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Borders Book Festival
A wonderful four days of talks, discussions, food & drink, live music, comedy and more for all the family.
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Thursday 13 June
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Past Events › Thursday 13 June
Scottish Opera : A Little Bit of Iolanthe
June 13 at 6:45 pm - 7:45 pm
Venue: Scottish Opera Trailer
£10, £8 (c)
Pop-Up Opera is back on the road in 2019 with its brilliant shows for audiences of all ages. Played in a specially-adapted trailer, each performance is brought to life by a storyteller, two singers, musicians and a series of colourful illustrations. Iolanthe is banished by the Fairy Queen for marrying a mortal. Now, 25 years later, two worlds again collide when her son announces he is in love. Unfortunately, his beloved is a popular girl and he has some serious
Kate Humble
Venue: Douglas Home Festival Marquee
£15, £13 (c)
In Thinking on my Feet: The small joy of putting one foot in front of another, Kate has written a glorious ode to the life-changing magic of the simple act of walking...
James Crawford : Scotland from the Sky
Venue: Orchard Marquee
In this book, you will travel in both space and time, starting in the years around the First World War and moving up to the present day....
Will McCallum : How to Give Up Plastic
Venue: McInroy and Wood Marquee
In his Guide to Changing the World, One Plastic Bottle at a Time, Will McCallum, the Head of Oceans at Greenpeace UK, has written a fascinating, alarming book about how we are polluting our oceans...
Suzie Wilde: Obsidian
Venue: Buccleuch Marquee
£8, £6 (c)
Suzie Wilde is an absorbing storyteller and in the second book of the Bera trilogy, she builds on the wonderful narrative of Sea Paths....
Scottish Opera : A Little Bit of Magic Flute
Pop-Up Opera is back on the road in 2019 with its brilliant shows for audiences of all ages. Played in a specially-adapted trailer, each performance is brought to life by a storyteller, two singers, musicians and a series of colourful illustrations....
Rory Bremner
June 13 at 9:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Through the brilliance of his impressions and observations, Rory reprises and updates his sell-out show from last year as he brings the world to Harmony Garden....
Stephen Hendry
One of Scotland’s greatest sporting heroes, world snooker champion a record-breaking seven times, Stephen’s fascinating autobiography reveals the man behind the legend....
Kaela Rowan Duo
Since the days of groundbreaking world music group ‘Mouth Music’, Kaela Rowan has forged a fascinating musical path, gathering influences from her extensive travels around the globe, particularly India. She is known for her unique approach to the Scottish tradition and enjoys unusual instrumentation and vocal improvisation....
The Adventures of Maud West, Lady Detective
Susannah Stapleton has told the amazing tale of Maud West. She opened her detective agency in London in 1905, sleuthing on behalf of society’s finest for more than thirty years. Her exploits grabbed headlines throughout the world but, beneath the public persona, she was forced to hide vital aspects of her own identity in order to thrive in a class-obsessed and male-dominated world...
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TV station branding threatened by PVRs
A major study on personal-video-recorder usage, obtained by Electronic Media, suggests that TV networks' current emphasis on branding may become irrelevant in the PVR era.
The study, from Marietta, Ga.-based consulting firm NextResearch, surveyed more than 340 of the nation's early-adopting PVR owners. It concluded that 63 percent of current PVR owners are watching more television than they did before owning the device, but that about one in eight (12 per cent) have "no idea" of which channels the shows being watched were originally on.
"This has tremendous implications for television networks," according to a summary of the study, "since if this trend continues the network may cease to be a recognizable consumer brand, and network lineups will have less impact on a viewer who no longer identifies their favorite shows with the network on which they are broadcast."
That 12 per cent is a significant number, according to Everett Wallace, NextResearch's chief technology officer, because the technology is so new that his expectation before doing the study was that such a pattern would only assert itself "over time."
Of particular interest to the advertising industry is the finding that the same percentage of viewers skip through television commercials with PVRs as fast-forward through them with VCRs. According to Wallace, that figure is around 25 per cent in both cases.
Other results of the study find that almost one-third of all current PVR-enabled viewers already have bought additional units, suggesting that PVRs eventually will find their way to every television set in the home. While almost two-thirds of the study's respondents say they are watching more TV since getting a PVR, almost one in six (16 per cent) claim to be watching "much more" television.
