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Jeezy Says We Done It Again
Tiffany Lewars
By Tiffany Lewars
In light of the presidential election, a slew of celebrities who have supported President Obama throughout his political journey have took to a number of platforms to express their pride in his reelection.
One celebrity who couldn’t hold back his elation for the president is rapper Young Jeezy. The Atlanta rapper hit the studio in an effort to pay homage to the president with his latest track “We Done It Again.” The Bad Boy Records artist is no stranger to slinging hard social and political lyrics over a tight beat, as he previously recorded “My President is Black,” which was featured on his album, The Recession, in honor of the president’s first victory. His new three-minute track brings up contemporary issues such as the Trayvon Martin shooting, Hurricane Katrina, and the nation’s economy.
His hood demeanor may spur stereotyped judgment by people unfamiliar with his work, but Jeezy has often had a hand in raising political awareness for minorities and underprivileged people. The track is dedicated to “every ghetto in the world,” and he insinuates that President Obama could be the country’s savior. The track’s grimy beat sets the tone for the theme of the song with a sample in the background resembling a person crying out in the distance.
I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot more songs dedicated to President Obama from fellow celebrities; until then, check out the Snowman’s track.
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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Russian Culture
Part of Cambridge Companions to Culture
Editor: Nicholas Rzhevsky, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Nicholas Rzhevsky, Dean S. Worth, Michael S. Flier, Dmitry S. Likhachev, Mark Bassin, Timothy Westphalen, Abbott Gleason, Catriona Kelly, David M. Bethea, John E. Bowlt, Harlow Robinson, Laurence Senelick, Nikita Lary
Date Published: May 2012
availability: Temporarily unavailable - available from August 2019
$ 108.00 (P)
Russia's size, the diversity of its peoples and its unique geographical position straddling East and West have created a culture that is both inward and outward looking. Its history reflects the tension between very different approaches to what culture can and should be, and this tension shapes the vibrancy of its arts today. The highly successful first edition of Rzhevsky's Companion has been updated to include post-Soviet trends and new developments in the twenty-first century. It brings together leading authorities writing on Russian cultural identity, its Western and Asian connections, popular culture and the unique Russian contributions to the arts. Each of the eleven chapters has been revised or entirely rewritten to take account of current cultural conditions and the further reading brought up to date. The book reveals, for students, academic researchers and all those interested in Russia, the dilemmas, strengths and complexities of the Russian cultural experience.
Offers an overall introduction to Russian culture with special focus on the arts
Reflects the state of current scholarship in a wide range of fields
Fully updated and revised new edition, including up-to-date further reading
contains: 17 b/w illus. 1 table
Introduction to Russian culture Nicholas Rzhevsky
Part I. Cultural Identity:
1. Language Dean S. Worth and Michael S. Flier
2. Religion Dmitry S. Likhachev and Nicholas Rzhevsky
3. Asia Mark Bassin
4. Boundaries: the West Timothy Westphalen
5. Ideological structures Abbott Gleason
6. Popular culture Catriona Kelly
Part II. Literature and the Arts:
7. Literature David M. Bethea
8. Art John E. Bowlt
9. Music Harlow Robinson
10. Theatre Laurence Senelick
11. Film Nikita Lary
Nicholas Rzhevsky, State University of New York, Stony Brook
Nicholas Rzhevsky is Professor and Chairman of the Department of European Languages, Literatures and Cultures at the State University of New York, Stony Brook.
Cambridge Collections Online offers subject or theme based collections within a richly functional, cross-searchable environment.
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The Legitimacy of International Human Rights Regimes
Legal, Political and Philosophical Perspectives
Part of Studies on Human Rights Conventions
Andreas Føllesdal, Universitetet i Oslo
Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Universitetet i Oslo
Geir Ulfstein, Universitetet i Oslo
Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andreas Føllesdal, Geir Ulfstein, Samantha Besson, Steven Wheatley, Kristen Hessler, Başak Çalı, Ian Hurd, Lynn Dobson, Richard Bellamy
The past sixty years have seen an expansion of international human rights conventions and supervisory organs, not least in Europe. While these international legal instruments have enlarged their mandate, they have also faced opposition and criticism from political actors at the state level, even in well-functioning democracies. Against the backdrop of such contestations, this book brings together prominent scholars in law, political philosophy and international relations in order to address the legitimacy of international human rights regimes as a theoretically challenging and politically salient case of international authority. It provides a unique and thorough overview of the legitimacy problems involved in the global governance of human rights.
Analyses international human rights treaties as a specific and theoretically challenging case of international law and global governance, thereby allowing for a better understanding of the complex rules, constraints and legitimacy of the human rights judiciary
Assessment of current problems and issues related to the legitimacy of human rights regimes will facilitate evaluation of reform suggestions, both for international human rights courts and domestic constitutional reform processes
Contributing authors consist of outstanding scholars from a range of different backgrounds, who provide a unique, high quality, multidisciplinary account of the legitimacy of international human rights regimes
1. International human rights and the challenge of legitimacy Johan Karlsson Schaffer, Andreas Føllesdal and Geir Ulfstein
2. The legitimate authority of international human rights: on the reciprocal legitimation of domestic and international human rights Samantha Besson
3. On the legitimate authority of international human rights bodies Steven Wheatley
4. Equality, human rights, and political legitimacy Kristen Hessler
5. The legitimacy of international interpretive authorities for human rights treaties: an indirect-instrumentalist defence Başak Çalı
6. Torture and the politics of legitimation in international law Ian Hurd
7. Legitimacy, institutional power, and international human rights institutions: a conceptual enquiry Lynn Dobson
8. Legitimacy, global governance and human rights institutions: inverting the puzzle Johan Karlsson Schaffer
9. The democratic legitimacy of international human rights conventions: political constitutionalism and the Hirst case Richard Bellamy
10. Much ado about nothing? International judicial review of human rights in well-functioning democracies Andreas Føllesdal.
Andreas Føllesdal is Professor of Political Philosophy at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway.
Johan Karlsson Schaffer is a senior researcher at the Norwegian Centre for Human Rights, University of Oslo, Norway.
Geir Ulfstein is Professor of International Law at the Department of Public and International Law, University of Oslo, Norway.
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PNAS: The Pandemic Potential Of Eurasian Avian-like H1N1 (EAH1N1) Swine Influenza
Credit ECDC – 125 years of Pandemic History
While we watch the avian H5 and H7 influenza viruses make tentative jumps to humans - and are justifiably concerned over their pandemic potential - as far back as modern science will allow us to look (about 125 years) the only influenza viruses known to have sparked a human pandemic were either types H1, H2, or H3.
We've looked at the theory that Pandemic Viruses Are Members Of An Exclusive Club on numerous occasions, but the data is fairly limited.
History suggests at least a dozen `influenza-like’ pandemics occurred in the 400 years prior to the 20th century, but we've simply no idea what subtypes might have been involved.
We do know that the H1, H2, and H3 viruses are hosted not only by humans, but by birds, and a variety of mammalian species - including pigs. Also included are dogs, and horses, and even marine mammals.
The assumption is that H1, H2, and H3 viruses of swine or avian origin likely have a smaller `leap' to adapt to humans than do the strictly avian H5 and H7 subtypes.
And indeed, we saw that very thing play out with the 2009 H1N1 `swine flu' pandemic, which had been bouncing around North American pig herds for a decade or longer.
Last August we looked at a study that examined two recently discovered swine variant strains (see J. Virol: Novel Reassortant Human-like H3N2 & H3N1 Influenza A Viruses In Pigs) of concern. They described both of these novel subtypes as
“. . . virulent and can sustain onward transmission in pigs, and the naturally occurring mutations in the HA were associated with antigenic divergence from H3 IAV from human and swine’” and goes on to warn that ``. . . the potential risk of these emerging swine IAV to humans should be considered”.
In recent years we've also been watching evolution of several swine variant viruses (H1N1v, H1N2v, H3N2v), all of which have reassorted with - and picked up the M gene segment from – the 2009 H1N1 pandemic virus (see Keeping Our Eyes On The Prize Pig).
While an avian flu pandemic might be a lot deadlier, many flu researchers worry another swine-origin pandemic virus is more likely to emerge.
All of which brings us to a new study published in the early edition of PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy Of Science), where Chinese and Japanese scientists have isolated and characterized a number avian H1N1 virus variants circulating in Chinese pigs that they believe have considerable pandemic potential.
Prevalence, genetics, and transmissibility in ferrets of Eurasian avian-like H1N1 swine influenza viruses
Huanliang Yanga,1,Yan Chena,1,Chuanling Qiaoa,1,Xijun Hea,Hong Zhoub,Yu Sunb,Hang Yina,Shasha Menga,Liping Liua,Qianyi Zhanga,Huihui Konga,Chunyang Gua,Chengjun Lia,Zhigao Bua,Yoshihiro Kawaokac,2, and Hualan Chena,2
Pigs are important intermediate hosts for generating novel influenza viruses. The Eurasian avian-like H1N1 (EAH1N1) swine influenza viruses (SIVs) have circulated in pigs since 1979, and human cases associated with EAH1N1 SIVs have been reported in several countries. However, the biologic properties of EAH1N1 SIVs are largely unknown.
Here, we performed extensive influenza surveillance in pigs in China and isolated 228 influenza viruses from 36,417 pigs. We found that 139 of the 228 strains from pigs in 10 provinces in China belong to the EAH1N1 lineage.
These viruses formed five genotypes, with two distinct antigenic groups, represented by A/swine/Guangxi/18/2011 and A/swine/Guangdong/104/2013, both of which are antigenically and genetically distinct from the current human H1N1 viruses.
Importantly, the EAH1N1 SIVs preferentially bound to human-type receptors, and 9 of the 10 tested viruses transmitted in ferrets by respiratory droplet. We found that 3.6% of children (≤10 y old), 0% of adults, and 13.4% of elderly adults (≥60 y old) had neutralization antibodies (titers ≥40 in children and ≥80 in adults) against the EAH1N1 A/swine/Guangxi/18/2011 virus, but none of them had such neutralization antibodies against the EAH1N1 A/swine/Guangdong/104/2013 virus.
Our study shows the potential of EAH1N1 SIVs to transmit efficiently in humans and suggests that immediate action is needed to prevent the efficient transmission of EAH1N1 SIVs to humans.
In the `Significance' section the authors boil it down to this:
Here, we found that, after long-term evolution in pigs, the EAH1N1 SIVs have obtained the traits to cause a human influenza pandemic.
Xinhua News has an English Language report on all of this, with interviews with the lead author, which you can read at the following link:
Avian-like H1N1 swine flu may "pose highest pandemic threat": study
WASHINGTON, Dec. 28 (Xinhua) -- The Eurasian avian-like H1N1 (EAH1N1) swine flu viruses, which have circulated in pigs since 1979, have obtained the ability to infect humans and may "pose the highest pandemic threat" among the flu viruses currently circulating in animals, Chinese researchers said Monday.
"Pigs are considered important intermediate hosts for flu viruses," Chen Hualan, director of China's National Avian Influenza Reference Laboratory, who led the study, said in an written interview with Xinhua.
"Based on scientific analysis and comprehensive comparison of the main animal flu viruses: H1N1, H3N2, H5N1, H7N9, H9N2 and EAH1N1, we found the EAH1N1 is the one most likely to cause next human flu pandemic. We should attach great importance to the EAH1N1."
For more on the potential of the next pandemic to emerge from pigs, you may wish to revisit:
JID: Evolutionary Dynamics Of Influenza A Viruses In US Exhibition Swine
Live Markets & Novel Flu Risks In The United States
Study: Reassortants of H1N1pdm & Swine H1 & H3 Viruses in Japan
EID Journal: H3N2v Swine To Human Transmission At Agricultural Fairs – 2012
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North West Turns 6: Kim Kardashian and Others Share Sweet Tributes
Happy birthday, North West!
Kim Kardashian and Kanye West's first daughter and eldest of their four children turned 6 on Saturday and received sweet birthday tributes from her mom and other family members.
Kim posted on Instagram a slideshow of throwback photos of her and her little girl, including a pic of them sitting together at a restaurant, sharing a kiss while standing in shallow water on the beach, and cuddling on a swing.
"Happy Birthday my sweet girl!" she wrote. "The last 6 years have been the best of my life raising you and seeing you grow up. Mommy loves you forever and beyond!"
"Happy birthday lil sassy northie!! We love you!" commented Kimora Lee Simmons.
"Happy birthday North! ♥️" commented Kim's longtime friend and makeup artist Mario Dedivanovic.
"Awww HBD little Northie!" wrote family friend and hairstylist Jen Atkin.
Kim's brother Rob Kardashian posted on his Instagram page a throwback photo of North with the family's dog Sushi.
"Happy birthday North!! ❤️ #NorthWest," he wrote.
Grandma Kris Jenner also shared on Instagram a slew of pics of North, including a couple showing both of them together, one of the little girl rocking a shimmering green outfit and sunglasses, a few pics of her with her cousin Penelope Disick, who will turn 7 next month.
"Happy Birthday to my little Angel Northie!!!!" Kris wrote. "What a bright light you are and such a blessing to our family!! Your magic and sunshine lights up every room and I adore how creative and smart you are. You are so kind and loving to everyone you know and have a beautiful heart and soul...I love you so much precious North and it is a pleasure and a privilege to be your Grandmother. I love you ❤️ Lovey xo #HappyBirthdayNorth."
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A Tunisian fishing boat arrives at the port of Zarzis in the southern coast of Tunisia on May 21, 2019. Photo: AFP
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The Tunisian trawler radioed in for help as it passed the migrant boat carrying some Bangladeshi nationals among others, in distress out at sea.
Fishermen from the North African country are spending more and more time pulling in stranded migrants after a sharp decline in humanitarian and European naval patrols along the stretch of water between war-wracked Libya and Italy.
Bourassine, his crew and three other fishing boats ferried the 69 migrants back to shore on May 11, five days after their boat pushed off from Zuwara on the western Libyan coast.
"The area where we fish is a crossing point" between Zuwara and the Italian island of Lampedusa, said Badreddine Mecherek, a Tunisian fisherman from Zarzis near the border with Libya.
Fisherman from Zarzis have saved the lives of hundreds of migrants in recent years, and as the number of boats leaving western Libya for Europe spikes with the return of calmer summer seas, they will probably have to save even more.
"First we warn the authorities, but in the end we end up saving them ourselves," Mecherek grumbled as he tinkered with his rusting sardine boat.
European countries in the northern Mediterranean are trying to stem the number of migrants landing on their shores, and the Tunisian navy with its limited resources only rescues boats inside the country's territorial waters.
Since May 31, Tunisia itself has barred 75 migrants from coming ashore after they were saved in international waters by a Tunisian-Egyptian tug boat.
Contacted multiple times by AFP, Tunisian authorities have refused to comment.
'Angel'
"Everyone has disengaged" from the issue, said Mecherek, adding it was hampering his work.
Fishermen who run across migrants on their second day out at sea are at least able to have done a day's work, he added, "but if we find them on the first night, we have to go back".
"It's very complicated to finish the job with people on board."
The complexity of the rescues grows when fishermen find migrants adrift closer to Italy.
When Bourassine and his crew last year tugged a boat towards Lampedusa which was adrift without a motor, they were jailed in Sicily for four weeks for helping the migrants. It took months to recover their boat.
Humanitarian boats and those of the European Union's "Operation Sophia" anti-piracy force had scooped up most stranded migrants in recent years, but rescue operations dropped in 2019.
"Now most often we are the first to arrive... if we aren't there, the migrants die," Mecherek said.
On May 10, a Tunisian trawler just barely saved the lives of 16 migrants after they had spent eight hours in the water. Sixty others drowned before the ship arrived.
Survivor Ahmed Sijur said the boat's appearance at dawn was like that of "an angel".
"I was losing hope myself, but God sent us the fishermen to save us," the 30-year-old from Bangladesh said.
'Police of the sea'
Mecherek is more worried than proud.
"We don't want to see all these corpses anymore. We want to catch fish, not people," he said, adding his crew was growing uneasy.
"I have 20 seamen on board asking, 'Who will feed our families?'" he added.
"But local fishermen will never let people die at sea."
For Tunisian Red Crescent official Mongi Slim, the fishermen "are practically the police of the sea", adding that many migrants say large ships won't stop to help.
Under pressure to catch their quota during a short annual season, big tuna boats out of Zarzis often call the coast guard instead of stopping themselves to help.
"We report the migrants, but we can't bring them back to shore... We only have a few weeks to fish," said one crew member.
For Chamseddine, the summer months look difficult.
"With fighting having resumed in Libya, traffickers are free to work again.... There's a risk of many shipwrecks."
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Rumbolt, Nolan snag All MASCAC honors in Baseball
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North Adams, MA- MCLA baseball players Logan Rumbolt and Liam Nolan were named to the All MASCAC team as announced by the league offices this afternoon. Rumbolt (North Adams, MA), a sophomore, was a first team utility player, while Nolan (Pittsfield, MA) was tabbed as a second team selection as a pitcher. The honors are the first for each respective player during their careers at MCLA.
Westfield State swept the major awards as Anthony Crowley was selected as the MASCAC player of the year and John Gegetskas was tabbed the Pitcher of the Year. Westfield State head coach Nathan Bashaw earned the Coach of the Year honor. The MASCAC rookie of the year went to John Teehan of the Massachusetts Maritime Academy.
Rumbolt had a breakout season for MCLA in 2018. The sophomore saw action in multiple infield positions and then settled in as a right fielder for most of the conference slate. He is currently third in the conference as he ended the season batting .376 which led the team. Rumbolt played in all 29 games for the Trailblazers and led the team in runs scored with 22. He collected 8 doubles which also led MCLA and drove in 15 runs and stole 7 bases.
Nolan had an outstanding senior season on the mound for the Trailblazers. He was the ace of the staff and led the team with a 3.74 ERA in 10 appearances. He went 3-1 overall with wins over Framingham State, Salem State, and Colby Sawyer in 2018. He struck out 63 batters which is currently tied for third in the league in just 53 innings pitched. Nolan struck out a career best 12 Framingham State hitters in the MASCAC opening round game.
Rumbolt and Nolan led MCLA back into the MASCAC postseason for the second consecutive season. The Trailblazers finished this season at 13-15-1 overall which included a 6-7-1 conference mark.
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Russia Says NATO Is Using Ukraine Crisis To Boost Appeal
[April 10, 2014] MOSCOW (Reuters) — Russia's Foreign Ministry accused NATO on Thursday of using the crisis in Ukraine to boost its appeal to members and justify its existence by rallying them against an imaginary threat.
Russia and the West are locked in a Cold War-style stand-off over Ukraine and NATO Secretary General Anders Fogh Rasmussen told Moscow to pull back troops from the Ukrainian border or face consequences if they intervene.
The ministry said Rasmussen's remarks were confrontational and that in recent months he had not offered "any constructive agenda" for Ukraine, adding that it was adding to instability in the region.
"The constant accusations against us by the secretary general convince us that the alliance is trying to use the crisis in Ukraine to rally its ranks in the face of an imaginary external threat to NATO members and to strengthen demand for the alliance ... in the 21st century," it said.
NATO has suspended all practical military and civilian cooperation with Russia, although it said political dialogue could continue at ambassador level or higher, since Russia incorporated Ukraine's Crimea region last month.
The Western military alliance has also limited access for Russian diplomat's to its headquarters and is reviewing a 1997 co-operation agreement with Russia and subsequent Rome declaration of 2002 that prevented it from setting up bases in eastern and central Europe.
Russia has responded by accusing NATO of having a Cold War mentality and has expressed concern over the possibility of deploying the alliance's troops in eastern Europe permanently.
(Reporting by Gabriela Baczynska; editing by Elizabeth Piper)
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10,000 Pakistanis who registered as Afghan refugees detected
ISLAMABAD (Dawn/ANN) - The National Database and Registration Authority (Nadra) has tracked over 10,000 Pakistanis who have registered themselves as Afghan refugees for dollars, as the UN High Commission for Refugees had set $400 for each Afghan refugee returning to their homeland under a voluntary repatriation scheme.
This was disclosed by Nadra chairman Usman Yusuf Mobeen while giving a briefing on blocked Computerised National Identity Cards (CNICs) at a meeting of the Senate’s standing committee on interior, which was presided over by the committee’s chairman Senator Rehman Malik.
Mr Mobeen said the cases of fake identities were caught by the Nadra system when they came to obtain CNICs, as their cards had been blocked. He explained that CNICs were blocked in five different categories of suspicious cases.
Revelation made in a briefing given by Nadra chief to Senate panel.
While briefing the Senate committee, the Nadra chairman said around one million Afghan refugees had been repatriated to Afghanistan under the voluntary repatriation scheme. Each refugee ready to return home was to be given an assistance package of 400 dollars by the UN High Commission for Refugees. Even for their newborn, the UN provided assistance that was increased during different times and stood at a rate of $400 per individual at present.
The issue of Nadra’s refusal to issue CNICs to Pakhtuns living in Balochistan had been raised by Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz Senator Yaqoob Khan Nasar in the Senate on a point of public importance.
“There were 2.4 million registered Afghan refugees in Pakistan at one time,” Mr Mubeen said, adding that 1.5 million unregistered Afghan refugees were also living in the country. He said that many of those Afghan nationals got fake CNICs posing themselves to be part of the family trees of Pakistani nationals in connivance with some government officials. Even those Pakistanis were suspected cases whose family trees were used to issue these fake CNICs, the chairman said. However, he added, there were some Pakistani nationals who voluntarily allowed them to become part of their family.
He said the authority had found 156,000 suspected cases during a national verification drive. He explained said that a parliamentary committee during the last PML-N government had devised a mechanism to verify the documents of those people whose identities as Pakistanis were doubtful. In the light of the recommendations of that committee, the government issued a notification that deputy commissioner of every district would head a verification committee to decide such cases. He said the parliamentary committee had decided that every applicant in question would have to produce at least one of the seven identity documents before their respective district committee to prove their nationality.
Even Abdol Malek Rigi, former head of an Iran-based terrorist group and his family, had succeeded to get Pakistani CNICs by intruding into the family trees, the chairman of the Senate standing committee observed.
Senator Malik said: “Nadra should have clarity between the Afghan refugees and Pakistanis.” He said the seven documents’ requirement to give proof of nationality should be reviewed to make the verification procedure easy but effective. He said laws could be amended to ease the process of registration for the people who were not literate.
Meanwhile, the Senate committee through a unanimously adopted resolution decried and rejected Afghan President Ashraf Ghani’s anti-Pakistan tweets.
The resolution moved by Senator Malik said Mr Ghani’s statement was “factually baseless and a gross interference in the internal affairs of Pakistan”. The committee called upon the government to register a serious protest with Afghanistan and demand that President Ghani “withdraw his statement immediately and tender an apology”.
Mr Malik said Pakistan was facing serious security threats, as terrorist groups were being sponsored and activated from across the border.
1,200 pilgrims stranded
The Senate committee chairman informed the meeting about the issue of lack of security due to which hundreds of Pakistani pilgrims returning from Iran and Iraq were stranded at Taftan, Pak-Iran border.
“I have been informed that around 1,200 pilgrims were stranded for the last two weeks in Balochistan due to lack of security needed to escort their buses to Quetta,” he said.
Senator Malik said that IG FC Balochistan South Region Major General Saeed Ahmed Nagra and an FIA director had assured him of their complete cooperation in ensuring safe travel of the stranded pilgrims. He directed the federal and provincial authorities to make immediate arrangements for the rescue of pilgrims and submit a detailed report on it.
He noted that no structural monitoring or standing operating procedure was being followed for the pilgrims’ travel and safety.
The meeting directed that the ministry of religious affairs, the interior ministry, the Balochistan government and other relevant authorities to formulate and finalise some facilitation plan on the pattern of Haj pilgrims for the zaireen as well.
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Of Culture and Business
Over the weekend, the Asheville Citizen-Times published a fascinating analysis of how the deal to lure Deschutes went sideways. If you're interested at the intersection of public policy and business, it's a great piece. But beyond general lessons, there are some particularities that jumped out at me. There were so many moving parts, it's hard to know what tipped the scales in Roanoke's favor, but it looks like culture played a dominant role. Consider:
"The beer culture fit well with what the outdoors tourism officials were trying to promote, said that city’s economic development director, Wayne Bowers. 'We’re on the Appalachian Trail. And the Blue Ridge Parkway comes right through town,' Bowers said." All you have to do is pick up a bottle of Deschutes to understand how central the outdoors is to the brewery. It's embedded very deeply into their DNA.
Asheville sold Deschutes' first-choice site, but Deschutes stayed engaged because Asheville is such a beery city.
On the one hand, Deschutes was dealing with this from Ashville: "Republican Commissioner Joe Belcher later would say that his problem with the arrangement was bigger than the land purchase. Belcher said he was opposed to alcohol in general due to 'a deep personal and religious conviction.'"
And if some in Asheville didn't love beer, Virginia was going all out for the deal. The state launched an online campaign that Virginians could participate in, and they got the governor involved in the courting process. And then there was this, which cracked me up. "Those intangibles also included ... the discovery that Haymore and Deschutes President Michael LaLonde were fellow 'Deadheads....' It was in the middle of one of the Dead’s most well-known tunes 'Franklin’s Tower' that McAuliffe got the handshake from LaLonde that he wanted, Haymore said."
If you're planning for the next few decades, brewery location isn't a casual consideration. You're stuck with that very expensive property. The natural environment, beer culture, and cultural mores of the city and state will play a huge role in whether the brewery succeeds. One might imagine that sweetening the pot with a few million dollars would make the decision easy, but against these long-term considerations (and an $85 million price tag), location and culture has a lot more to do with it.
East to West?
It's a little surreal to read about how much two states (and South Carolina was an early contender, as well) wanted Deschutes. I absolutely cannot imagine an Oregon city working with local businesses and the governor to try to score a new, say Dogfish Head, Boston Beer, or Yuengling plant. For one thing, Oregon has invested on the front end. The state already brews well over a million barrels of beer a year (not clear whether this stat includes CBA or not). By encouraging breweries with a good regulatory environment, self-distribution laws, and low taxes, Oregon has already developed five of the top 50 largest breweries in the US. Virginia, South Carolina, and North Carolina have developed none.
But of course the bigger thing is that Oregon has such a strong self-identity as a brewing state. We don't import breweries, we build them. We don't drink beer from elsewhere (for good and mostly bad), we drink Oregon beer. I suppose Dogfish Head could set up a brewery here for distribution purposes, but it's hard to envision a scenario outlined in the Citizen-Times playing out here.
All beer is local. That's starting to make things confusing, but only to a point.
Update (9:41am). I meant to add this point. A few people on social media have made the point that one reason for the west-to-east migration of breweries has to do with population densities. West Coast breweries are moving east because that's where the people are, and it's why we're not seeing the reverse. That's true to a point--but only a point. There are a lot of people in the NE, but they're not a giant market. Yet. One of the reasons West Coast breweries grew so fast (fourteen of the fifty largest US breweries) is because there are a lot of people here drinking those beers. Deschutes and Widmer Brothers sell 200,000 barrels of beer in Oregon alone--three times the amount all New Jersey breweries made last year.
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I don't know where I read this, but I also heard it's cheaper to ship things east to west than west to east. So having an east coast brewery can reduce those costs a lot.
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Not long after the film was released, late Muppet creator Jim Henson proposed a live-action show based on the film, titled Little Mermaid's Island. The series follows Ariel's adventures with her friends and family and sometimes has Ariel foiling the attempts of enemies that are intent on harming her or the kingdom of Atlantica.
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My Fairytale Adventure The New York Times. Ariel was to be portrayed by Marietta DePrimaand she would interact with various puppet characters created by Jim Henson's Creature Shop. A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain with an unscrupulous sea-witch in order to meet a human prince on land. Jasmine had beautiful brown eyes, and Ariel had equally beautiful blue eyes. Ariel's relationships with various characters from the film are highlighted and expanded, such as the love and occasional conflict between Ariel and her father, how Ariel met Flounder and Scuttle, the relationships between Ariel and her sisters, and Ariel's early fear and avoidance of Ursula the sea witch.
For the character from Thundarr the Barbarian, see Thundarr the Barbarian. This land consisted of several kingdoms and villages, but the ultimate king was Mickey Mouse who had the overview of everyone and everything, and sometimes — but still rarely — he interfered in people's lives. The Little Mermaid Blu-Ray: Triton trades himself for Ariel, enabling Ursula to steal his crown and enabling her to claim his trident, a fascination which angers Ariel, who will not allow Ursula to destroy merfolk and humans.
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This Week In Gaming 10-23-18
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Jason Schreier speaks with dozens of current and former Rockstar employees and finds a culture of intense overtime, People Make Games tells the story of one man's difficult journey into the games industry and where he ended up, Haydn Taylor's write up of Emily Grace Buck's talk discussing working at Telltale and starting to have serious conversation about unions, UK magazines GamesTM and GamesMaster close, NyaAutomata on how westerners often view Japanese media as representing their entire culture while treating the west as morally superior, Chris Compendio on how Night in the Woods helped them to navigate through the trauma of losing a friend, Devil May Cry 5 shows off weapons while Hitman 2 shows all level locations and target Sean Bean, remembering Far Cry 2 for its 10th anniversary, Bethesda tells players to expect spectacular bugs and issues in Fallout 76, History Respawned talks to Dr. Kate Cook about Assassin's Creed Odyssey's setting, and more.
Gaming News (Announcements, previews, release dates, interviews and writing on upcoming games, DLC and game updates, company and developer news, country news, tech, mods)
Hitman 2 – Sean Bean Elusive Target #1 Reveal | PS4
Sean Bean stars as Mark Faba in HITMAN 2’s first Elusive Target mission, The Undying. Releasing November 20th, you only have 10 days to take down Faba.
All Hitman 2 locations revealed in new trailer – here’s Mumbai, New Zeala
Hitman 2’s Untouchable trailer has just launched, and with it IO Interactive has provided confirmation of every single location in the game. We’ve already seen plenty of the Miami and Colombia in pre-release promotions, but now we’ve also gotten a look at Hawke’s Bay, Mumbai, Vermont, and the Isle of Sgàil.
How Hitman 2’s developers turned its gigantic levels into ever-evolving playgrounds
2016’s Hitman reboot was a fascinating experiment in reviving a classic formula with a new twist. IO Interactive, the developer behind the assassination sandbox series, decided to combine the best efforts of 2012’s more linear but highly polished Hitman: Absolution with the open-world spirit and heavy experimentation of the series’ first three major entries.
Devil May Cry 5 - NYCC 2018 Panel
Devil May Cry 5 director Hideaki Itsuno and producer Matt Walker take us through an in-depth look at Dante's weaponry and other devilish new details in #DMC5.
In the Wake of Their Mother’s Death, How Two Brothers Rebuilt Their Video Game
When brothers Andrew and Brian Allanson finally decided to buckle down and make their dream game in 2013, their enthusiasm seemed bottomless. Their idea fit neatly into the indie milieu that was rocketing off around that time, especially for “Earthbound”–esque games: “ YIIK: A Postmodern RPG,” pronounced Y-2-K, a retro 3D JRPG with a distinct low-poly art style inspired by cult 16-bit hits like “Mega Man Legends.” Rather than pitching the game on Kickstarter, the Allansons leveraged their excitement into a prodigious work ethic, producing a fully-featured prototype for the game in just 52 days, ahead of the gaming convention PAX East. “It was kind of a crazy thing,” Andrew says. “We booked the booth without having anything to show. It was a cowboy move, but we managed to do it in time.”
Gameplay Impressions Of Battlefield V's Single-Player
In this excerpt from the Game Informer Show, Suriel Vazquez joins Ben Hanson and Matt Bertz to share some mostly positive impressions from his time playing DICE's Battlefield V's single-player campaign at a preview event.
The full Battlefield V interview – why single-player is important to the FPS
Today, military shooters are largely about their online multiplayer. It’s why single-player campaigns in FPS titles have, in recent times, felt like cursory add-ons – short in length and familiar in structure. Instead, competitive gaming is what a huge section of the audience comes for now – as such, it’s where the money can be found.
Battlefield 5's singleplayer offers surprisingly fresh perspectives on World War II
Battlefield 1 had a surprisingly strong singleplayer campaign, splitting it up into several distinct 'War Stories' that teleported us from the mud-and-blood of the western front to the semi-mythology of Lawrence of Arabia. It addressed concerns about depicting the less familiar, more sacred of the two world wars by telling tight, personal stories, using some artistic flourishes to explore this rarely-trodden territory with sensitivity. It still brimmed with silly solo heroics, tank battles, super-saturated fires and explosions, of course, but it felt like it earned how silly it was.
Ode To A Moon is a psychedelic horror adventure "inspired by actual events"
Ever since playing Bloodborne I’ve been vaguely suspicious of the moon, so seeing its influence tearing the very fabric of reality asunder in Ode To A Moon‘s debut trailer reinforces my prejudices. The latest from 0°N 0°W creator Colorfiction, it looks to be yet another walk through a surreal reality, although this time more coherent than their previously disconnected dreamscapes. Below, a strange and lurid launch trailer – given some of the fragmented spaces shown, I’m certainly hoping this was only vaguely inspired by real events, as Colorfiction claims.
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden trailer explains what 'Duck XCOM' is all about
The video demonstrates real-time exploration, mutations, and the strange gameworld.
Wargroove’s release date slips to early 2019
Charming turn-based tactic title Wargroove had been due for release in the second half of this year, but Chucklefish said they decided to move the release window to the first quarter of 2019 in order to “provide players with a really robust package when the big day comes.”
Ace Combat 7 Footage Flies Us Through A Stormy Dogfight And An Attack On Enemy Base
Bandai Namco shared the latest footage of its upcoming combat flight simulator Ace Combat 7 with a mission that takes you on an attack against an enemy base in the desert region and one that throws you in a dogfight in the middle of a storm.
Bethesda warns Fallout 76 fans to expect 'spectacular' bugs and issues
In a note to fans, Bethesda calls Fallout 76 'a starting line', not a finished game, and thanks them for continued support.
Strategic shooter hybrid Executive Assault 2 enters early access
My brain is not up to playing Executive Assault 2 today. I could maybe handle a basic RTS, or maybe an FPS but not this complex hybrid of both plus space combat. Making its early access debut yesterday, it’s a sequel to Hesketh Studios’s 2015 Executive Assault. In the first game, players commanded a robot army RTS-style to take down your corporate rival’s CEO, leading from the front in FPS combat. In the sequel, you’re juggling all that and the third dimension as the battle moves into space. Below, a little video peek at the game, including some impressive fleet combat.
New Gameplay Today – Generation Zero Beta
Brian Shea joins Tired Leo and Sick Cork for an early look at Avalanche Studio's open-world robot killing simulator, which releases in 2019.
The Flare Path: Iron Curtain Call
Before the Su-17s showed up, the defence of Großenlüder was going like clockwork. Dug in behind wire and minefields, my Chieftains were dominating. Their poppy-brushing 120mm guns had barcoded the eastern horizon with pillars of black smoke. Nothing of Soviet manufacture had made it as far as the village, and nothing looked likely to. But then the napalm came. Tumbling canisters of molten lava delivered by low-flying, thunder-trailing Fitters. Tumbling canisters of molten lava that burst on impact, turning protective vehicle scrapes into Hadean pools of flame.
Cool wizards will battle in a royale manner in Spellbreak
What if battle royale but wizards? Okay, Battlerite Royale, sure. But what if battle royale but wizards and big flashy magic spells hurling whirlwinds and rocks and giant walls of fire and spaffing special effects all over? Ah, for that you’ll want to look to Spellbreak, an upcoming battle royale starring cool wizards. Mate, even if you’re not interested in battlers royale, you might want to see this new trailer for the fancy spells these wizards are tossing off.
PlayStation delays Days Gone
Zombie thriller slips from February to April to avoid clash with Anthem and Metro Exodus
Atomic Heart, the offbeat Soviet-era shooter, gives us its weirdest teaser video yet
In today's showing of Weird But Cool Atomic Heart footage, a character appears trapped in a tunnel of molecular mass. Even from the little we've seen so far, I'm certain that won't be the strangest sentence ever written about Munfish's upcoming alternate Soviet-era shooter.
Retro City Rampage Sequel Shakedown Hawaii Release Date Set For Q1 2019
Shakedown: Hawaii, the next Retro Rampage-style game from VBlank Entertainment, has a release window. People will be able to find it on the Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation Vita, and PC in the first quarter of 2019. After the game is finished and gets through certification, more exact release dates will be revealed.
Override: Mech City Brawl faces down an alien invasion in a new trailer
Looking at the latest trailer for The Balance’s giant robo-biffer Override: Mech City Brawl, I’m officially jealous I wasn’t able to take it for a spin at EGX last month. Looking a bit like old PS2 gem War Of The Monsters, it’s a game about oversized cartoon robots knocking seven shades of steel out of each other, or sometimes alien invaders if you’re running solo. It all looks a little Pacific Rim meets Megas XLR, and that’s pretty much a match made in heaven, so far as I’m concerned. Below, a fresh peek at the game, its features and its big ugly space-monsters.
Four Things You Need to Know about BATTLETECH Flashpoint
BATTLETECH Flashpoint is the first expansion for BATTLETECH and it launches on November 27th.
Lokhir Felheart and Vampire Bloodlines are coming free to Total War: Warhammer 2
Lokhir Felheart, the Krakenlord of Karond Kar and essentially a salty Dark Elf pirate, is coming free to Total War: Warhammer 2. Just as excitingly, the Vampire Counts are getting a ‘bloodlines’ mechanic in their promised rework. It’s all part of the game’s next free content patch which, since it’ll land alongside the Vampire Coast DLC on November 8, is appropriately named the Aye-Aye Patch.
HITMAN Halloween Pack
The HITMAN Halloween Pack is a FREE download for PS4, Xbox One and PC that invites you to Colorado and gives you full access to everything the location has to offer for a limited time.
Dirty Bomb to cease development
Free-to-play team shooter Dirty Bomb is ceasing live development after disappointing player numbers failed to keep the game financially viable, developers Splash Damage said in a post this week.
Shadow Of The Tomb Raider Bombed With Negative Reviews For Sale Price
When Shadow of the Tomb Raider released last month, fans were fairly split on the game. Our own review felt like the game wasn't entirely fulfilling its potential, but user reviews on digital distribution service Steam were in the "positive" range, which means that 70% of reviewers were high on the game. Now that positive has fallen after the Steam community has become upset that a sale price for the game that owners feel is premature.
Epic Games Sues YouTubers, Says They Were Selling ‘Fortnite’ Cheats
Over 1.7 million people subscribe to the “Golden Modz” YouTube channel where its owner, Brandon Lucas, posts videos of himself using mods to troll players in games like “GTA Online” and “Fortnite.” But, Epic claims Lucas also uses those videos to promote game cheats he sells on his website and it’s now suing for copyright infringement, breach of contract, and unfair and deceptive trade practices.
UK magazines GamesTM and GamesMaster to close
GamesMaster has been running for 25 years and say it's 'the UK's biggest multiformat magazine'. GamesTM is also a multiformat product and has been running since 2002. It was originally owned by Imagine Publishing, but the entire Imagine portfolo was acquired by Future in 2016.
Layoffs hit Trion Worlds after company sold
Rift and Defiance developer said to be down to just 25 people
Layoffs At Dreadnought Developer Six Foot (Update: Studio Confirms)
"In August, Six Foot informed its staff of the upcoming potential for major changes to our company structure, including continued development of Dreadnought as a live product. Everyone on the games team was given the option to stay on and continue working or begin searching for other opportunities with the full support of the company and the aid of our staffing team, while still receiving pay in the interim. New updates on the company’s status were delivered to the full team every two weeks from there.
GOG Account Publishes Yet Another Awful Tweet
Yesterday, GOG, CD Projekt Red’s digital storefront, posted a tweet that included a hashtag that has been circulating to advocate for trans rights. However, the tweet was a promotional post about the storefront. The post was soon deleted, and today, the company explained the retraction. This is all familiar.
Zombie Orpheus cancels contract with GOG over transphobia
Zombie Orpheus Entertainment has announced it will terminate its contract with GOG.com following an offensive tweet yesterday on the game and media distribution platform's social media account - the third such tweet on its connected platforms this year.
Controversial Streamer Suspended From Twitch, Barred From TwitchCon After 'Harassment'
Last week, controversial Twitch streamer Ali “Gross Gore” Larsen landed himself in hot water after attendees of official Runescape convention RuneFest alleged that he’d harassed women and gotten into a physical altercation with another streamer. Now he says he’s been suspended from Twitch and forbidden from attending TwitchCon, but, he claims, this happened because of a different incident at the Runescape convention.
Ubisoft executive says politics in games is 'bad for business'
It's an interesting stance to take, particularly for Ubisoft. Along with The Division, a game about anonymous agents of a previously secret Homeland Security unit who respond to a devastating pandemic in New York City by killing truckloads of Americans whose core crime is not wanting to starve and die, Ubi also publishes Ghost Recon Wildlands (American hit team infiltrates Third World nation to topple the government) and Far Cry 5 (Christian fundamentalist cult takes over a slice of backwater Montana and only heavily-armed locals can stop them).
What First on Discord means for indie developers – “we’re trailblazers”
Steam has been the dominant market force when it comes to PC games for years. GOG and Humble, as well as publisher-specific platforms such as Origin and Uplay, have existed in the background, but each offer a very different end product. If an indie developer wants to release a new game the chances are they’d have to go through Valve’s platform if they want to see significant sales numbers.
Rockstar QA Studio Told That Overtime Is Now Optional After Workers Said It Felt Mandatory
Rockstar Lincoln, a UK-based studio that has been handling a lot of the quality assurance testing for Red Dead Redemption 2, is swearing off an approach that many employees say they had interpreted as mandatory overtime.
Independent Game Shops Told They Won't Get Red Dead Redemption 2 Until November
In the lead-up to Red Dead Redemption 2’s October 26 release, Zach Gieg spent over $3,300 adorning his small, local chain of Pennsylvania video game stores with billboards, flyers, posters, and other displays touting the the highly-anticipated Western adventure game that his customers began preordering two years ago. It was at the store’s own expense, but Gieg figured that the advertising dollars would surely convert to sales of the upcoming game. But a couple of weeks ago, Gieg says, his distributor had some bad news: he wouldn’t be getting the game on time for its release. Across the country, other local game stores were hearing the same thing.
Germany Is Officially Recognising Sim Racing As A Legitimate Form Of Motorsport
If you’re into racing, chances are, you’ve played at least one racing game in your life. With technology ever on the rise and sim racing becoming more than just a ‘game’, Germany’s racing governing body, Deutsche Motor Sport Bund, has decided to officially proclaim sim racing as a legitimate motorsport discipline.
"More people have played Florence in Mandarin than in English"
At Game Connect Asia Pacific, Mountains founder Ken Wong emphasised the importance of Asian markets - for studios of all sizes
16-year-old Tetris prodigy Joseph Saelee beats 7-time world champion to win 2018 CTWC
A new face popped up at the 2018 Classic Tetris World Championship and stunned the entire community by knocking off seven-time Tetris World Champion Jonas Neubauer to win the whole thing.
Massive Tekken 7 Tournament Win Marred By Hardware Glitch
After 12 hours of intense play, MASTERCUP 10’s Tekken 7 team competition ended with the previous tournament’s runners-up finally claiming the title that they had almost managed to win a year ago. But what should have been a joyous occasion was tainted by controversy due to a slight technical malfunction during the championship match.
Team Disqualified From Counter-Strike Tournament After Player Was Caught Cheating During The Tournament
It's an unfortunate reality that sometimes people are going to cheat at competitive things. As a general rule, though, you don't want to cheat so blatantly that people can immediately notice and see you actively delete the cheating program. That rule got tested at the Counter-Strike: Global Offensive eXTREMELAND ZOWIE Asia tournament in Shanghai today when a player got his entire team booted from the tournament for cheating.
Outspoken FIFA 19 pro quits game after EA ban for abusive behaviour
Kurt "Kurt0411" Fenech, from Malta, was banned from competing at EA's FIFA 19 esports tournaments for two months for "abusive behaviour" towards FIFA players and others in the community.
League of Legends star Faker is donating his October revenue to charity
League of Legends’ World Championship is currently raging in Korea, but this year, for the first time since 2014, one player in particular isn’t there to fight for the Summoner’s Cup. But instead of sitting at home twiddling his thumbs, SKT T1’s Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-Hyeok is trying to do some good in the world.
“Stay true to yourselves,” says League of Legends’ rookie sensation in rousing exit speech
League of Legends’ World Championships are currently underway, with the best teams from the game’s biggest regions fighting to lift the Summoner’s Cup in early November. The tournament’s group stage wraps up today, and this week has seen multiple teams leave the tournament.
Crowdfunding News (not sharing everything I find, just ones that look interesting, have known talent behind them, and a chance to succeed)
The Waylanders RPG
The Waylanders: a party-RPG with classical style and innovative features like formations and time travelling
Content I found interesting this week (interviews, recommendations, think pieces, history, music, culture, design, art, documentaries, criticism, etc)
Inside Rockstar Games' Culture Of Crunch
In the final year of development on Red Dead Redemption 2, the upcoming Western game, the top directors decided to add black bars to the top and bottom of every non-interactive cutscene in hopes of making those scenes feel more cinematic, like an old-school cowboy film. Everyone agreed it was the right creative move, but there was a catch: It would add weeks of work to many people’s schedules.
Rockstar employees past and present offer mixed takes on company's work culture
In general, across the numerous anecdotes and shared experiences of the Rockstar employees at its eight studios, there seemed to be a consensus that whatever was happening now was an improvement over the stories that came out of the studio in the early 2010s, from the first Red Dead Redemption to L.A. Noire to Max Payne 3 to Grand Theft Auto V. Employees mentioned everything from confirmations of the Rockstar spouse letter's depiction to multiple work weeks in the vicinity of 70-hours. This crunch was seen as mandatory at the time, with stigma attached to those who departed early or didn't work weekends.
A post-mortem of Telltale Games
"Telltale Games often got knocked for being very buggy and having a lot of frame skips," said Buck. "Yes, we had some of those, but a lot of the time what people thought were frame skips or buggy parts of our engine, were actually scenes that had gotten redone so last minute, that there was no time to smooth out the cinematography or the animation.... what you were seeing was not a product of a buggy engine, but buggy management system."
What will be left of the people who make our games?
Our games are getting bigger, but the cost is way too high
No Respawns: Telltale, Rockstar & Crunch
I’m not good at Darkest Dungeon. I love tactical games, and the art in Red Hook Studios’ gothic adventure is wonderful in a truly disturbing way, but I am not skilled at playing it. At least, not in the small ways in which it permits success — for failure is part of the fun — but I’d built a solid team, and I was confident in our performance. I was a fool.
I’d recruited an Abomination for our expedition. Chained and scarred, a meek soul and shapeshifting nightmare capable of incredible feats at the cost of other party members’ calm. One trying encounter and one transformation too many sent our group spiraling into mental exhaustion, panic and death.
Fortunately, the Stage Coach arrives regularly, and it is always filled with more willing souls to be recruited.
Japan is a place on Earth
So for this one I have a lot to say that I’ve wanted to say for more than a few years so I’m just jumping straight to my thesis right here at the top of the page: People use Japan as a handwavey scapegoat as a result of a background culture of “wacky Japan” jokes and growing up joking about Japanese video games. They also use it as a catch-all marker of reactionary sentiment partially in reaction to the supposed popularity of anime amongst the resurgent online right wing. The problem with all this is that it almost invariably extends beyond the media itself or even the (deserving) targets of mockery that this stuff is meant to lampoon. Especially in circles that spend a lot of time on nerdy bullshit like video games and TV shows, what arises is a kneejerk response to anything appearing to be of Japanese aesthetic sensibilities and a strange defensive environment where things are on some level expected to be enjoyed in spite of their country of origin. When Japanese media is reactionary, it is said to be a representation of a whole culture, when it isn’t it is said to be a surprising break from it and thus, no matter what, the discussion ends up at the supposed inherent backwards reactionary nature of Japanese popular culture.
The secret of Sniper Elite and Rebellion's growing success
I visited the studio behind the likes of Alien Vs Predator, 2000 AD and many other projects.
The Sierra Discovery Adventures
Among the most rewarding hidden gems in Sierra’s voluminous catalog must be the games of the Discovery Series, the company’s brief-lived educational line of the early 1990s. Doubtless because of that dreaded educational label, these games are little-remembered today even by many hardcore Sierra fans, and, unlike most of the better-known Sierra games, have never been reissued in digital-download editions.
How the Red Dead franchise began
It started with Peter Gabriel, Resident Evil 2 and Patrón
Teen Developer Makes Game Inspired By '90s Shooters That Came Out Before He Was Born
Jakub Cislo is a game developer who wears his influences on his sleeve. His just-released game, Project Warlock, is a chunky shooter stew made from the gory giblets of classics like Wolfenstein and Doom. It’s a pretty typical palette of influences—until you consider that Cislo is 19, and all those games came out before he was born.
Some Rockstar employees dispute the idea that they’re overworked
Rockstar employees are speaking out against reports that the developer forces its workers into extreme crunch. The company has given its staff permission to share their experiences online, according to dozens of Rockstar developers on Twitter, many of whom say they’ve never endured the harsh work conditions that the company has recently come under fire for.
How brutalism has shaped games
It's easy to understand why brutalism has been such a potent source of architectural inspiration for games. The raw forms - solid, legible and with clear lineation - are the perfect material for level designers to craft their worlds with. Simultaneously, these same structures are able to ignite imaginations and gesture outwards, their dramatic shapes and monumental dimensions shocking and attention-seizing.
How Night in the Woods Guided Me in Mourning a Friend
There was something so uniquely terrifying, yet profound about my playthrough of Night in the Woods. It felt uniquely suited to my mindstate by the time I played through it, at a level where booting up the game sometimes felt like a stressful and daunting task, as it inadvertently had me confront some of my inner thoughts and life experiences.
Analyzing the Historical Context of The Last of Us Part II’s Violence
Society is much more meaningful and larger than the rule of law. It’s a dynamic process of meaning-making among people. It’s complex and ever changing; symbols and values change over time. Societies can reproduce good ideals as well as bad ideals. Nevertheless, societies have the ability to remain somewhat intact in the face of hardship and people can work to construct some semblance of community, even in the most dire of circumstances.
Far Cry 2's daring open world design is still paying off 10 years later
For Far Cry 2's anniversary, we look back at how it changed the way designers looked at freedom and open worlds.
Far Cry 2 was way ahead of its time
10 years later, the influence of Far Cry 2 can be seen just about everywhere in gaming
Circle Empires Is A Strategy Game That Forces You To Rely On Your Gut
Circle Empires forces me to constantly worry about merfolk shooting my troops with orbs. When it comes to dragons, I can deal. Zombies? No problem. But merfolk with orbs can hit my melee troops with an freezing attack, turning them into sitting ducks for the mer-archers. It’s a problem.
Valkyria Chronicles 4's Squad Stories Made Me Fall in Love With its Secondary Cast
The characters attached to said victory quotes are the reason I'm enjoying Valkyria Chronicles 4 a lot. The game puts special focus on the "lesser" soldiers who fight with you, more so than in previous games. While Valkyria Chronicles 4's main story and primary character roster aren't too strong (barring Kai, the A-team's level-headed but troubled sniper), its secondary characters—the recruits who trickle into Squad E as the game goes on—narrate the game's best war yarns through the new "Squad Stories" feature.
The Rise and Fall of Skate
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For a brief period of time in the early 2000s, skateboarding video games were inescapable. The countercultural sport had been adapted into bits and bytes many times in the past, but following the genre-defining release of Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater in 1999, it became one of the hottest commodities in gaming. Year after year, players couldn’t stop shredding elaborate digital combos, and developers couldn’t stop pumping out opportunities for players to do so.
Games as Lit. 101 - Literary Analysis: The World Ends With You (Part 1 - First Week)
The Game Professor begins a deep dive into the cult classic RPG, The World Ends With You, beginning with the first in-game week.
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Last updated on May 23rd, 2019 by lay kim
Albert Einstein quotes our death is not an end if we can live on in our children and the younger generation is a line taken from the letter which he wrote to the widow of physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes in 1926.
Besides death, he also talked about afterlife, immortality and soul.
If you have read through my authentic collection of Albert Einstein thoughts on God and religion, you would know that he rejected the formal, dogmatic religion.
Einstein did not believe in immortality of the individual.
According to him, there is no such thing as, punishment for misdeeds or rewards for good behavior in any afterlife.
For him, the so-called Theosophy and Spiritualism, was no more than a symptom of weakness and confusion.
As Einstein explained that since our inner experiences consist of reproductions, and combinations of sensory impressions, the concept of a soul without a body seem to me to be empty and devoid of meaning. (source)
Albert Einstein Quotes Our Death Is Not An End
Now, let’s dig out Albert Einstein quotes on death from various reliable sources.
“Death… is a reality… Life ends definitely when the subject, by his actions, no longer affects his environment. . . . He can no longer add an iota to the sum total of his experience.” – Albert Einstein
(Glimpses Of The Great By George Sylvester Viereck, Duckworth, 1930, P. 370)
“Our death is not an end if we have lived on in our children and the younger generation. For they are us; our bodies are only wilted leaves on the tree of life.” – Albert Einstein
(The Ultimate Quotable Einstein By Albert Einstein, Princeton University Press, 2010, On Death, P. 91)
(The quote in German is found in: Durch Herrn Lorentz höre ich, von dem schweren Schlage, Kamerlingh Onnes, Heike (Receiver), Archival Call Number: 14-389, 1926-02-25, Einstein Archives Online)
Note: From the letter to the widow of physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, February 25, 1926.
“I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.” – Albert Einstein
(Albert Einstein, The Human Side: New Glimpses From His Archives Selected And Edited By Helen Dukas And Banesh Hoffmann, Princeton University Press, 1981, P.39)
Note: From Einstein’s hand-written remark on the letter by Alice M. Nickerson, a female Baptist pastor, July 17, 1953.
(The letter by Alice M. Nickerson with the quote is found in: In the Reader’s Digest for May 1953 I read an article, Nickerson, Alice M. (Author), Einstein, Albert (Receiver), Archival Call Number: 36-552, 1953-07-17)
“…I have faith in my purpose here on earth. I have faith in my intuition, the language of my conscience, but I have no faith in speculation about Heaven and Hell.” – Albert Einstein
(Einstein and the Poet: In Search of the Cosmic Man By William Hermanns, Brandon Press, 1983, The Third Conversation, P. 94)
“One lives all one’s life under constant tension till it is time to go for good.” – Albert Einstein
(Albert Einstein, The Human Side: Glimpses From His Archives, Edited By Helen Dukas And Banesh Hoffmann, With A New Foreword By Ze’ev Rosenkranz, Princeton University Press, 2013, P. 16)
(The quote is also found in: Princeton Alumni Weekly, Volume 79, Albert Einstein Answers His Mail, March 12, 1979, P. 16)
(The quote in German is found in: Alle beklagen sich ueber meine Schreibfaulheit und mit Recht., Archival Call Number: 29-417, Einstein (Winteler), Maja “Maria” (Receiver), 1935-08-31, Einstein Archives Online)
Note: From the letter Einstein wrote to his sister, Maja winteler-Einstein, August 31, 1935.
“Brief is this existence, like a brief visit in a strange house. The path to be pursued is poorly lit by a flickering consciousness whose center is the limiting and separating “I.” – Albert Einstein
(The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Collected And Edited By Alice Calaprice, With A Foreword By Freeman Dyson, Princeton University Press, 2010, On Death, PP. 93-94)
(The quote in German is found in: Words spoken [without notes] at funeral service for R. Ladenburg, Ladenburg, Rudolf (Mentioned in), Archival Call Number: 5-160, 1952-04-01, Einstein Archives Online)
Note: From the obituary for physicist Rudolf Ladenburg, April 1952.
“The only way fate can strike you two down is when you yourselves die one day.” – Albert Einstein
(Historical Auction 84, April 18, 2016,P. 61)
(The quote is also found in: At such a young age you have been struck by the worst thing that loving parents, Archival Call Number: 124-334, Einstein, Hans Albert(Receiver), Einstein-Knecht, Frieda (Receiver), 1939-01-07, Einstein Archives Online)
Note: The letter where Einstein expresses his condolences for the loss of Albert’s child, Klaus Martin, at age six.
The image of the original letters in German, together with the English translation is found here.)
“I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially; I have done my share, it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.” – Albert Einstein
“Ich möchte gehen, wann ich möchte. Es ist geschmacklos, das Leben künstlich zu verlängern. Ich habe meinen Anteil getan. Es ist Zeit zu gehen. Ich möchte dies elegant tun.” (German)
(The Ultimate Quotable Einstein Collected And Edited By Alice Calaprice, With A Foreword By Freeman Dyson, Princeton University Press, 2010, On Death, P. 95)
Note: This line was quoted by Einstein’s secretary and estate administrator Helen Dukas in her letter to Abraham Pais, Einstein’s biographer, April 30, 1955.
Here is the news on the death of Albert Einstein as reported in The Daily Princetonian , Monday, April, 1955)
“…I have grown old myself and have come to regard death like an old debt, at long last to be discharged. Still instinctively one does everything possible to delay this last fulfillment. Thus is the game which nature plays with us.” – Albert Einstein
“…ich selber alt geworden bin und den Tod empfinde, Wie eine alte Schuld, die man endlich entrichtet. Dabei tut man doch instinktiv alles Mögliche, um diese letzte Erfüllung hinauszuschieben. So ist das Spiel, das die Natur mit uns treibt.” (German)
(Einstein On Peace, Edited By Otto Nathan & Heinz Norden, Simon and Schuster, 1960, P. 616)
(The quote in German is found in: Zeit, Tod Und Ewigkeit By Horst Gädtke, Books on Demand, 2006, Albert Einstein Über Sterben Und Tod, P. 214)
(The quote in German is also found in: Bei Personen, die stark und differenziert fühlen, ist jedes Gemüts-Erlebnis gewaltig, Archival Call Number: 39-532, Warschauer, Gertrud (Receiver), 1955-02-05, Einstein Archives Online)
Note: From the letter to Gertrud Warschauer, the widow of a Berlin rabbi, living in England, February 5, 1955
“Remember your humanity and forget all the rest. If you can do so, the way lies open to a new Paradise; if you cannot, there lies before you the risk of universal death.” – Albert Einstein
(The Russell-Einstein Manifesto Issued In London, 9 July 1955, P. 2)
“Neither on my death bed nor before will I ask myself such a question. Nature is not an engineer or contractor, and I myself am a part of Nature.” – Albert Einstein
“An individual who should survive his physical death is also beyond my comprehension, nor do I wish it otherwise; such notions are for the fears or absurd egoism of feeble souls.” – Albert Einstein
“Auch ein Individuum, das seinen körperlichen Tod überdauert, mag und kann ich mir nicht denken; mögen schwache Seelen aus Angst oder lächerlichem Egoismus solche Gedanken nähren.” (German)
(The World As I see It, Einstein’s Views On Life, Science & Human Nature By Albert Einstein, General Press, 2018, Ch. 1, Part I: The World As I See It, The World As I See it)
(The quote in German is found in: Mein Weltbild Von Albert Einstein, Herausgegeben Von Carl Seelig, Ullstein-Taschenbuch-Verlag 2005, I. Wie Ich Die Welt Sehe, P. 10)
(The quote in German is also found in: Mein Weltbild. Hrsg. von Carl Seelig, Europa Verlag, 1953, P. 10)
“Now Besso has departed from this strange world a little ahead of me. That means nothing. People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion.” – Albert Einstein
(An Einstein Encyclopedia By Alice Calaprice, Daniel J Kennefick, Robert Schulmann, Princeton University Press, 2015, Friends, Michele Beso, PP. 65-66)
(The quote in German is found in: Es war wirklich lieb von Euch, dass Ihr mir so getreulich, Besso, Vero (Receiver), Besso [Jahn-Rusconi], Bice [Beatrice] (Receiver), Besso, Michele Angelo (Mentioned In), Archival Call Number: 7-245, 1955-03-21, Einstein Archives Online)
Note: From the letter of condolence to Michele Besso’s son, Vero, and sister, Bice Rusconi, 21 March 1955.
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The Kindness Of Strangers : Landmark
Dave Georgeson posted a very informative "State of the Alpha" update on the official forums today. Of course, you'll only be able to follow that link to its conclusion if you're registered for alpha, in which case you'll almost certainly already have read it. Don't know why I mentioned it now... Fortunately for any other interested parties he also gave an interview to Massively which covered most of the best bits.
A new server is due either tonight or tomorrow with more to come, which should first alleviate and then resolve by far the most serious problem, namely the extreme lack of Land on which to make your Mark. That should make Rowan happy. Also Mrs Bhagpuss and thereby me.
I did manage to stake a Claim, albeit out in some god-forsaken, waterless boondock but even that was not to last.
Man, when they build the Mall I'm made!
Under the pitiless desert sun I built something that vaguely resembled the first level of a mock-medieval multistory car park. I built it out of dirt. When I logged back in later both my eyesore and my claim had vanished, the former healed by the land, the latter, presumably, lost to a bug. My attempt to reclaim the same spot was firmly rebuffed and I couldn't find anywhere else so that was that.
In my brief time as a landowner I'd not been able to place the Saw Table I was carrying around with me, although whether due to another bug or my own inability to figure out what I was supposed to do with it, I couldn't say. I needed that table to make some planks to make a bronze pick so I could stop getting the annoying message that pops up when you try to dig up something too sophisticated for your current primitive tool.
That pile of logs burst into flame when I touched it. I was ridiculously impressed.
A quandary, then; how to make planks on a table you are only able to carry around on your back? Well that's where the multiplayer aspect of this whole enterprise kicks in. I found a thread on the forums listing the names and locations of players who had constructed crafting stations on their claims and flagged them for public use. This is why we like alphas and betas!
It can't be a trap. PvP isn't in yet.
Picking the first off the list, a quick trip via spire along the ley lines (Norrath has ley lines. Who knew? The Combine Empire, apparently...) a short run due north to the foothills of a mountain range and there it was, Canibaal's Claim, all aglow with the welcoming light of the forge. Or possibly the fire under his cook-pot.
You always remember your first
From his saw table I was able to make the planks I needed for my Bronze Pick but that was skipping a crucial step. To make a Bronze Pick first take your Copper Pick. I have no idea why just like I have no idea why it takes one thousand plain wood logs to make a Copper Pick. It just does, alright?
That kept me occupied for a while. Luckily for me, Canibaal built his craft center on the edge a delightful little forest. It's in a clearing now. Oh, hush! I'm doing him a favor. It's easier for freeloaders visitors to find his place now. Anyway, they'll grow back. Eventually.
What matters is I got my Bronze Pick so now I can mine iron and aquamarines and make an Iron Pick. You'd be surprised just how much I'm looking forward to it.
Labels: alpha, crafting, Landmark, MMO
skapusniak February 5, 2014 at 8:14 AM
I'm pretty sure claims do get lost for real, and the self healing land is something they've been battling to find a definitive fix for past day or so, but there is definitely another bug where you log into the server where it says your claim is located, and it sends you to the exact same location on the exact same island, but on the wrong server.
First time it happened to me I thought I'd lost my claim, but then I noticed all the claims around where I'd put mine, were different too. Logged out, poked around with server selection, somehow ended up on the right server and there was my claim.
So its worth going to the portal crystal thing and making sure you're on the server you think you are.
Bhagpuss February 5, 2014 at 8:34 PM
That did occur to me but I wasn't sufficiently committed to that spot to go look. I presume I'll find out if I still have an extant claim when I try to clam a new spot on one of the fresh servers. Can't say I really understand the claim process very clearly yet.
Rowan Blaze February 5, 2014 at 12:12 PM
I did finally find a claim on the new Serenity server I'm hoping to be able to move it slightly so Scooter can claim a spot nearby.
Grats! Just about to log in now to see if anything's left on Serenity. Probably going to have to wait for the next batch of servers but I don;t really have time to ply until the weekend so that's fine.
Wilhelm Arcturus February 5, 2014 at 7:35 PM
My prediction for a genuine go live, no longer beta date for Landmark was October 15, 2014. How does that date feel now that you are poking about in the early alpha?
Well, it may be majorly feature-incomplete and buggy as a swamp in June but actually it's way more playable and polished than I expected and already surprisingly enjoyable to play. Clearly needs a LOT of work yet, though.
Still, they're being being pretty bullish about the whole thing. First they start the Alpha a full month earlier than the latest start date they floated; then they dropped the NDA after 24 hours when they had previously said it would last all Alpha and possibly some of closed beta. In the first "what's coming" post on the forums just a few days after launch Dave Georgeson is already suggesting some of the things we weren't expecting until beta may make it into late Alpha.
For whatever reason they seem to be on fast-forward with Landmark so I would say October is quite a bit too far out for a final launch. I know the shovelware F2P houses like to go into Open Beta and sit there for years but I don't think either the American or Japanese corporate mind works that way. They will want the perceived authority of an official launch.
If you look at the website the Founder's Pack now implies a hard date for Closed Beta of 31 March (they've changed the wording) although the FAQ still says "on or before". My guess is they would like to go to Open Beta no later than the beginning of June. If that goes well I can't see a reason to stay in OB longer than a month at the most.
So, I'd plump for a July Live date. Whether they can actually have the game "finished" by then is another matter. If they do get Landmark out the door in the Summer I wouldn't be surprised to see EQN go to the same schedule and process, namely a buy-in Alpha starting very early in 2015.
There is a Rumour of Spring developing on the Serenity Server. Someone has sailed off to get busy digging up gold and treasure in a new world.
Yay! My claim's on Serenity too. No guild structure in yet but when it comes let's organize :P
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Head Full Of Steam : City of Steam
I sometimes refer, rather glibly, to "my top five favorite MMOs of all time", which makes it sound as though I keep a list. I don't. I tend to slot things in and out on a whim as the occasion arises, as my mood changes or, as is most often the case, as I remember some game I'd entirely forgotten and succumb to a surge of nostalgic affection.
One such title is City of Steam. I have a lot of history with that unlucky and mostly unloved MMO. There are more than fifty posts tagged for the game here on Inventory Full, starting with my thoughts about the pre-alpha Sneak Peak back in March 2012 and ending with a brief mention in May of this year, when I said "One of my favorite MMORPGs and definintely one that failed to live up to its full potential".
I also wrote "The original vision for the game was... a real labor of love". What I neglected to mention then, or probably ever, was that the "original vision" was also a published pen and paper roleplaying game.
I vaguely knew it existed. Or once had. The subject came up occasionally on the forums but that provenance was never really pushed as heavily as it might have been. Instead, Nexus seemed to emerge, fully formed, out of the void, something that was - and still is - quite common with MMOs.
Nevertheless, it's clear from early promo trailers like Room for Rent that someone knew a backstory we didn't. I felt much the same about WildStar. It's a good way to create interest in an otherwise unfamiliar property.
On a few occasions I've commented that City of Steam was at its very best in its earliest incarnations. It's commonplace to claim that MMOs are better in beta. That's not always objectively true - there are several subjective factors - exclusivity, novelty, camaraderie - that influence opinion - but also it is an indisputable fact that games do often change radically in development.
City of Steam changed many times. The Sneak Peak was perhaps the purest, most distilled version of creator David Lindsay's original vision, while some of the Alphas may have been the most immersive. I called the first Alpha "a disturbingly compulsive experience".
The game changed a lot in beta and in it's various Live iterations, first drifting and then sprinting away from its original conception. The final version, City of Steam: Arcadia, was arguably a better game but it was also as a neon-lit carnival, almost a parody of the dark, brooding, anxiety-inducing retro-future I'd fallen in love with five years before.
City of Steam shuttered in early 2016. There were vague hints that it might not be the end for the concept but Mechanist Games moved on to a new project, Heroes of Skyrealm.
HoS was a mobile game. I've played it. It was quite good, in its way. It almost felt as if it was part of the same world as City of Steam, but much shinier and more upbeat. Yesterday, for arcane reasons I won't go into, I thought of it and went to check the website to see how it was doing.
It's dead. But I didn't know that until this morning.
Heroes of Skyrealm launched in the Spring of 2017 and closed in June 2018, just over a year later. I only learned that five minutes ago as I was fact-checking for this post. The website is still there, frozen in time at the moment before Open Beta began in February last year. The links still go to the Google Play and Apple Store but the game is no longer there. I found the sunset announcement on Facebook.
The reason I didn't discover the sad news of the demise of Heroes of Skyrealm yesterday is that as I was following links back to Mechanist Games to see what they were up to I landed on the "About" page, where I read this:
"City of Steam: Arkadia... is based on The New Epoch, a series of table-top game books written by David Lindsay, co-founder of Mechanist Games"
So I googled "The New Epoch" and found this. Minutes later I was the happy owner of Watermarked PDFs of both The Character Codex and The Adventure Codex for what is to all intents and purposes the roleplaying game edition of City of Steam.
I've written before about how reassuring and comforting it is to have a solid, physical representation of a virtual world. Novels, gamebooks, comics, even soft toys all help shore up confidence against the inevitable day when the last server goes offline.
Best of all, though, is a full set of roleplaying rules that let you feel that you could re-create the entire gameworld on your kitchen table. If you wanted to. You never will, of course, but you could, and that's what counts.
A PDF isn't quite as good as a printed book but it's a darn sight better than nothing. And these PDFs are stylishly designed and lavishly - gorgeously - illustrated in full color.
I haven't had time to read much in depth as yet. I need to transfer the files onto a device I can hold in my hand before I get stuck in to the detail.
Even so, at a skim, I can already tell just how fascinating a read it's going to be. It's not just the pre-cursor to the game I loved - it is that game. Some of the illustrations in the book are even the very same ones that were used in the early promotional videos.
One of my few gaming regrets is that I never finished the storyline in City of Steam or saw all the zones. I can't change that but now I have another chance to dig deeper into the lore and history that was always evident but ever elusive in the game itself.
And, I guess, one day I might even get to tell some stories of my own.
Labels: #BlaugustReborn, Character, City of Steam, Heroes of Skyrealm, Mechanist Games, MMO, RPGs, virtual world
HZero August 27, 2018 at 10:23 PM
Man, that feeling! I didn't play CoS, but the joy of finding *more* to something you love, especially something you thought done and gone, is amazing.
I remember finishing book five of the Lone Wolf series back in the days before internet and feeling A Great Sadness. And then a year later finding book six somewhere, with the opening pages listing books up through twelve and being giddy with excitement.
Happy for you as a fellow gamer that you found this! And holding out hope that one day GoG.com will open up an MMORPG section and let us play old MMO's on personal servers. :-p
Bhagpuss August 27, 2018 at 10:49 PM
That would be amazing! And thanks, it is a great feeling. I transferred the PDFs onto my tablet today and I'm looking forward to reading through them in depth.
Nogamara August 29, 2018 at 11:53 AM
> One of my few gaming regrets is that I never finished the storyline in City of Steam or saw all the zones.
See, reading this I now remember many, many years ago that I heard something about a Steampunk MMO and was kinda excited. And then I missed everything you described, including the betas, the launch and the shutdown :(
It's not like there have been a whole lot of Steampunk MMOs either. I played NeoSteam, Gatheryn and City of Steam, all of which claimed to be at least steampunk influenced but only CoS really was.
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Please feed (but don't fetishize) the participation
I'm feeling a bit squeamish about a lot of the lonelygirl discussion going on this week, in the wake of the previously secret puppet masters' curtain call. As someone who designs participatory experiences, often games with a serial narrative component, I think it's really important that we stop and look at the kind of participation and engagement actually engendered by projects that purport to solicit the collaboration of the audience.
In the LA Times, the producers of the You Tube serial drama describe their goals for engaging the audience:
The intent was to allow fan response posted in the comment section of lonelygirl15's YouTube and MySpace pages to determine the direction of each subsequent episode.As an example of the fans' influence over the story line, what the team calls "collaborative storytelling," they pointed to an episode in which Daniel reveals his romantic feelings to Bree. "In the 'Hiking' video," Beckett said, "where Daniel filmed her, there were a ton of comments saying, 'Daniel likes you. It's obvious that the cameraman was completely in love with you.' We saw the comments and said this is the perfect opportunity to address this."
Okay, fair enough. I'm all for collaborative storytelling. But I don't think it's right to accept this account of the kind of participation that happened during the lonelygirl project at face value. Today and yesterday I spent a lot of time reading through pretty much every single comment left on the lonelygirl videos, the space where the audience was purportedly invited to help decide and direct the course of the narrative. I would encourage anyone else interested in the currently much praised and hyped lonelygirl "community" to do the same. A great hub for doing this is here.
As the statistics on this traffic counter show, each lonelygirl video has roughly 1000-4000 comments, nearly all of them left before the puppet masters were unmasked. And I have to say this: the level of hate, mean-spiritendess, crudeness and often downright misogeny of the majority of them is impossible to ignore.
As we talk about the “new art form” or “participatory culture” aspects of this project, I want to be very careful that we don’t fetishize the participation aspects of this experience that was had by a very few who may have intelligently, passionately and seriously investigated and responded to the texts and the media objects. I want instead to think about the mainstream experience of and participation in this project and the success of the platform provided for engagement.
To give you an idea, here is a sample of comments that I would characterize as representative of at least 33% if not more of comments to the lonelygirl videos:
You are pretty boring. Get a psychologist.
Ok. Why don’t you just keep your personal problems to yourself and stop making a scene
show us your tits
you are really ugly i hope you know that
Your eyebrows are too far apart. But, you’re still pretty.
Fuck you. Welcome to the new world we Don’t Have to Respect what you think. get over it
I hope Daniel rapes you. No hard feelings.
WHORE lol
HHHmmmmm,your caucasian,live in a decent to luxurious house, are well taken care of,and it looks like you are one of those spoiled girls that kiss ass to thier daddy.Think you have it rough?Why dont you come live in East Los Angeles,whee you cant go anywhere without being shot at,you fuckin spoiled brat.
Cry me a river bitch, your a teenager, do what your parents say bitch.
(Most discussion in the comments is not about whether lonelygirl is real or not-- they appear to accept the videos at face value, or otherwise not to care whether they are insulting a "real" girl or an actress.)
So: Is this really the birth of a new art form? Is this a kind of social participation that we like or find interesting? I'm all for participatory entertainment. But let's carefully design platforms, vehicles, and contexts for participation that really work to engage audiences, players, makers, collaborators in meaningful ways.
One more point I want to make: I think this question of "is she real or not" and how does the audience feel about being hoaxed or played with is a really important one. Although many, many viewers were openly skeptical or cynical about the verity of lonelygirl's professed identity, from what I can tell, far more took it close enough to real to play along.
Now I've written a lot about, and worked on quite a few, projects that ask players to perform belief in the story and game experiences, but--and here's the key distinction--without presenting actually credible fictons. (Stories set 500 years in the future, for instance, or involving poker rooms full of ghosts). The media itself never clearly said "I'm not real", but the content absolutely had no chance of fooling anyone. So I'll come out and say it: I don't personally like entertainment in the form of credible hoaxes. Not necessarily from a moral position, but rather because I believe that "real or not" distracts from the more important question: How can I meaningfully engage?
I agree that serial drama on You Tube is a great art form (so are traditional ARGs, the more elaborate art form that lonelygirl represents a pared back style of, in my opinion), but the real conversation should be not about the realness, but rather: How do people want to participate in it? Do they want to be the makers of their own videos? To have role-playing style conversations in the comments? Do they want to directly influence the narrative or to just speculate and gossip about it so they can be proven right by what happens next? And most importantly how do we inspire participation that is more than hostile juvenile comments? How do we create a real participatory community around an entertainment property, and what forms of participation are possible... and desirable?
Posted by Jane at 11:25 AM
Autumn said...
I heard about this from someone outside the community. My first thought was "creative" but then... I thought, where's the back up, the work, the something that makes it obviously a game?
For me, as a sometimes player, and friend of many ARGer's, I agreed with you. I think it should be clear we're playing a game - I don't like the idea that this "could be real" because that changes the way the player interacts with the game. Don't misunderstand me, the BeeKeepers LOVE (because there is no other word) for Durga/The Sleeping Princess is strong still and I imagine she will always be a very important character in our lives. But everyone knew from the onset she was a character, was able to love her or hate her passionately like we do a character in any book or movie.
Risking making you character a "real" person, where you don't know if it's happening or not in real life... I think that changes the way you think, the way you balance decisions, the way you communicate. If this person is real your effecting a person life, not just a story line and I think, when you get down to it - people care about that.
Mike Sugarbaker said...
Should we also consider the possibility that the proportion of insulting comments was high because the content was obviously fake? It's both safe and, from a juvenile viewpoint, amusing to insult someone who isn't real.
So I've been thinking about this this evening, and while I agree that the comments you posted are hideous, I'm not convinced that they're typical. Oh yes, it's clearly typical for there to be a number of such posts, but looking at the most recent fifty odd comments to her latest video they're really not bad - most are commenting on the fakeness but htere are only a couple of horrid ones. I think mean comments attract more mean comments and wonder whether you found a rut of extra bad ones? The other YouTube profiles I've surveyed (just in a couple o fhours though, certainly not a systematic survey) don't have many bad comments either, which suggests that perhaps the LonelyGirl15 videos got these hate-comments after going mainstream?
Counting comments and doing content analysis could answer some of our questions - how large a percentage of comments are vicious? How many refer to sexual attributes of the person in the video? For lonelygirl15? On average? For young women posting video blogs? For men? Does it increase with increased popularity? Did lonelygirl15's get worse when she became "famous"? When she was found to be a fake? Is there a correlation between numbers of links from outside YouTube and the nature of the comments? Are vicious commenters productive - do they make videos or just troll the comments?
But all this is counting kind of research and would require statistical analysis and that's not the sort of research I do well... Would be a great project for someone to do though - I'd love to read that essay.
My comment analysis focused heavily on posts made before the puppet masters were revealed. The comments in the past couple of days have been very different in tone from those left during the pre-reveal experience, and I think if we want to explore the participation generated by the core experience itself, we should be looking way back through the middle and early comments as well. The comments I posted here are completely typical of those stages of the experience. So are simple comments like "hang in there it will be okay" and "lol your eyebrows are cute" (unbelieveable number of eyebrow comments!), but even if you want to argue that a lot of the comments were banal and cordial, it is still a far, far, far cry from the level of meaningful engagement being ascribed to the project, in my opinion, by some people looking to laud anything that is remotely participatory.
Basically, with something like this, I would be looking for a more constructive opportunity to engage and participate-- I guess I have found that in ARGs, which give you specific ways to interact with the characters to solve the problems presented by the narrative, in an environment less prone to degenerating into hostile puerile discussion--whether it be through leaving strategic voice mail messags, social engineering, letter writing, puzzle solving, video making, photo taking, and event staging.
Brian Enigma said...
I have to agree with you (and with Autumn in an above comment) about believability (or the suspension of disbelief.) I like my games to be games--to be a diversion from everyday reality. When an ARG or other game starts trying to blur the lines between what's real and what's not, I start to get uncomfortable. When it's fake, but plausible within its own framework (be that the future, a ghostly casino, with superheros, or with spies), it falls well within my comfort level, leaving me more able to get engrossed in the game/entertainment and not worry about anything else.
One of my personal pet peeves with this has been that YouTube has so few *boundaries* for participation. As you pointed out in your analysis of the comments provided by Bree's loving "community," the viewers' participation followed a few trends: First posters (OMGZORS! I #1), "your [sic] a big fakey mcfakeypants", fascination with Bree's eyebrows (I don't understand it, either), a few "you rule!"s, and then the really disturbing suggestions you mentioned in your post along with my personal favorite "just commit suicide." Naturally, this mix of diametrically opposed brains with no direction, filtering, or guidance led to a big pile of 1000 comment flamewars. Pair the adversary nature of the comments with the "real or not real" hoax discussion that was engaged and what I see is mass chaos. That the creators are suggesting YouTube was a burgeoning community influencing the story narrative seems to be to be a naïve, overly positive, assessment of their creation. Something like this is almost a Pandora's Box - you open it expecting a big golden nugget, but unleash the beasts that you can't control. (Perhaps because you had no plan in place to deal with anything but gold. That's another discussion for another time.)
Looking at some of the other forums discussing LG15 (the Alyssa forum gets referenced often, though I have no desire to register to actually SEE it), they seem to have a better handle on the situation, allowing for some more fruitful discussion of the narrative and the questions about the characters it poses. Perhaps those communities are what the creators are basing their assessment on. *crosses fingers*
I wonder whether a more direct engagement between Bree and her audience - for instance, some form of *reward* for the viewers participating fruitfully: a shoutout, a "so Suzie Charmschool asked me..." etc - would have fostered a more positive interactive experience on YouTube, perhaps drowning out the more juvenile and lewd crowd. YouTube is an interesting platform in that the viewers can record their responses to videos, posting them alongside the subject matter - to me, that was an ample opportunity to create a "face to face" community on a strictly web platform, but I'm not sure that was actually created. It would have been interesting for Bree to have *asked* her viewers to participate. The form of the video narrative was free enough to experiment with the engagement of the viewers. Perhaps I missed the point, but to me, it was more of a passive viewing exercise than an opportunity for active participation.
While I continue to ponder wildly on a blog not my own, it is also entirely possible that some of negative poo might have been subdued had there not been the overwhelming question of Bree's place in reality :P (I say some, as I do remember a number ILB "omgzorz this is all fake for microsoft" on Dana's blogspot, despite the irrationality of the fictional situation. There always seems to be SOMEONE out there determined to educate the masses following the dangerous hoax. See also "Who Is Benjamin Stove," which I believe treaded the reality line with some danger, though seemed to ease the threat of its thinly veiled game-iness by providing a controlled community that was able to respond pretty effectively to questions.)
I could also just be a big cynical McPoopypants who has been spoiled by great games.
Shakespeare's plays were first performed in front of crowds accustomed to shouting crude comments and causing general disruption if displeased. Gifted writers learned to please both the high and the low; performers learned to roll with the punches. To hope for a 'high minded' audience on such a rough-and-tumble platform as Youtube is a waste of time. The creators clearly read what they wanted, judging their audience while staying within the bounds of decency (how different it would have been if she had shown us her tits!)
On the subject of hoaxes, I get enough uncreative hoaxes in my inbox every day in the form of spam, phishing and kind nigerian diplomats with poor spelling; to be had by a hoax as interesting as this one was a pleasure.
Jane, have you looked at the video comments to the lonelygirl videos? I certainly haven't looked at all of them (there are a lot!) but the ones I've seen do seem to have more of an investment of self and to be less vicious. There are lots of spoofs and parodies of the lonelygirl videos in these responses, and certainly it's not all the kind of engagement we'd like to see in a collaborative narrative, but there's definitely some good engagement too.
The video responses do get a "reward" - they're prominently displayed right after the lonelygirl videos, and so are likely to get lots of clicks - and lots of clicks gets them more viewers, which gets them higher up in the ranking system.
I actually saw one young girl who jeered at the trolls in her comments (there were some pretty nasty comments going on) saying ha, you're just raising my comments score, idiots. So I do think getting up the ranking lists (most discussed, most viewed, most subscribed) on YouTube has value for the players of hte youtube game. It makes your videos more visible too.
I really appreciate all of the excellent comments here-- even when I don't necessarily agree with all of the points raised, it's great to hear them.
Chris, I feel there is a big difference between people being crude and shouting obscenities to characters on a stage during a live play, which is obviously a framed entertainment and not taken for real, and people being shockingly aggressive and hostile to a stranger that by all evidence many took to be real, or at least possibly real. It's not the crudeness I necessarily object too-- your Shakespeare point is well-taken on that front. But the fact that this is what passes for social interaction online, and people's sense of entitlement to be cruel to others, is a problem both in "real" and entertainment social spaces. We shouldn't celebrate that, we should wonder about it and try to channel that energy into something a little less hostile. That's just my personal mission, I understand if not everyone agrees.
And Jill, to your last comment-- indeed, as we were discussing on your blog, the You Tube community has certainly constructed a kind of game around views and ranks. But just because a system can be gamed, does that necessarily make it a game we want to play? I feel instead that anyone aspiring to invent a new, participatory art form should aspire to raise the level of the game beyond personal ego-boosting.
I was interested to find this comment from Jessica Rose, the actor who plays lonelygirl15, in an MTV interview:
Just as the creators had hoped, that vast space has been filled with an emerging community dedicated to lonelygirl15. Rose says she's received copious feedback from across cyberspace.
"I've had so many positive e-mails sent to me. People were concerned that I was going to be getting hate mail, which I haven't," she said. "All of their e-mails are like, 'I'm sorry for all the hate mail that you must be getting.' And I'm like, 'I'm not. There's none.' I've had so many positive and lovely messages, so it's been really nice."
I seem to remember reading research about how we treat each other in emails vs f2f - I think the more perceived distance between us the less humane, polite, empathetical etc we are? Maybe some of that's coming into play here too - especially if the emails she's getting directly are friendly.
I agree with your basic point though, Jane, that there are better ways of doing participatory art.
SBC said...
Is it possible that the lonelygirl15 performance is designed to elicit the kind of responses Jane mentions?
Even in her name, lonelygirl15 invites a kind of openness and abstraction for the audience to shape in whatever way they choose. Her status is simultaneously singular (lonely, alone, isolated) and multiple (1 of 15, or more?) She is not unique, but neither is she connected to clearly-defined groups lacking cultural markers of identity. She is anyone; she is the one.
This openness is further accentuated in the face of the actress, whose facial structure (often a subject of not only comment [eyebrows], but also her own manipulation) and close proximity to the screen make her into a kind of projection surface. The blankness of her look, the emptiness of "plot" in the episodes (for lack of a better word), and her apparent lack of engagement with the outside world (home-schooled, and filmed predominently in a single room) invite a way of looking in which the viewer can manipulate the image into whatever he or she wants to imagine. Compared to other vaguely similar YouTube videos, which are saturated with objects and statements that define the identity of the creator, lonelgirl is an unusally blank slate. I suspect it is this openness that was/is so attractive to viewers, who could project themselves into the open spaces of the performance.
The revelation of lonelygirl as a performance obviously forecloses this imaginative space, thereby reducing the aggressive comments, and I would expect eventual viewership.
This, it seems to me, is very different from both both the live theatre, which relies on a willing suspension of disbelief and games, which require a different kind of (performance of) belief. And it's far more troubling.
Dilettante Ventures said...
To throw some thoughts out...
I am surprised by the impulse many people here have towards delineating "appropriate" interaction. It would seem to undermine any notion of "true" interactivity. That is, by trying to create "constructive" forms of engagement, you are really trying to *limit* interactivity (as base as it may be at times) within preemptive constraints.
To say the "real or not" question gets in the way of participation seems to deny the particpatory nature of the discussion. There are many for whom the debate itself is part of the pleasure of the narrative no?
WriTerGuy said...
"This is not a girl"
I seem to recall that years ago, Dr. Marcus Welby regularly received letters asking for medical help, despite the fact that he was a television series. I don't recall anyone being alarmed (or harmed) by this form of participation in the show.
Trolling is a sad reality and a difficult one for me to ponder, but I wouldn't want to give it more power than it's due. If an art museum had a device that recorded the thought of every viewer of an artwork, it might read more uncharitably than YouTube. That shouldn't put limits on art.
broadway mylosh said...
the reason why the video comments are less vicious is because of this thing we got here going on in the internet called "keyboard bravery", its been around since the early 90s, with vid comments though youre not 100% protected.
anyways youtube message boards are particularly mean, pardon the misogyny but go look at message board comments of say a girl high school fight, it almost always errupts into a race war or a comment about physical appearance. Think Mean Girls and the Biggest Bully at your high school times 1000 when it comes to youtube comment bravery.
That's the youtube message board community for ya
Piscin said...
I appreciate your comments about the You Tube interactivity. I too feel uneasy about some of the extremely mean spirited comments left not only on lonelygirl15's channel, but also on people's channels who are posting content based on their real lives.
That said, I think that you should look at some of the forums that have spun out of the lonelygirl15 phenomanon. The first was lonelygirl15.com, and it was set up by the creators of the series. However, it was very poorly moderated and a lot of mean spirited comments and lengthy digressions from the main purpose of analysing the videos ensued. In addition, a lot of the users were unsatisfied with its messy organization.
So another forum was set up at www.anchor-cove.net. It is well moderated and organized, and the users that tend to migrate to it do not stand for the mistreatment of fellow users.
Perhaps in your analysis, you should consider how easy it is for users to create and/or move to other forms of internet interactivity if they are displeased in any way with how an initial site/forum is being run.
Also, by looking at the www.anchor-cove.net site, you will come to understand how loosely the creators of lonelygirl15 are using the words "collaborative storytelling", how uninformed they (as well as many, but not all, lg15 participants) are about args, and how unresearched they are on many of their key plot points. Afterwards, you will understand that "new art form" for the creators is probably a euphemism for "we got really lucky and have been more successful in the mainstream in a newish, but already developing medium that we barely understand."
Axel said...
A very intersting article. I would simply like to point out that you are jumping to conclusions when you take the YouTube comments as the main source of particatory involvement with the audience.
Firstly, because the Puppetmasters (referred to in the LG15 community as The Creators) have in their first OOC communication implied that they aim to provide a separate community, which will incidentally not be based on YouTube, but on the more restrictive Revver.Com.
Secondly, that YouTube provides such crude communication and participation tools.
And finally, that the actual community at YouTube seems to be undergoing a bit of an existence crisis. Traditionally the domaain of vbloggers, hence very much invested in the perceived 'real', but also swarmed with an audience that does not want to play along to this earlier self-understanding. Prominent vbloggers (e.g. Renetto) have come out and challenged this limited view on the worth of the 'real' versus the often invoked 'fake' (i.e. produced, scripted, acted) in the sense that in the end only the quality of the content should matter, if YT is supposed to grow beyond its initial identity.
These are growing pains in the community, and also evidence of the old John Gabriel 'General Internet Fuckwad Theory': Normal Person + Anonymity + Audience = Total Fuckwad.
The evidence in the comments on YouTube have no bearing on the meaningfulness of audience participation narratives, beyond the clear indication that moderation is obviously necessary.
For better examples of the core audience of LG15, I invite you to examine the discussion at http://www.anchor-cove.net
Interestingly enough, there seems to be a renegade story spinning-off the original content that might very well be a true ARG. It certainly has drawn the attention of some veterans at UnFiction.com
I think a lot of this commentary is premature...we've only seen Act I. I expect these guys (Miles and Greg are Berkeley grads, Jane, BTW,) have a lot more up their sleeves with interactivity. And, let's face it, had they been transparent from the beginning, would we have even heard of them? Would anyone outside of You Tube?
Just for balance, I would look at the comments of any other popular video on YouTube – the comments on YouTube videos are consistently offensive. Considering the source of the comments, what is surprising is the amount of positive feedback. The comments of LonelyGirl15 suggest a community of caring viewers because there are comments beyond the typical chorus of mean-spirited one-liners. The YouTube “community” does not typically have dialog, and any analysis of the comments might want to take that into consideration… Or consider that the second highest rated video today is “Buddhism is Stupid and Evil.”
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That's because it's not. This Eat contained one of the building blocks that became Draconian. It's just a "Jimmy Stewart", much like 4/11/08 DBK isn't DBK>Cut The Cables>DBK or 9/4/05 3x isn't 3x>Spires>3x. The songs didn't exist yet.
Review by username, posted 02 November 2017 10:28 am EDT, attached to 2017-10-28
Great Show! Too bad you can't stream on a Roku with the Cleeng service. It took my whole Sunday to get a refund. I'm still getting e-mails from them. They keep telling me that they only take money and "protect" the stream. Not once do they take any responsibility. They say they are not the organizer, nor responsible. What BS!!! When the Roku channel has their name on it, and their name on the bill. The band needs to break away from this shady Cleeng. Whats funny is the band did their job, the streaming crew did their job( It works on a laptop), but yet the Cleeng channel doesn't work. A device built for streaming doesn't work. I guess they think my laptop is the best way to view and listen to music, not my T.V. and high end audio equipment. I can't wait until the band drops this client and moves to a platform like Nugs that actually works.
Review by graceofbordan, posted 05 October 2017 8:55 pm EDT, attached to 2014-10-30
Review by doublej25, posted 25 September 2017 1:05 pm EDT, attached to 2017-09-23
One hell of a show.
Posted setlist is missing "Hold Me Now (cover by Thompson Twins) " between Triple Wide and Mantis.
Review by thardin, posted 18 September 2017 7:02 am EDT, attached to 2017-02-02
Great show! The set list doesn't do this show justice. The rendition of Night Nurse is the best version I've personally heard. An incredible Visions > Ain't proud to beg(1,241 show gap) > Red Tape to close the first. Soul Food I, II and just the second Soul Food III ever played and what a great and fun way to open the 2nd set red hot. I always love a decent Conduit followed by Comfortably Numb which is covered in solid UM fashion. 15+ min JaJunk to close the second! Kimble is one of my all time favorites and is always welcomed especially for an encore. Gulf Stream ends the show perfectly! One of the better shows of Winter Tour 2017.
Review by pjdwyer, posted 05 September 2017 12:42 pm EDT, attached to 2017-09-01
Drove down from Chicago just for this bad boy and then drove back up the next morning for North Coast Festival. Love this venue immediately. Great sound, great crowd, excellent beer section, clean bathrooms, plenty of room to move around.
What a burner. A Bridgeless for the ages. The Utopian > Night Nurse > Utopian > Kashmir is peak Umphrey's for me. Cap it off with a spirited Gulf Stream and the end of Bridgeless was a perfect encore.
Overall just a really fantastic show. Really glad I decided to go for it. Brought 2 virgins to the show and they both loved it and said they'd absolutely go back next time they come around.
Review by PhilsFarmHand, posted 16 August 2017 5:00 pm EDT, attached to 2017-07-22
Amazing show. Rain held up and pretty cool venue as well. Ocean Billy was highlight of the night.
There is also a "Cant You Hear me Knockin'" Rolling Stones tease in Blue Echo.
Review by Nemo_986, posted 13 August 2017 12:35 pm EDT, attached to 2017-07-22
Theres a Safety Dance (Men Without Hats) tease in Ocean Billy that isnt note. Excellent show through and through though.
Review by StonedJackBalla, posted 11 August 2017 9:45 pm EDT, attached to 2017-08-10
Great show. First set was real magic. Second set was a heater. Ringo was on point, jam started off slow and teased so hard....then they just let it rip. Highlight of the show for me for sure. . Partyin peeps was a nice surprise. And the 40s encore was pure sex.
Also on another note....city of tiny lites is part of the life during exodus mashup. So it's on there bubba
Review by Nicky_Mescalini, posted 11 August 2017 7:01 pm EDT, attached to 2017-08-10
OK, 1st off, this show was fantastic. One highlight for me was playing a song by one of my all time favorites - FRANK ZAPPA -yeah im an old man :). UM played a great version of City of Tiny Lites. However, when I look at the setlist here, it is not listed at all. Also, in the Song archives, it is stated that it was only played by UM one time -- 12 years ago! Now, no one believes me when I tell them that they played it (that was not at the show) - please get these facts updated on the site - Thank You!!!!
Review by pjdwyer, posted 26 July 2017 3:22 pm EDT, attached to 2017-07-23
I know as of this review that Eat doesn't show that they teased Footsteps by Pearl Jam, but they did from about 1:30-3:30. I know that guitar riff anywhere.
Fantastic show. The guys were locked in and ready to play. Absolutely worth the drive back and forth from Chicago and the lack of sleep that resulted. Cant believe I got to see them cover COCHISE! One of my favorite songs ever by any band. Onward & Upward, All Things Ninja, Kula, and the fantastic Out of Order closer were my highlights.
Review by pragmatist38, posted 24 July 2017 5:30 pm EDT, attached to 2017-07-08
I was hoping for Attachments, and they opened with it. Who picked this set list? It was as if the guys were anticipating a lot of people who hadn't seen them before and decided to give them a potpourri- Puppet String, Nemo, Ringo, Higgins, AIT (of course!), Glory, 1348 and Baba O'Reilly? Quite something. And some of the most creative phrasing I've heard from Brendan. Is he getting better? Scary thought... Threatening skies, but not a drop of rain until they left the stage- as if Heaven were on their side...
This was my second of 11 shows so far, and I urge all to listen to it, for musically it is the best show I've seen. A ?Mild Sedative> The Crooked One with what is a truly moving jam; Loose Ends with the best solo technique and phrasing-wide I have ever heard from Jake. Really! Then Tribute to the Spinal Shaft> Resolution> Cemetery Walk> Ocean Billy with an old version Cut the Cable stuck in the middle. At the end of the 2nd set, Much Obliged with another special jam into an inspired Glory. Truly amazing- I listen to it over and over again.
Review by wappykushberry, posted 20 July 2017 8:15 pm EDT, attached to 2003-04-01
one of my favorites. the band seems as relaxed as ever based on song choice. also its an april fools day show, this shit is fire, divisions with jake on vocals needs to be relived again one of these days. the jimmys in this are off the chainwax
Review by Urkness, posted 05 June 2017 5:09 pm EDT, attached to 2017-05-18
Gloria Estefan's "Conga" teased during All In Time (05:58 - 07:00)
Hilarious. Great show. Perfect setlist.
Review by bornxeyed, posted 01 June 2017 4:44 pm EDT, attached to 2017-05-19
They won me over. Long time Dead/Phish head here and this was my first UM show...hard to believe after all these years of hearing about them, and even listening to a few shows here and there. But here we are...at Pier Six on a chill night that saw a break in the weather.
My wife and I rolled in and had an awesome time. First set had me hooked. The searing guitar work got me. That Higgins was awesome with the Thunderstruck jam. Then they sink into the Beatles' tune. Grand stuff.
The 2nd set was a dance party through and through. We moved seats at set break and by mid-set found ourselves surrounded by a bunch of younger UM fans, clearly in step with each other. They were having a blast.
Not knowing the songs and the music was a blessing. We had no expectations and left awestruck. Sick show for my money; not sure how it stacks up to seasoned fans' opinions. Met some awesome folks though and look forward to more UM every chance I get.
Review by TheWappiestBerry, posted 31 May 2017 7:08 pm EDT, attached to 2017-05-27
For the church show, water was not played. It was Morning Song > Blue Echo.
The reggae Jessica jam in cut off is absolutely beautiful.
Review by Twisthem488, posted 20 April 2017 6:53 pm EDT, attached to 2017-04-19
Standing in front of me is a girl in a tank top and an Umphrey's McGee hat. She keeps flirting with her boyfriend and and egging on her two sisters with a very attractive level of spunk that perfectly represents the ballrooms atmosphere. Every breath I inhale smells of weed and every visage of the crowd full is smiles. As I watch I see rock bulls made of hands shoot bolts of energy straight into the band. They are 15 feet away. Close enough to catch their eye and close for them to catch mine. Another moment of eyes locked and I'm not just an observer; my level of the enjoyment feeds right back into the music and powers the ballroom. Everyone here is a a part of a larger organism that seeps into the soul. Lights blaze and colorful angel-rays pour through the mist. Who knew heaven was full of rainbows. The music gets louder and the bassist looks as if he's been reborn. I feel his music in my chest and wonder what it would be like to have two hearts beating, pounding at my ribs, and telling me it's time to move, but I think I already know.
Review by Samgoldfarb12, posted 05 April 2017 11:43 am EDT, attached to 2007-04-19
The Peter Gunn has a long Myxamotsis (Radiohead) tease and the ending of Slipknot! (Grateful Dead). definitely check it out.
Review by latetotheparty, posted 03 April 2017 4:07 pm EDT, attached to 2017-04-01
This was my first UM show. I am still blown away by the night we had. Such positive energy from the crowd and the band. If you're looking for technical info about the songs, sorry. As it was my first show I can't compare it to anything. It felt like full throttle all night to me. I guess the rumors are true. UM are good. I enjoyed #5 a lot and pretty much the second set in it's entirety was madness. It felt like eating a bowl of asparagus tips. No stalks to chew through.
Review by spaceoutintime, posted 27 March 2017 11:59 pm EDT, attached to 2017-03-02
The Sandpoint shows were special, but this one in particular fulfilled all expectations, and then some.
An 18-minute opening Conduit with not one but two extended yams? Check. A five-song first set? Check. A songlist show? Check. An incredibly small, intimate venue with superb sound in a breathtakingly beautiful corner of this troubled planet? Check.
By set break, I was already satiated up to my eyeballs. And yet as such things go, I was still jonesing for more (never enough Umph!).
And as amazing as the first set was, the best was somehow still to come.
The second set is an amazing creation of perfect symmetry. The first three songs flow seamlessly (with Jake playing none other than Jerry Garcia's infamous Travis Bean 500 guitar!) into a long sought after Search 4 hinging into another continuous three-song tryptic of sonic wonder, and possibly my favorite combined moment of this show -- which already runneth over with riches. Which is to say that ITK- > No Comment > Rock the Casbah is the Real Deal. One heck of a party that.
And for good measure, the Plunger/ITK/Plunger sandwich encore sent us spinning out into the snowy night still dancing a perma-grin jig.
All in all, this show has it all. Perfect on-the-fly song selection, execution, and exploration. Could not have asked for more.
Review by StellaBlueEcho, posted 09 February 2017 5:38 pm EST, attached to 2002-06-21
1st show as well and have enjoyed every moment since then. So many people at this tent dancing their asses off in the unforgiving heat that day. Best band around. They were great at what they did back then and just keep getting better. Thank you for all the memories past, present, and future.
Review by pmahon, posted 11 January 2017 8:46 pm EST, attached to 2015-07-16
First off, great show, just wish it was longer. Lettuce was a cool opening act, however, not many were there to enjoy it unfortunately.
Because of the co-headline, they got a shorter set but they got right to work. Junk was solid right out of the gate, and the bottom>anchor>linear>non-compliance was great. They have not played non-compliance alot, which is a shame cause it has a sweet riff and a top 5 stew song for me. Plunger was a weird kinda funky different jam, and clearly pretty good as it landed on the HOF 2015. The rest of the set was great too, nothing crazy, but great songs with solid jams throughout. The encore for me, made the show. Booth Love with the Eminence jam into DBK was so cool. Haji is always great and the back half of DBK finished off a truly solid night for the guys. Cheers.
Review by LinearOlyn, posted 11 September 2016 10:23 pm EDT, attached to 2016-09-10
First set was fire. Check out Slacker and the Linear. Higgins jam and Haunt jam worth a listen as well.
Review by RobLA16, posted 27 August 2016 7:30 pm EDT, attached to 2016-08-12
First time UM concert goer impressions.
First impressions. I don’t know HOW they remember how all their songs go. It’s like Homer telling the Odyssey. Super impressive. Brendan and Jake. You are the dynamic fulcrum of the band. Jake is the unapproachable guitar wizard and Brendan is the friendly, compassionate frontman. They are the heart and soul of the band. and enhance each other. Big tumbs up to Ryan (nice Celtics jersey), Kris (nice vocal on I Got Love), Joel (beautiful keyboard break, esp during Gents) and Andy (or was it you on I Got Love). It’s one thing for one performer to be able to do it, but to have all 6 locked in, plus the Shady Horns (nice breakdown on Bad Friday), is unique.
