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Jahana Hayes
House infighting: Does Pelosi have a tea party problem?
By LISA MASCARO and LAURIE KELLMANMarch 9, 2019
Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, joins Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., as Democrats rally outside the Capitol ahead of passage of H.R. 1, "The For the People Act," a bill which aims to expand voting rights and strengthen ethics rules, in Washington, Friday, March 8, 2019. The House passed a resolution to condemn anti-Semitism and other bigotry on Thursday following debate over Omar's recent comments suggesting House supporters of Israel have dual allegiances. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)
WASHINGTON (AP) — A restive group of newcomers. Baffled party leaders. Fiery conversations behind closed doors that spill into public view and threaten to upend legislation.
After a wrenching week for Democrats, it’s hard not to wonder: Does Speaker Nancy Pelosi have a tea party problem?
Emboldened by their ability to seize the spotlight and shape the national debate, a core group of high-profile freshmen Democrats are driving an agenda that could define the party for years to come. Much like the tea party conservatives who vaulted Republicans to power a decade ago, these Democrats’ firm ideology and wait-for-no-one swagger have set off a fight for the future of the party.
This week they helped sway the House majority during the emotional debate over how to respond to remarks from freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar that were viewed by some as anti-Semitic. In a party meeting, another freshman, Rep. Jahana Hayes, was unafraid to question Pelosi and other leaders who sought to find a middle ground and balance the complaints of other members.
That could be a preview of what’s to come. Some of the same lawmakers who defended Omar are pushing the party to endorse drastic steps to tackle climate change with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal. They’re ready to impeach President Donald Trump, openly defying Pelosi’s resistance to the idea.
Looking ahead, newly-elected Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., said the events so far have “made us stronger.”
The difference between the old and new guard is not just about policy. It’s also about tactics. The newcomers, from a generation decades younger than their leaders, are uninterested in House culture that once rewarded freshmen who waited their turn and kept their heads down. Some in the new class make their case on social media and use America’s curiosity about them to their advantage.
“We not only look differently, but we speak differently and we work very differently,” said Tlaib, whose call to impeach Trump — hours after being sworn into office, punctuated with a profanity — rocketed across Twitter.
“Right now, we’re feeling more and more heard and seen here,” she said.
The challenge ahead is whether Democrats can fulfill their promise of showing Americans they can govern and not slip into the disarray that tangled Republicans when they controlled the House.
The tea party class came to Washington in 2011, handing the reins to House Speaker John Boehner, but only rarely taking his lead. The hardline conservatives were able to capitalize on built-in leverage points to flex their power on priority issues — using budget battles to cut spending or using the debt limit deadline to rein in deficits. They hung together, even as they threatened to shut down government by refusing to give their votes to pass legislation.
The empowered liberal freshmen don’t appear to have as clear a strategy. They are mainly free agents with their own brands and followings, which they leverage in similar but sometimes different ways. Their voices, and millions of social media followers, are perhaps their most valuable currency.
The debate over Omar’s comments — a fight over race, identity and tolerance — clearly hit a pressure point, creating some unexpected alliances between the newcomers and other members. They quickly found allies among the older guard.
The passion in the debate took some leaders by surprise and made for a complex solution. What started out as a denunciation of anti-Semitism ended up being a debate over how to say the party stands against bigotry. And it ended what amounted to a four-month honeymoon for the House Democrats.
Not all freshmen are eager to be branded as young, liberal and restless.
While much of the attention has flowed to Omar, Ocasio-Cortez and their fellow travelers on the left flank, another freshman, Rep. Donna Shalala, a former Cabinet secretary who represents a Miami-area swing district, said other freshman expect to be heard, too.
“This narrative that two or three people are driving the agenda is ridiculous,” she said.
Like Boehner, Pelosi is known as a keeper of institutional norms, and expects a certain amount of deference. But what is different is the way the two wield the power of the gavel. Boehner was slower to discipline those who strayed from his direction, while Pelosi is seen as one more willing to assert the leader’s ability to control dissent.
GOP strategist Sean Spicer said Pelosi’s problem is less about vote tallies than the tone of the debate coming from the new members, which has been impassioned at times.
“Boehner had more of a problem with keeping troops together on key votes and key policies,” said Spicer, the former Trump press secretary. “Right now she’s got a problem of how do you excuse some of the behavior and style.”
Pelosi, speaking Friday at the Economic Club of Washington, said she “thrives” on the diverse voices in her caucus and suggested that Democrats “channel our exuberances” to work together.
She acknowledged that she’s got some things to learn about the institution in which she’s served for more than three decades. But she added, “There’s something to be said for experience.”
Veteran lawmakers watching the new majority take shape are similarly confident.
Many of them have served these past years while Republicans were in control, waiting for this moment to return to power. Rep. Bill Pascrell, D-N.J., says the difference between the tea party troubles and this new generation is the role of Pelosi.
Boehner, he said, “gave people enough rope, and then it choked the party.” Former House Speaker Paul Ryan “had the same problem and it ate him, it ate him alive. I think that Nancy’s trying to listen, but she’s firm. She knows where the line is.”
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This gorgeous three bedroom top floor duplex apartment exudes character and style in equal measure, and simply must be viewed to appreciate not only the generous levels of space and magnificent views towards Blackpool and the Cumbrian hills, but also the thoughtful design, both of the interior of the property, but more generally, the development itself which has seen the renovation and restoration of one of Ormskirk’s landmark buildings ‘The Water Tower’ which was originally built around 1850 and boasts six storeys topped by the large metal water tank which forms the third level of this stunning home.
Offering apartment style living of the sort which is normally reserved for the fashionable city centres of Manchester or Liverpool, the conversion has created a real ‘grand designs’ type property. Once a building designed for function over aesthetics, it has been re-modelled into a new purpose for the 21st century, retaining distinctive architectural elements such as the side projectile pipes and arched windows, the building has been sympathetically converted into two executive apartments and provides a real lesson in how to blend character and contemporary flair.
Whilst offering all the conveniences one would expect of a modern home, the property has lost none of its charm, a particular highlight being the cast iron support beams of the water tower which provide rustic acknowledgements to the building’s industrial past. One enters the building via the secure telephone entry system, and proceeds via the lift-service to the fourth floor, where one can access the private living spaces, entering via the sizeable reception hallway and through into the main living area with a dining room and open plan kitchen which emphasises the feeling of space, as well as the neutral decor and high quality of fixtures and fittings. The kitchen itself affords an array of quality fitted wall and base units with ample workspace, a breakfast bar, quartz tops and integrated appliances. Further accommodation highlights include a 14’ lounge, two lovely bedrooms, a third bedroom/study, a stylish modern bathroom and a quality three piece en-suite shower room.
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__label__cc | 0.610864 | 0.389136 | George Frederick URQUHART
Regimental number 6910A
Place of birth Malvern, Victoria
School Armadale State School, Victoria
Religion Church of England
Occupation Fitter's assistant
Address East Caulfield, Victoria
Next of kin Mother, Mrs. D.M. Urquhart, 'Ida Villa', Neerim Road, East Caulfield, Victoria
Previous military service Served for 4 years, Senior Cadets; 1 year, 47th Infantry Regiment, Citizen Military Forces.
Enlistment date 6 August 1917
Date of enlistment from Nominal Roll 6 August 1917
Place of enlistment Malvern, Victoria
Unit name 24th Battalion, 20th Reinforcements
Embarkation details Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A71 Nestor on 21 November 1917
Regimental number from Nominal Roll 6910
Fate Killed in Action 1 September 1918
Place of death or wounding Mont St Quentin, France
Age at death 20
cemetery records Parents: George Mayon and Daisy Matilda URQUHART, 'Ida Villa', 234 Neerim Road, East Caulfield, Victoria.
Family/military connections Uncle: 68 Lieutenant Ernest POTTER, 38th Bn, returned to Australia, 27 May 1919.
Embarked Melbourne, 21 November 1917; disembarked Suez, 15 December 1917.
Admitted to Suez Hospital (pyrexia), Suez, 26 December 1917; discharged to duty, Suez, 8 January 1918, and taken on strength; struck off strength to Port Said for embarkation, Suez, 9 January 1918.
Embarked Port Said, 9 January 1918; disembarked Taranto, Italy, 20 January 1918; entrained for Cherbourg, France, 24 January 1918, disembarked Southampton, England, 2 February 1918, and marched into 6th Training Bn, Fovant.
Sick to Fovant Hospital, Fovant, 28 March 1918; admitted to Military Hospital, Fovant, 29 January 1918; discharged to Training Depot, Fovant, 20 April 1918.
Marched into No. 3 Command Depot, Hurdcott, 20 April 1918; marched out to 2nd Training Bde, Hurdcott, 21 May 1918, and marched into 5th Training Bn, Fovant, 21 May 1918.
Absent Without Leave, 12 June 1918; returned to 5th Training Bn, 18 June 1918.
Found guilty, 22 June 1918, of conduct to the prejudice of good order and military discipline in that he while a defaulter failed to appear and answer his name on all parades, Fovant, 21 June 1918: awarded forfeiture of 17 days' pay, 22 June 1918.
Proceeded overseas to France, 28 July 1918; marched into Base Depot, Havre, 31 July 1918; marched out to unit, 4 August 1918.
Taken on strength, 24th Bn, in the field, 8 August 1918.
Killed in action, France, 1 September 1918.
Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
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__label__cc | 0.50571 | 0.49429 | Alameda Point Environmental Report: Rocket manufacturing coming to Alameda Point, April...
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__label__wiki | 0.826849 | 0.826849 | The Heat: China’s Belt & Road Initiative and Russia
Anand Naidoo
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Workers install wires on a ‘Golden Bridge of Silk Road’ structure on a platform outside the National Convention Center, the venue which will hold the Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation, in Beijing, April 18, 2017. Leaders of 28 countries are set to attend the Chinese summit showcasing President Xi Jinping’s signature foreign policy plan, but few will hail from major Western countries. Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi said Tuesday that Vladmir Putin of Russia, Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey and Spain’s Mariano Rajoy are among those slated to appear next month in Beijing for a summit to discuss Xi’s “One Belt, One Road” infrastructure investment program to stitch together the Eurasian continent. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
Published May 4, 2017 at 7:56 PM
Updated May 4, 2017 at 9:24 PM
China’s Belt and Road Initiative is a global economic endeavor linking Asia with Europe and Africa. Now, Russia is set to play a significant role.
From energy to infrastructure projects, Beijing is looking to build closer economic ties with Moscow.
Later this month, Chinese President Xi Jinping will host “The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation” in Beijing. And among those in attendance will be Russian President Vladimir Putin.
In 2015, the two countries reached a strategic agreement to integrate China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Russia’s Eurasian Economic Union.
Together, the two countries are working on more than 60 projects worth some $90 billion. CGTN’s Daria Bondarchuk reports from Moscow.
The Heat: China’s Belt & Road Initiative and Russia Pt 1
From energy to infrastructure projects, Beijing is looking to build closer economic ties with Moscow. CGTN's Daria Bondarchuk reports from Moscow.
For an in-depth discussion on how Moscow might fight in with China’s Belt & Road Initiative:
Chen Chenchen, deputy director and research fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University
Song Zhang, chief correspondent with Shanghai Wen Hui Daily
Maxim Mikhalev, program director for East Asia and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Countries at the Center for Crisis Society Studies
Anton Fedyashin, professor of Russian History at American University
For an in-depth discussion on how Moscow might fight in with China's Belt & Road Initiative, tonight's panel is joined Chen Chenchen, deputy director and research fellow at the Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University, Song Zhang, chief correspondent with Shanghai Wen Hui Daily, Maxim Mikhalev, program director for East Asia and Shanghai Cooperation Organization Countries at the Center for Crisis Society Studies and Anton Fedyashin, professor of Russian History at American University.
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Flora Duffy is hometown hero with WTS Bermuda win
By Chelsea White on 28/04/18 at 9:54 pm
Flora Duffy (BER) could not have asked for a better race scenario as a dominant performance captured her the 2018 MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda crown in front of thousands of cheering fans.
Flora Duffy (BER) could not have asked for a better race scenario as a dominant performance captured her the 2018 MS Amlin World Triathlon Bermuda crown in front of thousands of cheering fans. The gold earned on home soil was her first WTS win of the season and a first for the inaugural event, with a comfortable victory margin of 96 seconds in the first Olympic-distance race of the season.
“I don’t think this moment is going to sink in for a while, but what I will say when it does is that this will probably be one of the highlights of my career. I mean this is incredible, the streets were lined, and it was just a phenomenal atmosphere, it was incredible. It was hard for me to control my emotions throughout that whole 10km, but with like 9.5km to go I just thought I need to smile and celebrate and soak this in,” Duffy said following her hometown-hero win.
Assuming the lead in the swim and maintaining it for the bike and run, Duffy also became the first woman in WTS history to win a race having led in all three disciplines, including a 40-kilometre solo bike ride.
“That wasn’t my plan, I wanted to get a small breakaway, that’s why I pushed in the swim. Going up Corkscrew I wasn’t really sure where everybody was, I knew Kirsten (Kasper) was there, I attacked it because that was my plan and I thought she would come with me, but she didn’t. So I thought, well I guess I am going 40km solo,” she added.
Second place went to Great Britain’s Vicky Holland after she won in a photo-finish sprint to the line with USA’s Katie Zaferes who took the bronze.
Holland said afterwards, “I just found out I came second, I could not have told you at the finish. We were waiting five minutes to find out who it was that came second. I think all credit to Katie (Zaferes), she pulled me around a lot on the run. I had a bad transition, it took me a lap to catch her and then after that I just sort of tucked in and tried to hold on. This was my first Olympic distance in over 11 months and I wasn’t sure how I would fair on the second half, so I really just let Katie do the work and prepared myself for a sprint.”
The women’s race directly followed the men, but with headliner Duffy the hometown hero, the crowds seemed to have doubled in size by the start. With the sound of the horn, the women dove into the water to get WTS Bermuda underway, with Georgia Taylor-Brown (GBR), Lisa Perterer (AUT) and Cecilia Perez (MEX) forced to serve a 15-second penalty in the first transition after a false start off the pontoon.
It took mere seconds for Duffy to get ahead in the water, but Kirsten Kasper (USA) remained alongside her for the 1500-metre two-lap swim. Duffy held that lead and exited the swim in front for the first time in a WTS race.
Gliding through a swift transition, Kasper and Duffy headed out together onto the bike course, but it quickly became clear for Kasper that Duffy wasn’t going to hold back on her home turf. The Bermudian pushed the pace and by the time the two got to Corkscrew Hill, Duffy had lost Kasper, with the American forced to wait for a chasing pack to catch up.
Duffy continued pushing on alone, an effort that resulted in her tackling the 40-kilometre bike course with a challenging hill ten times over without any help. Support instead came in the form of the local crowd, the cheers building for their hero as she continued to extend her lead.
The main chase pack certainly had strength in numbers with the likes of Zaferes, Holland, Jodie Stimpson (GBR), Kasper, Alice Betto (ITA), Maya Kingma (NED) and Taylor Spivey (USA) together, but they lost ground with every passing lap and Duffy entered T2 with a lead of over 1:20.
Meanwhile, the Series leader entering the race, Rachel Klamer (NED), was sadly not well and found herself in the second chase group, trailing by over two minutes.
Once through T2, Duffy still refused to let up the pace. Holding on firmly to her lead, she ran the full 10-kilometre run unscathed and untroubled, giving the fans exactly what they had hoped for and entering the finish chute with Bermuda flag in hand to secure the hometown win.
“I just want to say thank you to every Bermudian that came out to support me. It was incredible. This is an absolute highlight of my career and I love that all sorts of people were out here, whether they knew what triathlon was a year ago or not, and they were celebrating. It was an amazing moment for me and my sporting career, it was incredible!” Duffy said of the rousing support she received throughout the race.
Second place came down to a tense battle between Holland and Zaferes, after the pair broke away from their cycle group. While Zaferes had the slight edge for the majority of the run, Holland fought back in the final moments and it was a dramatic sprint to the line. The photo finish finally confirmed that Holland edged the silver and Zaferes would get her first WTS podium of the season with the bronze.
“I am so excited to be on the podium, I mean this race wasn’t exactly an easy one. I was fighting from the start of the swim, it just did not feel good. I just am so happy to be on the podium,” Zaferes said afterwards.
Kirsten Kasper finished fourth, a result which, coupled with her fourth-place finish at WTS Abu Dhabi, means that the American becomes the new overall Series leader.
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__label__wiki | 0.847603 | 0.847603 | NFL awards funding to 3 startups to develop safety innovations
Published: Feb 04, 2017 at 12:15 pm
Updated: Feb 04, 2017 at 12:33 pm
HOUSTON -- The NFL's effort to strive for a safer game continued Saturday with the league's second annual "1st and Future" event at the Texas Medical Center Innovation Institute (TMCx).
"We think technology is our friend," Commissioner Roger Goodell said during a roundtable discussion. "Technology is going to help solve these complex problems for us. In just a short time of our Head Health (Initiative), we've developed a new surface below the artificial field that will probably reduce the impact 70 or 80 percent. That's extraordinary, and that's not going to help not just football players, but soccer players and everything else. We are pretty close to a pinprick that will identify and diagnose a concussion accurately on the sideline. There are helmet devices that are coming out and changing the helmet structure and the materials used in that. So there are actual real developments that are coming out of technology and innovation."
To help advance technological breakthroughs that could make football safer and more efficient at all levels, startups summited entries in one of three categories: Communicating with the Athlete, Training the Athlete and Materials to Protect the Athlete.
On Saturday, three companies competed in each category to earn $50,000, two Super Bowl tickets and acceptance into the Texas Medical Center Accelerator to help further develop their product.
The winners were decided by a panel of judges that included several decorated medical doctors, a former NFL player (Chad Pennington) and one current NFL player (John Urschel). This season's victors:
» Communicating with the Athlete: GoRoute a startup that created on-field wearable technology to enhance communication and allow players to receive digital play diagrams, promoting quicker learning and practicing techniques.
» Training the Athlete: Mobilve Virtual Player, a company that designs, markets and distributes 'virtual players' -- motorized tackling dummies -- that reduce the risk of getting injured while tackling during practice.
» Materials to Protect the Athlete: Windpact, a startup, led by former NFL cornerback Shawn Springs, that developed a padding system designed to absorb and disperse impact energy to improve the performance of helmets and other protective gear.
Each of the winning startups stressed how their product could help promote safer football at its root level.
"To me the critical point is youth football," said Dartmouth coach Buddy Teevens, who helped innovate the virtual player. "The greatest number of guys are involved at that level. And in terms of teaching and safety, if we can eliminate 50 percent of the problem, teach young guys proper technique, we're going to take millions, thousands, hundreds of hits off people during the course of time."
Protecting the brain, monitoring concussions and helping to curtail head injuries were a fundamental talking point of the conference.
"The brain is kind of understudied as an organ," said GE CEO Jeff Immelt, who partnered with the NFL on the Head Health Initiative. "So all the progress that has been made in cancer and heart disease, studies on the health of the brain have trailed on that."
While noting there is a long way to go in studying the brain, both Immelt and Goodell noted football safety has made a lot of progress, especially in regard to understanding the seriousness of concussions.
"I had a concussion playing baseball, and I think my mother was asked to flash a flashlight in my eyes in the middle of the night a couple times, other than that nothing," Goodell said. "We've come so far (in understanding concussions)."
Added Immelt: "What science can do is really begin studying the brain over time, be able to tell who should play, who shouldn't play and be able to distributed way on high school fields and football fields and we're kind of like one percent into that journey."
Awarding funding to three startups on Saturday, the NFL and its partners hope to quickly push beyond that one percent. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line902 |
__label__wiki | 0.697955 | 0.697955 | Why we should never give up our quest to find (or write) the Great Indian Novel
The term is a contentious one for many good reasons, but it opens up discussions about what we should demand from publishers and from works of fiction.
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To resurrect the not-quite-dead debate around “The Great Indian Novel” is to invite a monsoon-like deluge of conflicting opinions, from readers to publishing gatekeepers, around the definition and significance of each word in that phrase.
Yet, every few years, there is a slowly gathering literary congestus of blurbs and reviews with generously scattered flurries of this term. In 2018, a fine, oblique drizzle seems to have begun with synonymous superlatives.
As usual, there are two marked features of such invocations. First, the term appears mostly in reference to novels by male writers. The year 2017 saw three Indian novels by women writers that were acclaimed nationally and internationally: Meena Kandasamy’s When I Hit You; Preti Taneja’s We That Are Young; and Arundhati Roy’s The Ministry of Utmost Happiness. Yet, only that last novel drew direct references to The Great Indian Novel, or TGIN. This year, 2018, has been one of slim pickings so far for the novel. Reviewers seem to be pointing toward Amitabha Bagchi’s Half the Night is Gone, and, due to the Netflix adaptation, resurrecting Vikram Chandra’s Sacred Games from 2006. Which brings us to the second feature – there is still no consensus about what this contentious term actually means.
Why we need to talk about it
The American equivalent of the term, The Great American Novel (TGAN), was coined about 150 years ago in an essay for The Nation by novelist John William DeForest. The most recent public debate occurred when the LA Times ran a TGAN series with recommendations from their critics-at-large. Most notably, author Laila Lalami questioned the meaning of every word in the phrase and Marlon James dismissed the exercise as pointless and potentially harmful. There have been several such arguments for and against TGAN and the term is often used pejoratively or satirically.
That said, one reason the West can now afford to turn away from their longtime TGAN debates is that, compared to India, their literary and alt-literary environment is thriving somewhat better. Also, especially in the UK and the US, literary discussions have moved on to other pressing topics like women’s writing and diversity across sociocultural groups, especially minority voices. Of course, these have come to the forefront simply because earlier TGAN debates were as bias-ridden and white male-centric as other canonical ones, therefore failing in what Viet Thanh Nguyen recently called “narrative plenitude”.
In India, where literacy rates are still lower than desired and school syllabi across the country still lack substantial literary fare, it may seem anachronous to ask for such discussions. It would also be difficult to argue that any single novel can fully represent the universal Indian experience – India is many different things to each of us. However, a wider, public discussion in the TGIN frame can enable us to explore more critically, as a society, what we need from enduring works of creative writing. Like all human creations – film, music, art, architecture, science, technology – the fictional works of our times are sociocultural, historical, and political artifacts reflecting our experiences, desires, conflicts, and potential.
As our world takes rapid, unforeseen, complicated turns, this kind of ongoing scrutiny, especially across diverse communities, not just publishing gatekeepers, is crucial to fight off sociocultural inertia and stagnation.
Where India differs
All of the pros and cons of The Great American Novel could easily apply to the Indian context, with three added convolutions.
First, we have vast literatures in multiple languages and spanning several centuries. Does it even make sense to assess a regional language novel – which has its own literary tradition separate from the Western-influenced one of English novels – with the same benchmarks, standards, and parameters?
Second, given the grave consequences that are often faced by writers for exploring certain socio-political truths in India, some have taken to self-censorship. Publishing gatekeepers, especially the influential ones, seem to be mostly apathetic and worryingly silent about this. A candidate for TGIN may well be sitting unpublished or, worse, unfinished in a writer’s locked desk.
Third, it is a commonly-known fact within the mainstream Indian publishing ecosystem that editors are not able to commission or publish novels their sales teams do not green-light. The justifications are endless: the Indian literary market is too fragmented by language and genre; readers prefer commercial fiction or celeb-lit or nonfiction; the industry is too incestuous, leading to favouritism; gender/class/caste/religion biases are deeply-entrenched even if unconscious; and so on.
To an extent, some or all of this happens in other countries too. In India, however, this has stifled groundbreaking innovation and creativity in fiction even more because of the longtime hegemony of a handful of large publishing houses and the insufficient number of innovative, risk-taking independent presses. Consider, for example, how both the fiction works on the 2018 Shakti First Book Prize shortlist were first published outside India by independent presses (and went on to win awards): We That Are Young by Preti Taneja (published by Galley Beggar Press, UK; winner of the Desmond Elliott Prize) and Temporary People by Deepak Unnikrishnan (published by Restless Books, US; winner of the Restless Books Prize).
The Great Indian Novel (in English)
Despite, and perhaps because of, the above roadblocks, perhaps it is easier to focus this debate on The Great Indian Novel in English, including, of course, translations of novels from other languages. After all, English is also an Indian language, to which our many other languages have contributed generously.
As for the usual argument about it being the colonialist language of the oppressors, we should ask ourselves, “which language has not been the oppressor’s tongue,” as Sujata Bhatt once wrote in her poem, “A Different History”.
Further, as Agha Shahid Ali once said:
“I think, we in the subcontinent, have been granted a rather unique opportunity: contribute to the English language in ways that the British, the Americans, the Australians, also the Canadians, cannot. We can do things with the syntax that will bring the language alive in rich and strange ways ...”
— Arvind Mehrotra’s introduction in 'The Oxford India Anthology of Twelve Modern Indian Poets'
This is far from a new debate. Salman Rushdie wrote in the introduction of his prose anthology Mirrorwork: 50 Years of Indian Writing: 1947-1997 that Indian prose in English was “stronger and more important body of work than most of what has been produced in the 16 ‘official languages’ of India”. Amit Chaudhuri responded by editing another prose anthology, The Picador Book of Modern Indian Literature, where he selected and defended works in other regional languages as well as English. VS Naipaul, who recently passed away, said and wrote many characteristically colourful things about Indian writing in English and other languages.
What is “great”?
But what exactly constitutes “great”? With all its synonymous glories, it is a frustratingly generic and subjective descriptor. To steer the dialogue into fertile territories, we need a suitable benchmark for TGINE: a novel that could work best as a widely-agreed upon measure of quality and an appropriate standard to compare against until a new novel proves worthy enough to take its place or we have to recalibrate to a different benchmark.
For many (English) readers of my generation and older, the big novel that first spoke to and for us was Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children. To date, it embodies the many layers, colours, flavours, textures, voices, desires, aspirations, joys, struggles, successes, losses, and failures of India and being Indian at a certain time like no other. Balancing nuanced plot and prose with compelling substance and style, it set a very high bar. There have been many exceptional Indian novels before and since but, arguably, none has been as audacious and brilliant in portraying the country’s geo-political troubles, sociocultural fabric, and collective conscience.
Still, it is a novel by a male writer with an elite Cambridge pedigree. Let us consider it then only as a benchmark, not an absolute target. Novels less grand in scope than Rushdie’s can and should earn the TGINE label. In her essay collection, No Time to Spare, Ursula K Le Guin, wrote about TGAN: “...its special quality is to outlast the moment and carry immediacy, impact, meaning, undiminished or even increasing with time, to ages and people entirely different from those the novelist wrote for.” Smaller-canvas novels, especially by writers from marginalised communities, can also embody this special quality.
Special quality
But how is this “special quality” achieved? How do we know it when we come across it? Here are some proposed parameters – not definitive or exhaustive – with which we might examine potential candidates:
Does the novel capture relevant historical, sociocultural, and geopolitical contexts through a multi-dimensional narrative? Because India is too maddeningly diverse for anything less.
Does the novel pay as much attention to the nuances, subtleties, and complexities of language, tempo, and narrative style as to the story, characters, settings, and themes? Because our rich multilingual heritage is alive with entire histories and ways of being that must carry over well into Indian English too (and, indeed, go beyond carrying over if we pay heed to Agha Shahid Ali).
Does the novel innovate with form, literary devices, or structure? Because we have so many literary traditions to draw from that TGINE should aim to be its own unique creature rather than fit conventional or Western models.
Does the novel demand a deeper level of reader engagement, immersion, and reflection? Which is not to say that escapism and entertainment are to be avoided — thinking and enjoying are not mutually exclusive activities.
Does the novel avoid giving pat answers? The goal being, as Chekhov famously wrote, to frame issues, problems, or questions as accurately as possible rather than try to resolve them neatly; to bring new clarity that is both unsettling and enlightening.
Demanding greatness
Unlike historical records and journalistic reportage, novels are immersive, distilled accounts of the power of our interior selves to imagine, create, connect, provoke, arouse, and inspire us to our possibilities, accomplishments, and failures.
So every generation – maybe even every decade – deserves their own TGINE, one that speaks to their time and experiences, helps them make sense of their past and present, illuminates their future, and becomes their abiding legacy to future generations.
The novel has long proved itself capable of innovative reincarnations even with other modes of storytelling and forms of distraction. Publishing gatekeepers (including reviewers) will always be eager to shower their curated favourites with superlatives. However, all of us who love novels can be literary rainmakers and influence which publishing winds get to prevail.
Let’s be more actively discerning and publicly demanding about the novels held up as “great” representations of our complex times, our deepest experiences, and our intimate selves. Let’s encourage more independent presses to take the risks that big publishing houses shy away from. Let’s challenge book reviewers and award juries to be neutral, fair, and honest. Let’s organise literary events within our own communities to celebrate the best. And let’s aim to write the next TGINE as if it is our highest imaginative act of vision, faith, and desire for generations to come.
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An episode of Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians
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Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians will give you an inside look into the lives of some of our most notable young Cornellians. Learn who they are and what role Cornell University played in their professional and personal lives.
Created and produced by Amanda Massa.
Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13.
Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Season one bonus #2: greatest hits from the Lou Diamond '92 series
This week on Fresh from the Hill, you'll hear clips from the episodes listed below. If you haven't already listened to those episodes in their entirety, we recommend you go back and take a listen! It will be well worth your time. Episode 7: Meet Lou Diamond '92 Episode 8: Little Sister - Irene Li '12 Episode 9: I Just Need a Beer - Jack Mason '11 Episode 10: People are the X Factor - Kia Albertson Rogers '13 Episode 11: Pathways - Becky Katz '09 Episode 12: Connecting Artists to Fans... from WVBR to SiriusXM to Spotify - Jordan Gremli '08 Episode 19: Second Chances - Darnell Epps '19 Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians was created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Season one bonus #1: greatest hits from the Alex Zalben '99 series
For the next three weeks, we'll be bringing you the best moments from season one of Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians. In this episode, you'll hear clips from the episodes listed below. If you haven't already listened to those episodes in their entirety, we recommend you go back and take a listen! It will be well worth your time. Episode 1 (trailer): Introducing Fresh from the Hill - Alex Zalben '99 Episode 2: Find Your North Star - Svante Myrick '09 Episode 3: Take the Plunge - Stephen Hall '06 Episode 4: Who Made Your Beats for You - Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo '08, MA '15, PhD '19 Episode 5: Why are you Trying to Study the Magic that is Love - Dr. Marisa Cohen '06 Episode 6: It Doesn't Get Old - Meghan Dubyak '04 Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians was created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Second Chances - Darnell Epps '19
From the Brooklyn housing projects, to private Catholic School, to a near 17-year incarceration at Five Points Correctional Facility, to Cornell University, Darnell Epps '19 is not your typical Cornell Senior. Hear Darnell's fascinating and inspirational story about taking the wrong path in life, lessons learned, and coming out the other side. “One thing that struck me deep was seeing the pain… When I walked in the courtroom and I would see a packed courtroom and I would see families on both sides, feeling pain. I would see the tears in my mother’s eyes, the embarrassment that I caused her, the shame that I brought. She was a New York City Police Officer, but yet had to explain to her colleagues that her two sons were incarcerated for murder. And she was at trial every day. She stuck by me. She came up on the visit practically every month to see Darrell and I. It was that. It was witnessing that. It was seeing that. That really brought me face-to-face with the need to ultimately become a responsible adult and to break out of this way of thinking that seemed to dominate my teenage years.” Check out Darnell's Op Ed in the New York Times. Hosted by Lou Diamond '92. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
The Lucky Break - Ritu Raman '12
Ritu Raman is an engineer, writer, and educator with a passion for introducing bio-hybrid materials into the toolbox of every inventor. She grew up in India, Kenya, and the United States and has learned to appreciate and thrive in diverse and dynamic environments. Her life experiences have shown her that technical innovation can drive positive social change, and this inspires her to help democratize and diversify STEM education around the world. Ritu is currently a L’Oréal USA postdoctoral fellow in the renowned Langer Lab at MIT and a member of the Forbes 30 Under 30 Class of 2018. Listen in as Ritu chats with Aaron Kominos-Smith about how she navigated the US college process and learned "the Ivy League is a good thing," how she originally picked Cornell because of her aspirations to be an astronaut, how her successes in life not only resulted from her hard work but also some luck, and what she's currently working on at MIT. Check out WiSDM (Women in STEM Database at MIT), which Ritu mentions at the end of the episode at http://wisdm.mit.edu/. “We all get value out of something when we see that it impacts other people” Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Empowering Podcast Creators - Nir Zicherman '08
Nir Zicherman '08 is the Co-Founder and CTO of Anchor, the easiest way ever to make a podcast, 100% for free. Previously, Nir ran server engineering at Aviary, where he built back-end systems to scale to tens of millions of monthly users until Aviary's acquisition by Adobe in 2014. In this episode of Fresh from the Hill, hear about Nir's journey as a Government major at Cornell, to NYU Law, to passing the bar, to finding his first job in programming (yes, you read that right). Nir believes in teaching yourself the things that you're interested in, which is what led him to a career in programming. Learn how Nir met his co-founder and decided to start Anchor, a company that's revolutionizing the world of podcasting in all facets: hosting, recording, distributing, editing, and monetizing. “With Anchor, we have discovered that there’s so much interesting content that can be created when you put the tools in the hands of people who have really interesting ideas, but historically haven’t been empowered to actually make those ideas come to life.” You don't have to be Joe Rogan to be successful in podcasting - visit https://anchor.fm/ to get started today! Hosted by Aaron Kominos-Smith '04. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
The Business of Broadway - Dana Lerner '14
Dana M. Lerner '14 is a Tony-nominated theater producer and entrepreneur. She is the founder and CEO of Red Pelican Creative, LLC a social media consulting and management agency providing strategic advice and management consulting on social media, brand enhancement and development primarily in the live entertainment space . In this episode of Fresh from the Hill, Dana sits down with host Aaron Kominos-Smith '04 to chat about what life as a theater major at Cornell was like, how to get into the business side of theater, how Hamilton is changing the game in ticketing and subscription models, what it takes to be a Broadway producer, and how she got involved with the Tony-nominated show Indecent. Also hear about the numerous ways Dana stays involved with Cornell in her very limited free time! Learn more about Dana and Red Pelican Creative at https://officialdml.com/ and https://redpelicancreative.com/. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
The Value of People - Julio Casado '08
Julio Casado '08 studied Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, received a Master’s degree in Management from the Harvard University Extension School, and is a 2018 Fellow of the New Leaders Council. He was born in Dominican Republic, grew up in Harlem, and is proud to call the Bronx home. Hear about how Julio's experience at Cornell in the ILR school directly launched him into a career in the labor relations and HR world, and how the power of the Cornell network helped him to get where he is today. Learn about the the different entrepreneurial paths he's pursued since graduation and how he currently consults in talent management and fundraising with a focus on advancing social impact organizations as well as being the Co-Founder of Smart Professions, which provides talented freelancers skills training and infrastructure support critical to their personal and professional growth. Additionally, Julio serves as the President of La Unidad Latina Foundation, a non-profit organization that propels students dedicated to advancing the Latino community from high school to college graduation and beyond. Together with the Alpha Chapter of Lambda Upsilon Lambda Fraternity Inc., LULF established the Latino Living Center endowment fund to support the Program House and cultural events for Cornell's Latino community. Julio previously served as a Business Operations Manager at a Bronx, NY middle school and as a Human Capital consultant. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Making Something Beautiful From a Pile of Dirt - Justin Kondrat '14
Justin Kondrat '14 is an inspiring alumnus who defeated all odds to go to his dream school, Cornell University. In this episode, host Aaron Kominos-Smith talks with Justin about his intense passion for horticulture and how Cornell helped him achieve his dream of working as a horticulturist. Hear about Justin's journey to Cornell as a first-generation college student who grew up in a low income household and was diagnosed with dyslexia at a young age. Despite these limitations, Justin was always determined to go to Cornell. He earned his associates degree in horticulture production at SUNY Morrisville and then transferred to Schenectady County Community College to get his chemistry credits out of the way. He always knew in his heart that Cornell was where he was meant to be, and he was accepted after he finished his courses at Schenectady County Community College. In 2014 he graduated from the School of Integrative Plant Science. Justin currently is a horticulturist within the Smithsonian Gardens Orchid Collection, Washington, D.C. In his free time, he leads community-based installations focused on connecting people with plants and serves as an advocate for person with learning disabilities. Most recently he produced The Pansy Project, Washington, D.C. This project was an extension of U.K. Artist, Paul Harfleet's work of highlighting the issues surrounding homophobia by planting an individual pansy at an identified site of a homophobic act. This gentle artwork and planting promotes discussion, invites dialogue and offers the opportunity for municipalities to publicly support the fight against discrimination in all its forms. This project engages the LGBTQ+ communities by the uses a pansy flower. The pansy is the ideal flower given associations with its name, but pansy flowers are hearty and easy to grow with its inherent, striking beauty: “No matter how much it’s knocked down with the ice and the snow it always comes back up with a smiling face. It always shows that face proudly.” At Cornell, Justin led ROOTED at Cornell: a living community art installation designed to actively engage students. Justin believes that horticulture is a medium of inclusion where all may find belonging. He has devoted his life to catalyzing change through horticulture. “Plants have the power to help us transcend limitations that we place upon others and ourselves. Horticulture naturally invokes inclusion and invites all to feel welcome.” Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Meet Aaron Kominos-Smith '04
Meet our third and final host for season one of Fresh from the Hill! Learn about Aaron's background at Cornell, how his time in the Whistling Shrimp Improv group inspired him to leave his job as an architect and pursue a job in standup comedy, and what's the first thing that comes to his mind when he hears the word "Cornell." Find out more about Aaron at http://funnyaaron.com/. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Connecting Artists to Fans... from WVBR to SiriusXM to Spotify - Jordan Gremli '08
Jordan Gremli graduated from Cornell University in 2008 with a Bachelor's Degree in Atmospheric Science, but spent most of his time as an undergraduate at WVBR-FM, the school's independent, student-run commercial radio station. He is currently Head of Artist & Fan Development at Spotify. In this role, he manages a team responsible for building programs and tools that help artists build their audiences by connecting them with the right fans throughout every step of the artist development process. This includes developing and running Fans First, Spotify's fan reward program. Hear about how Jordan's aspirations changed from becoming a meteorologist to working in music and how his extracurricular involvements led to that decision. Also learn about how Jordan stays connected to Cornell, how Spotify has grown and remained constant over his 7-year tenure there, what he does to enhance the user and artist experiences, and how to hear what he's currently listening to through his Top Ten of the Week playlist. Hosted by Lou Diamond '92. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Becky Katz '09 is currently a Robert Bosch Fellow, a prestige program that accepts 15 professionals and provides professional development in Germany. Before her move to Germany, she was the City of Atlanta’s first Chief Bicycle Officer. In this role she worked across city and state departments and with the public to make Atlanta safer, easier and better by bike. Her main initiatives included launching and overseeing the Relay Bike share system, increasing the city's bikeway mileage through the Renew Atlanta Infrastructure Bond/TSPLOST and other capital programs and leading Cycle Atlanta planning study. In this episode of "Fresh from the Hill," Becky will talk with host Lou Diamond '92 about the various pathways she took after graduating from Cornell with a degree in environmental engineering and what she's up to today. Hear about her interest in the overlap of engineering and communities, how at the end of the day all jobs are about networking and having real authentic relationships, the role of women in engineering and the challenges they face in a male-dominated industry, and how easy it is to find Cornellians anywhere in the world! Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
"People are the X Factor," Kia Albertson-Rogers '13 (Kia Orion)
Kia Albertson-Rogers '13 (Kia Orion) is a Philadelphia based singer-songwriter performing soulful, electronic, and R&B music. Graduating from Cornell in 2014, Kia spent a brief period in the music industry before getting involved with non-profit work. With a background in hip-hop and jazz, he is focused on creating songs that resonate with listeners in a way that is both energetic and emotional. His main weapons are Ableton Live and piano. He recently moved to Thailand in order to pursue music full time, but will always have a place in his heart for Ithaca. Take a listen as Kia chats with host Lou Diamond '92 about life, finding oneself, making meaningful connections, his music, and what went into creating the intro and outro music to this podcast. Buckle up - this one is a fun ride that we think you'll enjoy! kia@orionbeats.com. https://www.orionbeats.com/. https://soundcloud.com/kiaorion. Follow on social @kiaorion. Podcast created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '13, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
"I Just Need a Beer," Jack Mason '11
Jack Mason, Master Sommelier at the Pappas Bros. Steakhouse Houston Downtown and Galleria locations, achieved MS status at the very young age of 27 and is one of the youngest to do so. He is one of only 9 esteemed Master Sommeliers currently in the state of Texas and one of 144 Master Sommeliers in the United States. Jack Mason has been featured in Forbes’s annual “30 Under 30” list of outstanding young professionals nationwide, Zagat’s “30 Under 30” list in New York City as was named Wine & Spirits “Best New Sommelier 2015.” He was also featured in the series “Uncorked” on the Esquire Network that followed his journey to receiving his MS certification. Hear Jack chat with host Lou Diamond about what it took to get into Cornell's Hotel School after being denied the first time he applied, how being a transfer student gave him more of a focus, what made him decide to become a Master Sommelier, how his taste in wine has changed over time, the role religion plays in his life and how it helps him thrive, his future aspirations, and his advice for young people looking to pursue a career in hospitality or the wine industry. Episode photo of Jack by Alice Gao. Created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
"Little Sister," Irene Li '12
Irene Li '12 operates Mei Mei Street Kitchen & Mei Mei Restaurant in Boston, where her work centers around ethical sourcing and fair employment practices. Irene’s background of living on an organic farm, organizing for economic and social justice, and working the restaurant line inform the direction of her creative, farm-driven, Chinese-American menus. She is an Eater Young Gun winner, Zagat and Forbes 30 Under 30 Honoree, and a four-time James Beard Foundation Rising Star Chef semi-finalist. In this episode of "Fresh from the Hill," host Lou Diamond '92 chats with Irene about her pathway at Cornell, how she ended up opening up a food truck with her brother and sister and eventually a traditional brick and mortar restaurant in Boston. Learn about Irene's background, food, and inspirations as well as what makes her tick and how if you're in the restaurant business you should never skip leg day! Learn more about Mei Mei Restaurant and Street Kitchen at http://www.meimeiboston.com/. Podcast created and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
Meet Lou Diamond '92
Get get to know the host for our second series of "Fresh from the Hill," Lou Diamond '92. Learn what Lou's favorite classes were at Cornell and how they connect to what he does today, hear about how Lou helps people Thrive in their everyday lives, and get a little teaser on the episodes he'll be hosting. Learn more about Lou at https://thriveloud.com/. Hosted, created, and produced by Amanda Massa. Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14, koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork by Chris Kelly.
"It Doesn't Get Old," Meghan Dubyak '04
On this episode of "Fresh from the Hill," you'll hear from Meghan Dubyak '04, current chief spokesperson and Associate Vice President for Communications and Creative Services at Georgetown University and former Press Secretary to Vice President Joe Biden and Special Assistant to President Obama. She'll chat with host Alex Zalben '99 about how she chose to work in political communications, her experiences outside the classroom and how they helped her grow at Cornell, her work with Steve Israel, Sherrod Brown, and Joe Biden, similarities (and differences) between work in politics and what's depicted on TV shows like "Scandal" and "The West Wing," how Joe Biden is the most "memeable" politician, her involvement in the “Cancer Moonshot” and “It’s on Us” campaigns, and her advice for young people wanting to get into government work. Created and produced by Amanda Massa Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14, koa3@cornell.edu Artwork by Chris Kelly
"Why Are You Trying to Study the Magic That is Love?" Marisa Cohen '06
In this episode of "Fresh from the Hill," Alex Zalben '99 talks to relationship expert Dr. Marisa Cohen about love, relationships, and her two primary lines of research: perceptions of first date success and consensual non-monogamy. Tune in to learn about how fighting can be important for a healthy relationship ("if you don't fight, chances are you're not being very honest"), how non-traditional relationships can really work out in the long run, why she's a proponent of online dating, how the Human Bonding course at Cornell inspired her to change career paths, what social media posting can mean about a relationship, and much more. Learn more about Dr. Cohen at her website www.marisatcohen.com Created and produced by Amanda Massa Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14 Artwork by Chris Kelly
"Who Made Your Beats For You?" Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo '08, MA '15 (AKA Sammus)
Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo '08, MA '15 aka Sammus is an Ithaca-raised, Philadelphia-based rap artist, producer, and PhD student in the Department of Science & Technology Studies at Cornell University. Through her music she has spent the past several years cultivating a strong following of activists, hip hop heads, punks, and self-identified nerds and geeks, among others. Enongo will talk about growing up in Ithaca and the different lenses she's seen Ithaca through, and how she never felt like she had to choose between her "Ithaca-ness" and "Cornell-ness." You'll also hear about her musical influences, her heroes, what role video games play in her music, sexism in the music industry, and what we can expect from her next project coming out in 2019. Not only that, Enongo is currently pursuing her PhD from Cornell (triple red!) and is exploring the politics of studios and community studios in low-income areas and how there's a need for studios in the public space. Learn more about Sammus at https://sammusmusic.com/. Hosted by Alex Zalben '99 Created and produced by Amanda Massa Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14, koa3@cornell.edu Artwork by Chris Kelly
"Take the Plunge," Stephen Hall '06
In our third episode of "Fresh from the Hill," we hear from Stephen Hall, co-founder of Tinker Coffee Co., a specialty coffee roaster in Indianapolis, Indiana. Steve will talk about his time at Cornell in the Hotel School, starting out in the wine industry and how he eventually made the transition to the coffee world, the nuance of coffee flavors, how hospitality is connected to every aspect of business, and the best way to get a great cup of coffee (HINT: invest in a good grinder!) Learn more about Tinker Coffee: https://www.tinkercoffee.com/ Hosted by Alex Zalben '99 Created and produced by Amanda Massa Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14 Artwork by Chris Kelly
"Find Your North Star," Svante Myrick '09
At age 24 Svante Myrick won a mayoral race to become the youngest mayor in Ithaca's history and the first mayor of African American heritage. In this exclusive interview, host Alex Zalben '99 and Svante will chat about Svante's childhood, the first time he visited Cornell ("I thought I had stumbled on something magic, and I was right"), the opioid crisis in Ithaca and his plan to combat it, his learnings from President Barack Obama, his advice to young people getting into politics, and much more. Learn more about Svante: https://www.cityofithaca.org/131/Mayors-Office Created and produced by Amanda Massa Music by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14, koa3@cornell.edu Artwork by Chris Kelly
Introducing "Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians"
Check out the very first episode of "Fresh from the Hill: Inside Stories of Noteworthy Cornellians." In this episode you'll hear from one of the hosts of the podcast, Alex Zalben class of 1999. You'll learn a little about Alex's background, how the podcast came about, and what to expect from season 1. Learn more at http://alumni.cornell.edu/youngalumni. "Fresh from the Hill" was created, recorded, and produced by Amanda Massa, Associate Director of Young Alumni Programs at Cornell. Additional support was provided by Margaux Neiderbach '99 and Robert McMahon. Music for "Fresh from the Hill" was written, produced, and recorded by Kia Albertson-Rogers '14. You can contact him at koa3@cornell.edu. Artwork for "Fresh from the Hill" was created by Chris Kelly. Special thanks to: Karen Barnes Jose Beduya MFA '04 Lisa Bushlow '91 Shannon Clute MA '01, PhD '03 Thomas Deneuville Joe Lyons '98 Adam Murtland Michael O'Neill Stephanie Watt '15 ... and all the staff in Alumni Affairs and Development who helped make this podcast a reality This podcast is hosted by Anchor, which was co-founded by Nir Zicherman '08. Learn more about Anchor at http://anchor.fm. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line905 |
__label__cc | 0.665953 | 0.334047 | Lakeview mural dedicated on Mother's Day
CHICAGO (WLS) -- A new mural is on display and was dedicated to mothers Sunday in Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood.
The mural featuring beautiful flowers in bloom was created by Detroit artist "Ouizi" Louise Jones.
"The title of this piece is 'Urbs in Horto,' and it's the city motto, and it features the city's official flower," said Jones.
Urbs in Horto is Latin for "City in a Garden" according to Ouizi's website.
The mural is displayed on the 3600-Block of North Southport Avenue.
The mural is part of an effort this year to unveil some 15 new public works of art across the Lakeview neighborhood.
As part of Sunday's mural dedication, flowers were handed out to mothers who walked by.
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__label__wiki | 0.908338 | 0.908338 | Chicago Mayor Race: Candidates rally supporters to get out the vote
By Craig Wall
CHICAGO (WLS) -- With Election Day just two days away, Chicago mayoral candidates Lori Lightfoot and Toni Preckwinkle made rallied their supporters to get out the vote.
Preckwinkle held a rally at a West Side church with Congressman Danny Davis, D-Chicago and other elected officials -- one of many of her stops on Sunday.
Earlier, she and Secretary of State Jesse White did a whirlwind tour of ten churches on the South and West sides, talking up Preckwinkle's political experience.
"We want to make sure we have the best and the brightest and the sharpest knife in the drawer, we want someone who has impeccable credentials," White said.
"You know we work hard to have a strong ground game contacting voters hearing what's on their mind and as I said, sharing my vision for the city and we're going to be going back to those folks over the weekend and Monday and Tuesday to be sure that they come out and vote," Preckwinkle said.
At her South Side Field office, Lightfoot told supporters: "I need you from now until the polls close on Tuesday night, do not rest, keep your foot on the gas."
Lightfoot joined forces with Congresswoman Robin Kelly, D-Chicago.
"She is the change that we are seeking, and she is not only going to bring in the light she's going to bring in a bright light," Kelly said.
Lightfoot visited two churches Sunday morning, preaching the importance getting her supporters to vote and not be complacent.
"If I win, I think we have the mandate," Lightfoot said. "I think the mandate is to clean up city government, to make it much more responsive to people, make it much more transparent and accountable for sure."
Lightfoot and Preckwinkle downplayed polls that suggest that Lightfoot has a big lead. Preckwinkle said she believes the race will be closer than people think.
8,644 Chicagoans cast ballots in 6 hrs of Early Voting Sunday.
Early Voting last day: MON, APRIL 1--ALL 51 SITES: 9 AM-5 PM
Note: Only the seven "permanent" Early Voting sites -- Loop Super Site & locations in Wards 4, 12, 19, 28, 41, 47 -- will be open thru 7 pm Mon.#Vote2019 pic.twitter.com/I8pNCXK4Aq
— ChicagoElection (@ChicagoElection) March 31, 2019
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__label__wiki | 0.683684 | 0.683684 | President Trump weighs in as abortion battle heats up in Missouri, Alabama
By Mona Kosar Abdi
WASHINGTON, DC -- Demonstrators in Alabama and Missouri were out protesting recent anti-abortion measures passed in both states.
They are the latest in a series of restrictive abortion laws passed this year alone.
Hundreds marched this weekend to the Alabama State Capitol and thousands more joined in protesting in Kansas City, Missouri.
Once in effect those measures criminalize the procedure for doctors and makes no exceptions for rape or incest.
Alabama and Missouri are part of a wave of conservative states aiming to legally challenge Roe v. Wade.
Four other states have also passed "heartbeat bills."
But some prominent pro-life republicans are distancing themselves from the new state laws.
"You're seeing laws on both sides of this argument that are in the extreme," Sen. Mitt Romney said. "I don't support the Alabama law."
President Trump also tweeted that he is "strongly pro-life" but with three exceptions for "rape, incest and protecting the life of the mother."
As soon as this week we could learn if the Supreme Court will hear challenges to earlier abortion restriction laws in Indiana and Louisiana.
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__label__cc | 0.624457 | 0.375543 | Our Third Reich Berlin Tours
OUR PRIVATE GUIDED TOURS OF BERLIN’S THIRD REICH SITES
Berlin would serve as the nerve-centre of Hitler’s regime
Although not the birthplace of National Socialism, Berlin would serve as the nerve-centre of Hitler’s regime following the Nazi seizure of power in 1933. Fitting now that the country’s present-day parliament convenes within walking distance of a collection of memorials established for the victims of National Socialism.
The respectful observation of uncomfortable history
The current movement to confront the country’s past is best summarised as a respectful observation of uncomfortable history. Germany’s willingness to openly face these issues providing any serious student of European History the opportunity to study the factors and events that led to the country’s descent into totalitarian madness and genocidal dictatorship.
What is gone of Hitler’s regime lives on through memory; what remains stands as a testament to the necessity of confronting disaster.
There is an undeniable mythology surrounding the Third Reich; National Socialism grips the public imagination the world over. So, too, does it retain its hold on the collective memory of today’s Berliners. And how could it not?
The Second World War irrevocably changed the face of the city; a city which is tied up with Hitler’s plans for world domination like no other.
This tour invites you to discover the history of the Third Reich beyond the obvious mythology and witness the destruction left following the defeat of Hitler’s ‘Thousand Year Empire’.
We will consider the political and architectural ramifications of National Socialism, through the still visible shrapnel damage and remaining Herrschaftsarchitektur. Find out about the courageous Berliners who stood up to totalitarian rule, and honour the memory of those who perished as a result of Nazi persecution.
Sites Included
– the former Nazi government quarter
– the site of Hitler’s Reich Chancellory
– the site of the Führerbunker
– the former Nazi Propaganda & Public Enlightenment Ministry
– the Georg Elser Memorial
– the former Nazi Airforce Ministry
– the former SS-Gestapo Headquarters (now the Topography of Terror Museum)
– the Brandenburg Gate and Charlottenburger Chaussee parade mile
– the ruined Anhalter Bahnhof diplomatic and deportation station
– the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe
– the Memorial to the Roma & Sinti
– the Memorial to the Persecuted Homosexuals
– Soviet War Memorial and Prussian Siegesaulle
– the Japanese & Italian embassies
– the Bendlerblock/German Resistance Museum
– the T4 Memorial for the Euthanasia Victims of National Socialism
The length of this tour means that a short snack/coffee break (not included in the tour price) can be integrated into the route – or, if requested, a longer meal break– at the detriment of the route and a number of the sites mentioned above.
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__label__wiki | 0.625353 | 0.625353 | Tag Archive | Her Italian Aristocrat
A Chat with Louise Reynolds
Today I’m talking with Louise Reynolds whose latest book, Outback Bride, has just been released. Welcome Louise.
It’s lovely to be here, Bernadette.
Congratulations on your second release with Destiny Romance. Can you tell us a little about your book?
Legal star Lara Burke has worked hard to escape her country past and is finally on the way to being made a partner at her city law firm. At the worst possible time, her former flame Jake Forester arrives, bringing tragic news from home.
Forced to return to her family property, Jindaburra, Lara must confront her past at the home she loved and lost. But big-sky country and bittersweet memories are not all that await her at Jindaburra.
Readers are certainly seeking out rural romance stories. Many of these have the city meets country theme. What do you think intrigues readers?
For quite a while (and certainly post GFC), much of Western society has been returning to simpler values – recycling, up-cycling, sustainability, making do – and there’s a perception that life is simpler in the country. Having said that, our big cities have never offered such an amazing variety in cuisines and entertainment. It’s natural for people to be drawn to both and that creates a tension between both worlds that’s interesting to explore.
Do you have country roots?
Not at all. In fact I’ve only started travelling in the outback in the last eight years but I love it.
What do you love most about Outback Bride?
I enjoyed creating Jindaburra, Lara’s childhood home. It’s her first love and is buried in her soul.
What was the most difficult part of writing Outback Bride?
There’s a theme of family estrangement and that was difficult to write as, like many families, mine has had to deal with this.
Do you think it’s the similarities or the differences that form the strongest attraction between a hero and heroine?
Definitely the similarities. I’ve never been a huge believer in opposites attract.
How do you come up with your ideas?
For Outback Bride, I met a girl in an outback pub who was devastated that her brother would inherit the family property and her father had refused to consider her contribution and love for the property. That conversation stayed with me for a long time until the character of Lara was born. But generally there are strands from all over the place that come together to create a story.
What genre do you like to read? Who is your favourite author?
Definitely contemporary romance, city or country-based. I like romances that feature problems faced by modern women and I like my heroines if not strong at the outset, certainly resourceful. In rural romance I like to read Barbara Hannay. Otherwise, Jill Shalvis, Bella Andre, Liz Fielding, Jessica Hart.
Do you have any words of wisdom for aspiring writers?
Think about why you are doing this. Make clear goals. Follow through.
I’m writing a contemporary romance that starts in the outback but moves to London then on to an old English manor house. I’m having a lot of fun with this one.
Thanks for introducing us to Outback Bride and to your writing life, Louise.
Thank you for having me, Bernadette. It’s been fun.
You can find Louise at:
Website: www.louisereynolds.com.au
Blog: http://louwrites.wordpress.com/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/LouiseHReynolds
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LouiseReynoldsauthorpage?ref=hl
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This entry was posted on August 14, 2013, in Bernadette Rowley, Destiny Romance, Guest Authors, Romance and tagged alpha males, Australian romance, Bernadette Rowley, Destiny Romance, Her Italian Aristocrat, Louise Reynolds, love, Outback Bride, Penguin, Penguin Australia, romance, rural romance. 4 Comments | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line920 |
__label__cc | 0.731164 | 0.268836 | ← The kids are all talking about Olive, the other reindeer, while Scrooge’s ‘own heart laughed: and that was quite enough for him’
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For many, a little bit of silence can be a lovely thing: Creepy thrillers that question the connection between silence and secrecy
Posted on December 28, 2014 by BiblioLennLibrary
Oh, those strong silent types… they’re not much for talking. For many over the holidays, silence is not the product of shyness or sullenness. Silence can be peaceable.
Even book titles can make the case for reticence. Take Rupert Thomson’s Secrecy (2013): “Secrecy could be imposed from without, like a punishment or an affliction, but it could also be cultivated, or even willed. It could offer comfort.”
For the star of this novel, the 17th century artist known as Zumbo, the silence of secrecy offers safety. But be warned: this is a creepy tale.
Nasty – and apparently untrue – rumours from the past threaten Zumbo, but he manages to outrun them long enough to be hired by the Grand Duke of Tuscany, who offers the sculptor money and protection.
Zumbo is inspired by the great Caravaggio and creates “plague pieces” out of wax, dioramas of rats feasting on the dead bodies of infants. His focus on corruption and decay reminds the rest of us of the precarious nature of life.
What if, however, he is asked to make something beautiful? What if he is asked to bring someone to life? Can he do it? And more importantly, is he capable of the silence that would allow the project to come to fruition, and guarantee his own survival?
Keeping one’s head amid the machinations of a royal court can be difficult. You have to know when to speak, and when to remain silent.
Dale Carnegie’s The Art Of Public Speaking, published back in 1915, offers assistance to the mumblers who seek a silver tongue.
Carnegie (and co-author J. Berg Esenwein) began with a warning: “Training in public speaking is not a matter of externals—primarily; it is not a matter of imitation—fundamentally; it is not a matter of conformity to standards—at all. Public speaking is public utterance, public issuance, of the man himself; therefore the first thing both in time and in importance is that the man should be and think and feel things that are worthy of being given forth. Unless there be something of value within, no tricks of training can ever make of the talker anything more than a machine—albeit a highly perfected machine—for the delivery of other men’s goods. So self-development is fundamental in our plan.
“The second principle lies close to the first: The man must enthrone his will to rule over his thought, his feelings, and all his physical powers, so that the outer self may give perfect, unhampered expression to the inner. It is futile, we assert, to lay down systems of rules for voice culture, intonation, gesture, and what not, unless these two principles of having something to say and making the will sovereign have at least begun to make themselves felt in the life.
“The third principle will, we surmise, arouse no dispute: No one can learn how to speak who does not first speak as best he can. That may seem like a vicious circle in statement, but it will bear examination.”
Just blurt, Carnegie ordered. Then improve yourself by critiquing your own talk. (You can find the complete list of rules for speechifying, as written by this pair of proficient blabbermouths, for free online.)
Some fictional protagonists could learn from Carnegie. Michael Palmer’s 2002 thriller, Fatal, offers the tale of long-haired hippie MD, Dr. Matt, who talks too much. Unlike the reserve suggested by the single word of this book title, he just cannot shut up.
He believes the mine at the edge of his West Virginia town is a health hazard, and has become a one-man harassment machine. Endless complaints filed to government watchdogs, the constant posting of accusatory home-made signs on telephone poles, the petulant demanding of meetings, the snooping through garbage. The good doctor is one of those guests at supper parties whose conversation inevitably becomes angry and accusatory. He is, in short, dedicated, well meaning, tiresome, and deeply disliked.
Fatal is a non-stop conspiracy theory, scooping in many of modern North American fears into one big ball of action-packed panic.
Dr. Matt runs off at the mouth, and keeps confiding in the wrong people.
Others, meanwhile, know that talking won’t help. When it comes to family, Fina Ludlow knows that loyalty matters more than anything.
Ingrid Thoft’s 2013 thriller, Loyalty, follows Boston-based law-school-dropout-turned-private investigator Fina Ludlow. She works for the family law firm, sneaking about in other people’s lives to help her legal beagle brothers win every case.
Until the day she needs to look into her own family. Her sister-in-law has disappeared, which makes Ludlow’s brother the main suspect in a murder investigation. And their father gives her her marching orders: “’Our job is to support him.’
“In other families, support meant bringing a dish to Thanksgiving. In the Ludlow family, it could mean all kinds of things.” Ludlow needs to know what her brother is hiding.
And in the end, she of course faces a decision: to talk, or not to talk?
Whether you’ve made the right decision depends on how you present something. But in the end, it also depends on whether others are willing to listen.
– Eleanor Brown, December 26, 2014 | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line926 |
__label__wiki | 0.955343 | 0.955343 | NBC Learn and NBC Sports, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, unravel the science, technology, engineering and math behind the Olympic Winter Games. For lesson plans provided by Lessonopoly, open the video and click on "Activity."
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Behind the breath-taking twists and turns of Olympic Freestyle Aerials is the science of angular momentum and moment of inertia. NSF-funded physicist Paul Doherty, Senior Scientist at The Exploratorium in San Francisco, and Olympic aerialist Emily Cook, show how these jumps actually come from three basic twisting techniques that you can try yourself.
Aerial Physics: Aerial Skiing
Ski-jumping--hurtling down a ramp at speeds of 60 mph, then soaring through the air--is an excellent illustration of the aerodynamic forces of lift and drag. NSF-funded scientists Paul Doherty, of The Exploratorium in San Francisco, and physicist George Tuthill of Plymouth State University, explain, along with U.S. ski team members Todd Lodwick and Bill Demong.
Air Lift: Ski Jump
NSF-funded scientists Paul Doherty, Deborah King, and George Tuthill, along with bobsled designer Bob Cuneo, use an Olympic bobsled run, from starting push to the finish line, to illustrate acceleration, velocity, gravity, and drag.
Banking On Speed: Bobsled
Short track speed skating, the fastest self-propelled sport in the Winter Games, illustrates all of Newton's First Three Laws of Motion: (1) An object at rest will remain at rest unless an unbalanced force acts on it; (2) a force acting on a object produces an acceleration of that object; and (3) for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. Using high-resolution Phantom Cam video of Olympic short track skater J.R. Celski, NSF-funded physicist George Tuthill explains.
Blade Runners: Short Track Speed Skating
The chemistry and materials science used to create aerodynamic competition suits is described by NSF-funded scientists Melissa Hines of Cornell, Troy Flanagan of the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Association, and U.S. Olympic speed skaters Trevor Marsicano and Chad Hedrick; U.S. luge team members Erin Hamlin and Mark Grimmette; U.S. ski team members Scott Macartney and Anders Johnson; and U.S. bobsledder Steve Holcomb.
Competition Suits
A downhill ski race is a tour de force--emphasis on force: from the forceful push-off that accelerates the alpine skier down the slope, to the forces of gravity, friction and wind or air resistance. NSF-funded scientists Paul Doherty of The Exploratorium in San Francisco, and Sam Colbeck, formerly of the U.S. Army Cold Regions Lab, explain the physics of alpine skiing, with help from four members of the U.S. Ski Team: Ted Ligety, Marco Sullivan, Scott Macartney and Julia Mancuso.
Downhill Science: Alpine Skiing
How do Olympic figure skaters do triple axels and quadruple toe loops? It's all about angular momentum, vertical velocity, and conservation of angular momentum. NSF-funded sports scientist Deborah King, from the Department of Exercise and Sports Sciences at Ithaca College explains, using high-speed, high-resolution video of Olympic hopeful Rachael Flatt.
Figuring Out Figure Skating
From the formula used to figure figure-skating scores to the calculus used to figure instantaneous velocities in a speed-skating race, arithmetic and math are part of every Winter Olympic event and every move Olympic athletes make on snow or ice. NSF-funded mathematician Edward Burger from Williams College explains some of the math you can see in Olympic sports, with assistance from figure-skating expert and sports scientist Deborah King of Ithaca College, and U.S. hockey player Ryan Miller.
The Olympics are a chance to marvel at the physical abilities of the athletes. But what makes these athletes so unique from the rest of us? Dan Fletcher, an Associate Professor in the Department of Bioengineering at UC Berkeley, explores how the organization of human cells through training, exercise and "muscle memory" produce the fantastic range of Olympic motion.
Olympic Motion
Most Winter Olympic sports are high-speed and dangerously high-impact, from ski-jumping to short track speed-skating to hockey. To protect their skulls and brains, athletes wear protective helmets. NSF-funded scientists Melissa Hines, Director of the Cornell University Center for Materials Research, and Kathy Flores from Ohio State University's Dept. of Materials Science and Engineering, explain how a helmet's hard outer shell works to dissipate energy, and foam linings work to absorb energy. Olympic athletes Julie Chu, a member of the U.S. Women's Hockey Team, and Scott Macartney, a U.S. Ski Team member who suffered a concussion in a 2008 fall, talk about the importance of helmets to Olympic competitors.
Sending the 42-lb. granite curling stone down a long sheet of ice toward the center of a bull's-eye target is all about friction and surface physics, as NSF-funded scientists Sam Colbeck, formerly from the U.S. Army Cold Regions Lab, and physicist George Tuthill from Plymouth State University explain, with help from Olympic hockey player John Shuster, and Iain Hueton, from the Ogden Curling Club in Ogden, Utah.
Science Friction: Curling
The slapshot is the fastest, hardest shot in ice hockey--and an excellent illustration of elastic collisions, energy transfer and momentum exchange. NSF-funded scientists Thomas Humphrey of The Exploratorium in San Francisco, and Kathy Flores, an Ohio State University materials scientist, explain, along with U.S. Olympic hockey players Julie Chu and Zach Parise.
Slapshot Physics: Hockey
Skates used by Olympic speed skaters, figure skaters and hockey players are custom-engineered by materials scientists so that the boots and blades meet the demands for each sport. NSF-funded scientists Melissa Hines, Director of the Cornell University Center for Materials Research, and Sam Colbeck, formerly of the U.S. Army Cold Regions Lab, explain, along with U.S. Olympic hockey player Julie Chu, short track speed skater J.R. Celski, and figure-skater Rachael Flatt.
The Science of Skates
Skis used by Olympic Alpine and Nordic skiers are made of fiberglass and polymers, engineered by materials scientists to give skis used in different events the flexibility, stability and torsional rigidity required. NSF-funded scientists Melissa Hines, Director of the Cornell University Center for Materials Research, and Kathy Flores, an Ohio State University materials scientist, explain how skis are made, from the core to the ski base, with help from three members of the U.S Olympic Ski Team: Julie Mancuso, Scott Macartney and Ted Ligety.
The Science of Skis
The physics behind the awesome, gasp-worthy tricks snowboarders do in the half-pipe? Gravity, friction, and energy (potential and kinetic), as explained by NSF-funded scientists Paul Doherty at The Exploratorium in San Francisco and Deborah King, from the Dept. of Exercise and Sports Sciences at Ithaca College.
The Science of Snowboarding
The United States hasn't won an Olympic medal in cross-country skiing since 1976, but in 2010 several skiers hope to change that. If they're successful, you can be certain it's due to their incredible endurance. Olympic athletes, trainers and a sports scientist and chemist funded by the National Science Foundation explain why cross-country skiers are among the fittest athletes in the world.
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__label__wiki | 0.567461 | 0.567461 | Building an Interview Archive of Local Activism in Brazil
The Cost of Opportunity project team in Brazil in 2016 (courtesy of The Cost of Opportunity team)
Over the past two decades, Brazil has engaged in a vast expansion of its higher education system, with the stated goals of promoting economic mobility and reducing social disparities. Enrollments in Brazilian universities have nearly tripled, and higher education is a source of hope in regions such as the Baixada Fluminense, part of Rio de Janeiro’s poor urban periphery.
In collaboration with the Multidisciplinary Institute of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (IM-UFRRJ), a Bass Connections project team has been conducting research directed toward fostering social mobility throughout the region. Central to this project has been doctoral student Travis Knoll (History), who was the team’s project manager for two years. Knoll is currently completing a dissertation related to this team's research and was awarded an International Dissertation Research Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council (SSRC).
Last spring, Knoll also received a Bass Connections Student Research Award to trace the legislative, executive and judicial trajectory of affirmative action in Brazil as well as the links between racial justice policy and religious civil society organizations. His project is mentored by John French. Recently, he shared this update:
Translation and Teamwork: Giving Visibility to Decades of Activism in the Baixada Fluminense
By Travis Knoll (Ph.D. in History)
I spent my first three months on an SSRC-funded research grant in the Baixada Fluminense tracking down and interviewing regional and national Black Movement leaders who played key roles in Black Church militancy in this vital region for Brazil’s progressive Catholic Church, as well as activists who spearheaded the popular education-based college prep courses for Black and poor students.
Part of my follow-on funds has helped our partner institution’s Documentation and Imaging Center (CEDIM-UFRRJ) and their undergraduate scholarship recipients preserve these interviews for local use after my research is long done.
The first scholarship recipient, Ingrid Nogueira, began in late September 2018 while a second, Carolina Mendonça, began this January. These interviews will help my dissertation and also be made available onsite (in audio and transcribed) for future scholars of this under-studied region to both learn about important community leaders and confirm the existence of less-publicized regional points of interest.
Carolina Mendonça, Maria Lúcia Alexandre and Ingrid Nogueira at the Documentation and Imaging Center at the Multidisciplinary Institute of the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro (courtesy of Travis Knoll)
In order to select the two students who would help preserve these interviews, CEDIM’s coordinator, Maria Lúcia Bezerra da Silva Alexandre, who is also a doctoral candidate in History at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation, and I co-administered a selection process to weigh each student’s interests, writing abilities and financial need. Candidates wrote short essays on my research topic’s relevance both to their studies and to the larger struggles for human rights in the Baixada Fluminense.
Maria Lucia managed 24 scholarship recipients last semester alone and oversees a wide range of projects, from the digitization of transnational magazines to the preservation of Church human rights records from Brazil’s period of military rule (1964-1985). The task may seem overwhelming, but her desire to help “give visibility” to the region’s residents drives her even on the busiest of days. She explains that the historical – not just the political – is personal. “More than generating more knowledge about the region,” the UFFRJ’s agreement with Duke gives the students “a sense of belonging” to the history generated and preserved there.
The two undergraduate scholars give further voice to this sentiment. During her application process, Ingrid expressed interest in “the Baixada and feminist movements” and said that in the current climate, highlighting the contributions of “negritude” and “affirmative action” to Brazilian society and intellectual life is “indispensable.”
Carolina, who is already part of other research groups, showed interest in the Baixada Fluminense’s relationship to higher education access and religious civil society. In fact, she entered the UFRRJ’s Nova Iguacu campus to lift the cloud of stigmatization and amnesia that still shrouds the region. For her, the memories the activists put in recorded form have a “social importance” not just academic value. After a few weeks of transcribing, the experience has confirmed the necessity of taking “ownership” of the history of the region, often actively forgotten by its residents.
As they transcribe the interviews of local activists, Ingrid and Carolina flag unfamiliar acronyms and names, and I work with them to correct or clarify the transcript and send them additional scholarship, ranging from studies of colonial African-rooted religious practices, to progressive Church politics, to ongoing land struggles, to inform their transcription and help supplement their scholarly interests.
Ingrid Nogueira transcribes an interview at CEDIM (courtesy of Travis Knoll)
Since both students are still at the beginning of their programs, they have yet to choose their specializations, but Ingrid has shown interest beyond the Baixada and social movements to Afro-Diasporic history, more broadly. Carolina, who began her CEDIM scholarship at the beginning of January, remains open to either colonial or contemporary topics. Brazil’s current political and social situation has her leaning toward studying contemporary issues, and she hopes delving into these interviews and the issues activists wrestle with will give her “a closer look at this research area (history of Baixada)” to allow her to make a “definitive choice” about her topic.
It is my hope that whatever academic decisions they end up making, their experience hearing and transcribing how the activists they are listening to perceive Brazil’s colonial past and present inequalities will prepare them with their encounters with historical records and testimonies, whatever their age.
For me, reading these interviews in print has allowed me to track down other potential interviews and even caused me to go back to the archive a few times to search for documents I would otherwise overlook just listening.
Overall, this process has given me advising and candidate selection experience and works toward Bass Connections’ goal of facilitating and supporting vertically integrated teamwork. These opportunities arose because of Duke and UFRRJ’s research exchange agreement (see “Duke-UFRRJ Agreement” here) and from the encouragement Bass Connections gives to collective teamwork crossing disciplinary and national boundaries.
Read about this year’s Cost of Opportunity project team.
Meet all of the 2018 Follow-on Student Research Award grantees.
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by Richard Wyatt May 22, 20155:49 am May 23, 2015
Reform, economies and putting residents first
The new Conservative leadership of Bath & North East Somerset Council has set out its priorities for the next four years, with a promise to reform the way the local authority works and build a Council which ‘puts the interests of residents first’. That’s according to a statement the Conservative Group – who now control B&NES – have issued.
The Bath Guildhall
At the authority’s Annual General Meeting on Thursday, 21st May, the Council’s new leader, Cllr Tim Warren, said that improving transport, investing in the local economy and getting finances back on track would all be at the top of the agenda for his new administration. He also reaffirmed his commitment to delivering on the promises made within the party’s local election manifesto, which included plans to improve local leisure facilities, deliver more affordable homes, and invest in the area’s transport infrastructure, all under a theme of ‘putting residents first’. Council Leader Tim Warren said: “We’ve got a big task ahead of us and we’re very humbled by the trust residents have put in us, but we’ve got a good team in place of talented individuals with fresh ideas and a clear vision for making our area an even better place to live. “With the Council’s new administration now officially appointed, we’re ready to roll-up our sleeves and get on with the job of delivering on the commitments made during the election – such as sorting out our area’s transport system and getting the Council’s finances in order. “There will be difficult decisions ahead, especially when it comes to finding the necessary budget savings within the Council, but B&NES is a great area with huge potential and I’m optimistic about what we can achieve in the next few years.” Explaining the approach the Conservatives will take to running the Council over the next four years, Councillor Warren added: “There’s one overriding theme running through everything we plan to do – and that’s ensuring the interests of residents always come first. Does this proposal truly serve the interests of local residents? That will be the litmus test we will apply to all decisions in the Council. “‘Residents first’ was on the front-page of our manifesto, and that is the approach we will take to running the Council over the next four years.” The Conservatives took control of B&NES Council at the local elections earlier this month, becoming the first political party since B&NES was created to gain an outright majority on the Council, with a total of 37 Councillors against the Lib Dems’ 15 seats and Labour’s 6 Councillors. A further 5 Councillors were also elected as independents. · The six key priorities set out by the new Conservative Cabinet: – Tackle wasteful spending – launching a ‘root and branch’ review of all Council spending to put the Council on a sure financial footing for the long-term; – Improve local transport – bringing forward plans for an East of Bath Park & Ride and developing long-term Transport Strategies for the Somer Valley and Keynsham; – Deliver more homes and jobs – investing in brownfield regeneration projects to deliver more affordable homes and good local jobs; – Invest in young people – delivering more primary school places and investing in facilities for children and young people; – Create cleaner, greener, healthier local communities – with investment in local leisure facilities and improvements to street cleaning and recycling; – Ensure greater choice and independence for older people – with investment in home adaptations for elderly and disabled residents and ensuring integrated health and social care services. Here’s the full list of appointments made at the annual meeting. The new Chairman of Council is Councillor Ian Gilchrist. The Vice-Chairman of Council is Councillor Alan Hale. There are 7 further Cabinet Members taking responsibility for specific service areas. These are: · Councillor Charles Gerrish (Conservative, Keynsham North) – Cabinet Member for Finance & Efficiency · Councillor Tony Clarke (Conservative, Lansdown) – Cabinet Member for Transport · Councillor Michael Evans (Conservative, Midsomer Norton North) Cabinet Member for Children’s Services · Councillor Martin Veal (Conservative, Bathavon North) – Cabinet Member for Community Services · Councillor Vic Pritchard (Conservative, Chew Valley South) – Cabinet Member for Adult Social Care & Health · Councillor Marie Longstaff (Conservative, Keynsham East) – Cabinet Member for Homes & Planning · Councillor Patrick Anketell Jones (Conservative, Lansdown) – Cabinet Member for Economic Development. In addition, there are 7 new roles of Cabinet Assistant. These Cabinet Assistants will not be full members of the Cabinet, but will be aligned to each Cabinet portfolio and will assist the Cabinet Members in their roles – taking on specific responsibilities and helping to ensure delivery within that portfolio. The Cabinet Assistants are: · Finance & Efficiency: Councillor Paul May (Conservative, Publow and Whitchurch) · Transport: Councillor Matt Cochrane (Conservative, Bathwick) · Children’s Services: Councillor Emma Dixon (Conservative, Saltford) · Community Services: Councillor Chris Pearce (Conservative, Kingsmead) · Adult Social Care & Health: Councillor Lisa O’Brien (Conservative, Keynsham South) · Homes & Planning: Councillor Bob Goodman (Conservative, Combe Down) · Economic Development: Councillor Mark Shelford (Conservative, Lyncombe). Note from VMB Director: OK so Bath’s heritage comes under economic development but it amazes me that – despite so much income from the city’s World Heritage site ‘attractions’ – there is no Cabinet member appointed solely to look after all the archaeological, architectural and cultural money-spinners.
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Nature’s Numbers by Ian Stewart (1995)
Stewart is a mathematician and prolific author, having written over 40 books on all aspects of maths, as well as publishing guides to the maths used in Terry Pratchett’s Discworld books, authoring half a dozen textbooks for students and co-authoring a couple of science fiction novels.
He writes in a marvellously clear style, but more importantly, he is interesting: he sees the world in an interesting way and manages to convey the wonder and strangeness and powerful insights which seeing the world in terms of patterns and shapes, numbers and maths, gives you.
He wants to help us see the world as a mathematician sees it, full of clues and information which can lead us to deeper and deeper appreciation of the patterns and harmonies all around us.
1. The Natural Order
Thus he begins the book by describing just some of nature’s patterns: the regular movements of the stars in the night sky; the sixfold symmetry of snowflakes; the stripes of tigers and zebras; the recurring patterns of sand dunes; rainbows; the spiral of a snail’s shell; why nearly all flowers have petals arranged in one of the following numbers 5, 8, 13, 21, 34, 55, 89; the regular patterns or ‘rhythms’ made by animals scuttling, walking, flying and swimming.
2. What Mathematics is For
Mathematics is brilliant at helping us to solve puzzles. it is a more or less systematic way of digging out the rules and structures that lie behind some observed pattern or regularity, and then using those rules and structures to explain what’s going on. (p.16)
Kepler discovers the planets move in ellipses. The nature of acceleration, ‘not a fundamental quality, a rate of change’. Newton and Leibniz invent calculus to help us work out rates of change.
Two of the main things that maths are for are 1. providing the tools which let scientists understand what nature is doing 2. providing new theoretical questions for mathematicians to explore further. Applied and pure mathematics.
He mentions one of the oddities, paradoxes or thought-provoking things that comes up in many science books which is the eerie way that good mathematics, whatever its source, eventually turns out to be useful, to be applicable to the real world, to explain some aspect of nature. Many philosophers have wondered why. Is there a deep congruence between the human mind and the structure of the universe? Did God make the universe mathematically and implant an understanding of maths in us? Is the universe made of maths?
Stewart’s answer is simple and elegant: he thinks that nature exploits every pattern that there is, which is why we keep discovering patterns everywhere. We humans express these patterns in numbers, but it isn’t the numbers nature uses – it’s the patterns and shapes and possibilities which the numbers express, or define.
Mendel noticing the numerical relationships with which characteristics of peas are expressed when they are crossbred. The double helix structure of DNA. The computer simulation of the evolution of the eye from an initial mutation providing for skin cells sensitive to light, published by Daniel Nilsson and Susanne Pelger in 1994.
Resonance = the relationship between periodically moving bodies in which their cycles lock together so that they take up the same relative positions at regular intervals. The cycle time is the period of the system. The individual bodies have different periods. The moon’s rotational period is the same as its revolution around the earth, so there is a 1:1 resonance of its orbital and rotational period.
Mathematics doesn’t just analyse, it can predict, predict how all kinds of systems will work, from the aerodynamics which keep planes flying to the amount of fertiliser required to increase crop yield to the complicated calculations which keep communications satellites in orbit round the earth and therefore sustain the internet and mobile phone networks.
Time lags: the gap between a new mathematical idea being developed and its practical implementation can be a century or more: it was 17th century interest in the vibration of a violin string which led, three hundred years later, to the invention of radio, radar and TV.
3. What Mathematics is About
The word ‘number’ does not have any immutable, God-given meaning. (p.42)
Numbers are the most prominent part of mathematics and everyone is taught arithmetic at school, but numbers are just one type of object that mathematics is interested in.
The invention of numbers. Fractions. Some time in the Dark Ages the invention of 0. The invention of negative numbers, then of square roots. Irrational numbers. ‘Real’ numbers.
Whole numbers 1, 2, 3… are known as the natural numbers. If you include negative whole number, the series is known as integers. Positive and negative numbers are known as rational numbers. Then there are real numbers and complex numbers. Five systems in total.
But maths is also about operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. And functions, also known as transformations, rules for transforming one mathematical object into another. Many of these processes can be thought of as things which help to create data structures.
Maths is like a landscape with similar proofs and theories clustered together to create peaks and troughs.
4. The Constants of Change
Newton’s basic insight was that changes in nature can be described by mathematical processes. Stewart explains how detailed consideration of what happens to a cannonball fired out of a cannon helps us towards Newton’s fundamental law, that force = mass x acceleration.
Newton invented calculus to help work out solutions to moving bodies. Its two basic operations – integration and differentiation – mean that, given one element – force, mass or acceleration – you can work out the other two. Differentiation is the technique for finding rates of change; integration is the technique for ‘undoing’ the effect of differentiation.
Calculating rates of change is a crucial aspect of maths, engineering, cosmology and many other areas.
5. From Violins to Videos
A fascinating historical recap of how initial investigations into the way a violin string vibrates gave rise to formulae and equations which turned out to be useful in mapping electricity and magnetism, which turned out to be aspects of the same fundamental force, understanding which underpinned the invention of radio, radar, TV etc, taking in contributions from Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Heinrich Hertz and Giulielmo Marconi.
Stewart makes the point that mathematical theory tends to start with the simple and immediate and grow ever-more complicated. This is because you have to start somewhere.
6. Broken Symmetry
A symmetry of an object or system is any transformation that leaves it invariant. (p.87)
There are many types of symmetry. The most important ones are reflections, rotations and translations.
7. The Rhythm of Life
The nature of oscillation and Hopf bifurcation (if a simplified system wobbles, then so must the complex system it is derived from) leads into a discussion of how animals, specifically animals with legs, move, which is by staggered or syncopated oscillations, oscillations of muscles triggered by neural circuits in the brain.
This is a subject Stewart has written about elsewhere and is something of an expert on. The seven types of quadrupedal gait are: the trot, pace, bound, walk, rotary gallop, transverse gallop, and canter.
8. Do Dice Play God?
Stewart’s take on chaos theory.
Chaotic behaviour obeys deterministic laws, but is so irregular that to the untrained eye it looks pretty much random. Chaos is not complicated, patternless behaviour; it is much more subtle. Chaos is apparently complicated, apparently patternless behaviour that actually has a simple, deterministic explanation. (p.130)
19th century scientists thought that, if you knew the starting conditions, and then the rules governing any system, you could completely predict the outcomes. In the 1970s and 80s it became increasingly unclear that this was wrong. It is impossible because you can never define the starting conditions with complete certainty.
Thus all real world behaviours are subject to ‘sensitivity to initial conditions’. From minuscule divergences at the start point, cataclysmic differences may eventually emerge.
He then explains the concept of phase space developed by Henri Poincaré: this is an imaginary mathematical space that represents all possible motions in a given dynamic system. The phase space is the 3-D place in which you plot the behaviour in order to create the phase portrait. Instead of having to define a formula and worrying about identifying every number of the behaviour, the general shape can be determined.
Much use of phase portraits has shown that dynamic systems tend to have set shapes which emerge and which systems move towards. These are called attractors.
9. Drops, Dynamics and Daisies
The book ends by drawing a kind of philosophical conclusion.
Chaos theory has all sorts of implications but the one he closes on is this: the world is not chaotic; if anything, it is boringly predictable. And at the level of basic physics and maths, the laws which seem to underpin it are also schematic and simple. And yet what we are only really beginning to appreciate is how complicated things are in the middle.
It is as if nature can only get from simple laws (like Newton’s incredibly simple law of thermodynamics) to fairly simple outcomes (the orbit of the planets) via almost incomprehensibly complex processes. To end, Stewart gives us three examples of the way apparently ‘simple’ phenomena in nature derive from stupefying complexity:
what exactly happens when a drop of water falls off a tap
computer modelling of the growth of fox and rabbit populations
why petals on flowers are arranged in numbers derived from the Fibonacci sequence
In all three cases the underlying principles seem to be resolvable into laws and functions – and we see water dropping off taps or flowerheads all the time – and yet the intermediate steps are bogglingly complex.
Coda: Morphomatics
He ends the book with an epilogue speculating, hoping and wishing for a new kind of mathematics which incorporates chaos theory and the other elements he’s discussed – a theory and study of form, which takes everything we already know about mathematics and seeks to work out how the almost incomprehensible complexity we are discovering in nature gives rise to all the ‘simple’ patterns which we see around us.