The study also finds that around one in three PVR owners are hooking the devices to the same TV that is already connected to a VCR. "These PVR owners are using their VCRs as extended storage for their PVRs, pointing out the importance of including features on future PVRs that make this process as fast and easy as possible," the study summary says.
NextResearch estimates the number of PVRs currently in consumers' homes at approximately 300,000; other estimates place the number at up to 400,000.
The study finds that 47 per cent of study respondents have TiVo and 35 percent have ReplayTV. Only four per cent have UltimateTV, a result Mr. Wallace attributed to that product's relatively recent arrival on the market. About one percent of those surveyed have "no idea" what brand their PVR is, responding with a variation of: "It came with my satellite dish."
About 900,000 PVRs will be in homes by the end of this year, and "in excess of 40 million homes" will have them by the end of five years, according to Joshua Bernoff, Forrester Research principal analyst. Bernoff recently predicted a 20 per cent drop in the overall viewing level of TV commercials within five years, attributing the falloff to the coming mass-market acceptance of the PVR.
"Television in which you sit through the commercials is about to be replaced," he said. The PVR, according to Mr. Bernoff, "degrades the value of advertising."
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December Events at the Cartoon Art Museum (San Francisco, CA)
November 30th, 2006 | Category: Events
Original art by Charles Schulz! a Cartooning class for Adults! Pet Noir, Pogo Possum! Artist Davis Kellett! Stand Up Comedy! All this cartoon goodness can be found this December at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco. What a great way to celebrate the winter Holiday(s).
To start with the Animation Gallery at the museum has been re-located to the back area and is now joined by an HD monitor to show animation thanks to a generous donation.
The news below is taken from the museums newsletter.
1. Peanuts Holiday Parade: A Celebration of the Art of Charles M. Schulz
November 24, 2006 through March 18th, 2007
The Cartoon Art Museum kicks off the holiday season with Peanuts Holiday
Parade: A Celebration of the Art of Charles M. Schulz, featuring 20
original Peanuts comic strips from the Cartoon Art Museum’s permanent
collection, including a special selection of holiday-themed strips
featuring Snoopy in his classic Santa/Bell-Ringer guise.
2. Tuesday, December 5, 2006, 7:00-9:00pm
Pet Noir Book Release Party – Free and open to the public
The Cartoon Art Museum and Manic D Press are pleased to celebrate the
release of Pet Noir: An Anthology of Strange But True Pet Crime
Stories, conceived and edited by Shannon OLeary and drawn by todays
finest comic book artists, this innovative, compassionate illustrated
anthology sheds fur on some of the most peculiar animal offenses in
recent headlines and examines our individual relationships with animals
in true stories of oddly humorous and heartbreaking personal pet crimes.
O’Leary and 11 artists will be on hand to greet fans, sign books and
celebrate the release of Pet Noir.
A portion of the profits from the sales of Pet Noir will be donated to
the Animal Legal Defense Fund (www.aldf.org), which protects and
advances the interests of animals through the legal system. This
special event is free and open to the public.
3. Cartooning Workshop: Design 101 with Jon “Bean” Hastings
Saturday, December 9, 20061:00-4:00pm
Cost per individual class: $50; $40 for CAM members
The latest installment of our ongoing series of workshops for aspiring
comic artists, writers and fans of all ages features Jon “Bean”
Hastings, creator of the comic Smith Brown Jones: Alien Accountant ,
the children’s book Terrabella Smoot and the Unsung Monsters as well as
the current artist on Disney’s Haunted Mansion comic. Hastings will teach
students how to create and design a character, layout a page and prep
artwork for printing.
4. Sunday December 10, 2007, 1pm to 3pm
Cartoonist in Residence: David Kellett
5. Draw Me A Possum: 63 Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Years of Pogo
Tuesday, December 12, 2006, 7:00pm to 9:00pm
$5 General Admission, FREE for Cartoon Art Museum Members
In conjunction with current exhibition Draw Me A Story: A Century of
Children’s Book Illustration, the Cartoon Art Museum is proud to host a
special presentation by three authorities on the life and artwork of
beloved cartoonist and children’s book creator Walt Kelly and his most
famous creation, Pogo. Pogo aficionados Mark Burstein, Scott Daley and
Steve Leialoha will discuss Kelly’s impact on the comics medium and the
world at large. Original artwork, rarely-seen publications and other
Pogo ephemera will be exhibited during this special presentation.
Please join us for an evening of personal anecdotes, an appreciation of
Kelly’s children’s books and his lesser-known comics and a unique
discussion of one of the most talented cartoonists of the 20th century.
