ireland , 10-JUL-19 - 10-JUL-19. [Details]
(2019) Belief in the Future: Religion and Changing Identities in Ireland,
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) The Irish Association believes now is a good time to explore the role that religion plays, and could or should play in the future, in our changing societies in both jurisdictions in Ireland. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Belief in the Future: Religion and Changing Identities in Ireland, Royal Irish Academy , 02-JUL-19 - 02-JUL-19. [Details]
(2019) Forgiveness and Other (un)encoded Ways of Moral Repair Workshop,
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Paper on 'Diverse Muslims: The Challenge of Pluralism in Guilt, Forgiveness and Moral Repair'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Forgiveness and Other (un)encoded Ways of Moral Repair Workshop, Institute for interdisciplinary Research (ZIF) at Bielefeld University (Germany) , 13-JUN-19 - 15-JUN-19. [Details]
(2019) Words for the Wise: Poetry and politics in Medieval Islamic Iran,
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair) with Dr. Moya Carey from Chester Beatty Museum (Dublin) and Dr. Lloyd Ridgeon (Reader in islamic Studies, University of Glasgow) (2019) Two talks by leading scholars in the study of the visual culture, politics and religion of Iran. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Words for the Wise: Poetry and politics in Medieval Islamic Iran, Glucksman, UCC, Cork , 28-MAY-19 - 28-MAY-19. [Details]
(2019) Cork Lifelong Learning Festival,
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) Presenting a session with Dr. Rachel Woodlock on 'Introduction to Islam and Muslims: All Your Questions Answered, well, nearly!'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Cork Lifelong Learning Festival, UCC, Cork , 11-APR-19 - 11-APR-19. [Details]
(2019) 'The Secular University',
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair) with Professor Simon Goldhill (Centre for Resarch in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities - Cambridge University) (2019) A lecture and discussion on the parameters of a secular university in 21st Century Ireland. Organised by the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Unit. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], 'The Secular University', UCC, Cork , 04-APR-19 - 04-APR-19. [Details]
(2019) BBC Radio Scotland's Afternoon Show (Tuesday Review),
Amanullah De Sondy with Janice Forsyth (Presenter) and Kirsty Logan and Craig Hill (2019) Reviewing BBC's Pose series on transgender lives during AIDS epidemic, Netflix's Queer Eye series 3 & BBC radio 4 podcast which examined Salman Rushdie Fatwa. [Visiting Critic], BBC Radio Scotland's Afternoon Show (Tuesday Review), Scotland , 12-MAR-19 - 12-MAR-19. [Details]
(2019) President's Athena SWAN Symposium,
Amanullah De Sondy, Moderator on 'Perspectives on intersectionality and gender equality' panel, with Professor Maggie O’Neill, Sociology, UCC, Senator Ivana Bacik, Brigid Quilligan, Irish Traveller activist, Rola Abu Zeid O’Neill UCC, Judy Walsh UCD & Patrick Sheehy, J&J. (2019) The symposium is taking intersectionality as a key focus and is keen to explore the ways in which gender crosscuts a myriad other factors including ethnicity, religious identity, class, age among other considerations. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], President's Athena SWAN Symposium, UCC, Cork , 08-MAR-19 - 09-MAR-19. [Details]
(2019) Keynote on ''The Colourful Classroom: Diversity, Pluralism and Inclusion in Ireland' at Beyond the Single Story - Intercultural Education Conference,
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) A conference of the Centre for Human Rights and Citizenship Education - Dublin City University (DCU) - Institute of Education. [Keynote Speaker], Keynote on ''The Colourful Classroom: Diversity, Pluralism and Inclusion in Ireland' at Beyond the Single Story - Intercultural Education Conference, Dublin, Ireland , 25-JAN-19 - 26-JAN-19. [Details]
(2019) 2019 Summit - American Academy for Religion (AAR) - Members of Status and ALCF Committees,
Amanullah De Sondy (2019) AAR Leadership Groups Meeting. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], 2019 Summit - American Academy for Religion (AAR) - Members of Status and ALCF Committees, Atlanta, USA , 18-JAN-19 - 20-JAN-19. [Details]
(2018) American Academy for Religion (AAR),
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Presiding panel for Men, Masculinities, and Religion Unit and Religion in Premodern Europe and the Mediterranean Unit on 'Masculinity and Femininity in Medieval Islamic Sources'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], American Academy for Religion (AAR), Denver, USA , 19-NOV-18 - 19-NOV-18. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Presiding panel for Men, Masculinities and Religion Unit, Religion, Holocaust, and Genocide Unit, and Women and Religion Unit on 'Gender, Genocide, and Sexual Violence'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], American Academy for Religion (AAR), Denver, USA , 19-NOV-18 - 19-NOV-18. [Details]
(2018) ‘Beyond Borders? New Formulations in Hispanic and Lusophone Studies’,
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) This symposium aims to offer postgraduate and early-career researchers the opportunity to gather in a formative space to transverse spatial, temporal, and linguistic borders and perspectives. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], ‘Beyond Borders? New Formulations in Hispanic and Lusophone Studies’, UCC, Cork , 29-JUN-18 - 29-JUN-18. [Details]
(2018) Inter-Religious Theology Program,
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Invited participant at Shalom Hartman Institute Conference. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Inter-Religious Theology Program, Jerusalem, Israel , 07-MAY-18 - 10-MAY-18. [Details]
(2018) 'Sex, Sexuality and Reproduction' - Presenting paper on 'No veil on my head, no shoes on my feet – I ran outside!’: Madam Noor Jehan’s challenge to muscular Islam',
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) 32nd Irish Conference of Historians -. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], 'Sex, Sexuality and Reproduction' - Presenting paper on 'No veil on my head, no shoes on my feet – I ran outside!’: Madam Noor Jehan’s challenge to muscular Islam', University College Cork, Ireland , 26-APR-18 - 28-APR-18. [Details]
(2018) Professor Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) leads special film screening ‘Son of Man’ - An African Jesus,
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair) with Professor Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) with Professor Nuala Finegan (Spanish/UCC Equality Committee), Dr. Karl Kitching (Director of UCC Equality, Diversity and Inclusion), Dr. Siobhan Dowling (Education), Dr. Caroline Williamson (World Languages/Violence, Conflict and Gender Research Cluster) and Bishop Paul Colton (Cork, Cloyne and Ross - Church of Ireland) (2018) Panel Discussion. [Chair Sessions at Symposia], Professor Adele Reinhartz (University of Ottawa, Canada) leads special film screening ‘Son of Man’ - An African Jesus, University College Cork, Ireland , 25-APR-18 - 25-APR-18. [Details]
(2018) Conversations in Ennismore Retreat Centre, Cork,,
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Presentation on 'Islam: More Talked about than Understood Part II'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Conversations in Ennismore Retreat Centre, Cork,, Cork, Ireland , 23-APR-18 - 23-APR-18. [Details]
(2018) Debating Shirk (Idolatry) in Keralam, South India: Monotheism between Tradition, Text and Performance,
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair) with Dr. Caroline Osella (Reader in Anthropology with reference to South Asia - SOAS London) (2018) South Asian monotheism. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Debating Shirk (Idolatry) in Keralam, South India: Monotheism between Tradition, Text and Performance, University College Cork, Ireland , 23-APR-18 - 23-APR-18. [Details]
(2018) Who Speaks for Christianity and Islam?,
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair) with Professor Jake Erikson, Assistant Professor, Trinity College Dublin and Dr. Rachel Woodlock, Independent Academic (2018) Exploring inter and intra theology, practice and diversity. [Chair Sessions at Symposia], Who Speaks for Christianity and Islam?, University College Cork, Ireland , 09-APR-18 - 09-APR-18. [Details]
(2018) Constructions of Gender in the Persianate World,
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Paper on 'Ghalib's Persian Verse: Wine, Desire and God'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Constructions of Gender in the Persianate World, University of Glasgow, Scotland , 10-MAR-18 - 10-MAR-18. [Details]
(2018) Muslim Masculinities Symposium,
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Presenting paper on 'Madam Noor Jehan of Pakistan's Challenge to Masculinity - 'Na Dupatta Sar Pe, Na Paon Mein Jhoti, Bhagi Baar''. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Muslim Masculinities Symposium, Perry World House, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA , 23-FEB-18 - 23-FEB-18. [Details]
(2018) The Harmony Interfaith Lecture Series,
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Presenting paper on 'Interfaith Dialogue and the Unspoken: Issues of Masculinity and Sexuality'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Harmony Interfaith Lecture Series, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, Wales, UK , 05-FEB-18 - 05-FEB-18. [Details]
(2018) 'Human Rights: West vs East?',
Amanullah De Sondy (2018) Invited presentation to 'Human Rights and Middle East' class. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], 'Human Rights: West vs East?', Trinity College Dublin, Ireland , 26-JAN-18 - 26-JAN-18. [Details]
(2017) Aigne Postgraduate Conference, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (CACSSS),
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) Chairing session on 'Masculinities' at postgraduate conference with Robert Bolton (Applied Social Sciences) and Anne Mahler (English). [Chair Sessions at Symposia], Aigne Postgraduate Conference, College of Arts, Celtic Studies and Social Sciences (CACSSS), Cork, Ireland , 11-DEC-17 - 11-DEC-17. [Details]
(2017) Cork Equal and Sustainable Communities Alliance (CESCA) - Annual Conference - Making Human Rights Real,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) Presentation on Religion and Hate Crime. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Cork Equal and Sustainable Communities Alliance (CESCA) - Annual Conference - Making Human Rights Real, St Mary's Health Campus, Gurranabraher, Cork , 04-DEC-17 - 04-DEC-17. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) Presenting paper on 'Madam Noor Jehan: Islam, Music, Queer Identities and the Vulnerable in Pakistan' in panel on 'Voice of the Voiceless: Music, Gender and Power in the Middle East and South Asia' within Men, Masculinities and Religions Group. Dr. Linda G. Jones (University of Pompeu Fabra) - Presiding and Professor Regula Qureshi (University of Alberta, Canada) Responding. [Conference Organising Committee Member], American Academy of Religion (AAR), Boston, USA , 18-NOV-17 - 21-NOV-17. [Details]
(2017) Clinical Pastoral Education: Exploring Islam and Muslims,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) A presentation to Cork University Hospital Chaplains on contemporary Islam issues in order to help with patient care. [Invited Oral Presentation], Clinical Pastoral Education: Exploring Islam and Muslims, Cork University Hospital, Cork , 08-NOV-17 - 08-NOV-17. [Details]
(2017) PG6004: Getting Started with Graduate Research and Generic Skills,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) Presentation and Discussion on 'What is a Thesis?'. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], PG6004: Getting Started with Graduate Research and Generic Skills, University College Cork, Ireland , 20-OCT-17 - 20-OCT-17. [Details]
(2017) Keynote presentation at Muslims, Christians and Interested Doubters - A Different Conversation in an Irish Cultural Context,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) A workshop organised by the Justice, Peace and Integrity of Creation Commission of the Little Sisters of the Assumption. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Keynote presentation at Muslims, Christians and Interested Doubters - A Different Conversation in an Irish Cultural Context, Dublin, Ireland , 30-SEP-17 - 30-SEP-17. [Details]
(2017) ICRA 2017 International Conference on Religion and Acceptance,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) Presenting paper on Islamic Masculinities and leading a group discussion subject. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], ICRA 2017 International Conference on Religion and Acceptance, Amsterdam, The Netherlands , 07-SEP-17 - 11-SEP-17. [Details]
(2017) International Colloquim: New Perspectives in Gender Studies - Islamic Masculinities - Past and Present,
Amanullah De Sondy, Dr. Linda G. Jones (Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona), Dr. Ozgen Felek (Yale University) and Dr. Marta Bosch Vilarrubias (Universitat de Barcelona) (2017) International colloquim discussing the significance of masculinities studies within both Islamic and gender studies. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], International Colloquim: New Perspectives in Gender Studies - Islamic Masculinities - Past and Present, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain , 31-JUL-17. [Details]
(2017) Strangers and Friends: Iona Community's Island Centre,
Amanullah De Sondy and Dr. Joshua Ralston (2017) Finding out what’s strange, what’s familiar and what’s wonderful, in historic and contemporary encounters between Christianity & Islam. Drawing on traditions of song, story and sacred space to reveal the treasures of both communities of faith and the possibilities of sharing this spiritual and creative wealth. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Strangers and Friends: Iona Community's Island Centre, Island of Iona - Scotland , 01-JUL-17 - 07-JUL-17. [Details]
(2017) Birkbeck Religion on Trial: Islamic Law and Gender Justice,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) An annual showcase of topical issues in Law. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Birkbeck Religion on Trial: Islamic Law and Gender Justice, Birkbeck College, University of London (UK) , 14-JUN-17 - 14-JUN-17. [Details]
(2017) Women's Voices in Ireland - From the Decade of Revolution to the Decade of Centenaries,
A panel on Women and Career Structures, Amanullah De Sondy (Chair), Michael Rowan (Retired Army Officer), Tanja Poppelreuter (Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at University of Ulster in Belfast), Karen Sethuraman (Church planter/pioneer and Celtic thinker) (2017) Women's Studies interdisciplinary conference on women’s voices in Ireland from the decade of revolution to the decade of centenaries. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Women's Voices in Ireland - From the Decade of Revolution to the Decade of Centenaries, University College Cork, Ireland , 10-JUN-17 - 10-JUN-17. [Details]
(2017) Keynote Address: Insider or Outsider: Presenting the Cases of Islamophobia and Homophobia,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) Islamophobia and Homophobia: A One-Day Symposium. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Keynote Address: Insider or Outsider: Presenting the Cases of Islamophobia and Homophobia, University of Leicester, UK , 20-MAY-17 - 20-MAY-17. [Details]
(2017) Honest Conversations: Mission and Belief in Dialogue,
Amanullah De Sondy, Dr. Ed Kessler (Cambridge University), Rev. Dr. Fran Henderson, Rt. Rev. Dr. Russell Barr and Rev. Dr. Alison Jack (University of Edinburgh) (2017) A day conference held by The Church of Scotland. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Honest Conversations: Mission and Belief in Dialogue, Glasgow, Scotland , 20-APR-17 - 20-APR-17. [Details]
(2017) Master Class: Scotland and Ireland: Religion and Enlightenment,
Amanullah De Sondy, Professor Alexander Broadie (Logic and Rhetoric, University of Glasgow) and Professor Michael Brown ( Chair in Irish, Scottish and Enlightenment History, University of Aberdeen) (2017) A Master Class looking at the connection between Scotland and Ireland through an exploration of religion and enlightenment. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Master Class: Scotland and Ireland: Religion and Enlightenment, University College Cork, Ireland , 06-APR-17 - 07-APR-17. [Details]
(2017) LGBTQ Muslims and GLITCH Film Festival Glasgow,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) A groundbreaking film festival with a unique programming focus screening film either made by LGBTIQA+ people of colour on any subject or films by directors of any identity featuring/documenting LGBTIQA+ people of colour. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], LGBTQ Muslims and GLITCH Film Festival Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland , 01-APR-17 - 02-APR-17. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Inter-Religious Theology Program, New York - USA , 05-MAR-17 - 09-MAR-17. [Details]
(2017) The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) A presentations within the Department of Sociology at University of Limerick. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, University of Limerick, Republic of Ireland , 27-FEB-17 - 27-FEB-17. [Details]
(2017) The Crisis of Global Islamic Masculinities and British Islam,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) A UK conference on British Islam organised by New Horizons (London). [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Global Islamic Masculinities and British Islam, London, UK , 25-FEB-17 - 26-FEB-17. [Details]
(2017) Interfaith Dialogue from Muslims' Perspectives: The France Case Study,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) A university wide event organised by The French Society, The Islamic Society and The Interfaith Society. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Interfaith Dialogue from Muslims' Perspectives: The France Case Study, NUI Galway, Ireland , 22-FEB-17 - 22-FEB-17. [Details]
(2017) Conversations in Ennismore Retreat Centre, Cork,
Amanullah De Sondy (2017) Presentation on 'Islam: More Talked about than Understood'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Conversations in Ennismore Retreat Centre, Cork, Ennismore, Cork , 30-JAN-17 - 30-JAN-17. [Details]
(2016) Presentation on 'Masculinity and Domestic Violence: An Islamic Case Study',
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) 16 Days of Action Against Gender Based Violence. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Presentation on 'Masculinity and Domestic Violence: An Islamic Case Study', Stirling and District Women's Aid (Scotland) , 25-NOV-16 - 25-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016) American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Conference,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Co-Chairing all sessions for Men, Masculinities and Religions Group and conducting business meeting for next annual conference. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], American Academy of Religion (AAR) Annual Conference, San Antonio, USA , 18-NOV-16 - 22-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016) Responding for French Film week at the Robinson Film Center on Thursday 17th November,
Amanullah De Sondy with Dr Spencer Dew and Pastor Seth Saathhof (2016) A screening and discussion of movie 'The Brand New Testament'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Responding for French Film week at the Robinson Film Center on Thursday 17th November, Shreveport, USA , 17-NOV-16 - 17-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016) Attaway Visiting Professor: Endowed Lectures on Religion Matters - Contemporary Islam,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) The Attaway program, funded by Douglas and Marion Attaway, brings intellectuals who have made notable contributions to the public discussion of ideas to the Centenary College campus through workshops, lectures, and other interactions with members of the campus community. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Attaway Visiting Professor: Endowed Lectures on Religion Matters - Contemporary Islam, Centenary College of Louisiana, USA , 16-NOV-16 - 17-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016) God's Own Gender? Religions and their Concepts of Masculinity,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) International Conference. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], God's Own Gender? Religions and their Concepts of Masculinity, University of Münster - Cluster of Excellence ‘Religion and Politics’, the Center for Islamic Theology, and the Center of Religion and Modernity , 10-NOV-16 - 11-NOV-16. [Details]
(2016) Pantisocracy - Panti - Queen of Ireland,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Invited Guest on RTÉ Radio 1 Series hosted by Panti Bliss. [Invited Oral Presentation], Pantisocracy - Panti - Queen of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland , 31-OCT-16 - 31-OCT-16. [Details]
(2016) Muslims in the Media: Challenging Misconceptions,
Amanullah De Sondy with Peter Feeney (Irish Press Ombudsman), Professor Mary Hickman (London Metropolitan University) and Siraj Zaidi (Actor) (2016) A seminar to discuss Muslims in Irish media. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Muslims in the Media: Challenging Misconceptions, Dublin, Ireland , 25-OCT-16 - 25-OCT-16. [Details]
(2016) Wilde Stories - A live arts and music event celebrating the life and work of Oscar Wilde,
Amanullah De Sondy - reading 'The Remarkable Rocket' (2016) A celebration of Oscar Wilde in Dublin. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Wilde Stories - A live arts and music event celebrating the life and work of Oscar Wilde, Dublin's Meeting House Square , 22-OCT-16 - 22-OCT-16. [Details]
(2016) Race, Religion and Ethnicity in Higher Education,
Dr. Amanullah De Sondy, Mr. Olaniyi Kolawole, Dr. Karl Kitching and Professor Siobhan Mullally (UCC) (2016) Invited to present on race and ethnicity inequalities in Irish higher education for UCC Equality Week. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Race, Religion and Ethnicity in Higher Education, University College Cork , 21-OCT-16 - 21-OCT-16. [Details]
(2016) Miramar comes to Cork,
Amanullah De Sondy, 'Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Connections, Disconnections and Competing Claims'; Dr Stefan Reynolds (Independent Scholar), 'The Lover, the Beloved and Love: the Trinitarian Mysticism of Ramon Llull'; Prof. Cathal MacSwiney Brugha (Emeritus Professor in Decision Analytics, UCD), 'Ramon Llull and Islam, the Beginning of Dialogue'. (2016) A Symposium on the Legacy of Ramon Llull. [Oral Presentation], Miramar comes to Cork, University College Cork , 14-OCT-16 - 14-OCT-16. [Details]
(2016) Religion and Homosexuality,
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair), Dr. Alana Vincent (Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, University of Chester) and Dr. Andrew Yip (Professor of Sociology, Nottingham) (2016) A discussion on religion and homosexuality in the contemporary world. Organised by LGBT Staff Network UCC. [Chair Sessions at Symposia], Religion and Homosexuality, University College Cork, Ireland , 10-OCT-16 - 10-OCT-16. [Details]
(2016) Presenting at College Historical Society of Trinity College Dublin (1770) in favour of motion '‘This House Believes that Masculinity is Inherently Harmful’,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) The College Historical Society was founded in 1770 by Edmund Burke. It has been one of the premier intellectual forums of Ireland since its foundation. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Presenting at College Historical Society of Trinity College Dublin (1770) in favour of motion '‘This House Believes that Masculinity is Inherently Harmful’, Dublin, Ireland , 05-OCT-16 - 05-OCT-16. [Details]
(2016) Muslim Immigration in Europe: Masculinity, Politics and Law,
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair), Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh (Member of UK Parliament, Ochill and South Perthshire), Dr. Samia Bano (Senior Lecturer in Islamic Law, SOAS) and President Michael Murphy (UCC) (2016) A discussion on Muslims in Europe and the Irish launch of 'The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities'. [Conference Organising Committee Chairperson], Muslim Immigration in Europe: Masculinity, Politics and Law, Aula Maxima UCC , 23-SEP-16 - 23-SEP-16. [Details]
(2016) Performance & Politics & Protest - A collaboration between Drama & Theatre Studies and Women’s Studies UCC,
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair), Prof. Jools Gilson (Drama & Theatre Studies UCC), Julie Kellher (Artistic Director Everyman Theatre), Dr. Sandra McAvoy (Women's Studies UCC), Sarah Thornton (Collective Encounters UK) and Pieter Verstraete (Hacettepe University in Ankara) (2016) “What’s the Academy got to do with it?” - Rountable Discussion. [Chair Sessions at Symposia], Performance & Politics & Protest - A collaboration between Drama & Theatre Studies and Women’s Studies UCC, University College Cork , 14-SEP-16 - 14-SEP-16. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Research Network on Male Bodies and Masculinities in the Middle East - Constructing Masculinities in the Middle East. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, University of Edinburgh , 09-JUL-16 - 11-JUL-16. [Details]
(2016) BodyStories - Drama and Theatre Arts UCC,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Chair discussion of Irish Premier of 'Poshida: Hidden LGBT Pakistan' by Faizan Fiaz. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], BodyStories - Drama and Theatre Arts UCC, University College Cork , 19-JUN-16 - 19-JUN-16. [Details]
(2016) The Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) - Religion and Revolution,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Presenting paper on 'Robert Burns of Scotland and Mirza Ghalib of India: Religious Enlightenment, Revolution, Cultural Divides and Hegemonic Masculinity'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Irish Society for the Academic Study of Religions (ISASR) - Religion and Revolution, University College Cork, Ireland , 16-JUN-16 - 17-APR-16. [Details]
(2016) The Concept of Man/Human Being in Islam, Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) For the University of Erlangen-Nürnberg and the Eugen-Biser-Foundation. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Concept of Man/Human Being in Islam, Oriental Philology and Islamic Studies, Erlangen, Germany , 19-MAY-16 - 20-MAY-16. [Details]
(2016) Religious Identity in a Context of Secularism and Extremism,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Inter-Religious Theology Program - Shalom Hartman Institute of North America. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Religious Identity in a Context of Secularism and Extremism, New York, USA , 15-MAY-16 - 17-MAY-16. [Details]
(2016) Lapis and Gold, The Story of the Ruzbihan Qur'an,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Presenting 'The Qur'an - At the Heart of Islam'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Lapis and Gold, The Story of the Ruzbihan Qur'an, Chester Beatty Library, Dublin , 12-MAY-16 - 12-MAY-16. [Details]
(2016) Muslim Responses to Gender,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Keynote Lecture on Islamic Masculinities at one day symposium hosted by Islam, Law and Modernity Research Group. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Muslim Responses to Gender, Durham University, UK , 07-MAY-16 - 07-MAY-16. [Details]
(2016) 'This House Believes Masculinity is Damaging to Everyone' - Cambridge Union Society Debate,
Amanullah De Sondy, Dan Bell, Aditya Basrur, Mimi Turner, Martin Seagar and Ruth Sunderland (2016) The Cambridge Union is the oldest debating society in the world, as well as the largest student society in Cambridge. It remains one of the highest-ranking competitive debating chambers worldwide, and hosts a range of speakers and topical debates each term. Since 1815 the Union has been committed to the principles of free speech and of fair, open, and honest debate. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], 'This House Believes Masculinity is Damaging to Everyone' - Cambridge Union Society Debate, University of Cambridge, England, UK , 05-MAY-16 - 05-MAY-16. [Details]
(2016) The Unthought in Islam: Gender Perspectives,
Amanullah De Sondy, Lloyd Ridgeon, Juliane Hammer, Maria Jaschok, Zohar Hadromi-Allouche, Samia Ansari and Yafa Shanneik (2016) Presenting paper on 'Scottish Islamic Masculinities: An Exploration'. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Unthought in Islam: Gender Perspectives, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland , 18-APR-16 - 19-APR-16. [Details]
(2016) Islam and Human Rights,
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) Presenting on Islam, Human Rights and Masculinities. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam and Human Rights, Trinity College Dublin , 10-MAR-16. [Details]
(2016) Encountering the Other: Travel, Transition and Transformation,
Amanullah De Sondy, Debra Strickland, Małgorzata Krasnodębska-D’Aughton, Piaras MacEinri, Silvia Ross and Diarmuid Scully (2016) Presenting paper on ‘Mawdudi (1903-1979) – Pakistan’s Founding Father and His Construction of Masculinity and the West’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Encountering the Other: Travel, Transition and Transformation, University College Cork, Ireland , 04-MAR-16 - 04-MAR-16. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2016) For the South Asia Institute of SOAS. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, London, England , 03-FEB-16. [Details]
(2016) Towards a Community of Respect and Dignity: A Forum Hosted by the Board of Women's Studies,
Amanullah De Sondy (Chair) with Professor Siobhan Mullaly, Dr. Michael Byrne, Dr. Linda Connolly, Mr. James Upton, Ann King, Elie Mahony and Donna O'Driscoll (2016) Proposed the panel to the Board of Women's Studies and was invited to be Chair of the forum. [Chair Sessions at Symposia], Towards a Community of Respect and Dignity: A Forum Hosted by the Board of Women's Studies, University College Cork, Ireland , 25-JAN-16. [Details]
(2015) Performative and Discursive Masculinities: Intersecting Race, Religion, Ethnicity and Sexuality,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) Director of the panel as part of the Men Masculinities and Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Performative and Discursive Masculinities: Intersecting Race, Religion, Ethnicity and Sexuality, Atlanta, Georgia , 23-NOV-15. [Details]
(2015) Interview with BBC Radio Scotland on Sunday Morning With,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) Discussing his book, The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Interview with BBC Radio Scotland on Sunday Morning With, Glasgow, Scotland , 01-NOV-15. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) A Special Book Launch for the Al Waleed Centre for Contemporary Islam. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, Edinburgh, Scotland , 03-NOV-15. [Details]
(2015) British Muslims and Islamic Masculinities,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) For the Nouhadh Muslim Integration Conference at SOAS. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], British Muslims and Islamic Masculinities, London, England , 06-NOV-15. [Details]
(2015) Teaching Sexuality and Religion to a Changing Student Body,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) A Pre-Conference Pedagogy Workshop for AAR (American Academy of Religion). [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Teaching Sexuality and Religion to a Changing Student Body, Atlanta, Georgia , 20-NOV-15. [Details]
(2015) Teaching Traditions in a Different World: Masculinity and Femininity in Islam,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) For the American Academy of Religion. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Teaching Traditions in a Different World: Masculinity and Femininity in Islam, Atlanta, Georgia , 21-NOV-15. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) For the Inner Circle Annual Retreat. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, Cape Town, South Africa , 12-SEP-15 - 18-SEP-15. [Details]
(2015) Time for Reflection,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) for the Scottish Parliament. [Oral Presentation], Time for Reflection, Edinburgh, Scotland , 23-JUN-15. [Details]
(2015) Islamic Masculinities and the Qur’an,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) Sexualities and Queer Imaginaries in the Middle East Conference. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Islamic Masculinities and the Qur’an, Middle East Studies, Brown University , 10-APR-15 - 11-APR-15. [Details]
(2015) Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Following God in Love and War?,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) The Good Friday Lecture at Coral Gables Church of Christ. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Judaism, Christianity and Islam: Following God in Love and War?, Coral Gables, FL, USA , 03-APR-15. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) ‘The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities’, ‘City of Borders’. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, Advanced Research in the Humanities, Virginia Commonwealth University , 19-MAR-15 - 20-MAR-15. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) Book Talk Held by Center for the Humanities, University of Miami. [Oral Presentation], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, ‘Books&Books’, Coral Gables, FL, USA , 18-MAR-15. [Details]
(2015) Islam, Art, Gender and Sexuality – A Colloquium with Professors Amanullah De Sondy and Karen Mathews,
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) Co-Sponsored by College of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Office, Religious Studies, Art and Art History, Center for Humanities, Womens’ and Gender Studies. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam, Art, Gender and Sexuality – A Colloquium with Professors Amanullah De Sondy and Karen Mathews, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, USA , 02-MAR-15. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2015) Book Talk, Cosponsored by The Religion Department, Feminist, Gender and Sexuality Studies, The Center for the Study of Public Life and the Certificate in Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory. [Oral Presentation], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, Weslayan University, CT, USA , 12-FEB-15. [Details]
(2014) AAR Annual Conference Panel Discussion of Amanullah De Sondy’s The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014),
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) With Aysha Hidayatullah (presiding) and (panelists) Amir Hussain (Loyola Marymount), Tazim Kassam (Syracuse), Vincent Cornell (Emory), Michael Knight (UNC Chapel Hill), Kecia Ali (Boston University). Responding – Amanullah De Sondy. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], AAR Annual Conference Panel Discussion of Amanullah De Sondy’s The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities (Bloomsbury Academic, 2014), San Diego, CA, USA , 22-NOV-14. [Details]
(2014) The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities and Femininities: An Historical and Contemporary Exploration,
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) By the Middle East Studies and Religious Studies. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities and Femininities: An Historical and Contemporary Exploration, Florida International University, USA , 13-NOV-14. [Details]
(2014) Religion, Enlightenment and Gender: The Case of a Muslim Mughal Poet – Mirza Ghalib,
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) 2013 / 2014 Center for the Humanities Fellows Symposium. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Religion, Enlightenment and Gender: The Case of a Muslim Mughal Poet – Mirza Ghalib, University of Miami, FL, USA , 10-OCT-14. [Details]
(2014) Islamic Masculinities,
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) Lecture about The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islamic Masculinities, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Rochester, NY, USA , 18-SEP-14. [Details]
(2014) The Politics of Compassion: Human Rights and Religion in Global Health Development,
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) By Rollins School of Public Health – Interfaith Health Program, Joseph W. Blount Center for Health and Human Rights, Hubert Department of Global Health with co-sponsors Graduate Division of Religion, Institute for Developing Nations, Studies in Sexualities, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Islamic Civilisations Studies Program, Emory Global Health Institute, Religion and Public Health Collaborative and the Center for the Study of Law and Religion. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Politics of Compassion: Human Rights and Religion in Global Health Development, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA , 02-JUL-14. [Details]
(2014) Islam: Belief and Practice,
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) at Riviera Presbyterian Church. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam: Belief and Practice, Miami, FL, USA , 27-APR-14. [Details]
(2014) Arab-Muslim Sexualities: The Desire for Liberation,
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) Modalities of Engagement and Desire Around Abdellah Taïa. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Arab-Muslim Sexualities: The Desire for Liberation, University of Miami, FL, USA , 03-APR-14 - 04-APR-14. [Details]
(2014) Black Jews – a Roundtable Discussion,
Amanullah De Sondy (2014) Panel Discussion on African American Jewry. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Black Jews – a Roundtable Discussion, Florida International University, USA , 23-FEB-14. [Details]