1 Best song of the night for me was Gents, the opener. As a newbie this was sort of the pu pu platter of the UM experience. Everyone gets a little light under the sun.
2 I Got Love - which i didn’t know at the time (Nate Dogg) was a good inclusion. And it makes me think, their covers are pretty much gonna be confined to songs by acts that are no longer really doing it. I like that. So who else did west coast rap in Boston in 2016? I like that.
3 Bad Friday - Yes we all watch Around the horn, so you couldn’t go wrong. And it was a hot nasty Friday in Boston in front of a wilted, lackluster audience. The Shady Horns got to stretch out during this one too.
4 The guy who yelled “Free Tom Brady” right before Wizard Burial Ground.
1 Sorry but I was REALLY hoping for Glory. It had been 6 shows, and I thought it was due. But that’s just me. High hopes low expectations. Having said that…Glory is nothing short of a 21st century classic rock CLASSIC. The whole world should get to hear this song. Truly remarkable and truly one of a KIND.
2 The weather was horrible and sticky and like I said, and it was the end of a long Augist week. The audience seemed pretty wilted. And the band seemed a bit frustrated with that. Or maybe I’m projecting. And they took it out on the music. Hard and heavy all night. Very few light moments. Not a lot of smiling.
Fun to be Happy - Love Tractor. Listen to it, learn it, play it live. It’s perfect for UM.
PS Brown Sabbath was GREAT for the 18 or 19 of us who were there in time to see them.
Review by bmrobin, posted 17 August 2016 4:49 pm EDT, attached to 2015-06-28
The opening Front Porch sandwich is absolutely must-hear Umphrey's. Just when you think you've heard the last of it, it just keeps comin'.
Review by spaceoutintime, posted 08 April 2016 10:17 pm EDT, attached to 2016-04-06
I just finished listening to this show, two days after the fact, in three different sittings. But wow, even remotely, audio only, with interruptions, this show shines. Liquid velvety smoothness throughout. They were locked in from note one and feeling good. The first five songs (of a six song first set) flow effortlessly into one other, with Mad Love tacked on for good measure. I'm always a sucker for Miami Virtue, as it so often lends itself as a pliable launching pad, and this excursion is top notch. Set 2 keeps the flow going with many high water marks. Everything in it's right place. Their playing this night is inspired and relaxed. Great start to this year's Southern run.
Review by UWPointers, posted 02 April 2016 1:58 pm EDT, attached to 2003-10-15
Its been near 12 and a half years later . . . and I still listen to this show for the great lead off into a classic, gritty Phil's Farm and the intimacy of the venue. The Witz End was a small bar/supper club in the middle of nowhere that couldn't fit more than 75 people, tops. The show was the day AFTER the famed "Steve Bartman" game, and prior to the show a group of us UW-Pointers went early for pre-show beers, and were fortunate enough to imbibe and visit with the band and watch the Cubs playoff game. They were not happy about the previous day's Bartman game, and went into the show even more downtrodden due to a Cubs Game 7 loss immediately before the show began. Yet, a fantastic and intimate show in a great, classic Wisconsin atmosphere. Sadly, the Witz End later burned to the ground.
Great show on the campus of the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point (my alma mater). A great time, and notably Set 2 was incredible. Kinda a strange venue, but this show will always hold a place in my heart, if only because (at the time) it was home.
Amazing show in a small venue in Northern Wisconsin. Hard to believe it happened over 11 years ago. Lots of firsts in this show for me personally - a great Africa, and an absolutely ripping NTF and Jimmy Stewart. A personal favorite. This show remains in my listening rotation 11 years later!
Review by spaceoutintime, posted 29 March 2016 2:36 am EDT, attached to 2016-03-25
Among this particular west coast run, from Sandpoint, IDaHO, to The City of Angels: purring galore went down, catnip was fresh and organic, and -- (this night!) -- to my furry ears, was the cat's meow. First set, contender for favorite of the 10; set two is strong throughout but somewhat front loaded. Minor quibble for such high caliber executions unfolding as a single point of boundary dissolving music.
Review by fractalmoe, posted 28 March 2016 4:02 pm EDT, attached to 2016-03-24
This show is incredible. Both first and second sets have character. I was stoked to hear In The Black live for the first time, I think this song is one of their best yet and can't wait to hear it recorded in the studio. 2nd Self and Utopian Fir are both Hall of Fame worthy. I've never seen an UM crowd so fired up than during the Utopian Fir jam -- the entire place was bouncing like it was a god damned rave... it was a beautiful thing to be a part of.
The second set Cemetery Walk sandwich is delicious. It really pulls the whole thing together and the CW II ending is one of the most incredible musicial moments I've ever seen live -- Waful deserves some credit here too because the synchronicity between the band and the lighting at the end of that song was surreal.
Farag singing Dirty Love was fun and perhaps a foreshadowing of the Arthur Barrow sit-in that took place two days later at the Wiltern in LA.
Encore was meaty and satisfying, Andy's Last Beer being the spinner.
Nothing short of an amazing show here. Tahoe represent!
Review by mista_huva, posted 28 March 2016 2:06 pm EDT, attached to 2016-03-24
Playing in a casion's hotel is always going to be a bit of a trip, but despite what was going on outside, inside the South Shore Room was a RAWK SHOW!
The cemetery walk sandwhich was a personal favorite of mine, and the Reso and first set Utopian are HoF worthy
http://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/umphreys-mcgee-harrahs-review
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.202164030159453.1073741829.194407520935104&type=3
The fifth Fox appearance in 5 years, the band has loved coming back to the Bay Area and throwing down.
The OG Cable sandwich in Ocean Billy hit the spot and the Banana Bron-Yr-Aur was classic!
Check out the Grateful Web review a full gallery of photos here
http://www.gratefulweb.com/articles/umphreys-mcgee-oakland-ca-review
This was the 2016 Winter tour closer and 3rd night in a row of UM's California run this year.
Bayliss took over on plenty of solid jams and the Arthur Barrow sit-in was incredible - Treacherous Cretins wasn't written on the set list.
Read more and check out pictures here!
http://www.glidemagazine.com/158502/um/
First set is great, Arthur Barrow sit-in is amazing. Second set is a bit lackluster. Wizard Burial Ground is a throw down.
Review by DBONES, posted 04 March 2016 1:42 pm EST, attached to 2015-12-31
This is the best Speak Up you're going to hear. Example 1, Push the Pig, Space Funk Booty are great with horns.
Solid show, but the first night of Beacon was far superior in every way. Auf>HBB was perfect. Speak Up is a funky new tune. Ocean Billy>Gents>1348 is a great way to end a set.
Bad Friday is ok, but the jam it leads to is excellent. Same with ITK, not my favorite tune, but great jam. This seems to be the case with these songs live. Haj - speaker blows, don't download by itself. Tom Sawyer fucking rocks. BB is a god.
This was a pretty kick ass show. Phil's Farm has a great jam and then Great American has a sweet jam that kind of sounds like an alternate version of the jam on Phil's. 2x2 is always a treat. They slayed both parts of N2F, as usual, and the Stewart with vocals on Plunger will make a cool song someday. It doesn't rage but Jake shows off some of his finesse on the strings taking some beautiful solos. HBB is a beast to end it with a Joel heavy atmospheric jam.
Review by MitchMitchell99, posted 09 February 2016 2:03 pm EST, attached to 2014-08-08
Of the top 5 list of my favorite UM shows are both times I've seen these guys at Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom. Something about the small stretch of coastline we got in NH seems to bring out the best in people there, for the crowd and band. The Ratdog and Jim Gaffigan shows I saw had performers and crowd alike having a ball. Keeping coming to the beach fellas and bring back Proverbial! Thanks for that, John Scofield and some of the most fun I ever had in my home state that night
Review by AllinTom, posted 09 February 2016 11:08 am EST, attached to 2016-01-22
This is as good as an Umphrey's show gets. Every song was incredible. Song placement kept everyone excited, and the improvisation was well done and heavily inspired. Everything got pretty heavy, and nothing was aimless. Perfect score.
Review by DBONES, posted 28 January 2016 4:30 pm EST, attached to 2015-02-12
All in Time pt. 1 lets Jake show off his chops. The chops are tight. They really rip the first part of AIT. Pony rides on Mulche's, and Kimble is always a beaut.
#5, ridiculously good. Wormbog stole the show "I think they just made a baby" is what Brendan says after Joel praises Redman and Jake just crushing the Prof. Ringo is great, and the N2F encore will melt your face. It rips.
Best DBK you'll hear. Josh Redman adds a lot to the tunes he performs on. Miss Tinkle's Mind Left Body jam is straight fire. This is a very nice Blue Echo, as well.
Auf Wiedersehen great opener especially for the transition into Hurt Bird Bath; which was high intensity and a great start. The 2nd self was solid. My favourite version so far. Speak Up- new song great song! Won't be surprised if they bust that out more often. 1348>Ocean Billy was absolutely nuts! I was amazed. The Billy was only enhanced when Andy and Kris took it into Drums then back into Billy!!! AAAAAH! 2nd time live best version I've heard. The boys knocked this show out of the park. They broke out Gents and BOOSH back into 1348 End set.
Set 2- What the hell are they gonna blow my mind with now? Usually comes to mind
Bad Friday- great song, nice groove, a good call. The Floor always solid. Gotta love Ryan for what came next: Wappy Sprayberry... Yes! then into a JaJunk!!! 1st time I remember seeing this one live so great to be a part of. The crowd was fully into the show by this point. It was attention grabbing. The Similar Skin was a great follow up! The In The Kitchen was amazeballs! The Rhiannon jam back into In The Kitchen!!! So epic! Great call guys! The Hajii was my 1st Blown Speaker Hajii so that was unforgettable. Encore Tom Sawyer only RUSH does it better but I mean Come On! It was so fuckin' SICK!!
My favourite Facebook Message after the show: Fuck you! U fucking fuck!
Review by DBONES, posted 27 January 2016 9:31 am EST, attached to 2016-01-21
Roulette highlighted the first set. Attachments is a pretty cool new one and Rocker 2 brought it's typical crushing beauty. The second set caught fire with the Bridgeless sandwich of all sandwiches. This thing could feed Africa, it was so tasty.
Review by McGrupp10799, posted 23 January 2016 1:56 am EST, attached to 2016-01-22
Solid show all around; Myers's Drums & Waful's Lights (particularly his transition of colors) were the standout performances of the night. And that was all capped off with a great rendition of "Tom Sawyer" – I'm assuming in response to the fan who kept posting requests for a RUSH cover.
Review by rileystevend, posted 06 January 2016 11:51 am EST, attached to 2016-01-02
this closer show of the run absolutely blew the lid off the place. a couple of added footnotes for Front Porch:
Last played in Colorado in 2004
Resolution tease 2.5 minutes in
what a rawwwk show mm/
Review by 3x40oz, posted 03 December 2015 12:03 pm EST, attached to 2004-12-03
I can't remember exactly when I first heard this show, but I believe it was my freshman year of college, so let's say early 2005. I had just heard about this Humphrey's band and was looking to check them out. Somehow, I came into possession of this gem of a live concert, and soon enough, I would have a new favorite band.
The first set is gold. A standard Mulche's opener led to an OG version Haunt, followed by one of my favorite Jazz Odyssey's. Patient jazzy 2004 UM at their best. Sociable and 40's are both standard versions, followed by the Pequod/Ahab sandwich, a simple composition but one that is among my favorites. A blazing Senor Mouse cover sets the tone for FF and the peaking jam out of it. The improv starts out a bit reminiscent of Fire on the Mountain, before evolving into a blistering peak much like the 2/21/2004 FF. Robot World and a tasty Black Water cover round out set 1.
The second set picks up where the first leaves off; luckily for the listener, we don't have to sit through the 1 hour fire marshall-induced set break like the show's attendees! The band came out with a vengeance, as Much Obliged gets some nice treatment before making way for Haji and a 20 minute version of HBB. Fairly ordinary versions of Bottom Half and Crooked One sandwich a briefly extended Triple Wide. The unique dichotomy of Kat's Tune and the Metallica cover round out the set; the 20 minute FP encore with a verse of Kashmir melded in is a great close to a classic setlist.
There have been shows with more improv, and higher quality improv, but the smattering of jams throughout, the excellent flow and song selection, and some tight-ass playing of the compositions make this show an all-timer for me. It definitely does not hurt that this was also my first introduction to the band, along with 2/7/2004.
Review by MusicIsLife, posted 29 October 2015 8:44 pm EDT, attached to 2015-10-27
You'll have to forgive the spelling mistakes in my review of night one. Seems I can't edit it. Night 2. Any consecutive show we should all remember 3 simple rules. Rage. Rest. Repeat. I mean REPEAT night 2 was just more enjoyable. Found company with people I met night one and when you make new friends its always a better show.
Didn't know what to expect given what was done to my brain night 1. Shout out to Brendan Joel Chris Andy Ryan and Jake who didn't get enough love. One weird thing I realized no Joel Chant night 1... The slack was picked up night 2 but lets start with the Preamble. Nice! 1st time seeing it but you always know that Mantis is going to follow. But we got the Mantis Ghets, Mantis 2/3rds. But it was the greatest 2/3rds I've heard and experienced. I saw them playing it all singing and I was singing along, although not as well. All I can say is when you remember what a Song is like after seeing it live you develop a deeper connection with that song. I have a new appreciation for mantis. Moving on. Alexs House... everyone was groovin'out to the light show I'm pretty sure that its rare. So I felt lucky. But it went into 40's! JAKE THREW IT DOWN that was hype. ABSOULUTELY NO ONE IN THIS BAND IS A SLOUCH Brendan was solid, Joel was steady. Chris is always mystifying to me. He's the hardest working guy and the quietest, well him and Andy. Andy is the essential percussive support that really helps fill the gaps. Ryan's usally good for 1 thing to the crowd. Night 1 was I think you guys are the loudest crowd ever. Wicked version. Moving on Example 1 with Demolition Man tease(so cool) was not only good transition musically in my opinion kept the vibe going. I remember that Brendan and Jake brought out the 2 custom really block looking guitars for this they seemed to have fun playing them and the sound was good but, not as good as their regular guitars. I had no clue what to expect next. Then, Room To Breathe AAAHH so good. Only to be followed up by a No Diablo that really hit home with the crowd and took the vibe to 11. The In the Black was super impressive because it went straight into Mantis end set 1. I had to pee since Mantis so I booked it to the bathroom and then bought more beer.
Set 2 You see what happens when you chant Joel.
Divisions opener. Divisions is a great song. One of my favourites. But I was honestly glad it was played right away. The Roundabout tease was unexpected and 100% awesome. Dump City was SO GOOD but people kept asking me what song it was and that sucked. Little Gift never heard before it was a beautifully written song. INTO SLACKER What! Boosh! Totally into it. I think this was when the Joel Chant happened then Conduit. It might have been after Conduit but I remember the chant and partaking in its glory. JOEL, JOEL JOEL JOEL JOEL JOEL JOEL I also remember Brendan saying Do you see what happens when you chant Joel. LIFE DURING EXODUS IS WHAT HAPPENS with a wicked Fleetwood Mac tease(Riannon )and a 1348 encore is what happens! So epic. I hope I never lose my memories of these 2 nights at the Georgia Theatre.
Review by MusicIsLife, posted 29 October 2015 12:31 pm EDT, attached to 2015-10-26
Let me start by saying that I flew from Toronto, Ontario Canada to see both nights at the Georgia Theatre. The extra money I spent to fly in was so worth it!
The Gurgle opener was a perfect call in my opinion. The anticipation you could feel in the crowd reached its peak. House Lights came off and BAM! They came out like yeah WHAT'S UP!
The Push the Pig had all the fatness of Waa and bass you may have come to expect. They get better every time. The lights added to the enjoyment of the song and then with very little pause Jake starts a solo (masterfully precise as per usual) that lead into a wicked Soul Food I could not believe what was going to come up. The Similar Skin to follow got everybody in the place jumping. It was packed! Everybody was having a good time, rocking out sharing smokeables in various forms. The energy you feel when you see them perform the songs that just connect with you is whats unforgettable about the live show. When you hear the studio tracks and think How? TO SEE IT ALL HAPPEN mind blowing. These guys are just super tight. Have set up hand signals for changes and always listen to each other. The crowd was cheering so much I have to download the live shows to hear what Joel Brendan Jake and Ryan were saying because I cant be sure. The ALL THINGS NINJA fucking loved it. I did hear Brendan say it was someones 250th show and you that you dont always give them what they want you gotta give em what they need. Man did I need to hear that track. After that show I realized there was a hole in my All Things Ninja T-Shirt but I wore it. So that was awesome. The All in Time>Mad Love was unexpected, amazing , beautiful, awesome.... Again shout out to the light show because it really added to the amazingness of the composition of their songs. Set break must beer and more smokeables exchanged.
The Floor best version I've heard but that was like the 4th time for me so although very good I was hoping for an epic tease that never came.
2x2-What YES! That's all I had to say. Took me minute to recognize the part of No More Tears that was teased. RESPECT. Cannot say enough about the talent that is possessed in every member of this band. Just when you think there might be one that overshadows another in the band they show you how well they play as a hole. Every member is essential to their consistently mind blowing shows.
The Bad Friday was sick! Loved it. Nuff said. The Haji was amazing> All in time again. A bit of Georgia Love I guess reaching back to the Tabernackle run... but I liked it better because I was there for this one. Again seeing it live 100x better than blasting it in your headphones. If memory serves the Hangover had a little Break Out The Booty Wags (ITS MONDAY NIGHT!) Epic.
Tickles-5th time best time. Come Closer not seen since encore night 2 summercamp '08. That gave me flashbacks.
Masterful Show.
Review by ghettosafari, posted 13 October 2015 3:03 pm EDT, attached to 2009-11-15
The set list for this on umlive.net doesn't include "Tomorrow Never Knows" in the track listing, but this set is a fire classic 2009 set :)
Review by spaceoutintime, posted 03 October 2015 3:45 am EDT, attached to 2015-08-22
It kind of blows my mind how only a trickle of people gush digital hyperboles after UM shows, considering how they bring It to every single one of their multitudinous appearances. Picking this particular outing to reveal a highly acute (or obvious, depending on which side you fall on) insight could almost be arbitrary. But this show is anything but hyperbole or arbitrary, at least in the ways it bounces around between my ears. And I wasn't even there! Something about the song selection all by its partial and lonely self, tickles my pleasure-gizzard, not to say mum about all the other scratched surfaces and pushed buttons. Where's the love?
Review by JAJ_JAJ, posted 02 September 2015 9:14 am EDT, attached to 1999-09-02
This was the last time "August" was played in full (with composed ending, a la GHV3). Certainly a strange place for a UM show but those were the early days for you...photos of this gig survive...
Review by DBONES, posted 22 August 2015 1:27 pm EDT, attached to 2015-08-20
Kick ass rock show. The jam on Bad Friday, The Higgins and Wizard Brothers, Night Nurse, and the jam on Bridgeless are the highlights for me. #5, WMM, Puppet, Bright Lights always a pleasure.
Review by prdesign, posted 21 August 2015 11:15 am EDT, attached to 2015-08-20
Chris Mitchel's 500th show and he was the set list writer this night. The show starts strong and just gets stronger to the end. The show is along Umphrey's harder, heavier, darker side, with a little bit of dance party added in for good measure. Songs ranging from the early umph catalog to the most current.
five stars or how ever you want to rate it.
It melts your face.
Review by ontheclockdumps, posted 14 August 2015 8:46 pm EDT, attached to 2015-08-13
Man, where to start... First set while rather a "slow start" was still an amazing group of tunes. The power outage sucked, but i think the band made up for it with the stew that made a rather boring Educated Guesses a monumental rawk piece. The second set started off with a bang and failed to slow down. If that tinkles doesn't get at least an honorable mention for HOF, then I don't know what does. This show is worth a listen or two, check it out, overall would give it a 7.5-8/10
Review by DBONES, posted 14 August 2015 11:32 am EDT, attached to 2004-06-11
My first UM show, also. Incredible show. They played for what seemed like the whole night and it didn't stop because moe. takes over one by one during "Jam" and filled the intermission with a few moe. originals before turning it back over to the boys.
Pretty amazing show here. Don't miss this Gents and bass heavy Wappy. The Ringo is 20+ minutes of brilliance. Huge energy from Educated Guess all the way though the second set.
Review by Paytheslacker, posted 20 July 2015 5:23 am EDT, attached to 2015-07-17
I'll attempt a full review later, after some sleep from this epic weekend (just got back to NYC from Baltimore).
But I will say that there was a Bulls On Parade jam during Conduit, about 6:30 they begin to tease it for a minute until Kris comes in with the vocals and the full out jam, until 9:12 when they come back into Conduit.
Review by tunafist, posted 29 April 2015 1:09 pm EDT, attached to 2015-04-25
Great show, saw them Friday too, and this was my first time seeing them this year.
Great rapport with crowd and very high energy, they also played a fantastic mix for veteran fans as well as newbies.
Saw my first Moccasin!!!
Another great set of shows that solidified my belief that this band gives you a show truly unlike any other!
m/
Review by spaceoutintime, posted 18 April 2015 5:11 am EDT, attached to 2015-03-20
Maybe not at quiet the same level of energy and magic as the night before, but this was still one heck of a dance party and good time. A juicy Mantis sandwich in the second set containing the most unforgettable, accurate, and powerful cover of the Pixies' "Where Is My Mind?" I have ever encountered (Patrick rocked the Casbah!). Then to top it off, the Radiohead/Beck/Phil Collins mash-up for an encore had to be seen/heard to believe. I can no longer resist the momentum of this music.
Right up front, this was my first Umphrey's McGee show. Holy guacamole. Most likely you know the rest of the story. First set was offdahook. Miami Virtue, Ja Junk>...>...>JA Junk sandwich. Followed by a scorching second set without nary a throwaway either. These guys are the real shiznit.
Review by thardin, posted 17 March 2015 2:54 pm EDT, attached to 2015-01-03
The first set was stellar. When they played Wappy so early, I knew we were in for a great night of straight UMPHunk! The Bottom Half and Syncopated Strangers were the highlights of the first set even though Led Boots > Mulche's was a great way to end the set.
The second set was priceless! Hands down one of the best sets of music ive ever seen. It wasn't even fair. Every song was perfectly placed. The Dump city and crooked one were of premium quality. Perfect night for a flawless show.
The encore took me back to my childhood and i couldnt help but boot scoot boogie. Best UMPH show yet for me!
Review by FrontRowFocus, posted 05 March 2015 1:34 pm EST, attached to 2015-02-07
Enjoyed the show (both TAUK and UM), and was blown away by Jefferson Waful's lighting.
To find the Front Row Focus review and photos of this show, please click this link: http://www.frontrowfocus.com/blog/2015/2/concert-review-umphreys-mcgee-february-7-2015
Review by hammerofthegods, posted 24 February 2015 9:16 pm EST, attached to 2015-02-20
Second set was one of the heaviest sets ive ever witnessed! That WBG is amazing, (Joel solo of the winter tour in it i think)
Review by ohmykai, posted 20 February 2015 3:32 pm EST, attached to 2015-02-19
After weeks of being snowed in, we made the ride to Portland. Word was the Couch Tour stream unable to happen, there was a full blown snow squall at doors open with near white-out conditions that made it an adventure right up to the gate.. and the room energy was certainly high as the audience trickled in from the cold wind and snow. Tauk opened. My first time hearing those guys live and it was a great experience that drew in those cold feet for the first round of dancing. I'll focus on UM here though.
Set I. While the room sound is not the greatest at the State, a little boomy at best, the music was excellent. Most of first set was spent in the balcony. All of second set was spent grooving on the Goldside. Listening back to the umlive version now, it starts out very energetic. A nice Drink My Drank into The Floor. Divisions takes off, drops a mad drum jam in the midst and finds it way off to a smooth Stanton (2nd time played). After dancing around that theme they return back to Divisions for a good wrap-up with some nice belts from Brendan.
My personal feeling at this point is the band feels like the eyes of the world are off them a bit. Stream is cut off, no one but us is watching. They aren't rushing and its very electrified. The band is beaming. I like it. Mulche's Odyssey kicks off with some tight energy and is another example of some of the wild execution they nail tonight. Yet again, frenetic pace but patiently done. The mid-song groove is heavy and dirty, gives way to the main theme, and drops into a pleasant funk zone that is peppered with some nice spacey, padded out jams. Doesn't take long for the night's abundant energy to come back either! Back on the Mulche's theme proper, and I'd just say listen. This speaks for itself. Umphrey's is doing exactly what they do best and it is certainly a stand out moment of the first set for me. Short breather, and we get to the nights first Similar Skin offerings.
The Linear starts out strong, solid version. Vocals are on point, Jake peppers the lines with some fun guitar work throughout. The bottom drops out, we fall into a very ambient zone. Getting that sensation again that we're a cut off from the world. Guitar gently teases the chords to Cut The Cable and there it is. Tight playing, great vocals. Really dug this! Short and to the point. Another pretty decent pause. Again not feeling any sense of being rushed in this! They pull out October Rain and it is thoughtful and precise from the get go. I haven't heard this song live, and was impressed with its styling. Quick breath and we drop into Live and Let Live. Solid version, strong playing throughout. Nice way to end a strong set with some familiar tunes and some I'd never seen played live before. Notable songs for me were Mulche's, October Rain, Live and Let live.
Set II begins with Bridgeless and is a solid rocking opener for the later night. Vocals are good, playing tight as well. There is no sense they lost that pace from first set. A punctuated jam space gives way to Hang Up Your Hang Ups another second time played offering. Nothing lacking in this song either, and the band plays on through a few iterations with an intense Joel driven segment near the end. Feel like getting in the van? Yes Brendan, we do. Get in the Van is solid, executed flawlessly. After a ride around Portland in the van, we park ourselves back under the Bridgeless. The intense high-speed chase that is the end of Bridgeless runs wonderfully and well.
"This one's for you, Joel." Counterpoint to the set start in pocket, FF rises from the mid-set fire - a gift from Brendan to Joel - which is wrapped to suit in execution that's defined the show overall. Tight, energetic, and very fun to dance to. Darker themes begin to play the end of FF with a return to some deep ambiance. We drop into Made to Measure. This song follows the trend of an night full of great offerings. Some really cool guitar work accompany the stomping piano lines, with vocals from the band on par with the music. We're never ever slowing down, and when we hit groove time it's unique and rhythmically piano driven. I'm beginning to really dig the prominent Joel tonight. Lose yourself teases and a smooth hip hop element round out the end of Made to Measure before rocketing off into 40's Theme back to an absolutely electric pace. 40's Theme never fails to deliver for me, and this is no different. Well done, and totally jammin'. The texture turns smooth and funky as the song progresses. Bit of a breather again, compared to the rest of set II!
The band introductions go 'round and a little Game of Thrones theme comes out before we hit the End of the Road. Sweetly played, with some arrangement much unlike the studio version. Definitely a cool space presented here that rolls nicely into Roulette. Roulette carries on with the nice execution of the night. Good vocal harmonies over the verses. "Question is, are you guys read to rock?" Slacker jumps and jams its way to the close of set II. Great version, and very lively! It builds to an excellent crescendo that doesn't want to quit. Now they've played a few great gigs in Portland in past years though this may well be an example of the best they've given us so far in my opinion. A combination of a very choice set list and top notch execution throughout. Notable songs for set II were Made To Measure, 40's Theme, and Slacker.
Encore: The Triple Wide. A favorite of mine, and what can be said that hasn't already been said about this one. Just as good as the rest of the show, and a fitting close to a great night.
Review by Umph1348, posted 19 February 2015 10:50 am EST, attached to 2015-02-18
Outstanding show last night. I guess that is to be expected as UM is batting 1.000 at The Calvin. Some of my friends were sort of "meh" on the first set, but I disagree. Set one was bookended by two great pieces of improv in Fir and The Haunt. I was ecstatic to get both of those tunes in the same set. Admittedly the middle of the set (while well played) didn't pack the punch that the rest of the show did. The Nemo/AD sandwich was well executed but most of us diehard fans would have preferred a jam in Nemo in place of Anchor Drops, c'est la vie. I don't love Deeper, but the ethereal jam that came out of it was nice. A standard Billy was cut short by Bayliss on the talkback mics. This was a great move IMO as it allowed for The Haunt to really have room to stretch its legs. Jake was all over the Haunt jam conducting the band and being the mad stork that he can be up on stage. Truly a frenetic and awesome Haunt jam, I hope that it holds up on tape.
While set one was "good solid Umphrey's," set two was the stuff that makes me keep seeing these guys and makes it easy to provide an answer when asked: "who is your favorite band?" The Preamble fakeout into JaJunk was a nice twist and the JaJunk jam absolutely crushed. We were in for a real throwdown in set two as something clicked onstage and we were to treated incredibly compelling improv over the rest of the set. JaJunk, MO, LMS, BLBC and Sociable Jimmy ALL had great jams in them. I need a relisten to opine on Brendan's lyrical stew out of Much Obliged but every jam in set two delivered. There was a"middle eastern metal" (a section played during a past UMBowl S2 quarter) jam coming out of Last Man Swerving that was one of several highights in the set. I have been fortunate over the past few years to catch some 99th percentile UM shows (10/29/14, 8/8/14, 10/18/12 and 4/28/12 are good examples) and honestly I am not sure I have seen a better and more interesting set than set two last night. I should probably wait for the afterglow to wear off or to at least have a relisten via the UMlive app, but frankly I don't need it. What an awesome set of music. The Soul Food II>Soul Food I>end of Mantis encore was just icing on the proverbial cake (I also thought I head some Bad Poker teases from Jake in SFI but will need to confirm). There aren't enough superlatives to describe just how great last night's show (with emphasis on the second set) was. The song selection was also incredible. To get two highly sought after rarities like The Haunt and Last Man Swerving in the same show is enough of a treat in and of itself. One thing that is notable is that there weren't any tunes from Similar Skin played (this also happened on 10/29/14) and that was somewhat refreshing. While I love the SS material, gettting a "rest" from some of the songs that have been in heavy rotation since the album dropped helped to enhance the flow of the setlist/show. This is not a critique of SS or the frequency with which some of those tunes are played, just an observation. Folks who are looking for a sterling example of what UM is capable of would do well to check this show out. It was special.
Review by WappyStrings28, posted 09 February 2015 4:22 pm EST, attached to 2015-02-06
If only there were words to describe this night. Easily the best setlist I have ever seen or heard live, Puppet String and Rocker 2 are some of the best jams I've heard possibly ever. Not to mention the 6 first set rarities.
I Want You (She's So Heavy) nearly caused the Ryman to crumble to do the energy in the room. The crowd was into it from note one. Not to mention the first ever and absolutely incredible Rocker, Rocker 2 combo.
Second set is near perfection, whether it's improv or standard songs the placement and execution of everything is seriously A+ stuff. All In Time encore featured the latest "Cigarette Cables" lyrical stew.
This was seriously one of the best shows I have ever seen, the room was insane and the energy was indescribable. Very thankful to have been in attendance.
Review by TheLinearLawyer, posted 31 January 2015 3:34 pm EST, attached to 2015-01-30
This show was a high-energy jam fest right from the start. Fir, Divisions, August, and Dump City were particularly inspired. The Puppet String freak out > the end of Bridgeless brought the house down, and Bayliss absolutely nailed "Sledgehammer." I give it a 9.2 out of 10.
Review by railroadearther, posted 24 January 2015 11:42 pm EST, attached to 2009-11-15
check out the The Crooked One[1] > Utopian Fir > Big Heart > Utopian Fir segment for some top-notch UM.
Phil's Farm and FF > Tomorrow Never Knows are worth listening to as well. Intimate Sunday night throwdown in Portland, Maine!
Review by pmahon, posted 11 December 2014 11:04 pm EST, attached to 2014-11-01
Stellar show from first note to the very end of Gulf Stream. After the night before with the incredible mashups of Halloween, I was not sure what to expect after hearing stuff like All in Time, Ocean Billy, N2F, and the insane opener of 1348/Kitchen. Cut the Cable got things going fast and then they laid into some of the best jams I have ever heard with The Floor, Higgins and Slacker both awesome highlights of the first set.
The Second set started with an unbelievable bridgeless, den, and bridgeless, which was the first 30mins of the set and left the audience stunned. Kashmir and Pay the Snucka were really strong to end the set and Kashmir in particular were very impressive. The band was super tight throughout the whole night and after a night of great mashups it was awesome to see them lay into a really strong show full of improv. This night I also stood a bit further back to appreciate the lights (night before I was rail) and the lights as always are an amazing part of the band. Waful always does an incredible job and this night was no different.
The encore was incredible and choosing Gulf Stream to close out the weekend was awesome. After two incredible nights of music and hanging out with the band as part of UmVip, capping off the weekend with Gulf was the best choice they could have made. It was my first time experiencing Halloween with UM and I look forward to many more shows with them in the near future!! mm/.
Review by 3x40oz, posted 18 November 2014 10:23 am EST, attached to 2011-01-29
I was sort of skeptical of this show's prospects when the band neglected to jam out of the opening JaJunk, dropping right into Booth Love from JaJunk part I. Luckily, the gift of hindsight allows me to feel foolish for doubting a winter ter 2011 show. Turn & Dub is a contender for best version ever; excellent second jam in this one. Improv was also neglected in the PtP > Deeper > PtP sammich, with a drop right into the second half of JaJunk to close a pretty pedestrian first set.
The second set is where shit took off: huge standalone Mulche's, standalone B1/2 with a nice lyrical, Bombtrack with Ilya for the br0z (should've been Sludge & Death!), and a CWII that eschewed the usual 4 on the floor thump for a more atypical, jazzy jam built over two Jake progressions. Sociable, Andy's, and National Anthem is a run of songs I'd be happy to catch at any show. The encore Bird Bath was short, but the Imperial March jam was super choice.
Setlist orgasm. At the time, I remember leaving the show wondering what the hell they would play the next few nights. It seemed like they were unloading all of their heavy hitter songs in one go. Standalone Kitchen and Bridgeless are the highlights of the first set. Kitchen started with some uplifting JC/BB riffs and kept that progression going for a bit, allowing Joel a nice little Rhodes solo. BB cleaned the slate, and the band (particularly Joel and his synth) turned the vibe towards an extremely dance-friendly feel after a pretty heavily teased return to the composition. The eventual return to Kitchen from the second theme of 'prov was very patient and nicely done. Bridgeless's jam really took off over an ominous, plodding bassline from Stasik, doubled by Joel on synth, and the playing stayed loose, covering a fair amount of ground. Catching a Haunt was a treat and the jam leading out of it was enjoyable but a step below the Kitchen and Bridgeless jams, for my taste. Divisions was a fairly concise version.
Conduit had a nice jam to start the second set strong, but I can't recall anything else being particularly noteworthy. When they fired up N2F for the encore, I got excited, with visions of a standalone encore monster a la 10/17/2007 dancing in my head, so it was a bit disappointing to have the lyricless covers take the place of any improv.
Really enjoyed this show live...classic 2011 UM shit. The opening AIT had a nice jam. Never can catch the Red Tape teases but the Life During Wartime tease was very apparent live and on tape. Butter smooth segue into PS. The Water > Day Nurse > August section felt a little disjointed with the juxtaposition of Water's tight composition, the electro-dance of Nurse, followed by a soaring August. The August jam would eventually become the opening riff of Similar Skin. Deeper jam was decent but not particularly noteworthy.
The AIT drop out of Prowler kind of caught me off guard. I thought for sure that would be saved until the end of the second set. 1348 seemed like it was about to take off when they segued to 2x2. I wish they had milked that jam a bit more. 2x2 is always a pleasure to catch. The band really liked the Tink's/Masoka Tanga pairing in 2011. I recall it happening a couple times. If they really did play Billie Jean off the cuff for the encore, that's fucking sweet. The crowd ate it up and it provided a nice transition into the second half of 1348.
TL; DR - All In Time, August, and 1348 are the highlights. Solid show all around.
Review by Umph1348, posted 19 August 2014 3:53 pm EDT, attached to 2014-08-08
One of the best shows I have seen in 120+. The energy in that room was off the charts and the band was really feeding off of it. Such a great setlist of rarities and "non-standard" stuff for a Friday night show. The improv (particularly the sandwiches that opened each set) is outstanding. This one holds up well on tape but also has a strong "you had to be there" vibe because of the raucous energy. One of the most fun live experiences I have had at a show and a soundboard with plenty of replay value. This is the leader in my clubhouse for show of the year, 2014...
Review by N8ing_2_Phancy, posted 23 July 2014 9:49 pm EDT, attached to 2011-07-01
With the Heat and the fireworks this show was one for the books. Great versions of Rocker pt duex and Water (seems legit playing right next to a river.) Then somewhere around the merge into Syncopated Strangers from Tribute things got explosive. Fireworks from the Cubs farm club stadium went off...it was quite the treat but not the only one...As Walking on the moon started getting deep...the Des Moines pops go the fourth fireworks went off...if you DL the show you can hear the fireworks going off and how the band especially Jake played into them making for one memorable first set. 2nd Set was fire from the start into a miami vice vibe twords the end. Best All in Time sandwich ever! Africa also seemed fitting once again due to the heat. Which was brought by mother nature and our friends our pals....Umphrey's McGee.
Review by tedemeo, posted 21 July 2014 12:03 pm EDT, attached to 2014-06-21
This was a very intimate show, probably 60 of us in the audience, and most all from the US. The guys were on rented amps, and drums and limited effects so the sould was different. Cool venue. Another interesting fact, the Eagles were in the o2 arena next door.
Review by umphalex, posted 19 July 2014 11:29 am EDT, attached to 2014-07-05
Umphrey's first sell out show at Red Rocks never disappointed throughout the entire evening. A debut opener was to be expected from such a magical venue and the first sell out which will hopefully bring two nights at the rocks next year. Melded perfectly into conduit which has a great rock/psychedelic jam to it that reaches a good level and dumps off into a standard version of cut the cable. Jajunk gets the treatment and ends up being one of my favorite jams of the night. Joel takes it to another level with the dance infused funk keys, but the entire band is on point and brings jajunk to a place like I've never heard before... Seamless transition into an always welcomed Ocean Billy which set the tone for the first set and let you know that it was going to be a rager of an evening. Awesome placement and choice on putting Gents in the jam portion of ocean billy. Originally an in the kitchen jam which has gotten the Umbowl treatment but I believe was first at the Belly Up in aspen last year. It has an in and out jam which keeps dumping back and forth and has a great tone. This is one cranked up All in Time next that has instant classic rocker written all over it. Midway through the jam in All in Time I can remember thinking that the first set was already nuts and they would be wrapping up the first set after that. But then we got the always gorgeous notes from Jake playing Jerry's 74 guitar to end of the road. Educated Guess was an awesome treat to get debuted and was playing in my head throughout the next morning. Set 2 opens with Jake calling out Kris Myers on the kit and getting right down to it with the second Little Gift which has some good rock qualities that get you in the UM frame of mind. Bridgeless is where the band starts to jump off and take us into a jam filled evening with fresh takes on everything being played. Very rock/funk oriented bridgeless that no one wanted to ever end which moves into the funky dance groove of Bad Friday. Dominic Lalli blows up on Bad Friday and there wasn't a person not dancing in that place. My second favorite jam of the night came with Dump City... I went absolutely nuts when I heard the first notes of dump city, and I feel this song should get the treatment way more often! Very dark oriented space groove that allows the listener to dance but also blast off into a little weirder space. Slacker has a good jam on it that has Joel offering some really fresh licks on the piano and a good old nostalgic rock and roll feel to it. Wappy sprayberry offers its typically awesome dance party and it never ceases to amaze me how many different jams they keep putting into this song. A fitting back side of Jajunk to close out the night and let everyone know how far UM has come as a band and being one of the tightest, if not the tightest, band today. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect encore being a gigantic Band fan...Ophelia invites some horns out to take a classic look at this classic cover. Haji has always been a fan favorite and gave me gigantic chills and goosebumps with Brendan's lyrics echoing throughout the rocks. If that wasn't enough then they made sure to seal a perfect night with the raucous back side of bridgeless that left no one in doubt of how powerful a show this really is.
Review by YourPalJay, posted 17 July 2014 9:18 am EDT, attached to 2010-07-17
There's a lot of love for Set 1. I like Words. Bird Bath was strong. Girlfriend was a monster closer. But Set 2 had a crazy intensity to it, especially the first half.
There were thunderstorms all around the venue and everyone would agree it wasn't a matter of *if* the show would be cut short for weather, it was *when*. So the band took a minimal (10 min?) setbreak and came out with the intention of playing as long as they could. What resulted was a Set 2 where each of the first 4 songs was played as if it was the show closer. Great peaks, huge solos, major intensity. All with Waful's lights playing hand-in-hand with the lightning backdrop.
Review by UncleDutchman, posted 25 April 2014 12:45 pm EDT, attached to 2012-09-02
I think the atmosphere is whats helping us push this a little higher in our minds. It was a late night, and one in Chicago at that, and at a venue of this size it had all the makings of a great night. the question was, would they deliver? They did. It was a blast inside of there, and the band played with a lot of energy. The crowd fed off of it, and they gave the energy right back. I was all over the venue last night and there was no drop off in intensity in that whole venue. The balcony peeps were getting down just as hard as the soundboard peeps who were getting down just as hard as everyone riding the rail.
The opening threesome of the Floor, Wappy > Wife Soup showed they meant business from the get go. The floor had an some jamming going on before intro, not that long, but they opened it up a little bit before they moved into the actual song. The Wappy reminded me of a bright lights jam; fat heavy synths, patient, dark, but with a rocking edge bc its wappy, it moved along nicely. Nothing super memorable, but it was a treat to listen to. I dont know how accurate my notes are, but I had that between the floor and wappy were were already ~30 minutes into the set. Wife Soup was sweet, and it was received very well, I was center balcony at that point and I felt it sway/wobble underneath me. No coincidence, people love their soup.
Resolution > Booth love was another strong segment of music. Sets like this are why I love segue heavy shows/sets, the music comes in chunks and it allows the sets to progress more fluidly, seems like the improv ventures 'out there' a bit more as well. Reso had a nice spacey, funky, layered first jam that I dug it alot. Second jam was built around the zsa zsa gabor theme and some of the licks from it, but they changed it up a bit. Nice to see them bust that out, as I was bummed it got cut from the UMBowl. Per my tastes, anything built around that riff is money, so I was really happy with how this Reso played out. They did one of those stop on a dime transitions into Booth. Booth had a timing jam come out of it that took a little while to find its groove. But they locked into something at the end and it peaked HEAVY. Most interesting BL Ive heard in awhile.
Comma Later and Hangover were a fun way to end the set, nothing to write home. I enjoy the funk/jazz of these tunes so I was digging it, seemed liek Comma took the energy down a little. kind of a nice breather after the heat the opened the set with, and the energy in the room picked up with Hangover.
Snucka is a fun way to open a set, I actually enjoy parts I and II more than part III, so I'm always happy to hear the intro pop up. I dont think they did anything out of Pt I besides take it into Triple Wide. Most people on here complain about songs following them around; I think Ive seen triple wide more than any other song, and I couldnt be happier about it. This version was great, it was atypical and it got dark and to the point quickly. Waful claims that OB is his favorite song to light up, but he always impresses me most when he's doing the lights during 3x. He uses similar techniques every time and it blows me away every time. He also started to paint the walls with the Mac III's and once he uses those big patterns on the wall EVERYONE goes crazy. Waful owned the room for the whole triple wide jam.
Once I heard the intro to deeper I headed towards the lobby because I hadnt eaten since breakfast and figured early in the second set the lobby would be empty. Whilst the crowd got Palmer Square'd, I got a hot dog and took a piss. I consider that a win. I walked back into the room right as we learned about the things that matter most, or what could make us old . . LIKE JOEL. ITK had a fun jam. Really high energy, no real theme, but it didnt suck, which is nice. I made a note about the energy it created in the room, so Im assuming there was a nice peak, but probably a forced one seeing as how I dont really remember anything too specific about it.
Conduit > Haji > Conduit, Rosanna -> Hurt Bird Bath was a whole lot of fun. The first conduit jam before the went into haji had a really nice proggy bounceback jam. Some people bitched about conduits placement, I think its justified bc the jam they played there needed to come out of a prog song, and it worked perfectly coming out of conduit. Haji was sweet, and the jam out of it and back into conduit was just CRUSHED by baylor.
Rosanna -> Hurt Bird Bath was so so so so cool!! They jammed the outro out of Rosanna and then noodled around a little bit. Eventually they work their way to a riff that sounds similar to one of the HBB riffs. They then do a lap and come back and straight up play the riff but at a bit of a slower tempo than they do during HBB played regularly. So were getting what I believe is the bridge of HBB played to us in what I called a tease at the time. They double back and then pick up the pace and the volume a little bit, this is no longer a tease, theyre working their way into A HBB but doing so by playing the middle section of the song first! I think they repeated it a few more time, until they pause and you hear Kris' intro and then they launch into the beginning of the song. When they got to the portion of HBB that they had teased previous to actually playing the song, I felt like they played it at a quicker tempo than normal it was pure adrenaline. This HBB is one Ill never forget.
Encore was decent.
Id give the show an A.
Review by dubzz, posted 23 April 2014 4:24 pm EDT, attached to 2014-04-19
Great close to the spring 2014 tour and what proved to be a heavy handed pimp slap follower to a strong Dallas appetizer. Not surprisingly, given it was Austin, Joel Cummins and the Frequent Fliers were ready to build a house with the bricks that would be shit this night.
Set I:
The party started with one of the more ominous, bass heavy openers (Le Blitz) in rotation transitioning into the ever dependable 40's. Improve was sexy and smooth, but, like my penis, short. After we all rock n' reveled in the quantities of beer we were consuming and anticipated the painful anal outpourings of tomorrow, Xanadu Farag windchimed us off into an OoO. As drums pounded and strings reverberated, I tried to tell my lame Cheese fan friends for the treat they were in for. Too fucking late, that riff split them accompanied Baylor's lyrical introspections, tearing across the expanses of their synapses with reckless abandon.
The neural carnage was far from over but, alas, respite: The ever reliable Much Obliged. Dependable for both improvisational consistency and to put a little pep in your step, dare I say funk in your trunk. If you don't catch a groove on this, you seriously should be evaluated by a doctor to determine whether you are an emotionless replicant android. Started strong building around a nice Pony Bass line, the funky improv was strong with this one. Couple beat drops later, the crowd was rabid. It didn't stop there, so begin the strongest three song series of the show.
Recently introduced Final Word has people reaching for the nearest kleenex box under the Waful whites. Great song I've really enjoyed since I first saw it at this past year's scamp and fit perfectly between the MO and, oh look, fucking 2x2. And you thought it was over, sike motherfucker, time to deep some even deeper personal relationship reflection. Metallesque jam section with some great guitar collaboration.
Standard dance party for BLBC to close a notably impressive trifectum down. I missed most of this as I was still collecting most of my viscera and appendages off the Stubb's ground post the first set stunner series.
The party refused to stop. N2F right off the bat with strong improvisation about 13+ minutes, gradually becomes bluesy before the reprise. Do recommend. Mentholated logs were being scorched to calm the souls of the unrepentant, but soon, despite their misdeeds, vindication was assured (see NOT deeper & ait).
Deeper is a lame song anyway despite this particular one being particularly uninspiring. If you take issue with that, please contact my proctologist, schedule an appointment, and check your ass for a dildo. Standard AIT to follow, which was amazing regardless. Crowd was really into it and Waful was on point with his light cues.
Then came the concert magnus opus. What all the hitch hiking, ticket scalping, and moon rocks were done for: August. The transcendent lyrical stew that accompanied this song cannot be described effectively with words, only half experienced through sound board quality MP3 turned up to 11 (and by 11, I mean until it feels like there is an F22 flying by your face). The beat from the opening August gradually fades, then those keys, MAN, those keys. Joel starts building this melodic casserole that just turns into a monstrosity of uplifting jamsandwich. The guitars come in and we start soaring toward the heavens, riding that improv powered bus known as Umphrey's McGreat.
Suddenly a BB angel starts augmenting the ascension with choice improv lyrics. I am crying at this point. Every sane person is straight up weeping. The crescendo peaks and he simply croons out: "It's not the view that's complicated." Take that and put in your third eye, Phish fan. The lift begins to fade and boom:
"And what I'm trying to say
Is its nothing but the view that changes
And if I could see above the trees, I wouldn't disagree
But I'm not the one who made it complicated."
Then the shreds of your existence are melted away by some godly rifts and pounding of the keys. I'm no man of God but, given that we were literally minutes from Easter morning, this would have been the moment Jesus would have stepped out from behind Chris playing a goddamn keytar if the fucker had any sense. Or perhaps even better, emerged from Brandon's mouth, bursting through at the highest note of the stew, climbing out like a stripper at a bachelor party. He'd just straight split out of the inhumanely outstretched mouth and be like, "Helluva stew guys, thought I'd say what's up." Of course, BB's mouth would magically restore and we'd all have a mega laugh, until Jesus got hold of our rocks, because you know he's a mooch, man. Or fuck, maybe Andy would just tear off the pubic shag and it turns out he was Jesus the whole time.
Standard Floor. Great funky Miles Davis company alongside the trombonist from the Mike Dillion Band. She was fantastic, great energy, and a complete smoke show.
Patrick Bateman said it best: "Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor."
And by cynical, I mean Heart & Soul is beyond the cat's meow: its the cat's vagina. Fuck yes.
Bad Friday, sense its debute 12.31.13, has been growing on me, this being my favorite so far. Fun song with tremendous upside, would bang again.
End tour. Easter. 4/20. Austin. Great show, wish you were all there.
Must Listens:
MO > FW > 2x2
N2F
August, August, AUGUST
Review by rspotts, posted 20 March 2014 4:45 pm EDT, attached to 2014-03-13
I had no idea what this venue was like, because I travelled from Washington State in order to attend this show with friends. We got in line early enough to position ourselves right up front. This small venue was like that of a high school dance. I found this incredible. Once the band started with Conduit, it was a big thrill. The sound definition was great, and the guitars started out with clean sound. When the music got more aggressive, the sound man put the pedal to the metal. I could hear the clipping in the mix, and feel my auditor sensors wither... "I'm going to pay dearly for this!" My ears were ringing for 3 days after. I would say that 30% of the songs were ones I had never heard, which thrilled me. The familiar ones were epic. The Pink Floyd medley was a massively good surprise. I especially liked the fact that they did not play "Leave those kids alone." Joels intro vocal for the medley was super. I was told by one of the fans that Umphrey's was on fire on this tour. She was right. This was the best concert I'd ever been to, any group, any time. The audience was great as well. The band members interact very well with the audience, through eye contact and comments. The only drawback was that during the show, my rental car was broken into, and all luggage but my guitar were stolen. The classic California "welcome." Through the generosity of friends and family, the rest of my visit was great. In conclusion, where else can you be up front, close to the stage, and feel like... there are my buddies up there, playing their asses off!
Review by 3x40oz, posted 27 February 2014 9:41 am EST, attached to 2010-02-27
This show was sort of strange for my tastes in UM...lots of ups and downs in the first set. The Olympic walkout and opening Wappy portended a strong Saturday night show, but following it up with standard versions of Peeps and CWI seemed to bring the energy in the room way down. Snucka was initially welcomed, but I found the sit-in jam to be a bit noodly for my tastes. #5 and Sociable are two of my favourite compositions, and closing with two brand new tunes and Snucka III was an excellent move. Booth Love definitely got the room moving, and I remember wondering if the Linear was an obscure Police cover (first time played with lyrics, so I was totally in the dark.)
Set II started very strong, just like the first set, but managed to keep it's momentum rolling throughout. An unfinished Divisions with a nice funky MJ jam juxtaposed nicely with the powerful darkness of The Floor. I would have liked some improv in the Ringo, but this was the first Glory I had caught since my first show four years earlier at the E-Factory, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. The Abbey Road medley was another great rarity to catch, featuring vox from BB, Jake, and Joel on the various songs. 2x2 is a fantastic f*cking song; I was ecstatic to see this one drop late in the second set. A quick Mantis Ghetts into a full-on Baylor singalong Divisions ending was a great ending to the set. MP is perhaps my favourite Jake song (right up there with Bad Poker and Synco); a quirky tune with a strong dose of Zappa-ish humour and musicality. I expected Package's dueling guitar coda to end the show, so a focused CWII was a bonus that sent me out the door dancing.
Review by bmrobin, posted 18 February 2014 10:54 am EST, attached to 2014-02-16
the band walked onstage to the theme music from House of Cards, which was appropriate considering its Season Two debut the night before. energy was high throughout the first set - resolution>conduit was relentless and the liquid>den jam was just awesome.
despite rocking out really hard, the band seemed very laid back during the second set which made it very enjoyable. push the pig contained a tease of "Let Me Blow Your Mind" by Eve and had a cool jam with Joel and Jake on keys.
Review by theorydude, posted 16 February 2014 12:54 pm EST, attached to 2005-10-30
I remember hearing JaJunk at this show (for the first time) and I was hooked! The musicianship and talent going on was an instant attraction. Then 2x2 and Bridgeless? What the what?!?!?
Review by carmelocorn, posted 11 February 2014 8:29 pm EST, attached to 2013-11-02
By the final day of the Halloween run, most of my crew was hurting. Too much bourbon and beer had our hotel room smelling like the bathroom of a Wisconsin dive bar. Saturday’s show was sold out but I ended up getting a wristband for the floor, which ended up being completely packed with people. I was forced to stand behind a guy wearing a huge mushroom head hat and next to a girl that decided to conserve space by grinding on my leg like a dog humping its favorite teddy bear.
As far as Umphrey’s goes, this was definitely their most animated show of the weekend. Jake and Ryan were all over the place, both musically and physically. The first set contained an unfinished version of The Police’s “The Bed’s Too Big Without You”, which made me realize that I will probably never get a chance to hear Umphrey’s cover “Walking on the Moon” live. Also, it’s about time for Umph to tackle ”Man in a Suitcase”.
The final mash-up of the weekend was “Push the Booth Deeper” and it was confusing as hell! Most of us had no clue what was going on, which song was being played or whether all three originals were being played at the same time. A friend was able to get a hold of the song’s notes and confirmed the cluster of confusion from which this mash-up was birthed. To be honest, I am still trying to wrap my head around it.
Umphrey’s McGee finally ended the second set on Saturday night by busting out the Metallica rager, “…And Justice for All”, which hadn’t been performed live in over five years. But the real highlight of the evening was the relentless “Bridgeless” encore. As the tune progressed, one particular audience member could no longer contain his excitement. This very dirty looking man ran across the stage without shoes on, only to be tackled by the stage crew in front of the sold out crowd. It was then rumored that the same wook ended up outside the venue about an hour later going absolutely insane without a single piece of clothing on his body. And thus, a Halloween weekend full of mash-ups and debauchery came to an end.
For Friday night, I signed up for Headphones and Snowcones. It basically cost me $40 for a pair of headphones that streamed a live audio mix directly from the soundboard to my tympanic membranes. This was the first time I tried the experience for an entire show and now I’m afraid live music will never sound the same. These headphones allowed me to tune out the rest of the world so I could get completely lost in the moment. This type of experience is the reason I am so in love with live music and now I don’t know how I will be able to fully enjoy a show without a set of headphones on. So it goes.
The second set on Friday opened with a DBK club sandwich and contained the night’s only debut mash-up: “The Final Teen Spirit”. Dramatic synths from Europe’s “The Final Countdown” directly clashed with Nirvana’s grunge classic “Smells Like Teen Spirit”. The simplicity of mashing only two songs into one seamless tune made this one of the most successful, straightforward mash-up of the weekend.
Brother’s Rage played a smoking after party show on Friday night that featured one of my favorite sit-ins to date. Jake Cinninger, the other worldly guitarist from Umphrey’s McGee, joined the late night act for a cover of The Grateful Dead’s “Estimated Profit” followed by some spacey improv. The jam eventually slammed into the sweaty disco tune, “You Should be Dancing” originally by the Bee Gee’s and featured Mr. Barry Brown on vocals. Needless to say, a legendary dance party erupted among all who attended and continued into the early morning hours.
Originally posted: summercampfestival.com/2013/11/04/mashup/
Halloween is a BIG weekend for the infamous Umphrey’s McGee. These novelty shows usually follow a tradition of busting out a handful of debut covers in a variety of ways, including combining them together into one beastly monster called a ‘mash-up’. I knew I couldn’t miss a single night of this year’s mash-up run, so I took up residence at a hotel suite directly across from the Milwaukee’s Riverside Theater along with ten of my closest friends. The first night of the run was actually on Halloween, plus all three shows were being streamed and taped for later release. I guess it goes without saying that this weekend was destined to be mashed to another level.
I spent the first half of Halloween day sewing together my Hell’s Belle costume, which was a mash-up of the devil and Belle from Beauty and the Beast. I was definitely ready to rock and roll in my AC/DC get up and, needless to say, the members of Umphrey’s were also dressed to impress for this special holiday. Brendan Bayliss was HeisenBert Reynolds, Jake Cinninger was Silent Bob Seger, Kris Myers was Dr. Phil Spector, and Andy Farag was Paul Ryan Braun, to which the Milwaukee crowd boo’d and hissed as he was introduced. But the best costume had to of been Joel Cummins dressed as Uncle Jesse Pinkman.
The first mash-up song of the night came at the end of the first set. It featured “When Doves Cry” by Prince, blended with Umph original “Pay the Snucka” and Blue Oyster Cult’s “(Don’t Fear) The Reaper”. While ”Don’t Fear the Doves, Snucka” was fairly well mashed, I felt like it didn’t have quite enough cow bell to really pull it off.
Halloween night’s second set contained the next mash-up; “Papa Can Change a Blurred Stone”. This was probably my least favorite debut of the weekend, mostly because Umphrey’s covered Robin Thicke’s “Blurred Lines”. This pop song has haunted me at every wedding, club, and dive bar I patronized over the past six months and the fact that I had to endure it once again while watching my favorite band was the ultimate Halloween trick. Not only that, but it completely overpowered The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and LCD Soundsystem in the process. I am not sure whose idea it was to cover that specific song but I have a feeling bassist Ryan Stasik was involved, especially since his mash-up costume was Batman & Robin Thicke.
The final mash-up of the night stayed true to the yearly Halloween Mash-up Show tradition of saving the best for last. “Highway to Electric Avenue” was probably the most well mashed song of the Halloween show and seemed deliberately put aside for the show’s encore. Umphrey’s original “The Triple Wide” helped set off the mash-up’s pace which eventually evolved into a game of double-dutch between AC/DC’s “Highway to Hell” and Eddy Grant’s “Electric Avenue”.
I thoroughly enjoyed the fact that this mash-up contained a song by the same band that inspired my Hell’s Belle costume. Besides the three mash-ups, the setlist from Halloween contained heavy hitter after heavy hitter without a single song from the albums Mantis or Anchor Drops thrown in the mix. Fancy that.
Denver was a busy city on New Year’s Eve. The String Cheese Incident was playing their 20th anniversary show just outside the city while Pretty Lights was headlining EDM extravaganza, Decadence in the heart of downtown. Umphrey’s McGee, on the other hand, was wrapping up a four night New Year’s run at Fillmore Auditorium. I hadn't caught an Umphrey’s NYE show in over two years and there was truly no place I’d rather be.
I arrived at the venue just before the show started. My road beverage turned to liquid gold as I waited in a line that wrapped around the Fillmore and into a quaint Denver neighborhood. Luckily it wasn’t too cold outside, or maybe it was the alcohol, but everyone was feeling pretty good, until we heard the crowd roar from within the venue.
Frustration and panic washed over my face. With each note that followed, the pain burrowed deeper into the pit of my stomach. I realized that this was probably my version of hell; being stuck in a line outside a venue only to hear the empty echoes of my favorite songs being played inside while energetic lights escape from a securely guarded door.
The line moved slower than expected and I ended up missing the first forty minutes of the show, which included “Le Blitz > Phil’s Farm > Ocean Billy”. Therefore, the first official song on my New Year’s Eve setlist was a sassy “Mail Package” that Jake Cinninger soulfully delivered. It was followed by a thrashing “Wizard Burial Ground” that Brendan Bayliss comically dedicated “to all the lovers out there.”
Umphrey’s ended the first set of NYE with a debut of a never before played original, “Bad Friday”. This song was probably the highlight of the show. With the help of Mad Dog’s Filthy Secret on horns, Jake’s familiar soul riff finally took flight. A catchy backbeat turned this new Umph tune into straight-up pop music. From the first notes, a disco dance party formed under glimmering crystal chandeliers, which seemed to float above the crowd.
I love being present when an original song is played for the first time because it puts everyone on the same level. From the most avid fan to the kid experiencing their first show, no one knows what will happen next. It made me recollect the first time Umphrey’s played “Puppet Strings” at Summer Camp and my visceral reaction to hear it over and over again. I predict “Bad Friday” will be Umphrey’s bust out song of the 2014; much like “Puppet Strings” was in 2011.
Second set was much stranger than the first. A horn section, appropriately labeled Mad Dog’s Filthy Secret, added a deeper level of weird to Umphrey’s musical landscapes. The sounds engulfed me since I was wearing a pair of headphones that streamed live soundboard audio. My previous experiences with Headphones and Snowcones convinced me that this was the best way completely submerge myself in the live music experience. So why not rock them at Umphrey’s biggest show of the year? The headphones demanded my focus be on the music throughout the first set so I chose to venture through the crowd alone during the second to get a better view of the stage.
I felt like an island surrounded by people, something that further enhanced my response to Umphrey’s debut cover of “Twilight Zone”, which also included teases of Ozzy Osbourne’s “Crazy Train”. I zoned into the way Jake commanded his guitar while Brendan attempted to catch the rhythm. It all felt like it wasn’t adding up so I started making friends with the strangers around me and eventually found myself covered in Umphlove stickers.
Songs like “40′s Theme” and “Booth Love” were done justice by the addition of horns, while ”No Diablo” finally got a chance to dig deeper into its Motown roots. Umphrey’s ended the set on a high note with the most unforgettable cover of the night, Phil Collins’ “Sussudio”. Once again, the strangeness crept in as I recalled American Psycho’s analysis of Phil’s work. At this point I began to realize that maybe this weird feeling was strictly subjective.
Third set began just before midnight with an insane version of “Hurt Bird Bath”. In keeping with tradition, Umphrey’s had never played this song into the New Year. Jeff Coffin, along with the rest of Mad Dog’s Secrets, amped up the energy of “Hurt Bird Bath” like I had never seen it before. The insane build up of the song made me appreciate the true meaning of “rage” in how it relates to the actions of a raving maniac.
By now I had found most of my friends standing right in front of the sound board in the center of the ballroom. This spot provided the best view I experienced all night. Light designer Jefferson Waful was perched on a tall platform just behind us and his devotion to symmetry made the room’s visual landscape just as stimulating as the audio coming from the headphones.
But when the countdown started, I removed my headphones. This was not a time when I wished to block out the rest of the room. Umphrey’s provided all the elements necessary to engrave this moment in my head for the rest of my life. Balloons and confetti fell from the ceiling. My focus switched from the stage to the people around me. Smiling from ear to ear, I hugged my friends and wished them the best in 2014.
Whimsical swirls of energy surrounded us as the band ventured into the New Year’s classic “Auld Lang Syne”. After spending a handful of past New Year’s Eves with Umphrey’s, I knew this was coming. I even looked up a few verses of the song before the show in preparation, so when I heard those first few notes I belted out the lyrics as loud as I could, greeting 2014 with a song.
It was all so intoxicating; the music, energy of the room, glow of the lights, and smell of weed becoming legal. At midnight Colorado became the first state to legalize marijuana, something I never thought I’d experience in my lifetime. It made me feel like I was part of something BIG just by being there. New Year’s always offers a fresh start with limitless possibilities, and this was no exception.
The rest of the third set was pure perfection. “Hit It and Quit It”, a debut Funkadelic cover, provided just enough raunchiness to everyone’s juices flowing. I turned my headphones over to some friends so I could share the experience. The look on their faces was of pure ecstasy.
The night ended with an appropriate “Resolution” encore that jammed out the New Year’s classic, “Auld Lang Syne” and eventually segued into Kool & the Gang’s “Funky Stuff”. Umphrey’s was once again joined by Mad Dog’s Filthy Secrets to conclude the long night of music on a high note.
While strange, the night felt perfect in every way.
Original post: http://summercampfestival.com/2014/01/15/show-review-umphreys-mcgee-nye-denver/
Review by 3x40oz, posted 30 January 2014 1:48 pm EST, attached to 2011-01-30
2011 was a year that featured one or two really good pieces of improv in almost every show, and this one did not disappoint. The standard Eat followed by Words was really the only slow part of the show. FF and 1348 were easily the highlights of set 1, as both contained quality improv and approached the 15 minute mark. FF had a very patient jam, beginning as spacey dub before shifting into more driving territory and closing with a Stranglehold jam before Anchor Drops started on a dime. 1348's jam started out with a heavy BB riff complimented by nice Rhodes work by Joel. The B section was uplifting, with a nice soaring Jake riff. The return to 1348 was very patient; they really eased into it, almost like they do with the intro. Slacker had a brief jam and brought a satisfying first set to a close.
Set 2 started very strong, with a Bloodline of Merlin sampled quote leading into WBG. The Hey 19 through Phil's Farm segment is undoubtedly the show highlight, with about 40 minutes of uninterrupted playing including several strong improv sections. Hey 19 featured a Midnight Hour jam with vox by Jake. My girlfriend presciently observed that it sounded a lot like Funkytown, which I scoffed at, only to be shocked and served when the band snuck in a brief Funkytown jam next! The Linear featured a spacey jam that followed FF's template and picked up in pace, highlighted by Jake's fingertapping that recalled PF's On the Run. For my money, Linear was the jam of the night. Linear dissolved into Phil's, which quickly took a turn into the space-dance sort of improv featured in this show. The ALS theme begins early on in the improv out of Phil's and led smoothly into Blue Echo. A hauntingly beautiful jam after the Echo section featured a Joel piano progression and very restrained but powerful playing from all band members. This stew was very similar to a 2006 version of Blue Echo (4/19/2006 possibly? The date escapes me at the moment.) Echo did not return to the "Techo" section, but rather dropped back into the second half of Phil's before a BLBC set closer. BLBC featured some funk jamming around the main theme, a solid version but rather ordinary when compared to the best versions of the song from 2011 (year of the massive Bright Lights?) 40's encore was welcomed but not particularly notable.
Review by jnumber1, posted 20 January 2014 4:41 pm EST, attached to 2011-03-11
This could very easily be my favorite second set ever. Maybe because I'm a local, or maybe it was 80's night happening downstairs and spilling up to the show, I don't know. Was it just me or was that a Things Can Only Get Better (Howard Jones) tease by Myers at the end of the first Snucka? Can't wait to do it all again in a couple months.
Review by habsfan802, posted 10 January 2014 11:10 am EST, attached to 2013-10-19
Another amazing show. What can I say they tore it up. The place went bonkers when they referenced the Red Sox being in the playoffs, when the sox won the game and Jefferson wrote sox on the wall in lights it was off the chain. The band was having as much fun as we were and that was evident. The encore of Wizard Burial ground still has my nipples hard.
This was an amazing show. I was right up front and the band was amazing. The interaction with the crowd was awesome. Ryan an I even had a moment together. The crowd erupted when they went from cinnamon girl back into pay the snucka and they teased with bulls on parade. The second set was amazing and I had to go back the next day to scrape my face off the floor. When they did Dr Feelgood the place was hopping great show.
Review by teleskiguy, posted 10 January 2014 12:49 am EST, attached to 2013-12-29
The Joshua Redman set is a fine example of people describing him as the "7th member of the band." (We all know that Waful is the 7th member, just like Kuroda is the 5th member, but I'm talking music). Just ridiculous musicianship. Joshua Redman on DBK alone is worth the money paid to buy this show.
Speaking of DBK 2nd set opener, Jaden Carlson's sit-in on DBK is a standout, very incredible 12-year-old gal from Boulder holding her own with UM, awe-inspiring to say the least! Listen to Jake yell out "OH YEAH!" at the end of her sit-in!
I effing loved the Plunger Jimmy Stewart, just real raw UM!
River People is one of the sexiest and funkiest things I've heard this band do onstage. I've listened to the first 4 minutes of this song about 30 times now, and I play it for my gal friends to great effect! River People can and should somehow make it into rotation.
Most of my favorite moments of the this NYE run are on this show.
Review by bmrobin, posted 01 December 2013 12:29 pm EST, attached to 2012-09-14
the All In Time and its Jimmy Stewart is superb. while the 2nd set is very, very good i just love the 1st set's flow and consistently find myself listening to it alone
Review by boarder1720, posted 26 November 2013 2:50 pm EST, attached to 2013-11-02
Cold November nights in Wisconsin and Umphrey’s McGee have always had the ingredients for a magical show. Dating back to 2006 and even further back if you include October the band is always on point this time of year. Add a great theater that Waful crushed and this night was another one of those nights. I was beyond excited driving up last minute since my last two set Umphrey’s show had been the Bill Graham private show way back in April.
The show opened up with silky smooth Plunger > Much Obliged > Plunger Sammy giving us a nice treat of some older tunes. The drop into M.O. was spot on where the transition in Plunger normally is which lead to funky jam with a raging peak before bouncing back into the end of M.O. and then fading beautifully into the end of Plunger with a Joel lead piano solo. Everything about this sandwiched screamed Umphrey’s McGee, the precisions and execution was flawless.
Next came Higgins with an exceptional jam, Stasik stepped up and leads the way with an infectious groove that everyone built around. Once again the flow in and out of Higgins was superb. This dance party Higgins got followed up by a rare treat in another old tune Sweetness. This leads some very uplifting, graceful improv landing on a rock riff that Jake ends up teasing Rebubula briefly before he shreds his way into funky riffs everyone picks up on and then BOOM! It drops into Comma Later.
No Diablo came next, a song debut at UMBowl earlier this year and only played 5 times prior. I really dig the Supertramp vibe and I’m glad it’s getting played. Finally, the highlight of the show for me closed out the first set with an extended 40’s Theme that included a verse of The Police’s “The Bed’s Too Big Without You”. Once again the MVP of the night, Ryan Stasik stepped up with some Sublime bass effects that had the place going ape shit until it fizzled into The Police which lead to equal excitement from the crowd. The band then slowly grooved back into the end of 40’s and walk off stage leaving us eager with anticipation for set two.
The second started off with another monster rock sandwich in Mantis > Mulche’s Odyssey > Mantis. Mantis is a tune I really wish would get improv all the time but not tonight, however the powerful first verse had the energy flowing from the start and that spilled over into an insanely powerful Mulche’s. Jake was toying with the Who Knows? riff in the rock breakdown but never went into it. Once again they kept a sold out crowd going full force before finishing the tune and ever so carefully segueing back into Mantis.
Following up this huge sandwich was Miami Virtue, the highlight of set two without a doubt. This version clocks in just under 15 minutes, 10 of which is improv and it is really something special. It has a slow intro where Jake walks over and joins Joel on keys and then they proceed to lay down some very tasty layers together. This dark jam is a great example of where everyone comes together and is doing just enough to mesh together something great. As the tempo picks up everything seems to take form and a masterful team effort unfolds. Bayliss really lays down some licks as this builds up before cutting out into some keys and synthesizer where this dark jam sees the light and transpires into a glorious uplifting jam. This jam then quietly fades into the night with a slow segue into a standard JaJunk where yet again Stasik stepped up and laid down some bubbly bass. The band closed out the second with a crowd favorite cover of Metallica’s “…And Justice For All” which hadn’t seen the light of night in 577 shows. They encored with a standard Bridgeless which I consider a treat since it seems rare to catch a standalone Bridgeless these days, even if it normally creates great improv. A great choice by the band to close out a show that rocked from start to finish.
Review by jmgriffin, posted 09 October 2013 9:30 pm EDT, attached to 2013-10-04
I only captured one video of this show (Hajimemashite) but here it is if anyone wants to check it out: http://www.weekendblitz.com/widespread-panic-umphreys-mcgee-october-4-5-2013-charleston-sc-review/
Review by cMags, posted 22 September 2013 1:28 pm EDT, attached to 2006-10-04
After the two night Burlington run, I had three days to go back to school and relax. This was my second Toad's Place show in 2006 and I did the exact same thing as before. Took the Bonanza bus down to my buddy's dorm in New London, and drank pre-show.
This show starts off with a 20 min unfinished N2F, which is basically unheard of nowadays. After the composed part, the jam morphs into a percussion laced jam. Lot of Kris and Andy going on. It ends up going into kind of a spacey-untz jam, but nothing special. Even though this version is long, it's not mind blowing.
There is a nice -> into a standard Walletsworth. Get in the Van is next with some nice banter after the intro. This Van actually features about 2 minutes of improv in the middle. Didn't even realize this until listening to it again.
Resolution featured two decent jams with a great drop into the Rock Fuzz.
The Visions > N2F reprise is 25 minutes of spacy sonic bliss. If you want to listen to this show, listen to that segment.
Review by jmgriffin, posted 10 September 2013 9:17 pm EDT, attached to 2013-08-28
Great show, posted a bunch of HD videos, check them out here: http://www.weekendblitz.com/sts9-umphreys-mcgee-august-28-2013-charlotte-nc-review/
Review by MomentsOfDivisions, posted 07 September 2013 2:14 pm EDT, attached to 2013-08-21
This was my birthday show for 2013. I made the trip out from Colorado for this show and St. Louis the next night.
The venue was alright, smaller then what I was expecting from the photos. I was able to link up with some fellow Umphfreaks via Facebook groups and managed to secure a few spots on the SkyDeck. The SkyDeck is this venue's VIP viewing balcony w/ private bathrooms & bar. One of my friends had also secured the Headphones & Snowcones for the night so we got to the venue right as the opener started. After getting the headphones & a few pins from the merch table we settled into a nice spot about 10 ft. in front of the sound board in middle of the stage.
Umphrey's took the stage as the sun was setting and kicked off the set with a delicious ITK > Wellwishers sandwich. The jams from ITK where a sold way to start the show. Next came Mail Package, which seems to be popping up more frequently in 2013 set lists. A much enjoyed tune, and Jake seemed to get loose with some fun vocals. Dump City also has some great moments of improve and gets pretty spacey at parts. At thus point in the show I had only been able to listen to snippets of the opening tracks with the headphones on, since my friend was the one that reserved and paid for them.
Once Example 1 dropped she let me put them on for most of the song and oh boy was that something special. If you every have a chance to do this [u]I HIGHLY recommend it[u]!! You are able to feel the bass and low ends while also being able to isolate each band members instruments with extreme ease. There was a part during this song Joel was laying down a peaceful piano section over Jake's soloing; this was a very powerful experience at a live show for me.
I loved being able to look at each member and be able to hear exactly what they were contributing to each of the jams. The band transitioned out of the example 1 jam into only my second OOO in 32 shows. Out of Order was a much welcomed older tune, which Bayliss nailed the vocals on. The nights highlights for me start with the next song, Phil's Farm, and run to the end of the show with Pay the Snucka.
Phil's Farm has one of the best jams that I have experienced at an Umphrey's show in my 32 show career. A very long an enjoyable jam with a soaring peak! Syncopated also has some very strong moments and got very dark before they finished the song with the blissful doo doo doo dooooo part. The Come Closer mash-up was something no one saw coming and really sent the crowd into a frenzy! The inexperienced girls next to us had a look of sheer confusion at what was happening in front of their eyes and ears. This took me back to the first time I heard this song at my [b]2nd EVER UM show[b] during Wakarusa of 2010. It reminded me of that night and the night before when I had my first live experiences with this band and community and made me very happy.
Pay the Snucka was the perfect way to end the set and one of the songs that I had requested from Joel on twitter. I don't know for sure if this is why they played Snucka at this show, but it sure made the night for me. I had such a blast RAGING this set in a unfamiliar town at a new venue with some of the best friends and family a guy could ask for. Thanks to Umphrey's amazing performance this night I will have some amazing pictures & memories from an outstanding 27th Birthday!!
mm/ Rage.Rest.Repeat
MomentsofDivisions
Review by JAJ_JAJ, posted 27 August 2013 2:24 pm EDT, attached to 1998-12-18
Though we don't have a setlist for this show (it was accidentally deleted from the original UM setlist file years ago), I remember specifically seeing the boys at MOB on the Friday night after finals at ND, fall semester 1998. A nice pre-party with some friends off campus made for a very fun night at good ol' MOB.
Review by SmellThePig, posted 25 August 2013 5:20 pm EDT, attached to 2013-08-23
Phenomenal show with fantastic jamming. I could be wrong but wasn't that a Jimmy Stewart in the middle of August? Sounded nothing like the song proper. Even if it was just a jam it was definitely my favorite moment of the night. Glad I decided to catch this show and not just Alpharetta.
Review by umphalex, posted 19 August 2013 2:09 pm EDT, attached to 2013-08-17
UM brought the ruckus at this show for sure...Lot of tight improv and jamming going on throughout.
Le Blitz set the tone right off the bat, but the bridgless with jimmy took off to amazing places.
Dear Lord being stuck in between the plunger was a nice twist, and I've never seen this before....(Dear Lord is an amazing song)
Really into the feel and lyrics on No Diablo, and the interplay between Jake and Brendan has a good supertramp-esque feel..
Tribute to the spinal shaft got busted open big time with lots of psychedelic jam, and it's followed with serious versions of conduit and the linear.
Let's Dance had so much sound with both bands being on stage and the horn players too...I think it was about 15 people on stage jammin out some Bowie...Pretty cool stuff!
Any show with 4 Jimmy Stewart's in it is worth listening to in my opinion, and this show packs a punch...
Review by umphalex, posted 04 July 2013 1:33 pm EDT, attached to 2013-07-02
One set never sounds all that great anymore before you go, but they always treat summerfest really well and this was no exception.
Big fan of "Le Blitz" as an opener, really gets the UM vibe and crunchy guitar jams rolling....
It's been a long time since we've gotten turn and dub, and this ones jam goes all over the place...its really sick. Robot world's jimmy takes a darker turn and ends up being some pretty heavy jam.
Out of order is such a great tune and I personally think it should get more play because it is one of those classic UM sounding tunes...Let's dance of course brought the funk vibe and Sinclair on the sax was a nice treat!
Rest of show is awesome as well, but the dear lord in the encore with sprinkling rain really had an impact on the crowd and was one of those beautiful moments.
P.S. Joel announced before the encore that Milwaukee would be treated to year 2 of Halloween at the Riverside, and this year is 3 nights: 10-31 thru 11-2!!! Thank you UM! Wisco loves you!
This show is seriously under rated and never talked about. But when it's a general admission $10 summerfest ticket and UM plays like this, WOW!
Opener of resolution with two seperate jams wrapped around the tune, first jam is a rocker, and second jam is funky...
Pretty standard versions of PW, S4, and then an always wonderful zeppelin cover to get the party goin.
Nothin too fancy can be heard on UM-Hall of Fame and is one of the greatest ambient UM grooves I've heard to date..its tasty.
Push the pig has a good healthy jam, and Milwaukee was diggin the harder groove that "in bloom" brought...
One of the coolest Fuzz jams I've ever heard, its like bar room rockin jamboree shit..really is quite killer...
Encore embodied some hendrix teases and ended the night in serious fashion! UM always rocks out at summerfest
Review by SnuckaGetsPaid, posted 23 June 2013 6:06 am EDT, attached to 2009-07-11
First Show. Gateway drug. Need to buy this again. The Resolution with Snoop/Warren G jam destroyed my brain. I didn't know that a band could be this awesome before this set.
Review by bubba40, posted 21 June 2013 4:50 pm EDT, attached to 2013-06-18
Quick note- during the Bottom Half, the band jams on Jeff Coffin's tune "Lucky 13", which is the third track on Coffin's most recent studio album "Into the Air"
Review by teleskiguy, posted 02 June 2013 12:54 am EDT, attached to 2013-04-26
Here's a link to a write up I did about this show:
http://teleskiguy.tumblr.com/post/49063263186/reflections-on-umbowl4
I rolled VIP, bought the hotel package 4 days before the show. I drove out from western Colorado by myself. Worth all the time and treasure! If you enjoy Umphrey's McGee in any capacity UMBowl is a beautiful thing if you can get in.
Here's my "Choose Your Own Adventure" votes.
1348 > Lenny > 40s Theme > Miss Gradenko > Smell the Mitten > Bad Poker > Puppet String
And I was a little baffled by "Lenny" losing to "Higgins." Hey UMPhreaks, the band has played "Higgins" a bunch, they hardly ever play "Lenny," one of the most beautiful rock songs ever composed. That's my one gripe about the show. Which is trivial because the whole damn evening was one of the best rock 'n' roll experiences I've been a part of.
Review by DREDLOX, posted 27 May 2013 10:31 am EDT, attached to 2008-08-09
Not really posting a review but I wish the Up North Festival stayed alive longer than the ONE YEAR it did. This show featured 4 of the BIG GUN songs in UM's repertoire including Utopian, HBB, DBK, and N2F with Floyd in the encore slot.
They were headlining this night so played a 2 hour set. The encore was roughly 30 minutes long.
A little known fact amongst Umphreaks is that THIS SHOW WAS JEFFERSON WAFUL'S FIRST TIME RUNNING THE LIGHT RIG IN A LIVE SETTING FOR UMPHREY'S!!!
Review by occdoc2000, posted 26 May 2013 9:47 am EDT, attached to 2013-04-20
It was a great show- think the song teased in ITK was 'Wanna Be Startin' Something' by Michael Jackson
Review by wanderingsun, posted 10 May 2013 4:21 pm EDT, attached to 2013-01-18
i was in ny working on hurricane sandy. my last day of work was the same day as this show. dropped some cash on a front row ticket to reward myself for 3 months of lonely, crappy work... wound up meeting my now-boyfriend, who was in the second row.
in two weeks, i'm moving to new york to be with him. but first! he's coming to my hometown for the hangout, where we're going to get a prefest um show.. then we're driving to new york together, but stopping into summercamp on the way.
tl;dr this show changed my life.
Review by mattsidran, posted 07 May 2013 3:56 pm EDT, attached to 2009-09-04
The Jimmy Stewart during Much Obliged is now known as No Comment. This show was quite amazing. The band really was tight.
Review by umphursmcgur, posted 30 April 2013 12:55 am EDT, attached to 2013-04-26
Alright, this was a blast, definitely on my agenda for next year. Hoping for this to be the very of many umbowls.
Quarter 1 might have been my favorite. Really enjoyed the stews, gonna have to give it a listen again, can't remember which was my favorite. Really fun way to start out the show and brought out a lot of good dancing on my part, would keep this in this placement next year. Also, second time getting the cables cut after last new years, really enjoyed the down tempo version, probably more than the other. Was surprised at choices, would have preferred more older stews, felt like a lot were really recent, oh well, still a good time.
Quarter 2 was fun too, loved the Orion opener, but I admit a deep love for metal umphs. Cantina band was straight dance party, really glad this got picked too. Would love to see both of those enter rotation for their covers. No Diablo and Porch were fun if nothing else. I love Bullhead City, but it felt like it would have been much better if naturally placed in an acoustic set, still glad to have seen one, beautiful song if you ask me. I don't know who voted on 2x2 acoustic, but that just seemed awful to me, like a giant condom wrapped around an otherwise great song. Will have to give it another listen, it all looked so awkward with the big light show that usually accompanies the electric piece. Not as good as Quarter 1, but still fun. Next year I might suggest putting up some choices we've had in past Umbowls, I realize IVOY has already been voted in, but who wouldn't want another one after three years? As Quarter 1, great placement, fun to see all the bust outs and debuts right before halftime and right after the raw stewage.
Quarter 3 had some serious jamming go on, but it felt a little underwhelming for most of the time. 70s disco, hillbilly hoedown, jazz metal fusion and sinister evil untz were the highlights for me. Didn't much care at all for gin and juice, beach boogie or tribal drum jam. And the simply ambient music seemed like anything but, too much going on, too much energy on stage for that to take proper form it seemed. Again, relistens will provide some insight. I know this is one of the premier quarters, but I would consider dropping this next year if it's going to have as many stale moments as this year. Obviously if nothing else better can be thought up then don't, but I feel like if they kicked around enough ideas they could think of something better, or at the very least mix it up somehow to make it more fresh.
Quarter 4 was really fun, definitely best as the final quarter in my opinion. Decent song selection, but I have to wander why Miss Gradenko wasn't picked. And Higgins over Lenny OR Eat? Really? Also glad Miss Tinkles was picked over Hangover, still don't understand all the hate that song gets. Really enjoyed how they let every song have a good 5 to 10 minutes to breath and get fleshed out. Were you allowed to vote over and over? For some reason I thought everyone got one vote and everyone kept switching their votes. If not then I feel bad for the people that sat there texting over and over again, because after I voted once I was getting down to all those tastey jams they tacked onto every song. Really like the way this was handled, and the placement at the end seemed the most natural and was the best way to end the show if you ask me. It's either this or the first quarter that was my favorite, gonna have to get my hands on the soundboard to properly compare.
Overall great show, definitely worth the price. I think the quarter placement was spot on, particularly putting the raw stewage first to get the room moving and the choose your own adventure last to get everyone involved at the end, particularly with every song getting decent treatment. I cannot stress enough how awesome it was that they let everyone have time to vote and opened everything up that quarter. Next year put up some better options for the mail in ballots. I realize a lot of the best songs have been picked before or used on the ballots before, but they're going to have to put them up again eventually if they keep doing this year after year, might as well do it for the fifth time since that's generally considered a big number to hit. Would consider either dropping stewart event or modifying it in someway, was the low point of the show for me easily sans a few dancey moments.
Review by Mantisphantis, posted 25 April 2013 11:15 am EDT, attached to 2013-04-19
Let me tell you why this is the best UM show of 2013, in my opinion. I consider nipple trix my favorite intro. Ive seen it thrice, Chicago, Stl new years, and the first one at summer camp. Love the energy of it and loved the transition into Resolution. Resolution contained a solid amount of improv for a 2013 reso, thoroughly enjoyed it. Pretty much the one lull came during hourglass (it usually does). A nice full 1348 was a treat mid set, as you usually see it ending a set. Morning song was emotional and perfect. Got goosebumps. Rosanna>Conduit was great! Bayliss was feelin himself during Rosanna. A nice mulche's with a jazzy mid jam was a perfect way to end an emotional roller coaster of a set. Set 2 kinda speaks for itself. 5 songs, 6 including the second part of AIT. All in time contained a great jam that sorta sounded like Phish's first tube to me. Day Nurse in between was nice. I like day nurse because it brings a weird funky energy into the room every time. I expected them to continue the set into a new song, but out of nowhere Bayliss began to sing All in Time part 2. Another treat because every other time i've seen all in time it's ended a set. The highlight of the night, the Higgins, clocking in at 22 minutes, contained a "Talking in your sleep" jam (By the Romantics) which was weird and fun. There was also a vocal jimmy stewart about 15:00 through. Didn't recognize the lyrics. This was the best higgins i've ever heard. Slacker was solid and contained some stasik gold. Can't you hear me knockin closed out a STELLAR second set with it's usually fun energy. Everyone always appreciates the Stones covers. The encore was freaking perfect. Partyin Peeps>Haji. Ahh. Speaks for itself, i think.
Review by the_johnvoss, posted 23 April 2013 5:41 pm EDT, attached to 2013-04-19
Fun, funky show. Rosanna > Conduit was alot of fun.
Stasik got a little too loose during CYHMK, but thats ok considering the amount of jamming throughout the second set. Judging from the written setlist, it looks like that 30+ minute second set opener took a little extra time. I think they cut out Miami Virtue and one other song.
PP > Haji is a classic encore. Doesn't get much better.
Of the two Texas shows this was by far the best, and that is not to discount how good Dallas was. But, I have a feeling that the boys selling out their first Texas gig gave them a warm happy feeling they just couldn't help but show with the music.
The setlist speaks for itself.
LE>Deeper>UF>Jessica was a great combo to round out the middle of the 1st set.
The entire second set was on point. Encore, just as good.
Not alot of real off the cuff jammming, but solid structured jamming throughout. AND A MOTHER EFFING Daft Punk Cover...
Review by N2FBoston, posted 23 April 2013 11:24 am EDT, attached to 2013-04-20
I wasn't at this show but the song selection is epic! All the jams are very tight and exploratory. Covering the new Daft Punk song is pretty awesome too.
Anyone know what stew/jam/song they are teasing about 7:30 into In The Kitchen? I've definitely heard it before...
Review by snackUMmack, posted 22 April 2013 2:29 pm EDT, attached to 2013-04-12
First off, this was one hell of an umph experience. My friends and i traveled south from PA to see two shows back to back. This being the first out of the two. Starting off a concert to "Drink My Drank" is a great way to grab the crowd's attention. Then transitioning into "Tribute to the Spinal Shaft" which was up beat and funky as fuck. Joel had his time for a keys solo. Good for him! "Conduit" was next and ill always enjoy that badass tune. "Cemetery Walk" was dropped on the Olando crowd, which dropped my jaw. Never thought i would see it live and not only that but to have it swing right into "Slacker" which is a personal favorite. So at this point...Im flipping out. "Miss Tinkles Overture" was played next and thats just up lifting shredding and a solid jam that gets the crowd involved towards the end. A cover slides right into the setlist and it just happens to be Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb". Damn. The room's energy was magical. Everybody was in the spirit now. Then ending the set with "Cemetery Walk II", as expected. GREAT first set.
Starting off the second set with "Der Bluten Kat" > "Miami Virtue" > "Der Bluten Kat" was big. During the Inprov of DBK, Waful flips the lights back on the curtains and really bring out the art in his occupation. The dance moves were just pouring out. "In the Kitchen" was next in line. It was not long in duration, but thats fine. Just hearing the tune is good enough for me. Stasik took a nice bass solo after kitchen which was quite impressive. Then they slammed a solid 18 minute "2x2" which was fucking awesome. Great tune :). "1348" was the perfect way to end the set and it was spot on. Drunk singing and hard raging, just the way i like it.
Encore left me speechless. No one can ever deny and well played "Ringo" and well played it was. For the final stretch of the night, the band was getting real funky. Towards the middle of the song they bring back ringo and leave a Kris Myer's signature drum beat playing on where the crowd begins an up roaring WE WANT THE UMPHS chant. the band then reacts and slaps a "Soul Food II" jam and that was so much more than i could ever ask for. My favorite show so far. Give it a listen when you can. Thank you Umphrey's.
Review by Hugger, posted 01 April 2013 10:03 pm EDT, attached to 2010-07-17
^Yep! Gotta agree with the above reviewer about the Talking Heads cover. In fact, that whole first set was so spot on, I was caught off guard when they walked off for set break. Seemed like they had just started. Great show from front to back.
Watched the first set from the rail, but got caught by the short set break, and watched the 2nd set from the top of the hill.
Review by umphalex, posted 29 March 2013 5:42 pm EDT, attached to 2013-03-23
The House of Blues on sunset strip is actually really cool on the inside and has pretty amazing sound too! This night was a serious rager and is my favorite show of 2013 thus far.
This was my 49th show and my first time to ever do the UMVIP, which was really sick... Got a signed poster included, laminates, soundcheck on Saturday, and a meet and greet with the BAND!!!
Got pic's with all the different band members and everyone was soooooo cool....
As for the second night of Hollywood nights, well their was no shortage of pure unadultered jammin going on!
My first live "there's no crying in mexico" which always gets you in the mood for some dancy fun...And a super jammy bridgeless that goes to a nice place.
Wappy sprayberry was it's usual dance party with a great MJ tease that was funky as hell with a beautiful backside to brigeless.
Wife soup doesn't get played alot anymore and was really nice to see on the west coast, since we are from Madison WI. The Der bluten kat takes the cake for the first set though...
Both Jake and Brendan taking turns on keys in DBK and also a first time ever great hip hop tune!
Mulche's got taken to a much higher level than normal and had Jake and Brendan facing in on each other battling out sick guitar riffs
Anytime you get DBK and then Divisions in a show you know it'll be a special night. Divisions has a serious Jimmy Stewart that gives goosebumps, and then followed by a plunger (which usually I dont care for too much) but the plunger contains one of the funkiest grooves I've heard to date....
Hangover gets seriously elevated to an insane jam level and then the triple wide into divisions to end!?!?! Wow, this is one of those shows....
Good encore with some California lyrics in "the song remains the same" to really let people know why UM is the best out there!
Review by cMags, posted 27 February 2013 4:42 pm EST, attached to 2006-09-30
Coming off an incredible show from the night before, everyone in our hotel room slept in pretty late. We all walked around Burlington during the late morning/early afternoon, then made our way back to the hotel for the pre-game.
The show started off with an extended Plunger jam into MITA, which I had heard at the Hampton show 2 months earlier. 2x2 was standard, then during the Utopian jam, Brendan and Jake switched to their acoustic guitars. This was my first experience with acoustic UM and it was definitely a fitting time to do it as well. Nothing else worth notating, but the last 3 songs of the first set were really fun and different than the UM that I was used to.
Pay the Snucka 2nd set opener was nice, but No More Tears was definitely out of nowhere and I still listen to that version to this day. In the silent breakdown part, they sing a verse of Total Eclipse of the Heart in homage to Old School which was released about 3 years prior. The big jam of the set was The Triple Wide. During the jam, they busted into a lyrical stew and I remember Grover standing next to me screaming out something like "Skyline Stew, Skyline Stew!" I just laughed as he was like a kid in a candy store. I guess this was the jam that turned into Spires? IIRC. Anyways the rest of the set (Words, ITK) were standard. However, Rosanna was a really cool cover choice to finish it off, and after the finishing chorus they went into a jam. No other than Mrs Robinson's Strut. This is one of my favorite repeated stews and it was great to get it after my real first big run with Umph.
Overall it was a great weekend and I will never forget it.
Review by mdevries1, posted 25 February 2013 2:02 pm EST, attached to 2013-02-01
It's hard to believe no one has posted a review of this show. The setlist says it all. This was a barn burner. If you want to make a fan out of anyone - download and play this show. It's full of superhuman music.
You guys fucking rock and Grand Rapids loves you.
Review by Knucklehead, posted 20 February 2013 7:03 pm EST, attached to 2013-02-02
Yes, I'll have two sandwiches. I need an "All in Time" with a "There's No Crying in Mexico" on top, and an extra large "Jajunk". Thanks
Review by umphalex, posted 20 February 2013 1:35 pm EST, attached to 2009-12-31
For some reason this NYE show always stick out in my mind as one of the most memorable nights of mine...This was my second NYE show and it delivered on all fronts.
The first set is a real treat with Cemetery Walk 1 getting ppl in the mood early for a rager, which was followed by a short but great triple wide.
This was my first headphones and snowcones which is always welcomed and should be played more! The whole second set is gold, and the tower of power cover takes the cake! Kris Myers is truly amazing, vocals and drums.
Set 3 contains alot of good jamming, starting with the much obliged that gets super funky to bring in the new year. Phils farm still may be my favorite version, good bass wapping fun...
Of course turn and dub is always welcomed, but I'll never forget stasik in his shiny pink shirt singing cant take my eyes off of you! Hilarious!!!
Reelin in the years was jsut ppl having fun and enjoying being at somehting as special as an UM NYE!
Review by umphalex, posted 20 February 2013 12:47 pm EST, attached to 2004-06-11
Ahhhhh, my first UM show! Young and at Bonnaroo to see all my favorite jam bands! This set of UM opened my eyes to appreciate UM as one of the top bands coming up...
When moe came on and then Michael Travis too I didnt even know what was going on, it blew my mind!
Highlights were definitely the jam in resolution which is long and tasty, along with a nothin too fancy and bright lights that has made me do 48 shows to date!
This whole set though is just pure UM energy and if you've never heard the download I would strongly suggest it!
One of the greatest first sets I've ever heard! The floor is pretty traditional but then 2X2 has this sick asian sounding jam in it...
Turn and Dub is like 18 minutes of good phsychedelic jam followed by a great american with 2 big dance jams in it...Sweet sunglasses is a great cover and a good set closer.
Still one of my favorite Tribute's to start out set 2 which had a Law and order intro with stasik slappin the bass.
Highlights in set 2 for me was Raymond and Fool in the rain. Madison is a great setting for UM.
This could be one of the funnest nights of summercamp that I've ever experienced...and the fact that they released it on DVD is just sick!
The jam in 1348 is pure energy and really gets you moving...Once I heard Red Tape bust out I knew it was gonna be twenty minutes of heaven. It seems like every year UM takes a tune and just rages it 20 mins every time they play it but in different ways..(ocean billy, 1348, red tape, etc...)
Their is two distinct sides to the red tape, one being super trancie electronica and one being an uplifter...The pay the snucka with bulls on parade got everyone ragin.
My first senor mouse and I love this cover!!!!
Second set is classic....I absolutely love the miss tinkles higgins twister! In and out and in and out of both tunes...EPIC!
Rocker Pt 2 is of course a legendary builder and this was my first Day Nurse. I kept thinking by this point that this was one of the greatest nights ever!
Hourglass is a great mellow tune with solid lyrics and national anthem brought the heat big time.
Encore of triple wide in where joel's part is absolute fire...such great musicianship....
Summercamp is the shit...
UM had a lot to prove to make this show better than the last time they were at the Orpheum and they did not dissapoint.
Nippletrix into 2nd Self was a nice touch to get the show started with a good vibe. The puppet string has some really good improv and good length. Not quite as funky as some versions I've heard but original and good in its own way.
My fiance called the Mantis on this show and is always a nice treat these days to get that, especially the backside of it.
Triple wide is a great version, taking you through peaks and valleys of electronic grooves...All night long had more thump than normal with 3 ppl playing percussion including Jake.
It was my second time getting headphones and snowcones (once before on NYE with Mirro) and its a great jazzy riff.
I love when they put two jams into Resolution and both of them had a reggae - ish theme which was great!!!
Set two was a rager, dancy jajunk, rocker of a slacker, and the set never let go....
Hollywood nights I went absolutely nuts because me and my fiance will be going to do VIP HOLLYWOOD NIGHTS on 3-22 and 3-23 in Hollywood....Its as if they knew we were going by playing it in our hometown of madtown!
Great show...UM in madison never dissapoints!
Review by harleybo, posted 19 February 2013 5:42 am EST, attached to 2013-02-16
This show is easily in my top 5.
Seeing headphones and snocones was a huge surprise. The guys were on fire all nite long! Love madtown!
Review by danoc, posted 16 February 2013 5:43 pm EST, attached to 2013-02-14
Morgantown, WV...what an environment for an UMPH's show in mid Feb. Valentine's Day gave all Umphrey's McGee fans a reason for their minds to race of what possibly they could play. Further more
Set I: Catshot was a good way to start off the night, into an always welcomed Miss Tinkle's Overture that jammed hard. Walletsworth was a good fit for an emotional crowd. Domino Theory was pretty sick, really went at it. Intentions Clear really set a good mood for the 1st set. Push the Pig wasn't expected at all, but you'll never turn it down. Wasn't the best version but was very fun. The Floor jammed hard as shit once again..not a surprise. A lot of improve and grooviness/rave feel the show was as an overall.
Set II: The Fussy Dutchman, wow...not a single person was not dancing. Joel was pumped up. Not a Red Tape guy but if i had to see one live I suppose it'd be this one. In The Kitchen was a good up lifting mood after a long Red Tape. Good jams, Thin Air was fucking sick. Haven't seen that one yet until now. I Want You was a great cover.. good sing along for a Valentines Day show. Kabump was tiiiiiiiight. 20 minutes or so. Great Home jam.
Encore: Girlfriend is Better was a pretty cool start to an encore, really went hard and was one of the spacier versions of that they play. Booth Love was expected but not as an encore, heard it up at The Beacon a month prior as an encore so that kind of threw me off. But in the end who is going to turn down a Booth Love on such a great Valentines day down in Morgantown?
Great show all in all, very awesome crowd. Pissed they didnt let me down to the main floor but the 2nd level was hectic and went so hard. Worth leaving my girlfriend at home on valentines day for some umph love, FUCK YEA! Thank you everyone for such an amazing show.
Review by driver, posted 15 February 2013 12:13 pm EST, attached to 2013-02-14
Wow. This was a great show at a great little venue. There was mass confusion about what time the band was actually going on. Initially it was listed as 8:30, then someone said their was an opener, and then someone said they'd go on at 8:00. To be safe, we made sure we were in the venue by 8:00, which was great since the band went on pretty promptly at 8:15.
The Theatre was TINY. Not a bad seat in the whole place, and the balcony looked like it raged hard. It was also a dry venue, which was a first for me, but no one seemed to mind since security was really chill.
Miss Tinkle's opened really, really strong and kicked off the night in pretty rockin' fashion. Walletsworth was well done, but I thought the Domino Theory jam stalled a bit and they ended up pulling out of it, thankfully. Intentions Clear was a jaw dropper with the band taking things down to a trickle while Waful killed all of the lights. This led into an okay Push the Pig and, as always, a rager of The Floor to close Set I.
Set II opened with a nice Fussy Dutchman and led to an okay Red Tape. In the Kitchen really got the crowd moving, but I thought the jam was uninspired. Thin Air was fantastic--maybe the best I've ever heard Joel play. The Beatles cover was a nice breather and raged the venue pretty good. Kabump was a TREAT. The rode the jam for a long time until Stasik finally unplugged and the band ended gently to close a nice Set II.
The Talking Heads cover for an encore was nice, and the Booth Love jam was nasty.
Highlights: Miss Tinkle's, Intentions Clear, Thin Air, Kabump.
If you get a chance, see the band at this venue. They did not disappoint.
Review by umphalex, posted 14 February 2013 11:02 am EST, attached to 2009-02-14
This was my first Valentine's Day show and it was one that never dissapoints. First and second sets both deliver big time.
The August opener is huge and goes into really good dance grooves.
Syncopated Strangers is 18 mins long and the jimmy stewart inside of it had the whole place dancing!!!
Sociable Jimmy is huge too, with the Xxplosive jam just started this show out with pure energy.....
Probably my favorite All in time I've still ever heard (its now 2013) and the mullet over is always a treat.
Great four night run! Thanks UM, Madison loves you!
Review by FurnDiggity, posted 09 February 2013 11:52 am EST, attached to 2013-02-07
This was my 6th year in a row at First Ave and UM. I was a bit bummed they werent playing more than one night, but I knew that the show would not disappoint... And that was for sure the case! I have been an Umphrey's fan for about 7 years now, and I am only in the 30ish range for shows. So I am no veteran by any means, but they are my favorite band. So I was really hoping for a Wizard Burial Ground, I have yet to see it live. I didnt get WBG, but I got 2 of my other favorite songs that I hadnt heard yet... Division! and Miss Tinkle's Overture. I was in awe after both of those were played. Not to mention Nemo was crazy good, as was All In Time and the Triple Wide to close the night out. I hadnt heard UM cover Bowie before, so that was also a highlight for me. I think I say this every time I see Umphrey's, but this was seriously the best show I have seen of them. If not best, easily in my top 3. Great work of you Gents!