6. i, Mascot: A costumed travelogue by Michael Capozzola
Tuesday, December 19, 2006 from 7:00pm to 9:00pm
Tickets: $10 ($5 for CAM members)
The Cartoon Art Museum presents i, Mascot, an evening of Cartoon and
Comedy with comedian (and cartoonist) Michael Capozzola. Part stand-up comedy and part
cartoon travelogue recounting Capozzola’s 4-month PR road-trip across
the United States on the eve of the collapse of the economy at the tail
end of the dot.com era. Four months and 17,000 miles in a mascot
costume yielded photos, drawings, stories and anecdotes providing comic
insight into the effects of marketing to various regions of the country
and the resulting misunderstandings that occurred on the road. For more
information, http://www.capozzola.com/.
EXPERIENCE: Uncertainty and cultural misgivings!
THRILL TO: Tales of humorless armed guards!
WITNESS: Cartoons and photos intercut with smart-alecky commentary that
is as clunky as this sentence!
All proceeds for this event will benefit the Cartoon Art Museum. Book
and merchandise sales will benefit the starving cartoonist and comedian.
To purchase tickets in advance, call 415 CARTOON (227-8666) ext. 300.
The evening will start at 7:00pm, tickets are $10 ($5 for CAM members).
All contributions will benefit the museum.
More information on these events will be posted at our website shortly:
http://www.cartoonart.org/
Chapter Two of Kevin Cannon’s 288 Hour Comic
November 25th, 2006 | Category: 24 Hour Comics
Chapter two of Far Arden, Kevin Cannon’s 288 Hour comic featuring his seafaring rapscallion Armitage Shanks, Arctic Pirate (which you can read more about here) has been posted! You can start at the beginning here, or click on the image below to start at chapter two if you already read the first one.
Early Jim Henson Advertisements
November 22nd, 2006 | Category: Uncategorized
I realize these aren’t cartoons, but I love the muppets… Jim Henson’s work always seemed in the same vein as animated cartoons for me. I ran across these great Wilkins coffee commercials that Henson made on YouTube the other night.
These are some of Henson’s earliest work (apparently from the late 50’s). They are all probably about 15 seconds, and are mostly extremely violent and often hilarious. This has to have been some of the most outrageous humor on tv at the time. All follow the same routine, but deal with it in different inventive ways, sometimes they fall totally flat or are just corny, sometimes they are totally hilarious (and often corny as well).
If you dig the clip, there are 8 more of them on YouTube to go through as well.
Surreal Japanese Cartoon From 1933
If the Fleischer Brothers had been Japanese, they would have probably made something like this.
Danger Duck
November 17th, 2006 | Category: 24 Hour Comics,comics,Minneapolis
David Steinlicht just posted his hilarious 24 hour comic Danger Duck from the 24 hour event we had in Minneapolis a little while ago… in color yet! Here it is for your reading pleasure.
Some Interesting Links
Here are some tutorials and other information that look interesting that I’ve run across on the web recently, although I haven’t read most of them thoroughly yet…
Artbabe’s Jessica Abel provides information on making comics, selling comics and getting comics.
Michael Halbert provides some tutorials on doing scratchboard work.
Article on making comics by the late, great Virgil Partch.
Neil Gaiman provides a template for leaving a literary will.
Also, here is an interview with the founder of the Cornstalker comics collective, which offers a lot of information about starting an online comics collective.
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Brianna Meets Nina
Last Chance Antiques & Cheese Cafe 6009 Main Street Tannersville, NY, 12485 United States (map)
The accomplished and accoladed Brianna Thomas delivers this dazzling premiere revamp of the iconic works of legendary ’60s songstress and 2018 inductee into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Nina Simone and the “Queen of Gospel” Mahalia Jackson. Simone and Jackson individually crafted worlds of sound in gospels, spirituals, jazz, soul and pop that were inspired by, and honored, the philosophy of Dr. King.