(2013) Teaching “Straight” Sexuality and Gender in Religious Studies,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) For the Women and Religion Section and Gay Men and Religion Group and Lesbian-Feminist Issues in Religion Group and Men, Masculinities, and Religion Group and Womanist Approaches to Religion and Society Group and Women of Color Scholarship, Teaching, and Activism at the American Academy of Religion. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Teaching “Straight” Sexuality and Gender in Religious Studies, Baltimore, MD, USA , 24-NOV-13. [Details]
(2013) British Pakistani Masculinities: Longing and Belonging,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) For the Religion and Politics Section and Religion and Sexuality Group and Religion in Europe Group and Religion, Colonialism, and Postcolonialism Group at the American Academy of Religion. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], British Pakistani Masculinities: Longing and Belonging, Baltimore, MD, USA , 24-NOV-13. [Details]
(2013) Intersection of Queer Studies and Religion Workshop,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Study of Religion and Gender: Postcolonial, Post-Secular and Queer Perspectives. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Intersection of Queer Studies and Religion Workshop, Barnard College, New York City, NY, USA , 20-NOV-13 - 21-NOV-13. [Details]
(2013) Intersection of Queer Studies and Religion Public Roundtable,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) Interdisciplinary Innovations in the Study of Religion and Gender: Postcolonial, Post-Secular and Queer Perspectives. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Intersection of Queer Studies and Religion Public Roundtable, Barnard College, New York City, NY, USA , 20-NOV-13. [Details]
(2013) How Islam Saved the Jews,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) Respondent to Professor David Wasserstein of Vanderbilt University. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], How Islam Saved the Jews, Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami Beach, FL, USA , 10-NOV-13. [Details]
(2013) “An Overview of Islamic Thought and Practice” and “Panoramic View of the Middle East”,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) At the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Miami. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], “An Overview of Islamic Thought and Practice” and “Panoramic View of the Middle East”, Miami, FL, USA , 24-OCT-13. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) Department of Modern Languages and Literatures in conjunction with the Women’s and Gender Studies Program and the Minor in LGBTQ Studies. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Crisis of Islamic Masculinities, University of Miami, FL, USA , 14-OCT-13. [Details]
(2013) Islam and Music,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) Music within the Theoretical Frameworks of Religion/Theology, Gender, Race, Ethnicity, Pluralism and Politics. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam and Music, Frost School of Music, University of Miami, FL, USA , 07-OCT-13 - 09-OCT-13. [Details]
(2013) Jerusalem – One City – Three Faiths,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) Middle Eastern Studies Society's Fall Introduction Lecture Series. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Jerusalem – One City – Three Faiths, Middle East Studies Society, University of Miami, FL, USA , 03-OCT-13. [Details]
(2013) British Pakistani Masculinity: Longing and Belonging,
Amanullah De Sondy (2013) Summer Institute of the Human Rights Campaign LGBT Scholarship and Mentorship Program. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], British Pakistani Masculinity: Longing and Belonging, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA , 24-AUG-13. [Details]
(2012) Men in Islam,
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) for the winter gathering of the Muslim Institute. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Men in Islam, Salisbury, England , 30-NOV-12. [Details]
(2012) Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinities after Twenty-Five Years,
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) For the Men, Masculinities, and Religions Group at the American Academy of Religion. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Rethinking Hegemonic Masculinities after Twenty-Five Years, Chicago, IL, USA , 19-NOV-12. [Details]
(2012) Gender and Sexuality in Islam,
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) a guest lecture at Florida International University. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Gender and Sexuality in Islam, Miami, FL, USA , 02-NOV-12. [Details]
(2012) Islamic Studies, Gender and Sexuality,
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) Summer Institute of the Human Rights Campaign LGBT Scholarship and Mentorship Program. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Islamic Studies, Gender and Sexuality, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA , 08-AUG-12. [Details]
(2012) British Muslim Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Britain,
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) Symposium on Men,Masculinities, and Religious Change. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], British Muslim Masculinities in Twentieth-Century Britain, University of Cambridge, England , 20-APR-12. [Details]
(2012) Islamic Masculinity and Femininity in the Arab/Muslim World: Between the Chaste and Hedonists,
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) Lecture by Dr Amanullah De Sondy. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islamic Masculinity and Femininity in the Arab/Muslim World: Between the Chaste and Hedonists, University of Miami, FL, USA , 27-MAR-12. [Details]
(2012) Islam, Terrorism, and Al-Qaeda,
Amanullah De Sondy (2012) For the Department of International Studies and Political Science. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Islam, Terrorism, and Al-Qaeda, University of Miami, FL, USA , 22-FEB-12. [Details]
(2011) Qur’an Reading,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) at St Mary's Cathedral. [Invited Oral Presentation], Qur’an Reading, Glasgow, Scotland , 22-DEC-11. [Details]
(2011) Sufism after the 'Linguistic Turn',
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) For the Study of Islam section and Islamic Mysticism group, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Sufism after the 'Linguistic Turn', San Francisco, CA, USA , 21-NOV-11. [Details]
(2011) Critical Theory and the Performance of Postmodern Masculinities,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) For the Men, Masculinities, and Religions group, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Critical Theory and the Performance of Postmodern Masculinities, San Francisco, CA, USA , 21-NOV-11. [Details]
(2011) Beyond Identity Politics,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) For the LGBTIQ Persons in the Profession Committee, American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting,. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Beyond Identity Politics, San Francisco, CA, USA , 19-NOV-11. [Details]
(2011) Ghita el Khayat: Arab Questions from Morocco,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) With Ghita el Khayat, Christina Civantos, Amanullah De Sondy, Ralph Heyndels, and Rachida Primov. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Ghita el Khayat: Arab Questions from Morocco, University of Miami, FL, USA , 01-NOV-11. [Details]
(2011) Arab Questions from Morocco,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) By the Women’s and Gender Studies Program, Africana Studies Program, and Minor in Arabic Studies Program. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Arab Questions from Morocco, University of Miami, FL, USA , 01-NOV-11. [Details]
(2011) Discussion of 'Circumstance',
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) A 'Cinema Conversations' Event. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Discussion of 'Circumstance', Coral Gables Art Cinema, Coral Gables, FL , 25-OCT-11. [Details]
(2011) Introduction to Asian Religions and Cultures,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) Master of Arts in International Administration. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Introduction to Asian Religions and Cultures, University of Miami, FL, USA , 05-OCT-11. [Details]
(2011) Introduction to Islam and Muslims,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) for University of Miami’s Master of Arts in International Administration Program. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Introduction to Islam and Muslims, University of Miami, FL, USA , 28-SEP-11. [Details]
(2011) Islam, Masculinities, and Peace,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) O’Neil Inter-religious Lecture Series. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam, Masculinities, and Peace, St. Thomas University, Miami Gardens, FL, USA , 21-SEP-11. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) At the Center for Judaic Studies, University of Miami. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], “An Overview of Islamic Thought and Practice” and “Panoramic View of the Middle East”, Miami, FL, USA , 13-SEP-11. [Details]
(2011) The Changing Face of the Arab and Muslim World: Reflections, Critiques, and Challenges,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) for Everest Capital’s Emerging Markets Forum. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Changing Face of the Arab and Muslim World: Reflections, Critiques, and Challenges, Miami, FL, USA , 06-APR-11 - 06-AUG-11. [Details]
(2011) Islamic Studies, Gender, and Sexuality,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) Summer Institute, Human Rights Campaign LGBT Scholarship and Mentorship Program. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islamic Studies, Gender, and Sexuality, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA , 03-AUG-11. [Details]
(2011) Modern South Asian Masculinities,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) Department of Comparative Religion’s South Asian Masculinities Symposium. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Modern South Asian Masculinities, Miami University, OH, USA , 30-APR-11. [Details]
(2011) Masculinity in Question: An Exploration of Images of Masculinity in India and Pakistan between the 18th and 21st Centuries,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) Discussion Exploring our Perception of and Ideas on Masculinity. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Masculinity in Question: An Exploration of Images of Masculinity in India and Pakistan between the 18th and 21st Centuries, Handwerker Gallery, Ithaca College, NY, USA , 06-APR-11. [Details]
(2011) Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Islamic Perceptions of the Religious ‘Other’,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) The Reception of the Religious Other in Intercultural Exchange Symposium. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-Century Islamic Perceptions of the Religious ‘Other’, University of Bochum, Germany , 11-MAR-11. [Details]
(2011) The Importance of Studying and Understanding Asian Religions in Our Western Worlds,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) A class through the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Miami. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], The Importance of Studying and Understanding Asian Religions in Our Western Worlds, Miami, FL, USA , 07-MAR-11. [Details]
(2011) A Jihad for Love,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) InterFaithOUT Presents Film Series to Promote Dialogue About Spirituality and LGBTQ Identity, SAVE Dade Miami and Wolfsonian Museum. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], A Jihad for Love, Florida International University, Miami Beach, FL USA , 27-FEB-11. [Details]
(2011) Islam, Christianity, and Judaism: The Challenge of Pluralism in the Arab/Muslim World Today,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) Lenten Program at St. Mark’s Episcopal Church and School. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam, Christianity, and Judaism: The Challenge of Pluralism in the Arab/Muslim World Today, Fort Lauderdale, FL. USA , 28-FEB-11. [Details]
(2011) The Time That Remains,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) Cosford Cinema, Kenneth Lettman Foundation Film Series. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], The Time That Remains, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL, USA , 24-FEB-11. [Details]
(2011) What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim Man in the 21st Century,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) at Southern Methodist University. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], What Does It Mean to Be a Muslim Man in the 21st Century, Dallas, TX, USA , 11-FEB-11. [Details]
(2011) Introduction to Buddhism,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) for the Ocean Reef Series on World Religions. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Introduction to Buddhism, Key Largo, FL, USA , 05-FEB-11. [Details]
(2011) Introduction to Islam,
Amanullah De Sondy (2011) for the Ocean Reef Series on World Religions. [Invited Lectures (Workshops)], Introduction to Islam, Key Largo, FL, USA , 22-JAN-11. [Details]
(2010) Giving Voice: Overcoming Islamophobia and Homophobia,
Amanullah De Sondy (2010) Building Coalitions to Reduce Discrimination. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Giving Voice: Overcoming Islamophobia and Homophobia, School of Law, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI, USA , 02-DEC-10. [Details]
(2010) Review of Bjorn Krondorfer, ed., Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism,
Amanullah De Sondy (2010) For the Men, Masculinities, and Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Review of Bjorn Krondorfer, ed., Men and Masculinities in Christianity and Judaism, Atlanta, GA, USA , 01-NOV-10. [Details]
(2010) Islamic Masculinities and the Role of Women in Interfaith Dialogue,
Amanullah De Sondy (2010) Preliminary Conference of the American Academy of Religion Annual Meeting. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Islamic Masculinities and the Role of Women in Interfaith Dialogue, Atlanta, GA, USA , 29-OCT-10. [Details]
(2010) 'Islam and Its Contemporary Challenges' and Religions of Asia and Their Contemporary Challenges,
Amanullah De Sondy (2010) For University of Miami’s Master of Arts in International Administration Program. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], 'Islam and Its Contemporary Challenges' and Religions of Asia and Their Contemporary Challenges, Miami, FL, USA , 22-SEP-10. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2010) Challenges and Implications Posed by Qur'anic Masculinities on the Study of Islam and Muslims. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islamic Masculinities, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA , 11-MAR-10. [Details]
(2010) Hedonistic Islamic Masculinity,
Amanullah De Sondy (2010) Dissecting Mirza Ghalib's Hedonistic Islamic Masculinity. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Hedonistic Islamic Masculinity, Boston University, MS, USA , 04-MAR-10 - 05-MAR-10. [Details]
(2010) Islamic Masculinities: An Exploration And Discussion”,,
Amanullah De Sondy (2010) for Expanding the Circle: Creating an Inclusive Environment in Higher Education for LGBTQ Students and Studies. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Islamic Masculinities: An Exploration And Discussion”,, San Francisco, CA, USA , 26-FEB-10. [Details]
(2009) A Qur’anic Masculinity or Masculinities: Challenging the Parameters of Islamic Theology, Faith, and Practice through the Exploration of the Social Constructions of Gender and Submission to God,
Amanullah De Sondy (2009) For the Men’s Studies and Religion Group of the American Academy of Religion. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], A Qur’anic Masculinity or Masculinities: Challenging the Parameters of Islamic Theology, Faith, and Practice through the Exploration of the Social Constructions of Gender and Submission to God, Monstreal, QC, Canada , 09-NOV-09. [Details]
(2009) Islam, Masculinity, and Sexuality,
Amanullah De Sondy (2009) for the Conference on Faith, Homophobia, and Human Rights. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Islam, Masculinity, and Sexuality, London, England , 16-MAY-09. [Details]
(2009) Islam, Gender and Masculinity,
Amanullah De Sondy (2009) Given as Visiting Professor in Islam, School of Law and Social Science. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam, Gender and Masculinity, Glasgow, Scotland , 18-FEB-09. [Details]
(2009) Challenging the Parameters: Islamic Studies and the Veil of Masculinity,
Amanullah De Sondy (2009) Religious Studies Seminar. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Challenging the Parameters: Islamic Studies and the Veil of Masculinity, School of Divinity, New College, University of Edinburgh, Scotland , 11-FEB-09. [Details]
(2008) Islam: The Ugly and the Beautiful,
Amanullah De Sondy (2008) at Saint Columba's Roman Catholic High School. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam: The Ugly and the Beautiful, Fife, Scotland . [Details]
(2008) Islam, Logic, Rationality, and the Future of Scottish Muslims,
Amanullah De Sondy (2008) for the Saltire Society's 'Salons Philosophique'. [Keynote Speaker], Islam, Logic, Rationality, and the Future of Scottish Muslims, Scotland , 09-DEC-08. [Details]
(2008) Interrogating Islamic Masculinities (co-organizer),
Amanullah De Sondy (2008) For the Study of Islam Section of the American Academy of Religion. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Interrogating Islamic Masculinities (co-organizer), Chicago, IL, USA , 02-NOV-08. [Details]
(2008) Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib: A 19th Century Mughal Poet Performing Spiritual Hedonisms through Art,
Amanullah De Sondy (2008) International Symposium on Art, Religion, Identity. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Mirza Asadullah Khan Ghalib: A 19th Century Mughal Poet Performing Spiritual Hedonisms through Art, University of Glasgow, Scotland , 24-SEP-08. [Details]
(2008) “Teaching Islam between Islamophobia and Islamophilia,
Amanullah De Sondy (2008) for the Association for the Teaching of Religious Education in Scotland. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], “Teaching Islam between Islamophobia and Islamophilia, Dublane, Scotland , 09-MAY-08 - 10-MAY-08. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2008) for the Scottish Parliament. [Oral Presentation], Time for Reflection, Edinburgh, Scotland , 07-MAY-08. [Details]
(2008) Islam: A Critical Inquiry,
Amanullah De Sondy (2008) at the United Free Church. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam: A Critical Inquiry, Glasgow, Scotland , 03-MAY-08. [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2007) at Stonelaw High School. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Islam: The Ugly and the Beautiful, Rutherglen, Scotland . [Details]
(2007) Islam in Scotland,
Amanullah De Sondy (2007) for Interfaith Week Scotland. [Oral Presentation], Islam in Scotland, Dumbarton, Scotland , 29-NOV-07. [Details]
(2007) Freedom Is Not Coming: Palestine and Tibet,
Amanullah De Sondy (2007) for the Edinburgh Festival of Spirituality and Peace. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Freedom Is Not Coming: Palestine and Tibet, Edinburgh, Scotland , 11-AUG-07. [Details]
(2006) Screening of Ae Fonde Kiss (dir. Ken Loach),
Amanullah De Sondy (2006) at One Glasgow: Valuing Diversity and Challenging Discrimination Week in Bute Hall,. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Screening of Ae Fonde Kiss (dir. Ken Loach), University of Glasgow, Scotland , 22-FEB-06. [Details]
(2006) A Male and Female God Made Us: Exploring Images of Masculinity in Islam,
Amanullah De Sondy (2006) at the Festival of Spirituality and Peace. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], A Male and Female God Made Us: Exploring Images of Masculinity in Islam, St. John’s Episcopal Church, Edinburgh, Scotland , 16-AUG-06. [Details]
(2005) Philanthropy and Social Justice: A Thematic Approach for Interreligious Dialogue,
Amanullah De Sondy (2005) Nostra Aetate Today Conference. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Philanthropy and Social Justice: A Thematic Approach for Interreligious Dialogue, Gregorian Pontifical University, Rome, Italy , 25-SEP-05. [Details]
(2005) Funding Change: International Perspectives on Social Justice Philanthropy,
Amanullah De Sondy (2005) Invited Respondent and Key Islam Expert. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Funding Change: International Perspectives on Social Justice Philanthropy, City University, New York, NY, USA , 18-MAY-05 - 20-MAY-05. [Details]
(2005) Muslims in Britain Pre- and Post-9/11,
Amanullah De Sondy (2005) At International Islamic University. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Muslims in Britain Pre- and Post-9/11, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia , 07-MAR-05. [Details]
(2005) Philanthropy for Social Justice and British Muslims,
Amanullah De Sondy (2005) For the Department of Theology and Religious Studies at the University of Birmingham. [Invited Seminars/Guest Lectures], Philanthropy for Social Justice and British Muslims, West Midlands, England , 17-FEB-05. [Details]
(2004) Philanthropy for Social Justice in British Muslim Societies,
Amanullah De Sondy (2004) For the Department of Theology and Religious Studies, University of Glasgow. [Keynote Speaker], Philanthropy for Social Justice in British Muslim Societies, Glasgow, Scotland . [Details]
Amanullah De Sondy (2004) Ford Foundation Conference, TUSEV Turkey and Sabanci University. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Philanthropy for Social Justice in British Muslim Societies, Istanbul, Turkey (Sept 2004) . [Details]
(2004) Islamophobia in Scotland,
Amanullah De Sondy (2004) for the Holyrood Conference on Islamophobia. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Islamophobia in Scotland, Scotland - Glasgow Royal Concert Hall in the city centre , 14-JUN-04. [Details]
(2003) Islam: Hope of Peace?,
Amanullah De Sondy (2003) Offering Hope to the World, for the University of Dundee Chaplaincy. [Keynote Speaker], Islam: Hope of Peace?, Dundee, Scotland , 21-OCT-03. [Details]
UCC Race Equality Working Group Member 2019 /
Athena SWAN Working Group - Staff Data Member 2019 /
Athena SWAN University Steering Group Member 2018 /
Athena SWAN CACSSS Steering Group Member 2018 /
UCC Graduate Studies Committee Member 2015 / 2018
UCC Violence, Conflict and Gender Cluster Member 2015 /
UCC North American Regional Working Group Member 2015 /
UCC Blackstone LaunchPad Cross Campus Stewardship Council Representative for the College of Arts, Celtic Studies, and Social Sciences 2015 /
UCC Master of Arts in Contemporary Religions Co-ordinator 2015 /
Men, Masculinities, and Religions Group of the American Academy of Religion Co-Chair 2014 / 2019
American Academy of Religion (AAR) - Status of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Intersex, & Queer Persons in the Profession Member 2018 / 2021
University College Cork Senior Lecturer In Contemporary Islam 07-SEP-15 /
University College Cork Acting Head of School - Asian Studies 22-JAN-18 / 03-SEP-18
University College Cork Co-Instructor of Master Class Module: "Contemporary Theoretical Paradigms in the Humanities and Social Sciences" 03-MAR-16 / 04-MAR-16
University of Glasgow Convener of Distance Learning Course in Islam /
University of Miami, Department of Religious Studies Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies 15-AUG-12 / 15-MAY-15
American University in Rome Visiting Professor in Islamic Studies 01-MAR-14 / 15-MAR-14
North-West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa Visiting Professor in Islamic Studies 01-MAY-12 / 15-MAY-12
University of Miamii, Department of Religious Studies Visiting Assistant Professor of Islamic Studies 15-AUG-10 / 15-MAY-12
Ithaca College Assistant Professor of World Religions 15-AUG-09 / 15-MAY-10
Strathclyde University, Department of Education Visiting Lecturer in Education 20-AUG-07 / 15-MAY-07
University of Stirling, Department of Religious Studies Visiting Lecturer in Islam 20-SEP-05 / 15-MAY-06
University of Glasgow Research Fellow 30-JUN-03 / 30-JUN-05
2009 University of Glasgow Ph.D. Theology and Religious Studies
2008 International Summer School, University of Birmingham Diploma Religion and Public Life
2003 University of Abertay Dundee Masters of Literature Islamic and Jerusalem Studies
2002 University of Stirling BA (Hons) Religious Studies with Education Studies and the Diploma in Education
2001 Zarqa Private University Certificate Advanced Course in Arabic Language and Grammar
1997 European Institute of Islamic Studies in Châteaux Chinon Certificate Arabic
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Invited to observe plenary meeting, chaired by the Taoiseach, Leo Varadkar, to discuss a wide range of important issues to achieving diversity and effective integration in Ireland. Thursday 4 July, 2019.
Invited to participate in The Scottish Government and the Royal Irish Academy breakfast and public conversation with First Minister Nicola Sturgeon with journalist Dearbhail McDonald (Private meet and greet). May 27th 2019.
Invited to participate in event to celebrate the deepening links between Dublin and Glasgow. Invited by British Ambassador, Robin Barnett and Head of the Scottish Government Office in Ireland, John Webster. Friday 10th May 2019 at British Embassy (Dublin).
Invited to celebrate St. David's Day at National Museum of Ireland in Dublin. Hosted by the Welsh Government in Ireland on Thursday 21st February 2019.
Invited external assesor to Trinity College Dublin's School of Religion in their appointment of assistant professor in classical Islamic religious thought and dialogue. (January 2019)
Invited to celebrate The Scottish Bard, Robert Burns. Burns Supper held at Christ Church Cathedral Crypt, Dublin, Ireland on January 25th 2018 and Chocolate Factory (Dublin) on January 25th 2019.
Invited to participate in opening night with President Michael D. Higgins celebrating 50 years of Chester Beatty's gift to Ireland on Thursday 18th October 2018
Invited to meet and greet with the Scottish Government Cabinet Secretary for Culture, Tourism and External Affairs, Fiona Hyslop MSP at the British Embassy prior to a general celebration at Royal Dublin Society. (5:45pm-10pm, Thursday 30th November 2017)
Reviewer for Columbia University Press, Routledge; Palgrave Macmillan; Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Political Theology Journal; Religion and Gender Journal; Journal for Theology, Literature and the Arts; Exemplar: The Journal of South Asian Studies, Journal of Religion and Literature and Society for Contemporary Thought and the Islamicate World Review (SCTIW)
Current International Ph.D Students in Islamic Studies
Melyssa Haffaf (Department of Modern languages and Literatures, University of Miami) (Completed 2018)
Natalie Ghosn (Law, University of Miami) (Completed 2019)
Current UCC Ph.D Students in Islamic Studies
Kayla Konakis (USA)
Isral Naska (Indonesia)
Current Postgraduate Students
Konakis Kayla Doctoral Degree
Modules Taught
Term (ID))
2020 Religions in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to the Study of Religions RG1001 Religions in the Contemporary World: An Introduction to the Study of Religions
2020 Contemporary Approaches in The Study of Religion RG6010 Contemporary Approaches in The Study of Religion
2020 Contemporary Islam: Exploration in Film, Media and Music. RG2311 Contemporary Islam: Exploration in Film, Media and Music.
2020 One God - Judaism, Christianity and Islam RG2008 One God - Judaism, Christianity and Islam
2020 Contemporary Islam RG6020 Contemporary Islam
Amanullah De Sondy
Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Islam
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University College Cork
Study of Religions, ORB 2.16
College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences
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Study of Religions Department
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Promo Wednesday - Review for "The Wolf's Torment"
The Wolf's Torment was published with IUniverse in 2007. I was very proud of the story when it came out. It's a bit darker for me, and I'm currently (slowly) writing the sequel, "Twilight Over Moldavia."
In the mid-1800s, Moldavia is a dark, mysterious country near the Baltic Sea, steeped in mythical legends of vampires, werewolves, and witches. At a young age, Crown Prince Mihai Sigmaringen realizes the legacy of his country when he witnesses his mother’s gruesome murder at the hands of a vengeful witch.
When he comes of age, Mihai goes to England for his education, intent on modernizing his country and ridding it of its dark reputation. His father recalls him to Moldavia to resume his royal duties and find a wife. Mihai reluctantly returns, but his life takes a stunning turn when a werewolf bites his best friend, Viktor.
Despite his distaste for the supernatural, Mihai allows Viktor to stay in Moldavia and watches as Viktor struggles to maintain his humanity. But faced with demons and other paranormal beings, Mihai’s loyalty to his friend may very well plunge his country into chaos …
Review from:
Andrew Ian Dodge, Blogger News Network
The Wolf’s Torment
S.G. Cardin
iUniverse (2007)
Reviewed by Andrew Ian Dodge, Nov 2007
I am fan of gothic horror novels, having written a few tales myself in the genre, but I do have a low tolerance for derivative novels that add nothing new to the genre. This is not one of those. Despite the fact the author has never been to places in the book; she has been in the region however, she evokes the feeling of that part of Central Europe oh so well.
The novel includes a pack of wolves, some witches and a bunch of vampires thrown in for good measure. For this story she has come up with a few legends and “facts” about supernaturals which is a nice touch. The legends of all intertwine in that part of the world; so the method used in this novel is accurate.
It reads well and does not hang around too long. There is none of the bloat that you find in modern gothic horror novels. While its plain to see that the author is a woman; from the romance aspects of the novel, there is none of the soap opera like plodding that can affect some novels in this genre. I found this far more enjoyable than the last few Anne Rice and Anita Blake novels.
Steph: The last line of the paragraph makes my day!
The fact several of the main characters start out in London is a nice touch. The spoiled upper class girl who gets more than she bargained for is most amusing as well. Might be a lesson to some of those in the UK/US who marry Eastern Europeans without finding out who they really are first.
Only one criticism and this is personal taste. Why does it always have to be the werewolf that is the evil one in the end? That said the author was keen to make sure her werewolves were not one-dimensional knuckle-dragging beasts.
I hope to hell that she decided to publish this via iUniverse and its not because publishers rejected her novel. Because any publisher who rejected this novel needs to seriously have their head examined.
STEPH: Thanks, Ian!
I enjoyed the novel immensely and was pleased to see that there will be a sequel in future. I hope that they author will include me on her review list once again. The fact I stayed up past midnight two days before an operation to finish this novel speaks volumes.
Labels: andrew ian dodge, blogger news network, review for the wolf's torment, the wolf's torment
Tuesday's Book Shelf - What I'm Reading
TIES THAT BIND is by author Keena Kincaid and the book is published through "The Wild Rose Press." It's also available on ebook, but I have it in print. I enjoy reading romance, which this book is, and "The Wild Rose Press" has it listed in their Faery Line since it involves "light" magic.
So why am I reading this book? Because I loved the first book, Anam Cara by Keena. In that book, Bran ap Owen came to Carlisle looking for his soulmate, Liz. He had to make things right for them so they could finally be happy. His brother, Aeden, was tied into the "making things" right aspect. In that book, Aedan, and Liza's daughter, Tess, have a "first love" love affair, but are seperated when the book ends.
Ties that Bind is the sequel and tells Aedan and Tess's story. I've been looking forward to reading this book since it came out.
What I enjoyed about Anam Cara is that it's set in an historical setting, England in the 1160s during the time of Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitane. Aeden and Bran are mistrals. There's a also a nice dose of "magic" laced into the storyline. The clan from Duncarouch (sp?) are Sidhe and have magical abilities. Both Bran and Aedan have magical ablities. Lace in a little of magic, a little history, and a compelling love story and I'm hooked.
In "Ties That Bind," Aedan is sent to Carlisle to solve a mystery and encounters Tess. The chemistry between them is undenable to everyone around them. They try to deny it themselves, but I doubt they won't get far. There's also intrigue as to who fathered "Daz," the boy that Aedan looks after.
Here's a blurb for the book:
Out of place in the Plantagenet court, minstrel AEDAN ap OWEN misuses his Sidhe gifts for the king's dark business. Sent north to investigate rumors of treason and dispatch the troublemakers, Aedan discovers someone is murdering monks and stealing saints’ relics. And all clues point to Carlisle.
TESS, LADY of BRIDSWELL, refuses to rekindle her relationship with Aedan. She knows his reputation as a secret stealer—and she has a secret that must be kept. But her resolve falters when her uncle promises her hand to a man she despises and Aedan hounds her steps.
A would-be king uses the stolen relics to amplify his power, wielding it like a weapon. Meeting the traitor's magic with magic will prevent war, but it will also destroy Aedan’s chance to show Tess he has at last mastered the temptation of the ancient wisdom. Can Aedan renounce his magic to win Tess' heart anew or will he choose magic over love?
You can find Keena on the web at: http://www.keenakincaid.com if you want to check her out.
Posted by Stephanie Burkhart at 3:12 PM
Labels: celtic historical romance, keena kincaid, ties that bind, wild rose press
Excerpt Monday - Destination: Berlin
This week's featured book is my first novel, DESTINATION: BERLIN. It's a miliary action/adventure with a "sweet" romance between Sharon and Dimitri.
Stuck in a routine job in Cold War Germany guarding nuclear weapons. U.S. Army Corporal Sharon Cates thinks she is going to Berlin to attend an orientation tour. Unknown to her, the briefcase she carries contains top-secret information that the Stasi and KGB are willing to kill for.
Russian Junior Sergeant Dimitri Nagory is an assistant to a high-ranking Soviet officer in his country’s embassy in England. Dimitri isn’t expecting a great adventure as he boards the duty train for a routine trip to headquarters in Berlin, and he certainly isn’t expecting to meet any Americans.
The Stasi derail the train in the middle of East Germany, expecting to take the information from Sharon’s dead body. The sparks fly when Sharon and Dimitri meet. When the sudden explosion hurls Sharon and Dimitri from the train and into each other, he too becomes a target. With Sharon nursing badly bruised ribs and branded by her country as a traitorous thief for stealing top-secret documents, Dimitri goes against everything he’s been trained to do when he offers to help her to Berlin. Can Sharon trust Dimitri or will he break her heart?
New Hampshire native SG Cardin (also writing as Stephanie Burkhart) spent more than seven years stationed overseas in Europe as member of the Army’s Military Police Corps. Currently she lives in California and works as a 911 dispatcher for LAPD. She’s married with two boys, 7 & 3.
REVIEWS FOR DESTINATION:BERLIN:
“A tautly written military adventure.” – Midwest Book Review
There's a little bit of everything mixed into this story. There's history, adventure, suspense, romance and of course so military jargon. The author does a good job though, of simplifying the military lingo, so that it never becomes a burden to understand. The story flows well, and moves along quickly. If you're looking for a good story to keep you occupied for a night or two, I'd highly recommend this one. – Book of the Moment Reviewer
Destination Berlin is a military thriller that will have you on the edge of your seat from beginning to end. - Starrstruck
The inspiration for "Sharon and Dimitri" - Claire Danes as Sharon and Jacob Young as Dimitri.
Spies. Espionage. Danger. The Berlin duty train hinted at it all, as it carried the four allies between the West and occupied Berlin. Corporal Sharon Cates was high on the potential thrill, but her military common sense kept her anchored to the fact that hints rarely ever gave way to facts.
She walked through the doors and into the duty train’s dining car, wearing her class “A” uniform. It was relatively empty. A lone concession window was open selling coffee and brötchen. She bought a cup and sat down next to a window. It was dark outside, and she couldn’t see much. Glancing at her watch, she saw that it was two o’clock. Sharon knew she should be asleep, but she was too excited. Soon she’d be in Berlin, and she was thrilled. Going to Berlin would be stepping into living history. She put her briefcase on the table and took out a guidebook to Berlin, thumbing through it as she drank her coffee.
A faint creak pierced the air. When Sharon looked up, she spied a Soviet soldier also buying a cup of coffee. A warm shiver slid down her spine. After all, she knew the Soviets also used the duty train; she just thought she’d never see one. He was tall and filled out his uniform well. From the markings on his uniform, she gathered he was a non-commissioned officer, but that was all. To her surprise, he approached her booth.
“Good morning, Corporal. I am Junior Sergeant Dimitri Nagory of the Soviet Army. May I join you?”
Sharon looked up. He was talking to her—in English! She motioned to him to have a seat.
Dimitri sat down and smiled. “If you don’t mind my asking, what’s your name, Corporal?”
“ Sharon,” she answered, as distantly as possible. She never thought she’d meet a Soviet soldier on the Berlin Duty Train. This felt like a page out of a LeCarre spy novel. “Sharon Cates.”
“Is this your first time on the duty train?” he asked.
Sharon stared at him. Nosey Soviet. Cpt. Heathers had cautioned her about them during her security briefing.