Review by cutsman, posted 07 February 2013 1:55 pm EST, attached to 2013-02-06
This was my first UM experience. It was my introduction into "jam" culture. Those lights were the most amazing thing I have ever seen. I can not believe I have not been going to festivals my entire life. I have a feeling that this was the perfect venue. It wasn't over crowded and I had the time of my life. I just wish UM was playing the Electric Forest but I am just as excited to see all these other amazing jam bands I have been missing out on. Thank you for such a life changing experience, for reals.
Review by turnerup15, posted 06 February 2013 2:32 pm EST, attached to 2006-02-09
This was UM first time playing at First Ave. Before this they had only played The Cabooze on the west.
Set 1-
Tons of great energy in the room that night. Energy peaked in the first set during the Glory jam.
1st set ended with a massive Ja Junk. Deep groove from Stasik. wow.
2nd Set Notes
Bayliss guitar was not turned up loud enough in the mix so the 2x2 suffers a bit. I personally enjoy this song more when it is in the first set.
Robot World was the stand out of the whole show. Great dance untz stew with great Moog work from Joel.
Let me start out by saying that this is a pretty underated show. It's definitely pretty proggy and out there at times but a great show.
The Miss Tinkle's Overture is still by far the best version I've ever heard to date and I've been to 50 plus UM shows and have downloaded tons tons more. It is pure energy and pumps you up with a sort of metal dance party.
The visions with the blues for los angeles jam is down right nasty....deep trancy, jazzy, jam that is super tasty and not a usual sound for the band.
Set 2 Highlights were of course the nice beatles cover, but the Crooked one into Utopian is big and bad. The crooked one gets a little dark but very jammy and the Utopian fir gets dark as well but has a really nice tail end of reggae that's a bit longer and extended than normal.
Hot for teacher was real appropriate since the teachers were all striking up at the capitol and made for a great end.
Night 2 of this run was the bee's knee's though....
I would have to completely disagree with the final comment on the first review of this show about the other covers slowing down the show.
I can say that this was my 5th NYE show with UM and my 35th show of UM all together and thought ALL of the cover choices were spot on.
The Demolition Man cover was excellent, UM has covered a ton of Police over the years and this one was a real treat off of "ghost in the machine" album.
And then the Beck cover of Mixed Bizness to bring in the new year was some great funk with fun lyrics!
Definitely highlights of this show are the whole first set being a free flowing complete piece of music that was quite beatiful. Also Kris Myers putting on his soul shoes and doing James Brown right in set 2 was a real treat!
The All in time of this show will be forever in my mind of how far UM can take it, in all different facets and forms of music. And dont forget about how badass it gets wheen cody dickinson does washboard on the slacker. Jake and Cody get dark and heavy and wonderful.
Review by dubzz, posted 01 February 2013 10:35 am EST, attached to 2013-01-19
Easily the most intimate setting I've seen UM to date. The venue was small, packed, and had excellent energy. Unfortunately, I feel this night was a recovery and intermission between Beacon and Brooklyn Bowl for the band. The set wasn't nearly as fast paced or rocking as I'd have liked. However, this isn't to dissuade you from checking it, easily some of the BEST banter of the year no doubt.
Not a Domino Theory fan or Strangers, but both were typical good stuff. BB opened the Girlfriend's Better as a tribute to Manti T'eo and substituted the lyrics for "I have a girlfriend who doesn't exist." Absolutely hilarious and had the crowd really digging it. This made the night. Loved the Dump City then a nice jazz/rock Mulche's to close her out.
The Floyd cover really killed it and the Jimmy had some great improv. Although Visions of Parin isn't one of my favorites, I really thought they were about to cover Hall & Oates, really cool key teases by Joella.
Unfortunately, big mishap during an otherwise great Higgins: Stasik's bass amp was thrown into stand by because of power issues. They managed to recover. JaJunk made for a great encore: real happy to see they played it for us instead of saving it for Brooklyn!
Highlight: Girlfriend is Better (tribute to Manti T'eo)
I can commiserate with danoc, missed the intro and most of 40's due to tough travels from Boston.
N2F > Ocean Billy was monstrous and well overdue in the past few shows. There is a great Jake solo to close it out. Although I'm not a tremendous Radiohead fan, those who like them will really enjoy the rare Weird Fishes cover. Plunger was a great heavy hitter to close the first set.
22 minutes of domination to start the second set with Strings. The entire follow up was a continual rager. Wormborg, Wappy, Ex1 w/ sax were wonderful. Wappy jam was more smooth than too metal. Finally, the Life During Exodus had the crowd going absolute NUTS! Loved the Heads tribute in NY and first replay since it's intro at Milwaukee. Not a huge Booth Love fan myself, but I enjoyed it. The reprise of Strings was expected and welcomed, great close to their first performance at the Beacon.
Personal Highlights: Wappy > Ex1, LDE
Review by OceanBillyWaves, posted 31 January 2013 9:44 pm EST, attached to 2006-11-17
This was also my second show, after seeing them at Bonnaroo on 6/16. I loved them the first time because I had been listening to Anchor Drops on loop in my car for about a year before I got a chance to see them. But I would have to say that this was the first show where I 'got it,' in the sense that the music moved me in a way I'd never had a band do before. Might sound trite, but it's the truth.
I also have a fond place in my heart for this show, because it was the first show I ever saw at the Tabernacle. Wow. A bunch of Tabby memories later, I can honestly say that there is no place I would rather see an Umphrey's McGee concert than that venue. The energy was off the hook that night, as it always is in Atlanta, regardless of venue.
The musical moments that stood out to me were the Walletsworth>N2F. I could see those songs at every show from here on out and be happy as hell. In the Kitchen was great as well.
In the second set, it's hard for me to think about anything other than the Hendrix Jam on Power of Soul to kick it off. Talk about fire to start off a ridiculous second set, both in terms of the band being on top of their game and a kick ass set list. And the 2nd Self, Dirty Love > God Gave Rock encore was amazing.
Review by danoc, posted 29 January 2013 4:45 pm EST, attached to 2013-01-18
Wasn't able to catch Leave Me Las Vegas due to the fact that NYC cab drivers are idiots, further more...40's Theme immediately grabbed everyones attention to make it clear there was no messing around in the Beacon. Conduit jammed hard got the energy flowing through what was a slow crowd for the most part. Roulette was a good in between song for conduit and NTF. Ocean Billy was fucking killer. 20 minutes or so, Weird Fishes was pretty cool considering they've only played it 4 other times. Good cover, plunger was good way to end the set i prefer the one from the Fillmore on Halloween more. 2nd Set: Puppet String which rocked the house down(unfinished, saw it coming form a while away), the linear put it back together and professor wormbog was really cool, big fan of that. wappy sprayberry was killer, 1st time seeing that and the light show was unreal. Example 1 with the sax was awesome, huge fan of that song. easily the best of the night. Exodus had a ton of energy and really had the beacon freaking out. Booth Love was expected but was very well played, finished by Puppet String. Great show overall...the crowd was sleeping in NYC. not a philly crowd thats for sure UM.
Umphrey's McGee @ Penn's Peak is by far the most beautiful thing these two eyes have ever witnessed. Coming out to Nipple Trix is always a treat to start off a show. Grabbed everyone attention from the start...right into an original but yet wonderful Wife Soup. RtB was good for the venue right into a Floyd cover(Breathe) with a dub theme which was pretty bad ass. Much Obliged was awesome, very funky..very very funky. big fan of that. Uncommon and eat were accepted by me. 2x2 is a great way to end the 1st set and get us real pumped up for the 2nd. 2nd Set: Robot World was kick ass, jammed hard for a long ass time, into an attention grabbing higgins to bring people back to real life. DBK was perfect, give that a listen if u can. Into a No Comment that made people get down, back into DBK. Exodus was a dance party and really had people enjoying the moment. Didn't see that one coming, a perfect ALT left people nearly crying as the set came to a finish. Encore: came out to a WBG into Joel's favorite Orfeo back into WBG to end the show. Great show everyone who was there was given a kick ass show and after that halloween run left people begging UM to come back to the east coast. UM
Review by The_Captn, posted 29 January 2013 2:44 pm EST, attached to 2013-01-26
Maybe it was just me but I thought the crowd was amazing at this show, everyone was vibing and really getting into it. I had no idea who DJ Williams was before this show...he can really kill it!
Review by N2FBoston, posted 27 January 2013 2:11 pm EST, attached to 2013-01-19
This venue is new and extremely intimate. Holds only 750 people and even that is split between the main floor and a small balcony. The created a very cool vibe that ended up exploding with energy throughout the show.
From the second Umphrey's stepped on the stage you knew it was going to be a special night. They skipped the intro, which seems to be how every show has been starting the past few tours. First set was filled with special moments but the highlights were definitely the jams during Girlfriend is Better and Dump City (Finally got this song! only took 48 shows to hear it). Syncopated, morning song, and ending the set with mulches was a nice touch too.
The 2nd set was monstrous. Straight out the gates, In the flesh through 2nd self is action packed and extremely tight. You could look around the room and just see minds being blown left and right. The jams were incredible! Another brick int he wall, sociable jimmy, and visions, bahhh it was just insane. You will just have to hear to show to understand. Not sure if i've seen them close a show with higgins, but worked out beautifully with a nice dubby jam in the middle.
Jajunk is always great as an encore. It really encompasses everything that is umphreys. On top of that the jam in this version is epic. Stasik goes wild, as does the crowd.
Shenanigans, thats all I can say about this show.
Review by Umph1348, posted 27 January 2013 2:16 am EST, attached to 2011-01-27
Hands down the best show of 2011 and one of the best shows UM has ever played. This show is packed to the gills with quality improv. From the GA, to the Reso, to the August there is something for everybody here. If you haven't heard this show or don't have it in your UM collection, stop reading and download it now. Guaranteed to please!
Review by GreatestAmerican, posted 25 January 2013 7:01 am EST, attached to 2013-01-24
Do also wanna add Got Your Milk amazing and kinda surprisingly so in my eyes. What a treat tough love this fucking band.
Another amazing night in Charlotte. I almost missed this gem but was convinced to go last minute and do not regret it a bit. This show was top notch from the opener, Crooked One, a personal favorite, onwards I knew this was a night to remember. Best 2x2 I've heard in a minute. Oh and a bit of 2 Tickets to Paradise just for fun. Hbb raged hardcore to open second set. Skeptical initially of 40's to close set but was very pleasantly surprised by both that and 3x wide encore. Regulate was a first for me and another just for fun tune that was a blast for both band and fans.
Incredible night. The energy was through the roof. Was happy to see my friends in UM Nation get down to my boys moon taxi first off. Then Umph blew the tabernacle apart. Rocker was a very special moment in which I was glad to be a part. Whole acoustic "set" very good with great song selections. Second set was hot from the start with bright lights> cocaine> bright lights being a highlight of the weekend. Domino> sine on> domino was a surprising sandwich although it thoroughly delighted this fan.
Review by drumking, posted 19 January 2013 12:14 pm EST, attached to 2012-02-16
Ive seen my fare share of UM shows and this one could possibly be the best show Ive seen them play. As far as consistency, patient playing, segues and song selection this is a barn burner for sure. Not being bias at all since it was my best friend Robs b-day Gradenko! We kind of helped make this happen. As long as you request ahead of time and it makes since they will deliver. And this show def delivers, the most listened UM show in my collection after seeing them since 03 says a lot.
Review by WhiskeyTom, posted 08 January 2013 3:48 pm EST, attached to 2012-12-30
For an earlier version of Cut the Cable, check out the Ringo from 2011/11/05 in Milwaukee. Has a little more of a spacey/psychedelic feel to it.
Review by Toastponcho, posted 07 January 2013 1:49 pm EST, attached to 2012-12-31
This show was Toastastic from the opening bell right thru the finish line!
"Hi Fives Save Lives Save Live...I Have Proof!"
Review by NickPJ, posted 05 January 2013 12:58 pm EST, attached to 2012-12-31
Amazing cap to a 4 night run. The 30th and 31st were my favorite shows but all were amazing. There was also a blackbird tease at the beginning of glory that you can hear the crowd to react to.
Review by HarrisonRose, posted 04 January 2013 3:40 am EST, attached to 2012-09-01
I was so happy to hear thats Umphrey's was playing at North Coast again since I wasn't old enough to go the first year. Me and my buddy were at Atmosphere so we missed the first little bit of gurgle, but then we came in for Ocean Billy and the boys brought the thunder it was amazing Brendan sounded beautiful on this and Miami Virtue. Then hearing Mantis Ghetts was awesome since they play it so rarely. Crucial Taunt pumps everyone up just so they can smooth it all out into a sexy Daft Punk cover with Voyager. After they tore it up with Push The Pig they segued into JaJunk which was so delightfully jamtastic. Finally for the much wanted encore Brendan starts in with Puppet String which is followed by Jake so wonderfully going in on Eminence Front and then a strong finish with Puppet String again.
This is the fourth Umphrey's McGee show i've been to and they have yet to dissapoint.
Review by Darb0114, posted 02 January 2013 12:59 pm EST, attached to 2012-12-31
This show was nothing short of amazing. This was my first chance at seeing a New Years show (Thanks Couch Tour!) and this just hit home for me.
There were parts of this show that I connected with emotionally in my life, and I have a whole new perspective on things, including my past, current, and future experiences. What a way to start a much needed New Year for me.
Thanks Umphs and keep up the great work!!! See you in GR and Detroit!
Review by TalonMcgee, posted 28 December 2012 2:36 am EST, attached to 2011-07-15
Shortened set due to Furthur playing passed their allotted time, apparently Phil got lost during set break. x_x
Despite that, the boys skipped all filler and pumped out the jams
This is still my favorite Puppet and I was super surprised at how well they did Tom Sawyer
Encore kinda disappointed me with a cover and the horns in jajunk were quite lackluster but nevertheless it was a great show
I was still not familiar with the whole catalog at this time and thought #5 was just a SICK jam in AIT, turned into one of my favorite songs after that.
13 days is always a treat and everyone was boogieing down to reelin in the years
As was stated, the ringo jam is prob the highlight of the show
I felt the AIT reprise should have closed the second set and it was a weird flow to end with thin air after a rocker
There were technical difficulties for the first 20 seconds or so of booth love until the full sound system kicked in.
Highlights were the miles Davis cover and the divisions> I'm on fire > divisions
Pretty sure this was the second time I'm on fire was played and I was lucky enough to catch the first one in Cleveland.
No one seems to mention the ZZ Top jam in Made To Measure, Waitin on the Bus!
It fits so perfectly and I wish they'd do it again sometime
Review by TalonMcgee, posted 19 December 2012 5:01 pm EST, attached to 2009-07-11
Also my first show, the 42 minute All in Time > Wappy changed the way i looked at music forever. CW>CWII is quality dance party material. As was stated, the Shine On was magical, and the best one i've heard them do. A classic epic encore (that reso has everything in it!) My (bias) personal favorite show.
Review by driver, posted 12 December 2012 10:31 am EST, attached to 2010-10-21
Much of this show is a little bit hazy for me, but it was probably the trippiest UM show I've ever seen. Check out the Push the Pig (the guitar sound drips out of the amps in a most psychedelic way.
Reelin' in the Years was a crowd favorite, and the Ringo jam is worth a listen, as well.
All in all a very fun show in a very awesome little venue.
This might have been some of the best UM I've seen to date. The place was packed. While I'm not a huge fan of this venue overall, the energy was good.
Eat and Got Your Milk made for a nice beginning to the show, and the Turn & Dub was excellent.
Second set was really what made this show, though. August was nice and the JJ>WW>JJ was top notch. The WW jam is a must listen.
This encore was perhaps the best UM encore I've seen. Nemo was a treat that I hope I see again soon, and the King Crimson sandwich was nice. Red was SUPER dark, and Waful absolutely crushed it with the lights. If you can find video, do it. I wish that the band had finished with the vocal harmony left hanging, though, rather than coming back in for the final chord. All in all a very solid show.
My first UM show. I walked/stumbled in completely unaware of the band or what I was about to see.
Though I certainly don't think this is the best UM I've ever seen, the set list placement for this show is spectacular and offered an extremely cohesive, fluid experience from beginning to end.
Highlights: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I will never forget that spacey intro. My god.) and the entire encore, which just brought down the house. Definitely worth your time to listen.
One of my favorite versions of Visions (of Parin) ever. The break down with Stasik on the pedals is such an awesome moment. Very glad that this was posted on the youtube channel for visual reference of this great musical moment.
Review by Pookells, posted 04 December 2012 5:44 am EST, attached to 2011-11-02
First off, I have to say that I think this is the best show from 2011, and those who attended this show were truly blessed to have seen this.
Set 1 kicks off with Example 1. The Example 1 is pretty standard until they get to the jam section of the song. The jam in this is a mid tempo rocking jam with tons of solos going all over the place, and it is this jam that pretty much sets the mood for the remainder of the show. They get into a high-energy version of Got Your Milk that, again, has a hard rocking stew with plenty of guitar fireworks from Jake and Brendan. It's probably the best Milk I've heard these guys do. Milk segues quite nicely into #5. #5 rocks pretty hard as well and has a sweet heavy stew in it as well. Milk -> #5 clocks in at over 25 minutes in length. They do a nice cover of Fool In The Rain, and although Brendan is no Robert Plant vocally, his vocals are adequate in this version. While this version isn't bad at all, it is probably the weakest link in this show (I use the term "weakest" in the loosest sense of the word). Search 4 comes out just as hard rocking as the Death By Stereo studio version and fits in perfectly with the rest of the hard rock in this set. The set finishes off with Last Man Swerving > Believe The Lie. Last Man Swerving is an 18+ minute treat, and has a nice long jam that can only be best described as 70's prog-disco. Not funky and not hard rock either. Imagine Animals-era Pink Floyd with some disco elements and you get the picture. Believe The Lie rocks harder than what you normally hear in this song live and has some nice 70's prog that seems to be somewhat inspired by Kansas, but is done in UM's unique way. Check out the guitar solos that kick in at the 7:12 point of the song - Jake and Brendan do some serious (but short) shredding!
Set 2 kicks off with a nearly 31 minute long DBK. Again, keeping in the hard rock/prog theme of the show, this is one of the hardest rocking DBKs they've done. If you don't catch yourself playing air guitar during the first 8 minutes of DBK, then you need to check your pulse. At around the 8:05 mark, the band throws down some of the same style of 70's prog-disco that was done on Last Man Swerving without repeating what was done during Last Man Swerving (I hope that sentence made sense). Between 8:05 and the 21 minute mark, there's a lot going on with this jam as this jam conjures up Animals-era Pink Floyd, jazzy interludes and even some Metallica-like shredding at around the 20:30 mark. The jam changes into a jazzy section at the 21 minute mark that lasts until the 26:40 mark. At 26:40, the jam gets heavy with seriously fast rhythm guitar that puts Metallica to shame and then goes back to the jazzy section. The last minute is the outro riff of DBK. Next comes a hard rocking I Am The Walrus that is quite stellar with some kick-ass Jake solos throughout. Even The Bottom Half rocks harder than usual and UM takes the song into a slightly different direction than usual with the Simple Gifts jam, and contains a hard rock ending. Slacker, like every other song here, is a harder version with a bluesy section at about 2:40 that sounds like ZZ Top experimenting with jazz styles. And then if you hadn't had enough, they bring down the house with an insane Wizard Burial Ground that will just leave your jaw on the ground.
Even Bright Lights as the encore is a hard rocking version as well.
Overall, this show is completely worth the purchase! As I stated in the beginning, this is the best show of 2011. Unfortunately, it's also overlooked as this show was sandwiched in between the 10/29 Hauntlanta and 11/5 Milwaukee shows. This is a 13 song show, which is very reminiscient of the 2006-2008 era, plus the 5 song 2nd set is a throwback to that era as well. It displays the harder side of UM and is a consistent theme throughout the show.
You can check out this show on youtube. Just type in umphrey's mcgee clifton park and watch the videos of this show that were put up by axanodus.
Enjoy this show! Well worth the $$.
Review by alexankh, posted 02 December 2012 6:13 pm EST, attached to 2007-06-01
My first umphreys show.
This is a first set that features almost no improv outside of the opening JO. This opening JO is a dark, bass driven theme that offers some nice keyboard support from Jake early on with dueling guitar riffs toward the end. I always hoped for this JO to pop up again, but it hasn't yet so far. Alex's house replaces both segments of improv usually associated with DBK. I think this works nicely, the outro of alex's house drops nicely into the end of DBK. I frequently revisit this opening 40 min segment.
The second set picks up some steam with N2F. During the lengthy jam (track length is about 23 mins for the first half), Allen from the biscuits replaces Kris on the drums (for his birthday jam!). The first half of the jam is kind of lackluster, not much going on, then Allen kicks up the tempo and the jam starts to take off. FF was a treat at my first show, it was and always has been a favorite of mine. The improv out of FF is downtempo and showcases some soaring guitar riffs from jake and a nice jam that leads back into the ending of N2F. Brendan breaks out the booty wax for the hangover reprise and gets the crowd involved with the set 2 closer.
Standard snucka encore. During jakes solo section, I remember he was playing with this massive novelty size pick. This thing was the size of a dinner plate. It was kinda cool to watch and hear him rip it up as bras and panties were thrown on stage. Snucka ends as the boys wish us safely on our way home and warn us in the distorted voice not to let strange people touch us in any weird way.
A fun show, nothing too mindblowing, but we all have to start somewhere
Review by cMags, posted 29 November 2012 1:01 pm EST, attached to 2006-09-29
This was the first time I "really" traveled for an UM show. All of my previous shows were less than a 90 drive away. For this one, me and 3 kids from Providence (who were Noodles' roommates) drove from PC to Burlington. My plan was to catch 9/29 and 9/30, then go back to school. Then hit up the bus to New Haven and stay with my buddy at Conn College and do 10/4. Go back to school, then catch the bus again and stay with my buddy at WPI and do 10/6. Luckily everything fell into place and worked.
What can I say about this show that hasn't already been said. This is definitely one of my top 5 seen shows out of 69, and maybe even number 1. (It's so hard to pick a favorite.)
It was something about the monster jams, and it was really one of the first shows, where there were a ton of members from the OG bort all chilling together. I remember we had a hotel room at the Holiday Inn and there were probably 15 or 20 of us from the bort.
This show is all about the Dump City, Tribute, TINKLES, PIG, Porch, and Senor Mouse. All of these songs are top 10 versions of all time, and I would know considering I've listened to countless shows.
After the show I remember we all went back to one hotel room, and we looked at each other being like "Holy Fuck was that show good." I was in the room with people like Noodles, DanRad, Grover, and pick, guys who had seen tons of shows up to that point. And we all agreed that it was one of the greatest shows we had seen from UM.
Review by SourPatch, posted 21 November 2012 5:04 pm EST, attached to 2006-10-21
My first time spent in LA just with friends, this venue was right on the edge of Hollywood... with like, strange vibes, really superficial people. And they came out starting with Syncopated Strangers, which was like a perfect complement... and the sound of this show fits really well, acoustics and what not.
At the end of Sync, when you're expecting that finishing major resolution, it comes straight in with a punch from an abstract intro to Hurt Bird Bath, that turns you inside out. Great 1st improv, and after the heavy hits, goes into this eerie slow composition, turning really heavy, it's giving me pins and needles writing about it. To me, it seemed like a perfect reaction to the environment.
Check it out, at least those two songs!
Review by mrtokesmoke, posted 18 November 2012 10:58 am EST, attached to 2011-09-10
this show was sick the DBK had a golden years (david bowie) jam in it with lyrics soo so much fun. the chill was a perfect place to see the boys great atmosphere and crowd plenty of space and an awesome set!
Review by bmrobin, posted 17 November 2012 12:12 pm EST, attached to 2006-11-03
i stumbled across the video that 40sThemeWI mentioned on youtube in 2006 and was blown away. i had heard umphrey's on college radio before but never anything live. listening to this show got me hooked on them and i've been a huge fan ever since.
the stewart before walletsworth is a stand-out version, but the 2nd set / encore is FANTASTIC.
Review by Mikem0487, posted 12 November 2012 7:19 pm EST, attached to 2012-11-02
The energy was through the roof for this show! Started off right away with nipples>Wife Soup which was a treat and got the flow of the night going. This was a great show for rarities(for me anyways). Got my first Robots world which I think was the jam of the night, my second no comment, wife soup, WBG, Orfeo and uncommon all of them btw were welcomed by me. RtB had a nice jam solid jam in it and went into a reggae/funky PF cover. MO had the best jam for the first set that took a little bit to develop but took off than dropped right into Uncommon which was great! Eat was its standard self but 2x2 was a great way to finish the set and got everyone extremely pumped for the second set.
Robot world opener was insane. Have not listened back to it yet but was around 15 minutes long and contained a heavy dance party/industrial jam in it that was real legit. Highlight right there for me. Higgins is a good song that always contains excellent jams/guitar dueling and did not disappoint! DBK>NC>DBK is beautiful. Love DBK and the jams that it produces! No comment did let the energy subside some what but the last part of DBK always picks up the energy no matter what precedes it. Life During Exodus was an excellent mash up and loved how they were able to combine Marley/Talking Heads/Zappa into one fluid sick ass song. Some of my favorite bands/musicians mashed into one song, no complaints from me here! Ended the set with a standard AIT. Seemed rushed but I do love this song though it needs room to breathe and defiantly is not a good choice with only 10 minutes left in the set.
Encore was awesome. Took me seeing WBG live to really appreciate the song and I really enjoyed this version with Orfeo breaking up the heaviness that ensues during WBG.
Excellent show all around. They always throw down at JT so if you are within driving distance dont miss the next time they are in the area!
Review by Rjr2277, posted 11 November 2012 3:26 pm EST, attached to 2012-08-10
awesome show,great comedy from the band. brendan mentioned after padgetts that stasik triple dog dared him to talk like a cowboy all night,and there were times when i thought he would slip but he was blazin saddles for the whole show. there were some jokes about there being a lack of "senoritas" at this show. best part for me was running into 3 of my best friends from junior high back in mass, only at an umphreys show
Review by oneinfinity, posted 10 November 2012 1:16 am EST, attached to 2012-03-09
I am not sure why the site won't post the next part of my review..I am going to try one more time: Set 2! Way to bring the heat back with Puppet String. Guys, this song is incredible. The harmonics sparkle and then we are entranced with Ryan's BEST base line, hands down. Then Brendan lays it down, WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW? Oh tiny humans made of star dust, what is truth?
Here is my 2nd set review, my long wind got cut off
Review by oneinfinity, posted 10 November 2012 12:59 am EST, attached to 2012-03-09
Last night my love was playing mandolin for our 8 week old son. For the first time I could see his bright eyes following his Dad's hands across the frets. He was entirely captivated and it was amazing to witness his mind being blown open. That's how I am feeling as I listen to the 3-9-12 show in Denver, CO.
What an incredible show!!! Cheers to the kind fan who pieced together videos along with the soundboard, then posted it on youtube so that I can rock out in my living room with my little guy. He was listening intently but our dancing rocked him asleep in the first set. :)
Now.. where to begin.. ah yes, the primal beginning...
*Gurgle* is such a delicious and juicy way to begin an Umphrey's McGee show. I got to catch one @ the Filmore in Charlotte a month or so earlier than this show.. This song is very earthy and primal.. Like an orange harvest moon rising over the horizon.. there's no way to hide from its magnetizing pull.. to the front row. :)
...And we are tossed into a *40's theme*.. A lighthearted song that sparks comaraderie among the new & old fans alike..Once we enter the jam, it's obvious that the boys are on fire... i n c r e d i b l e ..
Naturally things get steamy as we are dipped into the *Ocean Billy*..mmm yes.. This song has been and will forever be a treasure in the hearts of UM fans across the planet, right? So smooth, majestic, and powerful..Reminded me of Halloween last year in Atlanta. I had driven down from the Mountains.. just in time.. well 5 minutes late..I was driving to the Tabby and felt like I was floating down the highway escorted by angels. I was supposed to be there. I had my I-pod on Shuffle and Ocean Billy came on probably at the same exact time as you guys were playing it. I made it upstairs and found my friend, the LOVELY Kevin Cassels during the second song! Lucky for me you went back into Billy later in the show. My very close friend who I would often sing and perform with had just taken his life days before. Very unexpectedly. Coming to this show was a spiritual journey for me. VERY healing, I sang my heart out, in honor of him. (The Let it Be/No Woman No Cry mash up was medicine to my spirit) THANK YOU...
I will never forget how I felt the first time I heard *Miami Virtue*..It was the album version. It grabbed me right away; my mind devoured the punchy verses. It's such a fun song to sing. The harmonies during the chorus are outstanding but when I first saw it performed live in Charlotte 2012, I was disappointed! I couldn't believe how weak the chorus felt/sounded live. This was good for me though, it reminded me that you guys are human...The 'perfection' I heard you create in the studio will come in time to your performance. Only a month after the Charlotte show and this *Miami Virtue* already sounds more unified..the jam you've been jumping right into is fresh and fast, carrying the energy into a new realm. I like how this particular realm is emotional and spiritual..
*Morning Song*. Perfect. There's an uneasy feeling that is ultimately resolved. Love and heartache go hand and hand with the human condition.. Everybody can relate to this song with such powerful emotions and memories, adding to the collective energy. Let's mourn together! How about, *In the Kitchen*?
Old School *Kitchen* but where are they going to take it? *GLORY*! Glory is so0000 delightful.. everything DOES happen for a reason. We learn and grow from our sorrows. Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. The boys bring us back into the Kitchen with a new confidence.. sweet dance party 'jam' at the end!
"Ryan Stasik & The Rat Tails!" haha.. You guys are hilarious. Set break! (I love how the person who posted the video of this show gives viewers a set break.. I had a chance to take my little Odin out of the sling and swaddle him up in his crib for the night.. sweet dreams, Mama will be melting her face in the living room if you need her!)
Set 2! Way to bring the heat back with Puppet String. Guys, this song is incredible. The harmonics sparkle and then we are entranced with Ryan's BEST base line, hands down. Then Brendan lays it down, WHAT DO WE REALLY KNOW? Oh tiny humans made of star dust, what is truth?
Review by Toastponcho, posted 06 November 2012 4:09 pm EST, attached to 2012-11-01
Pure Fire & Toast.... Comfortably Numb blew the house down & Bridgeless scrambled all the remains.....
Review by bmrobin, posted 05 November 2012 4:53 pm EST, attached to 2005-02-18
this Tribute to the Spinal Spinal Shaft>Hajimemashite>WMM is a fantastic progression of music and jams. the Jimmy stewart in Spinal Shaft is so awesome and i love the segue into Haji
Review by djbigz66, posted 05 November 2012 2:10 pm EST, attached to 2008-07-19
another one set mystery. damn tribe. but it was lovely chillin out by the beach jamming umph wish theyd play this venue again. north coast keeps taking chicago late summer/ begin fall dates
one set. it was weird. but still a good show. i remember this skinny white dude sprinting around the park like he was devin hester for a good 30 minutes
Review by cMags, posted 04 November 2012 10:05 pm EST, attached to 2006-07-19
After the almost broken toe incident of the prior night, I almost didn't make it to this show. I went back home and got my foot wrapped up, and then made the drive out with my friend Scott.
The venue was absolute beautiful and I hope the band makes it out here again. The place was empty, as in it holds probably 2,000 people and there were probably 200 people here.
Out of Order has a 3 minute jam coming out of it and Soul Food has one of the hardest peaking jams I have ever heard.
Set break was really cool as the entire band hung out with the crowd, including Joel and Andy tossing the frisbee around in the park. I met Myers for the first time and he said that the place had a "Stephen King vibe" which I thought was pretty funny.
This show featured the debut of the Rock Fuzz which was awesome, and had a sick transition into Tinkles. Walking on the Moon was a great cover for the venue and Mail Package stew was cool to see as an encore.
I really hope they come back to this place this summer, as they would definitely fill it up a lot more than they did that beautiful night in July.
This would be 2nd of many shows at Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom. I've seen moe here a bunch of times too, and although a lot of people hate it, I just have a thing for this place. I always chill on the beach all afternoon and then hang out at the parking lot next to the police station and party with all of the other concert goers.
I, like an idiot, was wearing birkenstock sandels to this show and nailed my big toe against the curb walking in. I was convinced I broke my toe and was pissed off, but it turned out it was just severely bruised.
The Utopian through the rest of the set it some of the best UM I have ever heard. The Liquid jam is one of my most listened to segments ever and if you haven't heard it, you need to now.
This was also the first times I actually kept a notebook setlist for a show, and was pretty fun doing it at the time.
The second set is nothing to really write home about, except for the WWS, and my first AIT. But the first set is one of the best first set's you will here.
Definitely check out the Liquid because you will love it forever.
This was one of the weirder shows that I have been to. So the old Avalon (which is now the House of Blues) used to have a club night, like a lot of venues do. This show started at exactly 7PM, and at that time, there were probably 200 people still outside in line. It was one of only two shows, that I wasn't inside for the beginning of the show (the other being 9/8/11.) I was outside until the end of GYMRH, and I tried to get in with my fake ID. No luck and I got it swiped, so I wasn't in a good mood when I got in because that was my baby haha.
The Blue Echo will go down in history as one of the best jams the band has ever done, and I still stick by that to this day. It also had the debut of Words which I didn't realize hadn't been played to this point.
The Jajunk opener was fire and I got one of my many Rocker's of 06. Good Ol Boys and the piano piece were good rarities to cross off.
The show was over at 10 PM but it feature the 2 new songs that I had not heard, so it was nice to hear them.
Overall it was a weird show but they packed a punch in what was probably my shortest UM show ever.
This was the first show where I really got IT. It was a random rainy night in Providence and I remember taking the RIPTA down to Lupo's while everybody else was taking it to the Dunkin Donuts Center to watch our shitty basketball team get crushed by another Big East opponent. I went to this show by myself and did not know anyone else there, it was just me and the band. The Visions > Phil's Farm was what sealed it for me. I hadn't felt that type of intensity from a band before. I wasn't around in the mid-90's to get all the incredible Phish shows. This was our generation's jam band. The second set was all a blur for me at this point, but that end of the first set was the reason I am still seeing them today.
This show was probably the drunkest I have ever been, and the loosest I have ever seen the band (rivaled by only the acoustic 4/5/09 show at Toad's 3 years later.) I took the Peter Pan bus down from Providence for this, and me and my buddies at Conn College got absolutely blasted for this show.
The jam in the Last Man Swerving is definitely worth checking out as the rest of the set isn't very noteworthy.
At set break, my friend got kicked out of the venue 3 separate times, but got let in again each time. He ran into Jen Hartswick at some point and went up to her and said "Will you sign my ticket stub saying 'I played with Trey?'" She looked at him and just gave him a flat out "No."
The 2nd set an encore are noteworthy for the amount of between song banter that was going on. The show was on Valentine's Day, and considering that UM show's are about 85% men, the band was kind of poking fun that almost everyone there didn't have dates. The jam before Tinkle's had Myer's on Guitar and Brendan on Drums and was in the feel of Brendan is gay and what not. You could tell the band was just going all out cause they knew the crowd was rowdy and loose.
On tape it's not one of my favorite shows, but the experience as a hammered 20 year old single college student was one to be remembered for a lifetime.
This was my first "real show" after my first being the Big Summer Classic at Mansfield. I was a Sophomore at Providence College and was very excited to see Umphrey's play at our college town Lupo's venue.
The first 2 songs that they played, ended up being on my "boring list" for about 3 years, and now they have turned into UM's biggest jam vehicles. From what I remember, this Ocean Billy was pretty solid, and the Water was standard at best.
WMM and Nemo were two songs that I had heard and like before, so those were good to hear.
The ending segment of this first set is what you want to listen to if you pick up this show. At the time I didn't realize how rare SFB and Sweetness were, but there is an awesome jam out of these songs, that you should definitely hear.
The Jessica closer was awesome, as it was another cover that everybody knew and got the crowd rocking going into setbreak.
Roulette was a weird 2nd set opener, but The Triple Wide followed and this was a turning point for me in my UM career, because up to this point, I had never heard them do a "Dance Party" jam. And this was a great one that included the disco ball at the top of the venue.
Divisions followed which I had seen in Mansfield, so that was great to hear again. The 2nd half of this set and the encore are all standard straight forward tunes, but it was a great show to have as a first "real show."
This was my first of (as of now) 69 shows. I first found out about UM after they did the "Molester Medley" for Halloween 2004. Phish had just broken up and I needed a new band to fill the void. I listened to the song Anchor Drops, and absolutely loved it, so I got the album for Christmas that year. This show was the first one in the NE region for that year, and it's kind of crazy to think that now, as they have played here in the winter ever since.
As soon as this show was announced, me and my buddy Rob grabbed tickets. Umphrey's, String Cheese, and Keller Williams was definitely a nice draw for us. We also wanted to see this band New Monsoon, but their set time was like 1 PM, so we said screw it.
Mulche's Odyssey featured a pause during the peaking jam to let the crowd know that KB was getting married. And they had an impromptu acapella "Kevin's Getting Married" tune. Divisions was an amazing song to see as my first "big" UM song. There wasn't any improv, just a straight stand-alone Divisions. Push The Pig had Franti come out and do some raps and stuff. Kinda cool for the 19 year old that I was at the time, but whatever. Wife Soup was a song I knew and was pumped to hear. Next was the only time I got a "I've Got A Feeling." 69 shows and still not another one haha. But I just remember being pumped to hear Bayliss nail the vocals for one of my favorite bands of all time. Finally came JaJunk which was another song I knew and was happy to hear.
All in all, it was a great introduction to a band that I would be following around for the next 7 years of my life.
Review by All_In_Thyme, posted 04 November 2012 12:53 pm EST, attached to 2012-08-30
Kickass Show. Kickass setlist. Bayliss dedicated Mulche's to some kid for his birthday which was sweet. Kris came out after and talk with some of us as well as Brendan. Best band out there. I had to scoop up my face with a cup.
Review by UtopianSludge, posted 04 November 2012 9:53 am EST, attached to 2011-02-17
Ever since me and a few of my buddies made the trip from Auburn, AL up to Asheville, NC for this one it has been known amongst us as "The Show". It was a fantastic atmosphere as well as a kick ass setlist.
The first set was killer with a dance party in red tape. sweet home alabama teases in bad poker. and epic tinkle. the burning down the house cover was awesome. the moog theremin plus jake makes for a trippy and mesmerizing jam.
The plunger after the set break was classic with an intricate and deep jam that jake and BB rocked. Last man swerving had a badass progressive jam.ROUNDABOUT!!!!! enough said. all of that goes back into plunger all perfectly executed.
Then the encore was completely opposite sides of the spectrum. A great show! i recommend it to a new found UM fan or a seasoned vet.
Review by the_snucka, posted 03 November 2012 4:25 pm EDT, attached to 2012-11-02
This show was bloody fantastic start to finish. With a Wife Soup opener you know you are in for a treat. The Much Obliged jam was dirty, had a couple different sections worth listening to. If you're looking for a metal, in your face, rock show look no further. Wizard into a full band Orfeo was beautiful, and the return to wizard flawlessly segued into Joel's piano solo.
Personal highlights: Wife soup, MO> Uncommon, 2x2, Robot World> Higgins, Wizard> Orfeo> Wizard
**Just have more fun than everyone around you**
Review by BagelGlory, posted 03 November 2012 4:11 pm EDT, attached to 2012-11-02
I saw UM for my first time at Penn's Peak last time they played there. I was really excited to go back, and expected a heater. The band delivered!
Set 1 started of strong with Wife Soup, but then I got a little down because of RtB and breathe goin down. The MO started to pick things up and then BAM! Uncommon! Was this the bustout Joel tweeted about earlier? BAM Eat! 2x2 had a little bit of nice improv and Bayliss was tearing it up.
Set 2 started off with a bang with Robot World. It got real heavy real fast. Like dark industrial style.
The Segue into Higgins was executed well and this quickly became the jam of the night IMO. I was really hoping for a big DBK and we got it! the first part at least. It was real strong and then they threw in No Comment which wasn't a disappointment because its such a fun song. It seemed like a strange song to throw into an otherwise heavy portion of the set but it wasn't awkward in the least. That's why I love this band so much.
I wasn't a huge fan of the mashup, and the AIT was standard. When the encore was WBG I was starting to get ready to leave and then what? FULL BAND ORFEO?!?! It was a real treat to see so many gems at one show.
After the show on Wednesday at the Fillmore it was REALLY nice to have a lot more room in this venue.
I love Penn's Peak and I love UM! Please come back next year!
Review by kiefwahoo216, posted 03 November 2012 3:35 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-20
Loved the Phil's sandwich, Example 1 was funky, sick jam in Domino Theory. Thin Air with In the Hall of the Mountain King ending! Sunglasses at Night in the Triple Wide was epic! 22min DBK?! Awesome show overall, my third, second time at House of Blues. I have to say though, I really dislike this venue. Security guards are very rude, the bar offers no craft beers at all, and its like $8 for a tall yuengling.
Review by timmywolf15, posted 03 November 2012 2:07 pm EDT, attached to 2012-11-02
went to halloween and this show and I don't know really which was better. bayliss and stasik killed it last night that one thing is for sure
Review by Misstinkle420, posted 03 November 2012 1:13 pm EDT, attached to 2012-11-02
UMazing! My first Floyd cover, which I have been chasing, and I needed that All In Time, thank you Umphrey's! This setlist and this venue result in an umphreaking dream come true. Can't wait til they come back.
Review by bkahn67, posted 03 November 2012 12:14 pm EDT, attached to 2012-11-02
WOW!!! Great Venue, Great Show. If you have never been to Penns Peak you are missing out, what a nice place to see UM !!! The show was bursting with energy from start to finish. The Wife Soup was out of control with jamming peaks that will make your hair stand up. A+++++
Review by fussydutchman, posted 02 November 2012 10:46 pm EDT, attached to 2012-02-10
First off, if you're seeing Umph at HOB Boston in the future, get there plenty early. A February line next to Fenway isn't all that pleasant. We managed to get in during JaJunk, after waiting at least 30-40 minutes in line, and there was still a looooong line behind us.
I loved the Stew. I loved the Walking on the Moon, for the flashback to my younger days. I loved Puppet String. I really loved the Divisions (as the political nonsense was just starting to get fun, Waful did an excellent red v. blue lighting concept during the soulful last part of the song; "All my...divided" had the stage split with blue and red, up to the "until it fades," where the lights went all white--thanks, Waful!).
I loved the Domino. I always love me some Wappy, and to keep the dance vibe alive through Booth Love, followed by the always beautiful Haj. Delicious show.
Review by Jimmymac03, posted 02 November 2012 7:50 pm EDT, attached to 2012-11-01
Amazing show. More amazing than the music though was the set break entertainment. In the second row of (or maybe third) of seats there was a dude peaking hard. He was out of his mind and everyone was enjoying the show. The moment security came by he decided it was good time to drop his pants. Not wanting to touch naked man junk the security and cops actually just let him be for a good while. However, once the second set started I am pretty sure they took him out.
Review by Pookells, posted 02 November 2012 5:24 am EDT, attached to 2012-03-21
When you look at the amount of songs on the setlists, you can tell that this is not an improv-heavy show by any means. That is not to say that this is a bad show. In fact, this show is just pure fire, in my opinion.
Set 1 kicks off with Catshot that segues nicely into Mantis. Taking no break in-between, UM adds a little funk into the mix and goes directly into Space Funk Booty. Slacker pops up next and has some nice dance-rock improv in it. Then, UM gets laid back a bit with Anchor Drops before turning up the heaviness on Go to Hell. UM then goes into chill mode with Great American > Susanah > Great American. UM then rocks again with Turn & Run with Mantis as the set closer.
Set 2 opens with a nice DBK sandwich with Floyd filling. Great improv in DBK, by the way. FF, as always, is solid, seguing into Wappy, which again, has a great slab of improv. Plunger > Synco > Plunger, while looking weird on paper, is actually really cool. They close out set 2 with Dutchman.
Come Closer is my favorite UM mashup song, so it was really cool to hear this as an encore.
In a nutshell, outside of Slacker, DBK and Wappy, you will not find much in the way of improv, but what UM lacks in improv, they more than make up with a high energy performance. While I did not attend this show, I was told by those who attended that it was a pretty wild crowd and that UM fed off of that energy.
If you're not hung up on the amount of improv, this is a great show to pick up!
Review by kmdeadhead, posted 01 November 2012 11:20 pm EDT, attached to 2008-10-17
One of my favorite shows:
one of the best Robot Worlds I have ever heard and a very large Pony led Phil's that goes from Dance > One slow verse of Peeps > Dance > RAWK
Also some great improv in Tribute, Water, Bottom 1/2, and a haunting lyrical stew in Sweetness
Review by bobbyluv, posted 01 November 2012 3:33 pm EDT, attached to 2008-05-23
When it comes to UM at Summercamp, I think this is THE show that Umphreaks would agree is the top dog. Up to 2008, UM had slowly been usurping their dominance over Summercamp leading up to this show. 2006 saw the 1st time that UM got a headlining set/show on the 'main stage' and that began the ascension up the SC throne. 2007 also gave UM a headlining show, but 2008 set the stage for SC to be UM's festie to dominate, if ya ask me.
1st set began with ideal weather. Cool and sunny.
Strong Floor out of the gates that segued nicely into Mitten rife with Jetson's teases. Nothing super noteworthy here, but solid nonetheless. The real fireworks came with what quite possibly may be the best Utopian ever. Super lengthy jam that gets super dancey with Kris nailing on the e-drums. There are 3 distinct sections to the improv, each one topping the other culminating to an amazing peak. Killer soundbites from Big Lebowski and GoodFellas sprinkled throughout. Top Shelf UM at its finest!!!
In between sets the temperature dropped a good 10 degrees, and the start of the set saw the boys in hoodies and long sleeves.
Strong intro>Mulche's was fast and furious but the real fireworks began with the Divisions>Phil's>Divisions. GREAT segue into Phil's (super slinky) and this Phil's is not to be missed. They deviate so far from the theme that it goes unfinished>>>Divisions.
DBK>Wappy>DBK is a super strong combo as well. Once the DBK finishes, there was no doubt that UM had played their best set to date at Summercamp.
Shine On encore just seemed to fit perfectly.
After this show is where we met Nickmo! Great night indeed!!
Review by FrontPorchesR4Sittin, posted 30 October 2012 5:18 pm EDT, attached to 2008-09-13
Hurricane Ike epicness.
Main stage rained out, practice gear set up in the coverd Harvest Tent.
Rain like I've never seen before; mud above my ankles, tent and many other things destroyed/blown away.
Next morning, all roads leaving the Mountain were closed (downed trees).
Most insane show I have seen to date.
Review by FRGnugs, posted 30 October 2012 1:44 am EDT, attached to 2002-06-21
This was my first UM show. Came right before they started AIT. The entire performance of AIT made me an instant fan. ten years later, they are still my favorite band. Thanks UM, its been better than I ever could have imagined.
Review by RobotWorldOrGTFO, posted 29 October 2012 5:37 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-26
Finally got an Intentions Clear, Morning Song, a Padgett's, the list goes on and on. This was the pop up set of all pop up sets. White Pickle and Den are fourth quarter UM Bowl jams so its neat to see those out on tour after witnessing them once before. Throw a second Mail Package and a Slacker on top of that as well? Shit. Bridgeless>Cherub Rock was insane, and Kris tearing it up with Mother? Dopest of dope. At first we thought this night was going to be the warm up for Saturday but holy god were we wrong. Excellent Halloween run.
Review by umphalex, posted 29 October 2012 10:07 am EDT, attached to 2012-10-26
This night rivals night 2 at the Riverside in my opinion....both were phenomenal but this night is silly good. Intentions clear gets really funky and jammy and then I went absolutely bolistic when I got white pickle into den...anyone who went to UMbowl 3 should have a deep appreciation for how insanely great these two tunes really are! I called the Padgett's profile before the show and was going nuts when they ended set 1 with it. UM was really going for it in the new venue and the sound was AWESOME downstairs! Set 2 continues with a bunch of stuff we havent gotten in a while....Mail Package, resolution wiht great jam from previous halloween, and morning song was beautiful! Kris Myers was in rock star mode for Mother where he sang and ran all over the stage....awesome start to the weekend!
This mash-up weekend was a blast! Anyone from Wisco has been wishing and hoping for UM to start rocking the Riverside instead of the horrible sounding Rave across town. I was super excited to hear smell the mitten which has a nice dance party jam on it....I havent gotten that one in many years now. All the mashups are spot on but my favorite was Life During Exodus. Rocker Pt. 2 is an epic uplifter and the Kabump was a gem to get as well...5 out of 5....great rager!
Review by All_Things_Foxy, posted 29 October 2012 2:34 am EDT, attached to 2012-10-25
I saw them in Cleveland two or three days before this at the House of Blues and I must say I agree with the last post that the energy in Kalamazoo was ridiculous in comparison.
Review by Labattman, posted 28 October 2012 9:06 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-20
2nd time at Cleveland HOB. Gotta agree, heavy on the security. (Those poor hot body surfers being groped by the crowd, then escorted out by the heavies.) Solid show, BB tore it up, killer cover of Temple of the Dog tune. Jake played back a bit. I like that he can do that comfortably & still rock us. Great show.
Review by Jimmymac03, posted 27 October 2012 10:58 pm EDT, attached to 2012-03-16
Actually I think the fight was at the end of the Booth Love Jam. Which sounds a lot like No Crying In Mexico btw.
Review by knowerofmanythings, posted 27 October 2012 2:05 pm EDT, attached to 2005-04-15
"Welcome"
This was my 4th show. It was a wild show filled with samples, awesome banter, and really unique jams and fun covers. Well basically what every UM show is. Plus, it was quite an adventure to get there to say the least. Let's begin.
After my flight got delayed multiple times a 45 minutes flight from Cleveland to Chicago ended up to be super duper stressful and if you know my concert anxiety I was a nervous wreck.I am pretty sure I could have driven to Chicago for as long as I was at the airport.
Finally I arrived Chicago. My buddy picked me up and then it was off to Urbana. I think it was snowed and it took forever to drive there. I was ready to rage.
As we walked in the venue Joel& Pony started "August." We had made itI It was a mad house in there. It was like new years in April. People were hammered and wanted to rage. I was not too familiar with the band at this point so we watched Budney's light show for a while. Then moved to Bayliss' side, then Jake's. The August jam was awesome. Each section cooler than the next.
The whole first set was one seamless transition. There was a really cool wah-wah Jake led solo to made it's way into "Utopian Fir." There were really raunchy funky jams in this version. Each section was drastically different than the next. This "Fir" I compare every "Fir" I've ever heard to.
The "Passing" was great. It had a graceful transition from Fir. Great segue led from the Wizard led to "Andy's Last Beer."
"Have you guy's been boozin?" BB
"This sounds really Fucked up" Jaco
"Sounds like a wash" BB
The "13 days" mixed up the rager. This calmed down the audience. Not really.
"All right Champaign!" Kris yelled as he channeled Diamond Dave prior to "Running with the Devil."
I though what can't these guys do? and that drummer can fucking sing. Next up was "All In Time."
People hooted and hollered. It was a great version. Jaco went crazy. The percussion was off the wall. I was more than hooked.
What a first set!
Set 2.
The "Miss Tinkles Overture" started things off. Kris pounded the snare. The dual guitar attack took off. A great jam led by Jaco. The first jam got weird. Then branched out and incorperated Rockwell's "Somebody's watching Me" teases. Who does that? It went multiple mind bending places prior to resurfacing and ending the overture.
This "Resolution" scarred me for life with the "Welcome" sample in the beginning portion of the song.
Thanks Farag!
The jams were fun. Over all over the place. The Wizard had a great organ solo. They were jams that made me think about the potential of the band.
"Sociable Jimmy" had perfect placement. Bayliss altered the lyrics. Joel had a killer Rhodes solo.
"Joel Cummins on the keys"
Bayliss mentioned it was Steve & Bebop's birthday as well Budney's. I think every night UM played in '05 it was Budney's birthday or at to the shows I attended or bought. He must be as old as Joel now.
Amsterdam & Ozzy jokes galore.
"Ozzy" led to a cool beatbox intro for "Atmosfarag." Some how they pulled off a transition that was very 'Jim-Morrison-in-the-desert' sounding jam into "Blackwater." Jake & Bayliss added Badunkadunk at the end.
Kris had some great commentary after this song.
"America! Fuck yea" Kris
"You tend to bitch and moan" Jaco
I loved what they teased in "Prowler" and that led to "Glory." Jaco went ballistic.
"This next song is about getting drunk" was the intro to "Last Man Swerving" a lot of Umspeak in this one. Then Bam! They didn't hold back at all went right into the "Dump City."
The banter is funny before "Mulche's." The "Welcome" re appeared and then there was paradigm & chicken banter.
Stasik was "Wastic" and started the song. The jam was intense for all intents and purposes.
The encore was "A 5th of Beethoven." Bayliss smoked a square on stage and he made fun of Joel. It was a great way to end the show. The 5th rocked.
And I was thought about where my 5 UM show was going to be.
Review by aregan3343, posted 27 October 2012 11:26 am EDT, attached to 2009-11-14
I cannot rave about this weekend enough! Maybe the best weekend of college I had. Three great shows in three nights. This show was a straight up rocking dance party. I love a good horn section and they brought it this night. Umphreys usually brings the party the when they come to higher ground, but something about this three night set was magically. The crowd was having fun and the band was particularly funny. get all three nights if you can!
Review by skysoxfan, posted 27 October 2012 12:55 am EDT, attached to 2012-09-15
What an incredible show this was! To follow up Red Rocks with this night was beyond amazing. It was a life changing show for me. I liked Umphrey's before this show, but now I can't get enough of them. I couldn't stop moving or feeling the music. From Joel's incredibly succinct keyboard work, Brendan's focus and yet relaxed performance, Jake's insane picking, Chris's and Andy's rhythm setting the pace, and Ryan's vibing on the bass --- I was definitely beyond in love, wet, and creamed when I left this show... I got Umph Love!
Review by mrtokesmoke, posted 26 October 2012 8:36 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-18
one of the best crowds and a great show! crazy echo and deeper>eat bridgeless>#5>bridgeless?? insane.. soul food had the crowd going crazy and the band loved it
Review by RobotDutchman, posted 26 October 2012 12:32 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-25
Last night's show had an incredible amount of energy, twice that of when I last saw them at The Interlochen Center for the Arts. It had a nice heavy metal feel to last night's show which is always awesome. The Booth Love with a little Eminem jam was sweet, but the
"Young Lust" filling in the "Hangover" was an unexpected treat after they already killed "Kashmir" in the first set. It was also a nice time for "White Man's Moccasins", haven't heard that live in a couple of years since the Orbit Room in '09. Also, I love the way they are starting to mess around with "Mantis" a little more this time adding the Rage jam in there. I second that request for a second night next year here in the Zoo and if not that then at least a Grand Rapids show and a K-Zoo show on back to back nights. Umphrey's, WE LOVE YOU!
Review by JaPunk, posted 26 October 2012 11:46 am EDT, attached to 2012-10-25
Perhaps the greatest Umphrey's show I've been to since 2008. SOO much energy, due in part from the band having played Toronto last night and a Kalamazoo crowd that always come out to support the local band.
The light show accompanying Booth Love was the craziest display of lights that I've ever seen, from any band. That wasn't just a concert; it was a full-fledged performance, showmanship, an entire experience.
Thanks for the classics mixed in with a few new songs. WMM and Ringo set the tone in set I, making way for Mullet and Hangover in II. Plus some of the new songs, which have already become staples, like Mantis, Booth Love (not exactly new).
AND THE COVERS. Kashmir, Young Lust, BULLS ON PARADE.
All around, an incredible show. next october give the peoples a few nights in the zoo, we'll come out I can promise you that.
FJR
Review by Mitrotyler, posted 24 October 2012 6:17 pm EDT, attached to 2011-02-19
Umphreys should play with Zach more often
Let's get it on with him is so sick he has a good voice for that song to
Review by jessek, posted 24 October 2012 1:41 pm EDT, attached to 2004-03-12
204-03-12 Park West, Chicago, IL
This show holds a special place in my heart as it was the first show I saw as a fan. I had seen the band once before in 2002 but it didn't quite take. Two years later, the same lovely couple (veteran fans) hadn't given up on me and took me to this show… and it clicked. I was already semi-familiar at this point, but seeing them live again felt completely different and ingrained an opinion that this was the best thing happening in live music.
Set I: First set is notable because of all the mood changes. A truly impressive ADD set that touches on nearly every style that Umphrey's plays. I think the set lacks a bit of fluidity in return, but as a fan just learning the scope what these guys could do, it was eye opening. We start off with a nice warm-up intro jam. Bright Lights is standard (new), but an upbeat start. Quick-drop into original OB beginning and things start to heat up. [Side Note: early OB renditions show just how far Bayliss' vocal abilities have come in the last decade] OB ventures into improv for the first time of the night with a funk jam (I Ran teases). Trench Town Rock turns the whole mood upside down… happiness is unavoidable during this song and so was the case on this night. Full stop before N2F spins the mood of the room yet again (I Ran teases). There's a quick drop into Bad Poker and just as rapidly as the song appears, we drop back into a jam that could have easily spawned from the preceding N2F - a jam which knocks that country taste right out your mouth. The dual guitars harmonize triplet riffs while Pony provides a nice theme as foundation. The jam fills out nicely as guitars/keys adapt Pony's idea and then expand on it getting a bit more aggressive with each run through. A small bounce-back develops about halfway through before Joel moves front and center for a C section with a mellow watery effect that winds it down. Next, we get well played but fairly standard run of Wife Soup (small metal jam pulling riffs from Metallica's One), Mail Package and Prowler (more I Ran teases). The later segues into the ending of OB, in which Bayliss stretches his final note to a place I've yet to hear in another version of the song; A truly wonderful end to the set.
Set II: Begins fairly standard, but the final run of songs is crafted incredibly and left me with a very positive impression walking out. Stand-alone versions of Mulches and a new song Nemo start things off. Next up is the quirky multi-sectioned In Violation of Yes featuring Jake on bass and Pony on Rhodes. As a fledgling fan, I was blown away by Jake's ability to pick up another instrument and not only play well, but absolutely destroy it. From here on out the set gains momentum, taking us on a fantastic musical journey through the end of the show. Starting with the powerful Divisions sandwiched around the bands first unleashing of the double time Blue Echo (originally referred to as Techno Echo). The Blue Echo contains a nice little improvisational bit that just sort of floats along eventually leading back to the final portion of Divisions. The most memorable moment for me was All Things Ninja. It was the first time I'd ever heard the song -- 15 minutes of wonderful dark ugliness that had me by the throat for its entirety. A pause for band introductions before launching into the debut cover of Flock of Seagulls' I Ran which we all should have seen coming from the many teases in the first set (I missed them somehow). The cover is performed very well, and segues perfectly into the Fancy Reprise -- yet another wonderful way to end a set. Bridgeless Encore seemed like the bands attempt to wring every last bit of rage out of the crowd. It worked. A great high-energy encore.
I was obviously excited by my new-found incredible band. I can remember the walk out to a friend's house on Orchard like it were yesterday -- and the excited conversation that ensued peppered with many "We told you so's" from the couple who brought me and had championed the band for so long. I joined the Bort the next week and posted about how great this show was... and was immediately smacked down as a newbie over-fluffing a standard show. Re-addressing this show years later, I can see how it lacks the improvisational jaunts that I've grown to love and also require out of any "great" UM show. The obvious highlight being the N2F jam out of Bad Poker. …but then again, for a first show, it was everything I needed to get me started on the obsession. Something the jaded vets of today should keep in mind. The stylistic variety, technical ability and musicianship displayed, and most importantly the capability to take me to the place that the run from Divisions on did… is something that has stuck with me all these years.
sbd mtx here: 2004-03-12 Park West
Review by mikenpfafftown, posted 24 October 2012 1:04 pm EDT, attached to 2006-11-17
My second show and first two-setter is still a favorite of mine. I just dug out the UMlive last week to give it a relisten. First set highlights are the Push the Pig, N2F>Thin Air with Sam Holt and the acoustic ITK.
It's the second set and encore though that put this show in the must hear category. Opening with Jimi, then good ole Ringo set the room on fire. I had one of those It experiences during Words. Tears were spilled and I was left with nothing but love for this band who could craft such a beautiful song. I was pretty much butter by the time they finished the N2F so it didn't really matter what they played thereafter. Encore is really fun. Zappa > Kiss!!! WTF indeed.
Review by mikenpfafftown, posted 24 October 2012 12:50 pm EDT, attached to 2008-07-31
After a rather pedestrian set at Koka Booth Amphitheathre opening for STS9 earlier in the day, I kind of expected to get our asses handed to us at the late night Lincoln show. After waiting and waiting and waiting, the show finally began I believe a little after midnight. This set was a complete about face from the daytime set. The band seemed about as amped as I'd ever seen them. Could've been the tiny stage they were playing on or the rowdiness of the crowd, but I don't think I've ever seen them this loose before. Check out the skullfuckery in the first Voices Inside My Head/Snake Juice jam. I also think this is the best encore I've ever seen by any band.
Great night of Umphrey's McGee.
Review by umphalex, posted 23 October 2012 11:14 pm EDT, attached to 2012-04-27
UMbowl 3 may be the greatest umphreys performance to date...its simply amazing how they completely get better and better year after year...I can recall after umbowl 2 thinking you couldnt play a concert that compares with it, but sure enough umbowl 3 crushed it. It was nice to see my people vote in a little GD and we all enjoyed that a ton. Too many high points to recap but set 2 and 4 are statements in how much better this band is than anyone!
Highlights in this night was the 1348 and especially Haji with Allie Kral crushing on fiddle. Also all the choir parts are just amazing with a perfect closer of you cant always get what you want...epic two night stand.
These two Thanksgiving shows will always have a special place in my heart! Epic sets both nights and UM truly was destroying all there jams on these nights. Red tape is unusually "steely dan" jam esque and I really dig where it ends up. Wappy sprayberry is hands down the best version I've ever heard in 45 plus live shows and listening to hundreds...
Review by bobbyluv, posted 23 October 2012 10:44 pm EDT, attached to 2007-02-21
This show is for improv whores like myself. The 1st set is something else, with only 4 songs! Fantastic jams in every song sans Water, which is THE perfect 'breather' song.
The OB has so many amazing themes and the ->into Syncopated is flawless.
DBK has a beautiful melodic jam that is a go to for me.
2nd set starts off something fierce with a killer N2F (they just don't play it like this anymore) into an improv laden Nemo.
A killer jam in Ringo 2 excellent song selections in WMM and MFF. The segue from MFF->N2F is the bee's knees too.
The now super rare King Crimson cover Red is a nifty finish to this kick ass show.
Review by TheFearlessFool, posted 23 October 2012 4:58 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-20
I had a blast at this show in my hometown on Saturday night! Took a bunch of Umphreys virgins who were blown away... I absolutely loved the 2nd set, but could have used another encore... Then again, I could always use another umphreys encore!! First time hearing the Triple Wide in person, it was the sheeeet! PS: Hate this venue, too many rules (HOUSE OF RULES!)
Review by daue114, posted 23 October 2012 4:42 pm EDT, attached to 2012-09-02
This is fantastic show that really shows off what Umphrey's is all about. It opens up with a hard hitting The Floor and moves into a nice version of Wappy Sprayberry. My jaw then dropped as I got two of my favorites in a row with Wife Soup and Resolution. At this point I need to take a minute to talk about this version of Resolution. IT IS ABSOLUTELY AWESOME. Period. Possibly one of the best Umphrey's jams I've ever heard. Booth Love is always a dance party and the set ending Hangover is great with the crowd really getting in to the "All Night Long!" section. The second is equally as impressive with a dark version of The Triple Wide and a version of Haji that makes you want to throw your arms around your best friends at the show and sing at the top of your lungs. Hurt Bird Bath is switched up a bit from its normal progression but moves really quickly. The encore was great with the Bulls on Parade jam to end the show with lots of energy
Review by knowerofmanythings, posted 23 October 2012 12:22 pm EDT, attached to 2004-07-09
After I heard the news of my then favorite band was going to play one last festival(August 14 & 15 2004) and then break up or go hiatus or whatever disturbing term they wanted to use. I was heart broken. I needed live music therapy.
In July 2004 I was working in retail music store and in the cd reel this band's album 'Round Room.' I am pretty sure the song "Waves" was playing when a cute little blonde girl charged up to the counter and said "who choose to play this..." It was obvious it was me...I was wearing a '99 tour shirt.
I said it was me...and how may I help you. I was direct and charming. She demanded that I was to go to the Odeon that Friday to check out this Midwestern Irish band called Umphreys Mcgee, and that I won't regret it.
As a young knower I had high expectations. I went to the show... and loved it.
My highlights were probably the whole show.
Ocean Billy- Duel face Melting Finger tapping
Tribute- Jaco going nuts the entire time.
Dump City>DBK- I didn't know what going on...and my face was started to melt off in certain areas.
Second set I was even more blown away...though I was pretty clueless.
Plunger- Loved all the different sections.
Triplewide>Mail Package -visions of Zappa were floating in my head.
I remember loving "In the Kitchen," and was confused on "Last Man Swerving" but went along with it and head bobbed throughout the song.
Miss Gradenko- I was fascinated by it.
The Encore: MO>M(O) spoke for itself.
I ended up working the next day ordering The Police's 'Synchronicity.' A few days later I bought the show off disclogic.com,and saw in the paper that they were coming back in November ordered the ticket & Anchor Drops.
Review by mrtokesmoke, posted 23 October 2012 7:13 am EDT, attached to 2012-10-20
first set was all jams got heavier in the second set but ended with a weak encore cutting a cover before the floor
Review by Pookells, posted 22 October 2012 8:04 pm EDT, attached to 2008-10-23
Wow, where do I start with this show? I wasn't actually at this one, but I bought this one a couple of months ago, and I'm here to tell you that this EASILY an all-time top 3 UM show!
The show kicks off with some hip-hop on the PA (I'm not hip to hip-hop so I couldn't even begin to tell what was being played over the PA) that gets warped sounding, almost as if Pink Floyd's Ummagumma got mixed into the PA, and then segues into Eat. The minute or so long intro of Eat segues into a 15 minute Bottom Half and seguing back into Eat. Next comes an excellent version of Example 1. Tribute is hands down the funkiest Tribute I've ever heard, but then again the theme of set 1 is pretty much spaced-out heavy funk. Really tripped out stuff in this first set.
The 2nd set kicks off with a 32 minute Crooked, and holy smokes, is it fantastic! The setlist only notes a Paint It Black tease, which occurs towards the end, but the epic jam in here is pretty much metal. In this jam is War Pigs and riffs that sound like what was the origins of "The Devil's In The Details" from the OHMphrey CD, Posthaste. This is the best Crooked that these ears have heard! Next comes Intentions, which again has a nice long jam to it as well. They close Set 2 with Kitchen and Mullet, which are also outstanding. Plus, it's a 4 song 2nd set, and you can't complain about that.
The encore is nice, too - a Synco sandwich with a Hey 19 filling. Hey 19 is one of my fave covers that UM performs and I love Synco anyways, so the encore was pure WIN.
If you haven't heard this show, then drop what you're doing and get this show ASAP! Trust me, you won't regret it at all. Can't say enough good about this show. Seriously.
Review by Kerbstomper, posted 22 October 2012 5:04 pm EDT, attached to 2007-08-31
I turned 17 on the day of this show and subsequently got a surprise "Happy Birthday" shout out from Brendan at the commencement of the behemoth N2F>divisions>N2F>divisions sandwich. Forever, this will be the moment I remember in terms of magical concert experiences. Thank you Umphrey's from the deepest fathoms of my soul! Sincerely, your life long rawker.
Review by Scopeless, posted 22 October 2012 12:12 pm EDT, attached to 2010-12-31
My second show after a huge gap from not going since '06. I got deeper into UM after my friend gave me a huge stash of free '09 UM tracks. I then bought Mantis, I then bought Anchor Drops, I then was hooked for life and went to my second show...THIS show.
The most memorable part of this show involves a story.
Since me and my wife were UM newbs. We didn't understand there was a VIP section. We got to the show early and sat in the balcony. As the rows filled-up, a security person stood in the aisle next to where you come into our row.
The show starts and a waitress comes and asks if we want a drink. I'm thinking, "Wow, this is some service at a concert." We order drinks and get them. Midway through the first set, a guy in a Homer Simpson shirt comes to sit next to us. He asks if he can, and we say yes. He says cool and smokes us up. He then gives me something else...a nugget of something green. I say, "Oh, sorry man. I have anything on me to smoke that with." He says, "No that's for your ride home for letting me sit here." We are stunned and he leaves the seat after the song is over.
At the beginning of set two, someone in front of us gets kicked out. I notice it's because they don't have a ticket or something. I ask the people near us what happened and they say that the people didn't have VIP passes. I turn white and realize that me and my wife ALSO don't have these passes. We did it on accident since we got there before security showed-up. We laid-low for the rest of the show and had a blast. But now it all made sense, the waitress, meeting Joel's parents, people with bottles of champagne, the guy giving us a free nug to just stand there. WE WERE ACCIDENTALLY IN THE VIP SECTION THE WHOLE SHOW!
3.5-4 of five. The opener was great. I love when the opening of a show kills. It really sets-up the show to be a great one throughout. The debut of Deeper -> N2F started that track off in a memorable way. The Bright Lights sax jam was very underrated. The National Anthem debut was out of the park. As well as the James Brown tracks. Nice job, Kris!
The other cover choices really slowed the pace of the show. If you take them away, you're left with a great UM show. Which just shows that sometimes UM doesn't need their covers to make a complete show.
Review by Scopeless, posted 22 October 2012 11:52 am EDT, attached to 2011-03-03
My second favorite show of the year behind 11.5.11. The first set was perfectly executed. The opener into a Jimmy Stewart with Lyrics Intentions Clear was the right way to open a show. It was like a book with an engaging chapter one.
The Haunt and Divisions jams don't get talked-up as much as Intentions Clear (which, by the way, is now the UM tune, Teresa), but they should be lauded as highly. The Haunt peaks well and has a great structure that can be used in a future song. The Divisions is MONSTROUS. Over 24 minutes of epic UM performance.
The DBK was great, but then the set starts to drift a little bit, imo. I'm just not a fan of Mullet, standard Deeper (newer versions have been terrific though), and It's So Easy. It was almost as if Dutchman -> DBK was SOOOOOO rocking that UM lost their mojo right at the end. It's what I feel holds this show back from being in discussion as the best of the year, but it comes ever so close.
Many people said UM was "killing it" in 2011. This show is the finest example of UM's ability to commit musical homicide on our brains and melted faces.
Arguably the best non-festival/special show of 2011, it contains two of the most highly rated jams of the year, The Haunt (OG version) and Ringo (Jimmy Stewart with Lyrics). The peak in that Haunt jam had the entire ballroom going nuts. It was as if we all knew we were witnessing a top-notch jam.
For UM newbies, this is the show for you. It contains a little of everything the band has to offer as far as what modern-UM sounds like. An intro song (best one IMO), several jammed-out versions of songs, a Jimmy Stewart (w/ lyrics...much more rare), a couple covers, and even a mash-up in the encore.
This show is a must own and will stand the test of time.
Review by dteddymcgee9, posted 21 October 2012 8:51 pm EDT, attached to 2011-10-29
This show is INCREDIBLE! I met Thor!! Cant go wrong with a 40's Theme, than Miami Virtue got the crowd dancing! Kris tells some silly jokes after Push the Pig in his Pamela Anderson Cooper costume. More energy with Mulches witch goes into an OG Haunt. First mash ,Addicted to Kiss, was hilarious with the dancing women on stage to end the first set! Second set opens with what was Kids at first but than Come as You Are mashes in to get the crowd raging! Mulche's comes back from the first set which made me thrash! One of my favorite All In Time jams, than a Day Nurse to chill the crowd out. Some very classic songs mashed to end the set. The first encore really left me with enough when In the Puppet Kitchen came out, but than an N2F for a second encore is absurd!! This whole concert is absurd!!! Really exemplifies Umph's creativity and characteristics. Nothing better than Umphrey's McGee!!
A silly free show to enlighten the ignorant Knoxvillians of the Umphrey's power!! The people didnt know what hit them when Plunger opened, and Conduit with improv really showed what Umph is about. Im sure Umphrey's thought they were appealing to the South with WWS even making jokes about fried bacon or something like that. The sun went down and Booth Love gave a nice groove accompanied by the lights of Jeff. The encore gave a lot of energy to end the show!
Fantastic show! Going from Words to Got Your Milk set the feel for the concert. The experimental 20 minute Robot World is a highlight which cuts into Uncommon (a personal favorite). Keller Williams gets the crowd groovin with and appearance on Partyin Peeps and 1348 was a perfect end. The second set N2F than Cant You See than Sociable Jimmy was epic!
My first Umph show!! A great mix of songs and lots of energy! The WWS build into All in Time gives me shivers to this day. Jeff Coffin blew my mind, and the Mantis/Haj sandwhich was great! Definitely a solid Umphrey's show!
Review by taperchef, posted 21 October 2012 6:29 pm EDT, attached to 2004-02-09
My first um show and it was certainly memorable. Hot hot improve in SF1, a beatles cover, phils, and hendrix. Set 2 bridgeless and the Zappa encore stand out for me. I partied and talked with Jake in the basement of Peoples "Lumpys" that served as a back stage for the band.It was a fun night and turned me on to Umphreys proper.
Review by thesixgun, posted 21 October 2012 2:50 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-17
at 1 minute into N2F reprise, there is a stairway to heaven tease if you listen close.
This was one of the coolest venues ive been to in a long time. Really interesting setup, and perfect for the umph. Brought 2 UM virgins who werent sure they would like it. 25 seconds into the Rocker part 2 they both looked at me and apologized for everything they previously said. Flawless performance, unbelievable and super interesting jams, and an amazing setlist. They just returned from a short break from playing shows, and it showed. They seemed relaxed, and totally set on destroying everything in their path. The umlive recording is going to be the only thing in my car cd player for weeks.
Review by Pookells, posted 20 October 2012 11:01 pm EDT, attached to 2012-03-22
This was first (and only, so far) UM show. While this isn't the best show of 2012, it is a pretty damned solid show! The show kicks off with Cummins that segues nicely into Crooked (which possesses a nice, but standard jam). Intentions is great and has a great jam (vocals are a bit weak compared to other live versions). Glory is pretty standard. RtB is probably the best live RtB I've heard out of the other live versions I've heard. Deeper sandwiched by Nemo is pretty sweet. Now to the jam of the night - Smell The Mitten! Clocking in at 15 minutes, Mitten has some sweet improv that includes a snippet of Steve Miller Band's "Abracadabra", and the last 5 minutes is just a dance party!
Set 2 kicks off with Tinkles, which was a nice set opener. Virtue is the 2nd best jam of the night with a nice stew thrown in there. Walletsworth is standard, but very good. Let's Dance is quite faithful to the Bowie original. Day Nurse is just a nice dance party, Conduit was OK. The drum duel between Kris and Andy is way cool, haven't seen that on a lot of setlists. 1348 and The Floor end the 2nd set with a strong finish. The Prowler > 1348 encore is OK, but way too short (probably due to the 12:30am curfew UM had to deal with). All in all, pretty solid show. Not 2012's best, but definitely not 2012's worst either. It is better than the 3/23 show in Portland, IMO.
Review by McLSucks, posted 20 October 2012 11:09 am EDT, attached to 2000-10-20
On this, the 12th anniversary of my first show, I thought I'd share what little I remember about it. They had been hyped up to me by a few friends, including one who'd been seeing them at Notre Dame since the start.
they were really talented...I couldn't tell when one song ended and the next one began.
The Hair Band Medley was *AWFUL*. There was some random girl on-stage singing a song or two, and the band clearly regretted that decision.
but really, my strongest memories about this show don't stem from the music, but my impressions of the band and organization, and how seriously they take the music.
leaving the show, I wasn't sure to think. I taped the show (no idea where the tape actually wound up), and when I went to retrieve my deck, KB told me to throw the tape away or tape over it...that the show was terrible. Vince, an acquaintance of my friend who encouraged me to attend the show, also said something similar, he apologized for a poor show. Weird, right? I didn't think it was that bad...I was entertained and impressed enough to give them another shot at some point (and living in Illinois, those were rather frequent)
The following week, I met Brendan at a Disco Biscuits show in Chicago. He was informed that this had been my first show. He profusely apologized, declaring that I shouldn't judge the band based upon that performance, and hoped I would give them another shot.
Fast-forward 3 years later, a show at the Canopy, I bring up how this was my first show to Pony, sure enough, he had a vivid memory of the show was and expressed shock that I ever returned.
12 years later...they're going strong as ever, playing as consistently as they ever have at any point in their career. So glad I was able to overcome a poor first impression of the music (but a great first impression of everyone involved)
strangely, the All Things Ninja from this show made it onto One Fat Sucka.
Review by mittens, posted 20 October 2012 4:53 am EDT, attached to 2002-12-14
Mirro's last night of tour brought the goods. I'm not sure if this show is on people's radar but it is straight fire.
My favorite Example One of all time. This has to be one of the best encores of all time in a note perfect Fifth of Beethoven and then Last Call.
Review by elBerto, posted 19 October 2012 4:19 pm EDT, attached to 2010-08-07
This was a very unique show in my opinion. Highlights galore... ITK> tribute to Stone Pony legends Bruce and Joel> ITK, Kula (with Kula tease?), Blue> Keefer> Echo... great night on the boardwalk!
Peaking at The Peak! One more my favorite local venues. It was cool catching Water and LMS. Intentions Clear had a great jam that came outta nowhere.
Great day setter. My brother and I caught Jake and Pony standing next to us grooving to Femi Kuti earlier in the day. I told 'em to "play that funky Booth Lovin'" knowing it was one they had been polishing. The Miles Davis cover took me by surprise, very cool to hear. Divisions> I'm on Fire> Divisions was so nice.
The sweet little old lady mayor of Masontown introduced the band as a light rain broke the Mountaintop heat. I believe she flubbed on the name.
Drove up from WVU on a "school night". I'm glad we did... Show Biz Kids, Andy's Last Beer and Kimble were highlights.
Definitely a Top 5 show in my book. All Gooders were talking about the Shine On You Crazy Diamond for the rest of of fest.
The encore... oh the encore!
This show was so different from the night before. Very uneven. Just as the night before, second set was killer.
*personal note- I had my first legal alcoholic beverage at this show, as my 21st struck at midnight. Birthday show? I like to say so...
This might be a Top 5 show for me. This show brought the Soul!
Dear Lord/Amazing Grace mashup? Tease makes more sense to me, but hey, I'm not the pro here.
Second set did not let up.
Night time is the right time! Farag came around to the front to rap Regulate. Push the Pig with Murphy stick out in my mind. Kabump> Gulf Stream... when will that ever happen again!?
My first UM and tBD (and only) show. Utopian> All in Time hooked me. The Biscuits put up a stronger show as the closer, but UM ultimately won me over.
Review by GreatSloo, posted 19 October 2012 2:21 pm EDT, attached to 2012-02-16
To say the least THIS SHOW WAS FIRE! This was my first real full 2 set over a year after my first exposure at Warren Haynes Xmas Jam and Ive heard maybe 2 or 3 other 2012 shows so far that can compare. The yams are incredible. The covers are SICK. And the segues are groovy.
This room is awesome by the way. Stasik's grooves could be felt bumping through the floor and walls throughout the venue.
The debut of Gurgle sent the energy through the roof and Reso let it swim around the crowd like phantom ecstacy, melting every face in its path. This Reso jam was on the ballot for Raw Stewage and with good reason. The rest of the 1st set speaks for itself. The seque into WMM was sharp and unexpected, Gradenko was an amazing surprise, the Stew in MV was sweet as can be, and I dont think I've ever heard the Floor played with such emotion as it was that night.
Set 2 didnt disappoint. Tribute>Mulche's was every bit as crazy as it sounds. Prudence was heaven. 3X>1348 featured very energetic jams lead by Stasik. Then the Soul Food Medley> Puppet string put the nails in the coffin. Last but not least, Syncopated>Waiting Room left everyone wanting more. I dont think Ive ever been so dumbfouned by a night of music. Listen to this show!
First off, there is nothing like Warren Haynes' Xmas Jam. I've been the past 3 years and have seen talents from William Bell, Ani Difranco, and Counting Crows to Moe., Umph, and Mule and it never disappoints. GO! SCI is coming this year and tix just went on sell. Now on to the review.
This being my first UM show I had no idea what was going on. It was a venue full of Warren Haynes fans and Spread Heads (me being both) and Umphreys was first up to play. Deh energy was LOW in the room, but the band was definitely excited to melt some new faces. The short set fired up pretty quick with a grooving Conduit, but when John Bell walked out for Aint No Sunshine I knew I was seeing something special. Then Tinkles and All in Time to wrap it up.
Its also worth mentioning that Steve Miller was hanging with Jeff throughout the show and had him light up his performance later that evening.
Looking back it was an okay show in front of an unusual crowd. Short and sweet. Check it out for the John Bell sit-in.
Review by 3x40oz, posted 19 October 2012 12:08 pm EDT, attached to 2009-04-02
Only UM show ever in Delaware! I would love for them to return; the venue was great and the elderly ushers seemed very confused by UM. This is an underrated show. The jam out of Ocean Billy was pretty unique. It was a 2-part jam that evolved out of what sounded like some prerecorded beats and samples and featured a nice BB riff. Spires included the outro, which was a treat, and Jake slayed the WMM solo per usual. Nice jam in LMS which may have been the best improv of the night. Toto cover and the Crazy Fingers excerpt were much appreciated. PtP also had an interesting jam with some samples of a baby's laugh and Jake mimicking it with some guitaromatopoeia. Bob tease before the encore.
In my opinion, the early show at Festival Pier was the better show in terms of playing, but the energy in the TLA for the latenight was ridiculous. The jam between Snucka parts I and II got the party started. The rap medley following Regulate was also a highlight.
Review by 3x40oz, posted 19 October 2012 11:56 am EDT, attached to 2009-04-03
Probably the best UM show I've seen in person, and the closest thing I get to a hometown show taboot. Roulette was extended, with a nice linear jam based on a BB riff. Mulche's had a nice jam as well, including a dub section, and the transition back into N2F before ending the set was very well done. Phil's was easily the jam of the night, but both halves of Ringo had some good jamming, with a Voodoo Child jam in the first section and Slacker and Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty jams in the second segment. Nice rarities too with Roulette, Uncommon, BtL, 13 Days, and Prophecy Now.
Review by N2FBoston, posted 19 October 2012 10:36 am EDT, attached to 2012-08-09
It goes without saying that this show is a must listen - Stanley Jordan cannot be human... just can't be.
I over heard one of the guys from the band say after the show that Stanley chose Liquid himself. They played a great version of the song with a great solo by Stanley then as the song ended UM stepped aside and let Stanley do his thing on his own. It was amazing, to watch the band members look at Stanley the way we look at them, in complete and utter AW... Making Flippy Floppy is epic, the jam is straight fire. I don't know if I've ever seen the guys having that much fun on stage.
Another note on Stanley Jordan - He is the most spiritual musician I've ever had the honor to meet. Most of the people at sUMmer school got to talk to him and all the conversations were truly inspiring. After the show we all broke out into open jams and Stanley showed up and jammed with us for many hours into the night. sUMmer school was by far the most amazing, beneficial, and inspirational musical event I've ever attended.
This may have been "The show" from sUMmer school. Each night was special in its own way, but this show was especially memorable. The Phils Farm and DBK sandwiches were definitely the highlights, but pretty much all the jams were extremely tight and the more elaborate rehearsed parts in songs like Go to Hell and Mantis were played perfectly.
A little background on the debut of Weird Fishes...
At summer school we had the amazing opportunity to have one on one sessions with members of the band. My good friend Kyle Michaud had a lesson with Jake the afternoon of this show. During the session Jake started messing around with some chords and Kyle noticed he was dancing around the chords of Weird Fishes, but was missing a few. Kyle pointed this out, played the song with the missing chords... and that night Jake busted it out during the show. This is a great way to exemplify the amazing experience that was sUMmer school. By the end of the weekend it was hard to look at UM on stage as the epic Godlike musicians that I normally see them as, because we all felt more like a bunch of friends hanging out and appreciating good music.
Also... it was that much more epic when I saw them play weird fishes at red rocks...
Review by McLSucks, posted 19 October 2012 3:45 am EDT, attached to 2004-02-21
Some nights will live forever, the fourth and final night of the run with Joshua Redman will remain with me in perpetuity. Archive.org link. Well worth the effort of converting from FLAC.
First set was fairly standard, a nice subtle Kat's Tune seemed an innocuous intro after a rowdy Saturday night in NYC the night before. A reasonable Much Obliged > Crooked couldn't really prepare for what happened next, though.
FF and the ensuing jam would contain one of those monumental pieces of improv that you chase all over the country for. It started with one of those ascending chord progressions that lends itself to a slow-building crescendo, and that's what the band delivered. A fun little Bayliss pull-off riff sets the melody and off they go. I've listened to this probably over 100 times, and it's really funny to hear that the band doesn't quite know how to play it. Jake is struggling to play the "right" notes, Brendan seems to keep slightly modifying his riff because it doesn't sound "100% right"...but they keep plowing through, and they keep taking it higher and higher. Of course, none of that actually matters. The build itself, basking in the sound, is life-affirming. This would be attempted a couple more times (most notably on 12/3/04), but I contest that none would ever equal this one.
Rest of the set is standard fare. After that FF, everyone was looking at each other..."did you just see that?"...a shared moment that everyone was still buzzing about through setbreak.
This Joshua Redman cat, he's got a future. He had really managed to gel by this fourth night. On this evening, the band had no fear of stretching songs far beyond their boundaries and Redman was gladly along for the ride. It was difficult to contain my giddiness when World's Running Down started...it seemed clear this set was going to be different, they took off as a 7-piece unit with no looking back...then the drop into Blue Echo was unexpected and I knew it would be another opportunity for them to stretch things out...again...they did not disappoint.
All Things Ninja...it's impressive that of the songs in the UM repertoire, UM would choose this as a song option for him to learn, and he would choose to learn it. I suppose it shouldn't have been that much of a surprise after seeing how well they played Der Bluten Kat together...but still...Ninja? Yes, please.
And finally, we come to Wife Soup... This is the ultimate Wife Soup for me, featuring a Redman contribution that become referred to as The Note. If you're not familiar...I implore you to check out this show if only for The Note. Of course, I'd think you'd be ludicrous to not enjoy the rest of it...but this, again, was one of those moments...to be lucky enough to be there...The Note was like a shot of endorphins, adrenaline, dopamine...all of those chemicals your body produces that make you feel good from natural stimuli? This was that stimulus.
Unfortunately, as the second set ran long (due to the lengthy improv), the DBK encore had to be cut, but hey...Waiting Room is always a great encore/set closer.
Review by BBQsauceNchickenwings, posted 18 October 2012 11:57 pm EDT, attached to 2012-02-04
I was pumped when I saw Umphrey's was playing a free show at the Super Bowl Village. My buddy and I left from Columbus and picked up one more friend in Dayton. When we got near the stadium in Indianapolis, the whole area of wild but somehow we managed to find a miracle open parking spot a block from the action. The village is basically a giant party formed by many independent parties:bars, stages, private tents, etc. I had this fantasy that Umphrey's was going to fall under people's radar at an event like this and I would get up close....I was pleasantly surprised to find a massive crowd backed up the street to see UM. The kids we ended up next to were from Indiana, but they had been in Columbus seeing the Werks at the same new years show as us just a month before.
Kris kicked it off wit the drum into Conduit, and they smoked this one as usual. In the Kitchen went into a great dance groove before giving birth to Glory, truly a glorious choice this night or any night. i remember looking around and seeing peoples faces with a look like "WHAT?! Is it legal to rock this hard?! and in public?" when jake was doing his thing. Out of push the pig also a miss tinkles that reached serious intensity during the peak...Baba O-Riley was well-recieved by the crowd. For one set, Umphrey's still satisfied me until the 17th and surely made a slew of new fans.
Review by 40sThemeWI, posted 18 October 2012 11:16 pm EDT, attached to 2006-11-03
All you need to know is that this second set/encore has to be some of the best UM I've ever witnessed! Hammer after hammer was laid until the lights went out and they dropped the sickest Pink Floyd cover! It was played about as well as any band that is not Pink Floyd could ever play it! The sax was also a nice touch. Double encores are always bitchin' as well. This show is easily in my top 3! 5/5
umvideo of Glory:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ed_0MwtAsU
Well....for starters the HBB sandwich in the first set is disgusting and there's umvideo on YouTube to prove it. Got my first Spinal Shaft (4th UM concert at the time) and let me say it's a doozy. The Jimmy Stewart turned into what is known as Red Tape I believe. But it's the Stew out of Groove Holmes that told me this was going to be a good 2 nights in Madison!!! A must hear for any fan! 5/5
Review by mja271, posted 18 October 2012 10:24 pm EDT, attached to 2010-02-26
Solid show. This was probably the first time I saw UM and left without really feeling the high that they normally give me, but it was not without its moments. The first set started off great with nice jams in Bottom Half and Higgins, but never really picked back up. Always nice to see Uncle Wally pop up, but the In The Kitchen and Push the Pig sit ins were very disappointing and never really took off. The second set was definitely a different story. I love Mantis, so that was a great start and Ocean Billy was strong with a nice -> into 2nd Self. The DBK/Zep segment was great with the exception of a bit of an awkward segue into the cover. The Triple Wide was above average and a nice set ender. The encore was also a bit standard, but a solid way to leave a show. Overall, the show was just a bit lacking. The band never really fully hit their stride I feel, but still a good time.
Can't say enough about how much I love this show. One of my favorite concert going experiences. Higher Ground is such a cool, tiny little venue, and the band was just on fire after two nights of throwing down. There was a loose, party-like atmosphere to the show, but the playing was very precise and focused. Great lyrical stew in Bottom Half, and an awesome Fuzz into N2F reprise were the highlights of Set 1. Where this show really took off for me was with Set 2 though. Cemetery Walk with horns and an ending coda was a revelation. It's still my favorite version. The MJ cover had the place getting down and they even jammed out the theme for a good while after the song proper. A peaking CW2 kept the energy up before a run through the classics Slacker and DBK. Then Baby Honey Sugar Darling just comes out of nowhere! Great bustout! Having the horns out for the last two songs added a lot and kept a great vibe up. Finally, when they began playing Baracuda I couldn't help but wonder how they'd pull off the vocals. Then right as they'd normally kick in, Jen Hartswick just flies out on the stage and belted it out. It was magical. Absolutely top notch show all around.
This was a really great show. Getting to see a full on acoustic show is something that was a big treat for me. As much as the band shreds electrically, I've always been impressed with the beauty and subtlety of their acoustic style. This can be seen here in the great first set run of Water > Sweetness > Fearless. The cover selections were on point; Floyd, Blind Faith, Wings, Seger...can't beat that. Really enjoyed the Nemo jam, hearing a rare Never Cease, an energetic Peeps, and the debut of Ride On Pony. Great vibe and energy from the band (they were especially tipsy for much of the show for Kris' birthday) and excellent playing. A great view of a different side of UM.
This was my first UM show. Looking back it may not have been the best I've seen but I can't help but remember how blown away I was by their playing. A 20+ minute HBB to start off was a great way to break me in. Not a ton of jams in the show, but everything was played very well and the GnR cover was a nice unexpected twist. The encore was certainly "uncommon", but had me leaving with a big smile on my face. Overall, it was a great way to be introduced to this band in the live setting for me.
Review by McLSucks, posted 18 October 2012 9:16 pm EDT, attached to 2003-12-06
Another one of those crazy Canopy nights...like the previous December, something must have been in the air and they busted out a unique one this evening.
The show opens with a 14 minute Mulche's, the first time it was ever given the treatment. There's not one but two worthwhile improvisational sections. I still wish that the song's improvisational future would have tailored more to this version.
Fussy > Tomorrow Never Knows is still the best segue in the UM repertoire...when that first crash of TNK hits...straight butter.
Gotta love the XRT Xmas Medley...debuted the night before and played once more this evening. punk jingle bells > country deck the halls > reggae grandma got run over by a reindeer > carol of the bells. another example of the humor, creativity and chops pervasive in UM. some pretty funny 'fuck yeah'-ing at the end, too.
A rather solid version of Water that sees jake and brendan slowly drifting away from the middle section into some great dissonant territory with Kris leading the charge behind them.
Phil's > Glory > Phil's > 14 min stew > middle section of N2F > Phil's...just listen to this one.
The rare Pork Chop Pie, 9 years later, is still a song I request over and over. Such a great carryover from the Ali Baba's Tahini oeuvre.
some silliness with Hysteria > In Violation of Yes.
then the 26 minute Nothing Too Fancy > Ocean Billy > Nothing Too Fancy encore is about as strong a finish as you can get.
Listen to it on the Archive
A Minnesota Vikings bar in Louisville, KY on a Tuesday night. Even back in 2003, one of those instances where you knew the band could kick back and be loose. The opening "DCI jam" (which was meant to poke fun at the DCI instructional videos that involve the musicians soloing in rounds) turned into a 14 minute monster with a glorious peak...yet further proof in the first two weeks of the Myers era that these guys weren't going to be slowing down. The riff that Jake starts 11:08...and then him and bb trade back and forth and build off of for the next 3 minutes is what St. Peter should have playing at the pearly gates...
Soul Food I was playful with a bunch of teases
The last appearance of the Thelonius Monk tune, Well You Needn't is noteworthy...another of those early jazz tunes that slowly faded into oblivion.
The Pure Imagination tease during Padgett's is pretty damn cool, but the Anchor Drops is my highlight of the second set. A lengthy, across the board, multi-sectional stewart that found its way into The Breeders' Cannonball, but then settled into a reggae groove that I still can't get out of my head, commonly referred to as "Ragamuffin." I don't know of any earlier appearances of Ragamuffin, it did pop up again on 4/1/03 (which was included in the Raw Stewage) and 4/22/03, and then again at UMBowl III during the S2 set. If you know of any other version, please let me know!
sometimes you got to be a ragamuffin
and a mine mine mine mine mine
stand tall/firm with two feet on the ground
with two feet on the ground
Glory > Snucka III encore is classic UMnanigans
other than that, fairly solid playing...but it's the intro jam, Soul Food I and Anchor Drops for which you should check out this show over at Archive.org
Review by radiogolden, posted 18 October 2012 5:11 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-17
First of all, it's wonderful to see the venue listed as Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY. The refurbished theater is amazing. Did everybody notice the faces in the wallpaper?
The first set was solid, but not spectacular, although the closing Bright Lights really took off. The second set was intense from start to end. The notes say it was a tease, but Dump City contained a fully-articulated "It's About That Time." The 2x2 jam quickly gave way to Glory, and when it came back around to 2x2 we were treated to a soaring Bayliss solo. The segue from Walrus to N2F was fire, and at that point the light projections on the walls and ceiling took over. Somewhere in there was a second Bayliss solo and the surprise Willie the Pimp. I wasn't sure what to expect for an encore, but Divisions with the sweet Pequod tease fit the bill.
Waful was in his glory with with the house rig and his new MAC Viper instruments. Sunglasses are advised. The only thing that could make this experience better would be if AbovetheDave from PT would write a review.
Review by OrneTTe, posted 18 October 2012 4:50 pm EDT, attached to 2009-10-10
This show was originally scheduled to be on the Peoria Riverfront but it was super cold all that week so the show was moved indoors. I was a little bummed about the move but was happy about a hometown UM show. The venue at Expo Gardens looked like an old high school gym or cafeteria; the bathrooms like high school locker rooms. The first set was solid but nothing really outstanding. The Fuzz had the slower funky feel and I believe was a nod to the Peoria Police Dept. who lined the walls, Blues Brothers style. The set closed with the short-lived Cold Smoke, which is just Go To Hell with lyrics. I was on a Beatles kick during the time so I Want You was a nice addition.
The second set was a little more interesting. If you have not done so, LISTEN TO THIS MUCH OBLIGED! It may be the best MO of all time. N2F>Bottom Half was pretty good. Red Tape was nothing special, like most Red Tapes during this time. A Rush cover is always ok in my book. Encore was a lot of fun. Who doesn't like Wife Soup? And the transition back into N2F is pretty darn good. Overall it was a pretty solid show but a total shit show when it came to the crowd and venue. I saw girls dropping like flies from being too drunk and the men's bathroom became a swamp of urine and overflowed toilet water. With the cops there, it just made it feel like an old school rock show. Fun times.
Review by N2FBoston, posted 18 October 2012 4:46 pm EDT, attached to 2008-10-13
This show was short, but very much to the point. Every song featured pretty extensive jams, most of which were pretty spacy and electronic in nature since this event was celebrating Bob Moog.
I WISH There was a recording of the Prison Shank set that took place before Umphrey's played. Prison Shank consisted of, if I get this right, Jake and Stasik on guitar and bass, both Jamie Shieleds (The New Deal) and Aaron Magner (The Disco Biscuits) on keys, and Joe Russo (Furthur, many other projects) on drums.... The set was pretty much all improve and was amazing start to finish.
A historic show for so many reasons. I implore all serious Umphreaks to check this one out over at Archive.org
the show opened with a funny Get in the Van gag...they played the false start of the song...and then walked back off stage.
The 40's Theme with Jamie Janover on toy guitar has to be heard to be believed. It remains one of the most mindblowing "how the hell did they do that so well" moments. They way the band traded licks with the toy guitar is hilarious and musically impressive at the same time. This then turned into the oft repeated Zsa Zsa Gabore jam, and then a fantastic full-fledged stwart after it before returning to 40's.
The Zsa Zsa jam would make it's glorious return on 4/28/12 after many years in hibernation...but the coolest part is that they also brought back the 2nd part of the 40's stew and made it a vocal stewart.
Second set opens with a 24 minute triple wide that features a lot of patient, ambient jamming. a must hear.
The other historic aspect is the stewart out of Mulche's that features the first appearance of instrumental sections from both Ocean Billy and Wife Soup.
Push the Pig with November Rain ending was also hilarious.
Review by Dafunzio, posted 18 October 2012 3:44 pm EDT, attached to 2006-03-10
My First Umphrey's show. What a special night. The August from this show still gives me goosebumps every time I listen to it.
Unfortunately wasn't at this show, but its still one of my go-to shows. The show is pretty much fire start to finish (which I find is usually the case with Boston shows...).
- Ringo jam (1st part). One of my favorite jams to ever come out of a Ringo.
- Turn & Run
- EPIC All in time jam... the teases are great but the jam itself is so funky and tight!
Review by Cooneys_Last_Beer, posted 18 October 2012 3:17 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-17
Show was awesome, best small venue I've ever been to, and the lights were awesome, as always. Staff and security were cool as well. First set highlights were definitely Visions and Bright Lights, two killer versions right here. Second set was awesome the whole way through. I'll definitely be buying the SBD when it's released, this was one of the best shows I've seen all summer. Also, the upstairs seating at the Cap gives you an awesome view with the 360 degree projections that go all around you enhancing Waful's always sick lighting wizardry. Also it was awesome news to hear that UM will be playing the Beacon Theater for the first time in January.
Review by dubzz, posted 18 October 2012 3:03 pm EDT, attached to 2012-06-30
It was a sultry night on the Boston wharf made even more infernal by the UM face meltage beneath the Pavilion lights. Marked the 2nd performance of Crucial Taunt (Wayne's World tribute) and the 5th of Comma Later. My first for both of these tunes made it a memorable night. Unfortunately, it was only a one set performance. Still made for an awesome time. The Resolution > 2x2 was by and far the best part of the show. Check it out.
This for me also marked my deflowering at the hand's of UM.
The Jaws theme was played as the band took the stage and set up. Added an erie effect coupled by Waful's reds on stage. The jump into JaJunk was set up perfectly with this. MO > 1348 was a major highlight for me. The Wife Soup transition back to JaJunk was seamless and definitely deserves some attention. A lot of heavy hitters (Bridgeless, Wappy, Cem2) and the crowd made it a really high octane show. Morning Song was probably the slowest moment of the show and was still masterfully performed.
Little did I know until a handful of shows later and the DVD release, how special of an experience it truly was. Remains one of my favorite shows to date! 9/10
I've been to 45 UM shows, and these three higher ground shows are hands down my favorites, with this night being the highlight. It was Pony's birthday and everyone in the crowd and the band were going ape shit.
-The mulches jam is an epic dance party
-Stasiks's bass line during sociable jimmy jam!
-Mike's Kitchen... one of the best jams I've ever heard. The communication is amazing, and they really take you on a musical adventure with multiple different sections, each segued perfectly.
Review by smackaframalama, posted 18 October 2012 1:26 pm EDT, attached to 2005-07-16
first time seeing UM!!!.. also first festival! so i had a lot of learning to do in pacing myself. to much to fast and didn't quite get what was going on with the music. I listened to the show later and couldn't believe how amazing it was and that i was there! since then i have figured things out a little more and can balance myself to enjoy the music fully. Fortunately there would be many more shows and festivals in the future to redeem myself. Still an amazing time with my best friends, we all learned together. Love you marvins mtn. top! and Umphreys Mcgee!
Review by mittens, posted 18 October 2012 1:24 pm EDT, attached to 2002-08-31
Another all time UM show and a Mirro classic. I couldn't make it to this show but I was there the next night and even on tape this performance blew the next night away. Listen to how Mirro takes such an ego-less approach to drumming and just lets Jake and Brendan sit on his beats.
UM and the new deal! amazing.. missed most of the new deal but its just nice seeing they both played together. a rare occasion. well this show was just incredible from start to finish, they played my favorite songs and surprised us with awesome first time mash-ups. we had a crazy trip getting there.. that almost didnt happen a few times but it did and the show changed lives!!!!!! Go umph.. keep it goin fellas!
This was my favorite UM show! danced with my favorite pillar in the E-factory.. never let go. from start to finish brought so much joy! just reading over it brings back those great memories
Review by mittens, posted 18 October 2012 12:48 pm EDT, attached to 2002-12-30
This show is phenomenal. It's as good as anything they have ever played. There was a special vibe during the Mirro era and I think a lot of people like myself left the VIC that night wondering if we could talk Mirro out of leaving.
Review by wappysprayberry13, posted 18 October 2012 12:44 pm EDT, attached to 2012-10-17
i left (essentially) the same review on the bort (and can't be bothered to write a different one). this show was SOLID. first set didn't do anything TOO noteworthy until visions and bright lights...but those were BOTH pretty over the top. this band always impresses me but now having listened to them SOOO much and seen them a good handful of times (i think i'm up around 30 shows...need to get an accurate count) over the past 5 years i don't usually get as floored as i did at the end of this first set. i was pretty speechless. i'm curious to give it a listen again and see if it does the same for me as it did last night or if i wasn't somewhat blurred/biased a little by the "being there" factor. waful was totally on point last night. dear lord he is good at what he does. such a pro. i actually feel the opposite of the reviewer below (although i respect his opinion)...in that i LOVED being totally immersed in the lights. yes...the smoke effects were very dense, obviously so as to enhance the lights and give them more depth and richness, but it definitely didn't impede my vision of the band (then again, i was on the floor, mid-center and wasn't looking through them as much as being in them/under them). sorry your experience wasn't enhanced by the lights. the second set was pretty damn tasty start to finish. mulches, dump, the 2x2/glory sandwich, a well placed (and good choice) walrus cover, a better than average N2F w/willie the pimp and then a divisions enc taboot??...i can not see a DAMN thing to bitch about with ANYTHING in this set. i will let the endorphins diffuse for a few days and then give this a close listen to see if what i'm about to say is actually accurate...but this show (for me) fell into the top 20%, and probably even 10% of all the shows i've seem by them. very impressed...and once again baffled by how this band is not selling out venues like MSG etc. ANYONE who digs TRUE rawk and phenomenal musicianship will go to great lengths to see these guys whenever possible. i haven't seen a thread about this, but can anyone propose even one credible theory as to why these guys are not selling out every fucking show they play and subsequently being FORCED to play larger venues? i don't get it. and lastly may i just add...kris myers is a fucking BEAST. holy christ. total animal. A+ for effort 100% of the time. soo soo soo good.