Thomas expertly laces together these uplifting narratives on songs ranging from the passionate and fearless I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Freeand Feelin’ Good to the celebratory tribute Why? (The King of Love is Dead), written by her bass player Gene Taylor in reaction to the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
About Brianna Thomas:
Brianna’s singing is deeply enriched by an understanding of the masterful voices of jazz past. Beyond a healthy serving of sass, Sarah Vaughn’s influence contributes to Brianna’s style the artistic savvy needed to communicate myriad moods and feelings as well as a keen instrumental perspective. Add to that a coyness reminiscent of Nancy Wilson, an Ella-esque skill and enthusiasm for scatting, and the stylistic breadth and vocal grandeur evocative of Dianne Reeves. Read more
Live @ Last Chance
Ladies Sing the Blues
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GUAP: Or, The Problem of Money
A series for web by Chris Myers
Troy is a second rate drug dealer looking to get out of what seems like a lifelong rut of being penniless and rudderless. Being a native New Yorker prepared him for a lot of things, but when a neighborhood homeless man and rich adolescent private school kid become his partners in “crime", he quickly realizes there's no roadmap for what comes next. “GUAP,” slang for a lot of cash, is a serio-comic examination of money and the many influences it has over our lives, set in the city most ruled by its presence. It’s about getting ahead and finding something real, despite the fact that the world is built on who stacks, wins.
Troy (Male, Black or Hispanic, Mid 20's-mid 30’s): A lovable fuck up, native New Yorker to the bone, and crafty yet past his prime drug dealer. He's just trying to do right - by himself, by his family, by his neighborhood. He's also flat broke, so he’s not doing much of anything. Weary of anything resembling an establishment, Troy marches to the beat of his own drummer and takes point from a moral compass of his own design. But as he begins to realize his life is going no where fast, Troy allows himself to entertain the idea that he might have to start thinking outside the box if anything is going to change. LEAD, RECURRING.
Eric (Male, White, 15): Super young looking kid with a surprisingly keen mind. At first glance he's a standard fare privileged private schooler, but what sets Eric aside - besides his advanced intelligence and wit - is his compassion and respect for those who have a true hustle. After all, for all his trying, it’s something he genuinely wants for himself. That doesn't mean he's not hopelessly corny with a lot to learn. LEAD, RECURRING.
Homeless Man (Male, Black or Hispanic, mid 30's-mid 40’s): Initially one of the thousands of nameless souls that call the New York streets home, he eventually reveals himself to be quite the resourceful and experienced mind. As we discover that homelessness is seldom about laziness, we watch him latch on to the designs of Troy and Eric and become a true leader and force to reckon with. Life however, being as it is, riddles him with setbacks and obstacles, mostly from within. LEAD, RECURRING.
Download Script: HERE
Contact/Submit: HERE
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Whether or not you believe in the supernatural, ghost stories have figured in oral and written folklore for hundreds of years with one of the first written records dating to the Roman author Pliny the Younger. Most importantly, ghost stories make ripping yarns, possibly best demonstrated by the Victorian authors. So for our current callout we aim to celebrate the 19th century ghost story through a new collection of tales of mystery, suspense and terror!
The Victorian ghost story evolved from the genre of Gothic fiction/horror, pioneered in the 18th century by Horace Walpole with his novel ‘The Castle of Otranto’ (1764). Where Gothic horror is fiction fusing horror and romanticism, ghost stories have progressively evolved into any form of scary tale containing supernatural elements. However, 19th century ghost stories such as those by Montague Rhodes James (M. R. James) and Sheridan Le Fanu have proven the most enduring. And so with this blog, we aim to briefly examine what features from Gothic fiction and 19th century ghost stories may have been responsible for their persistent popularity.
Generation of Gothic fiction by Horace Walpole was a deliberate attempt to resolve limitations imposed by the modern novel and the medieval romance during the Enlightenment, whilst retaining features from both. The result incorporated many features which evolved into staples of Gothic fiction. Similarly, there are a number of aspects commonly employed by M. R. James when composing his ghost stories. Unsurprisingly, these attributes intersect with key elements commonly defined as required for writing a good tale; e.g. setting, plot, character, point of view, conflict and tone.
Critically, a hallmark feature for both Gothic fiction and the ghost story is the setting. Remnants of history left writers of European Gothic spoiled for choice of settings, with castles, churches, and machinery of the inquisition littering the landscape. Further, having established the setting, the terror from Gothic fiction evolves from introduction of the supernatural. Lacking similar historical remnants, North American Gothic writers adapted the open wilderness and natural landscape to similar effect, such as Charles Brockden Brown who used subterranean caves to establish a Gothic setting in ‘Edgar Huntley’ (1799). Progressing to the 19th century ghost story, M. R. James often drew upon his antiquarian background and building upon the mood established by the Gothic setting, his tales would frequently include discovery of a long lost item which becomes the focus of the story; e.g. ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’ (1894). This identifies another feature typical of M. R. James, plot development.