“Because it is the first time I have seen you,” Dimitri continued, sipping his coffee.
“Ah, yes,” Sharon finally answered. Should she finally entertain those thoughts of espionage and secret spy scenarios? “It’s my first trip to Berlin,” she added.
“I see. Are you attending the Berlin Orientation Tour?”
“Most of the Americans I see on the train travel to Berlin for that purpose,” Dimitri explained, grinning.
“If you don’t mind my asking, why are you on the train?” Despite the desire to keep her composure, her lips curved into an inquisitive smile.
“I work in the Soviet embassy in London. My headquarters are in East Berlin. I travel between London and Berlin every two weeks,” he answered.
“And you can tell me that?” she asked, raising a surprised eyebrow.
“It’s common knowledge,” he added.
“Do you make it a habit to talk to Americans on the train?” Sharon asked.
“No, I don’t. I usually sleep in my train car, but I haven’t had much to eat today so they let me out to do that,” he replied.
“Touché,” she said curtly. “So, Jr. Sgt. Nagory, what do you do in your army?”
Labels: destination:berlin, military
Kindles for Christmas
I hope everyone had a great Christmas and Santa brought you a couple of items on your list. He brought me a Kindle. Hehe. Now I can stock up on some ebooks.
The Pros of my Kindle:
I can have a ton of books on it and it doesn't take up too much space.
I can take it to work and read. It's convientent to carry.
For those ebooks brought through Amazon, I can adjust the font as needed.
My books I bought for my Iphone app were in my account.
I can directly upload PDF Files to the Kindle.
The price of the books are very affordable.
The Cons of my Kindle:
I can directly upload PDF Files to my Kindle. The downside being is the font on the PDF is what you get and it's quite small. I can adjust the screen to make the font bigger but then I'm reading it on the side and it's a bit disconcerting.
The best way to read is to buy through Amazon. Not that I don't mind. The price is affordable and I can find just about anything I want on it.
Anyone else want to share their thoughts on Kindles, Ebook readers, and ebooks? I'd love to hear them.
Well, 2009 is winding down and it's been a good year. I can't complain. 4RV Publishing has a children's book it's going to put out and I have two books contracted through Desert Breeze, paranormal romances. I did NaNoWriMo and hit over 50K words in a month (a miracle considering my schedule!)
I hope to have a productive new year. My goals include finishing my NaNoWriMo novel, finishing a historical fiction about Edward IV and Elizabeth Woodville, becoming a Wild Rose author, Finishing Twilight over Moldavia. And you can always find me on Writing.com as StephB.
My kids had a great Christmas. My son, Andrew, said the best part was opening gifts. Haha!! Joe's favorite gift was a SuperWhy Computer. Andrew's was the Super Mario Brothers Wii game, but he also liked the Indiana Jones DS game. Both boys loved baking cookies with me, but Joe was pretty messy about it. haha!!
Today's agent tip: Keep that query letter to one page. Agents get a ton of queries a week and they don't want to read past a page. Remember to add any writing credits you might have to the letter.
Stay tune in 2010 for updates to my writing, the publishing world, and ebooks.
Labels: amazon, ebook readers, kindle
Welcome to the Desert Breeze Scavenger Hunt!
BUDAPEST'S PARLIAMENT BLDG AT NIGHT
Welcome to my blog, “Adventures in Moldavia,” for the Desert Breeze Scavenger Hunt. I’m very excited to have you peek in.
My first novel with Desert Breeze Publishing is due out in May 2010, and it is a paranormal romance. It takes place in 1901 at the end of the Victorian era. The world was growing fast due to industrialization. They had iceboxes, telephones, phonographs, and automobiles were just becoming popular. In fact, European automakers included Daimler, who named a car after his daughter, Mercedes. Carl Benz was thriving. The nobility and merchants could afford autos during this time, but autos themselves, weren’t quite priced low enough for the everyday man yet. Radio was only a few years off. It was an exciting time with many modern inventions. Still, dark legends and myths existed in small corners of the world.
The novel opens with Katherine Archibald, the niece of Lord Henry Archibald, reading a book. In walks a foreign man who finds her intriguing. He reveals himself to be a Hungarian count, Matthias Duma. Katherine is as intrigued by him as he is of her. After Matthias’s business at the Archibald’s is finished, he returns to his London townhouse and confides in his servant and friend, Lazlo, that he’s attracted to Katherine. It’s an attraction that rattles him to the core because Matthias, after all, is a werewolf. He asks Lazlo if he even has the right to make her fall in love with him.
That is what the novel dares to explore – Matthias is tormented by his condition, but he is a man, and the man wants a mate, a lover, and a wife. Quite a dilemma, isn’t it?
I know some say werewolves, “Argh! I don’t find them attractive at all.” I can’t say I blame you. What fascinates me about Matthias’s story are the psychological aspects. What does the man have to deal with when he isn’t a werewolf? There’s very little actual wolf scenes in the story. I want to explore Matthias’s psyche, not his transformation or the wolf.
“The Hungarian” was inspired by a short story I wrote called “The Wolf’s Kiss.” That story won an honorable mention in the Writer’s Digest 2007 Popular Fiction contest in the romance category. After being well received on Writing.com, I expanded it into a full length novel.
This version, due out in May, is very different from the first rough draft of the novel. I took a page out of King’s book, wrote my draft, got to know the characters, than wrote a 2nd draft, taking the story and characters in a different direction. This 2nd draft, I wrote in the first person from Katherine’s perspective. Then I showed Gail at Desert Breeze. She was interested, but wanted it in the 3rd person, hence this 3rd draft.
JONATHON RHYS-MEYERS AS MATTHIAS
As with all my novels, I cast my characters. Since Matthias has such striking eyes, I cast Jonathan Rhys-Meyers from HBO’s “Tudors” fame. For Katherine, who just has a mane of beautiful, black curls, I cast an actress who was on “As The World Turns,” Justine Cotsonas.
England and Hungary prove a romantic setting for the novel. In fact, Matthias, my hero, was born in Hungary.
JUSTINE COTSONAS AS KATHERINE
I also have a free short coming out for the Scavenger Hunt, “Under a Christmas Moon,” featuring Matthias and Katherine. It’s meant to stand alone, but I hope it piques your interest about the couple. Below is an excerpt from the opening chapter, and after the excerpt is your clue for the Desert Breeze author’s blog.
The door squeaked open. Katherine peeked over the top of her book. A tall, muscular man walked in wearing a white button-down shirt and holding his blazer. He paused, as if surprised to find her, and then began to quietly walk toward the window. He moved with wolf-like prowess, his long legs taking cool, calculated steps as his unusual eyes surveyed her. Katherine bit the inside of her lip, returning his measured perusal with one of her own. His silence was unnerving, yet intriguing.
His eyes drew her to him – malachite green with a gold ring around the iris. Dynamic. Expressive. Even now, as he looked at her, they softened and grew translucent. Finally, he stopped in front of the window and casually threw his blazer onto a nearby chair as if he owned the room.
“Hello,” he said.
“You’re staring.”
“I am? I thought you were staring at me.”
He chuckled. “Perhaps I was admiring you.”
“Who else is here?”
Katherine pursed her lips as her insides warmed from the deep silkiness of his voice. He smiled, and walked over to her chair, slowly gliding around it, tracing his finger over the leather headrest, skirting her curly hair.
“What’s your name?” he asked.
“And who is inquiring?” She tried to sound cool and composed, but she had to fight the nervous temptation to play with her hands.
“Romeo, perhaps?”
“Then my name is Juliet.”
A teasing smile graced his lips as he walked out from behind her chair and glanced at a bookshelf before turning to look at her again.
“Would you fall for Tristan?”
“Only if my name were Isolode.”
He walked over to a wooden table near the window and ran his long finger over a clay mock-up of Excalibur lodged in a stone. “What do you think of ‘Arthur?’ Do you think it suits me?”
“Only Guinevere would believe your name was Arthur.”
He crossed his arms, his eyes sparkling in the sunlight. “Would you believe my name was Matthias?”
“I might, if—”
“If what?”
“If I knew more about you.”
His eyes darkened a little. “What would you like to know?”
She paused, drinking in his features. His face was chiseled with an awkward scar on his right temple. His nose was perfect – slender – hinting at nobility. His lips were full, red, exuding with male sensuality. He was a vision of male virility, and she found it difficult to tame the unusual warmth that pooled inside her.
“Ask me three questions and I’ll give you three honest answers,” he said.
She stood up, nervously smoothing out the fold of her skirt. Were there limits to what she could ask him? Boundaries? “Is your name really Matthias?”
“Why did you come here today?”
“I have business with Lord Archibald.”
She opened her mouth to ask him her next question, but he swiftly crossed the distance between them. His dominant presence took over her personal space. She shivered from the excitement of being so close to him. He placed his finger to her lips. The touch made her tingle. Was he going to kiss her? “My turn for a question. Do you believe in the stars?”
The next Desert Breeze Scavenger Hunt Question:
What did Chrystal Kincaid do at Heather Graham's Vampire Ball during the 2009 Romantic Times Convention that now set the bar for future Desert Breeze authors?
Visit Chrystal's blog at:
http://chrystalkincaid.wordpress.com
Posted by Stephanie Burkhart at 11:17 AM
Labels: budapest, desert breeze scavenger hunt, hungary, the hungarian
To Grandmother's House I go...
I live in California now, but when I was a little girl, I lived in New Hampshire, and some of my fondest memories is going to Grandmother's house for Christmas.
My grandmother was Ukranian, but she married a Polish guy and adapted his ways. She liked to be called Bopshie (Polish, I'm told for grandmother) but we grandkids just called her Bopie. She lived in a small rural NH town on the NH/VT/MA border called Hinsdale and the wintertime, it sure got snowy.
I lived in the big city, Manchester. The drive was a 2 hour drive through rural NH on state roads and over a hill. It really was a journey out of a postcard.
We started in Manchester and took the 101 WEST toward Bedford. Bedford was still like Manchester, haha! We went through Amherst, Milford, and Wilton. It Wilton we had to take a turn and go over a bridge. Hey, that was excitement to a little kid!
After Wilton, we went up Temple Mountain. Our ears would pop every time! I can't be sure of the elevation now because it's been over 20 years since I've taken the journey, but for ears to pop, I think it was pretty high. We traveled through Peterbourgh. We traveled through Dublin, Marbourgh, and then hit Keene. Keene was considered a city, like Manchester was, but it was considerably smaller.
After Keene, we switched highways went through Swanzy and Winchester where we hit the 119 state highway and took that through to Hindsale. The pictures I've found where of winter scenes along the way. One is the town gazebo in Ashelot, the town before Hinsdale. In the winter time, it would be very snowy. (As I'm sure the pictures relate) Icicles would hang off the trees. It would be cold, but that cold captured a beauty that is almost impossible to put into words. On the way to Bopie's house we'd sing Christmas songs knowing our gifts were snug in the truck.
Winter in New Hampshire certainly brought out the "heartidiness" in a person. Wherever you are, treasure your winter memories.
TOMORROW: THE DESERT BREEZE SCAVENGER HUNT comes to MOLDAVIA!! Be here while I gush about my Desert Breeze release, "The Hungarian," and get the next clue for the Hunt!
Labels: new hampshire, winter
Query Letters, Newsletters & Ebook Readers
Gosh, can you believe it's Saturday? The weekend snuck up fast didn't it? Today's theme is usually query tips and literary agents.
QUERY TIP: Don't compare yourself or the work you're writing about to another author, usually more famous. Agents don't want to see that. While your story may have paranormal elements like vampires, don't say it's like "Anne Rice." Let the characters and the story sell itself without the Anne Rice reference.
LITERARY AGENTS: I love hanging out at Nathan Bransford's blog. I can't gush enough about him because he's easy to read, straight to the point and very topicial. If you get a chance, hang out on his blog. On the side bar, he has what type of manuscripts he's looking for and he's got a good tutuorial about how to query and format a query letter. If you're interested in solicating for an agent, his blog is a great place to start.
Here's a link: http://nathanbransford.blogspot.com
THE MONTHLY SG CARDIN ONLINE NEWSLETTER:
I published a monthly newsletter with news from the writing and publishing world, along with tidbits on the holidays, writing excerpts, weight watcher receipes, book reviews and poetry. In fact, I'm in the proofing stages for my DEC newsletter and I'll be sending it out on Monday. If you would like to sign up, please visit my website at: http://sgcardin.tripod.com and on the home page scroll down to the bottom and fill in the form. I'd love to have you on my mailing list!
All I want for Christmas is an EBOOK reader.
No seriously. (And I think my Kindle is in the mail. My husband can't keep a secret to save his life.)
I like to hang out on Publisher's Weekly because they examine trends in the publishing industry and since the intro of the Kindle, ebooks have taken off. There were ebook readers before, but the Kindle benefited from Amazon's high profile. In 2008 alone, ebooks were over a 50 million dollar in the US. It's the way of the future.
SOME PROS:
Can store over a 100 books on most ebooks readers.
Convientent - you can take them ANYWHERE and read them ANYWHERE - especially while waiting in the dentist and doctor's office.
Saves on ink and paper.
You can't have an author autograph the story. :(
Love to hear your thoughts.
Labels: ebook readers, literary agents, newsletter, query letter tips, SG Cardin online
California Tidbit Thursday - Napa & Sonoma Valleys
You hear about Napa all the time - it's the hub of the California wine industry. In fact, some of the best California wines come from Napa. I've been to Napa on several occasions (it's been awhile) but I've always enjoyed my trips up there. For me, I find Napa and Sonoma very romantic. Traveling down the roads, visiting wineries, that's fun to me.
Napa is quaint, mostly rural, with goregeous views of the landscape. But what makes it so special? Because of it's unique climate, it's a perfect place to grow and harvest grapes for wines. In fact, the movie, "Bottle Shock," is a great movie about the California wine area and how Napa & Sonoma counties came to gain "respectability" in the wine world. I highly recommend seeing it, especially if you're a wine person.
Napa is a little cooler than Sonoma county. Napa Valley is widely considered one of the top American Viticultural Areas in California, and all of the United States. Robert Mondavi is probably one of the best known wine growers in Napa. His wine is world famous. I had a chance to go to the Mondavi winery and it's something special.
Napa Valley even has it's own website: http://www.napavalley.com/.
My favorite wines are the Cabinet Savingion's from this area. I much prefer reds. I also enjoy a good pinot and merlot. If you're ever up in the San Franscisco area, Napa and Sonoma counties are you're less than 30 minutes away from some of the best wineries in the US.
Info from this article came from Wikipedia.
Labels: california, napa valley, sonoma valley, wine
On the Reading List
As well as writing, I love to love read. I suppose I enjoy historicals the most, but here's what's on my list. I'd love to hear what's on your list as well!
I just finished this book. Written by Jodi Picoult, this book is a fictional acount of a high school shooting in Sterling, NH. It's my first book I've read by Picoult and I enjoyed it very much. It's considered, "mainstream." I loved how Jodi got into her characters. There was so much depth to the writing, I really enjoyed it. I also enjoyed the setting, Sterling, NH, which is in my native NH. I could easily picture the area she was writing about.
Written by Carolly Erickson, this is a biography about Alexandra, the last Czarina of Russia. I've always been fascinated by Russian History since I took a history class my senior year of high school. This biography is very rich in detail and Erickson has a great writing style. Surprisingly, I was disappointed with her fictional account of Tatiana's story in "The Czarina's Daughter," but this book rocks the house.
A WICKED LORD AT THE WEDDING
This is written by Jillian Hunter and is in her Boscastle series. I love Hunter, so I enjoyed the book. She's got an writing style that makes it easy to read. I liked Eleanor a lot. Sebastien was likable, too, but if anything, I would have liked him to actually say "I love you," to her.
I'm almost done with this. It's by Phillipa Gregory and it's about Elizabeth Woodville, Edward IV's queen. I love Gregory, but I'm disappointed with the POV narration in this one. It's present tense and because of it, it's hard for her to cover those events that are important to Elizabeth. Elizabeth's story is very rich, but I'm disappointed with how Gregory told it.
TIME PLAINS DRIFTER
FLYING FREE
News from the Publishing World - Misc Christmas Thoughts
JOE DECORATING THE TREE
First, I want to apologize for not being around much. Truth be told, real has me busy this holiday season. I just finished my Christmas card list, but now I have to wrap gifts and keep the chocolate in the advent calender flowing. Haha. Which kind of takes me to my theme today - Christmas traditions.
When I was a wee thing, I remember my Dad would buy lobster and we'd all go over my Granny's house for a Christmas Eve lobster dinner. Being a wee one, I didn't appreciate the lobster at the time.
When we got older, we used to go to my grandmother's house (on my mother's side) for Christmas Eve. Since I lived in NH, snow would litter the ground. It would be COOL. The wind chill would put it about 20 degrees. We'd have to warm up the car before going out to it.
We'd make pedogies (homemade) and have a non meat dinner before opening gifts. I loved the comdarie of making homemade pedogies. The whole family would gather around and one would roll out the dough, one would use a cookie cutter to make the circles and one would stuff the dough. It was my job to boil the pedogies and then fry them up in a pan with butter & onions. Homemade pedogies taste fab, but looking back, that butter & onion couldn't have been good for the ticker! Haha! I would go to Midnight Mass with my aunt Mary and on Christmas we'd have a big turkey dinner and visit the aunts and uncles.
Nowadays, my Christmas traditions are a little different since I live in California. There's no 20 degree temperatures in California. I'm kind of sad that my boys won't know a snowy Christmas, but I try to make it as Christmasy as I can. I light an advent candle for meals and I have an advent calender filled with choc and lollipops. I put out a navity and each day Andrew and I add a piece. We have an ornament dinner every year and exchange personalized ornaments with family members. Opening gifts are usually reserved for Christmas morning. That's what they did for my husband's family when he was a wee one.
ANDREW DECORATING THE TREE
Both my boys are excited for Christmas this year. Joe is 3 and is just starting to "get it." He goes to the advent calender every day which is cute.
Christmas traditions are important because, for me, it makes the family unique. While lobster isn't on the menu anymore, I made a clam chowder and Brent will cook up a rib roast for the ornament dinner. I made sugar cookies with Andrew and he loves it. Joe should be old enough to get it this year. We'll see.
I hope you're having a good holiday season and enjoying your own Christmas traditions.
Did I tell you the reason why I neglected the blog? Part was because of National Novel Writing Month. I was tying my fingers off trying to get to 50K words. And I did! I'm a winner at 50,291. Mind you, my novel is probably just a little over 1/2 done but I've got a good start with it. I have to admit, I entered Novemeber prepared. I had character bios, maps, outlines and I was ready to write. I don't think without that prep work, I would have made my goal.
The other reason is the real life business of the holiday season. I work from 6 pm to 2 am and I usually have to get up at 630 am. I am exhausted all of the time. It sucks. I have to do my house work, and the Christmas extras. Not that I mind, but I find there's just not enough time in the day.
My NaNoWriMo project was "The Count's Lair" a book that will be published by Desert Breeze publishing. I'm very excited about the story. My hero is a werewolf who falls in love with a talented pianist in Hungary 1901. I love the time period. While werewolves don't have the appeal that vampires do, I enjoy them because I explore the more pyschological aspects of it.
New from the Publishing World.
I try to keep up with this one which isn't easy. I usually get my news from Publisher's Weekly as I find they are the most up to date:
A new program debuts on Sirius XM Book Radio this week: “Penguin Classics on Air,” a half-hour series devoted to the discussion and exploration of some of Penguin Classics’ 1,500-plus titles. Penguin employees will write and produce the series, and the show will air twice a week—Mondays from 3:00 to 3:30 P.M. and Thursdays from 11:30 P.M. to midnight—on Sirius 117 and XM 163.
It sounds interesting. This week is about Jane Austen. Having just seen Pride & Prejudice with Keira Knightly and watching Becoming Jane, consider me a Jane Austen fan. Surprisingly, I didn't read her in High school, so I'm just now getting introduced to Jane.
I'm a firm believer in entering writing contests. It's where I cut teeth and I've entered the Writer's Digest Contests since 2006. Here's a contest being offered through Publisher's Weekly and Amazon:
Also today, Penguin Group (USA) and Amazon announced the third annual Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Competition. For the first time, the competition will award two grand prizes: one for general fiction and one for best young adult novel. The 2010 competition will also be open to novels that have been previously self-published. The competition runs from January 25, 2010 and until February 7 at www.amazon.com/abna.
Here's something a little interesting: A Candianan Private school is switching to EBook readers!
The Blyth Academy, a private school in Toronto, is replacing its traditional textbooks with the Sony Reader Digital Book which will be loaded with electronic versions of students' textbooks. “There may be one or two [books] that we still find are better in the printed version, or that maybe haven’t been fully converted into electronic texts, but we’re hoping by the end of the year, that we’ll have all of our texts completely in electronic format,” said Blyth director of development Brandon Kerstens. He added that some of Blyth’s approximately 170 students in Toronto have opted to continue using hard copies of the books.
The school is maintaining its library of printed books, and students will still read fiction in printed versions. “We’re not doing away with printed text altogether because novels are so beloved, and people love to have their novels in a printed version,” said Kerstens.
Enjoy your Wednesday!
Labels: christmas traditions, NaNoWriMo, news from the publishing world, publisher's weekly
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Dive Sites > California (Monterey area) >
Also frequently called Del Monte Beach (though really, Del Monte Beach is farther north), or McMuffin Beach (because of the McDonald's across the street).
Untitled Location
1 Dive Sites
1.1 The Sailboat
1.2 The Amtrack
1.3 The Pier
2 Shore Information
3.1 GPS Coordinates
The Sailboat
The sailboat collapsed in big storms during the first half of 2017. It is now a big pile of broken concrete about 150 yards offshore in about 25 fsw. The good news is that that pile gives critters a lot more hiding spots, so it's full of life.
The upper deck partially collapsed in winter 2016. This allowed waves to push inside the hull in winter 2017 and flex it back and forth until it failed.
Prior to that, it was one of the few accessible wrecks in the Monterey area, visible from the surface on good days.
I use a Nautilus Lifeline to find the sailboat via GPS. See below for coordinates. Start out on a 45 heading from the beach near the pier, or a 20 heading from McMuffin.
Some rough sight lines from the sailboat:
206 - near corner of Monterey Bay Kayaks
237 - Marriott hotel (roughly lined up with the back of London Bridge pub)
273 - first small building on pier
280 - second small building on pier
287 - near corner of the big cannery building on the end of the pier
When swimming to or from the sailboat, watch out for kayaks. Monterey Bay Kayaks does frequent group tours. If visibility is poor, send up a DSMB and wait a minute before surfacing.
The Amtrack
This is the rusted out hulk of a World War II amtrack (fully tracked personnel carrier). It's 40 yards from the sailboat on a 220 heading. It also suffered during the storms of 2016 and 2017. The turret has dropped into the body, and the sides of the body have partially collapsed. As of September 2018, the turret is exposed, though the sand level can shift up and down by a couple feet over the course of the year.
There was an orange line running from the sailboat to the amtrack in Summer 2014, but it was washed out by storms in December 2014.
There is a huge amount of life on the concrete wall on the first part of the pier, and on each of the pilings of the deeper parts of the pier. The concrete wall also makes for decent snorkeling; it's sheltered from waves and surge, and is shallow enough.
You can swim along the outside of the pilings, but swimming underneath the pier or going into the harbor is not allowed without harbormaster permission. If you look up and can't see light, you're under the pier; swim east until it gets light again.
The fishermen on the pier are sometimes jerks. If you want to dive the pier, I recommend either starting out right next to the concrete wall and dropping down before you hit the end of it, or starting out well south of the first line of mooring balls, and swimming west to the pilings from there; the fishermen can't cast out that far. Make sure you have a line cutter (or dive shears or knife) in case you get hooked.
Watch out for boats above you when surfacing near the mooring balls, or near the pier.
Also note that the pier bends midway out. The safe heading back is not parallel to the first part of the pier, but to the second part of the pier. This is particularly important if you go off the end of the pier, where heading back south will take you inside the harbor!
Shore Information
If you're headed for the sailboat:
Park in the small parking lot across from McDonald's. Diver call this lot "McMuffin."
There are bathrooms in the gray building along the biking trail, but they're sometimes locked. (if so, see below)
If you're diving the pier:
Park on the first part of the pier.
There are bathrooms at the corner of the pier.
In either case, entry to the water is very easy. The beach is a wide open, slowly sloping sand beach.
(click on map for bigger picture)
N36 36.193 W121 53.117 - The Sailboat
N36 36.182 W121 53.136 - The Amtrack
Photos albums from this site:
September 2016 (night/fluorescence)
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653: How To Build A Business from Your Hobby, w/ Melbourne Watch Co. Founder Sujain Krishnan – The Solopreneur Hour Podcast
by Michael O'Neal | Dec 3, 2017 | Podcast | 0 comments
The concept of The Solopreneur Hour has always been to feature people that have made a business out of their hobbies and their skill sets. There’s no more evident example of that then today’s guest, Sujain Krishnan. Just a few short years ago, he went down the rabbit hole of collecting affordable automatic watches.
Watch collecting can be a hobby that is really fun and expensive. Somewhere along the way Sujain realized that his enthusiasm and entrepreneurial nature could combine, so he started making his own watches from freely available parts, and selling them on popular watch forums.
One thing led to another, and soon he realized that he wanted to take a shot at designing his own watch. Thus, the Melbourne Watch Company was formed.
Today, they were nice enough to give me a tour of the Melbourne Watch Company, and Sujain was nice enough to sit down with me to tell his origin story. It’s a perfect example of taking your hobby and turning it into an amazing business. Hope you enjoy.
Check out The Melbourne Watch Company:
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Christian world
Contemporary theology
Synaxarion for the Sunday of All Saints
Luke (Voino-Yasenetsky) of Simferopol and Crimea
The Holy Wonderworkers and Unmercenary Physicians Cosmas and Damian of Asia Minor
Saint Lazar the Great Martyr of Kosovo
Sculptures of 16 Russian patriarchs to be installed soon at Christ the Savior
People’s Artist of Russia sculptor Salavat Scherbakov has begun the final phase of the creation of the sculptures of 16 patriarchs of the Russian Orthodox Church which will be installed at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, reports Orthodox Moscow.
The solemn opening of the sculptures of the first hierarchs of All Russia is scheduled for November 29, marking the climax of the celebrations for the 100th anniversary of the restoration of the patriarchate in the Russian Church. The statues will be installed on the stylobate surrounding the upper part of Christ the Savior Cathedral.
“Although the idea of limiting it to busts was dominant a year ago in the expert community, I insisted on full figure sculptures. Otherwise we would have … identical monuments, where it would be extremely difficult to show the particularities of the various historical periods and human characteristics, and to reflect the spiritual meaning of the service of this or that person,” Scherbakov stated.
According to the sculptor, the hierarchs differ even in their vestments.
“St. Job and Patriarchs Joasaph I, Joseph, Adrian, Segius, Alexei I, and Kirill are in the traditional mantia. Four others are dressed in simple monastic riassas, including St. Gergmogen (we felt it was not quite correct to show such a patriarch, who personified a sacrifice of the Church for his people, like St. Tikhon of Moscow, in celebratory, festive vestments). Finally, the remaining figures are shown in sakkos and omophorion (including Patriarch Nikon),” Scherbakov added.
The father of the first Romanov tsar Patriarch Philaret stands alone among the images, dressed in an embroidered gown with rich pearls, holding the royal titular in his hands.
The total height of each of the 16 monuments is about 13 ft. Two stelae will also be installed, one with information on the historical significance and spiritual meaning of the patriarchate in Russia, the second with information on the sponsors and initiators of the memorial project.
As previously reported, the Commission for Monumental Art of the Moscow city Duma supported the initiative to perpetuate the memory of all the patriarchs of Moscow and approved the draft in 2016. The project is being financed by famous Moscow philanthropist A. S. Chizhik.
Another new monument was recently added to the Christ the Savior ensemble. On Sunday, June 18, Pat. Kirill consecrated the new monument “Reunification,” dedicated to the signing of the Act of Canonical Communion between the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox Church Outside of Russia. The historic event took place on May 17, 2007 at Moscow’s Christ the Savior Cathedral, with the new monument being timed to its tenth anniversary.
Source: Orthochristian.com
Serbian Orthodox Church
Jubilee: Celebrating 800 Years of the Autocephaly of the Serbian Church (3rd Day)
Jubilee: Celebrating 800 Years of the Autocephaly of the Serbian Church (1st Day)
Jubilee: Celebrating 800 Years of the Autocephaly of the Serbian Church (2nd Day)
SAVED! And Saving St Sava Cathedral in New York City! Nave Roof Completed!
Slava of the church of Holy Apostles in Topcider
Synaxis of All Saints of Pskov Caves celebrated at their monastery
Statement of the Holy Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on the situation in Montenegro
Greek Church devoted more than $136 million to humanitarian aid in 2018
Family Day celebrated in Russian church in Belgrade
UN cultural agency removes birthplace of Jesus from its list of heritage sites in danger
Petros Sasaki: a master from Japan settled in Finland
17th Century St. Stephanos Church Re-Opens in Hochants Village after Renovation
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Fifteen Assyrian Children Kidnapped By Kurdish Affiliated Militia in Syria
Serbian Patriarch and Patriarchs of Antioch Call for Pan-Orthodox Unity
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David Schwarz > First Chapter of Book on Electronic Art and Psychoanalysis (at STEIM)
Bits and Pieces: Electronic Art, Psychoanalysis, Culture (manuscript-in-progress)
David Schwarz
Chapter 1: A Performance at STEIM (August 5, 2010)
I begin with a site and time specific examination of the STEIM foundation (Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music) in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, and a concert that took place there on August 5, 2010. I received a grant to be in residence at the institute for the month in order to plan this book in the presence of artists making new musical applications and trying them out in concerts opened to the public. I will offer an account of the works of the three artists who performed at STEIM on August 5th. This account will open the musical, interactive, theoretical, cultural, and psychoanalytic issues that pervade the rest of this book, the works under discussion and the discursive approach that I will undertake in an attempt to theorize interactive, electronic art through the teachings of Jacques Lacan.
Lacan: a Brief Introduction
I will take several passes at some of Lacan’s ideas throughout this chapter and book. For now I would like to introduce his ideas with some large-grain explanations. First, Lacan offers a narrative of developing subjectivity through which we all pass from birth to language acquisition (the disorganization of the self after birth (typified by the Real), the Imaginary Order (typified by the mirror stage) and the Symbolic Order (language)). Second, direct access to the experiences of this narrative are, of course, retrospective fantasies that we tell ourselves and each other in social space as mediated propositions. Lacan understands both this narrative and its mediated, retrospective enactments according to three registers of experience: the Real, Imaginary Order, and the Symbolic Order, as illustrated by the well-known triangle below.
The Symbolic Order is the world of code, of language, of the Law, of social conventions in which and of which our lives are saturated; the Imaginary Order is the world of mutually exclusive binary oppositions that govern our developing subjectivity from six months to a year and a half (the mirror stage) and which (once we have entered the Symbolic Order) still reside as residues of binary identification: fullness / lack; presence / absence; identification / alienation. The Real is everything that remains; it is in a very different logical class from either the Imaginary Order or the Symbolic Order. Imaginary and Symbolic signifiers saturate our lives; what lies beneath is the Real. The Real shows itself in moments of crisis, psychic and personal or collective and cultural. I will say much more about these concepts in the pages that follow.
Lesley Flanigan opens the concert. She creates and manipulates feedback, combining it with her own voice throughout. See a YouTube clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLwbox8n6x4 for the first fifty seconds of the performance. At 0:38-0:40 you can hear the sound of a microphone producing feedback as it is moves—the basic material of her performance.
Feedback is a kind of noise; and yet to call the sounds in Lesley Flanigan’s performance noises would be to address a subtle palette of sounds with a very blunt instrument indeed. For one thing white noise indicates saturation of the audible spectrum with frequencies at a uniform dynamic level; there are various colors of noise (such as pink noise). Suffice it so say that there are many recognizable frequencies throughout Lesley Flanigan’s performance, so the sounds are really not that noisy at all. Imagine a continuum with white noise on the left and the pure sine wave of a single frequency on the right; Lesley Flanigan’s performance involves quite a wide range of acoustic phenomena in the middle, from feedback around which one can hear a frequency (anecdotally one could sing a note for each feedback source) and more or less pure frequencies, drones, sung pitches.