My First show...... I had seen some Umphrey's tapes on some tape trees and decided to check them out while I was living in St. Louis. Anyone who's been to Cicero's knows how small the venue is, 250 max. There were probably less than 50 people there. I remember seeing the band hanging out among the crowd and hoped they were making ends meet so they could keep playing live because they put on one of the most inspired performances I've ever seen from a band. Looking back, it's a fantasy setlist. If Nachos for Two isn't enough to prove it, how about My favorite Things. Sick show from an unbelievable Oct. 2001 tour.
Great show IMO. I had an absolute blast raging in the balcony. During 1348 I remember a fight breaking out down on the floor. The band kinda mellowed out a bit till security straightened things out then the jammed into Baba O'Riley. "I don't need to fight, to prove I'm right!" It was pretty much slathered in awesome sauce.
There are a lot of highlights in this show, hell the whole thing shouldn't be missed. I thin March '12 may be the best single month of UM ever? Certainly in the running.
Review by mommacass, posted 18 October 2012 11:50 am EDT, attached to 2009-12-31
one of my most memorable um moments is this show! It was my first new years with the band! Haven't missed one since....this is where I found my family
Review by corkyzett, posted 18 October 2012 11:01 am EDT, attached to 2012-10-17
Show was great! Loved the setlist and the re-worked theater! Sorry this was your first UM show and you hated the lights, but they are an integral part of the experience dude. Waful is a master behind that board and the lights help feed the energy the band is putting out there! Plus, the new additions to the walls on the sides of the stage were pretty tight as well. They did mention on twitter that the new venue had the biggest light rigging they had ever seen, so that also may have added to the feeling of being overwhelmed. I, for one, loved it!
Review by nikeskatefasho, posted 18 October 2012 10:52 am EDT, attached to 2012-10-17
I can understand how you feel about the intense light show. You need to get yourself a pair of official UM sunnies to protect your eyes from the madness. The lights are very intense and the music is equally intense. The whole UM experience pushes your brain to the limit of what it can handle. I begun describing it as assault music to first timers. I compare it to seeing Ween play live. Ween and Umphrey's play a super hard, "in your face" style of show and it makes SOME people want to leave and never come back. Those who stay are the true fans and will continue to get blasted by some of the best music you'll get a chance to hear. Don't give up on UM after seeing just one show. Every show is different and your experiences will change!
WILLIE THE PIMP! Wish I was able to hear that, one of my favorite Zappa tunes.
P.S I love allthingsumphreys!
Review by Wilburjo, posted 18 October 2012 10:52 am EDT, attached to 2010-02-06
1st ever UM show. Hooked from the first note of Jaws Theme... Then the finisher Eminence Front > The Floor. The parts in between I don't even want to talk about... Too much face melting action for a newbie
Review by rondackmtns1, posted 18 October 2012 10:47 am EDT, attached to 2008-04-10
This was my first Umphrey's show — and a real sizzler. The boys came on after my first few Pork Slaps at the bar and proceeded to melt face with a tight and intimate club show. World>Nemo>Prolwer is my pick with some great Chinese intervals. Billy Jean is an obvious fit to sandwich with Regulate. Miss Tinkles brought the house down before a rock-solid Floor encore.
Being it was my first show, and having only heard a few Umphrey's songs on Jam On and YouTube, I didn't quite get what was going on in front of me. We picked up the soundboard on the way out and cranked it the whole way home. It was then that “I got it," and I've been a Umphrey's fan ever since.
I’d keep this recording within arms reach.
A special show for me and an awesome venue where I've had some good memories. Too bad Rev Hall stopped hosting shows ...
Review by oldedrums, posted 18 October 2012 9:32 am EDT, attached to 2012-10-17
Great show. Great band. My first UM show. Loved the music and sound. HATED the lighting. I was in the balcony and flat out could not see the band through the intense beams of light focused on the audience that pulsed to the music. I beliive I might have seen the band 10% of the show, only when the light show wasn't going. Moved to the floor and then the light beams were going directly into my eyes. I had to close them or hold my hand across my forehead. I love seeing the band play, but I could not see. If every show is going to be lit that way, it doesn't make sense to see them live. I don't know if this is a new show enhancement or all shows feature the same light show. I truly believe this needs to be re-thought. I understand that artists look to enhance the experience visually. Bands like Rush and Pink Floyd are masters of this. I feel this choice of lighting immensely detracted from the experience. I hope the band loses this light show and tries something else.
Review by capt_cron, posted 17 October 2012 11:05 pm EDT, attached to 2010-07-17
First White river shows..kept me coming back the past 3 years. This place is amazing. And that --Girlfriend is better is dope as shit mm/mm/
Review by djbigz66, posted 17 October 2012 11:00 pm EDT, attached to 2002-12-30
this was one of my first umphreys concerts ever
cherub rock was pretty fantastic.
YYZ was too... memories lol
Review by owenbroch, posted 17 October 2012 10:38 pm EDT, attached to 2012-01-21
Both of these shows were great, but the second set of night 2 was rawking. The newer Miami Virtue into an ever-emotional Glory was a great start, and then it was hammer to the floor right up til the end of the set. Bridgeless is a personal fav and Hollywood Nights was a nice treat that had everyone jumping and singing along. They came out for encore and Jen performed an amazing rendition of At Last. Which was so good, my friend (whom also was at this show)just used this version of the song as his first dance at his wedding. Anyways, I digress... JaJunk, classic Umph's, i need say no more! UM Rawks!! mm/
Review by jcforst, posted 17 October 2012 10:22 pm EDT, attached to 2000-10-06
This was the first of over a hundred shows attended personally, it's easy to say i was sold right away. I can still picture Bayliss in his hoodie and Jake with his stash. Now looking back, i must say it was hearing Divisions and Front Porch in the first set that really must have grabbed me. Their cover of Fool in the Rain was the icing on the cake, especially when it was reprised for the final song.
The Park West was a perfect place to catch these guys for the first time seeing that it still holds a special place in the hearts of the band and the phreaks. I look to this day quite often while listening to Umphrey's for it led me on a journey that eventually took me to Europe, my first cruise and my first show at Red Rocks. Even though Jake was reasonably new as a full time member, you could see the magic on stage. Thanks Fellas!
Review by jpwrye41, posted 17 October 2012 6:26 pm EDT, attached to 2011-10-29
What really can you say about this show that you can't say about other Halloween MashUp shows?! It was amazing. From the first note of Tango Mike (my favorite band intro) to the last note of the 2ND ENCORE, it was flawless. My ears were left happily ringing that night. I'd say the only downer of the show was when some douche nozzle launched a beer from the audience and it hit Ryan right in the chest. Besides the MashUps, I'd say my faves of the night were Push the Pig, The Haunt & All In Time. Overall though you can't beat this show as evident with all the tracks from it included in the Hall of Fame album from this year.... Awesome awesome awesome. mm/
Review by carmelocorn, posted 17 October 2012 5:05 pm EDT, attached to 2012-09-22
There was a very relaxed, fluid feel to this show. The band was at the end of tour and happy to have a long summer of fests and shows behind them. It almost seemed like this was the show they were waiting for to leave it all on the table. Conduit>Glory>Conduit was very perfectly inspired and Kimble was a treat. Jake was his usually sassy self in Synco and the jam with Magner was straight fire. Lots of teases throughout mixed with a little ghetts and lil old skewl flavor made for a very encompassing show.
Review by noodlesmcintosh, posted 17 October 2012 4:55 pm EDT, attached to 2010-10-29
Somebody throws something at Bayliss during Utopian Fir and he stops everything and yells at whoever it was. Once they start up the jam again they start playing with some attitude and it shows. Solid show.
Review by bingsgirl66, posted 17 October 2012 4:53 pm EDT, attached to 2012-09-21
Amazing show! Divisions was the PERFECT encore. Of course from the beginning to the end - it was the best yet! We didn't want the night to end.
THANK YOU! Come back to Nashvegas soon!
Review by jwelsh, posted 17 October 2012 12:48 pm EDT, attached to 2008-10-16
Walletsworth is pretty straightforward. Alex's House; song gets a bad rap. This one is really patient at the end, and Joel's spiraling keyboards move seamlessly into Meeting In the Aisle. Simply perfect segue . . . Up next, Wappy Sprayberry. So far, there wasn't much improv. But the last three songs have a really good feel to them. The jam in Wappy starts with this great mix of airiness and funkiness, at the same time. Hard to describe, but it works really well. Great bit of improv before it returns to Wappy around the 14-minute mark; then enters into more improv . . . Really great tone on Jake's guitar here; very Santana-like. Or, on the other hand, Rolling Stones, as he busts into "Can't You Hear Me Knocking." Which is jammed right into Der Bluten Kat.
So, up until this point, the set was around 42 minutes in length -- the DBK is about 25 minutes. The first jam shows some patience, but not too much territory is covered. The second starts off promising with some riffing from Jake. And over a few minutes, it builds into a fast-paced jam. Impressive . . . and back into DBK. And then Kris drum solo, before speeding into the ending of DBK. Nice and driving. Great way to end the set.
Set Two:
Prowler starts things off after some playful rumblings on the Moog. Pretty standard Prowler that segues wonderfully into the end of All In Time, finishing off the version from the other night. It takes on a fun little dub vibe before the "Well endowed" section. Really great build to this reprise -- makes you wonder if it should be separated more often. Lots of energy.
Low rumblings before beginning The Crooked One. The main theme of the song slowly dissipates and leaves just Joel on piano with the guitarists making some noise. You can hear Ryan carrying a bassline. This continues for a bit as they feel each other out. As I have said on a number of occasions in these reviews, lots of patience here. Open and spacey. Kris starts to drumm with more emphasis, and the crowd begins to clap along. Building . . . Joel switches to Rhodes, some Moog, little riffing from Jake. Great to hear each band member playing something different, and how well it works together. And out pops the "Let Me Blow Your Mind" teases.
Great transition into Got Your Milk. And the song is pushed a bit, right after the "Shirt stain" line. Driving, linear, as if the normal riff just wouldn't stop. Then it opens up, as they did all run; piano work from Joel, great little riffs from Jake. Man, this is good. A must hear Got Your Milk, imo. With a perfect segue into Nothing Too Fancy. Such a great section of music right there. (Got Your Milk without the "Atkins!" yell.) Fancy is pretty tame, actually, heading into the I Am the Walrus segue. Coming out of Walrus is much more interesting, with the "Rhiannon" teases and the keyboard work for Joel pre-N2F reprise. They are really drawing this out, with one "Rhiannon" section and then another. About six-and-a-half minutes before the Fancy really starts to appear. Lots of Pony thumping away.
Intentions Clear is a bit of an odd encore choice, actually. Pretty straightforward. Just, well, a good stand alone song. Now, the last song of the run, though, was a treat. Especially with Mr. Al Di Meola in attendance. A Senor Mouse to send people home smile.
Highlights for me are the Alex's > Meeting In the Aisle > Wappy. And the All In Time ending. And most definitely the Got Your Milk jam into N2F.
Gotta love the slinky, slow introduction to All In Time. Bluesy, patient, playful. Great start to the night. Nice rocking jam in the middle of AIT. Lot's of pace, without being too heavy. And then slowly, the jam grows into this soaring jam. Perfectly. Kris driving it, Jake soloing beautifully, Joel laying on the organ . . . Wow. Took me by surprise. And then it drops into a metal-like riff. Covering all sorts of ground in this opening (unfinished) AIT.
Say what you will, but I don't mind Gulf Stream. I do enjoy the melody and Brendan's vocals. This version changes key during the closing jam, it seems, and takes on a different feeling. And then the song dissolves into a Atmosfarag-sounding section with Jake beat boxing in the background. Oh, wait, it is Atmosfarag.
Atmosfarag dissolves out (with a tease of "Love Hurts," maybe, or some other hard rock ballad?) as Andy's Last Beer kicks in. The Andy's is pretty standard and essentially stops before the "Jimmy Stewart" kicks in -- the improv starts with Andy on bongos, alone. Until you slowly start to hear Jake jump in, following the rhythm/meter; then Kris on kick drum; then Ryan, and Brendan. Great way to start the jam -- much like with the rest of the run, everyone is patient. Has a bit of a "Se A Cabo" feel, not only because of the percussion. The jam turns a bit of a corner into something much more dance oriented. (Can't help but bob my head listening back.) The dance vibe continues until it turns into something bluesy, reminiscent of the Rolling Stones in a way -- only Umphrey's . . . Lots of runs by Joel on piano.
The "Stewart" fades away for the opening notes of Hajimemashite. The beauty of Haji is quickly disrupted by the appearance of the "Zsa Zsa Gabor" riff. And that ends the set . . .
The Triple Wide gets the set on the road . . . Since the run started off with a Moog Fest, one shouldn't be surprised with how many times Joel went to the Moog this run in the middle of jams. Some great spiraling guitar from Jake to match Joel's keys work. Nice example of a Triple Wide that doesn't rely on being overly dancey. Really smooth transition into "(Don't Fear) The Reaper," as they go back and forth between the song and Triple Wide. Again, patience. This happens a few times before they start singing. Then seamlessly back into The Triple Wide, with another "Reaper" tease for good measure. Before moving to The Floor -- just a perfect choice of song. It seems like so many fans talk about "flow" these days, and most of it I don't get to be honest. But to my ears, the beginning of this set has great "flow."
Pause. Breather. Jake handles some introductions as they kick into Miss Tinkle's Overture. As with a number of other songs from this run, the middle section opens up a bit. Joel on organ, and the guitarists playing off of each other. Really enjoyable, and not as heavy or standard as other Tinkle's you might hear.
Let me just say that Kula does not get played enough. Such a great drive to this song from every band member. Needs to pop up in setlists more often than it does now, that's for sure. This one slows down, to a little bit of drums, into something with a Push the Pig sort of vibe. Which actually becomes Waist Down -- interesting pairing. I haven't listened to this in some time; I kind of like the soaring nature of the chorus.
Waist Down ends with Kris f'n around with some e-drums. Until they successfully start The Fuzz. Gets a little funky. And then fades out . . . into Black Sabbath > War Pigs. Rock. (Voice crack, BB.) Bit of an anticlimactic way to send the set.
I have always been a sucker for The Fussy Dutchman. (I miss the days when it would segue into Tomorrow Never Knows, though.) Ryan is really clear on the recording. Not really a segue, Dutchman ends and Peeps begins. With "Reaper" teases in the intro.
Unique show. The Triple Reaper is worth listening to, and the Andy's "Stewart."
Starts off with White Man's Moccasins -- a bit unique on its own -- but then stops on a dime for the beautiful The Pequod -- only to go back into Moccasins. At the end of Moccasins, rather than pausing, Joel held a chord for a minute while the rest of the band noodled around him . . . before dropping into Plunger. The Plunger featured a "Jimmy Stewart" and was over fifteen minutes in length; the jam begins starting out with Jake playing a riff similar to Billy Squier's "Everybody Wants You" before building into a full-band improv with Joel all over piano. As the jam peters out, Jake starts to tease Yes's "Roundabout."
And how better to follow up a 15-minute Plunger than with a 28-minute Utopian Fir. The first jam in Fir starts with Pony repeating this riff, with Brendan soloing over top with a really compressed tone (right?). Then it grows to this great build over the course of four or so minutes, adding some organ to the mix, back to Brendan on that same solo. The music slows down after about seven minutes of the jam . . . and a drum solo appears. It is as short one what quickly evolves into some bleeps and a bit of chaos before Utopian Fir appears around 13 minutes after the start of the song. The "reggae portion" is drawn out patiently . . . until it starts to morph and stetch. The "Fir Reunion" section picks up, becomes more dubby, shifts keys and time signatures. Really great stuff, almost sounding like another song . . . until losing all resemblance of the standard reggae ending . . . then dropping back into the "re-worked" Reunion section. Only to reemerge as the standard Utopian Fir with lyrics to end the song.
The opening notes of In the Kitchen started almost immediately as Utopian ended, with a patient little intro. Kitchen quickly finds itself in this funky jam. Pony's bassline sounds like it could have been taken from Michael Jackson's "Thriller" (confirmation?).
Keeping with the rare openers, Padgett's Profile kicks off the second set in a dark and dirty fashion. Veers only slightly off course. The Bridgeless is pretty standard as well until it just slows down after about six minutes. Becoming quite airy, with Jake adding some playful riffs here and there, mixed with these little hints of metal songs . . . like "Masters of Puppets" and "One." And then Jake just starts playing Glory -- well, the intro, dropping out to silence, and then the whole band kicks in. Nice transition. And just as Bridgeless faded into Glory, the reverse was true as Glory slowly returns to Bridegeless. Neat little ending to Bridgeless, during that build -- Joel is really laying on the Moog as the guitarists trade licks back and forth.
After a breather, a "breather" of a song is started. I have always enjoyed the laid back, slinky start to Anchor Drops. A rather standard version is made humorous with the Matt Sorum (Guns N' Roses) Drum Fill to end. I am not sure if the GNR reference led them into Snake Juice, to be honest, but it worked -- I need to go back and look, but this might be the first appearance of Snake Juice as a stand-alone song. It flows into a nice breezy section with lots of Joel on piano with a slight Anchor Drops vibe in the background. A "Ring around the rosy" piece dissolves, still Joel on piano, but with the addition of e-drums. And then it fades into Rocker Part 2. Good little jam in the middle.
I so love Supertramp and Bloody Well Right. Joel nails the keys, imo, in that identifiable intro. His vocals? Not necessarily nailed, but close enough. The set-closing 40's Theme gets drawn out a bit when Rob Marscher joins Joel on keys -- as with a lot of the improv in this show, it is patient and breezy. Perfect, for me . . . Especially as Joel and Rob begin to play off each other (even Kris's e-drums here don't take away from the vibe). Although, I love Brendan's solo in 40's and this is often skipped when guests are brought out. Oh, well.
The Slacker encore works. More Moog from Joel during the slower middle section.
First set is worth a listen, for sure. And might as well skim through the second, with maybe some focus on Snake Juice.
Review by sethadam1, posted 15 June 2012 6:04 pm EDT, attached to 2011-12-31
Great show. There are lots of high points, notably the 25 or 6 to 4 cover.
This JaJunk has an incredible Stewart. Let's hope we revisit it at UMBowl 4!
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President Trump caught rigging Official Presidential Job Performance Survey
December 22, 2017 Bridge Agents
(TFC) – The President of the United States is apparently so embarrassed by his recent poll numbers that he set out to create a poll of his own and then he rigged it.
If a voter thought they’d be able to express their true feelings through the “Official Presidential Job Performance Survey”, they would be mistaken. Unless they felt he was doing a “great”, “good”, or “okay” job. Any other feeling would be filed under “other”. There was no option presented to provide a negative response.
You can access the “official” survey via DonaldJTrump.com, the President’s personal website. Has the office of the Presidency fallen so far and is the ego of the leader of the free world so fragile that only positive responses are acceptable? Should we soon expect 99% approval ratings similar to those touted by despots the world over and obtained through a similar sham process?
The President of the United States needs to apologize to the people of the country for such a shameful and transparent attempt at creating the fake news he claims to despise. As per the President’s norm, the results of this poll are certain to be repeated to his base and anyone else left who hasn’t realized they voted for a con man.
Can anyone honestly look at this and say they believe it to be anything other than a disgraceful attempt to manufacture a false approval rating that would be used to manipulate the country? There’s not even an option for “needs improvement”. Even kindergarten students can handle being told they need improvement. Is the President more sensitive that child?
The President paid to have the link advertised through Facebook via his verified account.
Of course, being the thorough leader he is, the homepage of that domain is blank. The webmaster working for the President of the United States can find proper documentation to finish configuring the server at nginx.org. Commercial support is available at nginx.com. Once that is completed maybe at least the website won’t be an embarrassment to the nation.
Screenshot donaldjtrump.com
Image Source: Gage Skidmore, Flickr, Creative Commons
Don’t Let Home Ec Die – Why We Need to Teach Kids to Cook
I Didn’t Report Being Sexually Assaulted. Here’s Why.
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UPDATE: 11 April: I have upgraded the verdict on claim #1 to fact after some help identifying the sequence of the interview being quoted there. UPDATE 2: Part 2 is now up, here.
In my last post, I quoted from an SPLC report by author Alexander Reid Ross entitled "The multipolar spin: how fascists operationalize left-wing resentment". SPLC since took it down, after pressure from some of the people named in the article, most notably Max Blumenthal, as well as follow up legal threats by a former Sputnik journalist recently qualified as a lawyer, aimed not only at SPLC and the author but also at some other journalists who had nothing to do with the piece.
A Google cache is here, a PDF is here, and an archived version is here. It's been reblogged by CrashFast, Louis Proyect, MarxBordiga and (stripped of most links) AntidoteZine, and (with archive.org links) Glykosymoritis and Hummus for Thought.
I have heard some contradictory reports on the rigour of the research, so I thought I'd fact check the claims about Blumenthal. My findings are below.
Note, everything in bold below is my added emphasis.
Claim #1: Blumenthal praised RT America and its show "Loud & Clear"
The report text:
The most important anti-imperialist hub on Sputnik... is hosted by Brian Becker... The leader of the Party for Socialism and Liberation [PSL], Becker regularly hosts Fellows of the American University in Moscow on his Sputnik podcast, “Loud & Clear.”
“Loud & Clear”’s [trans-national far-right figure, Edward] Lozansky-affiliated guests include far-right PR man Jim Jatras, Mark Sleboda of the Dugin-founded Center for Conservative Studies, the Ron Paul Institute’s Daniel McAdams and Alexander Mercouris of the syncretic conspiracist site, The Duran. The program also provides a platform to a variety of explicitly far-right guests, including Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, antisemite Alberto Garcia Watson, alt-right figure Cassandra Fairbanks and militia movement leader Larry Pratt. [Note: the same point about Becker was made in the "Ravings of a Radical Vagabond" post I've linked to before, which covered in exhaustive detail some of the territory Reid Ross dips into here - go to the section entitled "The Strange Case Of Sputnik Radio". This blogpost also exhaustively details Becker's far right links. -B.]
Aside from marginal guests, Loud & Clear can bring on some heavy hitters. During his two appearances on “Loud & Clear” in late 2017, bestselling author Max Blumenthal called the red-brown radio show “the finest public affairs programming” and declared, “I am increasingly turning to RT America for sanity.”
More stuff like this: Left-right convergence
Islamophobia turns left: Ben Norton and the Grayzone Project
Post updated 9 March to include new material from the SPLC, which covers very similar ground to this post, in much more detail. The next day the SPLC pulled the report after complaints from Max Blumenthal. Glykosymoritis has posted it on his blog here, a Google cache is here, a PDF is here, and an archived version is here. // 18 March: New post on the SPLC report.
One of my main aims in writing this blog over the last few years has been to expose (and, hopefully, counter) the growth of what I now call the alt-left or "querfront" (cross-front) - the convergence between fascist and leftist positions that actively corrodes the left.
When I started blogging, one of the manifestations of this would be a kind of "philo-Islamism" among some leftists, in which Islamism, understood as a form of "resistance" to American-led imperialism, was seen as a viable ally for the left, despite its deeply reactionary, right-wing nature. Since around 2011, left/fascist convergence has more often taken an almost opposite path: enthusiastic repetition of the "war on terror" rhetoric spouted in the previous decade by the vulgar acolytes of Samuel Huntingdon. Now, many "anti-imperialists" justify the slaughter of Syrian civilians because they are "terrorists" or "al-Qaeda headchoppers", and it is increasingly hard to tell these leftists apart from the far right Islamophobes they were so recently the sworn enemies of.
Stop the War leaders, Nazis and Daily Mail Islamophobes find an area of agreement over the White Helmets
A second main aim of the blog has been to explore (and, again, hopefully counter) some of the ways in which trustworthy sources of accurate information - and perhaps truth itself - have been undermined in the internet age. The sponsored propaganda media of authoritarian states have been one of the key mechanisms for that, supported by an online army made up of both paid internet trolls and unpaid ideological believers. Again, the war in Syria has been a key battleground in this, as active disinformation campaigns have been unleashed on the Syrian revolution.
This post is part of an occasional series in which I just collate, in one handy place, key links on some of the key sources used by the online activists of the querfront, particularly in relation to Syria. Today, young American commentator Benjamin Norton. Two extracts to introduce him, a little bit of new stuff, then the list of key links:
Louis Proyect "Putting Ben Norton under a microscope" (June 2016)
When I visited the Verso office in Brooklyn for a panel discussion on Rosa Luxemburg last August, I ran into someone named Ben Norton who I knew vaguely as a critic of the crude “anti-imperialism” that had swept across the left like the BP spill in the Gulf of Mexico. We chatted briefly about our shared political values and his latest career move, which was joining Salon.com as a staff member. I thought this was a welcome addition to a magazine that featured Patrick L. Smith, one of the worst propagandists for the Assad dictatorship to be found anywhere.
I never would have expected that within six months Norton would end up in the Smith/Cockburn/Fisk camp writing articles reinforcing the dominant narrative on the left that the USA was bent on “regime change” and that the Syrian rebels were reactionary jihadists engaged in a proxy war launched by the West against its perceived enemies in the region.
[Reviewing] his journalism since early 2016 [shows] how taking the wrong position on Syria inevitably leads to bending the truth, which for a serious-minded journalist is a cardinal sin. Writing for Salon, at least until it remains in business, might pay the rent but what good is that if you lose your soul in the process?
Sam Charles Hamad and Oz Katerji "Did a Kremlin Pilgrimage cause Alternet blogger’s Damascene conversion?" Pulse (August 2017) - this focuses on Max Blumenthal, but has a lot on Norton too:
Over the past year, Blumenthal has gathered the likes of Rania Khalek, Ben Norton, Gareth Porter and Vijay Prasad to build an echo-chamber of Kremlin-friendly voices deluging propaganda on Syria....Ben Norton has painstakingly purged his website of past criticisms of Assad (one blogger has captured at least 14 articles that he has since deleted)....
Until he was hired as a blogger at Salon, [Norton] had assiduously courted pro-Syrian revolution writers and activists. After joining Salon, however, Norton’s Syria politics underwent a radical transformation. In a kamikaze move, after purging his personal website of criticisms of Assad, Norton collaborated with Glenn Greenwald to co-author a piece for The Intercept taking issue with an article about Kremlin propaganda in the Washington Post. Norton, instead, was fired by Salon. His desultory contrarianism ended when he fell into the safety net of Alternet and his resentments converged on Syria. Norton, like Blumenthal, tried to cast doubt on Russian and regime culpability for the Red Crescent convoy attack and on reports about the regime’s bombing of hospitals in Aleppo. (All claims were false as conclusively shown by a recent UN report.) His name also appears signed to a statement by Vanessa Beeley’s Hands Off Syria Coalition that explicitly supports the Russian bombing of Syria.
In this downward spiral, Blumenthal, Khalek and Norton have now been joined by Gareth Porter, who has the dubious distinction of having pioneered war crime denialism nearly four decades earlier when he tried to absolve the Khmer Rouge for its mass atrocities in Cambodia...
Blumenthal and Norton were quick to try to absolve the regime for its chemical attack on Khan Sheikhoun and the former called any potential US response “providing al-Qaeda with air support.” (Blumenthal and Norton have also tried to cast doubt on the regime’s responsibility for the 2013 chemical attack, with latter relying for his claim on the impeccable testimony of a pro-Assad Youtube star connected to Alex Jones’s Infowars conspiracy site)....
[Updated section] In January 2016, Alternet launched its "Grayzone Project", edited by Max Blumenthal. A new report from the Southern Poverty Law Centre also examines this moment:
Around the same time he went on “Loud & Clear” [on Rossiya Segodnya's Sputnik platform], Blumenthal appeared on Tucker Carlson’s FOX News show to defend RT — his second time on the far-right show that year. Blumenthal’s RT appearances have been praised by white nationalists like Frazier Glenn Miller, Jr., who murdered three people outside of a Jewish Community Center in 2014, so his courting of the right on FOX drew considerable backlash...
Blumenthal was not as clear of a spokesperson for Kremlin geopolitics before he appeared at the same RT gala as disgraced former National Security advisor Michael Flynn and the Green Party’s Jill Stein in December 2015. During that occasion, he joined a panel called “Infowar: Will there be a winner” alongside Alt Right anti-Semite Charles Bausman of Russia Insider. A month later, Blumenthal’s pro-Kremlin position crystalized with the founding of the Grayzone Project.
Grayzone is a collaborative project also featuring journalist Benjamin Norton, who cosigned the Hands Off Syria Coalition’s points of unity statement along with Beeley and others. After going on “Loud & Clear” with Duginist Mark Sleboda and Infowars regular, Ray McGovern, Norton plugged the Party for Socialism and Liberation on a podcast episode titled “Hands off Syria.” With other Grayzone contributors, Norton has been criticized for downplaying war crimes and helping publicize false theories about rebels contaminating Damascus’s water supply.
When reached for comment by email, Norton retorted, “I know your goal is to outlandishly smear anyone who opposes US imperialism and is to the left of the Clintons as a ‘crypto-fascist,’ while NATO supports actual fascists whom you care little about.”
Grayzone is perhaps best known for Blumenthal’s controversial two-part articleattacking the White Helmets, which brought accusations of plagiarism from Beeley. Grayzone contributor Rania Khalek had, Beeley insisted, “pumped me for information on the [White Helmets] and then Max wrote the article.”
When it launched, Grayzone described itself as "a journalistic initiative that aims to confront Islamophobia". On the current front page, with articles stretching back to October, there appears to be only two possibly Muslim authors (Hamzah Raza, "a sophomore at Vanderbilt University", and another student, Alexander Abbasi), who co-authored the only article which relates to Islamophobia. Most of the other articles (especially those by Patrick Lawrence and Ben Norton) could better be described as promoting Islamophobia (painting Muslims as bloodthirsty extremist/jihadi/Salafi terrorist monsters, and blurring distinctions between ISIS and other armed groups) and/or as promoting an anti-Sunni sectarian narrative (often whitewashing Iranian-backed violence while highlighting Saudi- and Gulf-backed violence).
In the case of Rania Khalek (the only woman contributor on the Grayzone frontpage), Sunni Arabs are described as deeply predisposed towards brutal violence, with "decades" of Salafism conditioning them to welcome ISIS and leap at the opportunity to commit genocide against the Yezidis:
Sunni Islam has always been the dominant religion in the Middle East. Historically it has been the religion of the state. People from minority sects across the region have passed down collective memories of Sunni Islam’s persecution against them (though minorities have on many occasions, particularly during civil wars, turned against one another as well). They say this explains why Shias, Druze, Christians, Alawites and Yazidis are concentrated in the mountains—they were escaping persecution from the dominant state-backed sect in the region.
Not surprisingly, in 2016, with Trump using anti-Muslim rhetoric as part of his electoral campaign, Grayzone would find itself backing him.
Back to Hamad and Katerji:
It is no coincidence that during the campaign trail Grayzone bloggers Rania Khalek and Benjamin Norton both endorsed Trump’s foreign policy. The sentiment was also echoed by Alternet’s celebrity backer Glenn Greenwald.
The sectarian rot of these bloggers isn’t even hidden, as evidenced by Benjamin Norton’s faux-media outrage over the use of the word ‘stronghold’. When it comes to Beirut and Hezbollah, Norton is enraged by the use of the word stronghold to describe areas under its control, however in Idlib, the entirety of the population is reduced to a ‘stronghold’ belonging to a terrorist organisation...
Norton's reporting gig at Alternet seems to have dried up in late 2017. The Grayzone Project seems to have stopped publishing in December 2017, leading to speculation about what happened to it.
Alternet's "The Grayzone Project" hasn't published an article since Don Hazen left. https://t.co/jmLucVb0Bo
— Charles Davis (@charliearchy) February 19, 2018
Word on the street is @AlterNet has pulled the plug on its "Grayzone Project," leaving Max Blumenthal and his protege Ben Norton as the latest recruits to the jobless 'anti-imperialist' Assad apologist podcast crew. A wonderful way to start the week.
— Neil Hauer (@NeilPHauer) February 26, 2018
This prompted Blumenthal to announce that Grayzone had moved to The Real News network, known for publishing articles with titles like "9/11 Questions Remain Unanswered: I do know for a certainty that there has been a cover-up of 9/11". As my comrade Al-Hamra noted, according to Alexa, "Alternet has hundreds of thousands of views per month and is ranked 2,923 out of all U.S. websites; 9/11 truther site TheRealNews is ranked 31,634 and steadily declining."
This self-styled “journalist” is not very good at his job. @GrayzoneProject has moved seamlessly from pushing White Helmet conspiracy theories to 9/11 truther website @TheRealNews. @benjaminnorton's career arc has officially hit rock bottom. 😁 https://t.co/nqtB5UzUBy pic.twitter.com/Aj95fnGFQG
— #SaveGhouta (@_alhamra) February 26, 2018
What Max Blumenthal + Benjamin Norton pretend is a seamless transition is actually a career catastrophe. @Alternet has hundreds of thousands of views per month and is ranked 2,923 out of all U.S. websites; 9/11 truther @TheRealNews is ranked 31,634 and steadily declining. 😁 pic.twitter.com/GBTCtZnXCC
It also claims to receive no government funding, which appears to be a semantics game as it produces shows distributed by teleSUR and RT. https://t.co/BYqJ9er7Nf https://t.co/uppRReiQP1
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Trailer Time: Greed Could Be Good
Self-Styled Siren recently asked her readers about cool and uncool movies and stars-- who or what do we love, even at the risk of public shame? A related question is, what counts as a good movie-- or a bad one? It's a question I like to explore with my Cinema 101/110 students every semester by contrasting two films that are generally put into either category: Citizen Kane and Beyond The Valley of The Dolls, for instance, or Rules of the Game and Plan 9 From Outer Space. Responses to these films might be shaped by perceived technical competence or lack thereof, box office popularity or cult status, critical acclaim or disdain, canonization or disavowal-- all those elements that shape questions of taste. But the question remains-- when we think of movies we love or hate, is there something inherently "good" or "bad" about them for us, that no amount of attempted rescuing or dismissal can ever quite eliminate?
All of this brings me to Wall Street, a film whose critical reputation seems to yo-yo depending on which moment in time one discovers it. Following on the heels of director Oliver Stone's Platoon, Wall Street did pretty well at the box office, won an Oscar for Michael Douglas, and got decent reviews. But my memory is that it was seen as a bit of a letdown for Stone after the cultural impact of Platoon-- critics also noted the simplistic Oedipal conflicts, the melodramatic tone, and the woodenness of Daryl Hannah. "Greed is good" entered into the lexicon (even if it did so stripped of the irony found in the scene where it's spoken), but the film's hyper-timely plot (it came out the winter after the stock market crash of 1987) and unapologetically broad tonal strokes meant that it got a bit lost in the rush of Stone's other Vietnam films (Born on the Fourth of July, Heaven and Earth, arguably JFK), his psychedelically violent fantasias (The Doors, Natural Born Killers), and his historical epics (Nixon, Alexander). It's become a cable staple, and a reference point for real-world discussions of economic irresponsibility, but as Stone's own profile has dimmed over the last decade, it didn't seem like it was talked about as much as a movie anymore.
Which is a shame, because I think it might be his most interesting film--it's the only one of his that gives me any pleasure. I love it, in fact, for all the reasons noted above as markers of critical disdain: its shamelessly operatic structure, its cartoonishly blunt look at father-son relationships (which is present in Platoon, too, and far more obnoxious there), its garish fetishizing of cars and homes and over-sized cell phones. Even Daryl Hannah's pointlessly arch line readings (I'll forever be haunted by the way she reads "I'd say Gordon is one of the most astute collectors out there" like a community theater Cruella DeVille) work, because they're framed by a world where everything is over-the-top, and everyone is straining to craft a larger-than-life public image. "Greed is good" is not only Gordon's motto-- it's the film's, whose beautiful people, energetic mobile framing and neon mise-en-scene mock and invert the easy moralisms of its screenplay (cinematographer Robert Richardson is Stone's Bud Fox, getting the sheen the director needs to make his larger points). "I never judged a man by the size of his wallet!," a very good Martin Sheen screams to his son Charlie, and we nod at his sage proletarian posturing; but you can almost imagine Oliver Stone giggling behind his viewfinder, thinking of another way for his camera to lust after Gordon Gekko's striped shirts and Cuban cigars.
Wall Street is the one time Stone gives in to his considerable talent for melodrama; he certainly doesn't put his desire for a political cinema aside (check out that title, after all), but it's forced to filter through rich blues and oranges and yellows that soak through his lens like red wine falling on Gordon's shag white carpet (see? It's so powerful it even makes you write like Edward Bulwer-Lytton-- and that's not an entirely bad thing). And best of all, he seems to have a sense of humor about it, and not the bleak, tries-so-hard-to-be-funny-that-it-begs-the-question humor of Natural Born Killers. Yes, there are the Big Serious Speeches and the showdown at the end in the rainy park (and Charlie Sheen's furrowed brow and constant grimacing are enough to make you forget that he would soon be hilarious in Major League, which was just two years away). But Stone must have caught a bug of gleeful enthusiasm from Michael Douglas, because every time Gordon Gekko is on the screen, the movie threatens to become high comedy (and you really wish it would). Douglas tears into the part with relish, nailing every line (it was a well-deserved Oscar), and his energy is what makes a lot of the film. But I also like the strange campiness of Sheen and Hannah simultaneously making pasta and closing business deals while opera plays in the background; or John C. McGinley's sly creepiness bouncing off of Hal Holbrook's dignified calm; or the line-readings of Terrence Stamp, whose deadpan masks an impishness that occasionally squeezes out; or the sheer perversity of casting James Spader as a lawyer struggling with his ethics. There's something big and lush and marvelously decadent about Wall Street, and I wish Stone had followed that impulse and tried to become Douglas Sirk, instead of working so hard to become a social commentator.
Twenty-three years later, Stone has finally offered a sequel, perhaps realizing that the recent financial meltdown offered him both creative opportunity and possible commercial salvation. The teaser trailer for Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is at the top of the post. I'm not sure it works, although I love the metallic gray of the 20th-Century Fox logo, and the lovely grace note of the 1987 big cell phone (a good sign that the funny might still be hiding in Stone somewhere). Douglas looks old and haggard in the early shots, sleek and game in the later, even if I miss the Pat Riley grease of his 1987 hair. Shia LaBouef is both smart box office and an upgrade over Charlie Sheen (with his hunched shoulders, darting eyes and pliable face, it's somehow easier for me to imagine him as an ethically challenged corporate raider-- his body screams "hungry"). And the quick cuts to various signifiers of wealth (planes and penthouses and shiny skyscrapers) is certainly alluring.
It may be a case of too little, too late, and there is a depressingly nostalgic, "late in the Rocky series" vibe about some of the moments it shows: it could either be brilliant or embarrassing. But Stone has never been afraid to walk that line between "good" and "bad" movie-- it's that tension of styles and tones that made the original Wall Street work, and it's why Gordon Gekko is Stone's most compelling creation: because he disavows nothing. After more than a decade of mixed success, Stone must feel a bit like Gordon Gekko-- out for one more score that will bring him back. Which I guess makes me a wary Bud Fox-- I know it might be bad for me, but I can't help but be curious about his latest raid.
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Yes You Said Absolutely right. I think it might be his most interesting film--it's the only one of his that gives me any pleasure.I simply love this film. Hey Dear Have you seen the film Avatar.
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Another caravan arrives at the Fraser Coast RV park. Inset: Ms Denton
Escaping the "technology haze"
RV park joins Land
for Wildlife program
By Dennis Amor
A CARAVAN park has become the first Fraser Coast property for 11 years to be accepted into the Land for Wildlife program in south-east Queensland.
Manager of the 75-acre Fraser Coast RV Park Suzanne Denton told Caravanning News she was thrilled and it had been an "exciting day" when the official Land for Wildlife sign was handed over.
Land for Wildlife is a voluntary program which encourages and assists landholders to manage wildlife habitat on their properties. It was founded in Victoria over 30 years ago.
Forty acres of the park at River Heads is a dedicated nature reserve, boasting over 4km of walking tracks.
Ms Denton said that in addition to freshwater billabongs, the unique park had its own mob of about 30 kangaroos.
"Birdwatchers recently spotted 59 species of birds," she said.
"It is a special place here. With so much wildlife around and getting in touch with nature can have a very calming effect on the body and soul.
"It gives us great pleasure to see the guests enjoying first-time experiences at our property."
She said the RV park was the ideal place to connect with nature and get the children out of their "technology haze".
"We can accommodate all types of campers, grey nomads, families, fisherman, bird watchers, disabled, dog lovers, nature lovers, bush walkers and back packers."
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Depleted quarry sites affecting gov’t projects
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With the only approved quarry site for construction aggregates at Pajo river almost depleted, the Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) will start using sand and gravel imported from the mainland beginning 2019.
This was the dire assessment of DPWH Catanduanes OIC-District Engineer Gil Augustus Balmadrid during last week’s meeting called by Acting Governor Shirley Abundo to discuss issues affecting the extraction of quarry resources.
Present during the meeting last April 25, 2019 at the Sangguniang Panlalawigan session hall were Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) regional director Guillermo Molina IV, officials from the Provincial Environment and Natural Resources Office (PENRO) led by Supervising Ecosystems Management Specialist Yolanda Sa-ong, and barangay officials of areas where quarrying has been permitted by the provincial government.
DE Balmadrid said that the quarry resources at Simamla will be gone by the end of the year while the Pajo river area downstream of Sto. Domingo bridge is already suffering from over-extraction, particularly due to absence of flooding to replenish the river bed.
It may be recalled that several years ago, a Chinese construction company extracted about 20,000 cubic meters of aggregates from the river bed, using backhoes and other equipment to dig deep into the river. As a result, most of the stretch subjected to quarrying are now deep pools where people are discourages from swimming.
The gravel aggregates from Pajo river are the only ones that have passed DPWH quality testing for use in multi-story structures and road concreting projects. Sand and gravel from other rivers in the province have to be thoroughly cleaned to remove silt and debris.
For 2019, the DPWH has mandated the use of Pajo gravel and sand imported from Albay in school building projects as it is crucial to maintain structural integrity of public buildings.
But with the foreseen depletion of quality gravel from local quarries, the department will begin utilizing the more expensive gravel and sand from the mainland which have to be loaded into a barge for the sea voyage across the Maqueda channel.
DE Balmadrid said the lack of aggregates is not confined to Catanduanes, as Camarines Sur, Palawan and other areas are also suffering from the same problem.
Another possibility could be the use of DPWH dredging machines to recover sand at the mouth of the Bato river and other waterways but it could prove to be expensive.
The issue regarding the quarry resources, as well as alleged complaints regarding the difficulty in securing quarry permits, reached Malacañang two months ago, with Presidential Adviser for Bicol Affairs Marvel Clavecilla calling Catanduanes officials from the capitol, DPWH and a contractors’ representative to a meeting in Naga City.
It was suggested that the relatively untouched area upstream of Buyo be considered for the establishment of an industrial extraction of aggregates, in order to justify the construction of a paved road from Bigaa to Buyo and then from Buyo to the national road junction at Palta Small via Simamla. Thje road would be at least 11 inches thick so it could absorb the weight of fully-loaded dump trucks with volumes of 30 to 40 cubic meters. The two roads would cost no less than P300 million.
This early, the DPWH regional office replied to DE Balmadrid’s query on the proposal that the department would be not be implementing new road projects for 2020.
On the other hand, it was pointed out by the PENRO officials that Buyo and Dugui are covered by the Catanduanes Natural Park established by the national government last year where no mineral or quarry extraction will be allowed.
Any quarry activity in the protected area will have to be approved by the Protected Area Management Board (PAMB) chaired by the DENR regional director, which is set to hold its 2nd quarterly meeting this May 17.
In anticipation of the possibility of favorable action by the Board, DE Balmadrid asked the PENRO to determine the actual boundary line of the CNP as far as the Buyo river is concerned so that the area as well as the volume of quarry resources could be estimated.
MGB Dir. Molina said the Buyo area will be the subject of an assessment to be conducted in the next two weeks by a team that would include a geologist. Should the PAMB favor the extraction of gravel upstream of Buyo, a buffer zone will have to be established where no quarrying will be allowed, he added.
Acting Gov. Abundo said earlier that while she has received complaints from many barangay officials regarding quarry operations, the local government cannot avoid granting permits as it would affect the implementation of infrastructure projects.
“We have to balance the issues,” she stressed. “The refusal to grant access to quarry areas has to have a valid reason.”
Acting on the complaints, an inter-agency team monitored quarry sites upstream of Pajo river last Mar. 21, 2019 generally found that the quarry permittees were operating in compliance with the conditions that turbid water was confined by isolating the area being extracted from the flowing clear water.
It also found that no DPWH or irrigation projects were adversely affected by the operations.
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Bruno Martins Carreira
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A member of the Conservation in Socio-Ecological Ecosystems research group of cE3c, Bruno Carreira conducted a Ph.D. in Ecology under the supervision of Doctor Rui Rebelo (University of Lisbon) and Doctor Anssi Laurila (Uppsala University).
Working within the field of Metabolic Theory of Ecology (MTE), this researcher investigates temperature effects on the feeding preferences of ectotherms, bridging Climate Change and Diet Change by studying the effects of extreme climatic events (heat waves) on the assimilation of animal and plant diets.
In the forefront of climate change biology, this research revealed temperature-dependent changes in the relative quality of animal and plant diets and adaptive shifts towards a greater assimilation of plant diets during heat waves, most likely due to increased herbivory at higher temperatures. The discovery of such a relationship between temperature provides additional support to the MTE and contributes to a better understanding of the potential ecological impacts of climate change.
Mostly experimental, the research uses native and alien invasive freshwater ectotherms commonly found in Mediterranean Temporary Ponds in the SW of Portugal, which serve as model systems to study the effects of climate change in wetlands.
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PLOS One, 12(9), e0183108. DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0183108 (IF2017 2,766; Q1 Multidisciplinary Sciences)
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GoQuest Media to sell four MGU series internationally
Independent content distributor GoQuest Media Ventures and Ukraine’s largest media holding company Media Group Ukraine (MGU) have agreed on a multi-series distribution deal.
The deal announced today gives GoQuest Media Ventures international TV distribution rights to four compelling drama series Ruby Ring (95 x 45’; format created by KBS), Secrets (95 x 45’; format created by Fremantle), Rainflower (8 x 45’; a.k.a. Tree of Heaven, format created by SBS) and Eclipse (8 x 45’; produced by MGU). All four series premiered on market leader Ukraina, an affiliated company of Media Group Ukraine (MGU).
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Iryna Chernyak, Director of TV Content Sales, Media Group Ukraine added: “Expanding the geography of our own content distribution is one of the key development strategies of Media Group Ukraine. Our TV series are already known and popular in CIS and European markets. We are extremely ambitious to go global and very pleased to start cooperating with the team of professionals from GoQuest Media Ventures. I am confident that this partnership will be mutually beneficial and successful.”
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Years have passed since the fighting had occurred. The Capital has fallen. Faith in The Ancient Ones is fading. Edrain is a country lost to the monsters. Those that could escape, left to the bordering countries, taking the plague with them. And with the plague, a new rise of monsters. New abominations that would attack the people. And amongst the remains of the kingdom of Edrain, the Servants now overtake the land, and attack the few that were too stubborn to leave or had nowhere else to go. Within those years, technological advancements were made. More powerful guns were created, and even automobiles were starting to be created, but the beliefs of the old, though not as great as before, remained. But with the word of this new God appearing in the people's ears, the Ancient Ones ideas slowly began to die out, with only few loyal subjects. And the threat of a new evil had brought itself upon the world. What will you do in this new age?
Classes - Hunters come in many different classes, each with different pros and cons
Mercenary - Better with larger blades and has stronger defense. Not as respected by townsfolk
Soldier - Best with firearms. Not very fast or agile
Traveller - Easier to get discounts in shops and can earn better. Not the best fighter
Thief - More stealthy than others, much faster and quicker dodges. Low defense
Bandit - powerful attacks and can wield heavy weapons. The slowest Hunter. Hated by townsfolk
Hunter - Can climb better and is better at using firearms. Has low defense
Alchemist - Can heal himself and is more powerful against magic. Terrible with weapons
Psychopath - Casts long lasting fire damage and can take more damage. Weak with weapons
Priest - Heals others within a group and is better at shielding himself. Does not fight at all
~NEW CLASSES~
Crusader - Has the fighting capabilities of a soldier and the miracles of a priest. Their behavior makes them ignored by some cities, while magic users outright despise them and their poor use of priest magic
Knights - Slow, heavy, impossible to dodge. Best sword fighters and has high respect from the people
Pirates - Has quick access to travelling the seas. Capable of sword and gun combat. Always hunted by enforcers of order
Ninjas - Stealthy, good with swords and projectile weapons, highly likely to lose if outnumbered
Fighters - Refuse to use weapons of any kind. Capable of fighting and even killing with their bare fists. Highly respected by any fighter. Not respected by priests or alchemists
Do not kill anyone’s character without permission
Do not create overpowered and flawless characters
Do not make problems vanish with the snap of a finger
Do not steal other characters ideas
If you have an idea, feel free to ask
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এক মাস 1 আগে Windwakerguy430 said…
Eh it's still easy to me *The Nithloraul was now approaching Alexander without hesitation*
*Oswald turned to Rosemary and spoke* We're nearing your spot. Try not to fall off
Fuck you *Was all Rosemary said to him*
এক মাস 1 আগে cosmic_fusions said…
"They will look just as adorable as you do. Perhaps even more." Zealia joked before she slipped on a black long sleeved gown with golden detailing, then proceeded to brush her hair thoroughly where she could braid it up to a more perfect bun. Quickly after rinsing her face, she coated any exposed area of her skin with sunblock, walking towards her love to place some on the high points of his cheek as well. "We should get going, those free chocolates they give are waiting!~"
এক মাস 1 আগে pLaStIcSUNDAE said…
Alexander's ax began to burn with the screaming embers again, his nasty laughter coming forth as his feet began to pick up pace. However, the large damned man was agile, dashing forwards. He was fast enough to blitz passed Nithloraul with ease and catch Sigmano off guard, the mass of muscle that was his arm colliding with his body in a lariat. But instead of through him backwards, he swung around and smashed him into Nithloraul, letting them both be thrown towards a building that was falling from the edge from above.
Sigmano shifted in mid air, the bottom of his feet catching the ground in enough time for him to jump out of the way in barely enough time.
However, Alexander was relentless. As the building crashed down, he swung his ax at both of them, the force of the swing crushing the surrounding walls as the blade of his swung at Nithloraul's head.
"Try not to fall off? You mean try not to sink." Han'ah snickered. "Aaah but I'm sure you'll be fine. Burning calories off shouldn't be that hard right?"
"If we do have a child and you birth a girl, then I am sure that she will bare your looks. But I hope that neither with be cursed with my skin." Addai gave a nod to her when she insisted that they should get going, and he went to grab his bag, closing it tightly and slinging it over his shoulder.
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"Your skin isn't a curse, Addai. And it is nowhere near ugly, so enough of that." She poked his nose before grabbing her bag as well. But then she paused. "Soo... how do we get there exactly? A train of some sort? Can I just teleport us there?"
"I think it would be best to take a more conventional route to remember the experience," Addai suggested. "Hóuzi 𝒲ángguó is across the seas and closer to the east, I think. So we may be able to enjoy a ship there together as well. Could you transport us to a train?"
"Why yes, yes I can." Zealia nodded. She looked around her to make sure she wasn't forgetting anything, then ensured the doors were locked before returning to Addai. Her hands interlocked with his, and she leaned in for yet another kiss before she whispered a spell that would teleport her and her lover far from where they currently were, and instead in the nearest train station.
As they appeared within the train station, Addai had to blink a few times, disoriented from the suddenness of teleportation. It was one thing to walk through a door into a completely different realm, but it was another to disappear and reappear instantaneously. He still was working on getting used to the feeling of it all together. He looked around, seeing that they were in the train station, something he was much more familiar with almost. But something that they both would notice was that the resort that they were heading to was a quite popular one around that time of year, for there were flyers posted everywhere. "I wonder how many other people are going to the resort as well," He thought out loud. He looked to Zealia, holding her hand within his. "Come, I believe that it shall be easy for us to find where we need to be with so many of the flyers posted around." Or at least he hoped so.
Zealia adjusted her sun glasses to hide her mismatching eyes since they usually called attention in public. She took Addai's hand and interlocked her fingers with his, nodding at what he said. But then she spotted the very long line up ahead a certain booth that held many of the resort posters around it. "uuuuhhh, Addai, I think I found it." She pointed to the direction, proving he was right about the popularity.
Addai's attention turned to the long line of people that were waiting to retrieve tickets. Most of them were holding the same flyers as Zealia had, which made it that much more obvious.
He watched some of the people closely, seeing what train they were boarding so that he and Zealia could do the same. He could practically smell the steamy smoke coming from the trains as. "Yes...I believe so as well.." However, the line was much too long for his liking, and he didn't want Zealia to have to stand so long and wait. An idea came to mind, and for once, it was a bit mischevious. He looked to Zealia, leaning over and speaking lowly. "Would we be able to clone the tickets and use teleportation to get onto the train faster?" He asked.
*The Nithloraul merely side stepped the axe, looking up with a grin* Too slow
I hate everyone right now *Rosemary grimiced in annoyance*
Zealia's brows raised in shock of Addai's idea. But then she smirked some with a single raised eyebrow. "Hmm... That's not so much of a bad idea." And although her own mother said it was bad to clone things, especially when she tried to as a child to get an extra juice box or another perfect A to replace her failing grade, she didn't seem phased. The nymph kissed her lover again while he was still leaning near her, and took of to the front of the line where many were already eyeing her in case she tried cutting.
However, she did the exact opposite. She simply leaned against the booth, watching the service lady give out tickets to the waiting customers. And while doing so, she studied every inch and detail of the tickets as they were handed out.
Before Nithloraul could finish the last word of her sentence all the way, Alexander's knee was already coming up, smashing into her chin. He grabbed her by the head, prepared to crush it until he was sent staggering back a few steps. He slung her aside, his chest sizzling as he turned to Sigmano now. "Fᴏᴏʟ!"
Sigmano dodged out of the way as Alexander's ax swung furiously, and he noticed quickly that this swing was quicker than the last. He jumped backwards, landing on the broken shingles of one of the many collapsed buildings. "Is ᴛʜɪs ᴀʟʟ ʏᴏᴜ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ꜰᴏʀ ᴍᴇ Aᴅᴀᴍ?! A ᴘᴀᴛʜᴇᴛɪᴄ ᴍᴇᴀᴛ sᴜɪᴛ ᴀɴᴅ ᴀ ᴅᴏɢ!?" He began to laugh again.
Meanwhile, Charlie and Emma continued to watch from above. Charlie's stomach growled slightly. And as Emma looked at him, already opening her mouth to say something about leaving to get something to eat again, he spoke. "Nope."
Emma pouted, giving a huff. "Then...should we at least help them?"
Charlie thought for a moment, but then shrugged. "Nope."
Something something Han'ah.
Addai found himself blinking again, a little dizzy this time as they were at the front of the line. He shook it off though, and watched as Zealia was studying the tickets that were being given out to the people. He felt a bad for coming up with such an idea while everyone else had to wait, but as he thought about what Oasis had said to him, he began to feel less so.
As Zealia's eyes and instincts were glued and inspecting the tickets, Addai noticed a small blotch of green appear on the tip of her shoulders form her exposed skin. However, she didn't notice, and once she had the image of the train tickets memorized, she finally blinked, her hand going into her pocket to feel the two sheets of paper–her spell proving to be successful. She turned to Addai and smiled. "Alright! Got it for the next train that's heading out pretty soon. Everyone else here will have to wait four hours except us, if we hurry." She giggled, taking his hand in hers once more. "First class, baby. A16 is our boarding gate."
Addai grinned some at this. "You are amazing!" He said proudly due to Zealia being able to pull his idea off all together. And she had gotten them first class. This time he hadn't even considered that the other people would have to wait hours until the next train. But then he noticed the blotch of green that had appeared on her shoulder, and his brows furrowed together. He poked at it with his finger, wondering if it was some sort of skin makeup that women put on, though he had never seen it before. Which made since to him, since he hadn't seen many things that witches had done until he met Zealia.
Zealia blinked when she felt him poke her, glancing at her shoulder and gasping at the sight of green. She quickly covered it with her hair, letting it loose from ponytail. Her eyes went to Addai and a small blush stung her cheeks. "Don't touch that." She slapped his hand rather gently before gripping it with her own. "Now come on, truffles and exquisite cheese awaits!" Her eyes memorized the route to their boarding gate before she led them both in a hurry.
*Once the boat reached its destination, Rosemary jumped onto the docks, barely landing with her figure. Oswald turned to Han'ah and responded* Ready
I appreciate the help Sight. But I can handle it *The Nithloraul was already running back to continue the fight
Han'ah gave a nod. "As ready as I'll ever be for somethin' like this," Han'ah said as she started stretching some herself as she prepared to start off on where she needed to go, the map and points already memorized in her mind.
Addai was taken back a little when she smacked his hand, but he barely felt it anyways. His eyes remained on her shoulders for a few lasting moments as he was pulled along until his attention was brought back to where they were heading. "Truffles?" He asked, for he had never heard of something like that. But sense she also mentioned cheese with it, he could only assume that it was some sort of food.
"The ax Nithloraul! Don't be reckless!" Sigmano yelled to her.
Alexander began to spin his ax from hand to hand before stopping it in front of him and pulling it in both directions, extending it into his original scythe. He slammed the bottom of the axes pole down into the ground and suddenly stopped moving all together as Nithloraul ran at him. He just began to let out a ghastly chuckle, waiting for her to attack him.
"Chocolate truffles~" She corrected to emphasize how excited she was for the dessert. She rushed with Addai through the crowd within the train station, counting the numbers on the signs and eyeing the time to make sure their train wouldn't leave them.
And a minute or so before the train was preparing to exit, Zealia and her lover arrived to the destined gate. She squealed in glee, waving at those in charge within the machine to open up the transportation device. Her hair blew back some when the train doors slide open, and she presented the golden tickets to a worker who directed them to the front cabin, where rooms were drastically different. Since there was spare room, Zealia was able to pick the velvet red chairs in the corner with a table between them that came with seatings in sets of four, two in either side.
*The ship pulled up to the dock, Oswald giving the word* Now
*The Nithloraul waved Sigmano off, ignoring him as she rushed at Alexander, ready to kick him agaib
cosmic_fusions commented…
how am i লেখা আরো than আপনি when আপনি have TWO different scenes going on xD এক মাস 1 আগে
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pLaStIcSUNDAE commented…
Matt's Stomach: Yes...yes your are. এক মাস 1 আগে
Windwakerguy430 commented…
I work night shift. I never sleep এক মাস 1 আগে
"I have never heard of such a thing," Addai admitted, taking the rushing time that they were on to take a look around at what he could without bumping into anyone while they were on their way. He saw so many different types of people, and some of them, though they appeared to be normal human beings, he could since something from them much like he could from Zealia. And some of them looked at him, finding him staring at them. It wasn't until he realized that he was doing so that he tore his eyes away.
Once they arrived at the destination of the gate that their tickets held, he watched Zealia give a squeal of glee. Imagining how it sounded with what he could remember of her voice in his head, he could only imagine a squeaky voice which led him to start laughing.
Following behind her into the train, he eyed everything in awe. So this is what first class is like? He asked himself. After all, he had never had much to actually be someone who purchased a first class ticket into the front cabins of a train. It even smelled different. He sat down beside her in one of he velvet chairs, surprised when he didn't feel it creak under him.
Han'ah was just about to jump before she heard Levi call her name. She looked back at him. "What's up?"
"Good luck." Levi said, giving her a nod. "And try not to do anything idiotic."
Han'ah rolled her eyes. "Gee, thanks. I'm not my mom," She took a deep breath and dove down into the water with a large splash.
Alexander leaned down some and allowed the kicked to land, only taking a step or two back before swatting her away with the back of his hand like a fly. His attention turned to Sigmano now, prepared to dish out the same treatment to him as well.
Sigmano's eyes began to roll back, a few dark colored veins popping up around his temples.
"Yᴇs, YES. Tʜᴀᴛ's ɪᴛ, ᴄᴏᴍᴇ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ ᴍᴇ ʏᴏᴜʀsᴇʟꜰ!" Alexander began to bound forward towards him, his scythe pulling back as he prepared to swing.
Zealia exhaled softly, sitting down on the velvet chairs and removing her sun glasses to place them between her breasts to hang. She tied her hair back up again, but left it loose enough to cover her shoulders.
A waiter immediately attended both Addai and Zealia. "Coffee, tea, champagne?"
"Water with some lime please." She glanced back at Addai to see what he was going to order.
Addai hadn't been paying attention when the waiter had approached them, and instead was looking out the window as the train had started to move. It wasn't until he turned to asked Zealia something did he notice the waiter there looking at him as well as Zealia. He looked back and forth between the both of them, feeling as if he had missed something with his clueless expression giving it away. "...Is..something wrong?" He asked.
Zealia smiled at him before turning back to the waiter. "He will have tea, please. Thank you." She nodded at him before looking back at Addai. "Nope, just taking your order, that's all." Zealia retrieved her small cosmetic bag to pull out her chapstick and small bottle of hand lotion scented with berries. She squirted some out and began rubbing it along her hands and arms since she got very dry during traveling events.
Addai watched the waiter leave them to go take their order until he turned and looked at Zealia as she retrieved the small bag of hers to take out the chapstick and lotion. "I am impressed that you knew what I would ask for," He said in all honesty. He found it intriguing that she knew what he would have preferred already.
"welf I tink I knowv vu--" She had to stop herself from talking as she applied the chapstick onto her lips, smacking them some before she was free to talk. "I like to think I know you quite well, perhaps more than you know me." She kissed his lips, leaving the taste of mango on his lips from the chapstick.
Addai kissed her back passionately, licking his lips some as he pulled away. "I would not be so sure about that," He smiled at her. "I know that you favor sweets and do not like foods that are too spicy. You have a interesting liking for brighter colors of clothing, and though you no longer are in charge of a boutique, you still have a love for fashion." He lifted her chin a little and brought their lips back together. "You have a bit of an insecurity of your eyes, but I love them. They are unique, and are apart of the wonderful woman that you are." He kissed her yet again, but longer than the previous ones. "You are quite athletic, and you seem to have a taste for music made for two to dance." He smiled at her. "And though you have not shown me just yet, your aura tells me that you are a animal lover."
Zealia's ears drooped as she listened to all the true statements Addai shared about her, a light blush stinging her face. "I... I don't really dance for someone who enjoys the music of it. My brother actually did better in dancing classes than I did. I suppose he enjoyed being forced to do ballet and I guess I snuck out many times to play volleyball." She admitted, a little jealous to Wiezen Jr.'s dancing skills. "I do enjoy animals, you are right about that. But don't tell my mom this, I kind of find cats annoying." She giggled some, kissing back every time his lips met hers. She stared into his eyes to seek information about himself as well. "You are one to play music for not being able to listen to it. You seem to enjoy fruits over anything else and love that fruit tart a lady so generously gave you the last week." But then she blinked as she continued to look into a few recent memories. "For someone accused of smelling your clothes I find it funny you do the same with mine." She laughed with an increasing blush.
A blush came to Addai's face now. “It is different when I do it because you have your clothes on when I do so!” He stated, laughing a little afterwards. “I do enjoy fruit,” he agreed, “it is considered a custom within my culture's dishes. And though I cannot hear music, I can feel it sometimes, especially when playing an instrument myself.”
Layla released a tiring sigh, wiping the sweat from her forehead and the sprinkle of flour from her freckled nose with her stained apron. She removed the item of clothing and hung it in the kitchen wall for now, rinsing her forearms and face with the sink water where she had finally finished cleaning all the dishes. Her lunchtime break was the only time she really got the chance to rest and eat during the entirety of the day. The woman took off her ponytail and let her wavy hair free that held some tangles here and there. She excused herself from the kitchen and exited the diner itself, her nose finally being able to inhale the fresh air and not the constant aroma of oil sizzling on the pan. And the first thing she did was head down the street to purchase her favorite ice cream to treat herself. It wasn't healthy as her first meal of the day, but she didn't care.
"Nah ahhh," Zealia raised a brow, "You were rummaging through my basket in search of a bra to learn how to unclip it. And in the process you couldn't help yourself but sniff." She blatantly caught him red-handed. However, she simply giggled and didn't mind at all. She thanked the waiter when he delivered their drinks, taking a long sip of her lime water before glancing back at Addai. "But I think that just makes me like you even more."
Helga stared at the nothingness in front of her, her arms following its usual routine with stacking the grocery items into the bags.
Heavy items first, bread last. She repeated to herself, organizing the bags of beans and rice on the bottom and following it up with more fragile items like eggs and bread. Her hair was forced to be tucked into a braid, covered by a branded baseball cap that almost hid her eyes when looked down. She wore a long sleeve shirt along with a pair of pants that heavily contrasted with her way of dressing years ago. The color of her apron was the only visible green since her body was covered by much of her clothing.
Helga finished tying the last of the elderly woman's grocery bags, setting it carefully onto her basket and giving her a nod. "H-H-Have.... a nice... day..." She managed to say despite her slowly recovering voice. Her fingers tapped each other in desperation as she awaited to make herself useful for another buying customer, preparing the bags to be used.
*Oswald gave a sigh as he turned to Levi* And now we wait. Crow
*On cue, Crow took the wheel as Oswald moved to the table* Can we observe that list you have
*As Alexander prepared to swing, a little but unexpected weight was brought to his weapon. Nithloraul stood on the blade and waved* Miss me?
"Not done with it just yet." Levi answered, now back to writing down the materials that he needed. "But so far, I need aluminum, parts to build a generator, something that can be used as a makeshift outlet to generate some power which I could use a few wires to do, cables, battery acid or something like it, led pipes, steel, gears of many different sizes–honestly this isn't even half of it."
Alexander snatched the blade from under Nithloraul's feet with enough speed to still leave her suspended in the air before the handle of the scythe smacked her across the face. But as he was going to severe her head, he was blasted back by a force of air that moved with a sudden strike, throwing him through fallen rubble and across the waste of building chunks.
Sigmano straightened himself. "𝗔𝗹𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗮𝗺𝗻𝗲𝗱❟ 𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗿𝗼𝘆𝗲𝗿 𝗼𝗳 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗚𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘀 𝗼𝗳 𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲. 𝗛𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗻𝗼 𝘀𝗲𝗹𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘁𝗿𝗼𝗹?" What came from him now was a different voice. One was like a firmly rooted tree.
"Fɪɴᴀʟʟʏ, ʏᴏᴜ sʜᴏᴡ ʏᴏᴜʀ ꜰᴀᴄᴇ." Alexander's brimstone voice came forth as he trudged from the rubble, pieces of it falling off of his shoulders.
Addai only turned a shade of redder when Zealia had practically caught him. "It was for research purposes!" He said as his only way of defense." And as the waiter came back to their table with their beverages, he thanked him and quickly began to drink from his tea. "A-At least I did not sniff your underwear as you have done mine," He said in retort finally.
As Layla was on her way to the ice cream shop, there was the loud sound of an engine that could be heard from a distance, getting closer and closer at a rapid pace. Not before long, Zekke's motorcycle shot passed her, the mufflers on it puffing out more smoke before there was the loud sound of rattling bolts. He didn't get far up the road before the vehicle began to break down, the front tire wavering before it screeched to a stop, smoke rising from it.
Zekke climbed off of the two-wheeled contraption, coughing some as he had to fan away the building smoke with his hand. "Damn it! I knew I should've just left it there!" He exclaimed, turning his head away from the smoke.
"Excuse me madam, I believe this will be all," A voice spoke to Helga as she was awaiting another customer. However, when she would look up, there would be no one there for a split second until the owner of the voice returned, observing the yellow bell pepper within her hands. She wore a white crop top that was paired with a simple pair of fitting black pants and some sort of coat. Her white-blonde hair was tipped with purple highlights at the ends, and a few bangs hung in front of her forehead.
At first, it couldn't be told who it was exactly, for there was only a few brief seconds that her face could be seen. And even as she finally looked up, the change in style was drastic enough to throw even someone who knew her face all too well off. Her lips were marked with a soft red.
Macross stood there, looking over the bell pepper carefully to ensure that it was ripe enough for her liking. His her other hand she carried a simple carton of eggs along with a long loaf of bread and some butter.
"Yes, I believe that this will be all that I need. Excuse the short absence."
Her daughter had insisted that she tried something new instead of, as she put it, usual "doom and gloom colors". She had let her hair down for the first time in a while since this was also her first time being out and about casually. Some of it she had even encouraged herself to cut. The hair dye had come from a simple dye that she had brewed out of a few choice items so that it would last.
((Out and About Macross))
"Excuse you, it wasn't your underwear, it was your shorts---" She stopped herself before she confessed too far. Zealia licked her lips and snickered, although the hue in her blush deepened. "Well unlike your 'research' purposes, I was simply looking to see if your clothes needed washing and if so as a kind host I would carry out the favor of cleaning them." She nodded to herself. "It was a token of my kindness and concern, that is all." Her puppy eyes batted at him before she took another sip.
Layla almost tumbled to the ground when the motorcycle drove passed her, her heart racing in fear at what had just occurred. She got herself up and dusted off the ends of her skirt she was forced to wear as her uniform. Her hand fanned away the smoke as she neared the ice cream shop and where Zekke was forced to park. And only then she recognized the man she attended in the diner, her attention leaving her original goal of a treat and going towards him. "S-Sir, are you alright?" Was her first question since a body was more important than a piece of metal. She held her nose tight while approaching the scene, eyeing the broken down motorcycle–her mind instinctively processing what to do to fix it. "Is this yours?"
Helga nodded at first when she was told it would be all, and didn't even notice the woman had left momentarily to retrieve a few more items. She had began to pack the selected items, making sure to separate the packaged things and the fresh vegetables and fruits that were collected. "I-It's.... fine...." She dismissed Macross's apology, her eyes still glued to what she was doing. During the entirety of her job she was lucky to find, her eyes never really left what she was doing. This was because she feared of doing something wrong like she usually did with so many other things and she couldn't afford losing something else at this point. She sat the full bags in her basket, placing the eggs and bread in a separate double bag to ensure they wouldn't get squished. "H-H-Have a nice day...." She struggled to speak, however still handed her the booklet of the store that contained a few coupons and discounts for the next purchase. And only then when she gave it to her she lifted her weary eyes, only for them to widen some. She wasn't quite sure if who was in front of her the person she thought it was, or if that was even possible. She wasn't sure if the voice matched the person. She wasn't sure if this whole thing was even real. But she remained silent, and thought it was her head playing tricks again, though the hand that held out the booklet to her did in fact tremble slightly. One because she was tired and weak, the other possibly out of fear and confusion.
"A host asks before digging through another person's clothes and sniffing their belongings," Addai pointed out, reminding her that he had walked in and nearly gave her a heart attack when he had still been in the guest room. "And that was after you had already cleaned them. You even sniffed my towel after I was finished," Not that he minded now, of course. Especially not now. He had just got around to getting used to it. He sipped some of his tea again, rolling his eyes at her puppy eyes. "And did you not do that afterwards?" He added, snickering.
"Yeah, I'm fine. This hunk of bolts just decided it wanted to give out on me again on a test run." Zekke answered, and upon her asking if it was his, he nodded. "Yes, this is mine." And then that's when he realized who it was that had approached him. "Heeeyy, Freckles! Fancy meeting you here so soon–" He began to cough as he accidentally inhaled some of the smoke, stepping away from it and fanning it some more with a cloth while covering his mouth and nose.
Macross waited for the items that she purchased to be bagged by the woman, her mind wondering off for a bit while she thought about the children that she had had to release hours ago. She was still a bit saddened by the entire ordeal, and she would have rather finished the Therian off and claimed them as her own to take care of if she were in a different state of mind. However, upon hearing the woman's stuttering attempt at speaking, her attention was brought back to her things. "That is quite a stutter you...have...there.."
Her words slowly came to a stop as her eyes locked onto the ones that stared back at her, her hand on the coupon booklet. A look of confusion came over her face as well, and it took her a moment to register who exactly it was that she was looking at. Her eyes moving to the trembling hand that held the booklet before raising back to the owner of it. "Quartz," She said quietly to herself, coming to the conclusion as she thought back to when she had taken the children. "If thee dare to start screaming I will make you suffer."
Her eyes shifted into a gaze around them before moving back to Helga's, realizing that she was indeed alone. A small smile came onto her face, however she spoke quietly, harshly. "Thou hath some nerve showing thyself here. What are thou up too–what hath thee done? Attempt to poison my bread? Spoiled my eggs?"
Helga's hand seemed to become stuck to the end of the booklet that she held. She wasn't suppose to be seen, not like this. Not as she was just getting around to enjoying such a calm day out that she hadn't had in so long.
And why did the witch before her seem so pathetic still? And most importantly, why was she there, at the very place that she always retrieved her groceries.
"I don't know what you are talking about." Zealia shrugged, slowly slipping on her glasses again to hide the truth in her eyes as she avoided laughing. "Uuuuhhh, I was simply doing it to ensure you were still the person who you said you were and not some fake trying to impersonate you and ruin my boutique." She nodded at herself with her excuse and grinned some, resting her head against the chair. "Precautions, that is all." She tried turning the tables so that she wouldn't be the center of attention. "If you ever need to practice unclipping a bra, it is best to practice with a model present to get the full experience." She giggled, pointing at herself.
"She is a beauty." Layla said despite it being broken down, because in her eyes it had a lot of potential. When she heard his nickname, she blushed and instead introduced herself so she wouldn't be called that anymore. She then squatted down some, inspecting some areas of the motorcycle before glancing at Zekke. "It seems like the engine needs some repairing and a new wheel will have you driving miles in this baby." She said more to herself than him. "Do you need help fixing it?"
Helga opened her mouth to scream when she realized who was in front of her was the person she thought, but nothing came out. Her vocal chords were completely torn from all the screaming she had done previously that she was unable to produce such sound. A few days ago she couldn't even form sentences or words. Her free hand gripped her throat for comfort, her long ears hidden by the hat drooping in pain at even the attempt of screaming. And at her questions and accusations, she quickly shook her head in fear, denying everything she said. And even after she finished, she kept shaking her head with quiet whimpers. She looked around for help, but saw that everyone was busy doing their job or shopping. She was forced to look back at Macross, and still held out the booklet with an even more trembling hand. "......w--w-w...ork... h-here...." She spat with a shaky voice, her other hand lifting to helplessly protect herself at whatever the woman in front of her had prepared, while the other went to her side to shelter the areas that were still in the process of healing.
And the party supplies *Oswald looked at Levi, expecting an answer before continuing* To celebrate a victory over Owensport. Team moral can help a lot, Levi
*Nithloraul shook her head before her eyes went to Sigmano and she waved* Okay, you handle him for a bit. Felt like I got a work out there for a moment
"I have," Addai said, giving a smirk that referred to the first time that they had sex that was somewhere other than the bedroom. His "technique" was still flawed of course, however he was almost sure that he could do so while she was still clothed. He smiled some. "Do not worry, I just may have something of a surprise that I believe you will enjoy." He paused for a moment, and then added, "Aside from our trip to the resort, I mean."
"Why thank you, my father and I fixed it back together somewhat after we found it." Zekke replied when Layla had complimented the motorbike. He chuckled some after she introduced herself again, watching curiously she squatted down to take a look at the vehicle. And upon her identifying the vehicle's problem, he raised an impressed brow.
"Sure, I could use another set of hands to help me get it back into shape. Do you know someone who knows a thing or two?"
Macross had been about to strangle Helga to death with her mouth opened to scream, that is, until she didn't hear anything. No screaming, only the hot air that came forth at her attempts at doing so. And that, she was more than grateful for, because it meant that she wouldn't have to crush her windpipes to silence her. And that was not only good for the witch, but perhaps both of them. She watched Helga continue to shake her head, watching as she looked around as if she were searching for help. And this almost brought a grin to her face, for she could almost taste the fear that came from her.
However, at the answer that the witch gave, a puzzled expression plastered itself onto Macross's face, her mouth opening a little as she watched the witch cover herself up. She tipped her head towards the left as she thought to herself. She works here? Since when did such self entitled buffoons humble themselves to that of an occupation? She was intrigued to say the least.
"Calm yourself." She said finally, allowing Helga's hand to unbind from the booklet. "I am not going to harm you.' Her eyes looked over Helga for a moment. "Tell me, why are thee in such a pitiful state? The oh so magnificent Helga Quartz?" The sarcasm at the end of the words like acid.
"Party supplies?" Levi lifted an eyebrow. "We haven't even gotten to Owensport to do anything, and you're already talking about celebrating a victory. I think we should be focusing more on the here and now."
In just a few seconds, Alexander was upon Sigmano again, the blade of his scythe tearing into his shoulder. "Yᴏᴜ sᴇᴇᴍ ʀᴀᴛʜᴇʀ ᴅɪsᴛʀᴀᴄᴛᴇᴅ, Gᴀʀᴅɴᴇʀ." His movements had been swift, faster than his previous as if his agility was increasing further.
Sigmano stepped grimaced, grabbing onto the blade of the scythe. "𝙄 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙘𝙤𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙘𝙤𝙣𝙛𝙡𝙞𝙘𝙩 𝙬𝙞𝙩𝙝 𝙮𝙤𝙪. 𝙃𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧❟ 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙝 𝙤𝙛 𝙢𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙗𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙨𝙤 𝙬𝙤𝙪𝙡𝙙 𝙗𝙚 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙣𝙚𝙜𝙤𝙩𝙞𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙤𝙣 𝙖𝙣𝙮𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙣 𝙨𝙤."
"Nᴇɢᴏᴛɪᴀᴛᴇ?" Alexander sneered. "Wʜᴀᴛ ɪs ᴛʜᴇʀᴇ ᴛᴏ ɢᴀᴍʙʟᴇ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʟɪᴋᴇs ᴏꜰ ʏᴏᴜ ᴀɴᴅ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴡɪɴɢᴇᴅ ᴘᴇᴏɴs ᴏᴛʜᴇʀ ᴛʜᴀɴ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴅᴇᴀᴛʜs?" He pulled the handle of his scythe back towards himself, and in turn, drug Sigmano, or rather the person who was currently using his body, forward into the clutches of his fingers only for them to be broken.
"𝙋𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙖𝙥𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙫𝙚𝙧𝙮 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧 𝙬𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙘𝙝𝙚𝙙 𝙨𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝙨𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙨," Sigmano's voice answered, his teeth clenched. He began to force the scythe from his shoulder, and as Alexander looked to strike him, another force of twisting air struck first, shoving him back violently.
His body began to heal quickly, his skin stitching back into place temporarily.
I should also mention your font text was fucking impossible to read on a phone XD এক মাস 1 আগে
^how tf do আপনি type so fast ON A PHONE xD এক মাস 1 আগে
I'm not on a phone now. Last night I was. that's why my responses sucked cockroach cock এক মাস 1 আগে
Wind, I feel your pain xD I'm usually on a phone. এক মাস 1 আগে
Sorry to hear that. It's a pain to read anything XD এক মাস 1 আগে
*Oswald shook his head* Levi, think about it this way. Oasis and Rosemary have been silent for about a week now. Oasis especially. No one on this ship has even spoken more than a "hello" aside from us two. Trust me, moral is something that must be maintained when your the captain. Yes, you can see it as bad timing. But if things go well, Oasis will have saved her sister and found her parents, and we would've given Owensport a huge blow. If that doesn't sound like a cause for celebration, I don't know what is.
*The Nithloraul sat on the ground, observing the fight with her usual grin on her face, unable to take her sights off the duel, as she shouted* If you need a hand, Siggy, just let me know. *As she spoke, her mind went to the two wanderers who had fought them* I wonder who those two were. They should be more grateful. With that sad display of a fight, Alexander would've killed them
"A surprise?" Zealia's ears perked, lowering her glasses some so she could look at Addai with a raised and intrigued brow. She took another sip before she leaned against her lover some with puckered lips and dilated pupils, conjuring her cute face–a strategy she used often when it came to getting things she wanted, it working most of the time. She batted her eyelashes again. "For meeee?~" This time, Addai could hear her squeaky voice in his head. [i]"Oooh~ Do tell, my love!"
"Well, I could simply ask a sorceress for a spell to fix it, but where's the fun in that?" Layla said in attempt of a joke, something she never really did. "Yes, I do know someone. Me." She nodded at him to reassure her answer before scratching her elbow awkwardly. "I too own a motorcycle... or... used to..." She frowned, but didn't let that discourage her. "I have a lot of leftover tools and parts from it that I might as well use for this baby here instead of it going to waste."
Helga blinked. She could ask the same thing about Macross, however, for the sake of her useless life, she refrained. The nymph kept shaking her head without even realizing it to emphasize she wasn't planning on doing anything to Macross from her earlier accusations. When she was told to calm down, she looked at her surroundings in a panic again, shocked at how many people were in the grocery. So many people that would suffer in a blink of an eye thanks to Macross. Her eye twitched before it returned to the woman in front of her, and she simply stared at her when she asked her question, eyeing her outfit and overall appearance. At her sarcasm, she didn't laugh, she just drooped her weary head further to hide her appearance from her. ".....n-n-nowhere.... m-mag...nifi...cent..." She denied completely the trait she put on her. She then cringed at the pain that stabbed her throat at her attempt of talking, her hand lowering from it. Her green fingers scratched one another in anxiousness and fear, and at her question, she slowly shrugged. "....j-just... w-who I-I am now..." The worried woman attempted a painful but true joke that was only followed by coughs.
Am I crazy অথবা did COLA leave a post just here এক মাস 1 আগে
"...Okay...few choice of words there, dad." Levi said, attempting to make a joke as he thought about possibility of something going wrong, almost cringing inside at some of what he thought of. He let out a sigh. He just had a...bad feeling about things. He tried to shake it off as he spoke again. "I guess you could do the whole celebration stuff while I'm out then huh?"
Addai looked away from the therinypmth when she made her face. sipping some more of his tea. Instead, he looked out the window as the train began to to usher forward across the railroads into a grassy plain of tall grass.
"Me."
"You?" Zekke had asked when she said this, chuckling some. But when he heard that she used to own a motorcycle, his curiosity was peaked. "Spare parts huh? Sounds good to me." He sighed in relief as the smoke finally cleared out all the way. "You said used to, though right? What happened to yours? He asked, referring to her two-wheeled vehicle.
Macross observed Helga for a long moment with a frown upon her face, finally dropping the booklet into one of the bags, but didn't make them disappear. Instead, she picked them up herself, her eyes never leaving Helga, watching as she coughed. She took in the weary presence that the witch gave off, and she let out a sigh. She looked over the trembling once more, shaking her head.
"I suppose the least I can do for thee is an act of pity. Have thee eaten anything yet.?"
নমস্কার wait, আপনি পোষ্ট হয়েছে this before, didn't you? এক মাস 1 আগে
*Oswald gave a chuckle at the thought* Oh please, what good is a celebration with just me and Crow. And no offense, but he doesn't seem the most festive kind of person. And it would be pointless without at least finishing the job first. Don't worry, I doubt anything will go wrong
*Rosemary was making her way to her location, complaining in silence at her figure* Why'd I have to be in this awful disguise? Why disguises in general? How the hell am I gonna get across anything with this disgusting body!?
"We'll hope so." Levi responded in an unsure way as he began to think of something that he hadn't before. But he brushed it off. "I wouldn't mind finding a place to lay low and take a vacation or somethin after this. I just hope that if worse comes to worse, Han'ah triumph card works."
That may take a while *Oswald said as he sat down at the chair, Crow continuing to steer the boat* If things go the way we all intend, you'll probably be going back to your old timeline. Heck, you won't even remember this conversation or being here. It will all just appear foreign to you
*Enricho kept walking through the crowded streets, passing by a few bizarre characters, like an ogre complaining about her weight. He kept listening for anything out of the ordinary as he made his way across the town*
Zealia blinked when Addai had looked away, scoffing some as her pupils became slits for a split second before flickering back to normal. She tapped his shoulder rather impatiently. "HelloOoOo! Cute face here being ignored!" Her brows furrowed some before her ears perked when an idea came to mind. She set down her cup of water and slithered onto Addai's lap, her back laying against his thighs as she looked up. "Addaaaiii!!!" She tugged at one of his loose hairs, forcing him to look at her. "Tell me!!!" At sync with the last of her words, an invisible force of magic poked Addai on his ticklish rib spot.
Layla frowned at the sound of the man chuckling, looking around her awkwardly and waiting for him to come to the realization that it was her who she spoke of. And when he did, she expanded a crooked smile to avoid showing her gapped teeth. Layla lived nearby so she saw no problem just dragging the motorcycle back to where she lived and fixing it there. She was already thinking of some ideas before her thoughts were interrupted by his question, her silver blue eyes interlocking with his. "Um..." She scratched her head, not really sure how to explain the situation. "I sold it." She left it at that and began her way with his motorcycle.
Helga yelped quietly when she saw Macross move the slightest, her hands immediately going to cover her face. But at her question, she lowered them slowly, her eyes peeking from her forearms to see if she actually heard right. Her stomach growled in sync with her question. She thought about her question for a long time, trying to remember the last time she had eaten. The latest she had was dinner with Charlie, and after everything went wrong, she sort of... stopped. She nibbled here and there with take out food, but found herself never finishing a full bowl. Her children had promised her they would go out for lunch or for breakfast, but it had been a week and she was still waiting. Her dim eyes lifted from the ground to finally interlock with Macross's, and she truthfully shook her head. ".....n-n-no.... b-but I... not h-hungry... th-thanks..." It felt weird thanking her, but if it meant she got to live another hour then she would do it again and again. And now she felt like punching herself for working in the same grocery she guessed Macross frequently went to. Helga slowly removed her work apron and laid it on the table, taking off her hat to reveal her messy curls that had many strands of grey and white. Her face had visibly aged some, and she also revealed that she needed to wear small glasses due to her poor eyesight. "....w-won't b-bother y-you an-anymore... I-I keep d-distance, p-promise... this... this your s-space... d-didn't know..." She held her hands up to show she had nothing to attack with while taking a few steps back and looking to see which exit was less full so she could leave quicker.
Macross only chuckled at Helga's lie about not being hungry, the sound of her growling stomach that she heard only confirming it that much. "If thee say so, Quartz. But perhaps thee should keep with your occupation. If thou works here, and thee aren't disrupting my day, there shouldn't be any problem." As she saw Helga stepping back, she walked towards her, but then passed her, rolling her eyes. "Still fond of starving thyself like a stray dog I see. It's a sad sight to see that thee still loves to accomplish nothing with thyself." She went off to one of the exits, giving small smiles to the few people who she let pass her before she herself left outside.
Levi gave a shrug. "I guess that's what might happen. I mean, I think we might remember some of this when it's all said and done. I'd like to talk to my dad about his younger self."
"I refuse until you find out," Addai said, trying not to laugh as her magic poked him in the side. "If I tell you now, then it would not be a surprise now would it?"
"I wouldn't have taken you for he mechanic type on first glance." Zekke saod while he helped her push the motorcycle from the other side. "So, I take it that you're done with work for the day? Since, you know, you're talking about helping fix this and all?"
an ঘন্টা for THAT xD এক মাস 1 আগে
And why am I telling আপনি all this...... I dunno. To justify my লেখা despite having college level লেখা XD এক মাস 1 আগে
College level লেখা education. This shit is still like শিশুরা first story book এক মাস 1 আগে
Oh, trust me. I'll have plenty of stories to tell you when your born. I just gotta find out what your mother is like first, assuming I ever do *Oswald said, leaning back in his chair now, taking a moment to remove his glasses and wipe them*
Helga whimpered quietly when she saw Macross approach her, closing her eyes tightly. But she opened them shortly afterwards when she witnessed her pass her, her ears lowering at her commentary and her hands going to her bruised belly. It wasn't like she didn't want to eat. But at times even drinking something as simple as soup burned her throat like no tomorrow. She remained still, but trembling, not looking back to where the person that ruined her life had gone. The nymph scratched at her fingers, avoiding eye contact with people that passed by her and even bumped into her. She counted until 100 with shut eyes until she finally moved, hurrying back to her small apartment which was her only location of safety at the moment. There she could look at other places or even countries to move into and new jobs to distance herself from only causing further damage.
"Oohh, but Addaaiii~" Zealia whined, looking up at him like a stretching cat. "At least give me a hint!" She pouted, guiding his hand in between her breasts for an additional temptation to give in. "You can tell me now and I'll pretend like I didn't hear you." She smirked.
Layla smacked her forehead once she remembered what she had gone there for in the first place. "Uuuhhh..." She looked back at the direction of the diner, then to Zekke, then to the time. "I-I have an hour break, so I'm sure I can help you. After all, I can show my appreciation of the tip you so generously gifted me with." She smiled at him. "It won't take long... I hope..." She bit her plump lips as she helped push the motorcycle up the hill.
"I wish I could tell you around what time you guys actually met." Levi shrugged. "You sound like you're pretty excited to meet her now." He joked. "I hope you like get around to liking the cold before you meet her."
Macross continued on her way pass people, excusing herself when she found herself stepping in someone's way by accident. She even spoke to a few people for a short minute, asking a couple how their day was while waiting for a wagon to pass by in front of them as they exchanged words. They soon parted ways with her continuing straight, going to look for a place to have lunch for a change before she would head back home.
"Alright, whatever you say then Freckles. I just don't want your boss to give ya the jowls like he did this morning." Zekke snickered. "And don't mind the tip. I figured that places like that don't really pay much anyways, so I though that I'd give some good karma away for the day."
Addai couldn't keep his hand from wanting to squeeze one of her breast lightly while it was between them, tempted now but sticking with what he had said. He gave a smirk of his own. "I do not think hints will allw it to remain as much as a surprise as it is now. Aside from that, pretending as if you did not hear it would practically be me telling you."
Oh, can't wait for Rosemary to kill Macross and her children XD এক মাস 1 আগে
I mean, he probably wasn't until আপনি specified. So..... Sorry, Jade. I can't stop him now এক মাস 1 আগে
I'll let আপনি keep wondering XD এক মাস 1 আগে
Aw, she's one of those slow to warm up types, huh? *Oswald leaned against his chair at the thought *I don't doubt it, what with you saying she's a noble. They are the stuck up types. Though, with my.... disagreements for nobles, I wonder why'd she be interested in me. Must by that royal blood I have
"I told you my name was Layla." She rolled her eyes softly at his nickname, continuing to push with surprisingly great strength from her toned body. "Then I hope I can be the repaying good karma by helping you fix this bike. It would be a shame if a beauty like this isn't worked on." Layla gave him an effort of a smile. "And hopefully you're not putting this vehicle through things it's not supposed to do." She added in case he was doing so.
Zealia allowed his hand to venture on her soft globes, pressuring his down so he could squeeze one of them. Her brow raised some at what he said, but she simply tilted her head and used her index and middle finger as walking legs across his arm and chest. "Aaand, you don't suppose there is any way I can get this information out of you?" She said, the walking 'legs' pausing when it reached his lower abdomen.
"NANA!!!"
Helga yelped at the familiar voice she heard from behind as she hurried across the streets. She stopped before she was able to cross another one, quickly turning to view her grandchild who eagerly followed her with a bright smile.
Tanis hopped on his tail towards her, it hidden by the long cloak he wore. "Nana! Where were you? I waz lewking for yu everywhere!!!" He hugged her thigh, putting aside the books he brought from his realm. "Mama gave me a potion to visit you!" He snuggled against her pants.
Helga's eyes shot open, and she began to panic now that she had a child to take care of after suddenly bumping into Macross.
"...N-Nana? Are yu alwight?" His hood fell from his head when he looked up at her.
Helga covered her face momentarily as she debated on what to do. And when she looked down, she pictured Tanis without a head and his limbs twisted inside out. Not real, not real, not real!!! She had to remind herself. "....y-y-yes! y-yes, I f-fine!" She suddenly picked him up and held him closely almost as if to hide him.
Tanis giggled, making himself comfortable within her embrace. "Nana, where we going?" His long ears twitched.
Macross eventually went and found herself a place that prepared a nice cuisine of tom yum soup, sticky rice, and larb. She didn't mind setting her groceries down onto the floor while she enjoyed her second meal of the day, thinking about what her son was up to or perhaps if her daughter had made it to her destination yet. There of what she would do if she got home, and if perhaps she would get in contact with a few of her old friends to see what they were up to. After all, with how long she had been around and with things becoming calmer throughout the years, she had many that were still around, and in many different places.
She thought of perhaps partaking in a housewarming party that she had been invited to, or a necromancer's wedding. There were so many things that she could do nowadays, and she was happy knowing that she could enjoy them thoroughly.
"Alright then, Layla, " Zekke rolled his eyes. "And no, I didn't forget it by the way." He said, reaching over to the seat of the motorcycle. "But me? Doing something I'm not supposed to be with this? I mean...depends on what's not to do with it if you ask me." He gave a little shrug. "But this beauty hasn't been looking to good as of lately. She's not in the best of conditions right now. Not yet, at least."
Addai took in a deep breath to catch himself before he began to become aroused. "Luckily, not at this moment." He said, glad that he could say that with them being on a train. "So that means you will just have to wait until we reach our destination after we reach the cruise that will take us there."
"No, I mean like literally, the cold. She's from the north, so she likes cold places more than anything. Which is probably where you might run into her. Probably." He said. "And judging how she explained how you two met...uh...I think I'll say "slow to warm" might be somewhat of a way to describe her." He said, scratching the back of his head.
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Breadcrumb #247
July 04, 2017 by Bob Raymonda
BOB RAYMONDA
Wanda June’s journey from the castle down to the planet was an emotionally calamitous one, to say the least. The air, though breathable, felt heavy around her and filled her lungs so quickly that it became much harder to regulate her heartbeat. Especially now, as she plummeted toward the surface, a place that had never seemed more than a flimsy concept to her.
During her many decades ruling over Windfall City, Wanda June had done little outside of her home. She was a complete and utter shut in, save for her yearly visit to the lavish amphitheater at the top of the East Tower. The poor East Tower. It was always Wanda June’s favorite, and despite the fact that it was the only one she’d ever step foot on, she felt justified in her opinion. And why shouldn’t she? The people of this city had once worshiped her as both their Queen and their God. She wasn’t used to being told that she was anything but right.
That is until they showed up and ruined everything. Those other ones, with their vast warships, had reduced the East Tower to rubble, and for what? Just so that they could take control of her city and force its still-living inhabitants to rebuild once again? It was all so unfair. And the nasty things her people called her after it they’d shown up as if she was somehow responsible it all? Despicable.
She fell much slower than she had anticipated, though she assumed that was due in part to her environmental suit. In the instructional videos she’d watched exhaustively as a child, a descent was a much quicker affair. People like her would don one of these outfits, fly out from a hovering space ship, and collide with the surface of a planet at such a violent, exciting pace. Connecting with the ground from a great height had looked exhilarating, and she had forever longed to do so herself. But Tin-Man had warned that her fate outside the castle in the clouds remained uncertain. Had urged her to take solace in the locals’ reverence of her and remain within their shared, yes sometimes cramped quarters. A bubble in the shape of a floating fortress.
But, no, that fervent imagined pace she had dreamed of wasn’t what happened now. Now she fought her way through the thick neon clouds, surrounded by shards of what had been best stained-glass window. Wanda June reached out and tried to grab one of those shards, yelping as it broke her gloved skin. She brought her finger to her mouth, sucking on the cut, tasting the warm copper of her blood, and fumed even more about the unfairness of it all.
Tin-Man, her faithful robot caretaker, had taken to those others quickly. Much too quickly for her tastes. It was as if he’d been forever loyal to them, and not her as she’d been lead to believe. She wouldn’t forget the kindness he had shown her during their years together, but she’d never forgive his betrayal. His subservience to those others, the ones that looked like her with their blotchy pink skin and thread-like hair. Not only had they taken away that feeling of awe the locals had when they stood before her, but they’d stolen Tin-Man: her one true friend.
She wouldn’t forget the kindness he had shown her during their years together, but she’d never forgive his betrayal.
The loneliness was so unbearable that, gathering up all of her courage, she donned the suit, a fragment of her long-dead mother’s days of space exploration. She wasn’t quite sure what she’d do when she finally got that impact she so desired. But she couldn’t go to sleep at night knowing that her people detested her so. She needed to go to them. To show them that they were still in her favor, despite the heavy boots they now found upon their necks. To put things back to the way that they were before those others had ever shown up.
A week ago, Wanda June had overheard Captain Root of her once powerful Wolfpac, speaking to Tin-Man and Corporal Timms from those others about a resistance forming on the surface. Root was confident that he could get it under control if they’d only allow him to do it alone, but Timms, that bitch, said she’d be happy to exterminate the rebels at the press of a button. To eviscerate their home, if only their home weren’t the very sewer and tunnel system built on the foundation of Windfall’s three remaining towers. The conversation was heated and ended with a standstill, but the impending conflict was inevitable.
She must go to them, she told herself then and was still telling herself now as the uncertain pit in her stomach continued to grow. Ten stories from the ground, she remembered what the old equipment instructional videos had taught her. Built into her environmental suit were not only the anti-gravity emitters that slowed her descent but also magnetic boots that should cushion her landing. She only needed to find a way to fold herself and reach the buttons on the bottoms of her feet. She’d practiced this in her quarters, late at night for the past four, but hadn’t thought to factor in the difficulty of pulling it off midair. She depressed them seconds before it would have been too late, but it didn’t prevent her thunderous collision with the East Tower’s rubble.
Wanda, who’s breath was squarely outside herself now, took off the suit’s helmet and let her gray hair tumble out onto her shoulders. Her whole body heaved with sweat and she gasped for air but took a certain amount of solace in the fact that she’d survived the fall.
As if from nowhere, she was surrounded by a horde of rebels wielding an assortment of guns like she’d never seen before. Silently, she reached down to her pocket as the one closest cocked a rifle in her face, halting her movement.
“Not so fast, your highness,” spat the heavily tattooed young woman before her. She was wearing civilian’s clothes, but draped over her back was a makeshift cape made from the repurposed yellow of a Wolfpac guard’s robe.
“If you’d kindly just let me grab something,” whispered Wanda June, gesturing toward her pocket, “you’ll see that I’m here on a show of good faith.”
“String her up! Burn her like they’re burning the rest of us!” shouted someone outside the Queen’s sightline. She cringed at this obvious display of hatred but remained still.
“I may well yet,” promised the woman before her, bringing the muzzle of her rifle even closer to the Queen’s face.
“You know I’d shoot her in the head myself, Kendall, if I could, but we must think rationally here. We can’t kill her,” said their leader, a woman in her thirties with the violet skin of someone from the Western Reaches and tentacles that reached down past her shoulders.
“And why the hell not?” asked the ex-Wolf. Wanda June remembered her now, after hearing her name. The new recruit who’d only a month ago gutted the surface’s criminal syndicate from the inside out was now a hair-trigger away from murdering her.
“Think of the Queen as a bargaining chip,” said the one in the lead, “We’ll need her alive if we hope to have the upper hand.”
Kendall groaned as she shouldered her weapon, but not until she jabbed it into the Queen’s abdomen. Wanda June screamed out, seeing red. She’d never felt true pain in her life, before the second she landed, and here it was repeating itself all over again, only moments later.
“I promise, I’m not here for them,” whimpered Wanda June, as she pulled a white kerchief from her pocket, “I surrender, I relent, I’ll go with you willingly. I only ask for one thing...”
“And what is that, your highness?” asked Kendall sarcastically, staring death into the Queen’s eyes.
“Let me help you stop them,” she whined, spitting a little blood up onto her collar, “Let me help you make things right.”
July 04, 2017 /Bob Raymonda
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An evening with James Cary
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Date: Friday 15th March 2019
Venue: St John the Evangelist, Oulton, Stone, ST15 8UB
Time: 7.00 pm
Cost: £7.00 per ticket (Refreshments available from 6.30 pm)
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Our evening with James Cary will find him talking around his ideas about comedy in the bible. He has recently written a book entitled The Sacred Art of Joking, about how jokes can go horribly wrong, especially in the realm of religion.
The devil may have all the best tunes. But does he have all the best jokes?
Was Jesus funny? Why does religion have to be so serious?
Maybe it doesn’t.
James Carey
Award-winning BBC Comedy writer and stand-up theologian James Cary explains why Christians should be able to take a joke and how the Bible is way funnier than it first appears. Seriously.
James has contributed to BBC shows like Miranda, Another Case of Milton Jones and Newsnight. In ‘The Sacred Art of Joking’, he delves into the Bible and finds that ultimately, the joke’s on us.
James Cary has twenty years’ experience writing all kinds of comedy for BBC, ranging from mainstream hits like Miranda and My Family, and BBC Radio 4 shows like Hut 33 and Another Case of Milton Jones to CBeebies shows like Something Special and Gigglebiz. No stranger to controversy, James co-created Bluestone 42, a sitcom set in bomb disposal unit in Afghanistan.
James hosts a podcast about comedy called Sitcom Geeks and has performed comedy at Spring Harvest, Greenbelt and The Brighton Fringe. He has also appeared on Newsnight (BBC 2), the Today programme (BBC Radio 4) and various BBC news programmes, often talking about comedy and offence.
James is also a Christian, has a degree in Theology and is a member of the General Synod of the Church of England for Bath & Wells. Having written a column for Third Way magazine for over a decade, as well as stage shows The God Particle and A Monk’s Tale, he now co-hosts a podcast about the Church, the Bible and culture with Barry Cooper (Cooper & Cary Have Words).