The Beauty of Numbers in Nature: Mathematical Patterns and Principles from the Natural World on Amazon
Reviews of other science books
The Perfect Theory by Pedro G. Ferreira (2014)
The Origin Of The Universe: To the Edge of Space and Time by John D. Barrow (1994)
The Last Three Minutes: Conjectures about the Ultimate Fate of the Universe by Paul Davies (1994)
The Black Cloud by Fred Hoyle (1957)
Environment / human impact
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert (2014)
Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond (1997)
The Sixth Extinction by Richard Leakey and Roger Lewin (1995)
The Double Helix by James Watson (1968)
Nature’s Numbers: Discovering Order and Pattern in the Universe by Ian Stewart (1995)
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences by John Allen Paulos (1988)
A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper: Making Sense of the Numbers in the Headlines by John Allen Paulos (1995)
Atomic by Jim Baggott (2009)
Irrationality: The Enemy Within by Stuart Sutherland (1992)
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A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré (2008)
Le Carré’s default prose setting is pompous, preening, self-dramatising grandiosity, heavy-handed jocosity, leaden jokes and facetious 1950s dialogue. These traits are to the fore in this novel the character of Tommy Brue, owner of Brue Frères, a private bank in Hamburg. Like other JLC leading men, Tommy is in thrall to the memory of his ‘legendary’ father, the bank’s founder, remembered via the old boy’s embarrassingly bad quotes and dimwit aperçus, which I assume we’re meant to take seriously.
‘Tommy, my son, arithmetic is the one part of our business that doesn’t lie.’ (p.27)
Really? In banking? Who knew?
‘Never trust a beautiful woman, Tommy. They’re a criminal class, the best there is.’ (p.42)
Rather than a suave banker, Brue père, like so many JLC characters, sounds like a 1950s spiv. And his lumpen, unfunny humour has, alas, rubbed off on his son.
It wasn’t bull markets, bear markets, hedge funds or derivatives. It was cock-up. It was the persistent, he would go so far as to say the permanent sound, not to put too fine an edge on it, of excrement hitting your proverbial fan. (p.30)
The text all too often presents this kind of elaborate facetiousness as howlingly funny, whereas it makes large stretches of le Carré’s later novels almost unreadable.
Another JLC technique / vice is to describe or build up a character by inventing an imaginary chorus of colleagues, fellow worker and associates to comment on him – the rumour mill, the office gossips, fans, devotees, the so-and-so-watchers – who are then made to comment and elaborate on the characters, as if they are pop stars or celebrities, topics of continual observation and amazement.
[Bachmann] cooled his heels after fathering a near-epic scandal of which only the sketchiest outlines had ever reached the gossip mill: excessive zeal, said the rumours… (p.58)
According to rumour they had given sex a try and declared it a disaster area. (p.67)
Related to the technique of making characters the centre of worlds of rumour, gossip and intrigue, is to describe characters, their qualities or rooms or possessions, as legendary, fabled and generally tremendously well-known.
The outsize mahogany bookcase that filled the whole of one wall was similarly the stuff of family legend… Had [Tommy’s father read all the books it contained?] Legend said not. (p.25)
Big Melik, as he was also known to his admiring neighbourhood… (p.1)
Edward Amadeus OBE had been a legend in his lifetime and was a legend still. (p.186)
What had happened to the rebel in her, to her fabled powers of argument and resistance so valued by her family? (p.244)
In the hands of a legendary woman researcher called Frau Zimmerman… ‘As with decoding, so with invisible transfers, the legendary Frau Zimmerman resumes in her schoolmarm’s South German. (pp.318, 320)
One of the saddest moments in his life had been standing before the bonfire in his garden in Vienna with his first wife Sue on one side of him and Georgie the other, watching the fabled Brue Frères card index go up in smoke. (p.401)
Günther Bachmann was a famous chancer and nothing was ever going to change that. (p.406)
‘A legend in his lifetime.’ Another element in the over-selling of the characters is when they or the narrator (interchangeably) use ‘our’ to refer to them – as if we’ve adopted them, as if we are all part of the same nice snug gang, as if the whole narrative is taking part among members of the sixth form of a pukka public school.
‘Nobody should be interested in Mr Findlay. Mr Findlay should be relegated to oblivion forthwith and forever, is what should happen to our Mr Findlay,’ she said, adopting a furious nursery-rhyme voice. (p.267)
… where Lisa and Maria, our in-house Arabists, were already sitting… (p.211)
As to our gallant president and managing director… (p.343)
… assigning his grandfather’s chair to Our Esteemed Interpreter… (p.387)
Even more minor characters, who don’t happen to be legends in their lifetimes, still often merit facetious adjectives, indicative of the knowing mockery of superior public school banter.
… followed by an hour talking to his revered solicitor in Glasgow… (p.335)
And yet another way in which the whole tone of these later novels is over the top – over-egging the characters and overselling the action – is its addiction to italics, just to ram home the vehemence of the characters’ feelings and the importance of what they’re saying.
This scattering of italics happens on every single page so that after a while you feel that you’re reading the ravings of a man with the italics version of Tourette’s Syndrome given to utterly random outbursts of inexplicable emphases.
‘I was extremely young,’ she reported, in a tone of unsparing self-diagnosis. ‘Younger than my years by far, remember. If I compare myself with modern youth, I was a total infant. I came of a poor family, and had no experience of the larger world whatever.’ (p.261)
Scores of times, on every page. Becomes very irritating.
Issa is a Chechen refugee: he has escaped from Russia to Turkey, getting beaten and tortured along the way, before being traded across Europe into Copenhagen, and then by container lorry to Hamburg where the novel is set.
Issa follows, then imposes himself on Big Melik, a Turkish weight-lifter, boxer, footballer, and his kindly mother, Leyla, who are both hoping to claim citizenship in Germany. Out of pure good Muslim kindness, they put him up and contact the refugee charity, Sanctuary North, and its attractive young refugee lawyer, Annabel Richter. Annabel visits to interview Issa, who is obscurely convinced that the British banker Tommy Brue, who runs a small private bank in Hamburg, can somehow help him.
It turns out that Issa’s father was a Russian Red Army colonel who commanded some of the forces which went on the rampage during that country’s wars with tiny Chechnya. Obviously the Russians raped and killed lots of Chechens – their standard modus operandi – but after the colonel raped Issa’s mother (aged just 15), he kept her round long enough for her to show that she was pregnant, and then to bear the colonel a baby boy.
Issa’s mother was then murdered by her own family, who infiltrated a brother into the enemy camp who killed her for shaming the family. Somehow the baby Issa survived all this and was brought back to Russia by the colonel. What I couldn’t figure out was how a baby brought up by a Red Army general turns into a fanatically devout Muslim, committed to saying his prayers five times a day, carrying a locket of the Koran on his wrist, and insisting nobody need help him because Allah will provide.
After the colonel’s death, Issa fell foul of the Russian authorities but escaped to Turkey, was again imprisoned and still bears the scars of his beatings and torture. But he was helped to escape by the colonel’s old fixer, Anatoly, ‘a fixer extraordinaire and straightener of everything’ (p.259), who gives him cash and also – crucially to the whole plot – a scrap of paper with details of the colonel’s German bank account.
The bank of Brue Frères
It is this which has brought Issa to Hamburg and prompts him to ask Annabel to find for him the banker Tommy Brue. For it was with Tommy’s legendary father that the legendary colonel made his legendary agreement. Back in the 1980s, Colonel Grigori Karpov (p.258) was recruited by British Intelligence and began passing secrets to our side. We paid him for his ‘product’, and put the money into a safe account with the discreet and obscure private bank of Brue Frères. Run by Brits. Trustworthy chaps.
So a Soviet colonel was an agent for MI6. We paid his fee into a private British bank. He had a natural child by a Chechen girl who somehow got brought up as a hyper-devout Muslim. Who has now travelled across Europe to claim his father’s fortune. OK.
Günter Bachmann
Günter Bachmann works for the Foreign Acquisitions Unit of Hamburg’s Office for the Protection of the Constitution i.e. their secret service, which is soon informed of Issa’s arrival and that he making interesting enquiries. (Right from the start it is made clear that Germany has a number of security forces which all compete with each other, squabbling and fighting for resources, with final decisions being taken by a senior committee of bureaucrats in Berlin.)
Bachmann is, of course, like so many JLC protagonists, a maverick. He is the subject of a busy ‘rumour mill’, the target of excitablee ‘gossip’, there are apparently countless Bachmann-watchers, he is a legend in the service. And so on.
In a really bizarre scene, we see Bachmann giving a speech to his staff about the history and function of German’s security services in the aftermath of 9/11. Puzzling,y, we are told he gives this speech to the staff so regularly that it has acquired a nickname: with characteristic leaden humour we are told that it is ‘inevitably’ known as Bachmann’s Cantata. Because Bachmann sounds like Bach, you see. Bach Cantata. Bachmann Cantata. Hilarious, no?
But why does he have to give the same speech at regular intervals to his staff? So frequently that it has acquired a nickname? Are they particularly forgetful secret agents?
Bachmann’s Cantata consists of him hopping from one leg to the other, mimicking the voices of idiot politicians or the press, running the length of the meeting room to pop up behind people, appearing in different parts of the room to carry on hopping and doing funny voices, as he mimics and enacts various conflicting points of view about post-9/11 security issues in Europe.
This extraordinary and bizarre scene is, I think, meant to depict Bachmann as somehow funny, a wit, a diamond geezer, a legend in his lifetime. But it actually makes him come over as a half-wit and, like so many other aspects of the novel’s style and dialogue, completely undermines its claims to seriousness.
‘Okay, we all know the bad joke: you can’t buy an Arab, but you can rent one. We couldn’t even rent one, for fuck’s sake! With a couple of noble exceptions I won’t bore you with, we had shit for live sources then. And we have shit for live sources now… Oh sure, we had any number of gallant German journalists and businessmen on our payroll.. But they’re not live sources. They’re not venal, disenchanted, radical imams, or Islamist kids halfway to the bomb belt. They’re not Osama’s sleepers, or his talent-spotters, or his couriers, or his quartermasters or paymasters, not even at fifty removes. They’re just nice dinner guests.’
He waited till the laughter had subsided. (p.71)
JLC assures us that this entire humourless rant is punctuated by howls of laughter from Bachmann’s adoring audience, as if he’s Lenny Henry Live at the Apollo. But JLC’s inability to judge what is genuinely funny and what he is merely telling us is funny, further undermines any authority the author has with us, further distances us from this peculiar, contrived text.
The majority of the later novels suffer from the further flaw that, at the key moment where there should be insightful analysis of the historical and geopolitical setting of the fiction, when you expect one or more of the less ludicrous characters to give a half-decent summary of the geopolitical issues which JLC obviously cares about so passionately – what you generally get is sweary ranting by a blustering buffoon. This novel is no exception. When I read ‘Bachmann’s Cantata’ to my son (18) he said it sounded like a talent contest in a lunatic asylum.
The general upshot is that Bachmann and his assistant Frey (now I would have laughed if she’d been called Robin) begin hatching a plan to keep tabs on Issa. Maybe they could ‘recruit’ him as a ‘source’ for the service, eyes and ears in Hamburg’s Muslim community.
To recap the characters so far: the German spymaster comes across as an imbecile, his assistant Erna Frey as a permanently sarcastic chorus, the English banker a pompous prat, the Chechen-Muslim hero as the Lost Child in a fairy tale, Big Melik a lumbering idiot, the narrator an orotund windbag.
It’s such an odd melange of contemporary setting with fairy tale plot and ludicrous characters that I shouldn’t have been surprised when the posh charity lawyer, Annabel, with wild improbability, decides to throw all her professional standards to the wind and fall in love with the skinny refugee man-child:
She must have known a moment would come – a client would come – that would cause her to abandon every professional and legal principle she had ever reluctantly embraced. (p.155)
Maybe this is meant to be serious and not as laughable as I, personally, found it.
The wider conspiracy
Meanwhile, the legendary maverick Bachmann is revealed to be even more of an idiot than he first appears, when he is paid a visit by the head of Hamburg Station, who reveals that the wider organisation has been keeping tabs on Issa for weeks, with informers at the local mosque, taped phone conversations, spotters watching his every move and so on.
In other words, the imbecile Bachmann – who works, remember, in the intelligence service – doesn’t even have a clue what’s happening in his own wider organisation. But still – very good at hopping from one leg to the other and doing funny voices to his staff who roll around the floor emitting hoots of laughter. That’s what counts.
But it’s not only Bachmann who finds himself outflanked. Brue is surprised to be visited by two dodgy Brits who identify themselves as Foreman and Lantern from the local branch of MI6. They knew his father; they know about Karpov; they’re here to question him about Issa.
Are these, finally, the reader hopes, going to be characters we can believe in? No. They are afflicted with the same facetious, lumbering style as all the other people in the book. For example, Foreman doesn’t refer to Lantern as his assistant or partner, but his ‘partner in crime’. Oh dear. The same jaunty banter that all the other characters us. Thus Lantern’s opening sentence is:
‘It’s a privilege to meet you, Tommy, and that’s a fact.’ (p.187)
Does anyone talk like that in 2016? These two jolly cards didn’t just know Tommy’s dad – they knew his ‘revered late father’ (p.191). They needed a quiet bank into which to pay the rewards to the old colonel, bless his cotton socks, which they started to do when Brue Frères was based in ‘dear old Vienna’.
‘I would have to consult my chief cashier. Lipizzaners are something of a world apart at Freres,’ he said. ‘That was how my father wished it to be.’
‘You’re telling me he did!’ Foreman exclaimed. ‘Your proverbial grave was a bloody chatterbox where E.A. was concerned! Exactly what I said to Ian here before you showed up. Didn’t I, Ian?’
‘His words, Tommy. Literally,’ said little Lantern with his pretty smile. (p.199)
They sound like they come from a starchy, British 1950s black-and-white crime movie. Much of the dialogue sounds like an Ealing comedy, with unnervingly random emphases dropped in along the way, all dished up with a liberal sprinkling of modern swearwords. Dixon of Dock Green might walk in at any moment, saying ‘Evening all, his words literally, Ian, that’s what he said to me, and that’s a fact, me old matey.’
If Annabel – scion of a whole family of upper-class lawyers, father a judge, mother a judge and so on – falls in love with skinny, poverty-stricken wretch of the earth, Issa – then with equally gruesome inevitability, posh Tommy (unhappily married, a timid 60 year-old, but recipient of a jolly good public school education) falls hopelessly in love with lovely Annabel.
Presumably, for some readers, it is this ‘characterisation’ which lifts JLC out of the spy genre and makes his books contenders to be ‘serious fiction’. For me, though, it’s the exact opposite: Lthese grotesquely posh caricatures form the 1950s are precisely what undermines his later novels, makes them read like predictable cartoons.
Annabel’s flat
Annabel takes Issa to her flat to pack some stuff and then on to her other flat (it’s soo handy coming from a wealthy family) bought with a windfall from a recently dead relative. After all, the author has to park Issa somewhere and if he and Annabel shared the same flat that would create unwanted sexual frisson. For Issa is portrayed as so devout that he won’t touch, or even stand near, a woman.
This second hidden flat is down by the harbour and being done up by decorators. Here Issa hides out and Annabel comes to visit him daily and hear anecdotes about the different countries he’s been tortured in. She listens to him reciting heroic Chechen poetry and falls in love with him, like all wealthy civil liberties lawyers fall in love with all their poor sexist Muslim clients.
For his part, Issa confidently tells Annabel she will soon convert to Islam, at which point he will marry her and she will bear him many children. Some women dislike having the door held open for them because it’s patronising. Others appear to fall in love with beaten-up refugees who threateningly promise they will turn them into religiously indoctrinated baby machines. Each to their own.
German security intervenes
German agents visit Annabel at the refugee centre and question her hard in front of her boss, Ursula, though she’s tough enough to refuse to say where Issa is being hidden. She then goes to great lengths to get her beloved brother, Hugo the psychiatrist, to sign Issa into a private clinic in the country (her money will pay – wealthy family). But when she tells Issa this is what she’s arranged – to smuggle him out to this safe clinic – Issa refuses to go. With irritating rectitude, he tells her Allah will provide for his future. Cycling back from this last visit, she is kidnapped off the streets by German security.
Carried to a safe house, Annabel is slowly and steadily intimidated into playing along with German Intelligence, and forced to agree to their plan. It’s for his own good, they assure her. JLC describes the detail of her ‘interrogation’ in minute detail. This process, the process of how an interrogator slowly and carefully inveigles their way into the mind of the interviewee, has always been at the core of JLC’s novels, so it comes as no surprise to learn from his biography that it was in fact the function he himself performed when he worked for the security service in the 1950s.
The psychological to and fro of an interrogator trying to win over an informer, and the surprising revelations and confessions the informer can eventually be coaxed into making, obviously impress him 50 years later, and something of the fervour and precision and excitement of the experience comes over in these scenes.
Frau Ellenberger
Meanwhile, Bachmann goes and ‘interviews’ i.e. questions in depth, Tommy’s ancient secretary, Frau Ellenberger. He discovers
a) She had an affair with Tommy’s dad, although he was married – goodness, what a surprise – young impressionable secretary having an affair with much older, filthy rich employer, my word.
b) She disapproved of the Lipizzaner i.e. black, criminal accounts
c) She speaks in random italics like all the other characters in the book
d) Rather than retell the gist or summary of the conversations she’s recalling, she insists on impersonating the voices of all those involved, in wildly improbable detail, and thus comes across as nearly as much of an idiot as Bachmann, with the absurd impersonations and impressions of his legendary Cantata.
MI6 lean on Tommy
Then MI6’s man Lantern returns to visit Tommy Brue, making it clear that the service is very unhappy that Tommy wasn’t candid with them about the old colonel’s account or the presence of the colonel’s illegitimate son during their first conversation, and extra unhappy that he and Foreman had to learn about it from German security. ‘Embarrassing, old man.’
Lantern makes Tommy sign the Official Secrets Act with its various draconian clauses, accompanied by dire threats about what will happen to him, and his bank, for aiding and abetting terrorists. For everyone is now talking about Issa as if he is a certified terrorist, each of the security people accepting each others’ valuation of him as a dangerous radical, and tending to up the anti and increase their collective paranoia. Issa has even been given a codename, FELIX, and the conspiracy to incriminate and arrest him is now called Operation Felix.
Now they know where Annabel’s hidden him, Bachmann and his assistant Erna Frey set up base in the apartment below, and brief Annabel before and after every visit she makes about what to tell the boy. As in a lot of JLC novels – for example, the first hundred pages or so of Our Kind of Traitor – it becomes a question of her acting a part under the guidance of security service minders, who go on to analyse every word and inflection of every exchange she has with Issa, in mind-bogglingly minute detail. Either this is psychologically compelling – or very boring, depending on your taste.
Enter the CIA
At this point we are witness to a high-level conference of German security chiefs to discuss what they’re going to do with the man they have now all convinced themselves is a dangerous terrorist. To Bachmann’s dismay, a CIA agent he knows from his time in Beirut is also present. Mr CIA is introduced by the narrator as if by a circus ringmaster:
And sidling after Martha and so close on her heels that he could have been using her bulk for cover, none other than six-foot-something Newton, alias Newt, one-time deputy chief of operations at the US Embassy in Beirut. (p.306)
‘None other than…’ Are we meant to applaud?
Like all the other characters, Newt’s dialogue is sprinkled with random emphases and aggressive swearing.
‘Holy shit, Gunther, I last saw you stretched out in the bar of the Commodore! What the fuck are you doing in Hamburg, man!’ (p.306)
Probably designed to be a satire on a certain type of brash virile Yank, this characterisation is just tiresome.
Entrapping Dr Abdullah
At the meeting it becomes apparent that the assembled security agencies want Issa to a) cash in his legacy b) contact a certain Dr Abdullah, a pillar of the moderate Muslim community in Hamburg and organiser of many charities c) so that they can entrap Abdullah for receiving money from a ‘known terrorist’. So Issa and Abdullah are going to be entrapped.
Bachmann is assured by his bosses that he can then pick up Abdullah and take him to a safe house, there to recruit him as a uniquely well-placed source embedded in the Hamburg Muslim community. OK. He is mollified. He hardly does any hopping fro one leg to another. And hardly any funny voices.
As with all late JLC it is made very clear that the western security services are far more dangerous than any terrorists: it’s western security services who implicate innocent people, arrest them without cause, fly them round the world for torture and indefinite confinement, blackmail and intimidate anyone they feel like. They act above any laws or restraints.
In accordance with the plan, Annabel is tasked by her minders with persuading Issa to meet with Dr Abdullah (now codenamed SIGNPOST) and donate his legacy to the many good Muslim causes which Abdullah manages – while Tommy is sent to meet Abdullah in person and gently introduce him to the idea that a mystery-money-donating stranger wants to give him the biggest bequest of his career. The plummy banker and lawyer have become pawns in the wider intelligence plan. They are entrapping the two good Muslims.
At Abdullah’s institute, Tommy meets his minders and his worthy family, the daughter studying to be a doctor, the honourable and devoted son. Abdullah is a Good Man. When he is told how much he stands to gain – by now we’ve been told that Issa is set to inherit $12.5 million from his dead father’s investments – Dr Abdullah’s face lights up. Oh, all the good and noble charitable causes he will be able to endow!
Never had [Tommy] seen a more radiant picture of innocent rapture than the good doctor now. (p.346)
Still, Abdullah is no fool and Tommy has to work hard to persuade him to accept the tainted money. Abdullah is tentative and hesitant throughout the rest of the book. Issa for his part, explains to Annabel that he has some plausible ‘conditions’ before handing over all his legacy to Dr A. For a start Chechen charities must receive first tranches of the money – and he wants enough to fund his own training as a doctor so he can go back to his country and heal the sick – but the rest is Abdullah’s to dispose of as the wise and good man thinks best.
Brue had demanded of his MI6 minders a) a passport for Issa b) guarantee of no prosecution for Annabel. He meets her at the Atlantic restaurant to show them both and assure her of his good faith. He is hopelessly in love with her. She notices but can’t help. She is hopelessly in love with Issa. The reader notes with relief that there are only 50 or so pages left till the end of the book.
So Annabel goes off to collect the domineering, patriarchal Issa, still working away at converting her to the True Faith so she can start bearing his children. She persuades him – still pretty suspicious – down into the limousine which will take them to the bank. Unbeknown to the two saintly Muslims, the meeting between Abdullah and Issa at the Frères bank is incredibly staked out, with two competing factions of German security and British Intelligence taping it and watching from a van outside.
Big Melik and Leyla
We periodically revert to the characters we met right at the start of the book, the gentle giant Big Melik and his mother Leyla, the Turkish Muslims who were hoping to get German citizenship and were kind enough to take Issa into their home before introducing him to Annabel.
Half way through the book, we had seen Bachmann assure his assistant Erna that Melik and Leyla would be able to fly off to her niece’s wedding in Turkey and then return to Germany where their citizenship application would be supported. Now Bachmann embarrassedly admits that the powers-that-be above him have decreed that Melik and Leyla will be refused return to Germany on the grounds of harbouring a known ‘terrorist’, and in all likelihood imprisoned, and probably tortured, in Turkey.
Erna isn’t impressed. Bachmann’s team aren’t hooting with laughter now at his uproarious antics. His prattish ineptitude is coming home to roost.
Shocking climax
Now Bachmann is disguised as a grumpy taxi driver parked outside the bank. The plan is that Tommy will supervise the transfer of Issa’s funds down in the vault, then ring for a taxi and hey presto Bachmann will appear – fully prepared to whisk an unsuspecting Abdullah off to a safe house where he can set about interrogating him.
Over the closed circuit TV we watch Tommy take Abdullah and Issa and Annabel down into the bowels of the bank, there to open an ancient deposit box and extract the bonds which represent the colonel’s legacy and Issa’s fortune. With a few strokes of the pen the $12.5 million is legally signed over to Issa and Tommy has transferred it into an active account. He and Abdullah then pore over the list of Abdullah’s charities and systematically dispose of the fortune in batches of payments to worthy causes. Allah’s will is done.
Much shaking of hands and congratulatory laughter, as they get their coats and emerge into the gravel drive outside the bank smiling and happy. And here is Bachmann driving the taxi Brue ordered and ready to carry out his plan of whisking off Dr A to a safe house. Abdullah is at the door and about to get into the cab when — there is a screech of brakes and a huge van careers into the back of taxi, with two black Mercedes appearing out of nowhere to block it off at either end of the drive.
Out of the van leap half a dozen big men in balaclavas who seize Issa and Abdullah and throw them into the van, lock the doors and drive off. Bachmann is still dazed, having been thrown against the steering wheel, Annabel is holding the door handle of the van shrieking ‘let him go let him go’ till forced to let go herself, and the van has gone. Wow.
They were all betrayed. Bachmann’s tidy little scheme has been swamped by American heavy-handedness. He limps down the road and round the corner to where he knows his boss, Mohr, is waiting. Mohr, embarrassed, fakes receiving a call on his mobile leaving Bachmann to furiously confront six-foot-something Newt, the CIA man.
And here, on the penultimate page, le Carré lets rip, depicting the American as a brutal war-on-terror monster. (It would be interesting to hear something intelligent at this point but, as usual in these late novels, the key speeches, the vital analysis which underpins the entire plot, consists of blustering, shouting swearing.)
‘Where have you taken him?’ Bachmann asked.
‘Abdullah? Who gives a shit? Some hole in the desert, for all I know. Justice has been rendered, man. We can all go home.‘
He had spoken these last words in English, but Bachmann in his dazed state failed to get his mind round them.
‘Rendered?’ he repeated stupidly. ‘What’s rendered? What justice are you talking about?’
‘American justice, asshole. Whose do you think? Justice from the fucking hip, man. No-crap justice, that kind of justice! Justice with no fucking lawyers around to pervert the course. Have you never heard of extraordinary rendition? Time you Krauts had a word for it.’ (p.415)
So that’s that then. As near as we get to an explanation or analysis. ‘American justice, asshole.’
The Yanks are portrayed as doubly stupid: first for cruelly and unjustly ‘rendering’ two men who have been painted as totally innocent and harmless, but secondly for devastating Bachmann’s much cleverer and more practical plan to recruit Abdullah and have him work as an agent on the inside – giving us a potential lifetime of tip-offs and inside information from the heart of the Muslim community.
On another level, the Americans’ devastation of Bachmann’s plan is in effect a repudiation of the technique of slow, patient interrogation and recruitment, which we know le Carré himself carried out during his time as a security service employee, and which is at the core of so many of his books: think of the many long, patient questionings undertaken by the calm and thoughtful George Smiley. The violent abduction represents a kind of rape of everything JLC thought valuable and insightful about his own intelligence work.
(A tiny extra insult is the way that, standing in the lee of six-foot Newt as he delivers his tirade to the ‘liberal’ Kraut, Bachmann, stands the British Intelligence man, Ian Lantern, repeatedly described as ‘little’, short, and, in these final scenes, depicted as hanging round the tall, virile Yank like a lapdog, a poodle, a bully’s hanger-on. Much, one imagines, as JLC sees his pathetic country under the leadership of ‘Brother Blair’ sucking up to the bully boys of the USA.)
This final speech merely expresses more forcefully the various sarcasms and aspersions which JLC had cast on German and British security, on their supposed ‘standards’ and ‘integrity’, throughout the novel. His contempt for his old employer grows more tangible – and is expressed in fiercer terms – in each of these late novels.
There is, of course, a very strong case to make against America’s use of kidnapping and the illegal transport of prisoners, limitless imprisonment without trial and the use of terrible and illegal torture techniques. A case which is lucidly made by countless pressure groups, charities and journalists (some of which are referenced in the afterword to this book).
And, overall, in summary, the plot is a dramatisation of this kind of lawless abduction. But as well as its plot, a novel is also about its style, about its use of language. And, for me, le Carré’s laboured, heavy-handed, facetious, sarcastic and overblown tone make his later books almost unreadable. And this fatally undermines the undoubted passion and anger he feels for his ideas.
If causes were judged by the anger, passion and sarcasm they arouse, then social media would be an academy of geniuses. But they also carry weight according to the clarity and insight their proponents bring to them. And too often, alas, le Carré brings nothing but sweary bluster and schoolboy sarcasm to what are, undoubtedly, very serious issues which should concern us all.
P.S. My first pony
Early into JLC’s post-Cold War novels I began to notice that every one of them is so unwittingly posh and features such pukka upper-class characters, that they all contain a reference to the characters’ first little pony. Since I noticed this I’ve been on the lookout for each novel’s my-little-pony moment. This one comes when the privileged lawyer Annabel – the one ‘possessed of fabled powers or argument and resistance’ – is reflecting on her ‘relationship’ with Issa.
She was reminded of a pony she had once had. He was called Moritz, and Moritz was a delinquent. He was unbreakable and unrideable. Not a family in Baden-Wittemberg would have him – until Annabel heard about him and, to exert her power, overrode her parents and raised money among her schoolfriends to buy him. When Moritz was delivered, he kicked the groom, kicked a hole in his stall, and broke his way into the paddock. But next morning when Annabel in trepidation went out to him, he strolled towards her, lowered his head for the halter and became her love for ever more. (p.244)
Probably le Carré wants his books to move us with their deeply drawn characters and their passionate dramatisation of contemporary issues. But, although I am politically sympathetic to all his beliefs, I remember the books mainly for their bombastic style and the unwitting poshness of his helplessly upper-class characters.
A Most Wanted Man by John le Carré was published in 2008 by Hodder and Stoughton. All quotes from the 2009 Hodder paperback edition.
A Most Wanted Man on Amazon
A Most Wanted Man Wikipedia article
John le Carré Wikipedia article
John le Carré’s website
John Le Carré’s novels
1961 Call for the Dead – Introducing George Smiley. Intelligence employee Samuel Fennan is found dead beside a suicide note. With the help of a CID man, Mendel, and the trusty Peter Guillam, Smiley unravels the truth behind his death, namely he was murdered by an East German spy ring, headed by Mundt.
1962 A Murder of Quality – Smiley investigates the murder of a teacher’s wife at an ancient public school in the West Country, incidentally the seat of the father of his errant wife, Lady Ann. No espionage involved, a straight murder mystery in the style of Morse or a thousand other detective stories.
1963 The Spy Who Came in from the Cold – Extraordinarily brilliant account of a British agent, Alec Leamas, who pretends to be a defector in order to give disinformation to East German intelligence, told with complete plausibility and precision.
1965 The Looking Glass War – A peculiar, downbeat and depressing spy story about a Polish émigré soldier who is recruited by a ramshackle part of British intelligence, given incompetent training, useless equipment, and sent over the border into East Germany to his pointless death. Smiley makes peripheral appearances trying to prevent the operation and then clear up the mess.
1968 A Small Town in Germany – Political intrigue set in Bonn during the rise of a (fictional) right-wing populist movement. Overblown.
1971 The Naïve and Sentimental Lover
1974 Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy – His most famous book. Smiley meticulously tracks down the Soviet mole at the heart of the ‘Circus’ ie MI6.
1977 The Honourable Schoolboy – Jerry Westerby is the part-time agent instructed to follow a trail of money from the KGB in Hong Kong, which involves intrigue at various locations in the Far East. It is done on Smiley’s orders but the latter barely appears.
1979 Smiley’s People – The assassination of a European émigré in Hampstead leads via a convoluted series of encounters, to the defection of Karla, Smiley’s opposite number in the KGB.
1983 The Little Drummer Girl – A long and brilliant meditation on the Arab-Israeli conflict, embodied by Charlie, the posh young English actress recruited by Israeli intelligence and trained to ‘allow’ herself to then be recruited by Arab terrorists, thus becoming a double agent.
1986 A Perfect Spy – Long flashback over the career of Magnus Pym, diplomat and spy, which brilliantly describes his boyhood with his chancer father, and the long tortuous route by which he became a traitor.
1989 The Russia House – Barley Blair is a drunk publisher who a Russian woman approaches at a book fair in Moscow to courier secrets to the West. He is ‘recruited’ and sent back to get more, which is when things begin to go wrong.
1990 The Secret Pilgrim – A series of vivid short stories describing episodes in the life of ‘old Ned’, a senior British Intelligence officer now in charge of trainees at the Service’s base at Sarratt in Buckinghamshire. When he asks George Smiley to come and lecture the young chaps and chapesses, it prompts a flood of reminiscence about the Cold War, and some references to how abruptly and completely their world has changed with the collapse of Russian communism.
1993 The Night Manager – Jonathan Pine is recruited by British Intelligence to infiltrate the circle of British arms dealer Richard Onslow Roper – described with characteristic hyperbole as ‘the worst man in the world’ – after first laboriously acquiring a persuasive back story as a crook. Once inside the circle, Pine disobeys orders by (inevitably) falling in love with Roper’s stunning girlfriend, but the whole mission is endangered by dark forces within British Intelligence itself, which turn out to be in cahoots with Roper.
1995 Our Game – Incredibly posh, retired Intelligence agent, Tim Cranmer, discovers that the agent he ran for decades – Larry Pettifer, who he knew at Winchester public school, then Oxford and personally recruited into the Service – has latterly been conspiring with a former Soviet agent to embezzle the Russian authorities out of tens of millions of pounds, diverting it to buy arms for independence fighters in the tiny republic of Ingushetia, and that Larry has also seduced his girlfriend, Emma, in a claustrophobic and over-written psychodrama about these three expensively-educated but dislikeable upper-class twits. (414 pages)
1996 The Tailor of Panama – Andrew Osnard, old Etonian conman, flukes a job in British Intelligence and is posted to Panama where he latches onto the half-Jewish owner of a ‘traditional’ English gentlemen’s tailor’s, Harry Pendel, and between them they concoct a fictional network of spies based within an entirely fictional underground revolutionary movement, so they can embezzle the money London sends them to support it. Described as a comedy, the book has a few moments of humour, but is mostly grimly cynical about the corrupt workings of British government, British intelligence, British diplomats and of the super-cynical British media mogul who, it turns out, is behind an elaborate conspiracy to provoke a gruesomely violent American invasion of Panama, leaving you feeling sick and jaundiced at a sick and jaundiced world. (458 pages)
1999 Single & Single – Public schoolboy Oliver Single joins the law-cum-investment firm of his father, the legendary ‘Tiger’ Single, to discover it is little more than a money-laundering front for international crooks, specifically the Orlov brothers from Georgia. He informs on his father to the authorities and disappears into a witness protection programme. The novel opens several years later with the murder of one of the firm’s senior lawyers by the Russian ‘clients’, which prompts Single & Single to go into meltdown, Tiger to disappear, and Oliver to come out of hiding and embark on a desperate quest to track down his estranged father before he, too, is killed.
2001 The Constant Gardener – Posh young free-spirited diplomat’s wife Tessa Quayle discovers a big pharmaceutical company is illegally trialling a new drug in Kenya, with disastrous results for the poor patients. She embarks on a furious campaign to expose this wickedness and is murdered by contract killers. The novel combines flashbacks explaining events up to her murder, with her Old Etonian husband’s long quest to discover the truth about her death.
2003 Absolute Friends – Head prefect and champion fast bowler Ted Mundy befriends the radical leader Sasha in the radical Berlin of the late 1960s. Years later he is approached by Sasha, now living in East Germany, who says he wants to spy for the West, and thus begins Ted’s career in espionage, which comes to a grinding halt with the fall of the Berlin Wall. A decade later, Sasha unwittingly lures Ted into a Machiavellian American sting whereby their entire previous careers are turned against them to make them look like dangerous ‘terrorists’, climaxing with them being shot down like dogs. First part good, second part overblown.
2006 The Mission Song – Ex-public school boy Bruno ‘Salvo’ Salvador, a half-Congolese translator, gives a first-person narrative of an unofficial meeting of three leaders of Congo’s warring factions who have been brought together by a British ‘syndicate’, who are planning to engineer a coup and impose a ‘middle of the road’ leader, ostensibly to bring ‘peace’ to Salvo’s troubled homeland. Salvo learns that the real plan is to allow the leader’s Western backers to plunder the country’s mineral resources and sets out on a quixotic mission to reveal the ‘truth’.
2008 A Most Wanted Man – Posh Hamburg-based British banker Tommy Brue and posh refugee lawyer Annabel Richter find themselves involved in a conspiracy by German security services to frame an apparently innocent Muslim refugee, and the moderate organiser of Muslim charities, as ‘terrorists’. But this dubious plan is itself brutally trumped by the Americans who, in the form of the CIA, betray all the characters in the book, and violently kidnap the two Muslims, taking them away for indefinite incarceration and torture.
2010 Our Kind of Traitor –
2013 A Delicate Truth –
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Torah Portions: Tishrei 27, 5776
Gen. 1:1-6:8 ~ Is. 42:5-43:10 ~ Matt 1-2
Welcome back to Bereishit Part 2. If you haven’t read Bereishit part 1, you can click here. We will now venture into the Creation Gospel where we will explore the four rivers and its significance to Creation and the Living Water– our Savior, Yeshua!
Again, I will be sharing from the Creation Gospel series from Dr. Hollisa Alewine. As we recall, Bereishit means “In the Beginning.” So in the beginning, there were events that were very significant: The creation of the heavens and the earth, Adam and Eve in the Garden, first sins, and the first argument with Cain and Abel over the appointed times, curses, and consequences.
We will focus on the four rivers.
16 “Come close to me, and listen to this: since the beginning I have not spoken in secret, since the time things began to be, I have been there; and now Adonai Elohim has sent me and his Spirit.”
17 Thus says Adonai, your Redeemer, the Holy One of Isra’el: “I am Adonai, your God, who teaches you for your own good, who guides you on the path you should take. 18 If only you would heed my mitzvot! Then your peace would flow on like a river, and your righteousness like the waves of the sea.”[1]
Elohim is telling us to heed HIS Ways. He is teaching us that HE is the Way, the truth and the Life that we should go (follow). He is our Redeemer, Savior, and G-d. We need to pay very close attention to obey His commandments so that our well-being would flow like a river…
The seven days of Creation were set in patterns, and those patterns are found in Genesis through Revelation. These patterns have chiastic connections as well as contranyms (at their opposite). G-d is a G-d of order. In other words, these Ancient Biblical events that took place in the seven days of creation, Kain and Abel, Esau and Jacob, and others were established with a purpose—not randomly.
The Gospel is found in Creation. The seven assemblies in Revelation parallel to specific festivals, Adonai’s Appointed times, that are known as calendar dates of the Moed; connecting the fourth day of creation: sun, moon, and stars- the Moedim. Kain and Abel brought their offerings to Elohim at Sukkot, but Kain’s did not meet the criteria and fell short because his offering wasn’t firstfruits, just fruits. Kain didn’t give his best to Elohim, just the leftovers.
Though Eden’s primary river isn’t mentioned by Name, Elohim is the source of living waters as well as the Tree of Life. Significantly at Sukkot. Yeshua claimed to be the River of Living Waters, the source of the four rivers[2] :
37 “Now on the last day of the festival, Hoshana Rabbah, Yeshua stood and cried out, “If anyone is thirsty, let him keep coming to me and drinking! 38 Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!” 39 (Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who trusted in him were to receive later — the Spirit had not yet been given, because Yeshua had not yet been glorified.)”[3]
Yeshua submitted obediently to the Father. He is the Living Water. He is the source that will nourish mankind, and because the Living Water, man (we) can return to the Garden by drinking (those who thirst) from those rivers in seasons. Those seasons are also the (3) pilgrimages: Pesach (Passover), Shavuot (Pentecost), and Sukkot (Feast of Tabernacles)—The Moedim.
“The rivers teach a common lesson. First, the water source divided into four “heads” that gave drink for the Garden in circle-type path. Two of the rivers, Pishon and Gihon, are specifically described as having cyclical qualities, like our Moedim, for they savav (surround) like a circle. Moses asked Pharaoh to let the Israelites go into the wilderness to observe chag (pilgrimage- festival), meaning a circle. The cycle of the feasts was part of the circle of the seasons. Those in Havilah within the circle of the rivers drink from the life in the rivers, and they are described as “good gold” and “precious stones.” [4]
The essence of the four rivers is to increase and burst forth with fruit. This includes the seasons of chag: Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot, which also are the firstfruits offerings. The moed river also gives off a mist that controls the climate and atmosphere for the Garden. Because it is a carbon-based earth, it makes it the perfect environment for trees, plants, all living creatures, including man. This plan was not only perfect, but very soothing for the man’s souls and spirit and a body made from dirt. It was also a dwelling for the Father to communicate with man. This was the plan for man to exist within the boundaries of the Moedim in which man and G-d could fellowship together.
What is fascinating is the chiastic Menorah’s description that not only applies to the Seven Spirits of Adonai, seven feasts, seven assemblies (churches in Revelation), and the seven days of Creation, but within those branches are also ample for the four rivers.
“(A: iv, S: ii) 4 Here is the history of the heavens and the earth when they were created. On the day when Adonai, God, made earth and heaven, 5 there was as yet no wild bush on the earth, and no wild plant had as yet sprung up; for Adonai, God, had not caused it to rain on the earth, and there was no one to cultivate the ground. 6 Rather, a mist went up from the earth which watered the entire surface of the ground.
7 Then Adonai, God, formed a person [a] from the dust of the ground [b] and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, so that he became a living being. 8 Adonai, God, planted a garden toward the east, in ‘Eden, and there he put the person whom he had formed. 9 Out of the ground Adonai, God, caused to grow every tree pleasing in appearance and good for food, including the tree of life in the middle of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of good and evil.
10 A river went out of ‘Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided into four streams. 11 The name of the first is Pishon; it winds throughout the land of Havilah, where there is gold. 12 The gold of that land is good; aromatic resin and onyx stone are also found there. 13 The name of the second river is Gichon; it winds throughout the land of Kush. 14 The name of the third river is Tigris; it is the one that flows toward the east of Ashur. The fourth river is the Euphrates.
15 Adonai, God, took the person and put him in the garden of ‘Eden to cultivate and care for it.”[5]
The river flowed out of Eden to water the Garden. It then divided into four rivers.
Rivers of the Moedim
As you view the Menorah, you’ll be able to see the 4 rivers. The Creation Gospel students are familiar with the 7-branched Menorah, and are learning the connections of each branch as it is HIS Light and Truth.
EUPHRATES/PERAT #6578 (Strong’s) is the middle branch, which is the furthest boundary of Israel; yet, the fruit of it is being the Great River. The middle branch also holds the Spirit of Adonai (Holy Spirit/ Ruach ha’Kodesh) as it feeds out to the others.
31“And I shall set your border from the Sea of Reeds to the Sea of the Philistines, and from the wilderness to the River, for I shall give the inhabitants of the land into your hand, and you shall drive them out before you.”[6]
Even though there isn’t a description of its movement, it is still synonymous with Shavuot and it corresponds with Sukkot. The chagim (3 pilgrimages) are all firstfruit offerings. Shavuot is firstfruits of wheat. This represents the Ruach ha’Kodesh (Holy Spirit), which is located on the 4th menorah candlestick—Center!
PISHON #6376 (Strong’s)
Pishon means to increase. Looking at the menorah of the 4 rivers provided, you will notice that the Pishon River “heads” or divides into the 1st and the 7th branches.
The movement of the Pishon river is surrounding (savav), and is thought to represent the Nile.
“One rabbinic view is that Pishon represent the Nile because it was known that flax (pishton) grew freely beside it. (Suchat, 2002, p. 244). The linen (shesh) garments of the priesthood are made of flax. The pattern of the Edenic rivers are paralleled in the High Priests garments.”[7]
The plagues and the Nile originated during the Exodus Passover. Looking at the menorah provided, on the far left branch (branch one) it is also Passover (first feast) which is Israel’s account to have increase. When Moses warned the Pharaoh of the oncoming plagues, Egypt was affected, but Goshen remained free from plagues. Just like in Creation when Elohim separated the light from the darkness, Goshen was separated from the darkness that was sent to Egypt. The more the Egyptians afflicted the Israelites, the more the Israelites increased in number; which was concerning to the Pharaoh! The increase of the Pishon river and the increase of the Israelites (Plagues of the Nile) do parallel concisely.
Now, let’s look at the seventh branch (far one to the right—last one).The 7th branch is also the Sukkot; Feast of Tabernacles. Sukkot is celebrated in remembrance of the Passover—a chiastic connection!
“The plagues Elohim sent begin with the Nile in Egypt end with Babylon in Revelation. Pishon also surrounded Havilah (tribulation, birth pangs, and labor; to circle and writhe). Which contained:
Zahav Tov/ Good Gold (Jerusalem). Located in the space between the first and second branches.
Bedolach/bdellium (divide). Located in the space of the sixth and seventh branches.
Shoham/onyx (to blanch or pale, yet it is seen as a black stone). Located in the space between the first and second branches.
The Good Gold and precious stones of Havilah are shining, representing the first Light of the first day of Creation and the reward of Sukkot, which will also have light without the sun or moon. The prophets often describe the millennial Sukkot as radiant and glorious.” [8]
This also represents Wisdom/Chokmah and Reverence of Adonai/ Yirat Adonai, which are two of the Seven Spirits of Adonai.
Let’s back up for just a minute to gather some additional information that might help clarify some things. We know there are seven days in creation, seven Spirits of Adonai, seven Feasts that are Adonai’s Appointed times, seven churches and seven branches on the Menorah. So let’s try and place the dot-to-dots on this.
The Seven Spirits, Seven Feasts, Seven days of Creation, and the Seven Assemblies (Churches) are set up on the Menorah branches 1-7. One will begin on the far left branch; working its way over to the last branch on the far right of the Menorah.
Spirit of Wisdom (Chokmah)/Passover (Pesach)/Light & Darkness/ Ephesus
Spirit of Understanding (Binah)/ Unleavened Bread(Chag HaMatzah)/ Upper and Lower Waters/ Smyrna
Spirit of Counsel (Etzah)/First fruits of Barley(Yom HaBikkurim)/Earth, Fruit, Seed, plants/Pergamum
Spirit of Adonai (Ruach Adonai)/ Pentecost (Shavuot)/Sun, moon, stars/ Thyatira
Spirit of Power (Gvurah)/ Trumpets (Yom Teruah)/ Birds and Fish/ Sardis
Spirit of Knowledge (Daat)/ Day of Atonement (Yom Hakippurim)/ Man & Beast/ Philadelphia
Spirit of Reverence/Fear (Yirat Adonai)/ Tabernacles (Sukkot)/ Sabbath/ Laodicea [9]
Please don’t let this overwhelm you; it takes time for it to soak into our thoughts. We all have been programmed to just surface read; scratching the surface. Adonai’s Word is much deeper than just surface reading. I don’t know of you like onions, or not, but imagine one in front of you. I will imagine the red onion—yummy, sweet with a kick. One can cut that onion easily enough right in half. But if you take the onion and begin to peel off each layer, one layer at a time, you’re going to be there awhile soaking up its juices. Like reading the Word, it doesn’t just end by quickly scraping the surface; HIS Word, meaning, and patterns are like layers upon layers. In other words, the more you dig into HIS Word/ Torah (finding Hebrew meanings), the more we will have a better understanding on a deeper level in His presence; soaking up HIS Truth. Until we leave the Western/Greek way of learning, and begin to learn the Hebrew way will we finally begin to see things how HE desires us to!
OK, before I trail off too far, let’s get back to the Four Rivers!
GICHON #1521 (Strong’s)
Gichon divides into the second and sixth branch, and is described as bursting forth; draw forth as to give birth. These “meanings” can be found in your Strong’s Concordance.
I find this interesting that this river also is savav, surrounding. “A spring in Jerusalem where Solomon was anointed and crowned; his older brother was actually coroneted first, but he was sent away in a Yom Hakippurim picture of L’Adonai vs. L’Azazel.[10]
On the second and the sixth branch, there is a chiastic connection on what more this represents. On the second branch, there is Binah which means to build (Understanding), Chag Hamatzah (Unleavened Bread) chiastically connects to the sixth branch of Daat which means knowledge (sacrificial love), Yom HaKippurium (Day of Atonements). “It also surrounds the Cush (black), which extends from India to Ethiopia. Cush denotes people of a darker color.”[11] Cush is also related to “heat/hot.”
“King David had a Cushite messenger who relayed to him good news of his enemies’ defeat, which included Absalom’s death. Absalom’s death was a usurper, just as Solomon’s other brother tried to usurper his throne. Absalom’s death was bittersweet news, just as the burial of Messiah Yeshua as the Good News was a bittersweet as the Pesach herbs (Passover). Death and burial in darkness must precede the dawning resurrection of the Third Day firstfruits.
Cush means black or dark. This correlates to:
Darkness and burial on Second day
Moses married a Cushite woman, corresponding to the Yom Kippur/marriage theme
Moses means “Drawn forth” from the water; he married a Cushite; the Torah is drawn forth from the Living Waters of Eden, and the Bride of the Torah will be “black, but comely,” drawn forth from the darkness of the night. This parallels King Solomon’s metaphorical Messianic kingship and his relationship to the lover of Song of Songs.”[12]
Song of Solomon 6:10
““Who is this, shining forth like the dawn, fair as the moon, bright as the sun” — but formidable as an army marching under banners?”[13]
On Yom Kippur, which is the 6th day, the High Priest is anointed just as King Solomon (builder/Ruach Binah) of the first temple. The anointing was at Gihon—another connection!
CHIDEKKEL #2313 (Strong’s)
Chidekkel (noisy, rapid, roaring, Tigris)This will be a division into the third and fifth branches of the Menorah.
The Hebrew word, holekh, means “walks” or “goes” in a movement. There are many connections as this is on the fifth branch that brings in the 5th day of Creation-Birds and fish that moved rapidly. This is also the fifth feast that ties in Trumpets (Day of Blowing), which is characterized by shouting, trumpets, blowing the shofar that is very noisy!
So birth pangs, contractions/growth that become rapid and suddenly busts forward on the third and fourth day, we can see that this connects both Feasts of Firstfruits: First Fruits of Barley and Feasts of Trumpets. This also ties in Etzah (Spirit of Counsel) and Gvurah (Power).[14]
The main river came from the Throne itself, giving nourishment to the Garden of Eden. Adam was in charge of moving the water, but he was not the creator of the water. Adam was able to freely irrigate the garden, trees included (trees symbolize man). Adam was given charge over the care and keep of the Garden, even though that “work” was not hard to cause body aches. Adam’s physical and spiritual strength soon came to a weakened area after he sinned. After the fall, cultivating the soil became a lot harder- breaking sweat; fighting weeds.
Since Adam was placed in the Garden after he was created, we need to remember that it was Elohim Who caused the trees and plant life to grow. Adam was His partner; having the reward of the Ruach ha’ Kodesh (Holy Spirit).
Adonai is the source of this nourishment The Living Water. He sustains life, and we, as His servants, are happy to help sow the seeds (works) for harvest, as that is the fruit. Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot are the rivers that give nourishment/drink in order to provide that water to “Good Gold” and “Precious Stones.” In other words, humans were created to walk through this water—Eden’s Four Rivers—the Moedim (Appointed times of Adonai). The Seven Spirits of Adonai was moving through the water.
The Good News is that the second Adam will restore this “irrigation” as HIS Garden will reach to offer HIS drink of nourishment to others to never thirst again—YESHUA is the Living Water!
17” because the Lamb who is in the midst of the throne shall shepherd them and lead them to fountains of waters of life. And Elohim shall wipe away every tear from their eyes.”[15]
So from what we have read thus far, the four rivers divided up from the “Head.” Head represents authority. As Yeshua explained in the Book of Revelation, the Father would pass down that authority to Yeshua, and HE would then pass the authority to the bond-servants.
17”But He looked at them and said, “What then is this that has been written, ‘The stone which the builders rejected has become the chief corner-stone’?”[16]
The Messiah is the head of the cornerstone!
1 Peter 2:4-12
4” As you come to him, the living stone, rejected by people but chosen by God and precious to him, 5 you yourselves, as living stones, are being built into a spiritual house to be cohanim set apart for God to offer spiritual sacrifices acceptable to him through Yeshua the Messiah. 6 This is why the Tanakh says,
“Look! I am laying in Tziyon a stone, a chosen and precious cornerstone; and whoever rests his trust on it will certainly not be humiliated.”[b]
7 Now to you who keep trusting, he is precious. But to those who are not trusting,
“The very stone that the builders rejected has become the cornerstone”;[c]8 also he is
a stone that will make people stumble, a rock over which they will trip.[d]
They are stumbling at the Word, disobeying it — as had been planned. 9 But you are a chosen people,[e] the King’s cohanim,[f] a holy nation,[g] a people for God to possess![h] Why? In order for you to declare the praises of the One who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light. 10 Once you were not a people, but now you are God’s people; before, you had not received mercy, but now you have received mercy.[i]
11 Dear friends, I urge you as aliens and temporary residents[j] not to give in to the desires of your old nature, which keep warring against you; 12 but to live such good lives among the pagans that even though they now speak against you as evil-doers, they will, as a result of seeing your good actions, give glory to God on the Day of his coming.” [17]
PRECIOUS STONES & GEMS!
You may want to scroll back up and review the Menorah (provided above) as we look into the connections. For further study on this, as I certainly will not be able to get into the meat of this, you can continue your journey using Dr. Hollisa Alewine’s Creation Gospel series. Her books are so amazing, and you’ll be blessed.
BDELLIUM
When the Israelites were in the wilderness with Moses for 40 years, HaShem sustained their needs. For example, their leather shoes and clothing lasted as the material never wore out. The ROCK of water that followed them (the Living Water- YESHUA) never ran dry.
How many of us could get by wearing the same shirt, pants, dress, socks and/or shoes (only one set) day after day for 1 year; let alone 40 years! Those who are fortunate enough to have one of those awesome water cooler stands, imagine using the same large water bottle (without replacing it) for a month or two. Would it last, or would it run dry? For forty years the Father provided and gave them Manna for their daily food. The manna was a miracle that happened every six days. On the sixth day, they would gather a double portion to have rest on the seventh day. Manna was not given on the seventh day so they had to plan accordingly.
“And the house of Israel called the name thereof Manna: and it was like coriander seed, white; and the taste of it was like wafers made with honey.”[18]
The appearance of manna resembled Bdellium, which was a precious stone that was encircled in the land of Havilah of the Pishon River.
Bdellium stone also has some characteristics:
“Bedolach ( Bdellium) From Badal
To divide, separate
(Hiphil) to make a distinction, difference, divide into parts
(Niphal) to separate oneself from OR unto; to be set apart
On the drawing of the menorah, the seventh River, Pishon, boarders the land of Havilah where the bedolach was, and Sabbath is therefore identified with that set apart or holy, quality. Indeed, each moed contains at least one Shabbat. Precious stones irrigated by the rivers of Eden have a holy quality about them.”[19]
I think it is fascinating that the connection of the bdellium is found to be sparkling and glisten like a rainbow-crystal clear, and Manna also was sparkly as wet clear dew for the Israelites! The dew would have glistened in the sunlight; refracting the prism of the rainbow. Moreover, if you take the menorah and tip it upside down, you’ll see a rainbow. It also looks like a bow and arrow readily to hit the mark—to be on target in His Truth. Doesn’t this sound like a wonderful message given to us from our Father directly from the Throne of Abba! AMEN!
Manna was also their reminder for them WHO their Source was (Ruach ha’Kodesh) and a foreshadowing of the coming Messiah Yeshua, the Bread of Life, sent from Heaven for the Throne room.
63 “ O God, thou art my God; early will I seek thee: my soul thirsteth for thee, my flesh longeth for thee in a dry and thirsty land, where no water is;2 To see thy power and thy glory, so as I have seen thee in the sanctuary.3 Because thy lovingkindness is better than life, my lips shall praise thee.”[20]
34 “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which killest the prophets, and stonest them that are sent unto thee; how often would I have gathered thy children together, as a hen doth gather her brood under her wings, and ye would not!” [21]
Perhaps the dew, as in the dew on leaves of a ‘tree’ was symbolic of Yeshua’s tears for the love he has for HIS Bride.
26 “Yeshua answered, “Yes, indeed! I tell you, you’re not looking for me because you saw miraculous signs, but because you ate the bread and had all you wanted! 27 Don’t work for the food which passes away but for the food that stays on into eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you. For this is the one on whom God the Father has put his seal.”
28 So they said to him, “What should we do in order to perform the works of God?” 29 Yeshua answered, “Here’s what the work of God is: to trust in the one he sent!”
30 They said to him, “Nu, what miracle will you do for us, so that we may see it and trust you? What work can you perform? 31 Our fathers ate man in the desert — as it says in the Tanakh, ‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’[a] 32 Yeshua said to them, “Yes, indeed! I tell you it wasn’t Moshe who gave you the bread from heaven. But my Father is giving you the genuine bread from heaven; 33 for God’s bread is the one who comes down out of heaven and gives life to the world.”
34 They said to him, “Sir, give us this bread from now on.” 35 Yeshua answered, “I am the bread which is life! Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever trusts in me will never be thirsty.”[22]
Yes! Yeshua is the Manna, the Bread of Life, the Torah (God’s Instructions), the Living Water that flows from the Throne of the Father in Heaven, the Resurrection of Life, the ROCK, the LIGHT, and the One Who is the Father and our Savior! Now, you can verify completely why the Torah can never be abolished, nor done away with. How foolish to accept that belief, HE is life that is everlasting to everlasting! AMEN!
The Onyx Stone
The Onyx is another precious stone of Havilah which appears black, but’s contranym (opposite of itself) is likely a whitening process. Shoham, Hebrew word for onyx appears to mean “ to blanch.” This would be the idea of making something holy by whitening.
“As Jacob in his tribulations in the Land of Lavan (white), became set apart and matured in holiness, so the precious stones of Havilah go through the process of being set apart and matured holiness by the River Pishon. Before sin, Passover, Unleavened Bread, and Firstfruits of the Spirit nourished adam (man) perpetually without great effort. After sin, the whitening process really does incur the sweat of the brow.”[23]
The priests of the Temple wore white linen garments. The linen was made of shesh.
Shesh, Strong’s # 8336; Definition: something bleached white, byssus, linen, fine linen, alabaster, similar stone, marble.
Shen is one of the Hebrew letters in their alphabet. Shen means teeth. And let’s not forget the shon, means tongue in which James refers the tongue as being a fire.
James 3: 5-6
5 “So too the tongue is a little member, yet boasts greatly. See how a little fire kindles a great forest!
6And the tongue is a fire, the world of unrighteousness. Among our members the tongue is set, the one defiling the entire body, and setting on fire the wheel of life, and it is set on fire by Gehenna.” [24]
In Hebrew, the Shesh is spelled with (2) shens, which literally places the whiteness of the linen, and it also has a fiery connotation with the number six. If you look back to the menorah, or day 6 of Creation, you’ll soon recognize that on day six was the day that beast and man were created.
“The linen garments of the priests were connected thematically to both shoham and the bedolach. They were set apart in holy garments of WHITE FIRE.” [25]
The 12 stones represented the 12 tribes of Israel. The shoham stones were connected to the breastplate (choshen) upon the priest’s shoulder using gold chains.
6 “For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counseller, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.” [26]
I am sure by now; you just saw another connection shoulder! The breast-plate that the priest wore on his shoulder was a foreshadowing of the Messiah wearing the government upon His shoulders. Look back at the menorah and view the fourth branch. Do you recall that being the Ruach Adonai? The forth branch balances evenly both sides of the menorah branches to hold the light. The fourth branch also feeds out to the other branches, and the weight of the other branches depends on the strength of the ONE/ Ruach Adonai to hold them up!! THIS IS POWERFUL!!!
When we just surface read, as taught in Western/ Greek cultures, we miss ALL of this! It is so exciting to have a whole new way of really “seeing” HIS Torah (Instructions) in the WAY He wanted us to learn. I can only hope and pray for many others to be able to peel back those onion layers to really get into the depth of HIS precious word- The Holy Scriptures.
There is so much more to this, and if you’re interested in digging deeper than what you have read on my Bereishit Torah Portion part 2, please consider checking out Dr. Hollisa Alewine’s Creation Gospel workbooks. Her in-depth study will challenge you to think, and dig in the scriptures; beyond the surface reading.
Adonai has always been the Aleph and the Tav. He is the beginning and the end; which of course after the seventh day (completeness), the eighth day is a new beginning—full circle!
He is our Creator, and we are His creation. The Gospel is found in Creation. The seven assemblies in Revelation parallel to specific festivals, Adonai’s Appointed times, that are known as calendar dates of the Moed; connecting the fourth day of creation: sun, moon, and stars- the Moedim. Yeshua is the Manna, the Bread of Life, the Torah (G-d’s Instructions), the Living Water that flows from the Throne of the Father in Heaven, the Resurrection of Life, the ROCK, the LIGHT, and the One Who is the Father and our Savior!
The main river came from the Throne itself, giving nourishment to the Garden of Eden. Adam was in charge of moving the water, but he was not the creator of the water. Adam was able to freely irrigate the garden, trees included (trees symbolize man). Adonai is the source of this nourishment- The Living Water. He sustains life, and we, as His servants, are happy to help sow the seeds (works) for harvest, as that is the fruit. Pesach, Shavuot, and Sukkot are the rivers that give nourishment/drink in order to provide that water to “Good Gold” and “Precious Stones.”
As the four rivers represent the Living Water, its contranym is also fiery water. Though with the Rainbow came the promise that the earth will not flood again, there will come a time the earth with once again have to be purified by fire because of wickedness. So we have the Salvation of the Living Water, Yeshua, as we enter the waters of salvation, and the fiery contranym of the waters being a “Lake of Fire” for evil.
Let’s take and drink from the fountain of the Living Water (Yeshua/Torah) and never thirst again.
[1] Complete Jewish Bible- Isaiah 48:16-18
[2] Creation Gospel, Bereishit Torah Portions Vol 1 (pg 11)
[3] Complete Jewish Bible- John 7:37-39
[5] The Complete Jewish Bible- Genesis 2:4-15
[6] The Scriptures (ISR 1998)- Exodus 23:31
[7] Alewine, Bereishit Torah Portions, pg 15
[9] Alewine, Creation Gospel pamphlet
[10] Alewine, Bereishit Torah Portions, Vol 1, pg 16
[11] Alewine, Bereishit, Torah Portions Vol 1, pg 16
[13] Complete Jewish Bible Song of Solomon 6:10
[14] Alewine, Bereishit Torah Portions Vol 1, pg 16
[15] The Scriptures (ISR 1998)- Revelation 7:17
[16] The Scriptures (ISR 1998)- Luke 20:17
[17] Complete Jewish Bible- 1 Peter 2: 4-12
[18] King James Version Exodus 16:31
[19] Alewine, Bereishit Torah Portions,Vol 1, pg 18
[20] King James Version- Psalm 63:1-3
[21] King James Version- Luke 13:34
[22] Complete Jewish Bible- John 6:26-35
[24] The Scriptures (ISR 1998) James 3: 5-6
[25] The 2012 revision of Creation Gospel One contains information on white light and the human eye.
[26] King James Version- Isaiah 9:6
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During the Age of Sail, black seamen could be found in many shipboard roles in the Royal Navy, such as gunners, deck-hands and 'top men', working at heights in the rigging.
In the later Age of Steam, black seamen were more likely to be found on merchantmen below deck; as cooks, stewards and stokers.
Nevertheless, the navy was possibly a unique institution in that black and white could work alongside each other more than in any other occupation.
In this fascinating work, Dr. Ray Costello examines the work and experience of seamen of African descent in Britain's navy, from impressed slaves to free Africans, British West Indians, and British-born Black sailors.
Seamen from the Caribbean and directly from Africa have contributed to both the British Royal Navy and Merchant Marine from at least the Tudor period and by the end of the period of the British Slave Trade at least three percent of all crewmen were black mariners. Black sailors signed off in British ports helped the steady growth of a black population.
In spite of racial prejudice in port, relationships were forged between sailors of different races which frequently ignored expected norms when working and living together in the isolated world of the ship. Black seamen on British ships have served as by no means a peripheral force within the British Royal and Mercantile navies and were not only to be found working in both the foreground and background of naval engagements throughout their long history, but helping to ensure the supply of foodstuffs and the necessities of life to Britain.
Their experiences span the gamut of sorrow and tragedy, heroism, victory and triumph.
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
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Fear and Trembling – Parshat Toldot
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“He saw Hell open up beneath him.” – Rashi on Gen. 27:33
ראה גיהנם פתוחה מתחתיו
That is an unusually terrifying image, even for Rashi, the great collector of fantastic legends. What’s going on here? What verse could have prompted such a dark reading from our most illustrious commentator?
Here’s the scene. Isaac has grown old, and feels the time has come to pass on the mantle to his eldest son, Esau. So he tells Esau to prepare a meal, and gets himself ready to give Esau the special blessing of the first-born. It’s all very tender, very fatherly.
But nothing goes as planned. Isaac’s wife Rebecca has always favored Jacob, and wants him to inherit the family covenant instead. So she disguises Jacob as Esau (they’re twins, after all), and sends him in to get the blessing from his nearly blind father – which he does.
Then Esau comes back in. After a few words of introduction, it suddenly becomes clear to Isaac that this is the real Esau. And it is at that moment, when Isaac realizes he has been tricked, that we read:
Isaac began to tremble violently… (Gen. 27:33)
וַיֶּחֱרַד יִצְחָק חֲרָדָה, גְּדֹלָה עַד–מְאֹד
It is a startling description. Of course he’s upset. But to think of this gentle old man, in the midst of blessing his children, suddenly start to shake uncontrollably – is particularly disturbing. The language suggests that much more was going on for Isaac than mere surprise. So this is where Rashi jumps in to tell us that Isaac was having visions of Hell opening up beneath him.
But why? What is it that rattles Isaac so profoundly that it sends him straight to the gates of Hell?
A classic midrash, searching for the source of this “trembling,” takes us back to the Akeidah, the famous ‘Binding of Isaac’ by his father Abraham:
‘Isaac began to tremble violently..’ – Rabbi Hama ben Hanina said: He trembled even more here than he trembled on the altar. (Bereshit Rabba 67:2)
וַיֶּחֱרַד יִצְחָק חֲרָדָה גְדֹלָה עַד מְאֹד (בראשית כז, לג), אָמַר רַבִּי חָמָא בְּרַבִּי חֲנִינָא מְאֹד, מֵחֲרָדָה שֶׁחָרַד עַל גַּבֵּי הַמִּזְבֵּחַ.
When Rabbi Hama sees this extreme reaction in Isaac, he cannot help but be reminded of the terror Isaac faced in his youth, and wonder if the trauma left him permanently shaky, prone to something like panic attacks.
There is another source that imagines Isaac’s “trembling” beginning on the altar, and it also reads like a kind of midrash. This one, however, was composed centuries later – and not at all by a rabbi. It is an astonishing narrative, and worth seeing in full:
Abraham said to himself, “I will not hide from Isaac where this course will take him.” He stood still, he laid his hand upon Isaac’s head in blessing, and Isaac kneeled to receive it. And Abraham’s face epitomized fatherliness; his gaze was gentle, his words encouraging. But Isaac was unable to understand him, his soul could not be uplifted; he clasped Abraham’s knees, he fell at his feet pleading, he begged for his young life, for the fair hope of his future: he called to mind the joy in Abraham’s house, he called to mind the sorrow and loneliness. Then Abraham lifted the boy up and walked on with him by his side, and his talk was full of comfort and exhortation. But Isaac could not understand him. He climbed Mount Moriah, but Isaac could not understand him.
Then Abraham turned away from him for a moment, and when Isaac again saw Abraham’s face again it was changed: his glance was wild, his whole being was sheer terror. He seized Isaac by the throat, threw him to the ground, and said, “Stupid boy, do you think that I am your father? I am an idolater. Do you suppose that this is God’s bidding? No, it is my desire.” Then Isaac trembled and cried out in his terror, “Oh, God in heaven, have mercy on me. God of Abraham, have mercy on me. If I have no father on earth, You be my father!”
But Abraham said softly to himself, “Oh, Lord in heaven, I thank You: it is better for him to believe that I am a monster, than that he should lose faith in You.
The author is the great Danish existentialist philosopher Søren Kierkegaard, and the tale appears at the beginning of his masterwork, Fear and Trembling (whose title, as you can see, contains the same word that he uses to describe Isaac’s terror).
In Kierkegaard’s vision, Isaac’s trembling at the altar is caused not just by the fear of death, but by the belief that his beloved parent had turned on him – that he had “no father on Earth.”
What would become of the boy who passed through this kind of experience? Certainly he would be traumatized. But more than that, we might also expect that he would vow, above all, never to be that kind of father himself. Never to betray his own child.
If, then, we turn back to the moment that Isaac sees Esau enter his room, perhaps his trembling makes more sense. Isaac suddenly realizes that he sent his son Esau off with words of love and promises, only to return to find himself forsaken by his own father. Isaac flashes back to the Akeidah. Except that this time he is the father willing to sacrifice his son. He is the monster.
There is even a hint of this Kierkegaardian connection in the text of the Torah itself. For when Isaac first calls to Esau, he says, “My son.” And Esau replies with one word:
“Hineini.” (Gen 27:1)
וַיֹּאמֶר אֵלָיו, הִנֵּנִי
Hineini – “here I am” – is a notable word in the Torah. It doesn’t come up too often, and is usually spoken only in response to a call from God. In fact, so far in Genesis, the only other time we have seen it spoken by one person to another is – you guessed it – at the Akeidah. When Isaac calls out, “My father,” Abraham responds:
Hineini, b’ni – Here I am, my son. (Gen. 22:7)
הִנֶּנִּי בְנִי
So when Esau spoke this same word – hineini – was it a kind of trigger? Did it take Isaac back to a moment when his own father spoke to him with words of affection, only to, soon thereafter, raise a knife to his throat?
Was this memory in the back of his mind even as he prepared himself to give the blessing – to love his own son unconditionally, and to never, ever do him harm?
And then when Esau returned, and understood that he had somehow been betrayed, and let out a “great, bitter cry” of pain and hurt, did Isaac hear in Esau’s wail the sounds of his own cries, that day he thought his father was going to kill him? Was he reliving his own personal hell? Did Isaac, in that moment, realize his greatest fear, and become the father he vowed never to be?
No. No. No. No.
He saw Hell open up beneath him. And he began to tremble violently.
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COD Advanced Warfare Preview
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We’re now getting pretty close to the release of COD Advanced Warfare, and ever since its first announcement, Sledgehammer Games have kept us up to date with all sorts of interesting information about the game. We now have a large amount of knowledge to share about COD Advanced Warfare, and we’ll be giving you the low down on what to expect from the next COD in this preview.
Multiplayer Mode
Perhaps the most played and arguably the most important part of the Call of Duty package is the multiplayer, and Sledgehammer Games have put in some interesting changes to ensure COD Advanced Warfare offers players a fresh perspective on online play.
Call of Duty has been well known for its run n’ gun gameplay for quite a few years now, but in COD Advanced Warfare things will be turned up a notch; players will now have access to powerful exo-suits that will come packed with all new capabilities. Players will be able to run faster, jump higher and ultimately get around the levels at a pace never seen before in the COD series thanks to the exo-suits, and unlike other gear, the exo-suit will always be on your character.
Some have even made the comparison between the new fast paced nature of Advanced Warfare and Titanfall, and the level design in COD:AW should certainly reflect the strong design found within Respawn’s latest shooter.
On top of the new exo-suits and better level design, we can expect to see a wide range of new futuristic perks, kill streaks and equipment to make gameplay even more exciting. If players do not like the exo-suits, they will be able to play in a playlist where they have been disabled.
Sledgehammer Games also have one more multiplayer mode still hiding up their sleeves; can we expect a new zombie or extinction mode?
Single-player Mode
The single-player in COD Advanced Warfare focuses on private military companies that have been hired to fight against a new rising terrorist organization known as the KVA. Advanced Warfare is set in 2054, so players can expect to find all sorts of new futuristic gear.
The main protagonist for Call of Duty Advanced Warfare seems to be Jack Mitchell, a former US marine who lost his arm in a battle in South Korea. In the story, Jack Mitchell signs up to ATLAS, the largest private military corporation in the game.
The first trailer for COD Advanced Warfare revealed the single-player campaign, and it looked pretty stunning.
Pre-order COD Advanced Warfare for the PC here.
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July’s Xbox Live ‘Games with Gold’ Offers Assassins, Chainsaws, and Zombies
June 28, 2015 July 19, 2015 No Comments Gold Deals
Each month, gamers with Xbox Live Gold memberships receive access to free titles for a limited time only – once the games are downloaded, they can be kept forever, even when your membership expires. Last month saw Just Cause 2 and Massive Chalice given away for free, and July will bring gamers more fantastic titles – let’s take a closer look at what’s on offer.
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1.1 Assassins Creed IV: Black Flag
1.2 So Many Me
1.3 Xbox 360
1.4 Gears of War 3
1.5 Plants vs. Zombies
The Assassins Creed series is still going strong, with the forthcoming Syndicate set to bring the familiar parkour-based gameplay to Victorian London. Black Flag was the fourth main instalment, putting players in the shoes of pirate captain Edward Kenway. With the Assassins’ training giving him an edge over other pirates, Kenway must sail the seas aboard his ship, the Jackdaw, seeking out treasure and adventure; players will also become involved in the ongoing war between the Assassins and Templars as the series’ overall storyline advances.
After the use of sailing and ship-to-ship combat in Assassins Creed III received such a great response, Black Flag did a good job of expanding on this, allowing players to explore the world by sea, wandering from taverns to villages – and even jungles. This is available between the 1st to the 31st of July.
This new puzzle-based platformer puts players in control of blob-like clones as they battle a powerful force of evil. Using their different abilities, the blob-clones face dozens of levels, as well as hundreds of puzzles – with thousands of possible solutions. This requires some smart thinking and skilful playing, and, thanks to Games with Gold, you can pick this up for free between July 16th and August 15th.
Billed as the end of the franchise at the time of its release, Gears of War 3 was a huge hit with gamers and critics alike. Stepping back into the muddy boots of Marcus Fenix, players must take on the mighty Lambent – a new enemy hell-bent on wiping out mankind. Featuring the same cover-based, high-octane, blood-soaked, chainsaw-gun-wielding action as the previous games, Gears of War 3 is an absolute blast from start to finish – and can be yours, free, between July 16th to the 31st.
Tower-defence games have become increasingly popular in the past few years, and Plants vs. Zombies is one of the greatest. This multi-award-winning hit is brilliantly simple, and simply brilliant: zombies are trying to attack a house, and players are tasked with fending them off by planting various powered-up flowers, trees, veggies, nuts and more in the garden. Players need to use strategy and quick-thinking to choose the right plant for the right defence – it’s addictive, fun, and gorgeous to look at. This is available between the 1st and 15th of July.
That’s it for this month – there’s plenty to keep you entertained, whatever you’re into!
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Xbox Game Pass – Doom & Rage Are Now Available
August 14, 2018 Comments Best Games, Free Games
Xbox Game Pass is like Netflix for games. You pay one monthly price, and that gets you access to over 100 games (with new ones added monthly), that you can play 24 hours a day for as long as you want. It’s similar to other game subscriptions, but Xbox Game Pass isn’t restricted to just one publisher — meaning you can play a bigger variety of games.
We know subscriptions can be scary which is why we offer 1-month Game Pass subscriptions in our webstore, and right now they’re on sale (at a 75% discount) for just $2.59! This is way cheaper than buying it from Microsoft. The 1-month pass will be delivered instantly, and then you’re good to go. Simply try it out for one month, and if it’s not for you, be done with it then and there. Now that you know how Xbox Game Pass works, let’s get to the new games that were just added!
Doom is a franchise that needs no introduction. It is the godfather of First Person Shooters, and has had an influence on every one of them since the first game in the franchise released in 1993. But the game added to Game Pass this month isn’t the original Doom. This Doom is the best version of it yet.
Released in 2016, Doom is a reboot of the original title, and it has breathed new life into the franchise. It’s classic demon slaying updated to the modern era, and the fact that it was published by Bethesda helped it out a bit we think. In fact, players loved this new Doom so much, its sequel was just announced at E3 in June. “Doom Eternal” is set to drop sometime soon (possibly in early 2019) and a new gameplay trailer was just released at QuakeCon last week. Check it out:
If you’re into Doom (or think you might be), then Rage should also be on your list of games to play. And if you want to buy it separately, it’s deeply discounted right now as well.
Rage takes place in the near future, after a cataclysmic asteroid event has turned the Earth into a ruthless wasteland full of mutants, bandits, and a hidden government entity called the Authority. But your character isn’t prepared for this kind of wasteland like the demon slayer in Doom. In Rage you awaken into this ravaged landscape from an escape pod buried deep in the ground before the asteroids destroyed the earth years ago. You’re a stranger in a strange land… but it used to be your home.
And like Doom, Rage also has an awesome looking sequel on the horizon: Rage 2 (id Software likes to keep their names simple). Rage 2 was also just announced at E3 2018, and we can expect the game to release in early 2019. So after you finish Rage, you’re journey doesn’t have to end.
Pre-order Rage 2 in our webstore HERE, and below is the latest gameplay that just dropped at Quakecon 2018 last week.
Games Galore
There are many more awesome games available to play for as little or as long as you want with the Xbox Game Pass — over 100 right now! And in addition to new games being added each month, every new first-party Microsoft title will be added automatically when it releases. So games like Sea of Thieves and State of Decay 2, are already available; and Crackdown 3 (another Microsoft-exclusive title) will be added when it releases.
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__label__wiki | 0.525626 | 0.525626 | The role of women in the world of design
At Faberin we value the great influence and presence of women in the field of design. There are many design schools presided over by women who gain a very important weight, both in their evaluations of the works created and by talking about the load of their content or message to be transmitted.
Women have been very important throughout history in different cultural fields, but in the world of design, it was very difficult to establish their beginnings for socio-political reasons.
All those stigmas that placed women out of the spotlight having been knocked down, we have witnessed abysmal progress in the valuation of female work within the world of design.
A clear inspiration: the struggle for equality
The tireless struggle of women to get their works valued in the same way that male works were valued, has brought with it works loaded with messages within the interior world.
This struggle for equality with respect to rights and values of work within the world of design has been built around the term feminism. Feminism defends equality between men and women. There are many women who were initiated into this current without knowing it, transmitting with their works messages charged with a desire to change an unfair situation.
There are many women who have worked for years on their own projects that finally could never see the light for the simple fact of being women. Years of collaboration with architects, designers and artists to get a second or third of the value they deserved. Or even to lose practically all the visibility in their works and to present them under the anonymity to obtain an apex of valuation of the realized works.
The designers have suffered a lot to be where they are today and thus occupy the main places with respect to trends in design but… Who are they?
The most important examples in the history of design
There have been many women who have contributed so that today we understand and perceive design as something that obtains a value independently of its sex.
Among the most important women designers stand out:
Coco Chanel, talking about design and the struggle for women’s rights without referring to her is practically impossible. Coco managed to impose a totally progressive perspective on the world of design, particularly achieved a strong change in women’s clothing betting on comfort in a totally transgressive aesthetics.
Barbara Kruger, who worked as a designer between the 60’s and 80’s, working both with textiles and later focusing on the use of typography and photography. The greatness of her works is timeless, and her works are still used today to make the viewer reflect.
Eileen Gray, considered one of the first internationally recognized women in the world of industrial design. This architect and creator of designer furniture show through her works the precepts of the modern movement. Thanks to her struggle for change, she has managed to turn her furniture into authentic icons.
Highlighting these three women, and taking their example as the basis for creating the most transgressive designs, it can be said that hundreds and hundreds of them have marked a before and after in the world of design.
Eileen Gray, considered one of the first internationally recognized women in the world of industrial design.
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Knows some of Faberin’s product designers
We want to end this post dedicated to the role of women in the world of design by presenting some of Faberin’s product designers, as well as their creations. We hope you will fall in love as you did with us:
Lenka Kozic
Slovak designer Lenka Kozic joined Faberin over a year ago, with whom she brought her designs Bookshelf, an original module shelf and design cup Don’t Cry, which made our community fall in love from the very first moment. Both are products on sale now and are available in our product catalogue.
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Yukiko Izumi
The Japanese furniture designer Yukiko Izumi, joined Faberin to share her designs with us and the world, turning them into products for sale. Yukiko is also a design teacher, which complements her training and knowledge in the world of design from another perspective. Yukiko arrived in Faberin accompanied by Sen, an elegant Japanese style design screen, which she soon became a product that we can now enjoy.
Design screen Sen by designer Yukiko Izum, only available in Faberin
Mónica Bordanova
Mónica Bordanova is a designer and ceramist and creates her own pieces. Specialized in handcrafted crockery, her pieces stand out for the delicacy of their finishes and details. Although Mónica joined Faberin recently, she did not come alone with three of her pieces: Caracol col, La mar Salada y Lullably.
Lullably collection by designer and ceramist Mónica Bordanova, only available in Faberin
From Faberin, we continue betting for a real equality that values the creativity of women and that puts in value the work and the worked message.
Within Faberin you will find totally revolutionary designs that follow this line of overcoming without space-time limits… Do you dare to join?
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So Who The Heck Are We, Anyway?
imapp was founded in Warsaw, Poland, in mid 2013, by Andrzej Regulski and me. This was a continuation of our work with the leading Polish thinktank Institute for Structural Studies (IBS), which I have co-founded in 2006 (and served for 6 years as a board member).
Initially, imapp was a consulting company focused on economics and policy analysis for government. One of our first major projects, The Morfa language, was inherited from IBS as a research endeavor to create a programming language friendly to economic modeling. In order to bring Morfa to fruition, we realized that we needed to assemble a best-of-class development team. Luckily, Poland is known for both its skilled developers and its excellent mathematics and computer science schools. In little time, we were able to gather a diverse group of outstanding software developers.
Among our signed-on developers was Piotr “Viggith” Janiuk, whose contacts and respect in the community brought us some interesting opportunities. First, a computational chemistry project as a long-term contractor to GSI (creator of Chematica). Next, a realtime rendering engine for broadcasters, which is still in use in Polish television (and still developed) today.
Then, in February 2014, our brains were fundamentally rewired. Piotr’s contact Wendell introduced us to Dr. Gavin Wood and the amazing
Ethereum project. In September 2014, we began to get seriously involved in core development, working with ETHDEV, primarily on the EVMJIT and C++ client. Paweł Bylica (our core Golem developer) continues to help build these important pieces of the ecosystem even now. We also attended DEVCON0 and DEVCON1, presenting both the initial concept of Golem, and idea of Nanopayments on Ethereum.
Following DEVCON1, Wendell introduced us to Omise and its Blockchain Lab, giving us the opportunity to work with (and in some cases, contribute to) many other exciting blockchain technologies, including Factom, Hydrachain, and Raiden. By now we had developed a taste for building and launching products, and we wanted to put our experience and expertise to use building something original.
Golem was in fact the first ground-up technology that leveraged nearly all of our accumulated skills and experience over the years. What began as a curious technical experiment, soon became a passion project. Subsequently, it has grown into nothing less than a vision for the future of the Internet.
Golem development up to now has been almost entirely self-funded (with a little help from BlockGrantX #1:Genesis), with approximately 60 man-months of development and support being put in over the last two years (during the first year only Aleksandra was researching all nuances, and only after DECON1 have we decided to begin serious development). Perhaps unique among potentially crowdfunded projects in the very new decentralized software space, we have an existing, proven, track record of delivering software — and making money doing it. And because we believe in Golem, we have put in a substantial amount of our own money to see it take flight.
Given what you have heard about imapp, you may wonder about the Golem team. It will be a spinoff company, with its own full-time employees, not distracted by any aspect of imapp business. In fact the majority of imapp is already working full-time on Golem, but we will make this separation of responsibilities very clear: the team will remain the same, only we hope it will grow greater and stronger over time.
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__label__cc | 0.552788 | 0.447212 | Too Many Deer: A Bigger Threat to Eastern Forests than Climate Change?
By Allen Pursell, Troy Weldy, Mark White
The recovery of white-tailed deer populations is a stunning conservation success. But is it too successful? Photo © The Nature Conservancy (Matt Miller)
I now suspect that just as a deer herd lives in mortal fear of its wolves, so does a mountain live in mortal fear of its deer.
Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac, 1949
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In August, 2012 The Bloomberg View published a staff editorial entitled Deer Infestation Calls for Radical Free-Market Solution. The Wall Street Journal then ran a story in November 2012 entitled America Gone Wild, noting the impact of overabundant deer. If business news organizations can talk freely about deer, The Nature Conservancy (TNC) needs to speak openly as well. Aldo Leopold long ago warned us of the problems of a growing deer herd. Have we waited too long to heed his advice, or is there still time to reverse the damage done?
No native vertebrate species in the eastern United States has a more direct effect on habitat integrity than the white-tailed deer. There are no hard numbers, but in many states deer populations continue to rise well beyond historical norms. In many areas of the country deer have changed the composition and structure of forests by preferentially feeding on select plant species.
In northern Minnesota, TNC staff demonstrated that decades of overbrowsing led to recruitment failure for many tree species, a shift in subcanopy and canopy dominance towards non-preferred white spruce, and significantly lower forest productivity (White 2012). In New York, TNC scientists report that one-third of New York’s forests are currently compromised as a result of excessive herbivory (see New York Forest Regeneration Study).
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Findings similar to these have been documented across the country. U.S. Forest Service researchers have noted that even if areas with high deer densities were managed to reduce the impact of deer, there may be long-lasting legacy effects (Royo 2010). Webster (2005) found severe and lasting impacts at Smoky Mountain National Park to be so complete that some plants such as trilliums were unlikely to recolonize local areas on their own. Deer are also well-documented vectors for the dispersal of non-native exotic plants (Knight et al. 2009, Baiser et al. 2008, Williams and Ward 2006).
Indirect effects on wildlife have been reported as well, such as widespread declines of North American songbird populations (Chollet 2012). One study found forest songbirds that preferred nesting in the shrub and intermediate canopy layer declined in abundance and species richness as deer density increased (deCalesta 1994).
White-tailed deer likely impact every landscape east of the Mississippi River. The damage has been insidious — both slow moving and cumulative. Unfortunately, the harm is often overlooked, or worse, accepted as somehow “natural.”
In our opinion, no other threat to forested habitats is greater at this point in time — not lack of fire, not habitat conversion, not climate change. Only invasive exotic insects and disease have been comparable in magnitude. We can argue about which threat is more significant than another, but no one who walks the eastern forests today can deny the impact of deer to forest condition.
It is clearly true that fire suppression has had a widespread impact on successional trajectory and tree species composition. A natural fire return interval would be a great benefit to many eastern forests. Yet even where fire is present, excessive deer herbivory has been shown to depress tree species diversity or at least minimize the benefits of fire. In the words of a recent study on the interactions of fire, canopy gaps, and deer browsing: “… restoring disturbances without controlling browsing may be counterproductive.” (Nuttle, 2013)
While we acknowledge that climate change is a long-term stressor that will lead to significant changes in eastern forest ecosystems, high deer populations have had a much greater negative impact currently and over the last several decades. At present there is little evidence of direct climate change impacts on eastern forests (Beckage et al. 2008, Woodall et al. 2009, Zhu et al. 2012, Rustad et al. 2012). With climate envelope and other modeling systems, we have a general understanding about likely range shifts and compositional changes in eastern forests over the next 50-100 years. However, due to the many interacting factors such as atmospheric deposition (nitrogen, ozone), insect pests and pathogens, invasive plants, CO2 enrichment, longer growing seasons, and white-tailed deer populations, there is a high degree of uncertainty about the future condition and function of eastern forests in a changing climate (Frelich and Reich 2009, Rustad et al. 2013).
