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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover
Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 18, 2019 at 8:01am
TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
"Coalface" and the Left's Betrayal
of the Working Class
by Daniel Greenfield
Trump Should Just Let the
Democrats Self-Destruct
by Gary Gindler
{americanthinker.com} ~ President Trump has demanded that Ilhan Omar voluntarily resign. The idea of impeachment of another Muslim Democratic congresswoman – Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) is also being actively promoted... The events surrounding Ilhan Omar, of course, are a shame for America. The anti-Semitic focus of her recent statements is obvious. However, this does not mean that President Trump has an urgent need to intervene in the process of natural political selection and demand the resignation of an anti-Semitic congresswoman. Trump's intervention in the natural self-destruction of the Democratic Party is a strategic mistake. People who in some exceptional circumstances make not rational, but impulsive decisions, are understandable, but concerning these two brainless members of Congress and their third friend – young socialist commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez from New York – there should be a completely different approach. By its actions, this trinity guarantees the Democratic Party a very tarnished reputation. Moreover, the longer these ladies will stay in Congress, the more chances America has for an optimistic forecast. It seems that in January 2019, someone pressed a switch and turned off the brains of the Democrats. Currently, there is chaos and confusion in their minds. For example, they shout that President Trump is a puppet of Russia which means that Trump, submitting to the Kremlin, must pursue a pro-Russian policy. However, if they really believe this, then the Democrats must demand the exact opposite – a tough stance towards Russia...
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/02/trump_should_just_...
Another Dem Wants Our Guns
Over Trump’s National Emergency Order
by S.Noble
{independentsentinel.com} ~ Yesterday, Nancy Pulosi said that since President Trump declared an emergency to build the wall, Democrats would, in turn, declare emergencies to implement their agenda. She said they would declare gun violence an emergency... Pulosi wants to go for our guns. The Speaker said, “You want to talk about a national emergency, let’s talk about today, the one-year anniversary of another manifestation of the epidemic of gun violence in America. That’s a national emergency.” We now have another Democrat threatening us. Senator Chris Murphy of Connecticut said “100 people die from guns every day. That’s a national emergency.” They always use misleading stats. He continued, “If Trump gets away with this border emergency declaration, then a Dem President can declare a gun violence emergency and institute universal background checks and an assault weapons ban by executive action. So…” He plans to take away all semi-automatic guns that look like assault weapons, and track gun owners under the guise of background checks. We already have universal background checks. What they want is a registry...
http://www.independentsentinel.com/another-dem-wants-our-guns-over-...
DIA: China to Deploy ASAT Laser by 2020
by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ China's military is expected to deploy a laser weapon capable of destroying or damaging U.S. military satellites in low earth orbit in the next year, the Pentagon's Defense Intelligence Agency disclosed in a report on space threats... The Chinese directed energy weapon is among an array of space warfare tools that include ground-based anti-satellite (ASAT) missiles, electronic jammers, cyber attacks, and small satellites Beijing plans to use in attacks on U.S. satellites in a future conflict. "China likely is pursuing laser weapons to disrupt, degrade, or damage satellites and their sensors and possibly already has a limited capability to employ laser systems against satellite sensors," the unclassified intelligence report said. "China likely will field a ground-based laser weapon that can counter low-orbit space-based sensors by 2020, and by the mid-to-late 2020s, it may field higher power systems that extend the threat to the structures of non-optical satellites." It was the first time a U.S. intelligence agency disclosed details of the ASAT laser deployment plans. China's ASAT laser weapons have been known since at least 2006, when China used a ground based laser to "dazzle" an orbiting U.S. satellite in what was viewed as a test attack. The laser incident came a year before the 2007 Chinese ASAT missile test against an orbiting weather satellite that created a dangerous orbiting debris field...
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/dia-china-to-deploy-asat-l...
commie-Ocasio-Cortez, Castro plan
to introduce bill to block national emergency
by Rachel Frazin
{thehill.com} ~ Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) and Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) plan to introduce a bill to stop President Trump's emergency declaration... A Democratic aide confirmed that Castro reached out to commie-Ocasio-Cortez to get her on board and the pair is reaching out to others to build support. "We've got people flooding in to support this," the aide said. The timing of introduction remains up in the air. The House adjourned Friday morning and is out next week for the President's Day recess. But the chamber will be conducting pro-forma sessions next week that would allow for the introduction of bills. commie-Ocasio-Cortez confirmed the move on Twitter, writing, ".@JoaquinCastrotx and I aren’t going to let the President declare a fake national emergency without a fight."...
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/430173-ocasio-cortez-castro-plan...
VIDEO: https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1096424140989358080?ref_src=twsr...
Dozens of victims rescued and hundreds
arrested in human-trafficking sting in California
by Marisa Gerber
{latimes.com} ~ Nearly 50 victims of human trafficking, including 14 minors, were rescued during a three-day sting operation across California last week, law enforcement officials announced Tuesday... State and federal agencies arrested 339 people, including 156 men on suspicion of solicitation, during the coordinated effort, which involved cyber detectives posing as teenagers. At a downtown Los Angeles news conference, Los Angeles County Assistant Sheriff Maria Gutierrez urged all parents to monitor their children’s internet use. “Predators,” she said, “operate freely in cyberspace.” In Los Angeles County, Gutierrez said, sheriff’s detectives arrested a 30-year-old man in connection with child pornography after finding several video clips showing the assault of a 6-year-old. When San Bernardino County sheriff’s officials arrested a man at a motel in Ontario, she said, the suspect, who responded to a decoy message from law enforcement, had a loaded pistol and meth in his pocket. In his vehicle, officials found seven other firearms, including assault weapons...
https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-ln-human-trafficking-task...
{sultanknish.blogspot.com} ~ When I was growing up, the man who delivered coal to our school jokingly warned me that if I didn’t study hard and get good grades, I would also end up delivering coal.
It was a joke. But it also wasn’t.
Working with coal was hard and dirty. Even if all you had to do was deliver it. And, there, far removed culturally and geographically from America and its old minstrel shows, coal dust meant hard work.
Once upon a time, the Left romanticized coal dust and the coal miner as symbols of the oppressed working class. Then it degenerated into a movement of university bred urbanites with contempt for hard work and a calculated ignorance of the “brown energy” that makes their lives possible.
The disdain and ignorance reached a fever pitch with two media articles conflating coal dust with blackface. The Arizona Republic, ran an editorial by Rashaad Thomas, a self-described poet, essayist and Buddhist thinker, who was offended by a photo of Welsh coal miners hanging in a restaurant.
“Phoenix restaurant says this is a photo of coal miners. But I see offensive blackface,” Thomas complained. “My concern that the photograph of men in blackface was a threat to me and my face and voice were ignored. A business’ photograph of men with blackened faces culturally says to me, ‘Whites Only.’ It says people like me are not welcome.”
The photo is actually of Welsh coal miners from a century ago. And its political context is a million miles away from the case of Governor Ralph Northam in Virginia and mockery of African-Americans.
It does have a political context, but one that has nothing to do with race, and everything to do with class. The inability of Thomas and Arizona Republic editors to immediately grasp this encapsulates how detached they are from the working class.
Old lefties would have recognized and understood the political meaning of the photo. It was taken during the great coal strike of 1910 and 1911. The early twentieth saw massive strikes by coal miners both in the United States and the United Kingdom. The Tony pandy riots, which is the context for the coal miner photo, was one of the larger and more explosive confrontations which spiraled into a larger strike and culminated in Churchill, then Home Secretary, sending in the British Army as backup.
The strike would grow until one in six miners in South Wales were part of it.
The photo depicts coal miners in Cwmbach, Wales, discussing the upcoming strike. The coal boom had transformed Cwmbach, but working in the coal mines was risky with mine collapses that killed dozens. Cwmbach became part of the strike fairly early which actually started when the mines stopped allowing miners to take waste timber for their own homes. The men in the photo are relaxing in the pub, knowing that they won’t be going down into the mines again, but also that they won’t have any work.
They’re having a drink while knowing that it may be a while before they will be able to afford one again.
The significance of this is lost on the Arizona Republic’s Buddhist poet who writes, “The photograph shows coal miners’ faces covered in soot. The context of the photograph is not the issue.”
But the context is an issue. It’s just an issue that his fellow lefties once embraced, before abandoning.
The strike is still commemorated in the UK, where the romanticizing of a working class that actually worked with its hands still lingers a little, but strikes in the US invariably involve municipal workers.
Driving through Los Angeles in the rain a few weeks ago, you couldn’t escape men and women in red bellowing through megaphones outside schools to demand that their 6% raise be a 6.5% raise. And the usual teachers’ union obsession with destroying charter schools, testing and student education.
That’s what a strike looks like in 2019. And it’s very different than the dirty men in that pub.
“If somebody wants to build a coal-fired power plant, they can. It's just that it will bankrupt them,” scumbag/liar-nObama had boasted.
“We're going to put a lot of coal miners and coal companies out of business," scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton told West Virginians.
She didn’t. But coal miners helped put her out of work and put Trump in the White House. American coal miners aren’t threatened by cartels, but by environmentalists. They’re not oppressed by billionaires who own mines, but by billionaire lefties like Michael Bloomberg who don’t own mines, and don’t want any to exist. And hardly a day goes by without another proposal to replace coal mines with lavender farms, in a recent Bloomberg magazine, or a proposal to teach coal miners how to code.
In recent years, the media was full of proposals to teach coal miners to code. “Hillbillies who code,” was one of the ridiculously condescending media headlines. But when digital media ventures recently began laying off hundreds of journalists, the media insisted that telling them to “learn to code” was a hate crime. It’s one thing to suggest that coal mining is obsolete, but another to suggest that journalism is.
But the Arizona Republic and the New York Times make a compelling case for journalism’s obsolesce.
Unhappy with all the attention that the Arizona Republic was getting for conflating coal with blackface, the New York Times decided to run an op-ed accusing Mary Poppins, specifically Bert, of blackface.
“'Mary Poppins,' and a Nanny's Shameful Flirting With Blackface,” the old gray lady huffs and puffs.
The rant by Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, who had amassed a PhD in English from Harvard, contends that, “Part of the new film’s nostalgia, however, is bound up in a blackface performance tradition”.
“When the magical nanny played by Julie Andrews accompanies her young charges, Michael and Jane Banks, up their chimney, her face gets covered in soot, but instead of wiping it off, she gamely powders her nose and cheeks even blacker,” he writes. “Then she leads the children on a dancing exploration of London rooftops with Dick Van Dyke’s sooty chimney sweep, Bert.”
"One of the more indelible images from the 1964 film is of Mary Poppins blacking up," claims Pollack-Pelzner, who has a chair in Shakespeare but can't tell race from class.
The scene that Harvard’s best and brightest is referring to has Bert singing about the life of a chimney sweep, “Tween pavement and stars is the chimney sweepworld/Where there's 'ardly no day and 'ardly no night”, while taking middle class children out of their sheltered home and into the mysterious grime of a working class world.
A world that is both magical and dirty. And one that romanticizes the coal dust of hard work.
What was once a politically subversive scene has, much like the coal miner photo, become magically reactionary with the passage of time and the distancing of the Left from the working class.
Does Daniel Pollack-Pelzner, a member of the faculty at the University of California Dickens Project, really not understand the role of the chimney sweep in British life? Or British class structure? Did he somehow manage to get a PhD in English at Harvard without ever once encountering Blake’s The Chimney Sweeper “a little black thing among the snow”? Did he think Blake was referring to blackface?
He probably isn’t that ignorant or incompetent. But he’s playing to an audience that is.
An essay on British working class life wouldn’t get you into the New York Times or Arizona Republic op-ed sections, but discovering racism lurking in Mary Poppins or a restaurant photo will.
The chimney sweep and the coal miner were powerful symbols of the working class. But the transgressive images of Mary Poppins and middle class children smeared in coal dust or coal miners enjoying a pint in a pub before the big strike are no longer politically useful.
And what isn’t politically useful swiftly becomes reactionary. Every progressive will live long enough to become his own villain as yesterday’s revolutions of social progress become tomorrow’s hate crimes.
In what some are calling, “facecrime”, media essays read hateful volumes into the quirk of a teenage boy’s lips at a pro-life rally or the coal dust on men’s faces. These exercises in theoretical physiognomy don’t reveal new truths, they are just the Rorschach inkblots that justify the bigotry of the observers.
And their ignorance.
The new obsession with racism demands ignoring the terrible damage that the Democrats have done to African-American communities with their policies through an endless search for shiny new racisms. Reading racism into movies and photos does nothing to help African-Americans in the working class, but fuels a boom in the work of academics and essayists of all races whose work is geared to the upper class.
The coal miner photo and the dancing chimney sweeps date back to an era when the Left was interested in class. Now it’s refocused all its attention on race while leaving the working class behind in the coal dust. And to the Buddhist poets and Harvard academics, coal dust doesn’t represent class, but racism.
When you don’t work for a living, then the people who do, real or fictional, are incomprehensible. Like their upper class predecessors, the Left sees the working class as ‘other’ and their dirt as moral decay.
The cultural signifiers and attitudes haven’t changed. Only the exact definition of immorality has.
The upper class of a century past thought that dirty working people were crude, indolent and savage. Our leftist upper class thinks that they’re racist.
They could benefit from joining Bert in a trip up the chimney.
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Michael Covel presents a monologue today about his recent trip to Mainland China (Beijing). A trip that centered on his presentation to 1100 Chinese investors and traders. For those listeners that have not yet traveled to China--either for business or vacation--Covel offers a wide-ranging primer. There is no doubt that from a business perspective especially--the time for China is now. The population is massive, the energy is overwhelming and the desire is infectious. Regardless of your current understanding of China, your perception of their government or the many other misunderstandings so prevalent in the West--China has at its core a deep desire for business and success. The adrenaline is simply to be felt. And yes, they want to learn trend following too. Free trend following DVD: www.trendfollowing.com/win.
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** Blog Tour / Book Review ** GOING DOWN EASY by Carly Phillips
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Supplier Development
Welcome to Our Blog About Inclusiveness
Inclusive Business Case Study: Engro Foods
Gunda Tue, 04/30/2019 - 06:00
Thanks to Engro, Milk won't Dry up in Pakistan
The Inclusive Business Model of Engro Foods
Following our posts about what inclusive business (IB) is, how inclusive business models (IBM) work and their effectiveness in reaching the Base of the Pyramid (BoP), it is time for a real-world case study. It has not been easy to find them. Many are about the partnership programmes with development aid organisations rather than about their business models. Since the International Finance Corporation, a subsidiary of the Worldbank (IFC) is actively supporting IB, it has a number of case studies on its database. I selected Engro Foods and was quite surprised to find the following headline from December 2016 as a result of further research:
“KARACHI: Dutch company FrieslandCampina Pakistan BV (FC Pakistan) has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in Engro Foods at an estimated price of $446.81 million...”
Given the company's high valuation, it should be profitable and operate a business model promising future profits and competitive advantages. Engro Foods (EFL) launched in 2005 operates an inclusive business model to secure domestic milk supply. It is the second largest dairy producer in Pakistan. Their IBM has brought many informal farmers into their supply chain while also creating employment in rural areas.
At the outset in 2010, the challenges must have seemed gigantic: “Over 92% of milk is produced by small farmers in Pakistan (approx. 7mio). These farmers rear two to five cows that produce between 3-5 litres per day as against the world benchmark of 25-30 litres per day.” Pakistan's rural areas are vast and the 72 million dairy animals are widely dispersed. Farmer's access to markets is limited due to underdeveloped physical and communication infrastructure. Up to 15% of milk is spoiled during transportation. Farmers are paid unfair prices by middlemen many rely on for selling the milk. They are also charged high interest rates for credit. At the other end of the supply chain, dairies pay transaction fees to the agents. Milk quality is inconsistent due to “to weak feeding patterns, lack of modern farming techniques, and poor access to veterinary services.”
Inclusive Strategy
Apart from strengthening and securing milk-supply for the future, Engro realised that improving the quality of milk supplied through middleman would be difficult. Long-term strategic thinking has resulted in the establishment of a vast network infrastructure to collect milk, educate farmers, provide agri-services and ensure complete process transparency.
EFL's supply infrastructure rests on 3 pillars
Over 1,800 milk Collection Centers (mCCs): they reach 85% or 300,000 farmers supplying EFL in around 15,000 villages. Typically, on less than 30 sqm and located within 2km of farmers, a mCC is equipped with a chilling tank, basic laboratory, and geyser run on electricity or a generator. On average, a mCC collects 400 litres per day. EFL's more than 360 trucks transport the milk from the mCCs to regional hubs from where it is distributed to the milk-processing plants.
Over 1700 village milk Collectors (vmCs), trained in milk testing, handling, and hygiene practices and equipped with basic equipment such as collection utensils, a
testing kit, and record keeping register; vmCs collecting large quantities are also provided with coolers and generators.
Contractors and “dodhis” (village-level door-to-door milk collectors) transporting purchased milk from farmers to an mCC for testing.
For transparency between EFL and its suppliers, a management information system collects, transmits and monitors real-time data from its mCCs, provides reports for collected quantities, optimising logistics and quality and to facilitate payment to farmers. “Payment schedules can be customized based on farmers’ needs.”
Training, Services and Agri-Inputs
EFL's 40 “agri-service units” staffed with 87 veterinarians and agrarians provide training and guidance in areas such as vaccination, hygiene, and feeding practices. In 2013, the year the report was published, EFL was launching shops for dairy and agri-inputs at its 22 field offices.
In partnership with USAID and Care, women are trained in livestock and dairy management to generate livelihood opportunities. The Asian Development was expected to come on board these programmes to provide working capital finance.
In conclusion, this case-study describes an IBM successfully implemented through a public/ private partnership. IFC's USD 80 mio long-term loan facility approved in 2010 enabled Engo Foods to strengthen its supply chain through the inclusion of BoP farmers despite formidable challenges. Already profitable at the time of the loan injection, it was able to quadruple its profits within 3 years thereafter.
Since the publishing of this case-study, Engro has attracted additional finance and development support from various international organisations for training employees and farmers, offering working capital finance, promoting mechanisation in farming, lobbying the government on milk-price regulation, engaging farmers in networking, and much more. There is abundant information about Engro's engagement in improving livelihoods from which it is assumed that lives at the BoP must have have benefited. Unfortunately, the lack of studies on the impact on Pakistan's BoP does make this difficult to ascertain. More research and/ or publishing of such studies is desirable particularly for learning, replicating and scaling of similar initiatives.
https://tribune.com.pk/story/1268342/foreign-direct-investment-dutch-company-acquires-engro-foods-446-81m/
https://www.ifc.org/wps/wcm/connect/a5ca6da3-5e4e-4d3a-ba4e-f375960aa048/Engro.pdf?MOD=AJPERES
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34th anniversary of a crime that is still being committed, but ignored
Avoyelles Parish, Misconduct, News 3 Responses »
If truth was as clear, powerful, and respected as water, Simmons’ actual innocence—demonstrated in the new book “Louisiana v. Vincent Simmons: Frame-up in Avoyelles Parish” by Katja Pumm—would wash him out of the penal system. He has been confined since Monday May 23, 1977—which falls on the same weekday this year.
MONDAY, MAY 9, 1977 (approx. 9 P.M. – 12 P.M.):
Eighteen year-old Keith Laborde is driving around with his minor cousins Sharon and Karen Sanders in his old car.
SUNDAY, MAY 22, 1977 (approx. 6 P.M.):
Sharon and Karen Sanders report to Sheriff “Potch” Didier, Major Fabius Didier, Captain Floyd Juneau and Deputy Barbara DeCuir at the Avoyelles Parish Sheriff’s Office that a “black man” raped them on May 9, 1977.
MONDAY, MAY 23, 1977:
(7 A.M.): Captain Floyd Juneau’s and Lieutenant Robert Laborde’s shift begins.
(8 A.M.): Juneau and Laborde “decide” to arrest African American Vincent Simmons.
(9 P.M.): Simmons is strolling down Waddil Street in Marksville near the St. Joseph cemetery. Lead investigator Captain Floyd Juneau and Lieutenant Robert Laborde come by in their patrol car and arrest him “on view,” without an arrest warrant, for two counts of aggravated rape. At the Sheriff’s Office, Potch Didier tells Captain Melvin Villemarette to establish a line-up with the arrestee. The line-up consists of one white and seven black persons. Fotos show that Simmons (number 4) is the only one in handcuffs.Keith Laborde, Sharon and Karen Sanders are together in the room behind the mirror and indentify the handcuffed man.
(approx. 9:30 A.M. – 10:00 A.M.): Officers Laborde and Villemarette take the shackled Simmons upstairs to the ID room. They do not interrogate him. Vincent Simmons refuses to sign a confession that Laborde has formulated. Lieutenant Robert Laborde shoots Simmons in his left chest missing the arrestee’s heart by three inches. Several colleagues and the sheriff witness the scene seconds later. Laborde and Villemarette allege that Simmons took Villemarette’s gun and tried to shoot them.
Before the shooting, Keith Laborde begins to give his statements to Deputy Barbara DeCuir and Captain Floyd Juneau.
Coroner F. P. Bordelon arranges for the shooting victim to be rushed to the Huey P. Long Hospital in Pineville, Louisiana. Simmons is unconscious. Lieutenant Laborde’s weapon is released for investigation.
District Attorney “Eddie” Knoll calls the victims’ family at the house of Keith Laborde’s father.Sharon and Karen Sanders give their handwritten statements.
Judge Earl Edwards now orders to arrest Vincent Simmons for the rape of Sharon and Karen Sanders. The police officers take fotos of Keith Laborde’s car and the alleged crime scene on Little California Road. Lieutenant Robert Laborde writes a supplementary report concerning the “offense” of the “investigation and shooting of Vincent Simmons” in Captain Villemarette’s and his own name.
TUESDAY, MAY 24, 1977:
Coroner F. P. Bordelon examines both girls and discovers that one of the girls’ “hymen was in tact and I was unable to insert one examining finger.” The twins mention the name “Vincent Simmons” for the first time while telling Dr. Bordelon what happened on May 9, 1977.Captain Juneau and Lieutenant Laborde request a search warrant for the homes of two of Simmons’ sisters. They seek “maroon trousers, silk looking shirt with tassle like appendages” and a “brown handle pistol about six or seven inches long.“
WEDNESDAY, May 25, 1977:
(2:30 P.M.): Captain Floyd Juneau seizes a “black shirt with ruffles,” a “pair maroon jeans,” and a “pair of double knit pants (maroon in color)” at Simmons’ common law brother-in-law’s house. The investigators Floyd Juneau and Robert Laborde charge Vincent Simmons with two counts of aggravated rape and two counts of attempted murder.
FRIDAY, MAY 27, 1977:
Four days after the shooting, Vincent Simmons is released from hospital. Sheriff deputies take him back to Avoyelles Parish and put him in a one man jail cell at the Sheriff’s Department.
FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1977:
The Grand Jury of Avoyelles Parish indicts Vincent Simmons for two counts of aggravated rape and two counts of attempted murder and returns a True Bill.Coroner F. P. Bordelon formulates his findings about his medical examination of the two fourteen-year-old girls in his written reports addressed to District Attorney “Eddie” Knoll.
THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1977:
Public defender Harold Brouillette files a Motion for Preliminary Hearing. Judge Earl Edwards orders that “a preliminary hearing be held in the case of State of Louisiana vs. Vincent Simmons on the two counts of aggravated rape on the 7 day of July, 1977, at 1 o’clock P.M.” WEDNESDAY,
The United States Supreme Court rules in Coker v. Georgia that the death penalty is unconstitutional for the crime of rape.THURSDAY, JULY 7, 1977 (1 P.M.):
After the preliminary hearing, Judge Edwards schedules Simmons’ trial for July 18, 1977.
THURSDAY, JULY 14, 1977:
Assistant District Attorney Jeannette Theriot Knoll files a Motion to Amend Indictment. She requests that the indictment of two counts of aggravated rape be amended to two counts of attempted aggravated rape. Judge Edwards signs the motion behind closed doors–without a second Grand Jury hearing.
Note: now after the decision in Coker v. Georgia, aggravated rape only carried a twenty-year sentence per count upon conviction because there was no other law in the books yet. Attempted aggravated rape, however, would imprison Simmons for fifty years per count, if convicted.
MONDAY, JULY 18, 1977: jury selection
TUESDAY, JULY 19 and WEDNESDAY, JULY 20, 1977: trial. It ends with a guilty verdict.
THURSDAY, JULY 28, 1977:Judge Earl Edwards imposes a one hundred-year sentence (fifty years for each count, to run consecutive).
Case summary with documents on the Innocent in Prison Project International website at http://cases.iippi.org/vincent-alfred-simmons/
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Underwater Hockey
Safety Section
Divin’ Into Science: Light it Up
Danielle Crowley
Picture the scene. You’re 600 metres below the sea’s surface in a place known as the Twilight or Mesopelagic Zone. There is very little sunlight, it’s cold, but suddenly the water around you lights up with blue and green light! What’s going on?
This is bioluminescence, or the light produced by living things. Down in the deep sea, over 80% of all animals use bioluminescence, and as the deep is the largest habitat on Earth, this makes bioluminescence one of the most common means of communication on Earth.
How do animals make this light? There are two methods they can use. The first relies on a chemical reaction which takes place in cells known as photocytes, often housed in organs called photophores. The compound luciferin is oxidised by an enzyme called luciferase, and produces light (those of you who are/were UCD science students may remember this experiment in Biomolecular Lab Skills).
The second method uses symbiosis. Animals culture light-producing bacteria in special organs, such as the lure of an angler fish or the pouches beneath the eyes of a flashlight fish, and in return for producing light the bacteria get fed and a home.
So what’s the point? There are many uses for bioluminescence, many of which are not fully understood, and there may be many more functions that we haven’t come across yet.
My, what a pretty light you have…
The most famous use (probably down to Finding Nemo) is the use of bioluminescence to find prey. The most well-known is the deep-sea anglerfish. Females have a light-producing lure that hangs in front of their faces, and this glow draws other animals in to investigate where they are snapped up (males are tiny and parasitise females, so don’t have lures). Pacific blackdragon fish have a similar lure on their lower jaw which can be moved around to draw prey in.
Most bioluminescence is blue or green, but some creatures can produce red light. Red light is one of the first colours to disappear under water, and many deep-sea animals are coloured red as this makes them almost invisible. Emphasis on the almost, as the dragonfish and stoplight loosejaw have red searchlights that light up red animals hiding in the dark. As most animals can’t see this searchlight, the prey is unware that it’s been spotted until it’s too late.
Bioluminescence can also be used for defence. The hatchet fish lives in the Twilight Zone and has a line of photophores on its belly. When they light up, predators looking up find it very difficult to pick out the hatchet fish against the faint light from the surface. The velvet belly lanternshark also has these, as well as glowing dorsal fin spines that are believed to warn away predators. They also look like tiny lightsabers *zwoom*.
Some squid and polychaete worms use sacrificial body parts. These glowing bits can be detached as a decoy, and give the animal extra time to escape. Firefly squid are covered with shimmering lights that may help confuse predators, and they can also produce bioluminescent ink to further baffle them. Some deep-sea shrimp also do this, and if the predator gets coated in glowing ink then they themselves become more conspicuous to their predators. Life is tough kids.
It’s not all kill or be killed. Many animals use bioluminescence to communicate. The flashlight fish has shutters of skin which it can use to cover its glowing pouches. By opening and shutting them they can communicate with one another, almost like they’re using Morse code. Other animals, such as the cookiecutter shark, have species-specific patterns that they can use to signal to each other. Angler fish, crustaceans called ostracods and octopuses may use bioluminescence to signal their sex and attract mates. Sexy.
If you would like to have a question answered or see a particular topic mentioned, send me an email at science@ucdsac.ie
Stay nerdy folks
Fast Facts:
Pacific blackdragons are black (surprise surprise) but the lining of stomach is also black to prevent bioluminescent prey from shining through it and giving away the blackdragon’s position.
Phosphorescence is the name given to the bioluminescent displays given off when the animals like plankton and dinoflagellates are disturbed. This is what causes glowing seas in the tropics as well as glowing marine mammals (this is a very cool video, 10/10 would link it in an article again).
Biofluorescence is when an organism absorbs light and emits it as a different colour. We are just beginning to discover that marine animals do this too, from corals to sharks, turtles and even puffin beaks!
Towards the end of World War I a German submarine was sunk by the British because it cut through bioluminescent plankton, thus giving away its position. During World War II the Japanese military used ground up sea-fireflies to read important documents rather than use more obvious man-made light.
The short nose green-eye fish (scientists are great at naming things) has a green fluorescent pigment in its eyes, believed to help it tell the difference between bioluminescence and ocean water, and so see through bioluminescent disguises.
Bioluminescence is believed to have evolved independently at least 40 times!
Bioluminescence is a cold light and as such produces no heat.
Most bioluminescent organisms are marine, but fireflies, glowworms and fungi are terrestrial examples.
Sources and Further Reading:
8 Marine Creatures that Light Up the Sea, Discover Magazine
How the Navy Tried to Turn Bioluminescence Against the Soviets, Atlas Obscura
Bioluminescence , NOAA
Bioluminescence, Smithsonian Museum of Natural History
Ocean: The definitive visual guide, Dorling Kindersley (2014)
True Facts About the Angler Fish , Ze Frank
The Brilliance of Bioluminescence, TED Ed
The Blue Planet, Episode 2: The Deep, BBC (2001)
Edith Widder: The weird, wonderful world of bioluminescence, TED Talks
David Gruber: Glow-in-the-dark sharks and other stunning sea creatures, TED Talks
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Joe St. Pierre Knows How I Can Really Screw Up
I like to think of myself as a decent guy. But I guess everyone thinks of themselves that way.
To wit: I went out of my way to write “Joe St. Pierre Knows Why I Don’t Read Comics Anymore” to promote a comics project from Joe. And, along with that piece, I posted an image from David Lapham because I thought it was Joe’s. Why? Because it had Joe’s signature on it (he had autographed it) and that was the photo I found when I was rooting about looking for a cool image from Joe’s Valiant days.
Worse: I talked about Joe’s gorgeous Valiant work instead of telling you nice people about his Liberaider comic strip, which is, after all, where he is now.
Worse: My babbled depiction of Joe made him feel that I’d painted him as a sexist when Joe, in truth, is anything but. It wasn’t my intention. I was just goofing around about his long line of female groupies queuing up for an autograph. But what do I know about groupies? All of my readers have hairy legs.
Worse: When Joe brought all this to my attention, I got a little defensive. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean people aren’t out to get you.
And then I sat down and missed a real deadline because I had to make things right.
I’ve removed my earlier piece, now, which talked about why I can’t read comics anymore and how lovely the old comics smelled and how today’s comics don’t smell like anything and how they are printed on advertising brochure paper instead of decent pulp. I said some other things, too, that probably aren’t worth remembering. At least I can’t remember them.
And now I’ll append that I don’t do plugs anymore either because all it does is come back to bite you. If you don’t believe me, I’ll show you the scars.
But before I stop: Go read Joe St. Pierre’s Liberaider.
Clifford Meth thinks Joe St. Pierre is the cat's meow.
But he sure has a strange way of showing it.
Posted by CLIFFORD METH at 11/21/2013 05:11:00 PM No comments: Links to this post
At Last, An Alternate History of the Comics: The Truth
After a successful Kickstarter, I was hoping my book ComicBook Babylon—in the making for nearly a decade—would be here for the holidays. And I was right. Only it will be President's Day, not the festive gift-giving season. We’ll live with that. I imagine some people give gifts in February, too, even if it’s only a shovel.
ComicBook Babylon tells stories that I’ve kept to myself for many years. I’m finally comfortable imparting many of those stories now. Some of them I’m still uncomfortable with but I have a good lawyer. At least he tells me he’s a good lawyer. His name is Leo. I had a puppet named Leo once, too.
At 340 pages, ComicBook Babylon is like a multi-ring circus. You’ll find Stan Lee speaking very frankly about Jack Kirby, Alan Moore speaking very frankly about Hollywood, Frank Miller speaking very frank millerly about Marvel, and so forth. Okay, they may have occasionally spoken to others frankly, too, but my detailed stories regarding Dave Cockrum’s fight with Marvel—or, more accurately, mine and Neal Adams’s fight with Marvel on behalf of Dave Cockrum—is something you haven’t seen the whole truth about, until now. Neither have you read Bob Layton being this candid. Or Joe Kubert. Or Herb Trimpe. And what really happened to Gene Colan? And why did Harlan Ellison want to punch Jim Warren in the nose? And what happens when Barry Smith can't find his Windsor?
The book is late but it’s finally done. I was done months ago and now Michael Netzer—who illustrated exquisite portraits of his illustrious peers and designed the book—is done, too. This is a beautiful book, with covers by Dave Cockrum and Mike Pascale. I’m proud of what it says and how it says it.
Copies should be going out in late winter. If you ordered the book from the Kickstarter promotion, good for you. Aardwolf hasn’t made copies available yet on its website and won't until they are in hand. But my friends—both on Facebook and the real ones—can order my personal, “publisher copies” directly from me while supplies last. This is how I get paid, people. If you’ve enjoyed my work, please buy one.
As always, everything I do has a money-back guarantee. Imagine hospitals offering that. Talk about population control!
If you want a copy—signed, personalized, or otherwise—please send me a message or email so I can reserve one of mine and then mail me a check for $26.95 (which will cover postage). Let me know how I should sign it, if at all.
Posted by CLIFFORD METH at 11/21/2013 11:16:00 AM 5 comments: Links to this post
A Favour for Harlan
Harlan called this evening. “I need a small favor,” he said.
“Does it require a cattle prod or a midget?” I asked.
“Nothing like that.”
“Good. I had to go into hiding for seventeen months after the last small favor,” I said, “and I still haven’t picked all the burrs out of my hind quarters.”
“This one’s easy,” said H. “My book Ellison Wonderland is being brought back again by another publisher. The book first came out in 1962 but it follows me around. I’ve already written a 25,000-word foreword for the damn thing—it’s like a novella. And Straczynski did the afterword, which is an interview with me. But I got to thinking there’s something in that interview you did with me years ago—your ‘Tough questions for Tough Jews.’ Can I have that? I’d like to use it as a caesura.”
“That’s the favor?”
“You’ll keep your copyrights and I’ll get you a copy of the book.”
“Sold,” I said. “Now I’ve got one. I was cleaning out my closet and found a handful of comic books that you wrote. Can I send them to you to sign?”
“Sure,” said Harlan. “Send them. You fucking ghoul.”
Dave Cockrum: Birthday Memories
Gone seven years now, my friend Dave would have been 70 today. I think of him often--how he helped me so generously when I was just starting out as a writer. He was everything a comic artist should be. My walls are festooned with his work; my children grew up reciting his creations by heart.
Favorite memories? There are too many. I think his was the time we were driving around and I picked a fight with a van-full of Kappa Douches at an ICON convention. Mine was when he and his wife Paty attended my seven-year-old's birthday party and he drew superheroes for all the kids. And then they took them home and colored them in.
I look forward to honoring my pal's memory early next year when Aardwolf Publishing publishes Dave's final, never-before-published issue of The Futurians.
URGENT HELP NEEDED FOR INKER JIM SANDERS III
The artist Bob Almond--a friend of mine and a bigger friend to the artists in our the industry--asked me to post the following note that he received from Jim Sanders III (who inked for DC and Marvel on such books as Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Sensational She-Hulk, Silver Surfer, and DC Who's Who).
Right now my health and living situation keeps me from doing much. I went from child to child's home over the last 2 yrs; now in a cheap hotel and broke... Last November, they told me my kidney transplant had failed and I have been on kidney dialysis 3 times a week since. In February our youngest daughter, Jane, who was 21, died from a condition commonly associated with the spina bifida she had... This past weekend I was admitted to the hospital because I couldn't breathe and found out I had congestive heart failure on top of everything else. These last 12 months have been, by far, the worst year of my life.
Hero Initiative helped me thru a 7 month unemployment stretch 5 or 6 yrs ago, as well as buying us a van for Jane for her appointments, so when I went to them about a year and a half ago when everything went south, they said that they had to help new clients since their funding was low, which I totally understand. If you can help every little bit helps. My paypal is col.jimbo3rd@yahoo.com Thank you for answering me and taking the time to talk. It's frustrating when you see that someone saw your message and they don't answer back. It makes me feel like I am beneath contempt. Be well an be blessed. JIM SANDERS III
I don't know Jim personally but I don't have to to hear what he's going through.
In response, Bob has started a charity auction to benefit Jim Sanders III
On Saturday, November 9, the non-profit Inkwell Awards will hold auctions for one week to help Jim. If you have a donation to offer, please immediately contact Inkwell assistant director and auctioneer Michael W. Kellar at comicbookinker1971@yahoo.com to inform him of what you'd like to send along with a good lo-res scan of the item and full description of it (original art? published? signed? condition?) Remember to sign the item if you are the artist who worked on it and pack it securely. Mike must receive items by November 8. The Inkwell Awards will send all auction profits to Jim and will pay for the eBay fees.
Jim reported to Bob that this assistance will help him relieve his present, dire financial circumstances and allow him and his wife to move to his brother's home in another nearby state where he plans to tackle commissions and work again. Updates will be posted at the Inkwell Awards site.
Please ship all donations to Mike Kellar, Inkwell Awards, 110 Ferry Road, New London, NC 28127. Straight monetary donations can be sent directly to Jim at his Paypal account of col.jimbo3rd@yahoo.com
Happy birthday MICHAEL NETZER
Happy birthday MICHAEL! One of our industry's finest artists, in every sense of the word.
Posted by CLIFFORD METH at 10/09/2013 01:45:00 PM 1 comment: Links to this post
(Mostly) Wordless
Every once in awhile I stumble upon something. Usually they're things I want to kick to the gutter so the next guy won't stumble, too. This time, it was worth picking up and sharing.
Jed Alexander, a writer/artist of children's books that I was unfamiliar with personally and professionally, has a new Kickstarter for his book (Mostly) Wordless, A Picture Book for Everyone. It's the kind of book I would be happy to buy for my five-year-old daughter. I like to buy her books that I will also enjoy reading again and again because, let's face it, that's what happens. Moreover, I liked Mr. Alexander's presentation and Kickstarter video very much, so I jumped in as an early supporter. You might want to, too. And there's just a few days left.
I am a huge fan of the crowd-funding model. This is the type of grass roots, creative-collective bargaining that master artist Michael Netzer and many others have talked about for years. Artists and writers and musicians, and fans of artists and writers and musicians, have a unique opportunity to bring to life the types of projects that may not otherwise survive incubation because of lack of funds or political connections.
(Mostly) Wordless, A Picture Book for Everyone promises to be such a project. And it's funding is now in, so I know I didn't waste my time. It's nice to be an early supporter of something worthwhile. Go see for yourself.
Posted by CLIFFORD METH at 9/18/2013 11:09:00 AM 1 comment: Links to this post
GOOD RATS FOUNDER COMMEMORATED IN NEW PUBLICATION
NEWS FROM AARDWOLF PUBLISHING
PEPPI MARCHELLO FANS CELEBRATE UNRELEASED SONGS
Peppi Marchello, the founder of Long Island’s popular Good Rats, is being commemorated in a special book that has rallied die-hard fans. PEPPI MARCHELLO: SONG WRITER will collect not only Marchello’s never-before-published lyrics from such popular LP’s as “Tasty,” but also dozens of songs that were never recorded due to the singer/songwriter’s untimely death on June 10. Marchello’s widow has also shared rare and intimate family photos to be included in the book.
“Peppi’s fans were always legion, always enthusiastic and receptive to anything he was working on,” says author Clifford Meth, a long-time friend of Marchello, who organized the project. “I was certain the announcement of this book would hit home. Good Rats fans are eager to participate in this exceptional project and to spread the word. Ultimately, the book will benefit Peppi’s widow and allow for the release of many songs that Peppi was working on before he died.”
PEPPI MARCHELLO: SONG WRITER was launched as a Kickstarter project on September 2. Within two days, the project had passed its financial goal, and less than a week later, its funding doubled.
“As fans hear about the project, they want to participate,” says Meth. “The Kickstarter platform not only allows fans to pre-order the book, but also to be a sponsor, or even participate at a higher level. Both the book and its marketing success are things that Peppi would have been proud of—and as his fan and friend, I am proud to help bring this to life.”
Copies of PEPPI MARCHELLO: SONG WRITER can be ordered from Aardwolf Publishing. Fans who would like to participate in the Kickstarter for the project can click here. A promotional video is found here.
Lost Dachshund in White Meadow Lake (Rockaway, NJ)
Update 9/2: The little dog returned. Thanks to everyone who Tweeted or helped in any way!
My neighbor's small brown Dachshund is missing since midnight tonight. It is still on a red leash. If found, please call the Rockaway Twp. Police Dept. immediately. The dog is frightened and skittish but does not bite.
Posted by CLIFFORD METH at 9/01/2013 01:49:00 AM 2 comments: Links to this post
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Peppi Marchello in Photos
Have a good Peppi pic? A rare recording or video? Please share. I miss my pal.
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Peppi Marchello Memorial Services
Peppi's funeral services will be at St. James Funeral Home South Chapel, 829 Middle Country Rd. /Rte. 25/ Jericho Turnpike, St. James., NY, Saturday 7/13 and Sunday 7/14 from 2-4 and 7-9.
Mass will be held Monday 7/15 at 11 am at Saints Philip and James Church.
All family, friends and fans are encouraged to attend.
LONG ISLAND ROCK & ROLL HALL OF FAMER PEPPI MARCHELLO PASSES
written at the behest of the family:
LONG ISLAND ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAMER PEPPI MARCHELLO PASSES
Peppi Marchello, founder and front man of the Long Island-based rock band The Good Rats, died last night at approximately 9:00 pm of an apparent cardiac arrest. Marchello was 68.
Marchello formed the Good Rats with brother Mickey in 1964. The band released its debut LP five years later on Warner Bros. In 1974, they released their best-known and most popular album Tasty.
The Good Rats reached their zenith in the late 1970’s, building a cult-like following that stretched from Long Island’s thriving club scene to hotspots across the Tri-State area, performing at such venues such as Madison Square Garden, The Nassau Coliseum and England’s Hammersmith Odeon. Rock critics regarded the Rats as one of the top live shows, where Peppi played air guitar on a Louisville slugger, threw rubber rats at the audience and doused fans with beer.
By the mid-1990s, Marchello’s son Gene had replaced both guitarists and three new studio CDs were released with this lineup: Tasty Seconds (1996), Let's Have Another Beer (2000) and Play Dum (2002). Fans considered the new music some of Peppi’s best writing. The Good Rats were inducted into the Long Island Music Hall of Fame in 2008 and were referred to by Rolling Stone Magazine as “the world’s greatest unknown rock band.”
“Peppi’s life was about his family and his music,” said Clifford Meth, Marchello publicist and family friend. “His love for songwriting and performing never diminished and he continued playing as many as 100 times each year until the very end. He was adored by his legion of fans who regarded Peppi himself as an event they wanted to be part of. He will be dearly missed.”
“The phone doesn’t stop ringing—fans and musicians from all over the world calling to say that my dad was their biggest influence and inspiration,” said daughter Kristin.
Information regarding services will be announced soon.
Press Contact: cliffmeth@aol.com
Peppi Marchello: RIP my dear friend
I am deeply saddened to report that Peppi Marchello died last night from an apparent heart attack. Peppi--the founder and frontman of the Good Rats--was a brilliant songwriter and deeply devoted family man. I am shocked by this news, which I just received from Peppi's daughter in law, and can't say more at this time beyond this is a great loss to many of us. RIP my dear, dear friend.
The Marchello family asked me to release this statement.
INDIE READER on METH
INDIE READER requested an interview with me regarding the new book. Here's how it went:
INDIE: Tell us about your independent project.
Meth: ComicBook Babylon weaves together a decade of my columns on the comics industry, which were initially launched to aid X-Men co-creator Dave Cockrum, who was dying from complications from diabetes. Dave never received a dime of royalties from Marvel and as the column was being published, we were fighting behind the scenes to get Dave a settlement.
INDIE: How have you been able to fund your project?
Meth: Other comics industry professionals have been happy to support my work. They regarded my fights for creators’ rights as important.
INDIE: What are your plans for the future?
Meth: A hamburger and fries when I get home. Maybe a movie.
INDIE: When will your project be released?
Meth: August, 2013
INDIE: What is your method of writing/creating and how do you come up with your content?
Meth: Truth sells. Sex sells, too, but I’m getting too old for that, so I rely on the truth. And short sentences.
My Pal Harlan
As announced earlier, a number of comics pros, authors & rockstar pals are interviewing lil old me as a sort of turnabout-is-fair-play thing to promote my new book ComicBook Babylon. Most significant of these is now the inclusion of the one man who history will hold up to prove that giants once walked the earth, Harlan Ellison.
Cliff: If by some unfathomable miracle you could come into sole possession of only one "book" from the long-lost, oft-torched Great Library of Alexandria, what book, papyrus, scroll, codex or glyph would that be? What would you conjure to be its content, and authored by whom?
With love, your eternal pal, Harlan
Countdown to ComicBook Babylon
There's eight days left to participate in my project ComicBook Babylon, which has been a long time coming. Introduction by Stan Lee, art by Michael Netzer, rants by Meth.
I have an all-star cast throwing support to this book including Jimmy Palmiotti, Don McGregor, Dan Jurgens, Bob Layton, Adam Troy Castro, David Lloyd and David Gerrold, to say nothing of participation from punk-rock legend Andy Shernoff and rock maestro Peppi Marchello.
If you haven't done so already, please watch this two-minute video.
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When Creators’ Feelings Explode:
A ponderous consideration of Dynamite and its detractors.
Some two decades ago, a small company in New Jersey began contracting with comic artists and writers to autograph their comics for repackaging and distribution through Diamond, Capital City, Heroes World and Friendly Franks. The creators got a few bucks, fans with no access to convention signings could purchase autographed comics, and everyone was happy.
I am not speaking of Dynamic Forces, which took a heavy stake in this business space during the ‘90s, but of Clobbering Time in Union, New Jersey. I was one of Clobbering Times’ two proprietors. We also had several stores. Then Superman died and Ebay was born. It was the best of times. It was the worst of times.
It wasn’t long before I took an interest in publishing. It made sense. I had a good Rolodex of writers and artists, a solid relationship with major distributors, and often found myself seeking a more immediate outlet for my own material. Besides, how hard could it be to publish comics?
Well, it’s harder than it looks. There are deadlines to meet, budgets to balance, and that nasty bugaboo returns. Nowhere in any industry of my acquaintance is it more evident that the devil is indeed in the details. The most innocent of gestures (or bone-headed of oversights) can be amplified exponentially by the type of people you’d expect to find in an oversized mom-and-pop industry.
For its part, my fledgling Aardwolf Publishing made one stunning faux pas with our earliest project. We took a cover we had commissioned and paid for and then re-used it on a book’s sequel without first seeking the cover artist’s permission. It wasn’t a business decision intended to cheat anyone but the burden of communication certainly fell upon us and we dropped that ball hard. It burnt a relationship with a creator that I respected and taught me at least one valuable lesson: The value of good communications.
Dynamite Entertainment was another New Jersey-based publishing house that, like Aardwolf, sprung (or crawled) out of the parasitic repackaging business. I never thought of it that way until Mike Kelley, at Stan Lee’s POW Entertainment, recently told me he considered the burgeoning CGC a leech on the industry. It’s not necessarily meant as a derogatory statement. Parasites, like gut worms, are a legitimate part of the food chain, albeit a disgusting part.
While I am loathe to source the ever-changing digital-graffiti repository Wikipedia, that site’s current description of Dynamite Entertainment (henceforth Dynamite) is significant only insofar as it was clearly keyed in by a company employee. Thus: “Dynamite Entertainment is a comic book publisher founded by Nick Barrucci in 2005, first producing two Army of Darkness limited series published through Devil's Due Publishing until self-publishing their titles later that year. The first two years saw them adding only a handful of titles like Red Sonja and Xena. After devoting itself to publishing only Army of Darkness, Dynamite came back one year later with Red Sonja, debuting with a 25-cent issue #0. It sold 240,000 copies and #1, the first to sell at a full cover price of $2.99, sold 100,000 in initial orders which cemented Dynamite's position as a force in the American comic book industry. Now Dynamite publishes a current slate of 14-20 comic books and 2-10 collections per month.”
I’ve had no personal experiences with Dynamite and, until this article, only chance few occasions to meet or speak with its founder/president Nick Barrucci.
I first saw Nick at Will Eisner’s memorial service in New York City where I watched him volunteer to address the assembled who’s who of still-living comics icons gathered there to pay respects. Since then, Nick and I have met several times at various industry functions; we briefly discussed potential business when I was at IDT Entertainment five years ago, and, more recently, the possibility of reprinting Dave Cockrum’s Futurians. None of these talks went anywhere; neither of us pursued them. No harm, no foul.
All of this is to say that I have no axe to grind with Nick Barrucci, no bad history, and, given our background, even some common ground.
So where is the bad guy?
DON McGREGOR: RUBBED RAW, DOESN'T HIDE
On June 2, I became aware of a situation broiling between Barrucci and the writer Don McGregor when Don forwarded a piece that Michael Netzer had written.
In the interest of full disclosure, allow me to note that I am friends with Netzer and have collaborated with him on numerous occasions. I am also very fond of Don McGregor and overly protective of him as I find him to appear in a weakened state. Both he and his wife have been ill for as long as I’ve known them. Further, work has been scarce for the 67-year-old creator. From our first encounter in Gene Colan’s living room years ago, this warm and extremely emotional man has expressed one need very clearly: He wants his work taken seriously. Consequently, like others who haven’t had a hit record for some time, Don clings to his former successes. And rightly so—his were formidable. His work with Colan on Ragamuffins was splendid. His Black Panther run on Jungle Action is among the finest series of the Bronze Age. There are many other robust examples. But fate is a fickle editor and even the cruelest plots have nothing on real life, so Don spends more time in Lenox Hill Hospital these days than he does in front of a typewriter.
By the time I began to investigate the Barrucci-McGregor melee, it seemed to be over. A venerable tempest in a teapot, it began with an announcement that Dynamite had licensed Lady Rawhide, a property initially published by Topps Comics in 1995. The project had been announced weeks earlier by Dynamite along with a startling cover image that brought my ironic connection to this tale full circle. But more on that later.
While Lady Rawhide had been created by McGregor and artist Mike Mayhew, the announcement from Dynamite lacked mention of McGregor. Learning of this for the first time from a Facebook friend, McGregor expressed his distress at what he considered a glaring omission:
"First I'm reading about it. I created Lady Rawhide, and wrote every Topps comic featuring her. Zorro Productions has a contract with me that I get a percentage of anything done with characters I created. Are Zorro Productions and Dynamite now screwing creators?"
In little time, both Heidi McDonald at The Beat and Rich Johnston at Bleeding Cool gave the story attention, and both solicited a response from Barrucci:
“I’m running around the city in meetings,” Barrucci wrote. “Funny coincidence – Last night I had a meeting with two comics creators, and the interesting thing about when they talk about royalties. They get them after the book ships and after the end of the reporting period. You know, the way the world works. They don’t seem to get paid based on an announcement. Now, a book gets announced and Don is already being screwed out of any financial compensation that he has an agreement on? I doubt it. I’ve worked with the Zorro Property Owners for 4 years, and they always honor not only their contracts, but their word. I’m not speaking for them, but saying what in my experience and what I can comfortably say for the experience that I’ve had with Matt Wagner and others. Don talks about “honest failure” to the audience. I guess it’s ok if he lets them down. I have a lot of respect for Don. But this was unfair to Zorro Properties to go out there and make these claims without asking anyone what the release schedule was, the book ships, etc. It would have been nice if Don would have been professional and asked honest questions before making wild assertions. And then complain if he’s not happy. Which he is happy to do. Don – feel free to drop me a line directly to answer any questions –nick.barrucci@dynamite.com”
Forum discussions at Bleeding Cool and comments at The Beat displayed a divided response. No one used the word cheated and the matter would have likely simmered out quickly had someone not blazed a more profound tangent.
MIKE NETZER SPEAKS SOFTLY AND CARRIES A BIG STICK
Michael Netzer’s response to the situation, which arrived on June 2 in the form of both an article and an illustration, is best taken in its historical context.
Netzer, age 57, first emerged on the comics’ scene as Mike Nassar and came under the tutelage of comics pioneer Neal Adams. When I say pioneer, I refer less to Adams’ industry-changing art than his vocal and widely covered fight for creators’ rights—both the return of original artwork to artists and, more importantly to comics’ fans, his historic battle on behalf of Superman creators Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster. Eventually securing work at both DC and Marvel, Michael’s nascent years were spent witnessing how a previous generation had been largely robbed and mistreated by publishers whose bottom lines excluded any regard for those comics’ creators who’d birthed and popularized the intellectual properties these publishers now milked. Disgusted with what he’d experienced and desirous of pursuing other callings, Netzer left comics. When he returned 15 years later, it was to Dynamite.
“I have mixed feelings about my experience with [Nick],” Netzer wrote to me when asked for a statement for this article. “Our communications were cordial but not warm. My first comics’ job in 15 years, those b/w Green Hornet covers, he asked me to do them in some other artist's style that he obviously didn't want to pay for. Then he published the covers in a flamboyant press release. All four cover variations in an art showcase, and not the slightest mention of the artist. What a way to make a comeback. I kept quiet about it out of respect for him. Now I see it's a way of life. He only gives a shit about creators he caters to and needs for more work. Everything else seems expendable to him.”
There’s no need to interpret Netzer’s statement. His pain bubbles to the surface. He doesn’t accuse Barrucci of lying to him or cheating him in any way—but of treating him expendably. Given that context, coupled with the history of BIG comics publishers treading on comparatively small creators that haunts Netzer’s generation (to say nothing of those who witnessed the recent dismantling of Ghost Rider creator Gary Friedrich), Netzer’s response to Barrucci was not unpredictable. That Netzer allowed his reaction to sit for so long until another, older creator was similarly slighted should not surprise anyone either. Netzer’s basic nature is balance, not battle. He’s an artist first and foremost.
Nevertheless, a heated discussion arose with multiple battlefronts, from the forums and comments of the aforementioned articles to various threads on Facebook. At one juncture, Netzer declared, “This is a war.” Tongue in cheek? Perhaps. But the gauntlet was thrown.
COMICS BULLETIN FIRES A SHOT
On June 5, I was asked by Jason Sacks, owner/editor of the ComicsBulletin website, to look over an article he was preparing on the subject. I was approached, I suspect, for various reasons. For one, Jason is currently engaged as the digital coordinator for a project of mine at Aardwolf. More importantly, Jason edited my “Past Masters” columns a decade ago for ComicsBulletin. That column, in which I detailed the injustices suffered by X-Men co-creator Dave Cockrum, was part of a strategy to get Cockrum attention with an eye towards an eventual settlement with Marvel.
Awash in my own workload, I read Jason’s article quickly and made some small editorial suggestions for the opening graphs that had less to do with content than style. The next day, Jason’s article “The Woman with a Whip: Why Lady Rawhide Matters” appeared. And in referencing it on his own Facebook, Jason mentioned me: “It's great that so much attention is paid to creators' rights these days. But the price of creators' rights is that we need to be eternally vigilant about those rights. Last week's incidents around Don McGregor show why that is so important, as Michael Netzer and Clifford Meth often remind us.”
It would become a heated, back-and-forth exchange. Barrucci was the first to respond to Jason’s post: “Yes, creators need to be vigilant about their rights. But a direct phone call or e-mail to ask the person that they need to talk with is better than the lynch mob which you claim did not happen. There was a lynch mob. And guess what, I'm not chiming in for me. I'm now posting now because every publisher has to be concerned with any internet "mob" that wants to rile up and attack anyone.”
Barrucci’s post was actually three-times longer than what I’ve quoted. I read the lengthy, overwritten billet-doux and, against my better judgment, chimed in:
“Other than that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?”
It was just my little toe in the water. But now, like it or not, I was fully engaged. Nick’s replies were instant. A précis of our public June 6th conversation follows:
Barrucci: Cliff - really? the play actually sucked
Meth: Just trying to lighten the air, Nick. Didn't I read on Michael Netzer’s blog that everyone lived happily ever after?
Barrucci: We were supposed to. But then some more people assuming and throwing stones showed up just as we were finishing kissing and making up.
Meth: (Old Arabic saying: All the arbitrator gets is torn clothes)
Barrucci: is that why there aren't any arbitrator's in comics?
Meth: Just Gary Groth.
Barrucci: Cliff - you're publishing, and you've worked with a lot of creators. Do you think that all publishers are out to screw creators? Do we not get the same chance to talk to people that you would expect us to give creators?
Meth: I don't think that for one second.
Barrucci: oh, shit, watch it. you said some bad internet words - you just said that not all publishers are evil (this is kidding - no context).
Meth: The Jack Kirby crucifixion, to say nothing of those poor old guys who created Superman, has created a fairly strong gut reaction in those of us who care about history/comics/people. And every case is individual. And there are LOTS of publishers.
Barrucci: Basically, and not saying you, but everyone said creators have been treated like shit for years, now let's have karma and treat publishers like shit.
Meth: I think it's a fair assessment that creators in comics have mistakenly NOT been part of a unionized effort that would allow for collective bargaining. The Writers Guild protects Hollywood writers. SFWA protects SF writers. Comics writers/artists are at the mercy of BIG publishers with BIG legal teams; and they are naive when they are young and desperate when they are older. There have been some terrible injustices. But that is not a reflection on every individual publishing house. It's just an equation that makes it clear, to me at least, that writers and artists need to better organize. What just happened with you and Don can easily be chalked up to a miscommunication where many people jumped in (because of their love for Don, hatred of injustice, or memories of little guys getting run over by BIGGER guys). I happen to like Don very, very much. I might even have his baby. But my real interest in this was how Michael Netzer grabbed it (for right or wrong, depending on your vantage point) and was able to create a small riot. THAT, Nick, is fascinating.
And that’s where I was willing to leave it.
It wasn’t long before Sacks and Netzer had joined the conversation. I lurked for a bit but it grew late so I signed off with the following, which would become my own Facebook status for a day: “I wouldn't worry about a guild rising up in the comics world anytime soon. People here are too childish. They still read comics.”
GIVE WAR A CHANCE
It seemed that McGregor had worked out his issues with Barucci. The bigger problem for Barrucci, near as I could tell, was the quantity, if not the quality, of his own responses, which, when taken together and measured by the word, likely outweighed all those of his many detractors and defenders combined.
Netzer responded directly to me: “After we settled everything about Don McGregor, he [Barrucci] started flipping out all over the internet trying to silence anyone talking about him with personal attacks, disingenuous self-accolades, pathetic attempts to pit creators against each other, evading issues and calling on favors he must have done for people to continue a fight that nobody else but him was fighting anymore. I don't think it's dishonest, just extremely immature and disrespectful, like his first response to Don that started all this. I can imagine what a shitty feeling it must be for artists and writers who have to work with him, or fall between the cracks because he doesn't need them anymore.”
On his own website, Netzer added: “Barrucci’s cynical ploy to turn the tables on the creator whose work he intends to exploit, entirely disregarded the fact that Don made no mention of payments, only the basic professional courtesy failings of keeping the creator out of the loop and not even mentioning his name in the promotional material. As has been the case in such internet discussions, which I’ve commented on at Tom Spurgeon’s Comics Reporter, the talk quickly lost focus, giving way into bickering over the legal responsibility of the publisher. I’ve joined a few good members at both venues, trying not to lose track of the unprofessional and disingenuous way that Nick Barrucci responded – and the effective attempt to insult Don McGregor, most likely to cover up for his own failing in how the affair has been handled… Don McGregor is owed a sincere apology from Nick Barrucci for his distasteful and abusive response to Don’s justified grievance.”
In sum, it wasn’t about what Barrucci did or didn’t initially do to McGregor—it was about the way he did it. Or didn’t do it. Or refused to own up to it. And the deep hole he refused to stop digging.
SEEKING BALANCE: BARRUCCI’S ARMY ARRIVES TO DISPELL THE DARKNESS
On June 9, I used Facebook, Twitter and good old word-of-mouth to put out a call to creators, asking them to contact me privately regarding their experiences with Dynamite Entertainment and Dynamic Forces. I gave all involved parties a heads up. My stated goal was "a balanced article."
The first objection came from Barrucci. A précis of our email exchange follows:
Barrucci: My quick request is to ask that you just have your facebook post say Dynamite [and not Dynamic Forces]. The two divisions do two different things and so far, everything has been about Dynamite.
Meth: The two might be different divisions, but they both work with comics’ creators. At this point, I am simply shaking the trees.
Barrucci: Sure, I do see that, but at the same time, one handles publishing and things with creators and one is about signing books with creators. Other collectibles, but you're looking for the comics’ part. Is it too much to ask?
It was too much to ask, so I didn’t reply. I wasn’t going to argue with anyone about what they believed was relevant to my research. Indeed, Barrucci’s request struck me as oddly self-damning.
Barrucci’s next email to me regarded Mark Ellis, an author he had attempted to do business with. The two, apparently, had left the non-deal disliking each other more than a little. I had no interest in this preemptive attack and won’t quote from it, nor did I attempt to contact Ellis. The two had not done business. They had merely pissed on each other’s shoes.
Over the next 24 hours I received messages and emails from various comics’ creators who wanted to give me their perceptions of Dynamite/Barrucci. My first question to all of them was the same: “Did Nick send you?”
Yes, they said, Nick had sent them.
The following is an excerpt of their offerings:
Dennis Calero: Nick has been one of the most professional, fair and even handed publishers I ever worked with. I don't know what this individual situation is about, but if Nick says it was a misunderstanding, I would at least initially take him at his word.
Jai Nitz: I've written quite a bit for Dynamite in the last few years… All told, over 50 issues of comics. I'd be happy to go on the record about working at Dynamite.
Ken Haeser: I've never had any real problems with them the few years I've known them. They have always been upfront with everything and as far as I know, never tried to screw me.
Colton Worley: Been with them since 2009 and haven't had any problems with them.
Heubert Khan Michael: I have been under exclusive contract with DE since March, 2011. From the very beginning—from my asking for a higher rate than initially offered to my "demand" that I be given regular work since I am the family's breadwinner—Nick was all instant "yes", no dead air or hesitation to give what I asked for over our overseas phone conversation. Minutes after hanging up he emailed the contract—with all my requested provisions stated in black and white. Two years and Nick's yet to break that agreement, and I've already lost count the times he's went out of his way to help me when I was in need. Nick's also very supportive of my growth as an artist. He'd send me emails directly but tactfully telling me things I should improve on every now and then. He would also look out for me whenever I attend conventions in the US, and see to it that we get to chat about projects, my work, and ask about what else I would want to stay happy at DE. I don't think a newcomer like me can be any happier being given a flagship title on a regular basis, and I thank Nick for having that much faith in me.
Arvid Nelson: I guess there's some kind of kerfuffle going on, and Nick Barrucci emailed me asking me to PM you about my experience working for him. I can't speak to whatever's going on (of course!) but Nick's always treated me very well. Prompt payment, consistently upfront about what's going on. I have nothing but warm, fuzzy feeling for him.
Ande Parks: Not everything has always been perfect. Nick and I have had a few misunderstandings and/or miscommunications. These have been handled directly, on both sides of the equation. If I'm upset, I talk to Nick about it. If he agrees that he screwed up, he apologizes and we find a way to fix it that pleases both parties. If I screw up or fail to deliver, we handle it the same way. I've always felt that I can call Nick and hash things out. I think he feels the same… Nick is honest and straight-forward. He will tell you he's got to watch his bottom line to keep his company going. He'll tell you what he can afford to pay. He'll tell you if a book is selling well. He'll tell you if it's doing poorly. He'll tell you what he wants and listen if your needs don't coincide with his. Of course, I say all this as someone who is still getting paid by Dynamite on a monthly basis (as an aside, their voucher-processing and check-cutting system is as smooth as any I've ever dealt with). If I no longer worked for Dynamite as of tomorrow, I would offer the same assessment, but people will have to take my word on that. I understand that some may think I'm biased or wanting to court favor. My answer would be that my integrity is not for sale.
Tom Sniegoski [who responded to my asking if Barrucci had sent him with, “I just decided to put my two cents in”]: I've known Nick Barrucci for over 20 years, and have worked with him and his company on various things… and I've never had any problems. Sure, Nick might be a little bit difficult to get in touch with here and there, but I've never been given the impression that he was trying to screw me over in any way. Basically I think Nick is a good guy, that really does love the comic book art form, and I'm glad he's in business.
There were two other comics’ creators I spoke with. I reached out to Gail Simone, who has an excellent reputation for, among other things, being outspoken. Gail replied, via Twitter for all to see, “I am working for them right now, I am re-launching Red Sonja, lovely bunch. I have nothing but positive things to say!”
I also had a very pleasant conversation with Mark Waid who reached out to me and who, in sum, had only nice things to say about “Nicky” and was saddened to see this episode engulf so many people. “Anyone can have a shitty day,” said Mark.
BIAS? BY US?
I estimate that in 10 days, Nick Barrucci wrote more words in response to this subject than I have written about anything in a month or perhaps two months. And I’m a writer. That’s how I make my living.
I don’t call attention to the volume of Barrucci’s voluminous responses to belittle him. I state it as fact and as part of my theory: Nick Barrucci has, in this instance, become the victim of protesting too much. As in the lady doth.
Further, many of Barrucci’s protestations were less than polished. I have not included any [sic] inserts, as William F. Buckley most assuredly would have—I’ve just quoted and reprinted Barrucci’s responses as they came in and left the grammar, or lack thereof, intact. Another observation: In a public internet graffiti arena with writers and would-be writers, lack of net-eloquence is tantamount to picking a fight with a gorilla.
And then there’s the paranoia:
“Cliff,” Nick emailed at past-midnight last night, in perhaps his tenth email to me in just three hours, “You should ask Joe Rubinstein how Michael [Netzer] really needed work years ago and contacted me and we worked out a promotion for Mike to draw 4 covers and created an annual for him to draw to help him. But Michael does not like that to be mentioned. I mention it because Michael was one of the ones who hit me hardest. The only thing that I can think of that happened was I helped Michael, and it wasn't enough. I know your close with Michael, so I should actually be careful with my words, but the whole situation was unfair and my name is f'ed on this situation forever.”
I took umbrage with that last part—the bit about being close with Netzer and therefore someone Barrucci had to be careful with. I said as much in my response:
“Yes, I'm friends with Mike Netzer,” I wrote, “but I am not writing an editorial… This is a bigger piece than you and Don and Michael.”
But what I wrote wasn’t true, although I meant it when I wrote it. This piece would certainly be editorialized. It's gonzo journalism. Only obituaries are free of bias. And even that’s arguable.
So I asked myself: Can I write an honest story that includes Michael Netzer? I believed so. I thought I could look past the many times I’d turned to Michael during a moment of personal turmoil seeking his usually unusual gift of calm. I was fairly certain I could put aside memories of the times Michael and I worked together, the gifts we’d exchanged, the beautiful pieces of Netzer art hanging in my children’s bedrooms… But not of my tendency to see Michael as vulnerable. As a brave man, sure, but one who is older than I and physically frail; an artist of meager means who supports a large family and lives in a besieged community; a man who often appears to struggle (as compared with, well, this suburban New Jersey-based writer).
Unbiased? Maybe not.
It was nearly 1 a.m. Nick Barrucci and Michael Netzer were still on Facebook trading insults in a thread that had gone on for days. And every fifteen minutes I got another email from Barrucci, each one more desperate than the last. “It’s been 10 days of these attacks,” he wrote, defending himself more than any innocent man should have to, talking about “haters” and injustice and leveling “how would you like it?” sentences at me that were filled with misspellings.
“Go to bed” I told him.
UNDER THE COVERS
I suffered from lack of sleep. There’s worse things, sure, but it’s hard to think of them when you’re exhausted. I was considering how easily all of this might have been avoided, and how much time I’d already spent on this matter, and how utterly dumb that was when I had deadlines and paying work in front of me.
There was a new note on Twitter regarding L’affaire Barrucci. “They've always been straight shooters with me,” said artist Phillip Hester.
The preceding incidents, this 5,000-word arbitration, and the torn clothes that will follow cost me at least ten waking hours. I can only imagine the toll on Don McGregor, who needs that time for his wife who is hospitalized, or on Michael Netzer, who needs time to work and feed his family, or on Nick Barrucci, who is tasked with running a company.
I stared at the cover of the advertised Dynamite Lady Rawhide by artist Joseph Michael Linsner—a sexy, voluptuous drawing of a well-endowed cowgirl staring back. And I recalled, sadly, how despite our once budding friendship, Joe Linsner hadn’t spoken to me in nearly two decades because of my own little company’s foolish failure to contact him and ask for permission to use his cover a second time.
So where’s the bad guy? I looked in the mirror.
Accidents happen and can be mitigated with a few words. If they’re the right words. If you have the right words. Or so one would hope.
In the meantime, what we’ve got here is a failure to communicate.
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Home News Former councillor appeals JB decision to invalidate CEO’s appointment
Former councillor appeals JB decision to invalidate CEO’s appointment
by The Concordian November 15, 2011
Former Concordia Student Union councillor Tomer Shavit has filed an appeal with the judicial board after it ruled to invalidate the appointment of chief electoral officer Bram Goldstein.
In the 3,800 word, 16-page document, filed on the appeal deadline of Nov. 11, Shavit calls for the JB to reconsider their decision on the basis of 10 arguments. Shavit elaborated on the arguments in the first section of the appeal. He criticized JB chair Cassie Smith for her decision to use the ‘‘fast-track procedure’’ to handle the decision. He also pointed to what he sees as a lack of understanding of the appointments process and lack of impartiality at the hearing on Nov.1.
Shavit wrote that he felt JB member Ceejay Desfosses acted towards him in a hostile manner at the hearing. He also alleged that there was evidence submitted that was not available to him prior to the hearing.
At the hearing, Shavit represented last year’s CSU council, which was responsible for hiring Goldstein in May. The former councillor asked that the judicial board re-evaluate its decision and re-appoint Bram Goldstein. He also requested the board consider having a new hearing, stress impartiality to its members, and for Desfosses to recuse herself from further proceedings on this dossier.
The written JB report stated that “the resolution that appointed [Goldstein] was invalidated on the basis that the appointments process was not conducted properly.”
Meanwhile, Smith sent her letter of resignation to council on Thursday. Smith wrote that poor health and being behind in her schoolwork were factors in her decision to resign, adding that she was unwilling to ‘‘sacrifice [her] full commitment to the position.’’ She also noted her illness is ‘‘exacerbated by stress,’’ and that it was not worth it for her to remain involved in the process, which she called a ‘‘toxic environment.’’
Smith recommended Desfosses step in as chairperson.
In a special council meeting held the day after the hearing, council appointed Ismail Holoubi as the new CEO after reviewing 10 candidates in closed session.
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Campus Events 2011
Department of Architecture, SAP Campus, Anna University
Inaugural session at 11 a.m.
Inaugural address by Dr. P. Mannar Jawahar, Vice chancellor, Anna University, Chennai.