There have been many approaches to noise over the past; perhaps the most infamous and historically significant is Luigi Russolo’s The Art of Noises that not only announces the arrival of noise on the futurist scene with great celebration, but also suggests ways of notating and harnessing its signifying power. Consider the various ways in which we refer to noise. We say noise to refer to a sound that interrupts (either neutrally or with a sense of positive or more usually negative surprise as in “did you hear that noise?”). A noise in this sense is an acoustic signifier that intervenes in the context of another (perhaps unconscious, perhaps conscious, as in the ambient sounds of a house at night, broken by a noise that wakes you and causes you to ask “did you hear that noise?”) A noise in a conventional musical performance is something disturbing, interrupting, a threat to middle class composure and decorum; in electronic devices, noise has been for decades a byproduct of circuitry to be minimized, and some engineers have spent their lives minimizing such noise.
Noises (plural) simply suggests more than one noise, but noise (in general) is the category that Lesley Flanigan specifically and many interactive, electronic artists in general explore, expand, and cultivate in the form of controlled feedback loops.
Lesley Flanigan creates her music from feedback—a very specific middle ground between white noise and pure frequencies; at times feedback sounds noisy (one cannot sing Do if asked) and at other times the feedback does have a pitch center. At 0:31 in the clip referenced above, for example, you can hear a feedback A-flat (a bit flat) shift an octave higher as if the machine sang in a falsetto, or yodel.
In the early twenty-first century in first-world social space, to enjoy feedback specifically or noise generally is to enjoy the subversive, to enjoy that which cuts against the grain of middle-class complacency (just as Charles Ives had wished for dissonant art music a century earlier). On a more personal and immediate level, I like noise and find it strangely soothing. In order for this to happen, it has to resonate with some psychic formation and for me this psychic formation is the Lacanian Real. The teachings of Jacques Lacan in general and his three categories Real / Imaginary / Symbolic (as introduced above) will occupy a central place in this book, and I want to say more about these ideas slowly and gradually as they grow out of immediate textual needs. Early on in the book (as here) definitions will be descriptive, simple, and illustrative. Later on, the definitions will be more nuanced and more completely documented. The Real is the thingness of life that lies just beneath the surfaces of how we understand and name our experience.
The Real is that thingness which can seem to appear when some recognizable object is pulled apart, cracks, or reveals what lies beneath. The glimpse of the Real in Lesley Flanigan’s performance is auditory and occurs when normal functioning of electronic equipment produces the feedback that she harnesses. As she masters that feedback, the resultant noise becomes tamed, named, Symbolic. Since the Real is a quite scary thing, one should ask “why enjoy the Real except in an autodestruct mode?” An answer must be that it is enjoyable to feel the fabric of subjectivity pull apart so that one can master it and remain contained. To some extent this is the pleasure I felt hearing Lesley Flanigan’s performance—the pleasure of immersion into an envelope of noise.
The body has much to do with all of this, but what is the body after all? I don’t think there is such a thing as a body in any ontological certainty. There is the body in which I live. Fine, but what is that? What are the thresholds between such a body and the means by which I understand it and the world around it? For me (taking Lacan as my lead here) there is the body with a small “b”; it is the body in which each of us lives (or better, the articulations that are enunciated as thresholds are crossed between our flesh and Imaginary and Symbolic dimensions of our social lives); the Body with a large “B” is that corporeality in social space that makes it possible for our bodily (with a small “b”) threshold crossings to occur and be understood, acknowledged, denied, disavowed, welcomed in social space in the first place. Further, I suggest that bodies (in both its Imaginary small “b” and larger, Symbolic large “B” dimensions) are articulated as thresholds are crossed and enunciated between and among flesh (the Real that underlies the Imaginary and Symbolic dimensions of body / Body) and the Imaginary and Symbolic registers that give it meaning in social space.
Such an approach to body / Body has a basis in the Lacanian topology of Real and its thresholds to the Imaginary and Symbolic Orders, particularly in Lacan’s assertion that the prematurity of human birth makes mirror (mis)recognition and its correction in the course of the mirror stage a fundamental generative force in individual development and culture.
When Flanigan sings there are two main textures she evokes: 1) vocalizations above a low drone, and 2) fragments of a song above an accompaniment that sounds like a child swinging back and forth on a swing. This gesture is an oscillation between two thirds that can be either heard Do (E-flat) / Me (G-flat) to Ra (F-flat) to Fa (A-flat) OR Ti (E-flat / D-sharp) / Re (G-flat / F-sharp) to Do (F-flat / E natural) to Mi (A-flat / G-sharp). As this oscillation and Lesley Flanigan’s voice fade, feedback brings the performance to a close. In the YouTube video of the end performance at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wR4G-BLkvrA, the fade takes place from 0:46 to 1:30.
A very curious thing happens when Flanigan sings, having worked so hard to create a complex web of spontaneously created and (mis)shaped feedback loops; her voice has a curious inside-out quality for me. If you imagine our continuum with white noise on the left and a pure sine wave on the right, it is as if she has pushed through feedback and noise to reach pure lyrical singing “on the other side”—as if a kind of foldover or phase change occurs. For me, Lesley Flanigan’s work moves back and forth along the Symbolic – Real trajectory of the triangle introduced at the outset of this chapter (going with the direction of the arrow as she (mis)shapes feedback; and flipping against the grain of the arrow when she sings); she takes a coded signifier (noise of a moving microphone) and opens up a space in which to hear the Real beneath; and then a strange foldover occurs in which the Real changes phase into symbolic forms.
PIRX
PIRX comprises Maciej Sledziecki on guitar and Marion Wörle computer. There is also what looks like conventional sound effects pedals on the floor, which Maciej Sledziecki presses from time to time. The performance involves (mis)shaping sounds of the electric guitar in addition to loops that were pre-recorded. My first association was of Mario Davidovsky’s Synchronisms #10 for guitar and tape (1992). I will discuss first the Davidovsky, then PIRX.
The charm of Davidovsky’s Synchronisms lies in the subtle incorporation of taped sounds into the live performance of a highly notated score for a conventional instrument or group of instruments. The work belongs to the classical avant-garde of the post WWII era, although the piece does not sound as highly controlled (and therefore highly chaotic) to me as the pieces of the Darmstadt School of the 1950s such as works by Olivier Messaien and Pierre Boulez. The piece is in two large-scale gestures: 1) the guitar plays alone, and 2) it is joined by electronic sounds. In the first part of the piece (00:00 to 04:13 in the video) Davidovsky evokes the widest possible array of guitar sounds and gestures, from runs, slaps, passagework, strumming, chords, melodic fragments, left hand percussive trills, knocking the instrument with knuckles and fingers, vibrato, pitch bends and harmonics.
The pitch structure of the guitar part (both gestures) is highly modernist and freely atonal. The pitch material is based on four and five note collections that have various half and whole steps within perfect fourths and fifths (very characteristic of the tuning of the guitar strings) and the highly modern sound of the tritone (right between a perfect fourth and perfect fifth) that famously splits the octave in half. See the YouTube video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IztTJTVpeOk for a performance of the Davdovsky by Daniel Lippel.
On the YouTube video of the Davidovsky, the taped sounds enter at 4:13
I would like to discuss the transition in the work between the first and second gesture in some detail, since it bears on the relationship between conventional and electronic instruments in the piece at hand and also on the take that PIRX will give a similar binary—between the conventionality of the electric guitar on the one hand, and processed sounds from a computational program on the other. See Example 1 below for a passage of the score that captures the transition from guitar playing alone (see “G” on the left of the first system) to guitar playing with tape (see “T” on the left of the second system). 4:13 occurs during the fermata at the end of the first system.
Example 1: Mario Davidovsky, Synchronisms #10 for Guitar and Electronic Sounds, mm. 98-105
The first note in the tape part is an E-flat that enters in measure 102. Since the guitar part sounds an octave lower than written, the tape part sneaks into the piece sounding a sixteenth note later than the guitar, pppp. The next note in the tape is G-natural that is also the same pitch as the guitar played this time at the same instant—the downbeat of measure 103. The next note in the tape is a D-natural that is also the same pitch as the guitar sounding at the same instant—after an eighth beat in measure 104 (Davidovsky had pointed out earlier on the score that grace notes sound on the beat, so the guitar’s D-natural will sound exactly with the tape’s D-natural). The next note in the tape is an F-natural that follows the guitar’s F-natural in the same measure. The tape’s G-sharp in measure 105 now anticipates the guitar’s G-sharp and clashes with the guitar’s A-sharp. The tape has now come clearly out from hiding. But in addition, the sustain of the pitches mentioned thus far in the tape should tug at our ears since guitar pitches decay after being struck (much like the piano) and the sustain (though pppp) should suggest to us that the tape has entered. After the taped sounds enter the work at 04:13, the rest of the piece involves subtle interplay between the two instruments. At times tape sounds are obviously tape sounds; at times guitar sounds are obviously guitar sounds, but often one isn’t sure, and therein lies the charm of this work.
In the PIRX performance, one can see and hear and feel that the world has changed quite a bit from Davidovsky, even though only 18 years separate the two. In Davidovsky the tape part is a) pre-recorded and b) not present at all as an immanent partner for the performer. In the video clip of the Davidovsky, the guitar played almost imperceptibly nods to have someone begin the tape (this gesture is much more obvious on other performances), and though nicely concealed, this alienation between immanent guitar player and tape are essential to the Davidovsky; the guitar player plays with the tape and absolutely not the other way around.
Also in the Davidovsky the taped sounds sound rather like guitar sounds and the ones that don’t are clearly extensions of guitar sounds. In PIRX, the computer transforms electric guitar sounds much more radically. In PIRX, the binary—immanent instrument (electric guitar) and mediating technology (computer)—is made more immediate: both the computer and guitar have players.
For me the second part of the Davidovsky is charming in its subtle manipulation of sounds that seamlessly cross the threshold back and forth between non-electronic and electronic sources of sound. In the PIRX performance, two large and prolonged gestures first resist the gravitational pull of the traditional electric guitar, leading to a sustained crescendo of noise, and then release the music back to sounds of the electric guitar.
The pulling open of conventionality is of course nothing more nor less than pulling at a signifier in the Symbolic and hearing the Real beneath—another take on that category that I think will come up again and again in interactive, electronic art. The Davidovsky, as beautiful and evocative as the piece is, domesticates what it hears beneath the conventional sounds of the guitar (the signifier in question here); PIRX, on the other hand, opens up the pulp brutality of the Real inside the signifier.
You can hear the very beginning of the performance in the following YouTube clip at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvZbdPP1eKI. The performance begins with the Real—an evocation of the pure pulpy fleshiness of the sounds of playing the electric guitar with the pitches subtracted out. Toward the end of the clip, the performers release the music into the sounds that we associate with the electric guitar. For me, the low B-flats that you can hear at 1:08 begin this process of release. At the very end of the clip above, Marion Wörle triggers a loop in which a low G in a guitar oscillates back and forth to a B-flat a minor third above. This interval will remind most listeners (at least unconsciously) of the blues.
The final extended gesture of the performance (refer to the clip below) involves the performers building upon a drone—a low E-flat. Maciej Sledziecki plays an E-flat an octave higher and oscillates back and forth between E-flat and the note a half-step higher—F-flat. Gradually this oscillation blurs and an immense new note resounds full of complex noise, overdubbing, and other voices. Into this new note, Marion Wörle adds notes on a small keyboard (which I could not see in performance but is perfectly clear in the clip) She begins adding high notes to the guitar’s E-flat / F-flat at 1:28. These pitches are very high A naturals and F-sharps. There is a looping hissing sound (like the softened sound of a rattlesnake) that comes into the music every few seconds, giving the performance an enormous sense of three-dimensional space—as if circling in a bent loop around its periphery. Throughout this entire passage, acoustic shards of the Real expand the signifier of E-flat / F-flat as a note.
For a YouTube clip that occurs near the end of the performance, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBv6rtPeLI0; listen to the lower fifth B-flat that Maciej Sledziecki plays below the E-flat beginning at 1:12, suggesting a dominant / tonic simultaneity.
For me, PIRX explores the trajectory Real – Symbolic on the triangle introduced at the outset of this chapter (going against the grain of the arrow, as it were). PIRX pulls remnants of the Real into the Symbolic, as the fleshiness of articulation void of sound releases throughout into conventional sounds produced by the electric guitar.
The Desert Fathers
Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor comprise this duo; Jeff Kaiser on the trumpet and Gregory Taylor and the computer. I heard their performance as a complex take on call and response—a kind of mirror of sounds in which some sounds seemed to move back and forth between them and others sounded without a response (neither direct nor delayed). For me this is an acoustic mirror fantasy. Lacan famously marks the (visual) mirror stage as a crucial stage of development in which the self (mis)recognizes itself in the face of the (m)other; since Lacan, researchers in the 60s and 70s published a wide range of articles on an earlier, sound-specific stage of development that they dub the acoustic mirror stage.
The acoustic mirror stage involves the first intentional sounds that we use to communicate—the cry. The cry for attention is the first such sound in developing subjectivity; it is crucially (for music) pre-linguistic and it occurs at a stage in developing subjectivity in which we can not yet flip over from our backs. The acoustic mirror stage divides the world into two 180 degree halves—a “bright” half that corresponds to what we see (and for which the ear a) has an opening, b) has very little hair, and c) has spirals that amplify the common auditory range of speech) and a “dark” half that corresponds to what we cannot see (and for which the ear a) has no opening, b) has much more hair, and c) has no spirals to amplify the common auditory range). This is the origin of why sounds seem threatening when heard from behind. In the acoustic mirror stage, we both begin to acknowledge a separation between our bodies (enclosed in what Didier Anzieu calls our skin ego) and the other, on the one hand, and, on the other, a communication between the self and the other through an exchange of sounds that cross the skin ego and then become inscribed in language.
What Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor reveal in this performance is the range of acoustic (mis)recognitions that can and do occur across this threshold. Let’s say we identify with Jeff Kaiser as the self; that is we imagine that the focus of articulation lies with him and Gregory Taylor embodies the other. What I mean by this is that between the self and the other there is communication as Anzieu has shown; you can imagine an arrow with two points between SELF | OTHER representing the sounds in / of this acoustic mirror as information is exchanged or as each hears him / herself reflected in the acoustic mirror of the other. This arrow moves from SELF to the right to the OTHER and back again. But psychoanalytic theory also implies that there are sounds in this phase of development that are incorporated neither into the self nor into the other; these are fragments of the Real. To show them we need another arrow moving to and from the SELF from the left and to and from OTHER to the right.
At 0:30 of a YouTube clip of the performance at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6s5sVCELxY, the camera zooms out and we can see that Jeff Kaiser is producing a series of glassy, brittle, extremely dry sounds that at first hearing we might not have identified as sounds from a trumpet being processed live. This moment suggests the importance of the visual dimension in the acoustic mirror. It is not enough just to listen, to hear oneself reflected in the voice of the other. It helps to look, to see with a glance that one has been heard, and that certain sounds are in fact aimed at you. I refer not to a glance between Jeff Kaiser and Gregory Taylor but to the gaze of the camera; at a certain moment the camera sees Gregory Taylor and we see that certain glassy, brittle, extremely dry sounds seem to be products of an exchange of information between the two performers.
Theories of the acoustic mirror focus exclusively on relations between one developing subject and his / her body as it differentiates itself from / forms connections with, its world (the gradually disintegrating Real as it becomes mapped in Imaginary and Symbolic signifiers). From 1:26 on Jeff Kaiser’s fingers still articulate notes, but the glassy, brittle, extremely dry sounds have gone. Are they no longer being reflected in the acoustic mirror of exchange? Are they lost as they encounter the Real as sounds we can’t recognize as reflections, echoes?
For me, the Desert Fathers exploit the acoustic mirror on the trajectory Real – Imaginary on the triangle introduced at the outset of this chapter. They take a communicative binary (self / other); some sounds move back and forth between them as others fall back into and are absorbed by the Real.
For us to see the acoustic mirror between two people introduces the social dimension, or, to put it psychoanalytically, the dimension of the other (into which the audience is placed at moments like this). The relationship between work of art and audience not only introduces the social dimension, but we need to theorize how that social dimension functions. Generally speaking we need to recognize (either consciously or unconsciously) something in the work that is always-already within us. And also that recognition must resonate in a shared moment, gesture, ritual in social space. A gesture performed in social space that knits together individuals and others is nothing neither more nor less than interpellation.
The quintessential gesture of interpellation is the hail, theorized by Louis Althusser; with a single gesture (necessarily repeated over and over because our thirst for it is insatiable), we inscribe ourselves into social space. I will discuss the form, content, and ideological implications of interpellation in the context of interactive, electronic art in subsequent chapters. But for now, let me say that there are three stages that a discussion of interpellation can take place: 1) a conventional Marxist approach involving exploitation of labor in which coercive elements are hidden, 2) psychoanalytic applications in which the coercive elements come out from hiding, and 3) questions of the potential of interpellation resistance in current interactive, electronic art. One of the ongoing issues that I explore throughout my writing concerns the subject in current social space. Put simply: if the subject is undergoing a shift in orientation away from Cartesian dualisms, what effect is that having on ideological interpellation? I will address that question throughout this book.
This chapter has examined large-grain psychoanalytic implications in three works performed at STEIM on August 5, 2010. My being there at the time, the pieces chosen by the creative staff of the institute, the culture of STEIM and its followers in Amsterdam, conversations I had with many of them, and my own experience of being in the performance spaces, were all brought to bear on these remarks. While most of the documentation for the rest of my writing must necessarily be on-line video, the documentation and the resultant discussion of this introduction could be real-time performance. It is important to STEIM that electronic music be performed live and that live performance involves an immediate instrumentality. STEIM performances always evoke a visceral presence, an incorporation of technology into bodies that make music, and improvisation both as integral compositional technique and space in which audience members can see, feel, and hear the unfoldings of musical materials. But for me, being there in the time and space of these three performances both meant that the immediacy created an impact and (perhaps oddly) that I missed a great deal in the process of this immediacy creating an impact.
The immediacy of the performance in time and space (“I was there”) is a signifier like all other signifiers—much is lost as much is registered as meaningful. And I mean signifier not just as in these marks on a page / screen; I mean signifier as in flesh and blood being in a place and time and registering its experiences. How does one know what has been lost in the immediacy of the time and place specificity of the present? For one thing, making the video clips upon which this introduction is based caused me to see and hear things that I had missed in the immediacy of the moment. This simply means that while immediate experience causes us to veer around some things as they get lost, the video documentation upon which much of the rest of my writing will be based will similarly veer around some things that get lost as other things come into view and earshot.
In the following chapters, interactive, electronic works will be examine in loose, often overlapping categories. At times the discussion will begin with a work and move into psychoanalytic and / or cultural-historical discourses; at times the direction will be flipped; at other times the discussion will begin with a psychoanalytic and / or cultural-historical element left open like a thread in the midst of a previous discussion.
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Saving the whales with a killer collab
Better communicating its purpose is how Vancouver Island Brewing is hoping to turn its 'craft beer for dads' image around.
One of British Columbia’s oldest craft beer brands, Vancouver Island Brewing, has been in a bit of a rut since about 2013, admits marketing director Chris Bjerrisgaard.
The B.C. craft beer market has ballooned over the last half-a-dozen years: numbers from BC Business point to a 10% shift in share from global giants to local brewers, with 20% of craft beer sales collected by indie brewers that appear to be taking the market by storm. That kind of competition would create a thorn in any heritage brand’s side, particularly when the challenger brands are positioned as more modern and in keeping with the new wave of craft beer.
“We had a disconnect from the new craft beer audience and we were seen as ‘your dad’s craft beer,’” says Bjerrisgaard at the 35-year-old Vancouver Island Brewing. “[And] despite being smaller than three of our neighbouring breweries, we were perceived as a Goliath by customers and consumers due to our longevity and approach to marketing in the past.”
While the brewer recently underwent a refresh (making tweaks to its name, packaging and portfolio) in 2017, more work is being done to “re-establish ourselves as Vancouver Island’s beer” after having lost its way, says Bjerrisgaard.
The company’s latest effort to “show [consumers] that we’re back and know who we are” lies in its Pod Pack, a limited-edition brew with purpose.
The packaging, designed by One Twenty Three West, for the four-pack not only looks like a southern resident killer whale (or SRKW, which is a quickly declining breed), with cans that mimic real orcas from the SRKW pods – complete with eye and saddle patches – but it also attempts to save the whales by making sure there’s enough food in the oceans. Proceeds from every Pod Pack sold will go to the Pacific Salmon Foundation, a non-profit set up to protect the wild B.C. salmon stocks, a vital food source for the whales.
The special promotional pack of beers checks off several boxes for the brand, says Bjerrisgaard.
First, having the beer crafted in collaboration with other local island breweries (particularly those that don’t distribute outside of their town) showed beer drinkers that Vancouver Island Brewing is not an “unapproachable Goliath,” says the marketer. The collaboration also shows how it’s keeping up with “even the most nimble of our fellow brewers,” as he believes co-branded packs are not very common in the craft brewing industry. Second, the Pod Pack is an embodiment of the Vancouver Island brand and its company’s core values: from being neighbourly to explorative and resilient, notes Bjerrisgaard.
The complicated nature of the pack – “being a multi-brewery collaboration, a celebration of the Island we call home, and a charitable action all wrapped into one” – meant the brand needed to communicate its story beyond a press release or traditional ad. So it created a documentary about the brand’s purpose-led efforts, and will host the film at a floating beer garden with live music and food trucks on July 20 in Victoria.
The “Pod Fest” will also see a portion of its proceeds given to the Pacific Salmon Foundation and is being supported with digital ads that feature Jake Clark (one of the biggest craft beer influencers in Canada with almost 42,000 followers on Instagram), with the brand also creating content for Clark’s social accounts.
Bjerrisgaard is one of the founders of Vancouver Craft Beer Week, and is relaying his background in experiential marketing and content for the beer brand’s fest, which he hopes will become an annual celebration with a second edition of the Pod Pack planned to launch next year.
“Because of the unique nature of the product, and how it hits a lot of strategic imperatives for us, we were able to go all-out in marketing the product as it goes beyond product and into brand,” he adds. “The Island is a very loyal place, once its people understand you’re here for them and what they stand for, they’ll give that love back to you tenfold.”
Chris Bjerrisgaard, ONe Twenty Three West, Pod Fest, Pod Pack, Vancouver Island Brewing
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I found the above photo in a Google image search for "black Friday", that notorious American capitalistic "tradition" where people turn into insane, raving lunatics all in a quest to find a good bargain that was worth waking up for at 3 a.m.
On Wednesday, I was aghast hearing the two ladies I work with excited about the early Friday morning sales. For them, it's tradition, to which I responded, "Uh, which stores did the pilgrims shop at again, because the history book I learned from neglected to mention it?" How did we get from a great tradition about true gratitude and good will, sharing with family, friends and neighbors to becoming materialistic, greedy, and selfish monsters?
Need examples? One Wal-Mart employee whose job it was to open the doors for the hoards at 4 a.m. was trampled to death!!! A stampede of Wal-Mart shoppers were so desirous of getting to the bargains first that anyone in the way was worth less than the material item. I hope they find the culprit and charge the person with manslaughter. I have little sympathy. As one Wal-Mart manager of another store was quoted as saying, "nothing in our store is worth the safety and lives of people." Damn straight! America's crap emporium has nada worth buying. Unfortunately, I'm unable to convince my own parents and fellow church members at home not to shop there. It's hard to argue with cheap...and in these uncertain economic times where many companies are filing for bankruptcy, the news reported that Wal-Mart has actually seen an increase in sales.
In college, I wrote a poem entitled "Wal-Mart", which was about an old lady who left behind a lot of plastic junk for her descendants to sort through after her funeral. In my creative writing class, one girl said, "I don't get it. Why is it titled 'Wal-Mart'?" Gotta love the subtlety that went over her poor little head.
My disenchantment with Wal-Mart occurred in 1996 when I walked in and saw "Buy American" signs hanging from the ceiling all over the store. Everything I had planned to buy, I checked the label and saw "Made in China." It made me mad how they would tell customers to buy American yet not offer anything made in America. It told me how disconnected the managers of the store were to not realize this.
The second thing that bothered me was seeing bins in the middle of the floor filled with videos of movies I had never even heard of before. And I'm a movie buff. Who bought that shit? I'm talking crappy looking movies, yet they had gobs and gobs of videos. It told me that they'll sell anything at all. There was no standard on quality. The final thing that bothered me were the people who shopped there. Most of the people looked like they lived in a trailer park. They were low class people. I quickly switched to Target, which offers a more pleasant shopping experience. I do notice things like other shoppers when I'm out and about...and yeah, call me a snob if you want, but I won't set foot in Wal-Mart at all. The trampling to death of a Wal-Mart employee is only a reminder how low class the people who shop there are. Life means less than the crap sold there. Shameless. And we wonder why "they hate us" in the Middle East!
On the local news, they interviewed a lady who was camped out at one store on Thursday! While her family was enjoying a cozy home with food and fellowship, she was waiting to be first in the store for Friday's sale day. What's wrong with that picture?!? She'd rather camp in the damp cold outside a store than spend time with family? Again, what message does it send? Materialism is worth more than human fellowship. Warped.
Okay...so I might not be so pure...as I made the choice to spend Thanksgiving alone than with my brother. But I needed to. It was just God and me. I needed to find the peace that has evaded me so long this year. The frustration of a nearly two year long job search, with the culmination of being informed of a church position I qualified for only to be denied for whatever reason. Yeah, I'm still not over it, I suppose. It's because I want to work in an organization that shares my values, where quality is viewed as more important than quantity. The longer I work where I work, the more jaded I become. I couldn't care less about the numbers. They don't pay enough for me to care. The numbers might effect someone else's pay and promotion, but until it affects mine, I don't play their games. Because in the grand scheme of things, these numbers don't matter. It's all a capitalist construct that is fraudulent and dishonest to the core. But, hey, that's their salvation in jeopardy, not mine.
My brother didn't spend it with his evangelical church group like I thought he would. He spent it with some friends of family/church friends from back east. They aren't my friends, though. The few times I been with them, I didn't feel a connection. I got the impression that they are too materialistic. Um, a nice mansion in suburbia, a Lexus SUV, and a businessman with a gorgeous wife and teenage daughters who speak Valley Girl-ese. Yeah...that's exactly how I want to spend my Thanksgiving. It's a bit too plastic for me. I'm sure they are fine people, because our mutual friends in common are great people who befriend everyone. I'm just uncomfortable around materialistic people...especially those who are very showy about their success. I want to be around people who are real, who can have an honest conversation about world events. The times I spent with these people, I got the impression that they knew a lot about where to shop for the best bargains, but not a whole lot about what's going on in the world.
Which is just as well...for I was preoccupied with the terrorist attack in Mumbai to be good company with anyone. Is there a place for me in the international realm? It's where I belong, where I feel most comfortable. In my apartment complex is a great immigrant family from Ethiopia. I always enjoy talking with them. Their four year old son is the biggest Obama supporter, too! It was awesome to hear him tell people why Obama should be president. Anyhow, that's who I prefer to spend my time with...people who've been out in the world, not people who focus their attention on the finer things in life while lacking awareness about the greater world outside our American consumption based lifestyle.
On Saturday afternoon, my apartment complex had a "Civil War" viewing party with Pizza and soda. I'm not a big sports fan...much less a football fan...but when they're offering free pizza and soda, hey, what can I say? I can be bought quite cheaply! I was only planning to stay through half time, but I was surprised how good the game turned out to be. For those that don't know...like nearly all states, Oregon has it's main rivalry between two competing colleges: the University of Oregon (Ducks) and Oregon State University (Beavers). If the Beavers won, they'd go to the Rose Bowl. One lady asked who I was rooting for and I honestly told her that I didn't take sides, but if I had to choose, it was probably Oregon because that's where I'd go to school (over OSU), though I like the Beavers mascot much better. Yet, Oregon has my high school colours (green and gold).
The 20 or so people watching in the lobby area of the apartment (with big screen TV) were all rooting for Oregon, which did well. The Ducks kept a 20 point margin through most of the game. One of the teammates (I believe his name was Johnson) kept making long runs down the field like Forrest Gump, even getting a few touchdowns that way. It made for an exciting game watching him run the field without being tackled, though once he had three guys trying to bring him down. This was all before half-time, so I knew I was staying for the second half. How could I not? I didn't have anything else going on and it's rare that I watch a football game (I generally am satisfied watching only the Superbowl each year--so single ladies out there looking for a hubby who won't make you a sports season widow, email me!).
OSU students looked more and more despondent as the game wore on. Their hopes of a Rose Bowl were dashed and even the Duck mascot rubbed it in by tossing a rose into its beak. The final score was 65 to 38.
Saturday night, I watched Oliver Stone's Wall Street, which I had never seen before. The recent mess on Wall Street made me want to see this film, so Netflix sent it to me last week and I watched it with complete amazement how relevant this 21 year old film is to current events. Particularly the scene in which Gordon Gekko (Michael Douglas, seen above) tells the stockholders of some paper company that the executive board with its over abundance of Vice Presidents with their salaries and perks but mysterious job description are hurting the company. He talks about "Greed is good!" for companies and for our country. He is like a character straight out of an Ayn Rand novel. No morals at all. It's all about wealth accumulation and increasing one's power, no matter who gets hurt.
The film is absolutely relevant to today's mess. In fact, things are far worse today than they were during the Reagan years. Executive pay and bonuses have only increased while average workers salaries have remained stagnant, and some might say, have fallen behind from where we were in the 1980s if you adjust for inflation. Honestly, after watching this film and reading about the mess on Wall Street with all these corporate types crying to Congress about bailouts, I think that capitalism isn't working properly. Or maybe it is and thus why we need a fairer system. All the corporate execs who ruined their companies deserve no less than jail time. They worked for their own wealth accumulation, not for the betterment of their companies. This will continue if there is no severe punishment for greed. I would even go so far as to say that these corporate CEOs of bankrupting companies are guilty of treason. They have betrayed the American workers. They, like Gordon Gekko, have fallen for the faustian bargain but don't want to pay the price. Sorry, but the devil always gets his due. That's what happens when you make a deal with Satan.
In the documentary about the film, Martin Sheen said that the more honest you are, the more expensive life becomes for you. Somehow, that phrase struck a chord with me because in several jobs I've had where the company line is honesty, I've seen dishonest people get ahead while honest people get punished. What does that tell you? For me, it says that the corporate model is dishonest. I think we're seeing the disintegration of corporations as a workable model. Maybe it's time to return to the small business model. That's one thing I love about Portland...it's easy to support local businesses.
I watched the Moses Code last week. Rather than a whole post on it, I decided to write about it here. Basically, it's one of those new agey documentaries in the same vein as The Secret and What the Bleep Do We Know? This one is about the phrase in the Bible, where the burning bush that is God speaks to Moses, who asked for the name to call God. "I am that I am" was the response. It reminds me of a bad joke my brother loves to tell people:
"How do we know that God is white and not black?"
"Because He said: 'I am what I am', not 'I is what I is'."
Yes, bad joke, like I said. A racist friend of his told him that joke. I shouldn't repeat it here, but I did want to bring it up because I thought the expression was always odd. What the heck does that mean, anyway?
Well, this DVD says that an important symbol was deliberately left out, which is supposedly "the secret of the universe." The symbol will give you power...or, at least the kind of power new agey folks like to talk about: the power of manifesting your desires like God.
So, what is this symbol, you ask? Quite simply, it's the comma. That's right: a ,
If you're like me, you probably laughed. Hokey new age claims, right?
Consider this: "I am that I am" becomes "I am that, I am." It completely changes the meaning. So what God was supposedly telling Moses was "I am that" (and He meant all of that), with the repetition of "I am" at the end. So, our task is to identify all that is, all that we see, all that we come across as being a part of us and we're a part of it. So, whenever we see a tree, a rock, a mountain, a homeless person, water, money, whatever you come across...we are to say, "I am that," on the breath out and "I am" on the breath in.
Interesting interpretation. Kind of makes sense. When I listened to this theory the DVD is promoting, an image came to mind. When I was studying my Biology two years ago, the part I hated to learn about were the cells. That, to me, is the hardest part of biology. Anyhow, I came across an interesting statement in the textbook that said something like the microscopic cells in your body are about as far away from each other as two people across a continent, when you think about it. When you begin to ponder the world of microscopic cells within our bodies, and then begin to imagine how large our universe is...here's the thought that came to mind:
What if each universe/galaxy was a cell inside the body of God? What if each planet was a cell? If we are microscopic cells in the body of God, what the hell are we fighting about? We are all meant to be working together for the glory of God, right?