No such uncertainty exists regarding the negative impacts of high deer populations on eastern forests; the body of evidence is unequivocal. In this article, we present only a small fraction of the literature on deer impacts. Reducing the impact of deer herbivory is currently a key forest restoration strategy (White 2012, Nuttle et al. 2013) and likely will become more important in order to help maintain resilient, functioning forests in a warming climate (Galatowitsch et al.2009).
Engaging society to address the problem will be difficult, probably similar to our experience with wild pig eradication in California and Hawaii, but on a wider scale. Views on deer management are deeply entrenched, both among those who hunt and those who don’t. People have strong opinions when it comes to deer.
The forest understory is nearly absent except for Japanese stiltgrass. Note the deer appears to be especially thin. Valley Forge National Historical Park, Pennsylvania. Photo: Ron Rathfon.
Change is possible but it won’t be easy or quick.
Deer management cannot be regulated at the federal level. As early as 1896 the Supreme Court ruled that states have “ownership” of their wildlife. As a result, each state has its own intricate rules. State regulations need not be standardized, but efforts at reform must be made state-by-state. This process will be slow as rules are generally promulgated by processes that ensure adequate evaluation by respective wildlife authorities and to allow for public review.
Nevertheless, some states are beginning to do the difficult work of changing policies to stabilize or reduce the number of deer. For example, Indiana recently enacted the first modern firearms season targeting female deer in the state’s history.
It will be difficult to overcome traditional hunter concepts of proper deer management as it is counter-intuitive to most hunters that fewer game animals are desirable. Decades of effort, patience, and expense were invested to enhance populations to the point where hunting success is now commonplace. To suggest that populations be reduced and therefore increase the effort needed to harvest a deer understandably generates resistance. Success will take a carefully crafted and sustained public relations effort.
Like almost all conservation problems, deer management is a societal issue. If the deer population is to be reduced, it must be reduced slowly. Rules that lower the population drastically will almost certainly spur a backlash from hunters who can appeal to their respective legislatures to overturn regulations they regard as harsh. In an effort to lower the population of deer in Wisconsin the DNR liberalized hunting dramatically.
The result was a hunter revolt. Gov. Scott Walker campaigned on a pledge to fix deer management. Once elected, he made good on that promise by appointing a deer trustee to evaluate his state’s DNR. The trustee’s final report noted that by failing to adequately communicate with hunters and involve them in determining solutions the DNR had lost credibility (Kroll 2012). A similar push back may be occurring in Pennsylvania.
In some sense one of the greatest losses of all is that deer are no longer viewed as the majestic and even mystical animals of the forest that they were only a few decades ago. To quote Bloomberg: “… it’s hard to think of a more insidious threat to forests, farms and wildlife, not to mention human health and safety, than deer.”
How different that is from the time of John Muir, who wrote, “Standing, lying down, walking, feeding, running even for its life, it [deer] is always invincibly graceful, and adds beauty and animation to every landscape — a charming animal and a great credit to nature.”
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By Al Cambronne | Reply
A great story, and very well researched. I wrote about these issues in my book DEERLAND: America’s Hunt for Ecological Balance and the Essence of Wildness, and I’d have to agree on both the nature of the problem and the challenges we’ll face as we attempt to solve it.
As long as hunters and wildlife watcher alike continue demanding to see more deer every time they step out into the woods, and as long as helpful politicians are eager to give them what they want, balance will remain elusive. It’s sad that we should be speaking of deer “infestations,” but in some places that’s what it’s come to.
By Allen Pursell | Reply
Thanks for your remarks, Al. Those who are reading Cool Green Science really should get themselves a copy of DEERLAND for a more compelling summary of the problem. We just handed out a dozen copies of it to a deer working group we have in Indiana.
I concur that a solution will be hard to reach, because all societal problems are difficult to address and that’s clearly what we have on our hands. Nevertheless, we’re ethically obligated to face such a serious threat to forests. I’m optimistic we can and will make progress even though it may be slow and scattered at first.
By whocares | Reply
what deers theres too many hunters killing every thing that breaths there is no deer theres too many people. you lier
By McCoy Blackburn | Reply
Dude, the plural of deer is deer.
By Tovar@AMindfulCarnivore | Reply
Thanks for the thoughtful article.
One of the questions in my mind is whether — even with a careful, strategic, educational approach — a sufficient proportion of hunters can be convinced that lower deer populations are in their long-term, enlightened self-interest.
As an ecologically concerned hunter, I’d like to think that’s possible. But I’m not at all certain.
By Robb Cadwell | Reply
Tovar it most certainly is possible to control ungulate populations via hunters by appealing to their enlightened self interest. Such population management is commonplace and long established in the intermountain west.
Using a controlled number of permits for female elk and deer our division of wildlife manages game not for the most the habitat will hold, but rather for what is a healthy population for the ecosystem and the social carrying capacity of agricultural interests.
We have divided our state into hundreds of Game Management Units and we have controlled hunts choosing not only the number of each species to be taken but the age and sex of the species. We also control the number of days a species may be hunted adding special hunts when herds are above objective.
Game management is science, but it’s not rocket science.
By Jenny Nguyen | Reply
We had that problem in Nebraska, but I guess nature sometimes has a way of correcting itself. EHD hit Nebraska pretty hard last year. This year, Game and Parks isn’t getting anywhere near the number of deer complaints it used to get. Driving around, I hardly see any deer. We also had to get rid of our bonus tags for deer permits. Hunters are sitting tight, waiting for the deer population to rise again, which it will. Some does have been seen with twins.
Robb: I agree that it is technically possible. What I wonder about is whether it is culturally feasible among whitetail hunters in the East. Research (by Decker at Cornell, for instance) has shown that many deer hunters in this region use wildlife management as a justification for hunting, but aren’t all that concerned or knowledgeable about the need to actually serve that purpose. With education and persuasion, perhaps that can change.
Where I live in Vermont, the winters are harsh, the deer population is relatively sparse, and forest regeneration and undergrowth are fairly good, with plenty of wildflowers and the like. Over in the Champlain Valley, over in New York State (especially around Tompkins County, where Cornell happens to be), and down in southern New England and the mid-Atlantic states, however…
By Move Over Global Warming! White-Tailed Deer Pose Biggest Threat To East Coast Forests - Forbes | Reply
[…] The rapidly rising population of white-tailed deer pose a more significant threat to forest habitats across the eastern United States than global warming, according to a new study by The Nature Conservancy (TNC). […]
By Jim Sterba | Reply
Thanks for mentioning my Wall Street Journal article, “America Gone Wild.” FYI, that piece was an edited excerpt from my book, “Nature Wars: The Incredible Story of How Wildlife Comebacks Turned Backyards into Battlegrounds.” Since it came out in November, I’ve been getting requests from communities and groups all over the country to come and talk. Seems like everyplace has a critter problem — mainly white-tailed deer in the East — or else they have an opinion about what to do, or what NOT to do, about it. And the community battles over deer occur most frequently in areas where whitetails are increasingly concentrated: in the suburban, exurban, and rural sprawl areas where a majority of Americans now live.
By luther Garcia | Reply
Indiana has some serious Deer overpopulation issues. As a grouse hunter, I would have very limited success even finding birds, yet we would stumble across deer so plentiful that there is a browse line in most forested areas.
In the 1920’s the white tailed deer was extinct in the wild in Indiana, and new populations had to be imported from Virginia. Now the animals are thick as fleas, but the hunting regulations have not kept pace. The firearm season is quite short, the weapons are limited, and the take limits have not changed. All this, and a declining percentage of the population has the time, energy, or desire to hunt makes for a burgeoning deer population.
With the advent of the Chronic Wasting Disease, and the fear of cross species infection from hunting, there is additional pressure against hunting. Despite the need for massive culling, too many people know that high deer populations are destroying orchids, mushrooms, ground nesting birds, and every other animal which competes with the Deer.
By Lorena | Reply
I laughed at the part
The damage has been insidious — both slow moving and cumulative. Unfortunately, the harm is often overlooked, or worse, accepted as somehow “natural.”
(A species thriving is 100% natural..)
I think people get to be too much on this. Deer were here before we colonized in the America’s and before we became double in population, I think the forest was just fine then…
It think Bloomburg should concentrate more on fixing the problems we create for the forest rather than deer. lol this blog was ridiculous, whats next. “There are too many mice eating crickets!”
By Chrris | Reply
Lorena writes: “Deer were here before we colonized in the America’s and before we became double in population, I think the forest was just fine then’
Back then there were wolves, mountain lions and the hunter gatherer Native American tribes which counterbalanced this prolific & adaptive species. By removing predators or refusing to fill their vital role, we subvert the very notion of a balanced ecology.
By miranda | Reply
lol you should do an article about how trees produce too many leaves, and are affecting oxygen levels. and That if we all pulled some leaves off trees we could evade absolute destruction of the atmosphere.
Lmao worst part is some people here probably thought I was serious and thought that idea was great….
Leave nature alone, she’s a big girl and has taken care of herself for millions of years.
if you’re going control any population you should consider the human being species, they’re the ones really killing the forest.
compared to us deers are innocent, Bloomberg needs
By Andrew | Reply
yes deer were here before us but if you actually knew a little environmental science you would not say that. Every ecosystem has a carrying capacity threshold that can not be crossed and if so then disease take hold and if you want something really bad look up some of the sicknesses that deer can contract such as CWD or for people who know nothing about the topic chronic wasting disorder which affect the nervous system of the deer and they die and agonizing death. So next time talk about some thing you know a little about before you make comments like this. And PS its DEER not DEERS.
By Greg Williams | Reply
I don’t dispute the idea that deer populations are problematic. At the same time, as a vertebrate native to the easter United States, I believe my species probably has “a more direct effect on habitat integrity” than white-tailed deer. Let’s remember our role in all this and do what we can to limit and repair our effects on habitat integrity.
By Walt C | Reply
I live in Connecticut and I hunt deer – So I know plenty about the negative impacts of too many deer. However, finding people to grant permission to hunt is a huge problem for all of us here, even though there are deer everywhere.
This IS a social issue before anything else. As the article says, even getting people to understand the problem is a huge challenge.
The scientific community is in total agreement (with the exception of those studies sponsored by anti-hunting organizations) But how do you get people to take their blinders off ???
To the previous response from Greg Williams.
“I believe my species probably has “a more direct effect on habitat integrity” than white-tailed deer.”
Think about that – because humans have created perfect habitat for deer – Not destroyed it.
We planted crops across the country. We cleared the woods (that naturally can not supply enough food for this many deer) We removed their predators. What MORE could deer have asked for?
And some people suggest we let nature take it course? Too late for that.
The only Responsible and Ethical thing to do is to control the negative impacts humans have had on nature. Protect the species that have been reduced – and control the species that are in excess.
By Stewart | Reply
One important thing missing is that whitetail deer are legitimate meat animals and have been hunted with the bow over twenty thousand years. White tail deer are a native species (not an invasive) and live a far better healthier life then factory farmed animals with none of the associated pollution.
Any farmer that could provide such free range habit, natural food and have the hunter’s acknowledgment and respect for the taking of each animal’s life would be given sainthood by many animal right groups!
Urban Bow hunting programs that harvest over abundant wild, free running deer are, as nature intended a win – win sustainable situation that has been proved to work in reducing deer herd densities.
There are a number of towns in SW CT whose bow hunting programs have over time steadily reduced their deer populations closer to the number of deer per square mile that all wild life biologists agree on.
By Chuck Lubelczyk | Reply
The issue of Lyme disease should not be minimzed in the deer debate. Depsite the recent attempts to link the problem solely to other species, there is a long body of work (stretching back to the 1980’s) that has conclusively proven the need of the black-legged tick to feed (and reproduce as a consquence)on white tailed deer. While deer do not contribute to the bacterium’s propogation, they certainly do the tick. And the tick transmits the disease to people and companion animals.
By Remus III | Reply
The type that writes these articles are environmental extremists and in my view, completely nuts. That was the dumbest article of lies and propaganda that I have ever read, and its precious minutes of my life I’ll never get back. Unforunately some states, like Pa, has these types in charge of their game management agencies. That’s bullsquat and needs to be rectified. We need hunter friendlies in top staff positions whether the greenies like it or not. That is the only way proper management will occur and proper numbers of deer will be the case. And by proper that means more in some areas of Pa than currently is the case. The greenies would whine, but as far as Im concerned they can all go to some other liberal state and push their agenda there.
By Bill Harms | Reply
What is the proper number of deer? There were certainly fewer deer when their natural predators like bear, wolves, and cougars were larger in number than they are now. Hunters would likely prefer a higher number of deer than those who are concerned about other factors.
By Deer Fencing | Reply
Thanks for sharing this article. I’m doing some research for my client http://www.DeerBusters.com. We are trying to put together a large resource for alternatives for “Deer Control” and I found your article useful. Cheers, Ben
By Opveltri | Reply
Wayne nj population of fifty thousand . Paterson pop. Over 150000. I have less than acre of land in Wayne, with several acres behind me. I chase every day and other days several time with air blast horn and broom . I have counted from 6 to 20 deer of the property. I have been told by the police I am not permitted to even through astone at them.
Nj laws stink
The deer double every three years.,other than leaving the state what can I do. I have lived in Wayne for forty one years. The last 5 to 6 years has been a night mare.
By james | Reply
what do deer eat
By Lisa Feldkamp | Reply
Thank you for your interest. SUNY’s College of environmental science has information on white-tailed deer food and feeding behavior here: http://www.esf.edu/aec/adks/mammals/wtd.htm
By James Pagnotta - Avid Hunter/ Outdoorsman 40 years | Reply
I do agree with all of the experts who say deer are in abundance , as a hunter I only harvest enough deer for my family and friends who enjoy eating venison. What many non hunter don’t realize is how difficult it is to actually harvest a deer. I spend many hours in the woods prior to the hunting season preparing for a safe and successful hunting season. What many people don’t know is how smart and elusive these animals can be, especially when they realize hunting pressure is on. I basically Bow Hunt because you have to rely on a maximum of stealth to harvest a deer. I personally feel the venison better tasting when taken with a bow when it’s a clean kill. I do know one thing is evident there are way too many deer and far too little people who are interested in trying or learning the true enjoyment of being in the outdoors, it’s never been about just killing this majestic and beautiful animal; however, I realize that it’s an absolute must for the healthy survival of this animal and many things in nature that even non hunters enjoy. In closing I would to say that most ethical hunters truly feel that they are trying to do their part to help a growing problem.
By jackson | Reply
my name is jackson i would like to know more about white tail deers and if there endangred.
By DB | Reply
I live in northern Indiana and no matter what the uninformed DNR says, the deer population has dwindled so badly here, there are almost none. When I moved here 15 years ago, there were generous herds of deer. Now you rarely see one. Contrary to popular belief, hunters do NOT help the situation. Nature thins its herds by the process of eliminating the weak. Hunters attempt to take the biggest and best, thus weakening the process of nature. Man’s laws and thinking have once again proven the stupidity of the human species. And let us not forget that HUMANS are the invaders, not the wildlife.
By Tony T | Reply
Its funny to see people using extreme measures to appeal emotionally to people to push their own political agendas, in this case biodiversity extremism. There is nothing wrong with our forests, at least most of them, nor the deer herd. The days of overpopulation in most areas have been long gone for some time now. But the forest composition may not be exactly what some want, based solely on their own values. Im sorry, but as a hunter I value whitetail deer in reasonable numbers and Im not going to cry if there is less trillium in the forest. Its still there. You just need to look harder for it. Deer love eating it, so having it and a variety of other plants is a good thing even from a hunter perspective. But some go way overboard in their environmentally extreme views and to them, the deer herd be darned. They want a forest that resembles that which can be had only with NO deer and NO hand of man having touched it. Sorry, but that lunacy isn’t reality. Here in PA things have gone to extremes due to environmental hard liners dictating our deer management. Hopefully that is now changing for the better.
By MTN | Reply
I here too many deer in the north central U.S. are eating all the treelings, so less CO2 sequestration is done by growing forests, thus contributing to the already dangerous volumes of greenhouse gases in the earth’s atmosphere from other sources (fossil fuel burning), already causing warming and expansion of the oceans, rising sea levels and 30% more acidification of the ocean water compared to the beginning of the last century.
By awb | Reply
i know where i can go hunting now XD
By Eric Lindberg | Reply
Great article. I’m hoping the appetite for a controlled cull of deer can occur soon. A cull would be relatively easy on the north shore and other wintering areas where deer yard up and far more effective than relying on hunting alone. As far as other Nature Conservancy practice, it seems to have conflicting trains of thought as the idea of planting more warm tolerant trees found in southern forests will only exacerbate the deer problem by providing further habitat and forage conducive to deer thriving. Articles on this are:
http://www.startribune.com/local/228250501.html and http://www.nature.org/ourinitiatives/regions/northamerica/unitedstates/minnesota/explore/minnesota-climate-change-adaptation.xml
Can’t we try culling the deer in yarded areas for successive winters (5-10 years) and safely control burning sections of northern forests to regenerate and control fuel loads before deciding to play Frankenstein with our forests. Honestly, we will be doing the moose no favors with this approach. The species suggested to plant may as well be considered invasives because they are out of place. Just because they may grow better for a time doesn’t make for good science or good habitat for local species.
By Christopher | Reply
Do not kill any more
By Scott Sheppard | Reply
My opinion vote yes on issue 13 so you can keep your landscaping and flowers. (Issue 13 gives private hunters that will take care of the over population of deer.)
By HM Senita | Reply
Just stop it with climate change bull. Over management of the wild life has been the problem since the early 1900’s. Lack of management of big farming, out of control use of pesticides, and out of control construction including road and hiway construction.
By Ken | Reply
Not a bad article but concludes a bit one sided. Hunters are not really the problem, you’ll see more on the anti hunting side advocating for childish and ineffective fixes to the deer issue such as to prescribe birth control pills to does at great expense (to the taxpayers) and little to no effect. Whereas hunters have funded deer management programs out of their own pockets, and accepted antler restrictions, “earn a buck” programs, rule changes, and limits on opportunities for years. Hunters are the best allies for deer management programs and the ones who ultimately pay for it.
There has been little resistance from hunters to rule and management changes and I see no reason to expect some in the future. A healthy and sustainable herd is in everyone’s best interest, especially the hunting community.
By Andre | Reply
Ummm – why not advocate for the return of their natural – four legged predators. Meaning wolves and cougars. That is certainly more natural and balanced than humans with guns.
By Just Wondering | Reply
Andre, a lot of populated areas have deer herds that overrun into areas of private residences. What would you say to parents when their young child was mauled by wolves or cougars?? Or to pet owners when their dog or cat disappears from the back yard??
By Mark Wronecki | Reply
I’m sorry I have a tendency to disagree . Due to the deforestation and invasion of humans into wildlife habitat, not to mention the pressures of logging for prime species of trees including oaks, beach, Black walnut, Walnut, and other prime species Black walnut, Walnut, and other prime species, The deer are forced to feed on whatever you’ve left them. I submit the human invasion of the natural forest has caused more limitation of flora species than the deer have caused by browsing. Logging companies buy land, take everything valuable up to 14 inch diameter and then sell it off. The canopy that’s left usually isn’t providing food sources for animals. Considering it takes 20 years for oaks to start producing acorns, and with limited sun penetration to young trees, the deer really have fewer choices except to over browse. I never seen a deer rather feed on shrubs trees then acorns. With fewer trees and squirrel competiton, other food sources are over used. This is just one example. The 20 plus deer herds of the 80’s and 90’s are gone and most hunters see that happening. I guess people in NYC might see more deer as they eek out a living in suburbia plants and shrubs, but I don’t feel sorry for you. The coyote population has certainly impacted the deer population in this area. On cam on a den noted 50 fauns being consumed in a season. Placing an importance on flora management and replanting with removal and balancing of the forest might prove more valuable than eliminating a species. After all they did well without human intervention for milenia, why now with forest removal and human population explosion are you blaming deer that have been reduced to over grazing. People can plant trees that support wildlife in their back yards and share the environment instead of devestating it. I gues we need more Johhny Apple seeds and less bean counters. 🙂
By Rudolph Oliver | Reply
Why do we worry about deer over population when the real problem to our forests is human greed in my area 10 years ago we used to have a lot of fence row woods and now those are all almost gone because the farmers want that extra ground to till. Because of this the pheasant is almost nonexistent now. we people are trashing this planet and we have no right to blame other animals the more woods we destroy the less forests the deer have so of course there going to get over it browsed. I am not a tree hugger I cut trees for a living. It sounds like some of those woods need logging and the undesirable and invasive plants removed.
By Jesse | Reply
Very inteteresting paper, clearly illustrates the importance of balancing species.
Curious, what is the impact on this habitatdue to human population expanding and increased residential and commercial development, specifically are we losing forest acreage to anthropogenic behaviors?
Sometimes it seems We want to manage all species population to accommodate our own. (Smile)
By Thea Kester | Reply
Where I come from (Upper Michigan) and where I live now, (Western New York) deer are a vital part of the food supply. Good jobs are hard to come by and venison has kept many a family (including my own) eating during times of economic hard times. I am happy to help manage the deer population.
By Isaac Balser | Reply
Thank you. This site was very helpful on my essay.
By Luke smith | Reply
I hate deer 🦌
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Why not shoot deer with birth control instead of killing them? Who should provide us with the bc you ask. Our government that’s who!! It’s a city, town, state, country issue so why wouldn’t the government be responsible for paying?! Instead they tell the public to fix the problem for free!! Awful!! Killing them is cruel and inhumane. Once again humans overabusing their power. I’m extremely surprised that Tea Town promotes this. Very disappointed.
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How does nature enhance the prosperity of poor people? It’s a hot question among conservationists right now — but in reality, it’s irrelevant both to helping the poor and to conserving nature. That’s because poor people undoubtedly depend on nature and its services.
So here’s a better question: How will any specific conservation action aimed at changing how humans use nature affect the prosperity of poor people?
Conservationists, it turns out, have very little evidence with which to answer this question. In large part, we lack that evidence because we have failed to adopt modern methods the rest of science has developed to measure causal relationships.
This is tragic, because conservation has no shortage of good ideas for increasing the quality of ecosystems and the services they provide people — ideas ranging from protected areas to performance incentives, decentralization to zoning restrictions to information dissemination about sustainable practices.
Yet each of these interventions likely translates into different effects on the poor, even if each of these interventions’ effects on nature are the same (which they likely are not).
Protected areas, for example, not only change land-use patterns near the poor, but they also can create tourism opportunities and lead to changes in infrastructure like roads and electrification.
In contrast, voluntary performance payments for environmental services are more spatially diffuse and rarely affect tourism opportunities or infrastructure development. They do, however, transfer large amounts of cash to rural residents — who may or may not be the poorest households.
Unfortunately, we have an acute shortage of evidence about the heterogeneous effects of different conservation interventions.
And by evidence, I mean credible inferences about causal relationships between actions and effects from many sites across the globe. What are the differences between the welfare of the poor with nature conservation interventions and what their counterfactual welfare would have been in the absence of the interventions?
Let me be clear: We need more than simulations of these causal relationships. We need conclusions drawn from observable data from real conservation programs. Only with such evidence can we begin to design policies and programs that deliver both environmental benefits and enhanced prosperity for the world’s poor.
But such evidence is nearly absent in the conservation community. In 2005, the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment reported (p. 122) as one of its main findings in its Policy Responses volume that “[f]ew well-designed empirical analyses assess even the most common… conservation measures.”
Eight years later, Miteva and colleagues (2012) report that their review of the conservation evidence base “confirms previous claims that causal evidence of the effectiveness of conservation interventions…is rare.”
Gathering that evidence is not just possible, however — it is within reach, if we learn the lessons of other fields.
In the last 20 or 30 years, a revolution has taken place in the ways in which scientists draw causal inferences from observational (non-experimental) data. Fields from medicine to education, criminal justice to job training have identified creative ways to ascertain whether their interventions are having an impact.
By focusing on the process by which some people or areas are exposed to an intervention and others are not, these study designs can isolate the effects of the intervention separate from other factors that also affect the measured outcomes. A hallmark of this revolution is transparency in terms of what effect is being estimated and how it is being estimated.
Conservation science and practice has largely remained unaffected by this revolution, although that situation is gradually changing. But if conservation practitioners and donors do not encourage this change, the field will be forced to continue to rely on intuition and anecdote — a reliance that will damage the credibility of conservation’s claims to be relevant to people.
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TUCSON, Ariz. – Twenty-eight months have come and gone without too many days or even hours when Francisco Vargas hasn’t thought about one person. One fight.
Miguel Berchelt is there when he awakes. Sometimes, he’s there when he sleeps.
“I have thought of nothing else but him and a chance to fight him again,’’ Vargas said.
A chance at redemption — the opportunity to turn a nightmare into a dream — has been a lifestyle for Vargas. That chance is finally here. Vargas looked into the eyes of Berchelt Friday for the first time since he lost to the feared junior lightweight in January 2017 in a bout that was a leading contender for Fight of the Year.
Saturday night, Vargas will face him for the second time in an ESPN-televised bout (10 pm. ET/7 p.m. PT) at Tucson Arena in an intriguing rematch (and perhaps another Fight of the Year contender) on a card that also includes a rematch of WBO junior featherweight titleholder Emanuel Navarrete’s upset of Isaac Dogboe in December.
Vargas expects the same blood, guts and drama. Only the result will be different, he vows.
“I did a few different things for this fight,’’ Vargas (25-1-2, 18 KOs) said after both fighters were at the junior lightweight limit of 130 pounds. Dogboe (20-1, 14 KOs) was at 121.4 pounds and Navarrete (26-1, 22 KOs) at 121.6.
“I have a few different strategies,’’ Vargas continued. “I’m sure he will do different things too. But I’ll be ready. I am ready. I’ve been getting ready ever since the last one.’’
Miguel Berchelt (left) lands a left hook to the bloody face of Francisco Vargas en route to stopping the previously unbeaten WBC 130-pound titleholder on January 28, 2017, in Indio, California. Photo by Tom Hogan-Hoganphotos / Golden Boy Promotions
The last one ended with Vargas bloodied and finished in an 11th-round stoppage at Fantasy Springs Casino in Indio, California. But finished did not mean forgotten. Vargas hired a new trainer, Joel Diaz, and won a couple fights, beating Stephen Smith in December 2017 and Rod Salka in April 2018. He hasn’t fought since.
“I’ve been waiting for the rematch,’’ Vargas, of Mexico City, said.
The long wait has spawned some inevitable speculation about Vargas’ chances in a second go-round against the emerging Berchelt (35-1, 31 KOs), a fellow Mexican who enters the rematch amid talk that one day he will fight pound-for-pound king Vasiliy Lomachenko.
Berchelt doesn’t expect a changed Vargas.
“He was a very good fighter two years ago and he’s is very good fighter today,’’ Berchelt said. “I don’t know how it will end. But how ever it ends, I will be the winner.’’
Berchelt trainer Alfredo Caballero told Spanish-speaking media that the World Boxing Council’s junior lightweight champion will finish Vargas’ career.
“Those who are talking will have to eat their words,’’ Vargas said. “I am not the fighter they remember from a couple of years ago. My training is much more together. It’s much different. My trainers get it.
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The energy bill is due to be formally announced at 11:30am today, but the latest instalment of Ernst & Young’s Renewable Energy Country Attractiveness Indices sees the UK slip down one spot to sixth place overall in the ranking.
Ernst & Young claim that “political miscommunication and lack of consistency over key energy reforms” are the primary reasons for this slide, with the energy bill’s lack of a decarbonisation target likely to have contributed.
China, Germany, the US and then India once again make up the top four most attractive countries for renewable energy investment, but Germany’s continued rise in prominence continued as it swapped places with the US.
“The UK renewable energy market has been hit by mixed and inconsistent messages by policy-makers”, said Ben Warren, energy and environment partner at Ernst & Young.
“While investors are looking for ways to invest in renewables to secure future supply and predictably priced energy, political limbo has left them very cautious before committing further capital into the UK renewable energy sector.
“We are now looking at the government’s new energy bill to restore the necessary environment of stability and trust that will attract further investment.”
However, Warren claimed that the government’s levy control framework is “a step in the right direction” but that further questions would need to be addressed in order to bump up investor confidence.
He added, “The inability to commit to decarbonisation targets before 2016, on the other hand, is a let-down, and perhaps a sign of the continuing tensions within government.
“With some policy-makers still seeing the expansion of gas plants as more critical to the country’s energy strategy, the prospect of a decarbonisation target is as uncertain as ever.”
Ernst & Young cited the continued confusion over the role of onshore wind in the UK’s energy mix as another reason for the country’s drop down the ranking. Less-than-reassuring comments from ministers such as John Hayes and in-party squabbling over the benefits of wind have cast a shadow of uncertainty over the industry in recent weeks, so it’s hoped that the publication of the energy bill today will shed some light on the situation.
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Last game of the season thought
I mentioned in an earlier post that UCF’s quarterback Jeff Godfrey has displayed a knack for getting off to good starts this season, something that could be problematic given Georgia’s track record of being accommodating to opposing offenses on their first drives. I’ll admit, though, that overall, Central Florida’s offense isn’t particularly scary, as it’s built more for control than running the other team off the field.
The Golden Knights’ defense, however, looks pretty competent. And before you go dismissing them on the basis of strength of schedule, note that they did a pretty good job against the two BCS conference teams they faced. UCF held NC State’s offense to its lowest yards per play average of the season, and that by a pretty wide margin. (NC State is ranked higher than Georgia in total offense in 2010, by the way.) And while Kansas State fared better in that regard, they were limited to their lowest number of offensive plays for the year.
Admittedly, Mike Bobo has more weapons at his disposal today than either of those two schools. Let’s hope he deploys them wisely.
UPDATE: For what it’s worth, Steele likes Georgia big today.
At 6-6 Georgia has 2 options: either a positive finish or a losing season, which would put added pressure on HC Richt. There is a big talent disparity between these teams and while UCF’s D can potentially slow GA, they will not stop them. UCF’s offense has looked impressive but that was vs CUSA opps and on the year they faced 5 defenses in the bottom 20 and found their success without having to face a D rated in our Top 50. Georgia should win rather impressively here.
PHIL’S FORECAST: GEORGIA 34 UCF 17
One thing worth mentioning that he picks up on – if it’s a close game that comes down to field goal kicking, you have to like Georgia’s chances. UCF is 10-20 on FG attempts this year, “forcing the Knights to go for it on 4th down a few more times than they wanted”.
32 responses to “Last game of the season thought”
It’s not like we have changed anything on offense since George left GT. I have watch UCF several times this year since I live down here, they are a good sound football team that is more than capable of beating the UGA team that played Colorado this year. If we enter the game with our usual sleepwalk in the first quarter it could be a long and painful day.
But, Bobo can coach ’em up to score 30, right? Hopefully Georgia won’t kill themselves offensively in the first half like they have done practically all season. Even if they do, we can still blame the defense. Got to take consolation in something.
Dawgs win big. Nuff said.
If we play as disinterested as are basketball team currently is…it could get ugly.
JaxDawg
Here’s my “gameday” thought:
I recall a cold and rainy day back in 2000 when O’Leary’s Jackets, led by the slowest white athlete in the NCAA, George Godfrey, took it to a Jim Donnan GA team something fierce. I vividly recall Godfrey taking it about 40 yards to the house as our Defense (all 11, yes ELEVEN starters played in the pros at one time or another) gave pitiful pursuit. We were arguably the most underachieving team in our program’s proud history.
Now Grantham aside, I feel like I have watched a a re-run for the past 5 years of a defense absolutely STACKED with athletes, NFL caliber athletes, none achieving anything close to their potential, sans 2007. We caught lightening in a bottle that year. And as a team, I feel like we’ve returned to 2000 as I watch a team fuck around with bullshit programs like MSU and Colorado and lose. Fucking lose to teams that stack up to us as Tech did in 2000.
We had no goddamn business losing that fucking game and now I’m getting a second dose of the same crap. A team fucking loaded with all-world studs underachieve (there are exceptions) as a team. AS A TEAM!
I want Richt to succeed, but the ghost of the 2000 Tech game remains. A superior talented team that is uninspired and unmotivated will lose every time.
I’m out. See you next year.
Oh, and FUCK FLORIDA.
3-3 at the half. The defense is really letting the team down. Bobo is doing the best he can with what he has. I mean its not like he has a top 5 pick and some pretty good other athletes like Durham, TK, & Orson to get the ball to. He’ not a miracle worker.
Yeah, I couldn’t believe Bobo threw those interceptions. Unbelievable!
And I couldn’t believe that Murray was calling the hand off to Carlton Thomas on that second and waaaaaayyyyyy long! Unbelievable!
And, seriously, if points are so important that you don’t want to risk them on a 4th and less than one near the goal line, why are they not so important that you wouldn’t actually try for a 1st down.
This loss is on Richt. And, although I love Mark Richt and I wish that he could be a great coach because he certainly is a good man, this is not going to improve until he is gone.
Kicking the FG after a 90 yard drive on 4th and inches set the tone and the team played down to it. That’s on Richt.
Phil Steele has been really on the money regarding Georgia this year!
UCF is playing aggressive and like they want to win. We again are not. Witness the old lady-like call in the 1st Q to kick the field goal on the 2.
AJ, please stay, Richt please go.
Yes I know both of those are not going to happen….
Oh I forgot. When the offense makes plays, Bobo is clearly responsible, but when the offense craps out it is somebody else’s fault. That sounds about right. Long live Bobo. Death to Grantham.
This sort of mindset gets you Goff & Donnan eras. Richt doesn’t have it anymore. Whatever fire he had is gone for whatever reason, and the team has completely fallen apart over the past few years despite NFL talent. If it’s not the players, who could it possibly be?
Compared to what is happening now the Donnan era looks pretty good.
Boy, this team really sucks.
Cynical in Normaltown
We just saw our 2011 season preview…we are doomed.
Mayor, Cynical, et al., I apologize for being a Disney Dawg.
King Jericho
I’m very close to hopping on this bandwagon too.
flukebucket
I’m about ready to drive the damn bandwagon.
Well I’ve seized the reigns and appointed myself Teamster of the lead wagon. We’re resting the horses at the moment but plan on pushin off for Lake Tahoe real soon.
Meetin’ up with the Donner party where we’ll make winter camp.
Get your chuck wagons ready. It’ll be a long dry year til Boss McGarity rides in on his white horse.
6 points against a C-USA team. Fire Bobo now!!!
Son of a cocksucking, motherfucking BITCH!
No one does less with more than Mark Richt. Who the damn hell has an offense drive 96 yards to the 2 yard line a kick a FG on a 4th and 1? Offense good enough to go the entire field but not good enough to gain one fucking yard. Why the hell would any top recruit waste their time playing for CMR? Enjoy our loss to a directional school, CMR, you deserve it.
That was the most pathetic performance by a Georgia offensive football team that I have seen in a long, long time. I am so glad this season is over. I just wish there was some way I could erase it from my memory.
I was a Richt believer. I wanted him to be the coach, but I just don’t think he has it anymore. Clock management was horrible today just like it has been all year. No improvement, no rays of hope, nothing to hang your hat on but the potential of a recruiting class dream team that hasn’t come to fruition. If Georgia whiffs on Crowell, Drew, Rome, Dickson, et al, then what? What does it say about the state of this program that the only hope for improvement is a bunch of true freshmen?
I’m just exasperated at this point. Disgusted. Embarrassed. Just pathetic football all year.
Somewhere, Pat Dye is laughing as he mutters the phrase, “not man enough,” and he’s not talking about Bobby Lowder. Georgia plays like pussies on both lines, plain and simple. I hope Grantham, Tereshinski and others can fix that, but I don’t think they can as long as Garner and Searls are coaching the lines. And I think it’s about time for Richt to start that ministry program we all know he’s bound for someday.
The Rodfather
Well I’ll be damned. Finally the D puts together a decent performance and we get this shit. WTF? Mark Richt has no balls. We go 96 yards from the 2 to 2 and we’ve got 4th & very short in a scoreless ballgame so we kick a FG? Way to set the tone for the game there, chief. Hey I know this sounds crazy and everything but how about a JUMBO set? Maybe even with some D linemen or TEs as FBs. FUCK ME. Was it just me or did we seem to run the same unimaginative O that we did early on in the season? And what in the hell was up with Murray bringing the gloves back out? Not that I think it made much difference but it seems odd to pull that for the bowl game. 2nd & 23 & we send Carlton Thomas up the middle & then when that goes for no gain we try to set up the screen for him? Hmm, seems like I’ve seen that before. I’m sure no one saw that coming. Mark Richt has lost it, his time management is absurd. After a change of possession & TV time out in 1st half we call a TO? And the two late in the game where time was stopped because the play went out of bounds and then an injury TO? That game was atrocious. The O line was pathetic – That was the huge difference in this game.
Is it possible Murray reinjured his elbow? I’m not trying to run interferance for this dreadful bunch of underachievers, but I recall one deep throw (sideline to King). Everything else was short or intermediate. And the game time temp was 69 if I recall.
The deep throws into the endzone at the end of the game looked like punts. Nothing on ’em. No zip. I think something is wrong with Murray’s arm.
There isn’t a single person that can argue, debate, counter, conflict, or reason against my earlier comments (above). You fucking cocksuckers. You supremely talented team fucked around and LOST to CFU. Let me spell that out for you young punks motherfuckers —- CENTRAL FUCKING FLORIDA!
I was right. DEAD ON. PATHETIC.
Richt is done. Debate me if you dare. I will fucking crush you.
We are Donnan 2000. Let Greg McGarity supplant the current abomination with a championship coach and staff. We’re a top 10 job (maybe higher) so let’s get rolling Mr. AD.
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Random observations from last night’s SEC opener
Is this the quintessential Vanderbilt moment, or what?
Of course, let’s keep that in perspective: even if the official had flagged Carolina on the play, it still meant Vanderbilt had to cover about half the field in about 100 seconds. That was anything but a given for a team that amassed less than 300 total yards on the night.
Still, it helps make for a nice, warm moral victory.
On to a few specifics:
The game was closer than I thought it would be, for two reasons, both of which should be troubling to South Carolina. First, the injury to Connor Shaw. It’s funny – all those years we watched Stephen Garcia run recklessly and never get hurt and Shaw, a gamer who runs with a much more organized purpose than Garcia ever did, gets banged up. The Gamecock offense, which wasn’t exactly lighting things up before Shaw was hurt, completely shut down in his absence. And it’s not like Shaw won’t be facing a few formidable front sevens in October. It’s a little scary to consider how much is going to be left of him after the Florida game.
The second reason, the shocker of the night, was how much South Carolina missed Alshon Jeffery. Especially the threat of Alshon Jeffery. The ‘Cocks gained a whopping 67 yards through the air. Their leading receiver was Marcus Lattimore. Shaw couldn’t throw anything longer than an intermediate-level pass with any authority, even before his injury. (There was only one completion of as much as 20 yards and that was to the tight end.)
Lattimore wasn’t 100 percent, but he was still the best player on the field. The Vanderbilt defense keyed on him, which allowed Shaw to rack up almost 100 yards rushing, but still, when it came down to crunch time, Lattimore showed he had it in him to take over a game. He’s got some rust to shake off, but he’ll get better. He’ll have to.
For all the smart-assery we’ve heard from the OBC about the schedule, I bet he’s not too unhappy right now about Georgia not being his week two opponent.
The South Carolina secondary is definitely the weak link on the defense. And there are some passing attacks that are going to take advantage of that.
The “SEC – Year of the Quarterback” meme took a hit last night. I’ve already mentioned Shaw’s deficiencies. Rodgers looked like the same erratic passer he was last year. He did have that nice 78-yard hookup with Jordan Matthews, but he had more than his fair share of head scratchers.
I really, really like Vanderbilt’s coaches. Despite being obviously overmatched on both lines, they did everything they could to scratch, claw and compensate for that. The Vandy defense, in particular, looks like it’s going to be a pain in the ass to deal with.
And I thought Lorenzo Ward did a competent job masking the weakness of his secondary. Take away that one busted play in coverage that allowed Vandy’s touchdown of the night and there wasn’t a whole bunch else. He’ll do all right this year.
It sure looks a lot easier to kick off for a touchback.
Who thought a Spurrier-coached team would be so boring?
For Vanderbilt, it’s going to be a year when everyone talks about grit, determination and being well-coached. Not so much about winning, though. For all their toughness, the Commodores held a 13-10 second half lead against a team with a one-armed quarterback… and lost. There’s still too much of a talent gap in Nashville. Vandy isn’t going to upset a better team without help on the turnover front, and even then, as last night showed, that’s not always going to happen.
South Carolina is a deeper team than it’s ever been and that helped last night. But you have to wonder how far the Gamecocks can go with that passing attack, even if Shaw stays healthy going forward. You also have to wonder if South Carolina’s front seven can do enough to compensate for the back four against a team with a more consistent passing game than Vanderbilt’s. The OBC would seem to have his work cut out for him.
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129 responses to “Random observations from last night’s SEC opener”
DugLite (formerly The other other Doug)
You know Connor Shaw has to be hurting this morning. I bet he didn’t sleep well last night. Looked to me like a separated shoulder. That Vanderbilt defender hit his knee in just the right spot to separate it. No malice was intended and then that tackle where Connor was upended and he landed flat on his back. You could see the shoulder moving as it is not intended. Gonna be a long year for the cock lovers.
I texted my buddies the same thing in the 4th qtr, I said “Shaw is playing on adrenaline (and probably cortisone) right now, but that shoulder is gonna hurt like a sonofabitch in the morning”. I’m sure he’ll be back by their Missouri game, but it wouldn’t surprise me if he misses the next couple of weeks or so.
And ECU is not a bad team by any means. The Cocks could have a tussle on their hands in next weeks’ game.
My thoughts: Lattimore in a knee brace was down to humans status. Shaw is one tough cookie. Vandy got slightly jobbed on the non PI call, but the better team won. USC looked eminently beatable.
As you can see clearly in the replay, the referee was right there and looking right at it. Had as clear a view as they ever get, I’d bet, and called nothing.
It’s the kind of thing that makes you wonder.
It’s the kind of thing we see go against Georgia at least a half dozen times a year.
I think he was making up for the missed call against Vandy in the 1st quarter. I’m not excusing it, but it happens.
Which call do you mean? I don’t recall anything as obvious.
The Vandy defender never made a play on the ball, just barrelled into a leaping receiver on a catchable ball. It was probably about a 20 yardish pass that obviously would have kept their drive alive. Perhaps not as obvious as an elbow claw, but obvious nonetheless.
I used to wonder , but I don’t so much anymore. I am lining up more solidly behind The Mayor in his assertion that there is a narrative that is pushed by the SEC home office to favor given teams in certain situations throughout the season. It hurts to watch football games with that in mind, but I cannot logically make sense of so many blatantly missed rulings.
And who wants to bet this is the crew the Dawgs draw against USCe? This must be the cream, right, they having worked the opening night game.
Yea, im not a conspiracy theorist, but it is more than a trend that the favored, top 10 SEC team get the critical call against a lower ranked opponent. Especially toward the end of the season and the favored team is poised for a BCS berth. It has happened over and over x 5 years or so…back to the florida Corch / Tebow days.
The Florida Arkansas game and UT/Bama games in 2008/2009 were particularly bad, ref-wise. Especially that Arky game.
Just Chuck (the other one)
The alternative hypothesis is that SEC officials are mostly incompetent. I’m not ruling that out.
NateG
It was amusing to watch Jesse Palmer talk about how Georgia was so lucky with it’s schedule. Then, by the end of the game when it was obvious Carolina was in no way ready to face a team like the Dawgs appear to be, South Carolina was the lucky one. Just goes to show what a crock of shit this schedule whining is.
That, and it made me wish Jesse Palmer had joined Craig James in running for some sort of political office….
That was a bad no call by the ref, to be sure. Vandy was scrappy. They will beat somebody. I just hope it is not us.
The game was decided by 2 calls. The first was in the first half where Clowney was clearly in the neutral zone, a Vandy lineman jumped and a 48 yard Vandy field goal got taken off the board because of a bogus procedure call on Vandy. One of the TV announcers even said it at the time. The penalty took Vandy out of field goal range. Those 3 points changed the way the end of game scenario played out completely (all Vandy would have needed to win would have been a FG). The other is the call you referenced above. There was clear pass interference on that play as repeatedly shown by multiple replays. If the Vandy receiver catches that pass Vandy has a first down at about the Cock’s 35 with a minute to play. This type of outcome determining call or no-call by SEC refs has happened with such frequency that one cannot believe it is an accident–and the calls always go in favor of the team that is considered “better.” There is something crooked going on here. The fact that it happens so frequently and that the SEC office never seems to do anything about getting rid of the offending refs screams that the SEC front office is in on it. The SEC is fixing games and the SEC honchos are doing. Slive–it’s all about the $$ with him and anything to get the top-rated teams in the SEC into the highest paying bowls is what he is all about. This crooked refs thing started about the time Slive showed up as Commish. Not a coincidence, IMHO.
HahiraDawg
PI isn’t a spot foul in college. Vandy would have had it barely in USCe’s territory.
Thanks, HD. You are right. The Dores only would have gotten a first down at about the Cocks’ 40. But the bad call came on 4th down and effectively ended the game. Same effect. And it wasn’t an accident.
Jerry Rogers
What does it matter. PI should have been called and it does not matter where the ball would have been placed. This discussion about if it would have helped Vandy or not is silly. And it was so obvious and the ref., if that is what he is, was looking right at ti.
I didn’t see the game, but this
“Clowney was clearly in the neutral zone, a Vandy lineman jumped and a 48 yard Vandy field goal got taken off the board because of a bogus procedure call on Vandy”
–if described accurately– would have been a correctly-called penalty on Vandy, yes? Can’t the defense can be in the neutral zone prior to the snap of the ball as long as they don’t touch anyone? And the OL cannot move in any case until the ball is snapped, so the penalty would have been on Clowney only if the center snapped the ball when Clowney was in the NZ. If an OL moves after getting set it’s always on the OL unless someone is touched or the defender crosses the line of scrimmage, thus going past the NZ.
ugadawg9288
In cases like last night, no. According to the NCAA rule book, Section 18 Article 2 (Offside) If a player is in or beyond the neutral zone when the ball is snapped OR (as what happened last night) he “threaten’s an offensive lineman, causing an immediate reaction, before the ball is snapped.”
Clowney jumped into the NZ, causing a reaction from the Left Guard of Vandy, and, of course, the zebras penalize Vandy for it.
But the attendant argument made by the TV crew was that Clowney lunged but stayed out of the NZ, legally enticing the VU lineman to jump. From the replay angle it was hard to be totally sure if he trespassed into the NZ, but I believe he did. (Of course, the SEC has a ref right on the line of scrimmage — and he would be objective. Right? Right??!!!!)
As the rule reads, if a defensive player jumps and causes a reaction from an offensive lineman, it’s offside. (S 18, A 2-D in the 2012 NCAAF rule book)
Regardless of the neutral zone?
I went back and watched it and it did appear that it should have been on SC, as the Mayor said…I think they still would have had to kick the FG over, though.
Thanks for the clarification! Not being snarky–Does the rulebook really actually have a misplaced apostrophe like that in “threaten’s”?
woops, no, that was just my bad
And can somebody please how Jesse Palmer how to properly tie a necktie? What a goober.
Maybe that’s what is done by our Neighbors to the North.
You mightnot think he is a goober if you got a look at the broad who tied it hurriedly.
Palmer is Canadian. They can’t even get bacon right much less a necktie.
I thought both teams looked average at best. Franklin’s play calling was just crazy at times and probably cost him the game.
The worst thing I saw was another horrible, inexuseable blown call by an SEC ref. He was right there.The whole world saw it and so did he. So you’ve gotta ask , “Why?…why wouldn’t he call such a blatant pass interference?”. I don’t care who won, and even though Vandy would still have to go a long way, they deserved the chance. Once again, we see an SEC ref’s ineptness or crookedness (if the shoe fits, wear it) very possibly determine the outcome of a game. I don’t want to lose like that (again) and I don’t want to win like that.
Also, the player with the worst shoulder pain may be Vandy’s right defensive end…His arm was almost pulled off several times during pass rushes. I think it was called once. Bottom line….I hate the SEC refs. I don’t trust them one bit.
My pic in the pool took a hit on the point spread. I’m 0-1
+1 Ug. See my post above.
These refereeing decisions can truly turn a man away from actual gambling. It is entirely possible that two totally objective decisions changed the outcome last evening. The disallowed first half FG; the non-PI call. Those get called correctly and I believe Vandy wins. Their kicker seems very accurate, he just does not have a 55-yard leg.
These ref decisions could turn a man away from watching football. That no-call on PI offended my sense of fair play and ruined the whole dadgum game for me. I cannot imagine the ref did not see it. We need replay and challenges, one of the few things we should borrow from the NFL.
Replay on referee decisions in the SEC may make for 4-hour games!
I spaced that we have replay but no
Ahelp for no calls I am going to effijng vthursday thise phokne.
How did South Carolina go from having a bunch of 6’5″ wide receivers to having nobody taller than 5’9″? They might be able to squeak out wins over teams like Vandy with that offense (at least until Shaw goes out for the year), but I’m not even sure they’ll beat Florida if that’s as good as their passing game is going to be. Of course, it’s the first game, so it may not be completely representative of their potential.
That was an interesting stat. I sae that and wondered… Is Willie Martinez their receivers coach?
That 5’9″ stat is crazy. I don’t know how you possibly think you can win in the SEC with 5″9″ and under WRs. You would think an offensive genius like Spurrier would realize this. Seriously, if I’m recruiting WRs for an SEC team, height is a major considerations. DBs are getting bigger, and most college quarterbacks simply have not developed enough to consistently hit those smaller targets.
Good analysis, Senator. The Gamecock front 7 certainly is going to be stout, but Vandy gashed them at times. Clowney just appears to be a man among boys. I hope Gates is ready for him. I’m not sure the Cocks can beat any team with a pulse on offense if they play like that the rest of the year.
Yeah, Clowney is a big, fast dude, but he sure seemed to disappear from time to time, against an offensive line that would be small in some Georgia high schools.
He looked gassed most of the game…and when he would get gassed, he would compensate by attacking too hard from the snap and would take himself out of the play through simple misdirection.
Vandy has some coaches….but Rogers is limited. He isn’t his brother, as much as ESPN who will probably have Vandy on TV 5-7 games this year want him to be. There is a reason he is 24 and hasn’t started a full season in D1 yet. He’s got talent, but isn’t an elite QB. (or at least hasn’t proven it). Not to mention their receivers are pretty raw, too.
Marcus Lattimore is a man. I kept thinking after they had bottled him up most of the 2nd half that he would break a big run if they kept going to him…sure enough. He had 4 plays of over 8 yards in the 4Q including runs of 11 and 23 yards. Carolina had the ball 10:18 in the 4Q….Lattimore is the ulimate 4Q weapon in a close game.
I think a lot of Lattimore’s late runs has to do with Vandy’s depth and USCe being a… sigh… legitimate SEC program.
It’s like how you see all those almost-upsets scroll across the ESPN ticker. The fbs teams might have the ability to give them a game for a half or 3 quarters, but superior athletes playing 60 minutes will always be in a position to win in the 4th quarter.
“superior athletes playing 60 minutes will always be in a position to win in the 4th quarter.”
-True, See the SEC championship game LSU vs UGA.
This is why we need a full compliment of scholarship players. We will beat 95% of teams due to our first string talent level… but when we play LSU / Alabama, we will be at a disadvantage. They have stellar depth and our player wear down playing nearly every snap while they are constantly subbing. This is especially important on defense. We wilted numerous times late in games last year. Most notably LSU and secondarily vs Mich St. The fact all those defensive players forgo the NFL and returned to UGA gives us some hope, not only from the skill and experience that they bring, but it dramatically increases our depth at those positions.
It is Vandy of lore (at least in their good years). Play right with the power teams for 3 quarters but lose by either an agonizing mistake or seeming official incompetence.
I would like a Chris Brown style breakdown of the zone read play against the 3/4. With what I saw from Shaw and the small receivers, we should take our chances in man coverage and load up to stop that play.
Things I noticed of note:
– As predicted.. Clowney was gassed. He played limited snaps last year and now that he is playing the whole time.. he is struggling in the 4th quarter. We’ll have to see how that plays itself out over the next few weeks.
– It was noted Shaw’s arm strength is weak.. I think it was most evident in that first TD attempt.. his WR had the break and was wide open.. Shaw threw it a bit late, but with any zip on it it’s a TD.. instead it should of been a pick but was batted away easily.
– Branden Smith will be extremely valuable in our game.. for once he will be the same size as the WR he’s lined up against.
The Adorables sacked uSC 3 times and forced two turnovers. Then outgained South Carolina 276-272 in total offense. I thought the stats were fairly even. Vandy left 10 points on the field. Getting inside the Cock-a-doodle-doos 5 and not scoring which Latty promptly took advantage of. The penalty which nullified the long fg. Looked to me that uSC was in the neutral zone. I thought there was some suspect calls including that pass interference no call. The OBC probably didn’t sleep much last night and Shaw is still in the whirlpool.
+1. See my post above AHD.
HobnailedBoots
They’re in trouble. Their O-line was getting whipped by a smallish defensive line, and that’s probably the easiest DL they’ll face in SEC play. Shaw looks incredibly pedestrian without Jeffrey. That secondary has big holes. October is going to be rough for the Fightin’ Poultry.
Even if their line gets better they still have very little at the skill positions outside of Lattimore. Shaw sucks.
I love the irony of Spurrier having a running QB who can barely throw. He hasn’t been able to get any kind of decent QB to Columbia…you know that frustrates the hell out of him, and I love anything that sticks in Stevie’s craw.
I said somewhere in a prior comment thread that S.Car. is this year’s iteration of Ole Miss 2009. It’ll be Spurrier’s best 7-5 team EVRZ!!!! This, I suspect, is why Spurrier trolled all summer about their schedule. They’re just not a good football team. I see losses against ARK, LSU, UGA, UF and Clemson.
We’ll beat them by two touchdowns. If we hold onto the ball, and establish a running game early, it’ll get ugly for them fast.
Clowney was gassed in the FIRST half. He is in for a long season.
+1, Pollack (DGD!) and Palmer were talking up Clowney, and I believe he had a TFL and a sack. But, he sure wasn’t the all-universe terror that we were expecting. Vandy’s left tackle was listed as a “playmaker” during the broadcast, so maybe he’s a grown man (how many times did Pollack say that during the broadcast?), but he was standing up Clowney a LOT. That, the QB, the O-line, and the smurf receivers…number 9 ranking may be a stretch.
The Cocks will always get a 5-spot bump in rankings as a direct result of having Spurrier. He is just a character, and subliminally AP voters judge that he is good for an extra win somewhere along the line.
Not to play Devil’s Advocate here, but please remember that teams generally improve between the first games and the second. Also, Vandy is not a door mat these days (please remember our game against them last year for referrence). So, USCe had a scrappy opener and looked rusty and flawed. And then they do what they normally do…….lean on Latty and their D. Did we really think their formula would be any different this year? to me, the only shocking part was how their front 4 didn’t seem to get great pressure. They had their LBs up at the line on almost every play. I believe this is why the secondary got exposed. It felt a little like a Free Willie D.
I generally agree with this assessment. I think SC was playing it close to the vest, and when Shaw got hurt, then they really packed it in. Lattimore is still the man. I wasn’t that impressed with Clowny. He’s good, but I didn’t see “great” out there last night. And SEC officials can really stink it up. That non-call at the end of the game was terrible, though I still think SC wins even if the call is made.
We’ll get a full game from SC, though we can definitely win. I still think we’ll whip Vandy by 2 TDs at least.
I don’t think USC was playing it ‘that’ close to vest.. maybe early.. but they quickly realized they could lose that game.
I don’t think they were playing that close to vest either. I truly believe their offense is zone reads and Latty, all day long. Shaw gives them the threat of keepers on that play, as well as some option. Outside of that, I don’t see them airing it out. My point was, they will improve on this. I don’t think Shaw will suddenly become a more proficient passer, but they will clean up their offense and work on the D. They will give us fits, like they do every year. Vandy though……..I think Grantham smells blood in the water. I’d watch myself if I was them. They were scrappy, but man…….that offense stalled like my old Chevy Celebrity. And that D-Line of theirs got pushed around a good bit.
But do they still win if the score is 17-16 as it perhaps ought to have been? Spears, the VU placekicker, was dead straight last night and only missed the 3rd qtr. attempt because it was 52 yards out.
My, my. A lot of brazen optimism today. Aren’t we the ones that generally start the season notoriously slow? Let’s see how Missouri goes before we get too excited.
… and Craig James is gone from the Thursday night crew. You missed the best part.
SECDAWG
Hey Mr. Franklin, you’re still Vandy, no respect losers.
Irishdawg
I think SC could be better than what we saw last night, as they tend to look sloppy in the first game. Having said that, if Lattimore can’t go all season, THEY ARE SCREWED. And the kid is just coming off major surgery, Spurrier is not going to be able to work him to death like he wants.
Agree with you about Lattimore. Without him, that offense is inept at best and downright horrendous at worst. They have literally nothing outside of him. And another thought: it’s going to be a miracle if Shaw can make it through this season in one piece playing like that. Kid is tough and I respect his desire to win, but he was getting his ass whipped last night. No way he can keep that up.
Agree… and those cortisone shots will be less effective.
I’m suprised that the cock trolls are absent this morning. I thought they’d be out early, crowing about being in first place.
Come on out, you awesome roosters! Crow about it!
Give ’em time. Natty Lite meth induced semi-coma’s are hard to overcome first thing in the morning.
FisheriesDawg
Has South Carolina’s Thursday night opener ever been remotely indicative of the quality of their team?
I’ll wait to see a few more games before I decide whether or not they’re gonna be a cakewalk in October. It may still work out in our favor that we’re playing them late rather than early.
In that they usually aren’t very good, and they usually don’t look very good in the opener, yes, it’s pretty indicative.
The mascot formerly known as Russ says that based upon what he saw of last night’s game, SEC officiating promises to be just as, if not even more, shitty than it was last season. With the way OBC was bent over with hands on knees at the end of the game, Russ wonders why OBC was trying to lick his balls but guesses it could be because of South Carolina’s super-tough schedule. But the thing that really irritates Russ is that the Cocks couldn’t even cover the spread in the Jon Fabris Invitational.
That’s a good UGA IX! Keep your chin up — you just received a promotion. And OBC should be licking the balls of that side judge.
Dat judge would bite chOU!
Did Spurrier just forget to recruit WRs? I wouldn’t take any of those guys over King/Bennett/Mitchell/Brown.
The VANDY moment was throwing the INT on the 3 yard line for about an 80 yard return. That’s Vandy football right there.
Billy Mumphrey
Where are all the Cock fans that have been over here clucking for the last few weeks?
Maybe we shoud help them out. Sun do shine Cocka-Doodle-Doos!
+1 … that’ll put the Cock in your Walk. Let’s play that the Sunday after the Dawgs storm through Columbia. “Pride comes before the fall” and all that, but I like The Grantham matched against the offensive personnel I saw last night.
1. The non-INT call serves Vandy right after their go-after-the-kneecap shots from last year.
2. Getting over a severe knee injury usually takes two full years. RB’s can go after one year or a few months of rehab, but aside from a rare occasion, it’s a two year recovery. Think Lumpkin.
3. SC’s front 7 is good and will get better, but the secondary will be exposed by the better passing games.
4. I thought Vandy’s D played well, particularly their smallish Dline.
5. A shoulder contusion is no small injury. That will linger for a long time.
After watching that game, I’m honestly not sure that South Carolina will give us a much harder time than Vandy.
Yep. Agree. More worried about Vandy than SC right now. Of course, that could change after a few more games, but the SC offense, outside of Lattimore, is pathetic.
It’s early yet but same ol same ol from the refs, a? Clowney was very unimpressive to me but, again, it’s early yet.. Anybody hear Palmer say Shaw remind him of Elway trying to get into the endzone in the SB? Elway- really?!? John Elway?!? Yeah, that’s what I thought about as Shaw dove at the goal line. That Palmer guy is good.
And I had no idea Shaw’s arm was that unimpressive. I mean, it’s still early but how ya gonna get that better?
The game went pretty much as I expected, close with Vandy finding a way to lose. That turnover at the goal line just ripped their guts out and they aren’t good enough to have a 10-14 point swing go against them. Give Vandy credit for scrapping, blast any Vandy friends you have for not showing up, and put aside any thoughts of SC doing the improbable and winning the East.
SC has a very good defensive front, a good RB, and nothing else of note. I think they have 4-5 losses this year and their brief run at being relevant may be over. Clemson will over shadow them in recruiting the state of SC and they don’t have much to offer out of state prospects, particularly as their over the hill coach nears the end. He could barely get across the field at the end of the game. Until SC fans starting acting like Bammer fans, I had nothing against their program. Now I will enjoy watching them sink back to their traditional level of a struggling team hoping to make secondary bowls every few years to avoid Birmingham/Shreveport/Nashville. Couldn’t happen to a nicer group.
Agreed entirely. Establish the run, protect the ball, and we win going away.
+1. If the Cocks go about 7-5 this season and Lattimore leaves for the NFL it wouldn’t surprise me at all if SOS retired. I don’t believe that he would want to be mired in mediocrity for the rest of his life.
*chuckling*
One thing I got out of the game is that Vandy can HIT! They worked over Shaw when he was in there. But the Lattimore hit over the middle, and the hit on the TE were awesome. So, good defenses vs. bad offenses is what I saw last night.
On the Lattimore hit I swear that the ball never hit the ground before the Vandy defender picked it up. Maybe Vandy dropped it subsequently, but Vandy scooped it up as Lattimore was bobbling it over his shoulder on the ground.
Personally, I thought Lattimore caught it, turned and then got hit, dropping the ball. Which should have been a fumble, not an incomplete pass.
…and I also didn’t like to see a flag thrown on Hal #23 for the hit on SC’s tight end. You can argue it both ways, but for me that was a guy trying to prevent a long pass completion and not a malicious cheap shot. Those 15 yards helped in forging the 17-13 SC lead.
It’s called separating the man from the ball. Although unintentional, it was close enough to the new rules for them to use as an excuse to flag it. If ‘Tree had been the hitter, they would have had to get us back into the stands after that call.
If Tree had been the hitter I don’t believe the TE end would have hopped right back up. He would have been helped up….. and led to the sideline with one or two teammates for him to lean on. Gonna be some slobber knockin’ in Chickumbia by a solid Georgia D.
I thought so, too. Amazing how all these bad calls go one way, isn’t it?
Dawgwood, you finally said what objective observers saw. Many are blaming the whole thing on a down SC offense. Vandy’s hits had as much to do with it as anything. We agree. Vandy’s D is not to be taken lightly.
I was definately cheering against Spurrier, but did anyone else notice the Vandy D-Line was lined up off-sides most of the evening?
Missed that, but their Ends were not getting many breaks on “holding” calls.
I noticed the time between some of the snaps, especially when Vandy was on a late first half drive. At least one of them was very short. The SEC just needs to abolish it’s Ref pool and pay other conferences to send their refs.
I mean it. They SUCK and I believe some of them are blatantly dishonest.
Ug, things are the way they are for a reason. Think about it. How long would bad calls like this be going on if Slive and the rest of the SEC brass were not allowing it? If you were in charge of a multi-million dollar business with national TV exposure and week after week one of the core elements of your business was being shown on national TV to make incredible mistakes with millions of people watching, how long would you allow that to continue? The bad calls happen, I would argue, BECAUSE of Slive, et al.
Minnesota Dawg
The non-PI penalty aside, I thought that Vandy kind of lost the game in the 3rd and then early 4th qtr. They had all the momentum after halftime, crowd was in the game, the defense was stonewalling the backup QB (and then tentative Shaw), they were playing on SCU’s side of the field, and all they could put up was a lousy field goal during this entire stretch. When there is blood in the water, you’ve got to attack; make hay while the sun is shining….you know what I mean.
Seems like Vandy was content with keeping it a close game until late, and then taking their chances. This is a typical underdog mentality (that Georgia is frequently guilty of as well)–assuming that something good will happen at the end. As long as Lattimore is playing for the Cocks, I wouldn’t want to be in a one-possession game in the 4th quarter against SCU. He has frequently shown an ability to take over a game in these late stages–melting precious clock along the way,
I pretty much figured they’d lose when they attempted the 51-yard field on 4th and 3 from the South Carolina 34. If you’re Vandy, up by 3, I feel like you have to go for it there.
Or at least punt -that is a semi-aggressive move there, too. I told my wife at that moment that with depth on their side there was no way SC would not score another TD, that stupid FG reminded me of the kind of tepid 4Q response that CMR is sometimes guilty of.
How true (unfortunately).
He’s rarely been the underdog in thsoe situations, and early in his career he could count on his defense to shut the door most of the time.
In my mind, there were 3 bad non-calls that went USCe’s way and took points off the board for Vandy.
1. The first quarter interception by Shaq Wilson on the (horrible) screen pass. Shaq literally pushed Stacy out of the way to get the interception.
2. The false start that should have been an offside call on Clowney. He clearly jumped into the NZ causing a Vandy player to react.
3. The non-call PI at the end of the game.
Yes, USC was the better team, but sometimes the better team doesn’t win and I would like to see what would have happened with competent refs.
But I think we probably did see SC at their worst, and Vandy at their best.
SC is probably not as bad as they looked, but worse than their fans hoped for ….
Vandy is probably not as good as they looked, but about what their fans hoped for. .ugadawg9288 is right, the turn around inside the SC 5 was a bush-league call. It was a typical Vandy implosion.
First games can be wierd. But I do think SS should throw the refs a thank-you party.
Vandy is pretty good on defense, not so much on offense although Zac Stacy is a legit SEC back. They aren’t going to be the doormat that we are all used to.
Connor Shaw has a noodle arm. That out cut in the endzone which should have been a TD took FOREVER to get there. Reminded me of the out route that Joe TIII threw against Vandy that went back for a pick-6. Now that his throwing shoulder is all jacked up he is going to have even less velocity on his throws. The defensive plan for SC should be stack the box to stop the zone read and make him beat you throwing the ball.
SEC officials are horrendous! How do you miss such a blatant PI that happens right in front of you?
You don’t. You just decide you can’t hurt the team you want to win and pretend you didn’t see it. If he says “I didn’t see it”, then it’s time for him to get the hell out of his striped uniform..If he says, “I saw it but I didn’t think it was bad enough to call”, he needs to get the hell out of his striped uniform. If he says, “I’ll be honest…I cheated”, then he needs to trade his striped uniform for another striped uniform. Why? Because peoples careers, players attitudes, season records, who goes to what bowl ($$$$$$), who becomes a champion, the perception of a program (Vandy always sucks), and the reputation and public perception of the SEC is at stake. Me thinks I do NOT protest too loudly. It’s gotten way too old.
An official should never, never, never determine the winner of a game. The players and coaches should. Too often we’ve seen that taken away.
Amen, brother. Preach on!
Wow! again, Ug. Methinks you don’t protest too loudly.
They didn’t miss it… they just didn’t call it.
What do you (anyone) think will be the reprocussions (if any) of that blown pi call last night? Has Franklin spoken out at all? Has he any recourse? Do you imagine the SEC is groaning over a problem that everyone knows about that rears it’s ugly head during crunch time in the very first game of the year? I can accept an occasional blown call, but in the SEC, it’s epidemic and has been for years…Franklin can be a fireplug…I wonder if he’ll take it sitting down or raise mortal hell. Remember…if they can screw Vandy, they can also screw Georgia (BIG scoop there, huh?).
I guess I’m ranting because I really, really was optimistic it was fixed.
The SEC will suspend the guy for a game or two and move right ahead. One miss-call I can understand, but it appears often in SEC games that there is a snowball effect where the bulk of bad decisions doom a certain team. Of course, I may be overly sensitive to one side or the other. I don’t exactly know.
Nope. No suspension. Nada. Won’t happen.
My thoughts on Vandy:
Rodgers is an athletic QB, but under pressure makes major mistakes on a routine basis. If SC’s D had been anything other than pedistrian, they would have had half a dozen INTs.
I thought their coaches did a decent job of hiding their teams flaws( for the most part).
Thoughts on SC:
Force Shaw to stay in the pocket and their is no way you can loose. One of the weakest looking arms I’ve seen in a while, no zip whatsoever.
D line looks good, but get past that and the rest of the D appears below average at best.
Too bad both of those d-bags couldn’t lose by a blown call. Sigh.
This aligns with my thinking.
Although, I found myself cheering against SC more than against Carlton.
The type of Conner shoulder contusion often leads to loss of strength.
We should definitely see this for that ref:
http://blog.al.com/solomon/2009/10/sec_referee_marc_curles_part_o.html
Some refs got fired over the off-season. Anybody know who?
When you think about the first throw Connor made…how weak it was, you have to wonder if his shoulder wasn’t already injured and last night was just a re-injury. Could Spurrier have possibly kept a QB summer injury a secret? I’ll give Shaw this…he’s a tough cookie. But I just can’t imagine Spurrier recruiting a kid without a zippy arm. Wonder.
I saw a knee get Shaw between the lower part of the shoulder blade and the spine, right into the muscle. Some tissue had to separate and will prolong his healing, but a shot before games will keep him in there until it heals completely.
SC’s D secondary was unimpressive and it showed early in the 2nd qtr. Clowney is smooth and impressive. You have to treat him almost like Jarvis until halftime.
William (8:43 post), agree about teams improving as the season progresses.
Lost in our pool , but won in two others. I thought the point spread was dead on, so I hedged. Got 7 points for one, but only 1 for the other. That ought to tell you how torn I was while deciding.
Wore the colors in my visit to the optometrist this morning (red and black shirt, white hat with University of Georgia written across the front). He remarked that his son had graduated from Tech and I said, “Oh, you mean ‘the North Avenue Trade School’, don’t you?”. He smiled and remarked he had seen that on one of his son’s shirts. The optometrist went to Purdue at the same time I was getting my Masters at UGA and we had a pleasant football conversation that mentioned another school, ND, quite a lot. You young punks wouldn’t understand.
How much is UGA having to pay Buffalo to come to Georgia, I heard FSU is only paying Murry State $425 G’s.
Watched part of the game and the Outlaw Josey Wells. Maybe South Carolina is overrated and Vandy is underrated. Hard for peple to understand that the scholarship limits can impact teams.
Thought both teams played poorly, bad game plans, and poor play calls. Not a good opening game for the SEC.
Speaking of the good, the bad and the ugly, did you catch The Outlaw Jersey Whale the other night? I did and thought he would be a good offensive line coach if someone can capture him when he beaches himself
http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/08/28/the-outlaw-jersey-whale/
TDawg
The USC Dline looked gassed early…size and depth definitely SAVED them!
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by David Boles.In Celebrity Semiotic.6 Comments on Dick Clark Died a Rich Man
Dick Clark died yesterday, and the news of his passing is covered in the disingenuous and condescending lede — “Oldest Living Teenager is Dead at 82 from a Heart Attack” — and I just stand there and why why the lamestream media have to live up to their cloying, and earned, nickname every single day.
On January 2, 2006, I wrote about Dick Clark in Urban Semiotic — Dick Clark Human Speech — and his amazing comeback from a stroke that adversely affected his speech:
We’re imperfect and sometimes human speech is breezy and sometimes you have to struggle to understand what is being spoken. There is no doubt, however, that Dick Clark was brave and daring to make such a bold return to television — brave and daring and bold are also hallmarks of Clark’s career — and the lesson many of us now know is if Dick Clark can risk his legacy, reputation and quality-of-life to show us just how devastating a stroke can be to a personality, a family and a man, then we’re all better off for having him triumphantly return to network television to stare down Death with us live on the air.
Dick Clark was a star and a really good businessman. He created a radio network. He bought a lot of land. In 2007, he sold his production company for $175 million to the current owner of the Washington Redskins football team.
I have tremendous affection for Dick Clark. He was a rich man because he knew the value of the human soul and of perseverance and of always doing the right thing. During the Payola scandal, he testified before Congress and did well, and when the ABC-TV network asked him to sell his record company holdings just to make sure there would not be any future conflicts of interest between his American Bandstand television show and his record companies, he did so — and lost $8 million dollars in that decision to abide doing the right thing instead of protecting his own narrow self-interest.
Dick Clark will be missed. We won’t ever have anyone else like him — and that’s why we must celebrate the life of the man and accept the death of the body.
american bandstanddick clarkfamewealth
Mary DeMuth says:
I grew up with Dick Clark, My sisters and I aways watched american band stand. Everyday after school we would go home turn on the t.v. and watch. and dance of course. He well always be here as far as I am concerned, there well never be another Dick Clark- Farewell to you from my sisters and I.
I love your memory of Dick Clark and I thank you for sharing your thoughts with us.
When I was younger, I worked at a CBS television affiliate and, on Saturday mornings, the weekend receptionist would always have American Bandstand playing on the television in the lobby so she could watch the show even though it was an ABC television program. When I asked her about it, she told me she’d never missed an episode of American Bandstand since it moved from Philadelphia, and sometimes tradition was more important than business allegiances. I guess management agreed with her, because they never made her change the channel in all the years I worked there. SMILE!
I always associated him with fantastic radio and television and it is sad that he is gone — even sadder that there are kids out there that are utterly confused as to who he was and somehow had never even heard of him!
You could hear “the old Dick Clark” — before the stroke — still on the radio in New York during the weekends. He was an excellent radio host. He knew everybody and he knew all the songs.
I always loved dick clark he was funny, the bloopers should have stayed aired, other times the way he laughed n smiled made me happy n laugh, u cant live forever but hes with God now n GOD BLESS HIS FAMILY they gotta be just like him kind n nice.
Well said, Paul, thanks for the comment!
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Russell Booze making strong case as Gorman’s offensive MVP this season
Posted: September 27, 2014 in General, NCAAF
Tags: Alize Jones, Bishop Gorman, Cordell Broadus, Fertitta, Gaels Football, Nevada Preps, Nicco Fertitta, Russell Booze, Snoop Dogg, St. John Bosco, Tate Martell, UFC
By W.G. Ramirez
Bishop Gorman senior running back Russell Booze leads Southern Nevada with 797 yards. Photo: W.G. Ramirez
So here it is in a nutshell after Friday night’s demolition derby at Fertitta Field, the ‘apparent’ top two teams in the nation battled one another and Bishop Gorman simply outclassed St. John Bosco in a 34-31 victory.
On such a stage, in the spotlight, with a chance to officially stamp Bishop Gorman as a national power, the Gaels delivered.
I’ve watched five of their first six games, seeing three in person and two on television. They’ve shown improvement progressively, and last night, everything came together as the Gaels played like a well-oiled machine. And they couldn’t have asked for a better moment. The game was shifted from ESPNU to ESPN – the flagship station of the network – for the world to see.
And just like he’s done week after week, pounding and grinding, digging in as deep as it gets was an offensive stalwart the team has been able to depend on all season.
I’m not speaking about Alize Jones – who epitomizes the description I just gave you, and has never wavered from greatness this season – and I’m not talking about the explicit improvement by quarterback Tate Martell, whose decision-making was on point in Friday’s win.
I was referring to senior Russell Booze, who heading into Saturday night’s full slate of prep football, leads Southern Nevada with 797 yards on 96 attempts, with nine touchdowns. While averaging 8.3 yards per carry, he’s averaging 132.8 yards per game.
I won’t avoid saying that Mojave’s Ty Flanagan should pass Booze on Saturday, when the Rattlers face Faith Lutheran. But I also won’t deny this: now 60 percent through its season, Booze has arguably proved to be Gorman’s offensive MVP.
“He makes big plays, week in and week out,” Gorman coach Tony Sanchez said. “Booze is an absolute stud.”
Both Sanchez and Booze praised the offensive line first and foremost, each saying ‘if it weren’t for them,’ while also crediting running backs coach Craig Canfield for his impeccable knack for fine-tuning the backfield.
“That’s what it’s all about: if you can sustain drives and keep the clock running, especially against an explosive offense like (Bosco),” Sanchez said “You want to be able to run the ball methodically, you want to be able to take the time off the clock.”
They’re called blue-collar yards, and Booze has worn his hard hat all season, for each demolition.
While the 797-yard figure seems elementary for a top-notch running back from the valley, let me put it in better perspective, game-by-game: 65, 100, 118, 185, 170 and 159.
He’s improved each game, while literally becoming the go-to guy the entire time. Sure, Jones has been the ‘need a big play, go-to guy,’ because he can go over the middle and create a mismatch most times. But Booze, this kid runs, and runs, and runs.
As a youth, when his practice would end simultaneously with his older brother’s, he would race the running backs from the older team in 50-yard sprints, and win. Handedly. He’s always wanted to run. And he’s always been able to do it well. Whether he’s a scatback searching for a crevice in the line, or straight-on hitting the A-gap, Booze has been someone who can be coached, follows instruction and responds with the right results.
“We just run hard every practice, and we finish every run at every practice, Coach Canfield taught us that,” said Booze, whose nine touchdowns lead the team, as do his 54 points. His nine scores are 28 percent of the team’s total.
For his efforts, Booze has been the game’s leading rusher in five of Gorman’s first six games. He’s been every bit a leader to this team, as he is to his running back unit. He tends to be the calm in what can be a frenetic offense when the tempo runs high. Booze tames his unit’s occasional erratic nature.
But you wouldn’t realize he’s a leader when the headlines are generally focused on someone whose family relation has helped increase the national exposure. I mean, Snoop Dogg was part of the pregame B-roll and ended up in the booth at halftime, and UFC’s upper brass – Lorenzo Fertitta and Dana White – was amidst the G Block.
Snoop’s son Cordell Broadus caught four passes for 64 yards, while Fertitta’s son, Nicco, swarmed the secondary and made his presence known on defense. SportsCenter featured Broadus and Jones, plus Bosco quarterback Josh Rosen, but missing was Booze.
After running out of the big-name players who always get publicized, Sportscenter fumbled terribly by ignoring Booze’s 80-yard TD run, most of it untouched, though his yardage did get embedded in a graphic.
Nonetheless, Booze has made a statement as a fixture in this offense.
After six games, 36 percent of his season tally came from the yards combined from each game’s longest run. What that means is 64 percent of his yards came on 92 rushes. When you take those 288 longest-run yards away from his season tally, it leaves you with 509 yards, or, 5.5 yards per those 92 other carries.
Short quick blasts, blue-collar yardage that sustains drives, just as Sanchez and Canfield prescribed.
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__label__cc | 0.589071 | 0.410929 | Dr. Ansel Augustine: a life inspired by his mentors
Posted By: Christine L. Bordelon 0 Comment Dr. Ansel Augustine: a life inspired by his mentors
Overcoming obstacles is nothing new to Dr. Ansel Augustine. He was homeless after Hurricane Katrina, and he has a brother serving time at the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
But the nurturing he received from a nun and a priest led Augustine to know the Catholic faith and how God uses broken people to accomplish great things.
Augustine, director of the Office of Black Catholic Ministries of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, said God used him to reach youth, no matter their situation, just as his now-deceased mentors – Edmundite Father Michael Jacques, former pastor at St. Peter Claver Church, and Sister of the Holy Family Eva Regina Martin – encouraged him to achieve his personal best.
“So, for me, it’s to provide and plant the seed and let God do his work,” Augustine said about being a youth leader. “There is a lot going on, a lot of challenges in our community. … It’s for us to continue to provide those positive spaces … where young people feel they belong in the church.
“This message for them now – not when they get older or married or have children – is, ‘Jesus loves you where you are, and he can use you to make a difference in your life and for other people, even if you don’t feel it now.’”
Deserved accolades
For his efforts over more than a decade, Augustine recently earned the 2016 National Catholic Youth Ministry award for multi-cultural gifts at the National Conference for Catholic Youth Ministry, where he was emcee. He also won the Trailblazer award in January at Dillard University from NOLA Gospel Awards.
Augustine said he is humbled to be acknowledged and quickly shifted the accolades to his mentors and those who carry on the torch.
“I will never forget them – that nurturing,” he said about Father Jacques and Sister Eva Regina. “They met me where I was, just like Jesus did. I was rough around the edges, and they loved me for who I was.”
When Hurricane Katrina displaced the St. Peter Claver neighborhood, Augustine – with nowhere to go – literally found refuge in the church. At the request of Father Jacques, he acted as an on-site guard protecting church property and preparing church buildings for contractors.
“When he called and needed my help, I was there because I knew I belonged at St. Peter Claver as a young person because that was home,” Augustine said. It was where he had his first youth ministry post.
After losing his post due to the scarcity of parishioners, he began working hurricane recovery for Catholic Charities Archdiocese New Orleans. That led to speaking engagements in parishes nationwide to explain New Orleans’ recovery. Then, a job with the archdiocesan CYO office led to attending national conventions, where he was recognized from speeches and that led to national youth speaker status.
Augustine said his head was spinning as he received the multi-cultural gifts award, recalling everyone, everything on his journey.
“That God would bring me here, it was just crazy,” he said. “So, when I am keynoting or speaking and traveling, I do it for my church, my neighborhood and my city,” Augustine said. “I am shocked that I get all these awards. I dedicate them to the archdiocese, the people of New Orleans and especially the kids at St. Peter Claver, because they see if I can do it, they can do it, too.”
Augustine considers his biggest accomplishment seeing where his message has fallen on “fertile ground” of young adults who mentor others.
“The ones that get it and come back and give back, that’s where my heart feels the passion and love that God tells me, ‘You are doing the right thing,’” Augustine said. “I’ve buried many (young adults); I’ve visited prison of those who have made wrong choices or life’s circumstances have landed them there. But they are still God’s children, and we are called to love them. Then you have the few that ‘get it,’ and the seed falls on good ground. God is amazing.”
Augustine said experience has given him enough insight into youth to know they don’t want things to do; they want places to belong and to know that someone cares.
“Do they feel welcome enough to belong and call it their own, or is it just a class they attend, led by adults telling them what to do, and then are gone?” Augustine asks. “Are we really listening to give them their agenda? Youth ministry, ideally, should be their ministry, where they are ministering and learning about God and ministering to each other.”
Earned a doctorate
On the educational side, Augustine has a master’s degree in pastoral studies from the Loyola Institute for Ministry in New Orleans and a doctorate in ministry from the Graduate Theological Foundation in Mishawaka, Indiana. He also teaches at the Institute for Black Catholic Studies, the place where Sister Eva Regina encouraged him to earn a youth ministry certificate.
He contributed to the African-American Catholic Youth Bible, published by St. Mary’s Press, through the National Black Catholic Congress in 2014 and has worked on programming with the National Federation for Catholic Youth Ministry and with the National Black and Indian Mission Office.
“I use my gifts the best way possible,” Augustine said. “My motivation is to make a better way for the people coming after me, to honor my ancestors who sacrificed for me. That Sankofa moment – looking back to the best but looking forward.”
Christine Bordelon can be reached at cbordelon@clarionherald.org.
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__label__cc | 0.651967 | 0.348033 | Bonine trying to find solution to split playoff mess
Posted By: Jonelle Foltz basketball championships, LSHAA
I wonder if there was a party Friday in Baton Rouge at the LHSAA convention?
After all, Friday marked the six-year anniversary of the vote to split the football playoffs into private and public championships.
Was there a cake and candles? Party favors? Jocularity for all?
Six years later, high school sports in Louisiana is broken, and one of the sports most injured by it is not football but basketball.
That is why the ears of several private-school principals perked up when they read the proposals by Teurlings Catholic principal Mike Boyer to hold separate championships in the sports currently split.
It makes sense – and cents.
Last winter, the girls’ basketball championships moved to Alexandria and a renovated Rapides Parish Coliseum, which did nothing for the many private schools in the championship from metro New Orleans.
In Division IV, Christ Episcopal School from Covington tipped off their semifinal game at 11:30 a.m. on a Monday. Going to the state tournament is supposed to provide a sense of excitement for the team and its fans, and 11:30 a.m. on a Monday doesn’t do it.
In Division III, St. Mary’s played its semifinal game on Wednesday at 11:30 a.m., followed by St. Katharine Drexel at 1:15 p.m. Thursday, John Curtis played its semifinal at 11:30 a.m., and Dominican followed at 1:15 p.m.
A few hundred fans saw the game. If that game were played in metro New Orleans, at night, the venue would be packed.
In Lake Charles the following week, Riverside played its Division III semifinal at 11:30 a.m. and Country Day followed at 1:15 p.m. Both games were one-point thrillers. Too bad most of the fans in Burton Coliseum were disguised as empty seats.
Six years later, the issues with basketball have fallen squarely in the lap of LHSAA executive director Eddie Bonine.
This week, Bonine pleaded for patience as he tries to find a solution.
He fears that separate championships would be just another step down the road to a complete split. His anxiety is completely understandable.
Bonine has inherited the world created by the leaders of the separation six years ago. This is what Many High School and Winnfield High School wanted.
And, clearly, it has not worked.
The private and parochial schools, at some point, must push to take care of themselves. Which is what public schools did six years ago.
The notion that both sides will at some point come back together for “the good of the association” is a fallacy.
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Happy New Year 2017! -♥️- Cambridge Writers’ Workshop
Posted on January 2, 2017 by carriganak
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop had a wonderful year in 2016. Over the last twelve months, we’ve had a chance to hold retreats and readings across America and the world, meet exciting writers and artists, and have found new ways to inspire our own writing. Our year began with the 2016 Association of Writers and Writing Programs Conference in Los Angeles, California. At AWP 2016, we got a chance to promote CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for Creative Writing, advertise our new literary internships, and discuss our Summer Writing Retreats in Granada, Spain, Barcelona, Spain, and Narbonne, France, as well as our Spring Writing Retreat in Newport, Rhode Island. We also hosted our third AWP event at Sabor y Cultura. At our event, there were featured readings from authors such as Rita Banerjee, Jess Burnquist, Julialicia Case, Ariana Kelly, Gwen E. Kirby, Katie Knoll, Ellaraine Lockie, Ondrej Pazdirek, Heather Aimee O’Neill, Brenda Peynado, Esther Pfaff, Jessica Piazza, Jonathan Shapiro, Emily Skaja, and Emily Smith.