Keynote address by S. Muthiah, historian
Technical session
1.30 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Chettiar Heritage in George Town, Chennai – Dr. Ranee Vedamuthu
Architectural styles of Madras – From the colonial to the post modern – Dr. K.R. Sitalakshmi
Impact of Globalisation on the architecture of Chennai – Dr. Suresh Kuppuswamy
At 3.15 p.m. Panel discussion Architecture of Chennai – Where is it heading?
Contact Dr. Suresh Kuppuswamy, Prof. & Head, Department of Architecture, SAP Campus, Anna University, Chennai. Phone: 044-22359303
Asan Memorial College of Arts and Science, Pallikaranai
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Heritage site visit – 1000 year old temple at Madambakkam( Dhenupuriswarar Temple)
From – Asan College 9.00 a.m
Photo Exhibition– Glimpses of Chennai and pictures of the Heritage site visit put up by the Viscom Dept. of Asan College Campus
Open to public. From 9.30 a.m – 4. p.m
Nalabagam- Traditional Chennai Cuisine -Preparation and Sale, organised by the Hotel Management Dept, Asan College. Contact : Mr. Milton – 9884143887 for details.
Quiz and Oratorical competitions to school children, organised by the Literary Club, Asan College
On Aug. 24, 2011. From 10 a.m. to 12 noon.
To register for the contests contact Dr. Raja at drabelraja@gmail.com. Cell:9380077257
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At 6 p.m.: ‘Madras: Its past and its present’, a presentation by S. Muthiah.
Organised by the Public Relations Society of India, Chennai Chapter.
Jaigopal Garodia School, Anna Nagar
At 4 p.m. : Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan presents ‘Ancient Light: Madras through the eyes of a photowalker’.
Padma Seshadri School, KK Nagar
Inter-school quiz for students of class 6, 7 and 8. At 10.30 a.m. At Silver Jubilee Hal
Open for students of schools in Central Cluster of CBSE.
Kolam contest for students of class 10. At 10 a.m. At Silver Jubilee Hal
Inter-school oratorical contest. Topic – Why I like Madras
At 10 a.m. At Silver Jubilee Hal
At 2 p.m. Inauguration of ‘Through the artists’ eye’, and exhibition organised by D.H. Rao, of coins, paintings, pen-and-ink drawings by Manohar Devadoss, and memorabilia relating to Madras; speakers: S. Muthiah, Nalli Kuppuswamy, Mrs Y.G. Parthasarathy. Also, a competition for children, ‘Why I like it’, based on an essays, paintings and photographs of Madras.
August 23 and 24, 2011
Exhibition organised by D.H. Rao, of coins, paintings, pen-and-ink drawings by Manohar Devadoss, and memorabilia relating to Madras; open from 9.30 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Asan Memorial School, Egmore
At 10 a.m. Inauguration of ‘Our heritage in brick and mortar’ exhibition with models and charts conducted by the Social Science Department and the Heritage Club; speakers: the Nawab of Arcot, Kumararani Meena Muthiah, Gopika Varma.
Inter-school heritage quiz, ‘Heritage buildings of Madras’; preliminary rounds at 9.30 a.m.; finals at 11am. ‘Our heritage in brick and mortar’ exhibition remains open.
‘Our heritage in brick and mortar’ exhibition remains open; valedictory at 2 p.m.; speaker: Shreekumar Varma.
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South Cambridgeshire RD
Local Government District
South Cambridgeshire RD — Current theme: Population
These simple graphs compare South Cambridgeshire with national trends:
Percentage aged under 15
Percentage aged 15-64
Percentage Aged over 65
Rate of Population Change (% over previous 10 years)
Population Density (Persons per Acre)
We let you look at total population in two ways.
Firstly, population density: which areas had the most people? Density is calculated as the number of people per hectare, and we have measured areas from a modern digital map of the local authorities rather than relying on the doubtful acreages given in historical reports. Secondly, growth rates: where was population rising fastest, or declining? We also look at the ratio of men to women.
This theme also covers people's ages. From 1851 onwards, the census has provided very detailed statistics of age structure, giving numbers of males and of females in each 5-year age band. However, we simplify this here to three broad age groups: Children (0-14), Working Age (15-64) and the Elderly (over 65).
Over the last 150 years, our population has clearly aged. However, mortality decline in the late 19th century was mainly due to the reduction of very high infant mortality rates: the presence or absence of large number of infants dying before their first birthday had little effect on overall age structures. During the twentieth century, declining fertility and improved life expectancy in later life significantly changed age structures.
We hold these detailed statistics for South Cambridgeshire, which we graph and tabulate here:
Available datasets
Period covered
(number of categories)
Age and Sex Structure data in 5-year bands to age 95 1951 to 1961 Sex (2)
Age in five-year bands to age 95 (20)
Age and Sex Structure in approximate 10 year bands 1939 Sex (2)
Age in mainly 10-year bands to age 65 (9)
Age and Sex Structure to age 85 and up 1951 to 1961 Sex (2)
Area (acres) 1951 to 1961 Area (acres) (1)
Males and Females 1939 to 1961 Sex (2)
Population Change 1951 to 1961 Population Change (2)
Total Population 1939 to 1961 Total Population (4)
Read more about how we hold statistics here.
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Geelani pays tributes to Maqbool Bhat, Afzal Guru on their death anniversaries
February 8, 2019 | Filed under: State Scan,Today in News | Posted by: VoV Web Desk
Srinagar;Chairman Hurriyat (g) Conference, Syed Ali Geelani paid rich tributes to the Mohammad Maqbool Bhat and Mohammad Afzal Guru on their death anniversaries.
Reiterating his demand for the return back of the mortal remains of both the slain persons, who were buried in the Tihar Jail premises, Hurriyat chairman said that although it is purely a human issue, but Delhi is very reluctant to this demand thereby violating all the principles of morality and constitution and in this way its claim of “largest democracy in the world” is getting badly exposed, the spokesman in a statement said.
Paying tributes to both, the spokesman quoting Geelani said that Bhat and Guru are heroes of the Kashmiri nation and we are proud of them. He said thousands of our valiant and bold people have sacrificed their precious lives for this cause but the Bhat and Guru are two separate cases among those who were detained, executed and buried in the same jail and in the same month.
The pro-freedom leader said that the best way of paying tributes to them is that the nation should not forget these brave sons of the soil who had sacrificed their “present” for the future of the nation.
While reiterating his demand for the return back of the mortal remains of both the “martyrs”, Hurriyat chairman said that until the mortal remains are not returned back to their families, the whole nation will not let down this demand.
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Letterman makes in-studio apology to wife, staffers
Late-night talk show host David Letterman offered a “heartfelt” apology before a live studio audience Monday to his wife and female staffers over last week’s “sextortion” revelations, fans at the taping said.
“He really handled it head on, but it was funny too,” audience member Larry Lefkowitz of Brooklyn Heights, New York, told CNN after the taping. “You could tell he’d been though a difficult situation and that he was sorry that he hurt other people, but he was also able to keep it funny, throw humor into it too,” Lefkowitz said. Letterman revealed on his show Thursday night he had sex with members of his staff and that he testified about those liaisons before a New York grand jury for a case involving an alleged attempted extortion. A CBS producer is accused of threatening to go public with allegedly embarrassing information about Letterman’s private life, unless the 62-year-old funnyman paid $2 million. Monday’s mea culpa marked his first public remarks since last week’s admission. “The staff here has been wonderfully supportive to me, not just through this furor, but through all the years that we’ve been on television. … So, again, my thanks to the staff for, once again, putting up with something stupid I’ve gotten myself involved in,” Letterman said, according to excerpts released Monday by production company World Wide Pants.
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“Now the other thing is my wife, Regina. She has been horribly hurt by my behavior, and when something happens like that, if you hurt a person and it’s your responsibility, you try to fix it. And at that point, there’s only two things that can happen: Either you’re going to make some progress and get it fixed, or you’re going to fall short and perhaps not get it fixed, so let me tell you folks, I got my work cut out for me.” Another audience member said Letterman’s apology to his wife appeared to evoke sympathy from some in the crowd. “When he made the apology to his wife he was very serious, not looking for any laughs, when he said he had a lot of work — a lot of work to do on the homefront,” said a man who identified himself as John. “That was very heartfelt, a lot of women in the crowd — I could hear them literally saying, ‘awww,’ that they felt for Dave and the dilemma he’s probably going through.” Although Letterman first admitted the plot and sexual relationships very publicly on his show, most videos of the segment were taken down from YouTube this weekend at the request of CBS. The New York Times reported an unnamed source said CBS made the copyright infringement claim at the request of Worldwide Pants Inc., the production company owned by Letterman which produces his show. CBS and Google, which owns YouTube, both had no comment about the videos being taken down.
At least some fans appear willing to forgive Letterman for his admitted dalliances. “I still think he’s the king of late night comedy,” Lefkowitz said.
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Vulnerable workers
Vulnerable workers are workers whose personal circumstances place them at greater risk of suffering a work injury or illness.
Examples include new and young workers such as apprentices and trainees, new and expectant mothers, temporary workers, workers with low literacy skills, immigrants, and culturally and linguistically diverse workers. People working alone or in remote or isolated areas may also be more vulnerable than others, because of the lack of available assistance in an emergency.
Under WHS laws, employers and other PCBUs must eliminate or minimise health and safety risks at the workplace to ensure the safety of all workers, including vulnerable workers. Vulnerable workers might require extra consideration of their personal situation when managing any potential risk to their health and safety.
This section provides guidance on young workers and other vulnerable people in the workplace.
[Last updated 5 May 2018]
People are vulnerable workers when their personal circumstances place them at greater risk of suffering a work injury or illness. Examples include new and young workers (i.e. workers under the age of 25 years).
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India foils UK company’s bid to patent Turmeric, Pine Bark & Tea for hair loss
By World News Report Bureau India once again has been successful in protecting its traditional knowledge by preventing an attempt made by Europe's Leading Dermaceutical Laboratory-Pangaea Laboratories Limited, to take patent on a medicinal composition containing turmeric, pine bark and green tea for treating hair loss. Traditional Knowledge Digital Library (TKDL), a Unit of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, located the patent application filed at European Patent office by M/S Pangaea Laboratories Limited and filed pre-grant opposition along with prior-art evidences from TKDL, proving that turmeric, pine bark and green tea, are being used as a treatment for hair…
Court to decide whether Chimpanzees are human – person
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Petitioners’ village in Beijing is a den of injustice and inhumanity where petitioners or their relatives are imprisoned, arbitrarily detained or beaten by official and their hired thugs just to buy their silence. In several cases, police have simply arrested ....Read more
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44 million birds lost since 1966
We have 20 million fewer sparrows than we did in 1966
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Since 1966, we’ve lost breeding birds from our countryside at an average rate of a nesting pair every minute, say a group of conservation organisations in a report published today.
These shocking statistics are contained in the State of the UK’s Birds 2012 report published today, charting the ups and downs of our bird populations over the last few decades.
The scientists producing the report estimate there are 166 million nesting birds in the UK, compared with 210 million nesting birds in 1966. [note]
"It is shocking to think that we’ve lost one in five of the individual birds that we had in the 1960s"
The house sparrow has seen one of the greatest losses of any bird in the UK. Although since 2000 house sparrow numbers have started to increase, the UK still has 20 million fewer sparrows than it did in 1966. The current population is estimated at around 10 million.
Dr Mark Eaton is an RSPB scientist who worked on the report. Commenting on the figures, he said: “It is shocking to think that we’ve lost one in five of the individual birds that we had in the 1960s, especially when you think that the 44 million birds we have lost since 1966 is equivalent to the current adult human population of England and Wales.”
There have been many changes in the UK which have affected birds, most notably changes in the land use and the management of our countryside and seas – these can change the amount or quality of key resources needed by birds, such as suitable places to nest or a shortage of food in summer or winter. However, for some species, including the house sparrow, the precise reasons behind these declines aren’t fully understood.
The changing fortunes of two, related species highlight the changes to the UK’s birds: the turtle dove and the collared dove. In 1966, the turtle dove was still a widespread bird with about 140,000 breeding pairs, whilst numbers of the collared dove were very low, as the species only started nesting in the UK in 1955. Today there are only thought be around 14,000 pairs of turtle dove nesting in the UK, whereas the collared dove had exploded to around one million pairs.
Cold weather is thought to have had a startling effect on bird numbers too. The wren, for example – still the UK’s most numerous bird – has lost an average of 835 individuals a day since 2000. But another garden bird, the chaffinch, has increased at a rate of 150 individuals per day.
Dr Andy Musgrove of the BTO, who worked on compiling these figures, said “We have learnt a great deal about bird numbers in the UK and, particularly, how they have changed through time. Amongst individual species, whilst there have been some winners, the number of losers is greater and the long-term picture is sobering. There is still more to learn though, and we need the continuing support of ever greater numbers of volunteer birdwatchers, on whose efforts all of these numbers are based”.
Citizen science in action
Dr Tim Hill, Natural England’s Chief Scientist, said: “The State of the UK’s Birds report is a great example of ‘citizen science’ in action. Most of the information upon which the report is based is derived from the efforts of the nation’s network of skilled, volunteer ornithologists who contribute to national monitoring schemes like the Breeding Bird Survey and Wetland Bird Survey. Such schemes provide a high quality evidence base underpinning the work of government, conservation organisations and land managers in their joint efforts to conserve the natural environment and its wildlife.”
Other elements of the 40-page report include:
· The latest information on the number of ducks, geese, swans and wading birds spending the winter in the UK.
· An update on the internationally-important birds, including albatrosses and penguins, on the UK’s overseas territories.
Richard Hearn, Head of Species Monitoring at WWT said: “Sea duck numbers in Europe have crashed and they urgently need conservation. Velvet scoter overwintering in the UK have gone from several thousand birds to less than a hundred in just a few years, and the picture for long-tailed duck is similar. Several other species have also shown large declines. By tying our findings with similar reports from the Baltic and elsewhere, we’re getting a clearer understanding of the problem, but to be effective we need all countries to work more closely together.”
David Stroud, of JNCC, said: “This report highlights the value of undertaking a periodic ‘stock-check’ of bird numbers in the UK – information central to many aspects of conservation. Thanks to the efforts of the bird watching community, such assessments are readily available within the UK, but these data do not exist for most of our Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. We need to strengthen efforts to establish routine survey and monitoring in these areas in the light of their global importance for many bird species.”
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On the Map: Banowetz Rebrands T45
June 5, 2017 Wes Phelan
Banowetz + Company recently completed a brand overhaul for T45, a bar-forward restaurant located at Hyatt Centric Times Square in the heart of New York City. Previously branded as a Midtown diner, the creative team at Banowetz worked with the staff at Hyatt to position T45 as a neighborhood gathering place, where all are welcome and where one can discover what's happening in the city. The new branding combines wayfinding elements with understated typography to create a clean, timeless look that is inclusive of locals and travelers alike. T45 is a spirited culinary adventure we hope you can experience the next time you're in the city.
— Team Banowetz
In New Work Tags T45, Hyatt Centric Times Square, Hotel, Restaurant, New York, Branding, Design, Map
T45 Midtown Diner: A New Take on Classic Fare
February 5, 2014 DJ Sherman
We always strive to create engaging, quality work and pour ourselves into each challenge with which we are faced. Our clients recognize this and that's why it was no surprise when one of our long-time clients, Hyatt Hotels and Resorts, contacted us with the task of naming their new restaurant in Midtown, Manhattan.
On the street level of the Hyatt Times Square, you will find T45, a restaurant that puts a sophisticated, modern take on classic American fare. Mixing the energy of Broadway with an eclectic style, T45 creates a new dining experience that blends familiar retro elements with exciting modern touches.
We began with extensive research on the location, menu offerings and cultural influences of the restaurant. After narrowing our long list of carefully formulated names and taglines,"T45 Midtown Diner" was selected. The "T" symbolizes it's proximity to Times Square and the "45" represents it's location on 45th street.
Next, we crafted a logo that combined Broadway-inspired components with the restaurant's energetic and electric aesthetic. Finally, we began development of the menus, which delve deeper into the fusion of retro and modern. The design makes heavy use of overlaid illustrated elements from various eras as a nod to the eclectic nature of the restaurant itself.
Overall, the main thing we took away from this project is that working hard and having fun don't have to be mutually exclusive. Sometimes all you need is a bittersweet mixture of blood, sweat and (happy) tears to achieve success—to create something new yet instantly classic.
– DJ Sherman, Junior Designer
In office Tags Hyatt, T45, Times Square, Logo, Naming, Menu Design, New York, Manhattan
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PAUL LYNDE: A BIOGRAPHY — HIS LIFE, HIS LOVE(S) AND HIS LAUGHTER (HARDCOVER EDITION) by Cathy (Fitzgibbon) Rudolph
This book will let you into the heart and soul of Paul Lynde.
Best remembered for outrageous jokes on The Hollywood Squares, as Uncle
Arthur from Bewitched, and as the frantic father in Bye Bye Birdie, Paul was
never satisfied with his career - or his personal life. But even as he
suffered through some of the cruelest of times, Paul continued to make us
forget our troubles, and was forever gracious to his fans. This is the book
those fans have been waiting for.
Though he was one of the most original, hilarious, and private
actor-comedians of all time, author Cathy Rudolph, his trusted friend,
reveals her adventures with Paul - along with his turbulent life story. Here
for the first time are interviews with his relatives, personal notes, and
never-before-published photos. Also included are memories from his friends
and peers including Cloris Leachman, Chita Rivera, Florence Henderson, Kaye
Ballard, Peter Marshall, Les Roberts, Betty White, and many more.
Visit the author's website at
www.Paullyndeabiography.com
I've been saying for forty years that Paul Lynde could deliver a punch line
better than any other comedian. I look forward to having the book on my
library shelf.
- Les Roberts, novelist and first producer and head writer of
the original Hollywood Squares
"A heartwarming read"
- Milieu Magazine
"A Loving Tribute to a Funny Man"
- Portland Book Review
Cathy Rudolph speaking to Paul Lynde fans at the Northshore Public Library Sept 20, 2014, about her book.
Radio interview with the author on the Bill Feingold Show
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THE "BEWITCHED" HISTORY BOOK by David L. Pierce
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Podcast: Audible Treats Hip-Hop Podcast 148
Check Out Our Best Tracks Of 2013 In This Special End-Of-Year Podcast
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In this special edition year-end Audible Treats Hip-Hop Podcast, we bring you the hottest tracks from our artists of 2013. Mike WiLL Made It‘s radio hit “23” featuring Wiz Khalifa, Juicy J, and most talked-about woman of the year Miley Cyrus starts off the podcast, as well as the Vine-viral twerk soundtrack “Gas Pedal” by Sage the Gemini featuring Iamsu!. Next up is Hopsin‘s track “Old Friend,” featured in his “Ill Mind Of Hopsin 6” video which has amassed 5 million views to date. Detroit rapper Black Milk released the critically-acclaimed No Poison No Paradise this fall, featuring the much-blogged-about single “Sunday’s Best/Monday’s Worst.” After that comes “Gun Fever” from Bay Area legends Hieroglyphics, who dropped their brand new album The Kitchen this summer. Chuck Inglish’s bass-bumping “Drops” is next, followed by SL Jones‘ Metro Boomin-produced “Big Bank (No Ones).” SwizZz released his first solo single “Zoom In” this year, and the League Of Extraordinary Gz got dead prez on their track “Still Bigger.” Iamsu!’s HBK Gang make an appearance with the track “Go Crazy” from their mixtape Gang Forever. Chicago songstress Nylo made her debut in 2013 with her Indigo Summer mixtape, which featured the break-up track “Fool Me Once.” DJ duo Booty Fade made a chill remix to Erykah Badu‘s “On & On,” and rounding out the podcast is electro-trap queen Chippy Nonstop with “Pimpin’ Season.” Subscribe to our podcasts using the link below to stay up-to-date on the latest hip-hop tracks.
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Audible Treats Hip-Hop Podcast 147 – HBK Gang, Andre Nickatina, The LOEGZ, Tanya Morgan, and Tynethys:
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Audible Treats Hip-Hop Podcast 146 – Black Milk, Iamsu!, Latyrx, The LOEGZ, and Caleb James:
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by Herb McCormick.
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June 29, 2010 – Seattle, Washington
By Herb McCormick
Precisely one year ago today, the 64-foot cutter, Ocean Watch, had just passed the 60th parallel en route from the Aleutian Island fishing outpost of Dutch Harbor, en route to another famed Alaskan port called Nome. Smack dab in the Bering Strait, the crew was enjoying a spectacular summer day, with a radiant blue sky reflected in a calm, almost mirror-flat sea. One month into our hopeful voyage Around the Americas, the reality of the quest – and the burgeoning regime and routine it would take to pull it off – was truly beginning to settle in.
It was like that famous line from the Wizard of Oz: Figuratively speaking, we weren’t in Kansas anymore. But the reality of the situation was that we were all a long way from home, from places in Iowa, Nebraska, California, Washington and Rhode Island. And we wouldn’t be getting back there anytime soon.
Today, of course, the journey is over; Ocean Watch is bobbing at a dock, getting a well-deserved rest; and this will be my final crew log (220 preceded it). For a sailing writer, chronicling this voyage in a daily, serial fashion has been a rare, special opportunity, and it wouldn’t have happened without a list of friends, supporters, sponsors and family that is too long to list here. The same goes for everyone who sailed aboard Ocean Watch, especially the core crew. On behalf of us all, thank you. And thanks also to everyone who followed the trip, especially the students who joined us from their classrooms. From everything we saw, the future is in extremely good hands.
There are a million things we could add here, but for now, let’s address some rather open-ended questions, ones we’ve been asked on numerous occasions since wrapping up the voyage about a fortnight ago.
What’s going to happen to Ocean Watch?
Ocean Watch will be spending the summer at Shilshole Marina in Seattle under the watchful eyes of Andy Gregory, who was a key member of the refit and shore team, and first mate Dave Logan, and will receive a lavish amount of tender loving care following a job well done. Long-term plans are still coming together, as skipper Mark Schrader considers several options ranging from charters to educational voyages to ocean conservation projects.
Will there be a book and a documentary?
That is the plan, and both are in the preliminary stages, though at this writing we’re still seeking funding and/or sponsorship to make both happen. For more information on related opportunities, contact Dawn Curtis Hanley at dcurtishanley@gmail.com.
What are the plans for the website and other updates?
The expedition website will continue to live with new content coming forth from the education and science teams. You can also follow future Around the Americas happenings, including speaking engagements, via Facebook and Twitter (@AroundAmericas). A good way to track down fresh content on the www.aroundtheamericas.org website is through an RSS feed.
What’s an RSS feed?
We’re glad you asked. Live from my current, adjacent cubicle that Pacific Science Center has graciously loaned me this week is onboard educator Zeta Strickland. Zeta, take it away: “The posting schedule for content on the Around the Americas website is changing now that the expedition portion has come to a close. But we will be periodically posting updates on the project, what people are doing, and information about some of our partners in ocean health issues. We know the periodic posting schedule can be tough to follow, so we’d like to encourage you to sign up for the RSS feed of the Around the Americas website. Just click on the orange and white RSS feed button on the upper right corner of the ATA home page.
“Once you have set it up, you no longer have to keep checking the ATA website to see when we post new content. Instead, new content will automatically be posted on your home web page, to the RSS feed on your mobile phone, or to the RSS reader of your choice (Google has one, as do other groups and sites). While you are at it, include other blogs and websites that you follow, including Pacific Science Center, Sailors for the Sea, or other travel/sailing/marine-themed blogs. Once you start following websites this way, you’ll love it.”
Okay, last question: How’s everybody doing?
Well, as I said in my last crew log, finishing a long trip is often harder than doing it, as the day-to-day schedule of the voyage itself makes the days pass quickly. To be honest, now that the prolonged adrenaline rush is over, getting back into the swing of things has been challenging, but interesting. But we’re all doing just fine.
The other night, up at Mark’s place north of Seattle, the grills were fired up and we enjoyed a lovely evening surrounded by family and friends, the unsung heroes of Around the Americas. In the Wizard of Oz, of course, Dorothy never actually left Kansas; her wanderings were the result of a bump on the noggin. Well, we did leave our comfortable surroundings, and the sights we saw – in the Bering Sea, the Northwest Passage, the Falklands, Cape Horn, Galapagos, the west coast, and so on – are something we’ll never, ever forget. As it turns out, the American continents really are one island, surrounded by one ocean. We need to keep pressing the message: We must take better care.
But for now we need to return to Ballard and Lake Okoboji and Santa Barbara and Newport and all the other places from which the extended Ocean Watch family hails. It was a wonderful, once-in-a-lifetime experience, but it’s good to be back. Mate, it was a long bloody trip. And as it turns out, Dorothy was right: There’s no place like home.
Okay, one final thought. Last night, I hauled the remainder of my stuff off the boat, including the two Little Wing carbon-fiber kayaks that proved so useful and fun over the course of our journey. Speaking of home, that’s what Ocean Watch was to all of us for the better part of thirteen months. I’m not one for long goodbyes, so once everything was stashed in my pick-up, with one last armful of gear and paddles I strolled up the docks of Shilshole, with no intention whatsoever of even looking back.
I almost made it back to the truck. But halfway up the ramp, what the heck, I couldn’t help myself, and spun around for one long, last look.
-Herb McCormick with photographs by David Thoreson
*To add a comment to this story click on the comment link below the post title. Please direct your messages for the crew to crew@aroundtheamericas.org instead of submitting them here. Thanks for following the Around the Americas Expedition.
Posted in: Crew Log.
It’s been precisely seven days now since Ocean Watch and her crew stepped ashore at Seattle’s Shilshole Marina to close the circle on the expedition Around the Americas, and in a lot of ways, the last week has been a whole lot stranger and more bizarre than the fifty-five – the length of the voyage – that proceeded it. The core crew of OW – never known or described as paragons of organization – has been a good deal more disoriented and discombobulated than usual, which is saying something. But the truth of the matter is finally becoming crystal clear: There are no more provisions to be laid in, courses to figure out, or watches to stand.
We’re home, and it’s good to be here. Um, we’re pretty sure.
The hardest part of an extended voyage, as many sailors will attest, is finishing it. You think, feel and act differently. Your internal clock, once set by the wind and the waves and the rhythm of shipboard life, is now governed by the uncontrollable, inconvenient and external realities and pressures of a 9-5 schedule and rush-hour traffic. You look at the world, and particularly its trials, travails and trivialities, in an altered and bemused state. Or at least you try to. The trouble with all this, of course, is that society hasn’t changed, even if you have. And if you can’t deal with it, that’s your problem, and nobody else’s.
We’d been back precisely two hours, after much attendant hoopla at Shilshole, when skipper Mark Schrader, dropping me off downtown, was pulled over by a Seattle cop because the registration tags on his Volvo had expired. Granted, being a policeman is not an easy job, but by any standards, the officer was a particularly dour sort. Anyway, I have to say that the irony and timing of the situation, the deathly serious attitude of the totally miserable policeman – after all, this wasn’t a bomb in Times Square – and Mark’s understandable frustration with all of it struck me as fairly hilarious. Mark failed to, uh, share my mirth. Welcome back, Kotter? Nope, welcome back, Captain. Have a nice stinking day.
In any event, due to a veritable whirlwind of activity, as we got onto the business of wrapping things up, matters improved measurably within fairly short order.
First off was a reception and dinner at Pacific Science Center, a wonderful affair where we caught up with oodles of friends, family and supporters. The next day was a Marine Health Symposium at the Applied Physics Lab of the University of Washington, with presentations from many of the scientists we’d partnered with on projects during the course of the expedition – it was great to reunite with them and learn more about their ongoing research, and our role in it. Finally, there was a big Open House at Fisherman’s Terminal followed by a public presentation at PSC’s Eames Theatre. David T’s photos were sensational on the big IMAX screen.
And then, our official duties – presto! – were over. The Aussies have a great saying about the passage of time: From go to whoa. Suddenly, the go was gone. It was all about the woe. I mean, whoa.
Since then, we’ve been lugging gear off the boat; emptying the fridge and freezers (chicken, anybody?); hauling more stuff off Ocean Watch; trying to assimilate into some kind of routine that resembles our former lives; and ferrying tons more gear off the yacht, whose waterline seems to rise considerably with each passing day.
When I sat down to write this little missive, I did so with the full intention of trying to sum up the experience of sailing Around the Americas. But…I can’t. Not yet. Like my mates and brothers in this crazy adventure, I’m still numb by all of it. Please bear with me (and us) for a little while longer. I’ll post another update, a reflective one, early next week, with details on new content for our website, which will remain active and vibrant, and other matters, including the latest news on book and documentary projects and related issues.
For now, thanks to everyone, but especially those who’ve stopped by the boat or sent emails, letters and messages to us since our return to Seattle. We’re honored, grateful and humbled.
And, you know, confused. As it turns out, the voyage was the easy part. Coming back? Well, that’s a good deal more complicated.
*This crew log submitted by Iridium OpenPort and Stratos
Long ago and far away, when Mark Schrader was but a wee lad growing up on a Nebraska farm, on one fine summer day he drew a big circle on a map of the family spread and then hopped on his bike to trace his line. The simple act became something of a ritual. As the boy grew into a man, whenever a matter large or small piqued his curiosity, he’d get out a pen and draw a circle around it. It was a way to bring order, reason and structure to issues and concepts that didn’t always have hard, measurable boundaries.
A handful of years ago, on a voyage with his mates David Rockefeller, Jr. and David Treadway, the conversation turned to the topic of ocean health and changing climates, and before too long, Mark was again searching for his pencil. What he doodled this time was a large loop on a map of North and South America, and the trip it symbolized was something altogether different than a lap around some low, flat cornfields.
Nope, the idea this time was to set sail on what might best be described as an environmental adventure, a long voyage of learning, research, awareness and discovery on a relatively tiny boat. The journey would dramatize and symbolize the notion that the American continents were a single island surrounded by a common ocean; that what happened on the land would ultimately effect the watery world that surrounded it; and that it was in the best interests of all of us to protect and conserve this most precious, life-sustaining resource.
The circle on the map would ultimately be known as an expedition called Around the Americas, and it would come to consume the dreams and lives not only of the three chaps who conceived it, but a wide team of sailors, scientists, teachers and students, as well as countless citizens of that great big island from all walks of life. That circle became an odyssey that left Seattle a little over a year ago, at first bound northward through the legendary Northwest Passage, then southward past the epic Southern Ocean landmark known as Cape Horn, and then once again north for Seattle, where it all began.
Today, just before noon local time, after 382 incredible days and with 27,524 nautical miles in her wake, the 64-foot cutter, Ocean Watch, sidled up to a dock in the familiar surroundings of Shilshole Marina on Puget Sound, to put the finishing touches on what had started as a sketch in a notepad and ended up taking on a life and mission all of its own. What began as a dream – and not at all a particularly reasonable one – concluded with arcs of water aimed skyward from the hoses of a Seattle Fire Department rescue tug. As the mist from the fire boat once again settled back into the sea, there was only one thing to say.
At long last, Mark’s crazy circle is complete.
Fittingly, along with Skipper Schrader, mate Dave Logan, photographer David Thoreson, oceanographer Michael Reynolds and me, the busy typist, for the final miles from Port Townsend, the core crew was joined by a boatload of mates who’ve played a major role in the journey and logged significant miles aboard Ocean Watch on different legs of the voyage. In no particular order, and with sincere thanks to all of them, it was fantastic to wrap up matters with Kirsty Moen, Bryan Reeves, Warren Buck, Dan Clark, Horacio Rosell, David Rockefeller, Jr., Gretchen Hund, Tyler Osberg, Roxanne Nanninga, Bryce Seidl, Axel Schweiger, Harry Stern and Zeta Strickland.
The day started early, at a shade past five a.m., and by the time Shilshole hove into view, a fine spectator fleet had joined Ocean Watch to welcome her home. Kids on the beach waved signs and greetings, and another throng of well wishers lined the docks as mate Logan nestled the steel yacht alongside for the final time. In remarks to the crowd, Mark said, it’s a magnificent highway out there, and we took it.”
Yes, we did. It was an honor and a privilege, the adventure of a lifetime.
At the moment, visitors are wandering through the boat, things are rather chaotic, and the crew is having a difficult time processing exactly what’s transpired. Personally, I’m having trouble figuring out if this has been the longest year of my life or the shortest, and if today is the happiest one ever or the saddest.
In the days ahead, we’ll continue to file stories here on our website with updates on the science and education programs, future plans for the expedition and some reflections on the voyage. So we’ll save our goodbyes for another day. For now, we’re just soaking things in. It’s great to be home.
Okay, one revelation as we roll out the door: Surprise, surprise, we went out to try, in some very small way, to help change the world, and we ended up changed ourselves.
Thanks for reading. The circle is closed.
by PSC.
Ocean Watch is now on Mars! Well, sort of.
For the complete coverage, we are going to our friend and colleague at Pacific Science Center, Alice Enevoldsen. Alice works at Pacific Science Center, and writes a blog called AstroInfo in which she answers astronomical questions from Pacific Science Center staff, and highlight interesting goings-on in the world of astronomy.
In her most recent post, she explains how Around the Americas now has a presence on Mars. You can read more of her posts here, and her post on Mars is below.
From Alice:
What does Around the Americas have to do with Mars?
Well, nothing. But Dr. Amy Knudson from the Planetary Science Institute was volunteering with Pacific Science Center during the exhibit Facing Mars, and she works with the Mars Exploration Rovers doing soil analysis among other things. She was asking if we had recommendations for naming little things on Mars. The names had to be nautical, so I told her about Around the Americas and Ocean Watch. A few weeks later she returned, telling us that she’d proposed the name for one of the patches of soil she was analyzing and it had been accepted!
She’s just sent me some photos of Ocean Watch on Mars as taken by Opportunity (also known as Mars Exploration Rover B). She is continuing to name other soils and rocks after Around the Americas’ ports of call.
Show Me the Dirt*!
Ocean Watch (a soil on Mars) – field of view approximately 1/2 meter by 1/2 meter.
Photo credit: D. Savransky and J. Bell (Cornell) / JPL / NASA
Opportunity took this picture on Sol 2225 (martian day 2225) with its panoramic camera. This image is approximately true color, and shows a small impression where Opportunity’s instrument rested during the soil analysis.
Nothing has been released about the analysis of this soil yet – so your best guess about that texture is just great. Be the scientist – what do you think those “bubbles” are? Are they depressions or spheres? Are they hard? Soft? Are they just shapes in the sand that are easily disrupted or are they harder? Look at how they are different when they’ve been pressed by the instrument. Does that help you determine what they’re like? What might have caused them?
Ocean Watch soil through Microscopic Imager (3cm by 3cm)
Using the microscopic imager Opportunity took a close up picture of the soil before deploying the “IDD” – the “Instrument Deployment Device” – also known as the arm.
Ocean Watch with impression (3cm by 3cm)
Using the microscopic imager Opportunity took another close up picture of the soil AFTER deploying the arm. You can see where the instrument rested in the upper right of the picture. Some of the little bubbles or depressions are flattened, and others have been entirely squished.
Naming on Mars
If you follow the rover missions you’ll have heard of rocks and landforms on Mars named things like “Chocolate Hills,” “Concepcíon,” “Columbia Hills,” “Endurance,” or “Jenny.” Naming of objects in the solar system has to go through the International Astronomical Union (IAU), which can take years. In order to stay sane and not constantly have to say to each other “let’s take a look at that rock” or “shall we drive to crater 001-5BX?” the technicians and scientists working with the Mars rovers assign their own names to these items. Ocean Watch is such a name. I find it likely that many of these names will stick – having been used for years by the time the IAU has time to choose official names – but some will be changed, and some are of locations too small for anyone to care about once the rover has driven on. Ocean Watch is a very small patch of soil (about 1/4 of a square meter), so who knows what will happen.
For now though, a little patch of a distant planet holds a name that reminds us of the fragility of our own planet, and honors the excitement of doing science and science outreach.
More information about this soil will eventually be posted in the MER Analyst’s Notebook.
* Technically, I wouldn’t use the word “dirt” because that tends to imply organic content … but, forgive me this time.
And thank you, Alice, for helping bring a little of the Around the Americas mission to interplanetary levels!
- Around the Americas Education Team
Posted in: Education.
June 15, 2010 – Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington
By Herb McCormick and Roxanne Nanninga
If you stroll up off the docks, hang a right and walk down the quiet highway in the fishing port of Neah Bay, after about a mile you’ll come to a tidy little park with flags flying that commemorates three things: the heritage of the First American natives of the Pacific Northwest, the Makah Nation people, the watermen and women who thrived along this rich coastline for centuries; the Spanish explorers that were the first Europeans to also populate these shores; and the local people who’ve served this country with honor in distant wars.
As war memorials go, the one in Neah Bay is pretty unique. For at the bottom of the black marble tribute, engraved with dozens and dozens of names, is a three-word inscription that couldn’t be more powerful, positive or succinct: “All came home.”
Thank you to the soldiers and sailors of Neah Bay.
Heaven knows our fortunate and even blessed voyage Around the Americas has been anything but a battle, and this anecdote is not meant to be a comparison in any way. But as I took a walk this morning while waiting for the tide to come in so we could get underway on the final leg of this trip to Seattle, the words rang true for other reasons. For here aboard Ocean Watch, we’re headed home.
But first we have a stop to make. When we left Seattle on May 31st, 2009, our first call was at Port Townsend, so it only makes sense that we should check in on the way back. Besides, our sailmaker, Carol Hasse, calls Port Townsend home, and we need to drop her off on the way by. At midday Tuesday we left our overnight berth along the fishing docks in Neah Bay bound for Port Townsend. The plan is to anchor tonight, one more time, somewhere along the way up the strait. Tomorrow around noon, we’ll fetch up alongside the Northwest Maritime Center & Wooden Boat Foundation and send Hasse back to the sail loft. If you happen to be in Port Townsend, pop by and say hello. [Note from the shore team: dockside open house at the Northwest Maritime Center from 3-5pm on Wednesday, June 15th. More details are available on our Port Townsend page.]
There’s the latest onboard update, but for today’s crew log, we have two tales in one. The second piece is an essay by Pacific Science Center teacher Roxanne Nanninga, who proved to be an invaluable crewmember on our travels through South and Central America, and on through California. Now back in Seattle, Roxanne reflects on her experiences with the expedition while managing, frankly, to make the rest of us blush. Thanks for your dedication as a teacher and for everything else, Roxanne, including this story:
Reflections on a Voyage of Discovery
By Roxanne Nanninga
As the first fingers of light began reaching over the gray sea on the morning of our approach to Santa Barbara, I sat crouched in a ball to stay warm against the cold wind, and considered the journey that had brought me this far. From the Christmas fireworks and apprehension in Punta del Este, Uruguay, through mastery of a curriculum in two languages and a respectable amount of blue water sailing for a complete novice, I decided I’ve come a long way, not just in miles but also as a teacher and as an individual seeking to understand the great scope of our Earth’s environment and its people.
The crew of Ocean Watch and I all seem to agree that the people we’ve met along the way have been what’s made this ambitious project so worthwhile. The kids I have met need no convincing that our ocean is precious and deserves protecting. It’s not just the students, however. Parents, teachers, sailors, and scientists alike expressed gratitude to us for bringing awareness to such critical issues as climate change, ocean acidification, plastics pollution, and a basic understanding of the oceans and its life-giving processes.
These human interactions have often been very brief but that’s all it takes to make an impression. In Uruguay we received an invitation to a home-cooked Christmas dinner. In Chile, where there seemed to be the greatest abundance of kind and helpful people, very early on the morning of my arrival, I bonded with an immigration officer over our shared frustrations with US Visa policies. There were taxi drivers in Peru who shared with me their authentic sentiments of love for their country, and sometimes disgust, too, offering rare insight to a foreigner. There have been teachers; port authorities; yacht club presidents; library and aquarium staff; random people who saw the website or the news and wanted to be involved; and many, many others who have gone out of their way to help us accomplish our mission or just make our lives away from home more comfortable. Without them this trip would have had no meaning.
There have also been many non-human encounters that have shaped my experience, the biggest being the sea itself. Dark and formidable, the open ocean is a humbling place. My first memorable night at sea was crossing the mouth of Rio de la Plata in Argentina. An eerie glow from distant Buenos Aires sat on the horizon offering no sense of comfort in the shadowy night, the clouds sometimes parting to reveal a nearly full moon. The glow was echoed on the surrounding phosphorescent-tinged whitecaps. The effect gave me the creeps and I remember counting the minutes until morning.
Fortunately, that feeling eventually passed and I came to appreciate the night watches, especially on a clear, star-lit night. Others who have spent time at sea know that the skies there are unmatched. The immensity of space that spans both above and below where you sit is a great reminder of our human frailty. In the Southern Hemisphere you could even peer into a neighboring galaxy known as the Magellenic Clouds, or Clusters. However, just as I would start to believe we were alone on the sea, a dolphin, whale, or bird would come along to disrupt the illusion and remind me of the entire teeming world of life just below the surface.
As you may guess, spending time on a small vessel or in foreign countries with just a few other travelers affords many opportunities to get to know one another in a way not generally possible. The crew of Ocean Watch is a select and accomplished group, whom I have enjoyed getting to know immensely. I have heard Mark refer to his crew as family and with all they have been through and the time spent together through fortune, dysfunction, and understanding I can think of no better term for it. Being one of the few females to take part in this dynamic gives me a unique perspective on it as well. I would like to take a moment to comment on what I have appreciated and learned from each one of them.
From the beginning, Captain Mark Schrader has been warm and welcoming, inviting me into this strange and exclusive world of sailors. His determination is impressive; he was always doing whatever it takes to get where we had to be safely and as on time as possible, which is no small feat. His passion for ocean stewardship is what has pressed this project forward since its conception, and his desire for perfection has urged us all to do our best work and to stay focused on why we are here: to bring eyes and ears to the plight of our oceans and inspire people to take action to protect it in their respective parts of the Americas.
First mate Dave Logan has been the oil in what makes the entire engine of Around the Americas run smoothly. Purposely understated, Dave often rejects praise for his accomplishments but we all know we wouldn’t have made it around without his hard work and expertise. Additionally, he has been an essential help with the educational programs, having acted as my “lovely assistant” on many occasions, leading boat tours, setting up banners, sails and our traveling expedition tent, and enchanting both adults and children with his stories and quiet sense of humor.
Our writer is Herb McCormick, whom many of you may feel you know best through his daily logs to the web, which have given voice to this mission and have taught many profound things through his subtle stories. Herb has also provided the salty attitude and humor needed to keep the trip fun. His call-it-as-I-see-it commentary is alternately poignant and hilarious. On one occasion he even agreed to run a writer’s workshop for a hundred thirteen-year-olds at the Yacht Club in Lima. Despite his initial nervousness (yes, the ever-cool Herb McCormick does, in fact, get nervous on occasion) his contributions were a true highlight to the day’s event and I was grateful for it.
David Thoreson, our photographer, has given Around the Americas its face and context with his stunning imagery taken along the entire expedition. His ubiquitous presence at events happening at sea or in port has given us a thoroughly documented voyage and makes me wonder if he ever really sleeps. He was, however, the only one who could convince me to sleep on my first anxious night at sea. Always happy to share his candid opinion, he has proven also to be a great listener and his support was a great comfort to me throughout the journey.
Though Dr. Michael Reynolds was not a part of the core crew, I think he has been along for enough of it to be counted as an honorary member. He has not only kept us focused on the scientific discovery of this mission but has also helped remind us all to relax a little. Never flustered, Michael would carry on with his science in the background no matter what other chaos had ensued. He offered interesting and humorous tidbits on watch and kept me on my toes by finding hats, cameras, and other items the sometimes absent-minded professor would leave behind. Still, we owe a great deal of our credibility to him.
There were of course many others I have had the pleasure of traveling with along the way. Though I can’t mention them all by name here, each one helped enrich my time with this voyage. Thanks to all of you.
I think I speak for all of us when I say it will take a considerable amount of time to fully process the experiences we’ve had with the project and sometimes lifestyle called Around the Americas. I have learned a great deal and given much of myself. And I feel grateful.
-Herb McCormick and Roxanne Nanninga with photographs by David Thoreson
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It was a Dark and Stormy Night...
We are a family farm and ranch operation based in South Central South Dakota.
We focus on the breeding and production of high quality Registered Angus cattle.
In writing a history of Black Ink Farms, I’m reminded of the carton character Snoopy who always starts his stories with “It was a Dark and Stormy Night.”
It was 45 years ago that Ruben Littau sold me some short term registered angus cows that produced some nice calves that we decided to register. I had the notion of getting registered cows after my father’s cousin’s family dispersed a registered herd of cows because of his death in a traffic accident. His cows had gained a lot in value for that sale because they had a paper trail. It doesn’t take any more grass for a papered cow then a commercial cow, only records improve a sizable value in the cow.
I believe it was in late Fall of 1970 the Wally Ecklund family at Wood SD dispersed what many people at that time considered the best herd of “Eileenmere” bred cows in central SD. We bought the first cut of 12 head and first choice of bull calves. We now had a small herd of registered angus cows along with the ones from Littau Angus. At that time we became members of the American Angus Association.
The next plunge came at the Black Hills Stock Show, where Reuben was showing a bull I really liked. He wasn’t show champ but was the highest priced bull of the sale. I believe he cost me $1,250. In 1971 that was pretty good money for a bull.
I really am a feeder rather then a pedigree follower, so it became a family project, my wife, Jeanette had a lot of experience in the 4-H program. We already had children in 4-H. who were showing these cattle in 4-H and Junior Angus, so we adopted the farm name of “Black Ink Farms” nothing to do with money but black cattle and the last three letters of our name F(ink). Through the years we supported the Southeast Angus group by helping as officers and in planning tours of the area Angus farms and getting the group to have a booth at Dakota Festival in Mitchell to promote Angus cattle.
Our first annual Bull & Heifer sales were held on the farm just before grass time at the end of April. After having a few cold, windy nights for sales we started to have our sale at the sale barn in Tripp for the comfort of our still growing customer base.
We always treated our cow herd as we perceived any commercial producer would handle his. The cows had to produce a calf every year on feed we produced on land that we operate. Even now we still make small square high quality alfalfa bales to take out to the corn stalks for Winter pasture.
Our herd, for the most part, had been a closed herd to female replacement. We keep the top 1/3 for replacements and now offer at our sale the next 1/3 and the balance get finished in our feedlots. We usually end up with about 1/2 of the bulls being kept and offered for sale and the rest are fed out and sold as steers
2007 South Dakota Angus Breeders of the Year
We keep the best
and cut the rest.
We were and still do feed and finish out both cattle and hogs. I said many times because I have an expensive hobby, we had to do normal things to live on. But the cows started to show us the way since we always got to see the finished product. I knew we were on the right track, it wasn’t often we could go to the sale barn to finish filling the lots with purchased calves that were of the quality of our own.
Our children early on got to develop their own herds of female cows, the agreement was Dad got to keep the bull calves and they got the heifer calves. “Wow” what a bunch of heifer producing females the kids had. The track record of those females more or less put the kids through their years of higher education. Most of them owned some cows after they were finished with school. Both of the girls wanted to sell their cows back to us after they were married and wanted money to make down payments on their homes.
Most of our herd sires are selected from cattle producers that have earned our respect by providing cattle that will take South Dakota conditions with a good depth of quarters. When our children were showing heifers, I often heard the judge say “your calf will make a good cow but not quite what he was looking for that day”, so we have chosen to stay with the good cows.
The angus cows have served us well even tho there were some “Dark and Stormy Nights”
It is still very much a family operation.
Family involvements keep Jeanette and Don doing the computer records and registrations with Theresa learning the ropes. We all help in giving shots, weighing calves and in freeze branding the calves.
Don and wife Theresa are taking over Black Ink Farms as we slowly wind down our part of the operation, while we get into semi- retirement mode.
Our youngest son Orin has a group of cows on shares, as a silent partner. He has developed our logo that we use in our advertising and also manages the Web page as that is what he does from his business in Chicago Illinois. In an earlier version, the logo reinforced how practical he perceives we are. In small print across the top was something I said many years ago “We keep the best and cut the rest”.
Jeanine and husband Ray, (Jeanine was the former Angus queen for 79-80), live in Aberdeen and she works for EAC.
Carmen and husband Kevin live in San Diego California. She is a Civil engineer and mother of two children. Kyra and Kyle keep a cow each as well to stay involved with the operation.
Mark is an independent computer programmer developer and lives in Charlotte, North Carolina with his wife Delight.
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Mining Companies' Rapacity Devastates Entire Villages in Coahuila
Borderland Beat by DD republished in part from Mexico Voices
Translated from Reforma by Sally Brundage
Background material taken from my notes from stories from LaRazon, Aristegui Noticias, Democrata de Norte Mexico, 24 Hours, Zocalo Saltillo, El Diario de Coahuila
There are hundreds if not thousands of these pozitas (little mines) all over Coahuila
BACKGROUND OF CORRUPTION
Sabinas is the center of coal mining country in northern Mexico called the carbonifera. It is a relatively peaceful little city of about 50,000 people and a total population in the municipality (county) of about 60,000. Cloete is a small village adjacent to the city of Sabinas and is where the Sabinas' city dump (land fill) is located.
For the last decade or so it is believed that the Zeta cartel has been active in coal mining in the area and in the last few years possibly in control of the mining operations there since 2009.
José Reynol Bermea Castilla, who according to the Attorney General's Office (PGR) is alleged to be the operator for Miguel Angel Trevino Morales, the Z-40, leader of Los Zetas in the illegal exploitation of coal mines in Coahuila, was recorded before a criminal court .
He was known as the #1 Zeta in Coahuila in charge of coal mining. It has been reported that illegal coal mining generated between $500,000 to $1,000,000 a week for the Zetas.
He also had ties to the political powers of that time. The pozitas (little pits or mines) were mostly on government land and the permits for the mining came from the state. Humberto Moriera was then Governor of the State of Coahuila. Supposedly there were several small boxes that Bermea deposited some of the proceeds ("black money") from the all mining concessions that Humberto and his brother Omar (current Governor of Coahuila) used for "political purposes".
Bermea had supported (and helped finance) the campaigns of former federal deputies, Melchor Sanchez de la Fuente "The Pocholo" and Hugo Martinez Gonzalez, whom various state and national media crime linked to organized crime who by the way is the father of Irma Vanessa Guerrero Martínez, current wife of Humberto Moreira Valdés.
He was also instrumental in the election of Melchor Sanchez as Mayor of Monclova.
Bermea Castilla appears in several photographs, which are held by the PGR, with Treviño Morales, The Z-40; and with Salvador Martínez Escobedo, Squirrel, arrested in October 2012 and charged with 300 executions.
He was imprisoned in the maximum security prison of Altiplano to await trial.
He was released under a "incidental amparo" in May of 2014. In that case, the federal judge who was located in Chihauha ordered the head of the Marines (who had detained Bermea) and the PGR in Mexico City to furnish evidence within 24 hours showing the justification for his incarceration or he would be released. No evidence was presented within the 24 hours so he was released.
There is no record or news reports of his involvement with the Zetas after his release.
He was assassinated in front of his house at about 7:15AM on Nov. 1, 2014 by 2 gunmen who have not been apprehended.
To read in detail a story of how the Zetas operate their coal business in Coahuila see the Borderland Beat story from Nov. 1, 2012 written by Havana.
The Mayor of Sabinas says their deeds are not worth anything
"Most of the neighbors suffer illnesses caused by dust from the pits that
operate day and night and do not let us breathe," say Cloete townspeople.
Photo: Sanjuana Martínez
Cloete, Coahuila - Lidia Salazar Viera shows the property title deed. She owns her land and house, but a few months ago a coal coyote [Mexican slang: middleman, fixer], built a work site in the middle of the town and began flattening everything as he extracted the coal, while claiming to be the "new" owner of the properties of 4,000 villagers.
MV Note: Cloete is a coal-mining town in the municipality of Sabinas, in the Mexican state of Coahuila. Founded in the late 19th century by William Broderick Cloete, a British mine-owner, it adopted his name after his death in the sinking of the RMS Lusitania in 1915. The 2005 Census reported a population of 3,977 [Wikipedia].
This coal mining town looks devastated, surrounded by pits, strip mines. The enormous bags of coal and waste dumps convey the image of a war zone. The voracity of the coyotes and coal entrepreneurs, coupled with the ongoing corruption of Sabinas municipal authorities have not respected the residential areas.
The family of PRI [Party of the Institutional Revolution] Jesús María Montemayor Garza, former mayor of Sabinas and presumed "owner" of the companies that work through front men, has been devouring the parks, then the roads, then the stream and now it is stripping dozens of families of their houses—families who are living exposed to high levels of contamination given the 24-hour coal mining operations.
Sixty-seven years old, Doña Lidia's respiratory diseases no longer let her live as before. As if that weren't enough, the "mal de pinto" [mottled bad], an infectious [tropical] disease that invades the skin, has begun to show visibly on her face and hands:
"The majority of my neighbors suffer illnesses from the coal. We don't stop sneezing. The simple dust of the pits that work day and night doesn't let us breathe. There are many asthmatics. Our clothes are always black, and the dishes are dirty. Before the pits were farther away, but now we have them above us, and they aim to get to the houses, because they tell us that there are new property owners. They are leaving open pits everywhere. They don't care about people. They just want the coal."
She has lived here for forty years, so the day when Servando Guerra, the village tradesman and seller of old iron, appeared saying that he was the "owner" of her house and the rest of the land and houses, she was very surprised. In reality, according to the neighbors, the true owner is Jesús María Chuma Montemayor Garza, the former mayor of Sabinas and nephew of Jesús Montemayor Seguy, a former governor of Coahuila, who precisely issued the property title deeds to the people of Cloete.
Ramón Rocha, Doña Lidia's son, whose work is caring for goats, charges:
"He comes and says that he owns the entire pueblo [village], but he does not show a document, he only says that his property deeds are the good ones, because they are newer and that we all have to abandon our houses and that if we don't, we can expect the consequences. By making the [mine] cuts, they have destroyed the village. They took up the drain pipe, and they polluted the only stream that crosses the village. The cuts have caused ugly cracks in houses."
DD Note: I have crossed that little stream many times going to see my father-in-law, a former coal miner who lived in Cloete for many years tending to few goats. He had quit mining because of black lung disease before the Zetas moved in, As far as I know his widow and her family still live in the little house backed up to a hill which I am sure has been mined by now.
Gorges and Caves
The sound of the backhoes moving the earth to remove the coal is continuous. In the Cocedores [Cooks] neighborhood, María Matiana Guerrero Mercado, 37, helps to accompany the children to and from the school closest to the village. She has four children and is very worried:
"We cannot let them go out to play even on the patio of our houses, or in the parks. We are invaded by pits, which were Ramiro Jasso's, who sold them to Servando Guerra, alias La Tawa, the former tradesman from the village, who says that all land starting from the elementary school belongs to him, but we have never seen a document or a blueprint, not even a permit."
The neighbors constantly go to Mayor Lenin Lucio Flores, with the UDC-PAN-PT coalition—whose bodyguard was recently accused of leading a gang of robbers, using official vehicles and operating in the coal-rich region. Faced with the invasion of the coal entrepreneurs, the mayor simply "washes his hands" [of the entire matter].
While she protests with a group of neighbors forming a barricade to prevent the backhoes from invading their houses, Inocencia Trinidad González Solís says:
"Mayor Lenin Flores is part of the problem. He benefits from the coal business, that's why he does nothing and allows the illegal extraction. The municipality issues permits to work the coal pits day and night."
With a baby in her arms, Esmeralda Saldaña explains the allergies that her children suffer after 13 years of living in this town invaded by the coal mines:
"Every day we stand here so the pit doesn't move forward."
She relates that her husband, Pedro Martínez, broke his foot after falling into one of the holes left by the extraction of coal. Last month a miner died buried in one of the pits where they work without benefits, safety measures or Social Security [government health program].
Her two sisters and half a dozen children accompany her, some of whom play 'normally' on the edge of a precipice. Verónica Saldaña Ramírez says:
"First councilman Álvaro Jaime Arellano and Mayor Lenin Flores are complicit with the coal coyotes. They are burrowing under the houses."
She says that complaints filed with authorities of Civil Protection, the National Water Commission, Secretariat of the Environment and Natural Resources have been useless, because nobody stops the coal entrepreneurs. The coyotes and coal entrepreneurs extract the mineral with complete impunity, which they then sell to Promedi, the state-owned company administered by Governor Rubén Moreira, then they process it in Grupo México's washing plant.
The advance of the backhoes seems imminent, and miner Matías Zamora approaches on a motorcycle. He left the mine to come here to defend his house, which is next on the coal predators' list. His face is covered with coal dust, and the whites of his eyes shine on this cold morning, 3-degree Celsius [37-degrees Fahrenheit].
He relates that the "front man" wants to forcibly buy his house and pay him much less than the assessed value:
"I am asking 800,000 pesos [US$53,289] for my two houses, but he wants to give me 30,000 pesos [US$1,998], because he says that it's a rustic area. The only thing we have is possession of the land, but they want to pay what gives them profit."
He has five children, and he shows both the cracks in his house caused by the mining cuts and the cracks in the earth that are now opening due to the caves they are constructing a few meters from the patio of his house. While showing the damages, he easily plunges an iron bar into the earth, all the while complaining:
"They've already burrowed under the patio. They tunneled below and took out the coal. Our land is being sunk, and they are making the big bucks."
His wife, Norma Saldaña, 31, interrupts him and says that a few days ago, they threatened to kill him and tried to kidnap him to force him to sell their properties:
"We haven't been able to sleep for several months, because they work around the clock. Nobody stops them. The land is sinking. Using just a wheelbarrow, we carry out tons of earth thrown into the courtyard to prevent our house from falling down."
At the request of the neighbors, the investigating agent from the Public Ministry [prosecutors, investigative police], Liliana Magaly Reyes Pizarro made an appearance, but like the other municipal, state and federal authorities of various agencies, she came, took notes and did nothing to stop the coal entrepreneurs.
The affected neighbors have joined the Pasta de Conchos Family Organization [, which is supporting them, and they have already filed a complaint with Ildefonso Guajardo, Economy Secretary, to require that:
All mining concession titles located within the village be suspended until the legitimacy of the coal mining and of the assumed landowners is determined;
Environmental damage caused "under the gaze" of the authorities of the municipality of Sabinas be repaired; and
Damage to roads, drainage and houses be repaired.
Cristina Auerbach, director of the organization, has decided to open an office in Cloete and remain on permanent guard against threats from the coal predators:
"The families are in a state of absolute helplessness. Authorities, companies with their lawyers and Mayor Lenin Flores have told them that their property title deeds are worthless, and that they cannot say anything because before Los Zetas handled everything, and now everything is already legal, but there is a systematic violation of the rights of more than 4,000 people who don't have anyone to complain to, because the government does not want to receive the complaints."
According to an independent investigation, the allegedly illegal pits located in the village are registered to these coal companies: Taso Grandeco, Minera La Coquette, Minera del Norte, Orlando García Macías, Jesús Elpidio Aranda Valdez and Sabinas Ecological Mineral Company.
Auerbach tours the pits of Cloete and writes down all the irregularities committed by the municipal, state and federal governments in collusion with the coyotes and coal entrepreneurs:
"The authorities do not act against the dispossession with the argument that coal comes first before the families. They go from atrocity to atrocity. They extract coal at the expense of people's lives. In the coal region, there is a vacuum of State [authority]. Here they only value the interests of the companies and front men for the mining companies that are getting the houses to extract coal. It is perverse and illegal."
Spanish original
By Sanjuana Martínez
Borderland Beat Reporter Anonymous Posted at 11:08 PM
Canadiana March 7, 2015 at 2:59 AM
O that's just horrible.Those poor people and no one to help them.
Tuta snitched!!
Again with the bullshit of criminals helping other bitches get into the seats of power, so they can keep doing their criminal activities without getting it. In those towns why can't the persons just take out those crooks with one shot in the papaya? maybe one from their own communities would do a better job than others from other places that go to those towns just to steal and to protect the others giving them a piece of their wrongdoings. Instead of helping they do more harm not just to the persons but to the land with all the pollution
Mexican government narco-mierdocracia delegates unto their chosen the operation for their favorite sons protection and benefit, in their tit for tat, slave labor, prostitution and drug trafficking creeps in as icing on the cake...
--how do you think bertie boy moreira got himself a white blond beautiful ho' for a wife?
--after kicking out the charro leaders of the miners union, the PAN government allowed the faster privatization of mining without interference, and illegal mining to fill orders of their chinese clients, on acquired railroad corporations privatized under zedillo to move coke trains full of coca to the US for their American partners...
3:14 Now you sound more understandable. I tend to agree with everything you said. If only you could write clearer (like this) all the time, but many of your responses sound like you are ranting and raving with people tending to not read your statements. .
The Mexican government has allowed these companies to come in and strip the land of much of its resources. Now is the time for at least 100,000 citizens or more to march to the presidents palace and keep up a sustained protest. I mean daily until you get the response you want.
un hombre October 18, 2015 at 10:56 PM
What have protests ever accomplished but awareness of the obvious
Why haven't u guys had any story's of zacatecas ! It's been a war zone lately Zetas vs cdg
DD...This is a compelling article. The “Mexico Voices” blog is a very good site for learning about what’s happening in Mexico and the Spanish to English translations are “excellent.”
When all is lost ,get a gun an start with the mayor.
Nothing mew, the mining companies are Doing that in sonora, Michoacan, Guerrero, basicly all over Mexico. Mexicans seling their natural resources , soon mexico will be stripped to the core. Its just going to be a big empty hole. Pendejos!! Real
If you go to google maps you can see some of the open mines. Some Mexican coal companies are trying so hard to get permits to mine on land they own in Texas. Example Dos Republicas in Eagle Pass, Tx. And the way they are trying to fuck that community is ridiculus. The politics on the border mirror those of mexico. and in the U.S , like mexico, they pick and choose to expose what is convenient for their cause and that shit is force fed to us as truth.
Mexico slides further into complete anarchy. Pobrecitos!
Google satillite view the town. Looks like a cancer.
DD, you live around there, and drive around there and never saw anything to report???
SNTMMSSRM :
(Sindicato Nacional de los Trabajadores Mineros Metalurgicos Siderurgicos y Similares de la Republca Mexicana) full of charro leaders for many years under secretary general Napoleon Gomez Sada was corrupted slowly, but inexorably, until his son Napoleon Gomez Urrutia was forced to run to Canada, with the union money...
--el PRI sustained itself with state's governorships corruption, drug trafficking and all kind of criminal enterprise, in cahoots with PAN, now that Gomez Urrutia is back he does nothing against his coahuila friends or foes, because he is even more of a charro leader of the miners union than his daddy...
--And there is no politician or professional people, like engineers, lawyers, accountants, in mexico that can do anything but bend over and fuck mexico and its people, or else...
--but nature will take its course, it is all getting hot and ready to explode all over, the flying shit is running out of gas and bullshit...
That's the way we do things in Mexico "likeit or LeaveIt"
@2:34 we have left mexico, but we won't leave it alone...
"Your" president el "pompadour" pena nieto has been peddling his ass all over the world trying to clean mexico's nalgas for investors to come and give him millions of dollars in kickbacks for stealing something more from mexico, and you come and fuck it all for him, again...
--mexico's politics of graft, greed, murder , genocide, anti environment and corruption, are illegal and crimes against humanity, drug trafficking, money laundering, torture, and disappearance of persons are also bad practices that may lead to somebody getting hanged...even if the feel they were only doing their patriotic duty...
It is so sad to drive by and see how much everything has changed it appears as if it had never been a small town now with all the POCITOS literally EVERYWHERE I am from a town very close by and is just sad sad sad you should take a trip to Minas de Barroteran...js
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July 19th, 2014 by Gino Burgio
Yet again, another amazing night at The Webster theater! It was great to share the magic with our local friends Stikpin, We are Nothing, Crossing Rubicon and Sever The Drama.
As far as national act’s go, it was very nice to see CT native Howard Jones destroy the stage in his new project Devil You Know. True honor to be in the same room with this man.
Lacuna Coil as always, producing a memorable show for all of their dedicated fans and what an honor to be on the same bill as them!
And now we get to “Starset”….although Civil Drone isn’t afraid to flaunt our metal edge, it was very welcoming to be in the presence of another hybrid, shape shifter slicing through with vocal screams, shrills and blood soaked guitar riffs and then breaking into refined melodies that infected your brain, wanting you to sing over and over again in your head songs like “Carnivore” and “My Demons”.
Their audio display was also matched with mesmerizing visuals such as neon illuminated helmets and attire that really made you feel to be a part of something bigger, transcending any typical rock show.
Perhaps in due time a 30 Seconds to Mars, Starset and Civil Drone tour shall be in order…..we shall see what the future holds…..
A big thank you to all of the new Drones that have discovered our music as a result of last night. Our gift for your support is free music under our “My Store” tab. It’s all about getting out there and experiencing this crazy journey together and we are very happy to have you be a part of our growing family! There is so much more to life than just being a passenger as a civil drone, we are happy you realize that too and welcome you with open arms!
Until November 1st, 2014 when we open for Nonpoint at The Webster theater, we look forward to getting to know you at our local shows as well!
~Gabriel BG~
It is with my utmost pleasure and excitement to announce that after me regrouping to solidify other writing projects, networking in Nashville to become a better songwriter and solo artist development in my progressive pop project Gabriel-BG, that Civil Drone is finally back up and running!!! Version 2.0 is better than ever before!
Under the Gabriel-BG umbrella, Connecticut’s up and rising Alternative Rock group Civil Drone is back together, with core member Marc Charette on drums, along with original Brain Pillow guitarist Just Pirro. To further solidify this line up, we bring in Rob Gagnon, to showcase his many years of technical and tasteful guitar playing and Tommy Iwanicki on bass commanding a strong backing vocal presence.
Unfiltered Rock will always be a cornerstone of my writing and raw vocal abilities and Civil Drone has always been extremely near and dear to me. Under the long tenure and dedication of Marc Charette working behind the scenes orchestrating a strong comeback, together with the new band members, we are happy to bring to date, the most refined version of Civil Drone ever.
We are excited to show our long dedicated Civil Drone army, along with finding new friends, the updated version that promises to mesmerize and leave you going home singing new tunes and as always, having a great night out!
Stay tuned for new Civil Drone show announcements and new music updates by following the below social media links of your preference.
~Gabriel-BG~
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We are thrilled at how AMAZING 2012 has been going thus far! Some big things coming up in the near future and we already have been blessed with the amount of support we have been receiving from our fellow drones! We can’t begin to thank each and everyone that came out to The Downtown Cafe in Bristol this past Friday. There were many familiar faces that have come time and time again, and there were some new faces that we were very surprised to see! We were able to meet some new friends as well and as always give out free CD’s to anyone interested. When you spread the love, we are humbled to do so in return. Sincerely, we thank each and everyone for coming out. Check out some of the pictures below of that night!
~Gingles~
Our fellow drones showing the love
WOW! So much has been going on lately. Our gig calendar continues to get more and more shows, and we are meeting more and more friends and adding to the Civil Drone Family. Awesome show with Project7 and Klokwize too, we will definitely be sharing the stage again soon! Ok, this is actually pretty huge…. we advanced to the next round of Radio 104.1 WMRQ Talent Warz 2! We couldn’t have done it without each and everyone’s vote. We seriously can’t begin to thank all of you for giving us another opportunity at this competition which will be April 6th with all of the other contestants that have advanced. Here is the YouTube video!
Gingles and Tony taking a phone pic at Radio 104.1 qualifying round at Up or On the Rocks! “Hey, how do you work this thing?”
The crowd at All Stars! These guys love music!
It’s been a little while but I just wanted you to know that tracking has been going really well on the new album! Drums are done and we’ll be soon be onto Bass and Guitars! Such a cool experience to solidify our original tunes. Some new shows are starting to emerge and we’ll soon be announcing some very exciting news! Oh yeah, a very special thank you to Mike Chaiken for his interview with us in the local paper. Thank you so much Mike, we really appreciate the support and can’t wait to give back to you and the community!
~Gingles
We have been very busy lately wrapping up our final shows of the year as well as refining some new material for our EP scheduled to be released early 2012. We will also be announcing some very exciting news at our first show scheduled for 2012, so you will not want to miss that! At this time on Thanksgiving Day that this post is updated, we would like to give a special thanks to those of you that continue to support us during our begging stages. A HUGE thank you goes out to John Kuleza. You have continued to support us in a big way and we wanted to extend our appreciation of you and acknowledge your contributions. Thank you.
So as we wrap up 2011, we must say that it’s been a wonderful journey thus far. In what was supposed to be a series of select shows while tweaking our lineup and onstage chemistry, turned out to be a year with many opportunities! We’ve added to the Civil Drone family many new “Drones” that have inspired us to reveal our souls and give every last drop of energy to you on stage.
We look forward to starting off 2012 with a bang with a new permanent addition to our line up (Jesse Froebel- Lead Guitar/Backing Vocals) as well as new music and working with new industry professionals to help us get to our goal which is expanding our “Drone” family, writing inspiring music and making each and every show more energetic and exciting then the last.
We look forward to seeing you out there bigger, better and with a new fire to share with each of you.
We are very excited about our recent performances since we’ve last checked in! We continue to meet new friends who are sure to come to future shows which is always a rewarding experience as well as meeting new talented bands such as Little Ugly, Deadfish Handshake, and Yokodevin. We crossed state lines to play at Maximum Capacity in Chicopee MA, and were warmly welcomed by a venue very excited to hear original music! As always, we had a great time at Bleachers in Bristol and look forward to playing future shows including the show we have scheduled with Hearts & Thieves October 8th!
Wow! It has been a while since we’ve had a chance to say hello to our our fellow Drone’s in the cyber world, since we’ve been having such a sweet time playing out and hanging out in person! We can’t begin to thank all of our friends and family that have continued to show support. It is especially beautiful to be meeting so many new faces and adding to our family!
We would like to especially thank the Downtown Cafe in Bristol CT for such a wonderful night! The locals totally were digging the original music! We totally have to give a shout out to Advanced Booking and Entertainment for inviting us to rock the stage at the 3rd annual Rock Ur Ink Off event. There were plenty of amazing bands there, including our new friends Deadfish! Oh yeah, since we’ve been gone we also had a great time at The Webster Underground! As always, nothing but the best original music .
We look forward to another exciting weekend as we get ready for Mad Murphy’s Cafe (thank you Cubed Squared) as well as Bristol Risings Pop-up Piazza festival! Again, we have so much to look forward to, including our debut with our new line up at our hometown in Bristol at Bleachers. This place rocks, and we can’t wait to see you all there!
As always, much love for the continued support of Ken, Ashley, Doug, Phuc, Zethe, Brenden, Kellie, Marjorie, Eric, Elmar, Tim, Steph, again…too many to list, but it is insanely appreciated!
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Mako : Classic Movie Hub (CMH)
Makoto Iwamatsu
Sign Sagittarius
Born Dec 10, 1933
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Top Roles Po, Soldier in Hospital, Kenji, Calvin Coolidge Ishimura, Capt. Vinh
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Actor, Mako, was born Makoto Iwamatsu on Dec 10, 1933 in Kobe, Japan. died at the age of 72 on Jul 21, 2006 in Somis, CA .