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« The Talented Mr. Ripley (film) | Main | Notes on a Scandal »
Tuesday, October 28, 2008 at 10:30
There is a style no longer in circulation among our literary works because we no longer wish to merge with eternity. We have come to entertain notions of a beyond as an unknowable consequence of very knowable processes, and the inevitable outcome of billions of years of inevitable outcomes. In principio erat verbum, et verbum erat apud Deum, et Deus erat verbum all sounds very nice, but now we have moved past God – and sometimes it seems like He has returned the favor – and into the much more tenable field of hard science. Our verbs (or words, as verba means both) bestowed upon us by a benevolent Creator who willed the universe into shape have been evicted from their cozy domiciles and replaced with volatile and complicated droids owing their allegiance solely to the latest whims of the latest wizards. These wizards would advise me – if I ever bothered listening to them instead of just humming a happy tune whose melody I cannot quite explain – that our life is simply a collection of detail and we are simply collectors. The best observers are those who leave no stone unturned, no star unnamed, no fossil uncarbondated, and no deity unblasphemed. Come now, ignoramus, who could be smarter than we are? After all, we've almost got everything figured out except where we came from and where we go, if anywhere. All the intermediary steps, however, are as crystal clear as the ice on the planet billions of miles away that we can make out at times but which has to exist because, unlike our eyes, our machines are manmade and can be trusted to the ultimate degree. When has our reason ever failed us? Only, I suppose, all those centuries as conspiring sacerdotal agents blinded us, piling up lie after lie so that we remain enslaved to their evil and all-encompassing plan. Yet we have finally broken free. Now when we gaze upon nature's contours, all we see is a composite of data, molecules, light particles, atoms, quarks, and the potpourri and whatever other blandishments time has coaxed out of that endless and unswerving metal rod, evolution. With this fact now happily proven, let us rejoice and examine this superb novel.
The site of our novel's events is a place near the border of two large, powerful and mysterious countries. One of them has since crumbled beneath the falsehoods of its imposed doctrines; the other, once party to those same doctrines, has growled and beaten its chest and moved on to the much more justifiable plan of unbridled capitalism, albeit with a few political restrictions. And as is appropriate given the host country's dimensions, the titular invitation involves fifteen dignitaries from around our lonely planet, a motley assortment of men of power: two preachers from Harlem, one of whom turns out to be an actor; another American who scribbles indignant notes as the speakers hold forth; a priest from the local church who serves as a sort of co-host; military representatives from more than one country; a Russian, "the Nero of cinema," now a naturalized subject of the British queen; and the ostensible master of ceremonies, a man "with the massive head of a mountain dweller." What they talk about is, apart from the occasional aside, never expressed directly; instead, they are described in detail which the average reader will find intolerable. Take, for example, the approach to the invitation site:
Now the procession of heavy cars preceded by the police car crossed through the town (and the town rose from the steppe, whose language was once Chinese, then Chinese transcribed in Latin characters, then Chinese transcribed into Cyrillic characters; where without counting a good twenty languages – languages of the sons of camel drivers, of Mongol horsemen, of inhabitants descended from those monstrous mountains, of caravaning Tartars, Afghans, Kyrgyz, Turkmens, Uzbeks, ancient slaves, newly arrived peoples ... there was even, the interpreter said, a German colony – two official languages were now spoken, both in Cyrillic characters) which sixty years ago had been nothing more than a simple village (or maybe not even that: a stopover, a point at the end of the endless steppes and before the passage to those terrifying mountains) and which now had a population of almost one million people of all races.
Those races are then qualified, and followed by other links in a chain of qualifications which extends through many pages and an incredible range of sensory perceptions. We are dealing with the repetitions and surfaces of a very particular brand of writing, one that came about and shook its readers shortly after the Second World War and which has lost some of its reputation by virtue of our readily shrinking attention spans. True enough, without a brilliant architect behind its towers the nouveau roman can become a dreary exercise in concatenation; at its best, however, it is as close as literature can get to painting its own picture. No image exists without the wealth of otherness in its vicinity; and no person can be an island unto himself without the tidal wave of sensation from the millions of other living beings breathing his air and distracting him from the solipsistic extremes to which, we are told, he is naturally prone.
As opposed to other proponents within the movement (with the notable exception of this recently deceased French writer, its greatest representative), Simon is much more cohesive and allegorical than one would first imagine. Yes, his world is fractured along the aleatory whims of association, proximity and pure chance. But from among these pieces he fashions an alternative reality that is richer than that of his contemporaries or, for that matter, the silly ramblings of so many modern writers who eschew plot in favor of an old shoebox of scattered observations that are neither interesting nor artistic. On every page Simon's artistry prevents him from slipping into such easy victories of style. His parenthetical commentary (the second word of the novel is already trapped within its bubble) often supersedes the plain text before and after it, and we come to see that it is the circumjacent detail that outranks the prime focus. Even a funeral can seem fragmented along the numerous storylines that it obliges to intersect:
(... the bust of the new General Secretary now cut off by the parapet at the top of the cube of red marble at that place where, before him, so many old men were kept, surrounded by the highest dignitaries with, to his immediate left, looking at him, a man with a fur hat atop a pensive face, devastated, akin perhaps to an old and tired wolf (maybe not old exactly, just devastated; maybe not interested, just pensive), whereas the new General Secretary had his head uncovered, with his baldness, his surprisingly young almost doll-like features, scrutinized and evaluated by millions of men, women, diplomats, journalists, and creators of theories) ... and now, seated at the end of that table which so resembled the table of some dull administrative board of some joint stock company or perhaps didn't, or that of an international bank or perhaps not that of an international bank, with its tray waxed like a mirror, its glasses and bottles of mineral water, in that room of bare walls without a single portrait, neither of his predecessors nor of him.
There is so much to admire about this passage and countless others, all perfectly waxed and reflecting each and every other page like a perverse hall of mirrors. Simon is read less than he should be precisely because we have grown allergic to longer paragraphs (such as the book-long masterpieces of this Austrian writer) and prefer our literature like our scotch: neat and plain. But then again, the truth is rarely as neat or plain as we might hope.
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US Senate Passes Anti-Hezbollah Bills
TEHRAN (Press Shia) – The US Senate approved two bills that clear the way for new sanctions against the Lebanese resistance movement, Hezbollah.
The two bills were unanimously passed with bipartisan support on Friday, sending the “Hezbollah International Financing Prevention Amendments Act of 2017” (HIFPAA) and the “STOP Using Human Shields Act” (aka STOP) to US President Donald Trump’s desk for being signed into law.
The two bills prepare the ground for fresh sanctions against Hezbollah.
HIFPAA would detect the foreign individuals and companies that voluntarily provide financial, material or technological support to Hezbollah. It also targets Hezbollah-controlled social and financial organizations.
The human shields prevention act would also impose sanctions on Hezbollah, Hamas, al-Qaeda and the groups that the US accuses of using civilians as human shields in conflicts.
Tyler Stapleton, deputy director of congressional relations at the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, told The National that unanimous support for the bills across party lines shows where Congress stands on Hezbollah.
“It means that every Senator thinks targeting Hezbollah's financing is a good policy objective and that sanctioning countries that do business with Hezbollah is worth pursuing,” he said.
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Lindsay 'befriends murderers'
While Lindsay languishes in a prison cell, her mum has been very busy flying the Lohan banner. Dina Lohan was interviewed on America's 'The Today Show' insisting that LiLo has been persecuted, and has also befriended 'alleged murders' during her time in the clink.
According to The NY Post, Dina told her interrogator, 'We have a new judge on the case. I think she went overboard and played serious hardball with Lindsay. She was in [court] for missing a couple of classes ... the judge put her in serious lockdown for two weeks with alleged murderers, she's become friends with a lot of them.'
Dina also claimed that Lindsay's travails have certainly not put her off sending another child into showbiz, 'As a parent, you have to let them go out a little bit -- I think every child goes through a lot of different things. Lindsay, her life is magnified. I really think she's under a microscope. In the old days, Julia Roberts and those girls didn't have someone following them and their relationships -- cheating on this one and that one. She can't even go to a Starbucks without 12 cars following us. It's not fair. I wouldn't stop them. In fact, I'm producing a film my son Michael will star in. I'm not pushing them [into acting], they're pushing me.'
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Celebrity Scandal,
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lindsay lohan jail,
dina lohan interview today show
How Lo can you go?
Oh, the Lind-sanity...
Li-low
'She's in with the killers'
Ronson rides to the rescue
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No nookie for English footie team
Cometh the hour, cometh the stories about England footballers being denied sex. Anyone would think that we were a prudish, self-conscious nation, not one that revels in the sexual foibles and slip ups of our celebrities. Fabio Capello has banned his World Cup squad from seeing their womenfolk - and will lift restrictions for one day after each game.
According to the Guardian (if it's in a broadsheet it must be true), not all managers believe in the 'no nookie' rule. The official doctor for the Argentinian team maintains that, 'Sex is a normal part of social life and is not a problem. The disadvantages are when it is with someone who is not a stable partner or when the player should be resting.' It is very important, apparently, that 'the action should not reverberate in the legs of the players.'
So it's not 'when', but 'how' that's the, ahem, crux of the matter...
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A brave man...
Cheryl's Messi tango invite
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Thomas Rhett Scores Second No. 1 On Billboard 200 Albums Chart With ‘Center Point Road’
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Thomas Rhett scored his second No. 1 album on the Billboard 200 as Center Point Road debuted at the top of the charts. Center Point Road was released on May 31 and marks the first country album
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Home / Economy / Trump cancels pay raise federal workers were due in January
Trump cancels pay raise federal workers were due in January
Darrel Walker | Monday, September 03, 2018
President Donald Trump says federal employees shouldn’t get a raise in 2019
It's not clear if Trump would approve a budget that includes the pay increase; the White House has not issued a formal veto threat of the Senate's bill.
"We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets can not sustain such increases".
"How about we start with scaling back and paying for the tax cuts and spending bill, which together will add $400 billion to next year's deficit, alone", wrote Marc Goldwein of the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget. The letter did not estimate the overall savings, though it said $25 billion would be saved in a related move canceling raises that are based on the workers' location.
The American Federation of Government Employees, a union for federal workers, is now calling on the House to pass a similar measure.
Additional notes on Josh Donaldson trade
Donaldson ends his Blue Jays tenure with 116 home runs and a.281/.383/.548 batting line over four seasons. Talks did not progress, however, and Donaldson instead entered his free agent year without a contract.
Federal workers rely on an old government formula to determine what their automatic pay raise will be each year. Mark Warner, D-Va., called it "the latest attack in the Trump Administration's war on federal employees".
While Trump has yet to propose reducing spending on big-ticket items such as defense or entitlements, he is trying to trim the decicit by changing how federal employees are paid.
Representative Anthony Brown, D-Maryland, said he plans to work reinstate a pay raise for civilian federal workers when lawmakers return to Capitol Hill in September.
"Federal employees have had their pay and benefits cut by over $200 billion since 2011, and they are earning almost 5 percent less today than they did at the start of the decade", said J. David Cox Sr., national president of the American Federation of Government Employees, the largest union representing federal workers. That means the law is adding about $190 billion a year to the deficit.
European Union intends to cancel daylight-savings time
Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer will oversee on the issue was not engaged in formal negotiations. It is reported by the European true with reference to Deutsche Welle .
Donald Trump has canceled a planned pay raise for federal workers, CNN reports.
Under President Barack Obama, federal pay was frozen between 2011 and 2013 as the economy recovered from the Great Recession, and no president has allowed full locality pay increases to take effect, according to Bloomberg. We must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets can not sustain such increases. "In light of our nation's fiscal situation, federal employee pay must be performance-based, and aligned strategically toward recruiting, retaining, and rewarding high-performing federal employees and those with critical skill sets".
There may be some pay raises on a performance basis, but across-the-board increases won't happen, Trump said. "These alternative pay plan decisions will not materially affect our ability to attract and retain a well-qualified Federal workforce".
J. David Cox, president of AFGE, said the Senate bill "would help prevent workers from falling further behind next year and help federal agencies recruit and retain the high-caliber workforce that the public expects and deserves".
California lawmakers pass strict 'net neutrality' bill
Going into the legislative session this week, it was unclear whether the measure would get 41 votes, the minimum required to pass. After a hard-fought battle, California's net neutrality bill is now all but certain to make it to the finish line that is Gov.
The adjustments described above shall take effect on the first day of the first applicable pay period beginning on or after January 1, 2019.
Paul Manafort associate pleads guilty, agrees to cooperate with Mueller investigation
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Huawei Mate 20 Lite announced with 6.3-inch display for £379
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English Premier League Report: Cardiff City v Arsenal 02 September 2018
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Spurs star Son avoids national service
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Chelsea fans made an exciting observation about Mateo Kovacic in Bournemouth win
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This has been the best year of my career: Modric
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Halle Berry just reacted to Prince Harry's bedroom poster of her
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Pakistani who threatened to kill Geert Wilders visited anti-Israel event
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Shattered Glass Ceiling For CEO Gray
Shattered ceiling for CEO Gray
By ROBERT LEE LONG
Community Editor
Published: Friday, January 30, 2015 1:42 PM CST
For LeAnn Gray, CEO of DeSoto Technology Group, an emerging technology support company with more than 200 clients, let there be no mistake about it.
Gray is the CEO and there is a sign on her desk that greets clients when they sit down in the company’s headquarters on Getwell Road in Southaven.
“I Own the Company and He Works For Me,” the sign reads.
The Memphis native began a career in the banking industry, took a detour to the “Happiest Place on Earth” as a Walt Disney employee, and ended up owning her own company.
“To me, the message I would like to send is that you as a woman can dream,” Gray said. “It will take work and lots of sacrifice. It’s exhausting at times but it’s also rewarding.”
She and her husband Chris Gray have a blended family of five children.
DeSoto Technology Group, an 11-year-old company, was launched in the couple’s upstairs room.
The company’s headquarters has moved twice and the business has grown from the ground floor up.
“In the early days our computer techs were literally sitting on the floor and they were stacked one on another,” Gray said. “Sometimes, we had to make time for our children by eating dinner together at the office. My kids were all in their teens when the business started taking off. There were a lot of sacrifices to be made. It’s still important to me that my kids see their parents work hard.”
A decade later, the company boasts partnerships with technology giants Microsoft and Sonic Wall and telecommunications companies like Avaya and Panasonic.
Gray said the world her children and later generations are finding themselves becoming a part of is truly different than the world that she grew up in.
“The world my children live in is driven by technology,” Gray said.
Oddly enough, it was the human touch that gave Gray keen instincts on building business relationships.
Although she grew up in Memphis, Gray spent time spending summers in the Mississippi Delta — more specifically in Indianola, the birthplace of the blues and the home of blues legend B.B. King.
Her mother, Helen Cross, was a true Delta matriarch, who instilled in her children a sense of tradition and building lasting friendships and relationships.
“I credit her with telling me never to give up — to keep pushing and do more,” Gray said.
Gray’s strength lies in human resources and it’s in that realm where she made her mark.
She graduated from Memphis Preparatory School and studied at several two-year community colleges, before stints at jobs in the Florida Keys and Palm Beach, Fla., before moving back to Memphis.
Gray began a career in the banking industry with Commerce Union Bank.
“I took a summer job with hopes that it would turn into something,” Gray said. The year was 1987.
Subsequently, Gray would go on to spend more than 15 years working for the Walt Disney company in the distribution end of the business, which led to extensive knowledge in the e-commerce industry.
Around 2004, her husband Chris Gray was working at United Stationers in Memphis, which is a supplier to Staples and Office Max.
“They were going through some changes,” Gray said. “I was still working in my corporate role at Disney.”
Gray, a self-described visionary, said she saw that she wanted to pursue the dream of owning her own company “down the road.”
She never dreamed it would be a technology support company although she is technologically savvy to a certain extent.
Using her human resources skills and good business sense, Gray would hire individuals who were experts in that field.
“I’m probably the least tekkie person that I know but what I do know is how to manage people and tackle problems,” Gray said.
Her husband Chris was working the third shift and the couple’s schedules were often conflicting.
To spend more time together, they both decided they might want to combine professional interests.
“Chris has always had an interest in computers,” Gray said. “I just like to fix people’s stuff. We ultimately ended up making the decision to try something together. I knew that Disney was in the process of selling off the Disney stores.”
Gray received her “buy-out package” and reinvested that capital in her own start-up company.
“Very quickly, it changed from being a little fix-it company to partnering with Microsoft and Sonic Wall,” Gray said.
Gray said her company can help clients with video-conferencing, cabling, both voice and data, access control, web site design and network applications and support.
“We don’t develop software but we support and troubleshoot,” Gray said. “We are starting to look at app development.”
Being connected to the wider world is “critically important,” according to Gray.
“It’s all about building relationships,” Gray said.
Robert Lee Long is Community Editor for the DeSoto Times-Tribune. He may be contacted atrlong@desototimestribune.com or at 662-429-6397, Ext. 252
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The Tent and the City
By faith he [Abraham] sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise: for he looked for a city which hath foundations--Heb 11:9-10
The Unfaltering Faith of Abraham
In this great chapter, the roll call of the heroes, Abraham occupies a very honorable place. His life was so pre-eminently one of faith in God that in this muster of the faithful that was inevitable. There have been men who in some great hour of life or death have risen to a sublime heroism of trust. There have been others whose faith has been most notable in the quiet tenor of uneventful days. But the faith of Abraham did not fail nor falter when he was commanded to sacrifice his son; it rarely deserted him in the days which had no history as he rose and toiled and slumbered in his tent; and it is this inclusiveness--this reach from the least to the greatest--which makes the faith of Abraham unique. Never forget that the faith which we profess should dominate us as Abraham was dominated. That man is not to be reckoned a religious man whose religion is seen only in a few shining hours. Like the glow of health which spreads through a man's whole being, it must show itself in every deed and every day. The temple may manifest it, but so must the tent.
Abraham, then, was a dweller in a tent: that fact had made a deep impression on the writer, and immediately he tells us the secret of that tent-life--he looked for a city whose builder and maker is God. The tent and the city, then: that is my theme. What thought does that sharp antithesis suggest? I shall group what I wish to say under these heads. First, it is the tent which makes the city precious. Second, it is the city which explains the tent.
The Tent Makes the City Precious
First, then, it is the tent which makes the city precious. We see at a glance that it was so with Abraham. It was the very insecurity of that tent-life, the isolation of it and its thousand perils, that made the dream of a city so infinitely sweet. Had Abraham spent ail his days within strong wails he would never have known the power of that ideal. Mingling with other men in crowded thoroughfares and sharing in the security of numbers, life would have been too rich, too full, too safe, to leave any place or power for this vision. But life in the tent left room and verge enough. What could be frailer than that covering of skin which shook and flapped at every wandering breeze? How it strained when the blast from the hills swept down on it! How the lashing rain in the dark night would soak it! It is in such surroundings, perilous, lonely, comfortless, that men begin to dream about a city. That is the meaning of God's treatment of Abraham. That is why God housed him in a tent. It was not to harden him nor yet to crush his pride; it was to waken him to the worth of the ideal. It took the tent so fragile and unstable, so lightly rooted, so easily overswept, to make God's promise and prospect of a city a very precious thing to Abraham.
I cannot help but think that as God dealt with Abraham, so does He deal in providence with us all. There is a flood of light poured on life's darker aspects for me when I remember the city and the tent. After all, the important thing is not what we live in; the supremely important thing is what we look for. It is not my actual achievement which is vital; it is the purpose, the aim, the direction of my life. If life is to be redeemed from sense and time and brought under the powers that are eternal, the eyes must be opened somehow to God's city. And how shall I open them? says the Almighty. How shall I make the unseen city precious? The answer to that lies in the tent of Abraham--so insecure, so perilous and so frail. From which I learn that much of life's harder discipline, and many a dark hour that men are called to, is given to humanity by Abraham's God that hearts may begin to hunger for the city.
For example think of sickness in that light. Is it not often the tent that makes the city precious? A man must be freely endowed and finely strung if perfect health does not dull his vision a little. When morning by morning through unbroken years a man has no pain, no sufferings, no frailty--it is strange if there are not some stars across the sky to which the perpetual sunshine does not blind him. But sooner or later to most men there comes sickness; they are sent out like Abraham into the lonely tent. They waken at night to feel their insecurity: another blast and the tent may be in ruins. And who does not know when such hours have come and gone how the eyes have been opened to a thousand things? Springtime is sweeter and the joys of each day; there is not a bird in the tree that does not sing with richer music. Home is more precious, and the play of children, and the love we leaned on far too little once. There is not a promise of God that does not have new meaning; there is not a prayer that is not somehow more real. We did not want that tent-life of the sickroom: we did not choose it; it seemed an interruption. We thought it hard that in the midst of activity should come "the blind fury with the abhorred shears." But for us as for Abraham, it was purposed after ail; and somehow the tent has made the city precious.
In the same light also we may look on death. For we must never forget that death is more than a tragedy. It is shrouded in unutterable loss, yet in the midst of the loss God has implanted gain. There is nothing in the world so cruel as death, nothing so pitiless or so remorseless. It fills the heart with a loneliness far deeper than that of the solitary tent of Abraham. Yet how many homes have been purified by death! How many hearts that once were utterly worldly have been taught to think of heaven through bereavement! There are some things that are never seen so clearly as when they are seen through the sad veil of tears. Death has made tender every human tie; death has made possible the sweetest memories; like the darkened glass through which we can look at the sun, the shadow of death has given us the power of vision. It is impossible to say how self-centered we had been, how selfish, how blind to the unseen and eternal, had the world never known the mystery of death. It is the tent, then, which has made the city precious. It is the frailty, the insecurity, the loneliness that have turned men's hearts to the abiding things. Like Abraham we are led out to a strange land with only a few frail cords to hold our dwellings until the city of God, deep-founded and eternal, never to be shaken and never overthrown, becomes infinitely attractive to the heart.
Nor can I leave this subject without pointing out to you how it bears evangelically upon the fact of sin. Many a man is brought to see his need of Christ by the same experience as was vouchsafed to Abraham. God has a hundred ways of making Christ Jesus precious. The avenues to the feet of the Savior are innumerable. There is nothing more dangerous than to teach that in coming to Christ all men must have the same uniform experience. Often it is to all that is best in us that Christ appeals; it is on our highest and best side that Christ approaches: we look for a Savior and we recognize Him because we are hungering and thirsting after righteousness. But often --remember--it is the very opposite; it is not our best but our worst that makes the Savior precious. God leads us to Christ not by our brightest hopes, but by deepening in our hearts the sense of sin. Never did David so feel his need of God as when he cried, "Against Thee, Thee only, have I sinned." Convicted of his guilt and conscious of his wickedness, God in that hour became most precious. And so in us when the old satisfaction goes, when we feel our unworthiness and when we cry "Unclean, unclean "--in that very moment are we ready to see Christ as infinitely fairer than we ever dreamed. We are made lonely that we may need His fellowship. We are shown our helplessness that we may see His power. We are taught by the Spirit of God how worthless is our righteousness that our eyes may be opened to the righteousness of Christ. Like Abraham, we are made to dwell in tents--ragged, unsightly, insecure, and lonely--but it is the tent which makes the city precious.
The City Explains the Tent
But I pass on now, and in the second place: it is the city which explains the tent. We could never have understood the life of Abraham, never have rightly appreciated his behavior, if the Bible had not told us-the hope that was in his heart--he looked for a city whose builder and maker is God. Abraham was a very wealthy man and there was nothing to prevent him building a home in Canaan. Had he raised a palace for himself there and had he fortified it, it would have seemed a perfectly natural thing to do. He had been bred in the country of Chaldaea where walls were mighty and castles were magnificent; towers, fortresses, buttresses, castellations--on such things had he feasted his boyish eyes. Doubtless he hoped as many a boy has done for the day when he should build a castle for himself. But the day comes when he is free to do it, and yet never one stone is laid upon another. He is rich and powerful, let him build his fortress now. But he doesn't give it a thought; he dwells in tents. And you will never understand that tent, never know why Abraham chose it, until you are told the secret of his heart. Others might dwell in tents because they were lazy. Others might dwell in tents because they were misers. Others might dwell in tents because they were restless and had the spirit of wandering in their blood. But the conduct of Abraham is not to be explained so: it is his vision which interprets it. You learn the secret of the tent when you remember that he looked for a city whose builder and maker is God.
Now doesn't this suggest to us a caution when we are tempted to be rash in judgment? I am amazed at the rash and foolish way in which we pass judgments on each other. Of our brother's hidden life we know so little, of the ideals that are haunting him we are so ignorant--yet we look at the tent he lives in and we judge him by it as if we could read the meaning of the thing. But you may depend upon it that you will never know a man until you know the hopes which animate him. You may think that the tent proclaims the man a sluggard, but in the sight of God it may seal him as a saint. And it is because we are ignorant of the secret of our brother and of all that is stirring and calling in his heart that so often we judge him falsely.
Here for example is a young man with what we call a strong artistic temperament. And nothing will satisfy him but to be an artist; by night and by day he dreams of little else. Everyone tries to dissuade him from that calling: it is painted to him in the blackest colors; he is warned of the disappointment he will meet with; but it is all useless, he will not give it up. Then come long years of hardship--perhaps starvation--and men smile at him and say, "What a fool he was! If he had only become a partner in his father's business, how very comfortable he might have been!" But the heaven-born artist is looking for a city, he is haunted by the vision of ideal beauty: the world is a palace to him, it is full of joy, he can see all the stars from the door of his poor tent. Men pity him and count up what he has forfeited, but he is a thousand times richer than the men who pity him. They cannot understand why he is radiant, for it takes the city to explain the tent.
Or here is a young woman who instead of living idly, resolves to be of some service while she can. She has been eating her heart out with having nothing to do, but now she has been awakened by the grace of God. Once the puzzle was how to kill time; now the problem is how to expand it. There is so much to do, so many lives to help, so many services of all kinds to render. Deliberately she forsakes much that was sweet, dwelling in tabernacles with the heirs of the same promise. She is often weary visiting the poor for life is a sterner thing than she had dreamed. And her old friends, perhaps her own sisters and brothers, cannot understand this change at all. But her eyes have been opened--that is the reason--she is looking for a city that hath foundations now. She has felt the constraining power of the love of Christ. That has become her secret and her song. It is the Spirit of Jesus, welcomed to her heart, which interprets the lowly service of the life. It takes the city to explain the tent.
Brethren and sisters, it makes all the difference in the world what you and I are looking for. It is by what our hearts are set on and by what our thoughts are given to that the tent we dwell in is glorified or cursed. In the roomiest mansion a man may still be miserable if there is nothing but that dwelling in his heart. In the poorest tent a man may still be happy if he looks for a city where is the love of God. I earnestly entreat of you to look to God, to fix your gaze on the Lord Jesus Christ, to lift up your hearts to Him continually, to say, "O Lamb of God, I come." That was the secret of the peace of Abraham. That will make any tent become a temple. We can do much, bear more, and be amazingly happy when our life is hid with Christ in God.
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14-3-3 proteins were originally discovered as a family of proteins that are highly expressed in the brain. Through interactions with a multitude of binding partners, 14-3-3 proteins impact many aspects of brain function including neural signaling, neuronal development and neuroprotection. Although much remains to be learned and understood, 14-3-3 proteins have been implicated in a variety of neurological disorders based on evidence from both clinical and laboratory studies. Here we will...
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Surface expression of voltage-gated Ca(2+) (Cav) channels is important for their function in calcium homeostasis in the physiology of excitable cells, but whether or not and how the α1 pore-forming subunits of Cav channels are trafficked to plasma membrane in the absence of the known Cav auxiliary subunits, β and α2δ, remains mysterious. Here we showed that 14-3-3 proteins promoted functional surface expression of the Cav2.2 α1B channel in transfected tsA-201 cells in the absence of any known...
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Atomic structures of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-DJ, alone and in complex with fondaparinux, have been determined by cryoelectron microscopy at 3 angstrom resolution. The gene therapy vector, AAV-DJ, is a hybrid of natural serotypes that was previously derived by directed evolution, selecting for hepatocyte entry and resistance to neutralization by human serum. The structure of AAV-DJ differs from that of parental serotypes in two regions where neutralizing antibodies bind, so immune escape...
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The 2.8 Å Electron Microscopy Structure of Adeno-Associated Virus-DJ Bound by a Heparinoid Pentasaccharide.
Xie, Qing, Spear, John M, Noble, Alex J, Sousa, Duncan R, Meyer, Nancy L, Davulcu, Omar, Zhang, Fuming, Linhardt, Robert J, Stagg, Scott M, Chapman, Michael S
Atomic structures of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-DJ, alone and in complex with fondaparinux, have been determined by cryoelectron microscopy at 3 Å resolution. The gene therapy vector, AAV-DJ, is a hybrid of natural serotypes that was previously derived by directed evolution, selecting for hepatocyte entry and resistance to neutralization by human serum. The structure of AAV-DJ differs from that of parental serotypes in two regions where neutralizing antibodies bind, so immune escape appears...
Show moreAtomic structures of adeno-associated virus (AAV)-DJ, alone and in complex with fondaparinux, have been determined by cryoelectron microscopy at 3 Å resolution. The gene therapy vector, AAV-DJ, is a hybrid of natural serotypes that was previously derived by directed evolution, selecting for hepatocyte entry and resistance to neutralization by human serum. The structure of AAV-DJ differs from that of parental serotypes in two regions where neutralizing antibodies bind, so immune escape appears to have been the primary driver of AAV-DJ's directed evolution. Fondaparinux is an analog of cell surface heparan sulfate to which several AAVs bind during entry. Fondaparinux interacts with viral arginines at a known heparin binding site, without the large conformational changes whose presence was controversial in low-resolution imaging of AAV2-heparin complexes. The glycan density suggests multi-modal binding that could accommodate sequence variation and multivalent binding along a glycan polymer, consistent with a role in attachment, prior to more specific interactions with a receptor protein mediating entry.
FSU_pmch_28480299, 10.1016/j.omtm.2017.02.004, PMC5415311, 28480299, 28480299, S2329-0501(17)30044-X
3'-UTR and microRNA-24 regulate circadian rhythms by repressing PERIOD2 protein accumulation.
Yoo, Seung-Hee, Kojima, Shihoko, Shimomura, Kazuhiro, Koike, Nobuya, Buhr, Ethan D, Furukawa, Tadashi, Ko, Caroline H, Gloston, Gabrielle, Ayoub, Christopher, Nohara, Kazunari,...
Show moreYoo, Seung-Hee, Kojima, Shihoko, Shimomura, Kazuhiro, Koike, Nobuya, Buhr, Ethan D, Furukawa, Tadashi, Ko, Caroline H, Gloston, Gabrielle, Ayoub, Christopher, Nohara, Kazunari, Reyes, Bryan A, Tsuchiya, Yoshiki, Yoo, Ook-Joon, Yagita, Kazuhiro, Lee, Choogon, Chen, Zheng, Yamazaki, Shin, Green, Carla B, Takahashi, Joseph S
We previously created two PER2::LUCIFERASE (PER2::LUC) circadian reporter knockin mice that differ only in the 3'-UTR region: , which retains the endogenous 3'-UTR and , where the endogenous 3'-UTR was replaced by an SV40 late poly(A) signal. To delineate the in vivo functions of 3'-UTR, we analyzed circadian rhythms of mice. Interestingly, mice displayed more than threefold stronger amplitude in bioluminescence rhythms than mice, and also exhibited lengthened free-running periods (∼24.0 h),...
Show moreWe previously created two PER2::LUCIFERASE (PER2::LUC) circadian reporter knockin mice that differ only in the 3'-UTR region: , which retains the endogenous 3'-UTR and , where the endogenous 3'-UTR was replaced by an SV40 late poly(A) signal. To delineate the in vivo functions of 3'-UTR, we analyzed circadian rhythms of mice. Interestingly, mice displayed more than threefold stronger amplitude in bioluminescence rhythms than mice, and also exhibited lengthened free-running periods (∼24.0 h), greater phase delays following light pulse, and enhanced temperature compensation relative to Analysis of the 3'-UTR sequence revealed that miR-24, and to a lesser degree miR-30, suppressed PER2 protein translation, and the reversal of this inhibition in augmented PER2::LUC protein level and oscillatory amplitude. Interestingly, mRNA and protein oscillatory amplitude as well as CRY1 protein oscillation were increased in mice, suggesting rhythmic overexpression of PER2 enhances expression of and other core clock genes. Together, these studies provide important mechanistic insights into the regulatory roles of 3'-UTR, miR-24, and PER2 in expression and core clock function.
Absence Of Dirac States In Baznbi2 Induced By Spin-orbit Coupling.
Ren, Weijun, Wang, Aifeng, Graf, D., Liu, Yu, Zhang, Zhidong, Yin, Wei-Guo, Petrovic, C.
We report magnetotransport properties of BaZnBi2 single crystals. Whereas electronic structure features Dirac states, such states are removed from the Fermi level by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and consequently electronic transport is dominated by the small hole and electron pockets. Our results are consistent with not only three-dimensional, but also with quasi-two-dimensional portions of the Fermi surface. The SOC-induced gap in Dirac states is much larger when compared to isostructural...
Show moreWe report magnetotransport properties of BaZnBi2 single crystals. Whereas electronic structure features Dirac states, such states are removed from the Fermi level by spin-orbit coupling (SOC) and consequently electronic transport is dominated by the small hole and electron pockets. Our results are consistent with not only three-dimensional, but also with quasi-two-dimensional portions of the Fermi surface. The SOC-induced gap in Dirac states is much larger when compared to isostructural SrMnBi2. This suggests that not only long-range magnetic order, but also mass of the alkaline-earth atoms A in ABX(2) (A = alkaline-earth, B = transition-metal, and X = Bi/Sb) are important for the presence of low-energy states obeying the relativistic Dirac equation at the Fermi surface.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000423341500001, 10.1103/PhysRevB.97.035147
The Absence Of Specific Yeast Heat-shock Proteins Leads To Abnormal Aggregation And Compromised Autophagic Clearance Of Mutant Huntingtin Proteins.
Higgins, Ryan, Kabbaj, Marie-Helene, Hatcher, Alexa, Wang, Yanchang
The functionality of a protein depends on its correct folding, but newly synthesized proteins are susceptible to aberrant folding and aggregation. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) function as molecular chaperones that aid in protein folding and the degradation of misfolded proteins. Trinucleotide (CAG) repeat expansion in the Huntingtin gene (HTT) results in the expression of misfolded Huntingtin protein (Htt), which contributes to the development of Huntington's disease. We previously found that...
Show moreThe functionality of a protein depends on its correct folding, but newly synthesized proteins are susceptible to aberrant folding and aggregation. Heat shock proteins (HSPs) function as molecular chaperones that aid in protein folding and the degradation of misfolded proteins. Trinucleotide (CAG) repeat expansion in the Huntingtin gene (HTT) results in the expression of misfolded Huntingtin protein (Htt), which contributes to the development of Huntington's disease. We previously found that the degradation of mutated Htt with polyQ expansion (Htt103QP) depends on both ubiquitin proteasome system and autophagy. However, the role of heat shock proteins in the clearance of mutated Htt remains poorly understood. Here, we report that cytosolic Hsp70 (Ssa family), its nucleotide exchange factors (Sse1 and Fes1), and a Hsp40 co-chaperone (Ydj1) are required for inclusion body formation of Htt103QP proteins and their clearance via autophagy. Extended induction of Htt103QPGFP leads to the formation of a single inclusion body in wild-type yeast cells, but mutant cells lacking these HSPs exhibit increased number of Htt103QP aggregates. Most notably, we detected more aggregated forms of Htt103QP in sse1 Delta. mutant cells using an agarose gel assay. Increased protein aggregates are also observed in these HSP mutants even in the absence Htt103QP overexpression. Importantly, these HSPs are required for autophagy- mediated Htt103QP clearance, but are less critical for proteasome-dependent degradation. These findings suggest a chaperone network that facilitates inclusion body formation of misfolded proteins and the subsequent autophagic clearance.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000422749500056, 10.1371/journal.pone.0191490
Accountability, Efficiency, and Effectiveness in Corrections: Shining a Light on the Black Box of Prison Systems.
Mears, Daniel P.
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1548443439_cf2a5672, 10.1111/j.1745-9133.2008.00497.x
Acculturation and career development of international and domestic college students.
Hou, P-C. C., Osborn, Debra S., Sampson, James P.
The authors examined the relationships between career and cultural characteristics among 53 international and 54 domestic students at a large university in the southeastern United States. One-way multivariate analysis of variance results showed an overall significant difference between groups for mainstream acculturation, but not for vocational identity, dysfunctional career thoughts, goal instability, or heritage acculturation. Regression results indicated that 71% of the variance in...
Show moreThe authors examined the relationships between career and cultural characteristics among 53 international and 54 domestic students at a large university in the southeastern United States. One-way multivariate analysis of variance results showed an overall significant difference between groups for mainstream acculturation, but not for vocational identity, dysfunctional career thoughts, goal instability, or heritage acculturation. Regression results indicated that 71% of the variance in vocational identity of domestic college students was explained by dysfunctional career thoughts and acculturation, whereas dysfunctional career thoughts were the only significant predictor of vocational identity for international college students. Thus, a key implication from this study is for career practitioners to address and challenge the dysfunctional thinking of all students to improve their vocational identity. Future researchers should also explore how other potential moderator variables (e.g., age, gender, race/ethnicity, parental education) may influence vocational identity, as well as include more qualitative approaches to better understand an individual’s worldview, including career and cultural characteristics.
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1545150345_1a5bdb0d, 10.1002/cdq.12155
Acculturation Factors Related to Obesity of Latino American Men Nationwide.
Ai, Amy L, Appel, Hoa B, Lee, Jungup
Obesity is a public health epidemic, particularly among underrepresented populations. With a large proportion of immigrants, Latino Americans comprise the largest minority population in the United States. This study examined the association of acculturation factors with obesity among Latino American men ( n = 1,127) using the National Latino and Asian American Study. The result identified two acculturation-related factors (being U.S.-born and living in the United States for the longest period...
Show moreObesity is a public health epidemic, particularly among underrepresented populations. With a large proportion of immigrants, Latino Americans comprise the largest minority population in the United States. This study examined the association of acculturation factors with obesity among Latino American men ( n = 1,127) using the National Latino and Asian American Study. The result identified two acculturation-related factors (being U.S.-born and living in the United States for the longest period/5-10 years) as positive correlates. In contrast, a different study on obesity in Latino American women demonstrated discrimination, but not the above factors, as significant correlates. The men's pattern suggests that the Hispanic/Latino paradox might have greater implications for men with respect to weight issues. Furthermore, Mexican American and Other Latino American men presented a greater likelihood of being obese than Cuban and Puerto Rican men. The findings, if replicated in prospective research, suggest the need for gender- and ethnic-specific intervention for obesity in Latino American men, particularly for the largest subgroup, Mexican Americans.
The Accuracy Of Neutrophil To Lymphocyte Ratio And Platelet To Lymphocyte Ratio As A Marker For Gastrointestinal Malignancies.
Nora, Ian, Shridhar, Ravi, Huston, Jamie, Meredith, Kenneth
Background: Accurate predictors of locally advanced and recurrence disease in patients with gastrointestinal cancer are currently lacking. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have emerged as possible markers for predicting recurrence in these patients. In this study, we sought to evaluate the utility of NLR and PLR in predicting the presence of regional nodal disease, metastasis and systemic recurrence in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies....
Show moreBackground: Accurate predictors of locally advanced and recurrence disease in patients with gastrointestinal cancer are currently lacking. Neutrophil to lymphocyte ratio (NLR) and platelet to lymphocyte ratio (PLR) have emerged as possible markers for predicting recurrence in these patients. In this study, we sought to evaluate the utility of NLR and PLR in predicting the presence of regional nodal disease, metastasis and systemic recurrence in patients with gastrointestinal malignancies. Methods: We queried a comprehensive gastrointestinal oncology database to identify patients who had undergone surgery for a GI malignancy. NLR and PLR values were determined via a complete blood count (CBC). In patients treated with neoadjuvant therapy (NT) the NLR and PLR were calculated from CBCs before and after NT and in patients proceeding to surgery within 2 weeks pre-operatively. The associations between NLR and PLR and the clinicopathologic parameters (sex, age, tumor size, differentiation, positive lymph nodes, and metastatic disease) were assessed via chi(2) or Fisher's exact tests where appropriate. All the tests were two-sided, and P<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Results: We identified 116 patients diagnosed with gastrointestinal malignancies. There were 76 (65.5%) males and 40 (34.5%) females with an average age of 69.4 +/- 10.7 years. The mean follow up was 14.1 +/- 15.5 months. We identified 49 (42.2%) esophageal, 34 (29.3%) pancreatic, 14 (12.1%) colorectal, 13 (11.2%) gastric, and 6 (5.2%) biliary cancers. There were 36 (31.0%) patients with node negative disease, 52 (44.8%) with node positive and 28 (24.2%) with metastatic disease at surgery. Of the metastatic patients 4 (3.4%) were found at staging laparoscopy and 24 (20.6%) were diagnosed pre-operatively. The median NLR for LN-patient's was 1.78 (0.23-8.2) and for LN+ and metastatic patients was 4.69 (2.27-36), P<0.001. The median PLR for LN-patient's was 123.03 (14-257.69) and for LN+ and metastatic patients was 212.42 (105.45-2,185.18), P<0.001. The sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value (PPV) and negative predictive value (NPV) for a NLR >2.25 was 98.8%, 72.2%, 89%, and 96% respectively. The sensitivity, specificity, PPV, and NPV for PLR >140 was 95%, 78%, 90%, and 88% respectively. Utilizing both NLR and PLR the sensitivity, specificity, PPV and NPV was increased. Conclusions: Elevation of NLR and PLR can be used to help identify patients with advanced disease GI malignancies and recurrences after surgery. Additionally, failure of normalization of NLR and PLR 3-month post-surgical resection may indicate early recurrence or persistent disease. Individually, NLR has a higher sensitivity and negative predictive value while PLR has a higher specificity and positive predictive value for distinguishing metastatic disease and node positivity. The combination of NLR and PLR has the highest accuracy of predicting advanced disease among all gastrointestinal malignancies.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000445720200026, 10.21037/jgo.2018.08.05
Accurate Identification of Unknown and Known Metabolic Mixture Components by Combining 3D NMR with Fourier Transform Ion Cyclotron Resonance Tandem Mass Spectrometry.
Wang, Cheng, He, Lidong, Li, Da-Wei, Bruschweiler-Li, Lei, Marshall, Alan G, Brüschweiler, Rafael
Metabolite identification in metabolomics samples is a key step that critically impacts downstream analysis. We recently introduced the SUMMIT NMR/mass spectrometry (MS) hybrid approach for the identification of the molecular structure of unknown metabolites based on the combination of NMR, MS, and combinatorial cheminformatics. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of the approach for an untargeted analysis of both a model mixture and E. coli cell lysate based on 2D/3D NMR experiments in...
Show moreMetabolite identification in metabolomics samples is a key step that critically impacts downstream analysis. We recently introduced the SUMMIT NMR/mass spectrometry (MS) hybrid approach for the identification of the molecular structure of unknown metabolites based on the combination of NMR, MS, and combinatorial cheminformatics. Here, we demonstrate the feasibility of the approach for an untargeted analysis of both a model mixture and E. coli cell lysate based on 2D/3D NMR experiments in combination with Fourier transform ion cyclotron resonance MS and MS/MS data. For 19 of the 25 model metabolites, SUMMIT yielded complete structures that matched those in the mixture independent of database information. Of those, seven top-ranked structures matched those in the mixture, and four of those were further validated by positive ion MS/MS. For five metabolites, not part of the 19 metabolites, correct molecular structural motifs could be identified. For E. coli, SUMMIT MS/NMR identified 20 previously known metabolites with three or more H spins independent of database information. Moreover, for 15 unknown metabolites, molecular structural fragments were determined consistent with their spin systems and chemical shifts. By providing structural information for entire metabolites or molecular fragments, SUMMIT MS/NMR greatly assists the targeted or untargeted analysis of complex mixtures of unknown compounds.
FSU_pmch_28795575, 10.1021/acs.jproteome.7b00457, PMC5663437, 28795575, 28795575
Achalasia: A case report on its effect during surgical decision making for laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy in the young morbidly obese patient..
Oviedo, Rodolfo J, Sofiak, Chase W, Dixon, Bruce M
Achalasia is a condition that occurs when the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) fails to properly relax, combined with slowing/failure of esophageal peristalsis. This is seen clinically by not allowing solids and liquids to pass easily into the stomach. Achalasia is not historically associated with morbid obesity, yet dual treatment of morbid obesity and achalasia is becoming more prominent due to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Achalasia is typically a disease that affects non-obese adults...
Show moreAchalasia is a condition that occurs when the lower esophageal sphincter (LES) fails to properly relax, combined with slowing/failure of esophageal peristalsis. This is seen clinically by not allowing solids and liquids to pass easily into the stomach. Achalasia is not historically associated with morbid obesity, yet dual treatment of morbid obesity and achalasia is becoming more prominent due to the worldwide obesity epidemic. Achalasia is typically a disease that affects non-obese adults over the age of 55, which makes the discussion of this case report unique in that our patient is a 23 year-old woman who successfully underwent per-oral endoscopic myotomy (POEM) in preparation for a future laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy. There is sparse literature on combining laparoscopic Heller myotomy (LHM) and partial fundoplication versus POEM with either restrictive or malabsorptive minimally invasive bariatric procedures. LHM and partial fundoplication have long been considered the gold standard surgical treatment for achalasia by disrupting both the longitudinal and circular muscle layers of the LES. The newer, less invasive, POEM technique will be compared to the gold standard LHM and Dor fundoplication in this uncharacteristically young morbidly obese achalasia patient. The decision to pursue a laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy over a laparoscopic Roux-en-Y gastric bypass was multifactorial due to the patient's concerns regarding malabsorption of vitamins and nutrients in the event of a future pregnancy. The patient has already undergone a POEM procedure, which was chosen to maintain the gastric fundus, cardia, and gastroesophageal junction (GEJ) architecture as opposed to a LHM with Dor fundoplication, which would have altered the anatomy, thus making a concomitant laparoscopic sleeve gastrectomy an unfeasible option.
FSU_pmch_27423062, 10.1016/j.ijscr.2016.06.046, PMC4949807, 27423062, 27423062, S2210-2612(16)30230-9
Acknowledging Challenges And Embracing Innovative Instructional Practices In Response To Cultural And Linguistic Diversity.
Wood, Carla, Wofford, Mary Claire, Hassinger, Abby
Aims of the current study were to explore teachers' background, beliefs, attitudes, and sense of self-efficacy, as well as instructional supports and innovative practices in response to cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms serving Spanish-English speaking children of migrant workers. A total of 22 teachers participated in semi-structured interviews regarding linguistic diversity in the classroom. Their responses were transcribed and qualitative analysis procedures were utilized to...
Show moreAims of the current study were to explore teachers' background, beliefs, attitudes, and sense of self-efficacy, as well as instructional supports and innovative practices in response to cultural and linguistic diversity in classrooms serving Spanish-English speaking children of migrant workers. A total of 22 teachers participated in semi-structured interviews regarding linguistic diversity in the classroom. Their responses were transcribed and qualitative analysis procedures were utilized to deconstruct units. Individual units were then clustered by similarities and differences into themes and subcategories of themes. Teacher responses to the interview questions produced themes: awareness of cultural and linguistic diversity, issues and challenges, and innovative instructional supports and practices. Participating teachers commented on general supports designed to assist communication between English Learners (EL) and the teacher or peers, facilitate communication with parents of ELs, and embrace and promote responsiveness to cultural linguistic diversity (CLD) in the classroom. Teachers identified specific supports to intensify instruction, including (a) employing multiple modalities, (b) increasing experience and exposure, and (c) providing individualized support. Additional resources and support are warranted to identify and disseminate effective practices to provide intensified instruction and support to ELs.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000430338800001, 10.1177/2158244018771110
Acquiring Science and Social Studies Knowledge in Kindergarten Through Fourth Grade: Conceptualization, Design, Implementation, and Efficacy Testing of Content-Area Literacy Instruction (CALI)..
Dombek, Jennifer, Crowe, Elizabeth C, Spencer, Mercedes, Tighe, Elizabeth L, Coffinger, Sean, Zargar, Elham, Wood, Taffeta, Petscher, Yaacov
With national focus on reading and math achievement, science and social studies have received less instructional time. Yet, accumulating evidence suggests that content knowledge is an important predictor of proficient reading. Starting with a design study, we developed Content Area Literacy Instruction (CALI), as an individualized (or personalized) instructional program for kindergarteners through fourth graders to build science and social studies knowledge. We developed CALI to be...
Show moreWith national focus on reading and math achievement, science and social studies have received less instructional time. Yet, accumulating evidence suggests that content knowledge is an important predictor of proficient reading. Starting with a design study, we developed Content Area Literacy Instruction (CALI), as an individualized (or personalized) instructional program for kindergarteners through fourth graders to build science and social studies knowledge. We developed CALI to be implemented in general education classrooms, over multiple iterations (n=230 students), using principles of design-based implementation research. The aims were to develop CALI as a usable and feasible instructional program that would, potentially, improve science and social studies knowledge, and could be implemented during the literacy block without negatively affecting students' reading gains (i.e., no opportunity cost). We then evaluated the efficacy of CALI in a randomized controlled field trial with 418 students in kindergarten through fourth grade. Results reveal that CALI demonstrates promise as a useable and feasible instructional individualized general education program, and is efficacious in improving social studies (=2.2) and science (=2.1) knowledge, with some evidence of improving oral and reading comprehension skills (=.125).
FSU_pmch_28479610, 10.1037/edu0000128, PMC5415842, 28479610, 28479610
An activity theoretic model for information quality change.
Stvilia, Besiki, Gasser, Les
To manage information quality (IQ) effectively, one needs to know how IQ changes over time, what causes it to change, and whether the changes can be predicted. In this paper we analyze the structure of IQ change in Wikipedia, an open, collaborative general encyclopedia. We found several patterns in Wikipedia’s IQ process trajectories and linked them to article types. Drawing on the results of our analysis, we develop a general model of IQ change that can be used for reasoning about IQ...
Show moreTo manage information quality (IQ) effectively, one needs to know how IQ changes over time, what causes it to change, and whether the changes can be predicted. In this paper we analyze the structure of IQ change in Wikipedia, an open, collaborative general encyclopedia. We found several patterns in Wikipedia’s IQ process trajectories and linked them to article types. Drawing on the results of our analysis, we develop a general model of IQ change that can be used for reasoning about IQ dynamics in many different settings, including traditional databases and information repositories.
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1493896106_3601f514, 10.5210/fm.v13i4.2126
Acupoint Sensitization, Acupuncture Analgesia, Acupuncture on Visceral Functional Disorders, and Its Mechanism.
Yu, Xiaochun, Zhu, Bing, Lin, Zhixiu, Qiao, Haifa, Kong, Jian, Gao, Xinyan
FSU_pmch_26300944, 10.1155/2015/171759, PMC4537726, 26300944, 26300944
Acute and timing effects of beta-hydroxy-beta-methylbutyrate (HMB) on indirect markers of skeletal muscle damage.
Wilson, Jacob M, Kim, Jeong-Su, Lee, Sang-Rok, Rathmacher, John A, Dalmau, Brett, Kingsley, J Derek, Koch, Heather, Manninen, Anssi H, Saadat, Raz, Panton, Lynn B
While chronic β-Hydroxy β-Methylbutyrate (HMB) supplementation (≥ 2 wk) lowers exercise induced muscle damage, its acute or timing effects have not been examined. The purpose of this study was to investigate the acute and timing effects of oral HMB supplementation on serum creatine kinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), muscle soreness, and maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). Sixteen non-resistance trained men (22 ± 2 yrs) were assigned to HMB-Pre or HMB-Post groups. In a crossover design...
Show moreWhile chronic β-Hydroxy β-Methylbutyrate (HMB) supplementation (≥ 2 wk) lowers exercise induced muscle damage, its acute or timing effects have not been examined. The purpose of this study was to investigate the acute and timing effects of oral HMB supplementation on serum creatine kinase (CK), lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), muscle soreness, and maximal voluntary contraction (MVC). Sixteen non-resistance trained men (22 ± 2 yrs) were assigned to HMB-Pre or HMB-Post groups. In a crossover design, all subjects performed 55 maximal eccentric knee extension/flexion contractions on 2 occasions on either the right or left leg. HMB-Pre (N = 8) randomly received 3 grams of either a placebo or HMB before and a placebo after exercise. HMB-Post (N = 8) received a placebo before and either 3 grams of HMB or a placebo after exercise. Muscle damage tests were recorded before, at 8, 24, 48, and 72 hrs post exercise. There was a reduction in MVC and an increase in soreness in the quadriceps and hamstrings following exercise (p < 0.001). Although HMB-Pre approached significance in attenuating soreness for the quadriceps (p = 0.07), there was no time x group effect. Serum indices of damage increased, peaking at 48 hrs for CK (773%) (p < 0.001) and 72 hrs for LDH (180%) (p < 0.001). While there were no time x group effects of HMB on CK and LDH, post hoc analysis revealed that only HMB-Pre showed no significant increase in LDH levels following exercise. Our findings suggest no clear acute or timing effects of HMB supplementation. However, consuming HMB before exercise appeared to prevent increases in LDH.
FSU_pmch_19193206, 10.1186/1743-7075-6-6, PMC2642830, 19193206, 19193206, 1743-7075-6-6
Acute exercise with whole-body vibration decreases wave reflection and leg arterial stiffness.
Figueroa, Arturo, Vicil, Florence, Sanchez-Gonzalez, Marcos A
Whole-body vibration exercise (WBV) acutely decreases brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), an index of systemic arterial stiffness. However, the effect of WBV on segmental PWV and aortic hemodynamics is unknown. We examined the acute effects of WBV on arterial function. Fifteen young men performed ten 1-min sets of static squat with WBV (40 Hz, 1 mm, 5.37 G) and without WBV (no-WBV). Brachial and aortic blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), augmentation index (AIx), baPWV, carotid...
Show moreWhole-body vibration exercise (WBV) acutely decreases brachial-ankle pulse wave velocity (baPWV), an index of systemic arterial stiffness. However, the effect of WBV on segmental PWV and aortic hemodynamics is unknown. We examined the acute effects of WBV on arterial function. Fifteen young men performed ten 1-min sets of static squat with WBV (40 Hz, 1 mm, 5.37 G) and without WBV (no-WBV). Brachial and aortic blood pressure (BP), heart rate (HR), augmentation index (AIx), baPWV, carotid-femoral PWV (cfPWV), and femoral-ankle (faPWV), were recorded before and 5, 15, and 30 min after both trials. Brachial and aortic SBP (P < 0.01), and HR (P < 0.01) were increased only at 5 min after both exercise trials. AIx was elevated through the recovery after no-WBV while decreased at 15 and 30 min after WBV exercise. FaPWV was decreased (P < 0.01) at 5 min after both trials, but returned to baseline at 15 min after no-WBV exercise and was maintained decreased at 15 and 30 min after WBV exercise. There were no significant changes in brachial and aortic diastolic BP, cfPWV and baPWV after both trials. Our findings indicate that regardless of WBV, static squat causes a small transient increase in hemodynamic responses during early recovery. WBV counteracts the increase in AIx induced by static squat and reduces wave reflection magnitude through a local effect on arterial stiffness.
Acute Sleep Deprivation Blocks Short- and Long-Term Operant Memory in .
Krishnan, Harini C, Gandour, Catherine E, Ramos, Joshua L, Wrinkle, Mariah C, Sanchez-Pacheco, Joseph J, Lyons, Lisa C
Insufficient sleep in individuals appears increasingly common due to the demands of modern work schedules and technology use. Consequently, there is a growing need to understand the interactions between sleep deprivation and memory. The current study determined the effects of acute sleep deprivation on short and long-term associative memory using the marine mollusk , a relatively simple model system well known for studies of learning and memory. were sleep deprived for 9 hours using context...
Show moreInsufficient sleep in individuals appears increasingly common due to the demands of modern work schedules and technology use. Consequently, there is a growing need to understand the interactions between sleep deprivation and memory. The current study determined the effects of acute sleep deprivation on short and long-term associative memory using the marine mollusk , a relatively simple model system well known for studies of learning and memory. were sleep deprived for 9 hours using context changes and tactile stimulation either prior to or after training for the operant learning paradigm, learning that food is inedible (LFI). The effects of sleep deprivation on short-term (STM) and long-term memory (LTM) were assessed. Acute sleep deprivation prior to LFI training impaired the induction of STM and LTM with persistent effects lasting at least 24 h. Sleep deprivation immediately after training blocked the consolidation of LTM. However, sleep deprivation following the period of molecular consolidation did not affect memory recall. Memory impairments were independent of handling-induced stress, as daytime handled control animals demonstrated no memory deficits. Additional training immediately after sleep deprivation failed to rescue the induction of memory, but additional training alleviated the persistent impairment in memory induction when training occurred 24 h following sleep deprivation. Acute sleep deprivation inhibited the induction and consolidation, but not the recall of memory. These behavioral studies establish as an effective model system for studying the interactions between sleep and memory formation.
FSU_pmch_27748243, 10.5665/sleep.6320, PMC5103805, 27748243, 27748243, sp-00313-16
Adding Stable Carbon Isotopes Improves Model Representation Of The Role Of Microbial Communities In Peatland Methane Cycling.
Deng, Jia, McCalley, Carmody K., Frolking, Steve, Chanton, Jeff, Crill, Patrick, Varner, Ruth, Tyson, Gene, Rich, Virginia, Hines, Mark, Saleska, Scott R., Li, Changsheng
Climate change is expected to have significant and uncertain impacts on methane (CH4) emissions from northern peatlands. Biogeochemical models can extrapolate site-specificCH(4) measurements to larger scales and predict responses of CH4 emissions to environmental changes. However, these models include considerable uncertainties and limitations in representing CH4 production, consumption, and transport processes. To improve predictions of CH4 transformations, we incorporated acetate and stable...
Show moreClimate change is expected to have significant and uncertain impacts on methane (CH4) emissions from northern peatlands. Biogeochemical models can extrapolate site-specificCH(4) measurements to larger scales and predict responses of CH4 emissions to environmental changes. However, these models include considerable uncertainties and limitations in representing CH4 production, consumption, and transport processes. To improve predictions of CH4 transformations, we incorporated acetate and stable carbon (C) isotopic dynamics associated with CH4 cycling into a biogeochemistry model, DNDC. By including these new features, DNDC explicitly simulates acetate dynamics and the relative contribution of acetotrophic and hydro-genotrophic methanogenesis (AM and HM) to CH4 production, and predicts the C isotopic signature (delta C-13) in soil C pools and emitted gases. When tested against biogeochemical and microbial community observations at two sites in a zone of thawing permafrost in a subarctic peatland in Sweden, the new formulation substantially improved agreement with CH4 production pathways and delta C-13 in emitted CH4 (delta C-13-CH4), a measure of the integrated effects of microbial production and consumption, and of physical transport. We also investigated the sensitivity of simulated delta C-13-CH4 to C isotopic composition of substrates and, to fractionation factors for CH4 production (alpha(AM) and alpha(HM)), CH4 oxidation (alpha(MO)), and plant-mediated CH4 transport (alpha(TP)). The sensitivity analysis indicated that the delta C-13-CH4 is highly sensitive to the factors associated with microbial metabolism (alpha(AM), alpha(HM), and alpha(MO)). The model framework simulating stable C isotopic dynamics provides a robust basis for better constraining and testing microbial mechanisms in predicting CH4 cycling in peatlands.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000406239300036, 10.1002/2016MS000817
Adhd, Depression, And Motor Vehicle Crashes: A Prospective Cohort Study Of Continuously-monitored, Real-world Driving.
Aduen, Paula A., Kofler, Michael J., Sarver, Dustin E., Wells, Erica L., Soto, Elia F., Cox, Daniel J.
ADHD is associated with automobile crashes, traffic fatalities, and serious road trauma, but it is unclear whether this risk is (a) driven by ADHD symptoms specifically, and (b) unique to ADHD or transdiagnostic across psychiatric disabilities, such as depression, that also have concentration problems as core symptoms. The current study provides the first prospective, continuously-monitored evaluation of crash risk related to ADHD symptoms, including the first on-road comparison of ADHD with...
Show moreADHD is associated with automobile crashes, traffic fatalities, and serious road trauma, but it is unclear whether this risk is (a) driven by ADHD symptoms specifically, and (b) unique to ADHD or transdiagnostic across psychiatric disabilities, such as depression, that also have concentration problems as core symptoms. The current study provides the first prospective, continuously-monitored evaluation of crash risk related to ADHD symptoms, including the first on-road comparison of ADHD with another high-prevalence psychiatric disability (depression). A probability-based sample of 3226 drivers from six U.S. sites, including subsamples with self-reported ADHD (n = 274) and depression (n = 251), consented to have their vehicles outfitted with sophisticated data acquisition technologies to continuously monitor real-world, day-to-day driving from 'engine-on to engine-of for 1-2 years (Mean = 440 consecutive days/driver, Mean = 9528 miles/driver). Crashes and near-crashes were objectively identified via software-based algorithms and double-coded manual validation (blinded to clinical status). Miles driven, days monitored, age, gender, education, and marital status were controlled. ADHD symptoms portended 5% increased crash risk per increase in symptom severity score (IRR = 1.05). This risk corresponded to approximately 1 biennial crash and 1 annual near-crash per driver with ADHD; crash risk doubled for drivers reporting ADHD symptom severity near the sample's maximum. Analyses based on self-reported clinical status indicated similarly elevated rates for ADHD (IRR = 1.46) and depression (IRR = 1.34) that may be related, in part, to both groups' inattention/concentration symptoms. Risk was not attenuated by ADHD usual treatment, but varied according to antidepressant medication status. Previous studies have significantly underestimated the risk for traffic crashes conveyed by ADHD and depression.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000430521400007, 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2018.02.026
Adiabatic Sweep Cross-polarization Magic-angle-spinning Nmr Of Half-integer Quadrupolar Spins.
Wi, Sungsool, Kim, Chul, Schurko, Robert, Frydman, Lucio
The use of frequency-swept radiofrequency (rf) pulses for enhancing signals in the magic-angle spinning (MAS) spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclides was explored. The broadband adiabatic inversion cross-polarization magic-angle spinning (BRAIN-CPMAS) method, involving an adiabatic inversion pulse on the S-channel and a simultaneous rectangular spin-lock pulse on the I-channel (H-1), was applied to I (1/2) -> S(3/2) systems. Optimal BRAIN-CPMAS matching conditions were found to involve...
Show moreThe use of frequency-swept radiofrequency (rf) pulses for enhancing signals in the magic-angle spinning (MAS) spectra of half-integer quadrupolar nuclides was explored. The broadband adiabatic inversion cross-polarization magic-angle spinning (BRAIN-CPMAS) method, involving an adiabatic inversion pulse on the S-channel and a simultaneous rectangular spin-lock pulse on the I-channel (H-1), was applied to I (1/2) -> S(3/2) systems. Optimal BRAIN-CPMAS matching conditions were found to involve low rf pulse strengths for both the I- and S-spin channels. At these low and easily attainable rf field strengths, level-crossing events among the energy levels |3/2 >, |1/2 >, | -1/2 >, | - 3/2 > that are known to complicate the CPMAS of quadrupolar nuclei, are mostly avoided. Zero- and double-quantum polarization transfer modes, akin to those we have observed for 1(1/2) -> S(1/2) polarization transfers, were evidenced by these analyses even in the presence of the quadrupolar interaction. H-1-Na-23 and H-1-B-11 BRAIN-CPMAS conditions were experimentally explored on model compounds by optimizing the width of the adiabatic sweep, as well as the rf pulse powers of the H-1 and Na-23/B-11 channels, for different MAS rates. The experimental data obtained on model compounds containing spin-3/2 nuclides, matched well predictions from numerical simulations and from an average Hamiltonian theory model. Extensions to half-integer spin nuclides with higher spins and potential applications of this BRAIN-CPMAS approach are discussed. (C) 2017 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000399861500017, 10.1016/j.jmr.2017.02.021
Advanced Molecular Techniques Provide New Rigorous Tools For Characterizing Organic Matter Quality In Complex Systems.
Wilson, Rachel M., Tfaily, Malak M.
Carbon flux rates are widely understood to be substrate controlled; however, characterizing substrate quality continues to be a challenge. We suggest that, while optical measurements have their place, they are not the only, or the best, tool for characterizing organic matter quality. Nominal oxidation state of the carbon provides a thermodynamically relevant measure, which could be used as a metric of organic matter quality. Calculating nominal oxidation state of the carbon requires a suite...
Show moreCarbon flux rates are widely understood to be substrate controlled; however, characterizing substrate quality continues to be a challenge. We suggest that, while optical measurements have their place, they are not the only, or the best, tool for characterizing organic matter quality. Nominal oxidation state of the carbon provides a thermodynamically relevant measure, which could be used as a metric of organic matter quality. Calculating nominal oxidation state of the carbon requires a suite of advanced complementary analysis but is then trivial to calculate from the resulting data sets.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000438667200001, 10.1029/2018JG004525
Advanced Reading Comprehension Expectations in Secondary School: Considerations for Students with Emotional or Behavior Disorders..
Ciullo, Stephen, Ortiz, Miriam B, Al Otaiba, Stephanie, Lane, Kathleen Lynne
The debate around recent implementation of the Common Core Standards (CCSS) has perplexed many policy makers, practitioners, and researchers; yet there remains broad agreement for the need to improve reading outcomes and college and career readiness for all students, including students with disabilities. One of the most vulnerable populations with disabilities in terms of college and career readiness is students with emotional disorders (ED). A considerable percentage of students with ED...
Show moreThe debate around recent implementation of the Common Core Standards (CCSS) has perplexed many policy makers, practitioners, and researchers; yet there remains broad agreement for the need to improve reading outcomes and college and career readiness for all students, including students with disabilities. One of the most vulnerable populations with disabilities in terms of college and career readiness is students with emotional disorders (ED). A considerable percentage of students with ED encounter unfavorable academic and long-term outcomes, often due to reading difficulties and behavioral variables that impede learning. To date, the impact of rising expectations in reading on the education of students with ED has been absent from this conversation about CCSS. In this article, we consider the implications of new reading expectations in the critical period of Grades 6-12 for students with ED. First, we summarize grade level expectations of the standards. Then, we describe the characteristics and underachievement of students with ED. Next, we evaluate challenges in meeting the expectations based on extant research, and provide recommendations for practice based on the intervention literature. We conclude by prioritizing a research and policy agenda that advocates for increasing the likelihood of success in reading for students with ED in middle school and high school.
Advancing Behavioural Genomics By Considering Timescale.
Rittschof, Clare C., Hughes, Kimberly A.
Animal behavioural traits often covary with gene expression, pointing towards a genomic constraint on organismal responses to environmental cues. This pattern highlights a gap in our understanding of the time course of environmentally responsive gene expression, and moreover, how these dynamics are regulated. Advances in behavioural genomics explore how gene expression dynamics are correlated with behavioural traits that range from stable to highly labile. We consider the idea that certain...
Show moreAnimal behavioural traits often covary with gene expression, pointing towards a genomic constraint on organismal responses to environmental cues. This pattern highlights a gap in our understanding of the time course of environmentally responsive gene expression, and moreover, how these dynamics are regulated. Advances in behavioural genomics explore how gene expression dynamics are correlated with behavioural traits that range from stable to highly labile. We consider the idea that certain genomic regulatory mechanisms may predict the timescale of an environmental effect on behaviour. This temporally minded approach could inform both organismal and evolutionary questions ranging from the remediation of early life social trauma to understanding the evolution of trait plasticity.
Advancing Conservation By Understanding And Influencing Human Behavior.
Reddy, Sheila M. W., Montambault, Jensen, Masuda, Yuta J., Keenan, Elizabeth, Butler, William, Fisher, Jonathan R. B., Asah, Stanley T., Gneezy, Ayelet
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource for conservation. We propose a set of guiding questions for applying behavioral insights to conservation policy. These questions help define the conservation problem as a behavior change problem, understand behavioral...
Show moreBehavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource for conservation. We propose a set of guiding questions for applying behavioral insights to conservation policy. These questions help define the conservation problem as a behavior change problem, understand behavioral mechanisms and identify appropriate approaches for behavior change (awareness, incentives, nudges), and evaluate and adapt approaches based on new behavioral insights. We provide a foundation for the questions by synthesizing a wide range of behavior change models and evidence related to littering, water and energy conservation, and land management. We also discuss the methodology and data needed to answer these questions. We illustrate how these questions have been answered in practice to inform efforts to promote conservation for climate risk reduction. Although more comprehensive research programs to answer these questions are needed, some insights are emerging. Integrating two or more behavior change approaches that target multiple, context-dependent factors may be most successful; however, caution must be taken to avoid approaches that could undermine one another (e.g., economic incentives crowding out intrinsic incentives).
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000398563500010, 10.1111/conl.12252
Advancing NMDA Receptor Physiology by Integrating Multiple Approaches.
Zhou, Huan-Xiang, Wollmuth, Lonnie P
NMDA receptors (NMDARs) are ion channels activated by the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate and are essential to all aspects of brain function, including learning and memory formation. Missense mutations distributed throughout NMDAR subunits have been associated with an array of neurological disorders. Recent structural, functional, and computational studies have generated many insights into the activation process connecting glutamate binding to ion-channel opening, which is central to...
Show moreNMDA receptors (NMDARs) are ion channels activated by the excitatory neurotransmitter glutamate and are essential to all aspects of brain function, including learning and memory formation. Missense mutations distributed throughout NMDAR subunits have been associated with an array of neurological disorders. Recent structural, functional, and computational studies have generated many insights into the activation process connecting glutamate binding to ion-channel opening, which is central to NMDAR physiology and pathophysiology. The field appears poised for breakthroughs, including the exciting prospect of resolving the conformations and energetics of elementary steps in the activation process, and atomic-level modeling of the effects of missense mutations on receptor function. The most promising strategy going forward is through strong integration of multiple approaches.
FSU_pmch_28187950, 10.1016/j.tins.2017.01.001, PMC5339030, 28187950, 28187950, S0166-2236(17)30002-4
Aging and circadian dysfunction increase alcohol sensitivity and exacerbate mortality in Drosophila melanogaster.
De Nobrega, Aliza K, Mellers, Alana P, Lyons, Lisa C
Alcohol abuse is a rising problem in middle-aged and older individuals resulting in serious health, family and economic consequences. Effective treatment necessitates the identification of factors influencing alcohol toxicity with aging. We investigated the interaction between aging, alcohol toxicity and circadian function using Drosophila as a model system. We found as wild type flies age, sensitivity to alcohol increases and circadian regulation of alcohol-induced behaviors weakens....
Show moreAlcohol abuse is a rising problem in middle-aged and older individuals resulting in serious health, family and economic consequences. Effective treatment necessitates the identification of factors influencing alcohol toxicity with aging. We investigated the interaction between aging, alcohol toxicity and circadian function using Drosophila as a model system. We found as wild type flies age, sensitivity to alcohol increases and circadian regulation of alcohol-induced behaviors weakens. Decreased circadian modulation is correlated with significantly greater alcohol sensitivity during the subjective day. The circadian clock modulates alcohol-induced mortality in younger flies with increased mortality following alcohol exposure at night. Older flies exhibit significantly longer recovery times following alcohol-induced sedation and increased mortality following binge-like or chronic alcohol exposure. Flies rendered arrhythmic either genetically or environmentally exhibit significantly increased alcohol sensitivity, longer recovery times and increased mortality. We hypothesize that the circadian clock phase specifically buffers behavioral and cellular alcohol sensitivity with this protection diminishing as the circadian clock weakens with age.
FSU_pmch_28750752, 10.1016/j.exger.2017.07.014, PMC6158789, 28750752, 28750752, S0531-5565(17)30055-4
Aging Effect Of Zylon.
Niu, Rongmei, Han, Ke, Walsh, Robert P., Buchholz, Kyle, Goddard, Robert E., Besara, Tiglet, Siegrist, Theo M.
Zylon fibers, which are made of high-strength polymer, are used at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory for structural reinforcement of high field pulsed magnet coils. Most polymers are subject to chain scission, which is the result of aging degradation of the fibers in the absence of chemical agent. We studied chain scission of Zylon fibers stored with and without visible light. No mechanical strength degradation was found in Zylon stored without exposure to visible light for 8 years....
Show moreZylon fibers, which are made of high-strength polymer, are used at the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory for structural reinforcement of high field pulsed magnet coils. Most polymers are subject to chain scission, which is the result of aging degradation of the fibers in the absence of chemical agent. We studied chain scission of Zylon fibers stored with and without visible light. No mechanical strength degradation was found in Zylon stored without exposure to visible light for 8 years. Prolonged exposure to lab-lighting rendered formation of surface defects, resulting in reduction in mechanical strength.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000422810000001, 10.1109/TASC.2017.2783362
Agreement Among Traditional and RTI-based Definitions of Reading-Related Learning Disability with Preschool Children.
Milburn, Trelani F, Lonigan, Christopher J, Allan, Darcey M, Phillips, Beth M
To investigate approaches for identifying young children who may be at risk for later reading-related learning disabilities, this study compared the use of four contemporary methods of indexing learning disability (LD) with older children (i.e., IQ-achievement discrepancy, low achievement, low growth, and dual-discrepancy) to determine risk status with a large sample of 1,011 preschoolers. These children were classified as at risk or not using each method across three early-literacy skills (i...
Show moreTo investigate approaches for identifying young children who may be at risk for later reading-related learning disabilities, this study compared the use of four contemporary methods of indexing learning disability (LD) with older children (i.e., IQ-achievement discrepancy, low achievement, low growth, and dual-discrepancy) to determine risk status with a large sample of 1,011 preschoolers. These children were classified as at risk or not using each method across three early-literacy skills (i.e., language, phonological awareness, print knowledge) and at three levels of severity (i.e., 5th, 10th, 25th percentiles). Chance-corrected affected-status agreement (CCASA) indicated poor agreement among methods with rates of agreement generally decreasing with greater levels of severity for both single- and two-measure classification, and agreement rates were lower for two-measure classification than for single-measure classification. These low rates of agreement between conventional methods of identifying children at risk for LD represent a significant impediment for identification and intervention for young children considered at-risk.
FSU_pmch_28670102, 10.1016/j.lindif.2017.03.011, PMC5489126, 28670102, 28670102
AKT expression is associated with degree of pathologic response in adenocarcinoma of the esophagus treated with neoadjuvant therapy.
Saeed, Nadia, Shridhar, Ravi, Hoffe, Sarah, Almhanna, Khaldoun, Meredith, Kenneth L
Neoadjuvant chemoradiation (NCRT) has become standard in the treatment of locally advanced esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) with survival correlated to degree of pathologic response. The phosphatidyl inositol 3 kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (AKT)/mTOR pathway plays an important role in tumorgenesis and resistance. We sought to elucidate the role of this pathway in patients with EAC who received NCRT. After IRB approval, a prospective trial was initiated in which patients with EAC underwent...
Show moreNeoadjuvant chemoradiation (NCRT) has become standard in the treatment of locally advanced esophageal adenocarcinoma (EAC) with survival correlated to degree of pathologic response. The phosphatidyl inositol 3 kinase (PI3K)/protein kinase B (AKT)/mTOR pathway plays an important role in tumorgenesis and resistance. We sought to elucidate the role of this pathway in patients with EAC who received NCRT. After IRB approval, a prospective trial was initiated in which patients with EAC underwent endoscopic biopsies of normal and tumor tissue prior to instituting NCRT. Patients then proceeded to esophagectomy. The pre-treatment tissues underwent gene expression profiling. SAM method was used to analyze expression of AKT within normal and tumor tissue. Expression was then correlated to degree of pathologic response. One-hundred patients were consented for the study, of which 67 met final eligibility. Nineteen patient's tumors ultimately underwent gene expression profiling via microarray. The differential expression of all AKT isoforms in tumor tissue was markedly overexpressed compared to normal tissue (P=6×10(-5)). There were 3 patients designated as pNR, 6 as pPR, and 10 as pCR. Partial and non-responders had higher expressions of AKT compared to pCR with the non-responders consistently illustrated the highest expression of AKT (P=0.02). There was a significant correlation between individual isoforms of AKT-1, AKT-2, and AKT-3 and degree of pathologic response (P=0.002, 0.04, and 0.04 respectively). AKT is overexpressed in patients with AC of the esophagus. Moreover, pathologic response to NCRT may be correlated with degree of AKT expression. Additional data is needed to clarify this relationship to potentially add targeted therapies to the neoadjuvant regimen.
FSU_pmch_27034781, 10.3978/j.issn.2078-6891.2015.067, PMC4783740, 27034781, 27034781, jgo-07-02-158
Algebraic Problem Solving for Middle School Students with Autism and Intellectual Disability.
Root, Jenny R., Browder, Diane M.
Problem solving is an important yet neglected mathematical skill for students with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability (ASD/ID). In addition, the terminology and vocabulary used in mathematical tasks may be unfamiliar to students with ASD/ID. The current study evaluated the effects of modified schema-based instruction (SBI) on the algebra problem solving skills of three middle school students with ASD/ID. Mathematics vocabulary terms were taught using constant time delay....
Show moreProblem solving is an important yet neglected mathematical skill for students with autism spectrum disorder and intellectual disability (ASD/ID). In addition, the terminology and vocabulary used in mathematical tasks may be unfamiliar to students with ASD/ID. The current study evaluated the effects of modified schema-based instruction (SBI) on the algebra problem solving skills of three middle school students with ASD/ID. Mathematics vocabulary terms were taught using constant time delay. Participants were then taught how to use an iPad that displayed a task analysis with embedded prompts to complete each step of solving the word problems. This study also examined participant’s ability to generalize skills when supports were faded. Results of the multiple probe across participants design showed a functional relation between modified SBI and mathematical problem solving as well as constant time delay and acquisition of mathematics vocabulary terms. Implications for practice and future research are discussed.
FSU_libsubv1_scholarship_submission_1533931694_49714a0e, 10.1080/09362835.2017.1394304
Allele-specific Control Of Replication Timing And Genome Organization During Development.
Rivera-Mulia, Juan Carlos, Dimond, Andrew, Vera, Daniel, Trevilla-Garcia, Claudia, Sasaki, Takayo, Zimmerman, Jared, Dupont, Catherine, Gribnau, Joost, Fraser, Peter, Gilbert,...
Show moreRivera-Mulia, Juan Carlos, Dimond, Andrew, Vera, Daniel, Trevilla-Garcia, Claudia, Sasaki, Takayo, Zimmerman, Jared, Dupont, Catherine, Gribnau, Joost, Fraser, Peter, Gilbert, David M.
DNA replication occurs in a defined temporal order known as the replication-timing (RT) program. RT is regulated during development in discrete chromosomal units, coordinated with transcriptional activity and 3D genome organization. Here, we derived distinct cell types from F1 hybrid musculus x castaneus mouse crosses and exploited the high single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) density to characterize allelic differences in RT (Repli-seq), genome organization (Hi-C and promoter-capture Hi-C),...
Show moreDNA replication occurs in a defined temporal order known as the replication-timing (RT) program. RT is regulated during development in discrete chromosomal units, coordinated with transcriptional activity and 3D genome organization. Here, we derived distinct cell types from F1 hybrid musculus x castaneus mouse crosses and exploited the high single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) density to characterize allelic differences in RT (Repli-seq), genome organization (Hi-C and promoter-capture Hi-C), gene expression (total nuclear RNA-seq), and chromatin accessibility (ATAC-seq). We also present HARP, a new computational tool for sorting SNPs in phased genomes to efficiently measure allele-specific genome-wide data. Analysis of six different hybrid mESC clones with different genomes (C57BL/ 6,129 /sv, and CAST/ Ei), parental configurations, and gender revealed significant RT asynchrony between alleles across similar to 12% of the autosomal genome linked to subspecies genomes but not to parental origin, growth conditions, or gender. RT asynchrony in mESCs strongly correlated with changes in Hi-C compartments between alleles but not as strongly with SNP density, gene expression, imprinting, or chromatin accessibility. We then tracked mESC RT asynchronous regions during development by analyzing differentiated cell types, including extraembryonic endoderm stem (XEN) cells, four male and female primary mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), and neural precursor cells (NPCs) differentiated in vitro from mESCs with opposite parental configurations. We found that RT asynchrony and allelic discordance in Hi-C compartments seen in mESCs were largely lost in all differentiated cell types, accompanied by novel sites of allelic asynchrony at a considerably smaller proportion of the genome, suggesting that genome organization of homologs converges to similar folding patterns during cell fate commitment.
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000436084800005, 10.1101/gr.232561.117
Allogenic And Autogenic Signals In The Stratigraphic Record Of The Deep-sea Bengal Fan.
Blum, Mike, Rogers, Kimberly, Gleason, James, Najman, Yani, Cruz, Jarrett, Fox, Lyndsey
The Himalayan-sourced Ganges-Brahmaputra river system and the deep-sea Bengal Fan represent Earth's largest sediment-dispersal system. Here we present detrital zircon U-Pb provenance data from Miocene to middle Pleistocene Bengal Fan turbidites, and evaluate the influence of allogenic forcing vs. autogenic processes on signal propagation from the Himalaya to the deep sea. Our data record the strong tectonic and climatic forcing characteristic of the Himalayan system: after up to 2500 km of...
Show moreThe Himalayan-sourced Ganges-Brahmaputra river system and the deep-sea Bengal Fan represent Earth's largest sediment-dispersal system. Here we present detrital zircon U-Pb provenance data from Miocene to middle Pleistocene Bengal Fan turbidites, and evaluate the influence of allogenic forcing vs. autogenic processes on signal propagation from the Himalaya to the deep sea. Our data record the strong tectonic and climatic forcing characteristic of the Himalayan system: after up to 2500 km of river transport, and >1400 km of transport by turbidity currents, the U-Pb record faithfully represents Himalayan sources. Moreover, specific U-Pb populations record Miocene integration of the Brahmaputra drainage with the Asian plate, as well as the rapid Plio-Pleistocene incision through, and exhumation of, the eastern Himalayan syntaxis. The record is, however, biased towards glacial periods when rivers were extended across the shelf in response to climate-forced sea-level fall, and discharged directly to slope canyons. Finally, only part of the record represents a Ganges or Brahmaputra provenance end-member, and most samples represent mixing from the two systems. Mixing or the lack thereof likely represents the fingerprint of autogenic delta-plain avulsions, which result in the two rivers delivering sediment separately to a shelf-margin canyon or merging together as they do today.
Allogenic And Autogenic Signals In The Stratigraphic Record Of The Deep-sea Bengal Fan (vol 8, 7973, 2018).
FSU_libsubv1_wos_000441302400001, 10.1038/s41598-018-30160-y
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Welcome to The Way of the Tiger Roleplaying Game
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Subject: Welcome to The Way of the Tiger Roleplaying Game Thu 14 Mar - 18:29
Welcome to the official boards of The Way of the Tiger Roleplaying Game! I'm Richard S. Hetley, the "Community Manager" at Megara Entertainment--put in quotes because we all do a lot of different duties around here. Our noble leader Mikaël Louys (posting as Ninievre) maintains a Facebook page for the project, and I do my best to keep these forums tidy.
To those who are new . . .
"On the magical world of Orb, alone in a sea that the people of the Manmarch call Endless, lies the mystical Island of Tranquil Dreams." Thus begins Avenger!, the first book in The Way of the Tiger, by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson. First published in 1985, this series of gamebooks introduced us to an amazing world where the stealth and skill of the ninja was set against the dangers of a magical realm. Originally, the world of Orb had appeared as a traditional fantasy setting within the classic Fighting Fantasy gamebooks, but for The Way of the Tiger things changed: Mark and Jamie infused Orb with what are now iconic oriental themes, and gave gamers a complex and intense martial arts system practically unknown in the genre.
Today, with the blessings of Mark and Jamie, The Way of the Tiger is being revisited to be turned faithfully into a roleplaying game experience. You can see our progress here and on Facebook, and participate in the open beta as we bring it to fruition. We hope you'll find it as intense as the original gamebooks, but as personal as any tabletop RPG played with friends.
It's going to be quite a trip! And with that, I'll leave you with the back cover text from our upcoming release (hopefully slated for next year), as a last taste of what is in the making:
"Roleplaying in the fantastical realm of Orb . . .
"Walk among the shadows, strike unseen: the martial arts gamebook series "The Way of the Tiger" by Mark Smith and Jamie Thomson becomes a pen-and-paper RPG! The Way of the Tiger RPG brings intense action in a world of strange fantasy, where ninja dwell in the darkness and sorcerers unleash powers beyond comprehension. Match your skill and cunning against brutal villains, strange beasts, and the followers of dark gods . . .
"Become a ninja of the Way of the Tiger and seek vengeance on Yaemon, Grandmaster of Flame.
"Become a samurai of Eo or errant knight of Rocheval and wage war on the scorpion sons of Nil, Mouth of the Void.
"Become an elven enchantress of Tanajla and use mind-bending powers against the Order of the Scarlet Mantis.
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Subject: Re: Welcome to The Way of the Tiger Roleplaying Game Sun 23 Aug - 3:58
so did this RPG ever see the light of day?
It so happens that it's "seeing the light of day" after years of effort! It has been renamed to the more all-encompassing title Orb: The Roleplaying Game, and the first edition is now in the layout stage. We've made no official announcements, but it is coming! Thank you so much for your interest.
Ok, excellent. I am a Game Master and very much keen on running it. Is this forum the best place to keep up to date with its progress?
Let's see, let's see . . .
As you can tell, these forums are maintained mostly so we can be sure folks can reach us. Often, Megara's head honcho Mikaël Louys makes announcements on Facebook, and these would probably go on the combined page for the gamebooks and the RPG:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/370105323051113
You'll observe we're also finishing work on our gamebooks project over there, and involving ourselves in various Kickstarters, so those'll be our most recent news.
Excellent. Thanks
AsenRG
Subject: Re: Welcome to The Way of the Tiger Roleplaying Game Thu 3 Nov - 1:49
Sir Knight wrote:
Can you give us an estimate what are the odds of it becoming available this year ?
Subject: Re: Welcome to The Way of the Tiger Roleplaying Game Thu 3 Nov - 13:07
AsenRG wrote:
I would love to! But it's still in progress. Again, Facebook is becoming the central place for news and announcements:
Right now most of the conversation is about the gamebooks, but take a look and ask over there if you can't find what you need.
Subject: Re: Welcome to The Way of the Tiger Roleplaying Game Fri 4 Nov - 14:29
Well, I'll take it there's at least some chance it might become available, then .
I might ask in the group, too. I'm already a member, of course, I just don't like using FB.
And who's going to answer, if not you?
Let's just say I'll be waiting patiently, like a monk of Kwon or Vile during meditation !
I understand disapproval of using Facebook. I'm surprised that Facebook has become less offensive than certain other social media sites since its inception, but the point remains . . .
Anyway, David Walters and Mikaël Louys would be better able to answer than I. David is the author, and Mikaël manages Megara Entertainment's priorities and release schedule.
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Footballguys #128 - 8/27 - Injury Notes, Preseason Waiver Wire, From The Gut, News & Notes and MORE
Volume 20, #128 -- Monday Night, August 27th, 2018
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Howdy Folks,
Good Tuesday to you. Drafts are happening everywhere you look.
Buckle up.
A. Monday Injury Rounds: Preseason Week 4
Our Dr. Jene Bramel, MD, checks in with the questions you're asking: Will Carson Wentz play in Week 1? Can Travis Frederick return this year? How close are Saquon Barkley, Doug Baldwin, Jerick McKinnon, Alshon Jeffery, and others?
B. FREE Feature - Offensive Line Rankings and Notes: After Preseason Week 3
Our offensive line expert, Matt Bitonti, with updates on injuries and other offensive line related news, after week three but prior to week four of the preseason.
C. 35 Players To Target on the Preseason Waiver Wire
Our Sigmund Bloom with a list of 35 players who might have been overlooked in early drafts to target on preseason waiver wire runs.
D. From The Gut: NFC
Our Sigmund Bloom with a collection of observations and gut feelings about every team in the NFC.
E. On Second Thought
Our Sigmund Bloom with a rundown of all of the value changes from the preseason and training camp.
F. True Fantasy Points: 2018 Quarterback Projections
Our Danny Tuccitto with a stats-based guide for separating skill from luck in quarterback projections.
G. Linebacker Tiers
Our Aaron Rudnicki takes a look at the landscape for linebackers in 2018 and breaks them up into tiers to help with your IDP draft.
1. NYG - Odell Beckham agrees to massive extension
2. CLE - WR Josh Gordon will not start Week 1
3. WAS - WR Chris Thompson looks good
4. WAS - TE Jordan Reed should be ready
5. CLE - QB Baker Mayfield starting this week
6. SEA - WR Doug Baldwin to do more at practice
7. TEN - TE Delanie Walker expects to play Week 1
8. IND - QB Andrew Luck has foot ailment
9. TB - WR Mike Evans back on the field
10. GB - QB Aaron Rodgers dealing with illness
11. NE - RB Sony Michel returns to practice
12. PHI - RB Jay Ajayi not ready to return
13. NYG - TE Evan Engram still sidelined
14. OAK - Oakland trades WR Ryan Switzer
15. PIT - Pittsburgh acquires WR Ryan Switzer
16. CLE - QB Baker Mayfield may play a lot Thursday
17. JAX - WR Donte Moncrief has an opening
18. JAX - WR Marqise Lee headed to IR
19. DET - DE Robert Ayers signs with Lions
20. NYG - OLB Olivier Vernon iffy for season opener
21. NYG - RB Saquon Barkley takes part in practice
22. NYG - Jon Halapio likely will start
23. NYG - X-rays negative for OLB Olivier Vernon
Source: NFL Network - Ian Rapoport
New York Giants WR Odell Beckham Jr. agreed to terms on a five-year contract extension with the Giants Monday, Aug. 27, worth $95 million, according to a source. The deal includes $65 million in guaranteed money.
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The guaranteed money is a record for the position. Another record for Beckham is his new average annual salary of $19 million. He is looking to bounce back after an injury-shortened 2017 season, and the team clearly believes he can do just that. This contract situation never turned ugly as Beckham put forth several good faith moves during the offseason. So long as he stays healthy, Beckham is a superstar and no-brainer WR1 for Fantasy GMs.
Source: The Cleveland Plain Dealer - Mary Kay Cabot
Cleveland Browns WR Josh Gordon (hamstring) will not start Week 1 even if he is completely healthy but will play in the game, according to head coach Hue Jackson.
Gordon could end up as a WR2 with WR1 upside for Fantasy GMs this year. In Week 1, we'll be nerfing his projections a bit due to this news. Gordon will be a boom/bust flex play to begin the season if the team has him on any sort of snap count.
Source: ESPN.com - John Keim
Washington Redskins RB Chris Thompson (leg) has looked 'really good,' according to head coach Jay Gruden.
Thompson has admitted that he won't feel 100 percent until November but it doesn't mean he can't look good now. He's the primary pass-catching back for the Washington offense with Adrian Peterson likely to lead the way on the ground. Thompson has flex appeal in PPR leagues and he's got a current ADP of RB30 (6.12) in 12-team PPR leagues.
Washington Redskins TE Jordan Reed (toes) is on pace to be ready for Week 1, according to head coach Jay Gruden.
Reed should be ready for the season opener, but how long he stays healthy is anybody's guess. He's a talented tight end with TE1 ability for Fantasy GMs but Reed's injury history is long. If he stays healthy for 16 games (something he's never done as a pro), Reed could be a top-10 fantasy tight end.
Cleveland Browns QB Baker Mayfield will start the final preseason game with head coach Hue Jackson resting the starters. Jackson said Mayfield could play a full half.
That makes sense. Mayfield is set to begin the regular season as a backup to Tyrod Taylor. Once the season is out of hand, Mayfield should take over as the starter. He was the no.1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft and the Browns certainly see him as a potential franchise quarterback of the future.
Source: The Seattle Times - Bob Condotta
Seattle Seahawks WR Doug Baldwin (knee) will be able to do more things during practice this week, according to head coach Pete Carroll.
The Seahawks have been working Baldwin back cautiously from this knee injury. Baldwin will not play in the final preseason game but is on track for Week 1.
Source: TitansOnline.com - Jim Wyatt
Tennessee Titans TE Delanie Walker (toe) said he fully expects to be ready for Week 1.
Walker has not been practicing since the middle of August due to this injury. It sounds like everything is on track for him to play in the season opener. Walker is a low-end TE1 for Fantasy GMs, and currently he's going off the board at TE9 (7.09) in 12-team PPR leagues.
Source: The Herald Bulletin - George Bremer
Indianapolis Colts QB Andrew Luck (foot) is dealing with a minor foot issue stemming from Week 3 of the preseason, according to head coach Frank Reich. Luck would play if there was a game this week, however.
This sounds like a minor injury, but we'd feel a lot better if he didn't have any extra nagging injuries heading into the regular season. Luck is coming back from a major shoulder injury and we could see him post QB1 numbers in 2018. Fantasy GMs are taking him off the board at QB8 (8.05) in 12-team PPR leagues.
Source: The Athletic - Greg Auman
Tampa Bay Buccaneers WR Mike Evans (back) participated in practice Monday, Aug. 27.
Evans is out there practicing but he won't play in the Buccaneers preseason finale. So long as he's healthy, Evans should post WR1 numbers (again) in 2018.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - Tom Silverstein
Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers (illness) is not participating in practice Monday, Aug. 27, because of an illness.
This doesn't sound like a big deal. Rodgers isn't going to play in the team's preseason finale and he should be feeling much better for the start of the regular season.
Source: NESN.com - Doug Kyed
New England Patriots RB Sony Michel (knee) participated in practice Monday, Aug. 27.
Michel hasn't practiced with the team since early August. The talented first-round rookie from Georgia is a dynamic running back who is a threat to score anytime he touches the ball. Members of the scouting community regularly compared his game to that of LeSean McCoy and certainly the Patriots are excited about his future. Michel should be ready for the start of the regular season, but when he takes the lead position over Rex Burkhead remains unclear. Fantasy GMs are nabbing him at RB37 (8.04) in 12-team PPR leagues because of Michel's upside in that high-powered offense.
Source: Philadelphia Inquirer - Jeff McLane
Philadelphia Eagles RB Jay Ajayi (undisclosed) is not participating in practice Monday, Aug. 27.
Reporters around the Eagles are declaring this a 'lower body' injury. Ajayi has missed over a week of practice now due to this ailment. At this moment, it seems like he should be ready for the start of the regular season. When healthy, Ajayi should be the lead back for the Eagles and a RB2 or flex option for Fantasy GMs on a weekly basis.
Source: The Bergen Record - Art Stapleton
New York Giants TE Evan Engram (concussion) did not participate in practice Monday, Aug. 27.
Engram won't play in the preseason finale, and he should have time to get through the concussion protocol before the start of the regular season. He was concussed last year early in his rookie season and didn't miss a game during that time. He's a TE1 for Fantasy GMs after finishing as the no.5 fantasy tight end in 2017 (standard scoring leagues).
Source: Yahoo! Sports - Jordan Schultz
Oakland Raiders WR Ryan Switzer was traded to the Pittsburgh Steelers Monday, Aug. 27, according to a source. It is not known what the Raiders received in return.
The Raiders traded with the Cowboys for Switzer (a 2017 fourth-round pick) back in April. Switzer wasn't going to do much as a receiver no matter where he was playing, and his main role is on special teams as a returner.
Oakland Raiders WR Ryan Switzer was acquired by the Pittsburgh Steelers Monday, Aug. 27, according to a source. It is not known what the Raiders received in return.
Switzer was a fourth-round pick of the Cowboys back in 2017 and is now on his third team. He's a small slot receiver with great quickness and a small catch radius. Switzer's main value should come as a return man although he did not impress in that department during three preseason games with the Raiders.
Cleveland Browns QB Baker Mayfield may play as much as a half in the final preseason game Thursday, Aug. 30, according to head coach Hue Jackson.
Tyrod Taylor is the starter for the Browns to begin the regular season. He will give way to Mayfield at some point, likely this season. Mayfield, the no.1 overall pick in the 2018 NFL draft, has shown flashes during the preseason but still needs more time and development. He's going to get plenty of chances to show off his progress in the preseason finale.
Source: ESPN - Adam Schefter
Jacksonville Jaguars WR Donte Moncrief has an opening to a starting receiver spot with WR Marqise Lee (knee) out for the season.
Moncrief should get more looks now that Marqise Lee is done for the year. How much fantasy value do those extra looks may have is debatable. Keelan Cole likely gets the most boost with the Lee injury. Dede Westbrook will factor into the mix here as well.
Jacksonville Jaguars WR Marqise Lee (knee) will be placed on the Reserve/Injured list Monday, Aug. 27, and he's expected to miss the entire season due to ligament damage.
Earlier this offseason, Lee signed a four-year, $38 million contract. The deal included $18 million guaranteed. That number means he'll be back...just in 2019. This injury opens the door for guys like Keelan Cole, Dede Westbrook and Donte Moncrief to do more. Cole should see his ADP rise from the current level of WR58 (13.01) in 12-team PPR leagues.
Free-agent DE Robert Ayers (Buccaneers) agreed to a one-year deal with the Detroit Lions Monday, Aug. 27. Financial terms weren't disclosed.
In two seasons with the Buccaneers, Ayers only compiled 8.5 sacks in 24 games (12 each year). The veteran was released in March and has drawn little interest on the open market. The Lions needed some depth, and Ayers gives them a veteran pass rusher who could play a rotational role.
Updating previous reports, New York Giants LB Olivier Vernon (ankle) has a deep bruise high on his ankle, and he may cut it close to being ready for Week 1. His timetable isn't clear until the team sees how he responds in the next day or so.
Vernon is considered day-to-day with this ankle injury. Previous reports seemed to be positive about his availability for the start of the regular season. Stay tuned.
Source: Giants.com - Dan Salomone
New York Giants RB Saquon Barkley (hamstring) participated in team drills during practice Sunday, Aug. 26.
This is a great sign for Barkley's Week 1 availability and effectiveness, as long as he makes it through the next two weeks of practice without incident.
New York Giants C Jon Halapio likely will be the starting center this season after the team traded C Brett Jones to the Minnesota Vikings.
Halapio had earned the job by many accounts, so this isn't really a downgrade for the Giants offensive line. Last year's starter Weston Richburg signed a big deal in free agency.
Source: ESPN.com - Josina Anderson
Updating a previous reports, New York Giants LB Olivier Vernon (ankle) underwent X-rays on his injured ankle and they came back negative, according to a source.
That's good news, but he's not out of the woods for Week 1 and limited effectiveness when he first returns.
That'll do it for today, Folks. Thanks for reading and thanks for being part of Footballguys. We'll see you tomorrow with the Update.
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Okay - I've thought about this for a long time - what is the meaning behind NJ county, town, and street names. Either what they mean or who was the person they were named after. Tonight I was thinking about it again when I was comtemplating why Maidenhead was changed to Lawrenceville and who was Lawrence. I then was wondering who Tom was who gave his name to Toms River.
Here are just a few I know for right now...
Mercer - named after General Hugh Mercer who was mortally wounded at the Battle of Princeton and died of his wounds at the William Clarke House (still on the grounds of the state park, where you can see the room where he died). He was a close friend of George Washington and Scottsman.
White Horse - named after George Washington's horse which was white.
Trenton - named after William Trent, one of the original founders of Trenton. The William Trent house was recently renovated and is again open to the public. Druring the summer they have numerous events going on.
Cape May - was named after the Dutch explorer Captain Mey. After the British took over, the name was anglicized.
Here are just a selection I know - let's hear which ones others can come up with.
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Hi Jersey Devil and Davegering, I am not sure if Cherry Hill was named after the mall but I sure know the mall well enough. lol. I am facinated by the meanings of the names for Jersey cities. I will try to remember them. There is a question I have for you. It is a street, not a city name but maybe you know this. It is ''Cooper's Folly Road.'' Do you happen to know what Cooper did that was folly? LOL. There had to be a reason for it being named that. I have been thinking about it ever since I saw the offramp sign coming back from Cape May. Take care. Marianita
Contrary to popular belief the city of ELIZABETH was not named after Queen Elizabeth but after the wife of Sir George Carteret who was the copropietor of East Jersey(gues what city is named after him)?
That I find interesting. I had wondered about that. Now here is something that proves I have done my homework well. The city of Marlton was named for the blue clay used back in the 1800's called ,''marl'' and someone named the area ,''Marlton.'' Marianita
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Now here is something that proves I have done my homework well.
That's good because there will be tests afterward.
The city of Marlton was named for the blue clay used back in the 1800's called ,''marl'' and someone named the area ,''Marlton.''
I didn't know about this one. That's similar to Piscataway - except that it's an indian word for the color of the sand there. It's sort of a deer hide color.
I did know about Elizabeth being named after Carteret's wife and not Queen Elizabeth I. Elizabeth was originally Elizabethtown, but at some point they dropped the town part.
Princeton, Kingston and Trenton used to all have "town" at the end - but then was shortened to just "ton" and then connected to name. Prince-Town, Kings-Town and Trent-Town. There was a Queens Town between Kings-Town and Prince-Town but was then made part of Princeton.
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Jersey Devil, perhaps you can find out about ''Coopers Folly Road.'' That should be interesting. Sort of like ''Seawards folly.'' lol. Now here is a question for you. For example my son lives in Evesham Township. He lives in Marlton as you know. Why are there townships and how did they come about? Like Cinnaminson Township and many other townships. They have towns under them. I think it is neat but not sure why. Also many places end in the word,''boro.'' I am interested in knowing these kinds of things. I learn alot from the magazines I subscribe to and I read the Jersey news daily. I am detail oriented. Take care. Marianita
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The town of Caldwell was named after Reverend James Caldwell . He was a local Reverend who preached in the Springfield N.J. area before and during the revolutionary war . He was very much in favor of independence from the British . He joined the Third New Jersey Infantry Regiment as a chaplain when the war broke out in N.J. . It was in June 1780 at the battle of Connecticut Farms in which is now Union N.J. that his wife was killed by a British soldier while she was holding her 8 month old child . She was taking shelter in her house with her baby and two other women . Two weeks later at the battle of Springfield N.J. American troops started running out of wadding for their muskets and Reverend Caldwell went into the Presbyterian church ,gathered the hymn books ,and handed them out so the pages could be used for wadding . At this point he shouted " give em Watts boys ". If I remember correctly Watts was a British priest and now his words in these books were being shot at the British troops . The battle of Springfield has become known as the forgotten victory. It is possible this heroic stand by heavily outnumbered N.J. militia and the few continental troops present saved not only George Washingtons army who was not all present at the battle but also the revolutionary cause . GOD BLESS THESE MEN ! NEW JERSEY HISTORY SECOND TO NONE !
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That is an awesome man. He continued the work even though he must have been grieving for his wife. God must have blessed him with inner strength. Marianita
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The town of Kearny was named after civil war hero and general Philip Kearny . He led the !st N.J. Brigade at the start of the war and later was given command of a division although he did not want to leave his Jersey brigade . In 1862 at the Battle of Williamsburg Va. he was leading his division into combat when he shouted " Im a one armed Jersey son of a gun , follow me " He had lost his left arm during the Mexican war . There are statues of Kearny in Newark , Kearny , Washington D.C. and at Arlington national cemetary were he is buried . The one at Arlington is one of only two equestrian monuments there .
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That is most interesting indeed. We have a Kerney mancion here. It is a historical site on acres of land that is now a park. The road that Mr. Kearney rode his horse and buggy on is lined with palm trees. He liked palm trees. I wonder if there is any connection there or is this a different Kearney. I will have to research it. Marianita
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Califon was originally named California. A local miller named it such just about the time the California Gold Rush was commencing. He thought the name would bring prosperity. The town shortened the name to Califon in the early 1900's. I have an ice cream social ticket from 1906 that still calls it California.