Anyhow, that's the thoughts I had while watching this DVD.
Also this weekend, I was pleased to have found a good as new paperback copy of Carl Bernstein's A Woman in Charge for $5. I have been wanting to buy that book and read it for a year now. It's supposedly the best biography on Hillary Clinton. Granted...now that she's not going to be president, why bother reading it? Well, she is a compelling figure and looks like she'll be the next Secretary of State.
I read an article on the Huffington Post that she has become disenchanted with the Senate because of her junior Senator status and her not being assigned to lead any committees and others don't want her major involvement on health care (understandably)...but she should know better. Congress is all about seniority. That's why they don't have term limits (and never will). When I read the article, it confirmed what I suspected of her in 2000. She didn't really want to be Senator of New York. To her, it was nothing more than a springboard to the presidency (following the RFK path). With that option denied to her, Secretary of State is her consolation prize. No longer does she have to pretend to love doing constituent services for "the little people" of upstate New York, as she often claimed during her 2006 reelection campaign.
Is Obama pure in his motives for selecting her? Well...there's that phrase, "keep your friends close and your enemies closer." Not that he views her as an enemy, but so long as she's a Senator with a constituency and her 18 million primary voter supporters, she could force him into a primary fight in 2012 if his popularity polls are not very good. If she's in his cabinet and works "at the pleasure of the president", he could fire her at will, though it would be very difficult for him to do so because of the power she leverages within the Democratic Party. It'll be interesting to see what happens. I can't wait to read that book...though it probably won't be until January, after I finish reading a couple books right now.
Anyhow, that's a recap of my holiday weekend. It was relaxing, but way too short. I didn't accomplish everything I wanted to do...but I definitely needed the time away from work to reflect, relax, and focus on what I want for the coming year.
Posted by Sansego at 12:02 AM
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3. The Way
4. Source Code
5. The Ides of March
6. Limitless
7. A Dangerous Method
8. The Iron Lady
9. Higher Ground
10. The Conspirator
11. Larry Crowne
My Ten Favourite Films of 2010
1. Hipsters
2. Fair Game
3. Inception
4. Hereafter
5. The King's Speech
6. The Tillman Story
7. Tron: Legacy
8. Howl
9. The Karate Kid
Nine Favourite Films of 2009
2. Up in the Air
3. Worlds Apart
5. Star Trek
6. Invictus
7. Michael Jackson's This Is It
8. The Men Who Stare at Goats
9. Angels and Demons
Eight Favourite Films of 2008
1. Priceless
2. W.
3. Recount
5. Slumdog Millionnaire
6. Milk
7. Marley and Me
8. Valkyrie
Three Cups of Tea -- Greg Mortenson
Last Lion: The Fall and Rise of Ted Kennedy
The Men Who Stare at Goats -- Jon Ronson
The Left Hand of God -- Michael Lerner
The Count of Monte Cristo -- Alexandre Dumas
Favourite Songs of 2010
1. Greatest Day -- Take That
2. Haven't Met You Yet -- Michael Buble
3. The World is Calling -- Johnny Clegg
4. California Gurls -- Katy Perry featuring Snoop Dogg
5. Fuck You Very Much (GWB) -- Lily Allen
6. Misery -- Maroon 5
7. Alejandro -- Lady Gaga
8. Hold My Hand -- Michael Jackson and Akon
My 7 Favourite Songs of 2007
1. 4 In the Morning -- Gwen Stefani
2. Makes Me Wonder -- Maroon 5
3. Glamorous -- Fergie
4. Locked and Loaded -- Johnny Clegg
5. Get Together -- Madonna
6. Dream Myself Awake -- Taylor Hicks
7. The Sweet Escape -- Gwen Stefani
My 7 Favourite CDs of 2007
1. Away From Here -- The Retrofits
2. Taylor Hicks -- Taylor Hicks
3. It Won't Be Soon Before Long -- Maroon 5
4. The Dutchess -- Fergie
5. Alright, Still -- Lily Allen
6. Music and Lyrics Original Soundtrack
My 7 Favourite Films of 2007
2. Amazing Grace
3. The Kite Runner
4. Charlie Wilson's War
5. The Lives of Others
6. Return With Honor
7. Wristcutters: A Love Story
La Femme de mes Reves -- Audrey Tautou
My Hot List (of Dream Women)
1. Audrey Tautou
2. Emily Blunt
3. Frances O'Connor
4. Thandie Newton
5. Natalie Portman
6. Shannyn Sossamon
7. Michelle Yeoh
8. Gwen Stefani
9. Zoe Saldana
Nonconformists of the Year
The following photos represent my selection for Nonconformist of the Year, that I started doing in 1992 to honour the person who did an unexpected act, which went against the grain of conventional thinking.
Lady Diana Spencer
John F. Kennedy, Jr.
Louis Freeh
Russ Feingold
Joseph Darby
Buddhist Monks of Burma
Mohamed Bouazizi
Best descriptions of GWB
1. He's a corporation masquerading as a human being -- Ralph Nader
2. He's a blind man in a room full of deaf people -- Paul O'Neill
3. Poor George...born on third and thought he hit a triple -- Ann Richards
4. You could easily imagine him owning the local car dealership down the road -- Barack Obama
5. Bush is the worst president ever...He is the worst president in American history -- Helen Thomas
Favourite Presidents
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. John Fitzgerald Kennedy
3. Abraham Lincoln
4. George Washington
5. Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Worst Presidents Ever
1. George W. Bush
2. Richard M. Nixon
3. Lyndon B. Johnson
4. Ronald W. Reagan
5. Warren G. Harding
Cool words I love
Shosoloza
Zenani
Psychokinesis
Recommended CDs by my favourite Irish musicians
1. All That You Can't Leave Behind -- U2
2. A Day Without Rain -- Enya
3. The Bells of Dublin -- The Chieftains
4. I Do Not Want What I Haven't Got -- Sinead O'Connor
5. Herding Cats -- Gaelic Storm
My All Time Favourite Music Videos
1. Nothing Compares 2 U -- Sinead O'Connor
2. Coldhearted -- Paula Abdul
3. Smoke -- Natalie Imbruglia
4. Stay -- Lisa Loeb
5. Soak Up The Sun -- Sheryl Crow
All Time Favourite Films
1. The Sound of Music
2. The Star Wars Saga
3. Dead Poet's Society
4. Casualties of War
5. Love and Other Catastrophes
6. E.T.
7. Forrest Gump
8. Jurassic Park
9. Sarafina!
10. Roxanne
All Time Favourite Albums
1. Cruel, Crazy, Beautiful World -- Johnny Clegg and Savuka
2. Earth and Sun and Moon -- Midnight Oil
4. Le Baiser -- Indochine
5. Wommat (The Guide) -- Youssou N'Dour
6. Born in the USA -- Bruce Springsteen
7. Tracy Chapman -- Tracy Chapman
8. Graceland -- Paul Simon
9. The Rising -- Bruce Springsteen
10. Autoamerican -- Blondie
11. Pilgrim -- Eric Clapton
12. Thriller -- Michael Jackson
13. Crazy Sexy Cool -- TLC
14. True Blue -- Madonna
15. Whitney -- Whitney Houston
All Time Favourite Songs
1. What A Wonderful World -- Louis Armstrong
2. Sailing -- Christopher Cross
3. A Better Man -- Keb' Mo'
4. Woman Be My Country -- Johnny Clegg and Savuka
5. Time After Time -- Cyndi Lauper
6. Woman -- John Lennon
7. Man In the Mirror -- Michael Jackson
8. Hey Jude -- The Beatles
9. Imagine -- John Lennon
10. Stairway to Heaven -- Led Zepplin
My 6 Fave Songs of 2006
1. Do I Make You Proud? -- Taylor Hicks
2. Unwritten -- Natasha Bedingfield
3. Jump -- Madonna
4. Waiting on the World to Change -- John Mayer
5. Bad Day -- Daniel Powter
6. What's Left of Me -- Nick Lachey
My 6 Fave Films of 2006
1. An Inconvenient Truth
2. The Da Vinci Code
3. Blood Diamond
4. V For Vendetta
5. The Devil Wears Prada
6. Casino Royale
Three Worst Films of 2006
1. Borat
2. Basic Instinct 2
Favourite Madonna Singles
1. Live to Tell
2. Vogue
3. What it Feels Like For a Girl
5. Who's that Girl
6. Into the Groove
8. This Used to Be My Playground
9. Holiday
10. Die Another Day
Favourite Madonna Albums
1. True Blue (1986)
2. Like a Prayer (1989)
3. Confessions on a Dance Floor (2005)
4. American Life (2003)
5. Bedtime Stories (1994)
6. Madonna (1983)
7. Music (2001)
8. Ray of Light (1998)
9. Like A Virgin (1984)
10. Erotica (1992)
Favourite Madonna Music Videos
2. Material Girl
4. Papa Don't Preach
5. La Isla Bonita
6. Human Nature
7. Take A Bow
8. Nothing Really Matters
10. Beautiful Stranger
Personal Timeline
Dec 1971 -- Born;
1977 -- "Star Wars" craze begins!;
1978 -- Wendy is my first crush, setting a pattern of me falling for girls I find more intelligent than myself;
1980 -- Sharon Dunn becomes my first penpal when I move to Utah;
Dec 1980 -- Baptized into RLDS Church;
1984 -- Meet Nicholas Smith in 7th grade, who becomes one of my best friends;
1985-1988 -- Lived in Germany;
1988 -- Acted in two plays, "Our Town" and "You Can't Take It With You.";
Summer 1989 -- Wrote "Diabolic Incognito" for a Young Novelist competition;
November 1989 -- Inspired with story idea for next novel;
June 1990 -- Graduated high school, then enlisted in the Navy;
January 1991 -- First solo trip via Greyhound to visit my best friend in Omaha and my grandparents in Kansas;
March 1991 -- Went off to Basic Training;
September 1991 -- Arrived in Italy for my 3 year assignment;
October 1992 -- My first Eurail trip;
April 1993 -- An odd coincidence brings me back to God;
August 1994 -- My trip to South Africa becomes my most significant spiritual experience;
November 1994 -- Meet my other best friend, Nathan Hagman;
January 1996 -- Honorable Discharge from the Navy;
May 1996 -- Car is totalled in an accident;
August 1997 -- Start my college career at BYU;
April-May 1999 -- Road trip to Pacific Northwest makes a huge impression on me that this is where I want to settle someday;
January-April 2000 -- Internship with Vice President Gore;
December 2004 -- Finished writing second novel "Seasons of Silent War" (still haven't found an agent for it);
August 2006 -- Move to Portland, Oregon--finally!!;
December 2006 -- Finished my long-delayed Bachelor's Degree in International Politics
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Raids differ from Strikes in a few ways: In Destiny 2 the new Guided Games feature allows solo-players to seek out Clan members to play with in end-game activities such as raids. Raid enemies will have abilities not found elsewhere in the game i. Strikes last roughly half an hour, whereas raids can take up to several hours.
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There just aren’t any good arguments for removing matchmaking, they invariably boil down to some crude level of “fuck you, got mine” I look forward to someone posting about progression content here at some point , or fears about the content being nerfed why nerf it when they can set up a spectrum of difficulty levels from filthy matchmaking casual to anointed mlg son? And here’s where you reveal the fact that you’re making a lot of assumptions about everyone who is against random matchmaking.
There is no “fuck you, got mine” involved in this particular discussion. This isn’t a legitimate gating off of content. All it is, is requiring players to put in some effort to manually recruit two Fireteams. However even in doing that, Blizzard realized that you can’t just throw people together and have them succeed at the normal difficulty.
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Destiny 2 Eater of Worlds Raid Lair How to prepare and what you need to know about the Destiny 2 Leviathan raid As with the likes of Vault of Glass and Wrath of the Machine with the previous game, the Raid offers challenges and rewards unlike anything else in the game. Here’s ways to prepare and things to know about Leviathan: Getting as close to max Power level will help as much as possible since Leviathan’s recommended Light level is In our experience, you can get away with some players in the lower range provided you have some players on average or higher than recommended, though by the end you’ll want to have a few levels up for the final encounters so they can stay alive and do more damage.
It’s not how do we change the raid-design philosophy to allow for matchmaking. Smith then went on to express Bungie’s enthusiasm about Destiny fans and community-driven websites that help players communicate and link up together for raids, saying that he believes a LFG (Looking For Game)-style of system is something the developer wants to do.
Purple Legendary Gold Exotic The higher the rarity, the more powerful the weapon or armour inside is likely to be – though as returning Destiny fans will tell you, that’s no guarantee. Destiny 2 Exotics list – Every Exotic weapon and armour we know about so far Random weapon rolls are no more Unlike the original game, every weapon you collect will have the same stats as any other of that type so every Sunshot Exotic will be as powerful as the next you find , director Luke Smith told Mashable.
This means Bungie can balance weapons easier, but on the flipside, it gives players less incentive to keep collecting weapons to try and get the perfect editions of their favourites – something which Smith acknowledges as a potential problem it hopes to solve in the game one day. You no longer have to have your best gear on when decrypting A frustrating quirk of the original’s levelling system meant you had to equip your best possible gear in order for new Engrams to dish out something comparable or higher.
Thankfully, this has been amended for the sequel as the game will work it out for you – so no need to shuffle through your inventory every time you head to the Cryptarch. In D2 it’s no longer advantageous to equip your most powerful gear when decrypting Engrams. We check for your best possible loadout now — Mark Noseworthy knowsworthy August 28, Play to the game’s schedule and come back every week Take note of when the game updates every day and week in order to get the most out of the game.
Every Tuesday morning UK time the servers will reset, refreshing major activities such as the Nightfall, Raid and Flashpoints and offering new rewards of which, assuming it’s like the first game, can only be collected once per reset. It’s also worth remembering when Xur is selling items each week, and is one of the easier way to get Exotics explained below and other valuable loot.
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Share this article via email Share this article via flipboard Copy link Epic Games Custom matchmaking has started appearing on the console versions of Fortnite which has lead many players to expect the feature to get a broad release in the near future. Ultimate hands-on preview — fight of a lifetime Some streamers have already had to opportunity to try custom games on PC and have been able to share the code with their subscribers to create unique community games.
It is not clear if or when Fortnite will make it available to the broader player-base, but it has got many people excited for the possibilities.
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Bungie confirms that Destiny could receive a separate or at least a tweaked version of the regular matchmaking system for its complex raids, so that players are teamed up with valuable companions and won’t just feel frustrated with the teammates they get. Destiny launched last month and finally brought forth its multiplayer-only first-person shooter experience, allowing players to roam its huge environments and engage in both battles against the AI-controlled enemies but also other human players.
The matchmaking system isn’t that balanced For the PvP encounters, Destiny players entered the matchmaking system, and as many believed, it wasn’t all that great. What’s more, the cooperative battles against the AI, not to mention the challenging new raids, like the Vault of Glass, were also tied to this system. Seeing as how these battles could only be defeated by players who worked together, being matched with someone who didn’t value acting as a team usually meant frustration and a failed result.
Bungie is hearing the feedback for better raid matchmaking Now, on the official blog , Bungie’s Community Manager, David Dague, confirms that the studio has heard the feedback from players about improved matchmaking for raids and other co-op encounters. Yet, we understand its limitations.
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The first thing to know about the Destiny universe is The Traveler. It is this this big white sphere that hangs low above Earth. Its origins are unknown.
Meanwhile, skewed matchmaking isn’t the only problem Destiny 2’s playerbase has with this week’s Iron Banner, as a pricey new emote is dredging up old concerns about Bungie’s Eververse-fueled greed.
Comments Shares Activision has successfully filed a patent designed for use in multiplayer matchmaking systems. In short, it’s an idea to engender envy at teammates’ or opponents’ gear through the matchmaking algorithm itself. Here’s the abstract from the patent, granted today after its filing two years ago: The system may include a microtransaction arrange matches to influence game-related purchases.
A junior player may wish to emulate the marquee player by obtaining weapons or other items used by the marquee player. It has not been implemented in-game.
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This time, Destiny 2 [ official site ]. Of course you do! Destiny 2 is an online shooter, and online shooters do this kind of thing. But the years of work that went into creating the technology that runs it proves that Destiny 2 is no ordinary shooter. Each of these matches is situated in a distinct space in the world. They wanted to make a great action game with the immediacy of a singleplayer shooter. They wanted you to constantly bump into other players. They wanted you to always be able to play with your friends.
And they wanted all the matchmaking to happen seamlessly and in the background so you never think about it.
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Question and Answer with Jeff Monken
Jeff Monken the 45 year old head football coach at Georgia Southern University has the Eagles on the right track back to IAA dominance. Monken took over the struggling Georgia Southern football program and did two things. The first was to bring back the spread option attack that was the heart of the six National Championship years at GSU. The second was to get The Eagles back into the playoffs. This was the first return of of the eagles to the playoffs since 2005. Monken’s squad also defeated 5 ranked opponents on their way to a 10-5 in Jeff’s inaugural season.
In 2011 the quest to the National title continued with Georgia Southern University’s second straight trip to the IAA playoffs. The Eagles finished the year with a 11-3 mark. One of those losses came from the Division IA BCS National Champions Alabama. In that loss Monken’s spread option attack creased the Crimson Tide defense for over 300 yards rushing. The Eagles had more yards rushing against Nick Saban’s defense than any team on the ‘Bama’s schedule. Late in the second half Georgia Southern trailed by only ten.
Monken learned the offense from option guru Paul Johnson at Hawaii, Georgia Southern, Navy and Georgia Tech. Success followed everywhere the option went. The Paul Johnson Spread Option Offense was the basis of the turnaround at all of those schools. Then Jeff did it a second time at Georgia Southern as the Head Coach.
Tony: Who were the three biggest influences in your career?
Jeff: First my Dad, Mike Monken, who was a high school coach at Joliet High School just outside of Chicago. Then my Grandmother Louise and my Mom, Nancy were both big influences on me.
Tony: How was the transition of going from a position coach to a head coach like?
Jeff: It was very tough. I was Paul Johnson’s assistant for 13 years but he was always the offensive coordinator. He knew the offense better than anyone so he was the offensive coordinator. I learned from Paul that this offense was a great equalizer. The only time we had better players than our opponents was when we were hear when Paul was the head coach. But at Navy or Georgia Tech we always were the underdogs as far as talent.
Tony: What were some of the differences between being an assistant and a head coach?
Jeff: The main thing was the sense of responsibility for the whole program. Every aspect of the program is in your hands and your responsibility. The buck stops here. The second thing is that as an assistant it’s easy to make a lot of suggestions but as a head coach it’s up to you to make the tough decisions. The other thing is all the side stuff. Everyone wants your attention: marketing, fund raising and even keeping track of Twitter and social media.
Tony: What is your option philosophy? All option coaches differ a little in their approach even though we believe in the option. What’s your philosophy?
Jeff: Option football has a place in football. It’s a pure form of football. We take an elementary approach; we are going to try and score as much as we can. We want to make every possession count and score on a high percentage on those possessions. We are working on getting more speed in the offense so we can break more big plays like we did when Paul Johnson was the head coach and we won the National Championship. When you have the best players on the field and run an option attack it’s really explosive. We would have one or two play drives. Our average scoring drive was under two minutes.
Tony: So you’re not really interested in controlling the clock like Navy or the underdog option teams?
Jeff: A team like Navy has to control the clock. They almost beat south Carolina by controlling the clock and limiting possessions but we are not overly concerned.
Tony: What do you see as some of the new trends in offensive football and in particular, the option attack.
Jeff: More diversity in formations. This past season we were in the shotgun 30% of the time and it really helped us. The Shot Gun is easier to protect the passer, so you can get more diversity in your plays. The other advantage of the Shot Gun is that it negates very good two techniques.
Tony: How do people try and defend you? Is there a specific front or stunt that you are seeing a lot?
Jeff: Everyone has a philosophy of how to stop the triple option and our particular style of triple option but there is no common defense that we are seeing a lot of.
Tony: What about the future of Georgia Southern Football?
Jeff: The first thing is we have to bring in and develop great players. We lost 22 seniors from last year’s tem including our quarterback. So we have to get guys ready to play. The second thing is we have to play relentlessly. We want to really go out and play hard all the time. If we can do that we will win a lot of games.
Tony: Thanks for your time and I’m looking forward to Georgia Southern having another great year.
Tony DeMeo has over 20 years of experience as a head football coach. He has successfully turned around four college football programs. DeMeo is considered an offensive innovator for combining a passing attack with the option. Tony DeMeo is a proven teacher of the game; he has published numerous books and instructional DVDs and is a featured speaker at the Glazier Clinics. (More...)
Non-Football Books to Read Before the Season
Aristotle and Coaching Football
Why The Patriots Win
Make Your Bed by Admiral William H. McRaven
Dig Deeper by J.C. Watts, Jr.
Parcells by Bill Parcells & Nunyo DeMasio
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Question and Answer with Fred Goldsmith
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"I was delightfully surprised that she was as good as she was, as professional as she was, as amenable as she was" - Jonathan Pryce on Evita co-star, Madonna
HOSTAGE: DVD
When a young boy and his mother are killed in negotiations that go horribly wrong, top LAPD hostage negotiator Jeff Talley (Bruce Willis) is a broken man, taking the low-profile job as chief of police in the sleepy town of Bristo Camino. When three delinquent teenagers (Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker and Marshall Allman), follow a accountant Walter (Kevin Pollak), his daughter Jennifer (Michelle Horn) and son Tommy (Jimmy Bennett) to their multi-million dollar home, intending to steal their car, Talley's quiet life changes. The high-security premises go into high alert, and the panicking teenagers take the family hostage. Talley is forced to take charge when wife and daughter (Serena Scott Thomas and Rummer Willis) become involved
Bruce Willis is 'the man' in Hostage, a big budget top action thriller that delivers every expectation. And Willis is the right man for job. Every since the superb Die Hard franchise, Willis has claimed the role of the reluctant hero. Not that his former SWAT member and expert hostage negotiator Jeff Talley is anything like Die Hard's John McClane, but when Talley tells the three teenage delinquents they are in the wrong house at the wrong time, the line doesn't go unnoticed.
For the genre, Hostage is a winner. The pace is relentless, Florent Siri's direction is excellent and Alexandre Desplat's score is effective without being predictable. From the striking black, white and red opening credits that grabs our attention, we are immediately connected to Talley, a man struggling to cope with life, after a young boy hostage and his mother are killed on his watch. His life falls apart. He takes a desk job running the local police force of a sleepy outskirt town, while his marriage and relationship with his teenage daughter (played by his real-life daughter Rummer) disintegrate. But one day everything changes. Mars (Ben Foster), a sadistic trouble maker is in a dilapidated red pick up van, accompanied by his mate Dennis (Jonathan Tucker) and his kid brother Kevin (Marshall Allman), sees red when a Jennifer (Michelle Horn), a curvaceous young girl rejects his vulgar advances by silently mouthing off her repulsion. The youths follow Jennifer, her young brother Tommy (Jimmy Bennett) and father Walter (Kevin Pollack) to their remote mansion fortress and very soon we learn Walter hasn't made the millions of dollars in his safe from being an honest accountant.
Tension builds as Walter and his two kids become hostages in their own home. But the perpetrators get more than they've bargained for with a house filled with security cameras, safes and secret passages. When Talley arrives at the scene, he is keen to hand the reigns to the assigned negotiator, but there's a hostage within the hostage situation, when Talley's own personal relationships come into play. All the performances are excellent and the stakes climb higher and higher as we learn more and more about the characters. Bennett's Tommy is refreshingly natural as the youngster who gives Talley inside information as he scrambles through the mansion's maze of secret passages. The lead up to the final crescendo is a real nail biter, with moments of almost unbearable tension.
There's an above average behind the scenes feature on the DVD, in which we get a sense of the many levels of the film and the relationship the actors had with each other. There are a string of deleted and extended scenes, with optional commentary by director Florent Siri, who also offers an audio commentary for the whole film. Hostage is a couple of notches above the average, offering solid entertainment for a couple of hours that simply flies.
HOSTAGE: DVD (MA)
(US, 2005)
CAST: Bruce Willis, Kevin Pollak, Jimmy Bennett, Michelle Horn, Ben Foster, Jonathan Tucker, Marshall Allman, Serena Scott Thomas, Rumer Willis
PRODUCER: Mark Gordon, Arnold Rifkin
DIRECTOR: Florent Siri
SCRIPT: Doug Richardson (Robert Crais - novel)
CINEMATOGRAPHER: Giovanni Fiore Coltellacci
EDITOR: Richard Byard, Olivier Gajan
MUSIC: Alexandre Desplat
PRODUCTION DESIGN: Larry Fulton
SPECIAL FEATURES: Audio commentary, taking hostage/behind the scenes, deleted scenes, extended scenes with audio commentary, trailer
DVD RELEASE: September 1, 2005
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VIDEO posted on November 27, 2009 by stimulator
VMC Video Exclusive: Amy Goodman speaks in Vancouver
→Cooperatives, →Video, →2010 Olympics
By the time Amy Goodman spoke to a standing room only crowd at Vancouver's Public Library on Wednesday, November 25, there was one thing on everyone's mind: the 2010 Olympics.
Goodman's talk started over an hour late, because the US radio host was detained by Canadian Border Services Agency, who asked her if she would be talking about the Olympics during her speech.
"I'm embarrassed, cause as some people who know me know, I'm not a real sports fan," said Goodman, who said her knowledge of the 2010 Olympics was "exactly zero."
"To say the least I'm very taken aback by what I just went through, very shocked to be asked what I was going to talk about, and to see my colleagues computers being gone through" at the border, she said, before proceeding with her talk.
Camera - Carlos Melendez and Driss Abassi
Editing - Franklin López
Text - Dawn Paley
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Fri, 11/27/2009 - 03:25 — Chris Johnson (not verified)
We filmed Amy and Dennis here in Vic tonight and got some interviews. I was thinking of you guys tonight. Two cameras. Nice.
We had one video camera and one photojournalist. But no cops hassled them on the way to the show, so you had the advantage there, newswise that is.
Nice clear picture, good sound, illuminating and inspiring talk. I give it a 9.7.
And the shout-out to Frank. How can we top that?
Fri, 11/27/2009 - 12:11 — Vancouver Anonymous (not verified)
computer "go throughs" at the border
one must be very careful crossing the border with a computer. they loosened every screw in my computer, without my knowledge, and corrupted the hardware, which also infected the next computer i had. better to carry, or better yet send ahead all data, and borrow or rent a machine when you get here. i know it's nice to have the convenience of everything accessible, but it is not worth the price.
Fri, 11/27/2009 - 12:20 — Solidarity (not verified)
Great work guys!
Sat, 11/28/2009 - 17:38 — The Blackbird (not verified)
CSIS Psy-Ops
This is nothing more than Canadian border security cooperating with CSIS in a psychological warfare operation against all foreigners who plan to visit Vancouver with the intent of participating in the anti-corporate/anti-olympic/anti-colonial convergence of activists called for by the Olympic Resistance Network.
They selected someone high-profile - an internationally respected, left-wing broadcast journalist whose detention and questioning they knew would spark interest from the media - to inform anyone from outside Canada who might be thinking of joining in on protest activity in Vancouver that they'd best stay home or go somewhere else.
The disrespectful manner in which she was treated by border security was purposeful. It was intended to convey to foreigners that if they do try to enter Canada with anti-Olympic ideas in mind they will be met with a don't-even-think-about-trying-to-f***-with-us attitude.
It's CSIS using the media to scare away potential rabble rousers. It's transparent. It spoiled part of the PBS journalist's visit. It makes Canada appear hostile and unwelcoming to the rest of the world.
Nice work CSIS.
Tue, 12/01/2009 - 17:11 — dawn
Not sure I agree
Not sure I agree that her detention was a planned psy-op, with CBSA and CSIS fully aware of the backlash against their actions.
In fact, I think this reveals the extent to which Canadian "intelligence" is anything but.
Thu, 12/03/2009 - 00:05 — The Blackbird (not verified)
The backlash is what they're after
As I had commented, I believe they chose who they did because hassling her would heavy attention media. They want everyone to know that if you come here to express an anti-Olympic message you will not be welcome. What better way to do that than to stir up a media frenzy.
I want to thank Canadian border services for stopping Ms Goodman as their doing so introduced myself and many of my friends to this remarkable woman.
Stasi and thought crime come to Canada
I no longer know or respect the county I was born in.
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Madagascar: Ethiopian Airlines adds Nosy Be to its network
Ethiopian Airlines will inaugurate and propose from 27 March 2018 a new connection between Addis Ababa and the island of Nosy Be, its second destination in Madagascar with three flights a week between its base in Addis Ababa-Bole and Nosy Be-Fascene Airport, operated by Boeing 737-800 that can accommodate 16 passengers in Business class and 138 in Economy. Departures are scheduled Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 9:00 to arrive at 12:50 to Moroni, to start at 13:35 and arriving at 14:50 to Nosy Be; the return flights leave the Malagasy island at 15:35 to land at 19:50 in the capital of Ethiopia. Ethiopian Airlines will be without competition on this line, becoming the seventh company to serve the island after Air Madagascar, Air Austral, Ewa Air, Air Mauritius, Airlink from Johannesburg and Neos from Italy
http://www.air-journal.fr/2018-02-27-madagascar-ethiopian-airlines-ajoute-nosy-be-a-son-reseau-5195137.html
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In '70s as well as in '80s, even Kristy McNichol is the one of most famous actresses of the generation that is even starring in the movies such as Little Darlings as well as TV shows such as the Family & the Empty Nest. However, in '90s, she also stepped far away from spotlight and that is for good. However, on Wednesday night, even people caught with actress at Love Boat of the reunion in the Fort Lauderdale, when the cast also collected the christen with latest Regal Princess of the cruise ship as well as also celebrates 50 years for Princess Cruises. On the other hand, McNichol, also appeared as the guest star during the show, also said that she has left the show business for "seeing that what is there." "It was on great stage between the ages of 8 & even the age of 30," McNichol, who is of age 52, told PEOPLE. "The show was left business for several reasons, however the great one was also my interest to learn what else is there in their life."
So, now you can also keep up with the popular celebs in pages of the magazine such as PEOPLE by now getting it subscribed. "This is the phase of life that is quite good," she then says. "The home life is also very happy as well as serene. People also love to sing. I even enjoy to travel as well as to see the world. The popular stops are the Hawaii. I also prefer everything regarding it as well as may finally move as the part-time." Complete actress also says that also spends the enough time that is also doing some charity work that also for the United Way.
At Love Boat of the reunion, McNichol is also thrilled to get able to also catch up through few of their Hollywood pals.
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Extr. Actes du XIIe Congrès Int. D'Hist. des sciences Vol. 10A (1)
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Acoustics Research Laboratory Final Report: 1946-1970
Advertising, Class, and the Inner Workings of a Great Watch
Aeronautica: Objets d'Art, Prints, Air Mail
Altwissenschaftliche Instrumente: Katalog bearbeitet von Max Engelmann
Atomic Time: A History of the Cesium Beam Atomic Clock
The Bakerian Lecture.--On the Stratifications and Dark Band in Electrical Discharges as observied in Torricellian Vacua
Bausch & Lomb Tripod Magnifier
Beyond the Limits: Flight Enters the Computer Age
The Blessing of the Sun: Sociology over Astronomy
A Brief History of Geomagnetism and A Catalog of the Collections of the National Museum of American History
Buff: Surveying Instruments: Transits, Levels, Theodolites, Azimuths, etc.
Burndy Library: a report made on the occasion of occupying its permanent building in April 1964
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PHOTO: Lizzie Coombes/@bettylawless
Kirkstall flood defences: Council to develop proposals
Senior councillors in Leeds are set to approve developing proposals for additional flood defences to help protect Kirkstall.
The council’s executive board will vote next Wednesday to give the green light to a feasibility study to extend the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme on the River Aire upstream from the city centre.
The measures would offer future protection to Kirkstall and surrounding areas that were badly hit by the impact of Storm Eva at Christmas.