After AWP 2016, we were off to our second annual Spring Writing Retreat in Newport, Rhode Island. We were joined by award-winning and internationally-renowned authors such as Jade Sylvan, Diana Norma Szokolyai, and CWW yoga instructor Elissa Lewis. The event was a chance for writers to spend a long weekend in historic Newport and near the beach, participating in writing workshops (such as Sylvan’s workshops on “writing yourself naked”) and craft of writing seminars, yoga classes, and cultural tours of the historic Newport village. We live blogged the entire event as well, sharing dozens of photos from our trip while also allowing our writers to share their thoughts on the experience.
During the summer we hosted our Summer in Granada and Summer in Barcelona and Narbonne Writing Retreats. In Barcelona and Narbonne, we explored the cities and all of their historical, literary, and romantic charm. The retreat included craft of writing seminars and creative writing workshops, literary tours of the cities, and one-on-one manuscript consultations. We were also joined by writer and professor Bret Anthony Johnston and literary editor Heidi Pitlor. CWW directors Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai taught workshops on spacial poetics and world building, and also led workshops for participants to share their work and use the Liz Lerman method for critiquing writing. We live blogged our retreat on our website, so be sure to check out the sights and classes from our trip. We were really happy to experience this with all of our participants, who traveled from all over to come write and explore these cities with us.
In Granada, wrote in the city’s winding streets, absorbed its Moorish history, and were inspired by its evocative landscapes. The retreat included craft of writing seminars and writing workshops and yoga classes. We were joined by novelist Alexander Chee and poet and activist Frederick-Douglas Knowles II, who taught classes on historical fiction and hip-hop and poetry, respectively. Rita Banerjee led workshops on narrative stakes and emotion and suspense. We also live blogged this trip, so you can see all the exciting things we did on this trip.
We also hosted creative writing workshops and craft of writing seminars at The Cambridge Center for Adult Education throughout the fall. In addition to Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai, we were joined by Jade Sylvan and Cambridge writer Laura van den Berg for creative writing workshops and craft of writing seminars every other weekend in Cambridge, MA. This is something we hope to repeat this year, and we hope we can bring in new faculty and participants as well.
We hosted a Brooklyn Bookend Reading at Molasses Books during The Brooklyn Book Festival. Some of the writers had emerged onto the literary scene with a bang, while others had recently published their first or second books, and had received prestigious awards in the past. The event featured Stephen Aubrey, Rita Banerjee, Madeleine Barnes, Ellaraine Lockie, Ben Pease, Anne Malin Ringwalt, Kate McMahon, Emily Smith, Bianca Stone, and Diana Norma Szokolyai, along with a beautiful interludes of music from accomplished songwriters Erica Buettner and Elizabeth Devlin.
We also hosted a literary crawl event during Lit Crawl NYC 2016. Our Literary Vaudeville event featured performances and readings from Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Megan Fernandes, Claire Ince, Emily Smith, Christina M. Rau, and Frederick-Douglass Knowles II.
In 2016, we welcomed our second round of interns to the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, and these interns include the wonderful AM Ringwalt, Anna-Celestrya Carr, Erynn Porter, and Shannon Sawyer, all of whom have helped the CWW greatly this year. They’ve helped manage our social media and written up posts about our events, shown their talent for graphic design, grant writing, audio/visual media development and corresponding with writers and hosts in French, Spanish, and English, and have provided much valuable assistance on our retreats and literary events this year. We’re excited to have, on our team, and we can’t wait to show you what they’ve helped us plan for 2016!
While 2016 proved to be a very exciting year for all of us, our staff is quite ready to move on to our next round of exciting events. The CWW will once again table at AWP in Washington DC from February 8-February 10, 2017, and will be announcing our AWP Reading in downtown Los Angeles shortly!
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Spring in New Orleans Writing Retreat will take place from March 23-26, 2017, and will coincide with the Tennessee Williams Literary Festival. Known for its Spanish and French architecture, live jazz, cajun food, and street festivals, New Orleans offers an inspirational and one-of-a-kind environment for creative writers. During the retreat, we will be staying in the lovely Algiers Point neighborhood, just a short ferry ride away from the Historic French Quarter. Our retreat features multi-genre workshops, as well as craft seminars and time to write. The faculty includes award-winning writers Dipika Guha, Emily Nemens, Rita Banerjee, and Diana Norma Szokolyai. Genres include playwriting, nonfiction, fiction, and poetry.
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Spring in Portland Writing Retreat will take place from April 22-24, 2017. While you’re in the home of writers Cheryl Strayed and Ursula K. Le Guin, feel free to go bicycling and explore the terrain, hike, or relax at local cafes for people watching—no matter how you choose to spend your time, this city is full inspiration. We will be staying in the Alberta Arts District during the retreat, an area that is sure to inspire our participants and help them create. The retreat offers multi-genre workshops, as well as craft seminars and time to write. The faculty includes award-winning writers Adam Reid Sexton, Kerry Cohen, Rita Banerjee, and Diana Norma Szokolyai. Genres include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
And the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Summer in Granada Writing Retreat will take place from August 2-6, 2017. Located at the foot of the Sierra Nevada mountains in Andalucía, Granada is one of the gems of Spain and has inspired writers from Washington Irving to Salman Rushdie to Ali Smith. Let the old city stimulate your writing with its winding streets, Moorish history, and evocative landscapes. Work on your existing manuscript, or look to the beauty and warmth of Granada to inspire all-new projects. During the retreat, we will be staying at the Hotel Guadalupe, just a short walk from the Alhambra. The retreat offers multi-genre workshops, as well as craft seminars and time to write. The faculty includes award-winning writers Tim Horvath, Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich, Rita Banerjee, and Diana Norma Szokolyai. Genres include fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.
We hope you are all as excited for our 2017 events as we are. If you have any questions we may not have answered, you can email us at info@cambridgewritersworkshop.org, and for inquiries, please email the CWW Directors, Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai, at directors@cambridgewritersworkshop.org. You can also follow us on Facebook, Tumblr, and Twitter for more information and updates on any of these events. We look forward to making 2017 a year full of creativity, writing, and renewal, so join us as we make 2017 rock!
— Alex Carrigan, CWW Managing Intern
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“Transformations & Disobedience” – A Brooklyn Book Festival 2016 Reading
Posted on September 1, 2016 by carriganak
The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop is proud to announce our partnership with the Brooklyn Book Festival. Join us our Brooklyn Book Festival 2016 Reading, “Transformations & Disobedience,” an evening of stories, poetry, and song, at Molasses Books (770 Hart Street, Brooklyn, NY 11237) on Saturday September 17! The evening will kick off at 8 pm, and will feature readings from a wonderful array of talented writers such as Stephen Aubrey, Rita Banerjee, Madeleine Barnes,Ellaraine Lockie, Ben Pease, Anne Malin Ringwalt, Kate McMahon, Emily Smith, Bianca Stone, and Diana Norma Szokolyai, along with a beautiful interludes of music from accomplished songwriters Erica Buettner and Elizabeth Devlin!
Stephen Aubrey descends from hardy New England stock. He is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, dramaturg, lecturer, storyteller and recovering medievalist. His writing has appeared in Publishing Genius, Commonweal, The Brooklyn Review, Pomp & Circumstance, Forté and The Outlet. He is a co-founder and the resident dramaturg and playwright of The Assembly Theater Company. His plays have been produced at The New Ohio Theater, The Living Theater, The Ontological-Hysteric Theater, The Flea Theater, The Collapsable Hole, Wesleyan University, The Tank, The Brick Theater, Symphony Space, the Abingdon Theater Complex, UNDER St Marks, The Philly Fringe and the Edinburgh Fringe Festival where his original play, We Can’t Reach You, Hartford, was nominated for a 2006 Fringe First Award. He is also the editor of two ‘pataphysic books, Suspicious Anatomy and Suspicious Zoology, both published by the Hollow Earth Society. He has an MFA from Brooklyn College where he received the Himan Brown Prize and the Ross Feld Writing Award and a BA with Honors from the College of Letters at Wesleyan University. He is an instructor of English at Brooklyn College and holds the dubious distinction of having coined the word “playlistism” in 2003.
Rita Banerjee is the Executive Director of Kundiman and the Creative Director of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from Harvard and her MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Washington, and her writing appears in The Rumpus, Los Angeles Review of Books, Electric Literature, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, AWP WC&C Quarterly, Queen Mob’s Tea House, Riot Grrrl Magazine, The Fiction Project, Objet d’Art, KBOO Radio’s APA Compass, and elsewhere. Her first collection of poems, Cracklers at Night (Finishing Line Press), received First Honorable Mention for Best Poetry Book of 2011-2012 at the Los Angeles Book Festival, and her novella, A Night with Kali (Spider Road Press), is forthcoming in October 2016. Finalist for the 2015 Red Hen Press Benjamin Saltman Award and the 2016 Aquarius Press Willow Books Literature Award, she is currently working on a novel and book of lyric essays.
Madeleine Barnes is a writer, visual artist, proud Pittsburgher, and graduate of the MFA in Creative Writing Program at NYU. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in places like Pleiades, Jai-Alai Magazine, Rogue Agent, BOXCAR Poetry Review, The Rattling Wall, Yew Journal, Washington Square Review, Cordella Magazine, and Pittsburgh Poetry Review. Her chapbook, The Mark My Body Draws in Light, was published in 2014. A New York State Summer Writers Institute Fellow, she was named an Emerging Writer by the Poetry Ireland Introductions Series. Aside from poetry and art, she is very interested in cheese.
Ellaraine Lockie is a widely published and awarded author of poetry, nonfiction books and essays. Her chapbook, Where the Meadowlark Sings, won the 2014 Encircle Publication’s Chapbook Contest. Her newest collection, Love Me Tender in Midlife, has been released as an internal chapbook, in IDES from Silver Birch Press. Other recent work has received the Women’s National Book Association’s Poetry Prize, Best Individual Collection from Purple Patch magazine in England for Stroking David’s Leg, the San Gabriel Poetry Festival Chapbook Contest win for Red for the Funeral and The Aurorean’s Chapbook Spring Pick for Wild as in Familiar. Ellaraine teaches poetry workshops and serves as Poetry Editor for the lifestyles magazine, Lilipoh. She is currently judging the Tom Howard/Margaret Reid Poetry Contests for Winning Writers.
Erica Buettner is an American singer-songwriter from New England who moved to Europe at the age of 19. She landed in Paris, France where she studied French and literature and wrote the songs on her debut album True Love and Water over the course of a four-year stay in the City of Lights. In 2010, seeking sunnier shores, Erica moved to Lisbon, Portugal, where she is currently based. Over the summer of 2015, Pierre and Erica recently reunited in Paris to record their second full-length album together, to be released in 2016.
Elizabeth Devlin, with her haunting combination of lilting voice and enchanting autoharp, is a self-produced NYC singer- songwriter. Devlin defies traditional musical structure with many of her songs, building miniature narratives and magical worlds where characters, fantasies and time collide. Devlin has toured nationally, internationally, & performs in venues throughout NYC’s five boroughs.
Ben Pease is a board member of the Ruth Stone Foundation and an editor of Monk Books. His first full-length collection of poems, Chateau Wichman, is forthcoming from Big Lucks Books, and more work can be found online at fugitivesofspeech.tumblr.com/works. He lives in Brooklyn with his wife, the poet and artist Bianca Stone.
Anne Malin Ringwalt is a writer and musician (Anne Malin) currently studying in Boston, Massachusetts. Her words appear in Vinyl, Talking River, Rogue Agent, The Grief Diaries and DUM DUM Zine: Punks and Scholars. Like Cleopatra, Ringwalt’s debut poetry chapbook, was published by dancing girl press in 2014. She has performed throughout Boston, New York and Miami, most notably via the YoungArts Foundation (2016) and Rookie Magazine’s Yearbook Two launch at the New Yorker Festival (2014).
Kate McMahon is a fiction writer who also moonlights as a full-time attorney. Before law school, she was chosen to participate in the selective creative writing concentration at Boston College, where she won the Cardinal Cushing Award for best short fiction and also completed a novella. Most recently, her short story “Swapped” was published in Post Road Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two small sons.
Emily Smith is a Managing Editing and Communications Intern for the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. Originally from Sarasota, Florida, she holds a BFA in Creative Writing from the New Hampshire Institute. She writes for The Ploughshares Blog and her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Bustle, Brevity, Luna Luna and more.
Bianca Stone is a poet and visual artist, and the author of Someone Else’s Wedding Vows, and Poetry Comics From the Book of Hours. She runs the Ruth Stone Foundation & Monk Books with her husband, the poet Ben Pease in Vermont and Brooklyn.
Diana Norma Szokolyai is a writer and Executive Artistic Director of Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. She is author of the poetry collections Parallel Sparrows and Roses in the Snow. She also records her poetry with musicians and has collaborated with several composers. Her poetry-music collaboration with Flux Without Pause led to their collaboration “Space Mothlight” hitting the Creative Commons Hot 100 list in 2015, and can be found in the curated WFMU Free Music Archive. Szokolyai’s work has appeared in VIDA: Women in the Literary Arts, Quail Bell Magazine, Lyre Lyre, The Boston Globe, Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure, and Up the Staircase Quarterly, as well as anthologized in The Highwaymen NYC #2, Other Countries: Contemporary Poets Rewiring History, Always Wondering and Teachers as Writers.
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__label__wiki | 0.84056 | 0.84056 | THE FIRST PEOPLE OF COLOUR WHO CALLED THEMSELVES AFRIKANERS
Posted on May 27, 2016 by melletpt
.When going over a historical account there is always just a little overlooked fact that will be the dead give-away tell-tale fact that will suggest that behind what is being served up as a historical “truth” is a much more interesting story.
CREDIT: Painting by Cobus van Bosch who has done a wonderful series of works memorializing the Orlam Leaders by using historical photographs in the public domain and giving it added value for future generations. His historical works are a great resource for educating our youth and instilling pride after years of oppression. This art is a wonderful practical act of reparation and restitution. Its deep value goes way beyond the confines of the gallery to live in the gallery of the hearts and minds of the descendants of these valiant men and women who once were warriors. Thank you Cobus.
Jan Jonker Afrikaner and a group of the Orlam Afrikaners
So is the case of an organisation established in 1875 by Boer intellectuals in Paarl called “Die Genootskap van Regte Afrikaners” (GRA -The Association of Real Afrikaners…. or True Afrikaners).
Their starting point was that they recognised that what was referred to as Cape Low Dutch had emerged as the lingua franca of most Boers who could no longer speak pure Dutch and they christened their observation of this language variant – Afrikaans. Shortly after, they launched their newspaper “The Patriot” which made it clear that their mission was not just a language claim but that they were also founded on a claim to a “God-given land”.
The Association and their newspaper was deeply rooted in three things – language, land and people (language, country and nation) and thus became the early standard bearer of Afrikaner Nationalism. In 1881 a Boer protest movement known as the Zuid Afrikaansche Boeren Beschermings Vereeniging (South African Farmers’ Protection Association) of Jan Hendrik Hofmeyr emerged as a proto political party and joined with the GRA and formed a political party called the Afrikaner Bond which took its place in the Cape Parliament.
So why in seeking a more inclusive and respectful term as an aspirant and emergent national group did they not just call themselves “The Association of Afrikaners”. The answer lies in the tell-tale use of the term “regte” meaning “real” or “true”. In asking why they needed to do this, the obvious answer is that there must have already been people that called themselves “Afrikaners” and a language ‘Afrikaans’ that the new association wanted to both distinguish themselves from and lay claim to the term and language for themselves. It is this political usurping of the term “Afrikaner” or “African” and the language of “Afrikaans” that is the more interesting story than what became the dominant narrative.
There were immediately opponents of the announcement of this “new language” and use of the term “Afrikaander” later modified to “Afrikaner” and it came from within the Boer constituency from those who wanted to maintain High Dutch as their language despite the fact that youth were more and more taken by English or spoke the Cape Low Dutch. The reason that they gave for their opposition spells out why they were so opposed. They said that the adoption of this “Afrikaans patois” was nothing but an adoption of the “Hotnotstaaltjie”. Afrikaans was regarded as the language of those regarded as Khoena and ‘Coloured’….. the people derogatorily called “Hotnot-Basters” were those who called themselves Afrikaners and everyone knew it.
A popular story was partially related by the Afrikaans language movement to try to track the genesis of the term Afrikander to European settlers by referring to an utterance by a 16 year old boy, Henrik Biebouw. Detlef Biebouw was a German labourer (knegt) who had a child with a slave, Diana van Madagascar, belonging to Cornelis Linnes. Detlef then later bought Diana when their daughter Susanna was around 6 years old but he married an orphan girl Wilhelmina de Wit shipped from Rotterdam and they lived on the fringe with the mixed Khoena, slave and knegt lower class of Stellenbosch.
In 1694 Wilhelmina bore Detlef a son, Hendrik who grew up in this mixed community shunned by the settler mainstream. In 1710 the 16 year old Hendrik was brought to court after a drunk and rowdy disturbance of the peace the night before. Hendrik basically told the magistrate where to get off by implying that as a foreigner the magistrate had no right to be telling him how to behave in public – “because I am an African (Afrikaander)”, in reference to the locally born in his mixed community. The term was quite clear at that time and no respected European settlers would allow themselves to be referred to us such. The fact of the matter is also that by the time Hendrik was 20 he got on a ship and left the Cape for good.
Before 1710 the term was already well used by people of colour at the Cape as can here be illustrated. There were already a proto national group called the Orlam Afrikaners who were descendants of Khoena and Slaves who had trekked up from the Roodezand (Tulbagh) to the Gariep region and had left an indelible mark on the Southern African landscape. This Afrikaner dynasty had been using this term “Afrikaner” as their surname going back to their progenitor Oude Ram Afrikaner since the late 1600s. From a surname the term broadened to mean all of the followers of Jager Afrikaner – the fighter in the Gariep district. His cousin Jonker Afrikaner was the man who founded the city of Windhoek. Jager’s brother Afrikaner Afrikaner died in incarceration on Robben Island.
Some of my own forbears in the Roodezand (Tulbagh) were from this community of “Afrikaners of colour”. One of my 6th great grandmothers (paternal) had the inscription in her baptismal record – Kaatje Hottentotin. Her name was Johanna Catharina Voortman van de Caab. She had a long marriage with Heinrich Voortman, a German, and two of their daughters married two sons of French Hugenot settlers, the le Cordiers. Both sisters make up different lines in my family tree up to my paternal grandmother Elsie Petronella le Cordier who married my grandfather Pieter Francois Mellet in District Six in the 1920s where my father and his siblings were born. Many of today’s le Cordiers, le Codeurs and Kortjes all descend from these three mixed relationships at the Roodezand.
The term “Afrikaner” goes back to the early use of toponyms to denote where slaves were taken from…. Eg: Anthonie van Angola, Angela van Bengal etc. First generation slaves born in the Cape Colony were referred to as Eg…. Catherina van de Caab (Kaap). Persons born out of unions of slaves and indigene Khoena were given the toponym Eg…. Klaas van Afrika which then simply became Klaas Afrika or Klaas Afrikaander. It was thus that the old progenitor of the Afrikaner clan, born circa 1690, became known as Oude Ram Afrikaner whose son was Klaas Afrikaner. Around that time it became common to also refer to people born of mixed Khoena, slave and European relationships as Afrikaanders also known as Free Blacks. But it was considered a term for the low class labourers of colour.
Thus in the Cape as had occurred elsewhere in the colonial world the term “African” was used in the context of slavery. It had never been used within Africa as a term of identity except in North Africa in the town of Afariqa by the Afars. If one thinks through this it makes common sense. Why would anyone in Africa even know the term or think of a continental land mass until people were forcibly taken away and could look back to from where they had been taken into slavery. Each slave had their own locality from which they had been taken to coastal towns and then loaded onto ships and taken to new places. Collectively they began to refer to themselves by the continental name used by their captors – Africans. In the Cape which was the only place on Africa to which the Europeans had brought slaves, the terms van de Caab and van Afrika took its own unique twist. Afrikaner was a term denoting class, colour and mixing.
Afrikaans too, as a written language, predates the translation of the Bible into Afrikaans by a century and the publishing efforts of the Association of True Afrikaners by at least a half century. Texts from the Koran and Madrassa lessons written in phonetic Afrikaans using Arabic script exist to prove this assertion that the earliest written Afrikaans emerged from among the slaves at the Cape.
The first usage of the term Africa and African in South Africa as self-identifying terms for people and language is rooted amongst the Khoena, San and the slaves. Thus the term “Regte” meaning “True or Real” was an unfortunate subterfuge when adopted by the Association of True Afrikaners. Perhaps one day the children of the “Afrikaners of Colour” and the children of those who saw themselves as “Regte Afrikaners” may reconcile and “AfriKaaps” and “Regte Afrikaans” may reconcile too. Perhaps this approach to our history and the tense ties that bind us may hold the key for the resolution of the vexing issues of the future of both the Afrikaans language and those who still see themselves as “Regte Afrikaners”. It is wonderful to see that many young white Afrikaans speakers are exploring those aspects of history that have as Elna Boesak once put it ….fallen “tussen die kraake” and in so doing, finding liberation and connectedness with Africa and the Africans their forebears once rejected.
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Where have all the Cape Khoena gone?
What happened to the more than 16 Cape-based Khoena clans and where have the four large concentrations of San gone? Is it true to say that it is simply a case of the majority of today’s people labelled ‘Coloured’ are the only true descendants of the Khoe and the San? The complex answer to the former is the subject of this article and the answer to the second question is that this formulation is both simplistic and incorrect.
Notwithstanding the fact that probably around 35 – 40% of those that the Apartheid regime had classified as ‘Coloured’ are descended from the Khoena and the San in the Western Cape, the historic and scientific demographic of the Western Cape shows that the impact of slavery more than anything else has fashioned identity along with indigene heritage, imported indentured labour and the European/Eurasian tributary.
Indeed in the rural districts of the West Coast region as well as in the Northern Cape the figures may be as high as 70% among those labelled ‘Coloured’ and in the urban and peri-urban sprawl of the Cape Peninsula, and the rural districts of Boland and Overberg as low as 20% of people labelled ‘Coloured’ are of Khoena and San descent.
These assumptions are based on a large DNA study (The Living History Project that have been done on self-identifying individuals where 30% of those labelled ‘Coloured’ had Khoe and San mtdna (and 2% Y-Chromesome dna). The same studies interestingly showed that 17% of those labelled ‘Black’ also had Khoena and San mtdna (6% Y-Chromosome dna) and, those classified as ‘White’ and those classified as ‘Asian’ had 8,5% (0% Y-C dna) and 16% (0% Y-C dna) Khoe and San mtdna. Notably those labelled ‘Coloured’ had 32% Bantu mtdna (22% Y-C dna); 22% Asian mtdna (16% Y-C dna); 13% Eurasian mtdna (48% Y-C dna); and 2,5% European mtdna (12% Y-C dna).
The question then is whether there is a historical explanation for why science shows us this evidence? Resoundingly, YES there is an explanation if we set aside the traditional propaganda history books and the racist ideas of ‘pure’ and ‘uncontaminated’ peoples as propagated by the Apartheid National Party ideologues. It is unfortunate that some today still tout these false notions as fact.
In the Western Cape we have 7 main historical tributaries into our ‘peopling’ identity today. The indigenes (Khoena, San and Bantu); the slaves (African, Indian and South East Asian); the Free Blacks (freed slaves, mixed Slave/Khoena and free black travelers; Europeans (from a range of countries); Maroons (runaways or drosters from the previous 4 groups); Exiles and Refugees; and Indentures and Migrants. By studying the interaction of these and the historical events involved, we are able through scientific dna studies show the relationship of history and science that underpins understanding of identity in the Cape. Along with this we have fairly advanced genealogical studies that also provide un-challengeable facts that record actual marriages, unions, births, deaths and descent that underpin the scientific evidence and the historical evidence that underpins the unraveling of ‘Coloured’ identity in the Western Cape as well as other identities. Purity of ‘race’ is totally debunked by these inter-related studies.
To understand what happened to the Khoena clans and the San of the Western Cape we have to go on a journey of persecution, war and resistance. It has been the covering over of this tragic story and fabrication of myths that has both insulted the memory of these our forebears and has denied us an proper understanding of this important element of our identity. For some who are the surviving direct descendants of the Khoena and the San it has denied them restitution and the opportunity to rebuild their social and clan identities. For those of us who have a strong affinity based partially on descent and wish to revive a broad sense of identity rooted in both our Khoena and San roots, the lack of clarity on the past is an impediment of how we move forward. And for those of us who simply wish to celebrate our Khoena and San ancestral roots as part of a tapestry of origins, likewise it is an impediment for us in moving forward, not to have all of the pieces of this puzzle.
Historical researcher Nigel Penn in his devoted work towards understanding what he calls the FORGOTTEN FRONTIER has provided us with the most useful and comprehensive account of the hidden history of the ethnic cleansing of the Khoena and San of the Western Cape.
Four of my favourite characters in history were freedom fighter contemporaries in the closing years of a 160 year series of wars of resistance by the Khoena, San and Slaves to Dutch and subsequent British colonial land grabs and genocide. Khoena Chief David Stuurman, the enslaved Louis of Maritius, the rebellious priest Dr Johannes van der Kemp and the Itola warrior prophet Makana whose mother was Khoe and father was amaXhosa. They all died between 1807 and 1825 and each has an amazing story.
It is not their stories that I will relate here but rather the story of a 160 year conflict in which they were just the closing players. As the 160 years of war came to an end it over lapped with another 100 years war in the eastern Cape where Khoena, Slave Drosters and amaXhosa often also stood together. That war is fairly well covered by historians, albeit with terrible slants, while the 160 year war is not. In understanding this period we can better understand a complex process from which our identity rises like a phoenix. The story addresses the question of WHERE HAVE ALL THE CAPE KHOENA GONE?
Our history books give a distorted impression as to what happened to the Khoena (Khoi) and the San in the Cape Colony and writes out their resistance and survival strategies. Because of these deficiencies, distortions continue to this day. But thanks to ground-breaking research by people like Nigel Penn in his comprehensive work – ‘The Forgotten Frontier – Colonist & Khoisan on the Cape’s Northern Frontier in the 18th Century’ ((2005) we have a much better picture of the facts. I draw heavily on this work for this article
Is the Khoena and San story just a matter of understanding two wars of resistance ending in 1677 and then along came two devastating Smallpox epidemics in 1713 and 1755 and “poof” there were no more Khoena and San from that time onwards? That story ranks as taking joint first-prise as an absurd untruthful account alongside that other myth that Chief Autshumao the trader who had travelled to Jakarta and back and, ran a successful trading post at the Cape for just over 22 years, was just an ignorant thieving beach-bum called Harry the Strandlooper.
What actually happened and the scale of what happened is a really horrible story that cannot be swept under the carpet.
When the United Dutch East India Company (VOC) set up its fort right next Autshumao’s settlement at the Camissa in Table Bay on the Cape Peninsula (//Hui !Gaeb) there were 16 or more Khoena clans in the Western and Central Cape reaching to the lower reaches of the Eastern Cape. Likewise at least 5 large San communities were also living across the same territory. The Khoena and San living within the boundaries of the then mapped Cape up to the Piketberg in the West and to outskirts of Swellendam district in the East was estimated at 50,000 and with further later estimates of 40 – 50,000 more beyond and up to the Gariep River on the North West and the Fish River in the Keiskamma in the East.
What then actually happened to result in the figure for Khoena and so-called Bastard-Hottentots together being given as 14,883 in 1798 in the census of all within the Cape Colony? WHERE HAD ALL THE CAPE KHOENA GONE?
The white population in 1658 was 166 and the slave population was 187 and 146 years later in 1798 the white population had grown to 21,300 while slaves were at 25,754. (In the period 1653 to 1807 63,000 slaves were imported and between 1808 and 1856 another 8000 Prize Salves arrived. Both the European and the Slave populations had grown dramatically but Khoena together with mixed Khoena-Slave were drastically down to under 15,000 from 50,000 and many were now the offspring of mixed relationships between male slaves and captured Khoena and San women after being taken by commandos in raids where their male partners were slaughtered. It is this puzzle that remains hidden in various histories. (Ref:AT Brenner 2006 –Appendix A ‘Slavery and Khoisan Indentured Servitude in 18th Century Dutch Cape Colony)
The starting point of course is the two anti-colonial wars of resistance by the Khoena ending in 1660 and 1677 respectively. While the first war ended in a stalemate the second war had grave consequences when the Cochoqua were defeated and faced economic, political and social disintegration. Loss of life, restrictions on land and confiscation of livestock (1765 cattle and 4930 sheep) was a huge blow. By the time that Chiefs Gonnema and Oedosoa died in 1685 and 1689 respectively, the Cochoqua were pushed back towards Roodezand (Tulbagh) and their fragmentation had accelerated.
In 1686 when other groups of Khoena were also under pressure from the colonists the San and the Grigriqua also clashed with the Cochouqua further weakening them. Other Peninsula Khoena such as the Goringhaiqua, the Gorachouqua and the remnants of the Goringhaicona migrated northwards, staying for a while with the Namaqua and eventually making new formations at the Gariep such as the Korana, Witboois, Griquas and Orlam Afrikaners. By the time of the expansion to Stellenbosch and the Drakenstein, the Khoena Klapmats were moved on while remaining Peninsula Khoena went into servitude alongside slaves on white farms or in the case of the males many were forcibly conscripted into informal commandos which rode out under white command to raid cattle from Khoena groups deep in the interior.
The pressure mounted on the Khoena in the Tulbagh, Ceres, Waveren, Riebeeck Kasteel, Piketberg, Sandveld areas as well as to Cedarberg, Kouebokkeveld and Saldanha. The colonists wanted their cattle and would do anything to rustle cattle from the Khoena. The two Governors van der Stel at first tried their best to stop cattle rustling and murderous attacks on the Khoena and San and introduced harsh punishments and even death sentences to put an end to this state of affairs. The errant colonists did their utmost to opposed particularly Willem Adrian van der Stel, but the VOC in Europe decided that he was being too harsh on the colonists and that they should legally be able to trade with the Khoena. This was a de facto license to go and do as they please. The company officials also now had to compete with the colonists in the bartering and they were no saints either. The besieged Khoena and San faced with ruin had no option but to retaliate and a 7 year period of war broke out from 1701 – 1708. In the wake of the war came further expansion when grazing permits were introduced for colonists to enter the Khoena areas of retreat. By 1714 this was followed by a loan farm system that was introduced. This in fact ran rough shod over the peace treaty with the Khoena signed in 1705.
It was in the aftermath of the war and during the time of the granting of grazing rights to trekboers, that in 1713 a visiting Danish ship that had arrived in Table Bay brought a devastating epidemic of smallpox. By all accounts it killed off settlers, slaves, Free Blacks and Khoena. The growing and increasingly more powerful Free Black community was decimated and never really recovered. The Khoena were hardest hit with reports of hundreds laying at roadsides as far as Saldanha Bay and the Drakenstein and beyond. While this tragic event, repeated again in 1755, does not account for the huge decline of Khoena and San by 1798, it is acknowledged that it was a significant contributing factor, along with cattle theft, war, land appropriation after forced removals and genocide.
Between 1714 and 1717 more surviving Khoena now without leaders and clans became ‘contract’ or ‘indentured’ labourers alongside slaves and were really treat not too differently than slaves.
The Khoena and San who bordered on Waveren, Piketberg and Roodezand (Tulbagh) at this stage still maintained their strength and coherenance and a resistance war again flared up from 1715 -1716. Hundreds of Khoena and San men were killed in battles and raids by commandos. Women and children were then taken off deep into the colony and scattered about farms as ‘indentured’ servants and labourers. Young boys were brought up to serve in militia as conscripts. Nominally the Khoena labourers and servants were not enslaved but formally were free people under contract. As children of slave men by slave women would also become slaves that could be bought and sold, Slave men had relationships with Khoena and San women, who were often widowed by war, knowing that their children would be born free and were likely to grow up around them. Khoena women also knew that the terrible things that inevitably awaited their Khoena and particularly male San male children were less likely to befall them if they were regarded as Baster-Khoena. It was a survival tactic and it did work for them. Khoena, San and slaves co-operated as oppressed people, under the same oppressor at a range of levels and often innovatively. This included fighting alongside each other as resistance fighters. Many slaves ran away to join the Khoena and Orlams resistance groups in the north across the frontier and across the frontier in the east.
From 1717 – 1725 a combination of illness among livestock affecting both the indigene communities and the colonists resulted in a retreat by Khoena inland particularly after the 1716 war. This did not stop the Europeans pursuing the Khoena because they were after livestock due to their own perishing. The stolen livestock of the indigenes who were now also in inhospitable territory further disrupted communities, who in turn fled northwards. Even the VOC could now see that the license given to colonists to trade was having a devastating effect on those whom the VOC too had to trade with. So in 1727 the VOC returned to the practice that they had condemned the van der Stels for implementing and instituted a new ban on colonists from trading with the Khoena. Of course the VOC was also short of meat and found that regardless of the new ban the Khoena stocks could no longer yield for anyone. The state of war however did subside for a while. But by this time the colonial held territory under the VOC had literally been ethnically cleansed of free organised Khoena through the brutality of war and the Khoena on the borders of the Colony were facing impoverishment.
By 1732 colonists now had farms all along the entire Olifants River territory. From 1738 to 1740 a war of resistance again broke out as colonist trekboers moved beyond Piketberg to Namaqualand and from the Westcoast to beyond the Bokkeveld. The defeat of the Khoena and the San and the resultant peace treaty, which everyone knew was not worth anything opened up further expansion into the north east. But now the settlers were on their own as the VOC was too weak to extend its support so far. The trekboers and farmers became a law to themselves and their commandos had free reign. From 1740 through to 1770 settlement continued but the settlers were few in number in relation to the Khoena so far inland and things were relatively peaceful in the latter years and the scene for conflict shifted to the Roggeveld in the 1750s and the nature of the conflict changed. The Khoena and trekboers now cut off from the VOC found common ground and created joint commandos and attacked the San. The records show that these raids against the San were vicious and genocidal in nature. Single attacks resulted in deaths of between 50 to 90 San. But these, bad as they were, were just a precursor to what was to happen next.
In 1774 the VOC decided to formally adopt the commando system as part of its military apparatus and thereby give it further reach. While all of this expansion through killing and raiding had been going on in the west and central regions of the Colony, there had been gradual encroachment and pushing of the Khoena eastwards as well. In the east the Khoena had strong and friendly networks with the amaXhosa and there was strong familial relationships and mixed clans too. The san too were also very strong in the mountainous areas such as the Sneeuberg and the Bruintjieshoogte. The settler expansion was halted at the Fish River, the Sneeuberg and Bruintjieshoogte. The most formidable resistance came from the San and the colonists were not doing very well. With the trouble in the Nieuweveld and Roggeveld intensifying too, the new formal commandos were dispatched by the VOC. This was imperative for the VOC because it had granted almost 200 new farms to settlers stretching from the west to the east so as to consolidate the Cape Colony. The Commandos despatched against the San and the Khoena Resisters were literally extermination machines. They were under white command but were roughly made up of 50% whites and 50% Khoena conscripts brought up on farms and trained while still young. The San were referred to as Vermin and the kill rate increased more than three-fold from 1773 to 1774 to figures like 260 deaths in a single attack.
The San unlike the Khoena did not entertain peace treaties and fought to the bitter end. Commandos killed all adults taking no prisoners but young women and children. These too increased the labour pool alongside the slaves as ‘indetured’ labourers. The Sneeuberg Camdeboo and Swart Ruggens saw the greatest indigene resistance of all time. It became the killing fields of the Cape Colony that went beyond any definition of war. This carnage is what gave birth to the Western Cape and its trauma has been passed on from generation to generation. The resisting Khoena faced the same fate in which civil war elements entered to fray. The same genocide would later be adopted against the southern amaXhosa where all adults were shot and all crops and livestock burnt in a scorched earth approach adopted by the British in the early 1800s.
The Eastern Frontier and the North Eastern mountain people saw a brave and defiant fight to the last man and woman. In the 1780s a resistance history played out in the Cape like nowhere else in South Africa, before or after. Those who say that the Khoena and the San gave up the fight without resistance are just displaying their own ignorance. The history books have remained silence on how the Western Cape was won by the colonists and about the brave resistance. White settlement only occurred as a result of the wanton murder of indigene inhabitants across the Western Cape. The people and clans that occupied this territory did not simply get whipped out by disease, or magically disappear in a peaceful migration elsewhere. They were decimated by force in a colonial holocaust. Though the smallpox epidemics played their part these paled against the slaughter. By 1798 the now mixed Khoena / Khoena-Baster population was 14,883 and no longer had land, cattle or freedom. These survived with the assistance of their enslaved comrades and still fought and resisted in different ways. In the Roggeveld in December 1801 a combined force of Khoena and Slaves involving 70 resisters rose up against their oppressive farmer. In 1808 over 340 slaves and Khoena under the leadership of Louis of Mauritius rose up in the biggest slave rebellion ever. These events, and many of them, is what built a very special resistance relationship between two groups of people who by now share familial ties of ancestry.
The slavery and Khoena interface gradually merged over the next 50 years when after the proclamation of Ordinance 50 giving Khoena freedom of movement and land tenure and, emancipation of slaves from slavery, together the survivors formed new communities alongside every white town. Along the migration routes Khoena and mixed Khoena heritage survived on farms and in small towns.
But many exiles from the Colony also would become new resisters fighting other battles for survival as they fled from the South to the West to the northern Gariep territory also joined by those who fled from the East to join them. Migrants poured into the Gariep territory and after years of struggle formed new communities with a solid Khoena base but also took in resisters from other groups including slave drosters and a few non-conformist Europeans. Just north of the main Namaqua groups along the Gariep river from Pella to Prieska a number of San and Khoena groups lived side by side, sometimes peacefully and sometimes in conflict. They had brought many traditions from different parts of the South with them.
The Gariep communities running from Pella eastwards were the Nanningai San, Naugaap Khoena, various Eis San groups, Kaukoa Khoena, Gyzikou Khoena, Au Nameikoa San, Koow Einas San, Naw Keis San, Hoekeikoa San, Noueikoa San, Moncoboo San, and Khoena groups – Kouringeis Korana (or Gora), Husingais Korana (Gora), Kay Kora Korana (Gora).
They were joined by the Kok and Barends descendants of the Grigriqua and Bergenaar Basters who also entered the Gariep territory, followed by the Witboois who had found refuge with the Namaqua, and the Orlam Afrikaners. The Korana (Gora) largely are said to be from the fragmented maroon Khoena from the South such as the Gorachouqua and Goringhaiqua who also regrouped at the Gariep.
By 1800 the largest groups of Khoena now resided far away from the VOC rule and the Cape colony frontier. At the Gariep the Khoena were to thrive until the next major upheavals came. British rule, missionaries, the Boers from the Great Trek and the discovery of diamonds as well as Mfecane all would impact negatively and violently on these Khoena and San communities which had found temporary sanctuary. Many would migrate west into Nambia, North into the Free State, across the Drakensburg to the East and elsewhere. A few of those from Griqualand East followed their leader De Kneg, AAS le Fleur to the Western Cape and scattered to Mamre, Goodwood, Touws River and Plettenberg Bay. A few gravitated over a long period back to the Western Cape in search of work but had to compete with new indentured labourers from St Helena, Asia and other African countries as from 1856 the Prize Slave indentured labour stream that had continued after slaver was abolished now dried up. Mostly the Khoena exiled to the Gariep remained frozen in small rural communities in the Northern Cape.
Post liberation from Apartheid Khoena and San survivor communities often against great odds in rural communities and a few in cities have struggled to reclaim their past. Some others have created KhoiSan revivalist movements to do the same. Yet others celebrate with pride their Khoena, San and Slave Heritage and the heroic resistance of their forebears as a tapestry part of who they are today. All call has been made for recognition of the historic injustice against San, Khoena and enslaved forebears, land reparation and restitution of the memory of our forebears particularly in the Western Cape which has been stripped of all acknowledgements of the Khoena and San. Others look at us incredulously and say “What on earth are they talking about. They are making up history.” In the face of hostility on the one hand and very confused and inaccurate narratives on the other hand, there is an urgent need to develop a simple popular narrative on this history so that even kids can articulate this free from ridicule.
Our children should be learning about these atrocities and about the amazing resistance in schools. Our public places should have exhibits and names that speak to this heritage. South Africa as a country should acknowledge this stolen past and put a stop to the stunted and covered over histories from whatever quarter they emanate. From the 1510 first victorious military engagement with the then world super-power military force under Portuguese General d’Almeide to the 160 years war and beyond…. through to such modern liberation heroes as Basil February, Ashely Kriel, Anton Fransch, Coleen Williams and Dulcie September…… the sons and daughters of the Khoena, San and enslaved…. we can really be proud…. They rose up above adversity.
To read a more in-depth account please reference – – ‘The Forgotten Frontier – Colonist & Khoisan on the Cape’s Northern Frontier in the 18th Century’ ((2005) by Nigel Penn.
The Amazing Story of Cary and Harry – the founders of Cape Town
There are many injustices, falsifications and cover-ups in our South African history that indeed has also had everlasting impacts on us, how we see ourselves and how others perceive us. Of all of these many stories there is one to which I return again and again because without recognition of this cover-up which stands out from the rest, the erroneous accredited foundation of our City of Cape Town and indeed modern South Africa will go on for perpetuity and with it an everlasting negative impact, particularly on descendants of indigenes in this region of South Africa.
The story I refer to concerns two remarkable men whom the Europeans called Cary and Harry. Their real names were !Xhore and Autshumao and both originated out of the Goringhaiqua, a Peninsula based Khoena clan which settled on the banks of the //Gam i Ssa river (Camissa – sweet water/ Cape Town) in Table Bay, on the Cape Peninsula (//Hu !Gaeb). Both men contributed to the emergence of a new clan of maroon Khoena which became known as the Goringhaicona (!Kuinj//ai /kona).
Later resistance leader Nommoa ‘Doman’
The name Goringhaicona meant the “children of the Goringhaiqua” and these were made up of entrepreneurial drifters and members of other clans – Gorachouqua (!Korakhwekwa), Goringhaiqua (!Kurinj//aikwa) and , Cochouqua (!Kukhwekwa) who for various reasons had branched off from other clans or suffered misfortune resulting in displacement or who were exiles from those clans. The Dutch had earlier labelled the Goringhaicona as the ‘Watermans’ (guardians of the freshwater //Gam I Ssa supplied to European ships) and then began using the first of the terms that blotted out their history, namely ‘Strandloopers’.
The story of how this //Gam I Ssa settlement of Goringhaicona came about is quite remarkable and indeed is the true story of the foundation of Cape Town, before the arrival of van Riebeeck in 1652. Though it has always been a very well documented story, it was covered up by constructed falsehoods and replaced by the story of the so-called Dutch founder of Cape Town, Jan van Riebeeck. This story was later dramatized and romanticised by visual misrepresentations of Jan van Riebeeck and his wife Maria de la Quellerie using the images of two unrelated Dutch figures , Bartholomeus Vermuyden and the woman said to have been his mistress Catharina Kettingh (These can be seen at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam as can be seen the portrait of the real Jan van Riebeeck).
I have on a previous occasion told the true story of Jan van Riebeeck, the disgraced VOC official caught out defrauding the company while serving in Hanoi (Tonkin) in Vietnam and Deshima in Japan. On his voyage of disgrace he passed the Cape of Good Hope and noticed that instead of any European power controlling this halfway shipping refreshment station, it was instead in the hands of local indigenes. He used this fact and the offering of his services to pioneer the establishment of Dutch control of the Cape refreshment station to redeem his honour. It thus came to pass that he wrested control of the trading station from the indigene Gorighaicona traders.
The real story of !Xhore and Autshumao – Cary and Harry, should be a red-letter or prominent story in history if only for the fact that these are the first recorded South African indigenes to have travelled to London and Jakarta and back in 1613 and 1630 respectively. The facts of these cases challenge the false story that speaks of ‘Harry the Strandlooper’ – a troublesome ignorant scavenging beach-bum of no real significance.
There had been regular shipping first by Chinese explorers dating back to at least 1421 and European shipping since 1488 that passed through Table Bay. By 1652 local indigenes hardly raised an eyebrow in their interactions with Europeans as they already had 200 years of engagement with peoples from beyond their shores. There was nothing magical about 1652. Up until 1590 relations were particularly precarious with the Portuguese due to the dramatic defeat and killing of Portugal’s greatest military commander and much of his army in 1510 by indigene Khoena when the Portuguese tried to teach the Khoena a lesson for daring to punish some Portuguese thieves.
From 1590 and for the next 62 years a brisk trade was carried out between a range of Europeans directly with the indigene Khoena at Table Bay. By the end of the 1590s Portugal’s dominance was overturned in the Eastern trade with the United Netherlands States, England and France making major inroads. The Dutch quickly took the lead by establishing the first powerful multinational company the United Dutch East India Company (VOC) and England, ever the rival, followed suit with the establishment of the English East India Company. By 1605 there were 25 Dutch ships alone, not counting the Portuguese, French or English vessels, stopping at Table Bay to trade for fresh provisions with the Khoena. First Iron was the main exchange for salt, water, meat (sheep and cattle), and hides, but this quickly changed first to copper and later to brass. Various documentation resources record the various rises and falls and rises of this economy and who the key roleplayers in this were.
It is in 1613 that the records first introduce us to the man who changed the face of trading with the Europeans – Cary (!Xhore) and introduced the modern economic foundations for what would become the City of Cape Town. In 1630 the records first introduce us to Harry (Autshumao) who established the first physical human and trading station in Table Bay at //Gam i Ssa which became the human and built environment foundation of Cape Town. In !Xhore’s case it was in 1613 that he was kidnapped and taken to London and returned to the Cape over a year later. In 1630 Autshumao it would seem of his own volition travelled with the English to Jakarta and back.
The English East India Company ship the Hector kidnapped !Xhore and another Khoena man in May 1613. The companion of !Xhore died at sea but he was delivered to Sir Thomas Smythe of the EEIC whose intention was to train !Xhore and return him to Table Bay to act as an intermediary to support trading with EEIC shipping. The experience of !Xhore in London was a torrid one for him and the full account can be read in “King of the Hottentots” by John Cope (1967).
On being returned to the Cape with what was seen by the English as “a small treasure” in June 1614, !Xhore established himself defensively inland and used his experience to his and his people’s advantage. A year later an English Fleet arrived under King James 1 envoy Sir Thomas Rowe who landed a party of settlers made up of released convicts from Newgate Prison under Captains Crosse and Peyton and the 19 Convict Settlers to establish an English Colony. !Xhore initially attempted to establish a mutually beneficial alliance with these ill-disciplined riff-raff but soon the Khoena and Convict Settlers clashed as they engaged in abuse of their indigene hosts. Notably there were no women amongst the settlers who quickly and indiscriminately in terms of status of relationships in the indigene community sought out Khoena women. Xhore who had an armed force of 1000 chased off the Newgate survivors of the conflict who took to longboats and sought refuge on Robben Island. Only three made it back to England 3 years later, were reconvicted and hanged on Newgate Gallows.
!Xhore was wary of the Dutch and although he generally traded with all the European powers was more consistent in his trade with the English. In 1626 he refused to assist the Dutch who visited in large numbers of vessels that year while he generously service English ships. It was in that year that a Welsh sailor recorded that “Cary who had been in England had been killed by Dutch mariners because he refused them food”. It was also noted that the reason Cary refused to assist the Dutch was “because of their ill-treatment of the blacks”. !Xhore’s abduction and return to the Cape actually backfired on the English and the Europeans as a whole. The indigene Khoena came to really understand the value of their livestock and also realised that they had been making a mistake in providing livestock to ships in such generous numbers as they had done before 1613.
Never again did the Khoena part with so easily and in such large numbers their sheep and cattle even although !Xhore’s own herd was 5000 strong. After Chief !Xhore’s demise for the next five years there was a dip in relations and trade between the Europeans and the indigene Khoena.
Then at the end of 1630 the English befriended a young cattleless marooned Khoena man by the name of Autshumao whom they called Harry. They put a proposition to him that they needed local people who could act as go-between trader agents between passing English ships and the inland Cochoqua who were said to have over 10 000 head of cattle and other resources. As part of the proposition that Autshumao accepted he travelled with the English to Jakarta – the Dutch VOC controlled centre of Batavia in Indonesia. In Batavia where he stayed for a year Autshumao’s linguistic skills improved in leaps and bounds and he learnt much about the Europeans – English, Dutch and French.
On his return Autshumao who the English called Harry convinced the English that they transfer himself and 20 of his followers together with sheep, to Robben Island where he would be able to set up a safe trading station. In 1633 Autshumao convinced the Dutch to bring another 30 of his followers over. It is this group of 50 maroons from the different clans under Chief Autshumao who established the Goringhaicona clan who founded the first trading station at the Cape.
Here on Robben Island they created lookouts for the ships and set up rudimentary light-house fires to guide the ships, offered a postal service and set up guides for carrying out negotiations for cattle, collected salt and water on the mainland. Autshumao at this stage mainly saw the English and the Dutch as his clients and warned off the French. He quickly learnt about the antagonisms between the different Europeans. Later he tried to use his very good relations with the English to his advantage against the Dutch.
The Dutch in 1642 wanted someone who was closer to themselves than the English so they then transported an indigene Khoena man by the name of Isaac to Batavia to train him as their point man. The Dutch point-man did not last long. Isaac disappeared from any record within two years.
Over the next decade, in the shadow of Table mountain, Autshumao or Harry, who was no ignorant beach-bum, armed with his mastering of languages and his first hand understanding of the Europeans and their ways from his year in Jakarta, as well as the expertise that he had gained over five years in European shipping movements and needs now built up a really good trading business supported by 60 -80 inhabitants of his trading station who could provide for every requirement by the visiting Europeans. Now English, Dutch, French and Portuguese used his services. He was an entrepreneur extraordinaire.
By 1639 Autshumao and his followers had asked to all be returned to the mainland and set up their permanent settlement on the banks of the //Gami I Ssa river, a stone’s throw from where the Castle stands today.
Twelve years later it was this well established trading settlement, with its rudimentary built environment that played host to Jan van Riebeeck and his men during a harsh winter while he built the first fort. It was little wonder that after 17 years of effort to build up a thriving business and settlement, and after warmly receiving Jan van Riebeeck and giving them hospitality at the settlement, that Autshumao was angered (as recorded by van Riebeeck who contray to the earlier advice of Commander Jansens chose to cut out the Khoena traders and deal directly with inland chiefs) by the turn of events.
Autshumao was now experiencing having his trading business and village stolen from under him and being cast in the role of a beach-bum scavenger.
Autshumao had forewarning about what could happen after the wrecking of the Haarlem when the Dutch survivors built a fragile Fort and remained for a year. The Commander of that Fort, Leendert Jansens was the co-author of the “Remonstrance” to the VOC Chamber of Seventeen which preceded Jan van Riebeeck’s “making himself available” after the first choice of the VOC no longer wished to go the Cape.
Unlike Jansens well argued good-neighbourliness policy around Dutch-Khoena relations and respect for the Khoena as livestock farmers and traders to whom a fair price should be paid, van Riebeeck’s approach was to strip Autshumao of his dignity and employed a dispossession course of action. During Jansens year long stay at the Cape he had nothing but praise and good things to say about the Khoena traders. Jan van Riebeeck took a completely different approach, villified Autshumao and, the descendants of the Dutch settlement completely airbrushed out of the history books the founding Camissa Trading Settlement established by indigenes.
Jan van Riebeeck took into his household as a servant, my 9th Great Grandmother, Krotoa also known as Eva at the age of ten. She was Chief Autshumao’s niece and over her short life (she died 21 years later) she acted as a translator, emissary and diplomat between the Dutch community in the Fort and the various Khoena clans. In Jan van Riebeeck’s Journal she is mentioned over 155 times and he owes much of his recorded understanding of the Khoena, their customs, communities, the names and characteristics of their leaders, their economy, language and heritage to this young woman whom that settler community used and abused.
Cape Town was thus not founded by the crooked, errant and transient Dutch Commander from Vietnam infamy (who only stayed for a decade), – he simply was the pioneering founder of the Dutch colonial settlement .
The village, that became a town, which became the City of Cape Town was founded by that entrepreneurial, Jakarta-trained trader Autshumao. He too, on the building blocks laid by Chief !Xhore who had been trained in London, established the basic sea-port trading economy and hospitality economy that Cape Town still has as its main characteristics today.
!Xhore too was the father of the agricultural trading economy. But the memory of this greatness is still denied to his descendants today and he is still referred to as that scoundrel beach-bum. Stop awhile and remember CARY & HARRY – Chiefs !Xhore and Autshumao and the true story of the founding of Cape Town.
Many make the mistake to simply an inaccurately depict the Khoena and San as landless wandering groups of primitive stone and ironage people with no fixed abode and a single form of economic activity. Modern history did not leave the Khoena and San behind. The South African museums and social anthropologists have always depicted the various people of South Africa before 1652 as primitives without civilisation and with no social history. Thus one can go to no museum that will tell you the names, dynasties, kingdoms, economies and stories of the Khoena, San, Nguni, Bakoni, Tswana, Sotho and other families of peoples in our country. Something needs to be done urgently about this. History did not start in 1652.
You can read Richard Elphick’s “KhoiKhoi and the Founding of White South Africa” (1985) and John Cope’s “The King of the Hottentots” (1967) two amongst many other works that will if read carefully and with an open mind give you a very different perspective on the beginnings of the social and economic development and the built environment of Cape Town that is most often simply ascribed to superior European abilities.
THE STORY OF THE FIRST TWO ‘COLOURED’ GOVERNORS AT THE CAPE – SIMON & WILLEM:
The period 1679 to 1713 at the Cape of Good Hope was a time when the Colony was poised to develop in a number of possible directions large due to the efforts of two men who in today’s language would have been said to be “Coloured”. The first two Governors of the Cape Simon van der Stel and his son Willem Adrian van der Stel were remarkable men who made an indelible contribution to development at the Cape, laying the foundations for possibly a very different future to the trajectory on which the Cape and indeed South Africa would develop.
Simon on retirement and Simon as a young man
Simon van der Stel was born on a ship in Mauritius where his father, Adrian, had been posted by the United Dutch East India Company as Commander. Simon’s mother was Maria Levens, the daughter of a slave by the name of Monica van Goa also known as Monica van der Kus. It was commonplace at the time for the Dutch men working in South East Asia to take non-European wives. Simon van der Stel became the first person not born in Europe and born of mixed parentage to be appointed Governor of the Cape. Indeed there had also been only Commanders at the Cape previously who reported to the Governor in Batavia.
Simon’s first seven years were spent in Mauritius. Thereafter he accompanied his parents to Saloor (Sri Lanka) where his father was killed and where his mother also died. In his teens he moved to Batavia (Jakarta). Only after he turned 20 years old did he find his way to Europe where in the United Dutch Provinces he was married and had his children. Then in 1679 Simon was first appointed Commander of the VOC refreshment Station at the Cape and later in 1691 the first Governor of the Cape colony. Simon came to the Cape without his wife from whom he was estranged and would never see her again, but all of his sons were with him at one time or the other at the Cape.
Simon died in 1712 but his son Willem Adrian had succeeded him as Governor in 1699. Under these first two “Coloured” Governors the Cape Colony prospered and underwent major changes. For one the conflictual manner in which van Riebeeck and his successors engaged with indigenes was turned around. The van der Stels felt that settlers should be otherwise focussed in farming diverse crops and raising sheep and aim to produce wool rather than compete with indigenes over keeping cattle herds. They recognised that the Khoena were excellent as cattle farmers and believed that they should be engaged with fairly in trade for cattle under conditions of good neighbourliness. This stand would ultimately lead to the downfall of the van der Stels at the Cape at the hands of those settlers who opposed this approach.
During this period a class of Free Burghers emerged who were referenced by historians as the Free Blacks. These were people of colour who had either been freed from slavery, or who were born from marriages and relationships between slaves, indigenes and Europeans, or who had come from elsewhere as free black travellers. Like other Free Burghers they contributed economically to the development of the colony as craftsmen, farmers, and drivers of commerce. Some of the most successful of the early inhabitants of the Cape Colony, such as Swarte Maria Evert, were Free Blacks. History has not accredited them for their pioneering roles. Under Simon van der Stel the infrastructure of Stellenbosch, Fraschhoek and the Drakenstein developed and his pioneers in this development long before the arrival of the French Huguenots were the Free Blacks.
The pioneer component in the Drakenstein were the Free Black farmers and artisans. By the time of Simon van der Stel’s death there were 17 Free Blacks in the Stellenbosch district of which Franschhoek was a part. Amongst these were artisan craftsmen such as Isaac van Terenate, Rangton of Bali, Anthonie van Saloor, Jafta van der Caab and Johannes Adriaanse. Free Black farmers included Jan van Saloor, Marquart van Saloor, Anthonie van Angola, Manuel van Angola and his wife Elizabeth van der Caab, and Louis van Bengalen. Other Free Black and mixed families settled along the Eerste River. Some of the oldest and most prestigious wine farms in the district were established by Free Blacks.
Amongst the Huguenot families there also were people of colour. The first owners of the farm Rust en Vrede were the French family Jacques and Marie-Madeleine De Savoyes. Their eldest daughter Margo married Christoffel Snyman the son of the Free Black burgers Anthonie from Bengal and Catharina of Palicatte. The Free Black farmer Christoffel Snyman and his French wife Margo, as Marie then called herself, became the second owners of the farm Zandvliet, today known as Solms-Delta. The first owner Silverbach had also been married to a Free Black woman.
The story does not end here. One of the sons of leading French Hugenots Francois and Cornelia Villion (Viljoen), Henning Viljoen, married Margo Snyman, after Christoffel Snyman the Free Black died. Christoffel and Margo had a “Coloured” daughter Catharina who in one of those twists of circumstances, married her step-father`s brother, Johannes Viljoen. Other Huguenot settlers like the Cordiers in my family tree had two of their sons marry free slave sisters. The early days at the Cape did not have entrenched segregation. All of these people were amongst the founders of the Coloured and African communities of today. They are also the black ancestors of many white families. After van der Stel died , Anna de Koningh a free slave and her husband took ownership of Groot Constantia.
Amongst the French Hugenots was also one, Jacob Etienne Gauch the son of French parents, but born in Switzerland in 1684 (Celigny). He came to the Cape in 1691 and settled in Franschhoek under the name Steven Gous. In 1718 he married a 13 year old freed slave girl, Catharina Bok. They had 7 children. When the widow Catharina died in 1767 she was able to bequeath her youngest son the farms “Berg en Dal” and “Klipheuwel”, plus 12,000 guilders in cash. In the traditional white narratives of Franschhoek the threads of black history under Apartheid was carefully removed from the complex tapestry that should have reflected the diverse heritage of the area.
But in this area and among these people with mixed Indigene, European and diverse Slave roots, a cancer had taken root amongst a small minority within the over 500 Free Burghers. All the venom of this small group of 14 lead personalities and 49 supporters, was aimed at the van der Stels – Governor Willem Adrian in particular. Adam Tas and Huising were relatively new in the Colony and so were most of the supporters. They were not, in the main, the older rooted community that had developed since 1652.
To get a flavour of the mentality of Adam Tas the chief architect of the demise of the van der Stels I quote directly from editor Leo Foche who published the diary of Adam Tas in 1914, wherein he re-enacts in his introduction, all that venomous racism of Tas, Huising and the other co-conspirators in the “Brotherhood” of that time who sought to get rid of the van der Stel legacy.
He uses expressions like “he (Willem Adrian) had betrayed the cloven hoof” and goes on to say……..
“a strangely complex character (Willem Adrian), a character which still remains a mystery to many who have forgotten his mixed descent. His grandmother on his father’s side had been a coloured woman, Monica da Costa known among the Dutch as Maai Monica of the Coast……. But as is frequently the case with persons of mixed blood, the throw-back badness occurred in the third generation. The impression that Willem Adrian leaves upon us is that of the half Oriental. His character was not without its more admirable features, but he lacked balance and self-control, and the moral sense seems to have been entirely wanting….. His Oriental ostentation displayed itself…….His nature was at once weak and domineering……. Van der Stel reveals a character without a trace of honour or shame. His private life was no less reminiscent of his extraction…..(he) displayed all the characteristics of the “Eastern Potentate”.
Leo Fouche’s diatribe on the qualities of Willem Adrian van der Stel, leaves an impression that he knew the man personally but this was 200 years later. Clearly too, this is how Fouche viewed “Coloured” people of his day.
Adam Tas, a Jewish convert to Christianity, was a Dutch adventurer and fortune seeker who came out to the Cape from the Dutch United Provinces in 1697 at the age of 29 to join his aunt and her German husband Henning Huising who was quite a powerful farmer at the Cape of Good Hope. Henning Huising based at his home Meerlust in Stellenbosch was also a cattle rustler who preyed upon the cattle of the free Khoena in defiance of orders from the Governor that forbade stock theft from indigenes. Under van der Stel the official policy towards the Khoena was that they be shown respect and that their cattle and settlements not be touched.
Tas struck lucky when he married a rich widow, Elizabeth von Brakel in 1703 who had a number of farms. He was set for life enjoying a life of leisure, drinking, smoking his pipe and writing. Accounts have it that he was a hard taskmaster who made his workers labour every day even when others gave their labourers days off work. Only having been in the settlement for five years he became a central figure, Secretary of the “Brotherhood”, a movement among some settlers which were antagonistic to the United Dutch East India Company (VOC) which they felt dominated their lives with despotic rules and the officials regulated trade to their own advantage. More specifically the “Brotherhood” were antagonistic to the van der Stel family and to the extended Free Black community which they referred to as “the black brood among us”, as well as to the Governors protection of the Khoena interests. The “Brotherhood” was probably the earliest manifestation of what in the 20th century became the powerful “Broederbond” secret society among Afrikaner Nationalists.
On retiring van der Stel senior had put pen to paper to give Willem Adrian van der Stel guidance in continuing the transformation policies that he had began at the Cape. These highlighted a mixed policy that focussed on the inter reliance of a number of progressive policies related to sustaining the environment such as mass tree-planting, building a strong mixed agricultural economy that expanded into different types of agricultural product especially wool farming, wheat and maize farming, improving relations with indigenes by putting an end to cattle-stealing and terror attacks by Europeans on indigene communities, and care for the indigent.
Willem Adrian found that when they went on trading expeditions to Khoena kraals to formally purchase cattle the Khoena would have no stocks for sale and would complain that bands of Europeans of up to fifty heavily armed men went deep into the interior and robbed and killed Khoena and amaXhosa. These would return to the outskirts of Stellenbosch with large herds of the indigene cattle, which they sold. This cattle would also never be recorded on asset returns that had to be made to the Governor.
Tas, Huising and Jacob van der Heiden were the leading organisers of these killing and thieving expeditions. Faced by the resolute Governor Willem Adrian van der Stel intent on stopping the cattle rustling and murder of indigenes Adam Tas, Huising and the “Brotherhood” agitated among some of the farmers to find a way to get rid of the Governor and to restrict the powers of the VOC officials over them.
Tas and Hüising drafted a petition, accusing the Governor and his officials of abusing the company’s trading monopoly and giving themselves privileges and excessive land so as to dominate Free Burghers. Willem Adrian was singled out and accused of building a palace for himself amongst numerous other exaggerations.
This was coming from men like Tas and Huising who had come to the Cape with nothing just a few years earlier and had amassed huge tracts of land and cattle far beyond what was possible within the bounds of VOC policies.
Fourteen agitators managed to convince only 63 of the 550 free citizens to sign the creative and scurrilous petition and it was secretly sent to the VOC in Amsterdam. When the petition came to light and was initially rejected after 240 of the Free Burghers in the colony drafted a counter petition pointing out the wild exaggerations and giving their support to van der Stel there was an initial sigh of relief that the criminally inspired attempted impeachment of the Governor had been halted.
Tas was arrested in 1706, charged and convicted. Two others were also imprisoned while another was banished to Batavia and others including Henning Huising were sent to Amsterdam for trial.
Faced with the counter petition by 240 of the Free Burghers, outlining how they had lied and exaggerated the situation at the Cape, Tas and Huising played the race card. They said that the signatories could not be taken seriously as it was the word of people tainted by blackness against true Europeans: They said the signatories were ……
“Kaffirs, Mulattoes, Mesticos, Casticos, and all that black brood living among us who have been bred from marriages and other forms of mingling with Europeans and African Christians. To our amazement they have so grown in power, numbers and arrogance…. That they now tell us that they could and would trample us…. For there is no trusting the blood of Ham. (Gham)”.
The outcome however was not what van der Stel and his supporters had expected and was devastating. Willem Adrian was removed from the Cape and his property and livestock auctioned off. Other officials were also removed and new restrictions place on successors. Henning Huising, Tas and others not only won the day but also enriched themselves in taking over the dismissed VOC officials contracts and properties.The merits of the case, the criminal facts about the “Brotherhood” and the counter petition of the 240 was not considered. Two factors overrode all others.
The argument made by Tas, Huising and the original petitioners that the words of 240 Free Burghers against the 63 who signed their petition should not be considered because these were considered to be inferior people – they were Free Citizens but “Of Colour” – notably “the black brood among us” as well as those soft on natives.
The second factor pointed out was that half of the 63 signatories were of French origin and that most of the 63 were prominent members of the militias at the Cape and their disenchantment with the VOC officials may put the Cape at risk because the petitioners could become a friendly force to the interests of France.
As a result Tas and the others were released and Huising and those sent to Amsterdam returned triumphant. Tas renamed his farm – Libertas, to note his victory.
A great injustice took place which successive white nationalist and colonial historians have painted in glowing colours as a freedom fight between the small settler farming community and a despotic, corrupt and greedy VOC government.
More sober historians would later point out that under the van der Stels the most prosperous and balanced developmental period existed at the Cape and that a new framework for sustainable and improved relations with indigenes was laid and that the Free Black population prospered.
These more enlightened historians also began to show the roguishness that had been at work and that the Adam Tas legacy had little to do with championing freedom of any sort. As a result of this victory the real agenda of that small band of European settlers soon emerged with the introduction of pass laws for indigenes, harsher conditions for slaves in terms of freedom of movement and together with the impacts of the smallpox epidemic the growing power of the Free Black community was halted in its tracks.
Indeed Adam Tas laid down the founding intellectual tenets of Apartheid and white overlordship. He was the first to call for codified ‘pass laws’ and controls on all people of colour – indigenes, slaves, Free Blacks and those in mixed marriages.
Notwithstanding that the Cape was a colony and the VOC was a powerful multinational company which had invaded and ran roughshod over the indigene population and imported slaves for the backbreaking work of establishing the Cape Colony, the period of the two “Coloured” Governors of the Cape was a period of greatest vision, imagination, innovation and prosperity for all, which could have resulted in a different historical trajectory.
The Tas episode together with the devastating 1713 smallpox epedemic halted the trajectory of the Cape Colony becoming a different kind of society where people of Colour may have become the dominant force. The smallpox epidemic impacted most negatively on the indigene population numbers and on the Free Blacks and reinforced the newfound dominance of a clique among the post 1685 settlers and their beliefs in racial domination.
In making this assessment and assertions one is not saying that the VOC was not practicing monopoly, nor was not authoritarian…. indeed this was the case across the VOC empire and it would have been unusual for it not to have been evident at the Cape. The issue is whether the van der Stels were despotic and had all of the terrible characteristics that they were accused of and whether the accusers were simply hard done by innocents. As an authority the van der Stels were part of a long line of Commanders and officials at the Cape who careied out the same VOC practices in much more vulgar a fashion but were not challenged. The van der Stels more than any other VOC officials put the Colony on a prosperity track that benfitted all. The track record and later behaviours of the detractors showed highly questionable moarl standards.
The van der Stels had some amazing skills of a scientific, architectural, horticultural and agricultural nature that laid the basis for the development of the south Western Cape. Simon van der Stel also commission ground-breaking work in getting a better idea of the indigene people up both the east and west coasts and had record compiled and drawings made of people, natural habitat and plant life. Both Simon and Willem tried to re-engineer the Cape Settlement and to analyse where the European settlers had gone wrong particularly in relation to the land and its people. White supremacists emerged to stop them and the European authority, the VOC, took their side for reasons of expediency. This is a story of how racism took root at the Cape and where theory joined practice. You wont find this story in the history books.
SOME RESEARCH REFERENCES ON THE VAN DER STEL – TAS CONTROVERSY: The Diary of Adam Tas – Edited and Introduction by Leo Fouche (1914); Simon van der Stele n sy Kinders by A Boeseken (1964) Nassau Bpk, CT; The Shaping of SA Society by Richard Elphick and HermannGiliomee (1989) Maskew Millar Longman, CT; The Afrikaners: Biography of a People by Hermann Giliomee (2003(, Paarlr, CT; New History of SA by H Giliomee and B Mebenga (2007), Tafelberg Pub, CT; South Africa – The House of van der Stel by Ian D Colvin – Romance of Empire Series (1910); Willem Adrian van de Stel and other historical Studies by G McC Theal (1913) Maskew Millar, CT; History of South Africa before 1795 by G McC Theal (1964), Struik, CT; In defence of Willem Adrian van der Stel by HCV Liebbrandt (1897) Precis of the Archives of the Cape of Good Hope; SA in the making by Whiting Spilhaus, (1966) Juta CT; The Portraits of Simon van der Stel first Governor of the Cape by JB Bedauax, Stellenbosch Paper in Linguistics; Rare Portrait of Simon van der Stel (2012) National Antiques & Decorative Arts Faire, Sandton; That hath been by Dorothea Fairbridge, (1910) CT; Culture In a colonial Context: Africa and the Americas 1500 – 1900 by Adrien Delmas and Nigel Penn.
Heritage Activist, Story-Teller and Community Educator – Van Anderen
This blog does not seek to project as an academic site or is its content academic, nor is there any claim to content being original research. The author is a heritage activist and community educator intent on bringing often hidden elements of history and heritage to a broader audience together with interpretation. The research contained herein is 70% sourced from secondary research sources, 10% from primary resource materials and 20% from community discourse. No use is made of academic notation protocols, but in keeping with educational norms there is a preferred use of a bibliography and library reference which is less cumbersome in story-telling. This is provided so that readers have recourse to original texts. As a heritage activist the author frames these offerings within an approach which seeks to provide an alternative view of history and heritage contextual to a community seeking our roots, restorative justice and wishing to restore our dignity. -
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Written by David A. Robertson
David A. Robertson, author of the Governor-General's literary awarded illustrated children's book When We Were Young (illustrated by Julie Flett, HighWater Press, 2016), returns his writing to young adults with Strangers, the first book in a new supernatural thriller series called The Reckoner. Still honouring his Cree roots with a story installed in the fictionalized Cree community of Wounded Sky, David A. Robertson shows us life on a remote Manitoba reserve where a past tragedy and current illness and murder have its inhabitants reeling in suspicion and anger. And it doesn't help that that trickster Coyote is playing a leading role.
Seventeen-year-old Cole Harper has been living in Winnipeg since his Aunt Joan and grandmother moved him there to forget "everything he'd lost in the tragedy and his role in it" (pg. 13) ten years earlier. Now his friend Ashley Ross is summoning Cole back to Wounded Sky with cryptic messages about needing to come home. But Cole's return is far from welcome and he learns from Ashley that his phone had been missing and he'd never sent any messages to Cole. And he tells Cole this minutes before he is shot dead. While he awaits RCMP Constable Wayne Kirkness, Cole is visited by Choch, the anthropomorphized spirit being Coyote, who reminds Cole of a deal they'd made ten years earlier when Cole had saved two friends, Eva and Brady, from a burning school in which everyone else perished, including Cole's mother. Now Choch expects payback though he doesn't tell Cole exactly what he needs of him. After Ashley's murder and an illness hits the community, Cole is sure it is to make things right here at Wounded Sky. But then two more murders and deaths from the illness have the community turning on Cole, whose arrival coincided with the newest tragedies. How can he do right by Wounded Sky when it's obvious the community, except for a few, resent his return from the city and his earlier role in the fire in which he only saved two lives?
There are mysteries aplenty in Strangers and not all are able to be solved in this first book in the series. Who murdered Ashley? How is the research facility, now closed, involved in the tragedies at Wounded Sky? How did the fire at the school start? With the advice of his grandmother to find his peace and "If you accept yourself for who you are, you belong anywhere" (pg. 109), Cole faces the challenges of an angry community, the antics of an arrogant and reckless Choch, and his own anxiety to be the hero needed to heal himself and others.
All legends, Cole, come from some place of truth. Whether they're about Coyote or a sky that was cut and bled the heavens like tears, or a boy that saved others. Look at your own scars. (pg. 124)
Beyond David A. Robertson's intricate plotting, he creates a character of Wounded Sky itself. He makes sure that readers, Indigenous or not, get an authentic glimpse of life on a reserve: remote, ignored, self-reliant, challenged, vulnerable and cohesive. From Elder Mariah making hot muskeg tea and Cole's tobacco tie, to the northern lights of spirits playing and Coyote's pranks, Strangers is both singular and inclusive, educating readers and encircling many in its story. I look forward to Book 2 in The Reckoner series so that I can witness how David A. Robertson resolves mysteries first revealed in Strangers and undoubtedly creates a few more for Cole to confront.
Labels: anxiety, Book One, coyote, Cree, David A. Robertson, death, fire, guilt, healing, Highwater Press, murder, spirits, strangers, supernatural, The Reckoner, thriller, trickster, young adult
Don't Tell the Enemy: Book launch (Brantford, ON)
Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
who has dazzled middle grade readers
with her historical fiction and non-fiction books
including picture books,
is back with her newest
Don't Tell the Enemy
Written by Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch
Braemar House School
36 Baxter Street
(Map here)
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will speak about the real mother and daughter
who risked their lives to hide three Jewish friends
during the Holocaust.
This is their story (from the blurb on Scholastic Canada website:
How much would you do for a friend? Krystia’s family hides Jews from the Nazis at immense risk to their own lives.
Life is becoming dangerous for Krystia. It’s 1941 and her town in Ukraine is now occupied by the Soviets. Some members of her family are harassed, while others are arrested and killed. When the Nazis liberate the town, they are welcomed with open arms. But Krystia’s best friend Dolik has doubts. His family is Jewish and rumours are that the Nazis are even more brutal than the Soviets.
When the Nazis discover a mass grave of Soviet prisoners, they use it as an excuse and blame the slaughter on the Jews. Soon after, the Nazis establish ghettoes and begin public execution of Jews. Krystia can’t bear to see her friends suffer, so she smuggles food in for them. When word gets out that the ghetto will be cleared and Jews will be exterminated, Krystia must make an impossible decision. Will she risk her own family’s safety to save her friends?
Retrieved from http://www.scholastic.ca/rights/titles/special/dont-tell-the-enemy/
on December 14, 2017.
Book sales and signing will follow the author's presentation.
(Proceeds will go to the Scholarship Fund of CFUW Brantford)
Labels: book launch, Braemar House School, Brantford, Don't Tell the Enemy, fiction, historical fiction, Holocaust, Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch, middle grade, Scholastic Canada, WWII
The Spirit Trackers
Written by Jan Bourdeau Waboose
Illustrated by François Thisdale
Fifth House Publishers
It's been far too long since the CanLit world has welcomed a book from Jan Bourdeau Waboose, a First Nation Anishinaabe of the Ojibway Bear Clan of northern Ontario. Adding to her stunning collection of picture books which includes SkySisters, Morning on the Lake and Firedancers, Jan Bourdeau Waboose's telling tale of Ojibway traditions and the relationship between children and their uncle is breathtakingly illustrated by François Thisdale, award-winning artist of The Stamp Collector, Missing Nimâmâ, and French Toast. The Spirit Trackers is a magnificent story in words and art, melding together First Nations and an intergenerational relationship with legends and spirits and the wonder of children.
Illustration by François Thisdale
used in The Spirit Trackers by Jan Bourdeau Waboose
Two cousins are awed by the stories told by their uncle of their clan, the Moose Clan, and their heritage of extraordinary trackers but it's the story of the Windigo that truly captures their attention. His story of the Wandering Night Spirit of Winter is a warning to the boys.
"Watch out for the Windigo on a winter night. It has a heart of ice, and its teeth are like steel. It will eat anything in its way!"
"Even the best Trackers disappear in Windigo's footsteps."
In the night, the boys are awakened by a Thump! Bang! and, upon seeing a black shadow cross the window, are convinced the Windigo has visited their uncle's house. The next day, however, evidence in the snow and on a tree compel the two to put their tracking skills to work. But far from the house, hearing a sad cry that "slices the air like a trapper's knife" the two are immobilized with terror. It may not be the Windigo but the boys demonstrate the aptitude in tracking and their reverence for the natural world, especially for an animal they know to honour.
Jan Bourdeau Waboose infuses her atmospheric text with the companionship of family and an appreciation for traditions and legends of First Nations. Because of that, an occasion of storytelling becomes more; it becomes a lesson in caution and curiosity and heritage. Tom and Will are apt students at their Uncle's knee, listening, hearing and learning. Resplendent in snow, the frigid medium of trackers, The Spirit Trackers is an appropriate visual and textual read for the winter season. Artist François Thisdale makes sure that his illustrations transport readers to that frosty season and to a life of snowshoes, moosehide clothing, and ravens. Combining photographs, drawings and paint with digital imagery, François Thisdale lends a supernatural essence to the story, perfect for a pair of boys already spooked by their disquietude about the Windigo but determined to follow the path of their tracker ancestors into the unknown winter stillness shattered by a haunting cry.
Whether you believe in the Windigo is irrelevant. The boys believe, as does their Uncle, and in the stillness and cold of winter, it's a story, like The Spirit Trackers, that has much to teach.
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The illustrations included in this review are derived from illustrator François Thisdale's Facebook page at Thisdale illustration.
Labels: Anishinaabe, curiosity, Fifth House Publishers, First Nations, François Thisdale, intergenerational relationships, Jan Bourdeau Waboose, legends, moose, picture book, spirits, The Spirit Trackers, Windigo, winter
Tangled Planet
Written Kate Blair
Dancing Cat Books
Four hundred years of ancestors have travelled on the ship Venture leaving behind Alpha Earth in search of a Beta Earth to colonize. For seventeen-year-old Ursa, the ship has always been home. As a junior engineer and daughter of a former captain, Ursa knows every control, vent and tech that keeps the Venture working, now in orbit above the planet being readied for full colonization. But there is silent dissension between those who want to embrace life on Beta fully and those who appreciate the safety and known entity that is the ship.
It smells right, here. Not like the empty scent of Beta.
It’s the smell of hundreds of years of skin cells, waste reclamation pipes, and generations of people stuffed in a cramped space. I never noticed it until we went to the planet, where the air is so clod and clear I choked on my first breath. Here it’s rich and musky. The smell of home. The Venture is cozy, human-sized, lived-in, unlike the muddy mess of the planet below. (pg. 23)
It’s astonishing, Ursa. Just being here. Humanity, stretching out into the stars. We’re the dream Alpha Earth had so many hundreds of years ago. (pg. 65)
When Ursa discovers the murdered body of Orion, the husband of her sister Celeste and of former friend Vega, planet-side, Ursa becomes a suspect, though she had observed a wolf-like creature hiding in the forest. Because of her reluctance to spend much time on Beta and because no animals matching that description or DNA had been created or released onto the planet by the genelab, few believe her. But then a second murder leaves the crew reeling and Ursa begins to investigate in earnest to clear herself and keep her family and those for whom she cares safe.
Much like Kate Blair’s debut YA novel Transferral (DCB, 2015), Tangled Planet is speculative fiction, asking a “What if?” question, here about inhabiting new worlds of space or on new planets. It’s about choosing that which is familiar but limited over that which is unknown but holds much potential. Kate Blair makes it clear that in this sci-fi setting, even with the development of astounding tech, genetic manipulation and more, people are still human, enduring grief and resentment, loss and jealousy, and making decisions that are both selfish and selfless, resulting in the murder mystery at the book’s heart. In this well-plotted and suspenseful novel, belied by its unremarkable cover, it’s clear that for all its newness, Beta Earth is nevertheless being colonized by those driven by old hurts and fears and the future may still be determined by what has happened in the past.
(A version of this review was originally written for and published in Quill & Quire, as noted in the citation below.)
Kubiw, H. (2018, January/February). [Review of the book Tangled Planet, by Kate Blair]. Quill & Quire, 84 (1): 48.
Labels: colonization, Dancing Cat Books, interplanetary travel, Kate Blair, murder, mystery, science fiction, speculative fiction, Tangled Planet, young adult
Totsapalooza 10 Festival (Toronto, ON)
Totsapalooza
the tenth anniversary of
its annual festival
picture books, indie rock bands and DIY crafts
for kids aged 2-8
1 - 4pm
Revival Nightclub
783 College St.
Limited number of Early Bird tickets:
$12 Adults / $8 Kids
After they are sold out:
$18 Adults / $12 Kids
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/totsapalooza-turns-ten-tickets-41030174356
Authors in attendance include:
who will launch his new collection of poems for children,
Good Night Good Night
lead a sing-a-long of his Alligator Pie
who will read her latest book Picture The Sky
present Sing a Song of Mother Goose
with musical support from indie-rockers
who will launch Malaika's Winter Carnival,
the sequel to Malaika's Costume
Other in attendance will include:
Drag Performers JP (Fay Slift) and Kaleb (Fluffy Soufflé) who will read and lead an activity with children as part of Drag Queen Storytime;
Rock trio Communism;
The Woodshed Orchestra, a horn, rhythm and vocal ensemble, who will perform a mash up of classic dance styles from around the world;
Choreographer Ann-Marie Williams of Movement Lab who will get the kids dancing;
DJ Castlefrank (a.k.a. Matt Blackett of Spacing Magazine) who will keep the party going with kid-friendly beats;
Wanda’s Pie-in-the-Sky who will sell healthy, handmade snacks from their pop-up bakery.
Get your tickets online now
have something special to share at Christmas and then in February!
Labels: author event, Barbara Reid, book event, children, crafts, dance, Dennis Lee, festival, music, Nadia L. Hohn, Revival Nightclub, Small Print Toronto, Toronto, Totsapalooza
The Stone Heart: The Nameless City, Book 2
Written and illustrated by Faith Erin Hicks
Colored by Jordie Bellaire
Yesterday I jumped on The Nameless City bandwagon with my review of the first book in this trilogy (The Nameless City by Faith Erin Hicks, First Second, 2016) and am fortunate to have been able to read the second book The Stone Heart immediately. Now I just wish September 2018, the release date for Book 3 The Divided Earth, wasn't months away.
When we left the Nameless City in Book 1 of the series, Kaidu and Rat had helped save the ruler, the General of All Blades, and his son Erzi from assassination. It is three months later and the General is proceeding with the plan of General Andren, Kaidu's father, to unite the factions of the Nameless City and beyond in one council. Erzi believes the plan absurd but more so because he had always envisioned himself as the city's next ruler.
"You promised it to me." (pg. 19)
From The Stone Heart
by Faith Erin Hicks
The secret of how the Northern People tunnelled through the mountain is at the heart of the power struggle and peace in the Nameless City and it seems everyone wants to learn all they can. There are legends of a great fire that could burn through rock and flesh but it is generally accepted that, even if the formula were discovered, perhaps hidden by the monks at the Stone Heart, no one now has the ability to translate their language. Through back stories, we learn that Erzi's bodyguard, Mura, once lived at the monastery at the Stone Heart and was turned out after which she was rescued by Erzi. She obviously harbours much bitterness towards the monks and this comes to play after Erzi becomes the new General of All Blades and the search for the formula drives them to storm the Stone Heart for answers.
The clash of peoples who want different things for the Nameless City and for themselves is at the core of The Stone Heart. Erzi's father is attempting to embrace all who live within the city and outside to help rule but Erzi will not have it, knowing the power he would lose. How to balance the needs of a few over the greater good is key in The Stone Heart, and, needless to say, there is much violence, discrimination and power struggles as this balance is set askew. Faith Erin Hicks's story is both adventure and character study, a fine mix of "What's going to happen next? and "Did he really do that?"
It is only in The Divided Earth that we will learn how the Nameless City will be saved, and saved it will be surely with Kai and Rat at the front of the pack.
Labels: Ancient China, Book 2, control, Faith Erin Hicks, First Second, graphic novel, intolerance, Jordie Bellaire, middle grade, power, series, The Nameless City, The Stone Heart, trilogy, war
The Nameless City
Color by Jordie Bellaire
First Second (Roaring Brook Press)
It's time for me to join the growing fan base of Faith Erin Hicks's The Nameless City graphic novel series before the final book, The Divided Earth, comes out in September 2018. There is lots to applaud in this first book of the middle grade trilogy (and even more in Book 2, The Stone Heart, which I will review next), not least of which are its diverse cultural landscape and strong characters. Oh, and did I mention Faith Erin Hicks's vivid artwork inked and coloured by award-winning artist Jordie Bellaire?
The Nameless City, the place, is probably the most important character in The Nameless City, the book. It is an incredible metropolis, albeit one akin to that of 13th c. China, that has many names but all those given by outsiders, hence its moniker by those in the know as the Nameless City. Because of a tunnel, created mysteriously by the long-gone Northern People, through the mountain to the ocean, the city has been conquered time and time again. For the past 30 years, the city has been dominated by the Dao whose warrior leader, the General of All Blades, rules over the city. Kaidu, a thirteen-year-old boy from the Dao homelands, has just arrived at the city's palace to train as a Dao warrior along with other boys under the tutelage of Erzi, son of the General of All Blades, and Erzi's bodyguard, the strange Myra.
From The Nameless City
When Kaidu gets lost outside the palace, he meets Rat, a spry runner and roof-jumper who, in exchange for food, teaches him to race and climb. Rat, who lives at the monastery at the Stone Heart, harbours much anger towards the city's invaders but she warms to Kai and he to her as they attempt to find a way to bring peace to the city and its people. Of course, there are plots emerging both to bring the city together and to tear it apart, including an assassination attempt on the General and his son, but Kai and Rat are at the heart of trying to make things right for all the inhabitants of the Nameless City.
Faith Erin Hicks may have used ancient China as an informal blueprint for the setting of The Nameless City, but the book is its own story, both in plot and characters, though some scenarios are all too familiar. The Nameless City may be rich in cultural diversity but, with the numerous groups within the city and outside vying for place, whether to dominate or to live amicably with others, there comes much intolerance and discrimination, mostly between the invaders and the conquered.
Fortunately, Faith Erin Hicks has created a world of possibilities for peace and tolerance, and she's done it with flair and detail, illustrating a passion against bad and for good. The Nameless City, nominated for a 2017 Silver Birch Fiction award, could promote itself as historical fiction with the credibility of place and time but, for young readers, it's the composite of story and graphics that have made it a hit which inevitably will sustain it through Books 2 and 3.
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Check back for my review of Book 2 in The Nameless City trilogy, The Stone Heart (First Second, 2017).