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He was the East West Players' first artistic director in 1965. He also taught acting classes there to help pay the company's bills. The company's first home was a basement in a Silver Lake church secured by co-founder Beulah Quo. Later, it moved to a storefront on Santa Monica Blvd. Since 1998, it has been housed in the historic Union Center for the Arts and performs in a 240 seat theater.
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CMR University Kannada Rajyostava 2016
The Kannada Rajyostava 2016 at the CMR University was celebrated on Thursday, November 24, 2016 at the city campus.
Delivering the introductory remarks, Dr Anand K Joshi, Vice Chancellor, CMR University said, that Kannada is one of the classical languages: “Kannada is a southern Dravidian language and can be divided into three periods; old Kannada, middle Kannada and modern Kannada. There are many dialects of Kannada which varies by the geographical regions.” The Vice Chancellor further stated that the cultural, traditional and social value of Kannada must be maintained and encouraged within our homes for the growth of the language.
Addressing the gathering, Dr RK Nallur Prasad, former president, Kannada Sahitya Parishat and retired Kannada Professor, deemed that Kannada must not be restricted and conserved. Dr Nallur Prasad pointed out that the people have become enslaved to technology and hence this has adverse effects on communication: “The lack of communication will lead to the death of language. People must learn to communicate in Kannada especially in their homes for building the language further. The responsibility for the growth of Kannada lies on the new generation and I am hopeful that Kannada will thrive abundantly” he added.
Delivering the presidential remarks, KC Jagannath Reddy, Secretary of the CMR Jnanadhara Trust, listed the monthly programmes, mobile libraries and the various meetings that are scheduled in various areas across the city for growing and spreading Kannada language.
Dr R Praveen, Registrar, CMRU and Prof SK Balaraman, Registrar, Evaluation, were also present on the occasion.
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14 famous companies switched industries or at least products
Wrigley's first bubbles came from soap, but gave gum away to customers
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(Mental Floss) -- Some companies find their niche and stick to it. Others, though, have to adapt to changing markets in order to thrive. Here's a look at some companies that switched industries at some point in their histories, usually for the better.
Tiffany's may know how to prettily wrap jewelry because the company began in the paper business.
1. Avon
David H. McConnell started Avon in 1886 without really meaning to. McConnell sold books door-to-door, but to lure in female customers he offered little gifts of perfume. Before long, the perfume McConnell was giving away had become more popular than the books he was selling, so he shifted focus and founded the California Perfume Company, which later became Avon.
The telecom giant got its start in Finland in 1865, when Fredrik Idestam opened a pulp mill and started making paper on the banks of Tammerkoski. The company later bounced around a number of industries before getting serious about phones in the 1960s.
3. 3M
When the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company's founders opened their business in Two Harbors, Minnesota, in 1902, they weren't selling Post-It Notes. The partners originally planned to sell the mineral corundum, an important ingredient in building grinding wheels, directly to manufacturers.
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The sprawling holding company helmed by Warren Buffett was originally a textile manufacturer that took off in 1839. Buffett took control in 1962, though, and by 1967 he started to move outside of textiles into insurance and other sectors. Mental Floss: Ginsu Knives, Dairy Queen and what else Warren Buffett owns
5. Wrigley
Like Avon, the chewing gum company got its start with a popular freebie. William Wrigley, Jr. founded the company in 1891 with the goal of selling soap and baking powder. He offered chewing gum as an enticement to his customers, and eventually the customers didn't care about the baking powder; they only wanted the gum.
6. Tiffany & Co.
The jewelry and silverware hot bed was originally a stationer called Tiffany, Young, and Ellis when it started in 1837. In 1853 Tiffany switched its core business and began focusing on jewelry.
7. Coleco
The defunct electronics corporation actually began as a leather goods company in Connecticut in 1932. In the early days it was known as the Connecticut Leather Company, which was later shortened to "Coleco."
8. Hasbro
The company behind Transformers and G.I. Joes began in 1923 as Hassenfeld Brothers. The titular brothers didn't make toys, though; they sold textile remnants. Their business gradually shifted into school supplies before making the leap to toys after the 1952 introduction of Mr. Potato Head. Mental Floss: How 10 classic toys were invented
9. Raytheon
The defense contractor started up in 1922 as the American Appliance Company, which worked on refrigeration technology. Eventually the company branched out into other areas of electronics and became Raytheon in 1925.
10. Colgate
The hygienic products company got its start in 1806, but it didn't make its first toothpaste until 1873. Founder William Colgate initially manufactured soap, candles, and starch.
11. Xerox
When Xerox got off the ground in 1906, it was as a maker of photographic paper and photography equipment called the Haloid Company. The company didn't introduce what we would think of as a copier until the Xerox 914 made its debut in 1959.
12. John Deere
The man behind the giant fleet of green tractors got his start as a blacksmith in Grand Detour, Illinois. After struggling to make plows that could cut through the area's tough clay, Deere hit on the idea of building plows out of cast steel, and his blacksmith gig gave way to a booming farm-supply business.
13. Reading Entertainment
Remember the Reading Railroad from the last time you played Monopoly? The company still (sort of) exists! The Reading Company got out of the railroad business in 1976 but was reborn as Reading Entertainment, which operates movie theaters mainly in Australia, New Zealand, and the U.S. Mental Floss: 11 things Wal-Mart has banned
14. Abercrombie & Fitch
When David Abercrombie founded the clothing store in 1892 in New York City, he wasn't dreaming of clothing high school and college students everywhere. The store was originally a sporting goods shop and outfitter; Abercrombie even outfitted Charles Lindbergh for his famous flight across the Atlantic. The version Abercrombie & Fitch you see in your local mall started to come about after Limited Brands bought the company in 1988.
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Lieutenant Colonel Conley entered the Air Force as an Airman in 1988, and after a two-year enlistment, separated in pursuit of a commission. He re-entered the Air Force as a distinguished graduate of the East Carolina University Reserve Officer Training Corps program in 1992, earning his Regular commission. He served in an array of assignments in the personnel community from the base, Air Staff, and Air Force Personnel Center-levels. He also served as a group executive officer, Air Force Intern, deployed squadron commander, mission support squadron commander and is a distinguished graduate, Squadron Officers School and a graduate of Air Command and Staff College in-residence and Air War College by correspondence. Considered a life-long learner, his education includes a Bachelor of Science degree in Human Resources Administration from St. Leo College, a Master of Science degree in Organizational Management from the University of Laverne, a Master of Science degree in Human Resources Management from George Washington University, and a Master of Science degree in Military Operational Arts and Sciences from Air University. Most recently, Colonel Conley completed his Educational Specialist degree in Educational Leadership from NOVA Southeastern University. His is married to his beautiful bride, Genevieve Macalalag, and together they have four incredible children—Kayla, Layne, Alexa, and Liam.
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Keelan Cole just picked up his Third All American Honors. First in the G-MAC.
Kentucky Wesleyan should benefit from this. I heard for sure he is going to get a hard look from an NFL team. He should, an All Purpose All American can actually play in the NFL. He's got the numbers and the foot speed.
He obviously is a receiver. I'm not sure if he could be an NFL wide receiver, but he's got a shot.
Keelan Cole ranks around #41 at the WR position for the NFL draft. I believe there are four players from Louisville, WKU, and KWC in the top 60 WR recruits.
On a personal note in the off season, I am reminded of my first concussion. In a Junior High football game there was a 300 pound defensive lineman coming at me while I was playing quarterback. With little in game experience he scared the crap out of me and I threw the ball away instead of positioning myself for a called pass play to a right wing receiver downfield.
The next day in practice the coaching staff lined me up head to head with the roughest lineman on the team and he knocked me the hell out.
Wrestling seemed more feasible in high school because you wrestled in the same weight class as your opponent. The five mile pre practice runs went swell. However, in my Junior year a wrestler from Christian County dislocated my neck and I was out the rest of the season.
I never got penned in my Senior year until I wrestled the Indiana State Champion from Mater Dei in Evansville in an AAU tournament after the regular high school season was over. I would have placed in the regional in tennis as well until I got hit by a ball in my left eye, and I am going blind in that eye now due to that blood clot injury.
I should have played it safe and stuck to baseball in High School. It was the sport I was best in, but I wanted to be tough. Now, after several concussions I have brain damage and I'm partially losing my sight. Still, the lessons I learned from athletics keep coming back to me. Keep playing hard until the game is over. If you leave it on the court, the field, or the mat - you have at least done something.
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Congrats to KWC's Keelan Cole. Very cool. I will be rooting for him to make it.
Keelan Cole signed with the Jacksonville Jaguars.
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Former KWC QB Dalton Oliver had his name in the draft as well. His stock went up after playing International Football in Paris, France last season. He will probably go back to France. There are worse places to live than Paris.
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I looked up Keelan Cole's three year contract with the Jacksonville Jaguars. His three year contract is listed @ $1.665 Million.
He becomes a Restricted Free Agent in 2020.
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KWC signed 19 on National Signing Day
Most of them are from Kentucky, heavy with players from Louisville.
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The KWC Football team is expected to compete and win this season. They could, and they should. It's great that Keelan Cole is playing in the NFL.
I have no idea how Brent will do, or how much support the administration is giving him.
Panther Head Coach Brent Holsclaw will be welcoming the new and returning Football players to campus this Sunday.
A bunch of new players will be coming in. The team always looks great on the field. We'll see how the new quarterbacks and offensive line look at Murray State University at Racer Stadium. Every time MSU gets a TD a horse will run around the track. Year before last the horse looked like he could barely make the quarter mile. Keelan Cole could whip him in the 100 yard dash.
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KWC alumnifan - How do you feel about KWC being picked to finished 7th out of 8 GMAC teams? What is your opinion of the Panthers having to play Findlay, Ohio Dominican, Hillsdale? We former GLIAC members know little about your program, except what we've been able to keep track of here on D2.com.
Last season's best KWC player was Keelan Cole who scored on a 97 yard TD pass against the New England Patriots. The Jaguars QB threw it from the end zone and Cole caught it at the forty yard line for a sixty yard TD run. That probably sealed a spot for him as a RFA for the Jags.
I don't know what to expect in the expanded G-MAC. KWC will compete in the G-MAC. I can see them being a little better than next to last, depending on how well the new players adjust. The KWC Football team will improve in the G-MAC.
I am going to see them play at Murray State. I can tell you more after I see them play.
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Out on a limb.... I think KWC has a WR that will put up receiving numbers much like Cole did last year. Much depends on our QB.
I liked the preseason interview with Coach Holsclaw. When you are in the fastest growing conference in D2, that helps your recruiting and attendance. I see the KWC team improving as the season progresses.
I don't think any individual player this season will be like Keelan Cole. John Clay from the Lexington Herald Leader wrote an article this week stating pretty much that Keelan should make it as the sixth WR for the Jags. If he doesn't make the rotation, I still see him on the practice squad.
If Keelan makes the rotation there will be plenty of high school players who will want to come to KWC as either a QB or WR.
Wesleyan has a pretty good QB and both lines up front have added a number of players. I don't think KWC will back down this season. It's not like they play bad teams on the D2 level. The G-MAC Football Conference will really help a team like KWC. I would rank them 6th. This season should see KWC start to really improve their program.
Kentucky Wesleyan College Athletics Facebook page has posted a new video preview of the 2017 Football Team. It's great! No kidding. The people working in the sports information department and social media are top notch this season.
If you want to see a mini D2 Football Preseason Documentary, you would like this one. It's not flashy, but it's very clean and it gives you different views of how they are practicing on the field, and clean views of the field and stadium.
The entire Athletic Department at KWC is upping it's game, especially from a G-MAC perspective as to how the conference wants their members to conform. The college has rebranded and financial support for the athletic department is going up.
Steele Stadium is a very nice small on campus stadium. It seats 3,000.
Go to Facebook and search Kentucky Wesleyan Athletics to view the season preview.
Who could ever believe that a kid could come to Kentucky Wesleyan as a walk-on Football Player, and end up on the 53 man roster for the Jacksonville Jaguars?
Keelan Cole's story should help Wesleyan's football program in the future. They are favored to beat Livingstone. Livingstone is not real good.
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Sunday 11/02 (Very) Quickie: Guns Up
Wow. Wow. Wow. I'm still blown away by the way Texas Tech put away Texas last night.
The Red Raiders dominated Texas for all but the final quarter. But just when the game seemed to get away from them -- literally in the final minute, when you could see a "Texas being Texas" moment of triumph -- they dominated Texas with one of the awesomest last-minute, game-winning drives you'll ever see (particularly given that it came against a consensus No. 1 team).
BTW: Have you ever seen a two-play turnaround like the one at the end of last night's game? Texas HAD THE GAME WON WITH THAT INT -- which they dropped. Then, Harrell (my new Heisman leader?) hit Crabtree (um, perhaps my newer Heisman leader?) with that sicksicksick TD pass. Matt Hinton summed up that Texas two-step nicely.
Speaking of No. 1, I have no idea -- ZERO -- how ANYONE could possibly NOT put Texas Tech at No. 1 in the polls this week. They are unbeaten, from the nation's best conference, and thoroughly outplayed the consensus No. 1 team in the country. That they would "vault" from 7 to 1 (some of us had them at No. 4 this week...) is hardly a radical thought, given the way they beat the team formerly considered No. 1.
But, really, you are an intellectually bankrupt poll voter if you gave your No. 1 vote to Texas last week, then don't turn around and give it to Texas Tech.
Here's the other dynamic that I find intriguing: Yesterday was the first moment we had a "state your case" game from a non-unbeaten, 1-loss team. Given the way that Florida destroyed another team in the Top 10, I'd argue that Florida is better right now than both Alabama and Penn State, despite that one loss. (In what other match-up this season of two teams both in the Top 10 did one team so thoroughly overwhelm the other?) Then again, plenty of would-be champions had to settle for the "playing better than anyone else right now" label... while still sitting outside the Top 2.
But, really, let me be revisionist: Just how impressive is Alabama's win at Georgia -- outlasting, rather than beating -- now that Florida just obliterated the Bulldogs on a neutral field? And Penn State's status as both unbeaten -- on the strength of a very good win over a good but not great Ohio State team -- and king of the Big Ten (umm...is that supposed to be impressive?) is one step up from Ball State: "We're undefeated, thus we're deserving!" Another year, another looks like another unbeaten Big Ten champ will ride a fluffy schedule to a beat-down in the national title game.
This isn't just about Florida; I'm seriously considering ranking Texas at No. 2, behind Texas Tech. Just as Oklahoma's close loss to Texas allowed them to hug tight behind the Big Three, Texas' close loss to Texas Tech doesn't mean they aren't the 2nd-best team in the country. If Texas played either Alabama or Penn State, I think they would work them over. I feel the same way about Florida.
Does that mean I should rank Texas No. 2 and Florida No. 3, ahead of Alabama and Penn State? At what point does "ranking by resume" turn into "resume, plus enough to know what those wins mean in context of everyone else." I also have been known to favor "how a team is playing at that moment," given that I named Georgia my national champ last season.
I don't want poll-jockeying to take away from that thrilling game last night. I didn't think anything would diminish or impact the high I was riding after the Florida win, but the way Texas Tech dismantled Texas did just that. It's not even that I'm anti-Texas; it's just that how can you not love a scrappy perennial second-tier rival, playing in (and delivering) the greatest game of the program's history, at home in front of an INSANE crowd (kudos to them for that, btw), just giving it to the team everyone presumed would roll through the regular season unbeaten.
The mainstream pundits have now been incredibly wrong twice in the past month or so: (1) USC was unbeatable; (2) Texas was unbeatable. Frankly, it's hard for me to put any stock in what they say anymore.
(1) Texas Tech earned itself the week at No. 1 -- with Oklahoma State coming next week, there's no guarantee that holds, but TT deserves to be in the pole/poll position. But given Tech's history, the chances of them running the table are not in their favor. (Personally, I find the Big 12 defense's more suspect than ever, particularly after watching Florida's defense opportunistically suck the life out of a Georgia offense considered one of the nation's best.)
(2) The polls may allow Bama and Penn State to back into 1-2 this week.
(3) I think Bama may have trouble at LSU next week, but they will certainly have trouble with Florida if the Gators and Tide both make the SEC title game and Bama comes in unbeaten.
(4) Penn State, god bless 'em, can simply ride out their cushy schedule, which doesn't feature a league title game, and go unbeaten.
Conclusion: Actually, there is very little BCS mess, contrary to Brent's rabble-rousing. There are 3 teams that should end up with a claim: An unbeaten Penn State, an unbeaten or 1-loss Big 12 champ and an unbeaten or 1-loss SEC champ. Now, deciding between them might be hard (for now), but we're not talking about a particularly messy situation. (Besides, if an SEC or Big 12 team is shut out of the national title game for Penn State, isn't that what the mythical AP championship is for?)
But that's all poll-wonky and looking too far ahead (given last night's Midnight Miracle, obviously). Let's not take away from the truly marvelous game that Texas Tech played -- and its gloriously worthy result.
Posted by Dan Shanoff at 11/02/2008 07:44:00 AM
Umm... Alabama was up 31 in the first half AT Georgia. How is that less impressive than what Florida did an hour and a half from Gainesville? I realize that you're a Florida homer, but come on. This game did more to expose Georgia as overrated (and this is coming from a Georgia fan) than it did to reveal Florida as anything more than a solid top-10 team with a loss.
That said, if they beat an unbeaten Alabama in Atlanta, you'll have a pretty solid case for jumping them over an undefeated Penn State.
DougOLis said...
We just had a bigger 2 play turnaround last year in the Super Bowl. Asante Samuel should have picked off an Eli Manning pass that would have led to the Pats icing the game and going undefeated but he dropped the pass. On the next play David Tyree caught that miracle ball on Eli's scramble. Quite a bit bigger deal than last night if you ask me.
Luke Bell said...
Florida is playing great. It's a shame that they lost AT HOME to a crappy Mississippi team, or your argument might hold some water. The SEC is pretty top heavy this year - only 3 teams can really be considered top tier (and I don't think Alabama is for real-they will lose to LSU or in the SEC title game).
This is why there needs to be a playoff. You can't argue that every week is a "playoff" and then bitch if your team is stuck on the outside. Do I think Florida would beat Penn State? Maybe. But I can make the case that USC, Texas, and Oklahoma could all beat Penn State (but they all lost). That is where the BCS mess comes in - which 1 loss team would you like vaulted into the title game over an undefeated one? And isn't that the big no-no that Auburn fans were crying about years ago?
Save the "more deserving" schtick for when Penn State gets a loss too. Or, spit the venom at the Gators for having perhaps the best team in the nation and still losing at home to a team they should have waxed. Penn State may have a lighter schedule, but you don't see them losing at home to Indiana. And we all know if they did, you would be pointing out how pathetic and weak they are.
No mention of the mainstream media being wrong about ranking a 2-loss team as the preseason #1? Oh wait, that's an SEC team, so it's ok to gloss over that. Let's only point out the convenient facts.
Max said...
Florida still lost to Mississippi St. If you're going to hold USC up for their bad loss to Oregon St, then Florida will also have to face the music.
I agree that Tech should get a boost from last night, but the majority of voters were likely already in bed by the time Crabtree pulled that insane grab.
Love the blog, read it daily.
the bankrupt museum said...
Dan - Why not just drop Penn St from your top 10 and be done with it? While Florida's win was impressive, you continue to be blinded by the reputation of the SEC this year when the evidence just isn't there. I mean, they were even discussing the league's poor non-conference this year during the Tx/TT game.
Please point out any egregious flaws in this SEC vs. Big 10 analogy: Georgia is talented but obviously NOT a top 10 team(=Ohio St), LSU is barely a top 25 team squeaking out wins (=Mich St), Auburn is a joke (=Wisconsin), Vandy overinflated record, middling talent (= Northwestern), Alabama undefeated no PROVE IT win (= Penn St; wins Clemson = Or St, Georgia = OH State)...and Florida basically lost at home to the equivalent of Purdue (who=Mississippi) = unexcusable -- the equivalent of Stanford over USC last year - they have to be out, behind at least four potential 1-loss Big 12 teams.
I think the Big 12 is the ONLY conference that has a legit gripe about their teams cannibalizing each other...but the only 1-loss team that will have any case is the one that wins the Big 12 championship game.
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Vancouver, British Columbia– February 14, 2018 – GoldMining Inc. (the "Company" or "GoldMining") (TSX-V: GOLD; OTCQX: GLDLF - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7D80aZDC0yQ&t=2s) today issued a Letter to Shareholders regarding the Company's plans and outlook for 2018. The full report from the Company's Chairman, Amir Adnani, follows.
Dear Shareholder,
First, I want to thank you for your ongoing support of our efforts over the last 12-months, which led to a significant expansion of our project portfolio. With three acquisitions of gold and gold-copper resource stage projects in 2017 – the La Mina Gold-Copper Project ("La Mina") in Colombia, the Yellowknife Gold Project ("YGP") in Canada and the Crucero Gold Project ("Crucero") in Peru – it was a very busy and exciting year for our Company.
Since our first acquisition in 2012, our efforts to consolidate assets have now placed us in the top tier of junior mining companies with respect to the amount of global gold resources. GoldMining's global resources have grown to 9.5 million ounces gold (12.4 million ounces gold equivalent) in the measured and indicated categories and 11.7 million ounces gold (14.2 million ounces gold equivalent) in the inferred category. The table at the end of this letter provides additional details on our resources, including grades, gold-equivalents and tonnages for each of our projects (Table 1).
With no debt, strong treasury and disciplined cost structure, we are ideally positioned for value realization, with the flexibility to aggressively advance our existing projects with resource expansion and development activities in the event the price of gold makes a clear breakout in 2018.
For now, despite the gold price showing signs of improvement – from US$1,158/ounce at the start of 2017 to over US$1,300 today – we continue to identify and actively assess numerous opportunities for accretive acquisitions.
In 2018, we plan to continue creating value for shareholders and believe we have the means, assets and opportunities to do so.
Building a large and diversified resource base in the Americas
Expansion in Colombia
With the acquisition of the La Mina and Titiribi Gold-Copper Project ("Titiribi") in Colombia, we have consolidated a significant land package with gold-copper resources and multiple drill-targets for future exploration. La Mina and Titiribi are only 6 kilometres apart, are situated within the Mid Cauca Belt, one of the most prospective and under-explored gold belts in the world. In addition to the already defined gold and copper resource at La Mina, the project hosts several under-explored porphyry targets that we believe offer excellent opportunities for new discoveries in a region with excellent infrastructure.
Targets such as La Garrucha, that saw some of the longest and highest-grade gold and copper intersections before drilling was suspended in 2013 due to lack of funding by the previous owner, will be evaluated to determine the amount of additional drilling required to complete a maiden resource estimate. Several other geophysical and geochemical anomalies are untested by drilling, but clearly there is good potential to identify additional areas of gold-copper mineralization on the property.
Entry into Canada and Peru
Canadaꞌs Northwest Territories is an exciting and under-explored region of Canada with geopolitical stability. With two acquisitions in this region, we've consolidated over 11,000 hectares that comprise the Yellowknife Gold Project ("YGP"). The YGP is an advanced-stage gold project covering over 30 kilometres of the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt, which historically produced more than 15 million ounces of gold from the Con, Giant and Discovery Mines. The Discovery Mine, located on the YGP land package, historically produced over 1 million ounces of gold from high-grade ore from 1950 to 1969. Historic production is not necessarily indicative of potential future results and is referenced for information purposes only.
The YGP has been the focus of extensive historical work including drilling (231,609 metres in 1,061 holes), underground development at two deposits (2,400 metres), bulk sampling, and metallurgical test work. The potential to expand the existing resource base and identify new areas of gold mineralization is considered high by our technical team.
Our focus in 2018 will be to compile and review the existing extensive database to gain a better understanding of the potential of the Yellowknife Greenstone Belt covered by our project. An independent engineering group will be engaged to complete a technical report, including the completion of resource estimates, for several of the deposits that have been identified on the project.
We started 2018 by announcing our latest resource estimate on the Crucero Gold Project ("Crucero") in southeastern Peru, which we acquired in late 2017. Crucero is situated in a favourable mining jurisdiction with a pit-constrained resource and several nearby exploration targets. Our geologists are excited about the potential to expand the existing near surface gold mineralization at the A1 deposit and test several of the nearby targets.
Technical Team to Support Growing Portfolio
GoldMining's technical team was strengthened with appointments of Dr. Ross Sherlock, Dr. Paul Zweng and Mr. Curtis Clark to its Technical Advisory Board. Collectively, they bring decades of exploration, development, production and financial experience to provide insight and guidance towards GoldMining's portfolio of resource-stage projects and to help identify new opportunities for potential acquisition.
With an expanding portfolio in new jurisdictions, we will continue to consider additional key personnel to provide necessary in-country expertise to manage the technical, stakeholder, environmental, and permitting programs in order to keep our properties in good standing with local communities and government agencies.
GoldMining is covered by several mining analysts, including Rodman & Renshaw (a unit of H.C. Wainwright & Co.), Roth Capital Partners and Cantor Fitzgerald. It is our intention to attend a number of investor conferences in 2018 and look forward to meeting current shareholders during these opportunities.
Thank you again for your ongoing support. We welcome your additional participation in the Company. Please call us at 1-855-630-1001, or email info@goldmining.com with any comments. Visit www.goldmining.com or follow us on Twitter @GoldMiningInc to learn more about the Company and to register for upcoming news. We look forward to sharing further developments with shareholders through another exciting year in 2018.
Amir Adnani
About GoldMining Inc.
GoldMining is a public mineral exploration company focused on the acquisition and development of gold assets in the Americas. Through its disciplined acquisition strategy, GoldMining now controls a diversified portfolio of resource-stage gold and gold-copper projects in Canada, U.S.A., Brazil, Colombia and Peru. Additionally, GoldMining owns a 75% interest in the Rea Uranium Project, located in the Western Athabasca Basin of Alberta, Canada.
Table 1: GoldMining's Global Estimated Measured, Indicated and Inferred Resource Statement1,2,3.
Cut-off4
(Mt)
Contained Metal
Gold Eq
(Moz)
(Mlbs)
Measured Resources
Titiribi5
Indicated Resources
Sao Jorge6
Cachoeira7
Whistler8
La Mina9
Crucero12
Measured and Indicated Resources
Inferred Resources
Boa Vista10
Surubim11
Table 1 Notes:
1. Mineral resources are not mineral reserves and do not have demonstrated economic viability. There is no certainty that all or any part of the mineral resources will be converted into mineral reserves. The estimate of mineral resources may be materially affected by environmental permitting, legal, title, taxation, sociopolitical, marketing or other relevant issues.
2. The above global resource estimate table is provided for informational purposes only and is not intended to represent the viability of any project on a standalone or global basis. The exploration and development of each project, project geology and the assumptions and other factors underlying each estimate, are not uniform and will vary from project to project. Please refer to the technical report for each respective project, as referenced herein, for detailed information respecting each individual project.
3. All quantities are rounded to the appropriate number of significant figures; consequently, sums may not add up due to rounding.
Gold cut-off for all projects except for Whistler, which is gold equivalent cut-off.
5. Notes for Titiribi:
· Based on technical report titled "Technical Report on the Titiribi Project Department of Antioquia, Colombia" prepared by Joseph A. Cantor and Robert E. Cameron of Behre Dolbear & Company (USA), Inc., with an effective date of September 14, 2016, which is available at www.sedar.com under GoldMiningꞌs SEDAR profile.
· Gold equivalent estimated for the Titiribi deposit assumes metal prices of US$1,300/oz gold and US$2.90/lb copper and recoveries of 83% for gold and 90% for copper.
6. Notes for Sao Jorge:
· Based on technical report titled "Technical Report and Resource Estimate on the São Jorge Gold Project, Pará State, Brazil" prepared by Porfirio Rodriguez and Leonardo de Moraes of Coffey Mining Pty Ltd. ("Coffey"), with an effective date of November 22, 2013, which is available at www.sedar.com under GoldMiningꞌs SEDAR profile.
Notes for Cachoeira:
Based on technical report titled "Technical Report and Resource Estimate on the Cachoeira Property, Pará State, Brazil" prepared by Gregory Z. Mosher, P.Geo. of Tetratech, Inc. with an effective date of April 17, 2013 and amended and re-stated October 2, 2013, which is available at www.sedar.com under GoldMiningꞌs SEDAR profile.
8. Notes for Whistler:
Based on technical report titled "Technical Report on the Whistler Project" prepared by Gary Giroux of Giroux Consultants Inc., with an effective date of March 24, 2016, which is available at www.sedar.com under GoldMiningꞌs SEDAR profile.
The Whistler Project is comprised of three deposits: Whistler, Raintree West and Island Mountain.
Gold equivalent estimated for the Whistler deposit assumes metal prices of US$990/oz gold, US$15.40/oz silver and US$2.91/lb copper and recoveries of 75% for gold and silver and 85% for copper.
Gold equivalent estimated for the Raintree West deposit assumes metal prices of US$1,250/oz gold, US$16.50/oz silver and US$2.10/lb copper and recoveries of 75% for gold, 85% for copper and 75% for silver.
Gold equivalent estimated for the Island Mountain deposit assumes metal prices of US$1,250/oz gold, US$16.50/oz silver and US$2.10/lb copper and recoveries of 75% for gold, 85% for copper and 25% for silver (recovered in copper concentrate).
A gold equivalent cut-off of 0.3 g/t was highlighted in the estimate as a possible open pit cut-off (Whistler, Raintree-shallow and Island Mountain), and a gold equivalent cut-off of 0.6 g/t was highlighted in the estimate as a possible underground cut-off (Raintree-deep).
9. Notes for La Mina:
Based on technical report titled "Technical Report on the La Mina Project" prepared by Scott E. Wilson, C.P.G. of Metals Mining Consultants, Inc. ("MMC") with an effective date of October 24, 2016, which is available at www.sedar.com under GoldMiningꞌs SEDAR profile.
Gold equivalent estimated for the La Mina project assumes metal prices of US$1,275/oz gold, US$17.75/oz for silver and US$2.75/lb for copper and recoveries of 93% for gold and 90% for copper.
10. Notes for Boa Vista:
· Based on technical report titled "Technical Report on the Boa Vista Project and Resource Estimate on the VG1 Prospect, Tapajos Area, Para State, Northern Brazil" prepared by Jim Cuttle, Gary Giroux and Michael Schmulian, with an effective date of November 22, 2013, which is available at www.sedar.com under GoldMiningꞌs SEDAR profile.
11. Notes for Surubim:
· Based on technical report titled "Technical Report on the Rio Novo Gold Project and Resource Estimate on the Jau Prospect, Tapajos Area, Para State, Northern Brazil" ("Surubim Project") prepared by Jim Cuttle and Gary Giroux, with an effective date of November 22, 2013, which is available at www.sedar.com under GoldMiningꞌs SEDAR profile.
12. Notes for Crucero:
· Resource estimate announced on January 16, 2018 in a News Release titled "GoldMining Announces NI 43-101 Gold Resource for the Crucero Gold Project, Peru", which is available at www.sedar.com under GoldMiningꞌs SEDAR profile. The resource estimate was prepared by Mr. Greg Mosher, M.Sc., P.Geo., recognized as a qualified person as defined in NI 43-101, is independent of the Company and has reviewed and approved the disclosure regarding the resource estimate for the Crucero Project disclosed therein.
· Pit constrained resource estimate based on US$1,500/oz gold, mining cost of US$1.60/t, processing cost of US$16.00/t and pit slope of 47 degrees.
· A technical report documenting the Crucero resource estimate, amongst other items, will be filed in due course and will be available at www.sedar.com under GoldMining's SEDAR profile.
The above global estimated resource statement is provided for information purposes only. Investors should refer to the underlying technical reports referenced above for project-specific factors relating to each resource estimate.
Paulo Pereira, President of GoldMining Inc. has reviewed and approved the technical information contained in this news release. Mr. Pereira holds a Bachelors degree in Geology from Universidade do Amazonas in Brazil, is a Qualified Person as defined in National Instrument 43-101 and is a member of the Association of Professional Geoscientists of Ontario.
GoldMining Inc.
Amir Adnani, Chairman
Garnet Dawson, CEO
Email: info@goldmining.com
This document contains certain forward-looking statements that reflect the current views and/or expectations of GoldMining with respect to its business and future events, including expectations and future plans respecting the Company, future work programs and the exploration potential of its projects. Forward-looking statements are based on the then-current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and forecasts about the business and the markets in which GoldMining operates, including that GoldMining will confirm historical exploration results and historical resource estimates. Investors are cautioned that all forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties, including: the inherent risks involved in the exploration and development of mineral properties, the uncertainties involved in interpreting drill results and other exploration data, the potential for delays in exploration or development activities, the geology, grade and continuity of mineral deposits, the possibility that future exploration, development or mining results will not be consistent with GoldMiningꞌs expectations, accidents, equipment breakdowns, title and permitting matters, labour disputes or other unanticipated difficulties with or interruptions in operations, fluctuating metal prices, unanticipated costs and expenses, uncertainties relating to the availability and costs of financing needed in the future, including to fund any exploration programs on the Project, and that GoldMining may not be able to confirm historical exploration results for its projects. These risks, as well as others, including those set forth in GoldMiningꞌs filings with Canadian securities regulators, could cause actual results and events to vary significantly. Accordingly, readers should not place undue reliance on forward-looking statements and information. There can be no assurance that forward-looking information, or the material factors or assumptions used to develop such forward looking information, will prove to be accurate. GoldMining does not undertake any obligations to release publicly any revisions for updating any voluntary forward-looking statements, except as required by applicable securities law.
Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor their Regulation Services Providers (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this news release.
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2601 Granby Street, Norfolk, VA
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2601 Granby Street, a building well known by sight in the Park Place Historic District, was nearly destroyed by fire in 1997. Thanks to a previous owner, the building was restored rather than condemned. When a new owner purchased the dwelling in 2011, much of the interior rescue had been accomplished, but exterior maintenance barely had been addressed. In addition, a 1909 carriage house that predated the main structure was not yet renovated. Previously gutted, the building had damaged doors from a combination of neglect and burglaries attempted during the period following the fire, when the property sat vacant. As part of the project, damaged exterior woodwork on the main building was carefully repaired and the historic slate roof mended. The porch floors, comprised of decorative tiles arranged in a flower pattern, were gently restored.
The most drastic work concerned the carriage house, which, at the outset of the project, had damaged windows, deteriorated doors, and the ghosted outlines of two apartment units. The building’s current owner took on the remaining apartment construction and the necessary maintenance updates. As the carriage house was historically unfinished, brick walls were left exposed on the interior, lending the building an industrial feeling. The damaged garage door, which was literally falling apart, was replaced to match. The remnants of the historic door now adorn the walls of the second floor apartment as a reminder of the dwelling’s former condition.
2601 Granby Street Carriage House, after
2601 Granby Street Carriage House, before
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2015 Twin Cities Theater Wrap-up: What I'm Most Grateful For
This is the seventh year that I've listed my favorites in Twin Cities theater, and it's getting harder and harder to keep the list at a reasonable number. In 2015 I saw over 200 shows by about 70 different theater companies at over 50 venues around the Twin Cities (including the 44 Fringe shows I saw in one crazy week in August). Going through this long list of plays, musicals, comedies, dramas, and everything in between, my initial list of favorites numbered over 50. "This is going to be impossible!" I thought. But then I realized this post isn't about shows that I liked, or even shows that I loved. This is about shows that left me with the feeling of - theater is the most wondrous and magical thing in the world, and I'm so grateful that I get to do this! After five and a half years of writing about Twin Cities theater, I'm in the fortunate position of being able to see just about any local show that I want to - for free! How lucky am I?! So the theme of this year's favorites list is gratitude. This is my thank you to the theater artists that create such beautiful work, the many PR people I work with who kindly arrange for my tickets, and all of you who read, comment, share, and otherwise support Cherry and Spoon. Here are the things I'm most grateful for this year (click on the linked show title to read the original post).
I'm grateful for musicals big and luscious, or small and lovely:
The Color Purple (Petronella Ytsma)
The Color Purple at Park Square Theatre: the 2005 Broadway musical adaptation of Alice Walker's poignant story that never fails to move me to tears is currently being revived on Broadway, but I'm quite satisfied with Park Square's production earlier this year. Featuring a gorgeous and talented local cast led by Aimee K. Bryant and Regina Marie Williams, a fantastic gospel/jazz/African score, and creative and diverse choreography, this was one of the most moving musicals of the year.
Daughter of the Regiment by Mill City Opera: my first experience of outdoor opera against the stunning historical backdrop of the Mill City Museum, but definitely not my last. There's nothing better than a fully and gorgeously staged opera under the midsummer Minnesota sky, and this light and silly romantic comedy fit the bill.
Hairspray at Artistry: the theater formerly known as Bloomington Civic Theatre got off on the right foot with this show. As I wrote back in August, "Hairspray is a show that's been done many times in the last 13 years, so you might wonder, why now? Artistry answers that question by bringing a feeling of relevance and immediacy to this poignant and moving story wrapped up in fabulous '60s song and dance."
Into the Woods (Heidi Bohnenkamp)
Into the Woods by Theater Latte Da: it was another stellar year of "doing theater musically" at Latte Da, including the reimagined Oliver! and a gleefully maniacal Sweeney Todd. But my favorite was the German forest-set Into the Woods, in which director Peter Rothstein and team "pared down this big Broadway musical to something that feels intimate and innovative, using a small cast and orchestra, and inventive and thoughtful choices in every detail of the production."
The Music Man at the Guthrie Theater: falling under the "big and luscious" category, the huge and talented ensemble was filled with familiar faces and led by a couple of out-of-towners, the lovely Stacie Bono and the charming Danny Binstock. It was a scrumptious celebration of music, love, family, and community. As I wrote back in June, this is "the reason people who love musicals love musicals."
Sister Act (Heidi Bohnenkamp)
Sister Act at Chanhassen Dinner Theatres: what more can I add to my original description of the show - "truly joyous and an all around good time, but might also bring tears to your eyes with it's message of faith, sisterhood, community, and standing with the ones you love in the face of danger and fear."
The Snow Queen at Park Square Theatre: following the delightful new trend of musicals in which cast and band are one, eight actor/musician/singer/dancers told Hans Christian Anderson's charming winter tale with joyful innovation. It was a truly magical and spellbinding evening of storytelling.
The Sound of Music (Rich Ryan)
The Sound of Music at the Ordway Center: 2015 was the year that the Ordway proved without a doubt that you can produce Broadway-style musicals utilizing the amazing talent we have right here in the Twin Cities. First came that ode to baseball Damn Yankees, then came the boisterous Pirates of Penzance, and last but not least was a dream of a production of The Sound of Music, a nostalgic favorite of mine. "The show cast a spell over me from which I didn't want to ever awake!" But they're not done yet; next up - A Chorus Line, and I'm crossing my fingers for more original productions to be announced for next season.
The Spitfire Grill at Lyric Arts: and finally, we get to the small and lovely category. I'd never heard of this 2001 Off-Broadway musical or the 1996 movie that inspired it, but I was completely charmed by the troubled-girl-in-a-small-town story and the folky score, with a star turn by Katharine Strom in the lead role.
I'm grateful for plays that made me laugh, cry, and feel everything in between:
Annapurna (Dan Norman)
Annapurna at the Jungle Theater: two exes with unfinished business come together in a play that uses mountain climbing as a metaphor for a relationship. On director Joel Sass' detailed and realistic trailer set, Angela Timberman and Terry Hempleman bared body and soul in "90 minutes of taut, natural, funny, heart-breaking, real, beautiful dialogue."
Boeing, Boeing by Torch Theater: I'm not sure I laughed more at the theater this year than during this perfectly executed screwball comedy. If the original 1965 Broadway production had had Craig Johnson at the helm and this brilliantly talented cast that gave everything they had, it would not have flopped. Pure comedy genius.
Detriot '67 at Penumbra Theatre: the timing of this play could not have been better (unfortunately). As Penumbra presented the story of a family and music set amidst one of the largest riots in US history, a story that was "as much fun and entertaining as it is sobering and thought-provoking," a similar state of unrest due to years of racial injustice erupted in Baltimore. History repeats itself until we learn how to do better.
Forget Me Not (Paula Keller)
Forget Me Not When Far Away by Ten Thousand Things: I don't think I've ever had a favorites list without a TTT show on it, so unique and special is their pure and raw theater style. This year my favorite was Kira Obolensky's playful and poignant fairy tale about a soldier (a strong and appealing Ron Menzel) returning home from war. But this story really belonged to the women - over 20 characters played by just five brilliantly versatile actors (Shá Cage, Sun Mee Chomet, Annie Enneking, Elise Langer, and Karen Wiese-Thompson).
The Gospel of Lovingkindness at Pillsbury House Theatre: there's no way around it, 2015 was a tough year in our country, with increasing racial tension and gun violence. Marcus Gardley's new play tells the story of one black teenager's death and his mother's response in a way that somehow left me with a bit of hope. As I wrote at the time, "it's beautifully and poetically written, full of life and humor that balances out the devastation and death of the situation."
Hir (Rich Ryan)
Hir at Mixed Blood Theatre: this dysfunctional family includes a nearly catatonic father, a loony mom, a son suffering from PTSD, and a transgender teenager who prefers to be referred to as hir. It wasn't an easy play to watch, but so worth it: "It's epic and brutal and funny and heart-breaking as it explores ideas of not just gender, but also class, domestic violence, the changing order of things, and the effects of war on soldiers and those left behind. It's one of those plays that will rip you open, lay your emotions bare, and perhaps leave you with a bit of a queasy feeling in the pit of your stomach."
Liberty Falls 54321 by The Moving Company: this company is another regular on my year-end favorites list, with their crazy brilliant creations that are like no other. This story of a racist old woman's birthday party in small town Wisconsin is really just an excuse to create a bunch of oddball characters, including Steven Epp as said racist old lady, Nathan Keepers at his most Nathan Keepers, and the Baldwin sisters singing - badly! It was "absurdly funny, surprisingly musically delicious, awkwardly cringe-worthy, and just plain ridiculous."
The Matchmaker by Girl Friday Productions: they do one show every two years, but it's always worth the wait, never more so than with this spot on production of a classic. "With a funny and poignant story about love, money, and adventure, smart period set and costumes, a cast that is sheer perfection, and direction [Craig Johnson again] that keeps it all running smoothly, this Matchmaker is an absolute delight from top to bottom, start to finish."
Mockingbird (Joan Marcus)
To Kill a Mockingbird at the Guthrie Theater: wow, what a year at the Guthrie! In a year in which we said good-bye to one Artistic Director (more on that later) and hello to another, we got the aforementioned The Music Man, the powerful and affecting The Crucible, the charming Stage Kiss, and the hilarious Cocoanuts, to name a few. But I must bring special attention to the classic American story To Kill a Mockingbird, my first time seeing it on stage. It "left me with tears in my eyes, a warmth in my heart, and a feeling of injustice, not so much at Tom Robinson's fate (because really, what other ending could there be in the deep South of the 1930s), but that Tom Robinson's story continues to be repeated today." And those kids absolutely owned the stage.
Woman in Black at Yellow Tree Theatre: it was another great year at my favorite theater in the 'burbs, including a fantastic production of the brilliant modern musical Next to Normal, and the perfectly lovely Irish play Dancing at Lughnasa, but my favorite was the creepy storytelling of Woman in Black. I literally jumped in my seat and got chills down my spine. This two-person play starred veteran Twin Cities actors J.C. Cutler and Nathaniel Fuller, aided by lighting and sound design for some good old-fashioned spooky storytelling.
I'm grateful for new musicals and the incredibly talented people who wrote them, the theaters that supported their development and produced them, and the wonderful casts who brought them to life. Most notably this year were Chan Poling and Jeffrey Hatcher's darkly hilarious Glensheen (History Theatre) based on Minnesota's most infamous true crime story; Keith Hovis' trilogy of one-act musicals Pioneer Suite (Freshwater Theatre) telling the stories of real historical Minnesota women, and David Darrow and Grant Sorenson's lovely and grand The Great Work (7th House Theater).
Extremities (Heidi Bohnenkamp)
I'm grateful for site-specific shows that brought theater to unconventional spaces, like Theater Coup d'Etat's Art in the Muse Event Center, where I watched three men discuss the value of art while curled up in a big comfy leather chair; Dark and Stormy's Extremities at the Grain Belt Warehouse, where James Rodriguez spent an hour or so trapped in a fireplace being tortured (deservedly so) by Sara Marsh; and the Live Action Set/Dangerous Productions/The Soap Factory co-production Crime and Punishment, in which I made my way through the dark and creepy and all too real world of Dostoyevsky's novel.
I'm grateful for companies that reimagined Shakespeare this year. From a couple of all-female productions (Theatre Unbound's Hamlet and Ten Thousand Things' Henry IV Part I), to Park Square's 90-minute Romeo and Juliet for students that cut out all the fluff and got right to the heart of the story, to Mu's playful and musical Twelfth Night, to my favorite of the year, Classical Actors Ensemble's charming, accessible, and engaging Two Gentleman of Verona performed in area parks.
I'm grateful for the Minnesota Fringe Festival, where Dustin Bronson and Katie Kleiger created the most beautifully and painfully real portrait of a relationship I've ever seen on stage; I followed Keely Wolter and Rachel Petrie around the West Bank neighborhood and reminisced; I laughed at a bunch of average heroes; two brothers talked and sang and played games while telling the most profound story about I'm not even sure what; a survivor of post-WWII Berlin shared her unthinkably horrific story; three musician/comedian/actor/acrobats did all kinds of crazy things; I was riveted by the story of a Nazi war criminal that was about so much more; one woman's journey to become herself was clearly portrayed by three actors; everyone's favorite fake politician Shelly Bachberg returned in an Orange is the New Black homage; I traveled to the moon and back; and hung out underneath the lintel.
One Arm (Heidi Bohnenkamp)
I'm grateful for exciting new theater companies like New Epic Theater. In what was really their first year as a theater company, they've established themselves with three highly stylized, inventively staged, wonderfully cast, and seriously powerful shows. This spring they remounted of one of my favorite Fringe shows from 2014, Tennessee Williams' beautifully tragic story One Arm. For this year's Fringe they produced a sleek and cool adaptation of The Picture of Dorian Gray. They completed the trifecta with an almost painfully sharp presentation of the Tony-winning play Doubt.
I'm grateful for "discovering" a theater company that's been around for over 30 years - The Gilbert and Sullivan Very Light Opera Company. Dedicated to the work of comedy operetta geniuses Gilbert and Sullivan, their marvelous production of H.M.S. Pinafore this spring was followed by their first foray into the Fringe with the fun and fully operatic one-act Trial by Jury.
These Old Shoes
I'm grateful for the unique physical theater company that is Transatlantic Love Affair, with a style so achingly beautiful it often brings me to tears. This year they showed their range with three very different original works: the sweet and poignant story of second chances These Old Shoes, the dark Prohibition era crime drama 105 Proof or The Killing of Mack "The Silencer" Klein at the Fringe, and the modern story of a woman in a coma and the people who love her, emilie/eurydice.
I'm grateful for learning about history through nimbus theatre's original works In the Age of Paint and Bone (pre-historical cave dwellers), From Darkness (the NYC art world of the mid-20th Century), and The Storms of November (the Lake Superior shipping world in the recent and less recent past). nimbus is leaving their theater space in NE Minneapolis; here's hoping they find another location soon so they can continue to explore history (and provide a space for many nomadic theater companies too).
20,000 Leagues (Dan Norman)
I'm grateful for the completely immersive experience that was Children's Theatre Company's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. After running, jumping, crouching, and creeping through the hallways and back rooms of the theater, I was willing to follow my guides (Isabel Nelson and Matt Spring) anywhere they led me! It was the best game of make-believe ever, and what is theater if not an elaborate game of make-believe?!
I'm grateful for experiencing a classic musical I'd never seen or heard before, not once but twice this year. My first experience with Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel was a semi-staged concert version at Orchestra Hall, where the score sounded gorgeous as played by the Minnesota Orchestra and sung by a wonderful cast led by Gabriel Preisser and Sarah Lawrence. Then, just a month later, I was able to dig a little deeper into the piece upon second viewing at Bloomington Civic Theatre (now called Artistry), with another wonderful cast led by Dominique Wooten and Elizabeth Hawkinson. Thanks to these two complementary productions I now have a much better appreciation of this complicated classic.
I'm grateful for witnessing the theater magic that occurred on opening night of The Velocity of Autumn at Old Log Theatre (my first Old Log opening night). Veteran actor Melissa Hart may have lost her words, but she never lost the character, and somehow watching the actor struggle to find the words made Eric Coble's story of a woman afraid of losing herself in dementia even more real and poignant. Costar Paul de Cordova was right there with her in every moment, as was the audience, in what was a truly communal experience. As they say in the play, "there's beauty and art in the coming apart."
Woodsman (Charles Gorrill)
I'm grateful for back-to-back powerfully subtle performances by Adam Whisner in Loudmouth Collective's A Bright New Boise and Theatre Pro Rata's The Woodsman (both all around excellent productions). Whether playing a recovering cult member who isn't quite ready to let go of his beliefs, or a convicted child molester desperately trying to rebuild his life after prison, Adam's performances of these very complicated, at times unlikable, yet somehow also sympathetic men were both beautifully and painfully real, and made you feel there was so much more going on inside.
I'm grateful for Monday night informal musical showcases featuring some of our best music-theater artists, including Second Fiddle Productions' readings of rarely produced musical work (such as Blood Brothers and The Most Happy Fella) and the monthly cabaret series Musical Mondays at Hell's Kitchen, hosted by everyone's favorite BFFs Sheena Janson and Max Wojtanowicz.
I'm grateful for a whirlwind of 11 holiday shows that concluded with the quiet, lovely, and poignant All is Calm. This new version of a classic that featured an all-new cast of talented actor-singers was even more affecting that before, with a message of peace sorely needed in this world of increasing violence.
the Dowling Gala (Tom Wallace)
I'm grateful for the chance to celebrate Joe Dowling's 20 years as the Guthrie's Artistic Director at the gala performance All the World's a Stage this summer, and his beautiful swan song Juno and the Paycock. The star-studded gala performance of dance, music, and theater featured beloved veterans and up-and-coming young talent. It was such a unique thrill to be in that room that was filled with so much love, for Joe, for the Guthrie, and for this beautiful theater community that is forever changed because of him.
And although this post (and this blog) is primarily about Minnesota theater, I cannot conclude my 2015 theater gratitude list without mentioning my trip to NYC this fall. I'm grateful for the two pairs of press comps that I received (my first in NYC), to the exquisite revival of Spring Awakening and the hilarious musical spoof Something Rotten! And I'm beyond grateful for having seen Lin-Manuel Miranda's singular genius creation Hamilton - something entirely new in the world of musical theater. Look around, look around! How lucky I am to be alive right now to experience the incredible work of this amazing Minneapolis/St. Paul theater community.
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Price of progress: 16 buildings to be razed for CTA Belmont flyover
By Kevin O'Neil, April 20, 2014 at 6:33 pm
Most of the early stories about the $320 million project to build a flyover track at the Clark Junction focused on the 16 buildings that would have to be demolished.
Well folks, that's the price of progress.
Instead we should focus on eliminating a huge bottleneck that delays 40 percent of the trains that pass just north of Belmont at Clark. Trains on three of the four tracks face delays as the northbound Brown Line train on the easternmost track crosses over three tracks to the west. About 150,000 rides travel through this intersection each weekday, all of which are slowed down because trains must stop and wait for signal clearance.
Current configuration of tracks north of Belmont means trains on three tracks have to stop.
With the new flyover, the northbound Brown Line will travel on a track jutting to the east and over the other three tracks. Some buildings will have to be razed on Wilton.
Northbound Brown line will travel on track over the other three tracks near the Clark Junction.
Here's an artist rendering of the new bypass:
Construction wouldn't start until 2017. The CTA is seeking community input on the location, design, and social, economic, and environmental effects of the proposed improvements at a Red-Purple Bypass Open House to be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Thursday, May 22, at the 19th District Police Station, 850 W. Addison St.
Station and track modernization, from Wilson to Bryn Mawr
The CTA also is hosting a community meeting on the first phase of the Red Purple Modernization project announced on Wednesday, which would completely rebuild the Lawrence, Argyle, Berwyn, and Bryn Mawr stations. That meeting will be held from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, May 21, at Truman Community College, 1145 W. Wilson Ave.
Estimated cost for this first phase of RPM is $1.7 billion.
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ScooterLibbby said April 21, 2014 at 12:00 am
The top drawing of the track layout at Clark Junction is wrong.
NB Brown trains switch from Track 4 to Track 3 & then to the Brown Line tracks, not the way it's shown.
If that's from the CTA, wow, what incompetence!
SpinyNorman said April 21, 2014 at 12:00 am
In reply to ScooterLibbby:
Yup. However, the bottom drawing is probably correct, as it would be easier to build the flyover diverting from the outer track. As such, the northbound brown line trains would use the outer track after the redo.
I assume there's no way to use track 2 for northbound brown line trains utilizing the crossovers north of the Wellington station?
jack said April 21, 2014 at 12:00 am
In reply to SpinyNorman:
Theories like this got hashed around at chicagobus.org. My conclusion, which also applies here, was that all that would do is move the bottleneck. In this case, besides moving the crossover south, you now prohibit southbound Red Line trains from using the stretch between Addison and Wellington, thus requiring another crossover north of Clark Jct. Then where would you put the through Purple Line trains (which, with the opening of the express platforms at the new Wilson station, we can assume would become a better express substitute for the Red Line)?
Rob M said April 21, 2014 at 12:00 am
I think the point is that all other trains have to stop when the brown line crosses over. Whether or not it goes straight on one track or another for 50 feet is irrelevant.
In reply to Rob M:
No, the CTA graphics dept. making a mistake like that reminds me of all the maps that had a station called "Bemont" several years ago.
"The CTA is seeking community input on the location, design, and social, economic, and environmental effects of the proposed improvements " You know they aren't. They have to hold a hearing (not a listening) to meet federal environmental requirements if they are going to get any of the infinite pot of money the feds have not yet earmarked.
The people on Wilton are deluded if they think CTA will listen any more than they did to the people on Lincoln or Ashland (no environmental impact, really?). Especially after this was sprung on them after denials, and you use phrases such as "price of progress."
Emanuel must think that none of his neighbors on the north side are going to vote for any opponent of his, no matter how many he ticks off.
urbanleftbehind said April 21, 2014 at 12:00 am
In reply to jack:
Thats the idea, as long as no white north sidey gentiles get into the race.
In reply to urbanleftbehind:
Joe Moore is dead meat if that's what you are saying. Deb Mell is grateful for Emanuel appointing her to her hereditary position, despite claims of transparency. Forrest Stroger Jr. Claypool isn't going to run against the only person who would give him a job.
Someone is floating Fioretti, who, besides not being north side, has less of a concept of the Constitution being a limit on government than Emanuel does.
I don't have a vote on this one, while, obviously, those living on Wilton might. But N. Koreans also had the option of voting for Kim Jung On.
Maybe Cappleman gets his foot run over by a bicyclist - if he had a different arrangement of chromosomes, he would be this city's Giuliani, given his tough-on-crime stances. I'd rather have him then Tunney be the city's first of that persuation.
On Tunney, I wonder if he will be as "up your butt" on Claypool as he said he would be on Ricketts.
Maybe, either way, they will be writing about this proposed bypass as still being proposed in 2035.
ibilldavis said April 21, 2014 at 12:00 am
This should have been done decades ago. I just don't understand the high price tag.
In reply to ibilldavis:
I bet very little has to do with the cost of the steel structure (my guess maybe $50 million). But if you take out 16 condo buildings with how many condos each, probably worth $500,000 a condo unit, have to pay relocation assistance, probably have to make up the difference between the value on Wilton and what something comparable would cost elsewhere, I bet that adds up.
This isn't like the 95th St. Terminal project, for which 2 gas stations, 2 beauty shops and a hot dog stand are being condemned, although apparently every CTA project now is at least $200 million. In the Wilson station case, I can see it, but otherwise....
Also, probably a lot of overtime, as I don't think they intend to close down the North Main for a couple of months. And, of course, a lot of consultants.
lifelongchicagoan said April 22, 2014 at 12:00 am
There is no bottleneck. The Brown line flyover will benefit riders as much as Ventra. I have a clear view of the junction from my patio and you all are welcome to come count trains and pull out your stopwatches and time the delays. There is another agenda here and the neighbors will get to the bottom of it. The CTA definitely has other issues to address that should be ranked higher in terms of priority. Taxpayers and riders should be asking the same question in terms of squandering scarce funding on this versus other projects that could really modernize transit and improve travel times.
Kevin O'Neil said April 22, 2014 at 12:00 am
In reply to lifelongchicagoan:
Lifelong, I think you're wrong about "no bottleneck." CTA reports building the bypass will increase service capacity by 30 percent, in reducing the wait times.
During rush hour, and additional 6-9 trains per hour could serve Belmont. That's a lot.
In reply to Kevin O’Neil:
And, of course, CTA says anything and listens to nothing. Has it posted a service plan to implement all this "additional capacity," or are we going to see another 2010 cutback in service because CTA claims not to have any operating funding? Ask Steele that.
Sean Irwin said April 22, 2014 at 12:00 am
Thats interesting to hear. If you have a view of this section and dont see trains waiting then I wonder what is the real reason for it. From your comment it sounds like in your opinion this wont really effect the travel time at all. Its a lot of money to spend on a system thats needs a ton of work elsewhere. Its been a long time since I used the trains but I used to transfer to the red from the brown in route to Jackson and State and I really dont ever recall waiting much at all to pass this section. Not enough to warrent this project anyway. It would be interesting to really see just how long trains really are waiting. Maybe you can let me know if its easy enough. Thanks.
In reply to Sean Irwin:
CTA also said that 40 percent of all trains are affected by that bottleneck.
No offense to Lifelong, but I think he's just plain wrong. I'd say about half the Red Line trains I ride at rush hour are delayed waiting for the Brown Line to cross.
And Jack, isn't it a bit early to be doing a service plan for a project that hasn't yet been funded?
Weren't you the one who replied to Scooter when he said "why not fix the Grandville interlocking first" "this is funded in that isn't." Now you are talking through both sides of your mouth.
My point is essentially the lack of rational planning, which Claypool, by saying he only reports to Emanuel, seems to be fostering. Is it good planning to say:
1) We need this increase in capacity, but have no plan to use it?
Added to these apparent two instances of the same:
2) We need to borrow $180 million for a $240 million bus terminal at 95th, which would be totally unnecessary if the Red Line were extended.
3) [Debated today in chicagobus.org] We have a CMAQ grant to convert diesel articulated buses to hybrid for $250,000 a bus, when it would have cost us only $170,000 more a bus to have ordered them that way?
I think this is no more than highway engineers saying "this highway is designed for 75 mph" when there is no intention to raise the speed limit above 55.
So, before spending $320 million (which you now say they don't have, and thus have to justify to the feds to award), yes, they should have a plan to use that capacity, including a source of the operating funds. Carole Brown said about as much when she was campaigning for a tax increase.
To clarify my Scooter remark, maybe your response was for the money for the south end of the RPM, but still that's the same Core Capacity money you said already existed, for the 3 2017 projects.
Cheryl said May 4, 2014 at 12:00 am
Did you happen to read Joravsky this week? The trains generally sit for less than a minute. Sure, that's worth tearing down 16 buildings in the name of "progress."
Kevin O'Neil said May 4, 2014 at 12:00 am
In reply to Cheryl:
Cheryl, I was on a Red Line train Thursday that waited about two minutes by Wellington, and then another minute or so at Belmont. So I don't buy it.
I still support the flyover.
Three minutes of your time, even 5 days a week, is more important than the rights of the people who own those buildings.
Cheryl, this is not about me. This is about increasing capacity and reducing overcrowding on the Red and Brown lines. By eliminating the crossover, at least eight additional trains per hour could serve those lines. That greatly reduces the overcrowding we now see in the area.
jack said May 5, 2014 at 12:00 am
But, as you seemed to admit, and be satisfied with, there actually wasn't any plan to do that, at least not before threatening those persons' places of abode.
If there is an operating plan and budget to add the 8 trains per hour, please post it.
PulSamsara Xi said June 3, 2014 at 12:00 am
Why not work within the existing footprint -
Run the northbound brown track under the other three (crossing over), drop it 1/3 rail car/track height.
As the other three tracks come south from Addison - elevate them 2/3 rail car/track height - forming a full 1 car/track height pass through - and then descending into Belmont Station.
Since the crossover is near to the Belmont stop - the Belmont platform sections might need to be raised to accommodate the needed drop run.
Sounds like a lot of money ? Compared to the current plan - it would be a bargain - using the existing superstructure.
(with some of the saved money soundproof the whole thing - similar to the IIT enclosure)
jack said June 3, 2014 at 12:00 am
In reply to PulSamsara Xi:
CTA will say that it probably won't save any money, given the need for more staging areas. Also, you are essentially replacing the unsightliness of the flyover with the unsightliness of raising the main line 15 feet, assuming that the clearances you propose even exist.
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RIP IDA – if you've got nothing to say, say it
No need to say it, it goes without saying, it should be obvious to all but, just in case it isn't obvious to all, IDA is dead.
IDA is the Cabinet Office Identity Assurance programme. And it's dead.
17:09, yesterday afternoon, Monday 10 February 2014, an email arrives saying that the Government Digital Service (GDS) have published a new blog post, Striking a balance between security and usability.
Read it, and one question keeps asking itself – why? Why did they publish this interview with James Stewart, the director of technical architecture at GDS? What was publication supposed to achieve? What is the message they're trying to convey?
A number of messages do come across. But unless GDS is trying to undermine itself these messages can't possibly have been intended. Mr Stewart's topic is the balance between security and usability. That's the question. And his answer is – you have to balance them.
Yes James, thank you, we know that, that's the title of the blog post, the question is how? How do you balance security and usability? And since he doesn't answer that question, the inference is that he can't answer it – GDS don't know how to balance security and usability. That's the message that comes across.
That ignorance doesn't seem to worry them. That's another message that comes across. GDS aren't interested in security. Only in usability.
This isn't the first time. We saw this lack of interest in security in Public Servant of the Year ex-Guardian man Mike Bracken CBE's speech last October to the Code for America Summit 2013 and we saw signs of it again two weeks ago in the blog post by GDS's Janet Hughes and Leisa Reichelt, Security and convenience: Meeting user needs.
GDS may not be interested in security. But other people are. They understand its importance.
When GDS's David Rennie spoke at the US Identity Ecosystem Steering Group conference in January, he said that the reason there are none of the big retail banks signed up to IDA, the identity assurance programme, is that they've been too busy sorting out the aftermath of 2008's credit crunch (31'22"-32:32").
That's silly. Identity assurance is what retail banks do all day every day – they can't be "too busy" to do it.
Is the real reason that the banks won't sign up that they don't want to be associated with IDA? And they don't want to be associated with it because, without a proper understanding of security, IDA will crash on take-off, destroying the reputation and the share price of everyone connected with it?
Is that perhaps the reason why Cassidian and PayPal, who were signed up to IDA, have subsequently pulled out?
Security isn't important. What does that imply for HMRC, who are being asked to give up the long-established Government Gateway and to rely instead on IDA?
And what does it imply for the remaining "identity providers"?
It would be a shame to see the Post Office's good name besmirched. The fates of Digidentity, Mydex and Verizon don't concern us much in the UK, they don't have a reputation here to lose. But Experian should worry us all.
They don't need GDS. Experian already do identity assurance in the UK and overseas. They're good at it. They have a global brand, a global good name, and DMossEsq, for one, would like to see them keep it, not least because his pension fund is quite heavily invested in Experian. Their association with GDS and IDA is a threat to DMossEsq's retirement, and the retirement of many others – we're talking about a FTSE-100 company here.
The message from James Stewart's blog post is – Experian, get out, like Cassidian and PayPal, before the shareholders revolt. Why did GDS want to publish that?
Updated 23.5.14
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Auction site eBay has urged users to change their passwords after suffering what may have been the biggest-ever cyber-attack when hackers broke into a database holding its 233m customers’ personal data ...
The attack is even bigger than that which affected the US retailer Target in December, when around 40m customer credit cards were stolen by hackers, who broke into the company’s systems. The fallout from that security breach led to the resignation of Target’s chief executive in May ...
The latest in a long line of security breaches. And a harbinger of things to come unless GDS starts to take security seriously.
Updated 9.6.14
GDS published a blog post today, Sensible Security. At first it looks as if they're starting to take security seriously ...
... for routine government business and the delivery of public services, government should think about security just as a large and well-run company would do – consider the organisations who look after your savings, manufacture medicines or produce the smartphone in your pocket ... The answer is to think about security as part of the user needs ...
... but the effort proves once again to be too great and we are left with them thinking about security as ...
... something that is integral to (and should be balanced against) every other facet of the service. If we can achieve this balance, and users and risk owners alike can understand it, then we’ll have been successful.
They're no further forward than 10 February 2014 and Striking a balance between security and usability. Luckily the banks and other organisations GDS claim to want to emulate are way ahead.
No stopping GDS. Now they're responsible for the Public Services Network (PSN).
The what?
"Simply put, the Public Services Network (PSN) is the government’s high-performance network". That's James A Duncan's take on the matter in Making the PSN better. And he's the new new Chief Technology Officer for the PSN so he should know.
According to Mr Duncan:
For suppliers previously, a Pan-Government Accreditor (PGA) would accredit services against the requirements for the Impact Levels. This created an unwieldy bottleneck that has actively added cost to supplier services, and slowed down the rate at which new services are made available on the network. We are changing the over-the-top Service assurance to be more in-line with G-Cloud and the Cloud Service Security Principles.
The Cloud Security Principles remove the "unwieldy bottleneck" which cost money and took time by making the users responsible for assessing security themselves on the basis of unaudited assertions made by the suppliers. You can see why Mr Duncan fits in well with GDS. He has the same relaxed view of security.
What is not clear is how this makes the PSN "better".
Does Mr Duncan have any security advice for his users? For all those central government departments and local authorities and "schools, doctors’ surgeries, pharmacies, emergency services, hospitals and charities large and small"? You bet:
… we’re creating an option for connectivity that allows customers to connect using suitable encryption, via the internet.
"Suitable"? What does that mean? Like "balanced" (please see James Stewart in the post above), it means nothing.
There goes the PSN.
Updated 23.11.16
After what will be six years, I'm leaving @gdsteam at the end of January. Excited to see what's next. https://t.co/VwJDRk5zBw
— James Stewart (@jystewart) 23 November 2016
Mystery: the departing James Stewart on DirectGov and BusinessLink.
This is my comment posted on the GDS but still "awaiting moderation"!
My concern lies with this aspect of the discussion
"It’s about establishing a new way of doing technical architecture in an agile, digital delivery kind of world, making sure that the way that we build systems is flexible;"
Mike Bracken Executive Director of Digital in his speech to Code for America it was reported he said "Technology is a fourth-order question in government…..Only after the user needs and the policy needs and the operational needs have been determined should attention be paid to the technology needs, if any ... If we let technology determine public services, then we are literally starting in the wrong place and guaranteeing failure.
The fact is to make such a statement valid as expressed by Mr Bracken requires “knowledge” of capabilities that can with confidence deliver on the user, policy and operational needs. From my enquires and the evidence available this knowledge is lacking with little or no relevant research. This raises a serious question on validity of Mr Bracken’s overly simplistic but sounds good statement?
Mr Stewart likewise is not displaying such knowledge understanding the key user supporting technologies and business architecture that are required to build next generation user focused digital services - without coding! The issues are discussed here at Tech UK on linkedin Government needs to instigate a ‘Digital Modernisation Strategy’ for financial services
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Rolls-Royce and Qatar Airways use virtual reality to train engineers
Rolls-Royce and Qatar Airways are working on ways to incorporate Virtual Reality into their engineering training programmes, in a first for the two companies.
As the number of air passengers is set to almost double by 2036, the industry faces a growing challenge: more engineers need to be trained to maintain and repair a growing number of aircraft and their engines. While practical training will always be the focus, Rolls-Royce is working on ways to incorporate Virtual Reality into its engineering training programmes, as part of its IntelligentEngine vision.
Qatar Airways engineers are the first in the industry to receive the training, using Rolls-Royce’s pioneering Trent XWB engine, which powers the Airbus A350.
Chris Cholerton, Rolls-Royce, President – Civil Aerospace said: “At Rolls-Royce we are designing, testing, and maintaining engines in the digital realm, so it makes sense that we bring cutting-edge technology to our training programmes. In the same way pilots’ complete elements of their training in a simulator, certain engineering tasks can be taught through Virtual Reality. Qatar Airways were the first customer to take delivery of the Trent XWB, and their forward-thinking vision across their business makes them the perfect launch partner for this technology.”
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“We are very excited about the new Virtual Reality training tool offered by Rolls-Royce and we are proud that they chose Qatar Airways as their global launch partner.”
While not intended to replace any practical training, Rolls-Royce sees valuable applications for Virtual Reality, particularly when it comes to refresher training.
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Christmas Steam Games 2018: QuickPans
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And now for the less good stuff. RPG Maker sadly put up a very poor showing this year.
Inside: Crown Champion, Sojourner, TAURONOS, Forever Home.
Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena
Simulator/RPG
A management sim where you make slaves fight in gladiator arenas for money and fame.
I found this boring, honestly. The gameplay is extremely repetitive and a total crapshoot — you don’t get to control your fighters, so while you can give them all the equipment and skills you want, they can still miss all their hits, get critted a bunch, or just act like total idiots, and there’s nothing you can do about it. It also seemed very unbalanced — as always, offense is the best defense, so I found that Bears and Blades wiped the floor with everyone else. The Bears’ rage attack also seemed to always do more damage than the Blades’ defense piercing attack, even against tanks, which seems like a pretty big mistake. The progression mechanics are also an incredibly unstable equilibrium — your fighters give you more money the more fights they win in a row but can be knocked out of commission for a long time if they lose a fight, so the beginning is incredibly touch-and-go and you basically have to tread water until you get lucky enough for a string of victories. But once you’ve gotten all the upgrades and can finally rely on tournaments to give you a stable income, there’s no longer anything worth spending money on. There really should have been options to spend more money to accelerate training or something.
Flavor-wise, it even manages to make slavery boring — you’re never really called out on being a terrible person or allowed to meaningfully change your ways. You can ~show you care~ by chatting with your slaves about their lives, and if you smile and nod enough they’ll agree to keep working for a salary after they buy their freedom because you’re so great. You get a few token dialogue options where you can say that slavery and aristocracy are bad, but it never actually changes anything, no matter whether you say it to the abolitionists or the monarchists. In the background there’s some political intrigue plot where the current king is trying to stabilize the kingdom after a recent civil war, but for some reason the only sympathetic characters are the insurrectionists who want to start a brand-new war because the current king is just an ascended commoner because the actual royals all dicked each other over until they all died and somehow this is an argument for continuing the monarchy? I get the impression you’re supposed to see the monarchists as unreliable narrators you’re free to disagree with, but the only guy on the king’s side is just such a dick (among other things, he has white hair yet plans to marry a twelve-year-old “when she comes of age”) that I can’t see that as anything but the “evil” option. It’s weird.