The study will look at
Possible creation of new formal flood defence measures as well as landscape management and utilising natural water storage areas upstream
Examine the possible purchase of land to build new flood defences on, or work with third parties to incorporate flood defence solutions
The need to create a working group of stakeholders from across the River Aire catchment area to consider and help develop the proposals
The need for any works to be integrated with the regeneration strategy being prepared to make the Kirkstall Road corridor more resilient to flooding
The study will be funded by £3 million provided by the Environment Agency.
A business case for the final plan would be prepared and presented to the government for consideration by the end of 2017.
If the case is approved work would then start on the new defences before the end of 2018 and be completed by the end of 2021.
Leader of Leeds City Council, Councillor Judith Blake, said:
“We are very keen to work with the Environment Agency and all other partners to get this study carried out and then the works implemented as quickly as possible – ideally much sooner than 2021 as that is too far off to give any meaningful reassurance to our residents and businesses.
“We have already seen businesses hit by the impact of Storm Eva either decide to move elsewhere or not be able to continue which is very sad and has resulted in job losses and damage to our local economy. So we need a firm commitment from the government that there will be no repeat of 2011 when the full scheme for Leeds put forward by the Environment Agency was rejected.”
There are currently no formal flood defences along the River Aire upstream of the city centre, where phase one of the Leeds Flood Alleviation Scheme is under way.
The report to be considered by councillors next Wednesday adds:
“… in Kirkstall alone businesses employing around 2,000 people were significantly affected.
“Should the recent event have occurred outside the festive holiday period it is estimated that approximately 27,000 people would have been isolated in the city centre without road or rail exit to the west.”
You can read the report in full here.
The £45m project has already seen works completed downstream in Woodlesford, and the city centre element which features the introduction of state-of-the-art mechanical weirs on the river is on schedule to be completed by March 2017.
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Our planned move to a new site and health facility in 2022
On 27 February 2019 the Alchester Medical Group announced that it plans to move to a brand new health facility on the edge of Bicester in three years’ time. You will find more about this and regular updates on our website www.alchestermedicalgroup.co.uk
From 2022 both Alchester Group and Montgomery-House Surgery, which is also moving, will both operate from the new facility while remaining as two separate practices, just like now.
Although it is still early days for our plans, here are some answers to questions you may ask.
Q. Why is any change necessary?
The main reason is that Bicester needs to expand its healthcare provision as existing space is limited, an aging population is putting even more demands on services and 20,000 to 30,000 more people will come to live here under the already agreed housing growth. The changes announced provide a brand new healthcare hub and a model of healthcare provision that should be sufficient for 20 or 30 years.
Q. So will the site be at Kingsmere or will it be at Graven Hill?
We are currently at a delicate stage in the negotiations for a site. We have a choice but it is important that we make the right one and we will inform people of where it is just as soon as we can. We expect this to be within weeks. The final decision will be based on a number of factors such as: value for money, availability and location.
Q. Why not put extra smaller GP practices into Bicester instead of creating large health hubs?
Internal space and limited land availability are factors that don’t allow this to be possible.
And it’s not the way that things are going in national healthcare structure. There’s a clear model emerging of funding larger health hubs and neighbourhoods that have more staff, better facilities and can better serve more patients. Smaller practices are financially more expensive to run and often are unable to access more specialist services.
Q. Isn’t this a downgrade of health services for Bicester patients?
It is absolutely not a downgrade. This will be a significant improvement that will be sustainable over the long term and take account of Bicester’s growing population. We are growing the service and expanding. This change is about providing enhanced additional services for Bicester patients and protecting the future of its local GP services for everyone.
Q. Is this a MERGER of the Alchester Medical Group and Montgomery-House practices?
No - this is not a merger and it would be completely wrong to describe it in that way. Both practices will be expanding their work and the number of patients they can serve. We will work as two practices on one larger site, but have the advantage of being able to work closely together to develop expertise and share allied health resources.
Q. Will there be more or fewer jobs in the practices as a result of the move?
The exact number of staff required will not be known until much nearer the time of the opening of the new health facility. But with Bicester’s population growing very significantly with each passing year and our ambitions for better healthcare it would be reasonable to expect we will need more staff on site than we currently both employ.
Q. When will existing premises close and what will happen to the buildings?
It’s still too early to say exactly when the premises will close and we’ll need to carry out careful negotiations that’ll ensure the quality and quantity of healthcare is not adversely affected in any way between now and when we’re fully open on the new site, expected to be in 2022. Most of the existing buildings are leased so what happens to them will be up to the current landlord.
Q. How many doctors and staff will be in the new AMG/MHS hub when it opens?
We cannot yet say but there will certainly need to be more doctors than we have at present and working in a brand new multi-facilitated health hub in Bicester should be an attractive incentive towards recruiting doctors who will want to work for our practices. Each practice is made up from a large variety of specialist clinicians (doctors, nurses, and healthcare assistants) as well as support staff to ensure the practices are run efficiently and effectively. It is also hoped to begin to include staff from other health disciplines more in the practices as they grow, such as pharmacists, counsellors, paramedics etc All of these will gradually increase in number as the size of each practice grows.
Q. Will I be able to see my own doctor regularly or will it be different doctors when I visit?
We recognise that seeing the same doctor is important for some patients and we encourage patients to see their usual GP whenever possible, especially with ongoing issues. We do though maintain the flexibility for patients to see another doctor should they wish to and we see this continuing with the new facility.
Q. Will the waiting times for a regular appointment change?
There are always many factors that determine what the waiting time for an appointment will be. We’d hope that with more doctors in the practices the waiting times for appointments will meet with patients’ expectations and could even be better than now. The facility will also provide the opportunity for better same day access for minor illness/urgent issues, which in itself will free up GP time to see those patients with more complex and ongoing issues both sooner and for longer.
Q. Will my records be shared between both AMG and MHS when they are both on the same site?
The confidentiality of medical records is strictly adhered to, so each practice would NOT have access to the medical records for the other practice. When a shared facility is used, as with the current Same Day HUB that all Bicester practices use as a place where patients may be sent, patients can give the consent for their medical records to be viewed by the clinician there for that appointment.
Q. What services will be gained or added to help reduce patient journeys to Oxford and Banbury?
This is an important and sensitive matter that requires more close discussion before the hub opens. But we are confident that Bicester patients will see significant change with more treatment and other services coming closer to home and being sited at the hub. This will help people avoid some of those journeys for treatments or appointments in Banbury or Oxford that involve travelling along some of the county’s busiest roads.
Q. Will patients be able to change to another practice if they wish e.g. to Bicester Health Centre or from there to the new hub if they prefer somewhere with more car parking?
Changing to another practice is a right that all patients have. We recognise patients have different needs and different preferences when it comes to where they wish to go.
Q. How much car parking will there be on the new site?
The sites we are looking at for the new hub have a large provision for car parking. This should be a benefit for both patients and staff. We’re sure that people who need to drive to their appointments will be very pleased with the parking facilities that we’ll have in future.
Q. How will people who don’t drive or have a car be able to travel to and from their appointments?
We recognised this will be an issue, just as it is now for many people as bus routes don’t always run in the right places or buses aren’t as frequent as patients like. We are going to work closely with all those involved in transport, and pedestrian and cycle routes including Town and County Council and the Bicester Healthy New Towns Project with an aim to getting what patients will need.
Q. Will there be a pharmacy on site?
That is something we’re currently exploring and we’ll communicate if that’s possible.
Q. Will patients need to re-register with their current practice or another before the new hub opens?
Patients will not need to re-register. All existing patients will remain with their current practice as this is purely a short distance relocation to a new health facility.
Q. How will patients be kept informed of what’s happening?
We’re fully committed to keep our patients well informed through all the regular channels. So through our contacting the media and them covering our developments and of course through our surgery information, websites and social media channels. We also plan to hold public meetings for patients to meet our teams and for them to put forward their views and ideas. We hope many patients will be excited to join us for these meetings and by the plans we have.
You may feedback comments and ideas by email to feedback.alchestermedicalpractice@nhs.net and keep up to date with any changes on our website www.alchestermedicalgroup.co.uk
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University | A to Z | Departments
» Chemistry
» Dr Kevin Cowtan
Methods and data
Updates and errata
Robust comparison of climate models with observations using blended land air and ocean sea surface temperatures
Kevin Cowtan, Zeke Hausfather, Ed Hawkins, Peter Jacobs, Michael E. Mann, Sonya K. Miller, Byron Steinman, Martin B. Stolpe, Robert G. Way
2016-03 Santer et al (2000) also calculated blended surface temperatures from models for comparison against observations, predating our work by 15 years.
2016-03 Analysis in the CMIP-5 data is complicated by inconsistencies in the deposited files. The inconsistencies we have identified so far are as follows:
For the 'tos' variable four models (EC-EARTH, MIROC5, MRI-CGCM3, MRI-ESM1) set land cells to a constant rather than missing. For EC-EARTH the cells are set to 273.15 K, for the rest to 0 K.
For the 'tos' variable most models give a value for 'tos' even under sea ice. One model (CSIRO) marks sea ice cells as missing.
For the 'sic' variable a number of models set land cells to zero rather than missing.
The 'sic' and 'sftof' variables for different models may contain values in the range 0...100 or 0...1.
Some models appear to specify 'sic' as a fraction of the total area of the grid cell rather than as a fraction of the ocean portion of the grid cell.
For a few models the 'sftof' field does not contain ocean fraction, but rather 1 for cells containing any ocean at all and a missing flag for cells containing no ocean. These files should not be used, as they lead to an overestimation of ocean coverage and a corresponding overestimation in the blending bias.
2016-07 A correspondent has asked how our results would be affected by using the observed sea ice cover instead of the sea ice cover from the corresponding model run. The bias in the blended temperature record relative to the surface air temperature record is shown below, for the global blended absolute temperatures, and for the HadCRUT4 method. Sea ice coverage is from HadISST.
Had we used the observed ice coverage instead of the model coverage, our estimate of the bias in the blended absolute temperatures would have been approximately 3 times larger, however the results of the HadCRUT4 method are largely unaffected. The large bias in the blended absolute temperatures arises from the mismatch between the observed sea ice coverage and the model sea surface temperatures, and is in our view spurious. (The observed ice bias is also slightly underestimated due to the issue with the CSIRO 'tos' field noted earlier.)
If the temperature series are averaged by model or model family rather than by run, the blending bias estimate is marginally reduced (~4%). The conclusions of the paper (and Richardson et al 2016) are unaffected.
Errata:
2016-03 We have identified an error in the handling of the ocean fields for a few models used in our study, arising from variations in the use of missing values. Correction of this error reduces the size of the bias in the model-observation comparisons by 5-7%. The conclusions of the paper are unchanged. A corrigendum has been published in GRL. A list of the corrections are available in this document: errata-2016-01.pdf.
University of York,
© 2013 University of York
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While there have been Masonic lodges attached to universities for many years: Apollo University Lodge in Oxford being founded nearly 200 years ago and the Isaac Newton Lodge in Cambridge being founded shortly thereafter, the Universities’ Scheme was established by the Assistant Grand Master in 2005 ‘to establish and/or enhance arrangements and opportunities for undergraduates and other university members to enjoy Freemasonry’. There are now more than 30 lodges in the scheme. Their membership consists of undergraduates, postgraduates, senior members of the university and alumni, ranging in age from 18 upwards. All under-25s benefit from the decision by Grand Lodge to halve their dues in order to make Freemasonry as accessible to as wide an audience as possible.
Click the link to watch a video of a new Mason talking about why he joined Freemasonry while he was at university.
In this Province, The University Lodge of Liverpool No 4274 is now an established member of the scheme and has many graduate and undergraduate members not only from the University of Liverpool but from other local universities and, indeed, other universities from around the world. Those interested in joining might care to look at the lodge’s website at www.universitylodgeofliverpool.org.uk and make contact either through that site or by emailing univ@btinternet.com
City of Lancaster Lodge No 281 has recently been awarded full accreditation as a ‘University Lodge’ by David Williamson Past Assistant Grand Master who currently heads the UGLE University scheme.
Further information about joining this lodge can be obtained from the lodge secretary email l281@westlancsfreemasons.org.uk
Any member of staff, student or alumnus (whether a Freemason or not) at the University of Central Lancashire or Edge Hill University who is interested in the extension of the university scheme to those universities and may be prepared to help or advise in the project please contact West Lancashire’s Provincial Secretary by telephone: 0151 709 2458 Ext 4 or by email to univ@btinternet.com
What is Freemasonry menu
What’s it all about
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2018-19 Bentley University Men's Track and Field News
Mattson & Hergott Tabbed for Academic All-Northeast-10 Honors
The 2019 Academic All-Northeast-10 Conference outdoor track and field teams include a pair of recent Bentley University graduates, Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./ Smithfield HS) and Dan Hergott (Wallingford, Conn./Xavier HS).
Bentley Tops NE10 Academic Honor Roll for 21st Straight Semester
For the 21st consecutive semester, Bentley University had the most selections for the Northeast-10 Conference Academic Honor Roll (formerly known as the Commissioner’s Honor Roll) with 361 student-athletes recognized for having a 3.0 or better grade point average during the spring 2019 semester.
Three Bentley Track Athletes Selected for Google Cloud Academic All-District Honors
Recent Bentley University graduates Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield HS) and Dan Hergott (Wallingford, Conn./Xavier HS), along with junior Paige Fehskens (Wareham/Wareham HS), have been selected for the Google Cloud Division II Academic All-District 1 Track and Cross Country teams by the College Sports Information Directors of America (CoSIDA).
Catino Posts Highest Individual Finish for Bentley Men at Northeast-10 Championships
Antonio Catino (North Reading, Mass./North Reading HS) had the highest individual finish for the Bentley University men’s track and field team during the two-day Northeast-10 Conference Championships, which were contested Friday and Saturday at Southern New Hampshire University.
Bentley Track Set for Northeast-10 Championships
Led by senior Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield HS) and junior Alex Arnold (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy), the Bentley University men’s and women’s track and field teams will be at Southern New Hampshire University Friday and Saturday for the Northeast-10 Conference Championships.
Bentley Men Post Quartet of Thirds During Stonehill Skyhawk Invitational
The Bentley University men’s track and field team posted a quartet of third-place finishes, including two from junior Alex Arnold (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy), during the Stonehill Skyhawk Invitational at W.B. Mason Stadium Saturday.
Arnold, Maselli Lead Bentley During Carisella Invitational
Junior Alex Arnold (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy) and sophomore Peter Maselli (Croton-on-Hudson, N.Y./Hendrick Hudson HS) had the highest individual finishes for the Bentley University men’s track and field team Saturday during the predominantly-Division I Jay Carisella Coaches’ Invitational at Northeastern University’s Solomon Track.
Arnold Continues Strong Spring During San Diego Triton Invitational
The Bentley University men’s outdoor track and field team competed in a pair of meets Saturday, one In California and the other in New Hampshire, with junior Alex Arnold (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy) among the top performers.
Arnold Wins 100 & Posts Three Other Top-5 Finishes during UNH Wildcat Invitational
Junior Alex Arnold (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy) was a standout for the Bentley University men’s outdoor track and field team during the University of New Hampshire Wildcat Invitational Saturday.
Arnold Leads Bentley Men During Bryant Invitational
Competing in four different events, junior Alex Arnold (Saco, Maine/ Thornton Academy) led the Bentley University men’s track and field team during Saturday’s Bryant University Black and Gold Invitational.
Gettings, Arnold Impress During Opening Outdoor Meet of 2019
Juniors Josh Gettings (Lowell/Lowell HS) and Alex Arnold (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy) were among the top performers for the Bentley University men’s track and field team during Saturday’s Bridgewater State Invitational, the squad’s first outdoor meet of the spring.
Mattson Takes 2nd in NE10 Triple Jump with Another Record-Setting Performance; Men's 4x400 Finishes 5th
The ninth school record of the season for Bentley University senior Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield HS) came Sunday with a second-place finish in the triple jump during the Northeast-10 Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships at Smith College.
Mattson, Arnold Place at NE10 Championships; Another School Record for Hurwitz
Senior Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield HS) and junior Alex Arnold (Saco, Maine/Thornton Academy) placed for the Bentley University Falcons during day one of the Northeast-10 Conference Indoor Track and Field Championships Saturday at Smith College.
Arnold & Hergott Climb on NE10 Performance List
Competing at different venues, two members of the Bentley University men’s indoor track and field team climbed on the Northeast-10 Conference performance list with their achievements on Saturday.
2 More School-Record Breaking Performances for Mattson; Hergott Earns All-New England Honors
Bentley University senior Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield HS) continued an outstanding indoor season by twice breaking one of her own school records and earning All-New England honors Saturday during day two of the New England Indoor Track and Field Championships at the Reggie Lewis Center.
Bentley Tops NE10 Commissioner’s Honor Roll for 20th Straight Semester
For the 20th consecutive semester, Bentley University had the most selections for the Northeast-10 Conference Academic Honor Roll (formerly known as the Commissioner’s Honor Roll) with 381 student-athletes recognized for having a 3.0 or better grade point average during the fall 2018 semester.
Bentley Men Compete in John Thomas Invitational
At least ten new personal bests were set Saturday when the Bentley University men’s indoor track and field team competed in the John Thomas Terrier Classic at Boston University’s Track and Tennis Center.
Mattson Breaks School Record in 500 Again; 6 Members of Men's Team Compete at Reggie Lewis
For the second time in three meets this season, Bentley University senior Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield HS) broke her own school record in the 500 meters. The latest record was achieved Friday night during Northeastern University’s Joe Donahue Games at the Reggie Lewis Center.
Hergott Runs to Victory During Poyau Memorial
Bentley University senior Dan Hergott (Wallingford, Conn./Xavier HS) accounted for the only victory earned by the Falcon men’s track and field team during the Reggie Poyau Memorial at Brandeis University Saturday.
Murphy Opens Indoor Season with Win in 5,000 Meters
The 2018-19 Bentley University men’s indoor track and field season got underway Saturday with senior Cody Murphy (Dunbarton, N.H./Goffstown HS) turning in a winning performance during the UMass-Boston Open at the Reggie Lewis Center.
6 Seniors to Serve as 2018-19 Bentley Track & Field Captains
The Bentley University track and field teams, who open the season Saturday with the UMass-Boston Invitational at the Reggie Lewis Center, will have a half-dozen seniors serving as team captains. Stephanie Mattson (Smithfield, R.I./Smithfield HS) and Tina Touri (Watertown/Watertown HS) will be charged with leading the women’s team while the men’s captains will be Michael Carpino (Mansfield/Mansfield HS), Josh Gettings (Lowell/Lowell HS), Dan Hergott (Wallingford, Conn./Xavier HS) and Cody Murphy (Dunbarton, N.H./Goffstown HS).
Bentley Student-Athletes Have Highest Graduation Rate in Division II
For the second straight year, Bentley University is ranked number one nationally in the latest NCAA Division II Academic Success Rate report, which was announced today. Bentley, with its highest ASR in the 13 years that the NCAA has been compiling the data, was alone at the top of the rankings, two points above the five institutions tied for second, after sharing the top position a year ago. This was the fifth straight year that Bentley has achieved an ASR of 97 or better and the eighth straight they’ve been above 90.
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Bright Supernova in M82
<< Yesterday 24.01.2014 Tomorrow >>
Credit & Copyright: Adam Block, Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, U. Arizona
Explanation: Astronomers really don't find supernovae by looking for the arrows. But in this image taken January 23rd, an arrow does point to an exciting, new supernova, now cataloged as SN 2014J, in nearby bright galaxy M82. Located near the Big Dipper in planet Earth's sky, M82 is also known as the Cigar Galaxy, a popular target for telescopes in the northern hemisphere. In fact, SN 2014J was first spotted as an unfamiliar source in the otherwise familiar galaxy by teaching fellow Steve Fossey and astronomy workshop students Ben Cooke, Tom Wright, Matthew Wilde and Guy Pollack at the University College London Observatory on the evening of January 21. M82 is a mere 12 million light-years away (so the supernova explosion did happen 12 million years ago, that light just now reaching Earth), making supernova SN 2014J one of the closest to be seen in recent decades. Spectra indicate it is a Type Ia supernova caused by the explosion of a white dwarf accreting matter from a companion star. By some estimates two weeks away from its maximum brightness, SN 2014J is already the brightest part of M82 and visible in small telescopes in the evening sky.
Gallery: Supernova in M82
Publications with keywords: starburst galaxy - star formation - supernova
Publications with words: starburst galaxy - star formation - supernova
Lynds Dark Nebula 1251
Stars, Dust, and Gas near NGC 3572
Rho Ophiuchi Wide Field
N11: Star Clouds of the LMC
NGC 1333: Stellar Nursery in Perseus
Doomed Star Eta Carinae
NGC 6357: The Lobster Nebula
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Who Wears The Pants
A young couple, just married, were in their honeymoon suite on their wedding night. As they undressed for bed, the husband, who was a big burly man, tossed his pants to his bride and said, “here put these on.” She said “I can’t wear your pants.” “That’s right!!” said the husband, “and don’t you forget it. I’m the man who wears the pants in this family!” With that she flipped him her panties and said, “Try these on.” He tried them on and found he could only get them on as far as his kneecaps. He said, “Hell, I can’t get into your panties!” She said, “That’s right, and that’s the way it’s going to be until you change your attitude.”
Who sends a thousand valentines cards signed’, guess who’?
Q: Who sends a thousand valentines cards signed’, guess who’?
A: A divorce lawyer.
Who keeps the ocean clean?
Q: Who keeps the ocean clean?
A: The mermaid.
Where do snowmen go to dance?
Q: Where do snowmen go to dance?
A: Snowballs.
Two tourists were driving through Louisiana.
As they were approaching Natchitoches, they started arguing about the pronunciation of the town. They argued back and forth until they stopped for lunch.
As they stood at the counter, one tourist asked the blonde employee, “Before we order, could you please settle an argument for us? Would you please pronounce where we are…very slowly?”
The blonde girl leaned over the counter and said, “Burrrrrrrr, gerrrrrrr, Kiiiiing”
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Local Trails...
JOIN OR DONATE
SuperBowl Sunday Workday
at MdO
Here we go again - for the 26th time - WITH A BIG CHANGE! This year we are limiting the number of volunteers we put to work at 160. Last year we had over 240 volunteers, way more than we could handle effectively. We will be taking the first 160 folks who check in at the workday. We have an alternative worksite for overflow for those folks who choose to work that site.
Meet Sunday, February 3rd at 8:00 a.m. at MdO Park Headquarters above Spooners Cove. We'll feed you breakfast breads, coffee, juice. The goal is to do as much trail maintenance as possible on as many trails as possible. We guarantee you'll be done in plenty of time to watch the game, eat too much and sit on the couch!
CCCMB Supporters
Thanks to the following organizations for their recent donations:
Central Coast Brewing
Chipolte
Boo Boo's Records
Flander's
House of Bread
K-Man's Cycle & Run
Poly Performance
Rare Fruit Growers
Running Warehouse
The Galley
Voler
Windows on the Water
All donations are tax deductible. If you are interested in donating money (or supplies for a work day), email Bill for more info.
SHOP LOCAL: Support
Shops that Support Trails
The following bike shops provided financial support and donations to CCCMB this season:
Art's Cyclery (SLO)
BestBikeZone (Atascadero)
CBO (SLO)
Foothill Cyclery (SLO)
Pedal Power Bicycles (Santa Maria)
Trinity Cyclery (Grover Beach)
Wally's Bicycle Works (SLO)
Check Trail Conditions
at CCCMB.org
Ride dirt trails, not muddy trails! Before you ride, check out the latest trail conditions here.
CCCMB's Board of Directors is currently recruiting for the following positions:
Crew Leaders
Socal Media Coordinator
Get involved! Attend a monthly meeting (the third Tuesday of every month at the SLO Parks and Rec office on Nipomo Street in SLO) or email Kelli for specific information.
Impressive Stats from IMBA
A recent survey of IMBA's chapters and clubs about their volunteer-based activities documents an impressive record of public service.
Based on this data, IMBA estimates that its chapters and clubs:
*conduct 3,303 projects and sponsor 4,383 events
*build and maintain 23,014.5 miles of trail
*inspire 48,470 volunteers (41,883 adults and 6,587 youth)
*facilitate 707,102 volunteer hours (664,907 adult and 42,195 youth)
Check out the full story here: IMBA Volunteer Survey
How does CCCMB stack up? Local volunteers have spent over 3,195 hours on local trails since September. In fact, CCCMB does more projects, maintains and builds more miles of trail than 80% of IMBA clubs.
The Central Coast Concerned Mountain Bikers (CCCMB) is a chapter of the International Mountain Bicycling Association (IMBA), a 501 (c) 3 non-profit educational association whose mission is to create, enhance and preserve great mountain biking experiences.
Since 1988, IMBA has been bringing out the best in mountain biking by encouraging low-impact riding, volunteer trailwork participation, cooperation among different trail user groups, grassroots advocacy and innovative trail management solutions.
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service recognizes IMBA as a tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) charitable organization. IMBA's tax identification number is 77-0204066.
The Dirt on the Trail is published quarterly. Comments or suggestions? Email the editor.
We Do Trails, Join Us!
Sunday, February 17 - FASTA PROJECT & MORNING GLORY Meet at city kiosk at top of Eucs at 9:30am.
Sunday, March 17 - SANTA MARGARITA LAKE
Meet inside the park at White Oak Picnic Area at 9:00am.
Saturday, April 6 - LOPEZ LAKE
Meet inside the park at Arboleda Day Camp at 9:00am.
Saturday, April 20 - FROOM RANCH
Meet at Home Depot parking lot at 9:00am.
Sunday, May 5 - FERNANDEZ TRAIL
Meet at Turkey Flats at 9:00am or SLO Vet's Hall at 8am to carpool.
Saturday, May 18 - IRISH HILLS
Meet at traffic circle at end of Madonna Road at 9:00am.
Saturday, June 1 - MONTANA DE ORO CARROT FEST
Work and Ride Weekend. Meet at top of Horse Camp Road at 10:00am.
Sunday, June 23 - MORNING GLORY
Meet at city kiosk at top of Eucs at 9:30am.
WEEKLY CREW
Help build your new favorite trail!
FROOM RANCH: Every Wednesday, 8:30 am, meet in the Home Depot parking lot on the east side. Just show up or email for more info: Ranger Doug at DCarscad@slocity.org
CCCMB IS NOW
AN IMBA CHAPTER
CCCMB is now a Chapter of IMBA (International Mountain Bike Association), so if you join CCCMB as a new member or renew your existing membership, you will automatically enjoy being a member of IMBA.
CCCMB became an IMBA Chapter in December 2012 after having been an IMBA affiliate since 1988. For all that time, our focus has been on expanding local multi-use trail systems, on trail etiquette and on trail sustainability. We are dedicated to maintaining that focus as a Chapter. CCCMB will continue to base its work on the premise that mountain bikers and all other trail users end up with more and better trails by working cooperatively and sharing trails responsibly. Becoming a Chapter of IMBA will not change that.
However, becoming a Chapter allows CCCMB some of the benefits of the economy of scale. The club has become big enough that organizational issues like membership management and recruitment, financial recordkeeping and liability exposure require a significant amount of volunteer resources: resources that we prefer to invest in trail work.
As a Chapter, CCCMB is under IMBA's 501c3 umbrella and is able to use IMBA's staff, technical resources and legal standing to lighten our organizational burdens. In return CCCMB splits membership dues with IMBA and has incorporated the IMBA logo with the CCCMB logo. However,any funds donated (not memberships) to CCCMB go directly to support local trail advocacy and are not shared with IMBA.
Oates Peak Completion Estimate: Early 2014
The reroute is two-thirds completed. The last 2.5 miles of trail will be constructed in early March 2013. The entire system will be opened to all trail users, including cyclists, around February, 2014. The year of rest will allow the trail bed to season and substantially increase its life and health.
Between March 2013 and February 2014, CCCMB volunteers will be needed to do various types of finish work on the trail and install signage.
In the meantime, the sections which have been completed are open to hikers in hopes that foot traffic will reduce the re-growth of vegetation in the trail bed. Equestrians and cyclists are not allowed on the new sections because they would irreparably damage the new tread (and because it remains illegal for bikes).
Wild Cherry Canyon:
the link between MdO & Avila Beach
So far 16,082 hours of volunteer labor and $275,000 have been donated to help conserve Wild Cherry Canyon - a 2,400 acre coastal property near Avila Beach with sweeping views and incredible outdoor recreation possibilities.
It is expected that the fate of the WCC project will be determined sometime in early spring. There are two ways you can help ensure a positive outcome:
Time: We are working to establish 25,000 hours of volunteer pledges for the cause to help with ongoing maintenance and construction of the facilities which will be added to Montana de Oro State Park. To date, we have a combined total of over 16,082 hours which includes the matching-hours grant of 10,000 hours from CCCMB. To sign up for volunteer hours,email Kara Blakeslee with your name and how many hours you wish to contribute.
Money: Individuals, corporations and businesses can help us reach our $1,000,000 goal by making a pledge or donation to the Wild Cherry Canyon Project.
Donate now to The Land Conservancy of San Luis Obispo County to support the expansion of Montana de Oro State Park and open nearly 20 miles of coastal trails.
Confessions of a Local Trail Builder
First time trail maintenance work: "What do I do with these tools and what do I do with the trail?"
After more trail work: "How cool that each of these tools has a specific job. If I do what was suggested, the trail will last longer and ride better."
Riding the trail after working on it: "I DID THIS. Yay me! I fixed that crumbly spot on the outside of the trail and it is holding up."
After seeing how other users damaged the same trail: First thought: "Hey, don't' do that!" Second thought: "Hmm, maybe they just don't know how to ride correctly." Third thought: "I can FIX that next time I work on this part and make it BETTER."
First time working in the rain: "This is miserable but I can see where the water is doing damage and can fix it RIGHT NOW. Maybe some better rain gear will help."
First time building NEW trail: "What are all those red and blue flags for? Who put them here and did they have to hike through all this brush? Why are they so curvy when a straight line is quicker to ride?This is hard work moving all this dirt and rocks!"
First time riding a NEW trail I helped build: "Wow, this is great! The curves are so fun to ride and they let the water run off the trail. All that hard work was worth it. I am glad I helped build this new trail! I hope it lasts a long time and everyone enjoys it. Now I want to learn how to design new trails."
While riding after 25 years of trail work: "I think about the work I have done as I pedal over all the trails in SLO county and remember working on almost every section and feel PROUD of the work I have accomplished. I hope I have inspired the same pride in anyone that has worked with me."
A long time CCCMB trail worker
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M6-14
Religion: Scientism
Name: M6-14
Classification: villain
Publisher(s):
First Appearance: Iron Man (vol. 1) #74 (May 1975): "The Modok Machine!"
Creators: Mike Friedrich, Arvell Jones, Keith Pollard, Dick Ayers
Number of Appearances: 1
Teams/Affiliations: A.I.M.
Ally: J5-T8
Ally: MODOK
Occupation: agent
Note: briefed MODOK on Black Lama's offers to Man-Bull, etc.
There was rivalry between Black Lama and A.I.M. leader M.O.D.O.K. In fact, MODOK called it the "War of the Super-Villains." As part of this, MODOK gathered information about Black Lama. M6-14, an A.I.M. agent, briefed MODOK about the Black Lama's offers to the super-villains Man-Bull, Whiplash and Melter.
This character is in the following story which has been indexed by this website:
Iron Man (vol. 1) #74 (May 1975): "The Modok Machine!"
Suggested links for further research about this character and the character's religious affiliation:
- http://www.marvunapp.com/master/maamac.htm
- https://www.comics.org/issue/28569/
- http://comicbookdb.com/issue.php?ID=17796
- http://marvel.wikia.com/Iron_Man_Vol_1_74
- http://www.comicvine.com/iron-man-the-modok-machine/37-15185/
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The Search for the Truth – Ch 11 – (Chisoutsa)
Published on January 1, 2014 February 12, 2019 by Chris Ticehurst
A phone call was received at Charles Thompson’s house from the Government House. Charles quickly picked up his phone and looked at Alan Richards who was visiting him.
“Hello?” he said.
“Charles, it’s been a while since we’re chatted. Have you heard about this company meeting between Science works and Demon Productions?” said the man on the phone.
‘No Prime Leader. Why would I know about this?” asked Charles giving a funny look at Alan.
“Because you know the ins and outs of the city, you’re not stupid. Remember when your nice friend Professor Walken came banging into the Square. I wasn’t happy with that. What does he have to do with you?” the Prime Leader asked Charles.
“We are just old friends,’ Charles answered quickly.