Labels: adventure, Book 1, compassion, cooperation, Faith Erin Hicks, fathers, First Second, graphic novel, Jordie Bellaire, middle grade, The Nameless City, trilogy
Birthdays Around the World
Written by Margriet Ruurs
Illustrated by Ashley Barron
Global perspectives are difficult concepts for very young children to grasp. They are typically just learning about their own place, here and now, and understanding that there is much beyond that is challenging. By focusing on a familiar and shared concept such as birthdays, Margriet Ruurs has found a way for young children to connect with those around the world.
From Birthdays Around the World
by Margriet Ruurs
illus. by Ashley Barron
Birthdays around the world, boldly illustrated by cut-paper collage artist Ashley Barron, looks at children in 14 different countries around the world and tells about their family, birthday greetings, celebratory activities and food. The children and countries depicted in each double-spread include:
Arvaarluk from Canada (Nunavut, specifically)
Alana and Kainoa from the United States (Hawaii)
Opal and Delroy in Jamaica
Mercedes in Peru
Ieva in Latvia
Dmitry in Russia (on the border of Europe and Asia)
Bram in Belgium
Maame in Ghana
Nthabeleng in Lesotho
Ninoshka in India (Kashmir region)
Shinobu in Japan
Athom and Arunny in Cambodia
Phúc Khang in Vietnam
Thea on Norfolk Island, Australia
A mixture of boys and girls of different ages and living in different types of communities (big cities, islands, remote towns, rural areas) will ensure that young readers might see something of themselves in these children. Some of their stories are presented by a sibling e.g. Athom speaks for baby sister Arunny. Some are atypical celebrations that are held country-wide rather than commemorating the birth day of an individual. And, even though many of their celebrations will be foreign to young readers e.g. the dumping of flour on Delroy's head, there is much that they can envision, different as they may be. Special foods and treats, good wishes and blessings, family and friends. Whether they dress in a silk kimono, a palaka aloha shirt or a favourite outfit, these children know how special this day is for them and others to celebrate with them.
Margriet Ruurs does a stellar job of bringing the world in a little closer to home. She always does (e.g., Stepping Stones: A Refugee Family's Journey, illus. by Nizar Ali Badr, Orca, 2015). In Birthdays Around the World, Margriet Ruurs has endeavoured to include all continents (except Antarctica) and cover the full range of birthdays, from simple days of food and family to elaborate days of military parades and more. Both secular and religious observances are included, as is appropriate, and Margriet Ruurs even helps direct discussions of the reader's birthday celebrations in an addendum called "Your Birthday" and provides activities for parents and teachers relating to the book's contents and more. And everything is so much better for the unique art of Ashley Barron, whose cut-paper graced earlier works Up! How Families Around the World Carry Their Little Ones (Susan Hughes, Owlkids, 2017) and Kyle Goes Alone (Jan Thornhill, Owlkids, 2015). The cut-paper artwork adds astounding depth and clarity to the text, guaranteeing that Birthdays Around the World is a relatable and visually expressive children's book on the global perspective of birthdays.
Labels: Around the World series, Ashley Barron, birthdays, Birthdays Around the World, celebrations, global perspective, illustrated, Kids Can Press, Margriet Ruurs, non-fiction
Mermaid Warrior Squad
Written by Karin Adams
Illustrated by Janine Carrington
James Lorimer & Co.
When Dylan meets the friendly Coral at art camp, the two eleven-year-old girls seem destined to become partners. They both love oceans and know a lot about the sea animals, perfect for an art camp themed as "Art Under the Sea." Even better, they come into the camp with different strengths: Coral loves to draw and Dylan likes to write. In fact, both had already created mermaid characters: Coral's is a tough-looking mermaid she calls Crash, the Mighty Mermaid Warrior, and Dylan's is a mermaid renegade named Driftwood whose mission it is to protect the oceans. The two decide to merge their ideas and collaborate on a comic book in which the two mermaids become the Mermaid Warrior Squad.
From Mermaid Warrior Squad
by Karin Adams
illus. by Janine Carrington
While the two girls work on their project, as depicted in illustrator Janine Carrington's graphic insets of the two mermaids, they are also dealing with getting to know each other and their fellow campers. Dylan loves having a friend–she's obviously a bit of an introvert–but she's having difficulties dealing with Coral's exuberance and tendency to get carried away with her efforts, silliness and volume. The other campers include Lynn, another quiet girl; Ben, the annoying prankster; Jade and Sarina, the trendy girls; and decent guys Ryan and Lamar. From this crew, Dylan and Coral contrive new characters like a dolphin-mermaid hybrid, the villain Captain Fishhead, the evil Seaweed Sisters, and Shark Dudes. Their story is evolving but so is their friendship as Coral decides unilaterally on their skit for the camp's culminating performance and Dylan is compelled to stand up for herself. Ultimately, though, their friendship means more to Dylan than sitting back and watching Coral be humiliated, and she's there to rescue her friend, even if it need happen on stage.
Karin Adams's story approaches multiple themes of oceans and creating art as well as clashing personalities with humour and much insight. It's obvious that, as much as they have common interests, Dylan and Coral have very different personalities. Overcoming these differences so that they might work together and be supportive of each other is a key element of Mermaid Warrior Squad. Just like their mermaid characters, the two girls' efforts are more impactful when they work together than when they are at odds with one another. This is an important lesson for children who are often forced to work together in school and extracurricular activities. Not every child is a Coral who wants to be at the heart of the action. Some need to quietly work at the side in order to reach their full potential. Though most people, including teachers, are extroverts who don't see the harm done by expecting all children to love group activities or being part of the rah-rah crowd, Mermaid Warrior Squad recognizes that children will find their own ways to be true to themselves, taking risks as they choose, and still make friends with those unlike themselves. Strength comes from both being yourself and working with others, whether you have a mermaid tail or not.
Whether a child is heading to camp, dealing with making and keeping friends, understanding their own personality or one who loves oceans or comic books, Mermaid Warrior Squad is an entertaining light read that will engage those who are beyond early readers but might find much middle-grade fiction more daunting. It's a nice little package of humour and lessons for middle-graders.
Labels: art, camp, ecology, friendship, illustrated, Janine Carrington, Karin Adams, Lorimer, Mermaid, mermaids, middle grade, oceans, performance, personality, pranks, Warrior Squad, writing
Written by Thomas King
If anyone ever believes that the storytelling tradition of First Nations has disappeared, they need only read aloud the Coyote stories of Thomas King. Undoubtedly told better in his own booming voice, these Coyote Tales are told with the mischief and wisdom to impart awe and lessons aplenty.
Coyote Tales is actually two previously published Coyote stories by Thomas King. The first, Coyote Sings to the Moon (originally published in 1999), has that trickster Coyote interrupting the nightly song by Old Woman and the animals praising the Moon. When Coyote offers to join them, they deny him a voice, knowing how poorly he sings. Chastized, Coyote leaves in a huff, criticizing the Moon for its disturbing brightness. Moon, not to take criticism, plunges itself into a pond to enjoy a game of chess with Sunfish. While Old Woman and the animals search for Moon, Coyote struggles in the darkness, using a skunk as a pillow and falling off a cliff. But clever Old Woman uses Coyote's horrible singing to force Moon to flee the pond and fating Coyote to a nightly song to keeps Moon from returning to the pond and a life of leisure.
The second story is Coyote's New Suit (originally published in 2004), a charming tale of vanity and envy. Coyote is perfectly content with his suit of gold, toasty brown until Raven's comments convince Coyote to steal Bear's suit left on a pond's shore. When Bear returns to find his suit missing, Raven tells him that the humans hang clothes they no longer need on ropes and encourages him to help himself. Coyote continues to steal the suits of Porcupine, Raccoon, Beaver and more animals who, in turn, help themselves to the human clothes hanging on the clothes line. All orchestrated by Raven, the shenanigans come to a head when Coyote holds a yard sale to clean out his closet and humans and animals alike come in search of new suits.
From Coyote Tales
by Thomas King
illus. by Byron Eggenschwiler
Thomas King's Coyote Tales recognizes the traditional Coyote stories of First Nations, taking readers to "a long time ago, before animals stopped talking to human beings" (pg. 11) when lessons were learned at the antics of a mischievous and oft humiliated Coyote and the clever playfulness of Raven and the natural world was honoured and celebrated. The legends are told here as comical allegory but are rich in lessons and advice.
Groundwood Books is doing something very clever in opening up previously published picture books to new audiences. By re-releasing them as very short anthologies, perhaps only two or three stories, with new and fewer illustrations (here by Calgarian Byron Eggenschwiler), they are capturing the early reader and middle grade reader who might not want to be seen reading "babyish" picture books. Margaret Atwood's A Trio of Tolerable Tales (Groundwood, 2017) was such a collection and I'm hoping that there are more in the offering from Groundwood, especially for Thomas King who still has more Coyote tales to share.
Labels: Byron Eggenschwiler, coyote, Coyote Sings to the Moon, Coyote Tales, Coyote's New Suit, First Nations, Groundwood Books, illustrated, middle grade, moon, Raven, short stories, Thomas King, trickster, vanity
The Hanging Girl
Written by Eileen Cook
Skye Thorn is a tarot card reader, helping her peers with their questions about love, school and more. But, though she cultivates an image of having psychic powers, Skye is just an astute observer of human nature and a sneak at private files and conversations. Her mother might purport to have the gift but Skye knows she herself does not.
Still Skye is a teen who has always wanted a certain life and had a willingness to make it happen.
Destiny is like a boulder. Bulky and hard to move. It's easier to leave it alone than to try to change it. But that never kept anyone from trying. Trust me: I'm a professional. (pg. 1)
She hates her name, Candi, the one she was given by her 15-year-old mother, and has managed to get her friends and school to use her middle name, Skye. She had woven a story about her father, whom she has never known, being a military hero. That story ended badly, though, and had her labelled a liar and headed for counselling. Now, she’s telling her best friend Drew that she’s saving her money so that they’ll be able to get an apartment in New York City when Drew heads to art school next year. But she hasn’t.
When she is approached to use her psychic flair in a scheme to kidnap popular and wealthy Paige Bonnet, Skye convinces herself that it would be alright. Paige would not be hurt and Skye would get some of the ransom money. Her role would be negligible: all she had to do was convince the police that she was having visions of Paige’s disappearance and to help direct their investigation. Ah, the best laid plans…
Like the tarot card called the Hanged Man, which suggests someone at the crossroads, Skye is balancing who she really is with what she wants people to see and what they actually do see in her. From her mother to Drew and classmates and then the police and others, Skye's self is hanging, perhaps precariously as she makes choices. She truly is The Hanging Girl. But the mystery that is Skye extends beyond her, embedding readers in a young adult thriller with a myriad of twists and reversals and red herrings. Never, never can the reader tell what will happen next or whom to believe. The tagline "Trust no one. Deceive everyone" is especially apt. The plot is intricate and multilayered and, even when Skye figures things out in a climactic graduation ceremony setting, I was never convinced I knew the truth. That just tells you how convincing Eileen Cook's writing is. It is tight but complex, and she never lets the plot lag or the storyline get caught on ineffectual plot twists.
Eileen Cook, whose books Unraveling Isobel (Simon Pulse, 2012), The Almost Truth (Simon Pulse, 2012), Remember (Simon Pulse, 2015), and With Malice (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016) have been reviewed on CanLit for LittleCanadians, always has some mystery amidst the teen drama but she is particularly adroit at relationship dramas. Her characterizations and dialogue between characters and inside Skye's head are especially compelling in The Hanging Girl. Except for several chapters conveyed as Paige's written account of her ordeal, most of Eileen Cook’s text is in the first-person narrative of the young tarot card reader trying to assess her situation prior to Paige's disappearance and then while the teen's family and police investigate. She's gotten herself involved in something desperate and is in far too deep to get out cleanly. Still, though she lies and manipulates, it's surprising how sympathetic Skye is as a character. She always believed that she was destined for a nothing life, so the readers will cheer for the girl who tries to see herself beyond a life at Burger Barn. As such, the ending will floor you.
See beyond the mess that is Skye and the situation in which she finds herself and discover a thrilling plot of truths and lies and shadows in The Hanging Girl. It's a little dark but more angsty than criminal and definitely an accurate take on the desperate measures people will take to achieve the lives they feel are warranted.
Labels: deception, destiny, Eileen Cook, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, kidnapping, lies, psychics, tarot cards, The Hanging Girl, young adult
Woodrow at Sea
Written and illustrated by Wallace Edwards
Not since an owl and a pussycat set off to sea have two wholly unlikely friends shared a boat on the open water. But the story of Woodrow at Sea is less love story than story of friendship and a far more poignant one than Edward Lear's nonsense poem.
From Woodrow at Sea
by Wallace Edwards
When Woodrow, the elephant, waves goodbye to his family, setting off on his adventure with only a boat, a paddle and a spyglass, he could never imagine finding a small white mouse marooned on a purplish mound in the open water. The mouse tells of his own tale of saying goodbye to his own family who gift him with a compass and heading out in a teacup vessel until upturned by a purple, gold and orange creature.
Together the travellers set out to seek adventure, with the mouse teaching Woodrow to sing. When a foul cloud blows in nasty weather and the calm sea is awoken into turmoil, the little mouse uses the spyglass to rescue Woodrow. Together they battle their way to calmer waters and, though they both return to their different island homes, they're both richer for their encounter and adventures.
Because Woodrow at Sea is a wordless book, author-illustrator Wallace Edwards allows his illustrations to carry the story. But it really isn't just one story. Everyone will read something different into his touching and considerate artwork. Though less elaborate than his art in earlier books such as Once Upon a Line (Pajama Press, 2015) and Unnatural Selections (Orca, 2014), Wallace Edwards provides more than enough depth of detail for our youngest readers to interpret the illustrations in a myriad of ways. They will easily recognize the value of friendship and teamwork but there will be questions. Why did Wallace Edwards choose and elephant and a mouse? Are the elephant and mouse singing or whistling? Does Woodrow know how to sing or did the mouse have to teach him? Were the two animals planning on an extended adventure that was interrupted by calamity or were these just day trips? When recounting their adventures to family, why did they focus on different events though both emphasize the goodwill of the other? For a story told with no words, Woodrow at Sea has much to tell. And a lesson in creative thinking and visual literacy would not go amiss here.
Woodrow at Sea is truly a story about the importance of friendship and the good fortune of having a friend who has your back when seas get a little rough. It may not always be an angry ocean or a purple monster, but there's always something that is eased with the support of a friend.
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Wallace Edwards will launch his newest picture book this weekend in Toronto. Details for this event were posted here.
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Woodrow at Sea: Book launch (Toronto, ON)
The wonderfully talented author and illustrator
is set to launch his newest picture book of youngCanLit
Review here
11 a.m. -12:30 p.m.
Queen Books
914 Queen St. East
In addition to book sales and signing by Wallace Edwards,
• story time
• a drawing lesson
• crafts
• light refreshments
Look for my review of this special wordless picture book tomorrow!
Labels: book launch, drawing, Pajama Press, picture book, Queen Books, storytime, Toronto, Wallace Edwards, Woodrow at Sea
Louis Undercover
Written by Fanny Britt
Translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou
From the acclaimed partnership of Fanny Britt and Isabelle Arsenault that brought us the award-winning Jane, the Fox and Me (Groundwood, 2013), which was also translated by Christelle Morelli and Susan Ouriou, comes a second graphic novel of emotional sensitivity, this time in a complex familial context.
The title may suggest a children's game of spying but Louis is more discreet observer and listener. He watches important people in his life and sees what they do and hears what they say. These observations form the fabric of his interactions with them, bringing out his sensitivities, fears and compassion. And he has much to observe, as he and his little brother Truffle bounce between their city apartment where they live with their mother and their country house where their alcoholic father still lives.
From Louis Undercover
by Fanny Britt
illus. by Isabelle Arsenault
Louis sees the ups and downs of his father's alcoholism: the manic periods of song and big plans and the depressive times of tears and melancholy, especially when the boys leave. At home, he sees the joy in his mother when they return but also her sarcasm and loneliness. Louis has his own secret burdens which he only shares with his good friend Boris. Louis is in love with Billie.
She’s a spectacled siren, a rainstorm,
A chocolate fountain, a silent queen. (pg. 50)
He is overwhelmed by his affection for Billie but he is immobilized into inaction.
I had no idea that love is like a rock shattering your heart, as painful as it is life-giving, and that even as it makes you want to bolt, it keeps you glued to the spot. (pg. 58)
Though he makes plans to speak with her, just to say a few words to the gutsy girl who stands up to injustice and reads voraciously, he can't do it, even with the summer holidays imminent and a gift of dice for her in his pocket.
From Louise Undercover
But two weeks of the summer at their father's becomes a turning point for the family. Their father has stopped drinking and seems to be his old positive self, as reflected in the splashes of yellow, hitherto reserved for Billie. Though their mom is seen as mired in the sadness of the turquoise and the browns of regular life, when Truffle is injured and sent to hospital, she rushes to his side and stays with them at their old house. She makes breakfast and laughs with their father and sleeps in his bedroom. They're back to their "normal" family and a trip to New York City holds the promise of a complete reunion. But, sadly and realistically, the yellows give way to the family's blues of the past. Returning to school in the fall, Louis can take this experience as a life lesson that love can end badly or he can see the hope that it can conquer the worst.
Fanny Britt has given us a story about a family dealing with an alcoholic parent and creates a story of understanding. Louis sees what has happened to his family and is disheartened by it. He recognizes the signs of his father's drinking and the impact on his mother and their family. He is wary of love and how it can go horribly wrong. (Note Louis' watching of his sober father playing with the happy Truffle in the illustration above.) Even his mother, ever immersed in the sadness of needing to be separated from her husband, holds out hope for recovery and reconciliation. How Louis will adapt that understanding to his own crush on Billie, desperate to speak with her but reluctant and apprehensive about the outcome, is an ending that must be read and seen to be fully appreciated.
Isabelle Arsenault does emotional storytelling in illustration. She doesn't just draw pictures to go with the story; she builds the story with surreal elements that create depth and carry the nuance of Louis' family's circumstances. The use of yellow and turquoise, with the browns and greys, subtly convey the emotion of each situation. The yellow is positive and hopeful and cheery, as when Louis watches Billie or his family is happy and Dad is sober. Turquoise permeates those illustrations of lives living with heartbreak. Real life is brown and grey because it's sobering and no-nonsense.
There is much sadness in Louis Undercover. Turquoise and browns and greys are the overwhelming colours. But be assured that there is yellow in Louis' life and Fanny Britt resolves his story with a subtle explosion of positivity matched by Isabelle Arsenault exquisite artwork.
Labels: alcoholism, anxiety, Christelle Morelli, courage, divorce, Fanny Britt, first love, graphic novel, Groundwood Books, Isabelle Arsenault, Louis Undercover, parents, racoons, Susan Ouriou, translation
Those Who Run in the Sky
Written by Aviaq Johnston
Illustrated by Toma Feizo Gas
The young hunter knew that the sky above danced in joy with northern lights. Since it was rare at this time of year, it meant that this day was going to go well, and that the spirits were on the side of the living, allowing them to carry on with their lives. (pg. 1)
Piturniq, or Pitu as he is often called, is the young hunter, a boy of sixteen who is becoming known as the Great Hunter. This is his coming-of-age story.
From Those Who Run in the Sky
by Aviaq Johnston
illus. by Toma Feizo Gas
As a young man, Piturniq is already acknowledged as a good hunter, helping to provide for his mother, brothers and sister as well as sharing with the family of Saima to whom he wishes to become betrothed. But he senses a disquiet in himself and others towards him, particularly from his mother. He grapples with his pride, jealousy, annoyance and anger, and the meaning of his nightly dreams of a fox and an old man on an island. Though he wishes he might be as great as his father, Piturniq is surprised when Tagaaq, the camp leader and son of a shaman mother, suggests Pitu might be the village's next leader. In fact, Tagaaq tells Pitu that the spirits have whispered to him and told him that Pitu is to become a shaman, though there is much darkness in his future.
Tagaaq takes Pitu under his wing, teaching him through his stories, including those of his shaman mother and a great shaman who disappeared from the world after the deaths of his beautiful wife and children. Though both Pitu and Saima are eager to wed, the boy is instructed to wait until he completes his lessons. But all must wait after a winter hunting trip leaves Pitu alone in the harsh environment and entering the spirit world. Here Pitu struggles to survive, seeking shelter and food, and then combating supernatural demons, wolves, qallupilluq and more. But it is also here where Pitu meets the fox, Tiri, who is Pitu's tuurngaq (a shaman's spirit guide), and the old man, an angry and brittle shaman named Taktuq, who will help the boy grow into the shaman he is destined to become.
Though Those Who Run in the Sky is Piturniq's journey of becoming a man with the courage and faith to serve his family and his community, as well as attend to the spirit world, it is also a story of an Inuit lifestyle of long ago. The details provided by Aviaq Johnston, a young Nunavut writer, deal with hunting practices, family and adoption, summer and winter camps, relationships with other communities, and the creatures of the supernatural world, and they become the rich fabric of Piturniq's story. The traditions of this Inuit culture wrap Pitu' story in a reality that needs to be shared with all youth, Indigenous and otherwise. It's a glimpse into a time that might once have been shared through the storytelling tradition. Thankfully Those Who Run in the Sky, which refers to the spirits chasing after a walrus head and thus producing the northern lights, can now share the stories in a text for all to read.
The black and white illustrations by Ottawa animator and digital artist Toma Feizo Gas that dot the text of Those Who Run in the Sky deepen the surreal nature of Pitu's journey, adding to the story without taking over. With text as lavish in historical and emotive detail as is provided by Aviaq Johnston, Those Who Run in the Sky did not need more.
With the publication of Those Who Run in the Sky, which was recently nominated for the 2017 Governor General's Award for Young People's Literature (Text), the northern lights must be dancing with joy.
Labels: adventure, Arctic, atonement, Aviaq Johnston, coming of age, dreams, foxes, Inhabit Media, Inuit, legends, northern lights, shamans, spirits, supernatural, Those Who Run in the Sky, Toma Feizo Gas, traditions
The Gnawer of Rocks
Written by Louise Flaherty
Illustrated by Jim Nelson
Author Louise Flaherty prefaces the telling of her story with its origins, the storytelling tradition of an Inuk storyteller Levi Iqalugjuaq who would visit their school in the 1970s. This legend was one of many he told the students.
From The Gnawer of Rocks
by Louise Flaherty
illus. by Jim Nelson
As an Inuit camp prepares to pack up for the trek to its winter grounds, two girls, with babies in their care, go off for a walk, to soothe the children. As they walk, they find beautiful smooth stones, and even lovelier ones as they continue, until they are lead to the mouth of a cave strewn with bones. Drawn to the shinier stones within, the girls and their charges become trapped when the cave slams behind them. Forced to enter further, they are horrified to discover a cache of human heads and bones which they suspect are those of missing children. One of the heads warns them that they are in the dwelling of Mangittatuarjuk and to escape by digging through the gravel walls but the warning comes too late as the hideous creature crawls out of the shadows.
The old woman with extraordinarily long arms blocks their way but one of the girls taunts her to show them her strength, challenging her to bite down on a stone. Whilst Mangittatuarjuk attempts to gnaw at the rock, the other girl uses a bone to dig through the wall, ultimately allowing the girls to escape. Returning to camp with their news, the hunters set out to kill the creature to ensure the safety of all their children. Mangittatuarjuk is called forth from her cave, the men claiming they have come to honour her. Tending to her feet, one of the hunters ties a rope around one so that their dogs could drag her from the cave entrance and across the sharp rocks to kill her. Only after hours does the creature die of her injuries, at which time the hunters cut up her body so that her spirit could not return to life.
Louise Flaherty honours the storytelling tradition of her parents, grandparents and ancestors with this telling of Mangittatuarjuk, The Gnawer of Rocks. This legend, like all, is rife with cautions to children who might stray too far, as well as honouring those who rise to the challenge of protecting children. Inuit legends abound with scary creatures like Mangittatuarjuk and are told in such a way that one might never question their veracity. Somewhere someone knows whose ancestor was one of the hunters or the girls, and it is just repeat tellings of the story that makes it sound more incredible. American artist Jim Nelson's shadow-rich graphics convey the cold of that Arctic landscape and the gloom and blackness of the creature's cave and force. Coupled with the graphic novel format, the illustrations support the grisly story's premise while advancing the story at a brisk pace.
True or not, The Gnawer of Rocks is splendid storytelling, horrific in its content but wise in its consul.
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Lord Goodman, leading British legal expert who played a key part in the Anglo-Rhodesian independence dispute negotiations, returned to London on Wednesday (24 November) from Salisbury.
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TRANSCRIPT SEQ 3: GOODMAN: The first thing I suppose is to get everybody to see eye to eye on matters about which both sides felt very keenly. It's always the most difficult part of any negotiation.
REPORTER: And was there every a time in the last round of negotiations when you thought it might fail?
GOODMAN: I don't think anyone at any stage in these negotiations has had any certainty about the progress they'd make.
REPORTER: What are your own plans now? Do you go back to private life?
GOODMAN: Ah, indeed, with great alacrity and enthusiasm -- bar a bath and a change of clothes.
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He left Rhodesia just before the joint announcement in Salisbury that an agreement had been reached to and the six-year-old dispute.
Lord Goodman told newsmen soon after this arrival that he had no immediate plans to see Prime Minister Edward Heath, and refused to comment on the actual talks until British Foreign Secretary Sir Alec Douglas-Home had returned to London and made his statement to the British Government.
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Posted on August 2, 2018 by carlosdev
(Disney) Ewan McGregor, Hayley Atwell, Mark Gatiss, Jim Cummings (voice), Brad Garrett (voice), Peter Capaldi (voice), Sophie Okonedo (voice), Toby Jones (voice), Bronte Carmichael. Directed by Marc Forster
An adult Christopher Robin struggles to balance his career and his family having left his childhood imagination behind. When his family leaves for a weekend holiday without him when work requires him to stay, he encounters his childhood friend Winnie the Pooh who helps him reclaim the joy in life.
See the trailer, interviews, video featurettes and B-roll video here
For more on the movie this is the website
Rating: PG (for some action)
(20th Century Fox) Bradley Whitford, Mandy Moore, Amandla Stenberg, Gwendoline Christie. In a dystopian future, young people begin to develop amazing powers before they turn eighteen. Adults, fearing their own children, seek to lock them in camps and keep them prisoner. A resistance group aims to allow teens to take charge of their own lives. In other words, every parent’s nightmare.
See the trailer, clips, interviews and B-roll video here
Rating: PG-13 (for violence including disturbing images, and thematic elements)
(A24) Elsie Fischer, Josh Hamilton, Emily Robinson, Jake Ryan. The eighth grade is something of a transition between childhood and teenage years. An introverted young girl has felt every humiliation possible in her disastrous grade eight year. All she can do is hope to survive her last week of school before starting fresh in high school.
See the trailer, interviews and a video featurette here
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(Amazon) Limo Bob, Florian Homm, Tiffany Masters, Jaqueline Siegel. The super-wealthy of the United States is the wealthiest and most privileged class to ever exist in the world. This documentary investigates the pathologies that created that class.
See the trailer here
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Rating: R (for strong sexual content, nudity, disturbing images, and drug material)
(Lionsgate) Mila Kunis, Kate McKinnon, Justin Theroux, Gillian Anderson. After Audrey is dumped by her boyfriend, she finds support and solace in her best friend Morgan. However, it turns out that Audrey’s ex is a spy and the two women are drawn into his shadowy world with absolutely no skills and no experience. Apparently Melissa McCarthy was unavailable for this one.
See the trailer, clips, interviews, video featurettes and B-roll video here
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(Columbia) Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel, Bryan Cranston, John Cho, Bill Nighy, Will Yun Lee, Bokeem Woodbine, Ethan Hawke. Directed by Len Wiseman
A man goes into a shop to buy two weeks worth of memories and discovers that he is not who he thinks he is. In a dystopian future, he races to find out who he really is despite being hunted down by government storm troopers and his own wife, who is trying to kill him. Sounds like the divorce is going to be real final. Not precisely a remake of the 1990 film but one that intends at least to be more true to the original Phillip K. Dick novella “We Can Remember It For You Wholesale.”
Rating: PG-13 (for intense scenes of sci-fi violence and action, some sexual content, brief nudity, and language)
(Fox Searchlight) Quvenzhane Wallis, Dwight Henry, Levy Easterly, Lowell Landes. A young girl in an isolated Louisiana community cut off from the rest of the world by a gigantic levee deals with her father’s potentially mortal illness, believing that nature is in balance with the rest of the universe. When a terrifying storm changes that perception, the girl believes that putting the world back into balance will save her town from sinking into the bayou and cure her father. A huge hit at Sundance earlier this year.
Rating: PG-13 (for thematic material including child imperilment, some disturbing images, language and brief sensuality)
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
(20th Century Fox) Zachary Gordon, Steve Zahn, Devon Bostick, Rachael Harris. Greg Heffley and Rowley Jefferson, the middle school misfits of the first three movies, find themselves embarking on what promises to be what they were most terrified of. The Worst. Summer. Ever.
Genre: Family Comedy
Rating: PG (for some rude humor)
(Millennium) Cillian Murphy, Sigourney Weaver, Robert De Niro, Elizabeth Olsen. A veteran team of paranormal debunkers take on Simon Silver, a legendary psychic who has come out of retirement after 30 years with an agenda that remains unclear. They see to prove that this charismatic showman is nothing but a fraud – and wind up taking on much more than they could have bargained for.
Rating: R (for language and some sexual content)
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The Conservative Party has spent the whole time since the European elections absorbed in its own internal psychodrama.
And once again the future of the country has played second fiddle to the future of the Conservative Party.
The Conservative Party membership has been given the power to decide our next Prime Minister and the future of our country. This means they are simultaneously the most powerful people in our politics today, despite being the least representative of the country.
On the whole, they are old, white and male - and economically so comfortable that they will never face the economic pain that they inflict on the majority of young and working people in our country.
But once the internal battle in the Conservative party is over, the same hard realities which shackled Theresa May will hit the new Prime Minister too.
And we will have fourteen weeks from July 25th, when he takes office, to October 31st, to save this country from No Deal, to secure a People's Vote and to Stop Brexit.
The next Prime Minister will be hit by the same hard realities which shackled Theresa May
Time and again in the past two years, when those prospects have seemed bleak, it is the People's Vote campaign which has lifted the chances and lifted our spirits.
When one million people turned out on the streets before the last Exit Day, we turned the tide.
And this May we elected hundreds of Liberal Democrat councillors and sixteen Liberal Democrat MEPs and gained our highest share in a national election.
We elected hundreds of Liberal Democrat councillors and sixteen Liberal Democrat MEPs and gained our highest share in a national election
At the European elections here in Cheltenham, the Liberal Democrat team led by Max Wilkinson decisively beat the Brexit Party.
All around the country, Remain beat Leave.
And all at elections people said would never happen.
These campaigns can change the course of our country's future. And it is the duty of all of us to keep up the fight.
We making a difference. These campaigns can change the course of our country's future. And it is the duty of all of us to keep up the fight.
In Parliament, I am confident we will stop No Deal.
At that point, there will be no choice but to seek a fresh mandate from the people and then will come our chance to battle again for Remain and for our place in the EU.
And I and the Liberal Democrats will be in the heart of that battle.
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PORTLAND, Ore.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Eastside Distilling, Inc. (NASDAQ: EAST) today announced the pre-sampling by its subsidiary Outlandish Beverages, LLC, of a new product line for the cannabidiol (CBD) beverage market. The Company’s go-to-market plan is designed to take advantage of Oregon’s pioneering legalization of CBD, and offer aggressively in Oregon as a test market, pending a national launch. The timing of any potential national launch is dependent on the US FDA’s regulation of CBD products in interstate commerce. The full line of Outlandish CBD beverages, the first of which is a seltzer, will initially be available in the state of Oregon which legalized CBD in 2014. The Company believes that Outlandish will be the first CBD beverage produced in a 187 ml slim line can.
The fanciful product branding, created by Sandstrom Partners, reflects Eastside’s continuing collaboration with Sandstrom. In conjunction with the Oregon launch, Eastside has formed Outlandish Beverages, LLC and will commence initial production runs of 187 ml (6 oz cans). To comply with federal regulation, production will be separate from Eastside’s alcohol production and federally bonded space. Hemp CBD is regulated by the Oregon Department of Agriculture, Eastside’s home state. Eastside expects Oregonians will begin to see cans on shelves at bars and restaurants during the second quarter.
The Outlandish lineup of ready-to-drink (RTD) cans will initially include three primary products: a seltzer-based, a ginger-based, and a quinine-based tonic. Further line extensions are planned. Outlandish beverages, formulated by Eastside’s award-winning master distiller, Mel Heim, will include up to 25 milligrams of CBD. Outlandish CBD beverages can be used as a component in uniquely designed drinks limited only by imagination or consumed entirely on their own.
Steve Shum, CEO of Eastside Distilling, said, “In Oregon, hemp CBD beverages of all sorts have proliferated and are widely accepted by consumers. We formed Outlandish Beverages, LLC an Oregon LLC to make and sell hemp derived products that don’t have alcohol and that are outlandishly different than what we currently see in the marketplace. We see this as a logical extension of our beverage business as we further leverage our production and distribution infrastructure in bringing Sandstrom branded Outlandish products to market.”
Robert Manfredonia, President of Eastside, added, “We want to take advantage of our location in Portland to enter this potentially large market through the currently open Oregon market while taking precautions to ensure we are conservative in meeting state and federal regulations in launching Outlandish. We are uniquely positioned to do so as an Oregon company. We are in close communication with our distribution partners in 46 other states and will seek a national presence the minute that federal regulators, particularly the FDA, establish clear rules for interstate sales. We are excited to be launching this new opportunity for Eastside as I believe our early-mover advantage will pay dividends for the company for years to come.”
Mr. Shum concluded, “Although the Outlandish line is designed to go to our natural customer base in the hospitality industry, we are keen to entertain partnerships with an established player in the cannabis and hemp space, where we can bring to the table our skill in beverage development and our knowledge of branding.”
Outlandish LLC makes no claims to health benefits of CBD. We encourage all our customers to do research of their own.
About Eastside Distilling
Eastside Distilling, Inc. (NASDAQ: EAST) has been producing high-quality, award-winning craft spirits in Portland, Oregon since 2008. The company is distinguished by its highly decorated product lineup that includes Redneck Riviera Whiskey, Burnside Bourbon, West End American Whiskey, Goose Hollow Reserve, Below Deck Rums, Portland Potato Vodka, Hue-Hue Coffee Rum and a distinctive line of fruit infused spirits. Eastside Distilling is majority owner of Big Bottom Distilling (makers of The Ninety One Gin, Navy Strength Gin and Delta Rye whiskey) and the Redneck Riviera Whiskey Co. All Eastside, Big Bottom and Redneck Riviera spirits are crafted from natural ingredients for quality and taste. Eastside’s Craft Bottling + Canning subsidiary is one of the Northwest’s leading independent spirit bottlers and ready-to-drink canners. The Company also owns Outlandish Beverages LLC, an Oregon LLC for making and selling products that don’t have alcohol, but include ingredients such as CBD. For more information visit: www.eastsidedistilling.com or follow the company on Twitter and Facebook.
Important Cautions Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
Certain matters discussed in this press release may be forward-looking statements. Such matters involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the following: changes in economic conditions; general competitive factors; acceptance of the Company’s products in the market; the Company’s success in obtaining new customers; the Company’s success in product development; the Company’s ability to execute its business model and strategic plans; the Company’s success in integrating acquired entities and assets, and all the risks and related information described from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), including the financial statements and related information contained in the Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and interim Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q. Examples of forward-looking statements in this release may include statements related to our strategic focus, product verticals, anticipated revenue, and profitability. The Company assumes no obligation to update the cautionary information in this release.
Certain matters discussed in this press release may be forward-looking statements, including those related to: plans for distributing, and the success of, the Outlandish products; adding additional product lines and product launches; actions or positions of the FDA; the regulatory environment for CBD; consumer acceptance of CBD; and the potential for the Company‘s products. Such matters involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially, including the following: Actions or positions the FDA or other regulators may take in conflict with our product launch and plans; unanticipated enforcement action; lack of acceptance of the Company’s products by consumers; failure of the CBD market to grow; changes in regulations; lack of regulatory approval of CBD on a nationwide basis; the Company’s success in product development; the Company’s ability to execute its plans; and all the risks and related information described from time to time in the Company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”).
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CSI: Crime Scene Investigation returns to the scene of the crime for its fifteenth and final season.
From a lethal chemistry classroom to a fatal medical marijuana clinic to a deadly memorabilia convention, the evidence leads to Sin City's most twisted corners. Whatever the case, lead investigator D.B. Russell knows he can rely on the brilliance of blood-work expert Julie Finlay and veteran investigators Nick Stokes, Sara Sidle and Greg Sanders. Yet the final challenge is darkest for the elite team of experts, when a serial killer stalks Las Vegas and his traps threaten to ensnare one of CSI's own.
The pulse-pounding suspense never lets up in the 18 gripping episodes of this 5-disc set.
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Death Wish (DVD, 2018)
Bruce Willis, Kimberly Elise, Vincent D'Onofrio, Elisabeth Shue, Mike Epps, …
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Dr. Paul Kersey is a surgeon who only sees the aftermath of Chicago violence when it is rushed into his ER - until his wife and college-age daughter are viciously attacked in their suburban home. With the police overloaded with crimes, Paul, burning for revenge, hunts his family's assailants to deliver justice.
As the anonymous slayings of criminals grabs the media's attention, the city wonders if this deadly vigilante is a guardian angel or a grim reaper.
Battle Of The Sexes (DVD)
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The electrifying 1973 tennis match between Woman's World number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ of the Men's circuit and serial hustler Bobby Riggs was billed as The Battle of the Sexes and became one of the most watched televised sports events of all time. The match caught the zeitgeist and sparked a global conversation on gender equality, spurring on the feminist movement.
Trapped in the media glare, King and Riggs were on opposite sides of a binary argument, but off-court each was fighting more personal and complex battles. With a supportive husband urging her to fight the Establishment for equal pay, the fiercely private King was also struggling to come to terms with her own sexuality, while Riggs gambled his legacy and reputation in a bid to relive the glories of his past.
Together, Billie and Bobby served up a cultural spectacle that resonated far beyond the tennis courts and animated the discussions between men and women in bedrooms and boardrooms around the world.
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Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue and Hollywood newcomer Jonny Weston star in this inspiring true story of courage and friendship the whole family will love.
When 15-year-old Jay Moriarty discovers that the mythical Mavericks surf break is real, he reaches out to local surfing legend Frosty Hesson to train him to ride it. What begins as a mentorship turns into an extraordinary bond that transforms both their lives, as Jay and Frosty learn valuable lessons about conquering fear in pursuit of your dreams.
Featuring the most spectacular wave footage ever captured on film, Chasing Mavericks is packed with action and drenched with excitement!
Coyote Ugly / Cocktail (DVD)
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When young Violet finally follows her dream and moves to New York to become a songwriter, she knows little about the big city. All her efforts to get a demo tape to a producer are useless, additionally her apartment is broken in to, leaving her with nothing. But a coincidence leads her to Coyote Ugly, a nightclub where only beautiful women call the shots, using their female attraction to drive the guests just crazy. Violet manages to get a position and starts learning the ways of the city.
Tom Cruise is electrifying as Brian Flanagan, a young, confident and aambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro, becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side. But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist, their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life. He realises that he has found someone who can teach him some important truths about love, happiness, and most importantly, about who Brian Flanagan really is.
Philip Noyce - The Saint (English, Italian, Spanish, DVD)
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Want someone to infiltrate a top-secret organization or steal a scientific formula that could change the world for the right price, The Saint's your man. And if you're looking for a sexy sizzler of a thriller, The Saint's your movie.
Val Kilmer plays suave espionage hero Simon Templar - aka The Saint - and Elisabeth Shue costars in the atmospheric mix of bold adventure and grand romance. An array of sophisticated gadgetry is at Templar's command as he plunges into a cloak-and-dagger netherworld of move and countermove. Cool, too, is Templar's knack for coming up with the right disguise at the right time. now you see him. Now you don't... or do you? Each close-call escape is a breathless miracle - and no one knows miracle better than a saint.
Cocktail (DVD)
Tom Cruise, Elisabeth Shue; Directed by Roger Donaldson 1
Tom Cruise is electrifying as Brian Flanagan, a young, confident and aambitious bartender who, with the help of a seasoned pro (Bryan Brown), becomes the toast of Manhattan's Upper East Side.
But when he moves to Jamaica and meets an independent artist (Elisabeth Shue), their vivid romance brings a new perspective to the self-centered bartender's life.
He realises that he has found someone who can teach him some important truths about love, happiness, and most importantly, about who Brian Flanagan really is.
CSI Las Vegas - Season 12 (DVD, Boxed set)
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All 22 episodes from the twelfth season of the US drama following a passionate team of forensic investigators who work the graveyard shift at the Las Vegas Criminalistics Bureau.
Ted Danson, Elisabeth Shue, George Eads
In the city that never sleeps, we pick up with the CSI Las Vegas graveyard shift where we left them in Season 12: on the biggest cliffhanger in the show's history.
D.B. Russell's granddaughter has been kidnapped and his patience with the team is wearing thin as they race against time to find her. With lives and family on the line Season 13 is set to be the most thrilling and action-packed to date.
Heart And Souls (English & Foreign language, DVD)
Robert Downey Jr., Elisabeth Shue, Alfre Woodard, Kyra Sedgwick, Tom Sizemore; Directed by …
One fateful night in 1959, Thomas Reilly is born at the exact moment a bus accident claims the lives of four people. Soon, the four find themselves earthbound and permanently tied to Thomas - a quartet of loving friends only he can see or hear. When they realize their presence is disrupting the boy's life, they make the decision to become invisible to him.
Twenty-seven years later, Thomas has grown into an executive. Finally, the four souls learn that through Thomas they each have one chance to resolve the unfinished business in their lives. To do this, they must temporarily take over his body, but Thomas wants no part of it!
Adventures In Babysitting (DVD)
Elisabeth Shue, Maia Brewton, Keith Coogan, Anthony Rapp, Calvin Levels, …
Babysitter Chris (Elisabeth Shue) sets off to rescue her best friend Brenda from a seedy downtown Chicago bus stop, taking the neighbour's kids - the hormonal Brad, Daryl and nine-year-old Sara - along for the ride. Dodging the criminal elements of the inner-city while getting Brenda, the kids and the family Chevy home in one piece soon becomes a challenging objective.
Behaving Badly (DVD)
Selena Gomez, Nat Wolff, Ashley Richards, Gary Busey, Elisabeth Shue, … 2
American teen comedy starring Nat Wolff and Selena Gomez. Rick (Wolff)'s friends think that Nina Pennington (Gomez) is way out of his league, but Rick is confident he can win her over. He enters into a bet with his friends that he can lose his virginity to her, but he must overcome a number of hurdles in his quest including a horny housewife, a drug-abusing boss and a perverted school principal. The supporting cast includes Heather Graham, Mary-Louise Parker, Jason Lee and Gary Busey.
The Karate Kid - (1984) (English, French, Spanish, DVD)
Ralph Macchio, Elisabeth Shue, Martin Kove, Randee Heller, William Zabka, …
Daniel (Ralph Macchio) arrives at his new school in California and soon finds himself bullied by a bunch of karate-trained creeps. Nevermind, help is on hand in the form of the school janitor (Pat Morita), a wise old martial arts instructor who trains Daniel to become a karate expert. This is lucky, because when the chief bully discovers that Daniel has taken up with his girlfriend, he's not going to be very happy about it.
Piranha 3D - (Anamorphic 3D) (DVD)
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Every year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 for Spring Break, a riot of sun and drunken fun.
But this year, there's something more to worry about than hangovers and complaints from local old timers; a new type of terror is about to be cut loose on Lake Victoria.
After a sudden underwater tremor sets free scores of the prehistoric man-eating fish, an unlikely group of strangers must band together to stop themselves from becoming fish food for the areas new razor-toothed residents.
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Chasing Mavericks (Blu-ray disc)
Gerard Butler, Elisabeth Shue, Leven Rambin, Abigail Spencer, Scott Eastwood, … 1
Gerard Butler stars in this surfing drama. Santa Cruz teenager Jay Moriarty (Jonny Weston) discovers that the Mavericks surf break, one of the biggest waves on Earth, exists only a few miles from his home. Instantly gripped by the dream of surfing the wave, he begs local surfing legend Frosty Hesson (Butler) to help him achieve his goal. But with tide patterns dictating that the Mavericks is due to reappear in just 12 weeks, has Jay got what it takes to conquer this epic wave?
The Karate Kid/The Karate Kid 2/The Karate Kid 3/Next Karate Kid (English & Foreign language, DVD)
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Box set featuring all four 'Karate Kid' movies. In 'The Karate Kid' (1984), Daniel (Ralph Macchio) arrives at his new school in California and soon finds himself bullied by a bunch of karate-trained creeps. Help is on hand in the form of the school janitor (Pat Morita), a wise old martial arts instructor who trains Daniel to become a karate expert. This is lucky, because when the chief bully discovers that Daniel has taken up with his girlfriend, he's not going to be very happy about it. In 'The Karate Kid 2' (1986), Daniel decides to accompany his teacher Mr Miyagi to his home island of Okinawa. Mr Miyagi has not seen his home in 40 years, on account of a vicious feud between him and an old friend over the affections of a woman. Meanwhile, Daniel is in similar trouble after falling for a girl who has captured a bully's fancy. In 'The Karate Kid 3' (1989), Daniel returns to LA and is emotionally blackmailed into defending a championship title he doesn't want, and becomes upset when his mentor Mr Miyagi refuses to train him for the bout. Who is behind this troubling turn of events? None other than Danny's old enemy Kreese (Martin Kove). Finally, in 'The Next Karate Kid' (1994), Julie's (Hilary Swank) parents have recently met a tragic death and as a result she has become rude, violent and very ill-mannered to everybody around her. This causes her to be constantly harrassed by a violent all-male gang. So Mr. Miyagi takes her on as a potential karate champion, helping her stand up to her aggressors and to reclaim her inner and outer strength.
Piranha - 3D (2010) (Blu-ray disc)
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Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Laurence Luckinbill, …
Brian Flanagan (Tom Cruise) is a self-assured young man trying to enter the business world in New York - but the only job he can get is tending a bar. Teaming up with older barman Doug Coughlin (Bryan Brown), Brian soon becomes the hottest cocktail-mixer in town, and the pair plan to open their own chain of bars. Unfortunately, Brian soon discovers that he has responsibilities nearer home.
Link (DVD)
Terence Stamp, Elisabeth Shue, Steven Pinner, Richard Garnett, David O'Hara, … 1
Richard Franklin directs this 1980s horror starring Terence Stamp and Elisabeth Shue. When Jane (Shue), a young zoology student, is invited to work for the summer at the remote home of Dr. Steven Phillip (Stamp), a professor exploring connections between humans and apes, it seems the perfect assignment. Following the professor's mysterious disappearance, Jane finds herself responsible for the three chimps in his home, Voodoo, Imp and Link. With the latter exhibiting rare intelligence and increasingly erratic behaviour, Jane may have a struggle on her hands keeping the house in order...
The Karate Kid (English, Spanish, Italian, Blu-ray disc)
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Leaving Las Vegas (DVD)
Elisabeth Shue, Valeria Golino, Emily Procter, Nicolas Cage, Richard Lewis, …
An alcoholic (Nicolas Cage) decides to travel to Las Vegas to drink himself to death, but when he arrives he embarks on a strange love affair with a prostitute (Elisabeth Shue). He never asks her to change her profession whilst she never asks him to stop drinking. When his health deteriorates, however, she begs him to see a doctor. He refuses and leaves her, putting both their lives on a downward spiral. Nicolas Cage won an Academy Award for Best Actor.
Leaving Las Vegas (Blu-ray disc)
Nicolas Cage, Richard Lewis, Kim Adams, R. Lee Ermey, Valeria Golino, …
CSI - Season 12 (DVD, Boxed set)
Mysterious Skin (DVD)
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Brady Corbet, Elisabeth Shue, Michelle Trachtenberg, Bill Sage, …
Off-beat indie drama. Brian Lackey (Brady Corbet) went missing for five hours when he was eight-years-old, an event that he remains convinced was the result of alien abduction. In the same small Kansas town, teenage hustler Neil McCormick (Joseph Gordon Levitt) is a confused outsider with a promiscuous mother (Elisabeth Shue) and who was abused as a child by his Little League coach (Bill Sage). Locked into their own obsessions, both young men pursue a self-destructive path that will lead them towards each other, and will result in each of them trying to exorcise the demons of their past. Also starring Michelle Trachtenberg.
Deconstructing Harry (DVD)
Woody Allen, Kirstie Alley, Bob Balaban, Billy Crystal, Judy Davis, … 1
Woody Allen stars in and directs this comedy drama. Harry Block (Allen) is a renowned novelist with a habit for using those around him as inspiration for the characters in his books. Just as he is to be awarded an honorary doctorate by the college that expelled him, he suffers with the dreaded writer's block and risks losing his girlfriend, Fay (Elisabeth Shue), to rival writer and old friend Larry (Billy Crystal). The film's latter half, Harry's existential roadtrip, is a tragicomedy homage to Ingmar Bergman's 'Wild Strawberries' (1957), as Harry's fictional characters come alive to challenge him.
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The purpose of the Engineering Ceramics Division of The American Ceramic Society is to stimulate interest in the development and utilization of technology that falls within the broad category termed engineering ceramics. Members accomplish this by means of meetings for the presentation and discussion of professional papers, publication of professional literature, and promotion of scientific and industrial research.
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Yesterday, golfer Dustin Johnson released a statement saying he would be stepping away from the game to take care of "personal challenges." According to a report today on Golf.com, Johnson was suspended six months for testing positive for cocaine. He's allegedly failed three drug tests since 2009, one for weed and two for coke. Why golf, of all sports, should give a shit about these things, we do not know. (Johnson, incidentally, is engaged to Paulina Gretzky, who is basically cocaine in humanoid form.) More interesting is what Golf.com delicately calls Johnson's "sexual indiscretion with at least one wife of a PGA Tour player."
First, the drugs. From the report:
According to the source, Johnson has failed three drug tests: one for marijuana in 2009 and two for cocaine, in 2012 and 2014. He was previously suspended for the 2012 failed test, but that suspension was never made public. Under the PGA Tour's drug-testing policies, the Tour is not required to announce any disciplinary actions against players who test positive for recreational drugs.
In 2012, Johnson played the Cadillac Championship at Doral in March and then did not play again for 11 weeks, until the Memorial in late May. Johnson said at the time that he was not playing because he hurt his back while lifting a jet ski. However, Golf.com's source says that Johnson was actually serving a suspension for failing a drug test for cocaine. The PGA Tour had no official comment at that time and Winkle denied that Johnson had been suspended.
The only PGA Tour statement was this, via Golf Channel:
We have nothing to add to Dustin's statement. But wish him well and look forward to his return to the PGA Tour in the future.
And then there's this, dropped into the middle of the Golf.com story and never elaborated on:
Johnson's conduct has long been a topic of conversation among close observers of the Tour. He is often seen in bars near his home in Jupiter, Fla., and is also known to have had a sexual indiscretion with at least one wife of a PGA Tour player.
Robert Lusetich of Fox Sports says Johnson's actually fooled around with two spouses:
You know any more? Reach us at tips@deadspin.com.
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Paris Opera Ballet, Capitol Theatre, Sydney: January 29, February 4, February 5
IT’S always something of an occasion when a dancer takes on a big role for the first time, particularly in one of the small handful of works in which ballerinas cement their reputation. I remember being thrilled to discover that Alina Cojocaru, then just 21, would tackle her first Odette-Odile in Sydney in 2002 when the Royal Ballet was visiting. That performance at the Capitol Theatre remains fresh in my mind. As will two debuts in Giselle this week, also on the stage of the Capitol Theatre – that of Paris Opera Ballet etoiles Ludmila Pagliero (February 4) and Myriam Ould-Braham (February 5).
The corps de ballet of Paris Opera Ballet in Giselle. Photo: Sebastien Mathe
POB doesn’t just bring a production to town; it brings history. It’s worth noting that this year is the 300th anniversary of what would become POB’s school, the place at which most of its company members have trained to become not just dancers, but Paris Opera Ballet dancers with in a very specific tradition and style. A glance at the program for Giselle shows that all POB’s etoiles trained at the school, with the exception of Argentinian-born Pagliero. Is this why her Giselle was so different in texture from that of Ould-Braham and the etoile who entranced on opening night, Dorothee Gilbert? (My review of the first performance can be seen below.)
The aura of the spirit world hovered over Gilbert from the first. She was modest in manner, quietly radiant in the sweep and romance of her upper body and uncannily quiet in landing from swift, high entrechats and pillowy jetes. Her audience acknowledgement in Act II, after her solo, will stay with me for a very long time. Gilbert came onstage only a short way, curving in on herself and giving the impression of something already disintegrating. In her performance there was the clearest line of action, leading to distraction and death at the end of the first act and diaphanous immateriality in the second.
On Monday Pagliero gave a dramatically different reading. She was large in gesture, flirtatious, wilful, mature. It seemed as if this Giselle was creating an invisible perimeter around her with swooping bends that looked exaggerated when set against the way in which others used their upper bodies. It appeared of little significance to her when her lover Loys – Albrecht in smart peasant-wear – presented her with the daisy from which he has surreptitiously pulled a petal so the message now is, yes, he loves me. Well of course he does. And when Giselle and Albrecht went through their little game of pulling hands away, Giselle was teasingly in charge, quite the forward one. When her exuberant dancing brought on a heart scare, Pagliero made it a moment of high impact, contracting extravagantly with a shudder.
I found it difficult to believe this Giselle would go mad from grief. But rage – that’s possible. She has been mightily humiliated. I got the compelling impression Giselle would be a formidable presence in the woods at night: Myrtha might have to watch her back. I could even believe she saves Albrecht as a demonstration of her abilities.
Pagliero covered the ground voraciously and astonished with super-high entrechats. As with Gilbert and, the following night with Ould-Braham, the audience gasped at the blurringly fast bourrees that zoomed her backwards offstage in Act II. The performance was marred for me by overly noisy footwork and because the Albrecht, Stephane Bullion, had a fairly ordinary night. He didn’t impose himself strongly on the piece and his substitution of double sauts de basque for part of the series of entrechats that represent Albrecht’s forced dance in Act II wasn’t particularly effective. Pagliero didn’t look terribly happy at the curtain call – or is that just a projection of mine? Perhaps things will gel better in the performances tonight (Wednesday February 6) and Friday (February 8).
It was lovely to see Pagliero and Bullion acknowledge the corps, whose contribution is so central to Giselle. They are superlative in their unity of style and purpose and the formations are exceptionally trenchant for this group of “zombie virgins”, as British critic Richard Buckle memorably called the Wilis in a 1962 review. The manner of their final exit in two tightly bunched groups is chilling.
Another relevant Buckle witticism I’d like to share: “Have you noticed, by the way, that the heroine … in French ballets always has eight Friends? That in itself is not so remarkable as the fact of their all being in town on the same day.” The eight Friends in POB’s Giselle are delightful, by the way, making one notice just how good for dance and for this ballet the often maligned Giselle score is.
And now to Ould-Braham, whose natural, girlish appearance – she looks about 16 – and sweet (never saccharine) manner could not be more perfect. You could see she would be putty in the hands of an experienced man, and he would be likely to find her utterly adorable. Buoyant jetes, melting turns, delicate epaulement and the kind of security that banishes any sense of artifice were at Ould-Braham’s command. She was ravishing, carrying into the second act some of the gentle life force that illuminated the first half. This Giselle isn’t really dead until she has saved Albrecht.
Mathieu Ganio partnered both Gilbert and Ould-Braham, and it was fascinating to see him make similar dramatic choices with each, and how they took on a different hue. With both he asserted himself firmly, controlling – albeit most courteously – some of their movements. But he seemed warmer with Ould-Braham; less remote. He danced divinely of course – that exquisite line, magnificent elevation and whisper-quiet control! – and is scheduled to appear again with Ould-Braham tomorrow (February 7) and Saturday evening (February 9). If I were not in Perth for the festival I’d be there again. (Saturday’s matinee is danced by Melanie Hurel – lovely, if her peasant pas is any guide – with fellow premier danseur Florian Magnenet.)
A few final thoughts:
POB’s Giselle has the most brilliant ending to Act I. Usually a bit of a melee forms around Giselle’s body. Here Berthe, Giselle’s mother, simply sees Albrecht off with a long, penetrating stare. Perfect.
No one can really match Marie-Agnes Gillot for command of the stage. Second-cast Emilie Cozette is fine as Myrtha if you haven’t seen Gillot, but doesn’t have her grandeur, nor her ability to come down from a jete without a sound. Nolwenn Daniel made her debut as Myrtha alongside Ould-Braham, and impressed with serious balances on pointe and the way she used the air – the wind beneath her wings, if you like – to convey weightlessness.
Sydney Lyric Orchestra played well for conductor Koen Kessels, who liked to set a lively pace. The brass didn’t have a great night on Monday.
The Capitol Theatre is excellent for large-scale ballet. It would be very pleasant to see more big companies there more often.
A bouquet for premier danseur Audric Bezard, who has danced Hilarion every night so far and did get one thinking seriously about whether Giselle was an extremely silly girl to knock him back.
And many bouquets to Leo Schofield and Ian McRae for bringing POB back to Sydney. In a world in which ballet commentators are forever banging on about the internationalisation of companies and the consequent dilution of national style, POB remains sui generis.
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5 thoughts on “Dorothee Gilbert, Ludmila Pagliero, Myriam Ould-Braham: three Giselles”
brian on February 7, 2013 at 7:12 pm said:
Héloïse Bourdon (20) will also made her debut as Myrtha alongside Mélanie Hurel on Saturday evening.
She was the greatest Nikyia last year at the ONP with Stephane Bullion and a superb Dryades’s Queen last month in Don Quichotte performance !
I am very exciting to hear of her Willis Queen power in Giselle !
deborahjones2012 on February 8, 2013 at 10:15 am said:
Unfortunately I won’t be able to see Bourdan as I’ll be in Perth. A great shame!
jim on February 8, 2013 at 6:06 pm said:
I saw her Nikyia performance in Paris ! She was just fantastic !
Pointes magazine told about her position 9 with her peasant “Pas de Deux” in NY !
Bourdan is absolutely gorgeous, I will book two seats immediately .
Should be fabulous as Willis Queen…
deborahjones2012 on February 8, 2013 at 7:53 pm said:
The cast list I saw had Bourdon as a Wili on Saturday night and Nolwenn Daniel as Myrtha – have you heard of a change? It would not necessarily be surprising if there were one, of course …
Héloïse Bourdon will be on Stage on Saturday evening as Myrtha and Nolwen Daniel on Saturday night …in accordance with the last cast list . | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1064 |
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The Magical World of Harry Potter
Last night, I was finally able to enter the magical world of Harry Potter and forget that I was born a Muggle, if only for the evening.
Getting the train out of London, I headed up to the launch of the original Hogwarts Express and Platform 9 ¾ at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour to mingle with the stars, meet Hedwig the owl and indulge in some Butterbeer.
After I attempted to push my trolley through the wall at Platform 9 ¾, I had a chat with the wonderful Warwick Davis, who played Professor Flitwick in the films, there with his family who were excited to see for themselves all the props from dad’s work.
Mark Williams, aka Arthur Weasley, told me about what he remembers most from his time filming the series. ‘It was hell but I loved it,” he said. ‘I did get to wear some great suits though.’
James and Oliver Phelps, Warwick Davis and Mark Williams
As everyone milled around the stunning Harry Potter sets and the 70-year old steam engine taking centre stage, it was clear that I wasn’t the only one fangirling over the series – presenter Emma Willis admitted that she had already been on the Studio Tour, and had spent the past few months waiting eagerly for the opening of the Hogwarts Express. Lucy Mecklenburgh, however, is now left without any idea of what to do for boyfriend gymnast Louis Smith’s birthday next month, as she had planned to take him on the tour. From how comfortable he seemed with Scabbers the rat crawling on his shoulder, maybe a rodent would be a good idea?!
Emma Willis and Hedwig
Louis Smith and Lucy Mecklenburgh
A brand new fan also popped up at the event – ex-Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt brought along her gorgeous newborn girl. Luckily, the Hogwarts Express will now be a permanent feature, so baby Willow will be able to go back once she’s old enough to have seen the films!
Kimberly Wyatt and daughter Willow
Hogwarts Express and Platform 9 ¾ at the Warner Bros. Studio Tour opens to the public on March 19.
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Letter from José Tomás Canales to Alonso S. Perales
Canales, J. T. (José Tomás), 1877-1976. Letter from José Tomás Canales to Alonso S. Perales - Page 1. April 17, 1933. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. University of Houston Digital Library. Web. July 18, 2019. https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/perales/item/57/show/55.
Canales, J. T. (José Tomás), 1877-1976. (April 17, 1933). Letter from José Tomás Canales to Alonso S. Perales - Page 1. Selections from the Alonso S. Perales Papers. Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries. Retrieved from https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/perales/item/57/show/55
Canales, J. T. (José Tomás), 1877-1976, Letter from José Tomás Canales to Alonso S. Perales - Page 1, April 17, 1933, Selections from the Alonso S. Perales Papers, Special Collections, University of Houston Libraries, accessed July 18, 2019, https://digital.lib.uh.edu/collection/perales/item/57/show/55.
Title Letter from José Tomás Canales to Alonso S. Perales
Canales, J. T. (José Tomás), 1877-1976
Place of Creation (TGN)
Date April 17, 1933
Description Typewritten letter signed by J.T. (José Tomás) Canales, dated Brownsville, Texas, April 17, 1933, to Alonso S. Perales, discussing the participation of women in The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC).
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Subject.Topical (Local)
League of United Latin American Citizens
Perales, Alonso S., 1898-1960
Canales, José Tomás
Subject.Geographic (TGN)
letters (correspondence)
Original Item Location ID 2010-002, Box 4, Folder 11
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Conference In Defense of My People: Alonso S. Perales and the Development of Mexican American Public Intellectuals
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Transcript Office of the HEADQUARTERS President General m «*• ^en^B of "Mil for One and One for Mil' Brownsville, Texas, April 17th, 1933. Mr. Alonso S. Perales, 1225 Alamo National Bldg., San Antonio, Texas. My dear Friend Perales:- I regret that your letter of the 8th arrived during the time I was attending court at Edinburg last wefek and when I returned I was very busy with other matters that required immediate attention, hence my delay in replying thereto. I read the article in La Prensa which I sent you some time ago. It did not come out until the issue of April 15. I did not get to see the article with reference to the organization of the women auxiliary council at Alice. I believe that you are correct with reference to the fact that under our constitution both males and females can become active members of a council. I am glad that I had this_foresight when I wrote that article of the constitution in)^fiLmitting the membership to male persons. Now, with reference to whether it will be better to have our women organize separate from the men or whether to permit them to join the same council is a matter which I would like to let the supreme council decide. I will not undertake to decide such important question by myself. I sent the Alice Women a charter No. 1 as Ladies Auxiliary council, but that charter can be recalled and a new charter substituted. In fact they forwarded a check for $5.00 which I have still in my possession not knowing what to do with it. I have to depend upon you entirely to work out a program of activities at Del Rio. I had an accute attack of
Marta Pérez de Perales, wife of Alonso S. Perales, with her friend Mrs. Keething
General José María Moncada (President of Nicaragua), Fernando Córdoba, Colonel Calvin B. Matthews, and General Anastacio Somoza
Pan American Round Table of Texas
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__label__wiki | 0.59179 | 0.59179 | Items The Tall One
The Tall One: a basketball story
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division
Olson, Gene
Olson, Gene (Author)
Publisher: Dodd, Mead
Shelf locator: Sc D 89-428
Basketball stories
Extent: 211 p. ; 21 cm.
RLIN/OCLC: NYPG88-B91056
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): d279ab50-5c1b-0134-7a67-00505686a51c
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "The Tall One" The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1957. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/65453230-8373-0134-f00d-00505686a51c
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. "The Tall One" New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/65453230-8373-0134-f00d-00505686a51c
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. (1957). The Tall One Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/65453230-8373-0134-f00d-00505686a51c
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The March of Time : radio broadcast, 1935-08-30
Time, inc
WABC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.)
The March of Time collection: radio broadcasts, 1935-1943 (incomplete)
Additional title: March of Time (Radio program)
Time, inc (Producer)
WABC (Radio station : New York, N.Y.) (Contributor)
Opening theme & "Time" commercial announcement -- Los Angeles, California: "Bendix" Trophy air race / Cecil Allen crashed -- Ossining, N.Y. Warden Lawes brings news of new German system for criminals -- France: Death of Henri Barbusse -- Italy: Pope Pius 11th protests Italian censoring of his anti-war speech -- "March of Time" on screen, announcement.
Shelf locator: *LJ-16 8498
Lawes, Lewis Edward, 1883-1947
Barbusse, Henri, 1873-1935 -- Death and burial
Pius XI, Pope, 1857-1939
Mussolini, Benito, 1883-1945
Radio serials -- United States
Air pilots
Prison administration -- New York (State)
Fascism and the Catholic Church -- Italy
Allen, Cecil A
Content: Title and date from original disc label; contents from disc label and audition.
Source note: Streaming files transferred from original audio discs.
Venue: Original broadcast on WABC in New York 1935 August 30.
Citation/reference: Forms part of: March of time collection: radio broadcasts, 1935-1943 (incomplete), *L(Special) 91-25.
Extent: 1 audio disc (15 min.) : analog, 33 1/3 rpm, aluminum-based lacquer, mono ; 16 in.
Radio program of dramatized real news stories and current events re-enacted in a newsreel format.
RLIN/OCLC: 953875075
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 24db36c0-716f-0135-7c2d-13ea256dc2f0
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "The March of Time " The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1935. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e0b028f0-3ba7-0134-4de3-60f81dd2b63c
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. "The March of Time " New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed July 18, 2019. http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e0b028f0-3ba7-0134-4de3-60f81dd2b63c
Rodgers and Hammerstein Archives of Recorded Sound, The New York Public Library. (1935). The March of Time Retrieved from http://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/e0b028f0-3ba7-0134-4de3-60f81dd2b63c
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__label__wiki | 0.563943 | 0.563943 | Harmonic Takes VOS Video Processing to the Cloud
Harmonic has two new cloud-powered extensions of its VOS software-based media processing platform. By changing and shifting video preparation and delivery architectures into a hybrid cloud operation, VOS Cloud has the potential to lower CAPEX involved in building, maintaining and operating a new headend or data centre, and to shorten time to market for new broadcast and OTT.
The first, VOS Cloud, shifts media processing to the cloud, enabling content and service providers to manage their own video production and delivery workflow for broadcast and OTT applications, new or existing, via standard IT hardware, over public or private cloud infrastructure.
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Designed to be elastic and flexible, VOS software was developed to ultimately deploy, scale and operate in public or private cloud - running on top of deployment environments such as OpenStack, AWS and Azure – now available as VOS Cloud. Ingest, playout, graphics, transcoding, encryption and delivery are all managed from one UI. Configuration, deployment and management are handled through VOS Cloud's automated video formation, which uses standard IT deployment templates to set up your processing and delivery workflows.
VOS 360 is somewhat different in that, as one of the first professional grade, native cloud-based media processing services, it is maintained and operated by Harmonic, who monitor and control your quality of experience and service availability 24 hours a day. Built on existing public cloud infrastructure platforms with geographic redundancy and operational resiliency, the VOS 360 service has a simple dashboard for preparing and delivering content and initiating temporary or longer term channels from any location. See www.vos360.tv.
The VOS Cloud platform is currently in trials in OpenStack and public cloud environments with service providers around the world. www.harmonicinc.com | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1079 |
__label__cc | 0.628247 | 0.371753 | News from New Braunfels
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New Braunfels creates first citizens fire academy and 2 more takeaways from the Jan. 28 City Council meeting
The New Braunfels City Council moved through a brief agenda at its second regular meeting of 2019.
Rachel Nelson/Community Impact Newspaper
The New Braunfels City Council moved through a brief agenda at its second regular meeting of 2019. (Rachel Nelson/Community Impact Newspaper)
By Rachel Nelson | 2:48 pm Jan. 29, 2019 CDT Jan 29, 2019 | Updated 4:02 pm Jan. 29, 2019 CDT
The New Braunfels City Council had a brief agenda to cover Jan. 28. Here are some key takeaways from the meeting that lasted just under one hour.
1. New fire academy will educate citizens
Fire Marshal Ethan Lindner offered a presentation regarding the introduction of the New Braunfels Fire Department Citizens Fire Academy.
According to Linder, the first round citizens will take part in the three-month program from March through May by attending classes every Tuesday and on a few Saturdays.
Participants will learn about emergency medical services, the training of firefighters and special rescue operations. They will also spend time at fire stations and riding with the fire department to emergency calls.
Fifteen cadets will be accepted into the academy. To be eligible for the program, applicants must be 18 years or older and complete a criminal background check. For more information, call the city fire administration office at 830-221-4200.
2. City to seek land for southeast library branch
City Council approved an item that allows City Manager Robert Camareno to move forward with pursuing a piece of property that will serve as the future site of a new library branch on the city’s southeast side.
Once a suitable piece of property—approximately five acres—is identified, Camareno will negotiate a price and enter into a letter of intent agreement.
Councilman Justin Meadows, District 2, made a motion to move forward with the initiative, which passed unanimously.
Earlier in the meeting, Mayor Barron Casteel approved a proclamation declaring February 2019 as Love My Library Month, a movement that celebrates libraries of all types.
3. March 3 iCycloVIVA! event gets final approval
City Council unanimously approved the closure of a 1.7-mile section of West San Antonio Street that will take place March 3 from 12:30-3:30 p.m. for the iCycloVIVA! event.
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Ylda Capriccioso, park development manager for the city, explained the event is modeled after a program that began in Columbia 45 years ago where citizens enjoy weekly car-free streets. Today, similar events are found all over the world.
“[CycloiVIVA!] will give citizens the opportunity to explore our city from a different perspective,” Capriccioso said, adding that it will highlight some of the businesses on the city’s west side.
The West San Antonio Street closure will span from Walnut Avenue to Spur Street as it is temporarily transformed into a car-free space for activities such as biking and walking.
Festivities will take place from 1-4 p.m. and feature activity hubs centered around health and family, culture and heritage, and mobility.
Stacey Dicke, director of parks and recreation, said the department hopes to make the event an annual happening.
Rachel Nelson
Rachel Nelson is editor of the New Braunfels edition of Community Impact Newspaper. She covers local business, new development, city and county government, health care, education and transportation. Rachel relocated to Central Texas from Amarillo in 2009 and is a graduate of Texas State University's School of Journalism and Mass Communication.
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Biomass conversion is of high priority for sustainable fuel production, to reduce the reliance of Europe on fossil fuel production and to provide environmentally friendly energy. Aqueous phase reforming (APR) is one of the most promising, competitive ways for the production of liquid and gaseous fuels from biomass, since it is low energy consuming. APR enables processing of wet biomass resources without energy intensive drying and additional hydrogen production from water by the water-gas-shift reaction. Hence, APR is one of the processes that allow fast industrialization of conversion systems suited for wet biomass resources. Catalysis is here the key technology. State-of-the-art catalysts used are a) not optimized and b) can lack hydrothermal stability. Regarding the latter, the paradigm shifts towards carbon supported catalysts, due to its superior hydrothermal stability. Within the project experts for multinational industry, SMEs and academia focus on the optimization of hydrothermally stable carbon supported catalysts for the APR to unleash the potential of catalysts. Methodology employed is not a trial and error optimization. By deduction of fundamental structure-property relationships from highly defined model catalysts a catalyst design capability is build up. This capability will be used for optimization with the objectives to increase catalyst activity, selectivity and hydrothermal stability. Cost efficient routes to produce these catalysts in a technical scale will be evaluated and a demonstration catalysts synthesized and operated in long term tests with technical feedstocks and at a competitive price.
FP7-NMP - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Nanosciences, Nanotechnologies, Materials and new Production Technologies
NMP.2012.1.1-1 - Rational design of nano-catalysts for sustainable energy production based on fundamental understanding
FP7-NMP-2012-SMALL-6
CP-FP - Small or medium-scale focused research project
TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAT DARMSTADT
Karolinenplatz 5
Christof Kuhstoss (Mr.)
ABO AKADEMI
BAYERISCHE FORSCHUNGSALLIANZ BAVARIAN RESEARCH ALLIANCE GMBH
BORESKOV INSTITUTE OF CATALYSIS, SIBERIAN BRANCH OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
B.T.G. BIOMASS TECHNOLOGY GROUP BV
FUTURE CARBON GMBH
JOHNSON MATTHEY PLC
UNIVERSIDAD AUTONOMA DE MADRID
UNIVERSITA DEGLI STUDI DI PALERMO
FRIEDRICH-ALEXANDER-UNIVERSITAET ERLANGEN NUERNBERG
SUSFUELCAT
FP7-NMP
Hydrogen from wet biomass
Hydrogen production from renewable sources is an important step toward reducing Europe’s reliance on fossil fuels. An EU-funded project has made an important contribution in this direction with the development of new catalytic converters.
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To date, hydrogen could only be extracted from biomass – namely, any compostable material – using large amounts of energy. For instance, wet biomass must be dried intensively before processes. But aqueous-phase reforming (APR) offers an attractive alternative to the drying process. In this method, wet biomass comes into contact with a catalyst. Chemical reactions help break down the raw material and release almost pure hydrogen. Importantly, APR does not consume much energy and is carried out at low temperature and pressure. The EU-funded project SUSFUELCAT (Sustainable fuel production by aqueous phase reforming – understanding catalysis and hydrothermal stability of carbon supported noble metals) looked for the key to making the process more efficient: catalysts. Commonly used catalysts contain expensive precious metals such as platinum and palladium, which are distributed over ceramic plates. The SUSFUELCAT team aimed to reduce the amount of precious metals or replace them with other metals without affecting the process efficiency. Specifically, carbon-based materials used as carriers promise long-term stability and environment-friendly recycling of metals. For the optimisation of such catalysts, researchers used a combination of state-of-the-art methods. On a molecular level, they used computer simulations. New analysis techniques allowed researchers to monitor the evolution of APR. Specifically, using spectroscopy, it was possible to see inside the reactor. Long-term experiments conducted by industrial partners were also an important part of the optimisation process. SUSFUELCAT has made an important contribution towards reducing Europe’s reliance on fossil fuels by improving the utilisation of renewable energy sources while reducing the cost of hydrogen production. Project results will also have the added benefit of improving catalyst efficiency in related processes.
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Final Report Summary - SUSFUELCAT (Sustainable fuel production by aqueous phase reforming – understanding catalysis and hydrothermal stability of carbon supported noble metals)
SusFuelCat aims to boost Europe’s expertise on catalysts for sustainable fuel production, especially hydrogen, by the process of Aqueous Phase Reforming (APR). APR is a technology that allows the catalytic conversion of low value biomass streams into biomass based fuels, with catalysts being the key stone in the process. That’s why SusFuelCat aims to gain fundamental material structure-property relationships for the catalyst using model supports and metal nanoparticles.
To deduce fundamental structure-property relationships the properties of catalysts were varied with respect to their active metal, cluster size, pore size, carbon graphitization. Additionally, in-silico studies for theoretical investigations were carried out. Catalyst activity and selectivity were studied experimentally with real- and model-feedstocks to give feedback on the catalytic performance. The hydrothermal stability of the carbon support materials and later on of the catalysts were studied. These results were used for the model catalyst design in the subsequent iteration loops. Throughout the project the economical viability of the envisaged process was monitored.
The project results showed that proper APR catalysts for renewable hydrogen production could be obtained and that a new platform of model catalysts is available now, which can be used for noble metal on carbon catalyst development in general. The experimental data and simulation allowed deducing further mechanistic insights, which are important for the catalyst and process design. Cost estimations show that APR hydrogen can be economic competitive, if the right feedstock is employed. Thus, it is believed that the developed APR technology can be of importance.
Besides this direct impact on the horizon, already further impact becomes apparent for each partner. The pronounced knowledge on well-controlled colloidal based catalysts, methodologies for immobilization and stabilization agent removal, synthesis of high quality carbonaceous materials, great progress on the simulation of the systems and developed experimental protocols have the potential to be of great us in catalysis and neighbouring disciplines in general.
Energy production and supply is one of the most important basics for a high quality of life, industrialization and civilization. Europe’s wealth and leading position in industry depends heavily on energy, for which fossil fuels remain the primary source. In addition to the huge dependency on (mainly non-European) fossil fuel exporting countries, and unstable prices, fossil fuels are a limited resource whose use releases carbon dioxide to the atmosphere, a major contributor to global warming. Hence, economically and environmentally European based sustainable energy production will become ever more pertinent.
For biomass in particular, the energy consumption of the conversion process needs to be as low and the biomass utilization as efficient as possible in order to increase the energy output per square meter of cultivable land. In this project we focus on Aqueous Phase Reforming (APR) of biomass resources. Regarding this the products aimed by APR, viz. hydrogen or, preferably, a combination of hydrogen and alkanes, are of high potential for sustainable fuel production. The sustainably produced hydrogen can be used either as fuel directly or is mandatory in bio-refineries for sustainable liquid fuel production. A major advantage of APR is the use of aqueous or water-soluble feedstocks at reduced temperatures and slightly elevated pressures, enabling processing without energy intensive drying while hydrogen can be in situ generated from biomass by the APR reaction and in parallel from the water content by the Water-Gas-Shift (WGS) reaction. Hence, APR is one of the most promising techniques for sustainable liquid and gaseous fuels production from biomass feedstocks, with catalysts being the key stone in the process.
The versatility of the process, the limited energy consumption and the product flexibility address the crucial challenges of sustainable fuel production from biomass and thus APR can be seen as a major technology to allow rapid industrialization of sustainable fuel production in Europe. In parallel to the interest in sustainable produced hydrogen as fuel, this is also a highly sought commodity, for example to upgrade bio-based mixtures to high quality fuels or chemicals.
A key towards of any successful implementation of APR is catalysis. State-of-the-art catalysts used in lab scale APR have already demonstrated the potential of catalytic APR, but a) are not yet optimized, due to their unknown structure-property relationships, b) require high amounts of costly noble metals (> 5 wt.%) and c) their hydrothermal stability is shown to be limited. For a European APR-based sustainable fuel production to be viable, key objectives of catalyst optimization are a gain in energy efficiency of the process, reduction of total costs of catalyst and independency on material imports for catalyst production. Regarding the latter, the paradigm shifts towards carbon supported catalysts, due to their superior hydrothermal stability. Current research on APR-catalysts is rather unstructured and diversified, hence recommendations to avoid such drawbacks are not clearly presented. In addition, a criterion is to lower the amount of costly noble metal. For all metals a considerable recycling industry is available, so that limited technical uses would not be considered a threat for the existing supplies. However, a considerable use in APR could increase market prices for precious metals. For example, catalysts (mostly automotive applications) already account for one third of annual platinum production. Aqueous phase reforming may be applied in similar smaller units, to allow use at remote locations/close to biomass resources which may mean that total metal inventories are small, at the same time rendering recycling more costly. The use of carbon supports, which are focused on in SusFuelCat, also allows easy and more environmental friendly metal recycling by burning of the carbon support. The high metal content residues can then be easily converted to new catalysts.
The two primary objectives of the project are:
a) To unleash the potential of carbon supported catalysts to establish APR as an energy efficient process to convert different biomass based streams to sustainable fuels and to decrease time to market for a commercial APR catalyst.
b) To generate data to allow the design and scale up of the APR process towards a further demonstration level. The final target is to show the technical and economic viability of the global process.
To achieve this, fundamental material structure-property relationships for the catalyst should be gained. Model supports and metal nanoparticles play a major role for this aim, thus studying how properties of catalysts are varied with respect to their active metal, cluster size, pore size, carbon graphitization will be carried out. These materials form the basis for experimentally catalytic studies, which will be evaluated together with the results from the material characterization and additional in-silico studies. Furthermore, the information obtained shall be used continuously to evaluate the economic viability of the envisaged process.
Thus, the two primary objective can be broken down the following R&D targets:
Nanoparticle synthesis
- Avoiding the undefined influence of the support during nanoparticle deposition leading to broad cluster size distributions through synthesizing well defined colloidal solutions of nanoparticles. For the various metals to study (Ru, Re, Pt, Ni, Pd, Co) synthesis protocols for the polyol or micro-emulsion technique should be developed.
- Studying the influence of upscaling the colloidal synthesis method on the cluster sizes.
- Establishing methodologies for immobilization of these well defined nanoparticles in supports, either through post immobilization or in situ synthesis.
- Establishing methodologies for efficient removal of the capping agents employed in colloidal solutions and its influence on the cluster size
- Comparison of “colloidal” synthesis routes to classical impregnation routes.
Carbon support synthesis
- Production of model porous carbons with inner porosity varying in pore size and graphitization, which are needed as basis for model catalysts to deduce structure-property relationships.
- Production of carbon nanofibers as material with external surface and possibility for superior stability.
- Detailed characterization of materials properties.
- Comparison of model carbon to commercial activated carbons and carbon blacks.
in-silico studies
- individuating the best performing approaches QM, MD, MC or hybrid
- calibration of methods
- realizing metals as clusters or periodic facets
- studying how metal clusters form on carbon supports
- studying sorption processes
- deducing possible reaction pathways
Hydrothermal stability
- Testing hydrothermal stability of different model and commercial carbons (no Pt).
- Testing possibilities to increase hydrothermal of carbon supports.
- Testing hydrothermal stability of catalysts (with Pt).
Catalytic experiments
- Screening of activity and selectivity for different active metals and supports
- Handling studies for different sized supports
- Deduce proper conditions and protocols for APR catalyst testing.
- More detailed studies on feedstock influence (diastereomer influence, C6 sugar alcohols, C5 sugar alcohols, C3 sugar alcohols and acids).
- Detailed study on residence time influence to obtain selectivity vs. degree of conversion
- Obtaining database for reaction network analysis
- Obtaining database for kinetic modeling and flow sheeting
- Carrying out long term experiments to study stability for selected catalysts
- Studying reactivation protocols for deactivated catalysts
- Continuously accompanying the development through assessing the catalyst production costs and hydrogen production costs through APR
- Continuously refining the cost calculations
- Providing process insights through chemical reaction engineering simulations to study possibilities how to increase the overall yield.
- Providing process insights through flow sheeting to study possibilities how to increase the economics of the overall process.
Subsequently the main results for the different targets are presented in a concise manner.
Main results on nanoparticle synthesis
Regarding metal model material nanoparticles (NP)s, they were synthesized as colloids by colloidal and the polyol methods and also by microemulsion method with various capping agents and surfactants for six metals. In total more than 400 syntheses were carried out, including a broad screening of reaction systems and reagents and characterization to assess structure. Particle size variations within the following boarders could be obtained: Pt (2.5 – 8.3 nm), Pd (3 – 13 nm), Re (0.7 – 1.4 nm), Ru (1.6 – 4.5 nm), Co (1.8 -18.1 nm) and Ni (2.6 – 9.8 nm). Thereby narrow particle size distributions could be achieved and the sizes are within the interesting range for catalysis. The polyol method was applied for synthesis of Co, Ni and Ru metal NPs. As a stabilization agent polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), dodecylamine (DDA), polyethylene glycol (PEG) and 3-mercaptopropionic acid (3-MPA) were employed. TEM, XRD, UV-Vis spectroscopy and XPS were applied to characterize these NPs.
The Pd colloids were prepared using PVP as caping agent and ethanol and methanol as reducing agents. The nanoparticle size was found to decrease with increasing alcohol concentration and PVP dose. The water/AOT/isooctane system was selected for microemulsion synthesis in combination with N2H4 and NaBH4 as reducing agents (Colloids and Surfaces A 2016, 497, 28) (Perez-Coronado et al., 2016). Other systems evaluated for microemulsion synthesis where those based on cetyltrimethylammoniumbromid (CTAB) and Triton X-114 surfactants. The water-to-AOT molar ratio (w0) was the most influencing factor. Smaller nanoparticle size was obtained for low ratios, although higher amount of AOT remained on nanoparticles even after purification. Lower agglomeration and higher hydrophilicity of nanoparticles was observed afterwashing with methanol. Pd nanoparticle size was in a broad range for colloidal (3-13 nm) than for micoremulsion synthesis (6-10 nm).
The preparation of Pt nanoparticles Pt using PVA and PVP-based colloidal synthesis with methanol and NaBH4 showed an influence of synthesis variables similar to that of Pd, although lower tuneability of nanoparticle size (3-6 nm) was achieved . Narrower size distributions were obtained with NaBH4. The microemulsion synthesis with the water/AOT/n-heptane system provided witha a broader range of NPs mean size (1-7 nm). A better tailoring of the properties of the Pt nanoparticles was achieved varying the type of reducing agent, the reducing agent/Pt ratio and water/AOT ratio. The Re colloids were synthesized by simple colloidal (PVP) and microemulsion methods (water/AOT/isooctane) (Bedia et al., 2015) (Colloids and Surfaces A 2015, 469, 202). A strong reducing agent (NaBH4) and hydrogen atmosphere was needed to achieve more complete reduction. Reduction rate was much affected by temperature, although above 60ºC fast reoxidation was observed. The main tool to adjust nanoparticle size was the addition rate of the reducing agent and the PVP to Re molar ratio, however a narrow range of mean size was achieved (0.7–1.4 nm).
Co, Ni and Ru nanoparticles were prepared by reduction of the corresponding chloride precursors in ethylene glycol (10 g/L) (reductant for Ru) using PVP as a stabilizer as well as sodium borohydride as a reductant in the temperature range from 170 to 240oC for Ru NPs, from 23 to 170°C for Ni NPs and from 7 to 140°C for Co NPs. In addition to a typical polyol technique, Ru NPs synthesis using microwaves along with sodium borohydride reduction at room temperature was applied as an effective alternative approach. The effect of gas atmosphere, reduction temperature, the ratio metal/PVP, as well as of metal concentration in the colloidal solution, was investigated to explore regularities of metal NPs formation as well as to develop an approach to the synthesis of metal NPs with a controllable size. Reduction of Co, Ni and Ru precursors was found to be sensitive to air and had to be carried out under an inert atmosphere. A special attention was paid to a possibility of increasing Ru/PVP ratio compared to the classical polyol methods used Ru/PVP = 1/20-1/50 in order to simplify PVP removal after the final deposition of Ru NPs on the catalyst support. Decrease of reduction temperature and Ru/PVP ratio from 1/1 to 1/50 resulted in slight decrease of NPs size from 2.1 to 1.7 nm with a narrower size distribution while no clear effect was observed when the initial Ru concentration increased from 0.001 to 0.1 mol/L (Int. J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 13, 15) The oxidative atmosphere and increase of the reduction temperature was found to increase Ni and Co NPs size favoring NPs growth versus nucleation and clearly indicating different kinetics of NPs formation in the case of base and noble metals. Thus, the size of Ni NPs formed at 140°C in air was 5.4 nm compared to 3.2 nm for that formed in Ar. Co NPs synthesis required only inert atmosphere due to low stability and a fast reoxidation. The average diameter of Ni NPs size increased from 2.6 to 3.2 nm when the reduction temperature increased from 23 to 140°C, when the temperature was increased to 180 C the Ni NPs size increased to 9.8 nm. Similarly, Co NPs size increased from 1.8 to 2.6 nm with the temperature was increased from 7 to 23°C, whereas further changes from 23 to 100°C affected less significantly the NPs size (Int. J. Nanotechnol. 2016, 13, 4).