Another technique commonly employed by M. R. James is subtle manipulation of the plot. By employing a more protracted narrative development, M. R. James is able to draw the reader further into the story before exposing the critical details required to fully understand the interplay of events. ‘Canon Alberic’s Scrapbook’ (1894), employs a typically Jamesian technique of gently drawing in the reader through innocent detail of characters engaged in mundane tasks, with supernatural malevolence manifesting later into the story. This acts to enhance the effect of the climax of the tale by allowing the reader to develop a deeper bond with the protagonist before the conflict is revealed. Another common feature of Gothic fiction was to employ foreshadowing omens which offer indication of likely future events, although this can equally be employed in a deceptive manner to keep the reader guessing.
M. R. James also claimed that fictional ghosts should be threatening or of ill-intent. While Charles Dickens ‘A Christmas Carol’ (1843) may well be the most widely known ghost story ever written, it’s hardly one to put chills down your spine when told around a campfire. So on this point, we definitely concur with M. R. James as we are aiming for a collection of tales to inspire a pleasant terror in the reader. Supernatural components of the tales we’re looking for should be odious and malignant.
The role of character can offer another crucial element to help develop tension within a tale by ensuring the protagonist seems real to the reader. Convincing character development helps to establish a bond between the reader and the protagonist such that the reader increasingly becomes involved in the events involving the character. One strategy which can be employed to enhance this effect involves the point of view of the narrator. First person point of view limits the scope of the narrative being recounted, drawing the reader further into the story. This strategy can also act to add a layer of mystery to a story when the reader may find themselves questioning the objectivity of the narrator. Both of which are employed to great effect by Edgar Allen Poe in ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ (1843).
Additionally, the choice of vocabulary used in the narrative can help to establish the tone for a tale. Careful selection of descriptive words can help to establish the Gothic nature of a tale, boosting and embellishing the sense of foreboding mystery or suspense. e.g. ‘Prising open the dusty cover of the arcane tome’ sets a considerably different tone than ‘opening the cover of the book’.
Finally, perhaps the best manner in which to achieve maximum impact from a ghost story is through a short story format to ensure the building tension reaches climax within a single reading session. As 19th century ghost stories were often written in this format, this may in part help to explain their enduring popularity. Whichever is the case, we await your submissions with anxious intent!
For more detail regarding the development of Gothic fiction, please refer to the following sites:
Gothic fiction – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Elements of the Gothic Novel.
For those interested in M. R. James, some links for further reading:
‘Montague Rhodes James’ on Thin Ghost website.
Ghosts & Scholars, Montague Rhodes James, M.R. James Newsletter.
M. R. James – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Those interested in Sheridan Le Fanu may find the following sites of interest:
Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu – Biography and Works.
Sheridan Le Fanu – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
Finally, those interested in further exploration of nineteenth century ghost story authors:
Ghost Story Writers.
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»Get Yourself An IPhone Eight Case Online
The iPhone eight is lastly hitting stores in countries the world over and Apple fanboys and fangirls on this planet's second largest market for smartphones are lastly getting their hands on the latest and greatest smartphone from Apple. While the latest smartphone from Cupertino is not the highest of the line phone from Apple, it's nonetheless more than sufficient smartphone for the needs of most people and for those what don't wish to spend the a thousand Dollar asking price of the iPhone X, the iPhone 8 is a very capable alternative. In reality, for anyone upgrading from an older device like a 5s or a 6 even, the eight must be a pretty big jump. The value distinction between the iPhone eight and the X is actually even greater in international locations outside of the States, once taxes and duties are taken into account. For the most hardcore Apple fans who have to have the latest smartphone from the company and need to show off the cool new bezel-free design and the OLED display, the X is presumably price regardless of the asking value, if only for the bragging rights.But for those iPhone customers that just want a capable new machine, the iPhone eight and the eight Plus covers the needs of just about everyone.
However what if you would like that amazing screen and that bezel-free design? What if you are totally okay with the notch on the prime of the phone? What if you wish to live your life on the bleeding edge of technology and be one of many first people with a phone that uses FaceID to unlock it and as a means to confirm your id to make purchases? What in case you are willing to pay the value of being an early adopter, each in terms of the 'version one' hassles which might be sure to accompany any new technology and any first generation hardware?