“And that girl I see on the news and the rumours. This Chisoutsa girl, she’s with the Professor. They are both stubborn people,” the Prime Leader cried through the phone.
“If you wish to think that then go away.”
The Prime Leader continued to waste time on the phone trying to get scoops and ideas from Charles before he hanged up. Charles put the phone down and looked at Alan.
“What was that all about?” Alan asked Charles.
“I don’t know but I bet Jonathan and Chisoutsa are in trouble or will be. He said he was playing down at that old Librarian’s house again. Plus the Centrax logo has been fixed again which worries the Professor and me,” Charles answered.
“I haven’t seen anyone from that company before,” Alan said.
“No one has. That’s the thing. Chisoutsa could be walking right into the headquarters building. For the Professor, he might do the same thing. We have to go and see the headquarters,” Charles thought.
“We can’t go in there!” Alan complained at him.
“We are not going in there. We are just making sure people don’t go in there. Like Chisoutsa, Jonathan or Jiko for that case,” Charles said grabbing a coat.
The two headed outside of the house to the car hoping to catch them before they enter the headquarters.
The middle of the day was arriving and Professor Walken was creeping up the ladder away from the Underground Library. The blue eyed Librarian freak waved his hand towards the Professor and smiled at him strangely.
“Don’t get caught now the night is already falling upon us,’ the Librarian called out to him.
“It’s only the midday,’ called back the Professor before disappearing.
Professor Walken quickly made his way to the car and drove off towards the heart of the city where the Centrax Corporation stood. His eye was caught off the road when he saw the Centrax globe starting to glow violently. His head turned to see the globe shine a green light around as far as the eye could see. The city suddenly fell into pure darkness. The Professor saw the Centrax building just in front and stopped the car on the road.
“The night has fallen upon us,’ Professor Walken said to himself when he exited his car.
Near the Professor, Charles’s car spun out when the night fell and the street lights feel dead and hit into side of an old and dusty building, the one where the company had their meeting. Charles and Alan feel out of the car and Alan climbed to his feet.
“What’s happening? I don’t get this. Where has the power gone?” he asked himself.
Charles leaned up from the car and looked at Alan, “Well we still to get to The Professor but I’m guessing we are too late.”
“I think we are,” frowned Alan.
Behind the pair two figures rose and caught them out, Mr. Umezu and Hityo were still there discussing until they heard the noise outside and came to investigate.
“Alan Richards?” Mr. Umezu asked in wonder.
“And he’s with Charles Thompson, he’s connected with that Chisoutsa we hear,” Hityo cried.
“Mr. Umezu, my boss!” Alan cried in fear.
Charles stood up in the middle of the discussion and look at each other, “This isn’t good I guess,” he asked out loud.
“You have been stealing my funding to help this girl? You are fired! You are out of my company forever!” Mr. Umezu cried.
Alan stepped back from his former boss as he edged closer to him, he drew out a gun towards his head. Charles’s eyes widen, “Hey he didn’t mean to go behind your back,” he cried.
“What the fuck is going on here!” Hityo cried out loud.
“What,” Mr. Umezu said turning around with his gun by his side.
“It’s night time. It’s supposed to be bloody midday!” cried Hityo.
Mr. Umezu stopped looking at Alan Richards and look above and around the city. It was indeed night during the day.
“There’s something pretty wrong with this picture,’ Mr. Umezu commented.
Charles walked over to the company and shook his head, “We know this too. It’s that Centrax leader. He’s back I guess and that girl Chisoutsa is our best chance of defence!” Charles shouted at them.
“She can’t win! No one can expect for the power and might of our companies. You know that!” Hityo shouted back.
“Dam nit you are wrong!” Charles cried out hitting his car in the side.
A walking cane pushed the Centrax headquarters doors open and a green and icy steam wandered on the ground past the Professor’s shoes. He travelled inside and the doors remained opened. The building inside was nothing like the other company building. It was filled with machines and human tissues floating in large tubes. He kept up the pace and past a couple rooms and took the lift upstairs. Inside he clicked for the second highest level and the doors closed. He darted around the lift so it glowed colours and went on and out. The lift finally arrived after some time and the Professor. He was by the window where you could see the ground of the building entrance, there Chisoutsa and Jiko were at the doors. Jiko nodded at Chisoutsa and they both went inside the Centrax building.
Professor Walken drew his hidden sword from his cane and look around the flying papers and an old desk with a dawn of darkness that shone upon it. His skin chilled at the sight and he felt someone was watching him. By the corner of the room a figure moved his hand out and stretched it and moved it back to his face. He wore silver small glasses and pushed them back. The shadow showed on the wall and the Professor turned around.
“Who is that!” he cried and the figure disappeared.
He quickly walked up to the old desk and looked through the old papers. He came across some newer ones dated this year.
“The project is complete. They are our new children. They are better then she was,” the Professor read puzzled.
The Professor looked around the room again and wondered if Chisoutsa had arrived yet.
On the first level of the Centrax building Chisoutsa and Jiko had their weapons. Chisoutsa held her Eagle pistol close to her and Jiko with his shot gun. They saw old machines and humans floating in large tubes, the same ones that the Professor saw earlier on.
“These people, they were like you in one way,” Jiko said touching the tube.
Chisoutsa watched them float lifelessly, “I could had started like that and grew into a real human,” she commented.
Chisoutsa came to the lift and pointed it with her gun, “We could o in here. Save some time. This leader might be at the top of the building. Like it’s always is,” she said.
“We can try it if you want,” Jiko said.
The pair entered the lift and it closed. It took a while before it made it to the top level and the doors closely opened. The pair quickly stepped back in awe. Glossy silver machines stood at a dark black desk at the far end. Chisoutsa stepped forward first and suddenly the building started to shake violently. Both Chisoutsa and Jiko fell to the ground. The Professor downstairs tripped and hit his head on the desk and was knocked out.
Outside the earthquake was stirring up the City of Demons. Charles and Alan Richards bolted from the company leaders and came down to the middle of the city. Charles pointed out the Centrax building and they came to the doorways. Alan turned back to see Mr. Umezu and dozens of Kaiser Unit men surrounding the Centrax building. The green globe blasted out a green light up into the clouds.
“What the hell do we do?” cried Charles.
“Look, there’s the Black Vixen! Chisoutsa is already in the building. Let’s go take the car for safety,” Alan shouted at him.
The pair ran off from the door to the car and Alan grabbed spare keys from his pocket and the car opened. Inside the car the earthquake wasn’t that bad and Charles looked around the car.
“How can we help them?” Charles asked Alan.
“We can’t help them inside but we can help everything from the outside,” Alan answered.
The Charles noticed shadows of steel appeared on building tops and at the headquarters doorways. The doorway inside the Centrax building shut tightly. The shadows appeared as large silver machines with green haunting eyes and large machine guns the size of a mini truck on her hands.
‘Holy crap, look at that! Those machines, that’s why this Centrax leader is back for, to take over the city!” Charles cried.
Alan punched in some keys and turned the wheel of the car. The Black Vixen started to rise off the ground and took off with speed. The silver machines saw the Black Vixen and fired heavy bullets at the car.
“What do we do with a car against those machines,” asked Charles.
“Well if I was told about these machines. I would have built a car to withstand them. Chisoutsa should have told me this!” Alan cried back.
Jiko woke up from the ground and Chisoutsa followed suit. She then saw from outside the Black Vixen riding in the air with bullets firing at it.
“Alan and Charles,” she whispered to herself shaking her head.
The silver machines glow their eyes and drew their weapons at Chisoutsa and Jiko.
“Nice knowing you,’ Jiko said before blasting his shot gun at them.
Chisoutsa ran in with her gun and fire at them, the silver machines ganged up on Jiko and punched him to the ground. Chisoutsa grabbed a machine gun and fired like hell at the machines. More machines appeared from the doors and she spun around with the machine gun on firing.
Jiko grabbed another machine gun and found a few bombs from his bag and threw them at the machines. The machines were thrown from the bombs. Colours of fire and appeared and a ball of fire thundered throughout the room.
From below the level, the Professor heard the noises and thought about Chisoutsa.
“She must be upstairs. And what on hell on going on outside!” he cried to himself.
He causally walked away from the old desk of papers. The papers swan around the room like leaves and he tripped again to the ground. He grew angry and blood was running from his head. He turned around and his eyes widen in sheer fear. A tall, figure was standing in front of the old desk. It walked down and the figure straightened his silver glasses up again. He remained in the dark shadow and picked up the Professor’s cane and pulled out the hidden sword.
“A master of the sword, he teaches well I hope,” the figure said to the Professor.
He threw the cane out of the window and it landed on the roof of the Black Vixen where Alan Richards wondered what the noise was. The dark figure walked away to a secret lift and he waved it open.
“The Demon of the City,’ the Professor cried from the ground.
The figure turned to him and nodded and entered the lift and it closed up. The Professor cried in pain and couldn’t move at all. His leg was in terrible pain and now his head was bleeding. Above the level Chisoutsa heard a cry and she shouted at Jiko.
“I hear something downstairs. Let’s go and find it!”
Jiko nodded and continue to push and shoot down the silver machines as they ran down the stairs to the Professor’s level. Chisoutsa saw Professor Walken first and ran to his side. She lifted his head.
“I’m ok Chisoutsa but there’s a bigger problem here,” the Professor said weakly.
“We know about the machines. They are very tough,” Jiko said from behind.
“No, it’s the leader. He’s here,” Professor Walken said.
“You saw him,” Chisoutsa said.
Professor Walken smiled at Chisoutsa, “Only a shadow of him. He took my cane away so I couldn’t move or fight him. This is what you wanted so badly, to find your past. It was always in the City of Demons where I found you. The answers are all here Chisoutsa. Inside the secret lift in the corner you will find them all. He is waiting for you. He knows someone has been chasing him. Your destiny now awaits you,” the Professor said to her.
Chisoutsa grew quiet and turned to Jiko for support, “I have to stay here to help the Professor out of here. This is it Chisoutsa. You meet your creator,” Jiko said to her.
She turned back to her mentor for solid advice, “Go now while he is here. Jiko and I must leave here. This injury could take my life and I don’t want that now. I still feel there is much life in me yet. The search is now over. Go!” the Professor cried at her.
Chisoutsa offloaded the Professor to Jiko and she grabbed her Eagle gun. Jiko smiles to her and walks over and hugs her. His hand touches her cheek.
“I’ll be waiting for you, and everyone else,” he said slowly to her.
She nodded and walked to the lift and it opened. She turned around in the lift with a strong face and the lift closed. Jiko turned around and the Professor gave a wry look and put his head down.
“Are you still hurting?” he asked him.
“No. I’ve just sent my student to her death,” the Professor cried sadly.
Jiko turned around to the lift and gave a heavy sigh to himself.
The lift door opened and Chisoutsa made her way out in the open. There was a blue ring circle in the middle with a blue steel stand at the end. The room was huge and it made her small inside. The powerful student of Professor Jonathan Walken was tested. She started to shake when she saw the shadow approaching her. Something deep inside her soul broke in pieces and she fell on the ground. A black haired man with silver glasses in a black and white suit shone in the light. He held a sword of total power that glows the blackest of days. He slowly approached Chisoutsa on the ground and pointed the sword at her.
Chisoutsa’s eyes glowed their dangerous red and then to a ghostly white. She feared the creator but she feared nothing? The woman of steel emotion was breaking down in front of her creator. The figure appeared in front of her as she saw visions in her mind of the green globe thrashing power across the city, Kaiser Unit men battling the silver machines outside, the Black Vixen fighting hard to help stop the breeding of the machine over the city people.
“Censilo Fukatho,” she said to the demon of the city.
She remembered his name from the hyper camp. The visions are all coming back to her now. He created her to take over the city and she failed in training. And now they meet.
“The fearless girl shakes in front of her master. The search for the truth has been rewarded. Your past, present and future resides in me. For I have returned, surprised to see you still alive. But I did create you and I would not expect anything less of you,” Censilo boomed at Chisoutsa.
The Demon of the City has met his creation at last…
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Beloved husband, father, grandpa, brother, uncle and friend Vince Specht passed away suddenly from respiratory failure on Sunday, March 19, 2017, exactly one month after his loving wife, Joni, had passed in Henderson, Nevada. We believe he died of a broken heart...
Think before hiding those Easter eggs (Editorial ~ 04/14/17)
What more fun at Easter than the traditional, time-honored practice in many homes of hiding colorful Easter eggs for the children to find, and then seeing the joy on their faces as they find each egg? Yet, common sense must rule in this entertaining Easter pursuit that is so special for children, parents, and grandparents...
A-A boys win on Aurelia course (High School Sports ~ 04/14/17)
AURELIA - The Alta-Aurelia varsity boys golf team hosted Pocahontas Area and West Bend-Mallard on the Aurelia course for a Twin Lakes Conference meet Tuesday, and the Warriors shot a team score of 171 to win the meet. PAC shot a 186 team score and WBM a 237...
Alta-Aurelia girls win at Lake Creek (High School Sports ~ 04/14/17)
STORM LAKE - The Alta-Aurelia varsity girls’ golf team triumphed over Storm Lake St. Mary’s and Pocahontas Area in Twin Lakes Conference golf Tuesday on the Lake Creek Country Club course. Alta-Aurelia posted a team score of 194 to St. Mary’s 244 and Pocahontas Area’s 280...
Cherokee boys golf at HWC (High School Sports ~ 04/14/17)
HULL - A partial Cherokee boys golf squad competed in the recent Lakes Conference triangular featuring Cherokee, Spirit Lake, and host Hull Western Christian.Just three Braves participated and it takes four golfers to figure into a team score. For Cherokee, Damon Williams was low with a 51, while Jake Zweifel shot 52, and Dylan Hamilton 58...
A-A Girls win Class 1A Tomahawk Relays (High School Sports ~ 04/14/17)
CHEROKEE - The Alta-Aurelia girls won five events as they took the Class 1A Team championship at the April 7th Tomahawk Relays here. Warrior championships came in the Long Jump, where Hannah Loring leaped 16-4; the 400 Meters, where Lily Peterson ran a 60.99; the 400 meter hurdles, with Alicia Turnquist clocked a time of 1:12.16; the 4 x 800 Relay, with Grace Meier, Turnquist, Alexa Frederickson and Lauren Rohwer winning in 10:46.18; and the Sprint Medley, where Brittany Turnquist, Grace DePuma, Mary Barnes and Lily Peterson won in 1:55.70.. ...
WHS girls show improvement on the links (High School Sports ~ 04/14/17)
The Cherokee Washington High girls golf team is showing steady imporovement playing early-season meets as the weather allows. In a non-conference opener at Holstein also featuring OABCIG and Ridge View, Cherokee carded a 251 team score, with Chandler Hohbach and Emily Robinson scoring 58s, Paityn Hagberg 63, Brooklyn Wussbaum 72, and Hailee Maurer 73...
Tennis Braves tumble twice (High School Sports ~ 04/14/17)
The young Cherokee boys tennis team dropped two decisive home matches recently, falling 9-0 to Le Mars, and 9-0 to Denison-Schleswig. In varsity singles against Le Mars, Cale Pingel lost 10-1 to Jake Malik at #1, Layne Reinhart lost 10-0 to Kyle Malik at #2, Tyler Richardson fell 10-2 to Jake Thompson at #3, Dylan Nelson fell 10-0 to Zach Wingert at #4, Thaddeus Booth lost 10-1 to Jeff Ahlers at #5, and Brendan Sullivan fell 10-3 to Jake Pottebaum at #6...
Ridge View golfers lose dual to N-F (High School Sports ~ 04/14/17)
HOLSTEIN - The Ridge View boys played a golf dual here with Newell-Fonda Tuesday, and the Raptors’ varsity squad lost to the Mustangs by a team score of 182-190. Ridge View’s Gus Leonard was varsity medalist with a round of 42, and Newell-Fonda’s Nate Pedersen was runner up with a 43. Other Ridge View varsity scores included Colton Wunschel 44, Brant Price 49, Jack Mentzer 55, Caleb Anway 57 and Brayden Stowater 62...
SOS girls lose to E’burg (High School Sports ~ 04/14/17)
On a beautiful night Tuesday, with little to no wind, the South O'Brien girls’ golf team shot a season - low 214, but lost to Emmetsburg, a state participant last year, which shot a 200. The Wolverines’ Ally Sweeney earned medalist honors for the second time in three meets, shooting a career low 40, while freshman Kaidee Weber just missed a medal, finishing 5th with a 54. Daneille Nelson finished 7th with a 59 and Rachel Sohn shot a 61. ...
Flim-Flam out of control (Column ~ 04/14/17)
Dear Mr. Businessman: This is just a note to remind you that my son Silverspoon has been selected to play for the North Team in the 2017 Iowa Musical Chairs Competition in Truesdale. He has worked very hard at being the very best he can be and has made many sacrifices throughout his prep career. An honor student with a C-minus grade average, he built his very own chair in shop class and has compiled a collection of all the popular musical chairs songs so he can practice, practice, practice...
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Viz to Simulcast Inu-Yasha: Kanketsu-Hen
Monday, September 28th, 2009 – Anime News
You may remember that back in July, I’d had my fingers crossed for a simulcast of Inu-Yasha: Kankestu-hen. Well, it’s official; Viz announced at its panel at New York Anime Fest this Sunday that they would be simulcasting the new Inu-Yasha series. Called “Inu-Yasha: The Final Act” in English, the series will be adapting the last 21 volumes of the Inu-Yasha manga for TV, picking up where the previous series left off. The series will begin airing Saturday, Oct. 3 (that’s this coming Saturday) at shonensunday.com/anime as well as on Hulu, so don’t miss it!
Source: AnimeNewsNetwork
Image from Newtype magazine
EDIT: Check out the trailer here!
After Five Years, “Inuyasha” Anime to be Resumed
Thursday, July 16th, 2009 – Anime News
The Inuyasha anime, which stopped airing in 2004, is now set to experience a revival. The original anime had a very unsatisfactory and inconclusive ending, with the story only reaching up to about volume 36 out of the 56 manga volumes eventually written. Now, with the manga having ended last June, the anime is picking up where it left off. The new anime, Inuyasha Kanketsu-Hen, will air on Japan’s YTV in the fall and will complete the story. You can be sure I’ll be watching it.
EDIT: According to The Rumic World, VIZ has already acquired the rights to this new Inu-Yasha anime. Hopefully this’ll mean a simultaneous release. Keep your fingers crossed!
[Source: AnimeNewsNetwork]
Kyoukai no Rinne: “So you say Shinigami are the ‘in’ thing now?” says Rumiko Takahashi
Wednesday, July 15th, 2009 – Manga Reviews
The cover of the first chapter
As some of you may know, I am a rabid Inu-Yasha fangirl, which led me by extension to become a general fan of its author, Rumiko Takahashi. As such, when I found out Takahashi was starting a new series, there was no question about whether I would read it. The subject this time: wacky hijinks involving shinigami and a high-school girl with the power to see spirits.
The main character (a girl by the name of Mamiya Sakura) has been able to see spirits ever since an incident that occurred when she was a little girl. This becomes of interest when she meets Rokudo Rinne, a red-headed transfer student who, oh yeah, she first sees while no one else can. This is because Rinne is a shinigami (“death deity”), in possession of a haori that allows him to take spirit form and allows spirits to take solid form. Rinne is also totally, destitutely, broke-ass poor due to various circumstances involving a wacky and flippant grandmother and something about a mackerel. Sakura, due to her ability to see spirits and apparent inability to keep her nose to herself, ends up helping Rinne in his shinigami duties. These apparently include squatting in abandoned buildings, fleecing students for bread money and chasing off giant undead Chihuahuas.
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Southwest works to ensure students don’t miss meals
By Julia Kilmer reporter@cassville-democrat.com
Breakfast in the classroom, ‘super snacks’ being considered with grant
Due to the persistence of a former Southwest school teacher to get food sent home with children at-risk for missing meals, and the school’s superintendent push to obtain grants for innovative new food programs, student hunger is getting fried.
After making several phone calls, the teacher, who wishes to remain anonymous, got the attention of Ozarks Food Harvest (OFH), a large, community-based food program based in Springfield, which began stuffing 60 backpacks with food each week to help provide supplemental food for students.
The district already filled 71 backpacks per week, but was operating on a shoestring budget each year, partially through district funds and partially through community donations, but thanks to OFH’s contribution, the lion’s share of student needs are now covered, said Tosha Tilford, Southwest superintendent.
“This was a huge blessing,” Tilford said. “Without the OFH, the district would not be able to sustain the backpack program as it is now. With all the budget cuts we’ve had to make, we didn’t have to cut that program, and we have had to, at times, make hard decisions. They deliver the food and it’s ready to go.”
Every school district in Barry County has a similar backpack program for students who are believed to be at risk for missing meals at home.
No child should have to miss a meal, but the fact that so many are, as evidenced by supplemental food programs in each district, when EBT benefits and food pantries are available, begets the question of ‘Why?’
Besides the obvious benefit of food providing sustenance, nutrition and silencing grumbling bellies, studies show that show that children who don’t miss meals listen better and are more alert, making them able to learn and perform better in school.
To take the issue one step further and keep bellies full on both weekends and school nights, and minds alert, Tilford applied for and got the grant, No Kid Hungry Missouri.
“This will serve as an additional food supplement,” she said. “Our hopes with the program is that we can feed kids a “super snack” before they leave school for the day. It’s not a supper replacement, but something that has nutritional value before they leave, so if they didn’t get supper, they would have that nutrition to get them through until the next morning.
“Also, we have kids who have activities after school like band, drama, sports and clubs, and we could [potentially] work out a program where the super snack is available for every child in the district. What some schools have done is offset the departure of their buses for about a 10-minute period to allow the kids to go get their super snack and eat it.”
Tilford said the snack, which would consist of items from basic food groups like granola, string cheese and fruit, would provide better alternative than quick, drive-through meals parents must grab on nights students have activities at school.
“This program would allow them to get a more nutritional snack to count as their supper than if they ran through a fast food restaurant, so we’re looking at this as another resource to help meet hunger needs,” Tilford said. “Academically, our students will perform better if they have the most nutritious food available, and if it means the school can take on the ‘super snack’ to sustain them until the next morning, we are more than willing to get that done.”
The program is not free, but will provide a boost to build momentum.
“It’s not 100 percent funded, but in one component of the program, we can get up to $3,000 for startup costs,” Tilford said. “I’m hoping to have a plan submitted to the school board by Nov. 1, and get it started right after the first of the year. The cost is well worth it, especially since the grants are willing to help us get started.”
Another grant Tilford has applied for are specialized totes that keep food hot or cold through the Community Food Projects Competitive Grant Program and National Institute of Food and Agriculture, which is 100 percent matchable — making it doable.
“With this program, we would buy serving totes to keep food the right temperatures, which could be transported and allow us to serve breakfast in the classroom, or after school,” she said.
The deadline to apply is Dec. 4, and if accepted, Tilford hopes to have it in place after Christmas.
Also on Tilford’s radar is making a “grab and go-style” breakfast available to students, another component of the No Kid Hungry program.
“The key is to get more students eating breakfast,” Tilford said. “Younger kids are more likely to go to the cafeteria to eat, but older kids usually get to school later and they’d rather get food like chocolate milk and donuts, so grab-and-go is a bagged breakfast they can just grab and take to their first class. The research says if those kids will eat first thing, such as during morning announcements, other kids will see it and want to get it, and then the class. Then, almost the entire student body will be more likely to eat breakfast.”
At first, educators frowned on the idea of students eating breakfast in the classroom, Tilford said, but those views are changing, with many schools jumping on board, allowing students to eat their breakfast during nonacademic periods, such as during morning announcements.
“Missouri has really been fishing for this program, and we were, at first, looking at it like an academic disruption,” Tilford said. “But, the more we’ve researched it, it results in being a positive, because they get a nutritional breakfast versus a donut, they’re more engaged, more apt to listen and learn more.
“What it all boils down to is, we want the kids to be as healthy as possible so they can perform academically and grow into productive citizens.”
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All government, in its essence, is a conspiracy against the superior man: its one permanent object is to oppress him and cripple him. If it be aristocratic in organization, then it seeks to protect the man who is superior only in law against the man who is superior in fact; if it be democratic, then it seeks to protect the man who is inferior in every way against both. One of its primary functions is to regiment men by force, to make them as much alike as possible and as dependent upon one another as possible, to search out and combat originality among them. All it can see in an original idea is potential change, and hence an invasion of its prerogatives. The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out for himself, without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, and intolerable. [H.L. Mencken]
In 2016, TSLA thought its Fremont plant could make 5,000, 10,000 and 20,000 vehicles a week in late 2017, 2018 and 2020, respectively. This can't happen at people speed. Consequently, the cost structure of the Model 3 is much higher than Elon Musk expected when he took deposits from hundreds of thousands of people for a $35,000 car. It's a promise he can't keep. UBS did a teardown analysis and estimated that the cost to make a stripped down version of the Model 3 is $41,000. That's a long way from $35,000, let alone $26,250 – the level needed for TSLA to make a 25% margin. In May, Elon Musk tweeted that the $35,000 version would be launched 3-6 months after the company achieved 5,000 cars a week. That milestone was hit with great fanfare in June. However, investor relations has leaked that the company now expects the $35,000 version in the second quarter of next year. Tellingly, TSLA has stopped taking orders for the $35,000 version, as it may already know that it won't be releasing a $35,000 version anytime soon or ever. The company has changed its policy on refunding deposits so that customers who are tired of hoping TSLA makes a car that doesn't exist and want their money back have to wait 45 days. It reminds us of Jane and Michael Banks in Mary Poppins. We think this may explain Mr. Musk's erratic behavior. He can't make the car without losing too much money and he can't bring himself to cancel the program and refund everyone's deposits. His conduct suggests that he is doing his best to be relieved of his position as CEO to avoid accountability. Quitting isn't an option because it prevents Mr. Musk from claiming he could have fixed the problem had he stayed. [ZH]
Several mechanisms can explain the association between visceral fat accumulation and increased risk of prostate cancer. Adipose tissue is a source of specific substances, including adiponectin, resistin, leptin, and adipsin, and secretes a variety of other cytokines, such as tumor necrosis factor‐α and interleukin‐6. There is ample evidence that VF and SF cells differ metabolically. The metabolic products of VF, namely free fatty acids, are delivered directly into the portal circulation to the liver, inducing a significant metabolic disturbance. It is well established that VF accumulation is associated with insulin resistance, resulting in hyperinsulinemia. Insulin can promote the growth of several different cell lines, including prostate tumors, and high plasma insulin levels have been related to prostate cancer risk and stage. In a case‐control study, men in the highest tertiles of waist/hip ratio and serum insulin levels had an 8.55‐fold increased risk of prostate cancer compared with men in the lowest turtles. [link]
I reached Sunbury, where the West Branch of the Susquehanna joins the main. About here, I judged, was the limit of Colonial era settlement. Thereafter the infrastructure and artifacts appeared to be Jacksonian era or later. The West Branch arcs northwesterly. The population of the state is concentrated in the east, along the Delaware River valley, and in the west around Pittsburgh, the Ohio River and Lake Erie areas. The central, which is hills or mountains, is less populated, especially north of the West Branch. Here the Alleghenies run southwest-northeast, up from West Virginia and into New York. Mountains are as powerful a metaphor and symbol as they are a physical obstacle. [link]
Could the next Senate confirmation hearing of a Supreme Court nominee be worse than the Kavanaugh-Ford hearing? Who would have thought that a hearing could be worse than Chappaquiddick Teddy Kennedy's attack on Judge Bork, or the "high tech lynching" of Clarence Thomas? [Federalist]
In 20 years of covering New Hampshire primaries, I crossed paths with candidates who almost immediately revealed their fallibilities. Call it intuition, but when Ernest "Fritz" Hollings, a silver-haired South Carolina senator with a stentorian voice and Dixie accent, strolled into the newsroom at the Monadnock Ledger in Peterborough and requested directions to the restroom by inquiring with all the authority of a world statesman, "Where's your little boys' room?," I sensed his quest for the 1984 Democratic nomination was doomed. [Boston Globe]
Norwegian Karl Ove Knausgaard, author of six volumes of autobiographical musings entitled My Struggle, is likely the most celebrated literary writer of the current decade. He's a leading light of the Hapless White Guy literary genre perhaps founded by the late David Foster Wallace. [Sailer]
Even with a new year, the pattern of en route delays to the airport at SeaTac [KSEA] continues. A particularly galling aspect of this is that both FAA and the management at this airport have expended a huge effort promoting these so-called 'NextGen improvements', even going so far as to over-use a 'Greener Skies' eco-moniker. To help reveal this propaganda, an analysis was recently done, looking closely at 25 arrivals during a half-hour-long push on the late evening of Thursday, January 14, 2016. [link]
This urgent pulling forward of buying has happened before on a large scale in the U.S. in 1999. The year 2000 fear that software would not be able to handle the switch from 1999 to 2000 due to program limitations triggered both corporate buyers and consumers to purchase new hardware and software that would fix the bug. Sales were pulled forward into 1998 and 1999 then in 2000, sales dropped fast 'like the lights were turned out' the CEO of HP, Carly Fiorina said. [link]
Wallace Stegner has published thirteen novels, three short-story collections, sixteen nonfiction titles, and has edited eighteen works in the fifty-three years he has been publishing books. His first novella, Remembering Laughter, won a Little, Brown Prize in 1937, and in 1990 Random House published Stegner’s collected stories. [Paris Review]
"Oplan Fracture Jaw has been approved by me," General Westmoreland wrote to Adm. Ulysses S. Grant Sharp Jr., the American commander in the Pacific, on Feb. 10, 1968. (The admiral was named for the Civil War general and president, who was married to an ancestor.) [NY Times]
In one of the celebrated scenes of the 1997 movie Good Will Hunting, Matt Damon's title character gets into a battle of wits with a student from Harvard University, whom he accuses of uncritically parroting the views of the authors on his reading list as a first-year graduate student. He goes on to predict that a little later in his curriculum, he would simply be "regurgitating Gordon Wood." The student begins to respond with a critique of Wood, which Hunting interrupts, completes, and notes is plagiarized from Daniel Vickers' Farmers and Fishermen: Two Centuries of Work in Essex County. [Wiki]
The text covers four years of the Kulturkampf - 1936, 1937, 1938 and 1939. Like modern bloggers, the authors wrote more newsletters in the early years,than the later, perhaps because of losing interest, perhaps because everything had already been said, perhaps because of life interfering, or perhaps because of the Gestapo. [Amazon]
The civil war has been talked about quite a bit. Some foolishly believe it will follow the template of the previous two, which was largely geographically based because both side fundamentally had the same culture. This won't happen. I live in a so-called "deep blue" state. Does anyone think that if the balloon goes up, I'm going to run out with my AR-15 and join the "Washington State Progressive Stormtrooper Brigade" just because I live here? No, what is going to happen is much more complex and simple at the same time. [American Digest]
Given that the brain consists in a mass of connections, whose power depends on the number and complexity of those connections, why is it divided? Or is that just random, and we should give up trying to find a pattern which make sense in terms of evolutionary advantage? [Kenan Malik]
Split-brain structure (with the different hemispheres having very distinct structures and morphologies) is common to all higher organisms (as far as I know). Is this structure just an accident of evolution? Or does the (putative) split between a systematizing core and a big-picture intuitive core play an important role in higher cognition? AGI optimists sometimes claim that deep learning and existing neural net structures are capable of taking us all the way to AGI (human-like cognition and beyond). I think there is a significant chance that neural-architectural structures necessary for, e.g., recurrent memory, meta-reasoning, theory of mind, creative generation of ideas, integration of inferences developed from observation into more general hypotheses/models, etc. still need to be developed. Any step requiring development of novel neural architecture could easily take researchers a decade to accomplish. So a timescale greater than 30-50 years for AGI, even in highly optimistic scenarios, seems quite possible to me. [Steve Hsu]
Cannabis use is a heritable trait that has been associated with adverse mental health outcomes. In the largest genome-wide association study (GWAS) for lifetime cannabis use to date (N = 184,765), we identified eight genome-wide significant independent single nucleotide polymorphisms in six regions. All measured genetic variants combined explained 11% of the variance. Gene-based tests revealed 35 significant genes in 16 regions, and S-PrediXcan analyses showed that 21 genes had different expression levels for cannabis users versus nonusers. The strongest finding across the different analyses was CADM2, which has been associated with substance use and risk-taking. Significant genetic correlations were found with 14 of 25 tested substance use and mental health–related traits, including smoking, alcohol use, schizophrenia and risk-taking. [Nature]
The seven main bearing straight six. The straight axles. The locking diffs. The Biggie interior. Not that Toyota didn’t also build these with cloth interiors, stripped down to the bare necessities of what one would need to drive, say, from here to Uzbekistan. This is the last bridge between the Unkillable Warlord SUV Era and the Maximum Cup Holder Comfy SUV Era. [Jalopnik]
Global logistics sites depend on what Jake called "just in time," where ideally the goods don't spend any time sitting around. Ultimately that's the source of this competitive advantage. Time is what potentially gives workers in this industry a lot of power. If you're able to disrupt an industry that is absolutely dependent on moving things quickly there are huge potential losses for the employers. [Jacobin]
A lot of commonly-accepted social norms (especially among Blue Tribe, but also in religious Red Tribe settings) have to do with safeguarding against flagrant assholes and sociopaths, but catch overthinking nerd types in the net. [SSC]
Short answer: no. It doesn't matter what embryo selection does, it's weak and even what I call "massive embryo selection" (using stem cells for generating hundreds of embryos) will be obsoleted within a generation by iterated embryo selection/genome synthesis/some sort of super-CRISPR. Goodhart's Law in all its forms is irrelevant because so little can be done. More in-depth answer: human traits turn out to be very convenient, and the usual animal breeding solution (selecting on an index of trait PGSes weighted by value) will probably work fine and is already what GenPred would like to do. Doing embryo selection on a single trait would be dumb and inefficient and unnecessary anyway. [Gwern]
The Consumer Price Index for Rent in this town is up 30% since I moved here 4 years ago. Nice. In all transparency, my rent only went up 8% this year, which doesn't sound quite so bad. Until I do the math on another 4 years of 8% rent increases (100 * 1.08^4 = 136%) — and realize that I need a 36% increase in income over that same period just to stay flat on nominal take-home savings. Per my first point on Cost Disease, real median household income in the US has only just clawed its way back to what it was in 1999. Certainly it hasn't grown 36% in the last 4 years. But maybe there's some way I can get ahead of the median? Maybe there's some way I can keep my income going up more than 36% every 4 years and actually build wealth too? How much was that MBA, again? [link]
Eventually, the US is going to break apart in much the same way as the Soviet Union. I have no doubt of that, although I may not live to see it. But the idea of the 50 individual States being independent nations makes little sense practically or politically. I'm guessing there will be from four to six or seven nations formed out of the current Continental US, with lines sometimes but not always following the current state lines, and some present states being broken into two or more parts. California and Texas are unlikely to stay whole, several New England states unlikely to stay separate, and many arbitrary or geographically odd boundries will be eliminated, such as Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Chunks of Western Canada and Baja California may be part of the new nations as well. Mexico's military is utterly impotent and would not last a week against the California National Guard alone. Canada's is more serious, but even a semiserious revolt against rule by Ottawa and Frogs would succeed in the long run. Big question is: Who gets the nukes and why? [Sailer]
What they have in common is that they aren't 19th century river cities. The old-line river cities boomed and became very wealthy hubs for industry. When river/water transport became less labor intensive, they couldn't retool b/c their local economies were built around the rivers. St. Louis, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Buffalo, New Orleans, Louisville, Evansville -- all of these saw population declines. In some cases, populations were cut in half. Memphis is one of the few big river cities that never saw meaningful population decline. Its business leaders actually deserve some credit for reinventing the city as a logistics hub. Air cargo, trucking, rail -- Memphis escaped the river city curse by adapting. [link]
If you're manufacturing car parts or providing landscaping services or running a restaurant, how is it useful to hear from the CEO of a company that has had, essentially, a monopoly for 5-15 years? The regulated Bell System monopoly had its drawbacks, but at least Americans were spared from having to purchase and read books by its managers offering purported secrets of their success. Nobody who ran a business exposed to competition was forced to watch a Bell System executive being interviewed on TV with fawning questions about how he or she had made the company so profitable. [Phil G]
Anyone who is on the West Coast can basically attest Asian women are displacing White women as partners for upwardly mobile White guys. The guys like the low drama, femininity, and intelligence. [Sailer]
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"There is no denying that Unz bases his arguments on interesting information. It is interesting, for example, that the wealthy Jewish banker Jacob Schiff strongly supported Russian revolutionaries in Tsarist Russia. Appalled by the violent anti-Semitism under the Tsar's rule he recklessly fomented revolution. This is a sobering fact but leads Unz to jump to the grand conclusion that 'the notion that the international Jewish bankers created the worldwide communist movement... appears to be more or less true.' He ignores the evidence in Anthony C. Sutton's Wall Street and the Russian Revolution that many Jewish and non-Jewish bankers and politicians were integral to the success of Bolshevism. He ignores the evidence in Sutton's book and Priscilla Roberts' paper 'Jewish Bankers, Russia and the Soviet Union' that while Schiff admired Kerenksy, he not only intellectually but materially opposed the Bolsheviks. The relationship between Jews and communism is an interesting one, but leaving no room for nuance in one's discussion of it is in keeping with that of a different but no less infamous propaganda rag to Pravda."