The microemulsion method was applied for Co and Ni NPs synthesis. As a stabilization agent and emulsion stabilizer dioctyl sulfosuccinate (AOT), cetyltrimethylammoniumbromid (CTAB) and Triton X-114 were employed. Microemulsion approach was studied in detail to establish the operating parameters for size-controllable synthesis of Ni and Co NPs. Effect of the metal precursor nature, the oil phase, the surfactant, the order of microemulsion blending and injecting, as well as water-to-surfactant ratio was explored from the viewpoint of practical synthesis. Colloidal Ni and Co metal NPs were prepared by the reversed microemulsion method using metal chloride and nitrate aqueous solutions (microemulsion I) and hydrazine hydrate as reductant (microemulsion II) in the presence of CTAB or AOT as well as n-octane and n-butanol or n-hexanol as oil phases. Mixing of two microemulsions and heating up to 80оС resulted in formation of series of Ni and Co nanoparticles with mean sizes varied from 2.6 to 3.3 nm and from 1.0 to 5.4 nm, respectively. Utilization of cationic CTAB provided formation of Ni and Co NPs with a narrow size distribution while anionic AOT resulted in formation of metal hydroxide instead of NPs according to UV-Vis. Increase of the heating time and decrease of the water-to-oil ratio gave a rise of NPs size. Probably solvent evaporation involved a drastic NPs aggregation process even if initially reversed micelles were stabilized in the solution as rather small NPs as a consequence of the intermicellar material exchange.
The scaling up of the lab synthesis routes was evaluated with the view of preparing large batches for partners and providing input for the evaluation of the synthesis routes at industrial scale. The first approach to scaling-up was to increase the reaction volume for colloidal synthesis to 500 mL, which was accomplished with excellent reproducibility of nanoparticle size and distribution for Pd, Pt and Re. Additional scaling-up was achieved in the case of the colloidal synthesis of Pt nanoparticles by increasing the concentration of precursor salt and PVP. Next efforts were centered in the reduction of the reaction volume employed to obtain the Pt colloids by increasing the concentration of the stock solutions. Reductions in the reaction volume of around 68% were achieved with only slight variations in the mean NP size (<10%) and in the NP size. The high viscosity of concentrated PVP stock solutions was a limiting factor for additional reduction of reaction volume. Furthermore, scaling up of Ru NPs polyol synthesis was studied both through the preparation of more concentrated Ru colloids or increasing the volume of the synthesized colloid. For Ru colloids with Ru/PVP = 1/5 it was found that 10-fold increase of Ru(3+) concentration from 0.01 to 0.1 M resulted in 1.3 fold increase of NPs size (from 2.1 to 2.8 nm), while at Ru/PVP = 1/10 even 100-fold increase of Ru(3+) concentration from 0.001 to 0.1 M colloid resulted in unproportional 1.5 fold NPs size increase (from 1.7 to 2.6 nm). Furthermore 20-fold increase of Ru colloid volume from 5 to 100 mL gave an increase of the average NPs size from 2.1 to 2.7 nm and from 1.7 to 2.6 nm for Ru/PVP = 1/5 and 1/10, correspondingly. Thus, it was demonstrated that required catalytically active metal NPs with controllable size can be prepared in bench scale quantities with a high metal/PVP ratio suited for further immobilization of prepared colloids on carbon supports. (Catal. Sci. Technol. 2016, 6, 8490).
The stability of Pd, Pt and Re nanoparticles obtained by colloidal synthesis was studied by aging of colloids and monitoring. Re colloids were found to be highly unstable and showed a tendency to reoxidize few hours after synthesis. Pd colloids showed a slight increase of the nanoparticle size 2-3 weeks after preparation, with an increase of about 11-13 % after four months. This tendency was more pronounced for the colloids with nanoparticles of higher size. In the case of Pt no significant increase in nanoparticle size was observed after an ageing time of two months. Colloidal solutions containing Ru, Pt and Pd NPs kept in fridge during 1-2 years were analyzed by TEM. It was shown that only small changes in NPs mean size and particles size distribution occurred during these periods indicating that developed methods of colloidal synthesis provided high nanoparticles stability. Thus, for PVP-capped Ru NPs average particle size dn was changed from 2.3 to 2.4 nm in 2 months, and from 2.3 to 2.7 nm in 24 months, for Pt-MeOH50-PVP10 the average particle size dn practically did not change in 18 months being 3.4 nm, for Pt-NaBH4 10-PVP 100 dn increased from 2.3 to 2.6 nm in 18 months, and for Pd-PdV3 dn changed from 2.0 to 2.1 nm in 20 months.
The immobilization of these well-defined nanoparticles on porous carbons and removal of the stabilization agent was studied in detail. The nanoparticle colloids were impregnated on different supports using water and methanol. The resulting catalysts exhibited poor surface area and low CO chemisorption, due to the blocking effect of the remaining PVP or AOT. Stability tests in water at room temperature showed some leaching of nanoparticles for all the supports (commercial activated carbons, CNFs, CDCs). The solvent used during impregnation and the chemical surface of the support influenced stability. Additional stability was achieved through a novel synthesis method of Pt/C catalysts with size-controlled nanoparticles based on in-situ synthesis of the nanoparticles, i.e. reduction with NaBH4 in the presence of a support and PVP (Catal. Sci. Technol. 2016, 6, 5196). Compared to the conventional ex situ route (colloidal synthesis followed by impregnation), this in situ route also yielded smaller nanoparticles (2.5–3.9 nm) of narrower size distribution. The method was also applicable to Pd/C catalysts synthesis. PVP-stabilized Ru NPs were immobilized on a mesoporous carbon Sibunit, applied as a reference, macroporous carbon nanofibers of platelet structure (CNF-Pl) and micro-/mesoporous TiC carbide-derived carbon (CDC) providing 1.7÷2.9 wt.% Ru/C catalysts with the mean Ru size 2.1÷2.7 nm. Since the presence of PVP on the catalyst surface drastically diminished activity in structure sensitive galactose to galactitol hydrogenation, different PVP removal and support modification methods were tested to elucidate the effect of support hydrophilicity/ hydrophobicity, preliminary support functionalization, additional Ru NPs washing prior to immobilization as well as PVP removal degree on catalytic behavior. Several approaches for PVP removal were applied such as solvothermal (with water and acetic acid aqueous solutions at 220°C) and thermal post-treatment (in air, argon, hydrogen or nitrogen at different temperatures) not resulting in noticeable changes in metal NPs size. For characterization of the carbon supports and synthesized catalysts TEM, XPS, XRD, XRF, water adsorption/desorption experiments and N2 physisorption were applied. Carbon supports were functionalized before Ru NPs immobilization by pretreatment with 5 wt.% HNO3, HNO3 conc., Ar (700oC), air (350oC), H2 (700oC) without visible support microstructure alterations. Textural properties of Ru/C catalysts purified from PVP did not correlate with their catalytic activity. The thermal post-treatment in air at 180°C followed by reduction at 250°C was found to be more effective in the case of Sibunit and CNF-Pl while solvothermal post-treatment in water at 220°C (PN2 25 bar) improved significantly the activity of TiC-CDC based catalysts. Untreated Sibunit and CNF-Pl carbon supports provided higher activity in galactose hydrogenation with Ru/Sibunit exhibiting the best catalytic activity being also the most hydrophilic according to water sorption isotherms. Catalytic activity of untreated micro-/mesoporous Ru/TiC-CDC increased noticeably depending on the support pretreatment in the row: untreated < 5% HNO3 < HNO3 conc. Additional TiC-CDC support functionalization was proposed to be required because of a relatively low amount of oxygen-containing groups on the surface compared to Sibunit and CNF-Pl. Carbon supported PVP-capped Ni and Co NPs were purified from PVP by both chemical washing (water or aqueous solutions of acetic acid) procedure and thermal post-treatment resulted in significant metal leaching, oxidation or sintering and thereby catalysts deactivating (Catal. Sci. Technol. 2016, 6, 8490).
Removal of PVP and AOT blocking the catalyst pores and the active surface was achieved by a novel method (Lemus et al., 2016) based in the activation of the catalysts at APR conditions (water at 200ºC, water+acetic acid at 200ºC). Metal loss was negligible for Pt/C catalysts while PVP was almost completely removed; hence, most of the porosity was recovered and the dispersion measured by CO chemisorption increased from 5 to 34–75%. Water at 200 °C was more effective than diluted acetic acid for the removal of PVP. The removal of the PVP at APR conditions also increased the stability of the catalysts due to improved metal-carbon interaction, showing negligible leaching of the metal phase. Likewise, the Pt nanoparticles did not undergo significant changes either in size or morphology. In the case of Pd this novel method could not be applied successfully, as sintering of the metal nanoparticles occurred and some leaching was observed. Massive leaching was observed in the case of Re based catalysts at APR conditions. The removal of AOT was also achieved by treatment at APR conditions, as evidenced by the recovery of the porosity of the catalysts, but CO chemisorption tests evidenced poisoning/blocking of the metal phase. The studies showed that with specialized posttreatments a high accessibility of the active sites can be combined with a high stability of the immobilized nanoparticles. Without this developed posttreatment active and stable catalysts cannot be obtained.
Furthermore, for the comparison several variations of catalysts were prepared by classical methods and on reference carbon material.
Main results on carbon support synthesis
Carbon supports with high inner porosity were synthesized from the partner FAU by the reactive extraction of carbides (CDC, carbide-derived carbons). Microporous material with pores below 1 nm were obtained from titanium carbide with extraction temperatures below 1000 °C. The specific surface area for this microporous and amorphous carbon is approx. 1600 m2/ g. Two different feeds of TiC were studied with approx. 2.5 μm and 50 μm average particle size. Interestingly, the resulting pore sizes differed slightly. Analysing the results more carefully reveals that the temperature onset for increasing pore size and crystallinity differs. Thus at 1200 °C the resulting pore diameter is 1.68 nm for the 2.5 µm fraction and 1.14 nm for the 50 µm fraction. A possible heat transfer limitation, which could lead to this phenomenon could be excluded. Thus, most probably different amounts of metals impurities (e.g. iron) are responsible for the difference.
To obtain mesoporous carbons it was envisaged to employ Mo2C as precursor. It was demonstrated that highly mesoporous materials with pore sizes starting at 4 nm are obtained when extracting Mo2C at 1200 °C. Nevertheless, these materials are not suitable for use in the experimental testing as the commercial raw material didn’t show the requested particle size. The resulting catalysts would lead to too high pressure drops. To obtain the envisages mesoporous carbons in correct particle size, the extraction temperature above 1200 °C was studied for the first time and for titanium carbide. Importantly mesoporous materials, with a narrow pore size distribution around 3.7 nm and a specific surface area of 450 m2/g resulted from titanium carbide at 1400 °C (Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 5719). At lower temperatures the pore size can be varied in a bimodal micro- and mesoporous distribution. In parallel with increasing temperature the materials crystallinity changes from amorphous to more graphitic in the new temperature regime for 1200 to 1600 °C, resulting in graphite crystals approx. 20 nm in diameter and above 10 stacks of graphene. The porous carbon inner surface could be functionalized with oxygen by different post treatments. Thereby the amount of oxygen and the change in pore structure increases for the different reactants in the following order: air < sulfuric acid < nitric acid. As a recommendation the sulfuric acid treatment is suitable for amorphous and the nitric acid one for more graphitic carbon. The oxygen content shows a direct influence on the water interaction and with increasing content the hydrophobic character changes to a hydrophilic one. It is noteworthy that the liquid functionalization with sulphuric acid and nitric acid leads to an elevated sulphur or nitrogen concentration, respectively. These results can be either explained with remaining amounts of the corresponding acid in the pores or the formation of sulphur/nitrogen containing groups during the functionalization. As the materials were washed intensively to remove the acids, most likely sulphur and nitrogen containing surface groups form. In summary for all materials suitable post treatment conditions were identified, where some oxygen groups are introduced to break the hydrophobic character, but the specific surface are and pore site distribution is not altered.
Regarding carbon supports with mainly external surface area, the partner FC was successful in establishing a synthesis route for high quality carbon nanofibres (CNF) showing a specific surface area of approx. 125 m2/g. Specifically so called platelet type CNFs were produced. Quality of CNF morphology was determined in four different aspects. First is the selectivity towards platelet type fibers and avoiding screws type ones. As the screws expose no graphene edges, they a supposed to stabilize the Pt to a lower amount. The second aspect of the morphology quality was a distribution of nanofiber diameters in the synthesized CNF-PL when a smaller range of CNF-PL diameters was considered as a sign of better quality. A third aspect is crystallinity or specifically additional amorphous carbon deposits. A forth important aspect is CNF nanomaterial purification from CNF-synthesis catalyst embedded in the carbon support. Within the project the preparation procedure and CNF synthesis catalyst preparation and handling could be optimized to finally satisfy all 4 criteria and produce highly selective platelet type CNFs, being very crystalline and showing a narrow diameter distribution around 150 nm. The purification in non-oxidizing acids was optimized to allow full removal of the metal and metal oxide catalyst used during the synthesis. The CNF can either be produced as dry powder or for improved handling as wet paste of known water content. Optimized material was produced on larger scale.
Main results on in-silico studies
To provide insight with calculations the pathway to carry out simulation studies on the APR was paved. Therefore, exchange-correlation functionals were calibrated and tested for their accuracy for Ni, Ru, Pd, Re, Pt surfaces. It was assured that the structural features and adsorption energy for water monomer can be described accurately.
The co-adsorption of polyols with a water molecule was studied on bare Pd(111), Re(0001) and Ru(0001) surfaces. The adsorption mode which was selected for this investigation can be considered representative of early stages possibly occurring in metal-catalyzed reactions in water. On the bare metals, the adsorption geometry is always characterized by one hydroxyl group interacting atop with the O-H bond parallel to the metallic surface, the residual fragment pointing outward. The three metals show different features with respect to the interactions with the polyols, being the adsorption energy smaller for Pd and quite similar for Re and Ru. In the presence of water co-adsorbed on the metal surfaces, two different configurations were found for the different polyalcohols. The occurrence of a given configuration for a specific polyol seemed to be determined by a balance of competing and cooperative energetic factors, which were related both to the polyol size and to the metal nature. In particular, the investigated polyols are strongly stabilized when adsorbed in the presence of water on Pd, whereas when the co-adsorption takes place on Ru and Re this effect is downsized, very likely due to their larger oxophylicity as detailed in (J. Phys. Chem. C 2015, 119, 17182).
Furthermore, a study on the nucleation of Pt, Pd and mixtures with Ni and Ru on graphene with and without vacancies. Furthermore, the adsorption of polyols (up to C4) on Ni, Ru , Pd and Re could be simulated. In particular, the nucleation of homonuclear (Ni, Pd, Pt, Re) and heteronuclear clusters (Ni-Pd, Re-Pt) on a graphene monovacancy was investigated; this study was focused on the analysis of the magnetic, energetic and structural features of the defective graphene during the trapping of the metal atom and the subsequent growing of the homo and hetero metallic cluster. It emerges that this event is regulated by the different affinity of the metal atoms to both the monovacany and the pristine graphene, the metal bulk cohesive energies and to the relative stability of the nucleation seeds (J. Phys. Chem. C 2016, 120, 12022).
Atomistic insights and detailed reaction mechanism were deduced for the reforming of 1,2-propandiol (1,2-PDO) on small Pt clusters. 1,2-PDO was selected as model substrate for polyfunctional oxygenated molecules present in the biomass based feeds. The reactivity of 1,2-PDO was investigated selecting as reliable model of a Pt catalyst, a cluster composed by thirty atoms opportunely cut out from the fcc platinum bulk. The reaction mechanism for the decomposition of the 1,2-PDO, was devised and fully characterized by means of ab-initio methods. The resulting reaction network formed by C-H, O-H and C-C bond scissions can be found at the project website (http://susfuelcat.eu/files/SusFuelCat_Conference_Project_Posters.pdf; UNIPA poster) and is also under publication by Duca et al.
The energy barriers and stabilities given in the network allow to discuss the main reaction pathways and possible strong adsorbing intermediates, which could poison the catalyst. Comparing the in-silicon and experimental results, in experiments hydroxyacetone is the main product, which agrees with the low activation barriers calculated for the two dehydrogenation reactions leading to this species. Additionally, in the experiments significant amounts of propanal were observed. The presence of this aldehyde suggests that C-O bond cleavage may occur at the early stages of the reaction, before the C-C bond cleavage. Therefore, for selected intermediates with a low degree of dehydrogenation, the activation barriers for the C2-O2 bond cleavage, leading to precursors of propanal, were calculated. According to this calculations, C-O cleavages should not occur at the first stages of the reaction. Moreover, it has also to be considered that various examples in the literature are reported demonstrating that during the reforming on metallic surfaces the C-O bond cleavage is not competitive with other processes.
In a similar manner, the reforming of ethylene glycole (EG) on Pd sub-nanometric catalyst was studied. The deduced reaction network is also given at the same poster as one paragraph prior. Moreover, this system allowed us to explore by means of ab-initio techniques all the reactive channels associated to the ethylene glycol decomposition reaction; this implied the construction of a relatively large grid of possible events that enabled to deepen also the issue concerning the energetic ordering of reactive pathways. The whole reaction network for the decomposition of ethylene-glycol was outlined and, within a graph theory based approach, all the pathways starting from C2 and leading to CO and H2 were analyzed and compared, making possible to draw a comprehensive picture of the competitive routes that enable the production of hydrogen on a sub-nanometric palladium cluster. In detail, the protocol for the reaction network analysis developed can be divided into three steps: i) ab-initio calculation of the activation barriers and pre-sieving of the molecular events, ii) construction of the graph representing the final reaction network, iii) analysis of all the possible pathways.
Main results on hydrothermal stability
Carbide-derived carbons (CDC) and carbon nano fibers (CNF) produced within the project as also commercial activated carbon and carbon black were studied for their stability during hydrothermal treatment. In situ experiments were carried out in water vapor and TGA. Post mortem characterization (XRD, TPO and N2-sorption) was carried out for experiments where material was treated at 240 °C in the liquid phase for 7 days and characterized post mortem. The results show that the SusFuelCat carbons (CDC, CNF) and the carbon black are highly stable against hydrothermal attack, while the commercial activated carbon, showed a pronounced lower stability. Stability against water vapour or oxygen was studied in a temperature programed oxidation, hence with contiguously increasing temperature. Assessing the stability is carried out by comparing the onset temperature for oxidation.
It was shown that the onset temperature of decomposition in oxygen increases with the crystallinity of the materials from 480 °C to 675 °C (Chem. Mater. 2015, 27, 5719), showing the huge influence of the carbon support type on stability. The water vapour studies gave in principle the same trend, but the stability is increased to higher temperatures and above 600 °C. The amorphous activated carbon however show a continuous mass loss also till 600 °C and not a very sharp on-set of decomposition. The stability test which is most close to the APR reaction conditions was a 7 day hydrothermal stress test in an autoclave at 240 °C. Here no in situ data is obtained but post mortem characterization carried out. After this stress test the amorphous activated carbon showed a reduction of its specific surface area (initial 900 m2/g) by 20 %. Most likely surface functional groups were build, which increase the mass of the material. Graphitic materials like CNF or carbon black didn’t show a similar loss in specific surface area, but have in general a lower specific surface area below 200 m2/g from the beginning. Interestingly amorphous carbide-derived carbon with an interestingly high surface above 1600 m2/g didn’t show a reduction of specific surface area. More graphitic CDC also shows no surface area loss, but has interestingly a starting surface area which is comparable to the commercial activated carbon, while being not amorphous. Thus CDCs are a highly interesting catalyst support for reactions carried out under hydrothermal conditions, where stability can be an issue.
Due to the already very good stability, posttreatments of the carbon supports were only studied to a minor amount. In general oxidative methods, which remove the amorphous carbons and leave the more graphitic one behind were studied. Materials studied were the amorphous activated carbon, amorphous CDC and graphitic CNF. Air oxidation at 350 and 425 °C als also a liquid phase oxidation with nitric acid was studied. For the air oxidation at 350 °C no mass loss and thus change of any materials was observed. Air oxidation at 425 °C gave a mass loss of approx. 15 wt.-% for all materials. Despite this removal of less stable carbon the post treated materials didn’t show an increased oxidation resistance, but rather a slightly reduced one. Most likely during the oxidative post treatment slightly additional defects are introduced, which are starting point for later attacks. Thus, no increased, but slightly decreased stability results. Furthermore, it was observed that due to the post treatment, some surface groups were newly introduced. Within the project we demonstrated that Pt/C catalysts with a higher surface acidity favor alkane production in the aqueous phase reforming of xylitol while the ones with lower acidities generate hydrogen with high selectivity and turn-over-frequency (Catal. Sci. Technol. 2014, 4, 387). Thus, these additional surface groups are unwanted and no post treatment of the carbons is recommended.
To study the possible influence of the metal in the final catalyst on the stability, procedures to deposit high amounts of Pt but with comparable particle size needed developed, as it was assumed that this pronounced higher loading would accelerate the stress test. Starting from chloroplatinic acid dissolved in aceton a solution 2 – 3 time more than the pore volume was added to the carbon samples. Intense ultrasound was applied to support a homogeneous infiltration of the solution. After drying a reduction procedure was applied, which either was relatively harsh and started directly at 300 °C with H2 or was more mild and with H2 already during the heating ramp till 300 °C. Loadings ranging from 15 to 20 wt.-% could be achieved at particle sizes ranging for the mild reduction from 2.9 to 4.5 nm. The harsh reduction gave unsatisfactory sizes from 5.1 to 36 nm. The materials were employed in a 7 day hydrothermal stress test at 240 °C. Characterization of the stressed material showed that the Pt loading reduced only slightly e.g. from 18.2 to 17.7 wt-%. This is most likely related to a fast leaching of not completely reduced Pt precursor and not due to leaching of metallic Pt clusters under hydrothermal conditions. Pt particles sizes as also the specific surface area remained unchanged within the stress test. Comparing the onset for oxidation with and without Pt the temperature where decomposition starts lowers by approx. 100 °C as the decomposition is catalyzed by Pt. Nevertheless, still a very high and sufficient stability and onset of oxidation of approx. 400 °C was achieved for the graphitic carbon supports.
Main results on catalytic experiments
To obtain feedback from catalytic experiments three continuous set-ups were reconfigured and set into operation to study APR of i) C5 and C6 polyols in lab scale, ii) APR of C1-C3 oxygenates in lab scale and iii) the long term APR of various feeds in validation scale.
Testing of unsupported colloidal particles faced several technical difficulties, such as a need for a dedicated set-up and an unclear operational process. Unsupported colloidal particles are notorious for their ability to deposit on all metal parts of reactors during catalytic experiments. Not all parts of available batch reactors can be cleaned in an appropriate way after each experiment or alternatively protected. Moreover, separation of unsupported colloidal particles from the liquid phase is also challenging. Thus, neither HPLC, nor TOC analyses can be directly performed due to high concentration of metals in the liquid phase. Another challenge is related to an accurate carbon balance determination since protecting agents PVP and PEG are reactive during APR contributing to generation of carbon containing products and hydrogen. All these complications lead to a high uncertainty in assessing the activity and selectivity of unsupported colloidal particles and finally inability to obtain reliable information. Therefore catalytic data given below were generated using m supported nanoparticles prepared either by classical impregnation or by immobilization of colloids.
After comparison of different metals as catalytically active phase it can be stated that all monometallic non platinum catalysts displayed significantly lower activity (Ni) or deactivated much faster (Ru, Re) than monometallic Pt. Activity of bimetallic Pt-Ni, Pt-Co and Pt-Ru catalysts was practically en par with the monometallic counterpart. The main difference was seen for the Pt-Re catalyst, which had the highest activity level among the tested catalysts. For Ni and Pt-Ni catalysts, leaching of Ni was observed. Selectivity towards hydrogen was the highest with Pt not increasing after addition of other metals. It should be noted that elucidation of catalysts prepared from colloids is not straightforward as their performance depend on the immobilization and capping agent removal procedure. Some catalysts in particular were inactive because of inefficient capping agent removal, while others displayed strong metal leaching as immobilization was not efficient. Finally after careful optimization APR active and stable catalysts have been developed. For these colloidal based materials post-catalysis characterization by TEM showed a slight increase in Pt size, although no metal was lost during the reaction. N2 physysorption also showed that PVP was removed from the support/metal.
No clear trends related to possible mass transfer limitations were seen while studying particle sizes of catalysts varying from < 100 µm to above 1 mm or even extruded pellets. A more detailed characterization revealed that larger sized supports tended to have an egg-shell distribution of the active metal, which probably minimized or even eliminated pore diffusion limitations. The overall picture emerging form the experimental data is that there are indications that an egg-shell distribution is advantageous, even if a solid proof is missing. Studies with unsupported high surface area as well as supported Pt catalysts showed, that carbon-platinum interactions seem to be crucial for the desired activity and selectivity.
An in situ ATR-IR spectroscopy study was carried out for supported Pt catalysts during APR of hydroxyacetone. Carbon as a support could not be employed for the study, but degradation of oxide supports was monitored in-situ. Degradation of alumina under the hydrothermal conditions was obvious. Furthermore, strong adsorption of hydroxyacetone on the surface of zirconia was detected, causing formation of deposits and catalyst deactivation via aldol condensation. Thus, a proper choice of the support could be proven to be highly important to achieve excellent performance of APR catalyst.
Variation of the flow rate, hence, the residence time, showed that the hydrogen yield increases initially with increasing the residence times and thus degree of conversion. Thereafter it reaches a maximum and decreases again. This behavior is a direct indication that hydrogen is consumed in consecutive reactions and thus an optimal degree of conversion should be aimed for.
The influence of chirality of the feed was studied in detail by comparing sorbitol, galactitol and their mixture, showing the same activity and selectivity patterns. Comparison between C5/C6 (xylitol/sorbitol) and C3 feeds (hydroacetone) revealed that the ratio of reactivity in respectively water gas shift and APR is lower for the latter feed.
For xylitol, sorbitol and galactitol structure- property relationships could be deduced for Pt/C. It was proven that the carbon supports are well suited for tuning the hydrogen and alkane selectivity. For high hydrogen selectivity, the carbon support should show a neutral character, whilehigh alkane selectivity requires an acidic function meaning that surface functionalization determines the selectivity. While activated carbons due to their synthesis procedure very often exhibit a non-negligible surface functionalization, resulting in formation of alkanes, other carbons supports such as CNF or CDC displaying excellent purity result therefore in high hydrogen selectivity. Furthermore, indications were found that for bulky polyols the reaction is structure sensitive, hence the turnover frequency of Pt increases with an increase of Pt cluster size. As a consequence of a larger fraction of Pt not available for catalysis when the size is increasing, there is an optimum for the active metal size exhibiting the highest reactivity.
Characterization of as prepared and spent catalysts was carried out. Colloidal Pt and Ru nanoparticles as precursors for immobilization on carbon to obtain heterogeneous catalysts proved to be stable for 1 to 2 years. Ru catalysts prepared by a colloidal route (PVP stabilized) and immobilized on carbon nanofibers or carbide-derived carbon were employed in galactose hydrogenation. High resistance to leaching and sintering under hydrogenation conditions was observed independent of the PVP removal procedure. Ru, Pt, PtNi, Re, PtCo and PtRu on carbon support were applied in aqueous phase reforming. No pronounced sintering or leaching of was detected under APR condition for the noble metals, contrary to Ni and Co. In addition to leaching and sintering, noticeable oxidation was seen for all metals, except Ru.
Based on the knowledge acquired in the project the following catalyst properties were identified for high performance: i) supermicroporous to mesoporous texture (>0.7 nm); ii) non acidic support; iii) sufficiently hydrophilicity of the support; iv) Pt sizes around 2 - 5 nm. Additionally, minimization of mass transfer limitations through application of egg-shell catalysts and a decrease of pressure drop by a proper selection of the particle grain shape and size are beneficial.
Based on the generated experimental knowledge o a recommendation for standardized testing of APR catalysts among different labs was established for both batch and continuous reactors. For the standardized testing, a mixture of 5% sorbitol and 5%mannitol in water should be chosen.
The catalyst should be activated upon heating under H2 at 375°C for a minimum of two hours under atmospheric pressure. Subsequently, the standardized testing would be carried out in the batch reactor at 30 bars pressure using N2, 225°C, for 2h, followed by an analysis of the gas phase by GC and the liquid phase by HPLC and elemental analysis. Note, that for the batch reactor continuous sampling can be critical as the carbon balance is not fully closed for high sampling amounts, due to the gas phase loss. For continuous operation 30 bar N2 with a N2 flow of 0.5Nl/min should be realized at 225°C, sufficient stabilization time prior to data collection, gas analysis by and the liquid phase by HPLC and elemental analysis.
Main results on process validation
In long term studies with Ru/C catalyst for polyol production large quantities of glucose and sucrose were converted to technical sorbitol (both 50 wt-% in water). At a degree of conversion of 96 % a yield of 92 % could be realized and in total more than 40 kg of feed were produced. No major catalyst deactivation was observed for a total >400 h time on stream. Nevertheless, some solid formation was observed, which can lead to a pressure increase. Probably small amounts of sugar monomers are converted to char like products by side reactions. Depending on the feed crystallization can occur and be avoided by slight heating of all process lines and during storage by diluting the product to 29% wt-% in water.
Long term studies on the APR of model compounds and technical sorbitol were carried out in combination with a temperature variation from 220 to 250°. Normally no induction period was observed in these studies. Opposite results were obtained for a Pt/C catalyst on a special carbon support with very low loading (0.5 wt.-%) and reduction perfomed within the reactor rather than externally prior to the reaction. Here continuous activation was also seen as continuous changes of CO2 to CO ratio, representing the ability to perform water-gas shift reaction, even after 150 hours of time-on-stream. Thus, changes of the active sites seem to take place during this long induction period. Typically, such changes in catalytic behavior are associated with solid-phase transformations of the active phase, for example reduction or oxidation. Note, that the catalyst was pre-reduced at a high enough temperature to ensure complete reduction in line with TPR data, even if the reduction was carried out directly in the reactor. TEM data confirmed almost no changes in the cluster size of Pt, thereby excluding sintering. Finally, within the project it could not be unequivocally concluded in which cases the catalysts would show a long induction period. At the same time such induction period is not needed to achieve an active and selective catalyst.
The long term APR studies were also employed to deduce possible deactivation of the catalysts. In this sense a clear difference for model and technical feedstock was observed. For Pt/C on activated carbon and with model feedstock only a slight deactivation was observed and the degree of conversion reduced from 66 to 60 % after 250 h time on stream. On the contrary employing strong catalyst deactivation was obvious for the technical feedstock. Most likely such deactivation is related to blocking the active sites with reactants/intermediate products of these more concentrated feedstocks (30 to 50 %), while the model feeds were only in 10 % concentration. It is expected that dilution of the technical feed can minimize deactivation. Reactivation of the catalysts through extraction/flushing was studied. Flushing with water is not sufficient to restore the activity. Reactivation procedure with an organic solvent (acetone) allowed removal of organic residues blocking the catalyst and regaining catalytic activity after reduction in hydrogen.
Four kinetic models for xylitol and sorbitol APR, which serve different purposes, were developed. One mechanistic model accounting for consumption of hydrogen in consecutive side reactions was used chemical reaction engineering simulations allowing to deduce hydrogen selectivity profiles. Modelling of mass transfer showed that with ca. 1 mm particle diameter, pore diffusion limitations might occur lowering activity. Pore diffusion limitation has a minor influence on the resulting hydrogen selectivity. Variation of the WHSV showed that hydrogen selectivity shows a maximum with the residence time. Beyond this maximum the selectivity drops only slightly, therefore losses of hydrogen are small at too high residence time. Analysis of the reactor hydrodynamics (residence time behavior) showed that pronounced back-mixing leads to a loss of the maximum in hydrogen selectivity vs. residence time. Thus ca. 20 % of hydrogen selectivity can be lost. Most interestingly, simulating a continuous hydrogen removal along the reactor through a membrane, showed that the total amount of hydrogen obtained can be increased by a factor of 3, as a result of efficient suppression of side reactions involving hydrogen. A sufficiently high hydrogen removal through the membrane is needed to obtain this significant increase in hydrogen yield.
While the calculations above used a kinetic model capable of accurately describe hydrogen selectivity, flow sheeting accounting especially for separation needs a detailed description of all intermediates. Thus, a model based on a detailed reaction network involving the key intermediates, excluding however detailed kinetic information, was employed in a so-called stoichiometric reactor option. The yield of the products and side products was set by coefficients, according to the experimental results. Within the framework of this model, heat and mass balances calculations as well as costs estimations were carried out for a 500 kg/h hydrogen production plant operation with sorbitol syrup as a feedstock in APR of sorbitol using Aspen HYSYS software. For reactor modelling a complex reaction network was taken into account along with phase equilibrium simulations which determined to have a significant impact on the total process heat due to possibility of water evaporation. Improved economy could be achieved e.g. through incoperating a medium pressure steam generator after a high temperature separation, despite a low temperature separation without steam generation. The total costs of hydrogen were estimated as 9.4 $/kg, where the feedstock costs take the major contribution of 86%. Thus, the cost of hydrogen from APR can be in an economic range if the feedstock prices drops below 150 $/kg.
Based on the results of the project and expertise of the industrial partners an assessment of the catalysts and process was carried out. From an economic point of view, the metal supported catalysts can be sorted in two groups. i) Expensive noble metals (Pt, Pd, Rh) where the metal price dictates the final catalyst price. Here recycling of the metal is essential to lower the price. ii) Cheaper metals (Ru, Re, Ni), where also process and support costs can play a significant role. Pt shows by far the best performance and selectivity towards hydrogen, thus high costs cannot be prevented. Thus, also carbon is due to the recycling possibility by far the best option, as the Pt recovery rate is very high and thus the Pt price can be dropped pronouncedly through the recycling. For the special catalysts developed in SusFuelCat additional costs could stem from the newly developed colloidal preparation route and for the costly carbon supports (carbide-derived carbons, carbon nanofibres). Thus, it is advised to employ the new colloidal preparation route especially for expensive metals of the first group, where the production process costs are less relevant. The colloidal route, nevertheless, can also be employed predominantly to guide catalyst development, while the final catalyst would be produced by more economically viable classical impregnation procedures
Nanomaterials (carbon support and catalytically active metals) in general can be of potential risk, thus full health and safety studies might be necessary in the future. To minimize the costs of employing more expensive advanced carbon supports, the strategy was developed to coat cheap and readily available carbon pellets with these advanced carbon materials. Additional benefits of these coated carbon pelletized catalysts are related to a decrease of pressure drop, which would be high otherwise with the small sized carbide-derived carbon or carbon nanofiber grains. The additional costs for the preparation were estimated to be €150-175/kg. With such approach affordable prices of Pt catalysts can be achieved especially if significant advantages of these special supports in terms of higher selectivity arise.
1. Potential impact of SusFuelCat
The consortium partners of SusFuelCat found proper APR catalysts for renewable hydrogen production. Important steps were carried out during the project towards this aim. Important indications for structure activity relationships were deduced. New possibilities to tune active and stable metal catalysts were developed and can be of high value also for other catalytic problems. The experimental data and simulation allowed deducing further mechanistic insights, which will be important for the catalyst and process design. First cost estimations show that APR hydrogen can be economically competitive. Thus it is believed that APR technology can be of importance for sustainable hydrogen production in Europe.
Besides this direct impact on the horizon, already further impact becomes apparent for each partner. The pronounced knowledge on well-controlled colloidal based catalysts, methodologies for immobilization and stabilization agent removal, synthesis of high quality carbonaceous materials, great progress on the simulation of the systems, and developed experimental protocols have the potential to be of great use in catalysis and neighboring disciplines in general.
2. Socio-economic and societal impact of SusFuelCat
Especially for the three industrial partners in the consortium a direct economic impact can be expected. The two SMEs within the consortium are BTG Biomass Technology Group and FutureCarbon. BTG is specialized in process development for conversion of biomass into biofuels and bio-energy via flash-pyrolysis. FutureCarbon is specialized in development, production and refinement of carbon nanomaterials and carbon nanomaterial based products. Both SMEs profit directly from the results obtained.
The established industrial partner is Johnson Matthey, which is a specialty chemicals company, focusing on catalysis, precious metals, fine chemicals and process technology, with extensive knowledge and experience of carbon supported noble metal catalysis. With the combination of innovative SMEs and an established global industrial partner it is expected that a transfer of the project results can become true.
i. health and well-being
The use of fossil fuels in road transport, aircraft and industry applications releases different greenhouse gases and particles into air and environment. Hydrogen, as produced in SusFuelCat, instead serves as an alternative green fuel. Therefore, investigations focusing on effective production of alternative fuels like hydrogen are a possibility to contribute to a healthier environment, especially in cities and industrialized regions.
ii. employment
For all three participating companies BTG, FutureCarbon, and Johnson Matthey, the work at SusFuelCat was important to find new products (catalysts) and processes that can be commercially exploited in order to maintain or increase their number of employees.
iii. training and career development
Several young scientists worked at SusFuelCat. They learned about chemistry, process engineering, built-up and run of experiments, writing papers, presenting the results at conferences, and even about teaching young students. Finally with incorporating their findings to their dissertations they got trained for going ahead in their career.
All seven participating universities from Erlangen, Darmstadt (Germany), Enschede (Netherlands), Madrid (Spain), Turku (Finland), Palermo (Italy) and Novosibirsk (Russia) joined in carefully training the young scientist.
3. Main dissemination activities
Together with publications SusFuelCat had 126 dissemination activities, of which the most notable are described below:
i. Publications
In total there have been 13 peer review publications; among them two have been published open access via OpenAIRE.
Exemplary three publications are discussed. The article “Preparation of carbide-derived carbon supported platinum catalysts” in Catalysis Today, Vol. 249, (2015) page 30 disseminates important results on novel nanoporous carbons and their used in catalysis. The publication “Controlled synthesis of PVP-based carbon-supported Ru nanoparticles: synthesis approaches, characterization, capping agent removal and catalytic behavior” in Catalysis Science and Technology, Vol. 6 (2016) page 8490 disseminates and summarizes important findings on the synthesis of well controlled nanoparticles as also the important removal of stabilizing agent for the application in catalysis. In the publication “Aqueous-phase reforming of xylitol over Pt/C and Pt/TiC-CDC catalysts: catalyst characterization and catalytic performance” in Catalysis Science and Technology, Vol. 4 (2014) page 387 disseminates structure-activity relationships identified for the APR reaction.
ii. Conferences and accompanying activities
The consortium participated on several conferences and presented the project to scientists, industry and to the wider public. There have been 48 oral presentations to a scientific audience, which have been accompanied by 41 posters presented at these conferences. Besides the scientists, also the wider public has been delivered information by publishing twelve press releases, one oral presentation, and three articles to popular press and audience. This has been completed with setting up a project website, which was constantly updated during the project to keep the stakeholders informed.
As proposed in the DoW, SusFuelCat partners held a scientific conference subsequent to the final project meeting in Enschede, Netherlands organised by BTG Biomass Technology Group and University of Twente and held at the campus of the latter. The scientific partners and BayFOR further contributed substantially to the CarboCat conference in Strasbourg, France. At both conferences, the consortium had the possibility to exchange ideas with external experts or to find applicants for project results.
SusFuelCat partners visited two large conferences, EURONANOFORUM and Industrial Technologies, which are both sponsored and co-organised by the EU Commission. Here, they presented the project to a wider audience, as to participants from other EU projects, stakeholders from industry and academia. As for all the other events, posters, flyers, roll-ups, and gadgets were presented at booths. Through in-depth bilateral discussions more than 30 valuable contacts were acquired.
iii. Clustering with other EU projects (@Bastian: please mention your experiences ...)
In 2014 SusFuelCat was invited by the EU Commission to take part in the cross-cutting EU Clusters on “Catalysis” and "Engineering & Upscaling". The SusFuelCat coordinator was actively involved within the European Cluster on Catalysis (http://www.catalysiscluster.eu/). The subgroup “Advanced analytical approaches in catalysis, in situ and in operando studies” was headed by the coordinator and input for the roadmap on catalysis was given. On the Engineering & Upscaling activities the coordinator gave input through a survey.
4. Exploitation of results
i. Key exploitable results
Key exploitable result No 1
Short Title: High pressure FTIR-ATR
Full Title: Method for carrying out ATR studies at elevated pressure. This allows for in situ studies not only in this reaction
Lead Partner: UT, partners involved: UT, UNIPA
Brief description: Equipment and knowhow are available at UT to carry out in situ FTIR-ATR studies at elevated pressures. Together with the simulation competency of UNIPA complex spectra can be evaluated.
Short Title: Simulation-package
Full Title: A good package of computational tools developed
Lead Partner: UNIPA , partners involved: UNIPA.
Brief description: Simulation code for adsorption and reaction studies in aqueous phases were developed. Also code to study metal cluster development on graphene is available. The code can be used for studies and further refinement at UNIPA.
Short Title: CNF-PT-upscale
Full Title: Up-scaling the production of CNF-PT nanomaterial without loosing the high quality
Lead Partner: FC, partners involved: FC, FAU, and JM (exploitation partner)
Brief description: Steps for scale-up of CNF-PL synthesis from lab scale to pilot plant scale. 1st step: More CNF-PL from concrete quantity of synthesis catalyst, achieved by process optimization (e.g. gas flow turbulences); scaling factor ~1.3) 2nd step: Planning and dimensioning: Single plug-flow reactor --> bundled tube reactor (scaling factor ~6)
Short Title: CDC-High-T
Full Title: Mesoporous Graphite as stable, highly porous, electrical and thermal conductive material
Lead Partner: TUDA, partners involved: TUDA
Brief description: Mesoporous Graphite can be produced, which is interesting as chemically very stable and highly electrical and thermal conductive material; The knowhow is used in follow up research projects.
Short Title: CDC-Synt
Full Title: Synthesis procedures and strategies for carbide-derived carbons
Brief description: Synthesis procedures and strategies for production of carbide-derived carbons; The knowhow is used in follow up research projects.
Short Title: Colloidal-NP
Full Title: Synthesis procedures and up-scaling for well designed colloidal particles
Lead Partner: BIC, UAM; partners involved: BIC, UAM;
Brief description: Identification of different synthesis conditions leading to nanoparticles of different metals (Pt, Pd, Re, Ru, Ni, Co) with controlled size and a broad range of sizes. Re and Ru NPs are difficult to obtain. Conditions for the reduction and for the growth of large NPs have been identified. The nanoparticle colloids prepared by different methods (PVP colloids, polyol, microemulsion) provide different types of interactions with carbon supports. The size control is a key for a better control of NPs performance. Colloidal synthesis can be scaled up, is reproducible and NPs are stable (Pd, Pt). The concentration of reagents can be increased to reduce the reaction volume and make scale up easier.
Short Title: Immo
Full Title: Immobilization procedure for colloidal nanoparticles by simulated APR conditions
Lead Partner: UAM, BIC, partners involved: UAM, BIC, FAU, FC, AAU, UT
Brief description: Identification of synthesis conditions for nanoparticles and catalysts that promote interactions between nanoparticles and carbon supports. Enhanced stability and activity of the catalysts prepared following the procedure proposed. The procedure can be applied to other metals and other supports not studied in this project. The distribution of the nanoparticles within the carbon porous structure can be controlled.
Short Title: Mini-APR
Full Title: Up-scaling the lab APR process. Probably also making mini-APR-reactor of lab size or a little big bigger commercially available, which could be used for feedstock screening at interested partners.
Lead Partner: BTG, partners involved: BTG, AAU, UT
Brief description: Upscaling of APR/LPR process for converting liquid biomass feeds, including pyrolytic sugars into platform chemicals and fuels (alkanes, hydrogen).
Short Title: PVP-Removal
Full Title: PVP-Removal – Method for effective removal of PVP stabilizer from nanoparticles, not suffering of dramatic particle size increase or metal loss.
Lead Partner: UAM, BIC, partners involved: AAU, BIC, JM, UAM, UT
Brief description: Currently known APR catalysts are based on metal oxide supports. The SusFuelCat work has shown applicability of carbon supports. These enable easier recycling and higher recovery of the precious metals used for the catalysis. The concentration of the catalyst during the removal and removal time can be increased to reduce volume and make scale up easier.
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Aqueous-phase reforming of xylitol over Pt/C and Pt/TiC-CDC catalysts : catalyst characterization and catalytic performance
Author(s): Kirilin, Alexey V.,Hasse, Benjamin,Tokarev, Anton V.,Kustov, Leonid M.,Baeva, Galina N.,Bragina, Galina O.,Stakheev, Aleksandr Yu.,Rautio, Anne-Riikka,Salmi, Tapio,Etzold, Bastian J. M.,Mikkola, Jyri-Pekka,Murzin, Dmitry Yu.
Published in: Chemical Biological Centre, Umeå University and Åbo Akademi University, Åbo-Turku, Finland 2014
Permanent ID: doi:10.1039/c3cy00636k
Catalysts based on large size-controlled Pd nanoparticles for aqueous-phase hydrodechlorination
Author(s): Baeza, J. A.,Calvo, L.,Rodriguez, J. J.,Gilarranz, M. A.
Published in: Elsevier B.V. 2016
Permanent ID: doi:10.1016/j.cej.2016.02.107
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__label__wiki | 0.545609 | 0.545609 | Kevin Kennedy: The Coronation Street Blog Interview
I managed to grab ten minutes with Kevin Kennedy in-between shows at the Dominion Theatre where he is currently starring in Ben Elton’s "We Will Rock You".
I began by asking “our Curly” how long it took him to write his long awaited autobiography, “The Street To Recovery”.
The book I started two years ago and it was going really well and it’s easy to write the very fun stuff. But when it came to the stuff where you really had to, kind of, admit what your life’s been like, that wasn’t so easy. I think if that had been easier then the book would have been written a lot quicker, but once I’d finished the fun stuff I then had to write the horrible stuff and that slowed the process down because I wasn’t very comfortable doing it.
I’m not surprised but it has got a cracking prologue!
Well yeah, my idea was to start it at the rock bottom I was at; not only as a creative device but to bring in the reader as well so they’d want to find out what happened next.
And what did you discover about yourself?
I discovered that although these things are supposed to be cathartic I didn’t find it cathartic at all, I just got very angry with myself and kept getting cross because I thought, why couldn’t I see it coming? Why was I being so ridiculous? But then again that is the nature of addiction. I’m very tolerant of others but not too tolerant of myself but I suppose that’s something I’ve just got to work on.
Did you use music as an aid to memory; to transport you back to a particular time?
Yes I did actually; a lot of country music to remember the stuff in Nashville – I started listening to more Steve Earle; a bit more Lyle Lovett, which really got me going in the first place; which really got me linked in to country music. Plus I did a lot of talking to people that I knew from around that time – especially Stan [the Man! A singer and Kevin's yellow suit wearing companion in Nashville]. When I went through the stuff with Stan he was like, “I don’t remember half of that!” but then it all started coming back to him so I knew I was being pretty accurate.
How much input did Clare [Kennedy – his wife] have into the book and the writing process?
None at all… I think that when you’re writing your biography the only input has to come from you - and somebody who doesn’t know you very well. I got a guy in called Humphrey who read my stuff and then suggested ways of putting it all together and because he didn’t know me very well he was looking at it totally cold which I think you need when you’re writing something like this.
I think some people will be shocked at just how ill you were; did you worry about laying yourself so bare in that way?
I think if you’re going to do this sort of thing you might as well do it properly. The only thing I was worried about was… well I decided I wasn’t going to drop anyone else in it except me, so once I’d made that decision then it wasn’t difficult at all because I knew I just had to tell the truth otherwise there wouldn’t be any point in doing it.
What was it like to play a character so woven into the fabric of the British consciousness - as Curly was?
When you play something like that, to you, it’s just a job and you do the best you can and do the job you’re paid for, and that’s what I was doing. And later on of course; when you look back and people talk about what you’ve done very fondly then I’m immensely proud and I’m immensely proud of all the stuff I did with Coronation Street; I thought it was very funny; witty; hard-hitting; beautifully written and a joy to do because it was so beautifully written.
You got a lot of support from your parents; do you think you’d supportive of your children if they wanted to become jobbing actors?
Yeah, I will support my children in whatever they decide to do and I’ve told them that their experience of daddy working is, fortunately, at the top end of the profession and if you are at the top, or near the top, of this profession then it can be very glamorous but it’s all hard work. But I told them; if you’re not at the top it can be very very difficult.
So you just gave them a dose of realism about it?
Yes, absolutely.
Have you read Morrissey’s autobiography; I noticed yours has mention of Johnny Marr and his, Coronation Street?
No I haven’t, I don’t think Morrissey would’ve mentioned me in it (laughs). I’ve got it but I haven’t read it. I’ll save that for my holidays I think.
Any excuse for a picture of these two!
I’ve got to ask about all the speculation; are you returning?
At the moment, as far as I know, there are no plans to bring Curly back to Coronation Street and that’s as far as I know. It’s no secret that I’d like to do more and if that happens I’ll be very pleased and if it doesn’t then that’s life and I’ll just get on with what I’m doing.
Well you’re doing something that you love which is music and theatre anyway.
Do you think the positive outcome from your story will inspire other people in recovery?
Well I hope so because they wanted me to write this story straight away and for financial reasons that would’ve been a very wise move but I didn’t have the first idea about this disease, or the first idea about me, and I had to gain a knowledge of what was affecting me and so it took fifteen years for me to really get a handle on what had happened to me.
Now you’ve got to know that I wrote this book for two reasons: for my children to read it and to help someone. This is the way it works with this disease, it’s all done by talking about it and not keeping it to yourself. And if someone gains something from this then I think that’s a bonus and I’d be very happy.
What is – or who are - “The Anonymous People”?
The Anonymous People is coming from America. At the moment, in this country and in America, we seem to be focussing on the problem rather than the solution – you look on the television and there’s Drunken Brits Abroad or you look at the news and they’ve got film crews out in the city centres on a Saturday at eleven o clock showing the problem; Anonymous People is the solution because there are millions of people who combat this disease on a daily basis and this is them; this is their voice and they’re saying, “this is possible” and it’s a very positive look at an antidote to what we’re seeing. Recovery is possible, very possible, and millions of people have recovered from addictions across the world.
And with that off he went off to prepare for his second performance of We Will Rock You of the day.
Kevin Kennedy: actor; singer; writer; musician; husband; father; director of Addiction Management UK Ltd and positive role model for recovery.
The Street to Recovery is published in hardback by Paperbooks and is available online and in-stores.
Thanks to Clare Kennedy and Lucy Chamberlain at Legend Paperbooks
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Flaming Nora said...
Excellent interview, LV, thank you for this. And thank you to Kevin and Claire.
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Politicians Are Calling For A Ban On ‘Silencers.’ Here’s What You Need To Know
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Whitney Tipton Reporter
Law enforcement officials recovered a ‘silencer’ from the scene of Friday’s deadly shooting in Virginia Beach.
Several politicians have since called for outright bans on private possession of the devices.
Here are key facts about suppressors/silencers.
Politicians are calling for a ban on ‘silencers’ after a disgruntled Virginia Beach, Virginia, city employee used one while gunning down 12 co-workers.
It was reported that the gunman, DeWayne Craddock, 40, used two .45-caliber handguns equipped with “extended” magazines and one with a suppressor.
A supressor, sometimes called a “silencer,” is any device fitted to the end of a gun that lowers its sound output, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms & Explosives (ATF).
Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton sent a tweet Sunday about suppressors, linking to a Washington Post op-ed that compared the sound of suppressed gunfire to a chair scraping the floor.
.@JulietteKayyem makes a chilling point in her @washingtonpost op-ed today about the way shooters’ use of barrel suppressors and other silencing equipment makes it harder for people to save themselves and others. The sound of gunfire can save lives. https://t.co/9xfYZ5sVZU
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) June 2, 2019
“When someone gets shot by a gun with a silencer, it’s quiet. Witnesses might not hear. Police will be less likely to track down the shooter,” said 2020 Democratic hopeful Kirsten Gillibrand, who mentioned silencers early in her candidacy, according to a March 14 tweet.
Gun-control is a prominent platform component of Democratic 2020 candidates, and may now likely include banning the accessory. Here are some takeaways as discussions about suppressors continue:
Suppressors do not make gunfire silent
Suppressors do not make gunfire silent, or even quiet, according to the Crime Prevention Research Center. The decibel (dB) level of a Glock 17 9mm, a gun similar to the one used in Virginia Beach, with a suppressor is still 126 dB, or between a thunderclap and a cheering stadium. Police responding to the Virginia Beach shooting reported the “sounds of gunfire” led them to the shooter, according to USA Today.
“Despite what you might believe from watching TV shows or movies or listening to gun control advocates, suppressors (commonly known as ‘silencers’) do not make guns ‘silent,’ not unless you consider an ambulance siren or a jackhammer are silent,” said John Lott, president of the Crime Prevention Research Center.
Sound Comparison-Silencer-Suppressor. Graphic courtesy of Dakota Silencer. www.dakotasilencer.com
Here is a decibel level chart for sound level context:
The Decibel Scale sound level. Photo by Shutterstock.
They are very difficult to obtain
Regulated under the National Firearms Act of 1934, obtaining one legally means being fingerprinted and photographed, going through an extensive background check, registering the part with the federal government and paying the government a $200 tax beyond the cost of the actual suppressor, which averages around $1,000. After the paperwork, waiting for approval could take eight months or longer.
“Silencers are a luxury item for gun owners. They’re very expensive and take a long time to approve. I’ve had customers who have waited up to two years,” said Brandon Maddox, owner of Dakota Silencer and a member of the National ATF Advisory Board for silencers.
They are not common
The ATF‘s 2017 statistics showed that there were 1.3 million total silencers registered in the United States, which is roughly double than the number of currently registered machine guns, another notoriously difficult weapon to obtain. And much less than the 9.3 million guns manufactured in the U.S. in 2015 alone.
They are rarely used to commit high-profile crimes
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“Most of my customers use them for hunting,” said Maddox. “I haven’t had a suppressor involved in a crime, for some reason criminals don’t seem to use them.”
“Since suppressors are registered with the ATF, people obtaining them understand that all of their information will be on a federal registry. Their name, height, weight, physical address where the item is kept, etc. You can’t own a silencer ‘under the radar’ and I think that makes a difference for criminals.”
“In fact, I’m surprised politicians would want to ban them, given the wealth of information they get about the purchasers,” Maddox added.
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President Trump’s move in Dec. 2018 to ban “bump stocks,” or accessories that make semi-automatic guns function like fully automatic weapons, angered some gun supporters. Reporters asked Trump about silencers Friday before he boarded Marine One for his trip to London, the Daily Beast reported.
“I do not like them at all,” he said.
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__label__cc | 0.709846 | 0.290154 | Boston Ballet – Polyphonia, Bella Figura, The Second Detail – London
By Lynette Halewood on July 7, 2013 in Reviews · 3 Comments
Lia Cirio and Lasha Khozashvili in Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia.
© Dave Morgan. (Click image for larger version)
Polyphonia, Bella Figura, The Second Detail
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Boston Ballet’s Artistic Director Mikko Nissinen indicated that he wanted the company’s second programme at the Coliseum to show more “in-your-face aggression and excitement” than the more neoclassical opening programme. His choices are works made in the last thirty years by living choreographers. Some (but not all) of his selections work brilliantly. He has the right idea but the wrong sequence. The programme opens with a storming account of William Forsythe’s The Second Detail, and moves on to a fine account of Christopher Wheeldon’s Polyphonia, familiar here in a recent production by the Royal Ballet. But the evening runs badly out of steam in Jiri Kylian’s Bella Figura, billed as the emotional heart of the programme but failing to register much impact. If the running order had been reversed we would have left on a tremendous high. Nevertheless, the company was very warmly received.
Dalay Parrondo and Paul Craig in Jiri Kylian’s Bella Figura.
One of the virtues of the group is that it really does look like a company that dances together all the time, a cohesive group with a common appetite and attack. In The Second Detail, the corps dancers surge forward with the same energy and purposefulness as any of the principals. Their good qualities are their energy, appetite for space and no-nonsense directness.
These were shown to good effect in a very clear and streamlined reading of Wheeldon’s Polyphonia. Wheeldon is acclaimed as one of our best hopes for the future of classical choreography, yet there is little consensus about what his best qualities are. But his Polyphonia is the work that is probably most admired.
This work for four couples may be his career equivalent of Ashton’s Symphonic Variations, a work where he achieved an ideal balance of invention, elegant abstraction and emotional undertow. It was very cleanly danced and the cast looked well able to cope with all the knotty intricacies of the tricky Ligeti score. But there was some emotional aspect which seemed to be slightly lacking. There’s a female solo, the only time the woman is left alone in the work (done by Ansanelli and then by Stix-Brunell in the Royal Ballet performances) which seemed a key point in it, implying something mysterious, melancholic, elusive. Though it was well danced here the emotional impact of that moment was diminished, the atmosphere somehow lacking.
Rie Ichikawa and Kathleen Breen Combes in Bella Figura.
Perhaps these qualities lay behind the lack of resonance of the final work on the programme, Kylian’s Bella Figura, made in 1995 for NDT. Emotional resonance may not be the company’s strongest point. The work is set to a collage of Baroque music. This programme does not have an orchestra in the pit, so perhaps here recorded music also limited the impact of the work. Or perhaps Kylian’s work from the 1990s has not worn so well as Forsyth’s for a London audience. The cast of nine works hard but it is not a rewarding experience.
Dusty Button in William Forsythe’s The Second Detail.
We should remember them instead for a terrific account of The Second Detail. Here a cast of fourteen powered their way through Forsythe’s aggressive rewriting of the language of ballet, legs slicing through the air to the crunching accompaniment of Thom Willems’ soundtrack. The legs of the women are not just lifted: they fly up to the six o’clock position as if rocket propelled. The women look cool and reserved in their high necked pale blue costumes but these are open at the back to give a sudden sexy flash of flesh. The dancers look thoroughly at home and in command of the material, and seemed to relish every step. They eat up the great spaces of the Coliseum stage.
Boston ballet in William Forsythe’s The Second Detail.
This was what the ballet future looked like in 1991 when it was made for the National Ballet of Canada. Forsythe was taking ballet steps, bending and shaping them to create an aggressive, energetic new form. When you see a performance this good where the performers seem completely at one with the material it makes Forsythe’s recent changes of direction all the more frustrating. If only there was more where this came from. Nevertheless we should be happy to see Boston Ballet’s performances of it. I hope the company return to London, and if they do, I hope they bring some other Forsythe work.
Tags: Alexandra Ansanelli, Beatriz Stix-Brunell, Bella Figura, Boston Ballet, Christopher Wheeldon, Coliseum, Jiri Kylian, Ligeti, London, Mikko Nissinen, National Ballet of Canada, Nederlands Dans Theater., Polyphonia, The Second Detail, Thom Willems, William Forsythe
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That’s not Sylvia Deaton in The Second Detail picture, it’s Dusty Button, she’s dyed her hair.
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__label__wiki | 0.746536 | 0.746536 | Serpent Eater Interview
All of us did play or still play in other bands and projects which focused on extreme music. However, we all felt, that there is something, that wanted and needed to be released and urged all of us, to help. It is something dark, vile and savage. So, obviously, it was the Serpent Eater, who wanted us to come together in late 2011/early 2012 to be his messengers. Before the Serpent Eater approached us, we hardly knew each other.
2.How would you describe the musical sound that is present on the album?
Well, the Serpent Eater commanded us, to create aggressive, gloomy and dark music, to support his messages. So, in order to fulfill his will, we mixed up everything that helped us, to do so. Regardless, what musical genre or type of this would be, as long as the sounds and riffs, pleased the Serpent Eater.
3.Can you tell us a little bit more about your song lyrics?
Here, the Serpent Eater is quite clear. Lyricwise, he wants us to let the people know, how he is influencing, pressuring and deforming the mental health and sanity of the souls of all of us, as he takes over our world and reality…
4.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name Serpent Eater?
It was not our idea and it is not about us to question this…. The Serpent Eater is an entity of grant anger an little patience. But don’t you worry, you will learn more about him, soon.
As all our shows are services to worship the Serpent Eater, it would not be wise, to name one of these rituals and masses as the most outstanding. He forces us to always give the best we can.
We’re about to slip onto some billings of festivals such as the Slow End Festival in Eindhoven, Alerta Deathfest in Hannover and the St. Helena Doom Fest in Munich in May 2014. The Serpent Eater wants us to reach as much people and future servants, as possible…so there will be more soon.
7.The new album came out on Alerta Antifacista Records, do you few this label has done a lot to get your name out there/
Alerta Antifascista Records is the right platform to the Serpent Eater, as he wants to recruit his first servants from a public and audience, who is more or less ready and willing open themselves to him…
8.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to your music by fans of black, doom and sludge metal/
Well, although the first real Album “Hyena” will only be released on December 15, 2013, the feedback on ‘Hyena on worldwide level is surprisingly good. So far, all reviews we read, are awesome. Well, actually, it is not that surprising, as we are supported by a supernatural force….
9.What direction do you see your music heading into on future releases?
Wherever the Serpent Eater may lead us to, we will follow. At the moment, it is hard to foresee, in which musical direction we will be led… Anyway, we’re quite sure, that it will not be some happy stuff, as the Serpent Eater dislikes the sunnysides…
10.What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your music and also what are you listening to nowadays?
As mentioned above, we do listen to merely music to gather influences in order to fulfill the sinister will of the Serpent Eater. So the majority of stuff we listen to ranges from Death and black metal to (post) hardcore, crust, heavy and dark 70s rock
11.Outside of music what are some of your interests?
There is little room left to do something else, if you are subject to the Serpent Eater. Well, we do have several addictions, as we need to cope with this situation.
12.Any final words or thoughts before we wrap up this interview?
You better be scared, as the Serpent Eater is coming for you….
Diabolical/Neogenesis/Vicosolum Productions/2013 CD Review
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"Into Oblivion" which is also the first song on the album opens up with a choir and orchestra and a few seconds alter heavy guitar riffs and drums kick in before getting fast along with deep death metal growls and blast beats and then going for a more mid paced direction and then alternating between mid paced and fast parts as well as the guitar riffing utilizing more melody and towards the end there is a brief use of guitar solos and leads being utilized.
''Metamorphosis" begins with sound effects before adding in heavy, melodic and technical guitar riffs and drums before speeding up with blast beats and death metal growls and a few seconds later t he music slows down a bit and then alternating between fast and slow parts as well as bringing in guitar solos and leads and halfway through the song t here is a brief use of clean parts along with some powerful sounding bass guitars.
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"Ex" which is a short instrumental kicks in with keyboards that utilize a variety of many different sounding keys along with some violins.
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"Fields Of Nihil" comes in with sound effects before adding in heavy guitar riffs and drums along with some guitar leads and a few seconds alter growls become a part of the song along with a small amount of high pitched screams and you can hear melodic choirs in t he background and a few seconds later a small amount of clean parts and spoken word parts mix in with the heavier elements.
"Dialogue With The Dead" hits it off with heavy and melodic guitar riffs along with drums and a few seconds alter growls, technical elements and female vocals kick in and halfway through the song there is a brief use of guitar solos and leads being utilized.
"Wolves' Choir" is introduced with synths and orchestras before adding in guitar leads, riffs and blast beats from the drums as well as the guitar riffing utilizing some melody and then the music slows down a bit and growls come in before alternating between fast and slow parts as well as adding in a small amount of high pitched screams and halfway through the song t here is a brief use of spoken word parts before adding in avant garde parts with the heavier elements.
"The Age To Come" is brought in with heavy guitar riffs and leads along with some drums and a few seconds later growls start to kick in which also lead to the guitar riffing getting more melodic and a couple of minutes later there is a brief use of clean playing and spoken word parts as we;l as a small amount of violins in the background before getting heavy again along with a small amount of blast beats and black metal screams.
"Humanitas" which is also the last song on the album begins with melodic chanting and synths as well as a choir and orchestra.
Song lyrics are a concept album based on a novel as well as all of the chapters in the book, while the production has a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional sound to it.
In my opinion this is another great sounding recording from Diabolical and if you are a fan of this band, you should check out this album> RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE ""Into Oblivion" "Oracle" "Dialogue With The Dead" and "The Age To Come". RECOMMENDED BUY.
www.diabolical.se/neogenesis
Lyfthrasyr/The Engineered Flesh/2013 CD Review
Lyfthrasyr are a band from Germany that plays a very melodic and symphonic form of black metal along with elements of death metal and industrail and this is a review of their self released 2013 album "The Engineered Flesh".
"The New Era of Immortality" which is also the first song on the album opens up with electronic music sounds and a few seconds later drums and symphonic keyboards kick in and also leads up to some heavy guitar riffs and leads and then the black/death metal vocals make their presence known and blast beats are also added in and then the song starts bringing extreme metal and electronic music together.
"Soul Transition Interface" begins with atmospheric and symphonic sounding synths before adding in heavy guitar riffs and blast beats from the drums before going for a more mid paced symphonic black metal direction and adding in death metal growls along with some whispers and then the song starts alternating between fast and mid paced parts and you can also hear bass guitars in certain sections of the song as well as bringing in industrial and electronic music elements and as time goes on by high pitched black metal screams start becoming a part of the song.
"Technological Singularity" kicks in with industrial style synths before adding in heavy guitar riffs and drums and a few seconds later whispers start coming in before going more into death metal growls and black metal screams and halfway through the song the guitars start utilizing some melody.
"Evolution" opens up with heavy guitar and bass riffs along with some drums and blast beats before adding in industrial elements and death metal growls and as the song moves on black metal screams start to kick in and then the music starts utilizing some symphonic synths and spoken word samples before going back to a more heavy and brutal sound.
"Mind Simulator" starts up with industrial and electronic music sounds along with some symphonic synths before adding in heavy guitar riffs and drums and then industrial style vocals start to kick in and evolve into black metal screams shortly after that as well as the guitar riffing getting a lot more melodic and then the song starts alternating between soft and heavy parts and also adding in death metal growls and powerful sounding bass guitars.
'Preserved Indentity" makes its way in with heavy, fast and brutal sounding death metal guitar riffs before adding in drums, bass guitars and chants which also leads up to some growls and whispers as well as throwing in blast beats and synths along with a few seconds of spoken word samples which also leads to elements of industrial kicking in and as time goes on by the guitar riffing starts utilizing some melody as well as a small amount of black metal screams and melodic vocals becoming a part of the song.
"Wisdom In The Loop" is introduced with atmospheric and industrial sounds along with some spoken word samples a few seconds later which also leads to heavy guitar and bass riffs along with some drums which also leads to black and death metal vocals kicking in and as time goes on by there is a brief use of blast beats being utilized.
"Life Overdose" which is the last song on the album begins with industrial style sounds and synths and a minute later heavy guitar riffs and death metal growls start to kick in and a few seconds later black metal screams and powerful bass guitars start to kick in as well as a small amount of whispers and towards the end there is a brief use of guitar leads as well as the song alternating between clean and heavy parts.
Song lyrics cover scientific themes, while the production has a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional sound for being a s elf released recording where you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on this recording.
In my opinion Lyfthrasyr are a very great sounding black/death metal band with symphonic and industrial elements and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "The New Era of Immortality" "Evolution" and "Wisdom In The Loop". RECOMMENDED BUY.
http://youtu.be/OX63kYiWrMQ
Norse Interview
1. Can you give us an update on what is going on with the band these days?
Norse has always had to deal with a lot of changes. It just seems to be something that happens to this band regardless. Recently, the biggest change was losing our singer/guitarist Treelo. The time came for him to move on and pursue a totally different career path. That takes a fair bit of backbone to turn your life around like this, and I applaud his strength of will to go ahead with it!
It was a shame to see him go, but I was resolved not to do the weak, easy thing and throw my hands up in the air and walk away from it. What doesn't kill you...
The new line up now consists of a new full time member who is handling lyrics and vocals, and a session guitarist, both of whom will be announced with the release of our new EP titled 'PEST'
2.How would you describe the musical sound of the new album and also how does it differ from your previous releases?
The difference between the latest album, All is Mist and Fog vs. Hellstorm is pretty big. With Hellstorm we were still learning. We thought we were able to play what we wrote, but personally for me, it fell short of the mark. It just wasn't up to my expectations. Not due to anyone's fault, but we threw so many ideas at that album. Black metal, some melodic Viking stuff, tried to play some dissonant DM etc. Sure there's some standout moments on Hellstorm, but overall I wasn't 100% happy with it personally.
With All is Mist and Fog, Norse had concentrated from a 4 piece into a duo of like-minded musicians. Treelo and I had the same ideas and concepts, and we worked really hard to make sure we nailed it.
We didn't want a glossy production, we wanted raw, real instruments with no edits or manipulations. We wanted to make an album that balanced on the brink of noise/chaos, but with every listen, you could discern something new. The last thing we wanted was to be easily categorized or put on the shelf along side similar sounding bands. Judging by the reviews and feedback, we created exactly what we set out to achieve.
It isn't an easy album to listen to, and it took a lot of fans by surprise. We sure lost a few along the way, but for once we released something I was proud to put my name to.
3.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the new release explores and also how would you describe your progress as songwriters over the years?
Treelo and I both decided with lyrics, we should try and write separately and then combine. What was suprising, was that a very large amount of our ideals matched up and we were able to work them all together to make sense. We have had our lyrics described as 'misanthropic-escape-ism'. However, I believe when lyrics are presented in this semi-abstract form they are open to interpretation.
4.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name Norse, and also how would you describe your views on Nordic Mythology?
This question does come up a lot and unfortunately the answer is: there is no hidden meaning to our name. We just wanted an easy 1 word name that stuck in your head. If there I was pushed, I would say Norse is acknowledging our ancestors who traveled from the top of the globe all the way to the ends of the earth. If that isn't a trek worth paying homage to, I don't know what is.
5.What are some of the best shows that the band ha splayed so far and how would you describe your stage performance?
Out of the mess of memories I have, I think playing alongside Dark Funeral (which was also our album launch for All is Mist and Fog) was a great show. Absu was good and I love playing with Portal. Amazing band.
Interestingly enough, playing small regional shows is always fun. People in rural Australia rarely get to see bands, and the response you get is overwhelming from them. Having 100 kids lining up at the merch desk and demanding everything be signed, photos taken etc makes it worthwhile driving out to the middle of nowhere to perform.
We are currently finishing vocals to our new EP titled - 'PEST'. Our new singer is blowing me away with his performance on this release, so im very keen to get back onto the stage to promote.
There will definitely be tours to support PEST, but right now I'm concentrating on mixes, lyric editing and tracking vocals...
7.Currently you are unsigned are you looking for a label or have received any interest?
We have received interest from labels but Im really not that interested in handing over my creative control. There isn't a lot record companies can do that I can't if I really get involved. Promotional and distro companies are popping up everywhere nowadays, and the internet gives me all the tools I need to get my band out onto the world market.
People still seem to have the idea that a record company will make you huge. Its totally not true. They lose 80% of business to the internet.
The feedback for All is Mist and Fog has been FAR better than I imagined... I was certain people would be unsure, or not understand what we are doing. However it has been a real surprise to see such positive reviews and respect for the album.
...planning To put a stop to that with the next release.
9.Are there any other musical projects going on these days?
I'm always busy with other projects. I do a lot of session work in the downtime between shows and albums, and I just finished up with Australian band The Amenta this year. I wish I could play guitar better, but there's not enough hours in the day to practice both instruments unfortunately.
Shayne our guitarist has a lot of his own projects. Murderworld and Human Forgery to name a few. He is one of those musicians who is always busy as well. Writing or recording inbetween shows.
10.What direction do you see your music heading into on future releases?
I am keen to continue pushing the boundaries. Be it with composition, production or otherwise. My roots are firmly grounded in extreme metal in general, so there will never be an acoustic album or organ solos. The biggest drive for me is to create new and exciting atmospheres. Something to make me sit up and listen again. Chasing an impossible goal of recapturing the excitement I had for Mayhem and emperor albums from my teens.
11.What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your newer music and also what are you listening to nowadays?
No bands influence. I don't want to sound like other bands. There are similarities to be found by every listener for sure. I never go into the studio thinking: ''I want to rip off ' De mysteriis dom sathanas'..! ''
as far as music I am listening to these days: Tycho, Burial, Access to Araska, Boards of Canada, Flashbulb, Lorn, Obfusc.
Nature. Getting away from everyone. I love my job working in pine forests, as I'm by myself every day.
Thankful for the great questions!
You can check out Norse here:
http://norsemetal.bandcamp.com/
www.facebook.com/norse.official
The Lions Daughter/Indian Blanket/A Black Sea/Good Die Young Music 2013 CD Review
This is a review of a joint effort between St. Louis, Missouri's The Lions Daughter and Indian Blanket which is called "A Black Sea" and released by Good Die Young Music and th e music is a mixture of black metal, sludge, doom, blues and folk.
"Wolves" which is also the first song on the album opens up with soft acoustic guitar playing along with some clean singing vocals a few seconds later along with some violins and other folk music instruments and then the drums and heavy guitars kick in as well as the music alternating between soft and heavy parts as well as adding in aggressive sounding screams.
"First First" begins with some drone soundscapes before adding in heavy guitar riffs and drums and then going into a cleaner direction for a few seconds and adding in violins which also leads to the song alternating between heavy and soft parts and you can also hear bass guitar in the background and after awhile t he guitar riffing starts utilizing some melody and spoken word parts are added in along with some aggressive screams a few seconds later and as time goes on by there is a brief use of mandolins and melodic clean singing vocals and as the song moves on there is a brief use of guitar leads being utilized.
"Swam" kicks in with dark ambient drone style sounds along with violins and folk instruments and a minute later fast black metal guitar riffs and blast beats from the drums kick in along with some aggressive screams and then the music slows down for a bit and then alternates between fast and slow parts as well as bringing in melodic vocals at times and halfway through the song the guitar riffing starts getting more melodic which also leads to the clean parts returning while also remaining heavy at the same time.
"Song For The Devil" opens up with soft acoustic guitar folk playing and a few seconds later folk instruments and melodic vocals kick in and there are no heavy guitars or aggressive vocals present in the song.
"Timeless Waters" starts up with folk instruments and acoustic guitars as well as adding in some distorted parts and after a couple of minutes elements of post rock are added into the song and the music is all instrumental.
"Sea Of Trees" makes it way in with heavy and melodic guitar and bass riffs along with some drums before adding in deep sludge style growls and then the music speeds up a bit along with some blast beats and guitar leads while also focusing more on a mid paced direction and after awhile melodic vocals are also added in
"That Place" is introduced with soft folk rock style acoustic guitars and a few seconds later violins along with other folk instruments are added in and after a couple of minutes melodic clean singing vocals are added into the song and halfway through the song drum beats and heavy guitar riffs are added in.
"Moonshiner" which is also the last song on the album begins with some acoustic guitar playing along with some melodic clean singing vocals a few seconds later and as time moves on by blues style guitar leads start coming in and out along with violins and folk instruments.
Song lyrics cover dark, apocalyptic and alcohol themes, while the production has a very strong, heavy and dark sound where you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on this recording.
In my opinion this is a very great sounding joint effort between The Lions Daughter and Indian Blanket and if you are a fan of black metal, doom, sludge, and folk music, you should enjoy this album. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Wolves" "Swam" and "Sea Of Trees". RECOMMENDED BUY.
Fuoco Fatuo/2 EP's In One Tape/Caligari Records/2013 Cassette Compilation Review
Fuoco Fatuo are a band from Italy that plays a mixture of black metal, sludge and doom metal and this is a review of their 2013 cassette compilation "2 EP"s In One Tape" which was released by Caligari Records.
"Alpha" which is also the first song on the compilation opens up with sound effects and spoken word parts and is used as an intro for the album along with some spoken word ritualistic parts and noise effects.
"Vuoto Nero" begins with heavy guitar riffs, death metal growls and black metal screams along with some drums and then the music goes into a blackened doom direction and you can also hear the bass guitars in certain sections of the song.
"L'Abisso" kicks in with drum beats and psychedelic style sound effects before adding in some dark sounding guitar riffs and a minute later the music gets heavier along with some black metal screams which also leads to some deep doom/death metal growls as well as the guitar riffing utilizing some melody as well as adding in evil sounding organs.
"33 Colpi Di Schizophrenia" opens up with black metal screams and heavy doom metal guitar and bass riffs along with some drums which also leads to some deep growls as well as adding in some evil sounding synths as well as some melodic guitar leads and the guitar riffing also utilizes some melody.
"Omega" which is an instrumental starts out with some classical guitars and synths in the background and the song is under a minute.
"Dentro L'Inferno" starts up with heavy doom metal guitar riffs and drums before adding in deep death metal growls and after awhile black metal vocals and powerful bass guitars start to kick in and you can also hear sludge and stoner rock elements and halfway through the song there is a brief use of early 70's rock/metal guitar leads as well as some early 90's death metal style melodies.
"Ley Nera" makes its way in with drums, doom metal guitar and bass riffs as well as some growls and black metal screams and the the guitars start utilizing some melody and halfway through the song guitar leads start coming in and out of the song and as the song moves on it goes into a faster direction for a few seconds along with some blast beats before slowing down again.
"Creatura" is an avant garde noise instrumental that is under a minute.
"Celeste" which is the last song on the compilation begins with heavy and melodic guitar and bass riffs along with some drums and after awhile deep growls and high pitched screams kick in along with some psychedelic effects before speeding up a bit in certain sections as well as adding in a brief use of blast beats and towards the end there is a brief use of guitar leads being utilized..
Song lyrics are written in Latin and cover esoteric themes, while the production has a very strong, powerful, heavy and dark sound where you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on this recording.
In my opinion Fuoco Fatuo are a very great sounding mixture of black metal, doom and sludge and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Alpha" "Dentro L'Inferno" and "Celeste". RECOMMENDED BUY.
http://caligarirecords.bandcamp.com/album/2-eps-in-one-tape
Desolation Interview
Sure – thanks for giving us the opportunity to spread the word about DESOLATION! Well, we've been around since 1994 and so far we've recorded three albums that have established us as a fairly well-known underground act in the northern part of Germany. In 2014 we celebrate our 20th anniversary and hope to make yet some more new friends and fans.
That is always a difficult thing to do if your music doesn't fit the common categories easily. We've mostly been described as a melodic death- black metal act. Somebody recently pointed out that we have an urban feel to the music, and I guess that fits our new album DESORIENTED quite well.
Our new album deals with questions of belonging and the idea of home – where is our place in this world and which values do we navigate by? This may sound rather theoretical, but in the songs there's always a certain perspective that explores these concepts, for example in "Dorothy" I imagined how it would have been if the little girl from Kansas had not returned home but ended up a cheap whore who breathes her last in a seedy hotel, which itself is a metaphor for this world where we never quite belong... I guess some of the lyrics may seem a bit strange at first, but there's certainly plenty to explore.
4.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name Desolation?
To be quite honest - we were fifteen, sixteen when we formed the band and wanted a cool-sounding, simple name that somehow would help to describe our sound. One of us idly flicked through his LP collection and pulled out a Morbid Angel record: Abominations of Desolation – and there it was. Apart from the fact that now there are a few other bands by that name in the US and GB, we're still very happy with it.
5.What are some of the best show that the band has played so far and how would you describe your stage performance?
We've enjoyed sharing the stage with such fine bands as God Dethroned, Disillusion or Malevolent Creation. Currently we're playing some gigs with our good friends in Bloodwork. Our gigs tend to surprise fans who only know our CDs, as we have a much more brutal live sound while at the same time preserving the melodious aspects of the songs.
6.Do you have any touring or show plans for the future/
As I said, 2014 will see our 20th anniversary and we'd like to play a couple of special shows to celebrate, but so far we haven't really made any definite plans.
7.Currently , you are unsigned are you looking for a label or have received any interest?
We are currently affiliated with Rebellion records, a small German label that supported us in our search for a distribution solution. We're very happy with the current arrangement, but if an interesting metal label were willing to back our work with a somewhat larger budget (i.e. larger than our own...), that would be a great opportunity.
Worldwide? Wow – that’s a bit hard to tell from where I’m sitting J. Judging by the reviews we’ve received, people have responded well to the fact that our music is far from boring – that there are worlds within the songs that want to be explored. Fortunately (or unfortunately?) it’s not music for the masses, yet at the same time it’s not only music for the die-hard death metal fan, but other people can relate to the more melodic or experimental parts. So we’re very glad that there are always listeners who give the CDs the couple of run-throughs they need before you get hooked.
That’s impossible to say. We certainly will not part with any of our trademarks. DESOLATION without prominent keyboards would not be DESOLATION, no matter how much some people whine about the fact that we use them. And we’ve always liked to experiment, so I guess there will be lots of experiments in the future. However, our music has always come from the heart, not the head, so we won’t turn into a math metal band all of a sudden.
10.What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your msuic and also what are you listening to nowadays?
That is as diverse as the six people we have in our band. Our drummer and main songwriter is head over heels into progressive rock, while I listen to early nineties European death metal exclusively. The one band we can all agree on is Samael, so there may be some influence from that side…
Again, this is quite different for all of us. Felix is a passionate downhill biker, whereas to me bliss means a good bottle of wine and a fine piece of literature. The band and extreme metal is our common denominator and the basis of a fine friendship that has lasted almost twenty years. Job and family commitments allowing, we spend a lot of time with each other, so everything beyond that pretty much has to play second fiddle…
First of all thank you for taking an interest in DESOLATION. We love what we do and we’d love others to enjoy our particular kind of metal. If you’re the least bit curious now, go to www.desmetal.de to find out more and have a good listen.
Please go out and support your local underground – wherever that may be. Go to concerts, buy CDs and shirts, talk to the bands and keep the metal alive. HELL YEAH!
Serpent Eater/Hyena/Alerta Antifacista Records/ CD Review
Serpent Eater are a band from Germany that plays a mixture of black metal, sludge, crust and hardcore and this is a review of their album "Hyena" which was released by Alerta Antifacista Records.
"Ebola" which is also the first song on the album opens up with heavy and melodic guitar and bass riffs along with drums and deep death metal growls as well as a small amount of black metal screams and the song also alternates between mid paced and slow parts.
"Last Cold Word" begins with black metal style guitar riffs before adding in drums, bass guitars and high pitched screams and after awhile the music goes into a faster direction along with a mixture of growls and screams before slowing down again and adding some melody to t he guitar riffing and towards the end there is a brief use of blast beats.
"In The Wall" starts up with melodic guitar riffs before adding in screams, bass guitars heavier guitar riffs and drums and a minute later growls are thrown into the music and as time goes on by the music gets a little bit faster along with some blast beats before slowing down again.
"Hyena" opens up with blast beats from the drums, black metal screams and fast guitar riffs as well as some melody and then it slows down and adds in death metal growls which also leads to a brief use of clean playing along with heavy bass guitars before returning to a heavier direction.
"Lietmotif" kicks with some mid paced crust crust guitar and bass riffs along with drums and high pitched screams before adding in some deep growls and halfway through the song the music goes into a faster direction along with some blast beats and then slowing down again.
"Trepanation Nation" which is also the last song begins with heavy black metal guitar riffs before adding in bass, blast beats and high pitched screams and then slowing down and adding in melodic crust elements as well as alternating between fast, mid paced and slow parts.
Song lyrics dark themes, while the production has a very strong, powerful, heavy, dark and professional sound and you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on this recording along with some of the songs being long and epic in length.
In my opinion Serpent Eater are a very great sounding mixture of black metal, sludge, crust and hardcore and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Last Cold Word" and "Trepanation Nation". RECOMMENDED BUY.
https://alertaantifascistarecords.bandcamp.com/album/aa95-serpent-eater-hyena-lp
Dark Man Shadow Interview
1. We are currently practicing our live set on a nearly daily basis. Our setlist includes songs from our first two albums in a different version. Meanwhile we have around an hour's listening experience to offer. We are also currently searching for a good booking agency (as well as management) who could book us many gigs. For the bass guitar the bassist from the predecessor album, the then 16-year-old Araisen, is responsible and the 23-year-old Mark Edwards from Birmingham is on the drums for our
gigs.
2.How would you describe the musical sound of the new album and also how does it differ from past albums?
2. In the third album we were able to connect together the first and second albums. Both the producer as well as our studio drummer Matze think that it is more "fluid" than its predecessor the Shore of Straying Souls (2003). Tears of Hate (2001) was not composed to the extent that we had planned due to our former drummer. Thus the album was "doomier".In addition, this time we took more care with the symphonic elements so that all instruments and the singing come into their own.
3.There was a 10 year gap between albums, can you tell us what was going on during that time?
3. In 2003 with our album The Shore of Straying Souls we signed a contract with Dark Music Productions (Portugal). However our album only came out in eastern and southern Europe. After a short while this company went into liquidation and our planned tour never took place. A year later Sorroth decided to take on the offer of his producer and move in with him in order to work on a couple of other musical projects. In these four years he composed the project Brandenburg, as well as the song Golden Machine (Silver Machine from Hawkwind) on one of the Perry Roden samplers that were distributed by Cargo etc... At the of 2007 Sorroth returned to Frankfurt am Main and decided with Samotha to compose a new album, which the record company Bellaphon was to release. After umpteen appointments and meetings it turned out after two years that they could not finance the production. Finally, we produced our albums ourselves in Empire Studios and in February 2011 signed with Schwarzdorn Productions.
4.What are some of the lyrical topics and subjects the new release explores?
4. In 2009 the singer Sorroth reached a low point and spent some time in the Frankfurter drug scene with his acoustic guitar, where he composed an unplugged version of the song Dying In The Corner. This song is dedicated to all the drug victims. Slur, Repayment For Committed Injustice as well as Betrayal Of Trust arose directly after Sorroth's return to Frankfurt am Main, because, alongside other reasons, there were constantly disputes with Carlos Peron (his then publisher) as to the music rights. The magazine Spiegel noted that Sorroth was being exploited. Majestic Uprising celebrates our patience and perseverance.