A very, very meta RPG. Everyone is aware they are in a video game, and the player is explicitly asked why they’re playing the game and making the choices they are at several points. I initially expected this to be irritatingly pretentious or pointlessly trite as meta stories so often are, but I actually thought it struck a good balance I genuinely appreciated. Though framed comedically, there is a serious undercurrent to it that I thought gave the game real poignancy. There is a strong emphasis on the importance of sensitivity, nuance, and small acts of kindness; this is a game where you can tip helpful NPCs for giving you exposition, and you will actually get to see what they did with the money and how it changed their life. I never felt like it was giving me the option to be nice to faceless NPCs just to mock me or the concept itself, as often seems to be the case in similar parodic RPGs. Though the tone is overall absurdist, there is a genuineness to everything I found really touching.
Unfortunately, this is also an RPG that should have been a visual novel.
The game’s description promises that it “features everything that you loved from the 8-bit RPGs of your childhood and leaves behind everything you didn’t”. Unsurprisingly, it can’t live up to this boast; it is just another RPG Maker RPG, with all the flaws standard for the genre, including the many hated features from those 8-bit RPGs I’m really baffled the program hasn’t shucked yet. Damage calculation appears to use an incredibly poorly-balanced subtractive defense formula that creates wildly different damage values for even tiny differences in defensive stats — my fighters would often take literally no damage from attacks that cut my casters’ health in half. To really double down on this, magic defense is almost impossible to come by if you’re not a caster because only casters can equip magical armor, so fighters are sitting ducks against spells and there’s little you can do about it. Because oh yes of course enemy targeting is totally random, better hope enemies land that hit on the person who will take single-digit damage from it and not the person you’ll have to revive next turn. (To rub salt in the wound, the tank class has an ability that’s supposed to draw attacks, but it appears to only work some of the time, because ???) Oh, but good luck if someone does go down, because that infuriating thing from 8-bit RPGs where you have to input commands for the whole turn without knowing what the enemies will do? Oh, you better bet that’s a feature! Enjoy telling your paladin to raise your cleric only to have them get murdered themselves before their turn comes up. And I haven’t even mentioned the random miss and crit rates! Why are those still a thing? Seriously? Why, in 2018, have we not collectively risen up and scrubbed that terrible Dungeons and Dragons artifact from our systems? Who is this appealing to?
But even aside from the poor decision to use RPG Maker’s default battle system, this game just seems very poorly and haphazardly designed. You have access to limited monster-repel spells and items at the start of the game… yet as early as the third dungeon, you get the ability to turn off random encounters freely. So… why are the limited versions there at all? (Incidentally, developers: if players want to turn off a core gameplay feature, that’s a sign it shouldn’t be there in the first place.) You get the ability to change classes a la Dragon Quest III, but despite advising you to wait until you get all the skills for a class first (since they transfer), the game gives you no way of knowing when you’ve gotten the final skill for a class. Some classes also have passive abilities, but they are not listed in the character screens and are only mentioned by NPCs in the starting area. I was also honestly quite surprised to learn class shifting was possible, because so many of the classes are obviously fusions between others — why exactly should I bother with the slow-leveling Sorcerer if I can produce the same effect by multiclassing a Warlock into a Healer? Relatedly, as I’ve come to expect from RPG Maker games, magic is crap — elemental spells need to hit an elemental weakness to be even marginally better than a physical attack from a fighter of the same level. (Until you get the ultimate endgame spells, which are ludicrously powerful and boss fights are virtually impossible without them. There’s just no middle ground in this game.) To make matters worse, the super caster class doesn’t even seem to get every element naturally — are you supposed to multiclass into Warlock for those, or…?
So, ultimately, this looked like a nice idea marred by very amateurish design. I… am not sure if I can say it’s worth money, frankly. Which is unfortunate, because the story really is quite nice, but the gameplay is just that unenjoyable. I think I would have liked it a lot better if it was one of those visual novel RPGs where the battles are only a formality.
(Trigger warning if you play it yourself: the PC’s father misgenders them frequently. I don’t see any reason to believe it’s malicious, but be aware if that’s something that upsets you.)
Puzzle/Stealth
A game where you play as Theseus as he navigates the Labyrinth to defeat the Minotaur. I found it to be really dull, frustrating, and poorly designed. You are essentially on a time limit in every level, as the Minotaur becomes progressively faster over time until it’s impossible to outrun. Despite this, areas are open-ended and you’re meant to explore every nook and cranny to find secrets and upgrades. This wouldn’t be too frustrating under normal circumstances — I initially thought the idea was that casual players could just rush to the exit while completionists would slowly map out the area, taking the deaths as they came until they found the optimal route.
…Except the game also uses a lives system, and if you run out you have to restart the entire game from the beginning. So you really cannot afford to explore, because there is no safe way to do so and lives are a precious resource. Compounding this is that the areas are not intuitive at all; there are hazards that trigger with no warning, including obstacles that block your route back. So if you didn’t bother to explore absolutely everything before going down that unmarked one-way corridor, sucks to be you! It basically all just comes down to luck of the draw; you have to pick a path at random and hope you don’t charge down a blind alley. Even more frustratingly, the game tells you what powerups are in a level, but only after you complete it, and you cannot return to previous levels. It all seems designed on roguelike principles, except the point of roguelikes is that every run is different so it doesn’t feel like you’re just bashing your head against the same wall until you memorize the perfect way forward.
Also, the dialogue and voice actor are ridiculously melodramatic. The atmosphere would have been a thousand times stronger with a silent protagonist.
Forever Home
This is basically a shonen anime. The protagonist is immature but this gets spun as a virtue because emotions trump logic; he has a distant but super awesome important dad while his mom gets fridged so quickly she doesn’t even get a name; he has a comically abusive adoptive sister who’s also his love interest (and a tsundere) because shonen never seems to understand how squicky that is; the stakes are so absurdly over-the-top the whole thing loses any sense of scale; the hero always puts the needs of the few over the needs of the many and the plot always contrives to make this turn out to be the correct choice; everyone is Snarky™ and serious scenes are constantly undercut by banter; women exist to be love interests and/or tragically fridged.
Probably my favorite example of the latter is in the Grizzled Old Dude’s backstory: When he leaves to join The Resistance, his wife begs him to stay. He storms out, immediately regrets it, and goes back to find out she killed herself in the five minutes that took, because she just couldn’t bear to live without him. For five minutes.
But even more unforgivable than that is that good god this game is slow. I was twenty hours in before I had the slightest clue where the plot was really going, and finally dropped it three hours later when, unsurprisingly, that turned out to be nowhere good. Judging from the Steam forums, this was the right decision, as it’s full of long lists of questions about the ending and the developer admitting everything was a poorly-justified handwave.
(And people say Last Scenario is too slow. Good grief. Even A Very Long Rope wasn’t this much of a slog.)
One detail I feel the need to comment on is that everyone mocks the hero for being unable to use fire magic because almost everyone can, but it’s explicitly stated that your magic element is innate so they’re basically mocking him for a congenital disability. No one ever calls them on this and the hero is portrayed as silly for getting so bent out of shape over it. (Not that he really has any right to complain, because his actual element is the rarest most specialest one because he’s a shonen protagonist so of course it is.)
The one thing I will say in the game’s favor is that it had fantastic presentation. The sprites are incredibly expressive and have unique animations for nearly every action taken in cutscenes; this was not a game that cut any corners in that respect. The gameplay was also decent if a bit generic (although it does make the questionable decision to place save points in the middle of dungeons instead of just before the boss). If none of the things I mentioned sound like downsides to you, it’s probably worth checking out. (Fortunately, it is quite cheap.)
Also, Asera is an insufferable prick and I hate him so much. I cannot fathom why the heroes put up with him.
Puzzle, RPGmaker, RPGs, Sim, Video Games Crown Champion: Legends of the Arena, Forever Home, Sojourner, TAURONOS
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Tis Autumn!
September 23, 2018 / Duchess
We had a jam-packed summer, as is our tendency: June kicked off with a very special gig right here at home: our very own Amy Cervini released a new album, No One Ever Tells You, and you get exactly two guesses as to who sang background vocals! (If you guess anyone but Hilary and Melissa, you do not win a Duchess Honeybun at our next show.) The crowd at SubCulture was large and enthusiastic, just the way we like ‘em, and it’s safe to say a good time was had by all.
Celebrating Amy’s CD release at SubCulture! Expert photobomb courtesy of Ike Sturm.
The following weekend, we embarked on a jazz festival tour to Rochester, NY, then north of the border to Toronto and Ottawa, Canada. We logged a lot of miles in the car and we may have spent many hours listening to a fairly filthy (and thoroughly hilarious) podcast. Despite Hilary’s bout with acid reflux (APPARENTLY LATE-NIGHT POUTINE IS NOT GOOD FOR THE VOICE, WHO KNEW?!), the tour was a rousing success, culminating with a double rainbow above Ottawa as we watched the magnificent Dee Dee Bridgewater’s headlining set.
Clockwise from top left: catching up with our pal, WGMC’s 90.1 Derrick Lucas in Rochester; all smiles with Toni DiMello, our Toronto hostess with the mostess; a double rainbow after our set at the Ottawa Jazz Festival.
Upon returning home to New York City, we took the stage at the Jazz Standard, joined by our illustrious band and a very special guest: the wonderful trumpeter (and rocking good time) Nadje Noordhuis. A scant few days later, we sang some patriotic favorites and a bunch of Andrews Sisters tunes for a huge crowd in the heart of Brooklyn at the Independence Day installment of Kingsborough College’s “Hot Summer Nights” concert series. We thought no gig could possibly be as humid as as that one, but summer had other plans for us…next on our tour schedule? Orange City, Iowa.
Top: WBGO’s Michael Bourne and Sue Moore at our show at the Jazz Standard; bottom three: highlights from Hot Summer Nights at Kingsborough, including Amy playing saxophone alongside Nadje Noordhuis for an instrumental salute to the Armed Forces.
We powered through our 3:30am wakeup call and flew to Minneapolis, where we piled in our little rental car and Melissa, stalwart motorist that she is, took the helm for the (long) drive to Orange City. OBVIOUSLY, we stopped for DQ Blizzards and a photo op with the Jolly Green Giant. We were instantly charmed by Orange City, a picturesque town with a heavy Dutch influence (next time, we will be sure to try the town’s signature dessert, poffertjes)! After some impromptu shopping at a lovely local boutique, we decided it was time to make some music. We took the stage in a beautiful downtown park, which was dotted with windmills. The audience was extra special that evening, because Hilary’s aunt and grandmother were seated in the front row, having made the trip from their Iowa hometown to catch our show. Afterward, we all snacked, talked, and laughed late into the July night. It was an unforgettable evening.
Fun in Iowa! From “who-wore-it-best” shenanigans en route to Orange City to an epic family hang, post-gig, we loved every minute of our time in the midwest.
In August, we scattered hither and yon: Amy and Melissa took their respective vacations to scenic Canada lakes, while Hilary traveled to New Mexico for her birthday celebration—the one night the three of us were in town together in August, though, we of course got together for a celebratory drink! That, as Amy said, is true love.
There’s more celebrating on the horizon: for one thing, Melissa’s birthday is this week! And Amy’s is the week after! On the gig front, we’re headed to North Carolina for a couple of shows; Hurricane Florence, it seems, was no match for harmony lovers in Oriental and Pinehurst, for which we’re very grateful.
Yes, we had a wonderful summer, but now daylight hours are beginning to shorten and pumpkins have appeared at the farmers’ market. Soon the trees in Central Park will be arrayed in dazzling gold and orange leaves and we’ll be ready to break out our cozy sweaters. As the song goes, la-de-da, de-da-de-dum, ‘tis autumn. We couldn’t be happier about it.
It's the Girl(s)!
April 30, 2018 / Duchess
The title of this blog post has a bit of a double meaning. For one thing, "It's the Girl" happens to be the name of a new tune we're learning. We figured it was high time we added another Boswell Sisters transcription to our book, so we've been shedding this very fun song and look forward to debuting it soon! (Keep an eye on our calendar for upcoming shows...we may be headed to a jazz festival near you!!)
For another thing, it's finally spring and we ushered in the season at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola on March 21 (blizzard notwithstanding) with a show dedicated to girl groups throughout the years. We had a lot of fun learning more about the groups that have inspired us on our own adventures in #girlongirlharmony, and we thought it would be fun to tip our collective hats to these ladies of song here on our blog.
After all, as the song goes: "It isn't the songbirds, the song that they sing/It isn't the sunshine that makes you like spring/So what is this magic that makes love the thing?/It's the girl!" Or, in this case, it's the girls! Happy spring!
The McGuire Sisters
With six gold records to their credit during the 1950s and 60s, the McGuire Sisters were prolific recording and performing artists. They were inspired by the musical and entertainment stylings of the Andrews Sisters and performed for five, count 'em, five U.S. presidents and Queen Elizabeth II. Oh, and Phyllis McGuire's love life really made our jaws drop: she had a long-standing relationship with mobster Sam Giancana that was rumored to have blacklisted the group.
Duchess connection: "I'll Be Seeing You," which they, like us, recorded with the original verse!
The Lennon Sisters
The four Lennon Sisters hailed from a large family (eleven! kids!) and appeared regularly on the Lawrence Welk show during the 1950s and 60s. Tragedy struck their family in 1969 when their father was murdered by a deranged fan, but the sisters persevered and continue to perform today. In fact, in 2001 they were inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame. Who knows? Maybe someday we'll get to join voices with these vocal legends!
Duchess connection: "Stars Fell on Alabama," which they performed on the Lawrence Welk Show and which we recorded on "Laughing at Life!"
The Chordettes
You wouldn't necessarily think of Sheboygan, Wisconsin as a harmony hotbed, but the Chordettes were a hugely popular all-girl quartet from the land of bratwurst, cheese, and beer (some of Duchess's favorite things...coincidence? We think not!). They first got together in 1946, but their biggest hits came in the mid-1950s when they recorded "Mr. Sandman" and a confectionary tune that we covered on our very first album.
Duchess connection: "Lollipop," which we recorded on our self-titled debut album.
The Clark Sisters, a.k.a. The Sentimentalists
Tommy Dorsey hired the Clark Sisters on the spot in 1945 after they auditioned for him in his midtown apartment. He re-christened them "The Sentimentalists," a name he owned outright, which meant the Clark Sisters couldn't record under their own name. The sisters quickly became beloved by members of Dorsey's band, including Nelson Riddle, Sy Oliver, and Buddy DeFranco, all of whom wrote arrangements for the girls to sing. We have a special personal connection to the Clark Sisters: when we toured in Montana, nonagenarian Ann Clark Terry, an original member of this wonderful group, came out to hear us. We loved meeting her.
Duchess connection: "On the Sunny Side of the Street," which we recorded for our album "Laughing at Life."
We've borrowed a lot of songs from this iconic vocal trio. Laverne, Maxine, and Patty Andrews were the sound of WWII, and we've had a ball getting to know them through their vast repertoire. We've added kazoos to our version of their wartime swinger "Three Little Sisters" and dared to get a little bit bawdy on "Strip Polka." But it was last summer that we reached Andrews Sisters nirvana when we stood in for (a recording of) the Andrews Sisters and performed "Company B" with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at Lincoln Center Out of Doors.
Duchess connection: the aforementioned "Three Little Sisters," "Strip Polka,"...it's a long & very fun list!
The Boswell Sisters
It's no secret that New Orleans' own Vet, Martha, and Connie Boswell are our greatest inspirations. Their recording career was fairly short, all things considered--they made their first recordings in the early 1930s and had broken up by 1936--but their freewheeling, unpredictable arrangements and quirky repertoire still sound fresh and fun in the 21st century. Some of our earliest performances were in New Orleans, celebrating the Boswell Sisters at a festival helmed by none other than Kyla Titus, granddaughter of Vet Boswell, who's since become a beloved Duchess Honey Bun. Yesterday, today, and forever, the Boswells set the standard for close harmony singing, and we are endlessly proud to help carry their tradition into the 21st century.
Duchess connection: We recorded "Heebie Jeebies" and "Everybody Loves My Baby," and we're in the process of learning "It's the Girl."
Four.
November 29, 2017 / Duchess
We've come a long way, baby.
Like everybody else in this season of turkey and tinsel, we're celebrating the holidays...but we're also celebrating our band birthday: #girlongirlharmony is four years old!
Time flies when you're having fun, which we most certainly are, and it's hard to believe that four years have elapsed since our first magical gig in November, 2013. We checked out some important milestones for four-year-olds and are happy to report that Duchess is right on track:
Important 4-Year-Old Milestones...
Enjoys doing new things. True! Just this year, we debuted our podcast, Harmony & Hijinks, featuring a bunch of interviews with fun and fascinating friends, as well as a track-by-track meander through our second album, Laughing at Life. Keep an eye (and ear!) out for the second season, which will begin airing in January, 2018!
How many choruses of "Santa Baby" are there, anyway?
Sings a song from memory. Also true! Well, most of the time. Some of our tunes have an awful lot of lyrics.
Cooperates with others. Again, most of the time. Hilary can be a bit of a tyrant when it comes to Christmas repertoire, and Melissa occasionally requires some persuading to share her chocolate stash.
Understands the idea of counting. Wait, hold on--isn't that what drummers are for? KIDDING. We've been doing lots of counting--all the way up to 4 beats per measure--as we shed our new holiday tunes in anticipation of a flurry of December gigs! Amy, who counts off all our tunes on our gigs, is the best counter, though.
Pours, cuts with supervision, and mashes own food. NAILING IT.
Hops and stands on one foot up to 2 seconds. Okay, full disclosure: we haven't actually tried to do this. But we do sing (long) gigs wearing sky-high stilettos. #overachievers
On a more serious note, the jazz world lost a giant this month when we said goodbye to Jon Hendricks. The swinging, agile, erudite brilliance of Hendricks's lyrics and musicianship changed vocal jazz forever. With gratitude and love, then, we'll close this post with a 1961 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross performance of "Four," backed by the Les McCann trio.
FOUR (music: Miles Davis, lyrics: Jon Hendricks)
Of the wonderful things that you get out of life there are four
And they may not be many but nobody needs any more
Of the many facts making the list of life, truth takes the lead
And to relax knowing the gist of life, it's truth you need
Then the second is honor and happiness makes number three
When you put them together, you know what the last one must be
Baby so truth, honor and happiness, add one thing more
Meaning only wonderful, wonderful love that'll make it four!
DUCHESS turns 3!
Three years ago this month, Amy, Hilary, and Melissa began singing together in three-part harmony. We had not yet dubbed ourselves "DUCHESS" (in fact, we hadn't really even considered the possibility that this fun, one-off gig performing Boswell and Andrews Sisters transcriptions might lead to something more), but we were ready to laugh, sing, and have a blast. To our surprise and delight, the packed room at Greenwich Village's 55 bar greeted us with warmth and enthusiasm, and lo!...a trio was born.
An early DUCHESS gig, where it all began: NYC's 55 bar.
The past three years have been quite an amazing journey, both literally and figuratively. Our self-titled debut album was released less than a year after our first gig, and generated enough buzz to take us throughout the United States and, indeed, halfway across the globe.
Our first-ever tour was with the swinging, hilarious cowboys and cowgirl (hi, Pinto Pammy!) of CowBop, along Route 66 in Oklahoma. Subsequent trips took us to New Orleans, Montana, California, Seattle, Boston, and upstate New York. Some of those gigs were in funky jazz clubs, while others were headlining slots at major jazz festivals.
We've performed abroad, too, taking the stage in far-flung locales like the wilds of Canada and sunny Jerusalem, Israel. And, of course, our home base of New York City has more than held its own in terms of great gigs: Jazz at Lincoln Center, the Rubin Museum, Jazz Standard, and our original stomping grounds, the 55 bar, have all supported our signature #girlongirlharmony over the past few years.
We've made some amazing new friends along the way, too. Meeting our friends and fans (a.k.a. our Duchess Honeybuns) in person is always a thrill. And what a joy it's been, making music with the likes of Jeff Goldblum, Janis Siegel, Vince Giordano, Wycliffe Gordon, Bruce Forman, Jane Monheit, Kat Edmonson, and more.
If you know anything about us (or if you just follow us on Instagram), you know that food is a big deal to us. Like, a really big deal. The meals we've eaten have ranged from the super-fancy to...well, to Bugles eaten by the fistful in lackluster hotel rooms, and we've loved every bite. However high- or low-brow, and whatever the setting, we've learned that food is made more delicious by the presence of loved ones and lots of laughter.
Yeah, we like to eat.
Looking ahead, our second album, Laughing at Life, is slated for a February 2017 release, and we're already booking tour dates in the U.S. and Canada. And, we've got a top-secret new project in the works that we will be sharing with you all very soon. And, in the more immediate future, we are gearing up for a Thanksgiving weekend performance in the Hamptons, followed closely by two shows at the Jazz Standard, where we'll be joined by a couple of very special guests: Christian McBride and Kat Edmonson!
While we've only been singing together for a few years, it feels like we've known one another forever, and we wouldn't have it any other way. Of course, none of the fun and success of the past three years would be possible without the guidance and expertise of our producer and label-head, Oded Lev-Ari. And our band is made up of some of the swingingest, most good-hearted guys in shoe leather. We feel incredibly fortunate to have such an incredible group of friends and musicians in our corner.
Forgive us. Perhaps we're just feeling a little sentimental because November is not only our band-iversary, it's the start of the holiday season, when we all get misty-eyed and prone to reminiscing. But we're just so grateful to one another, and to all of you, for embarking on this wild and wonderful harmonic odyssey that is DUCHESS. We can't wait to see you and thank you in person sometime soon.
How We Spent Our Summer Vacation
Fall is in the air and, like many of you, the gals of Duchess are in "back-to-school" mode, so to speak. It's always tough to say goodbye to the lazy, sun-dappled afternoons of summertime, but we've missed our Duchess Honey Buns (that's YOU!) and we've got a lot on our to-do list as we prepare for the release of our second album, "Laughing at Life," and some upcoming shows.
So, as September draws to a close, we find ourselves once again meeting every week at Amy's place for snacks, strategies, and singing (and alliteration, apparently). Since we've been on hiatus for a couple of months, we thought it would be fun to bring our fans--and each other--up to speed on our respective summer holidays. Read on, and then please leave a comment and tell us about how you spent your summer!
What was your favorite summer experience?
Amy: My summer was full of such great adventures with my family. We went to Canada to visit my family and [my husband] Oded’s family came to visit us from Israel. We had so many great trips and adventures. I think my favorite thing was taking our kids to The Newport Jazz Festival to see Anat Cohen play the music she and Oded worked on and later recorded. It was such a thrill to introduce them to so many friends and colleagues and the community that I feel so lucky to be a part of.
Hilary: I spent an idyllic long weekend in Montauk with my husband. For four days, we lazed at the beach, ate fresh lobster, and watched the sun set over the bay. We played badminton and laughed ourselves silly. Then, in early September, my mother and I spent a couple of weeks traveling in Italy: Venice, Lucca, Siena, and the little paese where I spent my foreign exchange many years ago. I’m so thankful for the chance to travel and spend time with my mother, and it was heaven to see my dear Italian friends and re-immerse myself in the Italian language.
Melissa: Every August, we do a 3-4 week tour to visit family in Ontario and Quebec, and this year's tour was epic. We had a great time at the cabin on Sturgeon Lake, especially. Before we embarked on the trip to Canada, we visited our friends at their family place on Islesboro Island, Maine, and that was a perfect way to start the vacation tour. It's an incredible place.
Amy's summer highlights...Newport Jazz Festival with the family, lakeside and poolside relaxation.
What was the best thing you ate this summer?
Amy: I’m the girl who always forgets to take pictures of the food because I’m too busy eating it. I’m also the girl with the horrible memory. So…even though we had seafood by the sea, my favorite childhood french fries and gravy, and Kawartha Dairy ice cream, my favorite food was the pizza my sister and brother-in-law made for the whole family. Delicious pizza and a chaotic and delightful family hang.
Hilary: A perfect baked potato and sweet corn on the cob with a lobster dinner in Montauk made me finally understand what all the lobster fanaticism is about! Utter simplicity and perfectly married flavors. Pumpkin and ricotta-stuffed tortelli in Lucca, sun-warmed tomatoes from my Italian host father’s garden, and gelato (eaten daily) were my favorite culinary moments from my Italy travels.
Melissa: We spent ten sunny days (and one rainy one) at [my husband] Jamie's family cabin, and the Reynolds family is all about good food. Jamie really wowed us all with his Chicken Provencal and, I have to say, my two-layer chocolate cake was pretty yummy, too!
Melissa's summer highlights: family time and delicious eating! (Melissa, PLEASE make that cake for Duchess!)
Favorite summer beverage?
Amy: Besides beer, which is completely predictable and Canadian of me, the other drink of choice this summer was an Aperol Spritz. Delicious.
Hilary: Oh my god, Amy, ME TOO! Aperol Spritz, hands down. It’s so festive and tasty. [Aperol is a cousin of Campari, but not nearly as bitter, with flavors of orange, rhubarb, and herbs. The spritz is a signature Venetian cocktail, made with Aperol, prosecco, sparkling water, and a slice of orange.]
Melissa: I like beer, wine, scotch, etc., but in the heat of summer, I've discovered this thing called a Grapefruit Radler, which is a German wheat beer mixed with Grapefruit juice. It's so yummy and low-octane. Now that it's getting chilly, I'm all about the scotch again, but it was perfect in August!
Hilary's summer highlights: Venezia, Aperol Spritzes in Lucca with mom, and a picture-perfect lobster dinner in Montauk.
Summer soundtrack?
Amy: I started running a bit this summer. No, no one was chasing me. For exercise. My favorite thing to run to is the Hamilton soundtrack. I only get a few tunes in, but it’s the perfect combination of motivating and funny with great grooves. I am not giving away my shot!
Hilary: Siembra, a Fania record by Ruben Blades and Willie Colon. I am literally incapable of sitting still when that record comes on, and Ruben Blades is seriously one of the greatest singers I’ve ever heard. Also, a gorgeous Brazilian record by Ary Barroso and Dorival Caymmi called Um Interpreto e Outro.
Melissa: Morning Phase, by Beck. Jamie put this on and I loved it. I had only heard one track before and it was just the perfect thing to listen to during our 8-hour drive days.
What did you miss the most while you were on summer hiatus?
Amy, Hilary, Melissa: Each other!
What are you most excited about for fall?
Amy: Fall!!! It’s my favorite time of year. I love my sweaters and my plaid shirts and my awesome fall/winter shoes that support my feet properly instead of all these flat summer sandals. Also, #girlongirlharmony.
Hilary: Autumn cooking is my favorite cooking, with its long, slow braises and heartier fare. I have missed my sweaters and boots, too. I’m really excited about a few new projects on the horizon, especially the new Duchess CD, and more singing and laughs with my girls!
Melissa: Using my Hudson Bay Company wool blanket, a little piece of home that is perfect for fall. Oh, and cooking lots of warming stews and apple crumbles and such. And hot toddys. And sledding. Ok, I'm getting ahead of myself a bit. I'm so glad to be back in the groove and can't wait to see what crazy hijinks we get up to this fall/winter while we prep for the upcoming release!
Back in the #girlongirlharmony groove...first rehearsal after our summer hiatus!
Swinging into summer...
July 02, 2016 / Duchess
The sun is high in the sky, the days are long and the time is right for barbecuing and beach days. Duchess loves summertime, and we kicked off the season last month with a tour in gorgeous Northern California.
Our tour began at the Jazz on the Plazz festival in Los Gatos (local impresario Michael Jacobi booked us to open the festival after catching our set last year at the Monterey Jazz Festival). We were immediately enchanted by Los Gatos' picturesque town square and charming shops. On our first night in town, we performed a short set for a small group of sponsors and board members.
The next day, we piled in the car and paid a visit to KCSM, where we talked and laughed on the air with hostess-with-the-mostess Alisa Clancy. Later that afternoon, Melissa and Hilary did an interview with Michael Jacobi on KCAT TV, chatting about early musical influences and the origins of Duchess. Unfortunately, Amy wasn't able to do the interview, as she was visiting a local ENT; she'd come down with a case of laryngitis. The timing couldn't have been worse, but Amy, in her signature fashion, persevered with calmness and humor (and, not incidentally, she sounded great, laryngitis notwithstanding!).
The festival officially opened that evening when we took the stage in the aforementioned town square, the "plazz" from which the Jazz on the Plazz festival takes its name. We had a fabulous crowd, a swinging band, and perfect weather. The next morning, we enjoyed massages and facials at a local spa (thank you, Jazz on the Plazz!) and thus rejuvenated, headed for Santa Cruz.
#Repost @rubenzee with @repostapp ・・・ Caught this @duchesstrio at Jazz on the Plazz in LG tonight. Just the start of a great summer of jazz in town. You can still catch these fabulous ladies at the Kuumbwa in Santa Cruz Thursday 6/23. @hilarygardnernyc @amycervini @sleepinbee #jazzontheplazz #jazzinlosgatos #freeconcert #girlongirlharmony
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Scenes from beautiful Los Gatos! Top: Duchess and our wonderful pianist, Michael Cabe, at the opening night festivities. Middle left: Hilary smells the roses and Melissa crosses the street safely in scenic Los Gatos. Middle right: the gals strike a pose in front of the festival poster. Bottom left: a successful show! Bottom right: with the delightful Alisa Clancy at KCSM, post-interview.
A short drive took us to Santa Cruz, where we spent the morning at the beach. We strolled the boardwalk and walked on the beach as the fog dissipated and gave way to blue skies and sunshine sparkling on the ocean. A rather intensely competitive round of pirate-themed miniature golf at Neptune's Kingdom followed, after which we made our way to our hotel.
The day was so lovely, we couldn't resist taking a dip in the hotel pool before heading to Kuumbwa, where we played to a full house of hip fans and incredibly warm, gracious staff (it's not every day that a venue brings artists a delicious fruit and cheese plate for sound check!).
A day at the beach in Santa Cruz, followed by a quick swim in the hotel pool. Work hard, play hard, we always say!
Scenes from Kuumbwa. All performance photos by r.r. jones. (What do you suppose we're all so serious about in the bottom left photo?)
Sausalito beckoned the next day, and we drove over the Golden Gate Bridge in eager anticipation of our debut at Jazz & Blues by the Bay, a summer series put on by the city of Sausalito. We grabbed an early dinner of burgers and truffle fries (!!!), strolled down the town's main drag, and then performed to over a thousand enthusiastic listeners. We'd been warned about cool weather after sundown, but the temperature stayed balmy and we had a blast meeting lots of new fans after our show. The hero of the evening was our new friend Nathan, who not only loaned us his keyboard for the evening, but drove it to Sausalito himself, and hung out with us all evening. Thank you, Nathan!!!
Sausalito moments (clockwise from top)...a gorgeous bandstand; the California flag flying high over a fountain in the center of town; the gals with our hero Nathan (he brought us a keyboard to use in our show!); the iconic Golden Gate Bridge; our rock star selfie in front of the huge crowd!
We closed out our tour with a return visit to the Sound Room in Oakland. We had a free afternoon, so we parked the car in Jack London Square in Oakland and took the ferry over to San Francisco, where the farmers' market was in full swing. A couple of porchetta sandwiches and a few scoops of Humphrey Slocomb ice cream later, we were ready to take the stage!
A perfect day in sunny San Francisco and Oakland!
We couldn't have asked for a more perfect start to our summer! We're indebted to our dear friend and pianist, Michael Cabe, as well as Bay Area-based John Wiitala (bass) and Greg Wyser-Pratte (drums) for making so much wonderful music with us. Our thanks go out, as well, to Andrew Gilbert, for helping spread the word about our gigs in beautiful Northern California.
We'd love to see you on July 9th, when we take the stage at the Triad for a night of #girlongirlharmony! We're shooting some video to promote a few different show concepts and, therefore, will be performing three shows in one: songs by iconic girl groups throughout history, some holiday favorites, and we'll tip our collective (proverbial) fedora to the Rat Pack, too!
It's summertime, and the livin' is easy...we wish you a season filled with sun, fun, lazy afternoons, and lots of laughs. We'll update you soon with details about our upcoming sophomore album, Laughing at Life!
It's Spring (Hey)!
Spring is springing all throughout New York City...the tulips and lilacs are in full flower and the trees are almost completely leafed out. As it turns out, we've got a project about to burst into bloom, too: our second CD! We launched a KickStarter campaign in mid-March, and 120 Duchess Honey Buns banded together to bring our project to life! We had a ton of fun making special videos and KickStarter-specific artwork (below) throughout our campaign; you can check it out here.
Raising the funds is a hugely important part of making a new recording, but even more important? The music, of course! Oded Lev-Ari, the "Charlie" to our "Angels," has been arranging like mad, and we're trying to learn the new songs as quickly as he's arranging them! If you were in the audience during our 55 bar residency in March and April, you heard us trying out a few new tunes destined for immortality on our upcoming album: Stars Fell on Alabama, Swing, Brother, Swing, and Laughing at Life (you can check out a little snippet, below, from a quick rehearsal we did while on tour in Montana last weekend).
A rainy day hotel room rehearsal in Montana. @sleepinbee @hilarygardnernyc @amycervini sing a little "Laughing at Life" #girlongirlharmony #dontmindtheraindrops
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Oh, yeah! We went to Montana last weekend, where we performed two sold-out concerts surrounded by mountains and verdant forests. We loved the fresh air and beautiful scenery, and our digs at The Lodge at Whitefish Lake were rustic-chic and cozy.
Clockwise from top left: Melissa and Hilary arriving in Montana; the vista from our lakeside lunch; our poster at the hotel's concierge desk; a fabulous painting of Las Tres Duquesas (we have no idea what the actual name of the painting is, but we could see ourselves in those outfits on horseback, for sure!).
Our promoters, Miriam Singer and John Simpson, reunited us with our friend, Seattle-based pianist Bill Anschell, along with Seattle bassist Michael Barnett. We had a fabulous time hanging out and playing music with Bill and Mike, sharing an abundance of swinging music, laughter, and (obviously) beer.
Clockwise from top left: Bugles (the official snack of DUCHESS...now, can we get a sponsorship deal, please!?), the gals enjoying the clear mountain air; teatime by the fireside at the hotel; Melissa running a rehearsal with Bill and Mike.
A huge highlight of our trip was meeting Ann Clark Terry, a member of the Clark Sisters, a.k.a. the Sentimentalists, who sang with Tommy Dorsey in the 1940s. Ann just celebrated her 94th birthday, and she was so kind and effusive after the show. We were thrilled to meet her.
Top: DUCHESS with John Simpson & Miriam Singer, who brought us out to Montana. Bottom left: DUCHESS with Ann Clark Terry, of the Clark Sisters, a.k.a. the Sentimentalists. Bottom right: Our ursine friend in the hotel lobby bidding us adieu.
The weeks ahead will find us rehearsing, as we prepare for our May 18 return to the Jazz Standard, followed by two days of recording at our beloved Sear Sound. Our spring is off to a pretty swinging start...you could say that we're enjoying life on the Sunny Side of the Street. And speaking of The Sunny Side of the Street, we're going to tip our hats to the lovely Ann Clark Terry and the Clark Sisters/Sentimentalists by closing this post with their recording of that very tune. Happy spring!
Shalom! DUCHESS' Israel tour recap
January 20, 2016 / Duchess
Last month, we had the thrill and delight of traveling to Israel for the first-ever Jerusalem Jazz Festival. In typical DUCHESS fashion, we packed a lot of music, fun, and (of course!) great food into the trip.
When it comes to travel, it's often said that "getting there is half the fun." To be honest, this time around, getting there was just...well, getting there. We stocked up on snacks and, ahem, in-flight libations and steeled ourselves for the ten-hour flight ahead. We learned an important lesson en route: sparkling wine doesn't belong in a can.
NOTE TO SELF: nothing good can come of sparkling wine that comes with a straw.
Amy, Oded, and their kids had flown to Israel a few days prior, so the day we were due to land, the Lev-Ari/Cervini clan hopped a train and traveled from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.
Reunited at last, the gals of DUCHESS did what we always do after a long day of travel, and facing a packed performing schedule: we put on some lipstick and went out to dinner. Avishai Cohen, the artistic director of the jazz festival, had reserved a table at Machneyuda restaurant, where we shared an epic family-style Israeli dinner with other musicians slated to perform. Jet lag was quickly forgotten as platter after platter of incredible food arrived. The music got progressively louder, and before too long, patrons and staff alike were dancing on tables, banging pots and pans, and lighting sparklers.
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The next day, Avishai and the festival director, Eyal Sher, met up with us at our hotel and took us on a walking tour of Jerusalem, including the Machane Yehuda market. That night found us at the Israel Museum, where we performed our first-ever all-ukulele set (!!!) in a pop-up concert.
Scenes from Jerusalem, including a panorama of the Tower of David, Mount Oliva, and the Old city; festival director Eyal Sher leading our tour, and a big poster advertising the festival.
Bottom left: Amy with artistic director and trumpet player extraordinaire, Avishai Cohen. Bottom right: festival director Eyal Sher, pianist Edward Simon, DUCHESS, and Avishai Cohen.
The next day we performed an acoustic set in the museum's gorgeous modern art gallery, singing for a full house and surrounded by stunning works by Chagall, Picasso, Miro, and many other iconic artists. On the third day of the festival, we played our main show in the museum's auditorium. We were backed by a fantastic band of Israeli musicians, including our old friend (and erstwhile New Yorker), bassist Barak Mori. The audiences were warm and appreciative, even spontaneously singing along to "Que Sera, Sera," and melting our hearts in the process.
Selected paintings from the Israel Museum's modern art gallery. Not a bad backdrop for a performance!
Post-performance photos at the Israel Museum. Top row: Amy and Avishai (L); the gals of DUCHESS, post-ukulele pop-up concert (R). Middle row: post-acoustic set in the modern art gallery with bassist Barak Mori, clarinetist Anat Cohen, and pianist Gadi Lehavi (L); the full band, pre-show, photo by Yossi Zwecker (R). Bottom row: DUCHESS with Avishai (L); Hilary clowning around with Barak (R).
Mid-performance at the Israel Museum. Photo: Ran Biran.
Believe it or not, amidst all the singing and eating we were doing, we managed to squeeze in a little bit of sightseeing. Hilary and Melissa spent an incredible afternoon in Jerusalem's Old City, guided by Orit, whose homemade hyssop tea, pistachio halvah, and detailed narrative made for an afternoon that was delicious in every way.
Clockwise, from top left: a souk in the Old City; the Western Wall; road signs to ancient places; a bread oven that smelled like heaven.
More scenes from an unforgettable day in Jerusalem's Old City.
On our last night in Jerusalem, the festival hosted a beautiful dinner at Menza restaurant, where we ate (and ate, and ate) while chatting with other festival musicians. It was a perfect farewell to Jerusalem and the inaugural Jerusalem Jazz Festival.
Clockwise, from top left: Eyal Sher, giving a speech at the festival's closing dinner; Team DUCHESS; Amy, deep in conversation with bassist Ricky Rodriguez and drummer E.J. Strickland; DUCHESS with David Sanchez and his band.
Our last day in Israel took us to Tel Aviv, where Oded took us on a tour of his hometown. We turned our faces to the sun as we walked along the beach, then wandered the winding, stone streets of Jaffa. Afterward, we enjoyed a delectable seafood lunch at the waterfront restaurant Manta Ray and took in a few more sights before heading to the airport.
A sunny day in Tel Aviv; scenes from Jaffa.
Glimpses of Tel Aviv...don't worry. We won't forget to be awesome.
Maybe it was the tasty Israeli Cheeto-like snacks, maybe it was the pocket rockets of vodka we bought at duty-free before boarding, or maybe it was the simple fact that we had a row to ourselves, but our eleven-and-a-half-hour flight back to New York City was downright pleasant, even if it did feel somewhat endless.
Snacks, booze, and an 11+ hour flight? WE GOT THIS.
We had an extraordinary time performing in Israel. Thank you to Avishai Cohen, Eyal Sher, our lovely tour manager/singer wrangler Dahlia, and the Jerusalem Jazz Festival for an unforgettable trip. See you next time, Israel!
2015...DUCHESS' Year in Review
December 30, 2015 / Duchess
Well, here we are: at the close of 2015 and on the cusp of a new year. As we reflect on the past twelve months, we are overwhelmed with gratitude for so many opportunities to bring #girlongirlharmony to our friends and fans around the world.
From intimate jazz clubs to major festival stages, we've had a jam-packed year of touring. 2015 took us across the United States a couple of times, with tours in the Pacific Northwest and California, as well as gigs on the East Coast. We also did a couple of tours in Canada, and even performed at the first-ever Jerusalem Jazz Festival in Israel, just a few weeks ago (a full post on our Israel adventure is coming soon!).
At the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, post-show, with our amazing band and our special guest, the great clarinetist, Anat Cohen!
But, as we say in our rendition of (We) Love Being Here with You, "...home for us is NYC; there's no place we would rather be!" This year, we've had some amazing shows right here in our own backyard: a sold-out CD release at the Jazz Standard, sold-out sets at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola (Jazz at Lincoln Center), a great night at the Rubin Museum of Art, and a very special show at 55 bar in Greenwich Village, where we celebrated our two-year "girliversary" with a packed house of our closest friends and supporters, our "Duchess HoneyBuns."
We were delighted to learn that our debut CD made a few "Best of 2015" lists: Straight No Chaser included our album in his "A Few of My Favorite Things" podcast. JazzColumbus.com named DUCHESS one of the top 10 records of the year, Thomas Cunniffe at jazzhistoryonline.com included our album in his 2015 faves, and North Country Public Radio's Joel Hurd also named DUCHESS as one of his favorite albums of the year. Here at home, we topped the NYC Jazz Record's list of 2015's Best Vocal Releases (below).
Yes, it's been quite a year in the world of DUCHESS, and we are very excited for what 2016 will bring! (Hint: we're working on new songs and new arrangements...could a new CD be far behind?) Thank you for being a part of a fantastic 2015. We wish you safe and happy New Year's celebrations, and we'll see you in 2016!
Giving thanks: Duchess celebrates 2 years of #girlongirlharmony
Maybe it’s because November is the second-to-last month of the year, or maybe it’s just because of the Thanksgiving holiday, but the month seems to naturally lend itself to reflection on the past, gratitude for the present, and excitement about what lies ahead. The gals of DUCHESS are feeling especially thankful after a November jam-packed with travel, great gigs, and a very special anniversary (girliversary?).
We had a very fun—if whirlwind—tour last month in chilly-but-lovely Alberta, Canada. After a brutally early morning and long day of travel, we toasted our arrival in Edmonton with beers in steins so large they literally required both hands to lift them. That night, we performed at Yardbird Suite and had a ball singing for a warm, enthusiastic audience. Yardbird Suite is famous for its green room walls, which boast the autographs of jazz luminaries from all over the world, including Clark Terry and Diana Krall, among hundreds of others. We were thrilled to add our signatures, although finding a blank space to sign was a bit of a challenge!
A pre-show selfie at Edmonton's Yardbird Suite; the club's stage and famous green room walls; buckets o'beer; Hilary & Michael, accidentally color-coordinated for the drive to Calgary.
The next morning, our intrepid driver (not to mention pianist and dear friend) Michael Cabe took the wheel of our rental car and drove us all the way to Calgary. We barely had time for a bite to eat before our gig at the Ironwood Stage as part of the JazzYYC Festival. Everyone in the house—audience and musicians alike—was reeling from the day’s reports of the terror attacks in Paris, and sharing our music provided us all with a measure of solace. The next morning, we were up at dawn (again) and at the airport. Two flights later, we were home safe and sound, thankful to be with our loved ones and getting ready for our next round of gigs.
L: the Ironwood Stage in Calgary, Alberta. R: backstage, pre-show.
Less than a week after returning from Canada, we returned to our musical home, the 55 bar, to celebrate the second anniversary of girl-on-girl harmony. We’d been advertising a “secret” birthday show, and the show’s location was only disclosed to fans on our mailing list. The house was packed, and our ace band (Michael Cabe, Matt Aronoff, Willard Dyson, and Jeff Lederer) swung like crazy. A couple of special guests joined in on the fun, too: trombonist Josh Brown joined forces with Jeff Lederer on saxophone, and just like that, we had a horn section! Then, our pal Janis Siegel added some exquisite harmonies on “Que Sera, Sera.” We even held a Duchess trivia contest, with Duchess Honey Buns as the prizes! A good time was had by all.
Clockwise from top: the 55 bar "marquis," welcoming DUCHESS back home; with our pal Janis Siegel; a famous Duchess Honey Bun; the Canadian contingent: Amy, Josh Brown, & Melissa.
On Sunday, November 21, WBGO’s Michael Bourne brought us out to Newark to be his guests on his fantastic weekly show, “Singers Unlimited.” Michael is witty, erudite, and endlessly knowledgeable about the world of vocal jazz, and we loved spending time with him.
DUCHESS and WBGO...a match made in heaven!
We closed out the month at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, making a guest appearance with the incredible trombonist, trumpeter, and vocalist Wycliffe Gordon. Sweeping views of Central Park in all its autumnal splendor, two sold-out sets, and hanging out with an incredibly swinging, soulful group of musicians…what a way to kick off the holiday season!
DUCHESS loves Wycliffe...what a magical evening of music at Dizzy's!
Yes, we do indeed have much to be thankful for…and, while we’re counting our blessings, we also want to extend our gratitude to our friend Michael Steinman, who wrote about our anniversary and recent performance at the Rubin Museum of Art on his wonderful blog, JAZZ LIVES. Thank you, Michael!
We wouldn't be able to travel and perform without the love and support of our friends and fans. Wherever you are, and however you celebrate, Amy, Hilary, and Melissa wish you a very happy, healthy holiday season.
Photo credit: Jeff Evans.
California knows how to party!
The gals of DUCHESS hit the ground running after our August hiatus: our jaunt way out west to sunny California was absolutely amazing. We had a blast swinging with Cow Bop in Los Angeles before heading to the Bay Area for a gig in Oakland and a workshop at the Jazz School in Berkeley. Our tour was capped with our debut at the Monterey Jazz Festival along the rugged Northern California coast.
Of course, no DUCHESS tour would be complete without a little excitement right out of the gate. Melissa and Hilary barely made their flight when, after an excruciatingly long and slow security line at JFK, they discovered they had to take a jitney (a JITNEY!?!?) to their gate. Picture, if you will, two chick singers running frantically to their gate at 7:30 am, boarding in the nick of time. Then, picture Amy, smiling and waiting patiently in her seat, having already procured Shake Shack breakfast sandwiches for everyone so there was sustenance, post-unforeseen-morning-cardio. Whew!
Hallelujah! All three DUCHESS gals made the flight!
We landed in Los Angeles, got our bags, picked up the rental car, and gazed in wonder at the palm trees against the blue, blue California sky. Then, we did what any self-respecting New Yorker does upon arriving in LA: we headed straight for In-N-Out for some Animal Style burgers and fries. Okay, yes, and a milkshake, too.
Melissa, our champion designated driver, and Amy, navigator (navigatress?) extraordinaire, piloted us through the hills of Sierra Madre, where we were warmly greeted by our hosts and dear friends, Bruce Forman and Pinto Pammy, of Cow Bop. We reminisced about last year's Route 66 tour as we sipped margaritas and ate (what else!?) chips and guacamole in their sunny front yard, surrounded by succulents of every shape, size, and hue.
After that welcome bit of R&R, we headed to Rockwell, where we made a special guest appearance with the Mildred Snitzer Orchestra, led by none other than Jeff Goldblum! It was a madcap evening full of laughs and we were so happy to be a part of the fun. Reggie Watts also came by to get a dose of girl-on-girl harmony. All in all, our first night in the city of angels was a rousing success!
A star-studded night for DUCHESS at Rockwell!
The next morning, we woke up and strolled into the mountains with Bruce, Pammy, and their sweet dog Joey. The breakfast we ate at Mary's that day was unforgettable: eggs benedict and a poached egg atop potatoes au gratin with a poblano cream and fresh scallions. Thus fortified, we did some rehearsing for our Vitello's gig that night, backed by Bruce himself, and the lads of Cow Bop.
Rule #1: No Whining!? That's our kind of place!
Following our all-acoustic set at Vitello's E Spot Lounge, we high tailed it over to Seven Grand, where we may have sipped some whiskey while Cow Bop brought down the house. All three members of DUCHESS sat in: Melissa wowed the crowd with her elegant, swinging rendition of "I'm Beginning to See the Light," while Hilary revisited her country roots with "Your Cheatin' Heart." Then Amy got the joint jumping with her take-no-prisoners version of "Route 66." We've said it before, and we'll say it again: DUCHESS LOVES COW BOP!
We were sad to leave LA, but gigs up north beckoned, so we packed our bags and headed to the airport the next morning and hopped a quick flight to San Francisco, where we were greeted by our always-dapper, always-delightful pianist, Michael Cabe. Ain't he suave?
A few scenes from Oakland and Berkeley.
Our first Bay Area gig was at the Sound Room in Oakland. What a ball! We were thrilled to have a great crowd, and the team at the Sound Room (Robert, Karen, and Carey) made us feel so welcome. The food and wine were fabulous, the audience was enthusiastic, and our Bay Area bassist (John Wiitala) and drummer (David Rokeach) were VERY swinging.
The next day, we taught a vocal workshop at the Jazzschool Community Music School in Berkeley. The three singers who joined us were fantastic: beautiful voices, unique styles, and deeply personal approaches to singing. It's safe to say that DUCHESS left feeling inspired!
Top left: our AMAZING singers from our Berkeley vocal workshop! Top right: the fabulous team behind Oakland's very hip jazz club, the Sound Room. Bottom: our poster at the Jazzschool in Berkeley.
Our friend Matt Wilson put us in touch with his friend, Chef Paul Canales, of Duende restaurant in Oakland, and we decided to treat ourselves with some incredible Spanish food for our last night in Oakland. Exquisite cocktails, house-made jamon, fideua with aiolli, steak, and a personal tour of the restaurant from the chef himself? Can we just say...olé!?
How could this tour possible get even better, you ask? Well, the next day found us driving along the coast en route to Monterey. We arrived at the Hyatt Grand Regency and spotted Chris Botti in the lobby. Then, we checked into our rooms and prepared to take the stage at the Monterey Jazz Festival that evening.
Monterey merch! (Can you spot us on the official festival t-shirt?)
Top left: Amy talking down the charts with Paul. Top right: the view from the Garden Stage. Bottom: mid-performance in Monterey!
Our buddy, Jazz at Lincoln Center baritone saxophonist Paul Nedzela joined us for our set on the Garden Stage, and we sang our hearts out for an appreciative, wonderful crowd. We headed over to the Amoeba Records tent for a CD signing, then closed our amazing California tour in the beer garden, already thinking about when we can head out west again for more food, fun, and girl-on-girl harmony.
DUCHESS hopes to see you again very soon, California! Thank you for an amazing tour!
So long, summer...a look back in pictures!
Here we are, already over a week into September, and the gals of DUCHESS are preparing to head west! We can't wait to be reunited with the wonderful Bruce Forman and Cow Bop in L.A. next week, and we're also excited to make a cameo with Jeff Goldblum's Mildred Snitzer Orchestra while we're in town.
Then, we'll hop a flight up to the Bay Area for a swinging gig at the Sound Room in Oakland and a vocal workshop at the Jazzschool in Berkeley, followed by our debut at (drum roll, please!) the Monterey Jazz Festival! Check out our calendar for all the details on our upcoming tour.
Yes, we're ready to jump back into the busy-ness that autumn brings (we had a wonderfully relaxing August), but it's always a little bittersweet to see summer end. Here, then, is a photographic look back at July, which was jam-packed with travel, laughs, and, of course, lots of #girlongirlharmony.
We celebrated the 4th of July out at Kingsborough Community College's Hot Summer Nights concert series in Brooklyn, where we took to the stage for some classic Andrews Sisters classics with the George Gee Swing Orchestra.
Left: DUCHESS, flanked by the dapper and swinging vocalist & lindy hopper John Dokes and bandleader George Gee. Top right: Hilary and George strike a pose. Bottom right: DUCHESS swinging their version of "Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy."
Mid-July, we hopped a flight out to sunny Seattle, where we were met with some of the warmest hospitality any band has ever received! The trip was made possible through the generosity and support of honorary Duchess Mira Frohnmayer, and our dear friends the Nelsons housed us, fed us, and even held a dance party in their home!
We had an absolutely incredible time singing at Tula's Jazz Club in downtown Seattle (thanks to Paul deBarros' amazing write-up in the Seattle Times, we had a sold-out house!) , followed by a magical evening in Tacoma at Pacific Lutheran University's "Jazz Under the Stars" series. We closed out our trip with an elegant private party at Station 7 in Seattle. Our band of Seattle all-stars was helmed by the wonderful pianist Bill Anschell, a longtime friend and associate of Hilary's. We hope we get to play with him again soon!
A sold-out crowd at Tula's Jazz Club in Seattle's hip Belltown neighborhood. We are very thankful to Paul de Barros at the Seattle Times, who gave our performance a great write-up. Photos by Jim Levitt.
Some moments from our gig at PLU's "Jazz Under the Stars." Top left: the traditional DUCHESS pre-gig selfie. Top right: DUCHESS with our dear friend, Mira Frohnmayer, whose generosity made the tour possible. Bottom: Mid-song in the beautiful outdoor amphitheater.
Post-gig at PLU, we made a run for some brewskis and nibbles with our singer-friend Wendy Gilles, herself a New Yorker and PLU alumna. Then we headed back to the Nelson's place for a rocking dance party (Melissa and Tiana can be seen cutting a rug, above). What a night!
Scenes from a day off in beautiful Seattle! We enjoyed a waterside beer and crystal-clear blue skies. The breeze was cool, the sun was warm, and we had a perfect day. The cherubs you see in the bottom-right photo are Eva and Maia, our wonderful hosts and dear buddies. As you can tell from the photo, the girls are an absolute delight in every way.
A few scenes from our last gig in beautiful Seattle: a private party at the elegant Station 7 on Capitol Hill, coordinated by our dear friend and fan, Lauralee Hagen. We put on our finest pink-and-black frocks and had a lovely time! DUCHESS loved making music with our Seattle pianist/bandleader and friend, Bill Anschell, seen in the top left-hand photo.
We were VERY spoiled on our Seattle tour...our first night in town, we were met with delicious fish tacos served in a serene backyard. Before our Tula's gig, we ate at Le Pichet, where Hilary scarfed all the paté and everybody enjoyed some rosé. Our last day in town, the Nelsons made us the most incredible, delicious brunch that any band has ever enjoyed on the road. Tiana (shown in the bottom left photo) made this trip such a joyful and easy experience...we love you, Nelsons! To cap things off perfectly, Mt. Rainier came out to bid us farewell. What a tour!
Upon our return to the East Coast, we immediately began preparing for our Jazz at Lincoln Center debut. The New York Times gave us some love, including our show at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola in their weekly gig listings, so we were thrilled to have a full house for both sets.
Jazz at Lincoln Center debut! Top left: Hilary gets glammed up. Top center: the stage door to Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola. Top right: a kooky band selfie, pre-gig. Bottom: the NY Times listing for our show.
We wound down a very, very busy couple of months with a relaxed outdoor gig in scenic Tarrytown, NY for the "Jazz at Lyndhurst" series. Our friend Mark Morganelli helms this series, and he even joined us onstage with his flugelhorn for a lovely version of "Que Sera, Sera."
Photos taken by our fans from the Jazz at Lyndhurst concert...a sunny, mild evening in a beautiful outdoor setting. What a great way to close out our summer!
Yes, from start to finish, DUCHESS has had an amazing summer! We can't wait for our upcoming California tour, and there are some more exciting gigs and travel plans on tap for the fall and 2016, too! Thanks for keeping up with all our adventures and we'll see you soon!
On the road again!
Yowza! We had a wild and wonderful week of touring last month, and are gearing up to head west in just a couple of weeks. We've been having a blast bringing girl-on-girl harmony to new friends and fans!
We began our summer tour in Ottawa, where we played the MainStage at the Ottawa Jazz Festival. The day was bright and sunny, the crowd was huge, and our adrenaline was running high. We were backed by Michael Cabe on piano and Toronto all-stars Dan Fortin and Ernesto Cervini on bass and drums, respectively. The festival's programming director, Petr Cancura, happens to be a great saxophonist, so we were delighted when he joined us for a few tunes.
And the kicker? The Roots headlined the MainStage, and after our show, we kicked up our heels, had a couple of beers, and danced like crazy.
Scenes from the Ottawa Jazz Festival. Clockwise from top left: the huge crowd; DUCHESS with Ottawa Jazz Festival Programming director and swinging sax player Petr Cancura; a selfie with the full band plus our producer/arranger, Oded Lev-Ari; photo evidence that DUCHESS opened for the Roots (!!!); a backstage beer, post-show.
From Ottawa, we headed to Boston's Regattabar for a very fun evening. This time, Paul Sikivie (bass) and Jared Schonig (drums) teamed up with Michael for a very swinging set of music. Afterward, we bid Paul and Jared a fond adieu and began the long trek to Toronto.
The Toronto Jazz Festival was in full swing when we pulled into town, and we went straight from the car to an interview for Jazz FM 91. We caught John Pizzarelli and Jessica Molaskey's set at the beautiful Koerner Hall, and then hit the hay relatively early. You see, we had a 5:00 am wakeup call the next morning. At that ungodly hour, we schlepped to the Canada AM studios and met up once again with Dan and Ernesto for an early-morning performance of "A Little Jive Is Good for You." The Canada AM "bump" put us at #7 on the iTunes Canada jazz charts! Later that evening (after a nice long nap, of course), we took the stage at the Jazz Bistro and were thrilled to see the great Freddy Cole in the audience.
Toronto Jazz Festival moments. Top: a post-performance shot from the Canada AM studio; Bottom left: pianist Michael Cabe caffeinating at Canada Am; Bottom right: being interviewed for Jazz.FM 91.
The Rochester and Saratoga Jazz Festivals were next on our itinerary, and in both locales we were greeted with great audiences and a pair of pretty amazing photobombs, courtesy of Jared Schonig and Michael Cabe.
Left: drummer Jared Schonig giving us a gun show in Rochester. Right: pianist Michael Cabe making a surprise appearance in our pre-gig photo at the Saratoga Jazz Festival.
July will find us on the west coast: we'll be performing at Tula's Jazz Club in Seattle on July 15 and Pacific Lutheran University's Jazz Under the Stars on July 16th. We'll be making our Jazz at Lincoln Center debut on July 22 when we take the stage at Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola, joined by surprise special guests, and we'll also be doing a show in scenic Tarrytown on July 23. September will find us in California, performing in Los Angeles, Oakland, and San Francisco before making our way to the Monterey Jazz Festival.
It's a busy, happy time for the gals of DUCHESS, and we hope that your summer is also filled with laughs, music, and fun road trips. In the meantime, here a few more photos of our June touring adventures. We hope to see you at a show sometime soon!
Scenes from the Xerox Rochester International Jazz Festival: the line to get into our show was around the block and we were thrilled to get a standing ovation.
At the Saratoga Jazz Festival. The rain stayed away for our performance at the Gazebo Stage, and we were so excited to see our dear friends (and a couple of our biggest fans), Nancy and Jerry, at our performance. Look at Nancy's shirt! Pretty amazing.
The "Charlie" to our "Angels": Oded Lev-Ari
It's no secret that the gals of DUCHESS have a whole lot of love for our intrepid producer, arranger, and Anzic label head, Oded Lev-Ari (who also doubles as Amy's husband). Almost exactly one year ago, Oded brought his signature finesse, humor, and great ears into Sear Sound, and his expert guidance made recording the DUCHESS album (in just two days!) feel like a walk in the park.
Oded also arranged nearly every song on our album, from the swinging "I Love Being Here With You" to the poignant "P.S. I Love You." Oded knows Amy, Hilary, and Melissa's voices so well that singing one of his charts is the musical equivalent of wearing a custom-made Halston gown.
As the head of Anzic Records, Oded has partnered with Anat Cohen to create a family label that has released and supported not only the DUCHESS album, but also individual albums by each of the Duchesses, as well as an eclectic and soulful array of projects by a number of wonderful artists.
The "Charlie" to our "Angels," Oded Lev-Ari.
Oded is such an important part of DUCHESS that we often refer to him as the "Charlie" to our "Angels." But then, if you've been keeping up with our hijinks and harmony over the course of the past year or so, you probably know all of this already (and we'll leave it to you to decide which one of us is Farrah Fawcett, Jaclyn Smith, and Kate Jackson).
What you may not know, however, is that next week, Oded Lev-Ari is releasing his own debut album as a leader. Threading comes out next Tuesday, April 28 on Anzic Records, and boasts an all-star cast: Jo Lawry and Alan Hampton take guest turns on vocals, and the chamber jazz-inspired 11-piece band includes Anat Cohen, Matt Wilson, Nadje Noorhuis, and Gilad Hekselman, among others.
Oded seamlessly weaves his own compositions (and two iterations of Gordon Jenkins' gorgeous "Goodbye") together into a tapestry of music that is elegant and adventurous, cinematic yet deeply personal, and hauntingly beautiful. The title track (available for preview HERE) is at once exotic and familiar, the type of timeless composition that inspires nostalgia for an as-yet uncharted place.
It's fitting that Threading's release coincides with the arrival of spring's audacious green buds and bright flowers. Adding to the beauty of the world around him is Oded's specialty.
Get your copy of Oded Lev-Ari's Threading at the Anzic Store, iTunes, or Amazon.
Getting to know the gals of DUCHESS!
February 12, 2015 / Duchess
We can't believe it: our official CD release is SO CLOSE (February 17!), and our CD release show at the Jazz Standard is coming up on March 3! We can't wait to share our signature blend of girl-on-girl harmony with you!
We've gotten some fantastic early press so far: DownBeat Magazine made us an Editors' Pick, All About Jazz gave our CD 4 stars, and we've even made headlines in Columbia, Missouri! In the wake of all this amazing DUCHESS press, we thought it would be nice to introduce ourselves individually to you, so read on for some essential info and fun facts about Amy, Hilary, and Melissa.
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We're good at parties...
The gals of DUCHESS love a good party, whether we're holding court at one of our own shows or making a guest appearance with our musician friends. Lately, we've had lots of fun making cameos here in New York City with some terrific artists...what a way to close out 2014!
In recent weeks, we've had the honor of sitting in a couple of times with the legendary Vince Giordano and the Nighthawks, erstwhile of HBO's hit series, "Boardwalk Empire." We had an absolute ball hearing what Vince and the band brought to our charts. Their sound is unmistakably authentic and swinging, and it was especially exciting to perform the "Heebie Jeebies" for Kyla Titus, who is the granddaughter of none other than Vet Boswell! Kyla graciously gifted us with a signed copy of her new book, "The Boswell Legacy." Another highlight was Wycliffe Gordon stopping by to tear the roof off the joint with his rendition of "Lazy River." What a thrill!
Top: DUCHESS with Vince Giordano; Bottom left: DUCHESS with Kyla Titus, Vet Boswell's granddaughter and the author of "The Boswell Legacy"; Bottom Right: DUCHESS with trombone star and vocalist Wycliffe Gordon and nightlife impresario Michael "Misha" Katsobashvili
November 16 found us at Birdland, for the lovely and swinging Jane Monheit's Jazz Party. Jane is an enormously engaging performer, and she was incredibly gracious to us. Each DUCHESS got to sing a solo tune and a duet with Jane. As a group, we performed "Blah, Blah, Blah," and then Jane joined us for "Que Sera, Sera." It was a magical evening.
Onstage and behind-the-scenes with the always-delightful Ms. Jane Monheit
Melissa, resplendent at the Jazz Standard
And speaking of magical evenings, our very own Melissa Stylianou celebrated the release of her newest CD, "No Regrets," at the Jazz Standard just a few days ago and, yowza, was it a great show! Hilary and Amy joined Melissa for "Hummin to Myself" and "Que Sera, Sera." We were too busy having fun to remember to get photos of us all onstage, but Amy was able to snap a great shot of Melissa bringing down the house (right).
Will Friedwald has been a friend and supporter of girl-on-girl harmony since the early days of DUCHESS, and we jumped at his invitation to join an all-star cast of singers at Urban Stages last night in tribute to composer and lyricist Hugh Martin. We performed a medley of songs from "Best Foot Forward," including "Skip to My Lou" and "The Three B's," both of which were arranged especially for us by our friend David Maddux. Thank you, David!
The legendary Marilyn Maye was the star of the show, and we had the singular thrill of being the only people present for her sound check. Watching Ms. Maye work out her arrangements with the brilliant pianist Ted Firth was an unexpected gift and a true masterclass. The gals of DUCHESS have decided that we would very much like to be Marilyn Maye when we grow up. We were honored to meet her, hear her, and even join her (along with the entire cast) for a group sing-along of Hugh Martin's "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas."
Clockwise from top: DUCHESS with Marilyn Maye; DUCHESS performing "Skip to My Lou"; a selfie with producer/emcee Will Friedwald; the finale: a sing-along of "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" (all photos except our selfie courtesy of Kevin Alvey)
We've got one more guest appearance on the calendar for 2014, and it's a doozy! Our dear friend and drummer Matt Wilson has invited DUCHESS to sing with his Christmas Tree-O at the Jazz Standard on December 16 and 17 (please visit our EVENTS page for tickets and more info). There will be hijinks. There will be hilarity. There will be special guests. There will most certainly be holiday cheer. Pick out your fanciest hat and let us sing you into the holiday season! Hope to see you there.
Love, DUCHESS
DUCHESS takes NOLA
October 17, 2014 / Duchess
DUCHESS is in love with New Orleans! We were invited to take part in a Boswell Sisters Revue and decided to make the most of it and spend a few days in this city that we had never been to, but heard so much about. The day we left was Amy's birthday so we, of course, had some cake on the plane at 6:30AM and watched the sunrise, or slept.
We stayed at a completely charming house in the Bywater. Far enough away from the hustle and bustle to relax but close enough to feel like we were in the middle of things. The house had old appliances and beautiful antiques. It really felt like stepping into another time. We highly recommend this AirBnb to anyone who is traveling to NOLA.
If you know the girls of DUCHESS, you know that we enjoy food. A lot. Priority number one for us when we arrived was to get some lunch. Oh boy. Just around the corner from our house was some of the finest barbecue in New Orleans at a place called The Joint. We ate, and ate, and ate and then had dessert. It was Amy's birthday, she made us.
That first night, we had our very own show at the best jazz club in New Orleans, Snug Harbor. The place was packed and we were honored to play with some of the best musicians in the city: Brian Seeger on guitar, Peter Harris on bass, Geoff Clapp on drums and our very special guest, Evan Christopher on saxophone and clarinet. The folks at the club were really lovely and the audience…we can't say enough about how great the reception was.
The band was so great that they even got into our famous "El Tigre" after show shot. You should check out their solo projects. We were blown away by their musicianship.
On Friday night, we took part in a wonderful event with groups from around the world paying tribute to The Boswell Sisters. Each group played 3 tunes and many new friendships were made. We are so grateful to Kyla Titus for putting it all together and for inviting us to come down for this celebration. Thanks also to our arranger/producer Oded Lev-Ari who stepped in last minute (at the sound check) to play piano for us. Well done! Read a bit about it in the WSJ and stream the entire show here. We come on at about the 2 hour mark but the rest of the groups are great, so check out the whole thing if you have time!
We had such a great time in New Orleans and can't wait to be back there again. There are some more photos below for you to take a peek at. Please follow us on Instagram for photos as they happen! Thank you NOLA!!!!
Chocolate and pear panettone (excuse the bite, the birthday girl was hungry), and sunrise from the plane.
The charming interior of our house on Dauhpine Street
I mean, come on. So delicious.
Hilary warming up her Uke, a soundcheck shot, our poster outside the club and a shot from the gig.
Our "normal" and crazy photos.
Pre-show selfie, looking over charts with pianist/producer/arranger extraordinaire, Oded Lev-Ari, Amy and Oded at the after party and our new friends, The Hazelnuts from Israel.
DUCHESS and FRIENDS! (from left to right)
With journalist, Will Friedwald; with our new friend, ; with Jason Patterson, owner of Snug Harbor; with our fan of the day, Mark Kirby who came all the way from NYC to hang with us; and with Kyla Titus, daughter of Vet Boswell.
Random NOLA sights
Some cool musical NOLA shots
Impromptu photo shoot on the couch
Good bye sweet house….see you next time.
Hilarity and Honey Buns
Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, and Melissa Stylianou just before hitting the stage for the first night of the DUCHESS Residency at 55 Bar Thursday Sept. 4
Your friendly correspondent is still recovering from the onslaught of hijinks and hilarity at the first night of the DUCHESS Fall Residency at 55 Bar . You may know some or all of these ladies above (Amy Cervini, Hilary Gardner, and Melissa Stylianou) from their solo careers, or the many times they have sung together in pairs. You might surmise, even without having experienced DUCHESS live, that you would really like this sort of thing. You would be right in assuming that the swinging tunes arranged expertly by Oded Lev-Ari, played by this incredible band (Michael Cabe on keyboard, Paul Sikivie on bass, Matt Wilson on drums, and Jeff Lederer on saxophone), and sung by the ladies in question, are bound to please the ear and get the toes a-tapping. What you could not guess, is the level of "hijinks" the group delivers.
Matt Wilson, Melissa Stylianou, Hilary Gardner, Paul Sikivie, Jeff Lederer, Michael Cabe, and Amy Cervini
These folks look nice enough, but your friendly correspondent to fill you in: they're a kooky bunch.
See? Told you so.
There were plenty of plain old swing-the-seat-off-your-pants-moments over the course of two sets, starting with Peggy Lee's "Love Being Here With You", and on through "Ain't No Sweet Man That's Worth the Salt of My Tears", and "Humming to Myself", and the Boswell Sisters arrangement of "Heebie Jeebies". Quite a few in attendance got misty over the ladies' renditions of "I'll Be Seeing You", "P.S. I Love You", and the double ukelele/melodica arrangement of "Que Sera, Sera."
An unplugged version of Que Sera, Sera, with Amy on melodica and Hilary and Melissa on ukelele.
Basically, DUCHESS had the crowd at 55 Bar in the palms of their hands, whether delivering a forthright ballad, or whilst pulling out a kazoo from a rather unconventional storage spot on her person (Melissa) for a tiny solo that left the trio in such fits of laughter, they were almost unable to continue singing.
Full band laugh-attack.
There were many moments of onstage zaniness (some so saucy, that your correspondent may have blushed a bit). Hilary Gardner and Amy Cervini may have blushed a bit, too, when Melissa "lei'd" them with colorful beads during Matt Wilson's thrumming Second Line intro to "Lollipop", mashing up the Hawaiian and Mardi Gras traditions. At which point, Hilary may have exclaimed "I'm not taking my top off for you" to Melissa, but your correspondent can't be entirely sure.