https://spectator.us/ron-unz/
Trump has never been an organizer, despite his claims to the contrary. Coming from a family business, he never learned the key aspect of organizational longevity is keeping a stable of young, motivated true believers. His name was always on the side of the building, so he figured he would recruit family. When elected, he was likely overwhelmed with isolation, so went with whoever seemed moderately competent and loyal.
Obama, despite overwhelming faults, was able to recruit true believers. Same can be said for Dems as a whole. The Repubs are terrible in this regard.
A quick, hard rule for Trump’s new picks — AG or not — should be to enforce a hard age-limit of 55.
Yes, Sherrod Brown won reelection, which shows the enduring appeal of his rumpled brand of economic populism. (Though his flawed opponent got almost 48% despite getting relatively little party/outside backing.)
But overall 2018 was brutal for OH Dems. They lost every other statewide race—guv, AG, etc. They didn’t pick up 1 US House seat—they hold 4/16. And they netted only four state reps and LOST a state sen seat in ex-Dem stronghold of Mahoning Valley, preserving GOP supermajorities.
Obama won the state twice, albeit narrowly. And past big Dem years produced major gains in Ohio, like winning governor in 2006. This year, MI and WI saw big Dem successes, despite also contending with gerrymandering. Not Ohio.
There’s also a case to be made that Ohio was simply never as blue as Dems liked to imagine in the late aughts. Fact is, Obama’s margins in the state were a lot smaller than in MI and WI. And Ohio is more Southern-inflected than the Upper Midwest.
But then there’s a more foreboding possibility for Dems, that there’s a transformation underway in Ohio that is going to put the state ever further out of reach. To put it bluntly, that is going to make the state closer to IN and MO politically than MI, PA and WI.
What could be driving such a transformation? Well, for one thing, demographics. As the share of white non-college voters drops nationwide, it’s holding strong in Ohio. The state is 82 percent white and only 28 percent of Ohioans have completed some higher ed.
These facts may seem at odds with all the buzz around Columbus. But Columbus stands in stark contrast to midsize cities like Akron, Toledo and Dayton, and esp to small cities like Mansfield, Lancaster, Zanesville, Portsmouth, Springfield, Middletown, Chillicothe, Lorain, etc.
Beyond Columbus, the state has been HAMMERED by manufacturing losses since 2000. “The trajectory of Columbus diverged dramatically. Its economic & population growth masked some of the challenges facing much of the state when looking at state-level trends.”
Ohio has an astonishing array of these small cities and towns—all with handsome old courthouses, coherent downtowns and grand Victorians, and almost all of them in a condition that breaks your heart. And that’s not to mention the truly desperate rural areas of southern & SE Ohio.
I was in rural SE Ohio Tuesday and the monolithic Republican support was palpable. In 2012, Obama won almost 40 percent in Meigs County. But Hillary got only 23 percent in 2016. Cordray brought that up to only 29 percent this week.
So how should Dems think about all this? It’s tempting to cut the state out of 2020 plans—after all, Trump won it by 8, and Dems don’t really need it to win. But it seems hard to imagine how Dems could ever hold Senate and House majorities without still being competitive in Ohio.
Addendum: it's worth noting that the rise of Trumpism in Ohio is especially striking in light of the state's past as a beacon of northern progressivism: ALL BUT ONE of Ohio's 24 members of Congress voted for the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Critical Conversations
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The Christian Heart of Marriage and Morality…
… in a world that tells your kids it’s heartless.
The Christian understanding of marriage and morality has never seen such pressure before. Kids are told Christians are “intolerant,” “homophobic,” “on the wrong side of history,” “against equality,” and to sum it all up, “haters.”
… or so the world is saying.
You know better, Mom and Dad.
You know God created humans to thrive best under his instructions for marriage and morality.
You know God’s ways are good: but do your children?
Teens and pre-teens are getting hammered with the world’s anti-Christian message. And they’re confused. They get one point of view from school, friends, and the media, and another view at church and at home. How do they navigate the differences?
Your parent-friendly guide to raising kids who will stand strong in the faith — no matter what the world may tell them
Tom Gilson is one writer whose insights I never miss—and this may just be his most significant work ever.”
—Alex McFarland, author, speaker, and director for Christian Worldview and Apologetics, North Greenville University
Your kids’ spiritual lives are under attack.
It isn’t just their morality and marriages that are in danger — it’s their eternal spiritual future.
For they are under attack. It comes at them through a constant, sustained barrage of messages telling them God’s word is immoral, churches are hateful, and you, the parent, are mixed up at best — but probably homophobic and intolerant.
Doubt me? Read the 1987 gay-activist strategy paper, The Overhauling of Straight America. which plans to portray pastors as hateful “beady-eyed” pulpit-pounders, Christians as intolerant victimizers, and gays and lesbians as upstanding innocent victims. Look at society today: who’s being portrayed as the victimizers and the victims?
They’ve had a strategy. (Doubt me? Steel your courage, then read this.) It’s been working. And it’s aimed straight at your children.
You can protect your kids — while strengthening your relationship with them!
Critical Conversations is the defense you need. It clears away the confusion, overcomes the awkwardness, and explains in practical, parent-friendly terms how to start the conversations, how to deflect the deceit that’s aimed at your children, and how to explain the truth — while also building your relationship with your teen.
The world is hammering home a message that Christianity is hateful and wrong. Your teen’s spiritual future is at stake. Critical Conversations can make the critical difference.
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New Project on the horizon
May 21, 2014 Projects budd 0
New project day! After some discussions, we here at Dev Null will begin production on a game title based on an original IP written by our partners at Trixter Canada. We can’t go into details but expect something awesome!
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Interactive Marketing Development
Providers for interactive digital marketing development since 2013.
Grant application services, marketing and business services for smaller independent game studios now available.
Specializing in grants and tax credits in Ontario, Canada for digital interactive media.
Abyssian Knights
3D CG Anime Web Series
Made with Unreal Engine 4
FUNDED ON KICKSTARTER
We produce digital interactive media for geeks, otakus and everyone in between.
VR Enabled
We are early supporters of Virtual Reality. We love it’s potential and are very much accustomed to working with the various platforms for console and PC.
Interactive Development
In partnership with Trixter Canada and Sillouette Media Group, we are one of Canada’s very few shops that specialize in the creation of interactive displays and presentations using Ventuz.
For interactive development inquiries, please contact Trixter Canada.
Our core business is game development focusing on our own original IP and story driven content. Partnering with experts in the film and VFX industry, our goal is to deliver near blockbuster AAA production quality with the uniqueness found in indie game companies.
Dev Null Studios is a licensed developer for the Nintendo and PlayStation platforms.
We’re an independently owned digital entertainment studio based out of Toronto, Canada. Our primary focus is on content driven games targeting consoles as well as handheld portable consoles with a special focus on R&D. Whether it’s a JRPG, tactical strategy game or an action RPG, we LOVE games and anime so that’s what we decided to do!
We originally began operations as a mercenary group of ninja developers handling covert and clandestine projects for clients but have since moved onto working on the development of our own IP.
With partners from the film and animation industry, our goal is to deliver the Hollywood blockbuster and AAA game experience with the uniqueness of a small indie studio. Why? Because we can!!
*Dev Null Studios is a licensed developer/publisher for the Nintendo and PlayStation platforms.*
We make content driven games and stuff for geeks, otakus and folks who won’t admit they are but like the same stuff anyways.
Our goal is to be one of the top studios for content driven video games and digital media. We want to be the place every 16 year old wants to work for when they grow up!
Keep it real. Embrace your inner geek!
Innovate and problem solve. Square hole, round pin? No problem!
We <3 video games and anime and love what we do!
Have fun but get your $#!t done!
We poke fun at everyone especially ourselves!
Don’t be (too) evil. A little bit is ok 😉
MEET BUDD ROYCE LAM, DEV NULL STUDIOS FOUNDER & CEO
Budd Royce Lam is an industry professional with close to 20 years of experience in technology and entertainment. He founded Dev Null Studios in 2012 as a way to merge his passion for video games and his skills as an entrepreneur. Budd bridges the technological, managerial and creative gaps between the various arms of the entertainment industry by using entrepreneurship to apply his expertise in the fields of video games, music, and film/animation.
No stranger to start-up companies, Budd, mentored by Jennifer Wood, a former member of the venture capitalist reality show Dragons Den (Shark Tank in the US), founded BRL Guitarworks in 2007, a hot rod guitar shop and the Canadian distributor representing global companies such as Hipshot Products(USA), Caparison Guitars(Japan), Bare Knuckle Pickups (UK), AMT Electronics (Russia) and Lundgren Pickups (Sweden). Other achievements include founding the official online community for Caparison Guitars in 2007 (now sold to The Caparison Guitar Company, UK), the only officially recognized online community for DiMarzio guitar products in 2008, as well as the game jam group Team Whisky Tango Foxtrot in 2012, where he helps mentor young up and coming game designers and developers both locally and abroad.
Budd holds a BCom from Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada, and studied computer networking, as well as video game design and development at Seneca and triOS colleges in Toronto. Ever ambitious, he is one of the internationally select few earning CORe Credentials through Harvard University’s (Cambridge, MA) Harvard Business School interactive online initiative, HBX.
He is a former EC-Council CEH and is a proud member of the IEEE, IGDA and AF&AM Acacia Lodge No. 430.
July 19, 2017 Uncategorized budd
Service disruptions
We are changing upstream service providers at our datacenter. Some services may be affected. Everything should be fully operational within a few days. If you run into any problems please contact your account manager. Cheers, Budd
October 13, 2015 Uncategorized budd
DNS receives employer appreciation award
Wednesday 07 OCT 15 Dev Null Studios receives an employer appreciation award from triOS College in recognition and appreciation of our on going support of triOS students and graduates. While we do take in interns and recruit from various sources, we do have a lot of folks from triOS here.
September 30, 2015 Uncategorized budd
New AK Emblem
We finally finalized the logo that Xiao delivered a couple of days ago. While we already had a logo/emblem for the project, I felt that we could use one that better reflects the direction we’re going.
September 9, 2015 Projects budd
Shader Tests
Here’s a sneak peek at what we’re working on in the Abyssian Knights project. These aren’t the actual characters but rather test models used for testing the shaders in Unreal Engine 4. We’re working hard to not only get characters to look like 2d anime but feel like 2d anime. It’s actually more work than
Monster High 13 Wishes
I was going through my archive of stuff and found a photo of an old project we did in conjuction with our friends at Trixter Canada. We were hired in to take over the development side of this project to fix some issues that were considered show stopping. The interactive installation was live at Toronto’s
June 1, 2015 Projects budd
In partnership with our friends at Trixter Canada, we just rolled out not one but 3 mini games for the 2015 Pan Am Games in Toronto. If you’re at the 2015 Pan Am Games, drop by the OLG booth to test out the games!!
May 1, 2015 Projects budd
We were asked to tale on a quick project to build out an interactive VR project for the promotion of the Disney film Tomorrowland starring George Clooney. We had to make some serious magic happen for this project as the Google Cardboard SDK we were using doesn’t support the playback of movies (which would have
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New partner
We’d like to welcome Trixter Canada as our newest partner. As experts in the world of VFX and Hollywood film/television production, they’ll be assisting us with art, animation and writing/editorial. This brings us one step closer to bringing players indie games with production levels closer to that of a feature film or television series.
April 20, 2014 Uncategorized budd 0
Mo Cap
Just finished testing out a basic motion capture rig here at the studio. It’s a shared solution but it means we can now incorporate our own motion capture actions as well as capturing facial gestures. It’s still just in the testing phase but the solution looks promising.
Join the Dev Null Studios team!
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Everyone has to start somewhere. As supporters of higher education, we occasionally offer entry-level internship positions in the field of video game art, programming, marketing and production. Please contact us or have your school’s counsellor or employment specialist contact us with regards to the intake of interns.
Please note that internships are only available as part of a school’s intership/co-op curriculum. We do not offer professional internships at this moment.
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Digital Digest is 10 Years Old!
Posted by: Sean F, 19:17 AEST, Sat July 4, 2009
Tags: Site News
Digital Digest is turning 10 today - there are 10 Amazon.com Gift Cards up for grabs
Today is Digital Digest's 10th Anniversary. It was 10 years ago today, in 1999, that the very first Digital Digest site was launched, then known as DVDigest (and it looked something like this).
Since then, so much has happened that the current Digital Digest bears almost no resemblance (in terms of content and design) to the original, but the central idea behind the website still remains the same - to help people with all their (high and not so high def) DVD (or Blu-ray) and digital video needs.
There has been lots of changes in the last year. Most notable, is our launch of several new sections including the new Deals & Freebies section which aims to bring you the latest discounts (and free stuff) for everything from movies, to gaming, to computer hardware and software. The second new section is our new Amazon Blu-ray Price Index, which tries to save you some extra bucks when you do your Blu-ray shopping at Amazon.com (and with the economy the way it is, every cent save counts).
In terms of the world of digital video, there has been lots of changes as well. While Blu-ray is still trying to establish itself as *the* home video format (and the sales stats show it is improving, albeit slowly), competition in the form of video-on-demand and Internet streaming means that it's had a hard time. There are a million and one lawsuits going on at the moment in the battle between studios and torrent sites like The Pirate Bay, but we'll soon start to see a flood of verdicts come in that could have a major impact on issues such as privacy, user rights, and the freedom of the Internet.
But for now, it's celebration time here at Digital Digest. And to celebrate the 10th anniversay, Digital Digest will be offering 10 Amazon.com gift certificates to 10 lucky winners in our new 10th Year Celebration competition - get you entry in soon and good luck!
As it is the custom on Digital Digest birthdays, we've put together a collage of the different looks of Digital Digest throughout the years for you to look at (and laugh at us for our immature designs).
DVDigest Circa 1999
DivX Digest Circa 2000
Digital Digest Circa 2001
DVD±R Digest Circa 2003
DVD Digest Circa 2003
Digital Digest 2007
Digital Digest Today
Digital Digest's 9th Birthday
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New Deals & Freebies Section
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Hot Blu-ray & HD DVD Deals
posted by: Sean F, 17:33 AEDT, Wed February 25, 2009
DivX 7 Playback Preview
posted by: Jonathan M, 03:57 AEDT, Wed November 12, 2008
Firmware HQ Launched - New Firmware Download Site
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Agilent Technologies Inc.
Halo Genomics
BioSystem Development
Accelicon Technologies
SANTA CLARA, Calif.—Early December saw three announcements from Agilent Technologies Inc. that it had signed acquisition agreements. Two deals were designed to expand its life-sciences business, with strategic acquisitions of Halo Genomics, a provider of technology for the next-generation DNA sequencing market, and BioSystem Development, which creates and manufactures solutions for life-science analytical needs. Rounding out the trio was Accelicon Technologies, which provides device-level modeling and validation software for the electronics industry.
All three companies are privately held, and no financial details of the deals were disclosed. The acquisition of Uppsala, Sweden-based Halo was already final by the time of the announcement, while the deal for Madison, Wis.-based BioSystem was expected to close by the end of 2011 and the deal for Cupertino-based Accelicon in early 2012.
"Life science is the growth engine for Agilent, and these acquisitions are strategically very important," said Nick Roelofs, president of Agilent's Life Sciences Group, in the official statement about the Halo and BioSystem deals. "We're getting world-class technology and expertise in two key areas that will help us expand our portfolio and deliver the most complete workflow solutions for our customers."
Halo Genomics' technology addresses sequence-selective—that is, target enrichment—sample preparation next-generation sequencing, with the company's proprietary HaloPlex technology combining the speed and specificity of polymerase chain reaction-based systems with the scalability and capture-size flexibility of solution-based hybridization formats, thus eliminating the need for library preparation.
"As the leader in target enrichment, it makes sense for Agilent to further our product line with innovative products. HaloPlex offers rapid, library prep-free target enrichment for smaller captures up to 500kb. A perfect match with our SureSelect product," Robert Schueren, vice president and general manager of Agilent's genomics business, tells ddn. "We think HaloPlex will compliment SureSelect nicely, while offering a more rapid protocol for smaller captures." In addition, he notes, Agilent customers will now simply have better flexibility in choosing one or the other platform if they desire.
Halo Genomics' current HaloPlex technology is offered as a customizable product, using a web-based design tool called Web Design Wizard, which Agilent describes as a "highly intuitive tool" that enables users to create designs in less than 10 minutes at no charge. "Halo Genomics' unique technology and talented R&D team will expand Agilent's solutions for emerging sequencing applications and accelerate our entry into the rapidly growing next-gen clinical sequencing market," said Gustavo Salem, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Biological Systems Division within the Life Sciences Group, in the news release about the deal. "This acquisition further builds upon Agilent's position as a leader in genomics."
BioSystem presents a more organic acquisition, perhaps, given that it and Agilent already had a relationship. "We have been partnering with BioSystem Development for almost two years on the co-development of the AssayMAP 96 syringe head for the Agilent Bravo liquid handler," Yvonne Linney, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Automation Solutions Group, tells ddn. "Agilent was the exclusive distributor to the 96-well format of the AssayMAP cartridges and recently launched a portfolio of cartridges for protein isolation and purification. These include Protein A, for general antibody capture and immunoprecipitation, Trypsin for rapid, on column digestion, Reverse Phase for sample prep clean up and Streptavidin for general capture of biotin labeled targets."
As life-science discovery and development continues to move toward a better understanding of biological responses to disease, the need for high-throughput, quality protein sample preparation and analysis becomes even more critical, noted Fred Strohmeier, vice president and general manager of Agilent's Liquid Phase Analysis Division within the company's Life Sciences Group, in the news release about the deal. BioSystem Development's AssayMAP platform, based on disposable microchromatography cartridges, enables high-throughput protein purification, characterization and analysis solutions for bioprocess development, biomarker identification and analysis, as well as a variety of other life-science research applications.
The enabling AssayMAP technology, combined with Agilent's automated liquid-handling capabilities, will reduce drug discovery and development time and increase lab efficiency. "With Agilent's continued focus and growth in bioanalysis and life-science research this technology provides an array of opportunities for continued development in this area; by acquiring the technology, we would be able to provide the investment required to continue to evolve the platform," Linney says. "Our sample-prep portfolio continues to evolve and the AssayMAP platform provides a format to build on. With our capabilities in media development, strengthened through the Varian acquisition and automated liquid handling, we believe that we can continue to develop our products for sample prep in front of our analytical platforms."
Linney adds that while the BioSystem acquisition does not immediately enable anything new at Agilent, "it will strengthen the product and assay development portfolio. You can expect to see more dedicated assay offerings from Agilent in the future."
The Accelicon acquisition, while important to Agilent's overall business, has no direct impact on life sciences. The acquisition, led by Agilent's EEsof EDA organization, will further enhance Agilent's leadership in semiconductor device modeling. As Agilent notes, accurate, verified device models are critical to reduce R&D design cycles as higher frequencies, smaller technology nodes, new materials and device layouts call for more accurate process design kits. As a result, device modeling continues to be one of the most critical parts of the electronics design flow.
Accelicon was the first company to offer a dedicated platform for device models validation, Janet Smith, Agilent's North American public relations manager for the Electronic Measurement Group, tells ddn.
"Others have similar tools, but Accelicon's MQA is the industry standard tool," she notes. "There is no real linkage to the Life Sciences part of Agilent [with this acquisition]. Historically, Agilent modeling focus has been on compound semiconductor modeling for RF applications to support the design and fabrication of components for our RF instruments."
Agilent Technologies, Monash University team up on genomics research in Malaysia
SELANGOR, Malaysia—Agilent Technologies Inc. and Monash University announced last month a collaboration to promote talent and skills development for genomics research in Malaysia. The partnership, the first of its kind for Agilent with a university in Malaysia, will help Malaysia assert itself as a leading center for life sciences research and development in Southeast Asia, according to the two parties. Under the agreement, a center of excellence called the Monash-Agilent Authorized Microarray Service Center (AMSC) will be established at Monash University's Sunway campus. The center will be equipped with the latest microarray instruments and provide competency training for the center's lab professionals undertaking molecular-genetic studies of human disease.
The collaboration will see knowledge-sharing between both organizations, including real-time communication of new developments in the field of microarray applications as well as networking with Agilent's global customers.
"The establishment of the AMSC will be a timely boost in the collaboration between Agilent and Monash University Sunway campus through the Jeffrey Cheah School of Medicine and Health Sciences, providing the opportunity to access advanced technologies to strengthen our current genomics research in diabetes, cancer, neurobiology and infectious diseases," said Prof. Dato Dr. Anuar Zaini Zain, head of the school, in a press release.
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Xzibit - 40 Dayz and 40 Nightz
Author Topic: Xzibit - 40 Dayz and 40 Nightz (Read 519 times)
T.J.
my deck
was just listening to this... thought i might as well review it... since i havent seen any albums reviewed recently...
2. Chamber Music - the beat is different.... i like it. lyrically not bad. Does sort of get repetitive. 3.75/5
3. 3 Card Molly (ft. Ras Kass & Saafir) - DOPE!! probably the best track on the album. Beat sounds like the Bold & The Beautiful song, but it matches the lyrics, which are also dope. 5/5
4. What You See Is What You Get - average track. The beat is alright, lyrics are OK. 3/5
5. Handle Your Business (ft. Defari) - The beat is pretty deep, I like this track. Both verses are nice. 4.25/5
6. Nobody Sound Like Me (ft. Montageone) - Beat is OK. lyrics are pretty good. The hook is crap though.
7. Pussy Pop (ft. Jayo Felony, Method Man) - beat is kinda plain, but its still not that bad. Jayo steals the track tho. 4/5
8. Chronic Keeping 101 - skit.
9. Shroomz - Hehehe, i love the retro video game sounding tracks. dope shit. 4.75/5
10. Focus - off tha hook! i love this track, beat is dope, xzibit comes nice. one of my favourites off this album. 5/5
12. Deeper - Nice beat. Nice lyrics. Nice. 4/5
13. Los Angeles Times - Beat is pretty good, but gets boring. Song about L.A. not bad lyrics. 3.75/5
14. Inside Job - Not feelin this track that much. Beat's kinda uninteresting. 2/5
15. Let It Rain (ft. Tha Liks, King T) i fuckin love this track! beat is one of those ones that isnt that comlex, but its dope. Lyrics are dope. Another extremely dope track. 5/5
16. Recycled Assassins (ft. Montageone) Deep beat, lyrics are pretty deep too. I like this. 4/5
Pretty solid album, nothing too bad on this album, but there's some heaters on there.
4/5 album.
kick ass album
Karma: -2421
The best in the game today....Black Jack Johnson
Re:Xzibit - 40 Dayz and 40 Nightz
i disagree with your ratings on Chamber Music, What U See Is What You Get & Los Angeles Times, they're all 5/5 for me. i'd give this album 4.5/5, nice review tho homie
Most hip-hop is now keyboard driven, because the majority of hip-hop workstations have loops and patches that enable somebody with marginal skills to put tracks together,...
Unfortunately, most hip-hop artists gravitated towards the path of least resistance by relying on these pre-set patches. As a result, electric guitar and real musicians became devalued, and a lot of hip-hop now sounds the same.
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Quote from: Dr._Lincoln on August 18, 2003, 07:36:14 AM
...i'd give this album 4.5/5...
...nice review tho homie
Cold187um
If U Get High U Can Feel Me No Matter Who U R!
Los Angelas Times is the tightest cut on there imo
followed by 3 Card Molly
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ARYC
"What You See Is What You Get - average track. The beat is alright, lyrics are OK. 3/5"
i outta kick ur 5.8 ass..
Quote from: Amin on August 19, 2003, 04:56:47 AM
lol... its just an average track IMO. nothing that special that i like about it.
"its just an average track IMO. nothing that special that i like about it."
IT's A CLASSIC GOD DAMN IT!!!!!!
pappy
chamber music an what u see is what u get are 6/5's
Black_Smoke
tight review
"Its the length of 1 day, one half, one shotclock, this number is my promise.....to Dominate every moment"-Kobe #24
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Re: Xzibit - 40 Dayz and 40 Nightz
2. Chamber Music - 3.5/5
3. 3 Card Molly (ft. Ras Kass & Saafir) - 5/5
4. What You See Is What You Get - 5/5
5. Handle Your Business (ft. Defari) - 4/5
6. Nobody Sound Like Me (ft. Montageone) - 3/5
7. Pussy Pop (ft. Jayo Felony, Method Man) - 4/5
9. Shroomz - 4.5/5
10. Focus - 4/5
12. Deeper - 4.5/5
13. Los Angeles Times - 5/5
14. Inside Job - 3.5/5
15. Let It Rain (ft. Tha Liks, King T)4/5
16. Recycled Assassins (ft. Montageone) 4.5/5
Overall: 4.5 mics...This is Xzibit's best album. This album to me has the best elements of At The Speed of Life and Restless. It has the raw lyrical flavor and the grimyness of ATSOL and the refined production and bumpability factor of Restless. It's just a well put together album. You have to give a lot of credit to Sir Jinx the Fiddler. You can hear his touch throughout the album.
Being a LAKER is a privilige. Unfortunately some "Lakers" have forgotten that.
Decent Review, id disagree with "Chamber Music" and "What U See is What U Get" though, both of those get a 4.5 from me..
Sikotic™
PussyCunt
Definite west coast classic. I wish X could still drop an album like this.
THA SAUCE HOUSE
Z the laidback Virus
I'm as laidback as possible without being high
Dope album overall and my favorite bangers have to be 'Pussy Pop' and 'Let It Rain'. The whole thing is fire though!
Z knows about ALL your inner conflicts..
Mr. Humonculous
Classic Album
« Last Edit: January 12, 2005, 11:56:18 PM by Mr. Humonculous »
LakersAlldaWay
SG Valley, CA
its a 4.5 album to me
Chamber Music deserves a 7/5
that shit is just incredible
Tha G In Deee
If it don't make dollaz, it don't make sense.
yea, tha beat on Chamber Music is bangin'..."Recycled Assassins", "Focus", "Chamber Music", "What U See is What U Get", & "3 Card Molly" are heaters...i hope X & Ras drop heat together again, 3CM is a classic...
soopa-man
I'm a llama!
this album is damn near a classic in my stereo, it just has everything upbeat music
"Pussy POp","Shroomz", straight up dope rhymes "Chamber Music","3 Card Molly","Inside Job"."L.A. Times","Deeper" man this album is dope!
man 2/5 for "Inside Job" you didnt even mention his incredible lyrics as he perfectly tells a story of him getting set up and going to jail shyt is amazing!
« Last Edit: March 24, 2005, 07:39:27 PM by soopa-man »
west coast classic
x's flow is impeccable
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Princess Fairytale Hall in Magic Kingdom at Walt Disney World Resort will be opening soon! This new Disney Princess character greeting location is the next to debut as a part of the New Fantasyland expansion. Disney Parks Blog announced today (September 6, 2013) that is will officially open its doors on September 18th!
Meet Aurora, Cinderella and other princesses at their new home that welcomes you with a castle-like entrance, high ceilings and elegant wood-paneled rooms. The space will feature beautiful princess portraits, themed wallpaper, glittering stained glass windows and accessories that have been inspired by props seen in films like Disney’s “Cinderella” and “Tangled.” It looks amazing!
Walt Disney Imagineering shared a new sneak peek video in honor of the news of the opening. In it, Imagineers Pam Rawlins and Jason Grandt explain just how detailed this new character greeting area will be.
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