The strength that you feel increasingly through the dark times is there to give the listener hope. The highest form of hope is overcome despair. Seven Seasons describes the 4-year-long separation of Sorroth and Samotha through the false declarations of the so-called "creatures". Len Dopis (Just A Letter) is a "thankyou" for the tears and years of sorrow. If Sorroth had not supported me and I him, we would probably not exist anymore. Once we gathered ourselves we applied to a smaller distributerwith a pre-production (of four songs), where we were told that we should do something slightly more commercial, as it would fill the coffers. Afterwards we would then get a fitting label. Out of our defiance the
song Due Of Commercialisation emerged.
5.What is the meaning and inspiration behind the name Dark Man Shadow?
5. Already in the creation phase of the band in 1996 we asked the local fans for a fitting band name. First the name "Black Wine" was celebrated, yet as the frontman Sorroth is a very dark guy he was called Dark Man. His ambition, potential and his appearance put everything in the shade for which he was also partly named Shadow. Perhaps in Englishit would be correct to write "Dark Man's Shadow", but this would carry a different meaning.
6. Until now we have enjoyed all gigs and with every appearance have collected new experiences as we do not utilise samplers or midis. This obviously also depends on the mixer who is responsible for the band. We have fond memories of the festival Rocktober in Paderborn, of the smaller gig in Salzgitter as well as the Nightmare Festival in Berlin. Even the open air festival Bretthart where we had no bassist and still received a very positive response. When we stand on the stage we insist on a good sound, as then we fall into a "trance" and can transfer this onto our audience. Oftentimes we bring the blood to the boil. We would be very pleased to deliver a show-spectacle this year.
7. As previously mentioned, we are currently in negotiations with management who could look for booking agencies for us. Unfortunatley nothing is certain as yet, but keep an eye on us as we are ready to perform at any time.
8.On a worldwide level how has the feedback been to the newer material by fans of black, gothic and death metal?
8. Fans from all over the world (both male or female, from 16-60) write us very positive feedback. Many were already very impatient about when the release would take place. As it is not yet released we cannot say very much about this so far; but at present most of the reviews have been very positive, about which we are very pleased. Nothing is worse for an artist, than to be destroyed by journalists in front of the whole world. We hope that the fans will like it both musically as well as the content. Our new album includes music for Death, Black and Gothic fans.
9. We do not want to waste any more time on side-projects and want to firstly mainly concentrate on Dark Man Shadow, as it looks like there will be a lot of work coming our way. Apart from that, we have a few ideas we still want to work on.
10. The direction will probably always remain the same, as the music is mainly composed by Sorroth and Samotha; the idea would be to add a few new elements and maybe to change the concept of the course of the music. At this point we do not want to give any precise comments.
11.What are some bands or musical styles that have influenced your newer music and alos what are you listening to nowadays?
11. Sorroth's idols for singing were Ian Gillan, Robert Plant, Dio,
Blacky Lawless and for guitar were Jimmy Page, Tony Iommi, Eddie van Halen and Kerry King. Samotha's prediliction for dark classical music complemented the idea, musically offering something for fans of every genre.Privately we do not listen to a metal radio station as it could influence our compositions.
12. To live our private lives, in whatever way, the main thing is it's fun.
13. Many thanks for your support through this interview. In addition, we hope that many new fans will be gained who don't just love the music, but also look inside themselves and think about how much further we will let inequality and injustice go on, instead of putting a stop to it.
Together we are strong.
Samotha
Endemise/Far From The Light/Maple Metal Records/2013 CD Review
Endemise are a band from Ottawa, Canada that plays a very symphonic melodic form of black/death metal and this is a review of their 2013 album "Far From The Light" which was released by Maple Metal Records.
"Haunting" the into for the album begins with avant garde sound effects and nature sounds before addign in heavy guitars, symphonic synths, drums and black metal screams as well as some melodic guitar leads.
"Lycaon" which is also the first actual song begins with symphonic synths and melodic guitar riffs as well as drums before going into a more fast black metal along with some blast beats and deep death metal growls which also utilize some black metal screams and then alternating between mid paced and fast parts while also keeping around the melodic and symphonic elements.
"Far From The Light" starts off with symphonic synths and blackened death metal guitar riffs as well as some drums which lead up to some growls and screams along with some melody being thrown into the guitars as well as some blast beats and later on guitar solos and leads start coming in and out of the song.
"Edge Of Eden" begins with some synths, bass guitars and drums before adding in some heavy guitar riffs as well as going into a more fast and melodic direction along with some blast beats which also lead up to some black metal screams and growls and then alternating between mid paced and fast parts and halfway through the song there is a brief use of melodic guitar solos and leads being utilized.
"Lament Eternal" opens up with some synths before adding in some drums and heavy and melodic guitar riffing as well as a small amount of leads before growls and screams start to kick in and then the music goes into a faster direction as well as alternating between mid paced and fast parts a s well as adding in some blast beats and after a few minutes the synths take over and the song gets a little bit more calm.
"Entranced By Twisting Skies" comes in with acoustic guitar playing and synths before adding in drums, bass and heavy and melodic guitar riffs and a few seconds alter female choirs, growls and screams start to make their way in and then the song goes into a faster direction along with some blast beats for a few seconds and then alternating between mid paced and fast parts as well as adding in guitar leads and solos as well as mixing in some calm parts.
"Echoes" makes it way in with synths before adding in bass and drums and then adding in heavy and melodic guitar riffs along with some growls and screams and as the song moves on their is a brief use of blast beats being utilized.
"Enroaching Dusk" is an instrumental song that is all done on synths and has a very symphonic and classical music feeling to it.
"Of Death And Forgotten Lore" brings back to the album to being heavy along with some guitars, drums, growls and screams as well as keeping around the synths which also leads up to some blast beats before slowing down and adding in some melody as well as the blast beats coming in and out.
"Amidst The Ancient Suns" which is also the last song on the album starts with heavy and melodic guitar riffs along with some synths and drums and then screams and growls come in along with some blast beats and later on melodic guitar leads start coming in and out of the song as well as a small amount of groove metal elements and then alternating between soft and heavy parts..
Song lyrics cover dark and metaphysical themes, while the production has a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional sound to it.
In my opinion Endemise are a very great sounding symphonic and melodic black/death metal band and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this recording. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE ""Lycaon" "Lament Eternal" and "Amidst The Ancient Suns". RECOMMENDED BUY.
http://youtu.be/4kHCsEN9zao .
Dark Man Shadow/Victims Of Negligence/Schwarzdorn Productions/2013 CD Review
Dark Man Shadow are a band from Germany that plays a very melodic, gothic and symphonic form of black/death metal and this is a review of their 2013 album "Victims Of Negligence" which was released by Schwarzdorn Productions.
"Repayment For Committed Injustice" which is also the first song on the album starts off with some synths and clean guitar playing along with some melodic female vocals before getting heavy again with some drums and black metal screams as well as some male clean singing which also leads to some faster guitar riffing and blast beats being that come in and out of the song.
"Betrayal Of Trust" begins with clean singing male and female vocals along with some symphonic synths before adding int some drums and heavy guitar riffs and a minute later blast beats start coming in and out of the song which also lead to some more aggressive vocals and a couple of minutes later there is a brief use of spoken word parts before adding in some powerful sounding bass guitars before getting heavy again.
"Slur" open ups with some heavy guitar riffs and drums before going into a fast death /thrash direction along with some blast beats, synths and aggressive vocals while also throwing some melody in the guitar riffing and a minute later female vocals are added into the song.
"Len Dropis (Just A Letter)" starts with some acoustic guitars and melodic female vocals before adding in some drums and bass guitars which in return also lead up to some synths and after a couple of minutes heavy guitar riffs start making their presence known in the song along with some male vocals.
"Due Of Commercialisation" kicks off with heavy guitar riffs, drums and symphonic synths along with some blast beats , bass guitars and melodic male vocals a few seconds later which also utilize some death metal elements before adding in female vocals and a few seconds black metal screams come in for a few seconds.
"Seven Seasons" enters into the album with symphonic synths and spoken word parts before adding in some heavy guitar riffs which also use some melody and then adding in some bass, drums and melodic male and female vocals and a few seconds later there is a brief use of black metal vocals.
"Dying In The Corner" comes in with synths and heavy guitar and bass riffs along with some drums before speeding up a bit and adding in melodic yet aggressive male vocals and towards the end the female vocals come in briefly.
'Majestic Uprising" which is also the last song on the album kicks off with symphonic synths before adding in heavy guitars and drums and a few seconds later black metal screams start kicking in along with some female vocals which also lead up to some blast beats and male singing and then going into a more mid paced direction
Song lyrics cover dark, depressive and poetic themes, while the production has a very strong, powerful, heavy and professional sound where you can hear all of the musical instruments that are present on the recording.
In my opinion Dark Mand Shadow are a very great sounding hybrid of gothic, symphonic, black and melodic death metal and if you are a fan of this musical genre, you should check out this band. RECOMMENDED TRACKS INCLUDE "Repayment For Committed Injustice" "Slur" and "Dying In The Corner". RECOMMENDED BUY.
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Datacide 15 News: Neo-Nazis, the National Socialist Underground and the State
Neo-Nazis, the National Socialist Underground and the State
In datacide twelve, we detailed the scandal surrounding the killing spree of the Neo-Nazi terrorist organisation Nationalsozialistischer Untergrund (National Socialist Underground, NSU) and the involvement of the domestic state security agency Verfassungsschutz (VS). This was followed by an update in datacide thirteen. In the meantime, the court case against Beate Zschäpe (the surviving member of the NSU ‘terror trio’) et. al. has continued. Simultaneously, the various parliamentary fact-finding commissions have been at work supposedly to shed light on the backgrounds of the crimes as well as the role the security services may have played in them.
The court case seemingly took a fundamental turn when Zschäpe decided to make a statement after all. Unsurprisingly, her 53-page statement was designed to exculpate herself from the accusations of complicity in the murders and claimed that she hadn’t been a member of the NSU, which conveniently – since they are both dead – only consisted of Uwe Böhnhardt and Uwe Mundlos.
This was after she had already had her conditions of detention softened because the NSU supposedly no longer existed. Even though her claims were widely seen as lies, the possibility of a much larger membership of the terrorist organisation is barely being investigated.
In the meantime, parliamentarians in the fact-finding commissions experienced that state attorneys and police were generally not very forthcoming with information, blocking effective investigations of the connections and overlap of the domestic security services and the Neo-Nazi scene. The state agencies remain very economical with the truth. This situation is not helped by the fact that five witnesses have died under suspicious circumstances, the first in 2009, the fifth as recently as February 2016. [Read more →]
News Datacide 15, pt.3: Surveillance, Control and Repression
Surveillance, Control and Repression
GPS enabled smartphone apps are being used by private companies to track and surveil employees during business hours and also during off times. A sales executive employee at the international wire-transfer service Intermex has sued because she was being tracked via the Xora StreetSmart app on the company issued phone which she was not allowed to turn off even while not at work. After complaining about the privacy intrusions and spying by the company, she was fired.
Bank of America is one company using ‘smart badges’ to biosurveil the voice and behavior patterns of call-center workers. Monitoring includes how employees talk to customers, who talks to whom within the office, when employees send emails and respond, make phone calls, go on breaks, leave their desk to go somewhere else in the office, etc. The technology and data analysis is done by Humanyze, a spin off from the MIT Media Lab, which works with over 20 companies in banking, technology, pharmaceutical and health care industries monitoring thousands of employees. The analyzed data shows how each monitored employee performs compared to others, which amongst other things can be correlated to sales data and analyzed to assess individual and collective job performance.
In the UK, a Cambridge neuroscientist and former Golden Sachs trader, John Coates, is working with companies to use biosurveillance to create ‘human optimization’ in business performance. This researcher focuses on using technology that measures hormones that increase confidence and other ‘positive’ emotions and those that produce negative, stressful behavior that would impact a trader’s performance. The idea is to monitor employees and alert supervisors with an ‘early warning system’ if traders are getting close to a ‘hormonal danger zone’ where they won’t produce the desired trading results. Such biosurveillance is used on employees at hedge funds, banks, call centers, consultant firms, and many others.
News Datacide 15, pt.2: Infiltration and Agents Provocateurs
Infiltration and Agents Provocateurs
A heavily redacted FBI document revealed that the FBI in 2011 used agent provocateurs against Occupy Houston to gather information and photographs, spy on supporters and activists, and then planned to ‘kill the leadership via suppressed sniper rifles’. A federal judge ruled that the FBI could refuse to release the documents un-redacted to conceal the identities of the infiltrators who joined OH, which the FBI labeled as an ‘organized violent group’.
In January 2015, Eric McDavid, who had been convicted to 19 years for ‘domestic terrorism’ in his role in an Earth Liberation Front plot in California in 2005, was released from prison after serving 9 years when federal prosecutors agreed to a settlement when it was exposed that thousands of pages of evidence were withheld from the defense during the 2007 trial. The concealed evidence included a plethora of information about the FBI agent provocateur known as ‘Anna’, who had a ‘romantic relationship’ with McDavid, and entrapped the small ELF cell into conspiring to bomb the Nimbus Dam, cellphone towers, science labs and other targets. ‘Anna’ was central to entrapping other protesters as well. [Read more →]
News Datacide 15, pt.1: Endless War
In April 2015, three mercenaries (Paul Slough, Evan Liberty and Dustin Heard) of the American private military contractor previously known as Blackwater Security Consulting (now Academi) were sentenced each to 30 years and one mercenary (Nicholas Slatten) to life in prison for the Nisour Square massacre of September 16, 2007 in Baghdad. The jury in this federal criminal case found that the Blackwater contractors opened fire indiscriminately into the busy square, killing 17 Iraqi civilians and wounding 20 others, and were not provoked or in danger as the defendants had claimed. The investigation into the massacre and the subsequent trial were riddled with problems, while the fifth Blackwater mercenary (Jeremy Ridgeway) co-operated with the government and testified against others, and was sentenced to twelve months in prison. This is one of the few court cases in which American mercenaries were found criminally liable for manslaughter of civilians during the second Iraq war, despite widespread abuses, torture and murder.
The Pentagon continues in late December 2015 to stonewall a federal judge’s ruling to release to the public 2,100 photographs of detainee abuse and torture committed by US soldiers and contractors. On February 4, 2016, the Pentagon released only 198 photos which mostly show close-ups of bruises or small wounds on detainees’ bodies. The withheld photographs document torture at Abu Ghraib prison and 23 other locations including ‘black sites’, and are said to be even more sadistic than those made public in 2003. The Pentagon has ‘re-certified’ the rest of the photographs as ‘secret’ to prevent their release, and the government has filed a motion to have the judge’s order vacated. The Obama administration continues the Bush administration’s policies to keep evidence of abuse and torture ‘secret’ despite claiming to be ‘the most transparent administration ever’.
In December 2014, the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence released a highly redacted executive summary (525 pages) of its full 6,700-page report on CIA abuse, torture and rendition programs. No one has been held legally or criminally liable for the abuse and torture detailed in the summary and the report, which included waterboarding; sleep depravation for long periods; forcing prisoners to stand on their broken legs/feet and/or in ‘stress positions’; non-stop interrogation for weeks; rape (including so-called forced ‘rectal feeding/hydration’); sexual abuse; death by hypothermia; the use of music/noise, light and darkness as torture; dragging on the floor naked, chained prisoners; stuffing naked prisoners into tiny boxes or coffins for days; threats of sexual abuse against relatives of the prisoners; conducting mock executions; ‘ice baths’, etc. [Read more →]
Datacide 15 Editorial
‘Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.’
Article 14.1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
It seems fair enough to deduce from this formulation that the denial of this right to freedom from persecution would constitute a human rights violation. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights formulates some essentials of Western democratic self-understanding. It is not surprising that a country like Saudi Arabia refused to sign it in 1948, stating that the Declaration contravenes Sharia Law. Certainly the right wing populist mass movements led by Marine Le Pen, Donald Trump, HC Strache or Frauke Petry are not defenders of Sharia Law, but in many ways these movements are the other side of the same coin of the ultra-reactionary movements in the Middle East.
These movements in the West go beyond lobbying their own governments to suspend human rights to keep out those who are trying to flee the carnage caused, in many cases, by Islamic fundamentalists. In the US, Trump has been vocal in advocating even worse torture than is already being used by the current administration as well as the killing of whole families. In Germany, politicians from the Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) have stated that ‘if necessary’ refugees, including children, should be prevented from entering the country with lethal force. Despite this, Trump is currently the frontrunner of the Republican candidates in the US presidential race, and the AfD enjoys ratings and election success in Germany outdoing any party to the right of the Christian Democrats since the beginning of the Federal Republic.
We’re witnessing a dramatic brutalisation – at least in the rhetoric – of Western politics. [Read more →]
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Introducing Palaeontology: A Guide to Ancient Life
This is the second guide to be published in a series of three books produced by Dunedin (the first of which, Introducing Geology – A Guide to the World of Rocks by Graham Park was reviewed in Issue 23 of Deposits). As I said in that review, when anticipating the two companion books: “If this book [Introducing Geology] is anything to go by, I suspect that they will be very good indeed” – and this second book does not disappoint at all!
And thank goodness this isn’t another “Guide to Identifying Fossils in the Field”, which is a genre that is about as much use as a chocolate fireguard, when it comes to identifying any fossil below the level of kingdom or phyla (I exaggerate)! In fact, this makes no such claim – instead, being a short (152 pages), colourfully and beautifully illustrated (in part by John Murray) introduction to the science of palaeontology and, as such, fills a useful and previously empty niche in the market for both amateurs and first/second year students at university.
Like Introducing Geology, the book is written in clear, understandable English, but never underestimates the reader’s geological abilities or intelligence. Therefore, Patrick Jackson, a senior lecturer in geology at the Geological Museum at Trinity College, Dublin is to be congratulated on producing a beautiful guide that covers exactly what you would expect of such a book. It is set out in two parts, with the first covering the science of palaeontology – collection and curation, preservation, uses of fossils, lagerstätten, taxonomy and so on. The second section is longer and discusses the most common fossils groups – brachiopods, bivalves, molluscs and so on, but also includes sections on microfossils and trace fossils. And like Introducing Geology, it contains an excellent glossary to steer the reader through the ‘geo-babble’ that is geological terminology.
The last of the three Dunedin books will be on volcanoes and is due to be published in 2011. If it is as good as the first two (and who can doubt that it will be?), I can’t wait for it to be published.
Introducing Palaeontology: A Guide to Ancient Life by Patrick N. Wyse Jackson. Dunedin, Edinburgh (2010). 152 pp., softback, ISBN: 978-1-906716-15-8.
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Liberal Democrats at County Hall are asking Norfolk County Council to write to the Secretary of State for Education to demand urgent action to fix Norfolk's special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) problem that should include the provision of adequate funding in Norfolk so that it can meet the demand for SEND provision.
Norfolk has over 15,000 SEND children and the County Council continues to have very low performance in meeting the statutory deadline of 20 weeks by which it must complete an education, health and care plan assessment of how a SEND child will have their needs met.
Tim Adams said, "This crisis is impacting significantly on the education of all children in classrooms across Norfolk, and families in every Town and village".
"We cannot ask more of our teachers, teaching assistants and schools".
"With £1m removed from the frontline services provided in children's centres, a £13.2m overspend in Childrens Services last year and an increasing number of complaints being upheld against the Council by the Local Government Ombudsman for poor performance, urgent action is needed".
"The current funding position for special educational needs is neither realistic, nor sustainable, and Norfolk County Council must seek to address the ballooning funding gap with the Government".
"We want to thank those people who took part in the Norwich SEND protest march as well as those who showed support but were not able to march. We heard loud and clearly from you and now it is time for the County Council to act."
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SEND CRISIS
This Council notes that:
The number of children with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in Norfolk is over 15,000
Norfolk has a higher percentage of Children in Need receiving SEN Support than the national average
Norfolk has seen a 230% increase in education, health and care plan (EHCP) assessments since 2015 compared with 55% in England
The Council has struggled to meet the requirement of completing new ECHP's within 20 weeks
The Local Government Association estimates that we are facing a national shortfall in SEND funding of £1.6billion
A number of local authorities such as Dorset have written to the Secretary of State seeking action
The Council welcomes the UK Parliament's Education Committee's SEND inquiry and looks forward to the publication of its final report.
The Council believes that:
All Children have a right to an education.
This is now a national crisis.
Local authorities are being placed in an impossible position. They have a legal duty to plan high quality education for every child with SEND, but cuts have taken away the resources they need to educate children with complex needs.
Therefore, this Council agrees to:
Thank those families who took part in the recent Norwich SEND protest march as well as those who showed support but were not able to march.
Invite the Secretary of State for Education to visit Norfolk to see the impact that the current funding model has on children, young people, parents and schools.
Write to the Secretary of State for Education to demand urgent action to fix the problem that should include the provision of adequate funding in Norfolk to meet its demand for SEND provision.
Proposed by: Councillor Ed Maxfield
Seconded by Councillor Tim Adams
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The South Pacific has a way about her. She slowly seduces your body by caressing your skin with her warmth, and unclutters your mind with sparkling images of golden sand and shady palms. Her seduction starts the moment you board Polynesian Airlinesâ Boeing 737 outward bound for one of her treasures floating on a turquoise sea.
My trip to Auckland Airport was straight out of one of those disaster movies where everybody is trying to leave town on the only main road out. Every man and his dog was making their way from all the directions of the compass to the All Blacks vs England rugby game. My normal half-hour trip to the airport turned into an hour and a half. Man, I really needed a Valium or a stiff drink by the time I checked through customs. However, my blood pressure immediately improved as I staggered down the aisle looking for my seat. A sea of smiling brown faces greeted me as if I was a long-lost cousin. I guess they were really smiling because now the plane could finally take off!
At 37,000 feet I was already in Samoa, being surrounded by that warm, open friendliness that is so much part of the South Pacific culture. The smiling hostesses provided a welcome glass of wine. I eased down another cog or two; a bloke could take plenty of this! The commercial centre of Samoa is half an hourâs drive from the airport. My last visit was in the early 1980s, and it was pleasing to see that over-commercialistion had not suffocated the Samoan way of life. Apart from some noticeable changes – a sprinkling of traffic lights in the centre of town, the new high rise Government building, and a massive Mormon temple – the town of Apia seemed to be resting in a peaceful time zone, a fact that is appreciated by locals and visitors alike.
Much has been written about Aggie Grey and her struggle to establish her famous hotel on the shores of Apia Harbour. Established in 1933, Aggieâs was a resting place for battle-weary American soldiers during World War II, and celebrities such as Gary Cooper, William Holden, and Marlon Brando, to mention just a few. Aggie became a legend in her own lifetime. In 1971 she was portrayed on a Samoan postage stamp, a book entitled Aggie Grey of Samoa was published in 1979, and she was awarded the Queenâs Service Order in 1983. In late June 1988, Aggie said her last âTofaâ. In the late â80s, Aggieâs hotel had a $4 million upgrade, with the entrance building extensively rebuilt. The designers can be congratulated. The look and feel of those Somerset Maugham days in an airy, tropical bungalow has been maintained, even down to the louvre windows at the roadside entrance, and the bench style chairs allowing you to relax and watch the colourful Samoan traffic pass by. A new addition to Aggieâs is the luxury game fishing and diving vessel Reel Passion, which offers day trips and extended overnight charters.
The waters around the two main islands of Samoa are relatively unexplored by divers. Five years ago Roger and Gayle Christman swapped the hectic world of the computer business for the sensation of sand between their toes on the shores of deserted golden beaches. They established Pacific Quest Divers to cater for the visiting diver who wished to experience these unexplored offshore reefs. Their Apia Dive Shack, which is located next to Funway Car Rentals opposite the main port terminal facilities, is just a short stroll past Aggie Greyâs.
The joy of tropical diving is that you can leave all that restrictive rubber suit stuff at home, and slip into something more comfortable, like a Lycra suit, shorty 3mm wetsuit, or just a plain t-shirt. In the âbathtubâ water of 28°C, all you really need is your birthday suit! The purpose built ten metre twin hull dive boat, with twin 55hp, is set up for diver comfort. Your fully rigged dive tanks are safely held in the port and starboard tank racks. There is heaps of room to gear up on the 3.5m-beam deck.
The fragile coral reefs around the island were torn apart by the unrelenting fury of Cyclone Val in 1991. Large areas of reef were unceremoniously scooped up and tumbled into large mounds of smashed coral around Apiaâs harbour edge, leaving the underwater inhabitants wondering where their accommodation had gone. One of the things about Mother Nature is that she loves to rebuild what she has, in a moment of fury, destroyed. The reefs of Samoa are truly virginal. Huge areas remain to be explored and the coral formations are young and vibrant after recovering from Cyclone Val.
The plate coral formations are stunning, stacked like terraced apartment houses, their outstretching circular balconies accommodating the miracle and diversity of the reef. Butterfly fish families seem to be the main tenants; threadfin, Meyerâs Pacific double saddle, and long fin bannerfish make up a small part of the cosmopolitan array of life.The very recognisable Moorish idol from the surgeonfish family seem to be the roving landlords, always with their noses in the air, too busy to stay for a cup of coffee or to have their portraits taken with the family. The oriental sweetlips in their military stripes seem to be patrolling and maintaining the peace. Down on the sandy playfields around 20 metres, the eagle rays and turtles often cruise by, as if not wanting to get involved in the domestics of the terrace dwellers.
Directly north from Apia is Five Mile Reef, which lies 18 metres under the surface. This is a âmust diveâ site during your visit to Samoa. Barracuda, dolphins, turtles and members of the jack family may intrude on your dive. The water is crystal clear. The 30 to 40 minute drive from Apia to the sparsely populated south coast is spectacular, especially if you allow time to stop on the way. Papapapai-Tai waterfall is magnificent. The best time for a photo opportunity is before noon. This is also true for the Sopoaga and Togitogiga Falls, both found off the South Coast Road. Also from the apex of Cross Island Road is the Malololelei lookout, with its magnificent views across the dense forest to Apia township far below.
On reaching the south coast you realise how the legendary storyteller, Robert Louis Stevenson, fell in love with his Treasure Island. When Roger and Gayle first arrived in Samoa, this is the area that stole their hearts. They started their fledgling diving operation in 1993 at the Coconut Beach Club Resort, which had been built by two fellow Americans, Barry and Jennifer Rose. They had also done the unthinkable ten years earlier, by selling up their Beverly Hills lawyer lifestyle to create their own slice of heaven on earth. Their story is magical: catch up with them at the Saturday night Fiafia at Coconut Beach to hear the whole story. Coconutsâ Fiafia is performed by young men and women from the surrounding villages. Their fire knife dancing has to be on any visitorâs itinerary. Roger and Gayle also provide their diving and kayaking services to the new luxury resort of Sinalei, which is located just down the beach from Coconuts. Pacific Quest Divers have two craft operating between these two resorts, an 8.5 metre twin hull aluminium craft which has a coral reef viewing window for non-divers. Roger and his dive guide son Tim use this to explore the inner coral valleys and mounds of the inner reef. A 5.5 metre Boston Whaler-styled boat is used to venture outside the reef edge, to experience the excitement of large fish encounters.
When diving the south coast, ask Roger to take you for a dive at one of his favourite spots, aptly named The Aquarium. This is a shallow water dive where you can just relax and take in the view. It could be called Clownfish City. This vibrant reef close to shore is a kaleidoscope of colour, mixing large sea anemones harbouring inquisitive clownfish with delicate latticed coral, reminding you that lunch is not far away. Turtles, trevally and snapper often cruise by. With your 1:3 macro rig, you can spend all day having a ball in this aquarium under the sea.
Samoa is my kind of escape from the chilly, drizzly, damp, cloud-covered months of winter. Part of any holiday is to experience a new culture, as well as stimulating diving and on-land adventures that if you wish can challenge your fitness. Itâs also a place where, when the day is done, you can relax in five star luxury to be seduced by the culinary masterpieces of the chef, while you sip your favourite wine. Or you may prefer your own private fale or one of the many waterfront restaurants with their own balconies overlooking cruising yachts. You may choose to be by the pool at the hotel that celebrates the life of Robert Louis Stevenson, Hotel Kitano Tusitala. Tusitala is Samoan for âteller of tales.â
If you prefer a more local culture experience, you can stay at one of the many backpacker-style accommodations, at beach fales dotted mainly around the beautiful eastern beaches of the island. Dine with your Samoan family caretakers. The range of accommodation in Samoa is truly amazing. It has been said that Samoa is the South Pacificâs best kept secret, but its history shows that many a traveler has known of its existence. Since its discovery in 1722 by Dutch explorer, Jacob Roggeveen, the Samoans have watched it all go by and wondered why the Palagi is in such a hurry.
World War I saw the German regime, which was established in 1889, replaced by New Zealand in 1918 until independence in 1962. Many a whaler, trader and traveller have wandered these shores in the early days of the seafaring trade. To catch some of the history, visit the home of Robert Louis Stevenson, Vailima, which has been beautifully restored to reflect the glory and grandeur of a past era. For adventurers and the energetic there is a short climb to the top of Mt Vaea, overlooking Apia Harbour, where the authorâs grave lies. You can read the immortal requiem he wrote for himself.
Remember those peaceful weekends we all used to enjoy a few years back, when New Zealand closed down at 12 noon on Saturday, and did not open for business again until Monday morning? Wasnât it great? Time for the family, diving, fishing, reading a book or just good old doing nothing. You can do it in Samoa. Come noon on a Saturday, she shuts down, and itâs great. The South Pacific continues her seduction, and the stresses of life become distant memories. I will return.
Samoa in Brief
Location Samoa is situated approximately 2890 km north east of Auckland. Geography Samoa comprises of two relatively large islands, Upolu and Savaii, and several smaller islands. The capital Apia and Faleolo International Airport are located on the island of Upolu. The islands are volcanic and dominated by rugged mountain ranges with a 4-5km skirt of gently sloping fertile land to which is attached a fringe of coral reefs and lagoons which surround the islands. The climate is pleasantly warm with an average maximum temperature of 29°C, and an average water temperature of 28 °C. Samoa’s national airline, Polynesian Airlines operates services to Samoa from New Zealand (Auckland and Wellington), and Australia (Sydney and Melbourne).Other international airlines that fly to Samoa include Air New Zealand, Air Pacific, Samoa Air and Royal Tongan. No entry permit is required for visitors staying up to 30 days; however, an onward or return ticket and valid passport are required. A written declaration is required for every visitor. Departure tax is S$20. Samoan is the national language, but English is used in commerce and government business and most Samoans are competent in English. Light summer clothing is appropriate all year round. Visitors are requested not to wear bathing suits in Apia or in the villages. There are over 31 district hospitals and sub centres. These islands are Malaria free. There is an extensive bus service on both Upolu and Savaii, providing inexpensive transportation for local people and an experience to remember for visitors. Taxis are always available in Apia and at the International Airport. Rental car companies are located in Apia, the International Airport and Salelologa on Savaii.
Samoa Visitors Bureau:
P O Box 2272, Apia, Samoa
Ph: +685 63500 Fax: +685 20886
samoa@samoa.net
Level 1, Samoa House, 283 Karangahape Road, Auckland
P O Box 68423, Newton, Auckland
Ph: 09-379 6183 Fax: 09-379 8154
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PO Box 361, Minto Mall, Minto, NSW 2566
Ph: 02-9824 5050
Fax: 02-9824 5678
samoa@ozemail.com.au
38 Hoop Lane, Golders Green, London NW11 8BU
Ph: +181 748 4455 Fax: +181 748 2274
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Accident Lawyers in Robinson, IL. The accident and injury lawyers at the Dixon Injury Firm provide experienced legal representation to victims and their families in the Robinson, IL, area. We help victims recover damages after these accidents. The Dixon Injury Firm handles insurance claims and cases in and out of the courtroom. We have won more than $35,000,000 for our clients in the Greater St. Louis area. Contact Dixon now for a free consultation and case review. If we don’t win, you don’t pay. Dixon’s Robinson, IL, accident lawyers specialize in personal injury claims, workers comp, and other claims and cases.
Dixon Injury Firm’s Robinson accident lawyers are here to help victims and their families in the Greater St. Louis area. If you’re involved in some sort of accident, there are a number of important things you need to be aware of. Below, we offer prime advice for Robinson, IL, accident victims:
According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, 52 percent of all injury claims involve motor vehicle accidents. Only 15 percent of cases involve medical malpractice, 5 percent to product liability, and the other 28 percent are considered “other claims.”
The average settlement for personal injury claims is more than $31,000. Payouts are based on damages such as loss of consortium, medical expenses, pain and suffering, and lost wages. Some cases can be worth millions if you have an experienced injury lawyer.
The CDC claims that over 35,000 people are killed in motor vehicle accident each year. OSHA reports that many workplace deaths involve electrocution, falls, and falling objects. Overall, more than 30,000 people die every year due to unintentional falls.
“Tort” cases make up a small percentage of civil case filings. Torts are civil cases that may involve personal injuries such as premise liability, a truck accident, or some other injury that has a financial impact on the victim.
To get compensation for an injury case in Robinson, IL, it’s important to get experienced legal representation. Dixon offers free legal counsel on a contingency plan. Contact Dixon at (314) 409-7060 today to learn more about our injury lawyers in Robinson.
Having settled more than $35,000,000 for clients and their families, Chris Dixon and the Robinson injury lawyers have the experience you need to win the maximum amount of reimbursement. You can contact us now for more information about our ability to help you win your case.
Robinson Personal Injury Lawyers
As one of the best firms in the Robinson area, Chris Dixon has proven his ability to do what is best for his clients. Nearly 40 million people per year suffer from mild-to-severe accidents that can impact their lives. Filing a claim can help you recover.
You probably have a personal injury case and will need to contact an accident lawyer if…
You’re unable to work due to an injury.
A family member died by a negligent party.
An injury prohibits you from doing normal activities.
An insurer offers you a fast settlement.
The last point is crucial. Often, after an incident, the negligent person’s insurer will offer the victim what seems like a fair settlement. Accepting or rejecting a settlement offer can be the difference between a fast payout and hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The Robinson accident lawyers at Dixon ensure victims and their families are justly compensated. One of the biggest mistakes a person can make after an accident is to accept or contact a negligent person’s insurer without experienced legal representation. Our accident lawyers provide Robinson residents with the information and experience they need to effectively fight big insurers and get you full compensation for your accident.
Compensation for Injury Cases in Robinson
Regarding compensation and reimbursement, the types of damages you can win depend on the case. With an accident lawyer at bat for you, damages could include:
Medical Expenses: Hospital bills, ongoing treatment, surgery, rehab and other medical-related expenses can be included in your special damages. A skilled Robinson accident lawyer will also fight for ongoing treatment.
Lost Income: When you’re injured, you could be eligible for workers compensation. Also, your wages can be added to the overall settlement. This includes barriers to career advancement and loss of earning potential in addition to any vocational training. Lost wages severely impact your ability to pay for medical expenses.
Pain and Suffering: A victim’s pain and suffering is calculated on several different factors. This may include emotional distress, PTSD after witnessing an accident, or ongoing medical conditions. Loss of enjoyment and consortium are called general damages, while concrete expenses (medical bills and lost wages) are special damages.
Out-of-Pocket Expenses: An experienced accident lawyer in Robinson will also fight for out-of-pocket expenses. It’s within your rights to request these in addition to other special and general damages. This includes childcare, rental car fees, gas money, or even prescription drugs.
If you’re in Robinson, IL, and think you have a personal injury case, it’s important to call an accident lawyer as quickly as possible. A good lawyer can be the difference between a small settlement and a big payout.
Truck and Car Accident Lawyers in Robinson, IL
If you or a family member has been in a car or truck wreck, it’s important to contact an experienced accident lawyer right away. A lot of times, victims of car accidents don’t make the best decisions due to injuries and stress. To get the best injury settlement, you will need a veteran accident attorney who can act on your behalf.
The most common traffic accidents are the most avoidable. These include distracted driving, speeding, drunk driving, and road construction accidents. Dixon’s accident lawyers have dealt with various vehicle-related cases. It’s our goal to help Robinson accident victims recover financial compensation from big insurers and negligent parties.
How Your Robinson, IL, Accident Lawyer Can Help
The “Duty of Care” refers to a person’s reasonable and responsible moral contract between them and others. Citizens are legally and morally expected to act in certain ways. For example, a restaurant manager has a moral responsibility to serve safe food.
A “Breach” is when a person knows the duty of care and fails to act. A decent example of this is when someone ignores a yield sign and drives through an intersection.
“Causation” is proving someone is responsible for breaching their duty of care. An accident happens because the negligent party failed to act responsibly. Consider a store owner that doesn’t salt an icy walkway and someone slips and falls. The proprietor is responsible because it’s reasonable they would’ve taken steps to avoid that accident.
The final step in proving who is at fault is determining “Damages.” You probably don’t have a claim if you stub your toe. There needs to be financial repercussions. Compensation for personal injuries varies on a number of factors. If you can prove the defendant is negligent, they will look at the expenses caused by the breach of duty of care.
The Robinson accident lawyers at Dixon help clients and their families with the entire legal process. This includes submitting claims, fighting insurance companies, and even going to court if necessary. If you want to get the best injury claim settlement, you can call Dixon now for more information and a free case consultation.
The Dixon Injury Firm is the answer to your legal circumstance. “Who’s the best accident lawyer near me?” The answer is in our results and experience. We also offer legal services in a number of different areas. See below for a list of our capabilities:
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Former Bangladesh military dictator Ershad dies at 89
General Ershad ruled Bangladesh for nearly a decade before being ousted from power in 1990.
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Updated: Jul 14, 2019, 11.47 AM IST
In this Jan. 9, 1997 file photo former Bangladesh president Hussain Muhammad Ershad, waves to supporters as he is released from government prison in Dhaka, Bangldesh.
DHAKA: Former Bangladesh military dictator Hussain Muhammad Ershad died Sunday aged 89, after weeks in a Dhaka hospital, officials said.
General Ershad ruled Bangladesh for nearly a decade before being ousted from power in a pro-democracy upsurge in 1990 and was jailed for years on corruption charges.
He passed away due to complications from old age, Kazi Firoz Rashid, a longtime colleague and lawmaker from his Jatiya Party, told AFP. Armed forces spokesman Abdullah bin Zaid confirmed the death.
Ershad, who was also a prolific poet, was the head of the country's armed forces in 1982 when he took power in a bloodless coup after removing an elected government from power.
His rule was marked by a controversial decision to make Islam the state religion of the officially secular Muslim-majority nation.
In comments made to local reporters from jail in 1996, he said that his "greatest failure... was running the country softly with a heart of a poet".
Despite the slew of cases against him, Ershad emerged as one of Bangladesh's major power brokers in the 1990s after his Jatiya Party became the country's third biggest political outfit.
Since his ouster at the hands of current Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and main opposition leader Khaleda Zia, the two women have become bitter rivals, with the government last year jailing Zia for a decade over graft charges.
The former general became a key ally of Hasina and remained hugely popular in his home district in the country's north from where he was elected member of parliament six times in a row.
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COD Method/Implement:
upon their oaths do say that Humphrey Fletcher in manner and form of the foresaid came to his death by misfotune or accident of being thrown from a waggon and draged [sic] some district causing the dislocation of his neck.
Lillie Washington
upon their oaths do say that she came to her death "By the train running against her throwing her off the track, and in our opinion unavoidable.
Jeff Steel
upon their oaths do Say That Jeff Steel came to his death by accident on account of carelessness on his part he having disobeyed the rules of Caot, Cason in riding on the rear of the Tender of the Engine.
Wade Adair
upon their oaths do say that he said Wade Adair came to his death by being accidentally run over by the C N & L Train No. 151 P.C. Gailard Conductor and we find Railroad Company in no wise responsible for his death.
W. H. Searsey
by their oaths do say that We the undersigned Jurors find that the deceased WH Searsey came to his death Oct 20th 1890 at Laurenns SC by accident - caused from Jumping from the Engine on account of a collision, caused by service Train, and from the Evidence, it was carelessness upon the Part of the Engineer and conductor of Service Train, and RR authorities of PR and WC RR.
John Winchester
upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid John Winchester came to his death by being thrown from a train at or near the switch gate at Clinton
Sam McGee
upon their oaths do say that the aforesaid Sam McGee came to his death on the 22nd day of December AD 1884 by mischance or accident in being run over and crushed by a rail road train.
Dozier Anderson
upon their oaths do say that the said Dozier Anderson came to his death on the 14th day of June AD 1882 in Laurens County on the Laurens Rail Road in the discharge of his duties as a train hand on material train No 1 in the employ of and doing the work of the Columbia and Greenville Rail Road. And so we find that the aforesaid Dozier Anderson in manner and form aforesaid came to his death by misfortune or accident, which accident occured on the 13th day of June AD. 1882.
S. J. Thomas
upon their oaths do say that the said SJ Thomas came to his death on the 14th day of June AD 1882 in Laurens County on the Laurens Rail Road in the discharge of his duties as conductor on Material train No 1 in the employ of and doing the work of the Columbia and Greenville Rail Road and so we find that the aforementioned SJ Thomas in manner and form aforesaid came to his death by misfortune or accident.
Walker Tobias
upon their oathes do say that the said Walker Tobias, came to his death on the 13th day of June AD. 1882 in Laurens County on Laurens RR. In the discharge of his duties as a train hand on Material train No 1. in the employ of and doing the work of C & G RR Co, and so we find that the said Walker Tobias, in manner and form aforesaid came to his death by mischance or accident. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1133 |
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“Wow… I believe that in this Smollett case our human eyes can’t tell what’s really going on; because I believe the CPD Modus Operandi doesn’t add up… The question remains who benefits most from this major distraction during the span of time in which the timeline displays??? What was really going on that someone needed to color over it in their own “Shade of the Color Purple???””
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Wow… Before we get totally discombobulated over this Jussie Smollett Maga-Saga lets take a deep breath because all this hyperventilating could just be another “SHADE of the Color Purple…” https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaking/ct-met-cb-jussie-smollett-20190215-story.html
Like my cousins – Alexis Raeana & Kyng Bea – from Robeson County, NC said, 30 min before their LEGENDARY AUDITIONS in front of Lionel Richie, Katy Perry , and Luke Bryan of American Idol, (echoing their Shade of the Color Purple) “All my life I had to fite…”
Throwback to when it was 20 degrees, my heart was about to beat out of my chest, and the adrenaline was REAL CHILE! I mean… listen at how I was talking! This video was taken 30 min before our LEGENDARY AUDITIONS in front of @lionelrichie, @katyperry , and @lukebryan 🔥🤟🏽 Pretty sure we met @ryanseacrest right after this video too 🤷🏽♀️ Stay tuned for the SEASON PREMIERE OF @americanidol on March 3!!!!!! For all appropriate media request please message me directly and I can point you in the right direction ❤️ #LivingInTheMoment #TheNextIdol #AmericanIdol #TheNerves #AStarIsBorn #AlexisRaeana #KyngBea #StayTuned
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Scientifically, purple is not a color because there is no beam of pure light that looks purple. There is no light wavelength that corresponds to purple.
We see purple [only] because the human eye can’t tell what’s really going on…
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I am beginning to believe that in this Smollett case our human eyes can’t tell what’s really going on because I believe the CPD Modus Operandi doesn’t add up… I see the Blue and the Red which just leaves me with another “Shade of the Color Purple…”
The bright “Shade of the Color Purple” is often associated with luxury, power, riches, wisdom, creativity, and magic; and that all fits this case scenario…
Therefore one would have to ask the question then “how does the CPD come up with the MO that this young man’s earnings of 65K an episode made him UNHAPPY???”
The light “Shade of the Color Purple” has a more feminine energy which on the one hand adds up but how do the Brothers fit into it??? Humm???
BUT it’s the dark “Shade of the Color Purple that Psychology represents sadness and frustration which is the twist that really makes no sense therefore it has to be coming from an outside source…
It’s the dark “Shade of the Color Purple” that only make sense to me in this “Maga-Saga” when one looks very hard at the possibility of an outside (strong) stimuli…
I would describe this outside stimuli as the mysterious and imaginative “Shade of the Color Purple…” This mysterious and imaginative “Shade of the Color Purple” tends not to occur often, naturally, which makes it the most rare and intriguing view…
I believe it is this most “Rare and Intriguing” view of the “Shade of the Color Purple” where these “Imaginations and Mysterious” happenings occurred…
The question remains who benefits most from this major distraction during the span of time in which the timeline displays??? What was really going on that someone needed to color over it in their own “Shade of the Color Purple???”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyISL9W7T6w
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“Wow… Ms. O, yo “Slip” is really hanging this time… Oprah’s ‘Bye! Boy, bye!’ Racist Misandrist Ideology??? Oprah acts as if she can just “pop off with the mouth” and say anything and no one is listening??? NOT!!!”
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Wow… Oprah’s ‘Bye! Boy, bye!’ Racist Misandrist Ideology??? Has Oprah lost her Damn mind referring to an unemployed Black man as a racial slur – ‘boy!’ practically on the eve of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday???” SHAME!!! SHAME!!! SHAME!!!
Ms. O, yo “Slip” is really hanging this time…
Oprah acts as if she can just “pop off with the mouth” and say anything and no one is listening???
NOT!!!
I believe Oprah has forgotten that our Ancestors work hard to free themselves from Slavery and to gain the respect that we have rights to today…
How does a Black woman of Oprah’s Status in our “American Political, Economical, and Social Structure” not think that all these “constructs” aren’t directly influenced by every word that come out of her mouth???
Therefore Ms. O can’t act like she doesn’t realize that when she is acting in an Official Status that she must be ‘culturally conscious’ of how any demeaning words toward “Black people” (men or women) greatly effect and harm the Black Community…
Hell, Michelle Obama – FLOTUS44 – said “SHIT” at an open session the other day and almost broke the INTERNET…
I have a story about how the Mega-Star – The Persona – The man – Prince, while he was in hot pursuit of Mayte Garcia in Germany the Summer 1993, I believe Prince Sank my Boat Ride production; on one of the biggest evening “River Boat Cruises” on the Rhine River in Mainz, Germany…
It’s a long story that you can read below in the quotations but long story short Prince allegedly started a rumor that he was going to be on my boat…
I made it known to Daniel Smiley
(the band leader that told me the rumor) that if Prince is going to be on my boat he (Prince) and his date(s) would have to buy a ticket… From what I could ascertain at the time, this rumor got back to the owners of the River Boat Cruise Company and on the day of my Production they cancelled…
Several weeks later, when I went to German Court to sort the matter out, the owners of the revealed to me they had gotten word that someone(s) of special interest who might have caused a huge disruption at the dock which could have resulted in physical and property damage…
Prince was the only “Phenom – Mega-Star” in town that could have caused the major crowds of people that did show up to the Boat dock…
I still find it hard to believe that the Mega-Star Prince did not realize his effect would be on my very small production in perspective to his large stadium… I believe the Boat company was unwilling to take the INSURANCE LIABILITY and Physical Responsibility for Mega-Star Prince and his people…
The same goes for Ms. O…
I find it hard to believe that Oprah does not know how what she says about Black American Political, Economical, and Social issues effect the “Black American Community; positively and /or negatively???
Oprah Winfrey is being sued by a woman who says she stole the idea for ‘Iyanla: Fix My Life.‘ via TMZ: Otisa C. Strickland claims in a new lawsuit … ‘Fix My Life’ — which appears on OWN — is a carbon copy of a show she created called “The Agency.”
Hell, Ms. Oprah, against all odds, got a Junior Senator name – Barack Obama – elected as the 44th President of these United States of America…
So Ms. Oprah, “Do the – Spike Lee – Right Thang;” apologize so White Americans won’t think that it is OK to resurrect an old ‘Jim Crow’ racial slur of calling Black American Men – ‘boy!’…
I have a story about how the Mega-Star – The Persona – The man – Prince, while he was in hot pursuit of Mayte in Germany the Summer 1993, I believe Sank my Boat Ride production; on one of the biggest evening “River Boat Cruises” in
It happened like this, in early 1993, I planned a Boat Ride Fashion
Show Extravaganza Production for June 19 1993 where I had planned to
sell a minimum 1000 tickets at 60 German Marks (DEM) each which was
about $40.00… I had secured one of the largest (Three Decks) and
most eloquent Dinner River Cruise Boats on the Rhine River at that
time whose actual capacity was 1900 guest passenger…
I booked one of the hottest R&B Band in the area which featured a
well-known show stopper singer name Daniel Smiley… I also booked
the hottest most popular DJ known Europe wide named “the MC James
Wells…” And I had book 30 of the most beautiful Exotic European
models as the featured entertainment and my fashion show practices
drew such a crowd we had to stop publishing where/when they were
Everything was coming along well until the phenomenon Prince comes
along and starts pursuing Mayte and somehow heard about all the people
who had tickets to my production; it had to have been Daniel Smiley
who told him…
Daniel Smiley told me about a week before the Production that Prince
might be coming on the boat… I was not amuse and told him if he does
he would have to buy a ticket… Lol…
To my surprise it was not a laughing matter… Now this is where the man
Prince (nor I) did not understood (or did he) the effect the presence
of the Mega-Star Prince had on a businessmen and the liability that
comes with that…
Three days out everything is ago and of course I am putting the final
touches on the show to ensure the best possible product $40 dollars
could buy… I kept hearing the rumor that Prince could possibly be on
my boat but I didn’t even pay them any attention; my stuff was tight
and if Prince wanted to bring Mayte to my show he would have to buy a
It wasn’t until noon the day of the show that realized there was
something a rye with my production and then I got the dreaded news
that the biggest Dinner Evening Boat Company on the Rhine had
cancelled my contract… I was crushed and actually in a strange place
because what about all the people that had bought a ticket and all the
models and all the other special people like Sony Music Rap Star at
the Time BG the Prince of Rap – whom I had given a ticket too???
Needless to say I immediately contacted the boat company
representative for an explanation and that’s when I was told my
contract was cancelled at the last minute because it had been highly
rumored that there were going to be certain people on my that the boat
company could not risk the liability… They never called Prince by
name but one can deduce that the only Highly Rumored people that
everyone was talking about making a surprise visit was the Mega-Star
As I said before I was crushed and never lived it down… Months later
I was in German Court defending my position and the Boat Company
explained their position and in the end I was not found liable…
Needless to say I was never able to do another large scale production
in Germany and returned to the States about a year later… That my
story of the Phenomenon Prince – The Mega Star Prince – The Mayte love
struck Prince I believe sank my boat… | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1135 |
__label__cc | 0.603965 | 0.396035 | This ABC Anchor Made a Twisted Statement about Kavanaugh that You Won’t Forget
The Liberal Media is in shock.
They can’t believe their smear campaign against Brett Kavanaugh has failed to get him to withdraw his name.
But one ABC anchor took things too far with this statement.
On ABC News, Terry Moran claimed that Judge Brett Kavanaugh’s confirmation will make women feel “annihilated” inside.
He then claimed, if confirmed, Kavanaugh would put Roe v. Wade in jeopardy.
The Media Research Center reports:
While CBS was conceding that Brett Kavanaugh will probably make it onto the Supreme Court, ABC’s Terry Moran on Thursday fumed about how “millions of women” will feel “annihilated” if the Judge is confirmed. He also warned Kavanaugh not to rule against abortion or the high Court will lose “legitimacy.”
Moran lamented, “I can’t imagine the feeling of the millions and millions of women, and others who found Dr. Ford very, very credible.” Conceding a Kavanaugh victory, the ABC journalist stooped to extreme hyperbole on female reaction: “If, as seems likely, Republicans are able to get… Judge Kavanaugh onto the Supreme Court, they’re just going to feel annihilated inside.”
But Moran wasn’t done. He lectured a potential future Supreme Court justice Kavanaugh: “Well, he had better take into that lifetime appointment a sense of the woundedness [sic] of so many people in the country.”
Moran claims to be a journalist.
But he and the rest of his pals in the media are peddling disgusting pro-abortion propaganda.
Over 60 million innocent babies have been “annihilated” by abortion in the U.S. since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.
President Trump promised to only nominate justices to the Supreme Court who are pro-life.
That’s the reason why pro-abortion leftists have been gunning for Judge Kavanaugh with both barrels.
Do you think Roe v. Wade should be overturned? Let us know your thoughts in the comments section!
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RitaWe must ke Nelson October 10, 2018 at 9:36 am
Terry Moran, you are a moron, what do you know about abortion? If a woman wants to use abortion as birth control you are telling me that is O K????? IT IS NOT! If a woman is pregnant, have the baby and adoption is a humane way to go about life for everyone. Where is the man in this plan, Gone, find him, he planted the seed, He should not be off the hook!!! Nothing is ever mentioned about that person! So Abortion is contentious, there is almost no responsibility these days, that is a problem!
Jerry October 15, 2018 at 10:05 am
You are right! There are literally hundreds of products to stop a pregnancy from ever happening. Yet these women are either too stupid or irresponsible to use them. They are free, in many cases. If all else fails, I have three suggestions, any one of which will work. Hold an aspirin or something of that size firmly between your knees. Option 2, just keep your knees together very firmly, and your panties on. Option 3, Just say “NO.” And just in case you are totally uneducated and very ignorant, “Sexual Intercourse is what causes pregnancy.” No sex, no pregnancy!
And yes, the men who caused the pregnancy need to be held accountable too. But, abortion should never be used as a form of birth control. We have murdered 60,000,000 babies in just the United States. How many of those babies could have been Presidents, Senators, Judges, Priests, Pastors, and each and every one of them would have been children of God. You mothers and abortionists have killed millions of God’s children. How do you think he feels about that? We do not own our Children! They are a blessing from God. He places them on loan to us. You destroy just one and you are in serious trouble. Matthew 18:5-7 states, “And whoever welcomes a little child like this in My name welcomes Me. But if anyone causes one of these little ones who believe in Me to stumble, it would be better for him to have a large millstone hung around his neck and to be drowned in the depths of the sea. Woe to the world for the causes of sin. These stumbling blocks must come, but woe to the man through whom they come!”
N October 10, 2018 at 9:43 am
CNN=Clueless Network News! Centralized NAZI News!Communist Network News.AKA: Fake News! MSM=Fake News, Fox News!The Pravda Commie newspapers and their propaganda machine at full throttle! Vote republican to save the country from swamp news! No RINOs, pls!
Rita October 15, 2018 at 7:34 am
Who is this guy? Married to Karen in the 80’s divorced, then getting married to girlfriend, Cox with 2 children in London. Bio says married to Karen, no children. Not much personal information about this man, Why? Let see what he is all about!!!
Liberalism is a mental disorder and Pelosi,Behar,Hillary, Carrey, Waters are just some of the poster girls in the deranged NAZI Commie Demoncrat party!!! Here is just another Liberal useful idiot on display! Vote GOP to save the country from the NAZI MOBs!
russell remmert November 27, 2018 at 7:49 pm
N that would certainly help
Vincent McCord October 26, 2018 at 5:29 pm
Terry Moran is just another supercilious twit mistakenly given a soapbox to spew forth his idiocy.
What people should feel ‘Annihilated’ about is the attempted hit-job/smear orchestrated by Democratic thugs, like Ms. Feinstein, on an extremely qualified jurist.
Charles W K Parke October 26, 2018 at 6:01 pm
This STUPID Journalist should be demoted to the position of OFFICE BOY !He has AbSOLUTELY NO SENS !I think LIBERALISM has gotten the best of this MORON ! I have said before , and will say it again that LIBERALISM IS A MENTAL DISORDER !
Judy Stinger October 26, 2018 at 6:30 pm
And this guy believes that he is speaking for all women and knows how women feel, seriously. What makes him think in his own twisted mind that he is an authority on what women think. Wonder how open he would be for all women to tell him what we think of him right now. He better buckle up.
Shirley November 1, 2018 at 5:39 pm
I think that abortion should be stopped. It’s not a fetus, it’s a baby. The Bible says “I knew you before you were formed”. This unborn child did not ask to be created that’s a choice made before birth by the baby’s parents. If they don’t want it there are many many parents that cannot have children that would love to have a child. BUT to just kill a child because it’s an inconvenience is wrong. The Bible also says “ Thou Shalt Not Kill”. Think about that before you hop into bed with anyone.
Jim Forsythe November 3, 2018 at 2:02 pm
Crap like this is the reason that I do not watch ABC, CNN, and their ilk. The falling ratings show that others feel the same way.
N November 27, 2018 at 6:47 pm
Centralized NAZI News!Communist NWK News.AKA: Fake News! MSM=Fake News, Fox News.The Pravda Racists Divisive Commie newspapers and their propaganda HATE machine at full throttle! They are destroying the country within! We have to stop them first, patriots!
Don November 28, 2018 at 6:59 am
Just another media maggot with a big mouth spewing his rhetoric from behind a podium. never do they come out and do it face to face. Nothing but loudmouthed cowards.
Rivahmitch December 11, 2018 at 5:11 pm
Ford was nd is a liar and Moran is a PoS. ‘Nuff said!
Peggy Giblin March 7, 2019 at 4:51 pm
Get Brett Kavanaugh out of the Supreme Court….he is definitely not for life. Really???? He should not be a Supreme Court Justice. I am very disappointed in him. I thought he was pro life. He is a baby killer. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1137 |
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Stearns Financial Group Releases Step-by-Step Financial Guide for Women Divorcing Over the Age of 50
Press Release (ePRNews.com) - RALEIGH, N.C. - Sep 06, 2018 - Divorce is complicated. But divorce after the age of 50 can be financially devastating. A new book by Haleh Moddasser, CPA, titled Gray Divorce, Silver Linings: A Woman’s Guide to Divorce After 50, couples Moddasser’s professional experience working with women navigating the choppy waters of divorce with her own personal divorce experience.
“There is a rising divorce pandemic occurring with women in this age group and I know first-hand the long-term negative impact that can result from it,” said Moddasser, senior vice president and partner at Stearns Financial Group, a fee-only financial planning and investment management firm. “Women experiencing a divorce need to see past their current situation and think about their long-term financial well-being, checking feelings of fear, anger and guilt at the door. Hopefully, this book can provide women with clarity during a time when most are struggling to understand the financial implications of the many decisions that must be made.”
The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act complicates financial matters for pending gray divorcers looking to finalize their settlements by the end of the year. The 2017 legislation eliminates the tax deduction for alimony payments after Dec. 31, 2018. The new regulations further state that recipients of alimony payments will no longer have to include the payments as taxable income.
There is a rising divorce pandemic occurring with women in this age group and I know first-hand the long-term negative impact that can result from it. Women experiencing a divorce need to see past their current situation and think about their long-term financial well-being, checking feelings of fear, anger and guilt at the door. Hopefully, this book can provide women with clarity during a time when most are struggling to understand the financial implications of the many decisions that must be made.
Haleh Modasser, CPA, Senior Vice President and Partner
Stearns Financial Group
“Taxes are just one item on a long list of complicated matters that women need to think through when starting fresh and I can attest that taxes are never at the top of that list,” Moddasser continues. “I hear many attorneys saying that it makes no difference to the recipient whether they settle before or after the new tax law takes effect since the payer will simply reduce the payment by the amount of the lost deduction for agreements made in 2019 and beyond. This is a perfect example of why it’s critical for women to assemble the right team and have a plethora of resources to draw wisdom from.”
Gray Divorce, Silver Linings serves as a field guide for women wishing to avoid the many pitfalls of gray divorce and secure their financial futures. In the book, women can:
· Learn how to select the divorce process that best suits their needs
· Build a divorce team that works exclusively for them
· Determine the size of a marital estate
· Negotiate an appropriate settlement
· Plan a brighter financial future
· Understand investing and learn how to invest with confidence
· How to move beyond a divorce.
“Haleh shares her personal journey of her own divorce and much-needed advice for women going through this difficult transition in later years,” said Pamela Sandy, CFP, and 2016 president of the Financial Planning Association. “She gives plain-spoken, common sense rules-of-the-road to get women through the process, create the right team, ask for what is entitled and help women create a new life. The book is an invaluable tool.”
Haleh Moddasser is available for speaking engagements and media interviews. She is passionate about helping women navigate the waters and avoid as many of the problems as possible that inevitably come with a Gray Divorce. For more information or to request a confidential conversation with Moddasser, visit www.StearnsFinancial.com.
Gray Divorce, Silver Linings is available for purchase on Amazon. Journalists who would like to receive a copy of the book for review are encouraged to contact JessicaShores@ImpactCommunications.org.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND STEARNS FINANCIAL GROUP
Haleh Moddasser, CPA, is a senior vice president and partner at Stearns Financial Group, a fee-only investment management firm with offices in Chapel Hill and Greensboro, North Carolina. Moddasser has extensive experience in the area of women and finance, helping women navigate divorce with the goal of achieving financial security. She has published widely on the topic of women and financial independence and has been interviewed by national media such as Investor’s Business Daily, Financial Times and UNC-TV, a public television network. Her book, Gray Divorce, Silver Linings: A Woman’s Guide to Divorce After 50, is the first in a series of field guides published by Stearns Financial. The newest field guide, 4th Quarter Fumbles: How Successful People Avoid Critical Mistakes Later In Life by Dennis Stearns, is now available. Visit www.StearnsFinancial.com to learn more.
Jessica Taylor Shores
Impact Communications
JessicaShores@ImpactCommunications.org
Source : Stearns Financial Group
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__label__wiki | 0.894685 | 0.894685 | Romanian candidate faces battle for EU prosecutor job
Romania's PM Dancila Viorica welcomes EU Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker at the start of her country's EU presidency (Photo: European Commission)
By Eszter Zalan
BRUSSELS, 26. Feb, 09:17
The European Parliament will hear candidates on Tuesday (26 February) for the EU's new top prosecutor job, amid ongoing demonstrations in Romania against what protesters see as the Bucharest government's latest efforts to rein in prosecutors and curb the rule of law.
At the centre of the hearing is Romania's Laura Codruta Kovesi, a former top anti-corruption prosecutor, who was forced out of office by the current Socialist-led government last July, which accused her of abusing her powers and damaging Romania's image abroad.
Laura Codruta Kovesi's tenure as a prosecutor in Romania was praised by the EU (Photo: Libertatea)
Bucharest, which holds the EU's rotating presidency, has been actively campaigning against Kovesi - a highly unusual move in Brussels, where member states tend to push their citizens to get into top positions.
Romania's justice minister, Tudorel Toader, who initiated Kovesi's removal last year, earlier this month sent a letter to fellow EU ministers painting a damning picture of a prosecutor out of control.
During Kovesi's five-year tenure at the helm of Romania's National Anti-corruption Directorate (DNA), hundreds of officials and politicians had been convicted for high-level graft, which irked the political ruling class but earned her praise from the EU.
Kovesi, 45, is now being investigated by a newly-formed agency on allegations of abuse of office, bribery and perjury in Romania. Several MEPs expressed dismay at Romanian authorities' attempt to block Kovesi's candidacy.
Last November, in its yearly monitoring of Romania's rule of law, the EU commission warned Romania against rolling back achievements in the anti-corruption fight, and putting pressure on the anti-graft office.
One of the planned measures that the commission has repeatedly warned against is a proposal by justice minister Toader to allow politicians and others convicted of corruption since 2014 to challenge the verdicts, essentially meaning an amnesty.
Such legislation would benefit Liviu Dragnea, the all-powerful leader of the ruling Social Democrat Party who was sentenced last year to three and a half years in prison for abuse of office. Kovesi's agency was key in the prosecution.
Dragnea is barred from serving as prime minister for an earlier case of election fraud.
In the latest round of protests in Romania, demonstrators went to the streets over the weekend against an emergency decree they say will further undermine anti-corruption efforts, while prosecutors and judges vowed to strike in protest at the measures.
Defending EU funds
The EU parliament's civil liberties and budget control committee on Tuesday will hear from the three candidates who run for the chief EU prosecutor's office.
The aim of the EU's new chief prosecutor is to fight cross-border financial crime more efficiently and oversee the spending of EU money.
The office will be independent of EU and national authorities, making it a powerful position - especially with regards to countries where the government has been accused of misusing EU funds.
It will have the right to investigate, prosecute and bring to judgment crimes against the EU budget, such as fraud, corruption or serious cross-border VAT fraud.
The European Public Prosecutor's Office was agreed on by member states in June 2017 with 20 countries agreeing to participate. Eventually, the Netherlands and Malta also joined in 2018.
It is planned to be operational by the end of 2020.
Denmark, Hungary, Ireland, Poland, Sweden, and the UK decided not to join the new office.
After Tuesday's hearing it is yet unclear how the parliament will choose its favourite for the position: whether it would be coordinators, top party politicians from the committee or the entire committee that will vote.
That will be decided on Tuesday, according to the parliament's press service.
Later, either the parliament's leadership or the entire plenary will have to back up the decision. If it is a different person than the number one candidate favoured by member states, then the parliament and the countries' officials will have to enter into negotiations.
Last week, despite Kovesi being the number one candidate of the expert "selection" panel, EU ambassadors voted to endorse Jean-Francois Bohnert, from France, while Kovesi and a German candidate, Andres Ritter, received the same number of votes in the second place.
An EU diplomat suggested that Kovesi's nomination has become over-politicised, which works against her.
However, the official, who wanted to remain anonymous but is familiar with the discussion among member states, said that Romania's letter had been counterproductive in several capitals and only ignited support for Kovesi.
But the official added that it does hinder Kovesi's prospects that her country's government is not actively campaigning for her, but against her.
The first person who fills in a new position often sets the tone and style for the EU office itself.
The EU could decide to name Kovesi and send a strong signal to countries where top politicians are accused of misappropriating EU funds, such as Romania itself, but it could also alienate countries from the very beginning with such a controversial and bellicose prosecutor.
However, if the EU backs down from supporting Kovesi, that might embolden Romania's ruling party and other governments that bullying does work in the EU.
EU warns Romania over corruption amnesty
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Romanian prosecutor fights back critics for EU top job
11. Jan, 16:42
Juncker warned Romania's government not to move ahead with plans to grant amnesty for corruption, as more than 200 EU laws await decisions during Bucharest's presidency.
Romania's first-ever EU presidency saw Tusk issue warnings on rule of law, as Romanians complained about EU "misconceptions".
2. Jan, 09:19
Romania holds the EU presidency for the next six months - with a possible clash brewing with the European Commission over corruption and the erosion of the rule of law.
Lessons from the 1989 revolution are being forgotten, as compelling evidence about collusion between the anti-corruption directorate and the Romanian secret service comes to light.
27. Feb, 09:11
The European Parliament's budget control committee backs Laura Codruta Kovesi for the EU chief prosecutor post after Tuesday's hearing, despite being the second-favourite of member states. The main committee in the case will vote on Wednesday.
PiS & Fidesz claim credit for von der Leyen victory
Warsaw and Budapest are boasting about their support for von der Leyen after the german is confirmed only by a small margin of MEPs, but the illiberals should not expect the softening of rule of law scrutiny.
'Russian sources' targeted EU elections with disinformation
14. Jun, 17:32
The efforts to sway the mood - and the votes - of EU citizens was more targeted and nuanced, and not only restricted to Russian sources. The EU wants online platforms to do more.
Merkel and Macron split over Weber presidency
EU heads of government have their first face-to-faces discussions after the European elections on who should lead the EU commission. They are unlikely to decide quickly - with the parliament also divided over the candidates.
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10 Facts about Bipolar Disorder
Monday, July 6th 2015. | Health
If you want to know about one type of mental disorder, you have to check Facts about Bipolar Disorder. The people who are diagnosed with bipolar disorder will experience a period of depression and a period of elevated mood. This condition is also called as a manic depressive illness or bipolar effective disorder. Let’s find out other facts about bipolar disorder below:
Facts about Bipolar Disorder 1: the period of elevated mood
When the patients with bipolar disorder are in the period of the elevated mood, you can find them super energetic, irritable and happy. It is often called as hypomania or mania.
Facts about Bipolar Disorder 2: the sleeping time and decision making act
During the period of elevated mood, the sleeping time of the patients with bipolar disorder is decreased significantly. Moreover, they do not think about the consequences after making an important decision due to the poor thought.
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Facts about Bipolar Disorder 3: the period of depression
The patients with bipolar disorder will always focus on the negativity and sadness of life during the period of depression. They will avoid the eye contact with other people. Moreover, they like to cry a lot. Check ASD facts here.
Facts about Bipolar Disorder 4: the risk of having self harm or suicide
The people with bipolar disorder have the self harm risk at 30 to 40 percent. The suicidal rate is around 6 percent.
Facts about Bipolar Disorder 5: the mental health issues
There is no need to wonder that bipolar disorder is always linked with other mental health problems such as substance use disorder and anxiety disorder.
Facts about Bipolar Disorder 6: the cause
It is not easy for the scientists to find out the exact cause of bipolar disorder. However, they believe that the environmental and genetic factors have a key role to this condition.
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Facts about Bipolar Disorder 7: the examples of the environmental factors
The childhood abuse that patients of bipolar disorder experience as well as the long term of stress is included in the environmental factors.
Facts about Bipolar Disorder 8: bipolar disorder I
There are two types of bipolar disorder. If the patients experience at least one manic episode, they probably have bipolar disorder I.
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Facts about Bipolar Disorder 9: bipolar disorder II
Bipolar disorder II is characterized by the presence of at least one hypomanic episode and a depressive episode. Get facts about anxiety disorder here.
Facts about Bipolar Disorder 10: the treatment
Medication and psychotherapy are needed to treat the patients with bipolar disorder. Anticonvulsants and lithium are included as the examples of mood stabilizers.
Do you have any opinion on facts about bipolar disorder?
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9 December 2014 by Tabish Khan in NEWS
What’s wrong with Video Art? – The Panel Discussion
After my original article on ‘What’s wrong with video art?‘ triggered responses from curator David Gryn and gallerist Ian Rosenfeld, a panel discussion was held with all three authors in Rosenfeld Porcini gallery, chaired by founder of FAD Mark Westall.
15 April 2013 by Mark Westall in NEWS
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18 April 2012 by Chantelle in NEWS
FAD Office @ The Other Art Fair 10th -13th May 2012
FAD Office presents a fictional construct of a 1970’s magazine at this year’s Other Art Fair (2012). FAD looks to the past to re-imagine the role of the publisher in the future.
28 April 2011 by Mark Westall in EXHIBITIONS
Walking Drawings: Across the Estuaries London debut of landmark Cumbria art film installation Friday 29th April
Walking Drawings: Across the Estuaries, a film and photography exhibition showcasing the landmark public art installation by artist Evewright, which took place on Silecroft Beach in Cumbria last year, will open in London from 29 April – 11 June 2011 at Four Corners, as part of the East End Film festival. Walking Drawings are a […]
10th East End Film Festival Opens Wednesday 27th April 2011
Wednesday 27 April 2011, 7pm, Troxy, Limehouse Celebrating its 10th anniversary in 2011, East End Film Festival will open with the World Premiere gala screening of Roger Sargent’s THE LIBERTINES – THERE ARE NO INNOCENT BYSTANDERS, followed by an exclusive party. They’re the band that everybody has an opinion on, the band that spawned a […]
3 April 2011 by Mark Westall in FEATURES
ART WARS
Like a cross between Jeff Koons, George Lucas and Al Gore Art Wars wages war against the global establishment with its Pink and Crystal heavy Storm Troopers.
30 March 2011 by Mark Westall in EXHIBITIONS
Alice Anderson and Kate MccGwire BOUND at All Visual Arts Private View Thursday 31st March 2011
BOUND is the inaugural exhibition at All Visual Arts’ (AVA) new space at Kings Cross. Featuring new work by Alice Anderson and Kate MccGwire that tap into some of our deep-seated fears.
29 March 2011 by Mark Westall in NEWS
100 Worlds Project Ron Miriello
The “100 Worlds Project” is a year long exhibition of sphere-inspired sculptures made by Ron Miriello, in collaboration with a community of craftsmen, makers, photographers. To date, there are 50 sculptures finished. The project is on view in San Diego through April 2, 2011. JETT Gallery 989 W. Kalmia St San Diego, CA 92101 More […]
Emmanuelle Tricoire – In Utero at East Gallery Private View Tuesday 29th March 2011
Image:Jeff, Paris 2010 -© Emmanuelle Tricoire Paris-based photographer Emmanuelle Tricoire presents a series of deeply personal, intimate Black and White portraits focusing on the rare characteristics in ordinary people which make them inimitable and distinctive. These images: bold, timid, extreme or moderate; provide a brief, yet expansive insight into the world of these individuals. www.eastgallery.co.uk […]
GOSEE: Stefan Sagmeister: Another Exhibit About Promotion And Sales Material at the mudac Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts
“Sagmeister: Another Exhibit About Promotion And Sales Material” is currently on display at the mudac Museum of Design and Contemporary Applied Arts in Switzerland, will only feature the works that have been commissioned by clients. The exhibition is divided into four parts consistent with the way he distinguishes his commissions: the promotion of culture, the […] | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1163 |
__label__wiki | 0.664303 | 0.664303 | Shoshanna Launches Jewelry Line for QVC Tonight; Win A Statement Necklace From The Collection
Shoshanna Gruss, née Lonstein, has been in the biz for a while now. She launched her eponymous line over ten years ago, and has done a few collaborations since. Her girlie dresses made to fit a more voluptuous figure developed a cult following (at least amongst the preppy UES set), so we asked the designer about her decision to do accessories, why she's jumped on the QVC bandwagon, and how her Maltese pups helped her land the QVC deal. So you've partnered with Judith Ripka for this line--how did that come about? I’ve been a customer and admirer of Judith Ripka for as long as I can remember. After running into around our neighborhood while walking our Maltese dogs, we developed a friendship. I respect her as a mother, a business women and an artist. Accessories to me, are what make one’s look their own. It completes a woman's outfit and expresses who she is, and who she wants to be. I have always wanted to do a jewelry line to complement my Shoshanna collection. It's been a dream to be working on this business with an icon such as Judith.
Leah Chernikoff
Shoshanna Gruss, née Lonstein, has been in the biz for a while now. She launched her eponymous line over ten years ago, and has done a few collaborations since. Her girlie dresses made to fit a more voluptuous figure developed a cult following (at least amongst the preppy UES set), so we asked the designer about her decision to do accessories, why she's jumped on the QVC bandwagon, and how her Maltese pups helped her land the QVC deal.
So you've partnered with Judith Ripka for this line--how did that come about? I’ve been a customer and admirer of Judith Ripka for as long as I can remember. After running into around our neighborhood while walking our Maltese dogs, we developed a friendship. I respect her as a mother, a business women and an artist. Accessories to me, are what make one’s look their own. It completes a woman's outfit and expresses who she is, and who she wants to be. I have always wanted to do a jewelry line to complement my Shoshanna collection. It's been a dream to be working on this business with an icon such as Judith. You're known for dresses and bikinis. Why accessories and why QVC? I have always wanted to do accessories and the right opportunity came along. Working with QVC is amazing! They reach millions of homes and I'm able to offer product at an attainable price point.
To what do you credit your longevity? As much as I am the designer I am also the customer--I was a young woman growing up in New York with all the resources afforded to me and I couldn't find clothing that made me feel good. I knew I was not the only one out there and I think women really responded to that. I think about all different shapes and sizes when I design rather than one body type. My line is inclusive rather than exclusive and that really hit a nerve.
What's the inspiration for the line? I wanted my costume jewelry line to have the same versatility as my clothing line--a collection of pieces that can make a seamless transition from day into evening. I love being able to wear a dress to a daytime luncheon and then out to a concert later that night, with just a change of jewelry and accessories.
And if you like the statement necklace Shoshanna's wearing in her photo, we're giving one away (in green). Send us a message on our Facebook page telling us why you're not ashamed to shop on TV. Best answer gets the bling.
Shoshanna's Fashion Jewelry Essentials premieres tonight at 9pm and is also available on QVC.com.
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Fern Mallis Is Launching a Jewelry Line for QVC--Just Don't Call Her a 'Designer'
When we first heard that Fern Mallis, who ran New York Fashion Week at IMG for almost a decade, was launching a jewelry line on QVC, our initial reaction, we must admit, was: really? Mallis is a fixture in the New York fashion scene, having gone on to host a series of talks with fashion icons at the 92nd St. Y as well as a SiriusXM radio show called "Fashion Insiders With Fern Mallis" after she left IMG. While Mallis obviously knows the fashion biz in New York inside and out, we never suspected she was into making fashion. But she is. Mallis has just announced that she'll be launching a jewelry collection for QVC called Fern Finds: by Fern Mallis, which she'll hawk live during New York Fashion Week (obvi), starting on Friday, February 10 at 10pm (EST). We chatted with the former Fashion Week head honcho to find out just what inspired this move to design, whose style she looks up to, and which of her fashion friends she consulted with before starting her line.
Janie Bryant MOD Live on QVC Tonight at 10pm
I'm sure many of our loyal readers were missing this week's Mad Men Style Recap, but due to the demands of fashion week, I missed the episode and still haven't watched it. This just means that Sunday's recap will be twice as nice. To compensate for the lack of Mad Men during fashion week, I sat down with Mad Men costume designer Janie Bryant at the QVC pop-up store. Janie was promoting her aptly titled QVC line, Janie Bryant MOD, and had been perkily signing tees and chatting up loyal fans. Janie's QVC line is just everything I'd hoped it would be: Tons of faux leopard in the form of hats, capelets, and bags, charming necklaces that do double duty with detachable brooches, and stunning nail polish colors. Inspired by the '50s and '60s, vintage Vogues, and the timelessness of true movie stars, the collection has the elegant touches every modern girl's wardrobe needs.
Iman On Her New Platinum Collection for HSN, Why She'll Never Go Back to Modeling, and Her Reaction to Vogue Italia's Racist Gaffe
Iman says her supermodel days are behind her but she's still got the super touch at the Home Shopping Network. Her "Global Chic" collection for HSN became the second best seller in fashion for the network in three years. So when HSN CEO Mindy Grossman asked Iman to add to her best-selling under $100 collection with more luxe and higher priced accessories she embraced the challenge. It's called the Platinum Collection and it launches today. The line is comprised of bags, wallets, gloves and coats all done in real leather, suede and pony hair for under $300. I got a chance to see the collection and chat with Iman about expanding her line at a higher price point when the economy is taking a nosedive, why HSN will be her only foray into the fashion world (read: no more fashion shows or editorial for this supermodel) and her reaction to Vogue Italia's now infamous "Slave Earrings" feature.
Gap Goes Australian: A Report from the Front (of the) Line
MELBOURNE--With the opening of a gigantic two-storey tall denim fly at Melbourne’s Chadstone shopping center on Thursday night, Gap officially ticked Australia off its to-do list. Total world domination? Done. Or is it? While the Aussie fashion pack oohed and aahed over the teensy Gap kids line (anything small is always cuter), and stocked-up on undies for their boyfriends and brothers, chatter amongst the racks quickly turned to just how the very buttoned-up all-America GAP aesthetic is going to work into an Aussie wardrobe. “Do you think I can Ksubi this up?” one blogger squeaked. “Does anyone really wear double denim?” asked another. At first glance, the Gap 2010 spring range instantly conjures up images of vacations in the Hamptons, complete with tennis lessons, apple pie, and lobster sandwiches. Admittedly I’ve never actually been there (so please excuse the clichés). In contrast, the stereotypical Aussie summer style has more of a "drinking warm beer at a summer music festival" vibe. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1165 |
__label__cc | 0.696771 | 0.303229 | Don't Blame China for Germany's Data Shocker
Anjani Trivedi
Bloomberg March 25, 2019
Don't Blame China for Germany's Data Shocker
(Bloomberg Opinion) -- China has become the fail-safe excuse for every bad economic indicator in the world. Among industries, autos are playing a similar role.
So it should be little surprise that both have been fingered as fall guys for a slump in Germany manufacturing activity that spurred gloom over global growth and doom in financial markets (including an inverted U.S. yield curve). The purchasing managers’ index fell to the lowest in six-and-a-half years. Economists at Goldman Sachs Group Inc. said it was the biggest reaction to German data that they could recall.
How much can really be blamed on China, though? Sure, the country is big: China’s auto market accounted for more than a third of global passenger vehicle sales last year and 70 percent of the industry’s growth. Car sales fell 6 percent last year, the first decline in decades. So the potential for spillovers is large, no doubt.
Moreover, the German car industry has tentacles in almost every sector, so a hit to autos has knock-on effects across the manufacturing supply chain in the euro zone(1) and beyond. The nation’s six largest auto-related firms explain around 15 percent of fluctuations in German GDP while accounting for only 10 percent of gross value added, or output, according to a Goldman analysis.
But for German carmakers, China has actually been a bright spot. Compared with brands from most other countries, which have seen sales growth slow by more than 10 percent, those from Germany have done relatively better. Registrations of German cars rose more than 8 percent in the first two months of the year, led by a jump of almost 17 percent for BMW AG. The carmaker’s China sales grew 7.7 percent in 2018, a source of relief amid otherwise dismal results. The company last year became the first foreign automaker to take control of its joint venture in China. Other German carmakers are looking to do the same.
What’s dangerous is the evergreen hope that China’s 20-million-a-year-plus auto market will help paper over every other pain point for carmakers. There’s no certainty of that. German luxury is bucking a trend of declining passenger vehicle sales (in the first two weeks of March, BMW Brilliance Automotive Ltd. and Beijing Benz Automotive Co. posted gains of 50 percent to 60 percent in average daily unit sales). Government policy looms large, with perennial questions around how adjustments to electric-car subsidies and stimulus measures to drive rural demand will play out. No one really knows what direction the market will eventually take.
Then what’s going on in Germany? Carmakers in Europe have had their own share of setbacks that aren’t caused by underlying demand. A new emission-testing regime that started being applied to all new car registrations this year has caused the region’s car production to drop 15 percent or more as manufacturers struggled to deal with inventory based on the old standards and get new models out. The race to move into electric cars and a painful shift away from diesel haven’t made decisions any easier, with billions being spent and no significant returns to inspire investor confidence yet.
On the demand side, Germany in fact is looking more positive than the numbers suggest: Car registrations are up and a survey of European consumers’ intentions to buy within the next year is also showing improvement. An overall index of future expectations of growth has started coming off its lows, but pessimism over the auto and steel industries remains deep.
The perpetual threat of trade-related drama (whether related to Brexit, the U.S.-China talks, or prospective tariffs on European Union car imports) has injected significant uncertainty, too. Caution is clearly warranted. Governments may be dragged into more active industrial policies, forcing automakers to retool.
China isn't responsible for this latest growth scare. But it won't be the world's savior, either.
(1) About 30 percent of German exports end up in central Europe.
To contact the author of this story: Anjani Trivedi at atrivedi39@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: Matthew Brooker at mbrooker1@bloomberg.net
This column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.
Anjani Trivedi is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist covering industrial companies in Asia. She previously worked for the Wall Street Journal.
For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion
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__label__cc | 0.664296 | 0.335704 | APYX - Apyx Medical Corporation
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Apyx Medical Corporation Announces Appointment of Four Members to its Medical Advisory Board
Apyx Medical Corporation, formerly Bovie Medical Corporation, (APYX) (the “Company”), a maker of medical devices and supplies and the developer of Helium Plasma Technology, which is marketed and sold as Renuvion® in the cosmetic surgery market and J-Plasma® in the hospital surgical market, today announced the appointment of four members to its Medical Advisory Board. “Apyx Medical Corporation is pleased to appoint Dr. Brian M. Kinney, Dr. Paul G. Ruff, Dr. Richard D. Gentile and Dr. Edward M. Zimmerman to our Medical Advisory Board,” said Charlie Goodwin, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Apyx Medical Corporation to Release Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Results on August 7, 2019
Apyx Medical Corporation, formerly Bovie Medical Corporation, (APYX) (the “Company”), a maker of medical devices and supplies and the developer of J-Plasma®, a patented surgical product marketed and sold under the Renuvion® Cosmetic Technology brand in the cosmetic surgery market, today announced that financial results for the second quarter of fiscal year 2019 will be released after the market closes on Wednesday, August 7. To listen to the call by phone, interested parties may dial 844-507-6493 (or 647-253-8641 for international callers) and provide access code 5115769. Participants should ask for the Apyx Medical Corporation Call.
Apyx Medical Corporation Joins Russell 3000® and Russell 2000® Indexes
Apyx Medical Corporation, formerly Bovie Medical Corporation, (APYX) (the “Company”), a maker of medical devices and supplies and the developer of J-Plasma®, a patented surgical product marketed and sold under the Renuvion® Cosmetic Technology brand in the cosmetic surgery market, announced today that the Company has been added to the Russell 3000® and Russell 2000® Indexes. The Company’s inclusion occurred as part of the annual reconstitution by FTSE Russell of its U.S. equity indexes and will become effective today after the U.S. market opens. “Apyx Medical is pleased to be included in the Russell 3000 and 2000 Indexes,” said Charlie Goodwin, President and Chief Executive Officer.
Hedge Funds Have Never Been This Bullish On Apyx Medical Corporation (APYX)
Before we spend days researching a stock idea we like to take a look at how hedge funds and billionaire investors recently traded that stock. The S&P 500 Index ETF (SPY) lost 2.6% in the first two months of the second quarter. Ten out of 11 industry groups in the S&P 500 Index lost value […]
MONDAY DEADLINE NOTICE: The Schall Law Firm Announces it is Investigating Claims Against Apyx Medical Corporation and Encourages Investors with Losses in Excess of $100,000 to Contact the Firm
The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces that it is investigating claims on behalf of investors of Apyx Medical Corporation (“Apyx” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: APYX) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The investigation focuses on whether the Company issued false and/or misleading statements and/or failed to disclose information pertinent to investors.
GlobeNewswire•last month
The Klein Law Firm Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders of APYX, NOK, HRTX and TUSK
NEW YORK, June 17, 2019 -- The Klein Law Firm announces that class action complaints have been filed on behalf of shareholders of the following companies. If you suffered a.
MONDAY DEADLINE REMINDER: The Schall Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Apyx Medical Corporation and Encourages Investors with Losses in Excess of $100,000 to Contact the Firm
The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against Apyx Medical Corporation (“Apyx” or “the Company”) (NASDAQ: APYX) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The clinical study of Apyx’s J-Plasma for dermal resurfacing did not reach its primary efficacy endpoint.
ACCESSWIRE•last month
TOP RANKED ROSEN LAW FIRM REMINDS: Apyx Medical Investors of JUNE 17 DEADLINE IN CLASS ACTION - APYX
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / June 16, 2019 / Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Apyx Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: APYX) from August 1, 2018 through ...
MONDAY DEADLINE ALERT: The Schall Law Firm Announces it is Investigating Claims Against Apyx Medical Corporation and Encourages Investors with Losses in Excess of $100,000 to Contact the Firm
CLASS ACTION UPDATE for WSR, APYX, KSHB and CYH: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders
NEW YORK, June 14, 2019 -- Levi & Korsinsky, LLP announces that class action lawsuits have commenced on behalf of shareholders of the following publicly-traded companies..