And then, there were the Honey Buns. As the story goes, Matt Wilson, whilst driving in Connecticut, happened upon a billboard advertising "Duchess Honey Buns". Oded Lev-Ari (arranger, producer, mastermind of DUCHESS) wasted no time, purchasing a case of said "Honey Buns"
The case of Duchess Honey Buns. There are now two fewer Honey Buns in this case
DUCHESS routinely crowns someone in the audience as "Fan of the Day", and on Thursday, two lucky people received the moniker, along with a sweet treat each.
Nancy and Jerry Miller - Fans of the Day
All told, the first installment of the DUCHESS Fall Residency at 55 Bar was swinging and laughter-filled. The remaining dates are as follows (all shows 7-9pm, No Cover):
Wednesday, Sept. 17
Thursday, Oct. 2 & Wednesday, Oct. 15
Thursday Nov. 6 & Wednesday Nov. 19
*You'll likely see your friendly correspondent at one or all of these shows, as she has a serious sweet tooth, and is hoping to acquire one of those honey buns!
Get your kicks (on Route 66): DUCHESS on the road
August 04, 2014 / Duchess
Any musician will tell you that life on the road can be a rough haul. We're talking about sub-par food, crazy-early mornings, and a whole lot of togetherness with your bandmates, which can all make for tired and cranky campers. Unless, of course, the tour is along Route 66 with DUCHESS and Cow Bop. In that case, we're talking about excellent food, the loveliest hostess and accommodations in all of Oklahoma, and some of the swingingest music on either side of the Mississippi.
Yup, Amy, Melissa, and I have just returned from a whirlwind jaunt along along historic Route 66, where we opened for (and were accompanied by!) the inimitable Cow Bop. We performed for big-hearted, wonderful audiences in some fantastic venues: the gorgeous 1920s-era Coleman Theatre, followed by a show at Oklahoma City's down-home, hipper-than-hip club, the Blue Door. We closed our our run with two back-to-back shows at the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame in Tulsa. Along the way, we ate copious helpings of chips and guacamole, drank more than a few beers, and had more fun than even we could have predicted.
The magnificent Coleman Theatre in Miami, OK, built in 1929.
A successful first show! We'll drink to that...
Our aforementioned hostess-with-the-mostess was Nana, a dear friend's mother-in-law, who put us up (and put up with us!) for the duration of our tour. She had sandwiches waiting for us when we pulled into her driveway after a long travel day, and she made us feel completely at home. We shared several memorable meals with Nana, including burgers and ice cream at Braum's and an incredible Mexican lunch at El Rio Verde.
Amy and I left the driving to Melissa, who was a champ behind the wheel of Ruby, our little red sedan. Cool as a cucumber, Melissa drove us all the way to Oklahoma City in blinding rain, where we played our hearts out for the intrepid folks who braved the weather to come see us. Before our final show in Tulsa, we took girl-on-girl harmony to the streets and busked, making the acquaintance of Tulsa Jazz founder John Taylor in the process!
The post-gig hangs with CowBop are hard to describe, but I believe the word I'm looking for is "epic." Oh, and we played kazoos. Lots and lots of kazoos.
Too much fun at the Blue Door in Oklahoma City...group kazoo solo!
I know. You wish you'd been there. We wish you'd been there. Or maybe you were there and you just want to re-live the magic. Well, thanks to the vision of CowBop's founder, Bruce Forman, and Rifftime's David Howard, you can! All our shows were live-streamed and archived. So crack open a Dos Equis, open a bag of Fritos, and tune in. You can catch the shows here, here, and here. You can also check out lots of fun photos on our Instagram.
Thank you to Nana, Bruce Forman and Cow Bop, Rifftime, Darcie at the Coleman Theatre, Greg Johnson at the Blue Door, the OK Jazz Hall of Fame, and all of the new friends and fans we met along the highway that's the best! Until next time, Route 66!
Thank you to all the great friends and fans we met along Route 66!
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In Suspension
Alexander Apóstol / Cinthia Marcelle /
Héctor Zamora
Project curated by Iria Candela OH YEAH
Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló is presenting the group exhibition In Suspension, showcasing recent work by three Latin American artists who examine architecture, urban development and, more specifically, interrupted constructive processes.
In Suspension presents the work of Alexander Apóstol (Barquisimeto, Venezuela, 1969; currently living in Madrid), Cinthia Marcelle (Belo Horizonte, Brazil, 1974; lives in Belo Horizonte) and Héctor Zamora (Mexico City, Mexico, 1974; lives and works in São Paulo). Be it through altering building material, reoccupying vacant lots or documenting abandoned buildings, their works visualise a brand of city planning that is, more than in construction, “in suspension” and showing evident signs of crisis.
The exhibition includes, among other works, Alexander Apóstol’s series of photographs Skeleton Coast (2005) taken on Isla de Margarita, whose coastline is dotted with hotel and residential resorts that were never finished; Cinthia Marcelle’s videos A fonte (2005) and 475 Volver (2009), which deal with the lack of functionality inherent to actions carried out in empty slots; and Héctor Zamora’s 6 de la serie de potencialidades (2009) and Swiss Modul Tropicalizado (2012), two sculptures made with bricks and tiles that explore the ideas of construction and deconstruction in the public space.
By being presented in the city of Castellón, the works question the built environment and provoke a reconsideration of the urban planning policies which sustain the so-called “brick economy”. The exhibition is also contextualised within the current crisis in the construction industry and the bursting of the housing bubble in Spain. Both on the east coast of Spain as well as in other areas around the world, including Latin America, city planning and architecture has been subject to dramatic ups and downs as a result of phases of growth and slowdown in the economy.
In Suspension showcases a group of sculptures, photos and videos made over recent years and holds up a critical yet at once ironical mirror to one of today’s most pressing problems: sustainability in economic growth and its effect on urban development.
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Study shows benefits of quality daycare:Better early care helps kids’ academics at high school
20 Jul2010July 20, 2010
By Great Expectations Child Care CenterIn Child Care
Reuters: updated 5/14/2010 8:25:29 AM ET
WASHINGTON — Parents worried about putting very young children into daycare got some reassuring answers on Friday — children who have high-quality care see academic benefits lasting into high school.
The latest results from the long-running U.S. National Institutes of Health study show children in high-quality childcare scored slightly higher on measures of academic and cognitive achievement years later as teenagers.
They were also slightly less likely to act out than peers who were in lower-quality childcare, the researchers reported.
But children who spent the most hours in childcare had a slightly greater tendency toward impulsiveness and risk-taking at age 15 than teens who had spent less time in childcare, the researchers wrote in the journal Child Development.
Quality for childcare is usually measured by how much time the provider spends interacting with the children, as well as warmth, support and cognitive stimulation.
The ongoing study is meant to inform the policy debate on whether both parents should work when children are young and whether providing childcare is good for the children, their parents and society as a whole.
“High quality child care appears to provide a small boost to academic performance, perhaps by fostering the early acquisition of school readiness skills,” said James Griffin of the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, the NIH institute that paid for the study.
“The current findings reveal that the modest association between early childcare and subsequent academic achievement and behavior seen in earlier study findings persists through childhood and into the teen years.”
Deborah Lowe Vandell of the University of California, Irvine, and colleagues tracked 1,364 children who have been studied since they were 1 month old starting in 1991.
They measured the quality, hours and type of daycare, collected results of standardized tests and interviewed the teens, their families and their schools. The children were from diverse backgrounds.
‘The importance of interaction’
Vandell’s team found more than 40 percent of the children were given high-quality care and 90 percent spent at least some time in the care of someone other than a parent before age 4.
“These results underscore the importance of interaction between children and their daytime caregivers,” she said in a statement. “We’re seeing enduring effects of the quality of staff-child interaction.”
But too much interaction may be harmful, researchers found in a second study.
Megan Gunnar of the University of Minnesota and colleagues studied 150 3- and 4-year-olds in 110 different family childcare homes.
About 40 percent of the children had elevated levels of a stress hormone called cortisol, they reported in Child Development.
Cortisol went up in children whose care providers were intrusive or overcontrolling — measured by how much free play they had versus structured activities led by the providers that mainly involved rote learning.
Girls with larger increases in cortisol acted more anxious and vigilant at child care, while boys acted more angry and aggressive, Gunnar reported.
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En - Pantropical spotted dolphin, Fr - Dauphin tacheté pantropical, Sp - Estenela moteada.
3Alpha Code: DPN Taxonomic Code: 4220403201
Diagnostic Features
Pantropical spotted dolphins (sometimes called "spotters") are generally slender, streamlined animals. They have a long thin beak that is separated from the melon by a distinct crease. The dorsal.fin is narrow, falcate, and usually pointed at the tip.
Although unspotted at birth, by adulthood Pantropical spotted dolphins have varying degrees of white mottling on the dark dorsal cape, which is narrow on the head and sweeps low on the flank in front of the dorsal fin. The spotting ranges from very slight (or even non-existent) in offshore animals to heavy enough to obliterate the cape in coastal dolphins. The lower sides and belly of adults are grey and the lips and beak tip tend to be brilliant white. A dark grey band encircles the eye, and continues forward to the apex of the melon; there also is a dark gape-to-flipper stripe.
In each tooth row are 34 to 48 slender, sharply pointed teeth.
In at least the eastern tropical Pacific, a separate coastal form exists. It is larger and stockier, with a thicker beak and more extensive spotting than the offshore form.
Can be confused with: Pantropical spotted dolphins can be confused with several other long-beaked oceanic dolphins. Spinner dolphins can be distinguished by differences in dorsal-fin shape, beak length, and colour pattern. In addition to Atlantic spotted dolphins both bottlenose and hump-backed dolphins can also be spotted (generally on the belly), but will often be distinguishable by differences in body shape and size.
Pantropical spotted dolphins are mostly creatures of oceanic tropical zones. As their name implies, these animals are found in all oceans, between about 40°N and 40°S, although they are much more abundant in the lower latitude portions of their range.
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These animals are among the most abundant dolphins in the eastern tropical Pacific and are the primary species involved in interactions with tuna there. Pantropical spotted dolphins associate with yellowfin tuna, spinner dolphins, and other pelagic predators; the fishermen take advantage of this association to help them locate and catch tuna more efficiently. School sizes are generally less than 100 for the coastal form, but offshore herds may number in the thousands. In the eastern tropical Pacific, large herds are less common than they were before the tuna fishery began to exploit them. These gregarious animals are fast swimmers, often engaging in acrobatics, and frequently bowriding (except on the tuna fishing grounds of the eastern tropical Pacific, where they generally have learned to avoid boats).
There are 2 calving peaks in the eastern tropical Pacific, 1 in spring and 1 in autumn. Pantropical spotted dolphins feed largely on epipelagic fish and squid, primarily during the day.
Adults are from 1.6 to 2.4 m (females) or 1.6 to 2.6 m (males). Animals from offshore populations can weigh up to at least 120 kg, but are smaller than those from coastal ones. At birth, pantropical spotted dolphins are about 85 cm long.
Interest to Fisheries
The tuna fishery in the eastern tropical Pacific targets the pantropical spotted dolphin to catch yellowfin tuna and skipjack tuna that often swim below the herds. Annual mortality of spotted dolphins in the late 1980s was in the tens of thousands. Takes of hundreds of thousands per year in the 1960s and 1970s reduced the northern offshore stock of spotters to an unknown degree. Spotted dolphins are also taken in other fisheries, including drive fisheries in Japan and the Solomon Islands, and Sri Lankan gillnets and harpoon fisheries for human consumption, among others. Some have been reported taken in the Caribbean small cetacean fishery.
IUCN: Insufficiently known.
Source of Information
Marine mammals of the world. Jefferson, T.A., S. Leatherwood & M.A. Webber - 1993. FAO species identification guide. Rome, FAO. 320 p. 587 figs. .
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Adult Content Policies: A Textbook Case of Private Censorship
Posted on 12/08/2017 12/08/2017 by Charly O. in Uncategorized
Of the many reasons why social media platforms should resist pressure to “voluntarily” censor their users, one stands out: history shows that they will do it badly, taking down valuable and lawful content in the name of enforcing community standards. The result: practical speech discrimination.
Facebook’s adult content policy is a textbook example. Since its early days, the platform has banned nearly all forms of nudity. But from day one, it has created reporting processes that conflate mere nudity with sexuality, and sexuality with pornography, and has applied different standards to feminine bodies than to masculine ones.
And the same double standards seem to apply to advertisements. First, the conflation: Facebook’s advertising policy explicitly bans “nudity, depictions of people in explicit or suggestive positions, or activities that are overly suggestive or sexually provocative.” Thanks to this policy, an ad from the National Campaign to Prevent Teen and Unwanted Pregnancy promoting regular health checkups, was rejected for violating Facebook’s advertising guidelines “for language that is profane, vulgar, threatening or generates high negative feedback”—the language in question? “You’re so sexy when you’re well.” Now, the double standard: all of the images used as examples of “inappropriate ads” are of women.
The latter inconsistency is particularly galling given that activists have been challenging Facebook’s gender politics for years. Nonetheless, although Facebook says its policies are intended to apply to all genders, the actual application has never been consistent or fair. For example, the company allows hookup apps to advertise, but has banned images of fat women on the grounds that they promote unhealthy behavior (the company apologized after significant press coverage).
Most recently, journalist Sarah Lacy complained that advertisements for her book—entitled The Uterus is a Feature, Not a Bug—had been rejected for containing the U-word…meanwhile, many users were recently served an ad containing a graphic depiction of a penis-stretching device from a verified account.
Author Sarah Lacy says Facebook refused to advertise the book title on the left. Facebook accepted the advertisement on the right.
In the midst of ongoing political divisions, it’s easy to dismiss an issue like this as trivial, but everyday censorship can have a serious impact on social media users. Reports received by Onlinecensorship.org demonstrate the centrality of Facebook to many individuals’ lives—users who have received temporary or permanent suspensions often express despair at having been disconnected from their friends and families, while others (particularly those in creative industries) have cited professional consequences as a result of bans.
Facebook’s regulations on adult content and nudity disproportionately affect women and transgender individuals, and its advertising policies are no different. These policies are discriminatory and inconsistently applied, often resulting in censorship of marginalized populations while other, more privileged users are not held to the same standard. We recognize that private companies, including Facebook, have the right to set and enforce whatever regulations on content they choose to apply on their own platforms. However, companies should apply their chosen policies consistently and equally, with clearly defined due process procedures available to users when their content is removed. We call on Facebook to apply equal treatment to content, and consistent application of their policies.
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Qualcomm’s failed JV reveals poor chipset strategy amid rising competition: insiders
By Chen Qingqing Source:Global Times Published: 2019/4/22 19:48:40
Door of Huaxintong Semiconductor (HXT) is closed on Sunday in Beijing. Photo: IC
US-based technology giant Qualcomm will reportedly close its chipset joint venture (JV) in Southwest China's Guizhou Province later this month, reflecting its poor understanding of the nation's chip-making industry and growing competition from local players, industry insiders said.
Huaxintong Semiconductor (HXT), a JV between Qualcomm and the local government of Guizhou, will be closed by the end of this month, US-based technology site the Information reported over the weekend, citing unidentified HXT executives.
The JV, founded in January 2017, was registered with initial capital of 1.85 billion yuan ($2.8 billion), with the Guizhou government holding a 55-percent stake and Qualcomm taking 45 percent, according to the official website of HXT.
Several Chinese industry insiders said they were not surprised by the failure of Qualcomm in the project, which showed the US giant's poor understanding of the local market and failure to fully integrate into the Chinese chip-making supply chain.
"We studied the project's feasibility before. Only focusing on making server chips based on ARM architecture was unlikely to work out," a veteran industry representative surnamed Liu told the Global Times on Monday.
Intel's X86 architecture is still dominant in the server chip sector in China, although some companies like Huawei have adopted ARM architecture to diversify their major suppliers and reduce reliance on Intel.
"Qualcomm launched this project in Guizhou to improve government relations, as it was fined a large amount of money in an antitrust case in 2015. The local Guizhou government aimed to build a big data and advanced technology center in the province," Liu said, noting that the US company also believed that the Chinese government would provide help for server procurement.
However, the nation's chip industry has been developing in recent years with advanced semiconductor and data companies located in cities like Beijing and Shanghai, leaving Qualcomm poorly connected with the supply chain, according to industry insiders.
"The US company rushed to launch this chipset project, but it eventually found that it was not easy to achieve mass production," a source close to the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology who participated in an earlier stage of the HXT project, told the Global Times on Monday.
Qualcomm and HXT have not responded to interview requests sent by the Global Times as of press time on Monday.
Newspaper headline: Qualcomm’s failed JV reveals poor chipset strategy
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Andrew Thornton
Andrew Thornton is a national hunt jockey who had his first win on Wrekin Hill in a 3m 3f Chase at Sedgefield on 22nd November 1991. No stranger to the Aintree Grand National, he has participated on thirteen previous occasions starting in 1996 when he was on board Over The Stream, finishing a respectable 13th.
His best finish was in 1998 on St Mellion Fairway when he finished 4th and until the 2012 Grand National, his last attempt was in 2007 on board Simon but fell at the 25th fence.
He had his fairytale win at Fairyhouse on Monday 9th April 2012 when he won the 250K Irish Grand National on Lion Na Bearnai for trainer Thomas Gibney, and owners, Lock Syndicate after guiding the ten-year-old gelding comfortably through the course. The race that started with 30 runners was no easy ride as indicated by the fact that only nine finished.
For the first time in five years he had a ride in the 2012 Aintree Grand National and partnered Tatenen for Richard Rowe. The French eight year old was given a nice weight of 10-13 and with the rain pouring over Aintree, the ground seemed very suitable as Tatenen generally likes the going Gd-Sft or Soft but unfortunately the course was too tough and he fell at the 8th fence.
Despite having to endure many setbacks and injuries throughout his career, Thornton is now widely regarded as one of the best jumps jockeys around. He is also very highly respected among his weighing room colleagues and his future ambitions include winning the National and to ride 1000 winners.
He renewed his partnership with Tatenen in 2013 and although he got further than the 8th fence it was only to the 12th were he fell and was out of the race.
Tags: 2014 Grand National, Andrew Thornton, Jockey, Tatenen
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Replaced by E10 Drift Falken Tire 2013 Ford Mustang #111277
HPI Racing is proud to announce the new, officially licensed, Monster Energy Falken Tire Ford Mustang GT . There is no detail spared in the mimicking of pro drifting champion Vaughn Gittin Jr.'s ride, as it takes the realism to another level. Every detail of his 1:1 scale drifting machine has been scaled down to this 1/10-scale version, while the drifting itself is as exciting as the real thing. This E10 Drift is now 2.4GHz equipped, rolls on officially licensed HRE wheels, Falken RT-615K drift tires, and also includes a Plazma battery pack, Plazma AA's, and an AC wall charger for instant drifting excitement!
The new Monster Energy Falken Tire Ford Mustang GT is equipped with a high quality HPI 2.4GHz radio system. 2.4GHz technology provides you with the best possible vehicle operation and control, without the need of crystals, just turn on your radio and drive. Drifting in large groups is possible without running into any frequency conflicts.
Also included are all of the accessories necessary to get you up and drifting in no time! A rechargeable 7.2V Plazma battery pack, Plazma AA batteries for the transmitter, and even an AC wall charger are all included to help get you sideways as soon as you open the box.
The RTR E10 Drift from HPI Racing is an entry level 1/10th scale electric drift car designed for fun driving with realistic looks and performance, all at a low price. The E10 was designed so anyone can take the wheel and give drifting a try! Arriving right out of the box in ready-to-run (RTR) form with a fully painted body and a preassembled chassis, it's a simple matter of 'charge and go' for hours of fun.
The E10 uses true full-time 4WD and independent suspension and specially designed Falken Azenis RT-615K drift tires, making it easy to drift on paved parking lot surfaces. The slick and hard T-Drift tires make drifting easy, holding a smooth line and maximum drift angle just like full size drift cars. An enclosed drivetrain keeps dirt and dust out of the gears for low maintenance and reliability. A large foam bumper protects the car from crash damage, and the chassis and suspension have been strategically engineered for entry level performance and durability.
The RTR E10 includes a high-performance SC-15WP electronic speed control that has throttle, brakes and reverse, allowing it to drive and maneuver just like real cars. Providing the horsepower is a powerful Saturn 27T electric motor for reliable power and performance with low maintenance.
The E10 uses standard body mounting points so owners can fit a wide variety of HPI Racing bodies to customize the look of their car. Most popular wheel and tires bolt right on for extra tuning and styling options. It's super-easy to choose from an extensive range of touring car, muscle car and drift car accessories to customize the E10!
For extra excitement, the E10 is designed so that it can be easily converted from drift driving to street/touring without adding any new parts. The motor and radio equipment can be moved to optimize the weight balance for smooth drifting or high grip cornering. Complete instructions are included in the box for owners looking for a change of pace in driving styles.
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Vaughn Gittin Jr. has become one of drifting’s most iconic figures and his machine, the Monster Energy/Falken Tire Ford Racing Mustang, one of the sport’s most identifiable cars. Vaughn is known best by his aggressive, foot to the floor, big smoke driving style. Being such a fierce competitor, Vaughn is known as the only American to win a D1 Grand Prix event, not once – but twice. In 2005 Vaughn stunned the world when he won the D1GP USA vs. Japan. In 2007, he brought America home the gold once more by winning the D1GP World Championship. He has achieved three wins and multiple podiums throughout his Formula Drift career. In 2010, Vaughn earned his first Formula Drift Championship, becoming the second-ever Champion with a strictly-drifting background.
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Product specifications are subject to change. Some models shown are prototypes which may vary slightly from actual production models.
Length: 14.8" (375mm)
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Wheelbase: 10" (255mm)
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Season Preview: Arsenal
Last updated : 10 August 2009 By Sammy Mooner
As per usual we had the sort of season that some clubs can only dream about, but by our standards it really wasn't all that. We had an FA Cup semi final which we blew because we were seemingly focused on the Champions League. But when it came right down to it we were stuffed by United in the Champions League semi final anyway, a most unpleasant experience. Our Champions League place for 2009-10 was under threat for a while and our freewheeling quality football went missing in too many games. Definitely not a season to remember.
The jury is out. With Arshavin available for a full season and Eduardo likely to be back as well our future looks good, but we've already lost Nasri and Rosicky to pre-season injuries. Adebayor going to Citeh was no loss because what he did best last season was to get caught offside and mope around up front counting his money. Much will depend upon if and how we spend the money we've blagged from Citeh and if we don't tighten up in midfield and at the back we'll be even worse than last season.
What have you done in the transfer market this summer? Which of your new signings are you expecting most from?
At the time of writing we've only made one: namely Vermaelen, our Belgium centre back who until recently was captain of Ajax. But given that Eduardo was out for an entire season and will seem like a new signing I'll plump with our Crozillian to shine this coming term.
Too early to tell and it depends entirely on further purchases we may make in the current Summer window, which last time out (with Andrey Arshavin) occurred round about midnight on the transfer deadline day.
Promising youngsters: no. Really excellent youngsters: yes. We have a long queue of fantastic kids who are already good enough to play for Mexico, England under 21's, and under 19's, Spain's under 19's, Netherlands's under 19's, France's under 19's and 21's. They won the FA Youth Cup last season and play stunning football the Wenger way.
The pick of the lot is a 17-year-old by the name of Jack Wilshere who, all being well, looks set to become a full England International before his 20th birthday and may turn out to be as good if not better than Cesc Fabregas.
These kids will form the core of our Carling Cup team as is the norm for Arsenal.
Have you got the right man in charge of the team? Will he still be there at the end of the season?
I happen to think the answers are yes to both questions. But Arsene Wenger has upped expectations so much since arriving that some of our more impatient fans are now disgruntled about results, that's to say the lack of recent major silverware. Bringing on the youths and spending money wisely is something Wenger does well, but spending more money more often on world class players is what many would prefer.
Our board's personnel has changed in recent years. The in-fighting between the major shareholders has caused a few flutters and bit of unrest so the possibility of a take-over bid is possibly on the increase. But to buy all the shares in our Club will cost the purchaser an absolute minimum of £450 million so if anyone succeeds in a buyout at least we'll know they'll either be fairly well off or have a great credit line. With our setup sacking the board is not an option because they already sack each other, and if any choose to sell up they'll just be even richer individuals than they already are. Unfortunately the chances of any of them putting their hands in their own pockets for new players like Abramovich or Citeh's owners do are about nil.
We always, but always want to beat Spurs because the chip on their shoulder gets bigger every season. We want to give Chelski a good hiding because these London upstarts are totally lacking in both class and history. We want to trounce United because we're one of the few teams capable of doing so. But beating any big club on the way to another Champions League Cup Final would be seriously cool and possibly far more preferable.
I suspect it will either be the Chavs by quite a margin, because they seem to have the strongest squad, or it will be a very close run thing between the usual suspects. Don't rule out Arsenal but then again don't put your shirt on us.
Who do you think's going down?
Not something we usually concern ourselves about, but I suspect Hull City will be amongst the prime candidates because without the sort of tearaway start that you got last season you've a chance of being in the dogfight all season long. As will, I hope, McLeish's Brummy thugs and the tediously one-dimensional Stoke. But I suspect the fast declining Pompey will also feature along with the other new boys Wolves and Burnley, as seems to be the norm.
How do you think Hull City will fare this season?
Not many decent players it seems are keen to join a club where the manager berates his players on the pitch. Can't think why not. So how you fare may depend on just how lunatic your demented manager acts this season or if you can persuade a really decent goalscorer to move to Humberside. Just for the record Orange Phil polled 67% of all the votes cast in this season's Annual Gooner's Survey for the most despised Premiership manager, a thoroughly deserved accolade in my opinion. Get rid of him and Horton and you could well have the pick of an orderly queue of half decent out of work mangers who are all looking for any top flight club.
Overall I suspect your chances of staying up are maybe 50-50, which looking on the bright side is at least better odds than you could have got at the start of last season. Good luck, I suspect you'll need it.
Sammy Mooner writes for The Gooner magazine and website
Click here to read what Sammy said at the end of last season about how Arsenal got on in 2008/09.
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Michael Wolff, MD
Alamance Urology
HIFU Physician & Proctor Burlington, NC
Dr. Michael Wolff is the leading, minimally invasive prostate cancer physicians in the North Carolina Triad area. Dr. Wolff was an early adopter of HIFU and treated his first patient 2007, and has treated over 100 patients since being trained. Dr. Wolff is now thought of as one of the Carolina region’s most experienced HIFU physicians and proctors.
Dr. Wolff was also one of the innovators in focal therapy and was one of the first in the Carolinas to treat prostate cancer focally using HIFU. Because of Dr. Wolff’s vast HIFU experience, he has assisted in training other physicians from across the country in the use of HIFU for treating prostate cancer.
Dr. Wolff received his undergraduate degree in biology and chemistry from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. Dr. Wolff is a board certified urologist and attended medical school at The Indiana University School of Medicine, receiving his M.D. in 1983. Dr. Wolff performed his surgical internship and surgical residency at the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Memphis, TN. He also performed his urology residency at University of Tennessee Medical Center and was the chief urology resident from 1987-1988.
Dr. Wolff currently holds hospital staff appointments at Alamance Regional Medical Center in Burlington, NC. Dr. Wolff also is a partner at Alamance Urological, PC.
The following are among Dr. Wolff’s current memberships in professional organizations:
Southeastern Section American Urological Association
North Carolina Medical Society
American Lithotripsy Society
Fellow American College Surgeons
International HIFU Society
Carolina Urology Partners Outpatient Facility
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Episode 17: Generate Your Own Creative Breakthrough!
March 17th, 2019 | 15 mins 32 secs
art, artist, creative, creativity, inspiration, musician, painter, painters, painting, sculpting, sculptor, writer, writers, writing
Are you in need of a creative breakthrough? Do you feel stuck in the same old habits? Maybe you want to take your work to the next level but haven’t figured out what that next level is. I’ve got a strategy for how you can generate your own creative breakthrough.
Dealing With a NO: Getting Stronger from Rejection
Let's be real, rejection hurts! I recently got rejected and share the steps I went through to work through it.
15: The Gap Between Your Vision & Your Ability
June 26th, 2018 | 10 mins 58 secs
art, artist, creative, creativity, david bayles, inspiration, ira glass, musician, painter, painters, painting, sculpting, sculptor, ted orland, todd henry, vision, writer, writers, writing
Do you ever experience disappointment because what you've made and what you WANT to be making aren't the same? Today's episode offers encouragement for coping with that gap.
14: How to Keep Your Promises to Yourself (Part 2)
art, artist, creative, creativity, goal setting, inspiration, jeff haden, motivation, musician, painter, painters, painting, sculpting, sculptor, writer, writers, writing
When was the last time you have a 'win' on your journey toward achieving your goals? In this episode, we explore the importance of frequent, small wins to keep our motivation and engagement high. The science of animal training, offers a helpful model!
13: How to Keep Promises to Yourself (Part 1)
June 12th, 2018 | 16 mins 6 secs
art, artist, creative, creativity, gary john bishop, inspiration, musician, painter, painters, painting, sculpting, sculptor, self mastery, writer, writers, writing
When was the last time you kept a promise to yourself? Most of us have a poor track record at honoring our own goals, but that can change.
12: Tom Jones is My Hero (and Could Be Yours Too)
June 5th, 2018 | 8 mins 35 secs
art, artist, creative, creativity, inspiration, leonard cohen, musician, painter, painters, painting, sculpting, sculptor, tom jones, writer, writers, writing
What's new pussycat? Tom Jones' creative career is a reminder of what is possible for us as creatives: longevity, persistence and a desire to serve an audience with our creative gifts for an entire lifetime.
11: How Well Do You Know Your Feelings?
May 29th, 2018 | 16 mins 31 secs
Emotions can be tricky things! I share a special tool - and how naming specific emotions has made a difference for me as a person and an artist.
10: Imagine Yourself As the Character in a Compelling Story
May 22nd, 2018 | 12 mins 51 secs
Today we’re taking a cue from novelists and looking at ourselves as characters in the midst of a compelling story. If you’re feeling at all discouraged or frustrated with yourself this week, this strategy could really help.
9: Starting Dating the Future You
Why is it that we struggle to make decisions now that will benefit our future selves? There’s research in psychology that seeks to answer this question and they’ve come up with some answers that can help us as artists.
8: You Don't Have to Be Fully Formed to Engage
May 8th, 2018 | 9 mins 51 secs
art, artist, creative, creativity, inspiration, musician, painter, painters, painting, sculpting, sculptor, social media, writer, writers, writing
Do you feel conflicted about engaging in social media? Do you feel like you need to be more or have it all figured out before you engage? I have some encouraging advice for you.
7: Your Weapon Against Discouragement: Metrics
May 1st, 2018 | 14 mins 13 secs
art, artist, creative, creativity, discouragement, inspiration, metrics, musician, painter, painters, painting, sculpting, sculptor, tracking, writer, writers, writing
Have you found that the middle of a project is where you’re most likely to get discouraged or give up? There’s a strategy that can help us get through that frustrating middle - but it’s one we often forget when it comes to our creative work.
6: Don't Do Your Best
April 23rd, 2018 | 17 mins 30 secs
art, artist, creative, creativity, inspiration, musician, painter, painters, painting, performance, sculpting, sculptor, writer, writers, writing
How do you define your 'best'? I share why aspiring to 'do your best' may be undermining your efforts to make more art.
5: What's Your Manifesto?
April 16th, 2018 | 13 mins 22 secs
anne lamott, art, artists, creative, gretchen rubin, inspiration, manifesto, musician, painter, painters, painting, sculpting, sculptor, writer, writers, writing
Do you have a creative manifesto - a document that lists the important creative truths you want to keep top of mind? If you were to create one, what would you write?
4: What's in a (Paint) Name?
April 8th, 2018 | 17 mins 53 secs
acrylic, artist, bruce macavoy, color, color index name, color mixing, color theory, color wheel, handprint, oil, paint, painter, painting, pigment, pigment trade name, watercolor
Do you find mixing the colors you want to be frustrating, elusive and inconsistent? Do you get overwhelmed at art stores, trying to decide what paints to buy? Get ready to have your mind blown.
3: Tell Your Real Story
April 7th, 2018 | 9 mins 55 secs
artist statements, bernadette jiwa, branding, comparison, competition, conformity, individuality, marketing, narrative, story, story driven, strategy
Do you equate marketing with telling people what you think they want to hear? Do you feel pressured to conform to artist stereotypes or what's trending? Author & global marketing expert Bernadette Jiwa has a welcome wake-up call for us!
2: SCRUM! A Strategy From Software Development
productivity, project management, scrum, software developers, software development, sprint, structure, time management
Struggling with far-off deadlines? Need to jumpstart your productivity between projects? Take a tip from the way software developers work. Seriously, it could help!
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Aaj Nahin To Kal
Mohammed Aziz, Alisha Chinai Anu Malik Anjaan Jackie Shroff
To Massiah Tu Mohabbat Tu Sanam
Mohammed Aziz, Anuradha Paudwal Anu Malik Anjaan Romantic Songs
Jaise Tu Karega Mai Bhi Karunga
Anu Malik, Mohammed Aziz Anu Malik Anjaan Jackie Shroff, Vinod Khanna Masti Bhare Geet
Solah Khatam Satrah Shuru, Raat Din Lutne Ka Khatra Shuru
Alisha Chinai Anu Malik Anjaan Dimple Kapadia, Jackie Shroff, Seema Deo, Sonam, Vinod Khanna, Vinod Mehra
Aakhri Adaalat
Film cast: Vinod Khanna, Dimple Kapadia, Jackie Shroff, Sonam, Paresh Rawal, Gulshan Grover, Vinod Mehra, A K Hangal, Shafi Inamdaar, Roopesh Kumar, Sharat Saxena, Sushma Seth, Mahavir Shah, Anjan Srivastava, Sudhir Dalvi, Seema Deo, Birbal, Mangal Dhillon, Johny Lever, Amrit Pal, Krishan Dhawan, Raj Mehra, Bob Christo, Huma Khan, Gurbachan
Singer: Anu Malik, Alisha Chinai, Anuradha Paudwal, Mohammed Aziz
Lyricist: Anjaan
Music Director: Anu Malik
Film Director: Rajiv Mehra
Film Producer: F C Mehra, Pavesh Mehra
External Links: Aakhri Adaalat at IMDB Aakhri Adaalat at Wikipedia
Watch Full Movie: Aakhri Adaalat at YouTube
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Home Africa Somaliland Strengthens relations with Kenya to build broader trade ties
Somaliland Strengthens relations with Kenya to build broader trade ties
The Government of Somaliland together with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) has planned a Trade and Investment Conference in Nairobi to market Somaliland as an investment destination.
NAIROBI, KENYA, November 28 — Somaliland is exploiting regional and international trade deals in Kenya, as the capital- Nairobi continues to attract delegations from across the world seeking investment opportunities in East Africa.
The Government of Somaliland is strategically positioning itself to tap any available opportunities, using its renewed trade and diplomatic ties with the Kenyan government.
To realize this, the Office of the Somaliland Representative in Nairobi is pushing for a number of initiatives, among them collaboration with the Kenya Private Sector Alliance (KEPSA) to boost ties.
The two plan to host a Trade and Investment Conference in Nairobi under the theme “Somaliland, the gateway between Africa and the Middle East, Successes, Opportunities & Prospects”.
To be held on November 30 at the Norfolk Hotel, the forum will front health, water and sanitation, energy and extractives, education and hospitality as sectors of interest.
Others are aviation, agriculture, livestock, fisheries, and manufacturing and construction sectors.
“The Government of Somaliland, under the leadership of His Excellency President Musa Bihi Abdi, is seeking to promote Somaliland as an emerging and premier destination for trade and investments and is keen on expanding and deepening its trade and investment relationship with Kenya,” the office of the Somaliland Representative in Nairobi said in a statement through KEPSA.
The conference is expected to be attended by high level representatives of Somaliland’s major corporations, multinationals operating in Somaliland as well as Somaliland’s development partners.
According to KEPSA and the Somaliland government, the forum will be a good opportunity to learn and network directly with investors and key business stakeholders , and build business linkages with the Somaliland Business Community in Kenya.
KEPSA has since called on its members to use the forum to build business relations.
Somaliland is following on the footsteps of Somalia which renewed its ties with Kenya in 2017 when President Mohamed Abdullahi “Farmajo” Mohamed visited Kenya, where he held talks with President Uhuru Kenyatta.
The two discussed deepening trade and diplomatic ties between Kenya and Somalia.
President Kenyatta had attended the inauguration of President Farmajo a month before Farmajo’s state visit to Nairobi.
There has been tension along Kenya-Somalia borders for almost a decade now as Somalia insurgents Al-shabaab continue to remain a security threat.
In October 2011, a coordinated operation between the Somalia military and the Kenya Defence Forces (KDF)-Operation Linda Nchi was launched against the militants. In early June 2012, Kenyan troops were formally integrated into African Union Mission in Somalia(AMISOM).
The two have maintained commercial relations through the Intergovernmental Authority on Development (IGAD) trading bloc.
Efforts are underway to re-open their borders for trade on improved security, a move that will improve business between the two countries, currently dominated by smuggling of sub-standard goods and counterfeits.
Goods finding their way into Kenya include contraband sugar, rice, spaghetti, cooking oil and petroleum products, which are smuggled through the Port of Kismayu.
In 2015, Kenya commenced construction of a border wall to enhance security.
During President Mohammed’s state visit, numerous agreements were signed and both countries agreed to cooperate on security, trade, tourism and immigration.
Kenya and Somalia agreed to restart direct flights between Nairobi and Mogadishu. Kenya also agreed to help train Somali government employees.
Both countries further agreed to scrap visa requirements for diplomatic and official passport holders.
Farmajo praised Kenya’s efforts particularly referring to the numerous refugees that Kenya hosts and Kenya’s support for the fight against Al-Shabaab in Somalia. Both leaders stated that they remained committed to the fight against extremism.
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Pear Slices at Pear Theatre
Heidi Chun May 5, 2017
“Pear Slices” opens today and runs through May 28th, 2017. If you’ve never been to the Pear Theatre, you really need to go see it and this production is their most popular every year. Everyone can’t wait to see what their favorite playwrights have come up with.
"Pear Slices" is 8 original short plays by members of the Pear Playwrights Guild. From Anasazi to Aboriginals, private detectives to proposals, this year's crop of plays promises to engage, delight, and inspire. All eight plays will be performed in the same evening, with a cast of seven actors performing all the roles. “Pear Slices 2017,” is directed by Troy Johnson and Robyn Ginsburg Braverman. The show runs Thursdays through Sundays, through May 28. All performances are held at the Pear Theatre, 1110 La Avenida St., Mountain View. Tickets ($10-$35) can be purchased by visiting www.thepear.org or calling (650) 254-1148.
Pear Theatre is one of the only theatres in the Bay Area to host its own playwrights development group, known as the Pear Playwrights Guild. Playwrights meet regularly to share their writing, whether short plays or full-length works. Newer playwrights get the benefit of the more experienced writers' knowledge of plot development, character development, and action that sounds good on paper but may not translate well to the stage. Short plays from the Guild are considered for each year's Pear Slices, and longer plays often see full productions at the Pear, such as 2013's production of “A King's Legacy” (Elyce Melmon) and this season's upcoming premiere of “What You Will” (Max Gutmann).
From Pear veteran Paul Braverman comes Deuce Cooper: The Bloomfield Case, a noir send-up set in the 1940s. Private detective Deuce Cooper struggles with a case that may or may not prove his career success to date is a fluke. It's 10:45 p.m., and his new assistant Donna has scheduled meetings at eleven with an informant, a police officer, a client/lover, his mother, all three of his ex-wives, and Donny No-Sleeves who plans to kill him “a lot.” Before the night is over, there will be a double-cross … a triple-cross … and finally, justice will be done.
In For Art's Sake by Elyce Melmon, the playwright lovingly examines the differing perspectives of mother and son, an art historian and a tech captain, a passionate feeler and a rational thinker. What will happen when a classic work of art finally insists upon the young man's attention? Will his neat and tidy viewpoint be utterly undone by the mystery of who she truly is?
Two sisters sort through the remains of their deceased older brother's life in Meantime In Between Time by Leah Halper. When a family member lives a life of substance abuse, the resentment of wrongs done can outweigh and overshadow the love that still exists — but sometimes, the remnants of a life lived can finally bring understanding and acceptance to those who have spent too long seeking it.
Stella Wind by Bridgette Dutta Portman is a lively spoof on the teen superhero genre (Sailor Moon, Kim Possible) that features a high school superhero forbidden by her mother to continue saving the city from evil aliens until her grades improve. Young Stephanie — aka Stella Wind, leader of the Cosmonaut Quartet — will face the greatest struggle of her superpowered existence, convincing her mother that fighting for justice is more important than graduating with a decent GPA.
In The Proposal by Max Gutmann, feminism gets a lighthearted treatment when an independent woman gets wind of her boyfriend's marriage proposal “ambush” and determines to break the whole thing off for good. While comic in nature, the short piece also raises valid points about the cultural traditions of proposals, and offers at least one modern solution to those offended by them.
Susan Jackson's short play Aboriginal is a fascinating look at adoption, based on true stories. A panel of individuals sharing their personal stories and responses to adoption at an International Adoption Symposium at NYU raise a multitude of questions. Why were these particular children up for adoption? Who adopted them, and for what reasons? Were those lives better than the lives they might have been expected to have, otherwise? What of their extended adopted families? And as adults, do they seek out their birth parents? Why or why not?
Old ways versus new ways, interdependence versus independence, mythic tradition versus proven science all come to a conflict in Anasazi Breakdown by Douglas Rees. Set in a desert in 1946, a woman waits by a broken-down car for her sister to return with a charged battery. As she waits, a stranger approaches to help – but his help may be exactly what the sisters don'tneed.
In Mirror to Face by Leah Halper, a beloved performer in the Yiddish theatre in 1903 is offered an opportunity, finally, to perform on Broadway – but as the hated figure of Shylock. Can he bring humanity to the role, or will audiences simply see his performance confirm their worst prejudices? Meanwhile, his talented daughter has her own theatrical future in mind, one which may not be possible under her father's watchful eye.
All the roles in all the plays of Pear Slices 2017 will be performed by one cast: Ariel Aronica, Tess Middlebrook, Briana Mitchell, Bryan Moriarty, Kyle Smith, Michael Weiland, andAlison Whismore. Keeping sets, lights, and props to a minimum, the production features the work of Norman Beamer as Set Builder, James Kopp as Lighting Designer, and Kelly Weber Barraza as Stage Manager. Troy Johnson and Robyn Ginsburg Braverman created the sound and visual design for the production.
Pear Theatre began as the Pear Avenue Theatre in June 2002, under the leadership of Artistic Director Diane Tasca, by a group of theatre artists who believe that audiences are eager for plays that challenge as well as delight and move them. Pear Theatre produces intimate theatre by passionate artists, whether classic works or cutting-edge plays. Now in its fifteenth season, The Pear attracts theatre artists and audience from all over the Bay Area for its award-winning and high-quality productions; and last year The Pear’s ongoing commitment to excellence was recognized by the San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle with the Paine Knickerbocker Award, an annual special award for a Bay Area company contributing to the high quality of theatre in the region.
Pear Theatre moved in 2015 from its original 40-seat warehouse space to a new, state-of-the-art black box theatre close by, with capacity of 75-99 seats depending on the configuration of the production. The old location felt like you were watching a play and sitting on an airplane at the same time. I loved how tiny and intimate the setting was and I love the new theatre even more. This exciting move allows The Pear to continue its tradition of intimate theatre while taking on new challenges and opportunities. Pear Theatre is a very special place in our community and I highly recommend buying tickets to Pear Slices. I love Mountain View.
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Jessica Dennison + Jones
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From Party Damage Records:
There is something indefinably timeless about Jessica Dennison + Jones’ self-titled debut. It’s not the result of some quaint recording process or of precious, sepia-toned songwriting, but a quality that lies outside of the album’s minimal grooves, layered vocals, and contemplative, naturalistic lyrics. Perhaps what is timeless about Jessica Dennison + Jones comes from the connection between two friends (both, serendipitously, named Jessica) who have been playing music together for over a decade and who have finally found their perfect place. It’s a creative destination that most bands never find, let alone on their first albums—a place where vision and vulnerability are in perfect balance, and where the Jessicas’ creative bond results in songs so deeply personal and mysterious that we as listeners can’t help but assign our own stories to them.
Not that the Jessicas themselves are a total mystery: Jessica Dennison hails from Northern Illinois, and Jessica Jones from Alabama. The two met in college in Portland in the early 2000s where they picked up the habit of calling each other by their last names. Later, while Jones was living in Memphis, Dennison went down for a couple long visits, bringing with her the songs she’d written or was working on. Soon the two were hunkering down, recording Dennison’s music with the added element of Jones’ lead guitar. The result is a cross-pollination of Jones’s classic influences (including guitarists like Rosetta Tharpe, Steve Cropper, and Mother Maybelle Carter) and Dennison’s refreshingly unique and inward-looking lyrical approach.
By 2013, both Jessicas had found themselves back in Portland, where they began developing a meticulous process of arranging and recording the songs—a process they describe as involving a lot of conversation not just about musical choices but about life, inner work, and the joy and pain that inspired the songs. These conversations grew to include producer Randy Bemrose (Radiation City, Because) and a small circle of collaborators, including guest musicians Joe Jiang (The Slants) and Fields Falcone, as well as mixing engineer Matt LeMay (Junior League, White Hinterland).
Minimal opener, “Heavy Flower,” uses natural imagery to question the value of living an artistic life and wrestle with what it means to be seen (or not seen) by others. “Dark Jewel” deals with the endless preoccupation of developing worldly outer shells, often to the exclusion of nurturing inner situations. “White Oak Trees,” the album’s closer, is a reflection on hindsight, remorse, love and lessons learned.
“Writing and recording this album was a way of giving my songwriting a place to live after a long period of keeping it to myself,” Dennison says. But even in letting Jessica Dennison + Jones loose in the real world, it’s an enigmatic and personal enough effort to sound more like a secret kept than a secret told. And kept secrets are, by definition, timeless.
Jessica Dennison + Jones are joined in their live performances by friends including Randy Bemrose on drums, and bassists Joe Jiang and Zach Domer (Ohioan, Castanets). Look for them playing throughout the Pacific Northwest this year.
Video by Daren Wilson http://www.studiodarenwilson.com/
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The Artist (FILM REVIEW)
Fading Star Falls for Emerging Ingenue in B&W Homage to Silent Era
It is 1927, and George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) is at the height of a flourishing career as a matinee idol. But that is also the year marking the introduction of talkies, an innovation which would soon signal the demise of the Silent Era.
Unfortunately, George is too pampered and insulated to appreciate the fact that sound is about to overhaul the movie industry, so he is caught by surprise when his services as a leading man are no longer in demand. Then, between the sudden loss of income and the Stock Market Crash of 1929, he ends up losing not only all his money but his shallow wife (Penelope Ann Miller) to boot.
After moving from a sprawling mansion to a modest apartment, George lays off the longtime chauffeur (James Cromwell) he can no longer afford. At this point, the dejected has-been feels like his only friend in the world is the Jack Russell Terrier (Uggie) that continues to love him unconditionally.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in Hollywood, the fortunes of an emerging ingénue cut a sharp contrast to those of the fading film star. Peppy Miller (Berenice Bejo) owes a debt of gratitude to George who, despite an ugly rumor circulating in the tabloids, had still cast her as his dance partner in one of his pictures when she was just another unknown, aspiring actress.
Although sparks had flown between the two on the set back then, nothing had become of the mutual admiration. However, now, with Peppy on top of the world, the question is whether she will forget about the down on his luck icon who had once given her her big break.
So unfolds The Artist, a silent, black & white throwback which unabashedly harks back to a bygone era. This cinematic masterpiece very eloquently endeavors to entertain while simultaneously chronicling a critical moment in the evolution of the art form. As such, it will undoubtedly prove to be a formidable force during awards season.
A silent love song that anyone who adores film can nonetheless hear, loud and clear!
Rated PG-13 for a crude gesture and a disturbing image.
Distributor: The Weinstein Company
Posted by Kam at 11:15 AM
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Diana Vreeland (FILM REVIEW)
Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel
Reverential Retrospective Takes Fond Look at Life of Legendary Fashion Icon
Diana Vreeland (1903-1989) was lucky enough to enjoy not just a second, but a third act in the public eye. First, the legendary fashion icon had a profound impact on American culture as the fashion editor at Harper’s Bazaar.
Then, when she was passed over for a promotion after a quarter-century with the magazine, Vreeland resigned in 1962 to become editor-in-chief of Vogue, a position she held for close to a decade. And finally, in 1971, she began serving as costume consultant to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in Manhattan.
Co-directed by granddaughter-in-law Lisa Immordino Vreeland with Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frederic Tcheng, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel is a reverential retrospective which takes an intimate, intriguing and revealing look at a most-fascinating life. For, over the course of her career, the influential Empress of Fashion undeniably ignited innumerable popular trends while simultaneously celebrating the unconventional features of celebrities like Twiggy, Cher and Barbra Streisand.
Vreeland’s unorthodox approach was to magnify, rather than hide a subject’s supposed flaws, such as when she had photographer Richard Avedon shoot Streisand’s proud nose in profile. This appreciation ostensibly emanated from her having been treated as the ugly duckling by a mother who was not above flirting with her boyfriends.
A socialite who hung out in Harlem, Diana did eventually land a loyal life mate in Thomas Vreeland, and the two went on to wed and enjoy an enduring union blessed by the births of two sons. Despite being an intimidating taskmaster at the office, Vreeland is nonetheless remembered just as much for her creativity by former employees like the aforementioned Avedon as well as actress Ali McGraw who landed her first job out of college with the demanding doyenne.
This enlightening documentary paints an indelible picture of a daring visionary who fervently felt that, “You’re not supposed to give people what they want, but what they don’t yet know they want.” That helps explain how towards the end of her life Diana announced, “I shall die young, even at 90.”
A poignant portrait of an inveterate iconoclast who couldn’t help but push the envelope.
Rated PG-13 for nude images.
In English, French and Italian with subtitles
Distributor: Samuel Goldwyn Films
To see a trailer for Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel, visit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5EEbX7ph_A
Posted by Kam at 5:16 PM
Cristina C said...
Interesting blog. Welcome to http://filmandotherstories.blogspot.se/.
:) Take care!
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Kupwara, July 10 (KNO) : Dozens of people on Wednesday afternoon held protest against Power Development Department (PDD) for failing to maintain service lines, causing death to three persons and leaving two critically wounded following short circuit in Nad Tangdhar Kupwara in northern belt of Kashmir. An eyewitness told Kashmir News Observer (KNO) that dozens of people after laying all the three bodies to rest took to streets and raised slogans against PDD, demanding strict action against the on-duty officials especially Tahoe catering Tangdhar Sector. A pall of gloom descended over the whole hamlet after a short circuit led to the death of three persons and injuries to two others including a woman who are undergoing treatment at Sub District Hospital, Zubair Ahmad a local resident said. The protesters have demanded strict action against the guilty and said that, “all the officials from PDD are responsible for the incident and they should be held responsible for killing our beloved ones.” The Station House Officer, Wasim Ahmad reached the spot and assured full support to protesters and asked them to cooperative with police for fair investigation into the incident. Meanwhile, a top cop when contacted said that, “we have registered a case under FIR number 304 A (Causing death by negligence) against PDD and have started further investigations.”(KNO)
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Otaku USA: On The Shelf – November 16, 2011
Posted by Lissa Pattillo on Wednesday, November 16, 2011
A rather small list of titles out this week but the book count remains about the same (if not more) if you account for two more big box sets out from Viz Media. This week’s releases are posted in my On The Shelf article over at Otaku USA.
After doing this article for a few months, it’s been interesting seeing the patterns that emerge when it comes to how and when books come out. The two biggest descrepencies in information, meaning those that vary the most between what the sites says and my bookshelf indicates, are from Digital Manga and Kodansha, while Viz Media is often the most reliable (if you don’t include back orders anyway!).
Digital Manga lists release dates that only their own in-house supplier, Akadot, gets books for so they’re usually off by a month or two for anyone else (including Amazon and bookstores). Kodansha Comics predomiantly gets its books out to bookstores and online retailers on the days they indicate but Diamond Comics notoriously ships them from 2-3 weeks late from the release date. This differs a lot from Viz Media and Dark Horse titles, which always seem to be consistent between sources (excluding publisher push-backs).
Yen Press and Vertical Inc sit on the fence – usually on time but random titles arrive 1-2 weeks late from Diamond Comics. Oddly there rarely seems to be rhyme or reason to which titles arrive (or don’t) to individual stores despite ordering manifests and regardless of what titles are on the main Diamond Comics shipping list that week. Their titles do however have a tendency above others to arrive early sometimes.
Seven Seas hasn’t had enough physical releases in the past few months for me to notice a trend but that could change in 2012 based on the increase in titles we’re seeing.
Alas that at the end of the day noticing these trends doesn’t make coming up with a list that’s right for everyone any less difficult. Take this week for example, where online and chain store retailers have Sailor Moon (Vol.02) but Diamond Comics doesn’t yet have it listed as available. Frustrating both as a reader and an article writer. Patience, patience, patience…
Categories: On The Shelf, Release Lists
Tags: Bandai, Kodansha Comics, Manga, Otaku USA, Sailor Moon, Viz Media
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GODDESS ROCK
I love the way it glistens.
[Forwarded by my daughter Belle]
Posted by Starmandala at 2:22 AM 6 comments
Labels: pussy cave, Shakti Yoni, stone vulva, unusual rock formations
Opposition to Lynas escalates on all fronts...
Anti-Lynas Himpunan Hijau 2.0 in Kuantan, Pahang, 26 February 2012 (photo: Malaysiakini)
PETALING JAYA: The Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western Australia (ANAWA) has revealed that Lynas Corporation Ltd was supposed to build its plant in Western Australia and not Malaysia.
According to ANAWA, Lynas’ 14-year-old blueprint indicated that the Australian mining giant had orginally planned to build its processing plant in Meenar a decade ago. But until today there had been no signs of any development on the intended site.
ANAWA spokesperson Marcus Atkinson told FMT that the orginal approvals were given by the Environmental Protection Authority (EPA) for Lynas to ship rare earth to buyers and confirmed that he had viewed these relevant documents firsthand.
Under pressure: Nick Curtis, Lynas CEO (TMI)
However, he said that Lynas had since made numerous alterations to its operations to the point that its rare earth refinery had now landed in Malaysia.
“Instead of transporting processed rare earth, it is now shipping a concentrate which contains thorium and other radioactive material with more heavy metals,” he told FMT.
Atkinson admitted that they had been more focused on Lynas’ operations in Australia until the uproar in Malaysia reached their ears and they realised that Lynas’ had made “massive” changes to its plans.
“Now it involves Malaysia and our moral responsibility,” he said. “This is a complete change to the original project hence why we are urging the EPA to review Lynas’ approvals.”
ANAWA and Australia’s Environmental Defenders Office (EDO) lodged a referral with the EPA this morning calling on the latter to reopen the project and revisit Lynas’ “outdated” approvals.
Atkinson had yesterday raised deep concerns over the amount of radioactive material being transported from Mount Weld to Fremantle Port for export and called for stronger regulations to be put in place to ease the fears of the surrounding community.
He had also drawn attention to the fact that Lynas had sparked off Malaysia’s largest environmental campaign with its RM2.5 billion Lynas Advanced Materials Plant (LAMP) in Gebeng, Kuantan.
The nationwide Himpunan Hijau 2.0 rally held on March 26 saw more than 15,000 people gathering to demand that Lynas be ousted from Kuantan.
Less stringent laws
Atkinson added that ANAWA and EDO strongly believed that Lynas had chosen to move its operations to Malaysia because of the heavy metals and radioactive waste involved in the processing.
“We believe Lynas picked Malaysia to save money and enable it to operate under less stringent laws,” he stated.
“The biggest concerns about the processing are the storage and waste management issues which are made more difficult in Gebeng which we understand to be wetlands.”
Asked if Lynas would be allowed to operate in the same manner and with the same liberty in Western Australia as in Gebeng, Atkinson firmly replied in the negative. “There is no way it could operate the way it is in Malaysia over here,” he said. “Australia’s laws are much more stringent.”
Atkinson issued a further call for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to be scrutinised for downplaying the levels of radioactivity soon to be produced by Lynas’ operations.
“Just because the radioactive elements fall below the IAEA’s levels it doesn’t mean that the products don’t contain any radioactivity,” he pointed out.
EDO and its lawyers would also be issuing a letter to Lynas today urging it to stop any plans for the exportation of rare earth until the EPA reached a decision following the referral submission.
The EPA was expected to revert to ANAWA and EDO within 28 days on whether it would reopen the case or if Lynas’ current approvals were good enough.
“If they refuse to review the project then we will file a court case against it,” Atkinson promised.
Lynas’ letter of undertaking
Poet Laureate Samad Said (second from left)
at Himpunan Hijau 2.0
Meanwhile in another development, International Trade and Industry Minister Mustapa Mohamed said today that Lynas had given the government a letter of undertaking to send its rare earth processing residue abroad if it cannot find a suitable waste disposal site in Malaysia.
The Star Online reported Mustapa as saying that the move was taken as an assurance to the people’s psychological and emotional safety.
“Even though the government is satisfied there will be no radioactive residue produced during the plant’s operation, we have ordered Lynas to guarantee and plan the provision of a permanent waste disposal facility far from human population as recommended by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
“Failing which, Lynas has already expressed willingness to take the residue out of Malaysia,” he said in a joint statement with Pahang Menteri Besar Adnan Yaakob in Kuantan.
The report also quoted the minister as saying that the Western Australia Resources Minister Norman Moore had confirmed on Feb 29 that the rare earth’s radiation level was very low. “The fact is, the rare earth does not need to be controlled by Australia because it is not dangerous but in Malaysia, AELB is overseeing the project after considering the public’s opinion,” he added.
Mustapa said the government was urging Lynas to take extra care for the sake of the people, and not because of “threats by Himpunan Hijau” which had said it would hold another anti-Lynas rally if the government refuse to shut down the project.
LYNAS MUST GO!
Interviews following ANAWA/EDO submission of appeal to WA EPA today (audio recording)
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Labels: BN corruption, corporate greed, Himpunan Hijau 2.0, Lynas, Lynas Advanced Materials Plant, Marcus Atkinson, radioactive waste, Save Malaysia Stop Lynas, toxic industries
Raids in the Rainforest - The Fight for Amazonia (47 mins)
Raids in the Rainforest - The Fight for Amazonia
A powerful documentary by Thomas Wartmann for Aljazeera English
At the age of 27, Ana Rafaela D'Amico is the youngest national park director in Brazil. In order to save the rainforest, she has declared war on the drug gangs and logging mafia and on illegal fishing.
The Campos Amazonicos National Park is like a microcosm of all the problems found in Amazonia: illegal logging, cattle breeding, tin mines - and a drugs route that goes right through the middle of the park.
"Our biggest problem here in the park - and all over the Amazon - is that we don't know who the men behind this environmental crime are. We always find the poor man hired to occupy or clear the land. But we seldom find out who is really behind it, who provides the money, or which politicians support and fund these criminal acts."
We face pretty much the same situation in Malaysia - particularly in Sarawak - but thanks to the rapidly growing Green Movement, more and more young people have been galvanized into political activism against relentless and unnecessary "development" - the ultimate crime against Mother Earth!
Posted by Starmandala at 12:52 AM 3 comments
Labels: AlJazeera, Amazonia, Ana Rafaela D'Amico, corporate greed, corruption in high places, logging, mining, rainforest destruction, Thomas Wartmann
The Man Who Bankrupted Malaysia ~ Morally & Financially!
From Asia Sentinel, 5 March 2012...
Mahathir's Disastrous Financial Speculation
A murky and embarrassing case is closed, hiding top government officials’ involvement
Sometime over the next few days, a court in Kuala Lumpur will put the finishing touches to an agreement that allows Tajudin Ramli, the former head of Malaysian Airline System, not only to walk away from charges that he had allegedly looted the airline of tens of millions of US dollars but with an RM580 million (US$293.2 million) out-of-court settlement from the government.
It appears to be a settlement that the government would rather keep to itself. At the heart of the agreement with Tajudin is a convoluted story that began as long ago as the 1980s when Malaysia’s central bank, Bank Negara Malaysia, at the urging of then-Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad, began speculating aggressively in global foreign exchange markets, at one time running up exposure rumored to be in the region of RM270 billion -- three times the country’s gross domestic product and more than five times its foreign reserves at the time.
Eventually, playing with the big boys came home to roost. In 1992 and 1993, Mahathir became convinced he could make billions of ringgit by taking advantage of a British recession, rising unemployment and a decision by the British government to float the pound sterling free of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
Mahathir ordered Bank Negara to buy vast amounts of pounds sterling on the theory that the British currency would appreciate once it floated. However, in what has been described as the greatest currency trade ever made, the financier and currency wizard George Soros’s Quantum hedge fund established short positions borrowing in pounds and investing in Deutschemark-denominated assets as well as using options and futures positions.
In all, Soros’s positions alone accounted for a gargantuan US$10 billion. Many other investors, sensing Quantum was in for the kill, soon followed, putting strenuous downward pressure on the pound. The collapse was inevitable. Quantum walked away with US$1 billion in a single day, earning Mahathir’s eternal enmity and earning Soros the title “the man who broke the Bank of England.”
[Read the full story here.]
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Labels: BN corruption, financial shenanigans, George Soros, gross mismanagement, Ketuanan Mamak, kleptocracy, Mahathir Mohamad, megalomania, rent-seeking in Umno
2012 from the Mayan perspective (1-hour documentary)
Everyone is talking about the Mayan Prophecies of 2012. But who is listening to the Maya?
This groundbreaking film brings us the voices of the Mayan people as they share their perspectives on the prophecies of their ancestors and their fight to defend Mother Earth and their culture from destruction.
2012 The Mayan Word is both a message of hope and a call to action. Featuring testimonies from contemporary Mayans throughout Mesoamerica, from spiritual guides to activists, community leaders, farmers, artists, teachers, and children, this film is an extraordinary journey into the heart of Mayan struggle and spirituality.
[Brought to my attention by Beth Wood]
Labels: 2012, ancient wisdom, evolutionary cycles, indigenous cultures, Mayalands, Mayan Calendar, New Solar Age, Pachamama
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The New York Times bestselling author explores her most daring side yet in four novellas designed to take your breath away—including an all-new Mageverse novella...
Warning: “This [novella] will spontaneously combust.”*
In The Bloodslave, Angela Knight’s classic “must read…highly erotic” (*The Best Reviews) novella, a female mercenary comes under fire during a hunt. The beautiful, virginal, and very human Verica is captured by three hungry alpha vampires driven deliriously feral by her purity. But they desire more than her warm blood. They want her body, leaving Verica more vulnerable than ever before—and loving every minute of it.
Plus! Three all-new novellas of vampire romance by Angela Knight
By day, a romance author puts her fantasies to paper. Her nights are another story. The perfect alpha male—not quite human, and absolutely insatiable—is invading her dreams. And with each sleepless night, she wonders… Are they really only dreams? Then, when an alpha male vampire hunter sets his sights on a pair of vampire lovers, things don't work out quite the way he had in mind. Plus, Angela Knight introduces the Doms of the Round Table and a kinky circle of pleasure, pain, and power as she returns to her “sexy as hell” (Heroes and Heartbreakers) Mageverse world for a new twist on the Arthurian legend.
Cocktails and Books
The stories in this anthology get progressively hotter. The first story, Oath of Service, is part of her popular Mageverse series, a series I’ve followed since the beginning. They’ve always been a bit spicier than most mainstream. This anthology takes that spicy and ramps it up to erotic. I really loved this novella, it was very sexy and kinky. (full review)
Tasting Candy: Vaughn Series, book 2
Night Owl Romance Reviewer Top Pick! Lust was the lure, Candy was the reward. Walking around with a raging hard-on isn’t Blade Vaughn’s idea of a good time. He’s hungry for sex and there’s only one woman on his men...
The Eternal II: Eternal Moon
Shiloh M. Darke
Darmetheus has been alive for a very long time. A Werewolf Eternal, he's seen it all. Or so he thinks. But when he takes what he thinks is going to be a vacation from the daily hassle of fighting EVIL, he winds up in the fight of his life. Lilith ...
Turbulent Seas
Joley Drake has an enormous career, the most famous of all the Drake sisters, her voice loved by millions. On her world tour, she finds both adoration and danger. Somewhere there is someone who loves her. There is someone who hates her. And there is ...
Kassie Burns
Four lovers ... one mission ... aliens beware. Held captive aboard the Starbound in the depths of interstellar space, the survivors on board the colony ship are ruled by the despotic star gods, alien beings who use their human bodies...
Watch Over Me
Book 4 in The Goddard Project series Mission: Irresistible Super spy Mykola Chernichenko comes from a family of geniuses, and though he's no idiot himself, he'd rather be where the action is than analyze it to death. That's why his vacat...
Dark Harmony
Lilly Cain
It all began, quite simply, with an orgasm. That the experience was linked to pain, and eventually her death, was a sad and powerful thing. In a hurricane of sensuality Helena Townsend found herself pulled into the world of blood and sex that is v...
Shadow Games
Mary Eason
He was the love of her life. The father of her child. Now he was missing and presumed dead behind enemy lines.
Beauty's Curse
Traci E. Hall
Galiana is beauty personified, but she wants to be more than just a pretty face. So when she accidently blinds the dangerous knight riding behind their manor, she's intrigued - he can't be swayed by her porcelain complexion. Des...
Ghosts Of Valentines Past by Rie McGaha
Rie McGaha
Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. That’s Twyla’s philosophy ever since she found a pair of thongs in her fiancé’s car the day before their wedding. Now it’s Valentine’s Day and her roommate is all about the hearts and chocolates...
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Economy & Politics Greece new car registrations rise 4.9% y-o -y in June; 1H registrations +5.9%
Greece new car registrations rise 4.9% y-o -y in June; 1H registrations +5.9%
Greece’s new car registrations maintained their upward trend in June, as the number of new or imported second hand cars in circulation firmed 4.9% y-o-y amounting to 21,464, the statistics office or ELSTAT said on Tuesday. In June 2018, the corresponding rate of change was +28.4%. Sales of new cars alone advanced 6.2%.
Sales of new or imported second-hand motorcycles-over 50cc- increased 3.2% y-o-y in June, amounting to 5,471, with the sales of new motorcycles rising also 4.0%.
In the January-June period, new car registrations rose by 8.8% while new car sales were up 5.9%. Motorcycles sales increased 8.7% during the first five months of the year, while new motorcycles sales were up 8.9%.
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Pros and Cons of Backloggery
May 16, 2019 May 14, 2019 Allison0
The Backloggery is a game tracking website specifically designed to encourage people to play their games and get their video game backlogs under control. It does this mostly by providing a visual breakdown of their game collection.
I am going to evaluate the Backloggery’s features as outlined in my article: Game Tracker Criteria To Beat Your Game Backlog.
Adding And Importing
To add games to Backloggery, click “Add A Game’ under the My Games menu. Here you can add the information about a game. There are two modes, Quick Mode and Detailed Mode. Quick Mode allows information for name, system, progress, playing now, and wishlist. Detailed Mode as the above as well as compilation (for DLC, etc.), ownership, achievements, ratings, and comments.
After inputting the information, you can add the game to your collection by clicking the ‘Add Game’ button, or ‘Stealth Add’, which will add the game but not display it on the website’s front page and other locations. The Stealth Add feature is good to use when you first add your collection or if you need to make corrections.
Pros: Easy to use, very flexible
Cons: No import or sync feature, manually adding takes time
Sorting And Searching
When adding games to your Backloggery collection, you can sort your games by system and progress. The list of systems is extensive, while the progress categories are as follows: unplayed, unfinished, beaten, complete, and mastered. The site gives detailed explanations for each of these progress categories. Backloggery does not allow sorting by genre or user-created categories, yet.
The user can use these system and progress categories to filter their game collection as well as search by title.
Pros: Multiple progress categories with explanation, system categories, multiple search criteria
Cons: No genre or user-created categories
Prioritizing Of Games
Backloggery has a Now Playing list which you can add to by editing individual games. Otherwise, it does not allow you to prioritize your game backlog.
Backloggery does have a feature called ‘Fortune Cookie’, which randomly choose for you what game to play next. The fortune cookie can be customized.
Pros: Now Playing list and randomly choose next game
Cons: No prioritizing of games
Game Progress Statistics
Backloggery has two tools that allow you to track your progress through a game. They are the achievement score and progress notes. The achievement score allows you to enter two numbers and displays the numbers as a fraction/percentage. The achievement score is useful even if the game does not have achievements or trophies, as you can set the score to track anything you want. A ribbon is displayed next to games where significant progress has been made.
Progress notes can be anything, although the site asks you not to post spoilers. You can use this to track time spent, for notes about where you left off, and hints you’ve received in the game.
Pros: Flexible text and numerical progress tracking, ribbon as a reward for progress, a place for note taking
Cons: No auto-tracking
Game Backlog Statistics
Backloggery displays your backlog statistics on your user page. It uses three bars to show how many games are unplayed and unfinished, beat, and complete. Below this is a chart that displays how many games by system, are unfinished, beat, and complete.
The ‘Trends’ tab shows how your progress has changed over time and shows your unfinished, beat, and complete games as a pie chart.
Pros: On main user page, front and center, presented visually in a variety of ways
Cons: Slightly customizable
Help & Encouragement
Backloggery’s encouragement in subtle but in some ways very effective. I mentioned earlier that games with completed achievements or trophies are given a ribbon beside their title, but this isn’t the only instance of this type of encouragement. Backloggery presents the user with badges, small icons, that appear next to a user’s avatar. Most badges are automatically awarded after certain conditions have been met. Likewise, they automatically disappear if said conditions no longer apply to your Backloggery statistics. Most badges are awarded when you have beaten or completed several games in a row, if the majority of your backlog is finished, or you have 5 or fewer unfinished games. But it also hands out badges for having a largely incomplete backlog of games or adding several incomplete games in a row. This incentivizes users to minimize getting “bad” badges and maximizing getting “good” badges, i.e. beating games and not buying new games.
Backloggery also highlights beat or completed categories by game system, encouraging completion by system.
Creating connections on the Backloggery is limited. When a user updates their collection, the activity and a link to their profile are listed on the home page of the Backloggery site. Most people on the Backloggery must meet up on another site like Reddit to exchange profiles.
Once you have access to a user’s profile, Backloggery allows users to send private messages, comment on their profile, or add them to your multitap, a friend’s list that also creates a scoreboard to allow friendly competition. The makers of the site have intentionally excluded other features like forums in order to keep discussions focused on beating backlogs, which they have said is succeeding.
Pros: Good use of badges to incentivize, focused discussion
Cons: No game help and limited user interaction
Backloggery may be one of the hardest game collection trackers to start but once you do it is well worth it for its ability to encourage users and its games progress and backlog statistics.