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Hi irsihblue eyes, I find that very interesting. I nevver knew that Calif had a different name. I thought it had a Spanish name or something. I wonder if that keepsake you have that says ''California''s valuable by now. You never know. Marianita
The town of Madison in Morris County was named to honor the 4th president of the U.S. James Madison.
meaning of New Jersey names
Hi Jersey Pride, That is very interesting indeed. Now I know something else about the state I love so much. I know how Marlton got it's name. It started in the 1800's when the settlers used a green clay called ''marl'' and someone named the area Marlton. I believe I had originally said the clay was blue but actually it was green. I had thought maybe it was named for someone. I have learned alot about ''my state.'' lol. MaryAnne
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Hi. New here.
Malboro was also names for the Marl
I came across THIS SITE that explains many of the names
meaning of New Jersey places
Hi Jeff, That is so interesting. I put the website in my favorites so I can check it out later. I know Vorhees was named after someone. I read it somewhere. I can hardly wait to check out the meaning the of the names. Take care. Marianita
The meaning of New Jersey names
Hi Jeff. Have I ever got some news for you. This is exciting. I did some research and found out exactly Marlton got it's name. There is no doubt about it. I will try to condense this.
Marl is calcium carbonate. It is a squishy sticky off white clay like substance found in marshy areas.It was formed when an aquatic plant , chara, extracted carbonate from the lake waters of melting glaciersand stored the chemicals in it's branches. Dead chara sank to the ground to form a chalky soil. Peat also formed from partially decaying vegetation.Dig below and you will hit a layer of marl. Lime in marl cementas sand grains together so the soil retains heat and water. Marl had the opposite effect. Soil particles were less cohesive allowing more air, heat and water and plant roots topenetrate. Farmers sought out marl deposits being familiar with these attributes when they migrated to the area.
And so Jeff there you have it. The area was named Marlton as a result.
Nice bit of research Marianita.
I have a reproduction of an 1873 Monmouth Co. map. It shows an area in Marlboro called "The Marl Pits"
Hi Jeff. That is just too funny, Marl Pitts. Someone with a sense of humor gave that area it's name. I was really proud of myself for my research and could hardly wait to tell you. lol. I think I will go to that list of places that you gave me a link to and research more places names and get back to you. Take care. Marianita
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It’s coming…the driverless car, the savior of combatants fighting the daily traffic grind, week-in and week-out.
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Do we really want to give up that much control? Sure, one could argue that an autonomous mode is just that, a “mode.” But it won’t take long before manual operation could cease to be an option in a driverless world. And that’s, well, scary.
It’s scary when you’re trying to rush your pregnant wife to the hospital. It’s scary when you get an emergency call from a family member who’s just had a heart attack. And it’s scary to think that there could come a day when we lose even more control over our lives.
For “car guys” and “car gals” all over the world, it’s a frightening thought to think that we won’t be able to enjoy the art of driving top-down on PCH on a beautiful summer day. The joy and thrill of driving matters to some of us when we get to enjoy the fantastic fusion of man and machine as you charge with aplomb down your favorite canyon road. What of Mulholland Highway and Tail Of The Dragon? Just what’s the point if YOU don’t get to drive, and you’re simply to be ferried along?
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Doctor who proposed MMR-Autism link falsified data
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Postby SWGlassPit » Sun Feb 08, 2009 8:35 am UTC
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_a ... 683671.ece
THE doctor who sparked the scare over the safety of the MMR vaccine for children changed and misreported results in his research, creating the appearance of a possible link with autism, a Sunday Times investigation has found.
Confidential medical documents and interviews with witnesses have established that Andrew Wakefield manipulated patients’ data, which triggered fears that the MMR triple vaccine to protect against measles, mumps and rubella was linked to the condition.
Even if he didn't falsify his data, the study that prompted all the anti-vaccine wharrgarbl only had a sample size of 12. Epic statistics fail. This guy needs to burn.
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Re: Doctor who proposed MMR-Autism link falsified data
Postby Xeio » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:25 am UTC
SWGlassPit wrote: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/health/article5683671.ece
For some reason I thought you were talking about the time travelling doctor for a moment there. This type of thing is exactly why we have peer reviewing though, burn indeed.
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Postby william » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:52 am UTC
Despite involving just a dozen children, the 1998 paper’s impact was extraordinary. After its publication, rates of inoculation fell from 92% to below 80%. Populations acquire “herd immunity” from measles when more than 95% of people have been vaccinated.
Last week official figures showed that 1,348 confirmed cases of measles in England and Wales were reported last year, compared with 56 in 1998. Two children have died of the disease.
This is why you should vaccinate your kids.
The anti-vaccine people sicken me. They use bad data and then prey upon scared parents who have more on their plate than parents normally do(and parents normally have a lot on their plate) in order to do what, exactly?
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Postby Darkscull » Sun Feb 08, 2009 12:31 pm UTC
In the UK we had pretty much wiped out mumps and/or measles (I can't remember whether it was both, or just one. Don't know about rubella), and the only cases were among people immigrating who hadn't had the vaccines when they were younger.
Now in places with high immigration the british-born children whose parents refused the vaccine are getting infected as well.
The reason so many people believe the bollocks and refuse the vaccination is that most of the kids never get mumps or measles anyway. That's like people who live in a farmhouse in the middle of nowhere taking the locks off their doors because burglars are a myth, and persuading citydwellers to do the same with their reports of having all their stuff still.
The reason the anti-vaccine brigade do what they do (well, the leaders of it), is because they get publicity and sell books, and do speaking deals. Essentially, a lot of money flows just out of being in the public eye and making noise, and I think it's that simple: they're greedy fuckers.
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Postby psyck0 » Sun Feb 08, 2009 1:49 pm UTC
Oh SHIT YES. FINALLY. Posting this on Facebook.
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Postby The Reaper » Sun Feb 08, 2009 9:27 pm UTC
I loathe anti-vaccine people :\ I still await the HPV vaccine to be approved for use on males, so we can try to wipe out a few strains of that. Hurry up, FDA. :\
Can we make vaccines mandatory? They help almost everyone
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Postby JoshuaZ » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:26 pm UTC
Xeio wrote: This type of thing is exactly why we have peer reviewing though, burn indeed.
Well not really. Part of the reason that this took so long to get detected is that the peer review system really assumes to some extent that people are acting in good faith with their research. They might be incompetent. They might have bad sampling. But we generally assume that people haven't falsified data. So peer review didn't initially catch that and then it took years for people to do other larger studies that found that they could not duplicate the results. Even that didn't cause much of a worry because failure to duplicate results occurs all the time. So by the time we got to now in 2009 and know that this guy lied there's already a massive scare in the UK and elsewhere.
People have died because of this man's unethical actions. I almost wish there was some law he had broken so we could throw him into jail for a very long time.
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Postby bigglesworth » Sun Feb 08, 2009 10:36 pm UTC
Was this not known a few months ago? I seem to remember reading about it a while back.
Postby Kizyr » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:18 pm UTC
JoshuaZ wrote: People have died because of this man's unethical actions. I almost wish there was some law he had broken so we could throw him into jail for a very long time.
This is the part that pisses me off the most. The study has killed children, and made hundreds more sick, thanks to his lies. And for what? So he could get publicity and make some money off of it?
When you distill it down, Wakefield was sacrificing the well-being of children in exchange for his own publicity. If the study wasn't based on falsified data, then you could make the argument that he was just acting in the common interest, that he believed he was doing what was in the best interest of children's health. But if this is true, he has no recourse.
bigglesworth wrote: Was this not known a few months ago? I seem to remember reading about it a while back.
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the part of the issue that's new is that Wakefield has apparently intentionally falsified data. I think the study has already been discredited pretty soundly, but the issue of falsified data--as opposed to just a poorly-designed and inaccurate study--is relatively new. KF
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Postby MikeBabaguh » Sun Feb 08, 2009 11:43 pm UTC
Someone email this to Jenny McCarthy.
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Postby ameretrifle » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:32 am UTC
Xeio wrote: For some reason I thought you were talking about the time travelling doctor for a moment there.
Same here. Though I suppose on these fora it's not a wholly unreasonable assumption.
MikeBabaguh wrote: Someone email this to Jenny McCarthy.
Seriously, this is despicable. I hope that jackass faces some sort of consequence for this. I doubt criminal charges are feasible, and civil action would be iffy too, but I hope at least the press or something will get the word out so this man is shunned for the rest of his life.
Now to see if any of the anti-vaccine people actually change their minds... lack of evidence has never stood as much of an impediment to them before.
Postby bigglesworth » Mon Feb 09, 2009 3:35 am UTC
IIRC he was a Brit and lost his funding here a while back but now works in America.
Postby JoshuaZ » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:29 am UTC
ameretrifle wrote: Now to see if any of the anti-vaccine people actually change their minds... lack of evidence has never stood as much of an impediment to them before.
So far looks like they are claiming that he's being unjustly persecuted. See for example this
open letter at the anti-vaccine website Age of Autism.
Bleeding hell, I knew it.
Autism is terrible. That is why we need to use SCIENCE to find out what ACTUALLY causes it instead of wasting time on conicidental bullshit that pretty much every study ever has discredited! Why does this make no sense to these people?! Why are they more interested in this one damn theory than the truth? Are they irrationally afraid that any other theory will blame them, instead of allowing them to demonize The Big Evil Pharmacy Empire? No one is going to blame them! Their kids are autistic, for christ's sake! It is not their fault! Causing hundreds of children to sicken and die because they aren't vaccinated IS!
They seem to have such impressive blinders on: from the comments to that story, the most nonsensical review of His Dark Materials I've ever read. Way to miss the point, genius. And looks like some of them are against fluoride, too. Jeez, I got vaccinated and I drank fluoridated water for years; it's a miracle I'm not dead.
Postby Amarantha » Mon Feb 09, 2009 8:18 am UTC
I think the issue is one of emotion overpowering reason. Parents have a hormonal need to interact physically with their children, and to hear that the children return their love. When they have a non-verbal child who hates to be touched, it's very difficult for them to deal with.
Some are able to suck it up, learn to see the autistic child's point of view, and put its needs ahead of their own. Others don't have that strength of character (or perhaps are just selfish twits), and those are the ones that go on a mission to find something to blame (eg vaccines) or some kind of cure (hence behavioural intervention, chelation treatment and other such ordeals).
We'll never convince those people, because all they care about is that they "lost" their child to autism and they want it back so it can hug them.
Postby Darkscull » Mon Feb 09, 2009 4:39 pm UTC
If people can't blame vaccinations or something else like that for autism, then the main other candidate is genetics.
Some people care too much about their genetics and think that if their offspring are "inferior" then that reflects badly on them, and so want to blame something else if they can.
Essentially a large majority of the parents that rant this bollocks about vaccines causing autism care more about themselves than their kid deep down.
Postby JoshuaZ » Mon Feb 09, 2009 6:48 pm UTC
Darkscull wrote: If people can't blame vaccinations or something else like that for autism, then the main other candidate is genetics.
This is unfair to the parents and also biologically inaccurate. There seem to be heavy genetic elements to autism but there may also be environmental or stochastic elements.
Moreover, many of these parents likely do not have any ulterior motive. They a) want an explanation b) they are subjects of the cognitive problems discussed in XKCD 258 c) they see a correlation between then their kid got vacinnated and about when they diagnosed with autism (these occur at about the same time since the usual time for getting vaccinated is about the same time when autism becomes apparent) d) they've been influenced by a media which is reporting inaccurately.
Also, note that most of the anti-vaxers don't have kids who are autistic. They've choosen to not vaccinate. Thus, concerns about genetics aren't an explanation. This is especially true in Great Britain where the fraction of people who aren't vaccinating their kids is now high enough that herd immunity no longer applies for measles.
JoshuaZ wrote:
Actually, you're right.
Well, I knew that genetics wasn't everything anyway, but it's a very big part, and I was referring more to the parents with autistic children who blame the vaccines rather than anti-vaxers in general, but the middle paragraph of your post is spot on.
I don't doubt that there are still some people who fit what I described, but they are most likely a minority.
Postby william » Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:16 pm UTC
In the case of Jenny McCarthy the kid was actually given vaccines without thiomersal so it couldn't've caused his autism.
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by Frances Itani, is a beautifully-written novel that pays homage to
the Japanese-Canadian internment during World War II. During that time,
21,000 Canadian citizens of Japanese descent were imprisoned in
internment camps. The same fate befell American citizens in our
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Set against this backdrop, Itani focuses on
the plight of one family--that of the young and artistic son, Bin--to
explore the injustice a government inflicted on a minority. Like other
members of the Japanese Canadian fishing community on Vancouver Island,
the Okuma family was forced to abandon their home and boat, taking only
the belongings they could carry. They were moved inland from the
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miles west of their home. There they were given makeshift housing
without plumbing, electricity, or adequate food supplies.
book weaves from present-day (1997) to the years 1942 and those
immediately following the war. The narrator is an adult Bin looking back
on his childhood--a childhood marred not only by the internment and
later ostracism in public schools, but by a devastating action taken by
his birth father. In a custom practiced by Japanese of earlier
generations, Bin's father gave him away to an educated man who had no
sons, and hence, had no way of carrying on his family name. This man,
Okuma-san, encourages Bin to embrace his artistic talents. But no amount
of kindness removes the sting of abandonment.
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years later, Bin has yet to make sense of his father's actions. The
sudden death of Bin's wife propels him on a journey to visit the 84 year
old father and the internment camp that figure so prominently in Bin's
Young Ambrose Zephyer explained to his father that "things don't always have to be the way you'd expect." How correct he turned out to be. An ordinary man, he is married to Zappora Ashkenazi (whose nickname is Zipper) whom he met at work. Zipper writes for the third most popular fashion magazine. He loves her, she loves him.
No kids, just a quiet, content life until the doctor tells Ambrose that he has an incurable, fast moving disease and would probably be dead within a month. As a child Ambrose drew pictures of the letters of the alphabet - letters and images that began with those letters, but no A is for apple, B is for bear. For Ambrose A is for anaconda, B was for booby (a bird). So, entranced with the alphabet, Ambrose decides to visit 26 different places before he dies: one for each letter of the alphabet.
Zipper cannot understand why Ambrose isn't settling his affairs, planning his funeral. But he wants to travel and do things, so they start to travel. A is for Amsterdam, B is for the Brandenburg Gate. While Ambrose seems content or at least resigned to his fate, Zipper is struggling, afraid to show Ambrose her fear and sorrow.
This is a lovely story about love, death and dying. Well written it is actually charming even though the subject matter should be depressing. This book is anything but depressing. I recommend this book.
Elsewhere by Richard Russo
of the joys of reading a memoir by a favorite author is recognizing the
life story behind the fiction. Gloversville, New York, once the
capital of the glove-making industry, is now an economically depleted
ghost town whose inhabitants battle unemployment and factory-induced
illnesses. This is the town that appears in books such as Nobody's Fool and Empire Falls. This is the town in which Richard Russo grew up.
Russo's
parents divorced when he was very young. Raised by his mother and
grandparents, he developed a close relationship with his family. But
the Russo family had a dark side: his mother was wracked by anxiety and
what would later turn out to be obsessive compulsive disorder. She
thought of Richard as "her rock," and she always needed to live close to
him. She was wracked by self-doubts and inner turmoil. Living
"elsewhere" was her only solution to escape the demons within. With
age, her anxiety increased and panic attacks and unrealistic dreams
became the norm.
Elsewhere is a painfully honest look at Russo's
early and later life. It is a book about mental illness that is neither
diagnosed nor treated appropriately. Most important, this is the story
of a son who remains a constant in his mother's life and for whom he
attributes his gifts as a writer.
It was from
my mother that I learned that reading was not a duty but a reward, and
from her that I intuited a vital truth: most people are trapped in a
solitary existence, a life circumscribed by want and failures of
imagination, limitations from which readers are exempt. You can't make a
writer without first making a reader, and that's what my mother made
me. ( p. 156)
If you are a fan of Richard Russo and have read his works of fiction, Elsewhere will be especially appealing. The writer's talent and resilience shine throughout this touching memoir.
A Question of Identity
Susan Hill's most recent Simon Serrailler novel takes place in Yorkshire in 2002. In the small town of Lafferton, 3 elderly woman have been murdered in their houses. Particularly gruesome crimes, the details are kept from the public. Alan Frederick Keyes has been arrested and is standing trial for them. Keyes is a self employed builder from a nearby town. His wife testifies against him, afraid for her life. The townspeople are convinced he committed the murders, then the jury returns its verdict. Keyes is taken into police custody and his life changes dramatically.
Flash forward to 2102. In a new public housing project elderly women are again being murdered. The same type of murders as in 2002. So similar are these murders they contain elements from the 2002 crimes - details not released to the public. Has Keyes returned? Possibly, but all attempts to get current information about him indicate he doesn't exist. Simon Serrailler is assigned to investigate. Simon has his own personal problems going on. His relationship with Rachel is strained, and his sisters and father have problems that are intruding into Simon's life.
Susan Hill is a Man Booker Prize nominee and it's not hard to see why. She writes compelling mysteries with interesting characters. Yes, this is a long running series, but the books are still fresh and the characters keep evolving. I recommend this book and all the others in the series as well.
Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan
Part fantasy, part
adventure, and total love letter to both old-fashioned typography as well as to
modern-day Google (I think the company’s name is mentioned more times than even
Penumbra’s), this book is an interesting and provocative read that raises a lot
of questions about technology’s impact on humanity and about immortality.
The main character, Clay
Jannon, is a recent art school graduate. He’s an even more recent laid-off web
designer in San Francisco, which is why he takes the graveyard shift at Mr.
Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore, a shop that’s odd in countless ways. Its shape is
long, narrow, and tall; its customers are few and eccentric; its stock features
books written in code; and its owner—Penumbra—tells Clay, “Prior experience in
the book trade is of little use to you here.”
Although you meet a lot of Clay’s friends, roommates,
and other associates in the book, the story is plot-driven, rather than
character-driven. Everyone Clay seems to know, from his nerdy childhood friend
Neel who has become a software genius, to his new hot-looking, data-loving
crush Kat, has a skill or connection that advances the storyline. The search to
unravel the meaning behind the bookstore’s encrypted books takes Clay, Neel,
and Kat to New York City. There they find a black-robed cult of secret scholars
also looking to crack the secret language of the books in Penumbra’s store.
It’s at this point the story becomes an intriguing cross between Harry Potter
and The Da Vinci Code. But this geek fantasy ends back in San Francisco, where
Clay learns that the true key to everything that’s important is friendship.
This is How You Lose Her
This is How You Lose Her, by Junot Diaz, is a collection of linked
short stories about a group of immigrants from the Dominican Republic
and their struggles in the lower rungs of American society.
memorable tales are strung together by those involving Yunior--a reckless nerd
whose infidelities are matched only by his longing for connection.
first met Yunior in Junot Diaz's debut collection, Drown (1996), and he
later appears as the narrator in Diaz's Pulitzer Prize winning novel,
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2008). Now middle-aged and a
professor at a Boston university, Junior is still self-absorbed
and devoid of insights into himself or the women in his life. "I'm not a
bad guy," he reflects in the first story. "I'm like everyone else:
weak, full of mistakes, but basically good." (p. 2)
the stories go back and forth in time, the reader comes to understand
how Junior became the misogynist that he is. We are introduced to his
mother, who along with Junior and his brother, Rafa, are brought to an
East Coast tenement by the father. Both father and older brother set
poor examples for the young Yunior. His father, when he is at the
apartment, makes the family stay indoors and severely punishes the boys
if they are not silent. He leaves for days on end and eventually
abandons his family altogether. Similarly, Rafa objectifies women and
goes from one relationship to another. Yet Diaz makes him a sympathetic
character--a young man struck down by illness who refuses to
acknowledge his losing battle with death. Diaz also highlights Yunior's
thwarted efforts--since early childhood-- to emotionally connect with his brother.
Instead, Yunior finds his advances are met with verbal aggression and
hurtful blows.
Diaz paints memorable characters
throughout this collection. The women portrayed are all colorful, but
none stand out more than Yasmin--the Dominican woman who manages a
hospital laundry. Her boyfriend, a married man whose wife and children
are back in the D.R., wants to buy a house with her. We never know if
she truly loves this man, or if she and he are driven together out of
loneliness and alienation. Yasmin knows that she is usurping another
woman's love and the moral dilemma troubles her. Yet she cannot bring
herself to leave him.
After the Armistice Ball
This book, first published in 2005, is the first in the Dandy Gliver series by Catriona McPherson. The time period is just after the first world war has ended and the location is Scotland. Dandy Gliver is a high society woman, married to Hugh. They have survived the war relatively unscathed, both survived and they can still afford their properties. Dandy and Hugh live in Perthshire in their manor house along with Dandy's maid, Grant. Dandy is bored now that the war is over and her nursing duties have come to end. She's tired of the social circuit already.
After the Esslemont's ball celebrating the armistice Dandy learns that the famous Duffy diamonds are missing, allegedly taken from Lena Duffy's room after the ball. She knows that Lena Duffy had them on the night of the ball. Lena, her husband Gregory and their 2 daughters (Clemence and Clara) were all at the ball. Clara is engage to be married to Alec. The girls are as different as two sisters can possibly be.
Dandy is called by her friend Daisy Esslemont to find the diamonds. It seems that Lena has demanded that the Esslemonts pay for the diamonds even though no police report has been filed. Hints at blackmail start. Dandy is invited to another dinner to start her investigation. There is the theft of the diamonds, dark pasts of some of the characters and a murder to all deal with. What she discovers is not what she was hoping for.
This is a nice little cozy mystery. The story moves along, nothing too earth shaking and the time period and the location are interesting. Big country houses at a time when the families who owned them had suffered devastating losses in the war. It's not just the returning soldiers who have mental problems. I liked this book and have continued on with the series. If you are looking for a new set of cozy mysteries to read, I recommend these.
Peter Criss' From Makeup to Breakup
About a year ago I posted a review of Ace Frehley's memoir No Regrets. Apparently Kiss bandmate Peter Criss was inspired (or felt challenged) to write his own memoir, entitled Makeup to Breakup. It's going to be hard to sell either of these memoirs to you if you're not a fan of Kiss, but if you are a fan then you'll certainly be satisfied by reading either (or both). I'd say that Criss' memoir is the better of the two since he seems to remember a lot more, though at times his level of detail is a little too much.
Criss was the eldest member of Kiss and after drumming in a number of New York bands he was brought in to the band before it had recorded an album by an ad in Rolling Stone magazine. Criss is excellent at offering portraits of the band members as they changed through the years. He seems to have some affection for Gene Simmons, though he mostly portrays him as arrogant and ultimately cutthroat. Some of the details of Simmons' lack of hygiene must be read to be believed. Ace Frehley, who entered the band at around the same time as Criss, is shown to be a lazy drug addict and drunk though he was perhaps the one that was Criss' greatest friend in the band in the early days. Paul Stanley remains enigmatic (as was the case in Frehley's biography as well) and in love with his own reflection.
Criss also does a good job giving credit to Bill Aucoin who managed Kiss in its earliest days and even paid for their tours with his own American Express card before the band was able to make it to the big time. We also get stories of seemingly every girlfriend that Criss has had, including multiple ex-wives (and one current one).
It's pretty clear that Criss feels betrayed and cheated by his former bandmates and much of the second half of this book is dedicated to clearing the air about how he was treated on later reunion tours. We also learn about his drinking, his depression and his medical issues, including a late bout with breast cancer. As far as rock star biographies go, this is a pretty entertaining one with much credit going to Larry "Ratso" Sloman, who has co-authored a number of other musician biographies. Unfortunately, at times it also feels like Criss needs to fit in every single anecdote that he can remember, so it does occasionally feel wearying. But if you are the audience for this kind of book there is no reason why you won't enjoy it.
A Thousand Mornings: Poems
In A Thousand Mornings (2012),
acclaimed poet Mary Oliver once again transports us to the beauty that
surrounds her coastal home in Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her poems pay
homage to the myriad forest creatures--birds, foxes, snakes,
opossums--and examine her relationship to them. Take, for example, her
title poem, "A Thousand Mornings:"
All night my heart makes its way
however it can over the rough ground
of uncertainties, but only until night
meets and then is overwhelmed by
morning, the light deepening, the
wind easing and just waiting, as I
too wait (and when have I ever been
disapointed?) for redbird to sing.
Throughout
the book, Oliver takes a bemused stance toward her own tendency to
over-analyze. She is always aware of how small her life is compared to
the vastness of the ocean or the eternity of nature. Consider her poem,
"The Gardener."
Have I lived enough?
Have I loved enough
Have I considered Right Action enough, have I
come to any conclusion?
Have I experienced happiness with sufficient gratitude?
The Hearts of Men by Nickolas Butler
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman
Ann Patchett's Commonwealth
Louise Miller's The City Baker's Guide to Country Living
Alice Hoffman's The Marriage of Opposites
Bill Broun's Night of the Animals
Emma Straub's Modern Lovers
But What If We're Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past
Everybody's Fool by Richard Russo
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
Your Favorite Band Is Killing Me: What Pop Music Rivalries Reveal About the Meaning of Life By Steve Hyden
Fredrik Backman's Britt-Marie Was Here
Version Control by Dexter Palmer
Kathleen Grissom's Glory Over Everything
Zen Cho's Sorcerer to the Crown
Iain Pears' Arcadia
Eligible: A Modern Retelling of Pride and Prejudice by Curtis Sittenfeld
The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
The Lightkeepers by Abby Geni
Speak by Louisa Hall
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie
The Illegal: A Novel by Lawrence Hill
American Housewife: Stories by Helen Ellis
The Magic Strings of Frankie Presto by Mitch Albom
The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House
Lady Bird and Lyndon : the hidden story of a marriage that made a president
Saving Sophie By Ronald Balson
The Mare by Mary Gaitskill
The Lake House by Kate Morton
Barbara the Slut and Other People By Lauren Holmes
The Story Hour by Thrity Umrigar
National Book Award Shortlist 2015
The Prize by Jill Bialosky
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
The Wonder Garden by Lauren Acampora
The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret
Jerry Lee Lewis: His Own Story by Rick Bragg
At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen
The Secret Wisdom of the Earth by Christopher Scotton
Read Bottom Up by Neel Shah and Skye Chatham
It's a Long Story: My Life by Willie Nelson
Black Diamonds by Catherine Bailey
A Kim Jong-il Production by Paul Fischer
George Harrison: Behind the Locked Door by Graeme Thomson
Let Me Be Frank With You by Richard Ford
How We Got to Now by Steve Johnson
The Prince of Los Cocuyos by Richard Blanco
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Short Stories by Hilary Mantel
The Question of the Missing Head - An Asperger's Mystery by E.J. Copperman and Jeff Cohen
We are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler
The Arsonist by Sue Miller
Brief Encounters by Dick Cavett
Prague Summer by Jeffrey Condran
I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
I Must Say: My Life as a Humble Comedy Legend by Martin Short
The Paying Guests by Sarah Waters
How About Never - Is Never Good For You? by Bob Mankoff
One Plus One by JoJo Moyes
Mister Owita's Guide to Gardening by Carol Wall
Man on the Run: Paul McCartney in the 1970s by Tom Doyle
Delicious! by Ruth Reichl
Face the Music: A Life Exposed by Paul Stanley
The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles by Katherine Pancol
The Shadow Queen by Sandra Gulland
The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt
One Way Out: The Inside History of the Allman Brothers Band by Alan Paul
A Replacement Life by Boris Fishman
Gemini by Carol Cassella
Ripper by Isabel Allende
The Rhino Records Story by Harold Bronson
My Year of Meats by Ruth Ozeki
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The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
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All the Songs: The Story Behind Every Beatles Release by Jean-Michel Guesdon
My Mistake by Daniel Menaker
Nilsson: The Life of a Singer-Songwriter by Alyn Shipton
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Memories of a Marriage, by Louis Begley
The Signature of All Things
Room 1219 by Greg Merritt
Fin and Lady by Cathleen Schine
Mrs. Queen Takes the Train by William Kuhn
Manson: The Life and Times of Charles Manson by Jeff Guinn
The Silver Star by Jeannette Walls
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History Decoded: The 10 Greatest Conspiracies of all Time by Brad Meltzer
Pure Joy: The Dogs We Love by Danielle Steel
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ground vegetation
Note: currently (2017) the grass - regeneration feedback is disabled!
In order to account for difficulties that trees have to regenerate, we developed a forest floor vegetation cover and a browsing submodule. While forest floor vegetation primarily prohibits germination of seeds, browsing essentially prunes saplings and causes their mortality. Both of these processes imply consequences on forest succession.
We developed two approaches to implement a forest floor vegetation cover in iLand. The first approach (“pixel”) enables or disables regeneration on each 2x2m pixel after disturbance. The second approach ("continuous") provides a probability of each sapling to establish in dependency to grass cover.
Type “pixel”
To determine whether a pixel is enabled or disabled to regenerate, we accounted for (i) a threshold in minimum light requirements to allow grass on a pixel, (ii) a time-lag after disturbance until regeneration on a pixel manages to outcompete grass, and (iii) a probability that a pixel remains covered by grass for the time after this time-lag.
We had two data sources to develop the “pixel” approach. Data on the relation between ground vegetation cover (vascular plant species in the herb layer with a height of up to 60 cm) and tree crown cover were derived from the FlorAlp-Database ( Dullinger et al. 2012) by selecting releves with a uniform size of 625 m2 (N=852) (data available in Thom et al. 2016). As crown cover is not an accurate surrogate for light availability, we took a subset from a study landscape in the northern front range of the Austrian Alps, and initialized it in iLand. We extracted model outputs for crown cover and LIF ( light influence field, i.e., light availability), and derived a negative exponential function to describe the relationship between LIF and crown cover on 4.44Mio pixel with a grain of 2x2m. The negative exponential function was then used to fit LIF at the 852 inventory points. Based on the relation between ground vegetation cover and LIF, we estimated a suitable LIF threshold (0.2) to allow regeneration when light increases abruptly after disturbance.
To derive the time-lag for regeneration due to weedage after disturbance, and to estimate a time period as well as a probability for ground vegetation to severely affect regeneration within this period, we assessed the relation between time since disturbance and regeneration density using the data in Pröll et al. (2015) who collected data in the Austrian Alps for this study. The data on ground vegetation after disturbance varies between 1 and 29 years and the regeneration density on disturbed sites compared to control sites ranges from 0 – 1.8% in this study. Within the first five years, the regeneration density was found to be close to 0, and after five years there was an increase in regeneration density, but without indication for a pattern over time. Based on this data we set the minimum time-lag to enable regeneration on any pixel after disturbance to five years. After five years until year 29 after disturbance, we assumed the same probability that a year was sampled to allow regeneration on each pixel, so that after a maximum of 29 years all pixels are available to regeneration.
To implement the forest floor vegetation cover submodule with type “continuous”, we acknowledged three environmental processes: (i) the forest floor vegetation cover reaches its theoretical potential (saturation) in dependency to incoming light, (ii) there is a time-lag to reach this potential, and (iii) tree regeneration is reduced in dependency of the actual forest floor vegetation cover.
To derive the maximum potential cover of ground vegetation, we used the same data as for the "pixel" approach to describe the dependency of ground vegetation on LIF, but this time we derived a power function to describe the relationship between ground vegetation and LIF instead of setting a threshhold. We assumed this function to be the theoretical maximum ground vegetation cover in the model. The time-lag to reach this maximum can be estimated from field experiments or experts, e.g., a time-lag of 4 years means that in each year after a disturbance of the forest crown (as a reduced crown cover also increases LIF), ground vegetation cover increases by 25% of its maximum value. In the opposite case, i.e., with decreasing LIF, the maximum ground vegetation cover decreases according to the LIF value. As an decrease in ground vegetation does not necessarily mean a linear increase in regeneration, we included the effect of ground vegetation as a probability of prohibiting regeneration on a pixel as a function of ground vegetation cover.
The advantage of this approach compared to type “pixel” is that it covers the underlying processes of weedage in forests more accurate, and thus allows for a more sophisticated response of regeneration to grass as it provides a gradation, depending on the maximum ground vegetation cover and its effect. However, the disadvantage of the type “continuous” is the requirement for adequate data to define each parameter.
project file parameters
the ground vegetation module is configured by settings in the XML-project file in the section settings.grass. The following settings are available:
key datatype description
enabled boolean switches the module on (true), or off (false).
type boolean types are either "pixel" or "continuous"
pixel mode
grassDuration string Defines ramp to prohibit regeneration during the first years after disturbance, followed by an equal probability in each year to allow a pixel to regenerate again (once a pixel allows regeneration after disturbance, it stays "unlocked" until the next disturbance accurs). After reaching the maximum year, a pixels must be available for reneration. E.g., polygon(x, 0,0, 6,0, 6,1, 30,1, 30,0)
LIFThreshold numeric If a pixel exceeds the LIF threshold due to a discrete event (e.g., disturbance), ground vegetation invades the pixel. E.g., 0.2
continuous mode
grassPotential string Maximum grass cover (0,1) as function of the LIF pixel value. E.g., polygon(0.9999*x
maxTimeLag numeric Maximum duration in years to reach full ground vegetation cover. E.g., 4
grassEffect string Probability of prohibiting regeneration as a function of grass level (0,1). E.g., polygon(0.9999*x
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Bus torched in Gurugram, cars vandalised in Rohini
Anna Jefferson | 25 January, 2018, 18:35
Haryana police had come under severe criticism in the past for failing to control mob violence, most recently at the time of the arrest of Dera Sachcha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim. Meanwhile, SC is expected to hear a contempt plea against Karni Sena on Monday and Delhi HC has refused to hear a plea against the film and an FIR registered into Wednesday's attack on a school bus in Gurugram names the Karni Sena.
Noted among them was actor Farhan Akhtar, who wrote, "Attacking a school bus is not an agitation".
Prohibitory orders have been imposed here till Sunday to maintain law and order in view of the Karni Sena's threat to target theatres screening the film.
Haryana Police denied rumors of widespread violence in the state associated with the exhibition of the film Padmaavat and reassured cinema-goers of "full protection". To be able to duck the stones being thrown at them by the mob, the children and students hid themselves between the seats of the bus.
"They first attacked with bamboos and sticks at the rear window and asked the driver to stop the vehicle". Images showed shattered panes lying all around inside the bus. ZeeNews reports that no student was injured in the attack.
Protesters also allegedly damaged two state roadways buses in Jaipur and blocked a road in the city while scores of activists were held in Mumbai and Nashik. The teachers and the staff present in the bus complained that despite being present, the police remained a silent spectator, and did nothing to help them.
A day after Hindutva fanatics targeted school children in Haryana's Gurgaon, many private schools in the city and around chose to shut their educational institutions on Thursday.
He added that the Haryana government is trying to curb the violence that erupted in the state against the movie and ensured that stringent actions will be taken against the culprits.
Republic Day is marked by the Delhi government a day before it is observed nationwide.
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Man hurls shoe at Asaduddin Owaisi during public meeting He advised that the Modi government allocate Rs 2,000 crore for rehabilitation of women divorced under triple talaq. Between 2005-2015 there were 88,467 dowry deaths in India, 22 women die daily due to dowry.
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The Return of The Kiltie Tassel Loafer
Don't forget to come have a drink with us tomorrow, December 12 from 6-8 p.m., at Johnston & Murphy in NYC! Click here for complete details.
An overlooked men’s shoe is about to have a moment
In partnership with Johnston & Murphy.
Among loafer styles, the kiltie tassel loafer is often the odd man out. And there might be a couple of reasons for that. First, it tends to get pigeonholed as an “old man” shoe. Listen, your grandfather wore them because he had style, not because he was an old man. Second, in our contemporary culture with a lot of emphasis on sleek, chic and minimalist designs, a loafer with two pieces of flair seems that little too flamboyant for most.
The good news is that we’ve come a long way over the past five years, with more and more men taking the time to learn about, understand and truly appreciate the more esoteric and, dare I say, fancier components of classic men’s style. As a result, the kiltie tassel loafer is poised to make a triumphant return.
What is a kiltie loafer? The kiltie, or ‘kilty’ as it’s sometimes called, is a type of slip-on shoe that has a decorative yet practical fringed leather panel that covers the instep. The extended tongue feature is meant to protect the instep and keep laces from snagging.
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You’ll see a few different styles of kiltie loafers, distinguished by either tassels, laces or buckles. On the formality continuum, it’s a coin toss as to whether laces or tassels are the least formal, while the buckle kiltie is easily the most formal. Of the three, we love the tassel version most.
However, by and large, the kiltie loafer is a casual shoe and, as such, works best in situations ranging from casual to business casual. A pair of kiltie tassel loafers are a stylish anchor to an outfit when you’re simply out and about, heading to brunch with friends, a relaxed business meeting, business travel, a date night with your special lady or even a holiday party.
During the winter months, a pair of black kiltie tassel loafers work perfectly with your workhorse mid-grey flannel trousers and a simple turtleneck sweater. It’s an elegant and casually sophisticated look that shows you know what’s up when it comes to footwear.
And don’t forget that tomorrow, Tuesday, December 12, you’re invited to hang out with us at Johnston & Murphy at 501 Madison Avenue in NYC from 6- 8 p.m. Enjoy some Belle Meade bourbon, mix it up with members of the HSS community and peruse a variety of items from the HSS Shop. RSVP to [email protected] and click here for complete details.
Thanks, as always, for reading.
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If Groucho Marx were a shoe, he’d be a kiltie tassel loafer. IMHO the kiltie should have been killed off decades ago. But on you, anything looks good. :-)
PeterK1
I think Kiltie’s look fussy myself. But I’ll admit that wearing them in black tones the fussiness down a bit.
Brian: Great article and food for thought, as always. Coincidentally enough, last week I succumbed to a sale and acquired my first ever pair of tassel loafers. Big fashion stretch for me! Usually, it beefrolls or pennies in the loafer dept, colored brown or brown.. Oxblood if I’m feeling frisky. My new tassel loafers are CARMEL, I’m really living on the edge! Suffice to say, Kilties are gonna have to wait a while. Until I’m 70? Maybe not, but at least until I grow some stones…. ;-)
Brian Michael Shea
I’m sorry, but I just find them plain ugly.
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Doorstep Darkened
If you are confused by the incident Joel is referring to in panel 3, feast your head-orbs over yonder. Despite that comic being Pre-Continuity (PC) in the HEniverse, let’s just go ahead and assume it happened in a little pocket universe of canon. Hows about a little Evil Fox Executive primer? Whether the events in these comics end up sticking in the Post-Continuity (PC… wait, fuck) HEniverse remains to be seen.
The EFE has his own reasons for hating sci-fi. He is able to cancel far more than just TV shows. He occasionally consults with coworkers on corporate strategies. He has an uncommon appetite. He has a shared history with Joss Whedon (which directly contradicts his previous origin story AND the one in this blog post). He’s a bit of a Grinch, and his secretary has to deal with a lot of bullshit.
Major thanks to all of you Fancy Bastards that have started donation subscriptions since I added the new $2, $3 and $4 monthly levels. There is a now a premium RSS feed just for subscribers that has the full comic in the feed.
I am have a lot of fun expanding the comic from single gags to a tiny world. I am finding myself thinking 3 and 4 and 10 strips ahead, something that was never possible with HijiNKS Ensue before. It’s still very early into this new experiment, but I like how things are going and I’m quite enthusiastic about what’s to come. I hope you are digging it as well. So this is what world-building feels like, huh? Weird.
HEY! I started a Facebook group for Fancy Bastards to share ideas, get support and be a community of geeks and weirdos. Godspeed, You Fancy Bastards!
PHOENIX COMICON IS THIS WEEKEND!!!
I will be at booth 707/806 with Blind Ferret.
COMMENTERS: Has an enemy or at least someone who was a total jerk to you ever turned to you for a favor? What did you do? I used to work (at a real job) with this unbelievable shrew of a cunt. She hated my insides so hard with her eyes that they eventually caught fire and I died coughing up smoke and burning guts. It was quite an ordeal. Then she needed me to fix her computer. I thought this a good opportunity to decrease my workplace misery so I obliged. The entire time I was at her place she talked on the phone like I wasn’t there. The next day she went right back to treating me like garbage. The moral? DESTROY YOUR ENEMIES! NO MERCY! NO WEAKNESS! NO FIXING OF THEIR DELL DESKTOPS!
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AAARRRGH! you mentioned MTS. You CANNOT mention that bilious monstrosity ever again. It was so bad I almost wanted to rip my eyeballs out so I would not have to endure the misery any more. That is the only time in my life that a friend has ever apologised for persuading me to see a film against my better judgement.
Clemsonuee
Meet The Spartans is one of those things I know all decent people hate and that I should hate it as well. But just like hobo fighting and kitten catapulting it is a guilty pleasure.
cyraknoss
May 24, 2012 at 11:49 am Reply
I honestly enjoyed meet the spartans… Though admittedly I did put it into the DVD player for the sole purpose of reveling in just how far Kevin Sorbo's career had fallen.
fluffy776
Killlll him Joel, killll him with fire!!!! Plunge you fist into his heart, rip it out, and yell 'CRITICAL HIT!'
The geeks have demanded it so!
By which I mean me. And probably Wil Wheaton, because he IS the geek, but I also don't want to speak for him.
kingofmadcows
This is all a ruse, by feigning a moment of vulnerability, the Evil Fox Executive hopes to appeal to your humanity. But be forewarned, any feelings or acts of empathy, whether it stems from compassion, kindness, or even pity and disdain, is a conduit with which the Evil Fox Executive may use to expand its power.
The Evil Fox Executive's dark influence can worm through even the most infinitesimal of connections that it makes with you, slithering into the deepest recesses of your mind and festering in your unconscious. It will be a toxic blight upon all your thoughts and your desires, forever corrupting your hopes, your dreams, and all that you can ever imagine or conceive.
Nephaline
I prefer the old look of the Fox Executive, he now appears to be a devilish version of Joel…or is that on purpose? Is he your dark shadow? The Anti-Joel?
Didu
Mirrorverse Joel? Though they both sport facial hair..
CMSed
Darkest Timeline Joel!
90percentgeek
In the Darkest Timeline Eli lost his beard in a freak electric toothbrush incident, and Josh became a vegetarian after discovering that bacon was actually his father.
Joelppleganger!
Noblaum
He is an experiment with the Flesh gone horribly awry! Instead of winning back their freedom, he seeks to take it from others!
Doctor Who Reference FTW!
i love the mirror universe and i love that he is mirror joel. it's SO APPARENT in the hair it's not even funny.
Poodles McGee
Ah, but emo bangs are the new goatee for indicating evil. So I'm not sure what cartoony flip-up bangs and goatee+5 o'clock shadow are supposed to represent. Maybe former evil that used to be evil but is now so worthless and miserable that it can't even muster up a decent evil? Like the kind of used-to-be-evil that's standing on a metaphorical cliff thinking about jumping, and if you just gave it a little nudge it would fall right off without even the satisfaction of having actually chosen its own fate? OMG, Joel! Don't invite it in, just give it a bag of razor blades, Valium and booze!
You're the first person to ever catch that.
I'm not 100% sure on his character model yet. Still playing around with things.
Hurrah! Will there be prizes?
Tree-Vor
I suspect the EFE is trying to look more and more like Joel with the plan to eventually kill (or just lock him in the basement) and replace him.
He's Joel, just darker, pointier, and more soul-crushingly evil.
I've not commented before, and rarely do on any of the comics in my RSS reader, but just thought I'd say I'm liking the addition of the continuity. I'm also impressed with how well you seem to have handled critics… nice job 🙂
@dkplewis
Ah, so the EFE is a vampire? That explains a lot. He's probably been trampling on the hopes and dreams of geeks for decades, if not centuries. Irwin Allen, Nikola Tesla, Galileo, Archimedes – they've all stared into those dark, dead eyes and shuddered as he's said, "Just a quick word about your work …"
Or he's just a real stickler for ceremony.
"so the EFE is a vampire"
Not exactly. He's certainly not 100% human.
@ianbobmorris
if you stick with the Jack Kirby's new gods reference in his backstory that make Joss Whedon orion.
Mr C
i'm actually surprised that the EFE doesn't want to go live under a bridge somewhere feasting on the souls of innocent……well innocent anything really
wait no, is he some sort of real world FALMER
IOW a thing that was once innocent and wholesome(ish) and has now become twisted and vile by years of dwelling in the darkness (in this case corporate television)
I love the continuity. Also call-backs for me always feel like the writer is saying "thank you for watching. Here's a nugget for you!" Aaaaand I can't believe I've been reading (and apparently retaining) long enough to get the reference without help. 🙂
Glad you liked it. Thanks!
Josh Shoberg
I gotta say, I'm already really enjoying the start of the story arcs. Keep up the good work, sir!
Agreed – I'm digging the continuity.
@ohheh
Please be sure not to tell him about Red Pandas. They're even more adorable and he may not have started in on them yet.
"I'm also impressed with how well you seem to have handled critics… nice job :)"
I appreciate that, but you have NO IDEA how NOT well i've handled some of the criticism. I opened the flood gates, so it's my own fault.
Irishfather
I actually quite enjoyed Meet The Spartans! Especially the little quip "I'm gonna go Hercules on your ass!" from Mr. Sorbo. I don't know why you would hate it so… Oh Wait. That's right. I'm a teenager and you despise us evil creatures. And if the Enemy of you enemy is your friend…
Damn it Joel! By some twist of Cosmic law you make me like bad movies!!!! Now the EFE would probably end of being my BFF. He'd be the EFEBFF
TEEEEEEEENS!!!!
thevoxpopuli
but you're an irish father… You can't b a teen.. . that's… that's….
that's how MTV and what not get new shows
teenage irish fathers (which actually sounds kinda funny)
kschenke
I had a girl during culinary school who talked shit about me and then would repeatedly send me friend requests on Facebook. And when I say repeatedly, she'd send them to me, I'd ignore her, she'd send them again and I'd be nice enough to at least say yes and put the privacy up. THEN apparently she'd unfriend me and try to refriend me a couple months later. By that time, I was just done.
When I was 16 my mum ran away with my best friends father and then they eventually moved into a house across the street from my dad (I had issues growing up!). I never liked the guy she ran off with, but when he simultaneously broke up both my parents, and ditched my best friend like he was a used prophylactic he became one of my least favourite people ever.
Eventually he turned into an abusive drunk who regularly got arrested by the cops for drunk and disorderly behavour. Meanwhile I turned into a defence lawyer who looks after people who get arrested (can you see where this is going?) For years I would get late night phone calls from my mum calling me up in tears saying he'd been arrested and asking me to help him; I would then bite my tongue, swallow the things I wanted to say and go help him – even though what I really wanted to do was leave him to rot.
At the begining of May I found out that he'd tried to strangle my mum, and that this was the fourth time he'd taken his hands to her. He was arrested, and my mum was asking me to talk to the police – not to get him out, but to make sure he didn't come back. I finally got to use my skills against him, ensuring that everything was in place to make an air tight case against him and getting a restraining order in place to protect my mum.
I guess what I take from all this is that justice comes to everyone, eventually – you just have to be patient.
What a horrifying story, I can't imagine dealing with such a monster. Hope he stays far away, and eventually rots in jail.
I think it's only a matter of time until EFE kills Joel and wears his skin.
"It draws the comic, or it gets the hose again!"
SPOILERS for season two!
oneswellfoop
Frighteningly related… a Real-Life FOX Executive disappeared three weeks ago and now a local (to me, I'm 200 miles up the coast from L.A. in San Luis Obispo County) website reports that he was seen at a Morro Bay restaurant. http://calcoastnews.com/2012/05/missing-fox-execu…
You may want to use this for future reference as to what Real FOX Executives look like… blonde, surferish-ly tan, vacant stare… if he were female, he'd be an anchor on FoxNews.
The Unknown FB
Line from 30 Rock during their live show by Jenna: "Welcome to Fox News. I'm blond".
@Hermetic
It looks like the lovechild of Garey Busey an a Ken Doll.
*Gary
Curse the lack of an edit feature!
So they're like the Deus Ex (1) men (and women) in black. They all look the same, even when switching genders!
@shalahoyden
I'm very excited for the HEniverse. I suppose this will make the EFE sorta like Spike. Just please don't fornicate with him in an abandoned building. I don't think I could handle that.
Also I recently worked with a girl (is there a trend here?) who would constantly call me and say she couldn't come in to work (to be fair, she didn't have a car and was relying on her neighbors for rides) and then if I said no she would call the management and tell them I said yes. Then I'd get a call from management to confirm and I wasn't left with a choice because either way she wasn't showing up and they were gonna call me in anyway. I reported it several times but nothing could be done. She just got transferred out but we still get calls from her bill collectors. At work. At closing time.
Tony Sladky
Y'know, I don't feel like any of those backstories are necessarily contradictory.
First, obviously came the devastating interplanetary war, in which the EFE and Joss Whedon were exchanged. The future EFE was eventually rescued from the Terror Orphanage by an overly-friendly astronaut who liked giving small children Moon Wine as a reward for keeping Super Space Secrets, and he started working for Fox not long after arriving on Earth with all his deep emotional scarring.
I like to think he started really young. Seems like child labor law violations wouldn't be above the network whose executives must have hate-filled pineapples installed in place of their hearts, and I kinda love the image of a young, goateed EFE shoveling adorable kittens and pitches for brilliant Sci-Fi shows into the Engine of Evil.
geekygirluk
One of my school 'mates' spiked a drink and then threatened to kill me while I was unconscious. A year later I was in Oxford St with my sister & she stopped me in the street like we were friends. Blank stare, keep walking. Last month she sent me a friend request on Facebook. Ignore.
(In the meantime, she became a crack addict & got deported to Australia, so at least I'll never have to see her again!)
Are we still deporting criminals to Australia? It never fails to amaze me how people send friend requests on Facebook despite the fact that it's fairly obvious you don't have any desire to connect with them. I've had people from school send requests that I had actually forgot existed until that moment. If I managed to live the last 10 years without knowing that they now live in Wigan and have three alsatians, why do they think I need to know it now?
It's where her mum was from, and I think her mum had returned there, so when she did whatever crime I guess they just sent her back.
I bet EFE's from Porlock.
Siirenias
I guess there is a down-side to killing and eating my enemies (well…I just don't have any). I have no amusing stories to relate!
@CX316
Oh good lord, now I know what the Hate Filled Pineapple stuff was referencing O.o
DON'T LET HIM IN! Do you have any idea how hard it is to get rid of a Fox infestation?! You have to replace ALL your carpets and insulation. And burn the house to the ground.
rowanautumnhold
I have been truly enjoying HE and have "just one more"'d myself into the wee hours of the morning more than once. Keep up the great work, Joel and best of luck to you in this new Experiment. I'll be here reading along and coming back for more.
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Local NHS team “delighted” to be shortlisted for Parliamentary Award | Latest News
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Local NHS team “delighted” to be shortlisted for Parliamentary Award
The team was nominated by five North West London MPs (quoted below), and has been active in local schools across various boroughs.
KWESI AFFUL AND SAIRA ARIF (PICTURED) ARE AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEW: please contact Louise McCudden at nwlccgs.media@nhs.net to arrange.
PHOTO: Top left – Kwesi Afful; Top right – Saira Arif; Bottom left – Lucy Colleer; Bottom right – Carol Graham-Kitt
The NHS North West London’s Digital Citizen Education programme was nominated by five North West London MPs (Boris Johnson, John McDonnell, Mark Field, Virendra Sharma, and Gareth Thomas) for a Parliamentary Award in the Future NHS category. We can now confirm that the project has been shortlisted on behalf of London as a regional star.
The winners of the NHS Parliamentary Awards will be announced at a special ceremony on 10 July, at the Palace of Westminster. The full shortlist of regional winners is here.
The programme runs across all eight boroughs that make up North West London: Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Westminster, Kensington and Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham, Hounslow, and Ealing.
What is the Digital Citizen Education programme?
The NHS in North West London trains volunteers to become ‘digital ambassadors’. These volunteers then go out and about in the community, with NHS support, speaking with community organisations including charities, libraries, and other target spots about how we can all use digital technology to get the best out of the NHS. This training is always free and always held in public spaces.
For anyone who doesn’t have an email address or a smartphone, the NHS also hosts Digital Healthy Hubs, to support people in learning how they can benefit from digital.
Digital Citizenship Education Programme also includes the Digital Healthy Schools programme, which offers all students and teachers in secondary schools access to a platform that teaches them about safe, approved apps they can use. This is free for schools in North West London, as the NHS has funded it for two years, as we know funding challenges for schools could potentially be a barrier to equity of access. As part of this work, students also learn about potential digital health career options. Nowerhill High School (Harrow), Alperton Community School (Brent), Heston Community School (Hounslow), Logic Studio School (Hounslow), and Lampton School (Hounslow) are among the schools to take part so far.
The five goals of the Digital Citizen Education Programme
Provide a platform for every secondary school pupil to learn how to use health apps safely for physical and mental health wellbeing.
Reduce social isolation in care homes by using digital technologies that are low-cost.
Equip our workforce to proactively encourage citizens to use digital health.
Create digital healthy hubs for people to come and learn the basics about data, how to access the internet and therefore benefit from health and care services electronically.
Create a network of volunteer digital ambassadors that encourage and empower people to use digital health to improve self-management.
Top facts
NHS in North West London serves a population of 2.5 million registered citizens and 35% have digital NHS accounts, yet only 10% use these accounts regularly.
Our goal is to have 200 ambassadors by end of 2019.
92% of the digital ambassadors say they are doing this to help others, by engendering a peer-to-peer support network strengthens communities.
Later this year, we will be inviting schools to go into care homes as part of an intergenerational project so that young people can talk to care home residents about digital health. As part of the care home project, we will trial – with meaningful consent from all involved – devices similar to Amazon Echo in the care homes to reduce social isolation.
Digital is vital to the NHS
Digital Citizen Education is vital to the long-term sustainability of health and social care services. By supporting people to look after themselves where they can, and to choose the most appropriate service for their needs when they do become unwell, we can make sure we’re putting NHS resources where they will do most good for patients – and providing much speedier, safer patient care at the same time.
KWESI AFFUL, Digital Citizen and Innovation Lead for the NHS in North West London said:
“It’s brilliant that so many of our local MPs across the political spectrum nominated the Digital Citizenship Education programme for this award – and we’re delighted to hear that we have now been shortlisted as regional winners.
“92% of the digital ambassadors say they are taking part to help others. It is all about helping people across all ages and background use digital technology to get the best out of the NHS.”
VIRENDRA SHARMA MP (Ealing Southall) SAID:
“I’m pleased and proud to support the NHS in Ealing by nominating the great work done by the Digital Citizenship Education team for a Parliamentary Award.
“Improving patient health and care through the use of digital technology is extremely important. I wish the team all the best at the ceremony on 10 July.”
MARK FIELD MP (Cities of London and Westminster) SAID:
“The Digital Citizenship Education programme runs across the whole of North West London, and it is extremely deserving of a Parliamentary Award in the Future NHS category.
“I’m very proud of the work the NHS is doing in my constituency to make better use of digital opportunities for patients.
“I wish them the best of luck at the awards.”
JOHN MCDONNELL MP (Hayes and Harlington) SAID:
“I was delighted to support the NHS in my constituency by nominating the Digital Citizenship Education programme for a Parliamentary Award this year.
“It’s vital that we take the time to recognise this above-and-beyond work that NHS staff do for patients – in this case, improving access to digital technology for all patients across backgrounds and ages.
“Good luck to the team for the awards on 10 July.”
BORIS JOHNSON MP (Uxbridge and South Ruislip) SAID:
“I’m proud to nominate the Digital Citizenship Education programme for a Parliamentary Award this year. The NHS in my constituency is doing important, innovative work to bring the benefits of digital technology into the lives of patients, and this programme is a great example of what we hope to see more of around the country in future.
“I wish NHS North West London CCGs the best of luck at the awards ceremony on 10 July.”
GARETH THOMAS MP (Harrow West) SAID:
“NHS staff in my constituency work very hard to make sure every patient gets the best possible care. The Digital Citizenship Education programme is about improving digital health access for all.
“Good luck to the team at the awards ceremony on 10 July.”
NOTES TO EDITOR
ATTACHED PHOTO: Top left - Kwesi Afful (Digital Citizen and Innovation Manager); bottom left - Carol Graham-Kitt (Digital Citizen Education Coordinator); top right - Lucy Colleer (Digital Innovation Officer); bottom right - Saira Arif (Digital Citizen and Innovation Project Manager)
VIDEO: Kwesi and Saira are “delighted” to be nominated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9VtB9yYw-M&feature=youtu.be
The NHS Parliamentary Awards launched last year to celebrate the NHS’s 70th birthday.
NHS North West London CCGs commission health and care services across eight boroughs: Brent, Harrow, Hillingdon, Westminster, Kensington & Chelsea, Hammersmith & Fulham, Hounslow, and Ealing.
Full shortlist available here. https://www.england.nhs.uk/nhs-parliamentary-awards/about/regional-winners/#main-content
Last year over 250 Members of Parliament nominated an individual or organisation for an award.
The winners will be presented with their awards in parliament on 10 July 2019. We will send you a follow up press release with photos after the event.
MPs can nominate an individual or organisation for an award in one of ten categories, which are: The Excellence in Healthcare Award; The Excellence in Mental Health Care Award; The Excellence in Urgent and Emergency Care Award; The Excellence in Primary Care Award; The Future NHS Award; The Health Equalities Award; The Care and Compassion Award; The Wellbeing at Work Award; The Volunteer of the Year; The Lifetime
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Twenty-First Anniversary of the Bariloche Case (July 31, 1995)
Source: PLANETA UFO and El Cordillerano (elcordillerano.com.ar)
The sighting occurred in the vicinity of the local airport by the crews of two aircraft: one aboard an Aerolineas Argentinas 727 (Flight 674) and the other a Cheyenne belonging to the National Gendarmerie (GN705). The event took place on July 31, 1995 between 20:00 and 21:00 hours.
Jorge Polanco was at the rudder of the Aerolineas Argentinas airliner. He was the protagonist of one of the UFO cases that shook the nation: the Bariloche Case.
On the evening of 31 July 1995, Polanco was making his final approach to the local airport aboard the Boeing 7272 when "a light - at first dim, then intense and bright, got between the aircraft and the runway." The pilot immediately advised the control tower of the situation, but their reply was stunning: there was no unidentified traffic. The strange light accompanied the Boeing and its 100 passengers for seventeen minutes. An aircraft belonging to the National Gendarmerie also confirmed seeing the same object. The situation was made even more dire by another fact: there was a blackout at the airport.
Between 20:17 and 20:31 hours on that evening, a power outage had engulfed all of Bariloche in darkness, with the breakers of the substation conveying 132 KW of electricity from Alicurá to the city having been tripped. When the blackout occurred, Flight 674 and its 102 passengers and 3 crewmembers, was escorted by a UFO as it flew at an altitude of 3000 meters, initiating its final descent into Bariloche Airport. Captain Polanco said the following: "When we were 15 minutes out, 40 miles to be exact, the tower authorized us to initiate an instrument approach, causing us to descend from 12,000 to 3,000 meters. We were then advised that there had been a power outage in Bariloche, so we waited until descent was authorized. At the moment that the maneuver began, I noticed a white light heading toward us on a collision course at full speed. It stopped a hundred meters away. When we began our descent to the airport, the UFO made a very strange turn, accompanying our own turn, flying beside the plane some 100 meters away," explained the pilot.
The instruments on the Boeing 727 remained unchanged. The only modification was to the color of the UFO, which now displayed two lights at its ends and an orange one in its middle, flashing intermittently. The UFO was the size of a passenger plane.
"600 meters above us," continued Captain Polanco, "there was a Gendarmería airport whose pilot contacted us upon seeing the UFO. The UFO insisted on escorting our plane as it descended toward the runway. With the runway in sight, the airport's lights blinked out again, causing me to engage in an escape maneuver, climbing to 3000 meters. I contacted the tower once again from that altitude, and was told that all of their instruments had gone offline as we approached and before the outage. When I made the escape maneuver, the UFO rose at an incredible rate of speed and remained suspended at 3000 meters, waiting for us to achieve that altitude. It didn't move or travel according to known laws of physics. We remained in the area for a few minutes before receiving permission to land once more. Upon seeing us descend, the UFO took off at full speed, and according to the pilot of the Gendarmería aircraft, it vanished near Cerro Otto. As I walked toward the control tower, I was met by Air Force Major Jorge Luis Oviedo, who could not believe what he had witnessed from the tower."
The second airplane from the Gendarmería Nacional, the witness to the UFO's presence, carried pilot Rubén Cipazuk and Gendarmerie Commander Juan Domingo Gaitán, who said: "At 11,000 feet over Lake Nahuel Huapi we saw an amber-yellow light whose intensity increased and decreased as it flew toward the Cordillera a high speed." Cipazuk confirmed the UFOs location with Captain Polanco with the following words: "I'm seeing a light to your right and I don't know what it is, but it's following you."
"The case had considerable impact worldwide in the media. Even experts from NASA came to interview me. It was the most solid, real and spectacular case," stated Polanco.
[Translation (c) 2016 S. Corrales, IHU with thanks to Guillermo Giménez, Planeta UFO]
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Wights, Elves & Dwarfs
If the enemies of our Folk are out there monitoring this post it is, once again, going to invite accusations of my having 'mental health problems'; but to those who are wiser and still loyal to Kin, Folk, Gods, Ancestors and who are aware of the Spirit-Worlds in which dwell other Holy Beings who withdrew from this realm when the Christians turned them into 'demons' or 'devils' and mankind drew away from them and eventually almost forgot they existed. Far from having 'mental health problems' those who believe in there being other worlds of existence, and other being who dwell in these worlds, and the ones who hold to the truth. Quantum Science, although still partly stuck in the physical world, is beginning to find the truth, and much of this is not due to modern ideas but to the study of ancient texts.
The problem in creating this post lies in the fact that what we know as 'Wights', 'Elves', Dwarfs' and other 'otherworldly beings' have in the main been demonised by the Christian Church - turned into 'devil's and 'demons'. The modern materialistic consumer society has done its part in cutting man off from the other-worlds and the only vestiges left are perhaps that the Elves come at 'Christmas' with 'Santa Claus'. Not only were these beings treated in this way, but also our Gods who were demonised, the best example being Woden who was turned into the 'Devil', as we shall show.
Luckily, there are still remnants of the truth, especially in the works of Jacob Grimm - Teutonic Mythology - and Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm. 'Synchronistically', the name 'Grimm' is a by-name of Woden. Writers of this era, fortunately, had access to old 'folk-tales' still passed down through word of mouth, something we do not have today. Jacob Grimm and his brother, Wilhelm Grimm, had the foresight to write down some of this and leave it for those to come.
As I said, the Christian Church was responsible for 'demonising' our gods, wights, elves, dwarfs and other beings, but this is not the whole story. This we know to be the case but as with all things mankind, having developed the means to choose, chose to go the wrong way and to believe what the church said, admittedly sometimes out of fear for their lives. In following this path they lost the contact with the other realms, and in doing so the beings of these realms would naturally not be so keen on dealing with men - hence no doubt why we find mischievous elves or sometimes downright hostile elves or other wights. Another consequence seems to go some way to explaining the rather complicated remnants of this Folk-Lore where Elves were seen to be 'little-people' rather than the tall, fair Elves of Tolkien.
This is quite easily explained when we see the same thing has happened to men, who have diminished in height over thousands of years, and these wights also diminished in height. In many instances the Dwarves (Dwarfs) were seen to be taller than the Elves. My own experience of this was in the Scottish Highlands on the shore of the Moray Firth where Asbeorn (an Odinist Magician) and I performed an Alfar Blot and just after doing so I stood beside a small stream running down from the mountains above, aptly named the Fairy Glen. A shining blue-white figure of beautiful appearance stood before me, a shimmering blue-white light about four foot tall. This was one of the Elven Folk. We can see by this that the Elves are smaller now, have 'diminished' as Tolkien wrote in his Book of Lost Tales. This explains the anomalies in the tales of these wights.
THE ELVES.
The word 'elf' is related to the ideas of 'shining', 'white', 'brilliant' etc. and stems from -
OE - aelf, elfen, ylfa
ON - alfr, alfar
Goth - albs
German - alb
elb/elben
For our purposes we shall always use the term Elf or Elven, using a capital letter to show that we see these as a 'Holy Folk', just as we do with the Gods and the Ancestors. For this, we must add, the term is used of the Light Elves or High Elves alone, for reasons that will become clear in this post. There are three kinds of Elves to be found in Norse Mythology -
Light Elves - liosaflfar - dwelling in Alfheim.
Dark Elves - dokkalfar - dwelling within the Earth.
Black Elves - svartalfar - who seem to be the smiths and craftsmen.
The 'Dark Elves' are obviously not the same as the 'Black Elves', and seem to be rather more 'dim' or 'dingy' rather than 'black'. Indeed, they are more 'brown' or even (in a lot of cases) 'grey'. Popular belief held that dwarfs wore grey clothing or grey or brown 'cap-of-darkness'. What struck me here was that even today these beings may not have completely stopped entering our realms unrecorded. Is it not possible that the Light Elves are the 'Nordic Aliens' and the Dark Elves the 'Grey Aliens'? (*) These are just modern interpretations of ancient mysteries seen through the eyes of technology.
In Scotland there are such things as the elf-arrow, elf-flint, and elf-bolt, and knots in wood were ascribed to the Elves. In Scotland a know-hole is called an elfbore. In Smaland (Prussia) a tale is told about the ancestress of a family that she was an Elfmaid, that she came into a house through a knot-hole in the wall with the sunbeams. I am going to come back to this because of the statement given by Jacob Grimm - 'with the sunbeams'.
Elves are also associated (like Dwarfs) with invisibility and also with the butterfly, which seems to where we get the Victorian idea of the 'fairies' who have wings. The butterfly is a symbol of transformation since it starts off as a caterpillar (without wings) and transforms into the winged butterfly. On this same idea the 'Fairy Ring', which occurs in grass with mushrooms, should rightly be called an Elf-Ring since we get the terms alledands (Danish) and alfdands (Swedish). We have been led away from the true meanings through using terms not suited, since 'Fairy' comes from 'Fay' which is connected to 'Fate', again we have a mix-up of different concepts.
THE DWARVES.
There is so much overlapping here that it seems there is either a complete mix-up of the Elves & Dwarfs, or that, like the Gods these are 'titles' given to different aspects of these wights. Some of the Dwarfs were cunning smiths, and we find that the Elves also forge weapons, so certain parts of what seems to be two different races have been mixed up, maybe due to their roles.
The Dwarfs are very much like that which is shown in The Hobbit where their home is in a mountain and where they mine the gold and precious gems. As with man - probably reflected in what has happened to man - they became obsessed with gold, gems and wealth. This is how these people are shown in The Hobbit which Tolkien himself stated was NOT based upon any modern events (like the 'Return to Zion' that was suggested by an Israeli Paper). The Dwarfs were shown as being honourable and loyal, even if they sometimes slipped, as is shown also of the Elves. We have to consider that not only man but also the wights were influenced by the Dark Forces, and that some of them turned to this Dark Side as did men, especially the rulers of men.
The Dwarfs, as stated, lived in the mountains, in caves usually, and this is reflected in an Old Norse word dvergmal meaning 'echo'; this suggests that these wights were contacted via some form of chanting (such as Yodelling) which produces an 'echo' from the mountains. This may have developed into some form of human contact through sound but this does not mean that it did not develop from the original form of contact with other wights.
The following Dwarf-names should ring a bell to those who have watched The Hobbit -
Vitr & Litr/ Fili & Kili/ Fiallar and Gallar/Skinir & Virnir/Anar & Onar/Finnr Ginnr/ Bivor & Bavor/ Nar & Nainn/ Thrar & Thrain/Nainu & Dainu/Oinn & Moinn/ Dvalin, Durrin, Thurinn, Fundinn.
There were also dwarf-names connected to the Elves - Alfr. Gandalf & Vindalfr.
In regard to their living in rifts and caves in the mountains we have three words in Old English that confirm this idea -
bergaelfen
dunaelfen
muntaelfen
And in the Netherlands we have alfenbergen, in Denmark biergmond, biergfolk and biergtrold.
The Dwarfs also need the aid of mankind at times, especially with the following -
Fetching midwives/goodwives to assist the She-Dwarfs in labour.
Men of understanding to divide a treasure or settle a dispute.
Borrow a hall to hold their weddings in.
These ideas may seem rather ridiculous, but it does go to show how - once - there was a very tight bond between men and the wights, and that each was in harmony with the other. As we can see in Norse Mythology it was Loki The Deceiver who wrought mischief amongst the Elves, turning kin against kin, and he did so with mankind too. Loki is an agent of the forces that seek to divide, creating disharmony and chaos, and eventually to destroy.
The Dwarfs are associated with invisibility and we find this so many times in our Germanic Lore. This is through certain means -
Hat, cloak, tarnkappe.
Grey coats.
Red caps, scarlet cloaks. (The Red Cap is also connected to the Elves and the Amanita Muscaria mushroom.)
We have the following names connected to this -
helkappe,
nebelkappe,
tarnkappe,
tarnhut
Hodeken (From the cap he wears.)
There are also certain Germanic words that connect to this -
Old Saxon - helith-helm
Old English - heolthhelm/haelthhelm
Old Norse - hialmar huliz
Old English - grimhelm
When Dwarfs appear singly to amongst men they are wise counsellors, and this is how we should see them again. Knowledge can be still gained from these wights of all races.
ELVES-DWARFS.
In this section I am going to lump the two together as one since we have no way of telling which applies to which, although I have tried to show there was originally some difference. Certain wights are associated with Frau Holda and these were referred to as -
die guten holden ('The Good Holden')
holdeken ('Holde-Kin')
hulderchen (not known)
In Iceland we have the huldafolk, huldamenn names used of the Alfar; in Denmark we have hyldemand where hylde is the Elder-Tree giving us the 'Elder Mother' who is supposed to dwell in the tree - Tree Spirit. Frau Holda comes from the Elder Tree. There is also an association with Venus or 'Dame Venus' who dwells in the mountain, obviously a reference to a Heathen Goddess (Freya?) who dwells in a certain mountain.
WOOD-WIGHTS.
There are also other beings to be found in Germanic Lore, some of which are obscure due to time and also distortions. We have the following interesting things to consider -
The term bilwit or bilewit which can be found in some Old English texts, as can the phrase bilewit faeder. Can we connect the term 'Bil' with the Norse 'Bil' or maybe even to the 'Billings' who were a ruling line of the Saxons, found in names such as 'Billingshurst' (West Sussex).
Schretel - there is an Old English scritta and Old Norse skratti ('Giant'), and the English version seems connected to the Wood-Sprites or Wood-Elves which are the Wuduaelfenne. Interestingly the OE scritta gives us the later 'scrat' and I remember using the term 'scratty' for someone who was 'rough' or 'shaggy' or 'wild', terms used of the Wood-Sprites.
We have the Wuduwasa or Woodwose who is the 'Wild Man of the Woods', more likely Woden as Herne the Hunter, Lord of the Trees, but also no doubt used of those who he sent to do his will on Earth - a 'projection' of the God. There are certain other names associated with the wildwoods -
Wildfolk.
Forest-Folk
Wood-Folk
Wildwood-Folk
Moss-Folk
WATER-WIGHTS.
There were also wights connected to the water, water-sprites and water-monsters as they became later. We find that certain words connected to these stem from the god Woden and his association with the sea and with water -
Nichus - OHG
Nicor - OE
Nikr - ON
Nok, nocke - Danish
Nikarr/Hnikkar, Nikuz/Hnikuz found in the Eddas, the former from ON and the latter from OHG.
Then there is Grendal and Grendal's Mother who are connected to water, and who are 'monsters' of sort that had to be slain by the hero - Beowulf.
HOME-WIGHTS.
Here we come to something interesting since this section is directly connected to Ingui/Ingwe through various words, but also through the 'Legend of Cuthman' which I am going to go into. We have the Latin ingoumen/ingoumo which means 'Guard of the Interior' as well as Ingeside/Ingesinde meaning 'domestic' or 'inmate'. We find in Middle High German the term heilige Ingeside referring to this same concept. In Old Norse we have the term skurgodh - 'Hearth Gods' connected with the hearth and the home-fire. Here we also have the English term 'inglenook' for the fireplace, a name obviously linked to Ingwe.
In Cuthman & A Continuing Tradition by George Cockman (an unfortunate name!) we find the following statement -
'When Cuthman came to build his church, he was said to have hung his gloves on a sunbeam.'
Remember the Elf-maid who appeared through the knot-hole on a sunbeam? Is this a coincidence, or have we here a tradition passed down with a knowledge (even dim) of the Elves and of Ingwe - Lord of the Elves. Cuthman is Ingwe as I have shown before. When the work of building the church neared its end Cuthman was struggling to fix the main roof beam when a stranger appeared and helped him to finish it. Cuthman asked who he was and he replied -
'I am he in whose honour you are building this church.'
In one version it is inferred that is is 'Jesus' and in another 'Saint Andrew' - the latter probably being a later version since we can equate 'Jesus' (Krist) with Ingwe. The 'main roof beam' is symbolic of the Sacred Centre just as the Barnstock Oak at the centre of the House of the Wolsungas represents the Sacred Centre.
The 'Gift of Ing' is Fire and we have the 'inglenook' as the fireplace surrounding the Hearth Fire (Sun), and it would seem that the fireplace was the entrance fo these Hearth Wights to enter the house. Our modern society has by and large rid itself of the Home Hearth through 'central heating' and through making fires something that is 'anti-social' - this is so since in many areas having a 'bonfire' is frowned upon. The link between the 'sunbeam', the 'hearth' and Ingwe is interesting.
OTHER WIGHTS.
There are other wights that we know of which include the following -
Puck - This is the English name of the wight known as Phuka in Ireland and Pwcca in Wales. However, this should be taken as a 'borrowing' from the Celtic since we find the following in the Northlands - pog (Danish), pojke (Sweden), puki (Old Norse) and Pocca (Finland).
There is also a tomt found in Germany and it is possible that this is connected to the 'Tom Bombadil' of Tolkien?
Another name that comes down to us from mainly Germany is kobolt/kobold but this is likely a later addition from the Greek.
'Goblin' is Latin.
Robin Goodfellow is the equivalent of the German Knecht Ruprecht.
WIGHTS IN TODAY'S WORLD.
There are so many people who talk about 'ecology' and 'nature' who see this as merely based upon the physical world as we see it today. Yet we can see in this 'Physical Nature' a state of decay, as Markwood (Mark = Boundary) becomes Mirkwood where all is in a state of decay and death. This is not 'Nature' which is bound also to the spiritual worlds but 'nature' locked into matter as ,man is locked into matter. The Spirit of Nature is being lost whilst rampant technology destroys everything that is sacred to us on the physical plane, at the same time driving the Spirits of Nature away at the same time.
We have to reverse this process and welcome the Spirits of Nature back into our world; this is not impossible and I am sure that these Spirits of Nature will welcome our attempts at setting right what has gone wrong. In the process, as we have shown, these Spirits of Nature also help give knowledge and wisdom that will aid us in our struggle.
Even today we have the concept that at Yuletide we leave something out for the Elves, and it seems clear that in order that they are appeased we need to give something to them as a 'gift'. It seems strange to say that we give food to the Elves, some German tales telling that a loaf of bread should be baked and given as a gift, but that is precisely what seems necessary. Some years ago, whilst living in Gwynedd, North Wales, I had a dream about Deganwy Castle and that I should go there to contact the Elves, and did so as suggested. However, when nothing of interest happened I realised that in the dream I had been told to give a gift to the Elves - which I had forgotten to do. A lesson learned since we have to give 'blot' to the Elves, give a gift just as is also said to have to happen at Yuletide when the Elves come with 'Santa Claus'. This is something to consider.
The above may seem strange since it is hardly possible that the Elves can eat the food we give, but there is something we need to keep in mind here. In eld-time the Warrior-Kings were buried with their regalia, their horses, and in some areas wives etc. This suggests that they had would be able to use their weapons and regalia in the 'other-world' which seems rather crazy. However, perhaps they could use these since they also existed in this other-world, which is suggested when we see weapons as having names which thus charged them with Magical Power. So maybe they could have been charged in order that they existed in both worlds - which is also possible when we consider a 'gift' to the Elves.
It is also suggested from Germanic Folklore that the Elves and Dwarfs love to dance, and that bells can summon the dwarfs - another thing to consider when we seek to reconnect to these Land-Wights. Also, we have the Guardian Goddess of England in the figure of 'Britannia' which invokes the Spirit of the Land, and the Guardian-Goddess of the English in the figure of the Wolf-Queen (Idunn or Kara) who can be invoked in battle or in peace. The White Dragon symbol is used to invoke the Land of Ing and the Folk of Ing.
The Elves are often associated with the Waene-Gods, hence the link to Venus as the Morning Star & Evening Star. The Light-Elves live in Alfheim and the Waene in Vanaheim. One the Elven-Kin is named the 'Sons of Ivalde' which includes Idunn who is the daughter of Ivalde. The English equivalent seems to be Ewald or Hewald stemming from the Old English Heawold.
EALA EARENDEL ENGLA BEORHTEST.
Tolkien seems to have seen Earendel as the planet Venus - the Morning & Evening Star. Since his earlier version of this piece is named Scipfaereld Earendeles AEfensteorren we can deduce that he saw Earendel as the Evening Star, and not the Morning Star. The 'son' of Earendel is named Ottor Waefre (OE 'restless', 'wanderer') who became known as Eriol. I say 'son' of Earendel because he was 'born under his beam' through this father was named Eoh (OE 'horse') who was slain by his brother Beorn. Ottor Waefre settled in Heligoland where he married Cwen ('Queen') and had two sons, Hengest and Horsa, born to avenge his father Eoh, which they did.
Here, of course, Tolkien has put into this tale the Saga of Hamlet where the father is slain by the brother, and the son revenges the death of the father, though here it is the two sons who take on this task. After the death of Cwen he left his young children and set out to seek Tol Eressea - 'The Unknown Island' - and there he was 'made young by limpe (also known as lith in Old English) and they had a son named Heorrenda. Eriol later adopted the name Angol and -
Thus it is that through Eriol and his sons the Engle (the English) have the true tradition of the fairies, of whom the Iras and the Wealas (the Irish and the Welsh) tell garbled things....
Thus a specifically English fairy-lore is born, and one more true than anything to be found in Celtic lands.'
'Book of Lost Tales - Volume II' by J.R.R.Tolkien
Tol Eressea is placed in the location of England and is also seen as Luthany and Albion. Tolkien changes this story and replaces certain places and figures, and thus Eriol or Angol becomes AElfwine (OE 'Elf-Friend') and the Elves name him Lurhien because he comes from Luthany. According to this account he loved the sign of Orion and thus the Elves called him Luthien ('Wanderer').
There are certain things which are of interest -
'How Old English became the sole mortal language which an Elf will speak to a mortal that knows no Elfin.
Ingwe and Earendel who dwelt in Luthany before it was an isle and was driven east by Osse to found the Ingwaiwar.
The 'seventh invasion' was 'that if the Ingwaiwar, who were not hostile to the Elves'.
'How he (Ingwe) became the half-divine King of the Ingwaiwar, and taught them many things of Elves and Gods, some that some true knowledge of the Gods and Elves lingered in that folk alone.'
Ingwe...becomes the king of the Angali, Euti, Saksani and Firisandi who adopt the title of Ingwaiwar. He teaches them much magic and first sets men's hearts to seafaring westwards.'
Tolkien set out to create an English Mythology because he thought that they had lost theirs; but he was also a scholar of many Indo-European Languages and Cultures - as is clear from his writings. We could see this as a bias when he see the English as having the True Knowledge of the Elves but when we consider that the English are a very rare people in having so many Old English names that actually contain the word 'Elf' - Alfred being the most obvious that everyone knows. The following are some of these names -
AElfgar - Algar - Elgar
AElflaed
AElfgifu
AElfheah
AElfnodh
AElfraed - Alfred
AElfric
AElfsige
AElfstan
AElfwid
AElfrydh - Elfreda
AElfweard
AELfwine
We should ask ourselves who so many Old English names are linked to the Elves, and our answer must come from the fact that the Divine Ancestor of the English Folk is Ingwe - Lord of the High Elves. It seems that Tolkien saw AElfwine as a descendant of Ingwe who had gained a knowledge of and love of the Elves from the tradition of his family. He wrote the Golden Book of Tavrobel which is mentioned in his Quenya Dictionary as The Golden Book - the collected book of legends, especially of Ing and Earendel. This also seems to have been called The Lost Tales of Elfinesse.
'Even as Men wax more powerful and numerous so the fairies fade and grow small and tenuous, filmy and transparent, but Men larger and more dense and gross.'
The word 'fairy' is often said to stem from 'fae' and thus 'fate' but if we use it in the sense of the Fair Folk it takes upon itself its true meaning. It is also interesting to note that the Welsh Tylwyth Teg is used for 'fairy' and means 'Fair Family'. The word 'Teg' means 'fair' and is that used of the Tegeingl or 'Fair Ingle' who dwelt in Ireland and then North Wales. I would assume that 'Tylwyth' is like the Irish 'Tuatha' and Germanic 'Teuta' meaning 'tribe' or 'family' which is the smaller unit.
In regard to the lack of English 'Fairy' Lore there was obviously an abundance of this but through the most oppressive measures used against the English Folk this has been lost to us - no doubt destroyed. Even so, pockets of this still exist, and we have proof that Tolkien was right in that we are the only peoples here to have had names using the prefix AElf.
(*) The 'Grey Aliens' could also be linked to the standardised, raceless, sexless beings that parallel the 'progress' of the human race today - towards a 'Race of Slaves'.
Ingwe in Tolkien's Works
Ask & Embla
The Sacred Blood Struggle
Religion in Today's World
Nodens - Germanic God?
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KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 28 (Bernama) -- A total of 246,962 people have registered as new voters from July to September this year.
The Election Commission said in a statement today that 32,494 present voters applied to change their polling station.
The Additional Electoral Rolls for the third quarter of 2010 will be displayed from Oct 27 to Nov 2.
The commission advised people who have registered as new voters and others applying for a change in polling venue to check the rolls.
Those who registered as new voters but were missing from the rolls should use Form B to lodge their claims.
Voters objecting to the inclusion of any name on the rolls should fill Form C to complain.
The rolls are displayed at State Election Commission offices (14 places), computerised post offices (457), government complexes/offices (103), district/land offices (157), district/municipal councils (52), multi-purpose halls, Rukun Tetangga bases and community halls (183) and other premises (30).
The commission is also displaying the names of voters to be struck off the register because they have died or are no longer citizens or for any reason no longer qualified to vote.
The commission called for the cooperation of the next of kin to report a death promptly to the National Registration Departemnt and present certificate of burial as proof of demise.
"Without confirmation of death from the department, we have no power to remove the name of the deceased from the voters registration data base," the commission said.
It advised voters who had moved house to request a change of polling station that is closest to their new place of residence.
For more information on this, voters can go to www.spr.gov.my or call the commission's headquarters at 03-88856500 or fax 03-88889117.
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Clarisse GIRINCUTI is a Burundian woman doctor. She graduated from the University of Hope Africa in 2016 with a degree in General Medicine. Since then, she has been working as a Consultant Physician at the Mwaro TABARUKA Health Centre before being employed by IPROSARUDE since January 2017 where she realizes her dreams of serving the impoverished community in the interior of the country and learning leadership skills.
Thanks to her zeal and dedication, she volunteered at the Rema Hospital of the Shalom House in RUYIGI, at the Red Cross Medical Center in Kinindo, at the Doctors without borders Medical Center in Kigobe.
Clarisse has always wanted to have additional training, from where she received training on the resuscitation of the newborn and one on the management of malnourished people at Kibuye Hospital, on surgical emergencies and first aid at the Kamenge Military Hospital.
She also likes to be in associations to better blossom. She is a member of the Red Cross and YWCA Burundi.
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Physician of Burundian nationality; Deputy Director in charge of care at the Polyclincic Espoir de Gitega, one of the IPROSARUDE clinics. He holds a Doctorate in General Medicine from the University of Burundi in March 2014. He also has expertise in surgical and gynecological-obstetrical emergencies as well as in abdominal-pelvic and obstetrical ultrasound acquired at Mutoyi Hospital, a hospital run by an Italian NGO called VISPE, where he worked from May 2014 until August 2017.
Dr Olivier GASHIRAHMWE has also been trained in SONUB (basic emergency obstetric and neonatal care) and in the management of victims of GBV (sexual and gender-based violence).
As personal aspirations, he loves his family, learning more, sports and listening to music (any music).
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My name is NSHIMIRIMANA Jean Paul. I am originally from Kayanza Province exactly in Matongo Commune. But at present I live with my family at Kayanza town center. I attended Burarana primary school and went ahead to Don Bosco secondary school and finally at Bujumbura National University. I followed the Hospital Management section in High Institute of Commerce.
After the school attendance, I got an internship at Musema Hospital for 3 months which was for completion of the whole curricula of the High Institute of Commerce. Later I got a job of teaching in public secondary school and that lasted for six years. In the end of 2013 I got a shift in my career and embrace my preferred career, that is, managing the Health Institutions. I was indeed nominated as the Finances and Administration Manager at Gahombo Hospital and till now I am working for the Ministry of Public Health and Fight against AIDS. As the Hospital was new, I worked hard for initiation and implementation of the accounting procedures, for it was my job specifications indeed.
In the midst of 2014, I received training in Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation for one week, and ever since, it has been a tough tool for the major part of my duties. In 2016, I was trained on the Administrative and Accounting Procedures Manual for one week and in the course of the current career, I got various trainings concerning the accomplishment of my tasks.
Meanwhile, I grasped the opportunity of getting a higher school level. I was enrolled in evening curricula in Enterprises Management Faculty for two school years in order to get the Diploma of Licencié. In the beginning of 2017, I proceed with Memoire public defense and got my Diploma of Licencié.
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Dr Arlette did medical school at Nanchang University (China) and graduated in 2013. She did after Bachelor Degree two programs : Medical Management of HIV infection in Burundi -University of Burundi in 2014) and Methods and Practice in Epidemiology– ISPED : Institut de Santé Publique et Développement in 2014). Since August, Dr Arlette is studying at OTC : Monitoring and Evaluation of health programs and projects.
Since 2013 worked as a a generalist practitionner and as a part time teacher in two universities (UGL : Université des Grands Lacs and ISD :Institut Supérieur de Développement).
From December 2015 to June 2016, worked as an expatriate for MSF (Médecins Sans Frontières) in Central African Republic. Her position was MD Outreach in Bangassou Project.
Dr Arlette Joined IPROSARUDE in 2016 as research and development unit member
From February 2017, working as a Consultant at CERPED (Centre d’études et de Recherche en Population et Développement).
2017 : Final Evaluation of RAMBA Project – World Vision
2018 :Site Improvement through Monitoring System (SIMS) – USAID/PEPFAR
Ir Nikwibitanga Ambroise
Ir Ambroise did statistical school at Burundian university (public university),a schoolship of World Bank in 2008.
Since 2008 worked as a staff of ISTEBU and in 2014,he joined the minister of Agriculture as a statician engineer .
Since 2017,Ir Ambroise joined Cost Ivory university for a master 2 of statistical agriculture .
Ir Ambroise has experience in Elaboration of survey methodologies,Design of data entry forms, processing, analysis, archiving and data diffusion.
Ir Ambroise joined IPROSARUDE in 2016 as a member of IPROSARUDE research and development unit .
Tuyizere cyprien
Program manager ai and capacity improving officer
Cyprien is Burundian. He holds a bachelor of health sciences/nursing from national institute of public health in Burundi. He is certified in management of people on HIV treatment, in assessment of local malnutrition, and in prevention of malnutrition to children less than two years, he is also trained in Child-Focused Community Transformation.
Cyprien has been working at IPROSARUDE since august 2017, where he works as the capacity building officer.
Cyprien has held positions with Food for the Hungry Burundi (as the health nutrition Assistant Manager) and Concern World Wide Burundi (as the health and nutrition Project Manager).
Cyprien is a registered nurse with seven years of dedicated experience across the wide range of duties associated with humanitarian and Christian organizations management. Well skilled in all aspects of culture diversity and communication. Detailed oriented with strong organizational skills. He works well independently or as part of a team effort. He is self-motivated, enthusiastic and dependable.
Kwizera Anastasie
Sexual reproductive for youth and adolescent project assistant
Anastasie KWIZERA is Burundian. She has a university degree in health science options < Nursing> obtained from NGOZI University in Burundi.
Anastasie has been an employee of IPROSARUDE since April 2015 in the implementation of its projects (Biraturaba and joint program) carried out in partnership with Care International. She worked for the TPO Foundation for one year in the implementation of her Community PBF’s RSS/Karadiridimba project and also worked at the Gihanga Hospital in Bubanza’s Health Province as a nurse for one and a half years.
Anastasie has always wanted to work for the promotion of the health of the human being and here she had the chance to work in an organization that meets her dream: Initiative for the promotion of rural health and development.
To deepen her knowledge and skills, she loves to read the various documents and follows the advice and training of her superiors and IPROSARUDE partners.
In everyday life, she seeks to maintain good relations with those around her, especially her colleagues and her Creator.
Ayinkamiye Ornella
Monitoring and evaluation officer
Ornella is a Burundian. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Administration and Management with emphasis in accountant and finance from Université Lumière de Bujumbura in Burundi in 2016. She has been an intern in the biggest public transport agency in Burundi, OTRACO after her experience with the Confident Translation Solutions surl as an Office Manager where she gained more experience in public relations, office and personnel management. She also has expertise in the human rights and peaceful conflict resolution techniques.
She also earned certificates in English language-advanced level and in Chinese language-elem.basic Level 2 from Regional Center for Tourism& Foreign Languages in Kenya.
She joined IPROSARUDE in July 2017, where she works currently as a Monitoring &Evaluation Officer. This is a great opportunity for Ornella to work at IPROSARUDE as the position she holds helps her to grow professionally, gain more experience and knowledge and help her reach her full potential.
Ornella loves fashion, reading, watching movies, spending time with family and friends and travelling.
Dr François Xavier MANIRAKIZA
Pediatric chief
Doctor François Xavier MANIRAKIZA is a paediatrician, professor of paediatrics and neonatology at Burundi universities (university of Mwaro, Public Health National Institute and Universite Lumière de Bujumbura).
He is a practioner doctor at: Mwaro Clinic University and Gitega Polyclinique of Hope.
Doctor François Xavier MANIRAKIZA did his studies of specialization in paediatric at University of Burundi during three years (3) and two (2) years at Cheikh Anta Diop University of DAKAR in Senegal. He did also medical imagery studies at EL Hadj Ibrahim Niass University and got a University diploma of General Echography (2011-2012).
Dr François Xavier did his studies of general medicine at university of Burundi from 1986 to 1993 where he got a doctorate diploma of general medicine.
Beside all that, he got different certificates at: DAKAR Principal Hospital (neonatology) 2012,
Obstetrical emergencies certificate at Hôpital Prince Régent Charles and CHUK: 2001.He has been a pediatrician practitioner at KIRA Hospital 2016-2017.
He has 15 years of experiences as a practitioner in general medicine from 1993-2008.He has been a director of different Hospitals (Hôpital Sanatorium de KIbumbu, Hôpital de District de KIBUMBU, Hôpital de RUMONGE, and Hôpital de RUTOVU) and also an advisor doctor at INSS (Institut National de Sécurité Sociale): 2003-2004.
Dr François Xavier MANIRAKIZA worked for a N.G.O (A.H.P: Austrarian Help Program) 1998-2000.
Actually, he supervises research works done by students during their ending studies in varied institutes and universities during their ending studies in varied institutes and universities of Burundi.
Dr François Xavier MANIRAKIZA likes as hobbies: swimming, walking and listening to the music even be reading different novels and books related to different subjects.
Ngoga Fred
Communication and Senior Ophthalmic clinic Officer.
Fred Is Rwandan by Nationality Holding Advanced diploma in Ophthalmology got From University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences.
Fred Worked as Senior Trainer in Rwanda Eye Clinic located at Kigali, Where was to Train Nurses in Primary eye care Services and other Simple ophthalmic techinics for Six Months.
He has Participated in Rapid Assesment of Avoidable blindness in Rwanda Where He was Working as Clinic officer and Collecting Data from the Community during research of avoidable blindness disesases supervised by Dr Chiku Mathenge in Western Province.
In 2015 Fred came to Burundi where He worked in a Private Clinic located at NGOZI Province, Worked as Ophthalmic clinic officer.
In June 2016 Fred Joined IPROSARUDE Where now is currently based at Polyclinic espoir Gitega.
Currently Fred is working as Senior Ophthalmic clinic officer At Polyclinic Espoir Gitega, he is also communication officer.
In His Free time Fred likes to watch football Games especially English premier league, Swimming, and Watching Comedy Shows.
Fred Enjoyed Helping the People with Low opportunities and Patients with No Means of Paying their bills of Ophthalmology Treatments.
Jean Bosco NTUNGIRIMANA
Communication assistant
Jean Bosco NTUNGIRIMANA graduated from University of Burundi in Library sciences with high studies Diploma in 2003. The second Degree in Information sciences, especially in Archival studies has been awarded by the University of Cheikh Anta Diop of DAKAR (Senegal) via the online studies of University Agency for French speaking communities (Agence Universitaire de la Francophonie in french) in August 2011.
He is a Head of Documentation and Archives Department at the Burundian’s Court of Audit for over 13 years. Since November 2017, He is a part-time Teacher at the University of Burundi especially in History Department.
As a professional in Library and archives management, he is also an independent Consultant in Libraries and archives management and provides professional consulting services on various aspects of Libraries, Archives and Records management in different Organizations such as in public and private sector.
Between March 2011 and September 2011, with funding from the International Development Research Centre, He was a Team Leader of the International Records Management Trust in conducting a case research study project related to “the Managing Records as Reliable Evidence for ICT/ e-Government and Freedom of Information in East Africa”.
Médard IRITUNGIRA
Logistic and procurement officer
Médard IRITUNGIRA of Burundian nationality. He holds a diploma of the General Humanities. Concerning the professional career, currently, he is employed by IPROSARUDE, Polyclinic Espoir department of Gitega as cashier. From 2014 until 2015, he worked at MWARO and KAYOGORO respectively in the same institution mentioned above and with the same responsibilities.
Médard is also in charge of supply and logistics at IPROSARUDE.
Ease of working in multidisciplinary and multicultural teams, resistance to stress, endurance at work, openness, discretion and collaboration, sense of responsibility, spirit of synthesis and initiative, high priority-setting ability, professional secrecy, mastery of the administrative circuits, great courtesy and flexibilities towards employees: these are the main lines that characterize Mr. Médard IRITUNGIRA
Niyongere Antoinette
Administrative and finance assistant
Antoinette is an Administrative and Financial Assistant at the Polyclinique Espoir de Gitega. She was manager of the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega from July 2014 until December 2015.
She has a university diploma from the University of Burundi, in the Institute of Commerce, ISCO (Institut superieure de commerce), hospital management section. In 2013, she completed a professional internship at Hope Fund Microfinance in Bujumbura in accounting and reception services.
In 2012, she completed an internship at Polyclinique centrale de Bujumbura in the services of reception, invoicing, pharmacy and collection.
She is interested in sports and internet.
Uwizeye Cynthia
Secretary officer
Cynthia is a cashier secretary of IPROSARUDE. She has her Level A2 diploma from Ecole Sociale de Gitega (Social School) in Burundi. She is Burundian by nationality. She has worked at IPROSARUDE since 23rd March as a volunteer. She has always wanted to work in IPROSARUDE and has been employed since 22nd January 2018.
She enjoys working with her superiors and colleagues. Cynthia is sociable.
In everyday life, she loves sports and music.
Arbam RWAKUNDA
Ophthalmic Clinic Officer
Arbam Is Rwandan by Nationality Holding Advanced diploma in Ophthalmology got From University of Rwanda College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences in 2008.
He has Participated in Rapid Assessment of Neglected Tropical Disease in Rwanda Where He was working as Clinic officer and Collecting Data from the Community during research where he was supervised by Prof. Eugene Saiba SEMANYENZI in Eastern Province in 2008
Arbam Worked as Senior Trainer in RBC INKURU NZIZA located at Kigali, Where was to Train Nurses in Primary eye care Services and other Simple ophthalmic techinics for one year, Arbam went to work in South Province of Rwanda at University Teaching Hospital of Butare CHUB as a Senior Ophthalmic Clinical Officer For about 4 years.
In 2013 Arbam came to Burundi where He worked in a Private Clinic located at CANKUZO Province, Worked as Ophthalmic clinic officer. In October 2015 Arbam Joined IPROSARUDE Where now is currently based at Polyclinic espoir Gitega.
Currently Arbam is working as Senior Ophthalmic clinic officer at Polyclinic Espoir Gitega at same time being Chief Nursing.
In His Free time Arbam likes to watch Movies, Swimming, Fitness and bodybuild, He also likes to spend time with his family especially during the week−end. Arbam likes to work in a team with good staff collaboration and helping the People with Low opportunities.
Aline UWIZEYE
Aline is Burundian by nationality. She holds a degree in biomedical laboratory analysis.
Aline joined IPROSARUDE in July 2015 where she works as a laboratory technician. She has always dreamed of working for health promotion and community development. She also loves science and the social.
Dr Léonard AKILIMALI MUTAYUBARA
Consultant Physician
Leonard is a doctor from the Democratic Republic of Congo who has lived in Burundi since 2001. He attended the University of Burundi, Faculty of Medicine and then completed his doctoral studies in general medicine at the University of Ngozi.
He has worked in the civil service (Kinyinya District Health Hospital) where he has held the position of Head of Internal Medicine Department, and has developed his skills in this district hospital, particularly in surgical operations and in the practice of obstetric, pelvic and abdominal ultrasound.
He had the opportunity to participate in several training courses during his tenure in the public service, which allowed him to sharpen his skills.
After almost 3 years in the public service, he went to work in a private structure (Clinic Vision Santé) for one year and 7 months where he was head of the gyneco-obstetrics department.
Currently, he feels very comfortable working in a local NGO (IPROSARUDE) following a good organization within this association.
Leonard is a doctor who is passionate about his work and is always determined to carry out the tasks assigned to him.
Claudette NTAKARUTIMANA
Claudette is Burundian. She graduated in technical and paramedical science from Mwaro University in Burundi in 2013.
In September 2014, Claudette volunteered at Polyclinique Espoir de Gitega. Currently, Claudette has been a nurse at the Polyclinique Espoir de Gitega since May 2017.
Felix NDAYIZEYE
Felix is Burundian. He has an A2 medical technician diploma from Ecole paramedical de Cankuzo (eastern Burundi).
Félix has been an IPROSARUDE employee at the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega since January 2018.
Félix started working as a nurse from 2013 right after high school until November 2015 at the REMA hospital in Ruyigi, where he was responsible for a sub-service of foot-boot management and also took part in the supervision of student trainees.
From June 2016 until June 2017 Félix worked as a volunteer nurse at the Hospital Espoir de Kibuye, in Gitega, where he was able to take on all the tasks entrusted to him in the pediatrics, neonatology and therapeutic stabilization services for the malnourished. He has also worked in the surgical department of the operating theatre (as scrub nurse and assistant to the operating physician).
Félix had long been eager to work for IPROSARUDE in order to learn more and contribute to the improvement of rural health development, and now he has had the chance to work as a nurse at the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega.
Fidela CIMPAYE
Collection Manager
Fidela is of Burundian nationality. She studied at the University Lumière de Bujumbura in business informatics. She is employed at IPROSARUDE as collection manager at the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega.
Fidelité BUCUTI
Responsible for Voluntary Testing Counseling
Fidelité is of Burundian nationality. She graduated as an A2 medical technician at the Muyinga Paramedical School in August 2013.
From 2014 until now, she has been working at IPROSARUDE as a nurse at the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega, where she is also responsible for voluntary testing counseling.
Jean Pierre NDAGIJIMANA
Jean Pierre is Burundian. He has a degree from a higher vocational institute.
Jean Pierre has been a laboratory technician since 2011. He worked at Rushanali’s health center in Bujumbura, and then in March 2012, Jean Pierre joined the Clinic vision santé in Gitega, until July 2015. Jean Pierre also worked at the Giheta Medical Clinic in 2016 in the installation and start-up of a new laboratory from August 2016 to September 2017.
At the end of 2017, Jean Pierre had the chance to share his knowledge to save human life within IPROSARUDE.
Jean Pierre likes football, volleyball, and action movies.
NAHIMANA Larissa
Larissa is Burundian. She holds a bachelor’s degree in paramedical science from the University of Mwaro in 2013. Since January 2014, she has completed professional internships at the Kibumbu Hospital in Mwaro until March 2017. In April 2017 until January 2018 she worked at the health center of Dr. NDUWUMWAMI in Gitega.
Larissa joined IPROSARUDE at the end of January 2018 where she is employed as a nurse at the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega.
LEVIS IRADUKUNDA
Emergency Department Manager
Levis is of Burundian nationality. He is an A2 medical technician and graduated from the paramedical school of Cankuzo in 2013-2014.
From August 2014 to February 2015, he was at NTUNDA’s public health centre in Cankuzo where he performed his medical profession in all departments.
From March 2015 to December 2016, he was one of the staff members of MAGARAMEZA SURL where he obtained a certificate of physiotherapy type “Manual massage”.
Since 2017, Lévis has been an A2 medical technician at IPROSARUDE at the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega, the association of his dreams. With this polyclinic, he had the chance to participate in training courses on the management of opportunistic HIV/AIDS infections and the new guidelines on the management of people living with HIV/AIDS.
In daily life, he likes to assist with surgery and especially ophthalmic operations; he likes to relax in leisure places.
Lévis wishes IPROSARUDE to be supported in everything and everywhere in the world since it is worthy of its name.
NAMBAJIMANA THEONESTE
DENTAL THERAPIST
Théoneste is Rwandan by nationality holding Bachelor’s degree in dental therapy with honor got From University of Rwanda, College of Medicine and Allied Health Sciences.
Théoneste participate in different seminars and workshops on assessment on basic oral care package (BPOC) in Rwanda and other dental practices.
In January 2016 Théoneste came to Burundi where worked in BurundiMedical and Research Center (BUMEREC)hospital in Bujumbura city,worked as Dental Therapist.
Théoneste joined IPROSARUDEinOctober 2017,where now is currently based at Polyclinic espoir Gitegaand works as Dental Therapist.
When Théoneste is free, he likes to read online news paper and worldwide actualities,comedy, tobe with people and to wacth football and
Théoneste enjoys hardworking and supporting people who are in need in their lives especially those who come to seek dental treatments.
NDAGIJIMANA Claver
Maternity Services Manager
Claver is of Burundian nationality. He holds a bachelor’s degree in health science with a Midwife option from Mwaro University in 2015.
In December 2015, he was a part-time midwife at the medico-surgical centre in Kinindo for 6 months and then in January 2017 until the end of January 2018, he worked at IPROSARUDE as a volunteer midwife.
At the beginning of February 2018, he is engaged at IPROSARUDE in the Polyclinic Espoir de Gitega as a permanent midwife.