Well, in that case the iPhone X is a much simpler promote and its loopy price tag is a less hard pill to swallow. What will be hard to deal with is the price of changing the glass back or more importantly the display of the new phone in the event you happen to drop it. Apple has just announced the repair and alternative prices for these parts and the costs are eye-watering. Going with the eight together with an iPhone 8 case shouldn't solely prevent a lot of money however the iPhone 8 covers the smartphone needs of just about everybody but those who completely should have the newest thing.
If you would like a bit more screen real estate, the Coque iPhone 8 plus case is very easy to make. Even the 8 Plus together with a few iPhone 8 Plus back covers should still depart you with a couple of hundred dollars of change in your pocket from a thousand dollars. With nearly all the identical internals because the much more costly 10, the iPhone 8 must be a phone that may work really well for more than a couple of years, if you happen to deal with it.
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Leeds Dogging
Dogging In Leeds
If you're tired of that old, stale sex routine in bed, then it's time for you to try outdoor sex for a change... and ComeDogging.com can help you improvise in your sex life! Perhaps you're one of those guys who likes to 'play it safe', too afraid or hesitant for sexual encounters outside of private places. If so, then it's time for you to venture out of your shell a bit, and experience the extraordinary pleasure and excitement that dogging gives. We've got lots of Leeds dogging contacts waiting to meet someone like you for sex in the city's open venues!
Leeds Dogging Sites
Maybe you don't know it yet, but a lot of people in the UK are taking their sex life to the limits by participating in public sex. To increase the raunchy fun-factor, they express their sensual desires in the outdoors. These people take part in dogging, a combination of exhibitionism (achieving sexual arousal by getting naked in public for others to see) and voyeurism (spying on couples who engage in intimate behaviour), through which they obtain sensual satisfaction. So, if you want to intensify your nightly sex sessions, join ComeDogging today and get dirty in public with doggers in Leeds.
Best Dogging Spots In Leeds
If you want to join the local dogging craze, then sign up for free at ComeDogging.com right now! Meet tons of naughty doggers and discover the best dogging spots in Leeds. The Kirkstall Abbey car park at Vesper Lane is a great hook up spot for doggers especially on Saturday nights. You can also try the Roundhay Park at Princes Avenue, which is also great for daytime and night time meets. Register today to know more about the other secure dogging sites in Leeds.
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Majelan is a personal podcast player with premium content
Meet Majelan, a French startup that wants to make podcasts more accessible. Behind the scene, Majelan is the startup created by former Radio France CEO Mathieu Gallet and Arthur Perticoz. The app is launching today on iOS and Android in the coming days.
Given that Gallet was previously at the head of all French public radios, the company has already raised $ 4.5 million from Idinvest Partners, Jacques Veyrat, Kima Ventures, Fabrice Larue and others.
At a press conference, Gallet said that Majelan isn’t the Netflix of podcasts. “It’s an experience that is 99.99% free. We are a content aggregator, an RSS feed aggregator,” he said.
But it doesn’t mean that the company hasn’t been inspired by Netflix, Spotify, Molotov and other streaming platforms. So let’s unpack what all of this means.
A more personal podcast player
Podcasts are an interesting content format. If you listen to the same host for a while, it feels like you know them and they’ve become your friends. But many podcast players provide a dry experience that feels more like using Google News than interacting with people you listen to.
Majelan gets the basic rights when it comes to podcast players. Pretty much like the Apple Podcasts app, you can search for podcasts, download and listen to episodes. If you like what you’re hearing, you can subscribe to a podcast and get new episodes when they’re released. It’s a true podcast player as you can even paste a podcast URL to add any podcast you want.
But Majelan thinks Apple Podcasts and the iTunes podcast directory are reminiscent of a phone book — Apple Podcasts is by far the leading podcasting app right now. It’s hard to find content and you don’t get any customized recommendations.
In other words, you probably know someone who wants to get into podcasts but doesn’t know where to start.
“The homepage is completely editorialized by the Majelan teams — they create topic-based playlists. They have listened to hours and hours of content and we already have 50 playlists,” Gallet said.
Each playlist is a collection of podcast episodes based on a specific subject — for instance the S01E01 playlist is all about TV series. Some playlists are based on a mood, such as “tropical shower”. The editorial team will regularly update playlists, phase out some of them and add new ones. It works like Spotify playlists made by the Spotify team.