Total Score: 22 out of 30
The creator, Drumble, is in the midst of a site remake. If you like what they do, you should consider becoming a patron of the Backloggery on Patreon.
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Fox's Bossie Apologizes For Telling Black Guest 'You're Out Of Your Cotton-Picking Mind’
Posted by Brian -2pc on June 24, 2018 · Flag
A Fox & Friends discussion went off the rails this morning when David Bossie, a Fox News contributor and Donald Trump’s former deputy campaign manager, told African American Democrat Joel Payne that he was out of his “cotton-picking mind.”
Ironically, the exchange began shortly after Payne said, “You don’t have to be a golden retriever to hear all the dog whistles coming out of the White House these days and from my friend, David, over here.”
That led to this:
BOSSIE: You’re out of your cotton-picking mind.
[CROSSTALK]
PAYNE: Cotton-picking mind? Brother, let me tell you something. I’ve got some relatives who picked cotton. And I’m not going to sit here and allow you to attack me like that on TV. I’m not out of my cotton-picking mind.
BOSSIE: Attack you how? You’re out of your mind. You’re out of your mind. This is ridiculous.
Host Ed Henry ended the discussion shortly thereafter.
Bossie later apologized: “I should have chosen my words more carefully and never used the offensive phrase that I did. I apologize to Joel Payne, Fox News, and its viewers.”
During a heated segment on Fox & Friends today, I should have chosen my words more carefully and never used the offensive phrase that I did. I apologize to Joel Payne, Fox News and its viewers.
— David Bossie (@David_Bossie) June 24, 2018
Watch Bossie’s race baiting below, from the June 24, 2018 Fox News Sunday, via Media Matters. Underneath, Payne explains to MSNBC the hurtful impact of Bossie's words.
UPDATE: Henry offered up a weak apology that told Fox News viewers he doesn't approve of "phrases like that" but also gave Bossie a pass by saying, "I don’t know what David meant by it."
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Dem strategist Joel Payne on former Trump deputy campaign manager David Bossie telling him, "You're out of your cotton-picking mind":
“Unfortunately, that’s just par for the course with this president and with the people that surround him.” pic.twitter.com/KY55U1coc3
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 24, 2018
Richard Santalone commented 2018-06-26 10:38:50 -0400 · Flag
Regarding the FoKKKs Spews headline at the top of the thread: Once again, I’ll say the following:
IF IT WALKS LIKE A NAZI, TALKS LIKE A NAZI, AND ACTS LIKE A NAZI……..
John McKee commented 2018-06-26 07:39:20 -0400 · Flag
So sad when they go over the line – these nasty little cretins seem to believe that there is no line on Fox, but when the powers decide dumping you is preferable to trying to defend the indefensible, they have no compunction in doing just that. Why do my thoughts wander to the first Foxbody I personally saw fall in this way, the unlamented ED Hill?
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'Why women are worst hit by depression'
January 19, 2019 Information, World News
A psychiatrist with the Jos University Teaching Hospital (JUTH) Dr. Friday Philip, has said that women were more prone to depression because they do not share their problems with others.
“Women tend to keep more to themselves when they have issues bothering them. They hardly share their worries like men do,” Philip said on Friday in Jos.
He spoke at a seminar organised by AFRICAMSI, an NGO, to sensitise people on depression and its effects on the society.
The seminar had the theme: “African Woman: Managing The Evil of Stress, Depression and Suicide in the 21st Century”.
Philip advised people with symptoms of depression to promptly seek medical help.
“When a person gets extremely sick, most likely the individual will see a doctor; similarly, seeing a psychiatrist means the patient needs help and advice.
“Unfortunately, in our society, going to a psychiatrist often suggests to family members that the patient is insane or a lunatic,” he said.
He said that keeping mental challenge to oneself was “highly detrimental to health”, noting that many lives had been lost because of such attitude.
“People hardly seek help for mental challenges because of the stigma usually associated with such situations. Unfortunately, by the time the challenge is discovered, it is usually too late,” he said.
He emphasised the need to disabuse the minds of people on such stigma, saying that it had discouraged many from seeking psychiatric help early enough.
In her speech, Mrs. Linda Opuene, a clinical psychologist with JUTH, said that a feeling of overwhelming fatigue, sleeping disorder and internal feeling of loneliness were symptoms of depression.
“Other symptoms of depression include loss of interest in things that one initially derived joy from, inability to concentrate, and the feeling of worthlessness.
“Very often, too, a depressed person appears lost in deep thoughts,” she added.
She blamed the rise in depression on the rapid global changes, adding that 90 per cent of people who commit suicide were depressed.
Opuene added that stress, when poorly managed, could also lead to depression, saying that the trend was a global cause of diseases because it usually affect an individual’s overall health status.
Earlier, Dr. Caleb Attah, the founder of the organisation, had said that the seminar was organised to help women and the society to be aware that stress and depression could be managed.
Attah said that the NGO was ready to provide support to individuals with mental health challenges. (NAN)
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Feminism will catch up with you
18 July 2013 by Nina Wum
Women happen to hate each other. The frontlines go in all possible directions, making every woman a loner in a citadel built of her choices.
(Why hello there, Wanderer. Instead of translating my posts to English chronologically I decided to do it on the go. We shall see how this turns out.)
I used to be allergic to feminism, you know. Now give me a break with this whole thing, I would say. First-world-white-girl problems.
Frida sporting a Daft Punk T- shirt. I say awesome.
For no man ever treated me shockingly different than his own just because of my gender. Maybe that’s because I’m very short, round-faced and got big blue Bambi eyes. The meanest sonofabitches around seemed to answer kindly to that. Men who used to be my superiors almost always turned out to be awfully decent. Well, maybe except for this one professor, a wickedly cultured erudite, who would treat us students with coffee and ponder: “You ladies are actually guilty of all that happens to you. You lack self-respect.” Or except for this one…wait, make it two…okay, a few physicians, who would react with an outburst of laughter/a frown/a disregard/an outrage (“You shouldn’t say such things!”) when told that I do not intend to breed at all. So, Doctor, how about we focus on my health instead of on my breeding potential, okay? I guess not.
On the other side – my looks did help me land a position once. The recruiter had this warm gleam in his eye the moment our gazes met and out of many similar resumes, it was mine that made it through the whole application process. I liked this job, and I liked the guy. He never tried to take advantage of me in any way whatsoever. Does this rebalance the scales?
Feminism and I used to function in the same universe, but there was no attraction. I never loathed – or seriously mocked – the feminists, but never gave them a good solid thought either. From my point of view inequality between the sexes could wait. Good ol’ bitchiness between us women bothered me much more.
The older I got, the more apparent it became to me that those two issues (namely: the inequality between sexes and the bitchiness) are somewhat intertwined.
I needed almost twenty years of conscious life to get to the point where I am today. Which is: feminism does matter. It matters a good deal.
Many of my personal pet peeves seem to have a common root. For example:
1) A family model, known personally to me – and to many of You as well. The one where the lady is watching her years go by while cooking, cleaning, laundrying, and attending to her numerous prodigy. At the end of the day, she’s literally pooped. The husband returns from work only to lie his butt on the sofa and pop a beer. He has no interest in those pesky kids. He’s a working man, tired and in need to unwind. From his point of view the bloody woman is being an earsore.
Now, it’s not because men are self-centered pricks “by nature”. I’d say a good deal of them are everything but that. They just get themselves entangled in a prevailing cultural model that serves no one. This model was in heavy use here in Poland during the 80s, when I was a child. I hear that it is on a brink of extinction today. Being an unpaid – and totally disrespected – domestic workforce sure is a bummer. But being a selfish man-child with a budding alcohol problem isn’t that wonderful either. I tell You that: both the Mr. and the Mrs. met a gloomy end.
I wish with all my heart that people stopped feeling obligated to step into destructive family roles. It’s happening everywhere, but not fast enough.
2) The mental luggage which we’ re all burdened with for life. The deeply planted, unspoken notion that the manly things are the only important and fun things, while the ladylike things are everything but. Hard science studies, traditionally perceived as manly, like engineering are something to be proud of. You studied something humanistic? You must be another disheveled hipster – or a woman. Look at this expression: “A woman’s occupation.” Or better: “Chick lit”, “Chick flicks.” It doesn’t sound like real and profound Art is going on here, now does it? I remember some guy on the internet’s acute definition of a “chick movie”. It went on something like this: “There are always two women walking on the beach, wearing idiotic straw hats. It goes on for ages. Later they wipe tomatoes, talk endlessly and cry all the time.” Now, I happen to be a chick and have watched lots of Kurosawa, Ridley Scott and countless superhero movies, but not even one opus as descripted above.
3) The utter and painful lack of female solidarity. I worked in many places. It was always the female coworker who happened to hate my guts from the day one. I’ve been subjected to subtle malice, minor harassment, deliberate belittling and perfidious misleading. The crushing power of unjustifiable, off-the-wall gossip. And countless snide remarks regarding my appearance.
All this was conducted in an extremely discreet, behind-the-back, cowardly manner. None of those smiling ladies ever said anything hostile to my face. After all day of such bitchiness I felt like joining Fight Club.
I am no cartoon femme fatale tantalising married men wherever I go, believe me. I just happened to be noticeably younger than any of those women, and male coworkers liked me. That’s all it takes.
The Sexy Office Lady trope in all its abundance. I wish I had such killer legs.
I wish with all my heart women would abandon the culture of cliques and heavily sugared falsity. I wish they would ask themselves: Why do I loathe this girl so much? She’s a stranger to me, and she hardly makes half of my wages.
This witches’ brew rumbles and spills beyond the office walls too. Working childfree women despise those who don’t work at all and breed like whoa. (So do I. But I’m working on my mindset.) Self sufficient women tongue-lash dependent women. Respectable wives and mothers express their contempt for single, heavily made up, waify hoodrats who spend their nights boogying. Waify hoodrats mock the boring sexless wives, but also laugh their asses off not-so-slim single ladies out there.
The frontlines go in all possible directions, making every woman a loner in a citadel built of her choices.
It shouldn’t be like this. And it doesn’t have to. Since I found out how biased I really am I work hard to develop my mindset.
Yes, I do prefer to interact with men. I adore men. They got those wonderfully impractical minds, you know. They invented many things that set my soul on fire: samurai movies, video games, heavy metal. All my favourite writers, directors and musicians wear pants, and pants only.
It may be that I’m missing out on something. Giving something important away.
That’s why I believe feminism is good for me.
Next post will be about computer games. Stay tuned!
The toupée of Marlene Dietrich
12 February 2013 by Nina Wum
Marlene Dietrich wanted to be beautiful.
Even when she reached that age. You know, when some women go out of their way to be ageless. Can’t blame them. There comes a time when the only looks-oriented compliment a lady can hope for is: “Wow, you don’t look your age at all.”
And don’t even get me started on this perfidious archaeologic saying about “remains of a bygone beauty”, okay? I facepalm hard every time I hear this one.
Marlene wanted beauty, period. Her approach was methodical.
During the last years of her career walking and standing still presented a challenge to her, so she would squeeze herself into some heavy-duty corsetry before every show. They say she would stretch the skin of her face, pinning it with needles; what she sure did was to crest her physiognomy with an enormous wig. All those preparations made her a little stiff (excuse the lame pun.) She would reportedly fall from the stage from time to time, bruising herself. No wonder. If I had to carry a lampshade made of dead hair on my noggin (do you have any idea how much this fucker itches?) completed with a Hellraiser style crown of thorns underneath, I’d make sure to introduce some vodka into my system before going out there and entertaining people.
Why the misfortunate woman would go to such lengths to maintain her public image? Everyone knew she was 60 years old and not so healthy. She would get away with showing up clad in comfortably loose gowns. Heck, she didn’t have to stand at all; how about being carried onstage in some pearl encrusted sedan chair? Cleopatra style, very glamour. Marlene’s fans would understand and love her even more. Why the bloody wig? Why the caked on makeup and unforgivingly tight dressses? I’ve seen the photographs. The artist there bears an uncanny resemblance to a velvety-eyelashed, scintillating, rather unhappy mummy.
The Magnificent Marlene at her best. Frankly, if I ever was that stunning, I’d found it hard to let myself go too.
I think what Marlene yearned for was Perfection.
Perfection is a mythological animal. No one has ever have seen it, yet everyone seems to know what it looks like. Various so called “ladies’ magazines” keep showing newer and newer beauty products down our throats, singing the same old tantalising song: “We know how to make you perfect. This new, outstanding solution made of an extract from Tasmanian spotted ray’s left testicle (do rays have testicles? Is there a biologist in the house?) will make Your neck regain its bygone smoothness. You, dear reader, will retrieve your source of joy in life, because the hubby/the boyfriend will immediately stop checking out all the younger women out there.”
Sounds cheesy and trite? Alas, but it works.
There’s no use pointing out how ridiculous this whole Quest for Perfection is. One can analyse it, uncover it, make jokes of it, even psychologically explain it – and it still stands strong. I don’t know who did this number on us – was it Nature or Culture? It doesn’t matter. Many ladies will borrow the money they don’t have and put it in the bloody Tasmanian spotted ray steak by-product.
I used to work in a place where one of my coworkers was a young woman of breathtaking beauty. I mean it. She was tall, gracefully slim, leggy, suntanned and golden-haired. She had the face of an elf. Men abandoned all reason when she was around.
Well, this incredibly attractive person went and got herself a botox. At the age of twenty-something.
After that it became sort of an office prank to approach her – and ask her nicely to lift her eyebrows. She was a good-humoured lady, willing to comply. She would raise her eyebrows.
Only that the bloody eyebrows wouldn’t move.
Before it starts to look like I’m taking the good ol’ “Ladies, Y U so silly?” route please acknowledge that this is by no means an exclusively feminine issue. Men are being iffy about their looks too.
One word: hair. Those on the head.
Hair of man seems to be some sort of a masochistic fetish. Intensity of its influence on a man’s well-being can be compared to the Great Cellulite Problem on our side, methinks. Except that those funny little holes on our thighs doesn’t land in the plain sight all the time.
I’ve seen a documentary lately. It was called “It Might Get Loud” and was about electric guitars, rock music and mighty cool stuff. Look it up, it’s worth it – even for the sole reason that it’s got FRIGGIN’ JIMMY PAGE in it.
It also has The Edge, the one from U2. For such an outstanding artist that he is, he seems like a very down-to-earth person. A nice, decent gent. He also wears a fisherman’s beanie. Like, all the time. When the cap isn’t there, a hat is.
The movie left me a little puzzled. Does Edgey greets his wife in the morning, wearing this? Does he goes to bed in the evening, sporting his “don’t-you-dare-look-at-the-top-of -my-head” device?
Because if he does, that’s a bloody shame. I bet U2 fans couldn’t care less whether he still has hair in there or not. I certainly don’t.
Believe it or not, but this post was supposed to cover the abdication of the Pope.
Sooo, the Pope (head of the Catholic Church) had abdicated. He had a very good point: stated that he feels too old (he’s no spring chicken indeed) to carry on such grave and numerous responsibilities. Sounds legit to me. There was an outburst of commentaries, some of them eulogic, some sparkling with wit. But (I guess) no one focused on the theatrical aspect on the case.
Being a pope (poping?) is mostly – or in my case, all, since I’m not religious – about theatrics, really. Yes, being an Officially Approved Highest Friggin’ Authority concerning, well, everything for a huge heap of people is the part of the deal. One gets to sleep on very soft pillows and drink his morning tea from Rosenthal, I guess. But there are certain disadvantages.
At age this advanced, one has to bear with a wardrobe full of fantabulously impractical, yet visibly heavy robes on a daily basis. Mastering the complicated pope choreography is a must. Business trips require tiresome Walking, Greeting, Speaking and Conducting. The crosier is not the most comfortable fashion accessory either. And don’t even get me started on those paparazzi. They are everywhere and shot what they shouldn’t be shooting. As a result, a particularly goofy windward take becomes laughing stock of the internet far and wide. This gentleman is 86. I don’t see him improving his public image by jumping into a Marlene style corset and fake eyelashes any time soon.
I’ve browsed through commentaries on gazeta.pl. As usual, they were loaded with vitriol. They say B16 capitulated before the Triumphant Parade of Progress. I don’t think so. I think he just couldn’t be bothered with any of this showy crap anymore. It takes a particular mindset to rule the stage and certainly not anyone can be Marlene.
Wyborcza.pl suggested age-related prostate gland problems as a possible cause of the pope’s withdrawal. Now – I don’t like him very much, but that is pretty fucking low.
Asymmetry: A Tale
Here goes trite truth: liking people is somehow considered a virtue.
Sympathy towards kindred human beings proves your adaptation skills and emotional maturity.
Whoever despises his fellow man denounces himself as antisocial (and probably emotionally unstable). A pitiful deviation from Her Gracious Majesty the Norm.
When one doesn’t like people, people won’t like him either. Which will bite him in the butt sooner or later. Sympathy of others is a powerful asset, acummulated for the dark hour. In other words – you gotta have a shoulder to cry on the day you’re sacked.
I’m not joking, people. Some years ago I’ve found myself jobless. I’ve turned to one of those anonymous user forums for advice. You know, the ones full of Certified Left-Legged Twist Instructors, various “coaches” and other producers of fuckall. Yes, I am ashamed – but You see, back then I really was at my wit’s end.
The very first advice I got (coming from a resourceful young’un with a heavily gelled coif) was this: “Browse through your Facebook friend list, I AM ABSOLUTELY SURE that there are at least 200 names there…” Har har.
Movies and TV shows teach us that it takes an acute childhood trauma – sexual abuse or something – to create an unsocial person. Like it was utterly impossible to have a (more or less) averagely happy upbringing and yet become a misanthrope. A person who won’t return a smile. A grumpy fucker who doesn’t smile at all.
Ernestine Phoodudley, a completely fictious character, didn’t like society much. As a whole. Certain individuals were able to ignite whole lotta positivity in her. But when it comes to the so-called Humanity, Ernestine stood firmly where Pratchett has made his standpoint: that the IQ of a mob is the IQ of its most stupid member divided by the number of mobsters.
Chance has brought her a fascinating office job. She had no occasion to indulge in those misanthropic tendencies there.
An unwritten rule reads that the receptionist should be a relatively young woman, devoid of any prospects and ready to smile. Like, all the time. Kindness without hope for reciprocation and cloud cuckoolander optimism help a lot, too.
Ernestine fulfilled those expectations. She would move papers from one tray to another. She would patiently answer the phone, often to hear: “Good afternoon, this is Unintelligible Mumble speaking, I need to talk to the CEO regarding a step dancing kitchenware presentation.” She would salivate numerous post marks. She would hit the bakery down the street when needed. She would hit the toy store too. (Boss forgot to buy his progeny a birthday present.) She would pull up office roller-blinds in the morning and pull them down in the end of the day, like a pro.
She also made a conscious effort to take a liking to her boss. For the boss represented everything that she thought of as alien.
He was an avid believer. An exemplary husband of the first woman who ever agreed to go on a date with him and a happy father of eight (healthy quadruples, two times in a row.) He probably believed that the late Polish president has been assassinated. He was afraid of gay people, trans people and sex liking people alike.
Our heroine decided to seize this chance to strenghten her tolerance and broaden personal horizons.
One day Ernestine received an e-mail from her boss, reading: “Do this and that. Boss.” There was a long tail of forwarded messages following it; and Ernestine browsed through it all out of sheer boredom.
Here’s what her innocent eyes have seen:
To: Main Bigwig in the Accounting
Dear Bigwig,
I feel like sacking this precariate girl that keeps hangin’ around in the reception.
How much period of notice is this creature entitled to anyway?
Love & Kisses,
Feeling like she’s been stabbed in the heart, Ernestine sprung up for her chair and ran straightly to the boss’ desk.
“Doth thou intend to get rid of me, O boss mine?”
The boss blinked. “Where did you get the idea, sugarpuff?”
Ernestine waved around with the (still warm) email printout. Her principal shoot a gaze towards the telltale piece of paper, gulped and said helplessly: “Oh, crap.”
“But why?” Ernestine’s eyes were two pools of grief. “Didn’t I obediently move the documents from one tray to another? Didn’t I pull up the roller-blinds daily, smiling, being optimistic and highly professional about it? Answer me!”
“You see, Ernestine…” The boss scratched his bald spot. “We all love you here. We do. No one says <<Good morning!>> as gracefully as you do. But me and the account executive – I’m sure that you remember this nice gentleman, the one who keeps transferring your payment two weeks late, such a funny guy! – have looked into some charts and you are not worthwhile to us. We don’t feel like paying that kind of money for your not-so-valuable presence in this office anymore. We’ll find some desperate hillbilly girl who has just stepped out of the Greyhound bus and will pull those blinds up for the half of your wages. So no hard feelings and pack your stuff.”
” If I could say something” said Ernestine, her voice only a little shaky “I have no savings, because I’ve been spending all my money on shoes. I’m a careless creature with no moral backbone, ready to marinate myself in your air-conditioning even for a lot less. So call this hillbilly girl off. I’ll blow you…I mean, roll you those blinds as usual. But please, do not make me loathe myself so acutely. Please let me at least take Fridays off.”
“No” said boss, contented. “Any more brilliant ideas? Har har.”
“Part-time job, maybe?” Ernestine was shivering. ” Five hours a day?”
“Six” said boss firmly. “And you will work in the most inconvenient hours that I’ll be able to come up with.”
“Deal” she whispered in answer.
This is where our absolutely fictious tale comes to an end. Here’s the moral:
Go on, decide to like people if you consider it necessary. You can radiate with tolerance and broaden your personal horizons like whoa.
But a few hundred bucks is still a few hundred bucks.
I spend my days happily wallowing in popculture
1 February 2013 by Nina Wum
I am loquacious (read as: a bloody windbag) and I enjoy it to the fullest. You have been warned.
I cannot promise You any kind of thematic cohesion on this blog. Thousands of themes keep mixing and shuffling freely in this head of mine.
Please allow me to use a metaphor: sometimes it’s all about patent Dr Martens dupes (Death to the brand! Especially when one cannot afford it, right?) Sometimes it’s about AK-47 assault rifles (widely known as the Kalashnikoffs.)
I listen to music. I read. I watch. I play video games. I process everything – although not necessarily in the same order.
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Ukrainian Diary – digest of the most important news over the past week
Ukrainian Diary – digest of the most important news over the past week (audio)
Poltorak: Armed Forces of Ukraine are able to fulfill all tasks assigned to them
The General Staff of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has developed a set of response measures of Ukrainian military to threats that may arise in connection with the Russian-Belarusian military exercises "West-2017", said Minister of Defense of Ukraine Stepan Poltorak.
It is reported by Interfax-Ukraine.
"We are watching the situation and know about all moves of Russian troops along our border. We understand what threats may arise and we will adequately respond to threats posed in connection with these exercises. The General Staff provided for number of measures that will be adequate to these threats," he told reporters in Kyiv.
The minister explained that the exercises potentially pose a threat because a large number of personnel of the Armed Forces moved towards the Ukrainian border, "and now all that is happening on our border, we consider as an unfriendly step".
16.01.2018 13:30 Misinformation campaign seriously weakened Ukraine
12.01.2018 12:25 Armed Forces launch training of operators for "Javelin"
11.01.2018 15:50 Sanctions to be imposed against Ukrainian performers touring in Russia
11.01.2018 14:40 Ukrainian, Romanian foreign ministers meet in Chernivtsi
29.12.2017 12:50 US Department of State posted press statement on Ukraine
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This indicator provides information on the role that forest products play in storing, cycling and releasing carbon. Forest products delay the release of carbon into the atmosphere and are more sustainable than products with manufacturing processes that have significant carbon footprints.
The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has agreed that parties will report the changes in the harvested wood product (HWP) pool. New Zealand’s Land Use and Carbon Analysis System (LUCAS) programme has begun to assess the suitability of data to support reporting using the alternative HWP methodologies. The 2006 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) guidelines for greenhouse gas inventories describe four methodologies for including HWP reporting in national greenhouse gas inventories.
The HWP approaches outlined in the 2006 IPCC guidelines share a common approach of dividing the harvest wood into different product categories based on their lifetimes. All approaches include domestically grown and consumed wood products; they differ in terms of the treatment of imported and exported wood products.
To provide an indication of the carbon that New Zealand can confirm is going into HWP, a proxy measure based on domestically processed wood and the IPCC categories of wood product is provided.
The approach used here loosely approximates the production approach in the IPCC guidelines. Differences include the exclusion of exported roundwood and the disaggregation of the solid wood category into sawn timber and panels. The approach estimates only HWP production and does not provide stock or stock change in the HWP pool. New Zealand is currently developing its HWP reporting methods and full HWP reporting will be provided in the 2013 National Inventory Report (2015 submission). Once New Zealand’s HWP reporting methods are complete, it is expected that carbon stock in the HWP pool will increase from 1990 onwards.
Domestic processing of harvested wood into short-lived products (paper) has remained relatively static since 1990. In contrast, longer-lived products have increased substantially since 1990, although they have declined since 2005. It is believed that this more recent decline has been driven by relatively high production costs and the high New Zealand dollar, combined with the rationalisation of older, smaller mills.
The fate of New Zealand’s exported roundwood is more difficult to determine. While New Zealand’s roundwood export has significantly increased since 1990 (from about 17 percent to about 56 percent of the harvest volume), uncertainty exists about the ultimate products these logs are processed into. Work is under way to improve this information: as part of both product traceability work and also for climate change reporting. Therefore export roundwood is excluded from these HWP estimates.
Under the UNFCCC, in April 2015 New Zealand will report emissions and sinks from harvested wood products (HWP). The timing of this Montreal Process report means the data to project the HWP stock of wood sourced from New Zealand’s forests are still being developed. Inferred changes to the HWP pools in New Zealand, and from New Zealand harvested wood that is exported, are as follows:
between 2008 and 2014 harvested volume increased 38 percent, with the bulk of this increase in export logs
carbon in wood being converted into paper declined 13 percent
carbon in wood being converted into sawn wood declined 6 percent
carbon in wood being converted into panels declined 5 percent
production in 2014 remained 76 percent higher than in 1990.
FAOStat: FAO statistical databases
Situation and Outlook for Primary Industries 2014
2006 IPCC guidelines for national greenhouse gas inventories
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Your First Kiss in Orange County
Friday, July 10, 2009 Romance 10 comments
Anonymous recalls her first kiss in Orange County, along with other assorted memories...
I grew up in LaPalma attending Luther elementary, and Walker Jr. High, I lived 3 miles from Knotts Berry Farm and remember it prior to admission fees. The Graveyard with that beating heart was my favorite. The chapel with the glowing Jesus cards were cool too. Boysenberry anything is still my favorite. Our Brownies and Girl Scout troops would go often and always assembled at the Wagon Train for rest and relaxation. Other fond memories were penny candy at Stop n Go, Carls Jr., and riding our bikes to the beach. I had my first "real" kiss from a guy named "Manny" who is now a pastor. It rocked and happened at the Disneyland Hotel on a landing after we rode the Monorail over there. We snuck off from G.L.A.S.S. (Greater Los Angeles. . . ?) it was a church night at the park. Felt bad but a kiss I will remember the rest of my life. I was 13 and he was an older man of 17. My good friend Marys brother. I reside in Texas now and miss O.C. alot. The best years of my life were there. Would love to return and do often. Anyone know a David Taafe from Buena Park ? He lived in the San Marino st's...cannot remember which one. Kinda near Ralphs Market and Shakey's Pizza. I really cared for him and wondering what became of him. Annette, I will always cherish our memories of childhood!! Deanna you are my dear friend, and anyone remember "Crazy Clown", was it a myth or what....scared me!!!
The Dory Fleet of Newport Beach
Thursday, July 09, 2009 Fishing, Newport-Beach 13 comments
Anonymous asks if anyone remembers the dory fleet out of Newport Beach..
Anyone remember the Dorry (Dory, Dorrey?) fleet out of Newport Beach near the Pier?
I didn't frequent Newport Beach much while I lived in OC, but there is a website dedicated the dory boats...
http://www.doryfleet.com
Garden Grove in the 1950s & 1960s
Wednesday, July 08, 2009 Garden-Grove 12 comments
Linda asks if anyone remembers a girls softball field being there on Chapman & Dale, as well as a big slide on the corner of Beach & Acacia...
I grew up in Garden Grove in the 50's and 60's. Went to Lawrence Elementary, Alamitos Jr. High and Rancho Alamitos High School - graduated in 1973. Does anyone remember the girls softball field located on Chapman and Dale in Garden Grove (where there is now a 7-11?). Nobody believes me!
Also, anyone remember the big slide that was next to the Del Taco on Beach and Acacia? It was the kind you see now at the OC Fair where they give you the burlap potato sacks to sit on and you would get burn marks on your skin if you touched the slide on the way down? I remember when that Del Taco was built - we used to go hang out there. Now the hookers and druggies hang out in there - so sad.
Regarding the comments about the hippies: I don't remember the problems with them at Knott's - I could swear it was Disneyland!
I remember the place on Garden Grove Blvd. named Kiddie Land. I loved going there! It was small but then, so was I.
I remember going to the Strawberry Festival when it was at Garden Grove Park on Westminster Ave. near Bolsa Grande High School, not squeezed into the area on Euclid.
I also remember going to visit friends with my parents near Irvine Park and going up Chapman Ave. (no 22 Freeway yet) and Chapman east of the traffic circle at Glassell was a two-way dirt road surrounded by nothing but orange groves.
One correction: The restaurant located on Garden Grove Blvd. and Newland was called the Jolly Knight -loved that place and was really sorry to see it close.
Reading all the posts brought back a lot of memories - thanks!
Tuesday, July 07, 2009 Huntington-Beach 73 comments
Greg offers up his recollections of living in Huntington Beach during the 1960s & 1970s...
We first moved into OC in 1966 and lived in Fountain Valley for a year, then moved to Huntington Beach in 1967 on Kamuela off of Brookhurst and Garfield. Memories of growing up: I can remember seeing the Fountain Valley Drive-in get built and still lived in OC when it got torn down. I can remember sitting on the roof of the house with friends and we could see the fireworks all the way from Disneyland. Every 4th of July, we'd have a block party on our cul-de-sac and a cop on the street would bring in contraband fireworks. Later in the evening, after we shot off our red devil stuff, the golf course across the Santa Ana river bed (which wasn't concrete yet) would have a fireworks show.
I remember Foster's Freeze in the old Lucky's shopping center and the Carl's Jr. across the street (my dad and I would fight over the fries on the way home.) Riding bikes down Brookhurst to the beach, you felt perfectly safe. A funky pizza place (can't remember the name) in the shopping center on Brookhurst and Adams, right next to the TG&Y ("To Gyp You") My parents and I were eating there the night LBJ announced he wasn't running again. Later, the fish and chips place next to the Sav-On Drugs next door.
I went to Edison High (class of 74) and spent more time on the Pier (on my own "personal bench" than I did in class, which is why I almost didn't graduate. Warm summer days and cool nights. Sitting with my family around a fire ring, roasting corn and hot dogs. What a great place to grow up!!
I now live in the east coast but, God willing, I hope to move back there this fall. You can never go home again, of course, and HB is far different, but it's the one place I still call home.
Harlem Globetrotters Visited Spurgeon Intermediate
Monday, July 06, 2009 Santa-Ana No comments
Anonymous provides some random memories of Orange County, including a visit by the Harlem Globetrotters to my middle school alma mater, Spurgeon Intermediate...
Things I remember about Orang County:
Meeting Little Oscar and seeing the Weinermobile at a candy store near our house in Murray Manor..
Playing flag football in the morning and getting soaked by the morning dew.
When some of the Harlem Globetrotters stopped at Spurgeon School in Santa Ana and demonstrated their handiwork.
Hot dog days at St. Anne School and playing Santa Claus for the little kids when I was in the 7th grade. Also being taller than th epriest when I was an altar boy there.
Everyone seemed blond and skinny to me--I was not.
Spending time at Corona Del Mar with my family on the beach.
Things were idyllic.
The Harlem Globetrotters visit schools all the time, doing performances and talking to kids about physical fitness and the value of education, and continue to make that a big part of their overall mission.
Chicago and Beach Boys Concert, Anaheim, 1975
Sunday, July 05, 2009 Anaheim, Music, Tustin 35 comments
Lisa W remembers the Chicago and Beach Boys concert in 1975 at Angel Stadium...
Does anyone remember the Chicago and Beach Boys concert in 1975 at Angel Stadium? My dad gave my boyfriend and I tickets to it. It was amazing!! The stadium was full, and we were in the upper stands, and everyone up there started jumping up and down, and security told us to stop because they were afraid the stands would fall, they were swaying!!
We waited in line all day because none of the seats were reserved so it was first come first serve.
I grew up in Tustin, does anyone remember the matinees on Saturdays at Tustin Theatre?
The Tiller Day parade?
Bonfires at the beach?
Marywood High School and the guys streaking across the courtyard?
Cowan Heights in the 1960s
Saturday, July 04, 2009 Cowan-Heights 1 comment
funinsun2k writes about growing up in Cowan Heights in the 1960s...
I grew up in Cowan Heights in the foothills south west of Irvine Park. This was beginning in the very early 60's till about 1969 when we moved down "into town" to Tustin Meadows. One of my favorite memories from the Cowan Heights days was when me and my buddy would ride our minibikes to a spot on Chapman Avenue (near Newport Blvd. intersection). So, does anybody remember Bob and Jeans? It was a great little ramshackle buger joint/beer bar. We would go in and get a hot dog or chili burger and root beer. There was a mix of locals, ranch hands, bikers, hippies, and a few of us curious kids (I think my first time in a drinking establishment). Good food and a real cool spot full of nice folks. Sadly it's gone now like so much of our early O.C. memories. Anyhow, after our grub it was back on the bikes to either go by Irvine park, or just ride any of the endless trails we had long before disapperring due to development.
There's a bunch of memories on Bob & Jeans on a previous article here...
http://www.octhen.com/2007/12/bob-jeans-tacos-and-pool-hall.htm
There's also some mention of Cowan Heights during that time on another article here...
http://www.octhen.com/2007/07/lemon-heights-in-1950s-and-60s.htm
The Plunge at Hart Park
Friday, July 03, 2009 Buildings, Orange, Parks 17 comments
Anonymous asks if anyone can provide memories of going to the Plunge at Hart Park in Orange...
Does anyone remember the plunge at Hart park and the May festival they used to have there?
OC History Roundup has an article on Hart Park and the Plunge...
http://ochistorical.blogspot.com/2008/01/w-o-hart-park-orange.html
Daralee has a photo of the Plunge on her Flickr photoset of Old Town Orange...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/dwwp/3376880161/
Mr. T's of Anaheim
Thursday, July 02, 2009 Anaheim, Restaurants 10 comments
Anonymous remembers going to Mr. T's of Anaheim, a restaurant that's no longer there...
I remember growing up in East Anaheim in the 70's and 80's right off of State College and Ball. The big restatraunt across from Carls Jr. would change names every 2-3 years. But the best memory was going to Mr. T's right off the corner os State College and Ball. It was a blast to the past, i actually worked there for a summer in 11th grade flipping burgers. I remember going there to play pinball almost daily, then saving enough money for a cheeseburger and fries. Mr T's was cool is it stll there??I have been gone from Anaheim since about 1991, i went back in 2000 for my best friends wedding, it has changed so much since the 70's and 80's.
Interestingly, another reader provided some info on Mr. T's, saying that's it changed to something else...
I LIVE OFF OF SUNKIST IN ANAHEIM, MR. T'S IS LONG GONE, NOW IT'S CALLED VAQUEROS (MEXICAN RESTAURANT)MATTER OF FACT IT JUST CHANGED NAMES AGAIN RECENTLY.
BMX Tracks at Saddleback Park & Escape Country
Wednesday, July 01, 2009 Motocross 6 comments
Erick asks if anyone remembers the BMX tracks at Saddleback or Escape Country...
Does anyone remember the BMX tracks at Saddleback or Escape Country? Ive done some research and it seems Escape Country opened for BMX in 1973 and moved the track a year later to a downhill location.
I have talked to riders that swear they raced Escape in 1972 and Saddleback in 71 or 72. None though can provide exact dates or newspaper clippings or proof. Anyone got any or a photo that was dated BITD so we know its accurate?
My email is racer@themlo.com if you want to submit something to me. Thanks.
PS I recently got a Escape Country sticker given to me someone had from the old days :)
By the time I moved to California neither BMX track was running (1982).
Read previous memories on Saddleback Park and Escape Country here on OCThen.
Your First Kiss in Orange CountyThe Dory Fleet of Newport BeachGarden Grove in the 1950s & 1960sHuntington Beach in the 1960s & 1970sHarlem Globetrotters Visited Spurgeon IntermediateChicago and Beach Boys Concert, Anaheim, 1975Cowan Heights in the 1960sThe Plunge at Hart ParkMr. T's of AnaheimBMX Tracks at Saddleback Park & Escape Country | Orange County Memories
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Buy A Coke for Bear on Harbor Blvd
Saturday, November 30, 2013 Garden-Grove 1 comment
Photo of the actual bear taken in the 1950s or 60s. The man in the photo
had the last name, "McCoy", his wife donated the photo to
Janet Filbeck who in turn sent us this digitized copy.
A number of OCThen readers recall visiting a bear in a cage on Harbor Blvd (or Westminster), perhaps at a dairy in Garden Grove. You could buy a Coke or a soda for a nickel and give it to the bear to drink. It was a little bit of cheap amusement after a trip out to the farm fields of Garden Grove, back in the day.
It makes me wonder if Coca-Cola used this piece of history for its series of "Polar Bears drinking Coke" commercials.
In that time, it was common for businesses in the farming areas of Orange County to use caged wild animals as a way to lure families in.
Here are the comments I found regarding the Bear in the Cage...
Anonymous (July 11, 2009) - Anyone remember the bear in a cage on Harbor Blvd between Santa Ana and Costa Mesa? And the buffalo ranch. Great memories. Thanks!
Anonymous (Nov 17, 2010) - Does anyone remember bear that drank soda? It was in Orange County, I think it was on Harbor Blvd. It was in a fenced in area, and you could purchase cokes or other soda pop from a machine, and the bear would drink it for your amusement. It must have been in the early 1960's.
Doug Reeder (June 4, 2012) - Another highlight was stopping along old Harbor Blvd. on the way to the beach area to see the bear in the cage. For a nickle the bear man would give a small bottle of Coke to the bear and he would drink it holding it between his front paws.
Anonymous (Jan 6, 2013) - And the guy with the bear was Frank ( Manny ) Mc Cubbins.
Philetus (Jan 15, 2013) - The dairy on Westminster before Harbor with the zoo had a bear (or gorilla, I can't remember which) in a cage out front with a coke machine you could buy a coke and give it to the bear
Glendora Hammond (Dec 1, 2013) - That poor bear was on Harbor. He loved Orange pop and was so abused. His cage was tiny and he paced back and forth. I felt so sorry for him.
Janet Filbeck (Dec 1, 2013) - I remember the bear in front of a store on a chain. They would bring the bear from his cage in the morning and take him back later in the day. I don't remember it being in a cage during the day. We would buy it coke and it was fun as a kid watching it drink it. It was a fun memory as a kid. This is a picture of the bear being taken to the front of the store. Given to me by a friend of mine and her husband is in the back. His last name is Mc Coy. This picture was taken in the late 50's or early 60's she said.
Carole Tibbets (Dec 1, 2013) - The bear was on Harbor Blvd., next to the driving range, between Edinger and Warner. Later, Frank had a small zoo and after, he got rid of the zoo animals, he started a boarding stables, before, he moved to Oregon. I boarded my horse there for about 8 years.
Anyone with memories of this please post a comment...
Macy Elementary School, La Habra, CA
Friday, November 29, 2013 La-Habra, Schools 1 comment
Browse other vintage La Habra photographs and postcards.
OCThen reader, "Monterey Jack" shares memories of attending Macy Elementary School in La Habra during the 1960's...
Macy Elementary School, La Habra. In the 60's, I was a student there in the lower elementary grades.
Folks out there remember some of the fine teachers ? Miss Voss ? Mrs. Morrison ? Mrs. Lewis ? Mrs. Schneringer ?
I recall Miss Voss reading chapters of Anne of Green Gables to the class. It seems Miss Voss also had the class put on a production of Amahl & The Night Visitors. Mrs. Morrison would frequently rave about the virtues of yogurt, and she taught kids to be open-minded about there being more than one possible answer or interpretation to things. Mrs. Morrison was a shining example of a teacher valuing each diverse kind of student and making them feel valued and cherished - she will always be remembered as a favorite teacher.
Mrs. Lewis was tuned in to some pretty "out there" stuff -- I remember her explaining the concepts of micro-particles and infinity to my kindergarten class ! She must have had great faith in the ability of 5-year-olds to grasp something about these. I will never forget her explanations, the details of which have influenced me all my life and to this very day. I have a very strong interest in speculative particle physics (quantum physics), even though I am a creative artist, and not a scientist.
Mrs. Scheringer taught at Macy School, but wasn't my teacher, however she was a neighbor and her kids were some of my best friends as a child -- most were older than me by a couple grades or by several grades. Because of her daughter Judy's piano playing, she inspired my lifelong interest in music. I also looked up to Judy as a role model ; she was older and quite mature at the time for her age, which I remember as around 12 when I was about 5. Mrs. Schneringer's son Rick was one of my best childhood pals and we often discussed science topics and the French language. I remember the Scheringer family fondly, as very upbeat and positive. Mrs. S. & her kids had such a positive impact on my growing up, they were all very creative, intelligent, kind, caring, & encouraging people. The neighborhood (near Macy School) speoke very highly of the Schneringers as a model family, who reached out to others and did kind things for them.
So there above is a bit of educational & social history of northwest La Habra, Orange County, California. I use the nickname "Monterey Jackson" and those wishing to share Macy School (& the neighborhood) memories may e-mail joyacademy8@yahoo.com and put "Monterey Jackson" in ths subject line.
Hope I brought a smile to the faces of folks who connected with this (above) account of La Habra, OC life "back then." Say cheese ! -- From "Monterey Jack"
Memories of Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, and Garden Grove
Friday, November 29, 2013 Costa Mesa, Garden-Grove, Huntington-Beach 4 comments
Huntington Beach Pier - Browse other vintage Huntington
Beach photos and postcards.
An anonymous OCThen reader submits their memories of growing up in Costa Mesa, Huntington Beach, and Garden Grove....
I grew up in OC. I was born in 1958 in Whittier CA and moved to Costa Mesa from 1960 - 1968 (on Elden Street near 22nd Street) and then to Huntington Beach (Bushard & Adams) and then (Brookhurst and Victoria)and then to Garden Grove on (Morningside Dr in the Buena-Clinton area)and then on Blue Spruce near harbor Blvd) I attended Lindbergh Elementary School in Costa Mesa, Gisler Intermediate in HB and Doig Junior High and Santiago High in GG.
COSTA MESA - there was a little hamburger stand on Newport Blvd near 22nd St named Russ's or something like that, it was like In & Out food before In & Out. I remember going to McDonald's near the Blue Chip Stamp Store. Ramsey's Drug Store on Newport Blvd. A Circle K or something like that where we would buy ICEE'S at during the summer, near Charlie's Chili. Pat's Liquor Store with the apartment above it on Newport and 22nd St. There was also a Der Weinerschnitzel on Harbor across from Theodore Robbins Ford where my parents bought a brand new 65 Mustang that I got to drive in High School. There was a Costa Mesa Park with a big airplane at the park that they had the fair in. There was a parade, was it called the Fish Fry? Going to Disneyland & Knott's. I remember the A-E ticket books at Disneyland. We walked to Lindbergh on Orange St and there was a house that had a statue of a bull on the corner in their yard.
HUNTINGTON BEACH - going surfing at lifegaurd station 13 at the end of Brookhurst before and after school and all summer long. Going roller skating at a rink on Newport Blvd near Superior? Two Guys store on Brookhurst and Adams across the street from Save on. There was also a Thrifty's that we would buy double scoops for 5 cents a scoop. We would ride bikes all over. Hang out at Gisler and had so many friends.
GARDEN GROVE - I hated the move from HB to GG but grew to love it there. We lived in an apartment that is now a gang area but it was safe back then. There was a huge slide and trampoline place on 17th St. I worked at a Jack in the Box across from Honor Plaza. We would walk to school and spend our lunch money at a Winchell's Donut Shop on the way to Doig Jr High. At Santiago we hung out at Del Taco and Bob's Big Boy after the football games in the 70's. Denny's we would go to and stay there until early in the mornings. Learned how to sneak into Disneyland by pitching in and having someone get there hand stamped and then we would transfer that stamp to 5 to 10 friends and go hang out and dance at that Terrace Theater with live bands that went up and down during the summer. There was a Sambo's Restaurant on Harbor Blvd that we had our pre-game football meals at.
So many memories and so much fun. Can we go back and do it again? Anybody live in any of these areas and does any of this ring a bell?
Thanks for the fun!
What Used to Exist in Newport Beach
Thursday, November 28, 2013 Newport-Beach 1 comment
Source: Orange County Archives via Wikimedia Commons.
Browse other vintage Newport Beach photographs and postcards.
OCThen reader Bob King is putting together pamphlet about things that no longer exist in Newport Beach...
Hey all.....graduated from Seal Beach Grammar School on PCH and 12th in 1948. Still go to Seal on occasion to visit with a couple of friends and to eat at Walt's. I have a ton of memories about Seal, Sunset, Surfside, Belmont Shore, Long Beach, Huntington Beach, Newport, but I trying to remember the location of the Victoria Station Restaurant in Newport Beach and simply can't remember.
Can someone out there help this old dude? Need it as I am endeavoring to put together a pamphlet along the lines of "Things That Aren't Here Anymore".
Bob King
majskyking@gmail.com
The old Bison Ranch comes to mind. It was an old restaurant and zoo where families could spend their afternoon and then snack on some bison burgers. It was located along Jamboree Road where Bison Road intersects.
There was Merle's Drive Inn, located on MacArthur and PCH. In the 1960's it was renamed "The Zoo" and then in the 1970s it closed down.
Also, Sid's Blue Beet, a favorite night spot located by the pier. It changed hands was renamed "Blue Beet Cafe".
What you do remember about Newport Beach that doesn't exist anymore?
Dakind Bar in Costa Mesa
Wednesday, November 20, 2013 Costa Mesa 3 comments
Orange County Memories Reader Baz Rebell asks:
Anyone recall the name of the tiny but fun little beer bar on Harbor near Adams in the late seventies? The owner married his hot little blond bartender who could imitate Marilyn Monroe to a tee. The barmaids were all sexy-spectacular but alas a liquor license killed the business. It was later sold and renamed 'dakind' but never regained its earlier luster.
Do you remember the bar in Costa Mesa that Baz is asking about?
Pioneer Chicken on Tustin Avenue
Monday, November 18, 2013 Orange, Restaurants 3 comments
OCThen reader "Power" submitted this memory about Pioneer Chicken:
Remember Pioneer Chicken folks? Oh man I can still taste that chicken. Why did they go they were doing fine at least the one I used to go to in Orange on Tustin Avenue? They to me were as good as Kentucky Fried Chicken and different taste. And then a favorite Family restaurant also one Spoons also on Tustin Ave. Once upon a time. Sad.
"Pioneer Chicken, (or Pioneer Take Out, as it is officially named), is an American fried chicken restaurant which was founded in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles in 1961 by H.R. Kaufman. When Kaufman sold the chain in 1987, there were 270 stores operated by 220 franchisees.
During the 1970s, several locations operated in Honolulu on the island of Oahu, Hawaii. There are three locations remaining in Los Angeles. It was named after Pioneer Market, a now-defunct small chain of supermarkets in Los Angeles. The original location in Echo Park was located next to the 1980s era Pioneer Market (the original 1932 market having been torn down in the 1980s) and is (now a Walgreens Pharmacy) on Echo Park Avenue and Sunset Boulevard. Due to considerable redevelopment activity in the neighborhood caused by gentrification, it was shut down in March 2009. During the 1980s, Los Angeles Lakers announcer Chick Hearn and former football player O.J. Simpson used to advertise for the restaurant."
Did your family eat at Pioneer Chicken? Do you remember the O.J. Simpson ads?
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Only the government can actually deliver healthcare for all
Whitehouse explains Medicare For All, prospects for bills passage
By Bob Plain in Rhode Island’s Future
“It’s to provide the opportunity to people who are not eligible for Medicare to nevertheless join Medicare and have all the advantages of reliability, efficiency, and security of Medicare,” said Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, describing the Medicare For All bill he is cosponsoring.
“At this point, it’s pretty aspirational,” he said. “A lot of the details still remain to be worked out.”
Whitehouse doesn't think the Republican-controlled Congress will pass the Medicare For All bill. “Really the point is to move the conversation forward.” he said.
That conversation, Whitehouse hopes, will also include the so-called “public option” or a government-run healthcare plan that competes with private sector plans.
He’s also a cosponsor of a public option bill this year, and he and Ohio Senator Sherrod Brown cosponsored the public option amendment that fell one vote shy of being a part of the Affordable Care Act, Whitehouse said.
“There are lots of different audiences we need to work with,” he said. “Fundamentally, the goal should be that healthcare is available to everyone in the country and the only entity that can really do that is the government.”
The bill’s lead sponsor is Senator Bernie Sanders, of Vermont, who popularized the concept during his presidential campaign. Sanders, a socialist-leaning Democrat, is the most popular politician in the country and the odds-on-favorite at this point to be the Democratic nominee for president in 2020.
To date, half of Rhode Island’s four-person congressional delegation publicly supports Medicare For All. Whitehouse is a cosponsor of Sanders’ bill, and in the House, Congressman David Cicilline is a cosponsor of Congressman John Conyer’s similar legislation.
“I’m proud to be a co-sponsor of the Medicare for All Act,” Cicilline told RI Future. “Medicare is an efficient and tested health care delivery model, and expanding it for every American will further improve access to health care and reduce costs.”
Senator Jack Reed’s office has not returned several calls from RI Future seeking a comment and a spokeswoman for Congressman Jim Langevin said yesterday he remains open-minded but not committed to Medicare For All.
Whitehouse equivocated slightly when asked if healthcare should be regarded as a fundamental right. “It’s hard to say that something you have to pay for is a natural right, but it should be a social right. Public education is a good example.”
He said Obamacare, and the ensuing Republican attempts to destroy it, have opened Americans hearts and minds to universal healthcare. “Talking about socialized medicine and the indulging in the fantasy that the free markets work in this scenario has run its course,” he said. “The real issue isn’t slogans. It’s how much do you have to pay and how are you treated.”
Whitehouse is a member of the Senate Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) Committee, which is holding hearings this month about stabilizing the existing insurance exchanges created by Obamacare. That, he says, is evidence that “the menace of repeal and replace is in the rear view mirror.”
Bob Plain is the editor/publisher of Rhode Island's Future. Previously, he's worked as a reporter for several different news organizations both in Rhode Island and across the country.
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Topics: Health, Jack Reed, Jim Langevin, Medicare, RI Future, Sheldon Whitehouse
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Request for Comments: 7246 Cisco Systems
Category: Standards Track P. Hitchen
ISSN: 2070-1721 BT
N. Leymann
A. Gulko
J. Tantsura
Multipoint Label Distribution Protocol In-Band Signaling in
a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) Table Context
An IP Multicast Distribution Tree (MDT) may traverse both label
switching (i.e., Multiprotocol Label Switching, or MPLS) and non-
label switching regions of a network. Typically, the MDT begins and
ends in non-MPLS regions, but travels through an MPLS region. In
such cases, it can be useful to begin building the MDT as a pure IP
MDT, then convert it to an MPLS Multipoint Label Switched Path
(MP-LSP) when it enters an MPLS-enabled region, and then convert it
back to a pure IP MDT when it enters a non-MPLS-enabled region.
Other documents specify the procedures for building such a hybrid
MDT, using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) in the non-MPLS
region of the network, and using Multipoint Label Distribution
Protocol (mLDP) in the MPLS region. This document extends those
procedures to handle the case where the link connecting the two
regions is a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF) table link, as
defined in the "BGP IP/MPLS VPN" specification. However, this
document is primarily aimed at particular use cases where VRFs are
used to support multicast applications other than multicast VPN.
Wijnands, et al. Standards Track [Page 1]
RFC 7246 mLDP In-Band Signaling in VRF Context June 2014
http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/rfc7246.
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.2. Terminology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
2. VRF In-Band Signaling for MP LSPs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
3. Encoding the Opaque Value of an LDP MP FEC . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.1. Transit VPNv4 Source TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
3.3. Transit VPNv4 Bidir TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
3.4. Transit VPNv6 Bidir TLV . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
4. Security Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
5. IANA Considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
6. Acknowledgments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7. References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.1. Normative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
7.2. Informative References . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
Sometimes an IP Multicast Distribution Tree (MDT) traverses both
MPLS-enabled and non-MPLS-enabled regions of a network. Typically,
the MDT begins and ends in non-MPLS regions, but travels through an
MPLS region. In such cases, it can be useful to begin building the
MDT as a pure IP MDT, then convert it to an MPLS Multipoint Label
Switched Path (LSP) when it enters an MPLS-enabled region, and then
convert it back to a pure IP MDT when it enters a non-MPLS-enabled
region. Other documents specify the procedures for building such a
hybrid MDT, using Protocol Independent Multicast (PIM) in the non-
MPLS region of the network, and using Multipoint Label Distribution
Protocol (mLDP) in the MPLS region. This document extends the
procedures from [RFC6826] to handle the case where the link
connecting the two regions is a Virtual Routing and Forwarding (VRF)
table link, as defined in the "BGP IP/MPLS VPN" specification
[RFC6513]. However, this document is primarily aimed at particular
use cases where VRFs are used to support multicast applications other
than multicast VPN.
In PIM, a tree is identified by a source address (or in the case of
bidirectional trees [RFC5015], a rendezvous point address or "RPA")
and a group address. The tree is built from the leaves up, by
sending PIM control messages in the direction of the source address
or the RPA. In mLDP, a tree is identified by a root address and an
"opaque value", and is built by sending mLDP control messages in the
direction of the root. The procedures of [RFC6826] explain how to
convert a PIM <source address or RPA, group address> pair into an
mLDP <root node, opaque value> pair and how to convert the mLDP <root
node, opaque value> pair back into the original PIM <source address
or RPA, group address> pair.
However, the procedures in [RFC6826] assume that the routers doing
the PIM/mLDP conversion have routes to the source address or RPA in
their global routing tables. Thus, the procedures cannot be applied
exactly as specified when the interfaces connecting the non-MPLS-
enabled region to the MPLS-enabled region are interfaces that belong
to a VRF as described in [RFC4364]. This specification extends the
procedures of [RFC6826] so that they may be applied in the VRF
As in [RFC6826], the scope of this document is limited to the case
where the multicast content is distributed in the non-MPLS-enabled
regions via PIM-created source-specific or bidirectional trees.
Bidirectional trees are always mapped onto multipoint-to-multipoint
LSPs, and source-specific trees are always mapped onto point-to-
multipoint LSPs.
Note that the procedures described herein do not support non-
bidirectional PIM Any-Source Multicast (ASM) groups, do not support
the use of multicast trees other than mLDP multipoint LSPs in the
core, and do not provide the capability to aggregate multiple PIM
trees onto a single multipoint LSP. If any of those features are
needed, they can be provided by the procedures of [RFC6513] and
[RFC6514]. However, there are cases where multicast services are
offered through interfaces associated with a VRF, and where mLDP is
used in the core, but where aggregation is not desired. For example,
some service providers offer multicast content to their customers,
but have chosen to use VRFs to isolate the various customers and
services. This is a simpler scenario than one in which the customers
provide their own multicast content, out of the control of the
service provider, and can be handled with a simpler solution. Also,
when PIM trees are mapped one-to-one to multipoint LSPs, it is
helpful for troubleshooting purposes to have the PIM source/group
addresses encoded into the mLDP FEC (Forwarding Equivalence Class)
element in what this document terms "mLDP in-band signaling".
In order to use the mLDP in-band signaling procedures for a
particular group address in the context of a particular set of VRFs,
those VRFs MUST be configured with a range of multicast group
addresses for which mLDP in-band signaling is to be enabled. This
configuration is per VRF defined in [RFC4364]). For those groups,
and those groups only, the procedures of this document are used. For
other groups, the general-purpose multicast VPN procedures MAY be
used, although it is more likely this VRF is dedicated to mLDP in-
band signaling procedures and all other groups are discarded. The
configuration MUST be present in all PE routers that attach to sites
containing senders or receivers for the given set of group addresses.
Note that because the provider most likely owns the multicast content
and the method of transportation across the network, which are both
transparent to the end user, no coordination needs to happen between
the end user and the provider.
1.1. Conventions Used in This Document
In-band signaling: Using the opaque value of an mLDP FEC element to
encode the (S,G) or (*,G) identifying a particular IP multicast
Ingress LSR: Source of a P2MP LSP, also referred to as root node.
IP multicast tree: An IP multicast distribution tree identified by a
source IP address and/or IP multicast destination address, also
referred to as (S,G) and (*,G).
mLDP: Multipoint LDP.
MP LSP: A multipoint LSP, either a P2MP or an MP2MP LSP.
MP2MP LSP: An LSP that connects a set of leaf nodes, acting
indifferently as ingress or egress (see [RFC6388]).
P2MP LSP: An LSP that has one Ingress LSR and one or more Egress
LSRs (see [RFC6388]).
RPA: Rendezvous Point Address, the address that is used as the root
of the distribution tree for a range of multicast groups.
RD: Route Distinguisher, an identifier that makes a route unique in
the context of a VRF.
UMH: Upstream Multicast Hop, the upstream router in that is in the
path to reach the source of the multicast flow.
VRF: Virtual Routing and Forwarding table.
2. VRF In-Band Signaling for MP LSPs
Suppose that a PE router, PE1, receives a PIM Join(S,G) message over
one of its interfaces that is associated with a VRF. Following the
procedure of Section 5.1 of [RFC6513], PE1 determines the "upstream
RD", the "upstream PE", and the "upstream multicast hop" (UMH) for
the source address S.
In order to transport the multicast tree via a multipoint (MP) LSP
using VRF in-band signaling, an mLDP Label Mapping message is sent by
PE1. This message will contain either a P2MP FEC or an MP2MP FEC
(see [RFC6388]), depending upon whether the PIM tree being
transported is a source-specific tree, or a bidirectional tree,
respectively. The FEC contains a "root" and an "opaque value".
If the UMH and the upstream PE have the same IP address (i.e., the
upstream PE is the UMH), then the root of the multipoint FEC is set
to the IP address of the upstream PE. If, in the context of this
VPN, (S,G) refers to a source-specific MDT, then the values of S, G,
and the upstream RD are encoded into the opaque value. If, in the
context of this VPN, G is a bidirectional group address, then S is
replaced with the value of the RPA associated with G.
The encoding details are specified in Section 3. Conceptually, the
multipoint FEC can be thought of as an ordered pair:
{root=<Upstream-PE>; opaque_value=<S or RPA , G, Upstream-RD>}. The
mLDP Label Mapping message is then sent by PE1 on its LDP session to
the "next hop" on the message's path to the upstream PE. The "next
hop" is usually the directly connected next hop, but see [RFC7060]
for cases in which the next hop is not directly connected.
If the UMH and the upstream PE do not have the same IP address, the
procedures of Section 2 of [RFC6512] should be applied. The root
node of the multipoint FEC is set to the UMH. The recursive opaque
value is then set as follows: the root node is set to the upstream
PE, and the opaque value is set to the multipoint FEC described in
the previous paragraph. That is, the multipoint FEC can be thought
of as the following recursive ordered pair: {root=<UMH>;
opaque_value=<root=Upstream-PE, opaque_value=<S or RPA, G,
Upstream-RD>>}.
The encoding of the multipoint FEC also specifies the "type" of PIM
MDT being spliced onto the multipoint LSP. Four opaque encodings are
defined in [RFC6826]: IPv4 source-specific tree, IPv6 source-specific
tree, IPv4 bidirectional tree, and IPv6 bidirectional tree.
When a PE router receives an mLDP message with a P2MP or MP2MP FEC,
where the PE router itself is the root node, and the opaque value is
one of the types defined in Section 3, then it uses the RD encoded in
the opaque value field to determine the VRF context. (This RD will
be associated with one of the PEs VRFs.) Then, in the context of
that VRF, the PE follows the procedure specified in section 2 of
3. Encoding the Opaque Value of an LDP MP FEC
This section documents the different transit opaque encodings.
3.1. Transit VPNv4 Source TLV
This opaque value type is used when transporting a source-specific
mode multicast tree whose source and group addresses are IPv4
addresses.
| Type | Length | Source
| Group
| ~
~ RD |
+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+-+
Type: 250
Length: 16
Source: IPv4 multicast source address, 4 octets.
Group: IPv4 multicast group address, 4 octets.
RD: Route Distinguisher, 8 octets.
| Type | Length | Source ~
~ | Group ~
~ | ~
~ RD |
Source: IPv6 multicast source address, 16 octets.
Group: IPv6 multicast group address, 16 octets.
3.3. Transit VPNv4 Bidir TLV
This opaque value type is used when transporting a bidirectional
multicast tree whose group address is an IPv4 address. The RP
address is also an IPv4 address in this case.
| Type | Length | Mask Len |
| RP |
| Group |
~ RD |
Type: 9
Mask Len: The number of contiguous one bits that are left justified
and used as a mask, 1 octet.
RP: Rendezvous Point (RP) IPv4 address used for the encoded Group, 4
octets.
| RP ~
~ |
| Group ~
Type: 10
RP: Rendezvous Point (RP) IPv6 address used for the encoded group,
16 octets.
The same security considerations apply as for the base LDP
specification, described in [RFC5036], and the base mLDP
specification, described in [RFC6388].
Operators MUST configure packet filters to ensure that the mechanism
described in this memo does not cause non-global-scoped IPv6
multicast packets to be tunneled outside of their intended scope.
Wijnands, et al. Standards Track [Page 10]
[RFC6388] defines a registry for the "LDP MP Opaque Value Element
basic type". IANA has assigned four new code points in this
registry:
Transit VPNv4 Source TLV type - 250
Transit VPNv4 Bidir TLV type - 9
Transit VPNv6 Bidir TLV type - 10
6. Acknowledgments
Thanks to Eric Rosen, Andy Green, Yakov Rekhter, and Eric Gray for
their comments on the document.
[RFC4364] Rosen, E. and Y. Rekhter, "BGP/MPLS IP Virtual Private
Networks (VPNs)", RFC 4364, February 2006.
[RFC5015] Handley, M., Kouvelas, I., Speakman, T., and L. Vicisano,
"Bidirectional Protocol Independent Multicast (BIDIR-
PIM)", RFC 5015, October 2007.
[RFC5036] Andersson, L., Ed., Minei, I., Ed., and B. Thomas, Ed.,
"LDP Specification", RFC 5036, October 2007.
[RFC6388] Wijnands, IJ., Ed., Minei, I., Ed., Kompella, K., and B.
Thomas, "Label Distribution Protocol Extensions for Point-
to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched
Paths", RFC 6388, November 2011.
[RFC6512] Wijnands, IJ., Rosen, E., Napierala, M., and N. Leymann,
"Using Multipoint LDP When the Backbone Has No Route to
the Root", RFC 6512, February 2012.
[RFC6826] Wijnands, IJ., Ed., Eckert, T., Leymann, N., and M.
Napierala, "Multipoint LDP In-Band Signaling for Point-to-
Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched
Paths", RFC 6826, January 2013.
[RFC6513] Rosen, E., Ed., and R. Aggarwal, Ed., "Multicast in
MPLS/BGP IP VPNs", RFC 6513, February 2012.
[RFC6514] Aggarwal, R., Rosen, E., Morin, T., and Y. Rekhter, "BGP
Encodings and Procedures for Multicast in MPLS/BGP IP
VPNs", RFC 6514, February 2012.
[RFC7060] Napierala, M., Rosen, E., and IJ. Wijnands, "Using LDP
Multipoint Extensions on Targeted LDP Sessions", RFC 7060,
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Oscar Bermeo
To the Break of Dawn
Heaven Below
Anywhere Avenue
Harriet Caught the Vapors
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I’ve been thinking a lot lately about sharing poetry in different forums to help reach different audiences and how so many poems sound so similar because they are written for only one room. For me, one of those rooms include poetry blogs especially since they give a poet not only the opportunity to share their work but also give valuable insight into process, revision and recitation. Even though poetry blogs are still relatively young in comparison to the advent of the Information Age in general and incredibly new when compared to the Gutenberg Revolution, they’ve offered some great information about how poets think. They also offer a lot of crap about folks who seem to want to blog about everything except how they actually put a poem together.
One of the best places to see this mix of the dope and the whack in poetic action was the Poetry Foundation’s Harriet Blog. I say was because as of today What’s New at Harriet is that it has gone from being a crossroad of dialogue to a dead end alley of news links making it no more better and probably less efficient than setting up a Google alert for: poetry, poetics, poems.
How did this happen? How did poetry blogs become the literary internet’s equivalent to Friendster? Like most things in the poetry internet, it’s apparently because Ron Silliman said so. Since I don’t read Silliman’s blog, I clearly missed the memo and have been going on fine with how poetry blogs kept maturing as their practitioners were refining their own practice.
I also missed the memo that “the more dynamic discussions of poetry, poetics, or politics in the past year knows that more and more of the most vibrant interactions have been found on Facebook.” Especially since I’m not on Facebook. But it’s so simple to join… c’mon jump in! Yeah, I know but I’ve been on Facebook before, it was called MySpace, MiGente, Live Journal, YahooGroups and AIM before. I know what’s going down and way too often it boils down to this: Person A posts a derogatory remark about Situation B. Person A’s 100 “friends” all agree that Person A is right without thinking twice since they want to stay “friends.” If someone connected with Situation B tries to share some information or defend themselves, then Person A rounds up more “friends” and drowns out the detractors. Or, they just start de-“friending.” I know cuz I’ve been one of the sycophants out to help out folks without having all the facts at hand.
So what did I do? I walked away from that mess and created an open forum where anyone can challenge my position, I call it “Intuitive Intertextuality” and I’ve approved every comment that isn’t blatant spam and have been able to dialogue with a great group of people through it.
Of course, my blog doesn’t have anywhere near the number of commenters Harriet had and I’m sure it was a pain to be the curator overseeing all those comments. But, that’s what happens when you’re an authority, you have to work to maintain that authority. Harriet quickly became an authority in US Poetry through a diverse series of bloggers published good reviews, highlighted up and coming journals and put their political viewpoints on display. Yeah, some of them ran as far as possible from politics but that’s just another way of showing your political and poetical stripes.
With all this valuable content, a great center to share it from and the resources of one of the US’s most well-endowed poetic organizations at hand who would have guessed that Harriet’s next move would be to retreat from this position and become a glorified newsfeed? I’ll take Squandered Opportunities to Bring Poetry Into the Internet Daylight for $200, Alex.
I’m sure regulating the comments on Facebook will be much easier for the Harriet Editors and having a blogroll will keep them “current” (though not relevant since some of the links are outdated) but the chance to expand opinions and broaden the definition of contemporary poetry is on hold for now. Declaring blogs irrelevant in favor of closed communities (if I have to input a username and password, it’s gated) will probably go down as the poetic equivalent of deeming vinyl dead.
Author: Oscar Bermeo
Born in Ecuador and raised in the Bronx, Oscar Bermeo is the author of the chapbooks Anywhere Avenue, Palimpsest, Heaven Below, and To the Break of Dawn. He lives and works in Oakland, CA. View all posts by Oscar Bermeo
Author Oscar BermeoPosted on May 3, 2010 May 5, 2010 Categories rantsTags Harriet Blog, Poetry Foundation
27 thoughts on “Harriet Caught the Vapors”
good points. i can’t help but think this is related to what folks in the indie bookstore documentary believe contributes to the indie bookstore’s demise – a general community apathy and corresponding inaction.
the harriet blog wasn’t that old, so maybe they ought to have tried something else before abandoning discursive blogging.’discursive blogging’ is a weird term, esp. since blog was created in order to hold discourse.
Oscar Bermeo says:
It’s definitely a self-fulfilling prophecy, “Tell folks the blog doesn’t matter first, then turn around and say ‘We’re just responding to popular opinion.'”
I’m afraid “discursive blogging” is going to be the new web speak for “performance poetry” and “spoken word.” Poets who seek audience engagement (and a discursive blog is a great way to start that engagement) always seem to be the minority.
SherylLuna says:
I agree with it being a gated community. Not because of
the password, but because people can indeed be
blocked on facebook.
Good point, Sheryl. It’s funny how communities that love to advertise their inclusiveness never address their own rules of exclusivity.
hm, i hadn’t thought about this part, sheryl, about blocking others. does this mean blocking from reading your stuff, or from commenting, or? so definitely gated.
Blogging hasn’t died, it’s evolved and yes, there was a culling process (i.e. blogs that were mostly links or look where I’m published naturally gravitated to FB and Twitter). I don’t think that’s a bad thing.
Harriet was always uneven, but still, it was by far the best thing the PF offered. I am surprised to see how quickly they dumped it. Also, while I’m on both FB and Twitter, there’s majors limitations and issues. Especially FB. Why move to such a closed and problematic space? Why hand over the keys to an increasingly out-of-control corporation?
http://gizmodo.com/5530178/top-ten-reasons-you-should-quit-facebook
You’re right, Reb, the newsfeed and Me-Myself-and-I blogs all have a place in the web and as long as they serve the authors purpose–more power.
Why move the Harriet discussion to FB? Simpler comment moderation, it’s easier to oversee a discussion among friends then it is to moderate an open forum. I’m sure the Harriet editors have the best of intentions but I wish they had actually consulted active poetry bloggers instead of going by current web trends.
This was my thought as well– particularly now, when Facebook is so clearly being disrespectful of its user privacy. I barely maintain a presence on Facebook, as stripped and locked down as I can get– mostly for family members who use it. I certainly don’t participate in FB communities these days.
I like and use twitter quite a bit, and I find the discussions useful as a supplement to blogs, but not as a replacement of same.
hi again, so reb’s made a really good point, something i hadn’t thought of, re: what kinds of blogs have transitioned over to FB. i agree this isn’t a bad thing. i guess it just is what it is.
i’ve been thinking about blogging as writing an editorial column. i think of what you’ve said about roger ebert, and whether our cultural lives are enriched because of his regularly published reviews. i’ve always dug him because he’s always put himself out there, however unpopular his take on things, whether or not i agree with him.
i also think if herb caen were still alive, his sf chronicle column would have translated over to a blog. it’s the longevity of these two, and others, some kind of well-built cultural base for us.
so, taking what reb has said, my question is this: as authors (and in the case of harriet, communities of published writers), why are folks not willing to put themselves out there and really think of themselves as cultural bases? i thought that’s what authors do by virtue of our author-dom.
I always think about it the other way around–Where will our new Herb Caens, Studs Turkels and Djuna Barneses come from? The blog is the modern day Op-Ed column complete with Letters to the Editor.