Raphael NDAYISABA
Raphael is of Burundian nationality. He has been an employee of IPROSARUDE since December 2014 as an optician.
In everyday life, Raphael loves sports.
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Viewing the fetus following termination of pregnancy for fetal anomaly
Journal of obstetric, gynecologic, and neonatal nursing: JOGNN
OBJECTIVES: To determine what evidence exists to support the practice of viewing the deceased fetus by women terminating pregnancy for fetal anomalies. DATA SOURCES: Electronic databases searched (1966-2007) were Medline, PubMed, Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature, and Dissertation Abstracts Index. STUDY SELECTION: Literature was reviewed that either directly or parenthetically dealt with the emotional effects on women of viewing the fetus post termination of pregnancy for fetal anomalies. DATA EXTRACTION: No randomized or controlled trials were found.
Aborted Fetus
Abortion, Therapeutic
Attitude to Death
Funeral Rites
Sloan, Eileen P.
Kirsh, Sharon
Mowbray, Mary
A theoretical context for shame
The International Journal of Psycho-Analysis
The psychoanalytic literature on shame is critically reviewed. A vagueness and incompleteness in formulations is noted which appears to be related to an adherence to the structural and topographical models. Shame is shown to have a clearly defined place in object-relations theory, in particular within the theory of narcissism as developed elsewhere by the author. It is the signal, affective and cognitive, that a move from 'self-narcissism' to 'object-narcissism' is about to occur.
Individuation
Object Attachment
Parent-Child Relations
Rejection (Psychology)
Unconscious (Psychology)
Kinston, W.
Parental rearing patterns and suicidal thoughts
Acta Psychiatrica Scandinavica
In an attempt to investigate the parental rearing patterns associated with presence of suicidal thoughts, a measure of child rearing patterns (EMBU) and the EPQ measure of personality dimensions were administered to 85 university students, 72 medical and surgical patients, and 125 employees of a state department, along with two questions tapping suicidal thoughts.
Maternal Behavior
Paternal Behavior
Suicide, Attempted
Ross, M. W.
Clayer, J. R.
Campbell, R. L.
Narcissism: its structures, systems and affects
The growth of object relationships may be studied along either the developmental line of the discharge-object or that of the reflexive-object. The former is the well-known line of development from the need-satisfying object to the constant object and is a study of id-ego relationships. The developmental line of the reflexive-object, on the other hand, follows the history of the introjects and is a study of either ego-superego or ego-ego ideal relationships. It is the latter which constitutes the study of narcissism.
Conflict (Psychology)
Mother-Child Relations
Superego
Parkin, A.
The role of shame and guilt in the intergenerational transmission of abusiveness
Violence and Victims
Shame-proneness has been found to be related to anger arousal and a tendency to externalize attributions for one's own behavior, both common features of men who assault their wives. The present study examined a potential origin of a shame-prone style by analysing reports of shaming experiences by ones' parents as reported by a population of assaultive males.
Diagnosis, Differential
Socioeconomic Factors
Spouse Abuse
Dutton, D. G.
van Ginkel, C.
Starzomski, A.
The development of a forgiveness scale
This paper reports on the development, validity, and reliability of a self-report instrument designed to assess a respondent's perspective of pain resulting from relational violations and work toward relational forgiveness based on a framework proposed by Hargrave (1994a). Presented here is the five-stage procedure used in the development of the Interpersonal Relationship Resolution Scale. Construct validity and reliability were determined from an initial sample of 164 subjects.
Agonistic Behavior
Factor Analysis, Statistical
Models, Psychological
Hargrave, T. D.
Sells, J. N.
Schemas, sexuality, and romantic attachment
Journal of Personality and Social Psychology
One's self-views are powerful regulators of both cognitive processing and behavioral responding. Sexual self-schemas are cognitive generalizations about sexual aspects of the self. The bivariate sexual self-schema model, which posits independent effects of positive and negative components of women's sexual self-views, was tested. Three hundred eighteen female undergraduates completed anonymous questionnaires, including the Sexual Self-Schema Scale and assessments of sexual responses and romantic attachment patterns.
Cyranowski, J. M.
Andersen, B. L.
"Why don't they just call the cops?": Reasons for differential police contact among women with abusive partners
Incidents of domestic violence are frequently not reported to police (e.g., Johnson, 1990; Langan & Innes, 1986; Roy, 1977), and people commonly assume that women's reasons for not calling about violence by a current or former partner are intrapersonal (e.g., shame, embarrassment, love). However, few researchers have asked battered women themselves about the frequency of their police contacts and their reasons for not calling the police.
Battered Women
Severity of Illness Index
Fleury, R. E.
Sullivan, C. M.
Bybee, D. I.
Davidson, W. S.
A psychoanalysis of love: the patient with deadly longing
American Journal of Psychotherapy
Freud made some seriously mistaken assumptions about mature love based on his notion about the role unconscious guilt plays in human affairs. Clinical data are presented here about a young man, who implicated in the suicides of two of his colleagues, was more concerned with the failure of his love affair in college than with guilt for his involvement in the suicides.
Machiavellianism
Psychoanalytic Therapy
Goldberg, C.
Attributions and emotional reactions to the identity disclosure ("coming out") of a homosexual child
Family Process
This study examined factors that contribute to parental rejection of gay and lesbian youth. College students (N = 356) were asked to imagine being the parent of an adolescent son who recently disclosed that he was gay. Consistent with study hypotheses and based on attribution and moral affect theory, results of regression analyses indicated that greater perceptions of control over homosexuality, higher proneness to experience shame, and lower proneness to experience guilt were associated with increasing negative reactions toward an imagined homosexual child.
Armesto, J. C.
Weisman, A. G.
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Profile: Tony Earl
Tony Earl was a participant or observer in the following events:
October 22-31, 2002: Wisconsin Governor Says Opponent Bought Votes from Mentally Challenged Citizens; Charges Unsubstantiated
Governor Scott McCallum (R-WI), locked in a tight race with challenger Jim Doyle (D-WI), begins airing ads accusing Doyle, Wisconsin’s attorney general, of “bribing the mentally ill for votes.” McCallum’s ads accuse Doyle of being involved in an alleged vote-buying scheme, where a Democratic campaign volunteer at a Kenosha residential home, Frank Santapoalo, supposedly plied mentally challenged residents with bingo games, refreshments (soda and “kringle,” a type of pastry), and small cash prizes in return for their votes on absentee ballots. The ads call Doyle “crooked” and accuse the Doyle campaign of “vote-buying.” The McCallum campaign calls the allegations “Bingo-Gate,” and is joined in the allegations by state Republican chairman Rick Graber. An October 22 story by a reporter for WTMJ-TV in Milwaukee claims at least two residents of the home cast absentee ballots, and one of those two voters may have been a convicted felon (that allegation is soon withdrawn by WTMJ; there is a convicted felon living at the home, but that person did not fill out a ballot). Wisconsin law prohibits anyone from giving a voter anything worth more than $1 in value to influence their vote; according to WTMJ, the residents won an average of 75 cents in quarters as well as soda and pastries, ramping the value of their “gifts” to over the $1 limit. Video shot by WTMJ shows the home’s activity director, Tammy Nerling, telling the residents that there are absentee ballots upstairs in the home if they are interested in voting. The video also shows Santapoalo wearing a Doyle campaign sticker on his clothing. And a Democratic party worker, Angela Arrington, invited by Doyle to talk to the residents about absentee voting, is shown leaving the premises upon seeing the cameras on site. No one is seen on the videotape soliciting votes in return for money or sodas; moreover, the sodas were provided by the home, Nerling says, and not Santapoalo. Graber says: “They gave them quarters, they gave them food, and they gave them drink. [State law] says very clearly you can’t give them something of value in exchange for votes.” State Democratic Party spokesman Thad Nation says, “We haven’t seen any evidence that anything illegal was done.” Santapoalo and Nerling both say they do not recall anyone filling out ballots after the bingo game. Kenosha City Clerk Jean Morgan says that of the 33 absentee ballot forms taken to the home, about half have been returned. The ballots are not dated, she says, making it impossible to ascertain when they were completed. The residence orders absentee ballots for every election, she says. The owner of the residential home, Lee Hamdia, says no votes were bought at the bingo party, and calls reports to the contrary “misinformation and gross distortions.” Hamdia says that the two residents did cast ballots the same day as the bingo game, but were not induced to vote by the bingo game nor by any visitor to the home. The residents have denied having any “political discussion[s]” of any kind in their conversations with the volunteer. [Capital Times, 10/24/2002; Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 10/24/2002; Capital Times, 10/31/2002; Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 10/31/2002] Nerling says bingo games with small prizes are a staple of residence life, taking place several times a week, and often sponsored by outside groups, including political organizations of all persuasions. Santapoalo says he has a relative living at the home, and has been visiting there for about 12 years. Nerling and admissions director Trish O’Dell say the residents have the mental capacity to cast votes, and some of them have long-standing affiliations with political parties. [Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 10/24/2002]
'Character Assassination' - Three former Wisconsin governors, Tony Earl, Martin Schreiber, and Gaylord Nelson, issue a joint statement calling the ads “character assassination”; Representative David Obey (D-WI) compares McCallum’s campaign tactics with the tactics of the late Senator Joe McCarthy (R-WI) and calls the ads “despicable.” After the criticism is joined by negative observations in the national press, McCallum’s campaign begins airing “softer” versions of the ads that replace the characterization of “crooked” with the accusation that Doyle’s purported vote-buying “shames us.” The ads also continue alleging that a felon cast a vote at the home, even though Morgan says that is not the case, and continue alleging that Doyle was “caught bribing the mentally ill for votes” and “votes were bought,” charges that are not substantiated by evidence. Doyle’s campaign says McCallum toned down the ads because they were caught “red-handed” making false charges; the Doyle campaign says that the new versions of the McCallum ads are also false. McCallum’s campaign manager denies that the ads were toned down because of criticism over the earlier television ads, and McCallum says Doyle and his supporters are attacking the credibility of the allegations because “there isn’t a defense for what [Doyle has] done.… The issue is what they did to disenfranchise voters, every voter in Wisconsin. Jim Doyle ought to apologize for the national shame he has brought on the state of Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Republicans say they intend to ask for a federal investigation of the bingo party, a request that state Democrats call a “political stunt.” A state prosecutor is investigating the claims. Political science professor Ken Goldstein says: “I’ve watched a lot of ads. This one, unless I see a lot of good evidence from McCallum’s folks, is over the line.”
Attempt to Lower Voter Turnout? - Another political science professor, David Littig, says the ads are designed for undecided voters, using unsupported emotional appeals to either persuade them to vote for McCallum or to stay home and not vote for Doyle. “The whole tone of the [McCallum] campaign has been to suppress the turnout,” Littig says. Doyle agrees, saying: “If people vote I’m going to win this election easily. McCallum is playing a cynical game right now. He’s trying to do everything he can to keep people from going to the polls.” Former Senate candidate Ed Garvey (D-WI), who narrowly lost an election when his opponent leveled false charges that he stole $750,000 of union money, says of the McCallum campaign: “They must be completely worried that this thing is falling apart. If you are doing well, you don’t call the other guy a crook.” [Capital Times, 10/31/2002; Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, 10/31/2002]
No Charges Filed - Two days later, the special prosecutor investigating the case refuses to file charges, saying no evidence exists of any wrongdoing (see November 2, 2002). McCallum will lose the election to Doyle. The New York Times will call the entire campaign as conducted by both parties highly negative, and will say that McCallum’s attempts to accuse Doyle of voter fraud and other allegations “appeared to backfire” with voters. [New York Times, 11/7/2002]
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Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Mon Feb 06, 2012 2:01 pm
"Then game drama is what they'll get! Hufflepuff's gonna win all of the cups this year!" With her free hand, Delfina did her best to lift as much of the gown's hem off of the floor as possible.
Turning to Lionheart to give a small nod, she said to the librarian, "Excuse us, Sir; we have some dresses to find."
She then began to shuffle off towards the doors.
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Freya had to laugh quite a bit at Delfina’s way of walking, and could only follow slowly after waving at the professor. Looking around there was plenty of other fun to; why had she ever doubted of she should go to this?!
Slayer-1412
"Why thank you Ms Williams~" Lionheart curtsied. Something that no one wanted to see. Ever. "And but of course~ Good luck finding them~"
The corridors were not as empty as Ares had hoped. But that didn't change the fact that his death glares were scaring the shit out of everyone who dared meet his eyes while the two walked.
Argos fell into a pit. It was inevitable.
Kevin sighed, spotting Healer Tarrot entering the Great Hall looking excited. He smiled and greeted the master he was learning from before leaving the Winter Ball with slumped shoulders.
They had to trudge nearly across the entire room to reach the doors, so Delfina thought it was a good plan; she could scope out the crowd as she passed by and if she couldn't spot her dress then she would already be at the exit and able to look in the corridors. The less time she spent in these shoes, the better. Delfina had forgotten what Freya had been wearing earlier before the switch, so it would be up to the Gryffindor to spot her own missing gown out of the crowd.
Marik walked back into the castle awkwardly, nearly tripping in the heels he was wearing. He should probably return the dress he was wearing (it sort of hung on him in an awkward way), but who was wearing his red dress robes?
Still hiding behind the drapery Claudia did her best to calm down. Why wasn’t this spell wearing off?! She’d most likely have to send her dress off to get to get washed, since it was quite likely that a non-pureblood had worn it now. She shuddered at the thought…
Still chuckling Freya followed Delfina out in the hallway, where she suddenly spotted her own dress walking around… Then she couldn’t help but to open her mouth
“Nice dress you’ve got there!”
Delfina stopped to look back at Freya, then to the person she was talking to. She nearly snorted upon seeing the taller man in a dress.
Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Tue Feb 07, 2012 2:48 pm
As Kevin left the Great Hall, he briefly noted a trio of two Gryffindors and a Hufflepuff. Looking up at Marik for a moment, even he couldn't stop a chuckle and a mutter of, "Good luck Mr Brown." before leaving them alone. He was needed in the infirmary now...
Artemis had wandered off by herself to a table by herself, she really wasn't in a festive mood and had somehow lost her blind cousin...whoops.
Marik did a double take, "W-Williams!" He blushed and looked aside, "I-I see you've g-got my dress robes... U-Um... W-W-We should switch clothes...somehow..." The only thing that wasn't bad about this situation was that Sam didn't see him like this. How embarrassing would it be for your girlfriend to see you in a dress?!
Daraing to peek out Claudia could still see some people out there and... Him! No, she couldn't let him see her! This was worse than being so rude as to not say good-bye!
Quickly she pulled back the drapery in front of her, holding it firmly in place so that no one could pull it away and reveal her!
Freya still couldn't stop grinning
"Yeah, guess you want it back. I don't know any spell for it though, so the best I can think up is finding an empty classroom and hide behind the desk."
Miko-Ne
Bianka sighed as she kept walking with Ares , what an odd event this had turned out to be.
Looking at the Gryffindors, Delfina was glad that she's switched with another girl. She could only hope that her dress hadn't been ruined by the new wearer. Perhaps Hogwarts had a lost-and-found area, but Delfina couldn't leave the gown there until she changed into another set of clothes.
Ares wondered if he should kill Lionheart or Gleek. Then decided when (and if he could), he'd get rid of the Librarian first before trying to deal with his brother's girlfriend.
As for Kevin, he found the infirmary to be cold and dark. Sighing, he lit up a few candles and walked around, trying to look occupied to anyone passing by (not that there'd be anyone at this hour).
Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Wed Feb 08, 2012 2:09 am
Daring herself to peekout again Claudia Finally spotted the long blue dress, her own one! Fianlly! Only...how would she get it back? She couldn't leave her hiding-place looking like this!
Well, she was a Ravenclaw, and she did have her want, that had not left her at the switch! So it was a good time to star to think! A switching-spell, they must have mentioned this sometime! Although this one was a big... Maybe it was just a new version of...! She had to try.
getting her wand into her hand Claudia mumbled a counter-spell they had been mentioned in class not a month ago (which had most likly inspired the prankster to this idea). She only had to switch back these two dresses, so it wasn't that much, she could do it!
Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:29 am
It seemed like they would never reach the dungeons , or wherever they where heading to in the first place. She guessed this is what Dimitri had meant by pranks , Ares did not look amused at all at the turn of events.
The overly-loose gown Delfina had spent the last half hour trying to keep up was suddenly form-fitting. And her own dress, too!
She threw her hands in the air, no longer needing them to hold her outfit together, "Yes!!"
Claudia let out a sigh of relief as the spell seemed to work and she then stood there in her own dress. Getting out from behind the drapery she didn't think twice about helping all the other students that were still on others' clothes; Instead she hurried off towards the infirmary, the only thing in her mind was that she had to apologise for her behaviour to Kevin!
Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Thu Feb 09, 2012 7:13 pm
Ares was lost, but he wasn't about to admit it!
Kevin paced around the infirmary, his mind on anything but what he should have been doing. What a terrible way for the evening to have ended.
The librarian glided here and there, scaring several other students.
After a while of wandering Bianka wondered if he DID know where he was heading to , though by the look on his face it was obvious he didn't.
"....Ares..where are we going?" she muttered out. The younger Slytherin just wanted to sleeeeeeeeppppp.
Marik turned red, but he nodded anyways: there wasn't much either of them could do about the situation. "S-Sounds like a plan..."
Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Fri Feb 10, 2012 2:10 am
approaching the infirmary Claudia grew a bit unsure, but what else could she do? This boy always made her nervous anyway...
So before she could let herself hesitate she knocked on the door and then slowly pushed it open like she always did...
Freya nodded and headed off to where she was sure that some unlocked classroms would provide somethign to hide behind
"As long as you don't peek I promise I won't pick your eyes out."
Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Sat Feb 11, 2012 7:40 pm
Kevin looked at the door and a smile showed itself when he saw who had walked in, "Good evening, miss."
"Ta the common room, o' course." He scowled though, this was the right way: his memory was never wrong.
"ah...huh..." the girl yawned following him.
Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:21 am
slowly stepping in Claudia could only bring herself to look at his shoes, before closing her eyes
"Good evening. I... I have to apologise, Mister. My behavior earlier was inexcusable, and I do pray that you will find it in you to forgive me for such rude behaviour."
Subject: Re: The Winter Ball room 1 Sun Feb 12, 2012 3:27 pm
Marik covered his eyes for good measure, "R-Right." Now all he had to do was wait for the girl to hand him his dress robes...right? He focused on getting out of the dress he was in with some difficulty.
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Album Review: Methyl Ethel – Triage (2019 LP)
Meredith McLean
Triage, the third album from Methyl Ethel isn’t coincidentally named. Celebrating three albums, and lead singer Jake Webb’s 30th birthday, the album is a memorial and the capstone on a phase in the band’s journey. Whether that implies Methyl Ethel will be taking a different direction after this, we’re not sure. But what is constant right now are the chaotic, dream pop sounds of the latest album.
Truly a solo project celebrating history, birthdays, and indie rock; Triage was written, produced and performed by lead singer Jake Webb in his home studio in West Perth. Marta Salogni might have provided assistance in mixing from London, but the raw materials of this album were made the way Webb has been known to work: quite insular and solo.
“Ruiner” is a solid overture to kick off the nine track album. Webb’s vocals puncturing the music with each interval and consonant over the top of a spooky crypt-party crescendo before pulling back to softer keys. The rise and fall of the song is both soothing and exciting.
“Scream Whole” is by no means a lull compared to “Ruiner”, if not simply a different track. Clapping and percussion support a calypso-esque keyboard, which helps to create a surreal platform for Webb’s layered vocals and harmonies. Released prior to the album, and having already garnered plenty of acclaim, the beautiful and coy lyrics hint at that vague something we’re all looking for but can’t quite hold it in our hand.
“Trip The Mains” really brings out a nostalgic 80’s inspired beat. That paired with the earlier released “Real Tight”, are the closest the album teeters toward pop, leaving it up to the rest of the album to carry on the dream wave. Triage’s closer seems like the perfect song to be sung to a huge festival crowd; the crowd swaying, phones and lighters in hand to light up the night. “No Fighting” is the best ending to an album that celebrates new beginnings.
Methyl Ethel have consistently released an album every two years. Though Webb works best solo, he will be touring with the band in 2019, no doubt championing “Ubu”, the single that peaked at #4 in 2017’s Triple J’s Hottest 100 , as well as celebrating the latest album Triage. If the trend line is a constant, then here’s to seeing what Jake Webb and Methyl Ethel can bring to life in 2021.
Triage is available now through 4AD & Dot Dash. The band will be heading out on the road in the US in March, and then Europe and Australia in June. For more information and to purchase tickets head HERE.
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Simplified heaps without priority update
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The existing heap implementations in LEMON cointain an Item->int map to indicate the current location of each item. It is required to implement increase(), decrease(), erase(), etc. functions. However, simplified heaps could be implemented with a limited functionality (push(), pop(), top(), prio(), size(), empty(), clear(), etc.) without this cross reference map. For such heaps, the basic push() and pop() operations could be implemented more efficiently, but the duplications of items could not be avoided.
A Dijkstra or Prim algorithm could be implemented with such heaps, but it would require slight modifications. A node should be pushed each time its distance label is updated (i.e. more than once in some cases), and the duplicate nodes should be skipped after each pop() operation.
It would be nice to introduce such implementations in LEMON. I think, they would lead to better performance in many practical cases, because not too many duplications would be expected on typical graphs. However, there are some problems with this proposal. First, such heaps would not conform to the current heap concept. Second, using them would require different implementation of the algorithms.
We could introduce a SimplifiedHeap concept. The main question is whether we could generalize the Dijkstra and Prim implementations to accept both types of heaps or not. I would really dislike duplicate algorithm classes.
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comment:3 follow-up: 4 Changed 9 years ago by Alpar Juttner
This thesis might be interesting to check out:
Mo Chen:Measuring and Improving the Performance of Cache-efficient Priority Queues in Dijkstra's Algorithm
Thak you for finding this thesis. That is a remarkable study of this idea. However surprising it is, they conclude that Dijkstra is always faster with such a simplified heap:
"We ran tests on graphs of varying types and edge densities, and in all of these tests, we found that Dijsktra-nodec consistently outperformed Dijkstra-dec. When the edge density of the graph became very high, the performance diff erence became small. The running time and memory usage overheads in supporting Decrease-Key could not be justi fied in any of the graphs we tested. Therefore, until there is data indicating otherwise, we recommend using Dijkstra-nodec with an efficient priority queue that does not support Decrease-Key over using Dijkstra-dec for solving SSSP problems on any graph type."
As far as I see, they did not check specific worst-case graphs (full graphs for which Decrease-Key is needed on almost all arcs). For such instances, the standard implementation could be faster, but these graphs are far from typical.
Let us decide what to do. Shall we
implement this as a separate class, bin heap hard coded?
Easier to implement but causes quite a bit code duplication.
integrate it with the existing Dijkstra as a separate run() function?
Easy, as well, but the question is how the avoid duplicated heap allocation. (A positive side effect of the "don't-update" approach is that it uses less memory)
implement is using a SimplifiedHeap concept plus enable_if hacking, as usual.
Can be a bit cumbersome to implement.
Finally, should this approach be the default?
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I would like to see this feature being implemented. But I'm pretty unsure how to do it efficiently. Do you think we can incorporate this feature along with the current implementation?
I think we should avoid duplicated run() functions and duplicated classes of the algorithms (Dijkstra, Prim).
IMHO the best way for implementing this feature would be to:
introduce a SimplifiedHeap concept so that the current Heap concept would become an extension of that (other name alternatives: SimpleHeap, BasicHeap);
add "simplified" implementations for the heap structures, at least for BinHeap (I would also interested in QuadHeap, DHeap, etc.);
apply some template technique to select the appropriate implementation for processNextNode() in Dijkstra's algorithm.
Maybe we could introduce this feature within the current Heap concept in such a way that these simplified implementations:
do not use the IN_HEAP state (PRE_HEAP would be used for these cases as well);
throw an exception when an unsupported method is called.
It would be much easier to do so, but it would not be so clear, I think.
comment:10 Changed 6 years ago by Alpar Juttner
Another question here. I only consider the binary heap below.
Currently, the heap datastructure consists of (Node, dist) pairs and whenever a node is finalized, its distance is written into the write-only dist map. Another option would be that that the dist map is read/write and holds the current dist value of the nodes. Then, the dist values in the heap could be omitted. It has however some important consequences:
It reduces the memory usage, for the heap having to store less data.
The running time gain or loss is unclear. The smaller size may improve the caching performance, while the additional cross referencing to a different memory segment may worsen it.
If we want to make Dijkstra able to solve shortest path problem with negative edges (but not negative cycle), then we must allow re-evaluating nodes. Therefore dist map must be read-write anyways.
Lastly and most importantly, assume that we apply the idea of the ticket (reinserting nodes to the heap instead of updating its key) together with the idea of only storing the nodes but not the keys in heap. Then the keys of the items will change (decrease) during the execution without moving them in the heap. Thus the bin-heap structure becomes corrupt. I have a feeling that Dijkstra algorithm will still run correctly, i.e. the valid nodes will still be taken out of the heap in the right order. But this is just a feeling right now, one should formally check it.
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Built over the ancient Romanesque Cathedral that was in the plots from the Palace of the king Ordoño II and the Roman thermal springs. Its construction started in 1205, it was built under Gothic style and inspired in the French Cathedral from Reims, although its size is 1/3 inferior.
One of its most striking points is that the towers are not built onto the nave, but joined to it by flying buttresses. It has side aisles and a transept. The nave has a quatripartite ribbed vault. Vertical thrusts are supported by piers with clustered columns, while exterior thrusts are channelled through flying buttresses. The ambulatory has five semi-hexagonal chapels radiating from it.
In different periods and for different times, architects working on the Cathedral have included Enrique Francés, Juan Pérez, Jusquin Van Utrech (the clock tower), Naveda, Joaquín de Churriguera, Matías Laviña, Juan Madrazo, Demetrio de los Ríos and Juan Bautista Lázaro.
Three sides show Gothic imagery.
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The White Virgin Doorway, also known as the Doorway of Judgement. It has two lights, with an image of the White Virgin on the central colonnette. The White Virgin (Our Lady of the Snows, revered all along St James’s Way) replaces Christ in Majesty or Christ the Teacher. The tympanum shows the scene of the Last Judgement, presided over by Christ the Judge, images of St John the Baptist, angels with symbols of the Passion, St Michael weighing souls, etc.
St John’s Doorway. It has scenes of the life of the Vigin: the Visitation, Nativity, St Joseph’s dream, the Shepherds receiving the Tidings and the Adoration of the Magi. The jambs are decorated with images of St Peter, St John, David and Solomon and there is a Locus Appellationis (a place where the king administered justice, with a feminine image of Justice.
Door of San Francisco. He presents images of the Dormición de Maria, Maria's Coronation for the Eternal Father, prudent Virgins and the Stupid ones.
South Façade.
St Froilán’s Doorway. This doorway is inspired in the Sarmental doorway of Burgos Cathedral and shows the twelve Apostles presided over by Jesus Christ and the Tetramorph. St Froilán is the patron saint of the diocese of León.
North Façade.
Doorway of Our Lady of the Die. It still has its original polychromy, with images of the Pantocrator, the Tetramorph and the Visitation.
The Interior.
The Cathedral’s interior is a summary of the Medieval theologians’ concept of the world, presided over by the Creator’s Blessing. The windows illustrate three conceptual levels: typical vegetable motifs such as oak and vine leaves; heraldic subjects (windows of the triforium) and Saints, Kings and Prophets.
THE PULPITUM
The pulpitum was built in the shape of a triumphal arch in the 16th century and is decorated with the subjects of the birth of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Annunciation, Adoration of the Magi (by Esteban Jordán), St Peter and St Paul, St Marcellus and St Isidore and Gaspar Becerra’s alabaster image of Christ Crucified.
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The stalls were carved in the Gothic style in the 15th century by Jusquín van Utrecht, Copín de Holanda and John of Mechelen (Juan de Malinas).
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The reredos consists of five large panels and two small ones, all by Nicolás Francés (Nicholas the Frenchman). The Bishop’s throne has twenty panels by the same artist. The chased silver chest is by Enrique de Arfe, and the silver tabernacle by Rebollo.
This is a Gothic and Renaissance ensemble. The stone reredos is by Juan de Badajoz the Younger. There is also a relief of Our Lady of the Foro y Oferta, the tribute of the Hundred Maidens.
St Louise’s. Baptismal font by Juan de Badajoz.
Our Lady of Carmel. The carving of the Virgin is by Gregorio Fernández. Tomb of Bishop Rodrigo.
Calvary Chapel. Reredos of the Calvary scene by Juan de Balmaseda.
Chapel of the White Virgin. Tombs of Queen Sancha and King Alfonso (16th century).
Chapel of Our Lady of the Way. Old Cathedral Library. A Gothic ensemble of the 15th century by Juan de Badajoz the Elder.
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Centres II (VRW)
When I spoke of machines I called normal work a manifestation of a man — which implies all three centers taken together. This is his manifestation. But owing to abnormal life some people have other levers, which become formed outside centers and which provoke movement independently of the soul. It can be in the flesh, the muscles, anywhere.
Movements, manifestations, perceptions by separate centers are manifestations of centers but not of man, if we bear in mind that man consists of three centers. The capacity to feel joy, sorrow, cold, heat, hunger, tiredness is in each center. These postures exist in every center and may be small or big and different in quality. We shall speak later about how this happens in each separate center and how to know to which center they belong. For the moment you must bear in mind and realize one thing: you must learn to distinguish the manifestations of man from the manifestations of centers. When people speak of a man, they say he is wicked, clever, a fool — all this is he. But they cannot say that this is John or Simon. We are accustomed to saying “he.” But we must become used to saying “he” in the sense of he as body, he as essence, he as personality. [VRW p. 139]
To govern oneself is a very difficult thing — it is a problem for the future; it requires much power and demands much work. But this first thing, to separate oneself from oneself, does not require much strength, it only needs desire, serious desire, the desire of a grown — up man. If a man cannot do it, it shows that he lacks the desire of a grown — up man. Consequently it proves that there is nothing for him here. What we do here can only be a doing suitable for grown — up men.
Our mind, our thinking, has nothing in common with us, with our essence — no connection, no dependence. Our mind lives by itself and our essence lives by itself. When we say “to separate oneself from oneself” it means that the mind should stand apart from the essence. Our weak essence can change at any moment, for it is dependent on many influences: on food, on our surroundings, on time, on the weather, and on a multitude of other causes. But the mind depends on very few influences and so, with a little effort, it can be kept in the desired direction. {VRW p. 148]
And all this is because only one center is working — for instance, either mind or feeling. Yet you must learn to listen in a new way. The knowledge you have had up to today is the knowledge of one center — knowledge without understanding. Are there many things you know and at the same time understand? For instance, you know what electricity is, but do you understand it as clearly as you understand that twice two makes four? The latter you understand so clearly that no one can prove to you the contrary; but with electricity it is different. Today it is explained to you in one way — you believe it. Tomorrow you will be given a different explanation — you will also believe that. But understanding is perception not by one but by not less than two centers. There exists a more complete perception, but for the moment it is enough if you make one center control the other. If one center perceives and the other approves the perception, agrees with it or rejects it, this is understanding. If an argument between centers fails to produce a definite result, it will be half-understanding. Half-understanding is also no good. It is necessary that everything you listen to here, everything you talk about among yourselves elsewhere, should be said or listened to not with one center but with two. Otherwise there will be no right result either for me or for you. For you it will be as before, a mere accumulation of new information. [VRW p. 169]
You believe you are not satisfied with yourself. I push you. You are quite mechanical, you cannot do anything, you are hallucinated. When you look with one center you are entirely under hallucination; when with two you are half — free; but if you look with three centers you cannot be under hallucination at all. You must begin by collecting material. You can have no bread without baking; knowledge is water, body is flour, and emotion — suffering — is fire. [VRW p. 192]
But, as we have said already, the difficulty is that, owing to wrong modern upbringing and the fact that the lack of connection in us between body, feeling and mind has not been recognized from childhood, the majority of people are so deformed that there is no common language between one part and another. This is why it is so difficult for us to establish a connection between them, and still more difficult to force our parts to change their way of living. This is why we are obliged to make them communicate, but not in the language given us by nature, which would have been easy and by means of which our parts would very soon have become reconciled to one another, would have come to an accord and, by concerted efforts and understanding, would have attained the desired aim common to them all. [VRW p. 223]
The power of changing oneself lies not in the mind, but in the body and the feelings. Unfortunately, however, our body and our feelings are so constituted that they don’t care a jot about anything so long as they are happy. They live for the moment and their memory is short. The mind alone lives for tomorrow. Each has its own merits. The merit of the mind is that it looks ahead. But it is only the other two that can “do.” [VRW p. 232]
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Rafael Nadal Dumped out of Wimbledon by Qualifier Brown on Fourth Day
July 3, 2015 R K Gupta 0 Comments Agnieszka Radwanska, ATP, Dustin Brown, Grand Slam, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Tennis, Wimbledon
For the fourth year in a row, two-time champion Rafael Nadal has faced an early exit from Wimbledon. The only difference this time is a qualifier and world no.102, Dustin Brown sweeping away the big Spaniard. The title winner in 2008 and 2010 and runner-up in 2006, 2007 and 2011 was beaten in the fourth round last year by Australia’s Nick Kyrgios and suffered similar humiliation in 2013 and 2012. In 2012, he lost to Lukas Rosol in the second round and had a first round exit in 2013 against Steve Darcis. But never has Nadal lost to a qualifier. Brown had never played at the Center Court until yesterday and when he did against Nadal, he was devastating in employing the old-style serve-and-volley play. It was the second time that Brown had beaten Nadal after he dismissed him at Halle last year. Amid the dramatic shock of the Center Court, no.2 seed Roger Federer, no.3 seed Andy Murray, no.6 Tomas Berdych, no. 12 Gilles Simon, no.13 Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and no.18 Gael Monfils progressed to the third round. Also advancing to the third round in women’s draw on fourth day were; no.2 seed Petra Kvitova, no.5 Caroline Wozniacki, no.10 Angelique Kerber, no.13 Agnieszka Radwanska and no.21 Madison Keys. The fourth day also featured a marathon-like match between Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic and Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov that just avoided the fading light and lasted for 3 hours and 23 minutes before the Croat emerged as a survivor.
In the day’s biggest upset at Wimbledon, 30-year old German qualifier Dustin Brown defeated former champion Rafael Nadal in four sets. The match had an ominous beginning for Nadal with Brown showing his intent from the first stroke. He held his opening game to love with four forceful winners and came back to display some scorching returns, when Nadal served next. But it was Nadal, who broke first to take a 2-1 lead. The German was unruffled as he used drop-shots to trouble the Spaniard and leveled the set 3-3. Dressed in a sleeveless shirt just as Nadal used to do in his younger days, Brown made his opponent run all over the court and broke him again at 5-6. But the Spaniard came back to take the second set 6-3 and it didn’t look like that he would collapse later. In the third set, Brown was back to his tricks and broke Nadal to lead 3-2. That was enough to take the set 6-4. Feeding on Nadal’s uncertainty and a rising count of his unforced errors, Brown broke the Spaniard’s service in the first game of the fourth set. After that, there was no way Nadal could come back in the match as Brown finished the winner with the score of 7-5, 3-6, 6-4, 6-4.
Roger Federer’s match with American Sam Querrey was highlighted by a between-the-legs lob that helped him break for 5-2 in the second set. Earlier, Federer was jolted by Querrey for a while but regained his composure to take the first set at 6-4. It was easy for Federer, who finished a winner at 6-4, 6-2, 6-2 to move into the third round. Like Federer, Andy Murray had little trouble in defeating Dutchman Robin Haase 6-1, 6-1, 6-4. The 2013 champion broke Haase’s serve six times and moved to the third round. Other men’s seeds, who entered the third round were; Tomas Berdych, Gilles Simon, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga and Gael Monfils. Berdych beat Frenchman Nicolas Mahut 6-1, 6-4, 6-4; Simon defeated Blaz Kavcic of Slovenia 6-1, 6-1, 6-7, 6-1; Tsonga beat Spain’s Albert Ramos 6-3, 6-4, 6-4 and Monfils went past compatriot Adrian Mannarino 7-6, 6-3, 7-5.
Among women, defending champion Petra Kvitova defeated Japan’s Kurumi Nara 6-2, 6-0; Caroline Wozniacki beat Czech Denisa Allertova 6-1, 7-6; Agnieszka Radwanska dismissed Australia’s Alja Tomljanovic 6-0, 6-2 and Germany’s Angelique Kerber defeated Russia’s Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 7-5, 6-2
In the day’s longest match, no.23 seed Ivo Karlovic of Croatia defeated Ukraine’s Alexandr Dolgopolov, 7-5, 3-6, 4-6, 7-6, 11-13 to set up the fourth round clash with Tsonga. Friday is expected to be just as eventful as Thursday with matches involving Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka, Marin Cilic, Grigor Dimitrov, Serena Williams, Maria Sharapova and Nick Kyrgios among others.
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Krohn Racing Introduces Revised Driver Line-Up for ELMS Race at Paul Ricard in Round Four of the Season
Olivier Pla to Join Tracy Krohn and Nic Jonsson in the No. 40 Ligier-Judd
Houston, Texas (September 4, 2015)...Krohn Racing announced Frenchman Olivier Pla will join team owner/driver Tracy W. Krohn and Nic Jonsson for the 4 Hours of Le Castellet for the European Le Mans Series (ELMS) penultimate round at Circuit Paul Ricard in Le Castellet, France on September 5-6, 2015.
Pla, from Toulouse, France, previously raced with the Krohn/Jonsson duo at the 12 Hours of Sebring in March and will fill the third driver seat in the No. 40 Krohn Racing Ligier JS P2 Judd-powered LMP2. Brazilian Oswaldo (Ozz) Negri, Jr. and Frenchman Julien Canal have been previous co-drivers during the 2015 ELMS season.
Pla, who has two 8 Hours of Castellet endurance races under his belt, including a fourth-place finish in 2011 in the Quifel ASM Team Zytek LMP1, has also completed many hours of testing for Onroak Automotive in the Ligier JSP2 on the 5.861 kilometers/3.64 miles French circuit. Pla previously joined Krohn Racing for the 24 Hours of Daytona (DNF) and 12 Hours of Sebring, where he collected the pole and the team finished in sixth place.
Krohn Racing has three Top Five finishes in ELMS this season, including fourth at the 4 Hours of Silverstone (with drivers Krohn, Jonsson and Ozz Negri) and fifth at both the 4 Hours of Imola (with drivers Krohn, Jonsson and Negri) and 4 Hours of Red Bull Ring (with Krohn, Jonsson and Julien Canal). Krohn Racing also competed in the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans, where they finished a hard-fought 12th-place with drivers Krohn, Jonsson and Joao Barbosa.
TRACY W. KROHN, Krohn Racing Team Owner/Driver:
You previously tested at Paul Ricard earlier this year. What do you think about the circuit?
"We tested at the prologue at Paul Ricard in March and we learned this circuit, which will be helpful for me because this season we are going to many new track in the ELMS. Both Onroak Automotive and Michelin have used Paul Ricard as a testing facility so we hope the knowledge from both of our partners will help us in the set-up from the start."
It will undoubtedly be great to have Olivier back in the Ligier with you and Nic for this weekend's 4 Hours of Paul Ricard race.
"It will be great to have Olivier back with us at Paul Ricard this weekend. He was a big asset to us earlier this season when we first started racing the Ligier to help us learn the nuances of the new car. When the Nissan program stepped back and he became available, we decided to ask if he wanted to come back and race at Paul Ricard with us. He's very knowledgeable of the circuit and, of course, with the Ligier, so we hope he can advance us further along again this week. He's also just a great guy and we enjoy working with him. He fits right in with the team and with Nic and me."
OLIVIER PLA, Krohn Racing, Driver:
We are glad to welcome you back to Krohn Racing for the upcoming ELMS race at Paul Ricard. Please share your thoughts about returning to Krohn Racing, with whom you previously raced at the Rolex 24 at Daytona and the 12 Hours of Sebring earlier this year.
“I have to say it was unexpected and it was a very good surprise when I got the email from Gary (Holland, Krohn racing Team Manager) saying he would like me to do the Paul Ricard race with the team. Since the beginning I really enjoyed working with this team. The pole in the Sebring 12 Hours and leading the first hours was a very good memory and I will give everything to continue to build on that.”
You will bringing much experience of the Paul Ricard circuit to the team. Tell us about your past racing and testing experience at the Paul Ricard circuit.
“Yes, obviously I know the track very well. I did a lot of testing and raced over there and I just can't wait to go back in the Ligier around this place! The biggest unknown for me are the Michelin tires, but it shouldn't be a problem with the experience of the team.”
You are going to be competing again in the Ligier, a car you were greatly involved with as a test driver for Onroak Automotive. How suited is the Ligier for the Paul Ricard circuit?
“I think the car should been good. Paul Ricard is always a compromise between straight-line speed and downforce in the fast corner, and I think it will suit our car very well. The track is also demanding on the tires but looking at my past experience with the Ligier, the car is very easy on the tires."
NIC JONSSON, Krohn Racing, Driver:
What do you think about having Olivier Pla back in the cockpit with you and Tracy at Le Castellet?
"Olivier is a very accomplished and good driver with a great amount of LMP2 experience and knowledge of both the Ligier chassis and the Paul Ricard circuit. We're glad he could join us again and hope his knowledge will benefit everyone on the team, from Tracy and me behind the wheel, to the engineers and mechanics on the car."
You and Tracy tested previously at Paul Ricard. How well do you think the Ligier is suited for the circuit?
"I’m pretty confident that the Ligier chassis is well suited for the Paul Ricard circuit. This is a circuit that a lot of the development has been done on the Ligier and should therefore suit well. The Michelin tire that Krohn Racing is racing on has been mainly developed at the Ricard circuit, so this should be a great combination and be of immense suitability for the Krohn Racing Ligier-Judd machine."
HAYDEN BURVILL, Krohn Racing, Race Engineer:
You have Olivier Pla returning to the team. What do you hope he can bring with his experience for setting up the Ligier-Judd and racing at the Paul Ricard circuit?
“We know Oli well now from his initial involvement in our first test drive of the JSP2 in 2014, through Daytona 2015 and, of course, the pole at Sebring this year. I know Oli will bring his aggressive style to Krohn Racing and with just two races left in the ELMS Championship, he will give us a new impetus to find that extra bit of speed we have been lacking.”
What are your expectations of how the trio of Tracy, Nic and Olivier will work together?
“I expect Tracy, Nic and Oli will all work together to find the best way to get the fastest green flag speed potential for the four hours race at Le Castellet. They previously worked together at both Daytona and Sebring, and with good result, so we expect the collaboration to again be beneficial. It will be a lively weekend and it's always exciting when the team has a chance to race with higher potential, no matter how that is accomplished.”
What do you know about, or what is your experience with the Paul Ricard circuit?
“My experience at Paul Ricard is pretty limited. I have tested there long ago with F1, and earlier this year we had a single day running in a JSP2 for the ELMS Prologue. It’s a circuit where the wind and track temperatures can be major factors. It's also a track where top speed and downforce are readily exchanged for advantages on different parts of the track. For me, the goal is to continue the streak of error-free races by Krohn Racing."
GARY HOLLAND, Krohn Racing, Team Manager:
Share with us about this idea to invite Olivier Pla to rejoin Krohn Racing for the ELMS race at Paul Ricard and how it came together.
“We already have a good relationship with Oli following him working with us for Daytona and Sebring earlier this year. We have all kept in touch with him and followed him with his factory role in LMP1 with Nissan, closely wishing him the best. With the recent news of Nissan concentrating on testing before returning to competition, the chance to use Oli at Paul Ricard presented itself. With Nic recently re-classified as a Silver driver, and Tracy, of course, a Bronze, this allowed us to bring Oli back as Platinum with no repercussions to the balance of the team. By using Oli, we have one eye on some of our 2016 technical decisions that need to be made. We would also like to thank Nissan for allowing Olivier to drive with us at Paul Ricard."
What is the Krohn Racing team hoping to accomplish by using Pla's deep experience with the Ligier ad the Paul Ricard circuit?
“We are looking to use Oli’s experience at Paul Ricard to really utilize our track time. The ELMS weekend is very compact and any previous experience Oli has is a benefit to us as a team. This is the first time we have been to any of the ELMS circuits with a P2 car, so we really are on a very steep learning curve every weekend.”
Two practice sessions are scheduled for Saturday, September 5, with a 20-minute qualifying session for the LMP2 class on Sunday morning, September 6, shortly before the 4 Hours of Paul Ricard ELMS race goes green from 1:00-4:00 p.m. local time (6:00–10:00 a.m. EDT).
You can follow the Paul Richard ELMS action for qualifying and the race streamed live on Sunday, September 6, on the official website at www.europeanlemansseries.com along with live timing and scoring.
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Little Gidding Pilgrimage 2012
This year's Little Gidding Pilgrimage will take place on Saturday 19 May, and will be led by the Bishop of Ely, Stephen Conway, who is also the President of the Friends of Little Gidding.
The Pilgrimage will follow the format used in recent years, beginning at 10.30am with a celebration of the Eucharist at Leighton Bromswold.
After lunch, we will walk the five miles to Little Gidding, with several pauses for rest and prayer. The Pilgrimage culminates in prayers at the tomb of Nicholas Ferrar, followed by Evensong, at which the Bishop Stephen will preach the sermon. After Evensong, Afternoon Tea is served at Ferrar House.
All are very welcome to all or part of the day -- we look forward to seeing you! In order for us to make appropriate catering and other practical arrangements, it would be helpful to have an indication if you are considering coming. Please email chair@littlegidding.org.uk.
The Rt Revd Stephen Conway, Bishop of Ely and President of the Friends of Little Gidding, will preside.
12 noon Lunch at Leighton Bromswold -- details to be confirmed
1pm First Station: the Pilgrimage Walk commences from the Hundred Stone, Leighton Bromswold
2pm Second Station at Salome Wood
2.45pm Third Station at Hamerton
3.45pm Fourth Station at Steeple Gidding
4.15pm Fifth Station at the tomb of Nicholas Ferrar at Little Gidding
Preacher: Bishop Stephen
The walk from Leighton Bromswold to Little Gidding is about five miles along the country roads. Sturdy shoes are recommended. If sunny, don’t forget to bring hats and water. Drinks will be available at the stopping places. It will be possible to join in along the route, particularly at the Stations, where there will be a pause and a short act of worship and commemoration. Timing of intermediate Stations approximate. Toilet and refreshments will be available at Hamerton.
Donations to cover the costs of the Pilgrimage, including Tea, are very welcome. The expected cost of lunch is £6, and the expected cost of Tea is £6; there will be collections at both services for the upkeep of the respective churches.
The Pilgrimage is organized by the Friends of Little Gidding who exist to help maintain Little Gidding Church and to promote the memory of Nicholas Ferrar and his family. Please support the work of the Friends by your donations, which can be Gift-Aided, and by becoming a member. Members receive a regular newsletter containing details of all events at Little Gidding, together with news and articles about the Ferrars, the Church, and related topics. Please speak to a committee member or complete and return a membership form to Ferrar House.
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“At the end of the day, you don’t really need a lot for your skin to look its best,” says Jessica Johnson, owner of Jessica Johnson Beauty in Portland. While the beauty industry has become overcrowded and noisy, Johnson advocates simplicity: wear sunscreen, keep your skin clean and hydrated, and lose the crowd of beauty products taking over your bathroom.
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At her facial spa on Middle Street, Johnson offers skin care treatments—including 30-minute “flash facials”—custom brow styling and makeup. There’s no long list of frilly services; rather, her approach is meant to “liberate women from practicing a costly, time-consuming beauty routine.”
Skin care doesn’t need to break the bank—but that doesn’t mean a visit to the spa for a facial or brow styling can’t still feel totally indulgent. It’s a balance Johnson has mastered.
The decor at Jessica Johnson Beauty—modern and feminine, accented with grays and pinks—was inspired by Johnson’s love of New York City. She wanted women to walk in and get a feel for being in a big city or the side streets of Paris—without leaving the ease of Portland. “I wanted women to get the luxe feel at an affordable price,” she says. “This experience needs to be accessible to everyone.”
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At her facial spa on Middle Street, Jessica Johnson offers skin care treatments—including 30-minute “flash facials”—custom brow styling and makeup. Johnson has also created a small line of skin care products—including the T3 Hydro Active Spray Serum and Ultra Glow Night Cream & Mask—to provide women with a “simpler, saner” skin care regimen. Photo by Heidi Kirn
Bringing women together and giving them a personal experience is built into Johnson’s business. “The skin care industry feels very impersonal and big-scale,” she says. Having personal one-on-one contact with her customers and building her brand, one customer at a time, is essential. “This is a place where woman can come in and feel no pressure.”
And Johnson’s brand is building. The Middle Street spa has grown from its original iteration as a brow studio, which Johnson first opened in 2014. It was a venture she wasn’t sure would work in Portland.
When Johnson first moved to Maine from California, she noticed there wasn’t a place in Portland dedicated to brows—and she wasn’t sure if locals would be interested in her services. “I didn’t know if women were going to pay for that kind of treatment here,” she says. But four years and many clients later, her company is growing.
“This is a place where women can come in and feel no pressure.”
Johnson has also created a small line of skin care products—including the T3 Hydro Active Spray Serum and Ultra Glow Night Cream & Mask—to provide women with a “simpler, saner” skin care regimen. That side of the business is seeing growth, too.
“We are a Maine company and we are launching our products and expanding the company nationally from Maine,” she says. “It’s so exciting.”
Both the facial spa and the product line are a culmination of 30 years working in the skin care and beauty industry. Johnson got her start in 1986 while working as a makeup artist for Lancome to pay her way through college, earning her undergraduate degree in women’s studies and English. She then spent time in Europe, studying advanced skin care and learning about oil cleansing—using oil to cleanse the skin as opposed to most facial cleansers, which actually strip away the skin’s natural oils.
Women often shy away from using oils on their face, believing they will clog pores and cause breakouts, but that’s not the case, says Johnson. Oil cleansing takes the place of using a makeup remover, face wash and moisturizer, meaning fewer products are needed. “The less we put on our face, the more it self-regulates,” she says.
She was so taken with the idea, she eventually created her own face oil—3N1 Hybrid Face Oil—which is part of her current skin care line.
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Women don’t need to be overwhelmed with feeling like they need every product on the market. “We are making this harder than it needs to be,” Johnson says. Women should use a sunscreen, cleanse their skin, keep it hydrated and exfoliate. Simple.
It’s the same mantra at the facial spa. “We offer a 30-minute facial and we do brows,” she say. “That’s all you need.” Skin treatments are “quick and affordable,” with a goal of having clients visit once a month so they can truly reap the benefits of getting a regular facial.
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By Jevon MintoJun 17, 2015, 22:47 pmComments Off on LIME to Floyd Green: Paulwell Isn’t a ‘Disappointment’
Telecommunications firm LIME which is transitioning to FLOW, is this afternoon pushing back against suggestions from Opposition Deputy Spokesman on Digital Economy Development, Floyd Green, that the decision by Telecoms Minister, Phillip Paulwell, to grant an extension in the implementation of number portability is a disappointment.
The planned implementation date was set for May 31 but 2-days before that date, LIME said it wouldn’t be able to meet the deadline.
A stinging column in the last Friday’s Gleaner by Mr. Green, has forced LIME to once-again defend its decision to ask for a delay in the implementation of number portability.
Green wrote that the missed deadline is a disappointment and has become part of Minister Paulwell’s legacy — pointing out that five deadlines have now been missed stretching back to December 2012.
In a release, LIME says it asked for the 22-day extension of the last deadline of May 31 this year because it was acting in the best interests of the public.
The company says the extension will allow for crucial tests to ensure that customers do not experience unnecessary disruptions when the service becomes a reality.
LIME says any characterization of Minister Paulwell’s extension as a failure is inappropriate.
The company says it will meet the new launch date — set for next week.
LIME is also at odds with Mr Green for question the decision by Minister Paulwell to approve the merger between LIME and FLOW.
Green in his column said the approach that Minister Paulwell used to approved the merger wasn’t forensic enough and allows for supremacy of a monopoly.
Mr. Green said while the Opposition welcomes the merger, many issues surrounding the acquisition still lingers.
For example, he questioned whether Minister Paulwell could’ve adequately weighed the pros and cons of the merger within the 2-months of its requested approval.
He pointed out that in other Caribbean countries, more measured and cautious approaches were used before the approval.
St. Lucia he says had a public consultation while in Barbados, the merger was approved subject to the divestment of overlapping assets.
Green questioned why the Barbados model wasn’t used in Jamaica in a bid to preserve competition.
In its response, LIME says it is asking not to be drawn into political or special interest debates.
It says when the Minister granted the approval, he observed the provisions of the Telecoms Act and engaged the regulators.
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Currently, there are a number of major pieces of energy legislation before the Legislature: CEJA, the Exelon Bill, the ComEd/Ameren Bill, Path to 100, maybe more. Realistically, no single bill from this group will or should pass before the end of this Spring legislative session; and in all probability, a large, omnibus energy bill in the Fall Veto Session is the most likely outcome. Read more
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When he was 11, my stepson taught me one of the most valuable Life-lessons I’ve learned when he said, “You know Dave, man isn’t a “rational” animal. He’s a “rationalizing” one!”
Truer words have never been spoken when examining the nonsense rationalizations being paraded around by execs of unprofitable electric utilities and their governmental handmaidens for bailing out unprofitable nuclear and coal plants that the market-based system utility lobbyists introduced years ago would otherwise see closed.
A “rationalization” is usually a specious excuse or explanation offered to cover up a serious flaw or failure. In some cases – like state-mandated nuclear and coal plant bailouts — a legalized fig-leaf, if you will.
Virtually every bailout rationalization offered to date by the Exelons and Dynegys, Trumps and Perrys of the world fall flat on their face when analyzed in detail by the majority of professional agencies and staffs employed to make the crucial, day-to-day decisions that keep the electric grid functioning. National security, grid resilience, onsite fuel reserves – all such claims have been handily debunked by the experts, historical evidence, or both.
Now Exelon informs the world that its Dresden and Byron reactors are now in “financial distress.” How sad. So are Illinois ratepayers after the last $2.4 billion bailout Governor Rauner and Speaker Michael Madigan awarded them in 2016.
Exelon claims “… the company will not at any point seek subsidies from Illinois ratepayers to keep Dresden and Byron open…”. But that’s what Exelon management said in 2014 about the then five reactors they said were in “financial distress,” too. This time, they instead are relying on the twisted illogic trying to pass as public policy they hope will come from a Trump Administration Soviet-style protectionist mandate; or twisty balloon-dog machinations they hope regional system operator PJM will invent to facilitate the next wealth transfer from ratepayers to shareholders.
In 2014 our organization brought two propositions to the bailout negotiations that went ignored, and are being ignored today: 1.) nowhere in the State Constitution is the Legislature obligated to guarantee the profitability of a private corporation; and 2.) it is the communities whose jobs and economies are threatened by reactor and coal plant closures that need the bailing out, not profitable private corporations.
We recommended institution of a “just transitions” negotiation among affected parties as an alternative to repeated nuclear hostage crises, to create an economic transition plan for closures before they become imminent crises. We provided testimony to this effect to both the Senate and House energy committees; and spoke with over 40 state elected and appointed officials prior to the bailout. We again proposed this concept in a State Journal Register op-ed published in December 2016 after Governor Rauner signed Exelon’s bailout into law.
It is long past time to institute this pro-active approach to protecting affected communities and ratepayers. Economic blackmail is a poor way to conduct energy policy; and legalized extortion no valid substitute for real market-based solutions.
The utility bailout mania triggered by Exelon has swept the nation like some form of energy-HIV. Empty, fig-leaf rationalizations created to provide some pretense of legality makes a mockery of the agencies and regulations already in place which seem to be doing the grid reliability job quite well, thank you.
Harsh economic realities will soon begin to force legislatures and Congress to embrace one obvious conclusion: you cannot create an energy future by bailing out the past.
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Pat Sajak Biography
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An American television personality, former weatherman, actor and talk show host, Pat Sajak is currently married to Lesly Brown in 1989. He is widely known as the host of the American television game show “Wheel of Fortune”. Pat is the son of a Polish-American a factory worker and mother Joyce. He graduated from Farragut High School. Pat worked as a radio newsman for a Chicago radio station and the United States Army.
Pat Sajak Wiki-Bio
Pat Sajak was born on October 26, 1946, in Chicago, Illinois, the US to Joyce Helen (Brandecka) and Leonard Anthony Sajdak.
Pat Sajak started his TV career in the late 1970s in KNBC-TV. He hosted two game show pilots in 1980 ('Press Your Luck' for Ralph Edwards, and 'Puzzlers' for Mark Goodson).
Pat Sajak's Net Worth
Pat Sajak's estimated net worth is $55 million. His annual salary is $12 million from hosting “Wheel Of Fortune”.
Pat Sajak's Personal Life
Pat Sajak was previously married to Sherrill Sajak in 1979 but they ended their marriage relationship in 1986. He remarried to Lesly Brown on 31 December 1989.
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The couple has been blessed with two children named, Son, Patrick Michael James Sajak, was born on 22 September 1990. Daughter, Maggie Sajak, was born on 5 January 1995. He is living his life very happily with his family so there are no signs of separation.
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First Marriage with Sherrill
Married date: 1979 Divorce
Pat Sajak was previously married to Sherrill in 1979 but they ended their marriage relationship in 1986 for an unknown reason.
Second Marriage with Lesly Brown
Married date: December, 31, 1989 Married
He remarried to Lesly Brown on 31 December 1989. The couple has been blessed with two children. He is living happily with his family.
Pat Sajak Children
SON : Patrick Michael James Sajak
Mother: Lesly Brown
Patrick Michael James Sajak was born on 22 September 1990. He is the first child of the couple. He has one younger sister.
DAUGHTER : Maggie Sajak
Maggie Sajak was born on 5 January 1995. She is the second child of the couple. She has one elder brother.
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Two civilians and five soldiers suffered as a result of shelling by AFU for the week
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The Molten-Salt Reactor Demonstration Reactor
Ed Bettis, who was one of the inventors of the Molten Salt Reactor concept, and was a pioneering champion, went on to become lead an ORNL design group during the 1960's and 1970's. Bettis designed both one and two fluid reactors, including a pioneering ORNL two fluid 250 kWe Modular MSR. Bettis also realized that a practical MSR, based on MSRE tested technology and in ORNL-TM-3832 (DESIGN STUDIES OF A MOLTEN-SALT REACTOR DEMONSTRATION PLANT) offered a practical design for such a reactor. The purpose of the Demonstration Reactor project was to
represents a molten-salt reactor plant which is feasible to build, will produce a significant amount of electrical power, and will be a major step toward a useful family of breeder reactors.
The abstract of ORNL-TM-3832 reads
The MSDR, a 350-MW(e) Molten-Salt Reactor Demonstration Reactor, is based on technology much of which was demonstrated by the MSRE. The cylindrical vessel (26 ft diam by 26 ft high) houses a matrix of graphite slabs forming salt passages having 8 volume fraction in the core of 10%. . . In the secondary exchanger, heat is transferred to a stream of Hitec salt (in at 800 F, out a t 1000F). The Hitec oxidizes tritium to tritiated water which is removed and disposed of. The Hitec generates steam at 9OO F, 2400 psi in a boiler, super- heater, and reheater. Electricity is produced a t an overall efficiency of 36.6%. Soluble fission products are removed by discarding the carrier salt every 8 years after recovery of the, uranium by fluorination. Volatile fission products are removed by sparging the fuel salt with helium bubbles in the reactor primary system. The fuel cycle cost was estimated t o 0.7 mill/kWhr for inventory, 0.3 mill/kWhr for replacement, and 0.1 mill/kWhr for processing, giving a total of 1.1 mills/kWhr.
Although ORNL's primary reactor development focus during the early 1970's was on the development of a Molten Salt Breeder Reactor, Bettis suggested:
An alternative approach to the development of a commercial MSBR has also evoked interest. This approach emphasizes more rapid attain- ment of commercial size but more gradual attainment of high performance. The step beyond the MSRE is construction of a 300-MW(e) Molten-Salt Demonstration Reactor(MSDR). The purpose of the MSDR would be to demonstrate the molten-salt reactor concept on a semi-commercial scale while requiring little development of basic technology beyond that demonstrated in the MSRE.
We see from the abstract that many improvements would be possible with the 1972 design. Compared to the MSBR, Bettis and his associates proposed,
First, the MSDR has only such chemical processing as was demonstrated in the
MSRE and has no provision for removing fission product poisons on a short time cycle. Thisresults in a much less complicated chemical processing plant, although it means that the reactor has a breeding ratio less than one and i s therefore a converter. The second major simplification i s that the power density was made low enough for the graphite core to last the 30-year design lifetime of the plant, thus simplifying the reactor vessel and eliminating the equipment for replacing the core.
At the time ORNL MSBR plans called for the periodic removal and replacement of the MSBR Graphite core, as a solution to the problem of core swelling caused by neutron bombardment. This involved design complexities, and so Bettis proposed an alternate scheme to deal with graphite swelling, a scheme that involved core enlargement.
The ORNL-TM-3832 design although interesting is flawed. The MSDR designers, in an effort to solve core a graphite problem increased the amount of core graphite, this in turn increased the size of the core. But a large core increases reactor construction costs. From a cost viewpoint, it is probably better to replace a small core every few years, than to build a very large core, that will last for 30 years.
While ORNL-TM-3832 represents a serious attempt to simplify MSR design, it hardly represents the last word in MSR simplification. While we may appreciate the ingenuity of Bettis' 1972 design, a revolutionary innovation in core design by Dr. David LeBlanc has greatly simplified MSR core concepts. If the MSDR was altered by substituting Dr. LeBlanc's two tube core for the original core design the entire reactor design would require great alteration. The LeBlanc tube core would almost certainly lower MSR costs, compared to all ORNL core designs of the 1960's and 1970's.
Other problematic features of the Demonstration Reactor involved the use of LiF-BeF2 salts. Since the purpose is not producing nuclear fuel in the breeding range, other salts might carry significant advantages including lower costs, and the elimination of the tritium problem. By switching to another salt combination the tritium problem associated with LiF-BeF2 salts. The MSDR included a third heat transfer loop as part of its tritium control system, and that loop decreased thermal efficiency, increased reactor complexity and costs. If the goal of MSR design is breeding, LiF-BeF2 are the preferred carrier salts, but when breeding ceases to be the objective, then the possibility of using other salts comes into play.
The MSDR was designed to generate power through the medium of superheated steam turbines. Gas turbines, and particularly CO2 turbines would be preferable, if available, but they are not an option yet. As it is the use of superheated steam would make the MSDR more efficient than Light Water Reactors.
Thus it would appear that development of the original MSDR design is not warranted, but that development of the design concept could be. Compared to a MSBR (a LFTR), an advanced MSDR would be a design slam dunk, because of the reliance on tested technology and because of the simplicity of the design. Not only would the MSDR cost less to manufacture than LFTRs, it would probably cost significantly less than LWRs and IFR SMRs such as the ARC-100.
In our current energy situation, a MSDR type reactor would be highly desirable. Not only would it serve as a route to a LFTR type molten salt thorium breeders, but it would offer a potential low cost alternative to the Light Water Reactor, that would be both safe, and would reduce the nuclear waste problem.
Labels: LFTR, molten salt reactor, MSDR
Rick Maltese said...
I do remember reading that Bettis deserves some credit for the concept. I just wonder what were Weinberg's and Wigner's personal contribution beyond being bosses?
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Rebel Newsflash - Friday, 15 April 2011
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Deputy Culture Minister and Director of Tehran International Book Fair Bahman Dorri denounced the British Foreign Office's move in rejecting several applications by Iranian private sector book publishers who had applied to...
British Embassy in Tehran closed (by PressTV)
British chargé d'affaires in Tehran on Wednesday ordered the embassy to close its doors to dozens of Iranians who had come to apply for visas.
The UK Embassy in Tehran was closed until further notice after the country's chargé d'affaires tightened rules for visa issuance and instigated disputes and physical encounters between the people who were applying for visas and security personnel.
Bahrainis in UK decry Saudi atrocities (by PressTV)
Bahrainis living in Britain held rallies outside the Saudi Arabi Embassy in London on Wednesday evening to condemn the occupation of their country by Saudi troops.
Demonstrators that carried Bahraini flags and anti-Saudi placards chanted slogans in English and Arabic denouncing the atrocities of Bahrain's regime and the Saudi military intervention in the Persian Gulf Island to help the...
'US to maintain power grip on Egypt' (by PressTV)
Egyptian protesters, who pined for revolutionary change in the North African state, are continuing their demonstrations as the country's military council has failed to meet their demands for reforms.
One such demand is the call for the resignation of the council's head, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawy. The other is the prosecution of former President Hosni Mubarak and his sons Gamal...
'Oldest South American textile found' (by PressTV)
Scientists say textiles and rope fragments found in Peru's Guitarrero Cave in the Andes Mountains are the oldest ever found in South America.
The textiles were found thirty years go along with some other artifacts which were dated to around 12,000 years ago , EurekAlert reported.
According to a report published in Current Anthropology, the textiles were not dated and recent human and...
India and Pakistan to resume sporting ties (by Al Jazeera English)
Rival neighbours to restart direct sports games, frozen since the deadly 2008 Mumbai attacks, in a bid to thaw ties.
India broke off diplomatic relations with Pakistan after the 2008 Mumbai attacks which killed 166 people [Reuters]
India and Pakistan have agreed to resume direct sporting ties, including cricket games, which were frozen after the deadly Mumbai attacks in...
Japan hit by more nuclear crisis (by PressTV)
The operator of Japan's tsunami-flooded nuclear power complex is struggling to pull damaged spent fuel rods out of a storage pool at one of the reactors.
This comes amid concerns over surging radiation and elevated temperatures at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, MSNBC reported Thursday.
Water in the spent fuel storage pool at the Number 4 reactor at the Fukushima plant has risen...
Yemen's opposition rejects talks (by PressTV)
Yemeni opposition has set a two-week deadline for President Ali Abdullah Saleh to leave, rejecting an offer to join Saudi-mediated talks.
"We have renewed our emphasis on the need for speeding the process of (Saleh) standing down to within two weeks. Therefore, we will not go to Riyadh," prominent opposition leader Mohammed al-Mutawakkil was quoted as saying by Reuters on Thursday.
Persian...
'Libya situation a classic stalemate' (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-14-2011/hallinan-lindorff.flv
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon says around 3.5 million Libyans are in need of humanitarian aid as battles rage between Western-led forces and troops loyal to ruler Muammar Gaddafi.
The United Kingdom and France want to intensify the airstrikes over...
8 revolutionaries killed in N Libya (by PressTV)
Eight Libyans have been killed as dozens of Grad rockets of Muammar Gaddafi forces struck the northern city of Misratah, a revolutionary forces spokesman says.
"They fired Grads at a residential area called Kasr Ahmad near the port this morning. They fired at least 80 rockets on that area," Abdelbasset Abu Mzereiq told Reuters on Thursday.
"So far we have eight martyrs and 20...
'Egypt has no need for US military aid' (by PressTV)
The deposed Egyptian President, Hosni Mubarak, is set to appear in court on April 19 and face charges of killing anti-regime protesters, embezzling public funds and abusing power.
However, the slow pace of prosecution of the former regime's officials has cast doubts on Egypt's military council's 'alliance' with the former ruler.
Press TV interviewed Adel Lotfy, a writer and journalist...
US reassures Saudi Arabia of support (by PressTV)
The White House has once again reassured Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah of the US support amid anti-government protests in the country.
US National security adviser Tom Donilon held comprehensive and positive talks with the Saudi monarch, the White House said on Wednesday.
"The discussions highlighted the importance of the US-Saudi partnership rooted in strong historical ties and shared...
Zionism Undone (by Video Rebel)
In contrast to this academic fraud we have the works of Israel Finkelstein, the Israeli archaeologist who wrote The Bible Unearthed based upon modern scientific studies of the Holy Land.
He concluded that the ancient Hebrews were descendants of the Canaanites. The Hebrews lived in the mountains and their fellow Canaanites lived on the lower elevations. This means that those few ...
Israel Approves 900 Settlement Units Near Bethlehem (by IMEMC)
File - Israeli Settlement
The Israeli Regional Construction and Planning Committee approved a new settlement plan that aims at constructing 900 units for Jewish settlers in an area adjacent to Al Walaja Palestinian town in the Bethlehem District.
The units will be built close to the Gilo illegal settlement that was built lands that were illegally annexed from the...
Emerging powers said to condemn Libya bombing (by Reuters)
Reuters – Mohamed, 10, stands guard at the frontline along the western entrance of Ajdabiyah, April 13, 2011. REUTERS/Yannis …
CAIRO/BENGHAZI (Reuters) – Leaders of five big emerging powers on Thursday condemned NATO-led air strikes against Libya after Western and Arab countries issued their first joint call for Muammar Gaddafi to step down.
Diplomats will make a...
Libya tops agenda at NATO ministers' meeting (by Associated Press)
Three weeks of airstrikes haven't routed Moammar Gadhafi's forces, and France has said NATO isn't doing enough.
British and French officials also said Washington's military strength is needed to ensure the mission's success, but the Obama administration insists the U.S. will stick to its plan to remain in the back seat.
American officials say U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton...
BRICS take aim at dollar with call for global monetary revamp (by Reuters)
"The era demands that the BRICS countries strengthen dialogue and cooperation," Chinese President Hu Jintao said.
The BRICS are worried about the long-term fate of the dollar because of America's large trade and budget deficits. They also begrudge the privileges that come with being the leading reserve currency -- hence the call for a revamped system that is more stable.
In another dig at the...
North Korea to charge detained US citizen (by Al Jazeera English)
Pyongyang says it will indict the American missionary man, jailed since November, with "crimes against the nation."
Several Americans have been detained in North Korea in recent years [GALLO/GETTY]
North Korea said it will charge a US citizen detained since November with crimes against the nation, amid reports that he was engaged in missionary work in the hardline...
Uruguay ends amnesty on junta crimes (by PressTV)
Uruguay's senate has narrowly voted to annul an amnesty for crimes against humanity committed during the military dictatorship in the country four decades ago.
The legislation, which was passed after a 12-hour debate, would allow prosecutions for crimes against humanity which were committed during Uruguay's so-called dirty war.
During the debate, Sen. Oscar Lopez Goldaracena of the Broad...
US suspends napping air traffic controller (by Al Jazeera English)
No one was hurt as a sleepy tower operator snoozes through landing of a medical flight in fifth such incident this year.
Senator Harry Reid of Nevada said the Reno incident was unacceptable [EPA]
A US air traffic controller has been suspended from his job after falling asleep while a medical flight was landing in the state of Nevada, marking the fifth lapse so far...
Western, Arab nations say Libya's Gaddafi must go (by Reuters)
Reuters – Mourners pray next to the grave of helicopter pilot Captain Hussein Al-Warfali in Benghazi April 12, …
CAIRO/BENGHAZI (Reuters) – Diplomats will make a new effort to forge an end to the Libyan civil war on Thursday, after agreeing to call for Muammar Gaddafi to leave power but failing to forge a unified strategy to force him out.
U.N. Secretary General Ban...
French ships to join Russia navy fleet (by PressTV)
Following an arms deal between France and Russia, Paris will provide Moscow with two Mistral-class vessels that are fully equipped with NATO's communication and control systems.
"Bilateral talks resulted in an agreement with the French party that they will take into account the Defense Ministry's condition to provide all necessary systems and equipment to comply with the Russian Navy's...
Obama Orders Israel Thrown To 'Arab Wolves' To Save Saudi Oil (by Sorcha Faal)
[Editor's note: Usually I refrain from republishing anything coming from disinfotainment site Sorcha Faal, but this one was just too funny. If anyone needed more proof that Jew know who is behind that site, in spite of their frequent episodes of holocultism, here it is.]
Just released secret cables detailing the talks held between President Medvedev and his Chinese...
Iran slams UK's visa denial to publishers (by PressTV)
Iran has slammed Britain for denying visas to Iranian publishers who were planning to take part in the 2011 edition of London Book Fair.
Deputy Minister of Iran's Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance Bahman Dorri raised objections to Britain's decision, saying that the London Book Fair organizers will also receive a firm response.
The British Foreign Ministry refused to issue visas for...
US blasted for silence on Bahrain (by PressTV)
http://217.218.67.244:8181/video/site video/04-14-2011/clinton.flv
The United States has been criticized for being silent about the recent killings of anti-government protesters in the Persian Gulf state of Bahrain.
Maryam al-Khawaja of the Bahrain Center of Human Rights asked US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton at the US...
Allies to step up military pressure on Libya (by Al Jazeera English)
France and UK agree to increase military operations on Gaddafi's regime ahead of a NATO strategy meeting in Germany.
France and Britain have agreed to step up military pressure on Muammar Gaddafi's regime after world powers meeting in Doha promised Libyan rebels cash and the means to defend themselves.
Nicolas Sarkozy, the French...
Mubarak, sons to stand in dock (by PressTV)
Egypt's ousted President Hosni Mubarak
Egypt's deposed President Hosni Mubarak and his two sons are set to appear in court on April 19 as a part of an investigation into their 'crimes' against the North African state.
Mubarak and his sons, Alaa and Gamal, who face charges of killing anti-regime protesters, embezzling public funds and abusing power, will be required to answer...
Syrian students march for reforms (by PressTV)
About 150 Syrian students have staged a rally for the first time in Aleppo, Syria's second biggest city, to demand political reforms in the country.
The students marched on the campus of Aleppo University on Wednesday, activists said on Thursday.
Several hundred students also rallied at Damascus University for a second day in the capital on Wednesday, Reuters reported.
Activists accused...
'West set to hijack Arab revolutions' (by PressTV)
Head of Iran's Assembly of Experts Ayatollah Mohammad Reza Mahdavi Kani has warned Arab nations to be wary of US and its allies' plans to take control of their recent Islamic movements.
"The foreigners, especially the US and the Zionist regime (Israel), are trying to usurp these movements and distort their reality," ISNA quoted Ayatollah Mahdavi Kani as saying at the Assembly's board...
North Korea says it has detained a US citizen (by Associated Press)
AFP/File – File photo of North Korean soldiers in the truce village of Panmunjom in the demilitarized zone separating …
SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea confirmed Thursday that it has arrested an American man for committing an unspecified crime against the country and is preparing to indict him.
The man, named Jun Young Su, has been held since November last year,...
One dead, 16 injured in Iraq blasts (by PressTV)
At least one civilian has been killed and 16 others, including three children, have been injured in a car bomb blast in the northeast of the Iraqi capital city of Baghdad, police say.
Colonel Kamel Ahmad said on Wednesday that the explosion happened near Sulaimaniya restaurant in Raas al-Damiz region in southern Kirkuk.
"One man was killed and 16 others, including three children, two women...
Bahrain accused of rights violations (by PressTV)
The daughter of a prominent Bahraini opposition figure has accused Manama of human rights violations as she enters the fourth day of a hunger strike.
Zainab al-Khawaja told the Associated Press on Wednesday that she will refuse food until her father, Abdulhadi al-Khawaja, her husband, brother-in-law and her uncle are released from detention.
The 27-year-old mother of a baby girl recalled...
Violence continues across Syria (by Al Jazeera English)
According to reports from Alleppo, Syria's second city, one hundred anti-government protesters have demonstrated at the main university there. Three students have been arrested in what is thought to be the city's first demonstration during the recent wave of unrest. And the calls for greater political freedoms in the capital are getting...
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Forum » Woodland Crafts » Cabin-in-the-Woods » Carbeth & Thousand Hut campaign
Topic: Carbeth & Thousand Hut campaign
Carbeth & Thousand Hut campaign
on: January 1, 2014, 10:12
Reforesting Scotland's campaign for ""A Thousand Huts" is underway in Scotland with the aim to ensure that the planning rules recognise the right for citizens to enjoy the recreational, health and social benefit of being able to build and own a modest countryside retreat.
A good number of rustic huts were built in the Carbeth area to the west of Bearsden, Glasgow now over half a century ago employing such materials as corrugated iron and low impact simple block foundations.
The occupants maintain their cabins to a high visual standard.
Some of these huts are now being replaced with timber cabins.
Hut design is kept simple and impact on the landscape is minimal with no great infrastructure in evidence. The land does not belong to the hut owners and thus this system of building is similar to Chattel House ownership that was prevalent for a long time in The West Indies.
Elsewhere in Scotland a more refined approach to introduce the concept of log building has been employed to very good effect.
It would appear that there is now a groundswell in the movement to build small huts / cabins in countryside areas and that the designs for same can be quite varied.
Re: Carbeth Huts & Cabins
on: June 26, 2014, 17:24
On 23rd June 2014 the Reforesting Scotland - thousand hut campaign website announced that huts are now to be included in the Scottish planning system with a presumption in favour of building same provided that they are environmentally friendly and sustainable. Reforesting Scotland produced a document explaining their approach to hutting.
The 140 Carbeth hutters have now bought the land upon which their huts stand for £1.5 million i.e. equivalent to £10,000 per hut and have formed the Carbeth Hutters Community Company to administer the land and huts.
Definition of a hut: A simple building used intermittently as recreational accommodation (ie. not a principal residence); having an internal floor area of no more than 30m2; constructed from low impact materials; generally not connected to mains water, electricity or sewerage; and built in such a way that it is removable with little or no trace at the end of its life. Huts may be built singly or in groups.
on: November 15, 2015, 07:49
On the 14th November 2015 Reforesting Scotland - thousand hut campaign announced that the Scottish Government has opened a consultation on a proposed amendment to the building regulations that could make it simpler and more affordable to build a small, low impact hut for recreational use.
Currently huts and bothies have to meet building regulations in full, adding significant cost to their construction, however, this consultation presents several ways to reduce the regulatory burden on building huts and bothies. One option under consultation is a proposal that huts and bothies should become exempt from the building regulations (with some exceptions). This exemption would be based on the creation of a new building type for huts and bothies, and a requirement that they are constructed in a way that meets key health and safety considerations. Reforesting Scotland's upcoming publication 'The Good Practice Guide to Hut Building' could provide guidance to help hut builders meet this requirement.
Reforesting Scotland welcomes the consultation, and is currently drawing up their response to it, which will be circulated to the Thousand Hut network. Reforesting Scotland would encourage Thousand Hut supporters to look at the consultation papers and make their responses by 12 February 2016.
Several significant concerns about the content of the consultation have been raised so far, including that the proposal appears to exclude huts that have a sleeping platform. Sleeping platforms are a standard feature in huts and bothies. Ways of addressing this and other concerns are welcome.
Examples of some Scottish recreational huts can be seen in the Thousand Hut Campaign website Gallery.
The Scottish Government is making an important step towards helping to facilitate a new wave of simple, sustainable, small, low impact huts and bothies. If a positive and constructive amendment goes through it could help enable people of all income brackets to access nature, recreation and tranquility with their friends and families, in a way that would surely benefit society as a whole over the coming years.
Re: Carbeth & Thousand Hut campaign
on: December 30, 2016, 10:50
The Thousand Huts Campaign now has a web forum (end 2016) where the needs and experiences of those involved in this movement can now be examined and hopefully contributions made by OWG members and subscribers to help promote the active management of woodlands and use of home grown timber in the construction of timber buildings in the countryside.
Ken Hume OWG
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NEC Crusoe Server CS56
Abstract: The NEC CS56 server uses a TM5600 Crusoe processor running the Linux 6.5 Secure Server Edition while consuming less than 20 Watts of power.
External Mfg. Website: NEC May 30 2001 Max Page
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NEC (Yonezawa) Crusoe Server CS56
The NEC CS56 server uses a TM5600 Crusoe processor running the Linux 6.5 Secure Server Edition while consuming less than 20 Watts of power. The unit has no fan on the processor (low noise signature), and even comes with a built-in UPS and optional RAID. Measuring 145 x 240 x 220mm (W/D/H) and weighing in at 5-6Kg, the small server includes an internal power supply and can be placed into a 19" wide rack in 2 and 3 unit wide configurations if desired.
The CS56 server in the most advanced version contains a 600Mhz TM5600 Crusoe processor coupled with the Ali M1535 Super South Bridge, 192MB SO-DIMM memory, an ATI-mobility graphics chipset, 40Gb (x2 for RAID) hard drives, optional CD-ROM, 1 serial, 2 USB, 1 parallel, 2 PCI, 2 PS/2, 1VGA and dual RJ-45 ports. Internally there are up to 2 PCI sockets, and room for compact flash storage.
Looking at the specs, the CS56 appears to be geared more toward the SOHO and office server application as opposed to ISP-class web serving. While NEC does mention the compatibility of the units in 19" racks, doing so in an ISP or IDC would take up valuable rack space and be quite costly.
The built-in UPS is a very neat feature to have in a server, and as the documentation explains it, if there is a interruption in the main supply, the unit will continue operation for a few minutes and then automatically shut down in a safe manner. While the CS56 comes with the Linux OS, it can be loaded with Windows 2000.
The unit is beginning mass production and will retail for 138,000 Yen ($1100USD) in OEM quantities. NEC expect to sell around 5000 units this year.
We have been receiving quite a few requests about this NEC Crusoe based product, and the others of this series. With help from Transmeta and NEC, we have the following information for you concerning their purchase. Please be aware that all three of these NEC products are available ONLY to Domestic Japan orders. They are not sold in the US, and will NOT be shipped out of Japan by NEC.
NEC contact is : NEC Customtechnica Sales group
http://www.sys-yone.com/
NEC Netbrain
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Contents of Article: NEC CS56
Pg 1. — NEC Crusoe Server CS56
Pg 2. Full Specs for the CS56 Crusoe Server
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Florida ADA News
Issue Number 2 � � � April 1, 2000
The Florida ADA Working Group is looking for a Logo. If you have an Idea,
�The Social Security Public Forums
YOUR Public Input on TWWIIA Regulations
Social Security Public Forums on the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act (TWWIIA) are in full swing. Federal Policy-State Opportunities: Models and Strategies for an Inclusive Workforce MARCH 30 -- Phoenix, AZ will host the next Social Security Public Forum for Region IX: AZ, CA, HA, NV, Guam, Siapan, and American Samoa. APRIL 6 -- New York City hosts the one after that for Region II -- NY, NJ, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Registration is free for the all day forum focused on the work incentives Act, the One Stop Centers from the Workforce Investment Act and Medicaid buy-ins for workers with disabilities. Contact Rona Harper at CESSI for free registration details: Phone 703-448-6155, ext. 210 or email her at: conwalconf@aol.com
The Phoenix, AZ Public Forum Agenda is at the end of this post for your information. Public Input -- TWWIIA Regulations The Social Security Office of Employment Support Programs (OESP) is drafting the regulations for provisions in the new work incentives Act, the Ticket program, CDR medical review protections, the Work Incentive Planning and Assistance Program, etc. Social Security wants community input. You can send your comments on how these regulations should read. You are encouraged to write and E-mail them to: TTWWIIA@ssa.gov Or Mail, Or Fax to: SSA Office of Employment Support Programs 107 Altmeyer Building 6401 Security Boulevard Baltimore, MD 21235 Phone: Reggie Sajauskas at (410) 965-5381 Fax: (410) 966-8597 SUGGESTION: Send one topic per email or letter so that Social Security routes your input to the staff writing regulations for that provision.
The Social Security website address for TWWIIA is: www.ssa.gov/work/legislation.htm Community website for TWWIIA Factsheet and policy briefs: www.workincentives-healthcare.com
PHOENIX ARIZONA AGENDA - MARCH 30 Federal Policy-State Opportunities: Models and Strategies for an Inclusive Workforce March 30, 2000 Crowne Plaza North Phoenix Metro Center Phoenix, AZ 8:00 - 8:30 am Registration and Continental Breakfast 8:30 - 8:40 am Welcome Diane Blackman, Executive Officer, Assistant Regional Commissioner, Management and Operations Support Region IX, Social Security Administration 8:40 - 9:45 am Keynote Presentations Bryon MacDonald, Moderator and Introductions, National Community Advocate and Chair of Social Security Subcommittee of the National Council on Independent Living Keynotes: "Putting the Puzzle Together" Susan Daniels, Ph.D. Deputy Commissioner, Disability and Income Security Programs Social Security Administration "You Complete the Puzzle" Connie Garner Senior Disability Policy Advisor, Senator Edward Kennedy's Office Social Security Administration's Deputy Commissioner for Disability and Income Security Programs and the lead Congressional staff from Senator Kennedy's office will team up to provide a comprehensive review of the Ticket to Work and Work Incentives Improvement Act of 1999 (TWWIIA), as well as initiate a discussion regarding the collaboration required to provide effective employment services for people with disabilities. 9:45 - 10:00 am Break 10:00 - 11:30 am Panel I: Building an Inclusive Workforce Panelists knowledgeable in local implementation of the Workforce Investment Act, TWWIIA, and vocational rehabilitation will discuss how all of these programs can successfully integrate to help people with disabilities return to work. Susan Webb Moderator President, Webb Transitions, Inc. · Ken McGill, Associate Commissioner, Office of Employment Support Programs, SSA · Treva Roanhorse, Director, Navajo Office of Special Ed and Rehabilitative Services 11:30 - 11:40 am Break 11:40 - 12:40 pm Luncheon Discussion on Regional Collaboration Activities Box lunch and informal discussions with regional representatives from Federal agencies. Julie Clark Moderator and Introductions-Representative of the Presidential Task Force on Employment of Adults with Disabilities · Administrator, Employment and Training Administration, Region IX, Department of Labor · Fredric Schroeder Commissioner of the Rehabilitation Services Administration within the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services Rehabilitation Services Administration, Department of Education · Diane Blackman, Executive Officer, Office of the Assistant Regional Commissioner, Management and Operations Support 12:40 - 12:50 pm Break 12:50 - 2:20 pm Panel II: Health Care: State Opportunities This panel will provide an update of states' status regarding innovative health care options for people with disabilities pursuing employment. Panelists representing different State models and the advocacy communities in those states will provide useful information regarding cost estimation and State systems design and coordination. Paul Gowan, Moderator Executive Director of the Phoenix DD Council and the SILC Liaison · Joe Razes, Program Manager of Disabled and Elderly Health Programs Group, HCFA · State Medicaid Director Representative, Department of Health Services-Joe Confirms · Barbara Otto, Executive Director, SSI Coalition For A Responsible Safety Net, Chicago, IL 2:20 - 2:35 pm Break 2:35 - 4:05 pm Seven Concurrent State Breakout Sessions (Arizona, California, Hawaii, Nevada, Guam, Siapan, American Samoa, and Federally Recognized Indian Tribes) Participants will have an opportunity to discuss the specific State issues and circumstances facing people with disabilities who want to work. Sessions will allow for discussion of the different models and strategies presented throughout the day and will focus specifically on what kind of models best fit each state's needs and objectives. State officials and local leaders in the disability community will lead discussion. Possible Discussion Items: Workforce Investment Act/One Stops Implications of PASS and Workforce Investment Boards other SSA Work Incentives Work Incentives Counseling Medicaid Waivers and Options Vocational Rehabilitation Personal Assistant Services Implications of WIIA Personal Care Services 4:05 - 4:45 pm Report Back: State Discussion Leaders 4:45 - 4:50 pm Wrap-up Diane Blackman, Executive Officer, Assistant Regional Commissioner, Management and Operations Support, Region IX, Social Security Administration
Look and Listen for Signs of Hearing Loss During May, Better Hearing and Speech Month
An estimated 28 million Americans have a hearing loss that can be treated. You could be one of them. May is Better Hearing and Speech Month, a good time to take stock of your own hearing and seek help if you have a problem. You have a hearing loss if you: * frequently ask people to repeat themselves * often turn your ear toward a sound to hear it better * understand people better when you wear your glasses or look directly at their faces * lose your place in group conversations * keep the volume on your radio or TV at a level that others say is too loud * have pain or ringing in your ears People who see themselves in these statements should see an audiologist for a hearing test. Most kinds of hearing loss can be helped, but it's important that people monitor their hearing regularly and visit an audiologist when they have a hearing problem. Hearing loss often occurs slowly. Some sounds remain clear (often low-pitched sounds, such as the bass line in music), whereas others seem fuzzy (frequently women's and children's high-pitched voices). Hearing loss has many causes, including exposure to loud noise. The most common hearing loss is associated with aging. Forty-two percent of people with hearing loss are 65 or older. Even a very slight hearing loss can have an impact on your daily life. Hearing loss is treatable and there is no reason for anyone to miss all the important sounds of life.
In celebration of 20 years of reaching out to people of all ages with hearing loss, SHHH (Self Help for Hard of Hearing People, Inc.), the nation's largest consumer organization for people who are hard of hearing, is setting out to encourage people nationwide to have their hearing screened. Throughout May, Better Hearing and Speech Month, audiologists, in conjunction with SHHH local chapters, will conduct free hearing screenings and hold other special events to remind everyone that now is the best time to listen to sound advice about hearing. In fact, on May 6, 2000, people can receive free hearing screenings in selected communities throughout the United States. Sites will be announced by March 31, 2000 and posted by state on the SHHH website which is located at: www.shhh.org. Once you realize you have a hearing loss and deal with the physical issues of treatment and obtaining hearing aids, the emotional impact of losing one of the major senses needs to be addressed. This is where an advocacy and support group like SHHH can be a lifeline to you and your family. And lets face it; your family is just as involved in your hearing loss as you are because interpersonal communication is one of the key issues in your relationships. SHHH has 12,000 National members and 9,000 chapter members in all 50 states. As the voice for hard of hearing people, SHHH strives to improve the quality of hard of hearing people's lives through education, advocacy, and self-help. SHHH has an impact on national policy for improved rights, services, research and public awareness. SHHH Florida, Inc. (also known as FLASHHH) is the state liaison between the national office of SHHH and the chapter affiliates. Its mission is to help people cope with hearing loss and is accomplished by sharing self-help strategies, by education about available services and goods, and by advocacy and community outreach activities. SHHH Florida, Inc. does not sell services or equipment. The local chapters of SHHH are located in the following communities: Boca Raton, Delray, Fort Myers, Gainesville, Gulfport, Miami, Naples, Orlando, Palm Beach, Pensacola, Pompano Beach, Port Charlotte, Sarasota, Tallahassee and Tampa. It is at the local level of SHHH that you can learn the coping strategies to manage your hearing loss. You can find out about the very latest technologies that can benefit your particular hearing loss and you can alleviate that feeling of isolation, that no one knows what you're going through. If you have additional questions about any information contained in this article, please contact Joan Camezon by email at: joan1@home.com or by mail at 4814 Kestral Park Circle, Sarasota, FL 34231.
Joan Camezon, an Internet researcher and demographer, also serves on the Board of Trustees for SHHH Florida, Inc. and is a member of SHHH Sarasota.
Continental fined over disabled air passengers
WASHINGTON, March 29 (Reuters) - Continental Airlines Inc. will pay a
$50,000 fine for violating laws and regulations prohibiting discrimination
against passengers with disabilities, federal regulators said Wednesday.
Under a settlement approved by a Department of Transportation (DOT)
Administrative Law Judge, Continental will also refrain from similar
violations in the future.
The government had originally sought a $250,000 fine.
The charges were filed in August last year by DOT after complaints were
filed by air travelers about inadequate assistance to wheelchair-dependent
passengers on Continental flights during 1997 and 1998.
In addition, the government obtained records of complaints received by
Continental of disabled passengers being left for long periods aboard
aircraft or in terminal areas.
Continental spokesman Dave Messing said the airline believed there was no
pattern of discrimination but had elected to settle the case rather than
pursue costly and time-consuming litigation.
``We have extensive procedures for dealing with disabled passengers,''
Messing said. ``They are a very important group of passengers to us.''
Copyright: 2000 Reuters News Service
The contents of this
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Florida.
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The Garden at St. Lukes in the Fields, New York City
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The Church of St. Luke in the Fields is a lively, inclusive parish located in the heart of New York City's Greenwich Village. We reflect the variety of peoples in our world: different genders, sexual orientations, all forms of families, all abilities and special needs, in every socio-economic grouping, and from many cultures – all one in the body of Christ. St. Luke's is an Episcopal Church, part of the world-wide Anglican Communion, and grounded in the rich Anglo-Catholic liturgical and musical tradition. We believe that as members of the Body of Christ, we are called to ministries of worship, formation, hospitality and witness.
In the 19th century, St. Luke's was a center of the Catholic renewal and the Oxford Movement. The parish became the first in the city to offer daily services of the Divine Office and a weekly Sunday Eucharist. The Eucharist remains at the heart of our life at St. Luke's.
Whether you are looking for a new community of worship or just visiting New York City, we invite you to join us. Our Anglo-Catholic liturgy, our music program, and the energy of our congregational singing draw visitors from all over the country and the world.
The Holy Eucharist (also referred to as Holy Communion, the Lord's Supper, or Mass) is at the heart of our worship life. All baptized Christians are welcome to come forward to receive the consecrated Bread and Wine at every Eucharistic celebration at St. Luke's. Our service leaflets are user-friendly, and we make every effort to make newcomers and visitors feel welcome and involved.
On Sundays, childcare is provided for children six and under.
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Sunday SUMMER
8 am Said Eucharist, Rite I
10:30 am Sung Eucharist, Rite II
11:45 am Healing Service
Sunday (Fall Thru Spring)
8am Said Eucharist, Rite I
9:15 am Sung Eucharist, Rite II
11:15 am Choral Eucharist, Rite II
12:45 pm Service of Healing
Weekdays in the Chapel
6:15 pm Said Eucharist, Rite II - Monday-Thursday
12:15 pm Said Eucharist, Rite II - Friday
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The Garden at St. Lukes in the Fields Reviews
By HipnoZZa
Небольшой парк с потрясающим микроклиматом, очень уютный и комфортный. Поздним сентябрем сидели тут и наслаждались солнышком на травке)) Много парочек, мамочек с колясками) more »
A small park with stunning microclimates, very cozy and comfortable. Late September sat there and enjoyed the Sun on the grass)) a lot of couples, moms with strollers)
By Beth_sage
We just happened on this garden. It's right next to bigger construction, and the garden also had some work underway. It's a nice little oasis. more »
By Jonathan Conlin
The greatest moment of my life happened in this garden. I got engaged.
By Christina D
Beautiful little garden that’s open to the public.
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Reviewing modern and classic pulp novels and anthologies. Hard copies only, we do not review digital books or files.
A Nero Mystery
By Robert Goldsborough
MysteriousPress.com
237 pgs
Cameron Clay is an egotistical little man who, in his selfishness, envies the rich and the powerful. But he does have one unique talent, he’s a gifted journalist and has utilized his skills to become the most widely read columnist in New York City. His daily column, “Stop the Presses,” is a glorified gossip feature he uses to attack corrupt politicians, crooked cops and even his own ex-wife for having had the temerity to leave him. Clay sees himself as the champion of the average man who must labor for the pleasure of the social elite. Thus is verbal attacks are constant and brutal. In short he is a fellow many would like to see dead.
Which is where Nero Wolfe and Archie Goodwin enter the story. Len Cohen, the newspaper writer and friend of the pair, goes out on a limb and implores Wolf to grant Clay an audience. The irascible columnist has been receiving threatening phone calls that have him convinced he is the target of a would be killer. Against his better judgment, Wolfe acquiesces to Cohen and allows Clay to visit his brownstone office and put forth his case.
The meeting between the two is one for the records as Wolfe, by some herculean task, endures Clay’s ramblings and from them gleans that nervous journalist suspects one of five people as the unknown caller. Wolfe begrudgingly tells Clay to either go to the police or hire a bodyguard. Both options are refused and Clay exits in a huff. Several days later he is found in his home with a bullet hole in his head. After a search of the premises, Inspector Cramer of the NYP calls the death a suicide, though no note is found at the scene.
Reading the account in the papers, Wolfe and Archie see it as a conclusion to the entire sordid affair. Alas they are proven wrong. The publisher of the newspaper Clay worked for is convinced his popular staffer was murdered and hires Nero Wolfe to investigate. In his typical, methodical fashion, the heavy set, beer-drinking detective sets out to investigate each of the five people the dead man had claimed to be capable of murder.
Once again Robert Goldsborough delivers another fine Nero Wolfe puzzle and throughout plays fair with the readers. As the suspects appear and tell their stories, clues are dropped and the challenge as always is to solve the crime before Wolfe does at the traditional office gathering in the finale. Goldsborough ability to capture Archie’s voice is brilliant and each of his books would have made creator Rex Stout smile. This one sure had that effect on this reviewer.
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Lucky 13: FDRMX’s Interview with Nod One’s Head
The Berlin based duo of Nod One’s Head describe themselves as an authentic band that thrives on the club culture. We had previously covered their music video “Secret Love” in a recent blog post. This past week the extremely talented Lotte “Lovegood” and Moritz Bommert took the time to answer some questions about their past, their present, and the exciting future they have in store for us.
FDRMX: How did you two decide to start collaborating?
Moritz Bomert & Lotte “Lovegood”: It was almost two and half years ago when we went to this crazy party at our friend’s place. Nobody cared about the music, so actually every track of every genre was played that night. We looked at each other and we were like: ‘Shit, we have to make our own music. That’s horrible, dude.’
You’re releasing an album very soon. What can you tell us about it?
L: The album is going to be our debut album, so we are already really excited. It was clear to us from the very beginning that our album has to deal with the things we both struggle with every day: the issue of never being satisfied, searching for the unknown.
FDRMX: How did you come up with your symbol?
M: Well, we thought about having an item which captures the theme of the album. We were looking for something that describes the feeling of never being satisfied, like something is always missing. Our symbol shows the missing puzzle piece of every human.
FDRMX: The music video for Secret Love… I have to ask: What was the deal with the hole through the center of the woman’s body? I have my own theories, but I’d like to hear it from you.
L: In our NOH world, everybody has a missing puzzle piece in their body. That last missing thing, the last goal you want to achieve to feel complete. The girl in the music video has the symbol through her body because she’s looking for this one life-changing love, but she isn’t able to find it. She’s not even able to really see it when it’s right in front of her. In the beginning we actually wanted to integrate the symbol in more than just this one scene. But animations in videos are so expensive that we had to focus on one scene.
FDRMX: Is the “Secret Love” song based on your own secret love that nobody knows, shall know, or can see? Maybe it’s not necessarily a person.
M: Yes, well we really want to leave space for all sorts of interpretation. In our case we both had a lot of personal emotional times while we built up our band project and we’re talking about these things in our songs, through the music as well as through the vocals.
FDRMX: You’re currently touring all over Germany. Any funny road trip stories?
L: We had this one really crazy booking. When we arrived at the city we had to wait ages to get picked up from the train station, then we had a sound check at which we realized that they had the most awful-sounding sound system ever. Afterwards we wanted to go to bed, but our hotel room was full of disgusting bugs. And on top of that: the next day the hotel manager attacked Moritz and called the police because the room hadn’t been paid for. Actually this wasn’t funny at all. But on our way back to Berlin we couldn’t stop laughing about this awkward situation during the whole flight!
FDRMX: What’s the best concert you think you’ve ever played so far?
M: That’s a hard question! Definitely last year at one of our best friend’s house party in Berlin. The party took place at his shared flat in Berlin Mitte. It was a pajama party with over 130 people and the soundsystem was way too loud for the event. It was a just an incredible atmosphere and in the end the party was crashed by 30 police men while we were playing our set. It was a very funny situation when they crashed the live concert at this hardcore pajama party. One of the best club shows was our record release party at the Prince Charles Club in Berlin. The place was completely packed and filled with so many friends who have supported us from day one.
FDRMX: The music video for “Up” features the two of you playing around with shredded paper and twirling around for the camera. What was it like to shoot a video where you were the only two characters?
L: Haha, yes it was really cool! It was the two of us at the very beginning of NOH. We were just in front of the camera as friends, dancing as friends, having fun as friends.
FDRMX: Lotte, you’ve dyed your hair brunette since that video. Does your change of hair mean a change in the band as well? And Moritz, do you plan to compete with Lotte by dying yours red or something like that?
L: HAHA, no. I’m just a normal girl ;). But the idea of Moritz having red hair is actually really good…
FDRMX: You said in a recent interview that you’re very excited for the MELT! Festival this July. What is it about the festival that excites you so much?
M: For us the MELT Festival is one of the biggest and most exciting festivals because it covers all international top acts of our music genre. Since the first visit it was always our biggest dream to play at this festival. We share a lot of great summer memories from MELT.
FDRMX:What are your top 3 artists that you’re listening to right now?
M & L: Aluna George; Chet Faker; Kidnap Kid
FDRMX:What do you think it is about you two that makes you such an efficient partnership?
M & L:We are both looking for the same missing puzzle piece.
FDRMX: Finally, If you could d describe Nod One’s Head in just one word what would it be? (Since there’s two of you I’ll allow two words).
M & L: Secret Love
A huge thanks to the always awesome Nod One’s Head. Be sure to take a look at their music videos above and follow them at their website and Facebook
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Cyborgs, Puppies, and Steak: Meet BakuBakuDokin
April 22, 2015 rdr_admin
Tokyo is the definition of sensory overload. The smell of neon lights burning fist sized insects. The touch of a drunk salary man sleeping on you, while you suffer the long journey home on the last train. The taste of the convenience store, because that’s pretty much the only place in Japan that will take your debit card. If you are in need of the sights and sounds BakuBakuDokin (バクバクドキン) is an electronic hip hop duo that provides all that and more; maybe more than you would want.
Yui and Naoko, like most best friends, became close because Yui never brought her own book to Psych class. Their relationship soon expanded past the classroom and they ended up spending every waking second with one another listening to CDs in Yui’s brother’s room, having sleepovers at love hotels, or just people watching from said love hotels. It wasn’t long before Naoko and Yui combined their musical talents and formed BakuBakuDokin. Their first show was at an old folk’s home in Setagaya. Since then, BakuBakuDokin has become a darling of Tokyo’s underground music scene.
A BakuBakuDokin concert is close to a religious experience, if your religion was some sort of cult that worshipped aliens that sort of resemble a mix between puppies and frightening computer generated cyborgs. A song about how fun haircuts are is played in the same set as a song about alien invasions. The beats are consistently funky. High energy dance synths meet chilled rap rhythms. The videos playing on screen call you back to your favorite early 90’s cartoon, but only after they have come back from hell as shells of their former selves. They aren’t afraid to jump into the crowd, point at you, and make you dance by the pure force of their own grotesque cuteness. The only thing you know you are going to get out of a BakuBakuDokin concert is that you never know what you are going to get out of a BakuBakuDokin concert. That chaos however, is extremely polished, like a diamond in a minefield.
Some of BakuBakuDokin’s most notable works are actually collaborations with some of Japan’s biggest names. They have been sources of inspiration for big names in Japanese music production like hip-hop greats “RIP-SLYME” and “Towa-Tei.” As part of their early career they even appeared internationally in the very Japanese video game “Touch My Katamari” as guest vocalists. “I’ve known I wanted to work in music ever since I was a little girl.” It’s no surprise that Yui, who works on the music production side of the group, has had musical aspirations from a young age. Aside from producing for “BakuBakuDokin” she has also recently acted as a producer for the Idol group “Ebisu Private Middle School” (私立恵比寿中学) with the song “Chupacabra” on their new single. “I think we originally attracted fans that were interested in cute and fun songs, but I think lately the crowds we are getting are also becoming very interested in the technical side of our music as well.”