SHAREHOLDER ALERT: FSNN APYX CYH: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Reminds Investors of Important Class Action Deadlines
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / June 14, 2019 / The Law Offices of Vincent Wong announce that class actions have commenced on behalf of shareholders of the following companies. If you suffered a loss you have ...
INVESTOR ALERT: Kaskela Law LLC Announces Important Shareholder Class Action Lawsuit Deadlines – APYX, WSR and INVVY
PHILADELPHIA, June 13, 2019 -- Kaskela Law LLC announces that shareholder class action lawsuits have been filed against: Apyx Medical Corporation (Nasdaq: APYX) A shareholder.
CLASS ACTION UPDATE for FSNN, APYX and CLDR: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / June 13, 2019 / Levi & Korsinsky, LLP announces that class action lawsuits have commenced on behalf of shareholders of the following publicly-traded companies. Shareholders ...
PR Newswire•last month
APYX REMINDER: Hagens Berman Reminds Apyx Medical Corporation (APYX) Investors of Lead Plaintiff Deadline, Encourages Investors to Contact the Firm
SAN FRANCISCO , June 13, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Hagens Berman Sobol Shapiro LLP, with nine offices in eight cities around the country and eighty attorneys, reminds investors in Apyx Medical Corporation ( ...
FILING DEADLINE--Kuznicki Law PLLC Announces Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders of FSNN, APYX and CLDR
CEDARHURST, NY / ACCESSWIRE / June 13, 2019 / The securities litigation law firm of Kuznicki Law PLLC issues the following notice on behalf of shareholders of the following publicly traded companies. Shareholders who purchased shares in these companies during the dates listed below are encouraged to contact the firm regarding possible appointment as lead plaintiff and a preliminary estimate of their recoverable losses. If you wish to choose counsel to represent you and the class, you must apply to be appointed lead plaintiff and be selected by the Court.
Deadline Reminder: The Law Offices of Howard G. Smith Reminds Investors of Looming Deadline in the Class Action Lawsuit Against Apyx Medical Corporation
Law Offices of Howard G. Smith reminds investors of the upcoming June 17, 2019 deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in the class action filed on behalf of investors who purchased Apyx Medical Corporation (“Apyx” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: APYX) securities between August 1, 2018 and April 1, 2019, inclusive (the “Class Period”). Investors suffering losses on their Apyx investments are encouraged to contact the Law Offices of Howard G. Smith to discuss their legal rights in this class action at 888-638-4847 or by email to howardsmith@howardsmithlaw.com. On February 21, 2019, White Diamond Research released a report alleging that a clinical study on the use of the Company’s J-Plasma for dermal resurfacing may have missed its endpoints.
The Klein Law Firm Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders of LYFT, APYX and KSHB
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / June 13, 2019 / The Klein Law Firm announces that class action complaints have been filed on behalf of shareholders of the following companies. If you suffered a loss you have ...
APYX ALERT: Rosen, an Internationally Recognized Law Firm, Reminds Apyx Medical Corporation Investors of June 17th Deadline in the Securities Class Action; Encourages Investors with Over $100K in Losses to Contact the Firm – APYX
NEW YORK, June 13, 2019 -- Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Apyx Medical Corporation (NASDAQ: APYX) from August 1,.
CLASS ACTION UPDATE for FSNN, APYX and RMED: Levi & Korsinsky, LLP Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders
IMPORTANT INVESTOR NOTICE: The Schall Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Apyx Medical Corporation and Encourages Investors with Losses to Contact the Firm
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / June 12, 2019 / The Schall Law Firm, a national shareholder rights litigation firm, announces the filing of a class action lawsuit against Apyx Medical Corporation ("Apyx" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: APYX) for violations of §§10(b) and 20(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and Rule 10b-5 promulgated thereunder by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Investors who purchased the Company's shares between August 1, 2018 and April 1, 2019, inclusive (the ''Class Period''), are encouraged to contact the firm before June 17, 2019.
SHAREHOLDER ALERT: APYX NOK JMIA: The Law Offices of Vincent Wong Reminds Investors of Important Class Action Deadlines
Glancy Prongay & Murray Reminds Investors of Looming Deadline in the Class Action Lawsuit Against Apyx Medical Corporation
Glancy Prongay & Murray LLP (“GPM”) reminds investors of the upcoming June 17, 2019 deadline to file a lead plaintiff motion in the class action filed on behalf of Apyx Medical Corporation (“Apyx” or the “Company”) (NASDAQ: APYX) investors who purchased securities between August 1, 2018 and April 1, 2019, inclusive (the “Class Period”). If you wish to learn more about this action, or if you have any questions concerning this announcement or your rights or interests with respect to these matters, please contact Lesley Portnoy, Esquire, at 310-201-9150, Toll-Free at 888-773-9224, or by email to shareholders@glancylaw.com, or visit our website at www.glancylaw.com. On February 21, 2019, White Diamond Research released a report alleging that a clinical study on the use of the Company’s J-Plasma for dermal resurfacing may have missed its endpoints.
ROSEN, GLOBALLY RECOGNIZED LAW FIRM: Reminds Apyx Medical Corporation Investors of Important JUNE 17 Deadline in the Securities Class Action - APYX
NEW YORK, NY / ACCESSWIRE / June 11, 2019 / Rosen Law Firm, a global investor rights law firm, reminds purchasers of the securities of Apyx Medical Corporation from August 1, 2018 through April 1, 2019, ...
The Klein Law Firm Reminds Investors of Class Actions on Behalf of Shareholders of FSNN, APYX and SCOR
7-DAY DEADLINE ALERT: The Schall Law Firm Announces the Filing of a Class Action Lawsuit Against Apyx Medical Corporation and Encourages Investors with Losses in Excess of $100,000 to Contact the Firm | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1170 |
__label__wiki | 0.855622 | 0.855622 | FTR - Frontier Communications Corporation
-0.1700 (-10.97%)
Previous Close 1.5500
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Ask 0.0000 x 42300
Day's Range 1.3700 - 1.5700
52 Week Range 1.2100 - 7.2500
Avg. Volume 3,299,593
PE Ratio (TTM) N/A
EPS (TTM) -8.3580
Moody's•2 days ago
GS Mortgage Securities Trust 2012-GCJ7 -- Moody's affirms ten classes of GSMS 2012-GCJ7
Rating Action: Moody's affirms ten classes of GSMS 2012- GCJ7. Global Credit Research- 16 Jul 2019. Approximately $1.02 billion of structured securities affected.
Frontier Communications to Release Second Quarter 2019 Results and Host Call
Frontier Communications Corporation plans to release second quarter 2019 results on Tuesday, August 6, 2019, after the market closes, and to host a conference call that afternoon at 4:30 P.M.
Before You Buy Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:FTR), Consider Its Volatility
If you're interested in Frontier Communications Corporation (NASDAQ:FTR), then you might want to consider its beta (a...
Market Realist•16 days ago
AT&T Hit by Potentially Costly Lawsuit
AT&T (T) has been sued in California on accusations that it secretly overcharges its wireless customers in an attempt to fatten its bottom line.
Moody's•17 days ago
$34,500,000 PREFERREDPLUS 8.375% Trust Certificates, Series CZN-1 -- Moody's downgrades the rating of certificates issued by PREFERREDPLUS Trust Series CZN-1, a Structured Note
Today's rating action is a result of the change in the rating of 7.05% Debentures due October 01, 2046 issued by Frontier Communications Corporation ("Underlying Securities") which was downgraded to Caa2 on June 26, 2019. The transaction is a structured note whose rating is based on the rating of the Underlying Securities and the legal structure of the transaction.
Frontier Adopts Shareholder Rights Plan to Protect the Availability of its Net Operating Losses
Frontier Communications Corporation (“Frontier”) (FTR) announced today that its Board of Directors adopted a shareholder rights plan designed to protect the availability of Frontier’s net operating loss carryforwards (“NOLs”) under the Internal Revenue Code ("Section 382 Rights Plan"). As of December 31, 2018, Frontier had U.S. federal NOLs of approximately $2.4 billion available to offset its future federal taxable income. Frontier’s ability to use these NOLs would be substantially limited if it experienced an “ownership change” within the meaning of Section 382 of the Internal Revenue Code.
Is Frontier Communications Corporation (FTR) A Good Stock To Buy ?
The 700+ hedge funds and famous money managers tracked by Insider Monkey have already compiled and submitted their 13F filings for the first quarter, which unveil their equity positions as of March 31. We went through these filings, fixed typos and other more significant errors and identified the changes in hedge fund portfolios. Our extensive […]
Analyzing Frontier Communications’ Moving Averages
On June 24, Frontier Communications (FTR) stock closed the trading day at $1.43. On the downside, the company’s immediate support lies near $1.36. Frontier Communications’ 14-day relative strength index score was 35.
Frontier Communications’ Current Valuation Compared to Its Peers
On June 21, Frontier Communications (FTR) had a trailing 12-month EV-to-EBITDA multiple of 4.94x. As of June 21, Frontier Communications had a market capitalization of $0.15 billion.
Frontier Communications: Analysts’ Recommendations
According to analysts’ consensus, Frontier Communications (FTR) stock has a mean target price of $2.14 and a current market price of $1.39—an upside potential of 54.0% in the next 12 months.
Frontier Communications: Returns and Stock Trends in 2019
On June 21, Frontier Communications’ (FTR) closing price was $1.39 per share. Based on the closing price, Frontier Communications has a market capitalization of $0.15 billion.
Frontier Communications’ Earnings Trend in 2019
In the first quarter, Frontier Communications (FTR) reported an adjusted net income and EPS of -$19 million and -$0.18, respectively—compared to -$45 million and -$0.58 in the first quarter of 2018.
Frontier Communications: Revenue Trends in 2019
In the first quarter, Frontier Communications reported net revenues of $2.10 billion—a fall of 4.5% on a year-over-year basis. Frontier Communications missed analysts’ consensus revenue expectation.
CenturyLink’s Moving Averages Compared to Its Peers
On June 21, CenturyLink stock closed the trading day at $11.34. On the downside, the company’s immediate support lies near $11.26, while $11.42 could act as an immediate resistance level on a daily basis.
CenturyLink: Analysts’ Recommendations
According to analysts’ consensus, CenturyLink (CTL) stock has a mean target price of $12.77 and a current market price of $11.35, which suggests an upside potential of 12.5% in the next 12 months.
CenturyLink’s Current Valuation Compared to Its Peers
On June 20, CenturyLink was trading at a 12-month forward PE ratio of 8.60x. Charter Communications and Comcast’s 12-month forward PE ratios were 38.15x and 13.65x, respectively.
Bloomberg•28 days ago
Frontier has Options to Avoid Bankruptcy, Aurelius Says
(Bloomberg) -- Aurelius Capital Management LP is calling for Frontier Communications Corp. to pursue an out-of-court debt exchange and says there’s no “defensible basis” for the company to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy before trying its proposal. Frontier’s stock and bonds rose.Mark Brodsky’s hedge fund holds Frontier shares, a “substantial amount” of some Frontier notes, and a long position in Frontier’s debts through credit default swaps, according to a June 19 letter to Frontier’s board. The debt holdings include so-called non-CTF unsecured bonds due in 2022 and 2023. Aurelius isn’t a member of any ad hoc bondholder group, according to the letter, which was signed by Managing Director Dennis Prieto.Aurelius’s recommendations “provide a road map for the board to create substantial value for Frontier’s shareholders, both through de-levering and by increasing the option value inherent in the stock,” the letter said. “In contrast, a near-term Chapter 11 would result in a wipe-out for shareholders.”A representative for Frontier declined to comment. The company’s shares rose as much as 23% and its 7.125% notes due in January 2023 gained 1.5 cents on the dollar to 61.5 cents.Click here to see a copy of the Aurelius letterFrontier creditors have been calling for the telecommunications company to engage in negotiations to address its $17 billion of debt. The company recently appointed new board members with turnaround experience, and agreed to a $1.4 billion asset sale. Some bondholders have called for an out-of-court transaction amid speculation that the company might seek Chapter 11 protection.Aurelius said the company should exchange or tender for $3.5 billion of CTF and non-CTF bonds maturing in 2022 and 2023 and 51% of the CTF bonds due in 2025, with the 2022 and 2025 CTF notes amending their lien covenant as part of the transaction. Participating holders would receive new secured debt and possibly cash, having a value about 10% above current market prices.Debt ImpactThe suggested transaction would allow Frontier to extend its debt, reduce net borrowings by more than $1.5 billion and generate $200 million in annual interest expense savings, Aurelius said. Leverage would be cut from 4.74 times to 4.26 times a key measure of earnings, according to the letter. It would also free up cash flow and enhance the company’s ability to deleverage further, such as by purchasing more long-dated unsecured bonds.Frontier’s debt situation is also fundamentally different than what happened to Windstream Holdings Inc. -- which filed for bankruptcy after Aurelius alleged a debt default -- because that case turned on Windstream violating the plain language of its covenants, according to the letter.“Respectfully, the Windstream decision should play no role in your decision regarding Frontier’s capital structure,” Aurelius said. A Windstream representative declined to comment.The company shouldn’t seek to pursue an out-of-court comprehensive restructuring of its unsecured bonds, as some holders of back-end bonds have sought, because it is a “mirage” that will “immutably and swiftly” lead to Frontier filing for bankruptcy, Aurelius said.Even if Aurelius’s proposal fails, “Chapter 11 will be no less available than it is today,” the hedge fund said. “Indeed, the threat of Chapter 11 should put the company in a strong position in negotiations with holders of near-dated bonds regarding the exchange/tender offer.”(Updates shares and bonds in the fourth paragraph and adds Chapter 11 comment in the last.)\--With assistance from Bill Haubert.To contact the reporter on this story: Allison McNeely in New York at amcneely@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rick Green at rgreen18@bloomberg.net, Nicole BullockFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Frontier Stock Continued to Lose Market Value in June
Frontier Communications (FTR) has continued to burn investors' wealth. The stock has fallen close to 25.5% since the beginning of June. On June 17, Frontier Communications closed at $1.40.
Motley Fool•29 days ago
Better Buy: CenturyLink vs. Frontier Communications
Which struggling telecom is the best bet for a turnaround?
Bloomberg•last month
Frontier Creditors Prod Telecom to Overhaul Its Debt
(Bloomberg) -- Talks are heating up between Frontier Communications Corp. and its creditors over a potential restructuring of its $17 billion debt load.Advisers for three groups of creditors have held informal discussions with Frontier ahead of $2.7 billion of debt maturities in 2022, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Those notes trade at deeply distressed levels, and the company has signaled it may be ready for a more official process by adding board members with turnaround experience.No formal proposals have been submitted so far, and Frontier hasn’t indicated what it plans to do yet, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the talks are private.A group including Elliott Management Corp., Apollo Global Management LLC, Franklin Resources Inc. and Capital Group Cos. had proposed swapping their unsecured debt into new secured notes in an out-of-court transaction, with some members also favoring a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing, the people said. The other creditor groups prefer a bankruptcy filing, in part to avoid seeing their holdings pushed down in priority through a debt swap, according to the people.The group including Elliott, Apollo, Franklin and Capital Group holds about 60% of so-called CTF unsecured bonds maturing in 2022 and 2025, according to some of the people. Some creditors in that group are believed by market participants to have sold credit-default swaps insuring against a Frontier default. That would skew their interests against a Chapter 11 filing. A second group of creditors holds “legacy,” or non-CTF, bonds, and a third group of creditors owns a mix of CTF and legacy bonds, the people said.A spokesman for Norwalk, Connecticut-based Frontier declined to comment. Representatives for Elliott, Apollo and Franklin declined to comment, while a spokesman for Capital Group didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.Frontier shares fell as much as 13%, and traded down 5 cents at $1.47 a share as of 1:27 p.m. in New York. They’re down more than 37% this year.Still TimeFrontier still has time to negotiate with creditors and it also will benefit from a recent $1.4 billion asset sale, which gives it cash to address small short-term maturities. The company has publicly said that it will be able to stabilize its wireline business through cost cutting while retaining customers in its broadband internet unit. It also generates positive free cash flow.The CTF notes are trading at levels indicating a higher likelihood of default, with the 2022 securities yielding about 26% on Friday. Credit-default swaps are pricing in a 90% chance of default within five years, according to data from CMA.Frontier fed speculation that it may be willing to consider reworking its debt or a Chapter 11 filing after the addition of new directors with substantial restructuring experience, including Mohsin Y. Meghji, founder of M-III Partners, who currently serves as chief restructuring officer of Sears Holdings Corp. Those directors joined the board after Robert A. Schriesheim was added in December. Schriesheim’s biography cites his former role in raising capital for Sears and current post on the board of Houlihan Lokey Inc., which specializes in turnarounds.Revenue and profit are dropping in Frontier’s traditional wireline telephone business as more customers defect to wireless services, and its broadband internet unit faces steep competition from cable companies. Frontier ranks as the biggest issuer among deeply distressed-debt borrowers -- those with yields topping 20% -- despite efforts by Chief Executive Officer Dan McCarthy to turn around the business.The CTF moniker stems from bonds Frontier issued after its $10.5 billion purchase of California, Texas and Florida systems from Verizon Communications Inc. in a deal that McCarthy said in 2015 would boost revenue and free cash flow, as well as help retain customers. Instead the CTF bonds, which make up the bulk of Frontier’s $2.7 billion 2022 maturity wall, pushed up leverage and failed to halt the company’s decline.“They’ve been lucky enough to put off the day of reckoning as a result of the asset sale, but they haven’t been able to fix the business, which is still extremely over-leveraged,” said George Schultze, founder and CEO of Schultze Asset Management in New York. He has a short position on Frontier stock.Frontier is getting advice from Kirkland & Ellis and Evercore, according to the people. The CTF bondholder group, which includes its 10.5% notes due 2022 and 11% notes due 2025, are working with Akin Gump and Ducera. A crossover group holding legacy and CTF bonds has tapped Milbank and PJT Partners, and a group holding mostly legacy notes, which includes GoldenTree Asset Management LP, is getting advice from Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Houlihan Lokey, the people said.Representatives for those firms declined to comment or didn’t respond to messages.Frontier’s board is wary of a restructuring transaction that might trigger litigation from creditors, such as a debt swap that leaves certain holders out, the people said. Distressed investor Jason Mudrick said on Bloomberg TV that Frontier had been exploring a transaction that would have rolled up the nearest maturities into the senior paper, but decided to do a more comprehensive restructuring because of what happened to Windstream Holdings Inc.Its wireline peer collapsed into bankruptcy this year after losing a litigation fight against Aurelius Capital Management LP tied to a spinoff and subsequent bond swaps. Mudrick has a short position on Frontier.A key question facing creditors is how much capacity Frontier has to issue new secured debt, which could be used to swap and extend existing unsecured debt, a transaction that could shore up its solvency. Under the investment grade-style bond covenants governing its legacy bonds, Frontier may have as much as $12 billion of secured debt capacity, according to Covenant Review.S&P Global Ratings, which rates Frontier at CCC+ with a negative outlook, said the company’s recent asset sale is positive but doesn’t really change the overall picture.“The longer-term trajectory of the business would suggest that eventually it would have to file for Chapter 11, but they could do a series of debt exchanges in the near term,” S&P analyst Allyn Arden said.(Adds share reaction in the seventh paragraph.)\--With assistance from Claire Boston.To contact the reporters on this story: Allison McNeely in New York at amcneely@bloomberg.net;Katherine Doherty in New York at kdoherty23@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rick Green at rgreen18@bloomberg.net, Boris KorbyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
Market Realist•last month
UBS Cut Target Price on Frontier Communications
As of June 11, among the 11 analysts tracking Frontier Communications (FTR) stock, four recommend a “hold,” while seven recommend a “sell.” None of the analysts recommended a “buy.”
Frontier Communications Stock Has Had a Rough Year: What’s Next?
Year-to-date, Frontier stock has fallen 29.0%. The stock has generated a return of -18.8% in the last month and -77.1% in the last 12 months. However, analysts’ consensus estimates show that the stock could rise ~34.9% over the next 12 months.
Motley Fool•last month
Why Frontier Communications Stock Fell Wednesday
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ubuntu developer summit
I'm currently sitting in the back of the Ubuntu developer summit. If you're in town drop me a mail and we'll get lunch or something.
I'd especially like to bitch at someone (:P) about how out-of-the-box Ubuntu, even dapper, still doesn't support bold Japanese, which means Google search results look like they don't highlight for all Japanese queries. This is fixable and well-documented but apparently everyone who uses Japanese on Ubuntu must install the same hacks. (The fix is known, it's partially Firefox's fault, blah blah blah. Still grumpy about it.)
Also: A guy just gave a demo of another whiz-bang 3d window manager, then revealed it was written Java. Someone in the crowd asked whether it ran on free Java, and he said, "Well, Sun announced it will open-source Java." How do you come to an Ubuntu summit and demo software that isn't free? It's against the whole idea of the thing.
free software ubuntu
brad Heh, your post changed from the time I read it to just now when I hit reply.
wtf on Java, agreed.
What's the Firefox/bold issue?
evan Here's what I think the problem is:
/etc/fonts/fonts.conf has a rule to "embolden" fonts that don't support bold natively (which includes Japanese). (emboldening is just smearing the non-bold font.)
The rule on dapper is
embolden = true if font.weight <= 100 && request.weight >= 200
But apparently, a bold tag on Firefox (at least on Google) generates a request of weight somewhere between 100 and 200. (Officially these have names like "semibold" or "demibold".) Upstream fontconfig changed the rule to be
embolden = true if font.weight <= 100 && request.weight > 100
I ran into a Debian developer friend here and he pointed out we could just backport this to dapper. So maybe we'll figure it out this week.
graydon The Java thing is quite common: there is a huge contingent of people -- typically younger -- who learned to program in Java. They see Java as the baseline of civility in languages; lower-level is savagery, out of the question. They feel that it's perfectly acceptable to write free software in Java because their code is free, and the JDK is ... an unfortunately not-quite-free-enough but tolerable and uninteresting component that simply must exist and must work. It always has, it always will; it's not the point of the discussion. It'll probably be free someday and anyways if you rejected the JDK now, how could you write anything?
It's similar in a way to older programmers being perfectly willing to develop free code on a proprietary OS, or from a proprietary BIOS, or on proprietary hardware. Or in a country with not-quite-free elections. We all draw the line somewhere: this stuff I will concern myself with changing, that stuff I will accept as a fact of life. Many Java people just draw the line at the JDK.
brad Good comment!
I guess the problem is it's a mismatch of developers who drew the line one place (Ubuntu) and the Java programmers, who drew it elsewhere. Makes it hard to play together.
I guess Ubuntu's line is closer to the Java programmers than Debian, though. Ubuntu doesn't seem to have a problem with binary-only firmware running outside the host CPU, or even binary-only kernel modules for wireless cards, etc.
spot The same guy has been demoing that Java 3d window manager at Linuxworld for at least the last two or three years, with the same "Sun is going to open source Java" rebuttal each year. :/
sliding_doors http://www.sun.com/2006-1113/feature/story.jsp
well apparently sun makes good on their promises.
Java/GPL
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__label__wiki | 0.712368 | 0.712368 | List of Oscar Award Winners 2015 – General Awareness Study Material & Notes
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The 87th Academy Awards ceremony was organised at Dolby Theatre in Hollywood, LA for honoring the best in films for year 2014. These awards have a long history with regards to the Movie industry. These are also known as the Academy Awards.
The following details about Indian achievements in the Oscars are sometimes asked in various bank exams like IBPS, SBI, RBI and RRBs. Candidates are advised to go through the following information and you might find some questions from this in upcoming exams.
Points of Remember about Oscar or Academy Awards:
The Oscar awards were first awarded in 1929.
Bhanu Athaiya was the First Indian artist to win the Academy or Oscar Award in year 1983, for designing the costumes for the film by Richard Attenborough by the name – Gandhi.
Satyajit Ray was the First Indian ever to receive an Honorary Academy Award in year 1992.
Gulzar is the First Indian lyricist to be awarded an Honorary Academy Award for writing the song “Jai Ho” in the film ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.
A.R.Rahman became the First Indian to win two Academy Awards in year 2009.
The list of winners of Oscar Awards in 2015 is given below. If you revise it properly, you will be able to answer questions regarding this section confidently in the exams.
Category Winner
Best Picture Birdman
Best Director Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (Birdman)
Best Actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything)
Best Actress Julianne Moore (Still Alice)
Best Supporting Actor J.K. Simmons (Whiplash)
Best Supporting Actress Patricia Arquette (Boyhood)
Achievement in Costume Design Milena Canonero (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Achievement in Makeup and Hairstyling Frances Hannon and Mark Coulier (The Grand Budapest Hotel)
Best Foreign Language Film Ida (Pawel Pawlikowski)
Best Live Action Short Film The Phone Call (Matt Kirkby and James Lucas)
Best Documentary Short Subject Crisis Hotline: Veterans Press 1 (Ellen Goosenberg Kent and Dana Perry)
Original Screenplay Birdman
Achievement in Sound Mixing Whiplash (Craig Mann, Ben Wilkins, Thomas Curley)
Achievement in Sound Editing American Sniper (Alan Robert Murray Bub Asman)
Achievement in Visual Effects Interstellar (Ian Hunter, Scott Fisher, Andrew Lockley and Paul Franklin)
Best Animated Short Feast (Patrick Osborne and Kristina Reed)
Best Animated Movie Big Hero Six (Don Hall, Chris Williams and Roy Conli)
Achievement in Production Design The Grand Budapest Hotel (Adam Stockhausen and Anna Pinnock)
Achievement in Cinematography Birdman (Emannuel Lubezki)
Achievement in Film Editing Whipalsh (Tom Cross)
Best Documentary Feature Citizen Four (Laura Poitras, Mathilde Bonnefoy and Dirk Wilutzky)
Best Original Song Glory (John Stephens and Lonnie Lynn)
Best Original Score The Grand Budapest Hotel (Alexandre Desplat)
Best Adapted Screenplay The Imitation Game (Graham Moore)
We hope this short compilation will be assist you in staying updated about the latest happenings in the year gone by with regards to the entertainment industry internationally. In fact, you can consider watching some of these films that have been awarded in the Oscars to get the feel of the type of cinema being created at the international stage. Some of these movies can given you deep insights into various distinct aspects of human past, psyche and a lot more. If you have watched any of the these awarded films or artist whose work have been awarded in the Oscars please share it with our readers. Your comments are welcome. Thank You!
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__label__cc | 0.627544 | 0.372456 | WATCH: King Salman, Saudi Crown Prince welcome Arab leaders at Mecca Summit
The Mecca Summit held by Saudi Arabia with three other nations to discuss support for Jordan’s economy resulted in an aid package totaling $2.5 bln. (Screen grab)
Staff writer, Al Arabiya English Monday, 11 June 2018
Saudi King Salman bin Abdulaziz and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman welcomed Jordan’s King Abdullah, Kuwait’s ruling emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad al-Sabah and the UAE’s vice president and ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid al-Maktoum at the Mecca Summit on Sunday.
The Mecca Summit held by Saudi Arabia with three other nations to discuss support for Jordan’s economy resulted in an aid package totaling $2.5 bln.
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The initiative was launched by Saudi Arabia’s King Salman aims to contain the economic crisis and discuss ways of supporting their neighboring country was reflected on the Jordanian street.
Only a few days after protests erupted on the streets of Amman, King Salman called Jordan's King Abdullah, Kuwaiti Emir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and Abu Dhabi Crown Prince Sheikh Mohammed bin Zayed. These contacts ended with a decision to hold an urgent meeting in Mecca to consult on the crisis.
شرفت اليوم بزيارة مكة المكرمة وسعدت بلقاء خادم الحرمين الشريفين الملك سلمان بن عبدالعزيز وإخواني الملك عبدالله الثاني ملك الأردن وأمير الكويت صاحب السمو الشيخ صباح الأحمد حفظهم الله..لقاء إخوة في بقعة طاهرة وعند ملك همه خدمة الدين وحفظ الاستقرار وترسيخ الإخوّة العربية والإسلامية pic.twitter.com/IslHh4iwD3
— HH Sheikh Mohammed (@HHShkMohd) June 11, 2018
Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid tweeted that he was "honoured to visit Mecca and pleased to meet the custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman bin Abdulaziz and my brother King Abdullah II of Jordan", and that the meeting had served to "preserve stability and to strengthen the Arab and Islamic brotherhood".
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__label__wiki | 0.986414 | 0.986414 | Branson warns pound to plummet in no-deal Brexit
A no-deal Brexit would cause the pound to plummet and be worth the same as the dollar, Virgin boss Sir Richard Branson has said.
This would be “devastating” for Virgin, and force the group to shift investment out of the UK, he said.
Sir Richard also criticised the rail franchising system, saying it stifled entrepreneurs.
The Department for Transport said rail firms “clearly see an ability to be entrepreneurial”.
Pound hit
Boris Johnson, the frontrunner in the Tory leadership race, has refused to rule out suspending parliament to force through a no-deal Brexit.
But Sir Richard told the BBC that the UK crashing out of the EU without a deal would cause the pound to slump.
“The pound was at $1.53 when the referendum took place. The pound today it is at $1.22, $1.23, and the pound will collapse to parity [one for one] with the dollar if there is a hard Brexit,” he said.
The businessman, whose portfolio includes airlines, financial services and media companies, expects big losses for all his UK interests, saying it would be “devastating for many Virgin companies”.
“It obviously is going to result in us spending a lot less money in Britain, and just putting all our energies into other countries” he added.
Sterling pressures
Sir Richard warned in December that the UK would be left “near bankrupt” if there was a hard Brexit.
He told the BBC at the time that he was “absolutely certain” that leaving the EU without a deal would lead to the closure of “quite a few British businesses”.
Virgin Atlantic, the group’s major airline, has, according to Sir Richard, already suffered substantial loses since the UK voted to leave the EU in 2016, due to the drop in the pound against the dollar.
“All our costs are in dollars. Maintenance, plane costs, pretty well every cost is in dollars. And therefore, the bottom line hit of that was £100m a year, say,” he said.
A hard Brexit would mean airfreight from Europe to the US would just disappear, he says, “so that would be another £100m just down the drain”.
“And I can carry on. There’s an enormous list when you look at each Virgin company.”
Sterling has had a tough week, falling to its lowest point in two years.
It dropped below $1.25 after succumbing to political and economic pressures.
Rail dispute
Sir Richard also criticised the UK’s rail franchising system.
Virgin Trains, the franchise that has run on the West Coast Mainline for 22 years, will end in March next year.
After a dispute with the Department for Transport over who should bear pension risk, in April, Virgin and its operating partner Stagecoach were disqualified from rebidding to operate on the line.
Sir Richard said train companies should contribute to the pension deficit, but shouldn’t have an open-ended risk.
He added: “I’m very disappointed for everybody who works for Virgin Trains. They’ve done an extraordinary job over 22 years. Sad that a great company may be coming to an end.”
He said he was working on “open access” for Virgin Trains on the West Coast Mainline, which would let the firm operate a pared-down service.
Sir Richard also said the railway franchising system was “a real mess”, adding that it was too constrictive.
“The Department for Transport, in their wisdom, give you massive long lists of dos and don’ts, and it’s very difficult to be entrepreneurial, and that’s sad,” he said.
But an official from the Department for Transport said: “We are sorry to see Virgin leave the UK rail industry having failed to put forward a compliant bid.
“Other companies have done so and the remaining bidders in current competitions clearly see an ability to be entrepreneurial on the railways.
“The recent winning bid on the East Midlands franchise accepted the pensions terms and will deliver significant benefits for passengers, transforming their journeys.”
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__label__cc | 0.542189 | 0.457811 | Kapow! 🔥 Top Clips of Van Helsing (2004)!
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I think that in Transylvania you may find the answer you seek.
How do you know he has copper teeth?
Because he's the son of the Devil.
I wish you a week in hell for that.
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Clean Public Toilets for Tourists in Thailand
04 Feb 2018 17:01 #23954 by F H Mughal
The Thailand Tourism and Sports Ministry is now campaigning for clean public toilet facilities at bus and train stations, while encouraging private operators of toilets at petrol stations, rest areas and restaurants to clean up their own act.
Four public places in four regions have been picked as models for the plan: Hua Lampong station in Bangkok, the second bus terminal in Nakhon Ratchasima, the second bus station in Phitsanulok and Hua Hin train station in Prachuap Khiri Khan.
According to the Bangkok Post ( www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/1407394...toilets-for-tourists ), the Tourism and Sports Minister Weerasak Kowsurat has said that the public toilets in locations popular with tourists should be both clean and safe.
It is good to note that Thailand is now paying attention to having clean public toilets. It tends to transpire that Thailand is now catching up with safe and clean sanitation. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1214 |
__label__cc | 0.679112 | 0.320888 | Apple ordered to pay $165K in Chinese copyright dispute
charlituna wrote: »
Try do. But when you are told that someone lied, every court will agree that at that point you are liable if you allow it to continue. Apple has rules about pulling apps for such claims and these writers either did not like this or felt it was too slow. The courts somewhat agreed and gave Apple a slap on the wrist for not having a faster process.
And if Apple had immediately pulled the apps, the developers would have sued and won for lack of due process. /s
Doing business in China is difficult, to say the least.
charlituna Posts: 7,215member
jragosta wrote: »
If there was no form proof that the apps were violating anything sure, they likely would. Which is why Apple has the process they have.
As for your last bit, not just in China.
Originally Posted by Mac Voyer
And these books don't exist on Android? Smells fishy...
I don't find any mention by the CWWCS that those "pirated works' are available on GooglePlay. There have been ongoing discussions between Google, Chinese authors and their associations, including the one mentioned in this article on the Google Books project. I've not seen where there's a final agreement yet.
Ms. Hohne said that more than 50 Chinese publishers had agreed to allow 60,000 books to be included in the company’s scanning program.
Zhang Hongbo, the secretary general of the China Written Works Copyright Society, which manages Chinese copyrights, hailed the letter and the apology. “It is a result that all Chinese copyright holders have been waiting for,” he said. “We look forward to Google’s deeper understanding of this issue.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/technology/companies/12google.html?ref=technology&_r=0
edit: FWIW there's apparently other yet-unsettled lawsuits between Chinese authors and Apple with the same general allegations. This article mentions several others:
http://shelf-life.ew.com/2012/03/19/apple-china-book-piracy-accusation/
thinkknot Posts: 51member
They can probably pull $165K out of the seat cushions at Apple HQ.
peter236 Posts: 254member
Apple has to pay for this infringement of others' copyrights. The Chinese are just playing Apple's way of suing other people. In this case, Apple was found to be infringing on other people's creation.
sr2012 Posts: 896member
Welcome to the Asian Century. Seriously, that's what all the Australian politicians are calling "our economic future".
Originally Posted by sr2012
You're over in that area; you're just paranoid about that sort of thing.
lightknight Posts: 2,312member
Originally Posted by 9secondko
Gotta love Chinese courts.
Gee guys, let's sue the store instead of the pirates!
Some amazing logic going on there...
If you did not go through an Apple-curated AppStore, Apple wouldn't be at fault.
I feel 165k is not a hefty price to pay for the total control that Apple enjoys over what can run on the iPhone. No sex-related on the AppStore, because Apple considers its role to protect poor little JimmyJoe from himself. If Apple can prevent me from suffering terrible brain damage due to using a sex-related app, Apple definitely should prevent me from using a stolen app.
Obviously, YOMV.
Originally Posted by lightknight
They're not at fault NOW, by LAW.
fake_william_shatner Posts: 660member
Originally Posted by leighr
....and the Chinese pirates who stole the copyrighted information, used it to create an App, and submitted it to Apple?
I bet dollars to donuts that it's some cousin of the band in question.
I could see liability if the copyright holder caught the infraction and informed Apple and Apple did not comply. But really -- people can download this music off the web -- it's not like China doesn't turn a blind eye to copyright violations on the street (though they may have changed this).
It's a minor nuisance fee -- but I don't LIKE the approach of such a lawsuit. It would mean that if I put something on YouTube, that YouTube would be sued -- so that means THAT COMPANY gets more involved in the content, which ruins the experience.
Copyright violators should be responsible and THEN, only AFTER someone makes the abuse known should the CARRIER be liable -- not instead of or before.
lightknight wrote: »
That's the thing... When a "curated" App Store keeps curating into the store sub-par apps, what's the point of curating anymore? Sure, it keeps out porn, but you don't need hardcore (pun unintended) curation to merely prevent 18+ material, you can keep things relatively open, and just keep some sort of monitoring and filtering by Apple. This is different from "closed" and "curated".
I'm not saying Apple doesn't have the best App Store in the world, I'm just saying the pressure to approve apps no doubt has impacted overall quality.
On Android it can be chaotic but Google's Play Store system does help good apps shine on their own merit with a lot of customer feedback and interaction. PicsArt for example, coming to iOS soon from Android. Aqua Mail, a very, very sophisticated mail app... not that "pretty" but extremely feature-rich. And of course all the major apps are cross-platform anyway.
So the question is... Why me curate? (with apologies to Mad magazine)
9secondko wrote: »
fake_william_shatner wrote: »
I bet dollars to donuts that it's some cousin of the band in question. I could see liability if the copyright holder caught the infraction and informed Apple and Apple did not comply. But really -- people can download this music off the web -- it's not like China doesn't turn a blind eye to copyright violations on the street (though they may have changed this).It's a minor nuisance fee -- but I don't LIKE the approach of such a lawsuit. It would mean that if I put something on YouTube, that YouTube would be sued -- so that means THAT COMPANY gets more involved in the content, which ruins the experience.Copyright violators should be responsible and THEN, only AFTER someone makes the abuse known should the CARRIER be liable -- not instead of or before.
This is what people don't get about Asia and keep calling me racist... The ethics and "social norms" are nothing like that which has been carefully cultured in the West over a millenium, through some horrible times, but coming out with the best quality of life humans have ~ever~ achieved thus far*. When it comes to Asia, let alone the Middle East, you are not going to see the same thing, not at least until 2035-2050 when Asia "evolves" like the West did from the Dark Ages, Renaissance, WW1, WW2, Cold War, and so on.
*Don't give me the "oh, everything is chilled out and happy in Asia"... Spend some time in KL, Jakarta, Manila, Shanghai, Bangkok... Fun if you're an expat but grow up even middle-class in those cities and get back to me.
sr2012 wrote: »
It's simply a matter of what they're blocking.
First, Apple blocks unauthorized use of private APIs. That's very easy to automate and takes little manpower. By blocking private APIs, they help to ensure more robust apps.
Second, they block porn. While it's not easy to automate that, it's easy enough to verify if someone complains, so again, the manpower requirements are small.
Third, they scan for known malware.
Finally, they enforce companies following Apple policies. Again, not that time consuming to enforce - particularly after someone reports something.
Those things are designed to ensure safe, reliable apps that do not interfere with the rest of the system. It's all about user experience.
OTOH, policing content would be nearly impossible. I can't even imagine how large a team it would take to look at every app submitted and verify that nothing in that App was plagiarized. It would be a Herculean task - if it were possible at all. It would be impossible to guarantee that nothing in your App Store was ever plagiarized - just as it would be impossible for a book store owner to verify that none of the books on their shelves ever had any plagiarized material. It's just not possible.
What IS possible is for Apple to investigate complaints after they have been received and determine if something involving a very specific complaint is plagiarized - and they do that.
The questions in the China case are whether they do it fast enough or with too much work required on the part of the person whose work is being plagiarized and whether Chinese law allows someone to be held liable for an infringement that they didn't know about. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1217 |
__label__wiki | 0.545248 | 0.545248 | Chinese discount phone makers were supposed to rival Apple's iPhone globally. Instead, the...
Ever since iPhones officially went on sale in China back in 2009, pundits have claimed that local production of cheaper smartphones would not only block Apple's growth prospects in China but also invade smartphone markets globally. They were wrong, here's why.
China's phone threat was a crank call
Three years ago, there were 300 Chinese companies selling cheap knockoff smartphones. Pundits claimed that their "percentages of growth" in unit shipments and their ambitious global expansion plans were a dire threat to Apple, especially as they started bringing cheap products to the United States.
One of these, LeEco, made waves in 2016 after it bought up Yahoo's old offices in Silicon Valley and announced plans to sell everything from VR Headsets to electric vehicles, Android-based TVs and smart bicycles.
The Verge profiled LeEco's CEO as promoting its smartphones in China by attacking Apple with Nazi imagery that depicted iOS as "tyranny" and spoke of an "arrogant regime of iOS domination," despite the supposed supremacy of Android in terms of unit market share. Last year, LeEco ran into financial difficulties and its plans for U.S. expansion subsequently collapsed.
LeEco--along with many other aspiring Chinese firms--is now also facing problems back home in China. Cheap phone makers are being hit by the same problems that were only supposed to have an impact on Apple: a longer replacement cycle for smartphones, a "lack of innovation" driving new sales and intense competition from other cheap commodity makers.
At this year's Mobile World Congress being held next week in Barcelona, a variety of Chinese brands that formerly showed off phones won't even attend, including LeEco, Meizu, Gionee and Coolpad. Huawei and Vivo will attend, but won't be showing off new models.
"In 2017, the minor upgrades that Chinese smartphone companies made to their offerings were not enough to move consumers to splurge on new models, resulting in a general slowdown in the market," noted IDC analyst Tay Xiaohan.
Outside of Apple's premium growth: commodity death
China is the world's largest market for smartphones. Last year, however, the nation's consumption of new phones followed a global trend of retracting sales. Gartner just reported a nearly 6 percent drop in global smartphone shipments in the 2017 holiday quarter. In China, weak sales led to a nearly 5 percent annual shortfall in new sales over the last year, according to IDC.
While Apple has weathered the storm to report solid growth in China in the most recent quarter, many smaller Chinese makers have been unable to stay in business.
A report by the South China Morning Post cited IDC's Tay as stating that "more of the smaller smartphone players will be forced to exit the market in 2018 as we expect handset shipments in China to continue declining."
One hundred phone makers are already gone, and the majority of new sales in China are increasingly going to the top five brands: Huawei, Oppo/Vivo, Apple and Xiaomi. That leaves just 23 percent of China's sales for the remaining 200 firms to fight over, even as the size of that pot is also shrinking.
Apple's sales pace in China grew by nearly 20 percent
That contraction was supposed to hit Apple. Instead, the company's chief executive Tim Cook reported that over the December quarter, Apple's sales in Greater China increased 11 percent, despite the quarter being compared against a year-ago quarter that included an extra week of sales.
Cook noted, "on an average weekly revenue basis, we were up 19 percent [in Greater China]. We had an all-time record for revenue in mainland China and of course a key part of that was iPhone." "Everywhere I look I feel really good about how we're doing in China" - Tim Cook
Apple's iPhone sales in China are not directly competing against cheap brands targeting lower-income buyers; they're focused on affluent consumers in top-tier cities where Apple has been building new retail stores. That's why Cook could note that "Kantar reported that the top five selling smartphones in urban China were all iPhones."
Cook added, "we could not be more pleased with how we're doing," further noting that Apple's success in China wasn't just limited to phones. "We obviously grew share for iPhone in the quarter, but we also grew share in iPad and Mac during the quarter and wearables were extremely strong there in the quarter. And so you know everywhere I look I feel really good about how we're doing in China."
Cook had previously pointed out that 70 percent of all iPad sales in China were new to Apple, while 90 percent of Mac sales were to new buyers or PC switchers. So Apple isn't just selling iPhones; it's introducing millions of new buyers in China to a broad ecosystem of its iOS products, Macs and wearables. That has helped (and will help) to keep buyers loyal to Apple.
It doesn't have to be true to get published
Loyalty is turning Chinese knockoffs into training wheels for iPhone
Chinese brands have proven popular among younger buyers, with nearly half of all Oppo sales going to buyers between 16 and 25. However, a report by Counterpoint noted last year that only a quarter of Oppo and Vivo buyers chose to repurchase the same brand again, while more than half (53.4 percent) of all iPhone buyers chose to get another iPhone. Conversely, just 7.2 percent of Samsung buyers opted to get another Samsung phone.
Samsung has been the largest producer of smartphones globally. However, at the launch of iPhone X and other new models including iPhone 8, 8 Plus and a new low entry price for iPhone SE, Apple's total sales of iPhones exceeded Samsung's in the winter quarter, despite the fact that Apple's Average Selling Price for iPhones reached within five dollars of $800, while Samsung and other Android makers were offering handsets at an ASP of less than $250.
Incessant reports of iPhone X supposedly experiencing "weak demand" due to its price--as Tripp Mickle claimed in his thin, poorly researched article for the Wall Street Journal--were totally wrong. Apple's stand-out, premium-priced iPhone X was, in fact, the company's best selling model every week it was on sale during the quarter, as Apple confirmed in its quarterly earnings call.
Meanwhile, commodity sales of cheap Chinese brands (including BKK's formerly fast-growing Vivo and OnePlus; LeEco; Coolpad and scores of others) collectively tanked by 22 percent, with total shipments falling from 193.6M in the year-ago holiday quarter when iPhone 7 debuted, to just 150.2M in the most recent holiday quarter, according to Strategy Analytics.
magman1979 Posts: 1,135member
As always, a fantastic editorial, full of facts I think Wall Street is allergic to, and trolls loath!
Yea there's a lot of media who want to see Apple fail in so many ways. Here's more proof that cheap copies doesn't make a great deal and Apple will usually win out eventually. Poor build quality, lousy software and cheap components don't make it in the real world as an iPhone competitor.
racerhomie3 Posts: 1,140member
I have not completed the article, but I can already say DED , is dropping bombs on the WSJ’s hit pieces.
seanismorris Posts: 894member
This doesn’t really explain why...
Basically anyone can design a phone, and slap Android on it. Samsung does well because they have the best hardware.
Apple beats everyone because they have the superior ecosystem and integration. Google is trying break in on that by creating their own phone. They thought good software (Android) was enough, but supporting thousands of different phones (hardware) is a fools game. Updating them with new software is a monumental task. Without the latest software (OS) users can purchase the latest software apps, and that’s where Google gets their cut.
Theoretically Google has an edge on all other Android phones long term, but that’s not true in China...
In China, there will probably be 5 (or less) survivers, and they’ll be the ones with massive resources needed to build out their own ecosystems.
Sad but true, the little guys “discount phone makers” don’t stand a chance. The large manufacturers have scale advantages, customer tie-in with the ecosystem, and don’t necessarily need to make a profit by selling the phone (hardware).
spice-boy Posts: 837member
That's really not good for technology or society.
dick applebaum Posts: 12,520member
spice-boy said:
What's the alternative?
coolfactor Posts: 1,486member
Android loyalists can shout as loud as the want from the mountaintops. At the end of the day, it's just a good-enough operating system, and will never been as well-aligned as iOS. Just a shame so many Android developers bring junk apps to the platform.
misa Posts: 827member
I regularly read (or troll, depending on the context) some pro-open-source/pro-linux type of forums and the general tone, or tone-deafness tends to be that they are still holding their breath for the iPhone to fail.
The reality is that the iPhone has appeal to pretty much everyone except for the people who see it as a political anathema to promoting open source. Which is fine. Less nerds interested in the iphone, less jailbreaking and subsequent security issues will show up.
Really, the question is, why can't these other idiot smartphone makers actually appeal that nerd market? Because they're after Apple's market. That's the market they can't make any headway into because you can't use Apple's software on non-Apple phones, Android is a miserable experience, and the two other mobile phone OS's out there don't have any market share. Quite honestly I'm surprised the Chinese vendors didn't just make their own OS from scratch, but I guess that would require them to worth together on something that isn't rubbish. It just won't happen. It's bad enough that most Android phones appear to be designed without any UX designers.
coolfactor said:
Android loyalists can shout as loud as the want from the mountaintops. At the end of the day, it's just a good-enough operating system
A good enough operating system that runs on nearly 90% smartphones worldwide. I think you are underestimating how good android really is. I remember the day when apple never discounted iphones, but since last year discounts are getting bigger and bigger meaning competition is tuff which is good for us consumers.
If you read the article below apple have issues in the core markets, that's the real story:
http://uk.businessinsider.com/apple-ios-market-share-us-europe-japan-2018-1
Discounts are via the Carriers. so it comes out of their pockets as a cost of acquisition no different than BOGO and price discounts Samsung, et al, make. Apple does give a good credit for an iPhone traded in on a new iPhone, likely due to the value that every iPhone retains that Android OS phones do not. Focussing on marketshare is nice if you're ahead, but for Samsung, only getting a third of Apple's ASP, and very little benefit from Android OS's ecosystem, is a high price to pay for marketshare.
I would also note that iPhone users hold on to their current iPhones longer, about 6 months longer than the average Android OS device, which impacts unit sales, Still, those same customers have a very high loyalty to the iPhone, Apple, and Apple's ecosystem, and very few ever switch to Android OS. Unfortunately for Android OS device makers, the corollary is not true; there are more switchers from Android OS to iOS.
Bet you weren't aware that the user base of Apple's iPhone is over 50% of the total smartphone user base in the U.S.; now you are.
That's all of those iPhone users holding onto their iPhones longer. Sooner or later, they will be upgrading,
gregg thurman Posts: 455member
Ehhh, no. The cost to produce the average iPhone (even with Apple’s extreme buying power) is more (~$350) than the average selling price (ASP) ($250) of an Android handset. But hardware isn’t the key to iPhone success, it is the means that make possible iOS functionality. Design of the OS (ease of use, stability and intuitiveness) is a bigger reason for iPhone’s pricing power. It’s one thing to put a nice looking skin on Android, but that’s just putting lipstick on a pig.
Android apologists all respond with the same trite answers, Android has greater market share (it does in the sub $400 space where there are no profits), Android hardware specs are better (doesn’t make the user experience better), etc. My response is that Android users, by and large, are feature phone buyers that appreciate larger screens. Period. The vast majority of Android users have no use for “smartphone” functionality, hence the very low numbers (compared to iOS users) of app or online purchasing. There’s nothing wrong with glorified feature phones, but don’t confuse them with a true smartphone that people are willing to pay twice as much for.
If Androids could be upgraded without having to buy new it’s unit sales numbers would plummet. The proof in that is that Android installed base is about 2.7 billion units, compared to 1.3 billion iOS units. Remove churn caused by the inability to upgrade an Android handset, and instead of 17% iOS quarterly market share, iOS would be about 42%.
It's funny how Android trolls can be spotted usually by their first sentence...
Android is GARBAGE, no and's, if's, or but's about it. There are MOUNTAINS of data to this effect, so do yourself a favour and just stop now, before you make a bigger fool of yourself.
magman1979 said:
True... Android is garbage, yet its "success" speaks loudly of what people are willing to accept. The truth that is loudest about the sham that is Android is the fandroid silence when the next article of government and police officials loudly complaining about the difficulty of cracking an encrypted iPhone. I have yet to read, nor find any article, discussion, video... anything... that any official has said about the difficulty of Android security.
Don't know the Chinese or Asian? They can sell a kidney to land a latest/most expensive phone. To them, phone is a social status, a bling bling thing. Also, USA products are always premium in Asian eyes. This is the real damn quote from a young Vietnamese guy in Vietnam:
"For me, the Galaxy 7 got me more uses than iPhone 7. The problem is: no girl even looks at me with that phone on my hand. So, I'm buying an iPhone". This is a truth story.
tzeshan Posts: 1,980member
The Chinese smartphone makers try to copy every new feature of iPhone in order to justify their "flagship" smartphones are competitive to iPhone. Unfortunately they are falling behind in the last two years. The iPhone 7 Plus introduced dual rear camera which is popular. One the selling points of Chinese smartphone is always they shoot better picture than iPhone. But after more than one year the Android world is still not able to produce a dual camera as good as the iPhone. The examples are Samsung S8 Edge and Google Pixel 2 Plus. Then last year Apple introduced highly accurate FaceID in iPhone X. Several component makers are trying to create a FaceID compatible kit. It seems the MWC no smartphone has FaceID compatible smartphone to show off. So it seems an Android FaceID is still far off. So without two very important new features in iPhone, the Chinese smartphone makers stopped being able to increase their sales every in the home country.
macky the macky Posts: 4,775member
Photo of actual android phones that are considered to be in use...
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avon b7 Posts: 3,914member
tzeshan said:
The iPhone 7 Plus wasn't the first dual camera phone.
It was the only Apple phone that had dual cameras for a year, though. For a while, one of the big features of that phone (Portrait Mode) was in beta.
A portrait mode equivalent already existed on the phone that had dual cameras before the iPhone 7 Plus.
The manufacturer had a whole family of dual camera phones out before Apple shipped its second dual camera model. I'm not sure what you are referring to by 'better' camera.
How do these photos look to you?
https://petapixel.com/2016/05/31/review-huawei-p9-phone-camera/
They are from a dual camera phone and months before the first Apple dual camera phone even existed.
'Android FaceID' is not 'far off'. It already exists and was even revealed just weeks after Apple revealed FaceID. The roadmap had it scheduled for Q118 and AFAIK, that is still the plan although the one I'm thinking about won't appear at MWC itself but the following month (and have three cameras FWIW). That doesn't rule out someone else announcing such a feature at MWC though. I can think of two candidates.
avon b7 said:
You are fooled by the media too. Huawei p9 dual camera is very different from the iPhone 7 Plus. And watch out for claims of FaceID in the Android world. Face recognition has been bragged by Chinese media months before iPhone X in use in train stations. But is this face recognition as good as iPhone X FaceID? I doubt it.
I think one of Google Android strategy is to use sea of Android smartphones to bury iPhone. To make it harder for Apple to claim innovation the new features will appear in this and that Android smartphones. Even though they don't sell because of poor quality.
brakken Posts: 681member
Once again, just one of the paragraph headings in Dilger's piece contains more information than most AI articles, and unlike those articles, is also witty! Great work, Daniel! The most interesting thing about Apple over its amazing rise through the past 18 years is the way a growing number of people, from all walks of life, are voting with their money saying, 'We don't want pieces of shit - we want quality!' No one else in China, Europe or TUSA have managed to produce anything as good as Apple. I imagine the future of Apple as providing the only viable source of technology, which is a HUGE improvement over the 90's and 00's where it was Microsoft. I really hope Apple can refine its software to the point where an update doesn't have random issues, and where there are no more bugs. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1219 |
__label__cc | 0.702715 | 0.297285 | User satisfaction, refurbished device prevalence may hurt future iPhone sales
Many users of high-end smartphones are keeping older models and opting for refurbished phones over expensive new ones, which has the potential to draw down Apple and Samsung's hardware sales volumes in the future, if trends continue.
According to a Wall Street Journal analysis published Wednesday, more consumers are buying refurbished versions of previous years' models or keeping old phones for longer, rather than opting for more expensive new models. As a result, premium smartphones such as the iPhone and Samsung Galaxy S are now likely to have three or four owners over the course of their life.
While refurbished smartphones have long been popular in emerging markets, they're gaining resonance in North America. Auction website B-Stock Solutions told the Wall Street Journal that the U.S. share of its smartphone auctions has grown to 93 percent, from around 50 percent five years ago.
The piece also cites data suggesting that nearly 10 percent of smartphones sold worldwide are now refurbished. If accurate, used smartphone sales are the fastest-growing segment of the industry.
Other factors weighing in on purchasers' decision include the near-extinction of two-year carrier subsidized contracts, as well as general improvements in the phones themselves. According to the report, the average upgrade cycle has increased by eight months since 2013, to 31 months, and is expected to reach 33 months next year, potentially impacting any "super cycle" for the iPhone that has been predicted since early 2017.
Stock analysts predicted such a super cycle of massive sales volume throughout last year, based on a confluence of factors including the prevalence of the aging iPhone 6 -- although some of them rethought or redefined those predictions after Apple announced its earnings on Feb. 1.
Counterpoint's Neil Shah wrote in a Feb. 19 note that an iPhone "revenue super cycle" remains possible in 2018, thanks to the company's strong market share, the product's continued stickiness and the willingness of some consumers to continue to pay a premium for new iPhones.
Even though Apple and Samsung may not benefit directly from the sale of refurbished or used phones, they are still a source of considerable revenue through app downloads, streaming subscriptions and other attached revenue streams. As part of that, Apple's services revenue, which includes Apple Music, and the App Stores have seen an increase to $11.5 billion in the fourth quarter.
Bebe Posts: 120member
AppleInsider said:
Duh! There goes another Wall Street's prediction.
Yeah, and the WSJ also says the shortage of iPhone replacement batteries indicates more people are opting to replace the battery than buy a new iPhone. All harbingers of ultimate doom for Apple I suppose. But AAPL is near its record high today so there’s that. Meanwhile the new FED chairman says consumer confidence is at an all time high, wages are rising, and spending is up. I’m just say’in.
airnerd Posts: 664member
this only makes sense. As the phones become more reliable and the advances between iterations gets less, there is less reason to get a new one. Nothing wrong with the old one. Up until now there were huge changes for almost every non "S" version of the iPhone. From better antennas to better screen, better camera, better security via touch ID, better durability due to fewer moving parts, etc. Screen resolution can't get THAT much better, durability is high, 5G is around the corner but other than that the networking capabilities aren't leaps and bounds better. There just hasn't been that next round of "wow, I can't do day to day tasks without that". AR is cool but in its infancy. FaceID is cool, but a gimmick at this point. I'm not knocking the X, it's cool but there is no incentive to move up. That's why I'm still on my 6, it is still too good of a phone to toss.
Maybe Apple should embrace the tinfoil hat-wearers and put in some planned obsolescence
zroger73 Posts: 710member
I've been buying refurbished iPads for myself and others for several years now and I'm still using a refurbished iPhone 6S Plus with no plans to upgrade to the 7, 8, or X at this time. It's not because I can't afford them or don't love Apple - it's about price vs. benefit.
I'll wait for WSJ to troll AAPL so I can jump back in. I made over $10k in the last 2 peaks and dips with AAPL in a few months: set buy at $160 and sell at $180.
There's two sides to this story. Many want the latest and greatest no matter what. Replacing a battery isn't going to stop people from buying a new phone. In fact it might promote more trade-ins for the new phones coming out.
Agree. And all these US carriers with NEXT like plans that allow easy upgrades will help boost new sales as well.
firelock Posts: 155member
I hung onto my iPhone 6 until just a few weeks ago when I finally bought an X. Wonderful phone. Certainly the best that Apple has produced. However, I paid cash and won’t be upgrading again for several more years I suspect. Apple builds these devices to last so why would I want to upgrade it every year? The last time I updated an Apple device after just one year was when I upgraded to the iPad Pro 10.5 from my less than 1-year-old iPad Pro 9.7. I use my iPad much more than my phone and I felt justified for that reason.
The essential point is that these people are part of the ever increasing user base of Apple products and services, whether they make timely upgrades or not. Only a very small percentage ever leave Apple's ecosystem, and that is always dwarfed by Android OS, and Windows OS, users entering Apple's ecosystem.
brucemc Posts: 1,528member
airnerd said:
I agree with most of your post, but the FaceID as gimmick comment seems odd. From what I have read, and in speaking to X owners, it works quite well, and they find it better than TouchID overall. It does exactly what it is supposed to do, well, and reliably. Not sure how that makes it a gimmick.
macgui Posts: 1,303member
Many users of high-end smartphones are keeping older models and opting for refurbished phones over expensive new ones. . .
I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you.
I have never upgraded every year - in fact it has been every 3 years - even though I am an Apple enthusiast. I just couldn't justify it to myself. When I do upgrade though, you get a lot of enjoyment out of the cumulative features over those years.
As for the story, I am sure Apple would sooner have high user satisfaction with the potential downside of slowing sales (or having to work harder to get that sale), rather than the alternative.
bobolicious Posts: 567member
Are the environmental considerations also (reducing mining, waste, etc.) worth consideration? How many refurb are buyers are those that would or could never buy the new product ? Does Apple excel at offering confidence in refurbished products, even offering Applecare and extended warranty 'as-new'...?
DAalseth Posts: 650member
My brother just got a new phone for his wife. They looked at the options and ended up replacing her iPhone 4S with a 7. Still a huge bump, but not newest.
My SE and my wife's 6 are going strong. Unless one gets smashed or otherwise won't do what ewe need, no reason to upgrade.
larz2112 Posts: 286member
According to a Wall Street Journal analysis published Wednesday, more consumers are buying refurbished versions of previous years' models or keeping old phones for longer, rather than opting for more expensive new models.
Yes, I'm one of those people. I currently have an iPhone 5s and will keep it as long as possible. When I replace it, I plan to buy an iPhone 6s or 7. The thrill of having the latest, greatest smart phone has worn thin with me, especially now that they are in the $800-1,000 neighborhood. I was a proud early adopter when I bought the original iPhone and even 3s, but now I would feel more like a sucker if I were to pay $800-1,000 every year or two for a new phone.
paxman Posts: 4,603member
This happened with Macs, too. As the devices become more powerful the need to upgrade decreases. My previous laptop was an aluminum MacBook. I maxed out the RAM and replaced the DVD drive and HD with SSD's over the years and only replaced it when it got showered in coffee and stopped working. Even doing basic Photoshop work was fine. I am currently on an iPhone 6s and even if I would love a better model it works just fine (battery notwithstanding). I love my hardware but I also love the idea of buying less. Of anything.
Kuyangkoh Posts: 332member
I made so much money in my Apple stocks, ive been upgrading every time new iphone, ipad, apple watch, apple TV comes out...got, airpods, homepod and really satisfied.
i handed down my older units to my wife and kids....
Count me out as refurbished buyer :-)))
hammeroftruth Posts: 682member
lkrupp said:
Most people who are replacing their batteries are hoping for a faster iPhone with a current OS. Too bad it won't be as fast as the original OS the iPhone came with. At some point many of those people are going to have to make a decision whether to continue using the device, or replace it. I think a good portion of them might buy a new or refurbished device. That would be good for Apple unless they decide that this was the last straw and go Android.
We will see later this year how it pans out.
lmasanti Posts: 59member
Wall Street's analysts! Wall Street's analysts! They just wake up in the morning and ‘saw the light!’ Of course this would happen… But 3-5 years ago, Apple saw that and began the development of the new iPhone X platform.
toddzrx Posts: 198member
My wife and I have a good system going: We buy her a new iPhone every 2 years and I get her old one. Right now, she's on a new 8 while I'm on her old 6S. We get 4 years use out of each phone and I since I'm not a heavy user I barely notice the decrease in performance unless the battery starts to go south. Not hard to see why the average upgrade cycle is increasing. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1220 |
__label__wiki | 0.693739 | 0.693739 | Apple loses appeal of $439 million verdict in favor of VirnetX
in General Discussion edited January 19
On Tuesday the federal U.S. Court of Appeals denied Apple's appeal of a 2016 jury verdict in favor of VirnetX, which initially granted the patent licensing firm $302.4 million in damages.
The decision comes despite VirnetX's patent claims being ruled invalid by an administrative court, Reuters noted. The latter outcome is itself being appealed.
In April 2018 Apple was found to have infringed on four VirnetX patents for secure communications, including its VPN-on-Demand technology and consumer FaceTime and iMessage software and services. The jury awarded VirnetX $502.6 million, adding to an earlier win in a similar case that brought the amount owed by Apple to nearly $1 billion.
In August, Apple was denied a motion for a new trial in a long-running patent fight, leaving Apple the option to appeal the verdict.
The contents of a final judgement were unsealed in September, revealing that VirnetX was granted only half the "sunset royalty" it demanded, and was refused an embargo on sales and imports at the same time. Both sides were denied motions, but ultimately Apple escaped far harsher financial penalties.
The legal affair was first started in 2010 by VirnetX claiming multiple instances of patent infringement in Apple's products. In 2012, a Texas court ordered Apple to pay $368 million for infringing one patent, but that judgement was vacated almost two years later.
That case was then rolled in with another patent suit in a 2016 damages retrial, which landed Apple a $625 million penalty, later tossed over claims the trial was unfair due to jury confusion. Two retrials later VirnetX was awarded $302.4 million, enhanced to $439 million after Apple was found by the court to have willfully infringed the patents.
commentsf Posts: 35member
I’m an apple fan as much as the next one, but hey if indeed apple infridge someone’s patent, even frivolous ones - it gotta pay.
ksec Posts: 1,562member
commentsf said:
You will need to look up VirnetX.
Disagree. No one should pay up for frivolous patents. That's the whole problem.
Half a $B?? Really?
Rules are rules, don't do the crime if you can't pay the fine!
80s_Apple_Guy Posts: 184member
How can Apple be forced to pay for an invalid patent?
80s_Apple_Guy said:
Samsung had to pay Apple for a patent that was eventually declared invalid IIRC. The law is not what you might expect. If a company is found guilty of infringement and later on, a month, a year, 10 years later, that patent is ruled invalid the "infringing" company doesn't get their money back.
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gatorguy said:
Not automatically, but I imagine they could sue for it back, no? That would certainly jibe with other lawyer-friendly aspect of the American justice system. Keeping lawyers in business is what it's ultimately all about.
tjwolf said:
Nope, can't even (successfully) sue to get it back.
edited January 15
urashid Posts: 92member
I strongly believe that something need to be done to rationalize software patents.
But until that happens, current regulations have to be followed.
They’re not crimes, these are cases where non technical people are persuaded by professional persuaders.
It’s exactly why software shouldn’t be patentable and should instead rely on copyright protection to prevent theft. Ideas are separate from implementation. Parenting “a flying car” (idea) isn’t legit, but patenting exactly how *your* car flies (design of the anti-grav motor) is. Should be the same with software...the idea is easy and vague, but the coded implementation is the hard part, and, as written speech, is already protected by copyright.
We don’t need software patents when copyright already protects code. If it’s not the same code, it’s not the same implementation. If it’s not the same implementation it doesn’t merit patent protection.
normm Posts: 570member
There really isn't much difference between hardware and software patents, particularly today when so much hardware is really firmware. In practice, all patent claims are a fingerprint of an idea. For example, patenting a steering wheel, if the idea were new, might involve a broadest claim: "a means of locomotion including a turnable object, wherein the direction of travel is coupled to the orientation of the object." If the broadest claim has too much detail, it doesn't cover anything, since you only have to change some small detail to avoid the patent. There is no difference between software and hardware patents in this respect.
In a fast moving field like technology, I think it might make sense to have a couple of years of protection for new ideas--to reward innovation--plus protection from too close or deceptive copying.
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My family owns 9 iPhones but sadly Apple is not paying for the patents it is using in its hardware. Their profits per phone are in excess of $500 and they will not pay even 5% of these profits to the hundreds of patents they use. The courts are finally making Apple pay the pide piper. You cannot FaceTime without using VirnetX patents and Apple tried a $51 million work around for twenty months a ways back and received 500,000 complaints. So Apple gave up and resumed stealing VirnetX patents. The Appellate court ruled quickly (in one week - today) that Apples stealing of VirnetX patents during IMessaging is not acceptable. The next VirnetX Appellate decision will be concerning FaceTime. Apple has lost 4 jury trials showing up to court with 35 lawyers. This piracy that Jobs was proud must stop and the tide is now turning. Qualcomm also is fed up with the thievery per this Link:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.cnbc.com/amp/2018/12/10/china-court-grants-qualcomm-injunction-against-apple.html
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Neo-Nazis The Alt-Right seem to be on the ascendency in North America, so it’s time to get to know them.
With its angry, anti-liberal, race-obsessed, occasionally apocalyptic tone, the Rebel resembles Breitbart, the conservative American website once run by Stephen Bannon, who is now Donald Trump’s chief strategist (a typical headline: “Idaho Dems Exec Director: DNC Should Train People ‘How to Shut Their Mouths If They’re White’”). That’s no coincidence: [Erza] Levant said during the cruise that Breitbart was a major inspiration for the Rebel. Which is exactly why I spent a week of my life rubbing elbows with Levant’s most dedicated followers. Bannon’s acolytes, too, once were mocked and ridiculed as marginal loons—until they got their man into the White House. Could Levant manage the same trick here in Canada?
It might also serve as a wake-up call for those who say it can’t happen up here. What would they say to this?
How does an ordinary Canadian become a Rebel? During my week at sea, I began to classify Rebels according to the issues that made them angriest—the ones that had originally brought them into Levant’s orbit. Fear of Islam and a distrust of mainstream climate-change science were the most prevalent. Rebels might start out as temperate conservatives, centrists, or even leftists (Faith Goldy said that her conservatism had emerged from the ashes of a youthful hard-left zeal). But at some point, a gateway issue draws them in. […]
Finding scant support for his views in the mainstream media, the nascent Rebel turns to Google, where his search for truth might lead to one of the many clickbait videos posted on Levant’s web site. (The Rebel has racked up more than six million YouTube views per month since its launch in early 2015. No one writes a headline like Levant.) Driven by a convert’s zeal, the newly minted Rebel becomes not only a steady consumer of Rebel content but also a publisher—spamming his friends with the stuff on Twitter and Facebook.
One Rebel I met, a middle-aged oil-patch worker from northern Alberta, described his daily media consumption as follows: First he goes to Breitbart for news, then the Rebel for “analysis,” then his local Sun newspaper “for entertainment.” Time permitting, he’ll move on to the Globe and Mail or the Toronto Star or the CBC—but only if he isn’t already “angry enough.” (That last bit was said partly in jest, but the rest was in earnest.) I met members of two families for whom Rebel consumption is a daily bonding ritual: One retired couple keeps the laptop open on the breakfast table every morning, with Rebel videos turned up loud. One mother watches Rebel videos every night with her teenaged daughters.
That’s textbook radicalization, in this case disguised as a luxury cruise. It makes for a helluva story.
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Sleeping Giants
Neuvel, Sylvain
A page-turning debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery--and a fight to control a gargantuan power.
A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she falls through the earth. She wakes up at the bottom of a square hole, its walls glowing with intricate carvings. But the firemen who come to save her peer down upon something even stranger: a little girl in the palm of a giant metal hand.
Seventeen years later, the mystery of the bizarre artifact remains unsolved--its origins, architects, and purpose unknown. Its carbon dating defies belief; military reports are redacted; theories are floated, then rejected.
But some can never stop searching for answers.
Rose Franklin is now a highly trained physicist leading a top secret team to crack the hand's code. And along with her colleagues, she is being interviewed by a nameless interrogator whose power and purview are as enigmatic as the provenance of the relic. What's clear is that Rose and her compatriots are on the edge of unraveling history's most perplexing discovery--and figuring out what it portends for humanity. But once the pieces of the puzzle are in place, will the result prove to be an instrument of lasting peace or a weapon of mass destruction?
Praise for Sleeping Giants
"As high-concept as it is, Sleeping Giants is a thriller through and through. . . . One of the most promising series kickoffs in recent memory, [and] a smart demonstration of how science fiction can honor its traditions and reverse-engineer them at the same time." --NPR
"Neuvel weaves a complex tapestry with ancient machinery buried in the Earth, shadow governments, and geopolitical conflicts. But the most surprising thing about the book may just be how compelling the central characters are in the midst of these larger-than-life concepts. . . . I can't stop thinking about it." -- Chicago Review of Books
"A remarkable debut . . . Reminiscent of Max Brooks's World War Z , the story's format effectively builds suspense." -- Library Journal (debut of the month)
"This stellar debut novel . . . masterfully blends together elements of sci-fi, political thriller and apocalyptic fiction. . . . A page-turner of the highest order." --Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
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Publisher: New York : Del Rey, [2016]
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SCL_Justin Aug 18, 2017
I wanted to like Sleeping Giants (by Sylvain Neuvel). It’s about discovering parts of a giant robot that have been buried on earth for 3000 years and putting them together to see what happens. It’s told in the form of a series of reports, mostly interviews with the principals.
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RescueDog Feb 11, 2019
This is the type of sci-fi that I enjoy. It could absolutely happen. For me, the premise set up in the first few pages was completely unique. A girl falls in a hole & is found resting in a giant cupped hand. Fascinating.
I enjoyed the style of the story unfolding in a series of interviews with an unknown entity. This worked well for me until the story got near the climax. It felt strained for that small percentage of the novel.
Also by the end, I was frustrated not knowing who the all powerful interviewer is. Just seemed very convenient for him to be able to get done everything that needed doing. Almost mythologically convenient.
671books Sep 04, 2018
I really enjoyed this book. The science was, I thought, well thought out. The plot gripping. The characters enjoyable. And the writing style (written in the form of official reports) for chapters interesting. A good read. No complaints.
JCLDylanR Aug 16, 2018
"Sleeping Giants" is just your average love story; you know, the timeless tale of love between pilots.. pilots of a giant robot from outer space, of course!!
Sci-fi awesomeness pieced together from interviews, reports, & other accounts. Sort of the literary version of a found footage film. I just finished "Sleeping Giants" two days ago, & am already halfway through book two ("Waking Gods") of the trilogy. While there are more than a few "because.. plot!'-twists in the series to this point, it's still made for some VERY fun reading!
ArapahoeLaura Jun 26, 2018
Told in log files behind an exploratory expedition of mysterious body parts found all over the world. Definitely check out the audio version, it's fantastic!
RobertELPL Jun 19, 2018
The first in a trilogy (all three are out now), "Sleeping Giants" is written in a series of interviews, news reports/articles and briefings. Similar to Daniel Wilson's "Robopocalypse." I think this style made for a quicker read and I enjoyed the concept of a giant robot being discovered by the human race and seeing them figure out why and what to do with it. I'm looking forward to finishing the series.
essvee Apr 14, 2018
Decent concept, flawed execution. The characters aren't terribly distinct. What's worse, some of the sections are supposed to be official reports, sometimes military reports, but they're still written in fairly casual language. Lack of verisimilitude. I'm not interested enough to find out how it ends, abandoned at ~50%.
LPL_EliH Mar 02, 2018
Giant robots are hard to turn down, and Neuvel does just enough to put his own spin on them. "Page turner" doesn't even begin to do Sleeping Giants justice, as the blur of exposition and action zips by in the interview/secret document format of the narrative. The first book sets up the rest of the series well, with promises of an epic showdown to come; it's also a decent standalone read, with a good balance of answers and mystery at the end.
KatG1983 Dec 22, 2017
I enjoyed the unique format of the book - the majority of the narrative is told in interviews and journals, and was very taken by the central mystery. It definitely reads like it's about to be made into a movie (but hopefully not by Michael Bay as the commenter below me stated lol).
dupree905 Sep 26, 2017
mixed feelings. Probably would make a better Michael Bay film than a book. The amount of boring exposition is countless.
profdavis Sep 06, 2017
A group of scientists and military types race to uncover the pieces of a giant alien robot buried on Earth thousands of years in the past. The novel is reminiscent of The Martian in the sense that it is almost entirely dialogue driven, and the plot is propelled by various successes and setbacks in the project. The story is told in the form of short interviews between the main characters and a mysterious shadowy figure who is the mastermind behind the project.
If you enjoyed The Martian you will likely enjoy this as well. It is science fiction as thriller, not exactly literary.
KaseyNB Apr 13, 2017
“Family has a way of bringing out the worst in people. Every people.”
“It would make things easier for both of us, especially for you, if we could forgo the part of this conversation where you take me for a complete idiot...”
SPL_Robyn May 28, 2016
When one thinks of the genre science fiction, one’s mind may jump towards space, the future, flying cars or galaxies far, far away. Sleeping Giants is definitely science fiction, yet it contains few of these traditional sci-fi elements, and those it does contain are almost tangential to the story. There may be humanoid aliens, but we don’t meet them. There may be a weapon of mass destruction, but it may not have been intended for such a purpose. There may be government and military conspiracies to hide the truth, but the truth is outed… and there definitely is a shadowy person pulling strings in many directions.
Resemblance to The X-Files in the above description is purely intentional. What we have here is a sci-fi political thriller, set in the here and now but with ties to ancient history, told in interviews, excerpts, episodes and military reports – a style that keeps the pace clipping along, allowing periods of time to pass (and certain US elections to be held) without being bogged down.
A young girl falls down a large hole and when found appears to be sitting in the palm of an enormous had, glowing with aquamarine veins. She grows up to be a physicist and is recruited with a team of pilots, linguists and other personnel to unravel the secrets of the hand, and other body parts discovered around the globe. The questions she and her team unearth are the big ones – are we alone in the universe? Who can humanity really trust with the secrets of the universe? When does the quest for scientific progress outweigh the need for human care?
It is hard to believe that this is a debut novel, and Neuvel leaves a truly tantalizing thread at the end that will leave readers drooling for a sequel. Then again, speculation is fascinating too, in case a sequel never comes. ~RG
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Three Wheels United Financial Support for E-rickshaw drivers
The Green Asset Financing system developed by TWU has already financed more than 2000 vehicles. We provide the lowest income category with a way to drive electric tuk-tuks.
Three Wheels United offers rickshaw drivers the opportunity to exchange their polluting tuk-tuk for an electric one. To date, TWU has financed more than 2,000 vehicles at an interest rate of less than 1%. The start-up is ready to grow this number drastically in the coming years.
Three Wheels United (TWU) was set up in 2014 by the Dutch social venture builder Enviu. CPI selected TWU from three thousand companies because the start-up makes the transition to electric driving possible for the low-income group. TWU has been named by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) as one of the most innovative and promising financial instruments against climate change worldwide.
Reducing emissions, increasing income
India has roughly 6 million tuk-tuks driving through the streets that annually causes 23 million tons of CO2 emissions. The 12 million tuk-tuk drivers earn €7 per day on average and often do not have the means to purchase a less polluting vehicle. This is what motivated TWU to develop a smart financing service that meets the needs and capabilities of drivers. With our help, tuk-tuk drivers can increase their yearly income with 70%, and – through their entire lifecycle – save 65 tons of CO2 with their electric tuk-tuk.
Green Asset Financing
Our Green Asset Financing system covers full vehicle costs, does not require a guarantor, and the interest rate is extremely low. Our service is supported by modern technologies that enable, among other things, the management of the loans. TWU believes that asset ownership is a vital key to breaking poverty. In addition to that, the tuk-tuk drivers also receive an app, which can help them to attract more customers, make better use of the metro stations and interesting data is collected to optimize transport within the city.
Scaling-up
The recognition of CPI, which includes major players such as Rockefeller and the World Bank, opens doors to financiers for Three Wheels United to offer and scale-up its sustainable innovation across India. Cedrick Tandong, CEO of TWU: "By further developing and scaling up the product, we can work towards 20 to 25% more use of public transport in the major cities of India. That will significantly reduce the number of cars on the road. Anyone who has ever set foot on Indian soil knows that this is going to make a huge difference".
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Every year, legal representatives from seven of the biggest movie studios in the country gather in Sherman Oaks, California to talk about all things anti-piracy. Which isn't surprising; it's their livelihood, after all. But what does leaves a sour taste in your mouth is their plan to spread the DMCA-dispensing gospel: With shadowy back room dealings and skewed facts.
According to an email in the leaked inbox of Sony Pictures General Counsel Leah Weil, the meeting is facilitated by the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) as a way for the top lawyers at Sony, Time Warner, Viacom, Paramount, Disney, NBC Universal, and Fox to put their heads together and talk global strategy.
And what exactly did the biggest movie minds in the country come up with? As detailed by the MPAA's meeting recap from this past September, some of the highlights include:
Scale up number of notices but keep spending on education to a minimum.
Translation: Send out as many takedown notices as humanly possible, but make sure the people receiving them don't necessarily know what any of it means. They'll be too scared to question it.
Be cautious about communications on site-blocking—continue building a record of success where possible, but avoid over-communicating and drawing negative attention.
Translation: Block as many sites as you can without anyone ever finding out.
MPAA will continue to refrain from commenting, when asked, about the issue of the use of VPNs and other technologies to gain online access to content consumers are otherwise restricted from accessing in their geography .
Translation: If we pretend VPNs don't exist maybe no one will find out about them.
Keep a low profile (i.e., do not actively seek press coverage, etc.) to avoid making the debate about "the content community" or copyright protection.
Translation: Seriously. Don't let anyone know what you're doing.
On network neutrality: Most member companies supported, in principle, a narrow, low-profile MPAA filing focused on opposition to the regulation of content.
Translation: We are going to file an opposition to net neutrality and just kind of hope no one ever finds out. Likely similar to the one filed back in 2007.
And, perhaps sleaziest of all:
Where site-blocking is actively under consideration, make available research (1) that site-blocking works and (2) that it does not break the Internet (lack of "side effects"). [Do this] in closed-door meetings with policymakers and stakeholders, [but] not necessarily publicized to a wider audience.
Translation: In secret, private meetings with government officials where absolutely no one can call you out on your bullshit, show them research that conveniently makes every point in your case. No one can know.
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The Harvard heavyweight four has won by a wide margin in each of its two races.
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HENLEY-ON-THAMES, England—Harvard and Radcliffe will send five crews to the third day of the Henley Royal Regatta after three boats won for the second straight day and the Radcliffe heavyweight varsity eight opened with a victory Thursday on the Thames River.
With a strong headwind and warm temperatures creating challenging conditions, the Black and White moved on to the quarterfinals of the Remenham Challenge Cup, while the Crimson heavyweight four reached the semifinals of the Prince Albert Challenge Cup and two Harvard crews made the Temple Challenge Cup quarterfinals. Sophomore Andrew Campbell, racing for the Cambridge Boat Club, started off with a win in the Diamond Challenge Sculls.
"We're excited to keep racing," said Radcliffe head coach Liz O'Leary. "It's always good to get past the first day, and the great thing is that all the Harvard and Radcliffe boats raced really well and have won all their races so far."
Radcliffe started out with a familiar opponent, the Thames Rowing Club and Henley Rowing Club entry that the Black and White had defeated in the Henley Women's Regatta. Radcliffe led throughout and won by 2.5 lengths in a time of 8:00. The victory set up a matchup with Hollandia Roeiclub, a crew of members of the Dutch under-23 team.
The Harvard lightweight varsity eight moved on with a three-length win against Southampton University. The crews were even for the first minute or so before the Crimson asserted itself over the middle of the course and went on to win in 7:23. Harvard will race Durham University in Friday's quarterfinal round.
"Durham has good size and a lot of skill, so we're expecting a hard race, a full-course effort," said Charley Butt, the Friends of Harvard Lightweight Rowing Coach for Lightweight Crew.
The Crimson freshman eight also advanced in the Temple Cup event, defeating Newcastle University by 1.5 lengths and finishing in 7:26. The Crimson trailed at the first split, the Barrier, but took the lead by the Fawley split and will face Washington, the U.S. freshman national champion, in Friday's quarters.
In the Prince Albert Cup, Harvard moved within two races of successfully defending its title. The Crimson won easily for the second straight day, this time against the University of Birmingham. Harvard's time of 8:01 was the second-fastest of the four winners in Thursday's racing. The Crimson has a day off from racing before taking on University of London A.
"The freshmen did a good job today of staying composed and sticking to their race plan when their opponent went out really hard," said heavyweight associate head coach Bill Manning. "The four had another strong race to move on to the final four."
In addition to the Remenham, Temple and Diamond events that continue Friday, the Ladies' Challenge Plate gets underway with Harvard meeting the combined entry from Sport Imperial Boat Club and Leander Club.
Chris Kingston '11, who coxed last year's Harvard varsity, steered Star Club to a second straight victory in the Britannia Challenge Cup Thursday. Steffen Buschbacher '00 and Justin Webb '04 raced in the Christ Church, Oxford and 1829 Boat Club entry in the Visitors' Challenge Cup, falling to Taurus Boat Club.
Several former Harvard oarsmen are also at Henley, coaching U.S. high school crews. Paul Hamm '07 is coaching Gonzaga College High School, Jeff Toto '03 is leading Boston College High, Chris Richards '85 is coaching the Belmont Hill School squad, and former Crimson lightweights Tyler Caldwell '11 and Albert Leger '84 are coaching Phillips Exeter Academy. | cc/2019-30/en_middle_0029.json.gz/line1250 |
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By Matthew Billy | Jun 25, 2019
Despite being only eight miles from Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Largo resort, Riviera Beach is the poorest city in Palm Beach County, Florida. Crime is high, incomes are comparatively low, and most buildings could use a fresh coat of paint.
But that doesn’t mean Riviera Beach doesn’t have its charm. Many families have lived there for generations. In the 19th century, immigrants from the Bahamas — called Conchs — recognized the potential of Riviera Beach’s pristine waterfront and settled in the area. They formed a small fishing village and used their knowledge of boat building to construct beautiful one-story houses designed to allow air to circulate during the hot summers. These houses are eponymously known as Conch houses — one of Florida’s few examples of vernacular architecture.
By the 1990s, the waterfront neighborhood had fallen into decay. Most outsiders considered Riviera Beach a dangerous place to live, but, to the residents, Riviera Beach was home. The city had the bones of a beautiful waterfront historic district and just needed some tender loving care to reach its potential. A few residents formed a local chapter of a non-profit group called Main Street America that began working alongside local small businesses to improve the downtown. Slowly, they made progress, but when they asked the city for permits to make large improvements, permits were not forthcoming. Riviera Beach had other plans.
Seriously, “blighted” is a real designation
In the early 2000s, the city designated the entire waterfront as “blighted” and announced plans to use eminent domain to seize all the houses — including the remaining Conch houses — and hand them over to private developers. In turn, the developers intended to build a marina for wealthy people’s yachts and luxury condominiums. Then-Mayor Michael Brown justified the eminent domain seizure as a way to “improve the city’s tax base.”
Not without a fight
But 5,500 people lived in those homes, and they would not hand them over without a fight. They filed three separate lawsuits to try to stop the eminent domain, and in response, the city retaliated. In a closed-door City Council meeting, the council discussed hiring private investigators to tail outspoken residents and asking the police to give them a hard time. A transcriptionist documented this conversation, and the city later made it public.
Despite the retaliation, none of the residents backed down. Riviera Beach didn’t want to deal with three expensive lawsuits, so they canceled the redevelopment plan. The Conch houses were saved, at least for a little while.
A few of the private developers (who would have been the beneficiaries of the eminent domain seizures) didn’t scrap their plans entirely. They made offers to buy some of the houses at inflated prices, and many homeowners caved.
“It was like the dam broke and everybody sold within days,” says former resident Martha Babson. “The conch houses have all been ripped down.”
You can hear a full story about Riviera Beach’s redevelopment plan on the first episode of Bleeped, a podcast about censorship and the people who stand up to it.
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Matthew Billy is a Columnist at Grit Daily. He is an award-winning podcaster in radio/podcasting since 2003 -- first at 90.7 WFUV with iconic on-air personalities Vin Scelsa and Pete Fornatale, and then at Sirius XM Satellite Radio. In 2016 his latest podcast, Between the Liner Notes, won the Newhouse School of Public Communications' Mirror Award for Best Single Story – Radio, Television, Cable or Online Broadcast Media for its episode about the founding of MTV.
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