The Poetry Foundation got it right when they initiated Harriet and gave new voices and established voices a chance to share their poetic perspective. Now that Harriet has gone the route of reticence it will be interesting to see who fills the void.
dwayne betts says:
The real problem with the PF blog was that it hadn’t found the next Studs Turkels or Djuna Barneses – and that as a blog, it failed to get to that level of excellence that you find on say The Atlantic monthly blogs. (Ta-Nehisis Coates is an excellent example of community and intellectual dopeness on a blog). But that’s more politics, more general interest. PF only reached that level of engagement for me with Reginald Shepherd and A.E. Stallings. It’s too bad that they couldn’t choose better, more engaging bloggers. Harriet became a platform for aesthetic opinions and back room arguments
And – after looking at the new set up in action – I’ll say that I don’t mind the change. It sort of recognizes that PF isn’t really an arbiter of taste in terms of commentary. That’s why it was so hit or miss. The current move, hopefully, will allow PF to send traffic to others, who just might be the arbiters of taste. It doesn’t feel like Siliman’s blog either. It feels more like Slate or the NY Times Iphone app.
Thanks for the thoughts, Dwayne.
Harriet did become a home for circular arguments and navel gazing but it was also the home of live discussion with poets who believed poetry could and deserves to be high in the U.S. consciousness. You mention Reginald Shepherd and A.E. Stallings and I’ll add Rigoberto González, Patricia Smith, Barbara, Camile Dungy, Javier Huerta and Kwame Dawes to the mix of poets who saw the potential in actively blogging at Harriet. With time, I think more voices could have kept pushing the envelope.
I’m looking at their new setup and am cool with it for the simple reason that it’s the Poetry Foundation’s toy and they will do with it what they please. So, best of luck to em and their new format.
Though I am thinking about an article I read more than two years ago that predicted this would be the way of Web 2.0–that even in the most specific of subjects, there would be a ton of user generated content; the sites that could aggregate best would prosper. Here’s hoping Harriet has a focused vision and doesn’t just post everything that comes their way, cuz that would be a waste of everyone’s time.
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Another “practical” consideration is that FB changes its format on a regular basis, with little feedback from or concern for its users. So the PF could set something up there and then one day sign on and find that FB added more super-fab “enhancements” and now their forum doesn’t work the way it once did. They’ll have little, if any, recourse to change the situation. I find it strange, especially considering its history, that the PF is so willing to hand over it’s control.
There are a number of “group” poetry and literary blogs although I can’t think of many that have revolving contributors (the BAP blog has a weekly guest blogger and invites different poets to edit certain features) or an especially strong emphasis on diverse poetic backgrounds (I’m drawing a blank here). There seems to be a prime void and opportunity.
pam lu says:
Hi Oscar,
I’ve never talked with you virtually before, but have appreciated this and a number of your other posts here. I am also disappointed by the PF’s retreat to FB. It is beyond reticence IMO. It actually runs counter to the mission of the gigantic endowment they got in the first place, something about making poetry more accessible to the public or something wacky like that?
Thinking about what you and Dwayne have said about where are the Herb Caens, etc. now, I think definitely yes, great question. I just want to add that part of what I appreciated about blogs & group blogs is that they’re not just about the “star columnists,” they’re about keeping the big conversation alive publicly so that anybody–a somebody, a nobody, of the community, not of the community–can participate. Open blogs have a great leveling power, and even though I’ve opted not to host one myself I have benefited greatly from being able to join conversations as a commenter, having dialogue both with people I know and don’t know. I’m sorry to see more of these public forums go.
Here’s a piece of a comment I just posted to Lemon Hound’s post on this topic (awaiting approval):
“I have been invited to join Facebook by both poet and non-poet friends in the past and have declined not because I hate Facebook but because I find the idea of yet another online forum, esp. an online networking forum, overwhelming to say the least. But when I hear about poetry/poetics discussions largely happening on Facebook, my gut reaction is I don’t like it. Unless a good number of these discussions are happening on walls that are accessible to the public, I don’t like it because it is taking something that was once part of the public commons and privatizing it. It’s like saying poets and poetry are members of a closed system (no big whoop), and it’s saying that this is how it is and how it should be (hmmm). What about Nikki Reimer’s excellent points below, about finding and keeping oneself open to audiences beyond one’s coterie zone? Isn’t this, like, the point of literature?”
Well said, Pam. I agree with all your points, you just gotta wonder what the Poetry Foundation’s thought process really is? Every tech column I’ve ever read has advice that is so counter to PF’s move.
Like you, I don’t hate Facebook, I just want my thoughts out in the open that way I can be held accountable to what I’ve written.
Steven Fama says:
Sorry to be familiar, as we’ve not met, but I must ask if you are joking when you suggest that Silliman said something indicating that poetry blogging was dead?
I do read that blog, and can’t remember anything that he’s written that would suggest he’s equated poetry blogging to Friendster. It’s actually quite the contrary, in my opinion.
Poetry is a Big-Money operation. As such my working assumption is that those In Charge were uncomfortable with the blogging thing they’d set up in that the multiplicity of voices (both via poet-bloggers and peanut-gallery comment-boxers) created hassles and spins that they just didn’t need or want to worry about.
The void will be filled, if at all, by individuals.
Hello Steven,
No, I am not joking when I mention Silliman’s reaction to blogging. Here it is from Harriet:
Ron Silliman wrote on our site that the ongoing revolution in communications technology has upended the power dynamics of the community as well as the way poets interact. “Poets blogging,” Silliman wrote, “is just a symptom.”
After reading the actual article < http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238430>, I believe that Harriet has just used a random quote and used it to justify their decision to stop being a center for dialogue and just be a roadmap to where the dialogue is happening.
The void will be filled by poet bloggers who value conversation over networking, and by literary organizations who won’t settle on just reporting trends but would rather set the tone for discussing contemporary poetics.
yep, I agree that Harriet / Poetry Foundation supported its decision to do away with its blog by scraping out a Silliman quotation that had nothing to do with his views about blogging and poetry.
Silliman very much supports blogging and poetry. As an example, I first learned of “Intuitive Intertextuality” — this blog — because it is included (under your name) on Silliman’s lengthy and well-maintained blogroll.
But it’s not possible to set the tone of discussion with a group blog written by a rotating roster of writers with has an open comments section. The conversation goes on with or without organizations and spins out of control and back in control as it will. Blogs were born as a forum for individual/unaffiliated voices. I might have a bad memory, but I think it’s only in their later incarnation that they became co-opted by organizations and institutions who saw them as traffic drivers. I actually prefer blogs written by individual people to blogs administered by newspapers, magazines, companies etc. I trust them more.
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Desmond Swords says:
Hello Oscar.
The closing down of the Poetry Foundation of America’s blog Harriet to comments, is an interesting development; and unless I am completely deluded and on the wrong track entirely; think I can provide some of the real reasons the editors of Harriet, Travis Nichols and Cath Halley; made this decision.
Harriet closed their comments down, co-inciding with the editor Travis Nichols, discovering I could not be prevented from commenting there because my isp isn’t fixed. Rather than risk having me appear; he decided to close the blog.
Basically three bloggers were targeted by Travis after enjoying ourselves too much there last summer; and on first September last year; we we’re dumped off the blog without warning or reason.
The blog Scarriet was set up by two of us, who I’d only met on Harriet months earlier, discovering only later of their involvment with Alan Cordle and the Foetry scene.
I managed to get back on Harriet in the New Year, after discovering my isp isn’t fixed (because of the cable company who provides my internet) and was having great fun ‘undercover’ – first as Eric Landon and then as another, female name I can’t quite recall at present.
This did Travis Nichols head in, and he decided to close the blog down rather than let me appear there as myself having fun.
As I say, I could be deluded; but let me give you the story.
Last year I ended up on Harriet, and met two American bloggers; Thomas Graves and Christopher Woodman; and the three of us spent a six-month summer of love, spamming as mad possessed-by-imbas dreamers (imbas means poetry-fizz in Gaelic), being contemporary critical show-boats whose pizzaz and snazz stopped traffic; cut ‘the cloth and talk of honest men’ (as Kerry poet James Kelly has it) into small square silences, blocked off time caesuras in the posting of and halting because – what we wrote achieved the goal of being Read – not skimmed over.
And it was there I learnt – from Graves (a poster I knew then only as the pseudonym Tom Brady, discovering after Brady’s the Beckham of America) – that all my tussle with myself about one’s Name in print I’d been writing through for the last few years; was misplaced and but the imaginative paranoia of a blogger with ideas above his station.
This was because the Anonymous poster who I knew only as ‘Brady’, was writing and starring as the best text in what passed for critical debate there. I spent weeks tracking down his writing and came across three years of Tom Brady, Monday Love, The Earl of Devon and a handful of other nom de guerres ‘Brady’ had been performing under; online in American poetry chat sites, most of which had banned him for being a spammer.
Unlike me, he never made a spelling mistake and his thoughts were well ordered, rational and his obsession, was Edgar Allen Poe – which all talk eventually turned toward.
I saw that he and the other chap, Christopher Woodman, had been up to exactly the same thing as I had for the last few years at the Guardian and other sites in the UK; but in America.
‘Brady’ was writing by far the most cogent stuff in the cut and thrust debating atmosphere of Harriet 09, and after two months of us three running amok; acting, being passionate, reaching toward the itch and slowly attaining what poetic capacity the good Lord, God, Creator, Cosmic Consciousness Co-Ordinator – put in to make us be – spirituality: all there was in the four month affair when we made Harriet and it took off as a blog; was honest omarbhágh na bhFileadh (bardic contention) and free debate.
Travis Nichols, the Harriet editor; after two months of what he publically purported as the thing the Poetry Foundation wanted to see on their blog; Free Speech freely talking; wrote to me a mail I immediately suspected was written, not by a force of ‘best wishes’ he signed it off with; but by that old devil called humanly competitive jealousy; arisen out of a general pissing off of him by three windy spammers, not playing a game of suck-up ‘n say-nice, and in such a manner as to be a continual reminding presence that the poetry world wasn’t turning how Travis wanted it to.
He said, because I was appearing a lot there; he was writing to flag up the fact some ‘changes’ were shortly going to be introduced for the ‘benefit of the members’ – and also asked me if I could post a bit less often, before signing off ‘best wishes’.
My instinct thought it was alll rubbish; a man writing to me who was unable to get to the point of not wanting me there; but not having the ability to say it in Letters. I wrote back a two page assault about Free Speech; getting into the groove in my head, acting the part and denouncing him. This did the trick of getting it out my system, and thinking if I sent it he would love that kind of thing, because it would give him a perfect excuse to ban me; I didn’t send it and opted instead for the double bluff.
‘Of course Travis, that’s no problem, thank you very much for giving me an opportunity to talk at Harriet.
I then took the step of making contact with Christopher Woodman, who I had only exhcnaged with in public on Harriet prior to contacting him. He is a seventy year old ex Harvard Oxford English lecturer, with a life and wife in Thailand, whose own itch to speak on Harriet and involvement with the Foetry scene; was because he believed he’d been ripped of by Joan Houlihan and was agitating for fixed manuscript competition coteries to be exposed.
He informed me he’d also had the same e-mail from Nichols, as had Tom Brady (Thomas Graves) and in his mind, it was clear that we three who’d been spamming the most; were the only ones to get this heads-up from the Editor.
I told him I thought the mail was a ploy by Travis; written in such a way as to get a windy response; which would then give him an excuse to put us on moderation. Woodman however made the mistake of falling into the trap and wrote back trying to debate with Travis; in a polite and passionately felt e-mail that gave Trav the excuse to promptly put him on moderation: his strategy to take us out one by one, clear in hindsight – as it was only me, Woodman and ‘Brady’ who Trav wrote to.
The upshot was he introduced the recommendation icon of ‘thumbs’ up or down, that he referred to as a ‘neat expereiment’; and after seven clicks negative, the post was hidden from view. It was clear we were really doing his head in, but because we were also obviously sincere about our love for ditties, he had to go the long route instead of just being honest and telling us to **** off.
With Woodman on moderation; the cat and mouse with Travis, Graves (Tom Brady) and myself, continued all summer; and on 1 September 2009, with a new cohort of bloggers coming onto Harriet; Travis showed his true hand and just zapped all three of our accounts. No pre-warning, explanation or any communuication with us as to why. His silence an eloquent statement – ‘you win, I lose’, bcuz Trav couldn’t compete intellectually he more or less said: ‘**** off, I’ve had enough it’s nothing to do with poetry and everything to do with controlling how we act, what we say, all the phony shit.’
I felt sorry most for Graves (who I knew then only as his nome de guerre Brady); because he was the one who didn’t put a foot wrong in print there; never lost his cool, was unfailingly polite, and bcuz his argument (obsession) is waffling on about a shadowy diaboloical pact he posits the earliest Transandentalists conspired to life (and he is there to expose), that they and their offspring would one day control all of American poetry – he wound up the squares somthing rotten with this dotty position; tho there was none of em there at Harriet who could whup him. Even tho it’s obviously a laughable argument.
Indeed it was great reading him tying all comers up in knots.
This is why Travis kicked us off on 9/1 last year.
Indeed Oscar; I have had a chat gaffe in place for something like this, since the last time I had to go in and do a bit of public duty; after the main poetry gulag in the UK, controlled, like Harriet; by more or less one person; who the story is too long to tell; but the upshot is; here is a brand new space if you fancy dumping owt.
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I’ve had three chat gaffes in my time, and set up this fourth one two years ago; as a poetic act, after returning to the main UK stage and taking revenge in Letters on its owner, Jane Holland.
It was in the third one, called Literature Lovers; that I turned into a tosser who thought I had power just because I controlled a pane on a chat gaffe.
Not that I knew it at the time. I got too deep into the acting, and because I knew things other members didn’t, like how to make things appear and disappear with the click of a mouse, I confused this with having real power. The truth was within two months of setting the site up, I had turned into a dictator.
It had about six months and then died, when everyone left because I was such an arsehole, and once the effect of being a chat gaffe arsehole wore off, I thought, how very lucky I am to be back on the ground, because what happens is, I would have turned into Travis Nichols or Jane Holland and her little pony bridage; a ruthless deluded person with control of a mouse and hiding from myself the desire to be telling everyone else how to behave.
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oops, the link above is wrong, this is the correct one Oscar.
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Thomas Brady says:
Desmond is the holy fool who speaks the truth and thus makes others uncomfortable…I see he ended the discussion with his remarks…but the irony is he does speak towards the truth…(if only he were less long-winded he would do better) Travis banned me and others on September 1, 2009 and Travis was obviously uptight re: different voices. We can speak at length re: abstract principles, but the truth tends to be about actual people and actual events.
Scarriet is the website formed in Sept. 2009 after the Harriet Massacre. We quickly formed our own identity and I see Reb Livingston on this thread: she was in Scarriet’s March Madness BAP Poetry playoff and finished second! That was great fun.
You can read my response to Harriet’s decision to ban comments on its blog.
http://scarriet.wordpress.com/page/2/
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Study maps how the world view is ‘shaped by Wikipedia editors who live in the West’
A new Oxford University study has found that nearly half of all edits to articles about places on Wikipedia were made by people in the UK, US, France, Germany and Italy. The researchers who geocoded Wikipedia edit entries on articles mentioning places also found there were more editors in the Netherlands than all of Africa combined. It is assumed that Wikipedia, the world’s largest and most used repository of user-generated content, offers a platform for ‘local voices’. However, this study maps where Wikipedia editors live and finds local voices rarely represent and define their own country. Digital connectivity is only one factor, it concludes, with the network effects of the internet crowding out less ‘visible’ parts of the world.
It concludes that high-income countries have a ‘disproportionately loud voice’. Large blocks of editors who live in Europe and America are largely defining what information appears online about their home countries and everywhere else in the world. The forthcoming paper by researchers from the University’s Oxford Internet Institute will appear in the journal, Annals of the Association of American Geographers.
The three-year study looks at geographic patterns of participation in Wikipedia, analysing data drawn from its inception in 2001 to Feb 2013. They researchers examined around 708,000 articles that carried references to geographical locations, including 44 language versions. North America was found to have 100 times the editing power of Sub-Saharan Africa. Even in cases where editors of Wikipedia articles lived in low-income countries, they were more likely to write about places focussed on what the study calls ‘global cores’, in other words more digitally connected and economically advantaged countries, than their own.
Lead author Dr Mark Graham from the Oxford Internet Institute at Oxford University said: ‘Even on Wikipedia, widely touted as one of the web’s most open and most inclusive platforms, we see that low-income countries are represented far less than locations that are economically advantaged. Europe and North America, with already high levels of internet access have the loudest voices and they largely define the world view of even the smaller, less affluent countries rather than the people who live in them.’
The study concludes that as the world’s cores light up with online information, it is possible they compound the situation in distracting attention and information way from poorer, less connected parts of the planet. It calls the network effects of the internet, where dense clusters of information about places are highly visible on online platforms, ‘vicious’ or ‘virtuous’ cycles (depending on where you live). As a country approaches levels of connectivity above about 450,000 broadband internet connections, the ability of broadband access to positively affect participation keeps increasing, but the study highlights that this relationship is not a linear one.
Dr Graham said: ‘In practice, we see how existing inequalities and imbalances don’t just make places invisible, but also suffocate certain voices and perspectives. Even those in less economically advantaged places are drawn to write online about places that are already highlighted in a bright glow of information production.’
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The paper, ‘Digital Divisions of Labour and Informational Magnetism: Mapping Participation in Wikipedia’, is by Mark Graham, Ralph Straumann, and Bernie Hogan of the Oxford Internet Institute.
The pre-publication version can be viewed at: http://geonet.oii.ox.ac.uk/blog/new-publication-digital-divisions-of-labor-and-informational-magnetism-mapping-participation-in-wikipedia/
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Center of Universe?
Discussion in 'Astronomy, Exobiology, & Cosmology' started by eram, Sep 7, 2012.
eram Sciengineer Valued Senior Member
Mechanical Universe 15 - Conservation of Momentum - YouTube
Watch the above video, I skipped to the crucial part.
Provided no external forces act on a system, the system's center of mass is always in an inertial frame.
If we consider the entire universe as a system, and assume that no external forces can act on the universe, then the universe has a center of mass. In other words, a center!
We may even measure absolute values of relative velocities and positions from the center of mass.
I am either a genius, or have become completely retarded.
eram, Sep 7, 2012
AlphaNumeric Fully ionized Registered Senior Member
-> Cosmology, Astronomy and something or other.
AlphaNumeric, Sep 7, 2012
origin In a democracy you deserve the leaders you elect. Valued Senior Member
eram said: ↑
I think the problem here is trying to consider the universe as a system in the calssic sense.
origin, Sep 7, 2012
Gorlitz Iron Man Registered Senior Member
Would you be able to calculate the centre of the universe from the fact that the furthest points in the universe would appear to be receeding fastest away from that spot as the distances to the furthest points must always be the greatest from the centre, if indeed the 'wrap around' effect is correct?
Gorlitz, Sep 7, 2012
Gorlitz said: ↑
Sorry, but i really can't understand what you're saying.
And what is a universe in a non-classical sense. GR sense?
Well General Relativity tells thats us that the universe shouldn't remain at it's current size, that would suggest it has to be either expanding or contracting, presently we believe it to be expanding.
I would say that if the 'wrap around' effect of the universe turns out to be proved, meaning that if you travel far enough in one direction you'll eventually end up at the beginning of the opposite direction, then the furthest distance you can ever travel before encountering the 'wrap around' effect must also always be the furthest point from the centre.
Now given that we believe the universe to be expanding and expanding from everywhere, that means the more space between points the more expansion can take place thus the faster those points seems to be receeding away. That means the centre of universe must always be the point from which has the greatest potential for expansion to place and the point at which the farest points in the universe seem to be receeding away the fastest.
what about the points made in the video?
Well I think if consider the idea of no external influences being exerted on the universe then we have to consider the the idea that everything is eventually moving to maximum entropy whilst ever expansion is still taking place. The reason of this being that there is only a finite amount of energy being streched over ever greater distances. Until finally we get to a point where the distances become so vast as to virtually nullify any motion whatso ever. If the size of the universe remained the same then so should the motion but this is not the case.
Based on this analysis we are at the center of the universe!
The other option (and a fine option it is) is that ALL points (excluding the effects of local gravity) are moving away from each other - due to and overall expansion of the universe.
I do not want to watch the whole video, why don't you tell us the 'crucial part'.
I can agree that is true for systems in our universe.
If we consider the entire universe as a system,
A system is something that exists in the universe. The universe is necessary to be able to define the system. The universe cannot be a system unless it is a part of a larger whole. The universe however is the universe it is the whole enchilada.
and assume that no external forces can act on the universe,
Of course there are no external forces acting on the universe there is nothing outside of the universe.
then the universe has a center of mass. In other words, a center!
No, for there to be a center of mass the system has to be compared relative to something. For a system (like the Sol system) it is the rest of the universe.
And there can even be an imaginary straight line that represents the center of mass's inertial frame. We may even measure absolute position from this straight line.
There can be no line drawn because there is no way to detect a center of mass.
Nah you lie somewhere in the continuum between these 2 extremes.
origin said: ↑
I don't see the two as mutually exclusive, ALL points can be, and I believe actually are, expanding away from each other. However that does not preclude the possibility of a point which exists within the centre of the universe. Imagine drawing a line from the furthest expanded part of the universe to the opposite furthest expanded part. The point along that line which is exactly equidistant from both furthest points would be the centre and you can do this for all three spatial dimensions. Then the point where all 3 intersect should be your universal centre.
You can do a little 2D experiment to see how this works in practice. Simply take a piece of paper and draw a squared grid using 1cm squares, now mark a spot in the exact centre of your grid. Now redraw your grid but this time use 2cm squares. Your centre spot stays in exactly the same place but all the space around it has expanded.
Here is the point. We see that every distant galaxy is receding from us. The farther the galaxy the faster it is receding. Lets assume galaxy XYZ is 12 billion ly from us and receding like a bat out of hell from us. It looks like we are at the 'center' of the universe and galaxy XYZ is on the 'edge' of the universe. An alien on a planet in galaxy XYZ sees exactly the same effect as we see. The farther the galaxy is from galaxy XYZ the faster it is receding. He would say it looks like he at the 'center' of the universe and the milkyway galaxy is on the 'edge' of the universe.
There is no edge. There is no center. There is absolutely no way to tell where any sort of center could possibley be!
hansda Valued Senior Member
Provided further, there is no inertial frame-dragging.
hansda, Sep 7, 2012
Surely though there must be a point, call it a centre if you will, at which you are equidistant from either point in either direction in which anything beyond would have you travelling back towards your start point from the opposite direction. I mean take for example the inside of a sphere you could say that has no centre because you could just keep going round ad infinitum, but if you were to divide it into hemi-spheres, one division for each of the 3 spatial dimensions and say the points where they intersect is exactly equidistant then you could say it has a centre an plot it exactly.
It is the same problem as trying to determine absolute motion. There may be some rock somewhere that God can look at from outside the universe and he can say, "Yep, that rock is not moving and everything else in the universe is moving relative to that stationary rock". But you can't ever under any circumstace determine that. The center of the universe is essentially the same situation - God probably knows but he's not telling and you cannot ever detect it.
The only caveat to this is, when my daughter was about 13 she was pretty sure she was the center of the universe.
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Grumpy Curmudgeon of Lucidity Valued Senior Member
To find the "center" of the Universe, take your finger and touch your nose. At the beginning that point you are touching was at the exact center. That is also true of every other point. We see all non-gravity-bound galaxies receding from us, but even the very distant galaxy dwellers see exactly the same thing. Of course, we do not see the Universe as it is today, we see the Universe as it was then, the further we look the further back in time what we are seeing existed. "Finite but unbounded" describes our Universe, it is of a finite size, but it does not have an edge. Our mundane understanding cannot easily conceptualize this, but it's true. And that means there is no place that could be called a center, no center of gravity and no "furthest" point, each point in the Universe "sees" itself in the center but none of them are. There are four dimensions, not just the three we can grock, time is the additional factor.
Grumpy, Sep 7, 2012
aaarr sweet.
Grumpy said: ↑
If we made a model of the universe do think that also wouldn't have a centre?
RJBeery Natural Philosopher Valued Senior Member
Eram, if the universe is finite then it would have a center of mass although some might dispute this point. See here
RJBeery, Sep 7, 2012
wlminex Banned Banned
The universe is the all-inclusive system (be it finite or infinite). The mass portion is a subsystem. The energy portion is a subsystem. Both of these latter (subsytems) interact (at least down to the planck scale) within the larger system (universe) according to testable physical "laws". Since we have problems detecting subplanck scale stuff, other, or different "laws" may apply.
wlminex, Sep 7, 2012
kaduseus melencolia I Registered Senior Member
Why not both at the same time?
Both expanding and contracting at the same time?
Before you quoting redshift, it is an assumption based on observation open to interpretation.
Also if the universe has a center of mass, every point that constitutes part of the universe is the center of mass of the universe, assuming a finite mass.....
Problem with the expansion model is the edges, if we take a galaxy on the edge of the known universe, then to it, we are at the edge of the universe, except we can 'see' for 13.2 billion light years all the way around, so in relation to the galaxy we on the edge, we 'see' an extra 13.7 billion years into the past, we do that for another galaxy on the opposite edge of the universe, in relation to that galaxy we 'see' an addition 13.7 billion years into the past. Either light can only travel for 13.7 billion years, or we screwed up.
According to one cosmologist the universe is flat.
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>>> good morning. to today is the day, sources tell nbc news the first indictment from robert moouler's investigation of russian meddling in the presidential election set to be released as all of washington waits to find out who and for what. we're live at the courthouse. >>> slammed, a powerful storm races up the east coast bringing fierce winds and torrential rain. this morning widespread damage, flooding and power outages, travel a nightmare at airports and on the roads. >>> breaking overnight in3út wake of the harvey weinstein scandal oscar winner kevin spacey now accused of making a 14-year-old boy. this morning his apology for the deca o revelation about his sexuality. >>> and an exclusive live interview with actor corey feldman who claims the recent scandals in hollywood are just the beginning. those stories plus nbc news exclusive. >>> it was really kind of life or death. >> sleen na gomez and her best friend and kidney donor open up about the singer's lifesaving transplant. >> i really really hope that we can help. i really do. >>> back on solid ground, those two ame
>>> good morning. to today is the day, sources tell nbc news the first indictment from robert moouler's investigation of russian meddling in the presidential election set to be released as all of washington waits to find out who and for what. we're live at the courthouse. >>> slammed, a powerful storm races up the east coast bringing fierce winds and torrential rain. this morning widespread damage, flooding and power outages, travel a nightmare at airports and on the roads....
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. sources tell nbc news the first indictment from robert mueller's investigation of russian meddling in the presidential investigation, is set to be released. we're live at the courthouse. >> slammed. a powerful storm races up the east coast, bringing fierce winds and torrential rain. this morning, widespread damage, flooding and power outages. travel, a nightmare at airports and on the roads. >>> breaking overnight, in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal, oscar winner, kevin spacey, now accused of making a sexual advance towards a 14-year-old boy. this morning, an apology for the decades-old incident, and revelation about his sexuality. >>> and seasinterview with core feldman, who claims the scandals in hollywood are just the beginning. >>> plus, an nbc news exclusive. selena gomez and best friend and kidney donor open up about the singer's life-saving transportation. >> i hope we can help somebody. i really do. >>> back on solid ground. the two americans rescued after five months lost at sea, finally make it to shore. >>> and instant fall classic. >> high, fly ball. good-bye.
. sources tell nbc news the first indictment from robert mueller's investigation of russian meddling in the presidential investigation, is set to be released. we're live at the courthouse. >> slammed. a powerful storm races up the east coast, bringing fierce winds and torrential rain. this morning, widespread damage, flooding and power outages. travel, a nightmare at airports and on the roads. >>> breaking overnight, in the wake of the harvey weinstein scandal, oscar winner,...
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inside one of the largest infernos. nbc news exclusive, trump's nuclear dwreem, new details emerge about that tense meeting at the pentagon where the secretary of state called president trump a moron. did the president's controversial requests to increase our nation's nuclear arsenal set rex tillerson off? the first shots. >> call the police, someone is firing a gun up there. >> reporter: exclusive reportings the moment the las vegas gunman opened fire on a security guard inside the mandalay bay hotel before shooting on concert-goers below the worker there shares a harrowing story for the first time in an exclusive live interview. those stories, plus harvey weinstein's wife walks out as angelina jolie and gwyneth paltrow claim they were sexually harassed by the movie mogul. the plans for the national anthem protest itself and a world of hurt. >> the united states eliminated. >> after an embeforearrassing u the u.s. men's soccer team won't be headed to the world cup for the first time in more than three decades. >> setting in like a u.s. sledgehammer on the u.s. bench today, novembe
inside one of the largest infernos. nbc news exclusive, trump's nuclear dwreem, new details emerge about that tense meeting at the pentagon where the secretary of state called president trump a moron. did the president's controversial requests to increase our nation's nuclear arsenal set rex tillerson off? the first shots. >> call the police, someone is firing a gun up there. >> reporter: exclusive reportings the moment the las vegas gunman opened fire on a security guard inside...
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. >>> pushing back. secretary of state rex tillerson takes on an nbc news report that he referred to the president as a moron. but doesn't deny it. >> the places i come from, we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense. >> tillerson also claiming he's never considered resigning, but senior officials telling nbc news he threatened to. this morning, the latest on the state department in turmoil. >>> all that plus, will a new hurricane hit the gulf coast this weekend? >>> and nfl star under fire for this response to a reporter's question. >> it's funny to hear a female talk about routes. >>> and a vaccination controversy that's landed this mom behind bars today, thursday, october 5th, 2017. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today" on a thursday morning. it's good to have you with us. and that news conference from the sheriff yesterday really raised some questions. >> yeah, if you paid attention to the things he was saying, there were a lot of things that mad
. >>> pushing back. secretary of state rex tillerson takes on an nbc news report that he referred to the president as a moron. but doesn't deny it. >> the places i come from, we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense. >> tillerson also claiming he's never considered resigning, but senior officials telling nbc news he threatened to. this morning, the latest on the state department in turmoil. >>> all that plus, will a new hurricane hit the gulf coast this...
morning. you can always get news, weather and traffic on the nbc 10 app. >> have a safe ride as you head out there. the "today" show starts now. >>> good morning. breaking news. critical and catastrophic. california's devastating wildfires going from bad to worse. >> it's very dynamic. these fires are changing by the minute. >> overnight, the death toll rising to 23. more homes, buildings and wineries destroyed. entire towns evacuated. and now, a new threat, high winds, expected to fan the flames. >>> on offense. while pushing his new tax plan, the president sounds off on the iran deal. >> this is the worst deal. we got nothing. >> nfl players. >> you cannot disrespect our country, our flag, our anthem. >> and the media. >> i call it fake media. it's fake. >> why one fellow republican is telling the president enough. >>> speaking out. harvey weinstein talks on camera for the first time since his harassment scandal. >> guys, i'm not doing okay. i'm trying. i've got to get help, guys. >> this morning, more stars coming forward with new allegations amid reports that weinstein's company
morning. you can always get news, weather and traffic on the nbc 10 app. >> have a safe ride as you head out there. the "today" show starts now. >>> good morning. breaking news. critical and catastrophic. california's devastating wildfires going from bad to worse. >> it's very dynamic. these fires are changing by the minute. >> overnight, the death toll rising to 23. more homes, buildings and wineries destroyed. entire towns evacuated. and now, a new threat,...
new video takes you inside one of the largest inf infer infernos. >>> nbc news exclusive. new details emerge about the tense meeting at the pentagon, where the secretary of state call called president trump a moron. did the president's controversial request to increase our nuclear arsenal, set rex tillerson off? >>> the first shots -- >> call the police. someone's firing a gun up here. >> exclusive recordings of the moment a las vegas gunman opened fire on a security guard inside the mandalay beay hotel. the hotel worker who was there to witness it all shares a harrowing story for a first time, in an exclusive live interview. >>> those stories, plus harvey weinstein's life walks out, as angelina low jolie and gwyneth paltrow join the stars saying they were harassed by the mogul. >>> the nfl's plan to eliminate protests. >>> and of an embarrassing upset, won't be headed to the world cup, in more than three decades. >> setting in like a sledgehammer on the u.s. bench. >> wednesday, october 11th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live
new video takes you inside one of the largest inf infer infernos. >>> nbc news exclusive. new details emerge about the tense meeting at the pentagon, where the secretary of state call called president trump a moron. did the president's controversial request to increase our nuclear arsenal, set rex tillerson off? >>> the first shots -- >> call the police. someone's firing a gun up here. >> exclusive recordings of the moment a las vegas gunman opened fire on a...
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commander and chief a moron. nbc news white house corspendant. >> increasingly isolated from his own team just hours after slamming him. mr. trump nbc news report that he called him a moron tle but if he did that, i kw guess we'll have to continue who is going to win. the president also sounding off while sitting exed to a nornler seek reritary of state. >> i don't furp fult every day paf afauntd emi had had to thier. but i don't think. he simply made a joke. >> but the white house isn't laughing about the escalating playoff. the president took to witter to give them one of his big fau not when they're on a path to do this. >> we were on the wrong path before. all you have to do is taking a lace afraid it could rueen the entire jed agenda. from flazing ataejs he should resign if thely. thank you for that report. the question is what did kpae impact havement kpp. incluttalm so the tax plan isn't kwietd a plan yet. but later today pate laets to harrisburg, poopoo. a major overall boo driveway through of stuff about 1/3 gave us with tween and 150,000. what end up being pax trrsz well, we don
commander and chief a moron. nbc news white house corspendant. >> increasingly isolated from his own team just hours after slamming him. mr. trump nbc news report that he called him a moron tle but if he did that, i kw guess we'll have to continue who is going to win. the president also sounding off while sitting exed to a nornler seek reritary of state. >> i don't furp fult every day paf afauntd emi had had to thier. but i don't think. he simply made a joke. >> but the white...
nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today," it's 7:00 a.m. on the west coast, we're glad you're with us on this thursday morning. another cup of coffee for you staying up late watching the yankees. >> i caught up this morning. a lot of yankee fans in the studio happy. they move on in the playoffs. >> we'll have more about that in a moment but we'll start with our top story, those rapidly spreading wildfires in california's famed wine country, also other parts of the state. >>> and the return of powerful winds is only adding to an already dangerous and deadly situation. we're going to get more on those winds from al in just a moment, but let's start with nbc's joe fryer live fryar live in a neighborhood that's been evacuated. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, many neighborhoods have been told to prepare for the possibility of evacuations. wind gusts that could top 30 to 40 miles an hour are giving these fires new life and with the death toll now reaching 23, fire fig
nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today," it's 7:00 a.m. on the west coast, we're glad you're with us on this thursday morning. another cup of coffee for you staying up late watching the yankees. >> i caught up this morning. a lot of yankee fans in the studio happy. they move on in the playoffs. >> we'll have more about that in a moment but...
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for nbc bay area news. it's thursday -- friday. >> friday eve. >>> good morning. troubling questions. >>> good morning, troubling question questio questions. >> you have to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point. >> investigators suspect stephen paddock may have been an elaborate plan to escape after shooting. the gunman's girlfriend speaking out through her attorney. >> it never occurred to me anyway whatsoever that he was planning violence against anyone. >> we're live with the latest on the deepening mystery. >>> breaking overnight, u.s. special forces soldiers ambushed >> we will be back at 7:25 with in niger. three killed, two others wounded. we'll have the latest. >>> pushing back. secretary of state rex tillerson takes on an nbc news report that he referred to the president as a moran but doesn't deny it. >> the places i come from, we don't deal with that kind of petty nonsense. >> tillerson also claiming he's never considered resigning, but senior officials telling nbc news he threatened to. this morning, the latest on the state department in turmoil. >>>
for nbc bay area news. it's thursday -- friday. >> friday eve. >>> good morning. troubling questions. >>> good morning, troubling question questio questions. >> you have to make the assumption he had to have some help at some point. >> investigators suspect stephen paddock may have been an elaborate plan to escape after shooting. the gunman's girlfriend speaking out through her attorney. >> it never occurred to me anyway whatsoever that he was planning...
defense. "today," saturday, october 28th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today" with sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dreyer, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, welcome to "today," and thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. i'm sheinelle jones. >> glad to have you with us, i'm craig melvin. dylan dreyer is here, as well. hard to believe we're talking about the possibility of a tropical storm for the northeast this late in the year. i know you're tracking it. you'll have the latest in a bit. >> hurricane season does go for a little bit longer. but still, the fact that we could see the impacts of a tropical system is interesting -- >> we'll get to that coming up in a moment. >>> let's begin this morning with some breaking news overnight. a report that a major step sfrd has been taken -- forward has been taken into robert mueller's investigation into the meddling in the 2016 election. kelly o'donnell this morning with more. >> reporter: good morning. so many unresolved questions about russia's extent of interference in the 2016 campaign and wh
defense. "today," saturday, october 28th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today" with sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dreyer, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, welcome to "today," and thank you for joining us on this saturday morning. i'm sheinelle jones. >> glad to have you with us, i'm craig melvin. dylan dreyer is here, as well. hard to believe we're talking about the possibility of a tropical storm for the...
. >> i think it was one of the most incompetent deals. >> reporter: nbc news learned from congressional sources the president is expected to de-certify that deal, saying iran's not complying as a larger strategy to crack down on that country's missile program and its support for terrorism. >> dh is the worst deal. we got nothing. >> reporter: stopping short of a full withdrawal, the president going against the initial advise of his advisers, like defense secretary james mattis, asked last week if the deal is in america's national security interest. >> that's a yes or no question. >> yes, senator, i do. >> reporter: the new move has allies around the world concerned but it will probably win cheers from the president's supporters. still another topic drew boos during the president's new fox news interview. >> colin kaepernick, the guy murdering thug dictator. >> reporter: president trump weighing in on the controversy of nfl players taking a knee during the national anthem. the president suggested colin kaepernick's coaches should have suspended him when he first knelt last
. >> i think it was one of the most incompetent deals. >> reporter: nbc news learned from congressional sources the president is expected to de-certify that deal, saying iran's not complying as a larger strategy to crack down on that country's missile program and its support for terrorism. >> dh is the worst deal. we got nothing. >> reporter: stopping short of a full withdrawal, the president going against the initial advise of his advisers, like defense secretary james...
quadruple header today, on today, friday, october 6th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today." nice to have you with us for a friday morning. happy to have craig in for matt this morning. >> it's been a very busy week. a busy friday, as well. lots to get to. we start with the newest storm threat that millions of americans face today. >> nate is expected to hit the gulf coast as a hurricane this weekend. but right now, it is cutting a deadly path in central america. that brings us al, who is over from looking at your maps. good morning. >> in central america, 20 people dead at least right now. this is a deadly storm. and it poses a real threat to the gulf coast, the central gulf coast. its current location right now, 60 miles east-northeast of honduras. it's moving north-northwest at 14 miles per hour. cancun in its path. we expect it to cross there late friday night, tonight, into early tomorrow morning. then, out into the gulf. it strengthens into a categ
quadruple header today, on today, friday, october 6th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today." nice to have you with us for a friday morning. happy to have craig in for matt this morning. >> it's been a very busy week. a busy friday, as well. lots to get to. we start with the newest storm threat that millions of americans...
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shocking scene on a moving school bus. today, monday, october 9th, 2017. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everyone, welcome to "today" on a monday morning, we will have more on that school bus video in a second but apparently it was a rather busy weekend on at which timer. fights take place these days. new controversy facing the white house this morning. >> the president locked in another high profile feud with a key member of his own party. we have two reports beginning with nbc white house correspondent kristen welker. >> reporter: good morning. president trump's latest war of words is particularly striking because this time it's with the republican chairman of the senate foreign relations committee, bob corker. senator corker making an extraordinary charge overnight that the president's actions are endangering the country and his threats to other nations could lead to another world war. this morning a major republican rebuke, top gop senator bob corker telling "the new york tim
shocking scene on a moving school bus. today, monday, october 9th, 2017. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> good morning, everyone, welcome to "today" on a monday morning, we will have more on that school bus video in a second but apparently it was a rather busy weekend on at which timer. fights take place these days. new controversy facing the white house this...
greats are coming to her defense. today, saturday, october 28th, 2017. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dryer. live from studio 1 a in r rockefeller plaza. >> thank you for joining us. i'm sheinelle jones. >> i'm craig melvin. hard to believe we're talking about the possibility of a tropical storm for the northeast this late in the year. i know you're tracking hurricane season does go for a little bit longer, but the fact that we could see the impacts of a tropical system is interesting. >> let's begin this morning with some breaking news overnight. a report that a major step forward has been taken in special counsel robert mueller's investigation into russian meddling in the 2016 election. nbc kelly o'donnell is at the white house with more. >> reporter: good morning. so many unresolved questions about russia's extent of interference in the 2016 campaign and who if anyone in the orbit of donald trump might be involved. those questions have been the work of the grand jury and the special counsel largely in secret but today there i
greats are coming to her defense. today, saturday, october 28th, 2017. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with sheinelle jones, craig melvin, and dylan dryer. live from studio 1 a in r rockefeller plaza. >> thank you for joining us. i'm sheinelle jones. >> i'm craig melvin. hard to believe we're talking about the possibility of a tropical storm for the northeast this late in the year. i know you're tracking hurricane season does go for a little bit longer,...
here in a moment, top of the hour we're going to continue our coverage. this has been an nbc news special report. th worst mass shooting in u.s. history. nbc news special report. the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. >>> good morning. breaking news. a gunman opens fire on an outdoor concert crowd in las vegas. more than 50 killed. 200 others wounded, the deadliest mass shooting in history. the gunman, 32 floor s up, at te mandal mandalay bay resort. the shooter was 64-year-old stephen paddock. he was shot and killed by police. witnesses describe moments of pure panic. we have complete coverage today, monday, october 2nd, 2017. >>> from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," deadly washingtdead deadly las vegas shooting. with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of "today" on a man morning. we almost feel like we should start by apologizing for what you're going to be hearing. in some parts of the country we join you live, a little early this morning, as we coffer what is the deadliest
here in a moment, top of the hour we're going to continue our coverage. this has been an nbc news special report. th worst mass shooting in u.s. history. nbc news special report. the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. >>> good morning. breaking news. a gunman opens fire on an outdoor concert crowd in las vegas. more than 50 killed. 200 others wounded, the deadliest mass shooting in history. the gunman, 32 floor s up, at te mandal mandalay bay resort. the shooter was 64-year-old...
nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. it's tuesday morning, and we're glad to have you with us this morning. >> it's a busy tuesday morning. we have a lot to get to, starting with president trump sounding off on a number of issues that are facing his administration. >> he's also igniting a new controversy with former presidents and gold star families. we've got two reports, and we'll start with nbc's chief white house correspondent, hallie jackson, who is on the hill for us this morning. hi, halley, good morning. >> reporter: today the president may have even more to talk about at another news conference after that surprise show of solidarity with mitch mcconnell in the rose garden. it seemed meant partly to show there is no family feud inside the republican party. but now new comments from one of the senate's most familiar faces make for a real rebuke of the president at a time when the gop needs every lawmaker it can get to get something done. overnight, one of the president's frequent foes, firing a thinly veile
nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. it's tuesday morning, and we're glad to have you with us this morning. >> it's a busy tuesday morning. we have a lot to get to, starting with president trump sounding off on a number of issues that are facing his administration. >> he's also igniting a new controversy with former presidents and gold star families. we've got two reports, and we'll start with nbc's...
president trump. we'll ask senator flake in a live interview. >>> dirty politics? nbc news has confirmed that hillary clinton's campaign and the democratic national committee, helped fund that explosive dossier, about links between then-candidate trump and russia. was it part of a smear campaign? did they cover it up. >>> five michigan teenagers charged with second-degree murder for allegedly dropping a rock from a highway overpass, striking and killing a young father. >> you took away a child's father and the love of my life. >> this morning, how their alleged actions could land them behind bars for the rest of their lives. >>> hollywood remembers robert guillaume. >>> the halloween display that could have gone too far. >>> and sizzling start. the dodgers take the opener of the world series in the hottest postseason game ever. the astros hoping to keep their cool in game two. today, wednesday, october 25th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on this wed
president trump. we'll ask senator flake in a live interview. >>> dirty politics? nbc news has confirmed that hillary clinton's campaign and the democratic national committee, helped fund that explosive dossier, about links between then-candidate trump and russia. was it part of a smear campaign? did they cover it up. >>> five michigan teenagers charged with second-degree murder for allegedly dropping a rock from a highway overpass, striking and killing a young father....
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security. >> reporter: new efforts to make sure what happened in vegas is safe. jolene kent, nbc news, las vegas. >> returning now to the weather, looks a little bit busy behind you there in the tropics, bill. >> we have our depression. it's not showing any signs of getting any stronger, so that's good. it will be near the coastline of nicaragua and honduras later today. tomorrow is the big day. it will be over the western caribbean, over very warm water. if it's going to intensify, that's when it will likely happen. almost hurricane strength by the time it gets to cancun. in the gulf, a strong tropical storm. none of the long-range models take this as a big cat 3 or anything like that. it should stay on the weaker end of the hurricane scale. we're watching from louisiana to the western panhandle of from the first moment you met it was love at first touch and all you wanted to do was surround them in comfort and protection that's why only pampers swaddlers is the #1 choice of hospitals to wrap your baby in blanket-like softness and premium protection mom: "oh hi baby" so all they feel is l
security. >> reporter: new efforts to make sure what happened in vegas is safe. jolene kent, nbc news, las vegas. >> returning now to the weather, looks a little bit busy behind you there in the tropics, bill. >> we have our depression. it's not showing any signs of getting any stronger, so that's good. it will be near the coastline of nicaragua and honduras later today. tomorrow is the big day. it will be over the western caribbean, over very warm water. if it's going to...
stories plus, nbc news exclusive. >> it was really kind of life or death. >> selena gomez and best friend and kidney donor open up about the singer's life-saving transformation. >> i hope we can help somebody. i really do. >>> back on solid ground. the two americans rescued after five months lost at sea, finally make it to shore. >>> and instant fall classic. >> high, fly ball. good-bye! >> the astros come from behind three separate times to beat the dodgers in thrilling fashion. >> astros win it! in ten! >> houston, a win away from its first world series title, today, monday, october 30, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to today. 7:00 on the west coast. maybe some dodger fans waking up thinking, what just happened there? >> that was a roller coaster. >> more on that game. >>> a very busy monday morning. right to the breaking news out of washington this morning. the first criminal charges announced in the russia investigation. >> revealed just this morning by special
stories plus, nbc news exclusive. >> it was really kind of life or death. >> selena gomez and best friend and kidney donor open up about the singer's life-saving transformation. >> i hope we can help somebody. i really do. >>> back on solid ground. the two americans rescued after five months lost at sea, finally make it to shore. >>> and instant fall classic. >> high, fly ball. good-bye! >> the astros come from behind three separate times to beat...
, octob1s7. >>> from nbc news this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. ♪ >> good in everybody. welcome to "today." so nice to have you with us on a halloween morning. one good look as you as you used to be before the transformation. >> i've been preparing for this and i'm ready. >> that's what i'm afraid of. >> we have a fun morning planned and we will get to that later on. but first, let's go to our top story the fallout over the first indictment in the special counsel investigation of the trump campaignll ties to russia. >> the white h is attempting to brush aside these criminal charges against former trump campaign chairman maft and his one-time top aide rick gates, but it's ally the plea deal with another campaign adviser who pled guilty and is now cooperating with the fbi that could be the bigger concern for the white house. we've got two repofoyo now and we're going to talk another former trump campaign manager cory lewandowski. let us begin with peter alexander at the white house. good morning to yo >> good morning to you. it'
, octob1s7. >>> from nbc news this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. ♪ >> good in everybody. welcome to "today." so nice to have you with us on a halloween morning. one good look as you as you used to be before the transformation. >> i've been preparing for this and i'm ready. >> that's what i'm afraid of. >> we have a fun morning planned and we will get to that later on. but first,...
in game two, today, wednesday, october 25th, 2017. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone, welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning, we thank you as always for joining us, we want to get to our top story the aftershocks are held in washington, two republican senators announcing they've reached their braking point with the president. arizona senator jeff flake doing it from the senate floor. we'll talk to him in a moment. first at the white house, peter alexander, take it away. >> reporter: president trump claiming victory this morning, dismissing those critic, tweeting the reason senators flake and corker dropped out is they had zero chance of being elected. right now in real time, we may be witnessing the rupturing the reshaping of the republican party with flake arguing this is a tipping point and urging other toss speak out. this morning the republican resistance. >> we must be unafraid to stand up and speak out as if our country depends on it. because it does. >> yo
in game two, today, wednesday, october 25th, 2017. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone, welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning, we thank you as always for joining us, we want to get to our top story the aftershocks are held in washington, two republican senators announcing they've reached their braking point with the president. arizona senator...
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coverage. this has been an nbc news special report. the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. nbc news special report. the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. >>> good morning. breaking news. a gunman opens fire on an outdoor concert crowd in las vegas. more than 50 killed. 200 others wounded, the deadliest mass shooting in history. the gunman, 32 floor s up, at te mandal mandalay bay resort. the shooter was 64-year-old stephen paddock. he was shot and killed by police. witnesses describe moments of pure panic. we have complete coverage today, monday, october 2nd, 2017. >>> from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," deadly washingtdead deadly las vegas shooting. with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to a special edition of "today" on a man morning. we almost feel like we should start by apologizing for what you're going to be hearing. in some parts of the country we join you live, a little early this morning, as we coffer what is the deadliest mass shooting in history. >> when you hear the toll, it take you
coverage. this has been an nbc news special report. the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. nbc news special report. the worst mass shooting in u.s. history. >>> good morning. breaking news. a gunman opens fire on an outdoor concert crowd in las vegas. more than 50 killed. 200 others wounded, the deadliest mass shooting in history. the gunman, 32 floor s up, at te mandal mandalay bay resort. the shooter was 64-year-old stephen paddock. he was shot and killed by police. witnesses...
, wednesday, october 25th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning, everyone. wednesday morning. we thank you for joining us. we want to get right to our top story. the aftershocks are being felt by republicans with two republicans senators, announcing they've reached their breaking point with the president. jeff flake did it on the senate floor. we'll talk to him in a moment. first, we begin with our team at the white house. starting with peter alexander. >> reporter: we may be witnessing the rupturing, a reshaping of the republican party, after what felt like a significant moment here in washington. two top republican senators, sounding the alarm about the state of our politics and more specifically by president trump. jeff flake with a simple message to his colleagues, enough. this morning, the republican consist danc resistance. >> we must be unafraid to speak up as if our country depends on aspire to be the president of the united states and act like a president of the united states.
, wednesday, october 25th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning, everyone. wednesday morning. we thank you for joining us. we want to get right to our top story. the aftershocks are being felt by republicans with two republicans senators, announcing they've reached their breaking point with the president. jeff flake did it on the senate floor. we'll talk to him in a...
. nbc news has learned the american soldiers killed in that ambush attack in niger were likely set up. who did it and why? >>> her story. the american woman held hostage by taliban-linked extremists, gives her first interview since her rescue. what she's revealing about the five-year ordeal. >>> southern storms. severe weather, including possible tornadoes, cuts a trail of destruction across the carolinas. while out west, a record-setting heat wave is sparking new wildfire fears. al is tracking it all. >>> and the woman accused of murdering kim jong-un's half-brother. >>> george cleanny and matt damon speaking out about harvey weinstein. >> he's got to face justice. >>> and that's what friends are for. one runner's heartwarming sacrifice to help his injured teammate cross the finish line. today, tuesday, october 24th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everybody. welcome to "today." it's a tuesday morning. we're glad to have you with us. >> it's a busy morning in washington. that's w
. nbc news has learned the american soldiers killed in that ambush attack in niger were likely set up. who did it and why? >>> her story. the american woman held hostage by taliban-linked extremists, gives her first interview since her rescue. what she's revealing about the five-year ordeal. >>> southern storms. severe weather, including possible tornadoes, cuts a trail of destruction across the carolinas. while out west, a record-setting heat wave is sparking new wildfire...
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thing they know for sure, they plan to rebuild. joe fryer, nbc news, santa rosa, california. >>> i want to turn to scott cohn, also reporting from santa rosa this morning. going to be a crucial next few hours there. >> that's right, frances. the diablo devil winds that joe was talking about, are kicking um again. you can't feel it here. but up in the hills, where the fire is raging, the wind speeds are supposed to be higher and higher. that's supposed to continue through at least mid-day. that's a huge test of the little bit of progress that firefighters made yesterday. the tubbs fire, the big fire in sonoma county, is 10% contained, up from yesterday, where it was not contained at all. now, it will get a test. and the winds are supposed to continue through today. then, they died down a little bit. and they come back over the weekend. and so, it's really a constant battle here. in a series of fires that really are now at historic levels, with 23 people dead and thousands of structures burned, it is among the deadliest and the most destructive fires in california history. and that's
thing they know for sure, they plan to rebuild. joe fryer, nbc news, santa rosa, california. >>> i want to turn to scott cohn, also reporting from santa rosa this morning. going to be a crucial next few hours there. >> that's right, frances. the diablo devil winds that joe was talking about, are kicking um again. you can't feel it here. but up in the hills, where the fire is raging, the wind speeds are supposed to be higher and higher. that's supposed to continue through at...
. >>> good morning, tipped off? nbc news has learned the american soldiers killed in niger were likely set up. who did it and why? >>> her story, the american woman held hostage by taliban linked extremists gives her first interview sie her family's rescue. why she says she decided to have children in captivity and what she's now revealing about their harrowing five-year ordeal. >>> southern storms, severe weather including possible tornadoes cuts a trail of destruction across the carolinas. out west a record setting heat wave is sparking new wildfire fears and al is tracking it all. those stories plus the women of accused of murdering kim jong n jong-un's half brother return to the scene of the crime. >> speaking out about harvey weinstein. >> he's got to face justice. he's got to face what he done. >> that's what friends are for. one runner's heart warming sacrifice to help his teammate cross the finish line, tuesday, october 24th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today" with matt lauer and savannah guthrie, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, welcome to
. >>> good morning, tipped off? nbc news has learned the american soldiers killed in niger were likely set up. who did it and why? >>> her story, the american woman held hostage by taliban linked extremists gives her first interview sie her family's rescue. why she says she decided to have children in captivity and what she's now revealing about their harrowing five-year ordeal. >>> southern storms, severe weather including possible tornadoes cuts a trail of...
, october 31st, 2017. ♪ >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning, everybody. welcome to "today." so nice to have you with us on a halloween morning. i want to take one good look at you as you used to be before the transformation. >> i've been preparing for this moment my whole life. and i'm ready. >> that's what i'm afraid of. >> we have a fun morning planned. we'll get to that later on. >>> first, let's go to our top story. the fallout from the indictments of the special investigation of the trump campaign's alleged ties to russia. >> the white house is trying to brush aside the criminal charges against paul manafort and his one-time top aide, rick gates. but it's a plea deal with another campaign adviser who pled guilty and is cooperating with the fbi that could be the bigger concern for the white house. we have two reports for you now. and we're going to talk to corey lewandowski. let's begin with nbc national correspondent, peter alexander, at the white house. good morning to you. >> reporter:
, october 31st, 2017. ♪ >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> and good morning, everybody. welcome to "today." so nice to have you with us on a halloween morning. i want to take one good look at you as you used to be before the transformation. >> i've been preparing for this moment my whole life. and i'm ready. >> that's what i'm afraid of. >> we have a fun morning...
latest storm doesn't pack the same punch. dan shen aman, nbc news. >> the white house is scrambling according to some reports after multiple news outlets including nbc news confirms special counsel robert mueller the man at the helm of the russia investigation will issue his first indictment today. charging one or more individuals just five months into his investigation. the news coming as the president hits his lowest approval numbers yet with just 38% of voters approving of the job he's doing in office. 58% disapproving. that's down quite a bit from just september making the lowest approval numbers in modern times for a president in the first year of his presidency. >> still, as 81% of republicans continue to have faith in his presidency, will mr. trump's base continue to throw their support behind him as today's indictment or indictments come to light? that could explain why mr. trump tweeted up a storm this weekend urging, do something when it comes to democrats who he claims are waging a witch hunt for evil politics, referring to the russia investigation as phony. the question
latest storm doesn't pack the same punch. dan shen aman, nbc news. >> the white house is scrambling according to some reports after multiple news outlets including nbc news confirms special counsel robert mueller the man at the helm of the russia investigation will issue his first indictment today. charging one or more individuals just five months into his investigation. the news coming as the president hits his lowest approval numbers yet with just 38% of voters approving of the job...
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moubt for harvey weinstein as senior law officials tell nbc news they are investigating two credible claims of sexual assault made against the movie mogul. the spokesman denies allegations of nonconsensual sex. meanwhile a rallying cry is catching fire on social media many women or harassment from anyone. today the weinstein company's board is meeting to discuss potential sale of the movie studio which win stein cofounded. >> now to nbc meteorologist bill karins with a look at our day ahead. up in the northeast it's starting to fill a little chilly. >> so many areas have beautiful weather. there's only a couple exceptions. the pacific northwest has rain coming in and also the cold front that brought the cooler fall weather so many is held up. showers and storms continue from tampa to orlando over towards daytona beach. and that will be on and off throughout the day today. rainfall totals aren't going to be that heavy but you will have clouds ask rain to deal with especially the east coast of florida. that's where concentration could be the hardest around bra vard county. today's fore
moubt for harvey weinstein as senior law officials tell nbc news they are investigating two credible claims of sexual assault made against the movie mogul. the spokesman denies allegations of nonconsensual sex. meanwhile a rallying cry is catching fire on social media many women or harassment from anyone. today the weinstein company's board is meeting to discuss potential sale of the movie studio which win stein cofounded. >> now to nbc meteorologist bill karins with a look at our day...
world series in 29 years. today, wednesday, october 18th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. we aren't as bleary-eyed started at 5:02 in the afternoon. >> thank you for our schedules. we're going to start with the headlines coming out of washington this morning. >> the new controversy facing president trump. he is taking heat for an insensitive remark to the widow of a slain army sergeant. we have two reports, beginning with nbc white house correspondent, kristen welker. kristen, good morning. >> reporter: matt, good morning to you. president trump is starting the day on defense again today. with a florida congresswoman saying the call to one of the widows of the four soldiers killed in niger was insensitive. it's a back and forth over the families of the fallen between mr. trump and his predecessor. some democrat s accusing the president of taking a political fight into sacred territory. this morning, honor and heartbreak. th
world series in 29 years. today, wednesday, october 18th, 2017. >> from nbc news, this is "today," with matt lauer and savannah guthrie. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on a wednesday morning. we aren't as bleary-eyed started at 5:02 in the afternoon. >> thank you for our schedules. we're going to start with the headlines coming out of washington this morning. >> the new controversy facing...
. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with sheinelle jones, craig melvin and dylan dreyer. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. thanks for joining us. i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm sheinelle jones. dylan dreyer is here as well this morning. >> good morning. >> lots of folks talking about game seven tonight. >> why do they have to play so late? it's so hard to stay awake for these games. >> yankees/astros going to seven. if you were a yankees fan, it was hard to watch it. they were dominated by the astr astros. let's get right to our top story and that is president trump speaking out overnight about the controversy over a phone call that he made to the family of a fallen soldier. it is just the latest twist in what's been a week-long debate. kelly o'donnell is at the white house this morning with more on that. kelly, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, craig. the center of this story is not really at the white house today, as friends and family gather for the memorial of a fallen american soldier. but for days th
. >> announcer: from nbc news, this is "today" with sheinelle jones, craig melvin and dylan dreyer. live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. >>> and welcome to "today" on this saturday morning. thanks for joining us. i'm craig melvin. >> and i'm sheinelle jones. dylan dreyer is here as well this morning. >> good morning. >> lots of folks talking about game seven tonight. >> why do they have to play so late? it's so hard to stay awake...
," october 4th, 2017. >>> from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," the las vegas shooting. with matt lauer from studio 1a and savannah guthrie, live from las vegas. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning. a split-edition, as you just heard. savannah's in las vegas again. and, savannah, i think when people see this newly released body cam video from police, they're going to find it incredibly disturbing. >> disturbing, hard to watch. it takes your breath away. we're going to get to that in a moment. there's a lot of new information on this investigation. we want to get right to the overnight developments. the gunman's girlfriend, as we mentioned, is back in the united states. marilou danley arrived in the los angeles airport, with an fbi escort. officials are calling her a person of interest but she is not under arrest. her sister spoke to australian tv overnight and said that stephen paddock sent her away so she would not interfere with his plans. >> the police body camera video we mentioned a second ago, was released at a late-night news c
," october 4th, 2017. >>> from nbc news, this is a special edition of "today," the las vegas shooting. with matt lauer from studio 1a and savannah guthrie, live from las vegas. >> good morning, everyone. welcome to "today" on this wednesday morning. a split-edition, as you just heard. savannah's in las vegas again. and, savannah, i think when people see this newly released body cam video from police, they're going to find it incredibly disturbing....
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you. now, let's go to nbc news's ron allen reporting outside the mandalay bay hotel. it's only been 24 hours since the shooting. what is the scene on the ground there right now? >> reporter: well, phillip, the authorities are trying to figure out what motivated this individual. and that's the big question. that's what people -- when you walk around the streets here are asking, why would someone do this. there seems to be no answer. this was an individual who was not on the police radar. earlier at a briefing the police him, not even a parking ticket. although there was a background check on him before he purchased one of the weapons. but this is a big mystery. so far authorities are telling us there was no note left behind, no manifesto, nothing in social media suggesting why he turned all these weapons on this innocent crowd of 22,000 people. he had been at the hotel several days, apparently plotting this and getting almost two dozen high-powered weapons up into a hotel room undetected. it's just a big mystery. we've heard from his brother, who says that he's at a loss as to why he
you. now, let's go to nbc news's ron allen reporting outside the mandalay bay hotel. it's only been 24 hours since the shooting. what is the scene on the ground there right now? >> reporter: well, phillip, the authorities are trying to figure out what motivated this individual. and that's the big question. that's what people -- when you walk around the streets here are asking, why would someone do this. there seems to be no answer. this was an individual who was not on the police radar....
kent, nbc news, las vegas. >> returning now to the weather, looks a little bit busy behind you there in the tropics, bill. >> we have our depression. it's not showing any signs of getting any stronger, so that's good. it will be near the coastline of nicaragua and honduras later today. tomorrow is the big day. it will be over the western caribbean, over very warm water. if it's going to intensify, that's when it will likely happen. almost hurricane strength by the time it gets to cancun. in the gulf, a stron storm. none of the long-range models take this as a big cat 3 or anything like that. it should stay on the weaker end of the hurricane scale. we're watching from louisiana to the western panhandle of florida. that's a look at the big weather story of the day. here's a closer look at your day ahead. you have about three days in louisiana, especially mississippi and alabama, to prepare for this storm. not supposed to be a huge blockbuster storm, but if the center comes near you and you get the hurricane force winds, that's when you do need to make preparations. we'll take a look at
kent, nbc news, las vegas. >> returning now to the weather, looks a little bit busy behind you there in the tropics, bill. >> we have our depression. it's not showing any signs of getting any stronger, so that's good. it will be near the coastline of nicaragua and honduras later today. tomorrow is the big day. it will be over the western caribbean, over very warm water. if it's going to intensify, that's when it will likely happen. almost hurricane strength by the time it gets to...
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to vlas vegas sign, 58 crosses, each webearing the nam of a victim. nbc news. >>> back at home this morning, dozens of families waking up away from their homes after a fire forced them out. chopper 4 over the scene last night. that's on pebble hill lane in north patootomac. it started in a town hall. the flames spread to other homes. we're told several people were treated for smoke inhalation. >>> just yesterday, we told you about abuse employee. now there's been another incident. this time involving a substitute teacher and coach. cory boatman. government county police say he had a sexual relationship with a 16-year-old last month. he turned himself in yesterday. he taught at montgomery blair high school at silver spring and was also an assistant football coach there. >> very scary. i talk to my son a lot. he's 16. he can handle himself. still, it is a different time now. you have to always make sure you're talking to your teen anyo agers. >> police are urging more parents to do what that mom suggested. talk with your kids. if you think they had an inappropriate contact with boatma
to vlas vegas sign, 58 crosses, each webearing the nam of a victim. nbc news. >>> back at home this morning, dozens of families waking up away from their homes after a fire forced them out. chopper 4 over the scene last night. that's on pebble hill lane in north patootomac. it started in a town hall. the flames spread to other homes. we're told several people were treated for smoke inhalation. >>> just yesterday, we told you about abuse employee. now there's been another...
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LABOR’S SUPERIOR NBN MODEL WILL BOOST PATERSON BUSINESSES
Labor’s Regional Communications Spokesperson Stephen Jones and Labor’s candidate for Paterson Meryl Swanson have today announced that an incoming Shorten Labor Government will direct NBN Co. to roll out 21st century Fibre-to-the-Premises to homes and businesses in Paterson.
Fast broadband creates jobs. This is why a Shorten Labor Government will roll out Fibre-to-the-Premises NBN to up to two million premises across the nation, including households and business in Thornton, Beresfield, Tarro, Woodberry, Chisholm, Medowie, Tanilba Bay, Mallabula, Lemon Tree Passage, Salt Ash, Kurri Kurri, Heddon Greta, Abermain, Weston, Pelaw Main, Stanford Merthyr and Cliftleigh.
Today Stephen Jones and Meryl Swanson visited IT specialist Andrew Burton, who runs his own business out of his home in Thornton.
“Andrew, just like many people across Australia, is being held back by slow, unreliable internet services,” Mr. Jones said.
“The cost of Malcolm Turnbull’s second-rate NBN has almost doubled and the time it will take to build has more than doubled.
“In that time, Australia has dropped from 30th in the world for internet speeds to 60th. Businesses trying to compete in a global market are missing out and face failing behind.”
Meryl Swanson said that households and businesses in the region deserve better.
“Andrew is a hardworking, successful small business owner who has designed websites for numerous organisations including the Newcastle Community Transport Group.
“He takes great pride in providing design services but due to connectivity problems in Thornton he has often been unable to do his work.
“He is a victim of rotting, 19th century copper wire that simply doesn’t hold up to pressure in the local area.
“Andrew has told us that he won’t benefit from the Coalition’s broadband model, because the copper wire that it relies on is well past its use by date.
“Only Labor will deliver fibre and future-proof the NBN for decades to come. The choice is clear this election – if you want fast, reliable, Fibre-To-The-Premises NBN vote Labor. It is as simple as that.”
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رنسپل شیخ زیدمیڈیکل کالج وہسپتال پروفیسرڈاکٹرظفرحسین تنویرکاڈسٹرکٹ بارکادورہ، ڈسٹرکٹ بارایسوسی اہشن کے مخدوم زاہدقمرکوہسپتال میں رابطہ افسرمقررکیا،وکلاء کوہسپتال میں علاج معالجے بارے بھرپورتعاون کی یقین دہانی کرائی.
An evening with ophthalmology department for appraisal of the faculty services & making up its deficiencies.
Prof Dr Zafar Hussain Tanveer, Principal Sheikh Zayed Medical College Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan visited Press Club
Visit of local MNAs and MPAs with the college and Hospital administration on issues of patient care and Hospital Management.
CHIEF MINISTER HAS TAKEN NOTICE as Two Girls having Intellectual Disabllity With Behvioural Issues found CHAINED in Mianwali Qureshian, District Rahim Yar Khan.
LONG AWAITED CT SCAN ISSUE RESOLVED.
Meeting of college academic council SZMC/H .
Prof. Dr. Zafar Hussain Tanveer Principal SZMC/H Chairing the Meeting regarding issues of patient Welfare Pharmacy szmc.h R.Y.khan.
Detailed visit of pediatric Medicine ward to check facilities in NICU, PICU, ICU and general ward in the department.
Detailed Round of Cardiology Department
Surprise visit of Accident and Emergency Department at 1.00 PM.
Applications are invited From the Punjab’s Domiciled Suitable “Disable Candidates” on Contract Basis at Sheikh Zayed Medical College & Hospital, Rahim Yar Khan
Applications are invited from the Punjab’s domiciled suitable candidates for the posts Medical Officer and Charge Nurse at sheikh Zayed hospital, Rahim Yar khan, on Adhoc Basis for a period of One Year.
Visit of fourteen members CPSP inspection team SZMC/H for accreditation of MCPS program in the relevant departments. With this accreditation SZMC/H excels in the number of Post Graduate accredited departments in whole of Punjab. SZMC/H is second to Mayo Hospital Lahore in number and variety of postgraduate Approved specialties being run over here on 13-06-19.
Prof. Dr. Bushra Sher Zaman, after visiting Obs & Gynaecology Department as CPSP inspector for accreditation of MCPS course with Principal and Faculty members in Principal office SZMC Rahim Yar Khan on 12-06-19. She was presented with the Sheild and Ajrak as a token of memory from College administration.
Meeting regarding preparation for CPSP team for accreditation of MCPS course in various Basic and Clinical Departments held in conference Room SZMC on 11.06.19 at 01.00 PM. The Inspection is being held on 13.06.2019.
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Walk and Workshop on “Awareness & Prevention of Thalassemia”
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"United Against Corruption for a Prosperous Pakistan"
Principal Sheikh Zayed Medical College Rahim Yar Khan Visited The District Bar Council:
پرنسپل شیخ زیدمیڈیکل کالج وہسپتال پروفیسرڈاکٹرظفرحسین تنویرکاڈسٹرکٹ بارکادورہ، ڈسٹرکٹ بارایسوسی اہشن کے مخدوم زاہدقمرکوہسپتال میں رابطہ افسرمقررکیا،وکلاء کوہسپتال میں علاج معالجے بارے بھرپورتعاون کی یقین دہانی کرائی ،سابق پرنسپل شیخ زیدمیڈیکل کالج ڈاکٹرعیص محمدکے بعددورہ ڈسٹرکٹ بارکا دوسرااعزازڈاکٹرظفرحسین کوحاصل ہوا، صدرڈسٹرکٹ بارحسان مصطفی ایڈووکیٹ اورممبران نے ڈاکٹرظفرحسین تنویرکاڈسٹرکٹ بارآمدپروالہانہ استقبال کیا، اس موقع پرمعروف قانون دان وممبرپنجاب بارکونسل رئیس ممتازمصطفی ایڈووکیٹ ،ایسوسی ایٹ پروفیسرومیڈیافوکل پرسن ڈاکٹرعلی برہان مصطفی ودیگربھی موجودتھے۔
Introduction Sheikh Zayed Medical College
Rahim Yar Khan is the last district of Punjab province and is located at the junction of three provinces of Pakistan i.e. Sindh, P unjab and Balochistan. Rahim Yar Khan is named after one of the grandsons of Nawab of Bahawalpur. It is one of the top districts of Pakistan in agriculture production and revenue generation. It is linked by air to the other parts of the country and is situated on the main railway line and National Highway linking Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar & CPEC Motorway.
The Sheikh Zayed Medical College Rahim Yar khan was established in March 2003 as a self-financing medical institute. In 2008, Government of Punjab abolished self-finance seats in medical and dental institutions of the Punjab and converted all these seats into open merit seats. Prof. Dr. Eice Muhammad was its first Principal while Prof. Dr. Zafar Hussain Tanveer is its present Principal.