Check out one of their music videos here:
Japan far and wide is known for its outlandish commercials, brightly colored cartoons and sexual eccentricity but few people realize just how much of this is considered subculture against the very conservative mainstream culture of Japan. By the standards of Japanese society these qualities are not often seen or acknowledged in the day in the life of an average salaryman, housewife or student. In fact these subcultural qualities are seen as quite deviant by the mainstream. That’s what make BakuBakuDokin, and other bands like it, hard to swallow for many people in the East Asian country.
However that’s where BakuBakuDokin draws much of their creative strength and inspiration. When the traditional cultures and customs are so strongly held by a people, the counter-culture will have no choice but to become just as strong. Its two sides of the same coin that can’t be avoided, and that is where a huge percentage of great art is born from. Japan is interesting because people of other countries see the Japanese people through the counter culture lenses immediately and have to be taught about the mainstream. There are very few other countries, if any that have to deal with an image like that.
American underground music has become very much the mainstream. If you want to hear the top 20 hits, these days instead of going to the pop station, you find yourself turning into, the now ironically named, alternative stations. When an alternative choice becomes a mainstream choice what does that say for the culture that is consuming said media? Will we eventually be listening to the Taylor Swifts of the world instead of bands like “Passion Pit” to piss off our parents and rebel?
I have found in my experience that Japan also has had similar transformations over the years. Idol music used to be considered music exclusively for a certain subculture who enjoyed obsessing over girls they would never ever in a million years get a chance to date. However those same groups that were once marketed towards a core audience of freaks and weirdoes can only be found performing on stage in your grandmother’s living room. So you have to wonder if bands like BakuBakuDokin will ever be accepted by your grandmother. Surely it’s a strange thought to have now, but in a number of decades you will be the grandparent.
BakuBakuDokin is a band that ranks performance as highly in importance as the music, and it shows. You can tell from their music videos that they aren’t only musicians but artists with a strong sense of what makes Tokyo and the humans that inhabit it unique. As for now they are continuing to be the freaky band you haven’t heard of yet, and I recommend you check them out in their freaky prime before they start getting airtime on the soft rock stations and lose their streetcred, as we all eventually will. If you have a penchant for girls in pajamas and dog masks rapping about how delicious steak is, there isn’t a band better suited for you than BakuBakuDokin; your guides through the beautiful glittering hell that is Tokyo.
More on these babes can be found at their spooky website: http://bakubakudokin.com/
Our guest blawger, Wolfgang is a hella gay senior at UW, currently lost in space and time (a side effect of living in Tokyo). He spends most of his time listening to noises, turning his jeans in cut-offs and looking at his blog and thinking that he should really write something at some point. The sad sad, excuse for a blog can be found at discowolf.svbtle.com. It’s about Japan and feelings.
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THREAT TO BRAHAMPUTRA
I am happy to be in the quiet setting of the Circuit House, Guwahati after a gap of three years. The sight of Brahamputra, however, depresses me. The water content is much less than what I had seen earlier. Thinking of it, I spend a disturbed night. At the break of dawn, I rush to the river bank presuming that I do not have to trek much. But by the time I make it, I discover that the river originating from Mansarovar Lake located on the slopes of Mount Kailash, has shifted back by at least six hundred feet. Fresh growth of green Mayurpankhi plant welcomes me at a place which was once a wide, roaring and vibrant river. My interaction with the C.H. staff and the town–dwellers hints at two probable causes for the unimaginable setback-substantial reduction in the quantum of rainfall over the last few years and efforts of China to build dams over what they call Tsangpo River.
As I move closer, I notice hectic preparations by the youth and the old alike for the Chhath Puja. Their devoted work prompts me to walk down memory lane. I am vividly reminded of similar efforts by us as kids in the early seventies at the Hatania Talab in the vicinity of C.C.L. campus of Ranchi. Compared to that cramped up setting, the spacious bank of Brahamputra was offering a better choice to pay annual obeisance to the Sun God. As I move further, I see many more groups deeply engrossed in the said activity. After making steps to facilitate easy access of the Parvaitins, the Ghats were being meticulously decorated with the Banana trees & leaves, multi-coloured buntings and red flowers, real as well as artificial. Seeing the enthusiasm and the level of festivity, I could not believe that a regional festival once confined to Bihar and UP had spread to far flung corners of H.P, Delhi, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharastra, West Bengal, Sikkim, Meghalaya and Assam in two to three decades. The overall interest and popularity was amplified by introduction of Chhat Specials by the Railways and the dedicated programmes over T.V.
Being in a religious mode, I notice a glorious sunrise over the 3000 kms long river. I am tempted to meditate in a standing posture. Chanting of Hanuman Chalisa and Bajrang Ban turn out to be relaxing and refreshing experiences. I also try a few asnas of Yoga. When I ‘return’ to the mystical world, I find a few walkers and joggers struggling through the dirty sands. Soon I confront the stench of drain water and garbage generated by the lot expected to protect the mighty river figuring in the folk tales of the region.
As the Sun further ascends, the movement of boats too registers a rise. Very few of them are engaged in fishing. Rather, they seem to have become the only means of communication between the capital city and the neighbouring islands. I was shocked to know that a popular fish variety-Silver cap (Rs.40/-a kg) was being transported from the city ponds to nearby areas by boat, instead of being fished out from the gigantic river.
While an absorbing talk pertaining to the plan of action for the day between a father and his teen-aged son has the requisite potential to cheer up my mind, I get upset on seeing the patches of stool and cow-dung over a large area. The next sight of the noisy and bubbling fish market on the banks reminds me of the mess we seem to have created in the name of rapid urbanisation. On being exposed to such horrible sights and the impending time constraints, I turn back and begin returning to my temporary abode.
I take a note of the rise in the number of Ghats for the evening Chhath Puja, together with acts of collection of river water in the glistening copper vessels by the Assamese women adorning ethnic dresses. Presumably, it is for another religious ceremony. I also come across the stagnant steamers of the Inland Water Transport Department by the names of T.F. Ganesh, Janardan and Tamreswari. A Rhino painted afresh over the water tank of the last named craft attempts to interact with me in the following manner-‘PLEASE SAVE ME AND MY REVERED BROTHER BRAHAMPUTRA FROM FURTHER ONSLAUGHT’.
Within an hour I reach L.G.N.B. International Airport to fly back to Delhi to witness another act of sacrilege by the mankind, already facing insurmountable global warming. It is none other than the Yamuna River now being exploited in the name of an inter-country Games. It may not perhaps be possible to stop such acts of harming the free gifts of nature. But nature lovers can surely make a passionate plea for minimizing their impact in the interest of future generations.
AB-6/18,Hafdarjung Enclave
11th of October was like any other Sunday. A feeling of relief and relaxation replaced his, otherwise ruffled feathers. Having disposed off a large chunk of relevant and nonsensical files and papers late last night in his plush office at Nehru Place, he took the liberty of leaving his princely bed, later than expected. Soon, he had a casual thinking session in his outlandish 1oo. A close look into the large mirror revealed his prominent pouch, despite his sincere work-outs almost every day. He vowed to control it for the inth time. He also promised to do something fruitful and consequential and decided to live up to some mundane promises.
On getting ready, he was reminded of his glorious past subsequent to the formation of ‘the’ Markhand state and the crucial role played by him as a close confidant of its Head of state. While going down the memory lane, he, at the same time, did not wish to forget his formative years as a young and dashing Federal Police Officer in West Hengol, followed by his crucial sub-divisional, District and Corporation level postings in the tough yet challenging state of ‘the’ Barihar.
With an inkling of the past, he was all set to undertake a brisk walk in the closeby Deer Park. An emotional call from a dear old colleague soon came as a soothing surprise. Before he could begin conversation over his latest Blackberry, Lugnu was drawn towards an unscheduled interaction with a female relative over her Nokia 6070. Talking and listening, in their flashy Nike shoes and designers casuals, they venture into the cool and secure confines of the adjacent eco-friendly park. It was gradually being filled with the joggers, slow walkers, genuine health conscious lots as also those having a fetish for occasionally responding to the demand of changing body contours.
Subsequent to a bout of long conversation, it appeared business as usual. While Kabindra desired to take a sharp right turn near the historic Hauz Khas, Lugnu, true to her love for birds and animals, was adamant in having a close look at the lovely ducks from an opposite direction. With an agreement being a distant possibility and more so, in view of variance in their respective abilities to stroll, both mutually decided to ‘break’ away, to meet again at an agreed point, close to the exit, say, after fifteen to twenty minutes. Apart from giving an opportunity to admire nature rather more intimately, such a break up provided them also a chance to indulge in gossips of their liking with some regular health conscious acquaintances.
The pleasant or a bit of cool October morning appeared warming up with their rising body temperature. The autocratic and all pervading Monarch of the day, too, was changing colours in addition to increasing slowly his generous heat content.
Half an hour instead of the agreed time of twenty minutes frittered away but worried Lugnu noticed no trace of ‘her’ Kabindra. There was no response, either over his cell despite her fervent attempts. She was compelled to jog, in the process, instead of a brisk walk. Though many more familiar faces passed by, she preferred concentrating on relocating her prized life partner of twenty five years standing.
At last, he was found in one non-descript corner. He won’t even acknowledge her presence. For, he was deeply engrossed in speaking to Mals over cell after a gap of good five to six years. He was not aware that latter had returned to Delhi earlier than him and was thus eager to have an interface in the evening. An interruption to indicate the convenient time of 19.15 hours with the express approval of the better half, takes place. Remainder of the time is spent in describing the guest for the evening hailing from the far eastern corner of India who, invariably preferred to swim against the tide.
A leisurely lunch follows in honour of Prachand, the elder child of the family. When they are half way through, the call bell rings, followed by an unusual banging on the door. While the mother is busy in giving some useful tips to her darling son to readjust in the Indian situation to play his changed role of an engineer of an M.N.C. to perfection, the father is greeted with a pleasant surprise in seeing Apeksha. She looked bubbly, childish and vibrant. She also possessed the power to draw everyone’s attention on her return after three months, on completion of her second year M.B.B.S. examination. While she had the option and the means to give an advance intimation, she had made up her mind to spring a surprise.
Whatever extra was available in the kitchen, was dutifully brought to the dining table by Kabindra in honour of his ‘little princess’. Same was supplemented by heating up and boiling some stuff from the family’s gigantic freeze. While he was a novice, as far as cooking and serving food were concerned, Lugnu would draw thrills of adventure, whenever Apeksha’s Daddy attempted to try his hand in their large modular kitchen. He would, however, muster full support of Dhania, the trusted and active maid from his cadre state. The overall soothing feeling of a family reunion proved a harbinger for a good nap in the afternoon.
Mals with Maulshree in toe in an attractive Kanjeevaram arrived eight minutes behind schedule in the evening. Delay was pardonable as it was attributed to the traffic restrictions owing to the hectic visit by the members of the Commonwealth Games Committee. The couple looked fresh and frank. The two families were meeting in a ‘family’ situation, almost after a decade. There was, therefore, plenty to talk and share. The only notable absentee was Tankoor, the only child of M&M, pursuing his final year of B.A. Hons. in Political Science at the rapidly improving Senky College.
Lots of notes about the bygone era were exchanged over the next one hour. The R.O. water, Sprite, Pakoras, Sweets and good leaf tea were graciously served by Lugnu. Her due care and attention brought back sweet memories of her being an excellent hostess. While the male members indulged in career related and office oriented talks, the non-stop conversation between the females was clearly dominated by the rising prices of vegetables and dals, latest bargains & discounts, some common friends and Emporio, the latest Mall to open at the upmarket Vasant Kunj.
The icing of the cake, however, came in the form of the unusual blog of Mals. While he took immense pleasure in logging on to the site with the help of Prachand, it was time for everyone to draw a chair to get closer to the Dell Lap top, kept prominently at a place, earlier earmarked for a desk top. One by one, lovely photos and the text of the mesmerising state from the Far East captivated the audience. Whenever needed, a short verbal commentary would fill the void. While the eager hostess and the attentive and disciplined children were glued to the screen, the less talkative host spoke fondly of his only visit to the place, more than two decades ago. Things had not merely changed, a certain degree of transformation appeared to have been recorded, according to him in the demographic, living and the overall infrastructural patterns.
No one noticed that two hours had passed off peacefully, duly providing not only a link between the past and the present but in also renewing the contacts and laying a road map for future interactions. The bond of two families was perhaps rewoven with a positive tinge.
It was twenty past twenty one hours, when the ultimate send-off materialised. Bidding good bye for an extremely rewarding evening, M&M drove swiftly in their Swift car to their abode in Kautilyapuri. K&L, on the other hand, had no option but to pack up bags for the former’s early morning flight to Chennai, a news not welcomed by Apeksha. “The life had to come to full circle, whether guests came or the Daddy proceeded on tour”, counselled the brilliant hostess of the memorable evening to the bright sleeping ‘kid’ of AB6/18, Hafdarjung Enclave.
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A new genus and species of Orphninae associated with epiphytes in Andean cloud forest
Frolov, A.V., Vaz-De-Mello, F.Z. 2015. A new genus and species of Orphninae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) associated with epiphytes in an Andean cloud forest in Ecuador. Zootaxa, 4007 (3): 433–436
Orphninae (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) are represented in the New World by the tribe Aegidiini, which is comprised of four genera (Paulian 1984). Examination of material collected in Ecuador revealed a series of the Aegidiini specimens from an undescribed species that cannot be classified as a member of one of the known genera. The new species is herein described and a new genus is established. Apart from the distinctive morphological characters, the new taxon shows an unusual, for the Orphninae, association with canopy epiphytes.
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A new species of Aegidium Arrow from the Atlantic forest ecoregion
Frolov, A.V., Grossi, P.C., Vaz-De-Mello, F.Z. 2015. A new species of the genus Aegidium (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from the Atlantic Forest ecoregion in South America. Zootaxa, 4007 (3), 437–439.
The New World genus Aegidium Arrow comprises mid-sized to rather large beetles belonging to 12 species. The genus is distributed up to southern Mexico in the north (Morón 1991) and A. cribratum chileanum Paulian was described from Chile, but Aegidium has not been recorded southeast of the Amazonia. An interesting discovery was made by one of us (P.C.G.) who collected one male Aegidium specimen in the Atlantic forest patch near Nova Friburgo (Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil) — the area separated from the yet known range of the genus by vast territories occupied by the Cerrado biome. Examination of this specimen showed that it belongs to an undescribed species and differs sharply from the other congeners in the shape of its aedeagus.
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Обзор жуков подрода Nobius рода Aphodius России
Ахметова, Л.А., Фролов, А.В. 2008. Обзор пластинчатоусых жуков подрода Nobius Mulsant et Rey рода Aphodius Illiger (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) фауны России и сопредельных стран. Энтомологическое обозрение, 87, 397-410.
Резюме. Дан обзор пластинчатоусых жуков подрода Nobius Mulsant et Rey рода Aphodius Illiger, фауны России и сопредельных стран. Дана определительная таблица видов и сведения по их распространению. Описан новый вид A. dosang sp. n. Установлена новая синонимия трех видовых названий: A. serotinus (Panz.),1799 = A. x-signum Reitter, 1892, syn. n.; A. gresseri Sem. 1898 = A. korgaldzhensis Nikolajev, 1987, syn. n. ; A. chaldaeus Petr., 1971 = A. moreleti Baraud, 1980, syn. n. Обозначены лектотипы A. inclusus Reitt., 1892 и A. gresseri.
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A new species of the dung beetle genus Namakwanus from Namibia
Frolov, A.V. 2005. A new species of the dung beetle genus Namakwanus (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae) from Namibia. In: Konstantinov, Tishechkin & Penev (Eds), Papers celebrating 80th anniversary of Prof. I.K.Lopatin. Pensoft Publishers, Sofia – Moscow, pp. 245-247.
Abstract—A second species of the genus Namakwanus Scholtz et Howden, N. streyi sp. n., is described from Namibia.
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New species of Aphodius Illiger from China
Frolov, A.V. 2001. New species of Aphodius Illiger, 1798 (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) from China. Russian Entomological Journal, 10(2): 139–141.
Abstract—Two new species of Aphodius Illiger, 1798 from the Chinese province of Sichuan are described: A. (Acrossus) belousovi Frolov, sp.n. and A. (Aphodaulacus) kabaki Frolov, sp.n.
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A new apterous species of the genus Orphnus from South Africa
Frolov, A.V. 2008. A new apterous species of the genus Orphnus MacLeay (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Orphninae) from South Africa. Zootaxa, 1855: 65–68.
A new apterous species of the genus Orphnus MacLeay, 1819, is described from Little Karoo (South Africa). The new species can be separated from closely related O. luminosus Benderiter, 1920, by the shape of the parameres and sculpture of the head and pronotum.
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Revision of Metadorodocia Machatschke
Akhmetova, L.A., Montreuil, O. 2010. Revision of Metadorodocia Machatschke, 1957, a genus endemic to Madagascar (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Rutelinae: Adoretini). Zootaxa, 2401: 61-68.
The genus Metadorodocia, which is endemic to Madagascar, is revised. A lectotype is designated for its type species, Adoretus vittatus Waterhouse, 1878. A second species of this genus, Metadorodocia frolovi n. sp., is diagnosed from M. vittata and described. Illustrations for both species are provided and their distributions are clarified.
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Revision of the genus Delopleurus with description of new species from Africa
Frolov, A.V. 2014. Revision of the genus Delopleurus Boheman (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae: Scarabaeinae) with description of new species from Africa. Journal of Natural History, 49: 1-25.
The genus Delopleurus Erichson, 1847, is revised. Five new species are described from Africa: Delopleurus naviauxi sp. nov., Delopleurus krikkeni sp. nov., Delopleurus darrenmanni sp. nov., Delopleurus fossatus sp. nov. and Delopleurus pubescens sp. nov. One new synonymy is established (Delopleurus parvus (Sharp, 1875) = Delopleurus cardoni Paulian, 1934, syn. nov.). Lectotype of Delopleurus pullus Boheman, 1857, is designated. Delopleurus janssensi Frey, 1963, is transferred to the genus Metacatharsius Paulian, 1939. A key to the Delopleurus species and locality maps are given.
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A review of subgenus Nobius genus Aphodius Illiger of Russia and neighboring countries
Akhmetova, L.A., Frolov, A.V. 2008. A Review of Scarabs of the Subgenus Nobius Mulsant et Rey, Genus Aphodius Illiger (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), of the Fauna of Russia and Neighboring Countries. Entomological Review, 88(4): 421-434.
Scarab beetles of the subgenus Nobius Mulsant et Rey, genus Aphodius Illiger, distributed in Russia and neighboring countries are reviewed. A key to the species and notes on their biology are given. The tree new synonymies are established: A. serotinus (Panz.),1799 = A. x-signum Reitter, 1892, syn. n.; A. gresseri Sem. 1898 = A. korgaldzhensis Nikolajev, 1987, syn. n.; A. chaldaeus Petr., 1971 = A. moreleti Baraud, 1980, syn. n. Lectotypes of A. inclusus Reitt., 1892 and A. gresseri are designated.
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A new species, Orphnus drumonti, from the Democratic Republic of Congo
Frolov, A.V. 2009. A new species, Orphnus drumonti sp. n. (Coleoptera, Scarabaeidae), from the Democratic Republic of Congo. Entomological Review, 89(6): 753–754.
Abstract—A new species of the genus Orphnus MacLeay, 1819 is described from Kisantu (Democratic Republic of Congo). The new species is similar to O. striatopunctatus Felsche in having a long bifurcated clypeal horn in the male, but can be distinguished from it by the shape of the parameres and longitudinal ridges on the pronotum, relatively slender body, and more slender clypeal horn.
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Russia Population: 142,355,415
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Founded in the 12th century, the Principality of Muscovy was able to emerge from over 200 years of Mongol domination (13th-15th centuries) and to gradually conquer and absorb surrounding principalities. In the early 17th century, a new ROMANOV Dynasty continued this policy of expansion across Siberia to the Pacific. Under PETER I (ruled 1682-1725), hegemony was extended to the Baltic Sea and the country was renamed the Russian Empire. During the 19th century, more territorial acquisitions were made in Europe and Asia. Defeat in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05 contributed to the Revolution of 1905, which resulted in the formation of a parliament and other reforms. Repeated devastating defeats of the Russian army in World War I led to widespread rioting in the major cities of the Russian Empire and to the overthrow in 1917 of the imperial household. The communists under Vladimir LENIN seized power soon after and formed the USSR. The brutal rule of Iosif STALIN (1928-53) strengthened communist rule and Russian dominance of the Soviet Union at a cost of tens of millions of lives. After defeating Germany in World War II as part of an alliance with the US (1939-1945), the USSR expanded its territory and influence in Eastern Europe and emerged as a global power. The USSR was the principal adversary of the US during the Cold War (1947-1991). The Soviet economy and society stagnated in the decades following Stalin’s rule, until General Secretary Mikhail GORBACHEV (1985-91) introduced glasnost (openness) and perestroika (restructuring) in an attempt to modernize communism, but his initiatives inadvertently released forces that by December 1991 splintered the USSR into Russia and 14 other independent republics. Following economic and political turmoil during President Boris YELTSIN's term (1991-99), Russia shifted toward a centralized authoritarian state under the leadership of President Vladimir PUTIN (2000-2008, 2012-present) in which the regime seeks to legitimize its rule through managed elections, populist appeals, a foreign policy focused on enhancing the country's geopolitical influence, and commodity-based economic growth. Russia faces a largely subdued rebel movement in Chechnya and some other surrounding regions, although violence still occurs throughout the North Caucasus.
Transnational Issues
Largest country in the world in terms of area but unfavorably located in relation to major sea lanes of the world; despite its size, much of the country lacks proper soils and climates (either too cold or too dry) for agriculture; Mount El'brus is Europe's tallest peak; Lake Baikal, the deepest lake in the world, is estimated to hold one fifth of the world's fresh water
Location: North Asia bordering the Arctic Ocean, extending from Europe (the portion west of the Urals) to the North Pacific Ocean
Geographic coordinates: 60 00 N, 100 00 E
Area: total: 17,098,242 sq km
land: 16,377,742 sq km
water: 720,500 sq km
Size comparison: approximately 1.8 times the size of the US
Land Boundaries: total: 22,408 km border countries (14): Azerbaijan 338 km, Belarus 1,312 km, China (southeast) 4,133 km, China (south) 46 km, Estonia 324 km, Finland 1,309 km, Georgia 894 km, Kazakhstan 7,644 km, North Korea 18 km, Latvia 332 km, Lithuania (Kaliningrad Oblast) 261 km, Mongolia 3,452 km, Norway 191 km, Poland (Kaliningrad Oblast) 210 km, Ukraine 1,944 km
Coastline: 37,653 km
Maritime claims: territorial sea: 12 nm
contiguous zone: 24 nm
exclusive economic zone: 200 nm
continental shelf: 200-m depth or to the depth of exploitation
Climate: ranges from steppes in the south through humid continental in much of European Russia; subarctic in Siberia to tundra climate in the polar north; winters vary from cool along Black Sea coast to frigid in Siberia; summers vary from warm in the steppes to cool along Arctic coast
Terrain: broad plain with low hills west of Urals; vast coniferous forest and tundra in Siberia; uplands and mountains along southern border regions
Elevation extremes:
Natural resources: wide natural resource base including major deposits of oil, natural gas, coal, and many strategic minerals, reserves of rare earth elements, timber
note: formidable obstacles of climate, terrain, and distance hinder exploitation of natural resources
Land use: agricultural land: 13.1% arable land 7.3%; permanent crops 0.1%; permanent pasture 5.7% forest: 49.4%
other: 37.5% (2011 est.)
Irrigated land: 43,000 sq km (2012)
Natural hazards: permafrost over much of Siberia is a major impediment to development; volcanic activity in the Kuril Islands; volcanoes and earthquakes on the Kamchatka Peninsula; spring floods and summer/autumn forest fires throughout Siberia and parts of European Russia volcanism: significant volcanic activity on the Kamchatka Peninsula and Kuril Islands; the peninsula alone is home to some 29 historically active volcanoes, with dozens more in the Kuril Islands; Kliuchevskoi (elev. 4,835 m), which erupted in 2007 and 2010, is Kamchatka's most active volcano; Avachinsky and Koryaksky volcanoes, which pose a threat to the city of Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, have been deemed Decade Volcanoes by the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth's Interior, worthy of study due to their explosive history and close proximity to human populations; other notable historically active volcanoes include Bezymianny, Chikurachki, Ebeko, Gorely, Grozny, Karymsky, Ketoi, Kronotsky, Ksudach, Medvezhia, Mutnovsky, Sarychev Peak, Shiveluch, Tiatia, Tolbachik, and Zheltovsky
Current Environment Issues: air pollution from heavy industry, emissions of coal-fired electric plants, and transportation in major cities; industrial, municipal, and agricultural pollution of inland waterways and seacoasts; deforestation; soil erosion; soil contamination from improper application of agricultural chemicals; scattered areas of sometimes intense radioactive contamination; groundwater contamination from toxic waste; urban solid waste management; abandoned stocks of obsolete pesticides
International Environment Agreements: party to: Air Pollution, Air Pollution-Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution-Sulfur 85, Antarctic-Environmental Protocol, Antarctic-Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Climate Change-Kyoto Protocol, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands, Whaling
signed, but not ratified: Air Pollution-Sulfur 94
Nationality: noun: Russian(s)
adjective: Russian
Ethnic groups: Russian 77.7%, Tatar 3.7%, Ukrainian 1.4%, Bashkir 1.1%, Chuvash 1%, Chechen 1%, other 10.2%, unspecified 3.9% note: nearly 200 national and/or ethnic groups are represented in Russia's 2010 census (2010 est.)
Languages: Russian (official) 85.7%, Tatar 3.2%, Chechen 1%, other 10.1% note: data represent native language spoken (2010 est.)
Religions: Russian Orthodox 15-20%, Muslim 10-15%, other Christian 2% (2006 est.)
note: estimates are of practicing worshipers; Russia has large populations of non-practicing believers and non-believers, a legacy of over seven decades of Soviet rule; Russia officially recognizes Orthodox Christianity, Islam, Judaism, and Buddhism as traditional religions
Population: 142,355,415 (July 2016 est.)
Age structure: 0-14 years: 16.94% (male 12,385,281/female 11,726,473)
15-24 years: 9.71% (male 7,071,489/female 6,754,928)
25-54 years: 45.16% (male 31,528,258/female 32,753,350)
55-64 years: 14.27% (male 8,727,233/female 11,591,221)
65 years and over: 13.92% (male 6,152,252/female 13,664,930) (2016 est.)
Dependency ratios: total dependency ratio: 43.1%
youth dependency ratio: 24%
elderly dependency ratio: 19.1%
potential support ratio: 5.2% (2015 est.)
Median age: total: 39.3 years
male: 36.4 years
female: 42.3 years (2016 est.)
Population growth rate: -0.06% (2016 est.)
Birth rate: 11.3 births/1,000 population (2016 est.)
Death rate: 13.6 deaths/1,000 population (2016 est.)
Net migration rate: 1.7 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2016 est.)
Urbanization: urban population: 74% of total population (2015)
rate of urbanization: -0.13% annual rate of change (2010-15 est.)
Major urban areas - population: MOSCOW (capital) 12.166 million; Saint Petersburg 4.993 million; Novosibirsk 1.497 million; Yekaterinburg 1.379 million; Nizhniy Novgorod 1.212 million; Samara 1.164 million (2015)
Sex ratio: at birth: 1.06 male(s)/female
0-14 years: 1.06 male(s)/female
15-24 years: 1.05 male(s)/female
65 years and over: 0.45 male(s)/female
total population: 0.86 male(s)/female (2016 est.)
Mother's mean age at first birth: 24.6 (2009 est.)
Maternal mortality rate: 25 deaths/100,000 live births (2015 est.)
Infant mortality rate: total: 6.9 deaths/1,000 live births male: 7.7 deaths/1,000 live births
female: 6 deaths/1,000 live births (2016 est.)
Life expectancy at birth: total population: 70.8 years male: 65 years
Total fertility rate: 1.61 children born/woman (2016 est.)
Contraceptive prevalence rate: 68% note: percent of women aged 15-44 (2011)
Health expenditures: 7.1% of GDP (2014)
Physicians density: 4.31 physicians/1,000 population (2006)
Hospital bed density: 9.7 beds/1,000 population (2006)
Drinking water source: improved:
urban: 98.9% of population
rural: 91.2% of population
total: 96.9% of population
unimproved:
urban: 1.1% of population
rural: 8.8% of population
total: 3.1% of population (2015 est.)
Sanitation facility access: improved:
urban: 77% of population
total: 27.8% of population (2015 est.)
HIV/AIDS - adult prevalence rate: NA
HIV/AIDS - people living with HIV/AIDS: NA
HIV/AIDS - deaths: NA
Obesity - adult prevalence rate: 26.2% (2014)
Education expenditures: 3.9% of GDP (2012)
Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 99.7%
male: 99.7%
female: 99.6% (2015 est.)
School life expectancy (primary to tertiary education): total: 15 years male: 15 years
female: 15 years (2014)
Unemployment, youth ages 15-24: total: 13.7% male: 13.3%
Country name: conventional long form: Russian Federation
conventional short form: Russia
local long form: Rossiyskaya Federatsiya
local short form: Rossiya
former: Russian Empire, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
etymology: Russian lands were generally referred to as Muscovy until PETER I officially declared the Russian Empire in 1721; the new name sought to invoke the patrimony of the medieval eastern European Rus state centered on Kyiv in present-day Ukraine; the Rus were a Varangian (eastern Viking) elite that imposed their rule and eventually their name on their Slavic subjects
Government type: semi-presidential federation
Capital: name: Moscow
geographic coordinates: 55 45 N, 37 36 E
time difference: UTC+3 (8 hours ahead of Washington, DC, during Standard Time)
note: Russia has 11 time zones, the largest number of contiguous time zones of any country in the world; in 2014, two time zones were added and DST was dropped
Administrative divisions: 46 provinces (oblastey, singular - oblast), 21 republics (respublik, singular - respublika), 4 autonomous okrugs (avtonomnykh okrugov, singular - avtonomnyy okrug), 9 krays (krayev, singular - kray), 2 federal cities (goroda, singular - gorod), and 1 autonomous oblast (avtonomnaya oblast') oblasts: Amur (Blagoveshchensk), Arkhangel'sk, Astrakhan', Belgorod, Bryansk, Chelyabinsk, Irkutsk, Ivanovo, Kaliningrad, Kaluga, Kemerovo, Kirov, Kostroma, Kurgan, Kursk, Leningrad, Lipetsk, Magadan, Moscow, Murmansk, Nizhniy Novgorod, Novgorod, Novosibirsk, Omsk, Orenburg, Orel, Penza, Pskov, Rostov, Ryazan', Sakhalin (Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk), Samara, Saratov, Smolensk, Sverdlovsk (Yekaterinburg), Tambov, Tomsk, Tula, Tver', Tyumen', Ul'yanovsk, Vladimir, Volgograd, Vologda, Voronezh, Yaroslavl' republics: Adygeya (Maykop), Altay (Gorno-Altaysk), Bashkortostan (Ufa), Buryatiya (Ulan-Ude), Chechnya (Groznyy), Chuvashiya (Cheboksary), Dagestan (Makhachkala), Ingushetiya (Magas), Kabardino-Balkariya (Nal'chik), Kalmykiya (Elista), Karachayevo-Cherkesiya (Cherkessk), Kareliya (Petrozavodsk), Khakasiya (Abakan), Komi (Syktyvkar), Mariy-El (Yoshkar-Ola), Mordoviya (Saransk), North Ossetia (Vladikavkaz), Sakha [Yakutiya] (Yakutsk), Tatarstan (Kazan'), Tyva (Kyzyl), Udmurtiya (Izhevsk) autonomous okrugs: Chukotka (Anadyr'), Khanty-Mansi-Yugra (Khanty-Mansiysk), Nenets (Nar'yan-Mar), Yamalo-Nenets (Salekhard) krays: Altay (Barnaul), Kamchatka (Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskiy), Khabarovsk, Krasnodar, Krasnoyarsk, Perm', Primorskiy [Maritime] (Vladivostok), Stavropol', Zabaykal'sk [Transbaikal] (Chita) federal cities: Moscow [Moskva], Saint Petersburg [Sankt-Peterburg] autonomous oblast: Yevreyskaya [Jewish] (Birobidzhan) note 1: administrative divisions have the same names as their administrative centers (exceptions have the administrative center name following in parentheses) note 2: the United States does not recognize Russia's annexation of Ukraine's Autonomous Republic of Crimea and the municipality of Sevastopol, nor their redesignation as the Republic of Crimea and the Federal City of Sevastopol
Independence: 24 August 1991 (from the Soviet Union);
notable earlier dates: 1157 (Principality of Vladimir-Suzdal created); 16 January 1547 (Tsardom of Muscovy established); 22 October 1721 (Russian Empire proclaimed); 30 December 1922 (Soviet Union established)
National holiday: Russia Day, 12 June (1990)
Constitution: several previous (during Russian Empire and Soviet eras); latest drafted 12 July 1993, adopted by referendum 12 December 1993, effective 25 December 1993; amended 2008, 2014 (2016)
Legal system: civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Executive branch: chief of state: President Vladimir Vladimirovich PUTIN (since 7 May 2012)
head of government: Premier Dmitriy Anatolyevich MEDVEDEV (since 8 May 2012); First Deputy Premier Igor Ivanovich SHUVALOV (since 12 May 2008); Deputy Premiers Arkadiy Vladimirovich DVORKOVICH (since 21 May 2012), Olga Yuryevna GOLODETS (since 21 May 2012), Aleksandr Gennadiyevich KHLOPONIN (since 19 January 2010), Dmitriy Nikolayevich KOZAK (since 14 October 2008), Vitaliy Leontyevich MUTKO (since 19 October 2016), Dmitriy Olegovich ROGOZIN (since 23 December 2011), Sergey Eduardovich PRIKHODKO (since 22 May 2013), Yuriy Petrovich TRUTNEV (since 31 August 2013)
cabinet: the "Government" is composed of the premier, his deputies, and ministers, all appointed by the president; the premier is also confirmed by the Duma elections/appointments: president directly elected by absolute majority popular vote in 2 rounds if needed for a 6-year term (eligible for a second term); election last held on 4 March 2012 (next to be held in March 2018); note - term length extended to 6 years from 4 years in late 2008, effective after the 2012 election; there is no vice president; premier appointed by the president with the approval of the Duma
election results: Vladimir PUTIN elected president; percent of vote - Vladimir PUTIN (United Russia) 63.6%, Gennadiy ZYUGANOV (CPRF) 17.2%, Mikhail PROKHOROV(Civic Platform) 8%, Vladimir ZHIRINOVSKIY (LDPR) 6.2%, Sergey MIRONOV (A Just Russia) 3.9%, other 1.1%; Dmitriy MEDVEDEV (United Russia) approved as premier by Duma; vote - 299 to 144
note: there is also a Presidential Administration that provides staff and policy support to the president, drafts presidential decrees, and coordinates policy among government agencies; a Security Council also reports directly to the president
Legislative branch: description: bicameral Federal Assembly or Federalnoye Sobraniye consists of the Federation Council or Sovet Federatsii (166 seats; 2 members in each of the 83 federal administrative units - oblasts, krays, republics, autonomous okrugs and oblasts, and the federal cities of Moscow and Saint Petersburg - appointed by the top executive and legislative officials; members serve 4-year terms) and the State Duma or Gosudarstvennaya Duma (450 seats; as of February 2014, the electoral system reverted to a mixed electoral system for the 2016 election in which one-half of the members are directly elected by simple majority vote and one-half directly elected by proportional representation vote; members serve 5-year terms)
elections: State Duma - last held on 18 September 2016 (next to be held in fall 2021)
election results: State Duma - United Russia 76.3%, CPRF 9.3%, LDPR 8.7%, A Just Russia 5.1%, Rodina 0.2%, CPI 0.2%, independent 0.2%; seats by party - United Russia 343, CPRF 42, LDPR 39, A Just Russia 23, Rodina 1, CPI 1, independent 1 note: the State Duma now includes 2 representatives each from the Republic of Crimea and Federal City of Sevastopol, two annexed Ukrainian regions that the US does not recognize as part of Russia
Judicial branch: highest court(s): Supreme Court of the Russian Federation (consists of 170 members organized into the Judicial Panel for Civil Affairs, the Judicial Panel for Criminal Affairs, and the Military Panel); Constitutional Court (consists of 19 members); note - in February 2014, Russia’s Superior Court of Arbitration was abolished and its former authorities transferred to the Supreme Court, which in addition to being the country’s highest judicial authority for appeals, civil, criminal, administrative cases, and military cases, and the disciplinary judicial board, now has jurisdiction over economic disputes judge selection and term of office: all members of Russia's 3 highest courts nominated by the president and appointed by the Federation Council (the upper house of the legislature); members of all 3 courts appointed for life
subordinate courts: Higher Arbitration Court; regional (kray) and provincial (oblast) courts; Moscow and St. Petersburg city courts; autonomous province and district courts; note - the 14 Russian Republics have court systems specified by their own constitutions
Political parties and leaders: A Just Russia [Sergey MIRONOV] Civic Platform or CPI [Rifat SHAYKHUTDINOV] Communist Party of the Russian Federation or CPRF [Gennadiy ZYUGANOV] Liberal Democratic Party of Russia or LDPR [Vladimir ZHIRINOVSKIY] Rodina [Aleksei ZHURAVLYOV] United Russia [Dmitriy MEDVEDEV] note: 78 political parties are registered with Russia's Ministry of Justice (as of October 2015), but only six parties maintain representation in Russia's national legislature, and two of these only have one deputy apiece
Political pressure groups and leaders: Confederation of Labor of Russia or KTR Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Russia Golos Association in Defense of Voters' Rights Memorial Movement Against Illegal Migration Russkiye Solidarnost The World Russian People's Congress Union of the Committees of Soldiers' Mothers Union of Russian Writers other: business associations; environmental organizations; religious groups (especially those with Orthodox or Muslim affiliation); veterans groups
International organization participation: APEC, Arctic Council, ARF, ASEAN (dialogue partner), BIS, BRICS, BSEC, CBSS, CD, CE, CERN (observer), CICA, CIS, CSTO, EAEC, EAEU, EAPC, EAS, EBRD, FAO, FATF, G-20, GCTU, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC (national committees), ICRM, IDA, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC (NGOs), LAIA (observer), MIGA, MINURSO, MONUSCO, NEA, NSG, OAS (observer), OIC (observer), OPCW, OSCE, Paris Club, PCA, PFP, SCO, UN, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNHCR, UNIDO, UNISFA, UNMIL, UNMISS, UNOCI, UNSC (permanent), UNTSO, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU (NGOs), WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO, ZC
National symbol(s): bear, double-headed eagle; national colors: white, blue, red
National anthem: name: "Gimn Rossiyskoy Federatsii" (National Anthem of the Russian Federation)
lyrics/music: Sergey Vladimirovich MIKHALKOV/Aleksandr Vasilyevich ALEKSANDROV
note: in 2000, Russia adopted the tune of the anthem of the former Soviet Union (composed in 1939); the lyrics, also adopted in 2000, were written by the same person who authored the Soviet lyrics in 1943
Diplomatic representation in the US: chief of mission: Ambassador Sergey Ivanovich KISLYAK (since 16 September 2008)
chancery: 2650 Wisconsin Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20007
telephone: [1] (202) 298-5700, 5701, 5704, 5708
FAX: [1] (202) 298-5735
consulate(s) general: Houston, New York, San Francisco, Seattle
Diplomatic representation from the US: chief of mission: Ambassador John Francis TEFFT (since 19 November 2014)
embassy: Bolshoy Deviatinskiy Pereulok No. 8, 121099 Moscow
mailing address: PSC-77, APO AE 09721
telephone: [7] (495) 728-5000
consulate(s) general: Saint Petersburg, Vladivostok, Yekaterinburg
Russia has undergone significant changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union, moving from a centrally planned economy towards a more market-based system. Both economic growth and reform have stalled in recent years, however, and Russia remains a predominantly statist economy with a high concentration of wealth in officials' hands. Economic reforms in the 1990s privatized most industry, with notable exceptions in the energy, transportation, banking, and defense-related sectors. The protection of property rights is still weak, and the state continues to interfere in the free operation of the private sector. Russia is one of the world's leading producers of oil and natural gas, and is also a top exporter of metals such as steel and primary aluminum. Russia's reliance on commodity exports makes it vulnerable to boom and bust cycles that follow the volatile swings in global prices. The economy, which had averaged 7% growth during 1998-2008 as oil prices rose rapidly, has seen diminishing growth rates since then due to the exhaustion of Russia’s commodity-based growth model. A combination of falling oil prices, international sanctions, and structural limitations pushed Russia into a deep recession in 2015, with the GDP falling by close to 4%. Most economists expect this downturn will continue through 2016. Government support for import substitution has increased recently in an effort to diversify the economy away from extractive industries. Although the Russian Ministry of Economic Development is forecasting a modest growth of 0.7% for 2016 as a whole, the Central Bank of Russia (CBR) is more pessimistic and expects the recovery to begin later in the year and a decline of 0.5% to 1.0% for the full year. Russia is heavily dependent on the movement of world commodity prices and the CBR estimates that if oil prices remain below $40 per barrel beyond 2016, the resulting shock would cause GDP to fall by up to 5%.
GDP (purchasing power parity): GDP (purchasing power parity): $3.745 trillion (2016 est.) $3.774 trillion (2015 est.) $3.92 trillion (2014 est.)
note: data are in 2016 dollars
GDP (official exchange rate): GDP (official exchange rate): $1.268 trillion (2015 est.)
GDP - real growth rate: -0.8% (2016 est.) -3.7% (2015 est.) 0.7% (2014 est.)
GDP - per capita (PPP): GDP - per capita (PPP): $26,100 (2016 est.) $26,300 (2015 est.) $27,300 (2014 est.)
Gross national saving: 24.7% of GDP (2016 est.) 23.8% of GDP (2015 est.) 23.7% of GDP (2014 est.)
GDP - composition, by end use: household consumption: 55.8%
government consumption: 19.9%
investment in fixed capital: 21.6%
investment in inventories: -3.2%
exports of goods and services: 25.8%
imports of goods and services: -19.9% (2016 est.)
GDP - composition, by sector of origin: household consumption: 55.8%
Agriculture - products: grain, sugar beets, sunflower seeds, vegetables, fruits; beef, milk
Industries: complete range of mining and extractive industries producing coal, oil, gas, chemicals, and metals; all forms of machine building from rolling mills to high-performance aircraft and space vehicles; defense industries (including radar, missile production,
Industrial production growth rate: 0.7% (2016 est.)
Labor force: 77.41 million (2016 est.)
Labor force - by occupation: agriculture: 9.4%
industry: 27.6%
services: 63% (2014)
Unemployment rate: 8.2% (2016 est.) 5.6% (2015 est.)
Population below poverty line: 11.2% (2014 est.)
Household income or consumption by percentage share: lowest 10%: 5.7%
highest 10%: 42.4% (2011 est.)
Distribution of family income - Gini index: 42 (2014) 41.7 (2011)
Budget: revenues: $186.5 billion
expenditures: $236.6 billion (2016 est.)
Taxes and other revenues: 14.7% of GDP (2016 est.)
Public debt: 13.7% of GDP (2016 est.) 9.4% of GDP (2015 est.)
note: data cover general government debt, and include debt instruments issued (or owned) by government entities other than the treasury; the data include treasury debt held by foreign entities; the data include debt issued by subnational entities, as well as in
Fiscal year: calendar year
Inflation rate (consumer prices): Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.2% (2016 est.) 15.5% (2015 est.)
Current account balance: $38.56 billion (2016 est.) $69 billion (2015 est.)
Exports: $259.3 billion (2016 est.) $341.5 billion (2015 est.)
Exports - commodities: petroleum and petroleum products, natural gas, metals, wood and wood products, chemicals, and a wide variety of civilian and military manufactures
Exports - partners: Netherlands 11.9%, China 8.3%, Germany 7.4%, Italy 6.5%, Turkey 5.6%, Belarus 4.4%, Japan 4.2% (2015)
Imports: $165.1 billion (2016 est.) $193 billion (2015 est.)
Imports - commodities: machinery, vehicles, pharmaceutical products, plastic, semi-finished metal products, meat, fruits and nuts, optical and medical instruments, iron, steel
Imports - partners: China 19.2%, Germany 11.2%, US 6.4%, Belarus 4.8%, Italy 4.6% (2015)
Reserves of foreign exchange and gold: $365.5 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $368.4 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Debt - external: $514.8 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $520.2 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - at home: $348 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $342.9 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Stock of direct foreign investment - abroad: $359.3 billion (31 December 2016 est.) $336.3 billion (31 December 2015 est.)
Market value of publicly traded shares: $393.2 billion (31 December 2015 est.) $385.9 billion (31 December 2014 est.) $770.7 billion (31 December 2013 est.)
Exchange rates: Russian rubles (RUB) per US dollar - 68.06 (2016 est.) 60.938 (2015 est.) 60.938 (2014 est.) 38.378 (2013 est.) 30.84 (2012 est.)
Electricity - production: 1.064 trillion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - consumption: 1.065 trillion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - exports: 8.12 billion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - imports: 8.87 billion kWh (2014 est.)
Electricity - installed generating capacity: 248 million kW (2014 est.)
Electricity - from fossil fuels: 68.8% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Electricity - from nuclear fuels: 10.1% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Electricity - from hydroelectric plants: 20.2% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Electricity - from other renewable sources: 0.4% of total installed capacity (2012 est.)
Crude oil - production: 10.25 million bbl/day (2015 est.)
Crude oil - exports: 4.888 million bbl/day (2013 est.)
Crude oil - imports: 29,650 bbl/day (2014 est.)
Crude oil - proved reserves: 80 billion bbl (1 January 2016 es)
Refined petroleum products - production: 6.053 million bbl/day (2014 est.)
Refined petroleum products - consumption: 3.693 million bbl/day (2014 est.)
Refined petroleum products - exports: 2.308 million bbl/day (2014 est.)
Refined petroleum products - imports: 44,600 bbl/day (2013 est.)
Natural gas - production: 603.9 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - consumption: 453.3 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - exports: 184.5 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - imports: 33.9 billion cu m (2014 est.)
Natural gas - proved reserves: 47.8 trillion cu m (1 January 2016 es)
Carbon dioxide emissions from consumption of energy: 1.726 billion Mt (2013 est.)
Cellular Phones in use: total: 227.288 million subscriptions per 100 inhabitants: 160 (July 2015 est.)
Telephone system: general assessment: the telephone system is experiencing significant changes; more than 1,000 companies licensed to offer communication services; access to digital lines has improved, particularly in urban centers; progress made toward building the telecommunications infrast
domestic: cross-country digital trunk lines run from Saint Petersburg to Khabarovsk, and from Moscow to Novorossiysk; the telephone systems in 60 regional capitals have modern digital infrastructures; cellular services, both analog and digital, are available in man
international: country code - 7; connected internationally by undersea fiber -optic cables; satellite earth stations provide access to Intelsat, Intersputnik, Eutelsat, Inmarsat, and Orbita systems (2011)
Broadcast media: 13 national TV stations with the federal government owning 1 and holding a controlling interest in a second; state-owned Gazprom maintains a controlling interest in 2 of the national channels; government-affiliated Bank Rossiya owns controlling interest i (2016)
Internet country code: .ru; note - Russia also has responsibility for a legacy domain ".su" that was allocated to the Soviet Union and is being phased out
Internet users: total: 104.553 million percent of population: 73.4% (July 2015 est.)
Airports: 1,218 (2013)
Airports (paved runways): total 594
over 3,047 m: 54
2,438 to 3,047 m: 197
914 to 1,523 m: 95
under 914 m: 125 (2013)
Airports (unpaved runways): total 624
over 3,047 m: 4
2,438 to 3,047 m: 13
Heliports: 49 (2013)
Pipelines: condensate 122 km; gas 163,872 km; liquid petroleum gas 1,378 km; oil 80,820 km; oil/gas/water 40 km; refined products 13,658 km; water 23 km (2013)
Railways: total 87,157 km
broad gauge: 86,200 km 1.520-m gauge (40,300 km electrified)
narrow gauge: 957 km 1.067-m gauge (on Sakhalin Island)
note: an additional 30,000 km of non-common carrier lines serve industries (2014)
Roadways: total 1,283,387 km
paved: 927,721 km (includes 39,143 km of expressways)
unpaved: 355,666 km (2012)
Waterways: 102,000 km (including 48,000 km with guaranteed depth; the 72,000-km system in European Russia links Baltic Sea, White Sea, Caspian Sea, Sea of Azov, and Black Sea) (2009)
Merchant marine: total 1,143
by type: bulk carrier 20, cargo 642, carrier 3, chemical tanker 57, combination ore/oil 42, container 13, passenger 15, passenger/cargo 7, petroleum tanker 244, refrigerated cargo 84, roll on/roll off 13, specialized tanker 3
foreign-owned: 155 (Belgium 4, Cyprus 13, Estonia 1, Ireland 1, Italy 14, Latvia 2, Netherlands 2, Romania 1, South Korea 1, Switzerland 3, Turkey 101, Ukraine 12)
registered in other countries: 439 (Antigua and Barbuda 3, Belgium 1, Belize 30, Bulgaria 2, Cambodia 50, Comoros 12, Cook Islands 1, Cyprus 46, Dominica 3, Georgia 6, Hong Kong 1, Kiribati 1, Liberia 109, Malaysia 2, Malta 45, Marshall Islands 5, Moldova 5, Mongolia 2, Panama 49, Romania (2010)
Ports and terminals: major seaport(s): Kaliningrad, Nakhodka, Novorossiysk, Primorsk, Vostochnyy
river port(s): Saint Petersburg (Neva River) oil terminal(s): Kavkaz oil terminal container port(s) (TEUs): Saint Petersburg (2,365,174) LNG terminal(s) (export): Sakhalin Island
Military branches: Ground Troops (Sukhoputnyye Voyskia, SV), Navy (Voyenno-Morskoy Flot, VMF), Air Forces (Voyenno-Vozdushniye Sily, VVS); Airborne Troops (Vozdushno-Desantnyye Voyska, VDV), Missile Troops of Strategic Purpose (Raketnyye Voyska Strategicheskogo Naznacheniya, RVSN) referred to commonly as Strategic Rocket Forces, and Aerospace Defense Troops (Voyska Vozdushno-Kosmicheskoy Oborony or Voyska VKO) are independent "combat arms," not subordinate to any of the three branches; Russian Ground Troops include the following combat arms: motorized-rifle troops, tank troops, missile and artillery troops, air defense of the Ground Troops (2014)
Military service age and obligation: 18-27 years of age for compulsory or voluntary military service; males are registered for the draft at 17 years of age; 1-year service obligation (conscripts can only be sent to combat zones after 6 months of training); reserve obligation for non-officers to age 50; enrollment in military schools from the age of 16, cadets classified as members of the armed forces note: the chief of the General Staff Mobilization Directorate announced in March 2015 that for health reasons, only 76% of draftees called up during the spring 2015 draft campaign were fit for military service (2015)
Military expenditures: 3.49% of GDP (2014) 3.18% of GDP (2013) 2.92% of GDP (2012) 2.71% of GDP (2011)
Disputes - International: Russia remains concerned about the smuggling of poppy derivatives from Afghanistan through Central Asian countries; China and Russia have demarcated the once disputed islands at the Amur and Ussuri confluence and in the Argun River in accordance with the 2004 Agreement, ending their centuries-long border disputes; the sovereignty dispute over the islands of Etorofu, Kunashiri, Shikotan, and the Habomai group, known in Japan as the "Northern Territories" and in Russia as the "Southern Kurils," occupied by the Soviet Union in 1945, now administered by Russia, and claimed by Japan, remains the primary sticking point to signing a peace treaty formally ending World War II hostilities; Russia's military support and subsequent recognition of Abkhazia and South Ossetia independence in 2008 continue to sour relations with Georgia; Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, and Russia ratified Caspian seabed delimitation treaties based on equidistance, while Iran continues to insist on a one-fifth slice of the sea; Norway and Russia signed a comprehensive maritime boundary agreement in 2010; various groups in Finland advocate restoration of Karelia (Kareliya) and other areas ceded to the Soviet Union following World War II but the Finnish Government asserts no territorial demands; Russia and Estonia signed a technical border agreement in May 2005, but Russia recalled its signature in June 2005 after the Estonian parliament added to its domestic ratification act a historical preamble referencing the Soviet occupation and Estonia's pre-war borders under the 1920 Treaty of Tartu; Russia contends that the preamble allows Estonia to make territorial claims on Russia in the future, while Estonian officials deny that the preamble has any legal impact on the treaty text; Russia demands better treatment of the Russian-speaking population in Estonia and Latvia Lithuania and Russia committed to demarcating their boundary in 2006 in accordance with the land and maritime treaty ratified by Russia in May 2003 and by Lithuania in 1999; Lithuania operates a simplified transit regime for Russian nationals traveling from the Kaliningrad coastal exclave into Russia, while still conforming, as an EU member state with an EU external border, where strict Schengen border rules apply; preparations for the demarcation delimitation of land boundary with Ukraine have commenced; the dispute over the boundary between Russia and Ukraine through the Kerch Strait and Sea of Azov is suspended due to the occupation of Crimea by Russia; Kazakhstan and Russia boundary delimitation was ratified on November 2005 and field demarcation should commence in 2007; Russian Duma has not yet ratified 1990 Bering Sea Maritime Boundary Agreement with the US; Denmark (Greenland) and Norway have made submissions to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf (CLCS) and Russia is collecting additional data to augment its 2001 CLCS submission
Refugees and internally displaced persons: refugees (country of origin): 311,407 (Ukraine) (2015) IDPs: 27,000 (armed conflict, human rights violations, generalized violence in North Caucasus, particularly Chechnya and North Ossetia) (2015)
stateless persons: 101,813 (2015); note - Russia's stateless population consists of Roma, Meskhetian Turks, and ex-Soviet citizens from the former republics; between 2003 and 2010 more than 600,000 stateless people were naturalized; most Meskhetian Turks, followers of Islam with origins in Georgia, fled or were evacuated from Uzbekistan after a 1989 pogrom and have lived in Russia for more than the required five-year residency period; they continue to be denied registration for citizenship and basic rights by local Krasnodar Krai authorities on the grounds that they are temporary illegal migrants
Illicit drugs: limited cultivation of illicit cannabis and opium poppy and producer of methamphetamine, mostly for domestic consumption; government has active illicit crop eradication program; used as transshipment point for Asian opiates, cannabis, and Latin American cocaine bound for growing domestic markets, to a lesser extent Western and Central Europe, and occasionally to the US; major source of heroin precursor chemicals; corruption and organized crime are key concerns; major consumer of opiates
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Langkawi Getaway
by Shannon | May 5, 2016 | Adventure & Travel
Maybe it’s because my ancestors are from the Azores, but I have always felt like I belong on an island. I can’t help but love playing castaway in a remote place with sandy beaches, forgoing shoes, living in a bikini, and slowing down to the laid-back pace of local islanders. So naturally, when deciding where to go for our first long weekend since we moved to Kuala Lumpur, I was drawn to a small island off the northwestern coast of Malaysia: Langkawi.
Langkawi is less than an hour’s flight from KL, and our descent treated us to magnificent views of the island surrounded by turquoise waters. Despite Langkawi’s close proximity to KL, the island felt a world away from the hustle and bustle of the city. Seeing the ocean for the first time in almost 3 months was such a calming feeling, almost like a homecoming. Escaping a particularly hot week in KL, it was nice to finally feel that cool ocean breeze that I have so desperately missed about home.
Our first evening in Langkawi we explored the popular Pantai Cenang Beach which of course was packed with tourists throwing back cheap duty-free beers, smoking shisha on the beach, and playing a few rounds of sunset volleyball. The beach had an undeniable laid-back party vibe that I can only describe as a mix between Miami Beach and Ensenada. Smiles and good times all around.
We stayed at two boutique resorts on the island that are actually right next to each and operate as one under the same owner: Temple Tree and Bon Ton. I cannot speak highly enough about these resorts and the owner Narelle. Tucked away from Langkawi’s main tourist area in a private enclave, the resorts are set in the tranquil gardens of a coconut plantation, surrounded by lush wetlands and distant ocean views. Narelle also runs the nearby Langkawi Animal Shelter and Sanctuary (LASSie), which cares for needy animals on the island, and there were adorable cats lounging around every corner! The best part is that proceeds from the resorts go directly to the animal shelter. 🙂
The first night we stayed at Temple Tree, which was a really unique experience that reminded me of an open air museum you can actually stay in. An eclectic mix of heritages, the resort is comprised of eight individual villas made from actual antique buildings of Chinese, Malay, Indian, and Eurasian origin, each with a 70-110 year old history carved into its heart and soul. We stayed at the “Chinese House” which is a beautifully restored, 100-year old farm house overlooking Temple Tree’s main pool. The house was decorated with authentic Chinese artifacts and included a Mahjong room, Chinese library, and ensuite bathroom with an old wooden soaking tub. The house even came with a friendly white kitten. 🙂
The second night, we moved next door to Bon Ton which is comprised of eight antique Malay Kapung bungalows individually fitted with stylish decor collected through the owner’s travels. These bungalows were a not quite as rustic as Temple Tree while still maintaining an old-worn charm, mixed with modern luxury. This resort has frequently been named one of the best in Langkawi, not to mention the world, and the restaurant is one of the island’s most renowned (so good we ate there twice!). Overall, both resorts were incredibly peaceful and a refreshing change from your typical big chain hotel. I only wish that we could spent more nights there!
The second day of our trip we got up at the crack of dawn to go for a snorkeling excursion on a tiny island off of Langkawi- Pulau Payar Marine Park. The day was off to an apprehensive start as they herded us, along with hundreds of tourists, onto a tiny ferry for the 1-hour journey to the marine park, which occupies a small strip of beach absolutely packed with tourists. There were so many snorkelers near the beach kicking up sand that it nearly impossible to see underwater. However, our apprehension quickly faded once we figured out that all we had to do was paddle a little farther out from shore to see some incredible marine life, including countless baby black tip reef sharks! I have to admit that we are a bit spoiled when it comes to snorkeling after our private snorkeling trip in Nusa Lembongan, Bali, but this place was not bad, although the reef seemed to be dying and it didn’t look like anyone was taking any action to preserve it which was disheartening. Luckily our group was one of the last to leave the island so we got an hour or two of unspoiled beach time.
Our final day in Langkawi, we rented a moped for some island exploring! We were stoked to find a “Mexican” restaurant, a rarity in Southeast Asia and definitely something we took for granted in San Diego! It definitely was not even close to being authentic (they also serve Italian food), but they had Corona so we couldn’t argue with that. After chowing down on some nachos, our first stop on our adventure was the Langkawi Cable Car, which takes you 2322 feet above sea level to Langkawi’s second highest peak of Mt. Machinchang! Being suspended that high above thick rainforest was an absolutely terrifying experience, but the breathtaking views from the top were worth it (I guess). I have to stay that we were reassured when we read that the Cable Car was constructed by Austrians. We ended the day exploring one of Langkawi’s hidden beaches and taking a spin on an oceanside go-kart track.
One of my favorite things about living abroad is the chance to visit places that I would have never even heard about had I stayed home, and Langkawi is definitely one of those places. This island was really something special!
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This is an unofficial fan site, and has no connection to, or approval from the Sammy Davis Jr. Estate
Sammy’s official website: SammyDavis-Jr.com / Sammy’s official Facebook: Facebook.com/OfficialSDJ
Rat Pack CD from 1999
I first heard Sammy sing in March 2000. I was in Melbourne for the Australian F1 Grand Prix, Sammy was in Chicago at the Villa Venice with Frank and Dean. I’d bought a ‘Rat Pack’ CD, heard “What Kind of Fool Am I?” and was blown away. I started collecting Sammy’s music, but there was precious little available on CD, and, at the time, even less information about his recording career easily available online.
Unfortunately, due to well-documented difficulties regarding ownership of the Sammy Davis, Jr. Estate, Sammy’s legacy had not fared as well as his contemporaries. (I was glad to hear that legal battles were resolved in 2014, and that hopefully new projects can cement Sammy’s place as the World’s Greatest Entertainer!)
Pre-2017 version of this site
In November, 2002, I decided if I couldn’t find anything, I’d create it myself. I started the Sammy Davis, Jr. Discography page using the discographical tool BRIAN. I searched through the records of Decca and MGM labels, trawled through the master records from Warner’s archives, and with the help of many, slowly pieced things together. 14 years later I’m still updating, correcting, tweaking and adding.
In 2012, I started collecting more information on Sammy’s other activities with the long-term goal of expanding the site. While it’s taken longer to launch than I’d hoped, I’m excited to now have a platform to assist Sammy’s fans find out more about his amazing output as an entertainer.
The plan is to slowly create individual pages for each of Sammy’s LPs, his films, Broadway shows, and TV appearances. Beyond that, the blog will provide a place to put tidbits on his career, highlight clips from YouTube, specific recordings, and all kinds of other randomness.
For additions, suggestions, corrections, or comments, please feel free to contact me using the form below!
Steve Albin, Lyrian McGregor, Gregg Geller, Gary Fishgall, Robert W. Rice, Iván Santiago, Will Friedwald, Larry Maslon, Gregor Zwickl, Wil Haygood, Barry Korkin, Michael Viner, Ira Steven Behr, James Darren, Dr. Tom Jarvis.
BRIAN 9
This site’s discography is created using BRIAN 9 – The Discography Compilation Application (for Mac and Windows).
BRIAN is a relational database application for compiling standard discography information. It is named after Brian Rust, who perfected the chronological recording session format for print discographies. BRIAN tracks every aspect of a record date, from sidemen to songs to composers to issues.
BRIAN was created and is developed by Steve Albin, who has provided a huge amount of assistance to this project – right from the start in 2002.
For more details, please visit jazzdiscography.com
In addition to the books written by and about Sammy, I have found the following sources particularly useful:
The Decca Labels (1996) by Michel Ruppli
The MGM Labels (1998) by Michel Ruppli
Gonna Do Great Things (2003) by Gary Fishgall
The Jazz Discography by Tom Lord
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Chinese Sci-Fi Book Review: Three Body Problem
Posted on May 5, 2018 May 5, 2018 by rubymary
Three Body Problem was on my “must read” list ever since it won the Hugo Award two years ago. Unlike past Hugo award winners, this book was special because it was the first time a Chinese author won the most prestigious award in science fiction literature. As someone who loves both sci-fi and China, I just had to read this thing.
But for whatever reason, I didn’t get around to it. It was probably the not-so-appealing cover. Maybe it’s the weird title. Or perhaps it was the summary of the book, which involves the overdone plot of “humanity fights aliens.” I have to admit–from first glance, it didn’t seem all that appealing.
But then a few months ago…
“Mary,” husband said to me as I picked him up from the airport. “I just finished Three Body Problem–and it’s now my favorite book EVER. You have to read it. NOW!”
My husband wasted no time. As soon as we arrived home from the airport he found my iPad and loaded the entire trilogy onto my Kindle app.
“Ok” he handed the kindle to me, “start reading.”
I had never seen my husband so excited for a book. I shrugged and, before bed, started the book.
Within weeks I had finished book one. A few days later I gobbled up book 2 (the Dark Forest). Now I’m nearing the end of book 3 (Death’s End).
It’s the best science fiction I’ve read in years.
The storyline is innovative, scientific, philosophical and downright disturbing. It is a very realistic account of humanity’s reaction to an alien invasion… and it’s not pretty. From the cultural revolution, to environmental ruin, to the death of democracy and the survival of humanity–the plot really covers it all. What really sets this book apart from other sci-fi is the amount of scientific detail woven into the storyline. The author goes deep (sometimes too deep) into physics and astronomy to explain space exploration and alien civilizations. Unless you’re a physicist, I guarantee that, at times, this book will go way over your head.
Plus, aside from the plot, it’s refreshing to have an Asian protagonist star in every book. Period. While the trilogy doesn’t have a typical ‘protagonist’ cast for each book, the overwhelming majority of actors in this series are Chinese. It definitely put me in a different place and perspective compared to typical, western sci-fi.
Finally, every book in the trilogy provides great closure (something I really value in a book). I haven’t finished book three yet, but I heard that it leaves most readers happy and satisfied. In fact, the ending for book two was so well done I wondered why the author even bothered to write book three.
Characters could be a little stronger. They’re not deep, three-dimensional characters like you would find in Game of Thrones. Sometimes it feels like they’re simply fulfilling a plot device the author wants carried out.
And while I love the plot, sometimes it’s just too damn complex. I had to skim over a lot of scientific theory throughout the book because it was way behind my comprehension. Although I enjoyed how the author made the book more feasible with his in-depth scientific theory, he can sometimes bog the reader down with too many details.
And it’s kinda sexist…?
When I googled book reviews, I read a few blogs by angry, female sci-fi readers accusing Liu Cixin of being sexist and demeaning women. At first, I was stunned. This book not only had a good chunk of key female characters, but all the female leads were scientists, politicians and innovators…!! Considering the numerous amount of strong female leads, how could the author be sexist?
It wasn’t until book three I realized that, perhaps, maybe those angry female bloggers were onto something. Without giving away too much of the plot, I can say that female characters in this book are the root cause of all the problems in this trilogy. It’s subtle, but if you take a step back and look at all the tragedies that occur in this book, it’s basically like Eve screwing over Adam and all of humanity, but multiple times and on a much larger scale.
Plus, all the male leads always end up lusting after some soft and demure Chinese chick…which is fine, I guess. Still, through the way he crafts female love interests in the book it’s quite obvious to imagine Liu Cixin’s image of an ideal woman. Innocent, demure, soft-spoken, motherly, caring. These are all great traits and are the epitome of Asian feminine beauty, but unfortunately it reinforces some negative stereotypes.
If you’ve seen the movie Interstellar and liked it, then you’ll go crazy over this book. Three Body Problem is basically a way, way better version of Interstellar. Just imagine Interstellar with a better cast of characters and an even more mind-blowing story.
And thanks to Liu Cixin and this trilogy, the floodgates to Chinese sci-fi has finally been opened. Here’s to hopefully more amazing Chinese sci-fi/fantasy literature being translated and released in the future.
14 thoughts on “Chinese Sci-Fi Book Review: Three Body Problem”
autumnashbough says:
I tired. I tried to read that book and I got about halfway through “The Three Body Problem” and was like, “Nope, this is not how I want to spend my free time.” Loved the science, hated the characters and hated the way Liu switched perspectives constantly, which I felt he used to keep the reader from getting into the characters. To be fair, I’m not a huge fan of George R.R. Martin for the same reason — I like being completely immersed in a character and I find his perspective switches really jarring as well.
Also, I like my women smart and kick ass and strong.
rubymary says:
Yeah, it’s definitely not everyone’s cup of tea. I didn’t like any of the characters in book one and think it’s the least interesting of them all (book 2 does a great job and actually has a main character); but I think if you don’t like book one you won’t like the rest.
They’re making this into a movie, which I think would either be really hard–or really boring–or both. Don’t think it’s a good idea, but oh well. I hope they don’t white wash it.
What are some of your favorite sci-fi/fiction novels? I think you told me some fantasy titles before, but I’m curious to know what kind of books you are into!
Well, the earlier books by Bujold. Anything by NK Jemisin, the early Honor Harrington Books, CJ Cherryh, and Mishell Baker. Oh, and Martha Wells Murderbot diaries. I’ll think of all the other authors I love as soon as I finish typing this and hit send.
Ah yes, Bujold–we talked about this! Ok, I’ll start looking up these authors, three is already a lot for me to tackle… but I’m excited!
“The Dark Forest” came highly recommended so I started to read it. I loved the writing and the rich layers, but I eventually lost interest. I think because it is so damn complex and it didn’t move along fast enough for me. That’s sounds horrible doens’t it? But maybe if I started at the beginning? What do you think?
As far as sexist-thing goes, I think the writing most likely reflects the authors struggles with females in his life and Chinese culture, more than him being his horrible person. I don’t know? He could be a woman-hater, but I think he was exploring his own unconscious struggles. I mean, we don’t know what his background is and I think he was equally surprised by what critics said. But I didn’t read all of it; I’m just thinking of a particular character and I could see why they think that way.
The series I’m reading right now is considered “sexist” by some, but I just love the Xanith series and the world Piers Anthony created. I can see through those moments and it doesn’t bother me, it just makes me laugh. At the beginning of the 3rd book, he even said, “some folks consider my work sexist and I want you to know that this book will have more if” – hahahaha.
Dark Forest is excellent. I think it’s much better than the first book, The Three Body Problem. Unlike book one, there’s a main character and he’s a guy you love to hate. But yes, I understand about the over-complexity. I’d be lying if I didn’t say I skim over A LOT of science jargon. Still, I was so intent on knowing just how everything went down I read it to the end. The ending is worth it. Luo Ji’s finally figures out how to defeat the aliens and it’s soooooo gooooood.
Yes, I don’t think the author is openly sexist–I think it’s more of his subconscious seeping out. I mean, at least there are women in the book–even better, they have pivotal roles. A lot more than can be said for most sci-fi/fantasy. When I read about the protagonist’s “perfect woman” it sounded like every Chinese man’s dream woman (author included). Which is fine. I think I started to get frustrated with the sexism thing in book 3. The protagonist is a female and she’s SOOO victimized (and of course, ruins humanity’s chance of survival, AGAIN).
Anyway, I can tolerate sexism as well (I mean, I still finished reading the trilogy, right?). Just hope that in newer sci-fi titles we can actually get a half-decent female lead.
Oh man, I love Piers Anthony!!! He’s so good~!!! I haven’t read the Xanith series, I gotta try that out!!! I loved his other books.
Hmmm. Yeah, you bring up a good point of the long tradition of hyper-sexualized women in the sci-fi genre. Must be all the geeks writing it 😀
Reminds me when I was in a writers group a one of the male writers read from his “sci-fi” novel in the making. One of us ladies said, “Um, no woman would ever say that…” and then we sort of destroyed his female character, but it was funny because it was such an eye-roll (aka soft porn).
We had a female president in the latest Battlestar reboot! But then we had that sexy blond chick.
Now you got me thinking about this…
Yes, Piers Anthony is so funny and clever! xo
I LOVED the trilogy. I even read the technical/scientific parts, which sound like Korean to me, but whatever, hahaha. I agree that most characters are not likeable and women are always to blame for the fall of humanity, but the scope of the story is so massive I was blown away. I’ve never read much sci-fi so I don’t know how it compares with other popular works, though.
The movie in the works you mentioned is Chinese or foreign? I heard about a Chinese movie in the making some time ago but then I heard the project was cancelled. It appears on imdb so I don’t know if it’s still happening or not: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4547948/
Also, it seems Amazon is in talks to make a tv series. That one would probably be set in the US and with American characters I guess.
Ruby Ronin says:
Yayyy!! I’m glad someone liked it! haha.
Yeah the scope of the story is insanely massive… yet another reason I liked it as well. I have yet to read any science fiction that has even come close to something so epic and complicated (I’m a sucker for stories that make you think). I just finished book three and wow, talk about a mindfck. **SPOILER** couldn’t believe the multiple universes and big bang explanations!? But yeah I didn’t like the third book’s ending.. it was so aggravating. Chengxin screws over humanity AGAIN and then she doesn’t even meet Tian Yunming in the end… god so lame…. that was half the reason I read the book! I knew they just had to meet up again! ARGHGHGHA;DFSKJDS **END OF SPOILERr*
In my opinion dark forest is the best. That story with the wallfacer project and Luoji being so eccentric and weird and the whole dark forest theory itself is SO COOOOOOOL!!!
Yeah I think I heard about the Amazon TV series. I just can’t imagine this will be that good of a movie…? It would be really hard to do.
Oooo the Chinese movie actually kinda looks good!!! Too bad it got cancelled 🙁
Joelle says:
Did you read it in Chinese or in English?
It’s been on my to-read list for ages, and I have both English & Chinese versions on my Kindle, but even though I’m a massive SF/F geek, I just can’t seem to be bothered to start reading it.
Oh man, I don’t think I would ever be able to read this in Chinese. It’s WAY too complex. I definitely read it in English. One of my Chinese friends read it in Chinese and stopped halfway through book two cause she couldn’t understand it.
It’s complicated, but still very understandable. If you enjoyed astronomy class and remember the basics from it, then you’ll be fine.
It was hard for me to start it, too. But trust me–it’s SO good! It’s really different and unique. Not everyone’s cup of tea, but it was innovative and refreshing Sci-fi. If you enjoy a strong storyline then it’s for you. Plus…. Book 2 is so damn good. So worth it.
I was asking, because I heard the English translator for the second book wasn’t as good as the translator of the first book, so the translation quality took a nosedive for book 2, but since you loved book 2… (I’m just professionally interested now, on top of all that!)
Wow, have people said that!? Without even researching this, I started reading the second book and thought: “wow. this translator is not as good as the first.” And I mean, he still does an AMAZING job considering the subject matter, but the way he translates the Chinese into prose is not as well-done as the other translator. Still, after I got into book 2 I totally forgot about the whole translation thing and it was just fine–it’s still an extremely smooth read. It is not a bad translation by any means… just not as “smooth” as the others.
It’s an occupational hazard. I hang out with Chinese & English translators so…
But good to know that their conclusions do stand.
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Sleeve patch of the 104th Airborne Division
The sleeve insignia is a shield with an image of a scorpion and a bow with an arrow on the background of a parachute.
Above the shield there is a weaving ribbon with the inscription “104th Guards Airborne Division.”
At the bottom of the sign there is a waving Guards ribbon with stylized wings coming right and left up of it.
The motto of the division: “HONOR – TO US, GLORY – TO MOTHERLAND!”
Airborne Troops (VDV) are jokily called “Troops of Uncle Vasya” in the army folklore (in honor of their founder – General Vassily Margelov).
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The scorpion on the emblem of the division symbolizes a mortal danger and unpredictability of the actions on its part.
It is characteristic of a scorpion to inflict an irresistible blow to the enemy at any time, which is also typical for the fighting style of the 104th Airborne Division.
The emblem also reflects the specifics of combat training of the Division for conducting operations in mountainous and desert areas, where the division was stationed for more than 45 years.
During World War II the division fought against Hitler’s selected units in Hungary, Austria, Czechoslovakia.
By the nature of training and psychological hardiness the 104th Divisions is the “unlike” other Airborne units. All exercises, training, experiments, research were based on the overcoming of the impossible.
The paratroopers of the 104th Guards Airborne Division were among the first in Afghanistan and fought in the “hot spots” of Transcaucasia.
In the service record of the 104th Division there are 12 Heroes of the Soviet Union and Russia, about 4,000 knights of various military awards.
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He read and re-read the paper, fearing the worst had happened to me.
He read and re-read the paper, fearing the worst had happened to me. He was restless, and after supper prowled out again aimlessly. He returned and tried in vain to divert his attention to his examination notes. He went to bed a little after midnight, and was awakened from lurid dreams in the small hours of Monday by the sound of door knockers, feet running in the street, distant drumming, and a clamour of bells. Red reflections danced on the ceiling. For a moment he lay astonished, wondering whether day had come or the world gone mad. Then he jumped out of bed and ran to the window.
His room was an attic and as he thrust his head out, up and down the street there were a dozen echoes to the noise of his window sash, and heads in every kind of night disarray appeared. Enquiries were being shouted. “They are coming!” bawled a policeman, hammering at the door; “the Martians are coming!” and hurried to the next door.
The sound of drumming and trumpeting came from the Albany Street Barracks, and every church within earshot was hard at work killing sleep with a vehement disorderly tocsin. There was a noise of doors opening, and window after window in the houses opposite flashed from darkness into yellow illumination.
Up the street came galloping a closed carriage, bursting abruptly into noise at the corner, rising to a clattering climax under the window, and dying away slowly in the distance. Close on the rear of this came a couple of cabs, the forerunners of a long procession of flying vehicles, going for the most part to Chalk Farm station, where the North-Western special trains were loading up, instead of coming down the gradient into Euston.
For a long time my brother stared out of the window in blank astonishment, watching the policemen hammering at door after door, and delivering their incomprehensible message. Then the door behind him opened, and the man who lodged across the landing came in, dressed only in shirt, trousers, and slippers, his braces loose about his waist, his hair disordered from his pillow.
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My brother answered him vaguely and began to dress, running with each garment to the window in order to miss nothing of the growing excitement. And presently men selling unnaturally early newspapers came bawling into the street:
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A few cast-members really shined, so lets get into it. The cold open was easily the greatest cold open of the season, and likely the best political skit of the season. It saw a “schoolhouse rock” segment about a bill Jay Pharoah as Obama kicking the bill down the steps was great, as was Bobby Moynihan’s portrayal of the executive order which “just kind of happens” This excellent cold open made up for an absolutely dreadful monologue from Cameron Diaz. If it isn’t a musical monologue, its a “take questions from the audience” one.
It wasn’t even clever or unique, just scattered and all over the place. Best to forget about this one. The “Back Home Baller” girls returned from last year’s Christmas episode twin bed short. Aidy Bryant and Leslie Jones made this passable, but overall it was just okay although bringing back Jean and actually showing her was great.
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Get celebs updates directly to your inbox Subscribe Thank you for subscribingWe have more newsletters Show me See our privacy notice Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email The chances are that if you’re a fan of True Detective then you’ve been entranced as much by the magnificent music as its serpentine plotting. But trying to get hold of the soundtrack has been a matter of internet searches, individual track purchases and dodgy downloads – until now.
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Australian Sri Chinmoy Centre member and painter Pranavanta John Montefiore passed away recently. Art critic, university lecturer, illustrator and exhibited seven times, Pranavanta was also an author 30 years in the making—his magnum opus on painting The Making of Paintings published in 2007.
Like spirituality in today’s unashamedly material world, Pranavanta the author remains mostly unappreciated… for now. Although yet to find a publisher, his voluminous self-published work received the highest possible praise from Sydney Morning Herald art critic John McDonald, who said that “If everything on the planet were destroyed, some future race could reconstruct the practice of painting from this volume alone”. One suspects that like the famous painters he wrote about, Pranavanta will be better known by generations yet to come.
The following obituary for Pranavanta was written by Mark Juddery and appeared in the June 16 Sydney Morning Herald:
Profound painter and teacher
For his last 22 years the artist John Montefiore was known to many of his friends as ”Pranavanta”, a name given to him by his meditation teacher, Sri Chinmoy, meaning ”full of life energy”. You didn’t have to be a spiritual giant to know that this was a particularly apt designation. Even as he lay in hospital suffering from cancer, he couldn’t wait to leave and return to his painting.
Such enthusiasm resulted in epic works. His 18-metre-high, multi-panelled Life Series painting took him more than 20 years to complete – and was worth the wait. It won the Sir John Sulman Prize in 1993, awarded by the Art Gallery of NSW, and is now permanently at Macquarie University.
Montefiore was an aficionado, someone who could wax lyrical on many aspects of the world: not just the beauty that he strived to portray in his artwork but also the sweet sounds of music, the aroma of a flower, even the joy of a terrible pun.
When people say ”Words can’t express it”, they obviously never accompanied their words with the enthusiasm of Montefiore. His marathon artworks were best accompanied by his own commentary, as he guided you through the story he was telling with his work. Every dot of paint, its position and shape, had profound significance.
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Cadouri June 24, 2011 at 12:09 am
Wow… I’m very sorry to hear about his passing away. But also, I am a little happy for him because after all – he SURE is in a good place – in Heaven. He seemed just like a warm grandpa, a great person! Rest in peace Pranavanta!
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Anukampa June 24, 2011 at 10:50 am
Jai Pranavanta! You brought so much beauty to the world.
Amenda June 24, 2011 at 4:29 pm
Oh my God, I can not believe this. I love his paintings so much! Rest in peace Pranavanta!
Sahayak July 10, 2011 at 9:02 pm
I am deeply saddened to hear of the passing of my good friend Pranavanta. I will always hold in my heart your great smile, love of music, cheeky whit, love of Sri Chinmoy, your eagerness in showing me your paintings and your artists studio apartment which I stayed in a few times. Rest peacefully my dear friend, you are in good hands and the best of care. No doubt you have easel at hand. Blessings – Sahayak.
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Quick spoilers for tonight's "The Office" coming up just as soon as I respect the lei...
"Cafe Disco" the episode, like Cafe Disco the disco-cafe, started off seeming like a dumb and pointless idea before gradually revealing itself to be a fun, and even welcome, diversion. It wasn't as funny, nor as thrilling, as some other episodes this season. But there are times, just as we saw with the Valentine's Day episode, when it's just nice to spend some time with these characters when they're having fun together.
So we got to see Ed Helms and Mindy Kaling (soon to star in her own NBC sitcom) kick ass in their own faux-dance competition, got to see Kevin aggressively making out with his girlfriend (whom he met in the Valentine's Day show), got to see Dwight and Phyllis bond (as they did earlier this season in "Crime Aid") even as he treated her like a racehorse, we got to see Oscar's marvelous reaction at realizing Erin likes this place enough to invite a friend, we got to see Angela walk under the limbo stick without bending, and of course we got to see Jim and Pam realize during their time at Cafe Disco that they like these people -- and the other people in their lives -- enough to want to have a proper wedding party with them.
Today was one of those kinda days at the (real) office, and this episode was a nice antidote to that. I really, really like these people sometimes.
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This episode could have been the suckiest suck to ever suck and I wouldn't have noticed, because damnit people, there was a danceoff. And it was glorious. However, the episode turned out to be quite nice. Angela under the bar was a highlight, as was Ryan's talking head. I think that the new secretary is going to be a good addition to the cast.
And I'm taking the dancing as a scrubs tribute.
It was hard not to love it. The same way I've been so glad they've let Michael have that great relationship with Holly (and the nice vibe I guess he now has with Erin) to bring out the different Michael you would see if somebody loved him, I was glad to see him have EXACTLY what he wanted, just for a fleeting second. When Jim twirled him, it was like...he was frozen in this moment that you just know is completely fleeting, largely accidental, and the best thing that has ever happened to him. I just think they've been so smart about refreshing the show by having things happen to characters that have never happened to them before, and this was the same. Michael will go back to being the boss everybody ignores and thinks is a dork, at least mostly, but...I love it that they've realized that a novel plot twist doesn't have to be a secret baby or a twin brother. It can just be "he experiences acceptance."
I've never noticed the warmth of this show more than in today's episode. I thought it was marvelous.
So is the receptionist Kelly or Erin? Erin's clearer, but Kelly's funnier.
had the same reaction, not an incredibly funny episode, but just plain gleeful. count me in as another person who likes the new receptionist. sweet and seemingly uncomplicated. sign me up.
I think that the lesson we can all take from this episode is that in order for it to be a party, you have to start with a couple of attractive women in the room dancing. You can't have just one guy dancing, that won't work.
I'm with you, Alan- I thought the whole episode was going to be stupid and pathetic, and by the end, I had a huge smile on my face. It was just plain sweet, all around.
Spiral Jacobs said...
This episode was another weird tribute to Michael Scott's bizarre genius with people (ironic, considering how socially inept he is most of the time). The party in the disco cafe was just what DM needed. Their esprit de corps was in the crapper, everyone was feeling hostile and negative, and what did they need? DANCE PARTY, of course! Turned out to be the best team-building exercise he could have come up with. Plus, it made him so happy, people were bonding with each other, and... it pissed off Angela. WIN.
Graeleight said...
I was kind of wondering where they were going to go with this new secretary.
Sweet and naive. I like it.
(I hope I'm not misremembering this but my favorite line of the night):
Dwight: Do you have your birth certificate?
Erin: Yes I do! (reaches for her bag)
Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't help but dance a little myself as the music went on.
Dance parties are always fun.
I do love how Creed donated the disco ball and admits that it was his rear view mirror.
mwu said...
I love me some Mindy Kaling, but Ed Helms TOTALLY won that dance-off, and it wasn't even close.
Kensington said...
I, too, started dancing at home. Couldn't help it. This was exuberant and a joy. So nice that they could pull off an episode of such brilliant simplicity.
Count me amongst the big Erin fans now, too. She's delightful.
Also, Mindy Kaling is leaving!?! I wish she weren't!
Glad I read the link before commenting. I would have been upset to learn that Kaling (or any member of this crazy cast) was leaving.
I really like episodes of television that can do what this one did: it wasn't trying to be anything other than just a half hour of fun. And that's exactly what it did. I loved the childish grin that Michael got when he saw Angela tapping her foot.
Anyone have any thoughts on whether Bob Vance is really cheating?
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!!
Great episode, for so many moments -- The Dwight/Erin birth certificate, Kevin making out, Pam removing Micheal's battery, Jim picking flowers for Pam, Oscar giving in to the moment...
There was something creepy about the way the new secretary said "before he gets off," and I don't blame Phyllis for having that moment of doubt -- and I loved how Dwight was actually able to help Phyllis, after all. It was overall a great Dwight episode, starting with "I won an art contest!"
Altogether, a surprisingly solid episode.
Seeing Dwight and Phyllis bonding again was great, but his interplay with Erin has also been a lot of fun. I loved the exchange about the birth certificate. Liberating Dwight is one of the best things to have come out of the MSPC storyline. The prank on Pam, the new dynamic with Michael and Jim—it's been a joy to watch.
Erin is pretty goofy. I like her, but I wonder what the plans are for her. She's already been in a few episodes, and I don't think she's even done a talking head.
That Vance Refrigeration guy with the pompadour creeps me out.
Angela's reactions to all the dancing was pretty great. I lost it watching Angela's face, trapped in the corner with Andy and Kelly dancing at her.
amitytv said...
Alan....Come on. No way did this episode start off as dumb and then get better. It started off as awesome and then got more awesome.
I laughed harder in the first six minutes than, well, I laughed a lot. I mean it started out with Dwight's version of a practical joke on Pam (and his laughing hilariously at himself!!!)and moves to Michael begging anybody to go to lunch with him, followed by his robot impression, and then Pam being forced to take his batteries out. And that's just the first three minutes.
It was so good, I panicked and thought it was the finale. It wasn't, right?
See, however much of an idiot Michael is sometimes, as misguided a leader he is, he was right - what the office needed was this cheesy fun cafe disco to get everyone to have fun and relax with each other and be on the same team again! Even ANGELA got into the music, and the look on Michael's happy satisfied face seeing that was priceless.
It was fun and sweet and definitely just the right episode to have after all the MSPC drama, for the viewers and the characters in the show.
Also, Mindy Kaling is leaving!?! I wish she weren't!Well, she'll be on "The Office" for a while still, and there's always the chance her own show doesn't get picked up.
K J Gillenwater said...
I was so happy to see Phyllis get a little more of a storyline. Loved the zaftig new secretary at Vance Refrigeration. I hope they do more with that story...the girl was so protective of her boss and his time. Ha!
Also loved it when Michael held the music up to the vent so everyone in the office couldn't help but react to 'Everybody dance now!"
I'm liking Erin, too. I'd rather have her be the background person for awhile. It's more fun when we don't know a lot about her.
Watching for the second time, loving it even more:
Dwight rushing to help Michael and Phyllis, shouting "I got your text! Who's Phillip? Who tipped you over--was it Phillip?" Hilarious.
Is poor Ryan developing an eating disorder? His one line was so funny, but sad.
Andy saying "I'm afwaid" and Michael's whole baby talk thing was too funny/icky.
Gene Stupnitsky and Lee Eisenberg cracked me up (once again) as the warehouse guys. "There's girls in there?"
I kept waiting for something humiliating to happen to Michael, but instead, he got to win this one. What a fun episode--I'm inviting my friend Ashley to see it.
It was an excellent episode - hilarious, yet moments that were so poignant. Michael sitting at his desk, dejected, eating his sandwich alone. "It might as well be dinner." It broke my heart... and then I was cracking up at Andy.
The past few episodes have been so strong! I'm sad the finale is coming so soon.
Otto Man said...
Kevin getting slammed into the wall during his make-out session. Priceless.
I loved the moment where Michael's sad the dancing thing didn't work out and says that he can still hear the music in his head.
It's hilarious to me how often Michael says or perceives things in a way that is entirely informed by his experiences watching TV or movies. For him to hear the music and actually say/think he was hearing it in his head because of how sad he was, that was one of those great Michael moments where he doesn't know how to conduct himself so he takes his cues from people he's studied on TV.
They're making it look so effortless this year. I think probably one of the best ensemble casts on TV. I love Lost, but the people are so fragmented it's special to see them all interact, and some of them have only had a few scenes (How many Jin and Kate scenes? Even Locke and Jack, who haven't had a scene together this season). Granted this is because the Office is in an office and Lost is on craphole Island. Two great ensembles, but this Office ep really made me love their cast even more! A great all-round episode.
Loved that Michael thought the music was actually in his head, and he didn't think it was any big deal that he was hearing music.
Castaway said...
If anyone could watch that episode and not have a big smile on theirr face by the end, then "The Office" isn't for them. Because it was awesome.
Asta said...
At about the twenty minute mark I thought the episode was pointless filler with Michael reverting back to mere goofiness. But then one by one they made their way to Cafe Disco and by the time YMCA was playing I had a big stupid grin on my face that lasted after the episode ended. Not the funniest episode ever, but, as someone else said, it was gleeful. And I appreciated that while Michael's methods may seem crazy, he did manage to bring everyone together and seemingly smooth over lingering resentments proving, as a manager, he knows what he's doing.
This episode reminded me of how Conan always use to jock about how when the guest comes out, they would just dance through the whole hour. I feel like the writers had the same idea for this episode, and like others said it was really fun.
I liked the "ramming speed" shout out to "Ben Hur" as Dwight was accelerating Phyllis through the office door.
Dwight also had some nice lines when he took Phyllis to cafe disco:
1) He told Phyllis that he normally doesnt dance but she needed to move around and that they were playing a kick-ass song
2) When Vance asked if Dwight would give him Phyllis, he said something like "I can't give you what you own."
Tucked inside a fun episode where five of the saddest words from a character in a long time:
Michael, eating his sandwich alone said, "Might as well be dinner."
That's why the Office is good. Emotion inside the story like the cream inside the imaginary cookie Kevin wanted.
"It's hilarious to me how often Michael says or perceives things in a way that is entirely informed by his experiences watching TV or movies."
That's it - Michael is Chance The Gardener from "Being There."
A great line that nobody has remarked on yet: "I cannot force you to go down, but I can entice you." To which I shouted at the TV: "That's what she said!"
ita with Alan. This ep had some good moments, but really picked up steam when Cafe Disco hit its stride. *Loved* the look of glee on Michael's face when he caught Angela tapping her foot.
I'm happy to hear that Mindy Kaling is so successful, but just as happy to hear that she won't be leaving The Office permanently. The vibe between her and Andy made me slap myself up the head like a V8 moment: why didn't we see they'd make a great couple before this? Cuz....they WOULD!
I sorta felt the same way about the episode. I thought it really was gonna be a pointless episode, which was a real disappointment after seeing that the show was on its game the past couple of weeks. I think it was the pointlessness of Dwight's prank on Pam that did it. Then eventually, it sorta turned when it showed that these people -- quirky as they may be -- actually sorta enjoy each other. I can't hate an episode for that.
Two thoughts that stood out about the episode: Erin's a real dork (randomly dancing with Michael and Kelly in separate times); I loved Creed's little throwaway gag that he uses the tiny disco ball as a rearview mirror (and that he's actually worried he won't be able to see behind his car anymore).
Oh, did anyone get a flashback to the British Office Christmas Special when the party was in full swing and Pam and Jim decided to stop by? I was totally flashing on Dawn and Tim at that point. Of course, this didn't have the emotionally cathartic moment that the Christmas Special had, but it just reminded me a little of it.
To me also, Pam and Jim seemed like the kind of couple who would elope. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's that Jim and Pam seem like a no-frills kind of couple and a no-frills kind of shotgun wedding would be appropriate. But then, that was quashed by the sentiments in the episode so...
Maybe it's just me, but I couldn't help but dance a little myself as the music went on.Linda, you're not alone. I was in bed and actually started to get up and do "the YMCA" as it was playing onscreen. Yeah, I'm a dork.
I think Andy took Kelly in the dance-off, too. The guy's got some moves (especially given that I was expecting him to trip over the chair or something)!
I had so much fun watching this. The Andy-Kelly dance-off was fantastic. Those two need more interaction, they are golden together.
I hope Erin the receptionist becomes a regular cast member. She's a perfect addition to the gang.
weck said...
I loved Dwight's "Whooooa girl" with Phyllis. Also the Nard-dog on the chair was bona fide awesome.
Enjoyed the shout out to Youngstown, OH, one of the few cities with a more depressing reputation than Scranton. That's a long trip (5 hours at least) on Interstate 80, Pam and Jim were planning. Sadly, I've driven it, and even been in the Mahoning County courthouse, so I was shouting directions to the TV screen.....then later I was tapping my foot like Angela. Fun, sweet episode. I was smiling a full five minutes after it ended.
Fantastic comments so far and I agree with almost all of them. Two things that have yet to be mentioned yet:
1) Creed walked out of the bathroom eating a chicken wing! Just one of those things that the writers make no reference to but perfectly fits his character.
2) Dwight's "What do you think history is?" to Michael right after Michale said "I don't need a history lesson" when Dwight was explaining the commonality of back injuries compared to other parts of the body. Loved it and had to pause the DVR so I could finish laughing and hear the next line.
Just plain old fun in this episode.
What was great about this episode was the way that all of the characters had very little moments (eg how they kinda all sorta danced to the music coming up through the vents) and that the episode touched on everyone.
In particular,
-Michael, on eating alone, "it might as well be dinner," is heart-breakingly brilliant.
-Creed, on giving Michael the little disco ball, noting that it's his car's reear-view mirror.
-Angela walking under the limbo stick
-Dwight, to Bob Vance, Vance Refrigeration, "You can not steal what already belongs to you."
And a dance-off. Someone got served.
I'm pretty sure Creed wasn't making the letters Y M C or A.
I can imagine a moment in the writers room where someone proposed an episode centered around this idea: everyone dances, in character, and sudden pandemonium/silence breaks out at the awesomeness of the idea.
Also, Steve Carell lip synching to "everybody dance now" completely in character also.
It was a great example of how much talent and insight these actors have into their characters.
--Anonymiss
I liked the "ramming speed" shout out to "Ben Hur" as Dwight was accelerating Phyllis through the office door.I am pretty sure that was an 'Animal House' reference.
This one made it clear, among many other things, that Paul Lieberstein is not the only person from his sibling group who has enomrous talent--brother Warren co-wrote this, and he should get credit because the episode absolutely hit the bullseye. I was worried based on past history (of the four previous penultimate season shows, only S2's "Conflict Resolution" was outstanding, with "Basketball" being too broad, "Beach Games" meandering beyond Pam's terrific moments near the end, and "Job Fair" just being an embarassment) and so I was smiling more and more as the goofy Cafe Disco idea began to take on more and more speed, so by the end I just said "That was a wonderful episode, one of the most entertaining of the year."
Because it's not set at a high school, this show wouldn't do a formal "prom" episode, but is it ridiculous to say that few shows in the 90210/GOSSIP GIRL/etc. world could put together prom shows that have the feeling of shared joy and exuberance that the impromptu dance hall here did?
"Creed walked out of the bathroom eating a chicken wing! Just one of those things that the writers make no reference to but perfectly fits his character."
Also: Michael writing his own name on his paper bag lunch. (I assume he packs his own sandwich...)
flem snopes said...
"...Dwight and Phyllis bond (as they did earlier this season in "Crime Aid") even as he treated her like a racehorse..."When he shoved a carrot into her mouth I had to pause so I could laugh it out without missing anything.
Linda, you're not alone. I was in bed and actually started to get up and do "the YMCA" as it was playing onscreen. Yeah, I'm a dork.Moi aussi, John, moi aussi.
Can't believe nobody's mentioned Dwight's "Jack Nicholson in the Shining" impression. Alsmost as scary as his Joker costume, and no makeup needed.
Wholi said...
"Would you like an espresso? Got to keep yourself dehydrated!"
Also, Michael kept pronouncing espresso like EXpresso. Subtle, but cracked me up.
Number Five said...
Spiral Jacobs said, "Their esprit de corps was in the crapper, everyone was feeling hostile and negative, and what did they need? DANCE PARTY, of course!"
Agreed, and it was true for the audience as well. After seeing them all go through the MSPC/DM battle, it was just delightful to watch the dance party snowball, especially since the teaser/first act were standard Office bleakness.
I also think Andy won the dance contest hands down. Or is that chair down?
How about the fact Andy was, indeed, getting the "gay ear" pierced?
No love for the immediate aftermath of Dwight's art contest prank?
Erin: I still don't know why you had me do that--
Dwight: Shut up.
Even in triumph he was so curt and harsh, not even letting her share in the joke.
I loved the Dwight "art contest" prank, but he caved way too soon in letting it known that it was a prank.
In the good old days, Dwight would have let that announcement "air out" for the rest of the day to watch Pam squirm. At least for a day, if not more. I thought it was a lazy out for the writers to have him acknowledge it almost immediately.
I liked the "ramming speed" shout out to "Ben Hur" as Dwight was accelerating Phyllis through the office door.I am pretty sure that was an 'Animal House' reference.It was actually both.
Loved this episode -- in the category of "the dumbest things that made me really laugh" is Angela walking, head held high, under the limbo stick! I don't know why, but that struck me as hilarious!!
Also: Michael writing his own name on his paper bag lunch. (I assume he packs his own sandwich...)Er, I do that, too [gulp].
filmcricket said...
"Michael writing his own name on his paper bag lunch."
Hey, in my office you have to do that or someone'll eat your food. And sometimes even that doesn't work.
victor said...
I hope Stanley was only napping
Following_Nate said...
In response to the query about whether Phyllis really thought Bob Vance (Vance Refrigeration) was cheating on her, I say "no". I believe the comment was just the writers' way of drawing attention to what was actually a subtle joke -- that Bob's secretary looks just like a younger version of Phyllis. I didn't pick up on that until the second viewing. Bob adores Phyllis, so there's no way he'd be cheating. But having a secretary who has the same "look", that's priceless.
I too liked Dwight's line to Michael "do you know what history is?" after Michael admonished Dwight's "history lesson" (injury report).
My favorite bit was Oscar grooving his head with his hands in his pocket. Perfectly capturing the awkwardness of a guy who's too shy and conservative to let loose in public, but wants to show he's still part of the action.
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Update, 12/22: Late Nite Pie has reopened!
It looks like there’s been another shut-down at Late Nite Pie in Midtown. As first noted by the Houston Press late yesterday, the entrance to the pizza joint has been boarded up, with a stern-sounding note warning off trespassers and indicating the locks have been changed. The person listed as a contact on the note (presumably from the property’s landlord) would not comment on the situation. It may be a bit early to count Late Night out, though: Bell’s restaurant was able to start up again after a similar shuttering last year. The restaurant moved to its current location at 302 Tuam (on the corner of Baldwin) in 2008.
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Trevor December 17, 2010 at 4:13 pm
They never seemed to have any steady traffic in that location, which is a shame b/c it’s the closest you can get to real pizza in Houston….though after the crappy service I had last time, I haven’t been back.
Derdre December 17, 2010 at 4:26 pm
Let’s hope it’s gone for good this time. World’s worst pizza.
mek ju December 17, 2010 at 4:44 pm
Right, because the Tejano whorehouse that was there before is waaay better for Houston. I sure hope the landlord has a good memory and made every effort before resorting to the lock-out.
When I lived near this location I frequented it as often as possible. They did a good job and they at least tried, which is a lot better than most (I’m looking at you Ziggy).
Cody December 17, 2010 at 5:35 pm
Well what moved into the other location (St. Danes) ended up being way better than Late Night Pie, so maybe what takes the place of L.N.P 2 will be better yet again.
I’m happy that St. Danes moved in. Not the best place in the world but good enough and about a 40 second walk from my house.
Vladimir December 17, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Not a huge loss.
They should probably keep it shuttered for good. The pizza is sub-par barf-tastic at best.
dan December 17, 2010 at 7:06 pm
My band plays there. The place gets packed around midnight. The pizza is good and the beer is cheap. What more can you ask for?
biggerintexas December 17, 2010 at 7:24 pm
A few weak and seriously misguided commenters here. Late Night Pie has great pizza as anyone who has tried the Bossman will tell you. The service is awful but unfortunately, it’s part of their “style”. Where else are you going to get pizza at 2am on a weeknight? And where else do you get a dipping sauce of real butter and roasted garlic….certainly not Papa Johns or Dominos.
The original location was much better and anyone who thinks Saint Danes is a good replacement is seriously out of whack.
I didn’t know it was a whorehouse prior to becoming LNP. I wish somehow we could combine the two….it would be the hottest 2am spot in Houston.
Trevor7t December 17, 2010 at 8:42 pm
The service is what it is: crappy. They should put a sign up that says “our ‘style’ – is bad service”.
I guess getting locked out of their own resturant is part of their “style” too.
The pizza is ok. Definitely not great. On the weekends I think Frank’s has a better 2:00am pie.
cc December 18, 2010 at 1:05 am
forgettable pizza, mediocre service, awful clientele (sup peasants). their saving grace was the original location and the hours, once they moved two blocks away i didn’t bother going anymore.
paulbtucker December 18, 2010 at 2:39 pm
Oh man, I totally reported this on Monday night…was hoping it would be temporary.
http://twitter.com/paulbtucker/status/14584030905241600
geequeue December 19, 2010 at 6:44 am
Late Nite Pie had terrible pizza. The crust was flavorless and bland, the cheese was non-existent and in the rare case they did it right, it was so greasy you could lube an 18 wheeler with it.
Being available late at night does not a good pizza make.
There is a reason it only made money after midnight…drunk people don’t know what tastes good.
Bambolino’s has good pizza here in town, though not great. Ponzo’s is another that is pretty good. Their pepperoni rolls are amazing as are their meatball sandwiches.
If a new Late Nite Pie wants to succeed, they need to be flanked on all corners by bars. Drunks stumbling out of bars and clubs is their core market.
Extrovert December 20, 2010 at 12:32 pm
Inevitable that the place wasn’t going to make it on pizza alone, especially with Pink’s, Gotham Pizza, Biba’s and Russo’s so close. Too bad there wasn’t enough bar traffic to keep the place liquid, the back patio was cool.
cher December 20, 2010 at 1:06 pm
What do you expect, the poor shmucks who stood by them and didnt quit even when they never got paid on time, will never be able to get what is owed to,them.
Josh December 20, 2010 at 2:00 pm
Absolutely average pizza at the very best. And that’s being generous.
If I was wasted at 2am, I might be happy with a $20 medium pizza. MAYBE. Chances are I’d be asleep before I got it with their horrible service though.
Dan December 21, 2010 at 12:45 pm
It’s open again.
Matt Mystery December 26, 2010 at 11:47 pm
From Dan:
Yes it has risen once more. Unlike its tacky pizza dough.
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