The SZMC/H is a tertiary healthcare institution striving hard towards excellence in teaching and training of Health Professionals and has become a role model of medical education and patient care. With the completion of new college building in 2017, the basic sciences departments and administration of the college has been shifted to this new Campus which is located in the east of Sheikh Zayed Hospital.
The complex spreads on area of around 140 acres. The college has vastly experienced and highly committed and dedicated faculty of 162 members including 20 Professors. In a short span of few years, the College has gained a good fame & includes among one of the top medical institutions of the country, grooming and producing skilled and dedicated graduate and post-graduate doctors.
The students / graduates of this college are known as “Zaydians”. The college has number of societies run by the students as co-curricular activities such as Sports society, literary society, Zaydian’s Arts society, Zaydian blood donor society and HUMAINE society. The college publishes a yearly literary magazine “Raigzaar” and a quarterly scientific journal “Journal of SZMC”, recognized by PMDC, containing research articles. The college has number of play grounds for cricket & football while the facility of indoor games is also available. The college cafeteria is also providing good quality hygienic food to the students.
The college has well established department of Medical Education which is being supervised by a team of expert medical educationists who conduct regular workshops for faculty to update their knowledge and equip them with modern medical education skills. The college has two state of the art libraries with internet facility while in the hostels separate reading rooms are available. The college has also newly built hostels for girls and boys with all the living facilities. Accommodation for the faculty has been recently completed and ready to handover.
The college is affiliated with the 1228-bedded Sheikh Zayed Hospital for undergraduate and postgraduate clinical training. This hospital has all the tertiary care health facilities with 25 disciplines recognized by PMDC and CPSP for post graduate training, 2nd tertiary care Institution after KEMU Lahore having maximum number of disciplines accredited by CPSP and affiliated with UHS Lahore for MBBS, MS & MD. The hospital has well established state of the art modern diagnostic facilities; CT, CT Angio, MRI, Mammography, Fluoroscopy, Urodynamics, PCR, Hormonal assay, BERA (Brain stem evoke response audiometry), modern diagnostic ophthalmological equipment. Therapeutic facilities including all types of Microscopic / laparoscopic / Endoscopic procedures, lithotripsy, arthroscopy, joint replacement, re-union of amputated parts, all sort of dental and maxillofacial surgery, all type of ophthalmic surgeries including Vitreo-retina surgery, Oculoplasty and low vision aid clinic, vascular surgery and cardiac surgery and cardiology department with facility of angiography, angioplasty and Coronary artery bypass surgery (CABG). There is also a well-established state of the art Adults, Pediatric & Neonatal ICU and Thalassemia center. Newly built 124 bedded emergency block have all facilities to cope up with all sort of emergencies.
The H.H. Sheikh Khalifa Allied Health Sciences School is a part of the college where doctor of Physiotherapy (DPT) and B.Sc.(Honors’) allied health sciences courses are being offered. The School of nursing of Sheikh Zayed Hospital is also showing excellent performance and producing trained staff nurses who play vital role in the delivery of healthcare services to the needy and ailing humanity almost all over the country. The new building for college of nursing has become completed and ready to function in near future.
Introduction Sheikh Zayed Hospital
Rahim Yar Khan is one of the modern district headquarter cities in Punjab. Although the city seems a far off place to those living in Lahore, Rawalpindi or Islamabad but this city has also very good civic facilities. It is connected with rest of Pakistan by air, rail, road and all types of telecommunication links are available.
The city has good educational facilities in public and private sector and Sheikh Zayed Medical College is the latest addition to these.
Sheikh Zayed Hospital is a medical institution dedicated to providing quality patient care with unrelenting attention to clinical excellence, patient safety and an unparalleled passion and commitment to ensure the very best healthcare for those we serve.
SZH got almost all the specialties in the medical field. In this part of the world, providing medical treatment services to all humanity regardless race, cast, nationality and status.
Sheikh Zayed Hospital is an Institute designed to treat patients in a way so that they don’t feel any problem in getting expert care.
This hospital has high standard of undergraduate and postgraduate facilities. Its 25 disciplines of Medical Sciences are fully accredited with College of Physicians and Surgeons Pakistan for full FCPS Part-II training. The post graduate courses like MD/MS of the University of Health Sciences Lahore has also been started in this hospital.
Grooming and educating of the healthcare professionals, inculcating in them all the skills, to provide healthcare with dignity, kindness & respect / honour maintaining highest international standards and stimulating innovation through research.
The Sheikh Zayed Medical College shall pursue the following goals:
• To seek advances in health sciences to cure and relieve the symptoms of illness, maintain health and foster social prosperity in a thriving environment resulting in protection and promotion of health and prevention of illnesses.
• To respond effectively to the ever changing needs of the society through its research programs, educational facilities and curricula.
• Teaching to the highest international standards and preparing itself to responsibly address the key challenges faced by the society in the coming decades.
• To respect the values and goals of human society by embracing principles of justice, equality of all human beings, internationalism and by acknowledging and fostering individual achievements.
Message Patron in Chief
Being the principal of this institution, I am glad to pen the announcement that 4th magazine of this college “Raigzaar 2017” has published. The college magazine is a platform that offers students an ample opportunity to carve their creative talent and skills. It depicts capabilities and potentials of students of this college to become an important landmark in the history of this college. I am sure that this magazine will serve as a mirror reflecting various achievements, aspirations and new initiatives of teachers and students of this college.Read More
The longevity and success of a nation depends upon its individuals and their achievements. The SZMC has achieved enviable results in educational, co-curricular and sports activities. We should keep our fingers crossed that by efforts of all, it will be possible to provide the young generation with the education which will build their character & infuse in them the spirit of humanity and awareness of moral and ethical values.
I sincerely hope that our readers will find many interesting and thought provoking articles in this issue written by the future readers.
In the end, I congratulate to our students and the whole team of Editorial Board of “Raigzaar 2017” especially Chairman Editorial board Professor Dr. Muhammad Saleem Laghari, Assistant Chairman Dr. Hafiz Umer, Chief editors and Editors for their hard work and dedication which made the timely publication of Raigzaar 2017.
I wish you all the success and happiness in the times to come. May Allah Almighty be our Guide in all deeds (Ameen).
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“Do or Die,” Daw Aung San Suu Kyi: Policy paper on Burmese Ethnic Perspective
By Kanbawza Win | 5 December 2010
Most Burmese nationalists would recollect the famous Bogyoke Aung San speech during his visit to London, in Jan27th 1947 for the inking of the historic Aung San-Attlee Agreement (Aung San as Deputy chairman of the post war British Burma and Clement Attlee the Prime Minister of Britain) when he said, “I hope for the best but prepared for the worst.” that paves the way for Burma’s independence. So also his loving daughter Daw Aung San Suu Kyi will be in the same position of hoping for the best but preparing for the worst as her choice will be “either do or die” vis a vis with the Tatmadaw thugs.
Her courage and sincerity, inherited from her father can be vividly seen when she tackle the most crucial and sensitive question of the Union of the country, which the Burmese Tatmadaw since under Ne Win has try to wreck it by imposing the Mahar Bama/Myanmar spirit on the ethnic nationalities and endeavour to treat the ethnic nationalities as a conquered race rather than an equal partner.
One could recollect that it was Aung San’s vision of a federal union, shared by the ethnic leaders of that time, which gives birth to the modern Union of Burma, to be exact on Feb.12th 1947, better known as the Panglong Conference. But with the early death of Aung San, this Concordat was never realised and instead was followed by more than half a century of civil war that still goes on to this day. Furthermore, successive military regimes have identified the federal movement as a threat to their hold on power. This was also a major pretext for the military coup in 1962 by late dictator Ne Win, who claimed that he supposedly saved the country from disintegration. Many interpreted as the by product of conflict of interests over constitutional principles between Myanmar and non Myanmar nationals.[1]
Now, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's efforts to organize “an ethnic conference in conformity with the 21st Century.” which is label as “second Panglong”—a meeting of ethnic leaders and other relevant stakeholders will not only solve the problem of Burma of laying down the basic democratic principles but will also guaranteed the rights of the ethnic nationalities, somewhat like killing two birds with a stone. It is on this bold and correct platform she has place herself. However, many of the Myanmar/Burman, even among the pro democratic groups, still harbours the Mahar Myanmar spirit and are trying to prevent it by giving a lame excuse that it was too delicate and touchy. Hence she will have to take on, the evil Tatmadaw, the Mahar Burman/Myanmar spirit and of course some of the racist ethnic leaders at the same time.
Many, including the self style Burmese experts (Burmese and foreigners alike) failed to understand that this conflict of interest over the constitutional principles between the Myanmar ethnic and non-Myanmar ethnic nationals is the root of the political crisis. This has paved way for armed conflict, hatred, disunity that finally leads to gross human rights violations. Now she is taking all this by the horns and she like her dad that there is but one solution to solve the conflicts and crisis in Burma and that is to have a constitutional dialogue among pro democratic groups led by NLD, the Junta and the non-Myanmar ethnic nationals and to allocate the problems within federal constitutional principle, which will not only full fill the ethnic nationals’ interests but also safeguard the Myanmar interests, leading to democracy.[2]
She also realise that the Panglong Agreement is equally important for the people in modern Burma as the way in which the “Declaration of Independence 1776” is important to the Americans in fundamental nature. She foresee that not only the majority of the people but national, state, and local institutions desire to live together with the ethnic nationalities within the framework of federal constitution, which can safeguard, promote, and protect everybody’s interests and identities.
But with this historic move Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and the country's reclusive generals are heading on an indispensible collision course firstly because the Generals did not want to share power with anybody else. The sad reality is that the vehemently hated Tatmadaw did not want to share power with anyone either a Myanmar or a non Myanmar and since the apex of Federalism is to share power with the ethnic nationalities, every Myanmar general will be opposed to this, for once Federalism comes into being then there is no raison d’ etre to keep on a large army something like pulling the rug under their feet. The Tatmadaw philosophy of “I am the monarch of all I survey” will be destroyed once and for all. It will also pave the way to democracy for the simple reason there must be dialogue between stake holders. Being power maniacs they loath to share it with anyone.
Ethnic issues and the prevalence of democracy are but two sides of a coin and one cannot be separated from the other. However the Generals are bereft of the Dialogue Culture and still cling on to the theory of shoot first. So somehow or other they will have to get rid of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi as she threatens the whole institution which they have set up all these years.
She has done her home work and knew very well that the signatories of 1947 had agree to the Union because they all guaranteed to treat each other with equalities in all aspects including rights and privileges in politic, economic, cultural, and self-determination right of each people within their own territories. The sincerity and trust of signatories of Panglong Agreement was revealed in Article 210 of the Constitution of Union of Burma (1948) by guaranteeing secession right of signatories state from the Union of Burma after ten years of independence, something like the sword of Damocles hanging on the Mahar Myanmar leaders. Therefore, the Panglong Agreement is the only contractual legal document of founding the Modern Burma so that the essence of the Panglong Agreement needs to be respect and perverse not only by the people of Burma but also international governments, organizations, and associations who want to see continuation of the existence of the Union of Burma. [3] However, 57 days after the draft Constitution of Burma Union was approved, General Aung San and his interim leaders were assassinated by their political rivals. U Nu, the new leader of transitory period has not participated in Panglong Conference so that did not understand the essence of Panglong Agreement and that granting equal rights to ethnic nationals was an integral part of the Aung San and Attlee Agreement that led to Burma’s independence.
(a) The 1948 Constitution
Gradually, the non-Myanmar ethnic national leaders, politicians, and scholars realized that the Constitution of the Union of Burma (1948) had disregard the essence of Panglong Agreement .Therefore, the non-Myanmar ethnic national leaders gathered in Taunggyi, the capital city of Shan State in 1961 to discuss the defects of the Constitution of Union of Burma. The Prime Minister and all Myanmar ethnic national leaders understood that Federal Bill was ready to table in the Union Parliament for amending the Constitution of the Union of Burma, when there was a coup d’é tat March 2, 1962.. The Tatmadaw has to use its triumph card realizing that this is the only way to safeguard the domination of the Tatmadaw with the Mahar Myanmar policy.
(b) The 1974 Socialist Constitution
After the coup, the Revolutionary Council drafted a new Constitution which that came to force in 1974. The new Constitution not only disregarded the essence of Panglong Agreement, but also constitutionally expanded Myanmar/ Burman ethnic national domination toward non-Myanmar ethnic nationals by creating Seven Divisions out of Myanmar inhabitant area. Therefore, under the Constitution of the Socialist Republic of the Union of Burma (1974), the Myanmar had monopolized all legislative, executive, and judicial power.
(c) NLD’s Interim Constitution
Although the Socialist military regime collapsed in 1988 and the NLD was voted for to restore democracy it has miserably failed to carry out the peoples’ mandate due to two significantly important factors. First, NLD failed to draft the Interim Constitution of Burma based on the essence of Panglong Agreement. Instead of drafting a new Interim Constitution to retain the trust of the ethnic nationalities, the NLD revised the constitution as an interim constitution. Secondly, majority of NLD’s top leaders are former military officers who were ousted by General Ne Win so that restoration of democracy in Burma is not priority for them but toppling the present military regime is always their first priority.
(d) The Nargis Constitution
Since the people of Burma and the international community already know the Junta’s clear intention is to legalize the military rule in Burma within constitutional framework and its dubious elections results are well known I won`t be emphasising much on it..
(e) NCUB’s Draft Constitution
The exiled group of, the National Council of Union of Burma (NCUB), composed both of ethnic nationals and pro democratic Myanmar tried to draft the constitution but it was soon discovered that the pro democratic Myanmar shown no interest the Genuine (Federal) Union of Burma. This finally led the ethnic national leaders to conclude that that either the “Myanmar military leaders in SPDC” or “Pro-democratic Myanmar nationals” in and outside the Burma are sharing the same sentiment in connection with disregarding the essence of Panglong Agreement. This drives home the fact that most Myanmar either the democrats inside or outside Burma does not want a genuine Pyidaungsu but rather a Myanmar domination over the non Myanmar nationalities.[4] If this mentality continues that Balkanization may seems to be the best solution.
Now that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is on the right track on solving the country’s problem once and for all we believe that she is aware of the challenges that lies ahead and would act cautiously and conscientiously.[5] She would try to solve the historical debt of her father towards the ethnic nationality and will really step into her father`s shoe as the one and only Burmese statesman with a far vision. Like father like daughter she will be a rare specimen among the Myanmar worthy of inspiration and imitation in terms of sincerity, righteousness, far sighted without a tint of Mahar Myanmar spirit whom all the ethnic nationalities including the genuine pro-democratic groups trust.
Foreign Powers
The West that has given lip service to the Burmese democratic movement did not expect any major changes in Burma even though they want access to its vast natural resources. It remains distrustful of recent moves, while Asian countries will increase their dealings and investments with the Junta. Hence, there will a considerable gap between the approach of West and the East. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi after her release had thanks the West especially the US for their moral support but said it should be more practical. The Obama administration priorities in Asia lie elsewhere, will not expend much political capital on the country is a foregone conclusion. The EU even though betrayed by Germany and Denmark (because of their authoritarian traditions) via their NGOs, hopes to still cling on to their ideals. Meanwhile, many countries in Asia will continue to pursue policies towards Burma based on their vested economic interests and a sense that the country is an arena for strategic competition with rivals. Here Aung San’s speech can be neatly apply that the West will fuck you after putting some oil while the Asian will do it raw.
China is already Burma's de-facto regional patron, as of yesterday China pulled the agenda off the UN Security Council topic.[6] Other countries are now pursuing postures more similar to Beijing's than to Washington's, which, in turn, eases the environment in Asia for further Chinese pursuit of Burmese resources.[7] For ASEAN especially for Thailand Burma offers more than just an untapped market but a respite from the environmental and other corporate standards that exists in their own countries. They can exploit the country’s human and natural resources at will, under the Generals even though they will be wearing longyi (Burmese Sarong) soon.[8]
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi realise her marginalized position this but hopefully with the help of China, and probably India, she intend to work towards renewed ceasefire agreements especially to that of the Northern Alliance of Kachin and Wa (Southern Alliance of Karen, Mon and Karenni are already fighting) and enlist the support in preventing a possible crackdown on her and for the Second Panglong Conference.
However, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi is the only person in Burma with moral authority and could enlist the people en masse. Her call for national reconciliation appeal to every Burmese even among the young Turks and that her offer of rethinking the Western punitive actions including sanctions have a great appeal to the Generals craving for international legitimacy.
2011 will be crucial and critical for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and Burma's political and economic trajectory as she will have to test the limits of the Than Shwe’s tolerance and willingness to pursue political reform. Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, dubbed as one of the 100 top thinkers of the 21st century, will have to make a well calculate risks for the Junta will probably be assessing whether their experiment of releasing the lady succeeds or and they'll recalibrate as necessary.[9] If they sense that increased instability is the likely outcome of her freedom, the leadership will likely revert to old practices, including increasing the military's role in maintaining order and possibly finding an excuse to again arrest her. On the other hand, if the Junta believes their gamble has paid off -- and that the economic and diplomatic gains from her release outweigh the risks to their control over the country – then there is hope for the Second Panglong Conference The Than Shwe clique has just eaten a bitter humble pie by calling back its arch rival Khin Nyunt when the Junta realized that they could not handle the ethnic problem. Will they do the same with the Lady (which they often refer as Kaung Ma Lay little girl) is still to be seen.
Prepared for the Worst
The people of Burma in their entire history of 2,000 years have never met egregious government that subject its own people to such a barbarous regime of fear, repression and hunger, of shooting into the crowds of people, using rape as weapon, killing Buddhist monks and other religious leaders, preventing aids reaching to the cyclone victims and even went as far as persecuting the HIV patients on World AIDS Day,. It’s complicit in international outrage, ranging from murderous government (Depayin butchers now becomes government), and nuclear weapons to drug smuggling are a headache to the world at large.
They could easily mechanize the death of the Lady at any moment under the pretext of an accident and is not ashamed of going down into history books that the Tatmadaw founded by her father kills the daughter. Hence the people of Burma must be prepared for the worst for the killing fields and civil war as even now the Junta has send its marauding army to every front, to the four corners (North to fight the Kachin and Wa, West to fight the Chin and Arakanese, East to fight the Shan, Karen, Karenni and Mon) of the country to crush the ethno democratic forces still holding out.
Bogyoke Aung San has to face the British first, even though colonialist are a well cultured and civilized people prone to reason, then later he had to face the Imperial Japanese army notorious for its cruelty. But what the daughter, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi facing is the combination of these two which is far worst in ruthlessness, craftiness, cunning and liar that tries to lie the very concept of Truth itself. However the daughter has a genuine spirit which is a glowing light in pitch darkness that can be instil in every patriotic people of Burma. Even though the people of Burma are hard pressed on every side yet they are not crushed; perplexed but not despair; persecuted but not abandoned; struck down but not destroyed. The Pyidoungsu (Union) spirit still lives in weal and woe and the love of democracy and the prevalence of human rights instil by the daughter will carry on. Let us hope for the best but prepared for the worst.
[1] A majority ethnic group also known as “Bamar” or “Myanmar” by non-Burman ethnic nationals in the Union of Burma. The non-Burman ethnic nationals include Arakan, Chin, Kachin, Karen, Kayah, Shan, Naga, Mon, Lahu, Pa-O and so on.
[2] A paper written by Salai Ngun Cung Lian a candidate for Doctor of Juridical Science degree at Indiana University School of Law. He is a co-convener of the Chinland Constitution Drafting Committee; Consultant for Transitional Justice in Burma
[3] The first Draft Constitution for Burma Union and Its Territories was initiated by the Anti Fascist Peoples Freedom League (AFPFL), under the leadership of General Aung San, U Ba Win (the elder brother of General Aung San), and 110 Constitution Drafting Committee members. The Draft Constitution for Burma Union and Its Territories was brought to the AFPFL National Convention for approval and subsequently approved without dissented vote on May 27, 1947.
[4] The Myanmar Diaspora led by Bo Bo Kyaw Nyein (son of U Kyaw Nyein the one time national leader) even ridicule the NCUB Constitution
[5] Kaung,Ba; Irrawaddy 30-11-2010 'Second Panglong' Proposal Could Mean Trouble for Suu Kyi
[6] Allchin, Joseph; Burma off Security Council Agenda 3-12-2010 DVB News
[7] Herrera-Lim, Roberto; Foreign Policy and the Burmese balancing Act in Foreign Policy Magazine 2-12-2-10
[8] Roughneen; Simon “Why Thailand Invest in Burma” Financial Times 2-1-2-2010
[9] Roberto Herrera-Lim;Roberto,”Foreign Policy and the Burmese Balancing Act” Foreign Policy Magazine 2-12-2-10
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Oak / Quercus
Pacific Flowering Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)
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Family: CORNACEAE
Genus: Cornus
Species: Pacific Flowering Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii)
Pacific Flowering Dogwood Species Description
This species is native to North America north of Mexico.
Allergenicity: Pacific Flowering Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) is a mild allergen.
Pollination: Occurs in following seasons depending on latitude and elevation: Spring to Summer.
Angiosperm - Flowering Dicot: Plants in this group have two embryonic leaves (dicotyledons). Examples of dicotyledons are beans, buttercups, oaks, sunflowers, etc.
Tree: A large plant, not exactly defined, but typically over four meters in height, a single trunk which grows in girth with age and branches (which also grow in circumference with age).
Weed: Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly, useless, or injurious plant.
Perennial: Living for many years.
Wetland Plant: Plants growing in aquatic or wetland habitats. These include all known floating, submerged, and emergent taxa, plus those that are found in permanently or seasonally wet habitats.
Woody Stem: Non-herbaceous. Lignified.
Pacific Flowering Dogwood Species Usage
Honey/Bee Pollen: A plant used as a source of food for Honey Bees, and may be a flavor of honey such as clover or alfalfa.
More Pacific Flowering Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) imagesby Jessie M. Harris from BONAP
More on Pacific Flowering Dogwood (Cornus nuttallii) in Wikipedia
Pacific Flowering Dogwood Species Location
The shaded areas on the map indicates where the species has been observed in the United States. Click the map to see a full scale version of these allergy areas.
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Changing perceptions
Evelina Tshabalala (then 41 years, resident of Imizamo Yethu Township Hout Bay) rocked her physician's perceptions during her first visit to the Positive Lives HIV Wellness Centre. Unlike many of her peers she was not dying of her HIV disease, she was about to summit mountains. In fact, the Seven Summits, the highest mountains on every continent.
She is one of the bravest women in Africa. Born and bread in rural Kwazulu-Natal she became a mother at the age of 15. She strived to better life for her and her son called Doctor and moved to Cape Town to take up domestic work. She soon developed a zest for road running and excelled. Finding sponsors and means to get to events proved to be a constant struggle, but nevertheless Evie was soon running marathons, within three years she was cruising ultra-marathons, won bronze at the S.A. Championships and came 25th in the London Marathon.
Tragedy struck in 2003. Apart from her father being assaulted in her presence and his subsequent death, Evie had too confront even worse hardship. Her face fades when she talks about the day her second son Emmanuel drowned during an epilepsy attack. Her fading health was another concern. She decided to go for an AIDS test, concerned how her health was affecting her running. "I said whatever the result, I will deal with it, I'll be proud if it's good, if it's bad - I'll be strong."
And she has been. From day one Evelina has shared her HIV status with her immediate family, friends and even more so her community. This was a exceptional deed of bravery in a continent where HIV sufferers are still often alienated and abandoned. Now on anti-retroviral (ARV`s), her CD4 count (immune count) is up, her HIV viral load is down and her focus stronger than ever.
She has already conquered two of the Seven Summits of the world through a venture called Isicongo (roughly translated it means summit in Zulu). This project will culminate with the planned summating of Mount Everest in 2009. Eventually Evie will be on top of the world!
Celebrity status was a natural consequence and reward for this brave lady of Africa. She has become a hero in her local community. Her most loyal fans became the children of her community. She has never forgotten her roots and the sight of Evelina running on Hout Bay beach with the children of Imizamo Yethu has become a frequent occurrence during weekends. She has been the feature of numerous newspaper and magazine articles. This Positive Hero became one only a few Africans to feature on the front page of The Wall Street Journal. Radio interviews, local and international followed. At least 2 television documentaries featured a fearless Evelina living a positive live with HIV.
To Evelina life is simple and the limelight is irrelevant. She focuses on the immediate challenge, the reward usually follows. She still remembers her first test of strength in mountaineering. She is a woman from Africa and had to summit the highest summit in Africa first. Could she really attempt this being HIV positive and on ARV`s? She remembers reaching the peak. "Everything was frozen. I called out the names of my mom, my dad, Emmanuel to be with me - I did it so everyone in South Africa would be proud of me."
And no one was prouder than Evie when she got to meet Nelson Mandela as a result. "That was so fantastic!"
In her small world Evelina brought about paradigm shifts in the manner HIV was previously perceived in her world and the bigger South Africa. She took away the fear of HIV. She took away the fear of HIV testing. Why fear a positive result if HIV can be managed like Evelina`s disease? She is summating mountains whilst on ARV`s. She took away the fear of HIV treatment.
She took away the fear stigmatization. Every child in Imizamo Yethu wants to be an Evelina.
Evelina has become a Positive Hero.
Positive Heroes Campaign
Freedom and Fear
Freedom has come at a high price to the Rainbow Nation
The story of Evelina Tshabalala
Goal of Positive Heroes
From Fear to Hope
Providing Positive Heroes and Role Models
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Good Friday Morning! Every journalist’s favorite Gen-X politician announced he’s jumping into the Democratic Primaries – Robert Francis “Beto” O’Rourke, whose lone claim to fame is losing to Ted Cruz in Texas, during a blue wave when the Democratic logo won you a 5-10 point headstart. Beto kicked off his campaign with a full spread in Vanity Fair (his dog looks terrified), appealing to his core demographic of rich white journalists in the DC metro area.
Betomania is one of the more annoying phenomena in recent memory. It’s almost as irritating as Bernie Bros, except Bernie Sanders has actual living breathing voters. Beto has journalists fawning over him. It’s also annoying because it’s a distortion of the Democratic primaries. Right now Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are dividing up around 50-55% of the total field of potential voters, the other 10,000 people running for President split the remainder of the voters.
Of those two, I give the edge to Bernie Sanders for three reasons. 1) Bernie has a core set of supporters who won’t leave him. 2) Biden’s best day in the race will be the day he announces, after that his mouth and the media will tear him apart. 3) Bernie has an air of untouchability about him that Biden doesn’t; people will attack Biden, they’re scared of Bernie. Noah Rothman over at Commentary Magazine and I both have the same analysis on this but disagree on issues. We both think a third candidate will use a wedge issue, currently underutilized and underserved by the candidates, to break into the lead of the race. Noah believes that issue is race, and I think it is impeachment. I say impeachment because Bernie won’t care about it (similar to Clinton’s emails), and Biden will follow Pelosi’s lead, which provides an opening to anyone willing to exploit it.
But we shall see. In case you missed the biggest story of the week, Marvel’s Avengers Endgame official trailer dropped. And it’s fantastic. This week I’m covering some comments made by everyone’s favorite NY socialist and some thoughts on watching icons and idols get torn down. Links follow.
Where you can find me this week
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Omar’s anti-Semitism now belongs to the Democratic Party
The “anti-hate” resolution was a joke as passed by Democrats. When presented with the opportunity to condemn an anti-semite in their caucus, they backpedaled and bowed to intersectionality interests in the party. Democrats ruled by the Ilhan Omar’s of the world make them no different than the Jeremy Corbyn led UK Labour Party.
John Roberts and the left’s institutionalism argument
A new argument on the has popped up lately, spurred on by a new biography of Chief Justice John Roberts. Legal scholars on the left are saying Roberts should vote against his conservative beliefs because the institution of the court is at stake. It is an issue raised in the biography, and at Federalist Society events, and I deconstruct it here.
Capitalism and Redeemability
I’m so glad the South by Southwest (SXSW) convention is finally over. I used to enjoy hearing stories of the event. Now it’s another political convention where the flavor of the month Democrats show up to advertise they’re the hot item. That brings us to the hottest politician of the moment, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The socialist getting force-fed down everyone’s throats, whether she knows anything about the topic she’s talking about or not. But I found her SXSW comments somewhat revealing:
She directed some of her sharpest comments at an economic system that she said values profit over people.
“Capitalism is an ideology of capital –- the most important thing is the concentration of capital and to seek and maximize profit,” Ocasio-Cortez said. And that comes at any cost to people and to the environment, she said, “so to me capitalism is irredeemable.”
Though she said she doesn’t think all parts of capitalism should be abandoned, “we’re reckoning with the consequences of putting profit above everything else in society. And what that means is people can’t afford to live. For me, it’s a question of priorities and right now I don’t think our model is sustainable.”
Instead of conservative politicians scaring people that socialism means the government is going to take over their business, “we should be scared right now because corporations have taken over our government,” she said.
Capitalism being “irredeemable” is an interesting way to phrase it, especially in her context. She’s implying sometime in the distant past that capitalism was a redeemable system. Or at some point that capitalism worked adequately, that you could point somewhere in history when perfect capitalism was in play and everything was fine.
And I know, instinctively, that she couldn’t name a single point in history when she’d say capitalism was fine as a system.
One of my favorite websites is Our World in Data. If you’ve never visited it, you should. Pick any category and glance at the incredible advancements we’ve made since the world let capitalism take over more and more aspects of our lives. We’ve eradicated diseases that once destroyed entire continents of humanity, we’ve blunted the impact of famine on our lives, and changed the very definition of what it means to be poor.
Here’s how rich we are in America: we have an obesity epidemic. We’re so rich that everyone struggles with being fat and we have to visit buildings full of exercise equipment to simulate activities we once had to do for survival. A health report noted:
The U.S. is one of the wealthiest countries in the world and accordingly has high obesity rates; one-third of the population has obesity plus another third is overweight. The situation is predicted to worsen; rising childhood obesity rates forewarn of worsening statistics. While it is agreed that both individual factors such as genetic susceptibility and behavior are important in life-long weight gain, evidence is ill-defined with respect to the nature of the environmental influences that impact obesity.
In 2010, 15.1% of Americans lived in poverty based upon family income census data. With the economic downturn, the number of people in the U.S. living in poverty rose to 46 million people—the greatest number in more than 50 years.
Are poverty and obesity associated? Poverty rates and obesity were reviewed across 3,139 counties in the U.S. In contrast to international trends, people in America who live in the most poverty-dense counties are those most prone to obesity.
Think about that for a second: two-thirds of Americans are too fat. And if you’re poor — you’re more likely to be fat in this country. Take a step back and think about that concept in the full scope of human history. Poverty used to mean you were the exact opposite of fat. Typically poverty meant you lived a shorter life for a variety of reasons. We’ve flipped that concept on its head.
One of the latest trends on the left is to attack retail stores like Dollar General and Dollar Tree. They’re worried that poor people don’t have access to higher-end grocery stores like Whole Foods.
Another societal trend right now is minimalism. Marie Kondo’s book and Netflix show “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing” (currently headed towards 15k five star reviews) is a push towards minimalism. And that only works in a country like America where consumerism has pushed us towards buying boatloads of stuff. We are so rich we’re getting rid of stuff to live “better lives.”
We’re so rich we have multiple delivery apps to bring us food and groceries at any point in time. We’re mad if Amazon doesn’t get a package to us in two days or less, whenever we order it. We have any form of entertainment available to us at the tap of a finger.
And AOC wants to sit there and say capitalism is irredeemable?
Jonah Goldberg has a brilliant point on socialism when you listen to his podcast or dig through his excellent books. On socialism, he observes that it is more of a left-wing reactionaryism. Socialists envision a past where everyone was united in some grand fashion, like during the Great Depression or WWII. They mythologize those eras, wanting to return to those moments of solidarity. They attack the decades of wealth and plenty, the 1920s and 1950s.
They want a return to old solidarity despite evidence that FDR’s New Deal policies are estimated to have prolonged the Great Depression by seven years. The effectiveness of the plans isn’t the point: solidarity and tribes are the points. Socialists want a time when all class and difference get erased, and everyone unites behind state power. That’s why socialism resembles religion. They’re trying to take all the trappings of religion, remove God and tradition, and replace it with the state.
Goldberg’s analogy is one of the families vs. society. In our families, we’re entirely socialist. Most families don’t treat each other in a capitalist way, where if you don’t work you don’t get anything. We help each other. Parents help their children. Socialists try to recreate that on a national scale — which is why it fails so badly because it’s impossible to plan out and direct every single person’s life like they’re a child.
Socialists are, then, reactionary to the capitalist age we’ve entered. That makes them similar to the nationalists you look around and see. Nationalists and socialists are reacting to the same events and responding differently. Nationalists wrap themselves up in either nation or race, and socialists run for the security of the state.
Socialists like AOC are reacting to the explosion of goods and plenty that capitalism has brought the world and they feel Marx’s concept of alienation. As such, they’re trying to bring back solidarity, unions, and an expansive state that forces everyone together. That’s why they’re okay with forcing people to give things up like burgers and any other “luxury,” it’s to regain that solidarity at the cost of all other freedoms.
Unity and solidarity are natural impulses, and I don’t fault them for wanting it. But the reason socialism fails at every single juncture is that individuality can’t get hindered — everyone eventually wants to do their own thing. Capitalism and federalism allow for this freedom.
Traditional conservatism and federalism, in protecting institutions and morality, ironically help advance and protect the disruptive systems of capitalism. And if we want to continue advancing as a society, we need that continual disruptive renewal.
How are we choosing which idols to tear down?
How are we choosing who and what to tear down in society? I ask because every week seems to bring with it some new controversy where we’re supposed to remove a person, thing, or object from society because of transgressions. To wit:
Leaving Neverland: The Michael Jackson Netflix documentary. This film is causing massive waves, getting people to talk about Jackson and his dealings with young boys. Since the documentary aired in January, Jackson’s music has fallen out of favor with radio stations, he got removed out of a Simpsons episode, and people have called for Jackson to get removed from pop culture.
The Catholic Church sex abuse scandal. Combined with the Southern Baptist Church sex abuse scandals. What should remain of these institutions?
John Wayne: The internet “unearthed” a 1971 interview with Playboy that caused some people to call for his name to get removed from the airport named after him.
Harvey Weinstein, Kevin Spacey, and everyone else from the #MeToo movement. Should people lose jobs and have awards and honors stripped from them?
Tucker Carlson and Media Matters. This week Media Matters for America (leftwing) released audio recordings of Tucker Carlson on a shock jock radio station from around a decade ago, Bubba the Love Sponge, where Tucker said gross and bad things. Tucker responded by dropping grossly racist statements that the Media Matters author said in the past.
Bill Cosby and his legacy
Kevin Hart getting kicked from the Oscars
The continual drumbeat for removing Civil War statues honoring Confederates
The list of these events is long and getting longer. And it’s worth noting, Virginia’s Governor, Lt. Governor, and Attorney General all refused to resign for blackface, KKK outfit, and #MeToo allegations.
To borrow an Old Testament analogy, our society wants to tear down “alters and high places,” for a variety of people and groups. For the most part, I suppose I don’t mind. Our culture is overly secularized from an evangelical perspective, but I also don’t see much in the way of rhyme or reason to any of these movements.
We’re also swinging between destroying people and their careers for these events (The Justine Sacco treatment), or we move on, and nothing happens (Virginia government).
If the moral is: we’re tearing down anyone and everything that has ever done or said anything “problematic,” then the irony is no one can cast the first stone. No one is without sin under progressive morality, and everyone is a hypocrite.
I don’t have any answers to these questions and observations this week. I just started jotting everything down and looking at the larger whole trying to detect a pattern, and I don’t see one. Is that good or bad?
I’ll leave that to you.
Links of the week
Sen. Lee Introduces ARTICLE ONE Act to Reclaim Congressional Power – Senator Mike Lee (Acronym game on this one is legendary)
The Aristocracy of Victimhood: If anti-Semitism is wrong, it’s no less wrong no matter how bad Ilhan Omar’s childhood was. – Jonah Goldberg, National Review
The Myth of Joe Biden’s Working-Class Support: Beyond two failed presidential campaigns, the former vice president has never run a race on his own outside Delaware. – Edward-Isaac Dovere, The Atlantic
The Democrats’ Dilemma: What Ilhan Omar and Dean Phillips tell us about the future of the Democratic Party. – Tim Alberta, Politico
Ilhan Communication: Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and the collapse of the center-left – Matthew Continetti, The Washington Free Beacon
What Pelosi Knows about Impeachment – Matthew Continetti, National Review
What Isn’t Missing from the Abortion Debate – Ramesh Ponnuru, National Review
Implications of Today’s Senate Vote Against Trump’s Border Wall “Emergency” Declaration: How the overwhelming vote against Trump’s position could potentially affect the lawsuits challenging the legality of the declaration. – Ilya Somin, Volokh Conspiracy
Madison Wept: And the senators said to the president, “pretty please?” – Keith E. Whittington, Volokh Conspiracy
Don’t Laugh, Bernie Can Win – Michael Brendan Dougherty, National Review
Jonah Goldberg is ‘ideologically grounded, but I feel politically homeless – Columbia Journalism Review
From ‘Ghostbusters’ to ‘Captain Marvel,’ culture warriors get box-office results all wrong – Sonny Bunch, The Washington Post
No one loses a debate over anti-Semitism. Except Jews. – Seth Mandel, The Washington Post
When Google Fiber Abandons Your City as a Failed Experiment – Adam K. Raymond, Gizmodo
The Tragedy of Baltimore: Since Freddie Gray’s death in 2015, violent crime has spiked to levels unseen for a quarter century. How order collapsed in an American city. – Alec MacGillis, ProPublica
Why do we hate decaf so much? Decaf coffee’s terrible reputation is outdated. So why does it persist? – Rebecca Jennings, Vox
The Aldi effect: how one discount supermarket transformed the way Britain shops: When Aldi arrived in Britain, Tesco and Sainsbury’s were sure they had nothing to worry about. Three decades later, they know better. – Xan Rice, The Guardian
Satire piece of the week
Beto O’Rourke Announces He Starting Obama Cover Campaign – The Onion
EL PASO, TX — Revealing plans to “put his own spin” on beloved stump speeches and talking points, Beto O’Rourke announced Thursday that he was starting a Barack Obama cover campaign. “I’ve always loved Barack’s early stuff from back in ’08, even ’04, and I think diehard fans will go crazy when I cover all his greatest hits,” said the 46-year-old White House hopeful, clarifying that he and his campaign aides had spent several months “just going through Barack’s catalog” to memorize the former president’s platform. “Obama’s style always really resonated with me, and honestly, what’s the point in struggling to come up with something new when you can just give people what they want. I’m going to cover some of Barack’s most well-known campaign speeches, putting my own small twists on prison reform and healthcare—they’ll be way heavier, faster, and louder.” At press time, O’Rourke revealed that he had just finished working on a stripped-down version of “Change We Can Believe In” that went directly into a fiery rendition of “Yes, We Can!”
Off Topic Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, AOC, Bernie Sanders, Beto O'Rourke, Capitalism, Joe Biden, Jonah Goldberg, Obesity, Socialism, The Outsider Perspective, Wealth
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Birkett Surname Ancestry Results
Our indexes 1000-1999 include entries for the spelling 'birkett'. In the period you have requested, we have the following 477 records (displaying 261 to 270):
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Owners of Merchantmen (1852-1853)
Lloyd's Register of British and Foreign Shipping was issued annually, listing ships that had been surveyed preparatory to being insured. This is the register issued 1 July 1852 and then annotated as ships were re-surveyed through to 30 June 1853. The ships were numbered by the first letter of their name, and then by number alphabetically through the ships' names and within ships of the same name alphabetically by surname of the master. After the name of the ship there is the type of vessel (Bk, barque; Bg, brig; Bn, brigantine; Cr, cutter; Dr, dogger; G, galliott; H, hoy; K, ketch; Lr, lugger; Pol, polacre; S, ship; Sk, smack; Sp, sloop; Sr, schooner; St, schoot; Stm, steamer; Sw, snow; Yt, yacht), master's name (as at the time of the last survey); tonnage; place and year of build; owners; port belonging to; destined voyage; number of years first assigned; and character for hull and stores (e. g., A 1), with the year or month (e. g., 50 for 1850, or 2 for February 1852) of inspection. Underneath some entries details were given of construction and repair, with year - s., sheathed; d., doubled; C., coppered; I. B., iron bolts; c. f., copper fastened; M., sheathed with marine metal; Y. M., sheathed with yellow metal; G., sheathed with galvanised iron; Z., sheathed with zinc; F., felt; C. lm., coppered to light water or ballast mark; C. T., copper bolts substituted for treenails; Cl., clincher; len., lengthened; lrp., large repairs; trp., thorough repairs; Drp., damage repaired; ND., new deck; N TSds., new top-sides; W. C., wales cased; NW., new wales; NB., new bottom; NK., new keel; plk, Plank; N Klsn, new kelson; alm. rb., almost rebuilt; pt O. M., part old materials (timbers or plank); Srprs, some repairs - and, in italics, the timber of the ship is described - A, ash; B B, black birch; Bh, beech; C, cedar; E, elm; F, fir; G, gum; Ght, greenheart; Hk, hackmatack; Hm, hemlock; L, locust; Lh, larch; L O, live oak; M, mahogany; P, pine; P P, pitch pine; R P, red pine; Y P, yellow pine; S, spruce; T, teak; Tam, tamarac; W H, witch hazel; W O, white oak. The sample scan is from the main list. The third column, reserved for masters' names, is not particularly wide; with short surnames, an initial will be given; but longer surnames omit the initials, and even longer surnames are abbreviated. This is the index to owners in the main list. Often a ship would have changed hands by the time of re-survey, and the new owners' names are added in slightly smaller type under the original owners in the seventh column. These new owners are also included in this index. It should be borne in mind that the owners in the main list are those at the time of the respective previous survey for each ship, not necessarily as of 1 July 1852.
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Patentees of New Inventions (1852-1853)
Abstracts of British patents for new inventions applied for and granted from 1 October 1852 to 31 December 1853: giving date, name and address, and short description of the invention. It is then stated whether 'Letters patent sealed' or 'Provisional protection only'.
Boys entering Cheltenham College (1853)
Cheltenham College 'was founded in order to provide for the sons of gentlemen a Classical, Mathematical, and General Education of the highest order, on moderate terms, in strict conformity with the principles and doctrines of the Church of England.' Andrew Alexander Hunter, the college registrar, compiled the first edition of the College Register in four parts from 1883 to 1886: these merely listed the boys by term of entry, with their dates of birth and names and addresses of their fathers. Circulars were also sent out to all Old Cheltonians whose addresses were known, requesting additional details. On the basis of the returns from these and Hunter's further researches, this much fuller register was published in 1890. The information after each boy's name is given (where known and applicable) in this format: father's full name and address as of the time the boy entered the college; class and department on entering the college (classes being number from 1 downwards, and these again divided into A and B, some into C and D, others into P (Principal's side) and V. P. (Vice-Principal's side) - 1A was the highest class in each department: besides this, certain others were called Addiscombe, Woolwich, Civil, Direct, Line, Sandhurst, Naval, Special, Preparatory, Latin, and India Civil) and the same on leaving, name of Boarding House (or 'Day Boy'), scholastic and athletic honours attained at the college, and subsequent career (including date and place of death, or present address in 1890, if known).
Deaths, Marriages, News and Promotions (1853)
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. July to December 1853
Death notices and obituaries, marriage and birth notices, civil and military promotions, clerical preferments and domestic occurrences, as reported in the Gentleman's Magazine. Mostly from England and Wales, but items from Ireland, Scotland and abroad. January to June 1853
Inhabitants of Birstall, Yorkshire (1853)
William White's directory lists traders, farmers and private residents in the area.
Medical Men (1853)
The British Medical Directory for England, Scotland, and Wales of 1853 lists doctors, physicians, surgeons and other medical men. Each entry gives full name, surname first; address; qualifications; public appointments; and (where appropriate) a list of books and of works published in medical journals.
Bankrupts (1854)
Bankruptcy notices for England and Wales: bankruptcy often caused people to restart their lives elsewhere, so these are an important source for lost links
Bribed in Hull (1854)
A Bill for the Prevention of Bribery in the Election of Members to serve in Parliament for the Borough of Kingston-upon-Hull, passed 11 April 1854, stated that a commission of inquiry 30 August 1853 had found that over a hundred voters were bribed at one or more of the elections for the borough in 1841, 1847 and 1852: the names of those bribed, and those who gave the bribes, were listed in the bill, and all those persons were disqualified from any future parliamentary elections for the borough.
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Banks and the Coalition: birds of a feather →
I was talking with a couple of smokers the other day after a meeting and in the general conversation about life, the universe and everything, innocently I asked the ‘how much is a packet of cigarettes these days’ question. I was really happy that I don’t smoke when I was told that a packet of 30 cigarettes was around $30, or a dollar a cigarette (unless you buy the really cheap and nasty ones apparently).
On the way to the meeting we called into the office of another participant to collect him for the meeting. On the way out of his office block, all three of us bought a coffee at around $5 each. We attended the meeting and bought lunch afterwards. Despite the cool and windy conditions, we weren’t the only ones at the fish and chip shop close to the water in a ‘tropical’ North Queensland city that day. One of the other participants and I didn’t live in the town where the meeting was held, and the airport was pretty quiet when we got back to the terminal. This particular airport has a reasonably sized commercial area once you clear the security screen. While consuming yet another coffee at around $5 each, we observed that the terminal was filling up (the two major airlines have jets leaving this town for Brisbane about half an hour apart), most were either buying something from the café, the bar or going to the airline ‘lounges’ for ‘refreshments’ while waiting for the plane.
Admittedly, not everyone flies on a regular basis, however that’s not the point. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics 14.5% of adults consumed tobacco products on a daily basis in 2014/5. While we’re quoting statistics, 17.4% of adults consumed more than two standard drinks per day in 2014/5. Both datasets are showing a long-term decline. Roy Morgan Research claims that in 2014, the average Australian adult consumed 9.2 cups of coffee per week while suggesting that visitation to cafes is on the rise.
So when Treasurer Scott Morrison announced his personal taxation policy in early May that would mean the ‘average’ person received another $500 or thereabouts a year, who can blame the ‘average’ Australian for the collective yawn. Certainly a lump sum of $500 annually is of potentially greater ‘value’ than around $10 a week because $10 pays for around 10 cigarettes or two coffees. The politician in Turnbull and Morrison will believe that when the ‘average punter’ is lining up to buy the $500 appliance at JB Hi-fi or Harvey Norman with the proceeds of the 2018 tax cut sometime late in 2019, they will be thanking Turnbull’s Government for the largess. Realistically, it’s not going to happen that way.
That’s not to say that lump sums are not good economic stimulus — it worked well when the Rudd Government was attempting to prime the economy during the ‘Global Financial Crisis’ in the late 2000’s. It’s also pretty obvious that some will probably spend their ‘windfall’ on the pokies or at the TAB late in 2019. The promotors of the scheme this time are the same people that railed against the ‘ethics’ and ‘morals’ of Rudd giving people a lump sum to ‘blow on large screen TVs or at the pokies’ last time.
The difference between Rudd’s $900 cheques and Morrison’s lump sum however is the targeting of it. If Morrison’s scheme manages to survive until 2027, all taxpayers between $40,000 and $200,000 will incur the same tax rate. The appearance will be that the higher earners in that income bracket will be paying more and on a numerical basis they will, however as a percentage of earnings they won’t. To sustain your way of life, you need a certain amount of money – let’s say it is $35,000 per annum to pay the rent/mortgage, put food on the table, buy an occasional coffee and so on. If you’re on $40,000 per annum, you have $5,000 left over for the rainy day such as a newer car, a holiday or something else. If you’re on $200,000, in theory you have $165,000 left over. While the higher income earner may be paying a higher rent or mortgage as well as purchasing ‘better quality’ (certainly higher priced) food and consumer items, they will have considerably more to ‘put away for the rainy day’, conceivably $150,000. Fairfax reports under Morrison’s plan
By 2027, a couple with two children earning more than $130,000 a year will be banking up to $8000 in extra cash, the ANU's PolicyMod microsimulation reveals.
"I think what it shows you quite clearly is most of the benefits [from the tax cuts] go to high-income families in the later years," said ANU professor Ben Phillips.
"Largely because it is high income families who pay the tax, it is very much skewed towards the high end."
The analysis goes beyond the seven-year figures provided in Tuesday's budget, which Mr Morrison pointed to again in his post-budget speech on Wednesday when asked if the changes were fair.
Mr Morrison said workers on $160,000 would see a proportional reduction of 2.4 per cent, while those on $50,000 would see a 6.3 per cent reduction, but the figures only go up to 2024 when the largest reform - when the 37 per cent tax rate is eliminated.
The budget plans to reduce the rate to 32.5¢ in the dollar for 73 per cent of Australian workers - all those earning between $40,000 and $200,000.
It is a strange strategy to commit to tax cuts favouring the better off over a ten-year period when your opposition is mounting a fairness argument. Like the company tax cuts that are still partly held up in the Senate, the personal income tax package has been initially promoted as a ‘all or nothing’ proposition. This David Crowe article that ran in Fairfax Media mastheads soon after the budget makes the point that
The Prime Minister and Treasurer are prepared to take the entire $140 billion tax package to the brink of defeat so they can sharpen the contest with Opposition Leader Bill Shorten at the next election.
Yes, they are serious about the reform. It delivers on the Liberal Party's low-tax message. But they also want to wedge Shorten.
However, Crowe argues
Morrison makes a strong argument that workers on higher incomes pay far more tax overall under a tax system that is progressive now and will stay that way under his reform.
A worker on $80,000 a year pays about $18,600 in tax not including any family tax benefits, while a worker on $180,000 a year pays about $58,000 in tax. Naturally, a cut in tax rates makes a bigger difference to someone already paying three times as much tax in dollar terms.
But the government will not win this argument by refusing to release its own numbers while the Grattan Institute, the Australia Institute, the Australian National University and others pick the plan apart.
One scenario is that Turnbull and Morrison refuse to split the bill, suffer a defeat in the Senate and take their plan to the people at the next election.
It looks like exactly what they want. But they will need a better argument on fairness.
If it comes down to an argument on fairness, the Coalition is on a hiding to nothing. This, and every other blog site that is even slightly to the left of centre (as well as some that aren’t), have discussed the inhumane, immoral and racist treatment of people the Australian Government holds in concentration camps off-shore, while claiming that because they are held off-shore, Australian law doesn’t apply.
Another piece of legislation held up in the Senate is the legislation around drug testing on welfare recipients (to make the tenuous connection between welfare and drug use stronger you’d imagine). According to Toby Hall on the ABC website, 52 submissions were made to the Senate inquiry formed to investigate the plan
How many submissions to the Senate inquiry were unambiguously in favour of the idea? One … from the Government's own Department of Social Services.
And those against?
Some of Australia's leading health and medical organisations such as St Vincent's Health Australia, the Australian Medical Association, the Royal Australasian College of Physicians, the Public Health Association of Australia, the Kirby Institute, the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists … the list goes on.
Add to that the Salvation Army, Anglicare, St Vincent de Paul, Mission Australia, Uniting among others and it's pretty much a "who's who" of Australia's pre-eminent health and community service organisations.
Hall goes on to note that those opposing the plan are the organisations entrusted to treat and care for Australians experiencing addiction every day of the week. What would they know?
Toby Hall suggests fairness would be the treatment of welfare recipients with drug issues in the same manner as if you were
a footballer, an actor, someone from privilege— and you experience addiction, the public and media's response is mainly sympathetic. The individual is, on the whole, surrounded by goodwill; it's largely recognised that they have a health issue. People want them to get better and return to their best selves.
But come from a disadvantaged background or be on income support, and you're a deadbeat, a bludger, deserving little or no sympathy.
The Federal Government has used this proposal to dog whistle community prejudices towards addicts, seeking to make political mileage out of it, all the while saying they're acting in peoples' best interests — it is nothing short of disgraceful.
If they were serious about helping people, they would have come to health and community service organisations before they announced this proposal and asked for our input.
The question remains can a political party buy enough votes by promising effectively a couple of cups of takeaway coffee, under half a packet of ciggies or a pint of beer a week to the ’mug punter’ in 2018? The answer is apparently not.
The pollsters asked a representative sample of 1200 voters: "Given the choice, would you prefer that the Government used extra revenue to provide income tax cuts or to pay off government debt?"
Fifty-seven per cent preferred that the government pay off debt. Thirty-seven per cent went for the tax cut.
Interestingly, it's the Coalition's own voters who feel strongest about this - 68 per cent prefer a smaller national debt than a tax cut.
But a majority of Labor voters - 52 per cent - and a plurality of Greens voters - 49 per cent - feel the same way.
This broad reaction is as Ian McAllister predicted well before the budget.
"It has a name," explains the ANU political scientist. "Sociotropic voting."
Sociotropic choices put the greater good of the country ahead of narrow personal self-interest, or egocentric voting.
Fairfax columnist Peter Hartcher, who wrote the words above, suggests that’s how Thatcher kept winning the Prime Ministership of the UK, she was seen as doing good for the country despite the personal sacrifices that most residents perceived they were facing. Hartcher continues by noting
When it came to last week's budget, McAllister predicted in a conversation with me: "Personal tax cuts will only help the government if the electorate believes that they're good for the country as a whole...
"But it won't if it's just a government saying I'm going to stuff $20 in your pocket."
In the event, Morrison said he'd stuff a maximum of $10 a week in your pocket. And, lacking evidence that this would help economic growth for the country as a whole, he didn't try to make that argument.
It was Labor that promised to stuff $20 a week into your pocket.
Why do politicians refuse to believe decades of consistent polling and research?
They usually say that they don't believe the polling. They say that people just tell pollsters what they think sounds noble. And that, privately, we're all just motivated by base greed.
Which is a funny response from a class of people that lives and dies by poll results.
Perhaps it tells us more about the politicians than it does about the people.
Maybe the polling and Thatcher are correct. Politicians should be daring enough to accept the truth. Tax cuts don’t really mean that much per week to the ‘average punter’ they are trying to get to vote for them, while fixing the country (whether it be reducing debt, provision of infrastructure, assisting those that are less well off or a number of other things) is. Shorten’s ‘fairness’ argument is clever, doubling down on tax cuts isn’t — after all, discretionary expenditure such as smoking a few cigarettes or buying a few cups of coffee a week doesn’t seem to be a big deal to most.
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Folks, I came across this alarming piece this morning in The Huffington Post: Renowned Economist Jeffrey Sachs Rips Trump As A Gibbering, 'Delusional' Threat:
https://www.huffingtonpost.com.au/entry/jeffrey-sachs-slams-delusional-psychopathic-trump_us_5b11e510e4b0d5e89e1fc756
It accords with previous pieces on The Political Sword:
Is Donald Trump mad?: http://www.thepoliticalsword.com/posts.aspx?postid=ab7411e4-95c9-43d6-a49e-bc88bd84ea12
What can be done about President Trump?: http://www.thepoliticalsword.com/posts.aspx?postid=64c53d07-ef95-4c90-a6b0-6d59f34fb640
Morally unfit: http://www.thepoliticalsword.com/posts.aspx?postid=0b507d8a-397a-42af-9a5a-37c2fb4c8df6
The world has a serious problem on its hands while Trump is POTUS. But who is doing anything about it? Who can?
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As usual, the questions about taxes and the budget are based on bullshit neoliberal mythology which pretends that the currency is still backed by gold, and the govt. budget is a household budget, and "debt" needs to be reduced etc.
With a fiat free-floating currency issued by a sovereign govt. and debt denominated entirely in this currency, all those assumptions are nonsense. There is no need "to bring the budget back to surplus", indeed it is usually bad for the economy unless there is a huge trade surplus Norway has. Tax-cuts are bad since they are hard to reverse, and taxes are needed to give the govt. "fiscal space" for its own spending initiatives. They are not needed to "balance the budget", but they are needed nevertheless. I won't write a thesis over here. I refer everyone to excellent books on macro-economics by the s of Bill Mitchell, Warren Mosler, etc.
It is to be expected that the Coalition will slavishly follow neoliberal ideology no matter how out of date it is, no matter how much evidence exists that it is flawed. Entrenched belief propels them; facts are irrelevant.
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UFC 213: After Crushing Rousey and Tate, Amanda Nunes Fights for Legacy
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Amanda Nunes (right) knocked out Ronda Rousey in 48 seconds, but she has much longer to go to build a lasting legacy.Jeff Bottari/Zuffa LLC/Getty Images
Jul 6, 2017-
Dating back to 2006, the UFC has circled the weekends surrounding Independence Day as among the most important of its annual calendar. Since then, the group of names that has headlined its pay-per-views during that time of year include a Who’s Who of UFC greats and legends: Brock Lesnar, Anderson Silva, Conor McGregor, Tito Ortiz and Quinton Jackson, just to name a few.
Among that group, Amanda Nunes’ name looks somewhat out of place. Yet for the second year in a row, she will headline the key weekend.
Nunes, the woman who battered Miesha Tate at last year’s Fourth of July weekend event and who retired Ronda Rousey with a one-sided whipping last December, gets the call to top-line the card once again.
In an era where champion’s reigns are remarkably short-lived, the current UFC bantamweight queen hopes to solidify a hold on a division that less than two years ago was synonymous with Rousey. In the process, she aims to polish her own legacy.
On paper, Nunes—who is facing Valentina Shevchenko at Saturday’s UFC 213—looks like an obvious winner. Not only is she riding the momentum of defeating two of the best-known female fighters ever in Tate and Rousey in back-to-back bouts, but she’s also bigger than Shevchenko and holds a victory over the challenger in a March 2016 bout.
Many observers think Shevchenko (right) will get the better of Nunes if the fight makes it to the championship rounds.Rey Del Rio/Getty Images
That’s a lot trending in Nunes’ direction, yet astute observers can’t help but flash back to the final five minutes of Nunes-Shevchenko I.
After 10 minutes of dominating the fight—a pair of judges even scored the second round 10-8 for Nunes—the Brazilian badly faded in the final round. She was rocked with a hard elbow, her strikes lost all steam, and her output cratered. By the end of the round, Shevchenko had outlanded her by a total of 41-3, according to FightMetric stats.
While Nunes (14-4) held on for a unanimous-decision victory on the strength of the first two rounds, her disastrous final stretch has cast a specter over her chances in the rematch, which is scheduled for five rounds. On some sports books, according to Oddsshark, Shevchenko (14-2) is even a slight favorite, with many onlookers believing a 25-minute championship fight will prove the difference. To that, Nunes scowls.
“I got tired in the round round and she showed up, but I beat her clean,” she said during Wednesday’s edition of UFC Tonight. “I was tired but she didn’t finish me. Imagine me when I’m ready for five rounds.”
It’s a fair position, if only there was some evidence in her late-round beliefs. Nunes has only been out of the first round in four of her last 11 bouts. One was the disastrous third with Shevchenko. In the others, she lost via TKO to Alexis Davis in the second round, via decision to Sarah D’Alelio, and via submission to Cat Zingano in the third.
And in both the Davis and Zingano fights, she suffered the same kind of unraveling as against Shevchenko, winning the first round big and then getting mauled thereafter. To boot, in Round 2 against Davis, she was outlanded by a ludicrous 76 strikes, while in the last two rounds of her fight with Zingano, she was outlanded 79-4.
That’s an indefensible trend with indefensible numbers for a UFC champion, and if Nunes hasn’t fixed her stamina issues, Shevchenko will probably add to the narrative that the Brazilian is a one-round wonder.
Alternatively, Nunes offers Shevchenko plenty to worry about. She is unquestionably the most powerful striker in the bantamweight division, with four UFC knockouts—the most in divisional history.
Nunes’ success has largely come on the strength of her power, often arriving in sharp barrages. As a complementary skill, she also boasts a Brazilian jiu-jitsu black belt. Along with her impressive athleticism, that combination offers many chances at victory for her.
Legacies are made of successes, yes, but they are also the byproduct of careful moment-by-moment, in-fight decision-making. For Nunes, she has to determine whether to follow her usual aggression or pull back and pace herself for the long haul. If she goes for an early finish and doesn’t get it, she may not have enough gas to go the distance. If she is overly cautious, she might put herself in the hole on judges’ scorecards.
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The result hangs in the balance. Since July 2011 when Tate won the Strikeforce bantamweight title, she and Rousey have been involved in every single Strikeforce/UFC title bout.
That run is now over. Nunes first gained renown as the UFC’s first gay champion, but is she now the face of women’s MMA?
“I’m the champion. I have to be,” she said during a recent media conference call. “I’ve proved myself. I got the belt at UFC 200 and I defended against Ronda Rousey. I’m the most dominant in the division. I think I am, and I will keep proving it until people understand I’m here to stay, and I will do it. This is my next step, Valentina. I will keep it going.”
To do that, she must figure out herself on the way to figuring out Shevchenko. This is not so easy to do. As indestructible as she currently looks, that stamina is a hole in the same way that Rousey’s striking defense was. It can either be repaired or exploited.
With Rousey and Tate in her rearview mirror, Nunes has already dispatched arguably the two most famous female MMA fighters ever. Now she is fighting for legacy. Now she is fighting herself.
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Kelly Marie Tran: ‘As an Asian American every role I auditioned for was the same side character’
Cohan Chew 27 December 2017
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"It's hard to be an actor if your parents are from a different world and you didn’t grow up in the entertainment industry."
Kelly Marie Tran has discussed watching herself on screen and her appreciation for her role in Star Wars: The Last Jedi.
In an interview on Freep, Kelly Marie Tran is described as the “breakout star” of Star Wars: The Last Jedi, in which she plays Rose Tico, a Resistance mechanic.
In the interview, Tran reflected on struggling as an Asian American actor. “It’s not just because it’s hard to be an actor, which it is when you’re first starting, especially if your parents are from a different world and you didn’t grow up in the entertainment industry,” she said.
Nonetheless, Tran is determined not to let her success affect her everyday life.
“I love watching movies by myself,” the 28-year-old said. “This is going to sound insane, because we just did this awesome press tour, but in terms of my life – yeah, I did that, but other than that everything is so normal. I thought for a while, “Oh, man, am I going to be worried about leaving the house?” And I’m like, “No!” I went and no one noticed, and it was great.”
“I went to the ArcLight yesterday and saw three movies by myself,” she added. “It was awesome. I saw “Shape of Water,” which I freaking loved. I saw “I, Tonya,” which I also loved. And then I saw … “(The Last) Jedi,” because it’s really weird to watch yourself, and I want to watch it enough to the point where I can forget it’s me. I’m having a hard time doing that at the moment.”
Discussing Star Wars: The Last Jedi, Tran complimented writer and director Rian Johnson and co-star John Boeyaga.“Rian was always so generous in terms of his ability to make everybody feel comfortable, and John Boyega, who I have the most scenes with, was so easy to work with,” she said.
Tran went on to discuss how appreciative she was of Rian introducing a main Asian American character into the Star Wars franchise. “Because I’m an Asian American, and every role I was auditioning for before was sort of this same side character,” she said. “To have someone like Rian write something that was so full and rich, and a complete human – I’ve never had that before. I don’t know that many people of color have that often.”
In other parts of the interview, Tran was keen to keep her cards close to her chest with regards to the future of Rose and Finn’s relationship in the upcoming Star Wars films.
“I don’t want to create any rumors by saying what I think will happen,” Tran said. “But I will say that I really liked the emotional journey that those characters went through together. It starts out with Rose seeing Finn as a hero and someone who is out of her league, someone who represents everything she’s ever believed in.”
“To have Finn immediately tarnish this idea she has in her head about him – which I think is a little bit of her own fault, for idolizing any person — I love the evolution of that relationship.”
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A RETURN TO VIETNAM
by Susan Backs, 24th Evacuation Hospital, Long Binh, 1970-1971 with
Brooke Serpe-Ingold (5th Field Hospital, Bangkok, Thailand 1969-1971)
Susan (Lodge) Backs and Brooke Serpe-Ingold were among 12 persons (ten veterans, two non-veterans) who travelled to Vietnam and Cambodia 12-27 September 2010 with the Vietnam Battlefield Tour group. Two of the veterans were the tour guides. Our journey began in Ha Noi where we were guests of the US Marine Security guards at the Marine House near the US Embassy. We had the opportunity to visit some points of interest: the "Ha Noi Hilton" and the John McCain marker on the bank of the city`s lake where he was shot down and captured (incidentally, the information on the marker noted "USAF", not USN!).
We then flew to Hue - Phu Bai airport to begin exploring battle sites/bases in I-Corps and Special Forces areas: LZ Stud/Vandergrift, A Luoi, Tiger mountain, Da Krong, Khe Sanh, Co Roc mountain, Lang Vei SF camp, Lao Bao (Laotian border), Dong Ha mountain and bridge, Camp Carroll, Cam Lo, Con Thien, the DMZ-Vinh Moc tunnels in North Vietnam, Cua Viet, My Loc, Hai Van pass, Da Nang, Monkey mountain (95th Evac was at the base of mountain), Hoi An, Ngok Tavak SF Camp, Quang Tin (location during Operation Swift in November `67 where Navy Chaplain Fr. Robert Capodanno was killed and received the Medal of Honor posthumously), Chu Lai (where we saw the small clinic funded by Sharon Lane foundation), Quang Ngai.
We continued down the Ho Chi Minh trail along the coast to Qui Nhon (main road there is the former US airstrip) and walked to the site where the 85th Evac had been from 1965-1969. Our travels in the mini bus enabled us to see a great deal of the northern and central highlands, thus allowing us to visit Montagnard villages and major battle sites.
Flying out of Phu Cat airport (approximately one hour from Qui Nhon) (seeing lots of Russian MIG`s on the airstrip), we arrived in Saigon (Ho Chi Minh City), and found the site of the 24th Evac where Susan had been stationed July 70-July 71 (no sign of a hospital) and the 3rd Field Hospital, now a military museum. We then toured this very cosmopolitan/capitalistic, lively city – so different from the austerity evident in Ha Noi and areas north of the former DMZ – visiting many well-known landmark buildings and ending our day with a great dinner at the Rex Hotel!
The next morning Susan, Brooke, and Bob Burke – our tour guide /USMC Vietnam veteran – flew about an hour away to Siem Reap, Cambodia (an optional part of trip; the others went back to CONUS). Our three days in Cambodia were highlighted by visiting the spectacular temples (wats) in Angkor; elephant rides; a wild ride on the Tonle Sap Lake,largest lake in Southeast Asia, fed by the Mekong river; visiting an orphanage; visiting donated water wells (our tour guide finds sponsors); and visiting memorials to the victims of the genocide (over 2 million Cambodians) perpetrated by the Khmer Rouge and Viet Cong. The Cambodian food was our favorite, including the French-influenced baguettes and pastries!
Vietnam Battle Field Tours is a non-profit corporation founded and led by Vietnam veterans. We highly recommend this tour group for returning veterans; in fact, we are planning another trip with them, this time to the Philippines, in January 2012.
With hostesses in HaNoi
At the Rex Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)
Brooke & Susan at Banteay Samre Temple (Citadel of Women)
Susan, Bob Burke & Brooke at Gate of Angkor Thom
This story first appeared on the The Army Nurse Corps Association's web site
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WISSARD
Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling
Science and Operations
The WISSARD project focuses on the lower portion of the Whillans Ice Stream (formerly Ice Stream B) on the Siple Coast in West Antarctica, which has long been the focus of field-work within the US Antarctic Program. In 2007, an extensive hydrological system under Whillans and Mercer ice streams was discovered through analysis of ICESat laser altimetry data. There are two main sites for the WISSARD project: i) one of the active subglacial lakes and ii) a region of the grounding zone downstream of the lake.
Subglacial Lake Whillans
Subglacial Lake Whillans (SLW) is an active subglacial lake on lower Whillans Ice Stream. The ICESat data detected deformation of the ice surface in response to subglacial water activity [Fricker et al., 2007; Fricker and Scambos, 2009], and were used to monitor the activity of SLW intermittently between October 2003 and October 2009. During this time there were two complete fill/drain cycles (see Figure). There are no data available before ICESat, so it is not known how long the lake had been quiescent before 2003. However these data do allow for a periodic drainage cycle with a residence time on the order of three years.
SLW is an ideal candidate for drilling for the following reasons:
It is located beneath a major West Antarctic ice stream that is known to have highly variable surface velocity
Safety/accessibility considerations
no visible surface crevassing
close to the grounding line (~80 km)
accessible from McMurdo Station
relatively thin ice thickness (800 m); for comparison, ice thicknesses over Subglacial Lake Ellsworth and Subglacial Lake Vostok, are ~3 km and ~4 km respectively.
Low contamination risk: lake sits at the seaward end of the hydrologic catchment, which alleviates concern over inadvertent biological contamination. Due to its location, any potential environmental impact would be confined to a limited area close to the ocean with a relatively short hydraulic residence time.
Grounding zone
The most likely flow-path from SLW to the grounding line has been estimated from the hydrostatic hydropotential derived from a surface DEM and bedrock DEM, and suggests that the outflow enters the Ross Ice Shelf cavity in an embayment near (84.35°S, 163.06°W) (see Figure). The final location of the grounding zone site will depend on our geophysical site surveys, which will include collecting extensive high-resolution radar and seismic data. Surveying this part of the grounding zone will allow us to determine the effect of lakes on grounding zone processes and their stability, and vice versa, in addition to their effect on subglacial sedimentary processes and ocean-induced basal melting.
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Court to determine if Pa. schools are liable for ongoing bullying
Written by Robert Brod/WHYY | Nov 13, 2018 4:55 AM
FILE PHOTO: People walk by the Pennsylvania Judicial Center Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2015, at the state Capitol in Harrisburg. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke)
(Harrisburg) -- In a case with statewide implications, plaintiffs will argue before Commonwealth Court today that school districts should be subject to the state's anti-discrimination law when failing to intercede when students are harassed by peers based on classifications such as race, gender, religion and sexual orientation.
The lawsuit centers on the alleged inaction of staff at a Philadelphia elementary school in 2011, where the plaintiff -- then an eight-year-old boy -- was targeted by classmates who used sexual and racial slurs to demean the student for not conforming to gender norms.
Attorneys for the plaintiff say school leaders knew of the harassment and failed to stop it before it escalated to a brutal sexual assault.
At a hearing in Philadelphia, they will claim that districts should be held liable for such inaction under the Pennsylvania Human Relations Act, which typically protects employees from harassment from superiors.
The Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas previously ruled against plaintiffs in this case. In a different case, the lower court ruled in favor of a bullied student, ordering the School District of Philadelphia to pay $500,000 for a violation of the Human Relations Act.
Onlookers expect the decision in this case to establish precedent.
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Ragdoll physics are all the rage in 3D shooter games, causing characters to die in glorious realism before glitching as soon as they get anywhere near a wall. This two-part video will teach you how to create a basic ragdoll for a biped model using the Reactor engine within 3D Studio MAX. This is a very basic discussion of ragdolls, but will get you started in the right direction perfectly.
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