On the search page, Majelan is using a grid view of buttons so that you can find podcasts on your favorite subjects (cooking, soccer, crime stories, philosophy, romance, etc.).
The Majelan team has met with the French TV and radio archive institue INA to learn how to tag a giant library of content. They are now manually tagging thousands of podcasts with hundreds of tags so that you can find the perfect podcast for your.
After you listen to podcasts for a while, you’ll find personalized recommendations in a tab called “For You”. This is an algorithm-driven tab that will soon tell you why Majelan thinks you’ll like a particular podcast.
A premium podcast network
Majelan’s business model is as interesting as the app itself. The company doesn’t show you any banner ad and doesn’t insert audio ads. Instead, you can subscribe to Majelan+ for €4.99 per month, or €1.99 per podcast ($ 5.57 and $ 2.22 respectively) — companies can sponsor curated playlists though.
Subscribers don’t get any premium feature, but they can access Majelan+ content. The company doesn’t mix premium content with free content for now. You have to head over to the Majelan+ tab to see premium content and listen to teasers and episodes.
There are 20 premium podcasts at launch. Half of them have been produced and recorded in the Majelan studio, and half of them have been produced with partners. Majelan is distributing those podcasts and sharing revenue with those creators.
Launch partners include INA, Universal Music, Society, Sara Yalda’s conferences and Clique.TV interviews. When it comes to in-house content, there are podcasts for kids, teens and adults.
For instance, Mautpassant(s) features short stories written by Mautpassant and read by famous TV anchors. “Tu deviendras grand” talks about the childhood of historical figures.
It’s all about data
By controlling the player, Majelan is collecting a ton of data about podcasts. For instance, the startup knows when people usually stop listening to a podcast. They can spot some trends and adjust their premium content based on what users want.
On each episode, you can react with various emojis, such as a heart, a thumbs up, a fire emoji, etc. Majelan plans to let podcast creators access this data in the Majelan back end. The company doesn’t want to monetize this data itself.
And this is the challenge with all podcast startups. Apple has been a neutral actor and its podcast directory has been open to anyone. For instance, you can create a podcast player and leverage Apple’s podcast directory for free. But many creators in the podcast community don’t want to see a well-funded private actor ruin everything.
So far, Majelan has had a cautious approach. Sure, you won’t be able to access Majelan+ content from another podcast player. But Majelan isn’t alienating the podcast ecosystem by monetizing free podcasts with audio ads for instance. It’s a fine line, so let’s see if the startup can keep the right balance over time.
Eventually, Majelan thinks audio content isn’t just about podcasts. The company plans to launch audiobooks and play with different formats to make audiobooks more accessible.
Everything has been designed to work in other languages and you can already switch the app to another language. And the startup should launch curated playlists and premium content in other languages soon.
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Microsoft windows 10 professional versions. Microsoft Windows 10 Review & Rating 2019-03-02
Saturday, March 02, 2019 4:52:09 AM Shelby
What's the Difference Between Windows 10 Home vs Pro Editions?
AdBlock and Adblock Plus are also in the store, but I find those less effective. . Is it designed only for those who update only after 6-12 months after a release? You can also now use Cortana to play music on Spotify. Critics have compared the edition to , and have considered it to be a competitor to. Mobile is designed for smartphones and small tablets. It was built off of the Pro edition of Windows 10 and contains the mostly same features as Windows 10 Pro with different options disabled by default, and adds options for setup and deployment in an education environment.
Windows 10 Pro Update version 1809 (10
Security Note Windows security features have been rebranded as Windows Defender security features, including Windows Defender Device Guard, Windows Defender Credential Guard, and Windows Defender Firewall. In all, I counted 23 such stock apps and utilities. It is the de facto successor of and. Windows Update for Business managed devices are now able to defer feature update installation by up to 365 days it used to be 180 days. Windows Defender Antivirus Provides industry leading malware protection using next-gen malware prevention technology. New features in related products The following new features aren't part of Windows 10, but help you make the most of it. Windows 10 Enterprise is configurable on three branches, Semi-Annual Channel, Semi-Annual Channel Targeted , and Windows Insider.
What's new in Windows 10, version 1709
You can also apply an Autopilot deployment profile to your devices using Microsoft Store for Business. The e-book reader and store functions once included with the browser will be discontinued as of July 2019, Microsoft announced. Unfortunately, Windows 10 Professional includes a couple of features I consider exceptionally convenient, even for the average home user. I find this a great convenience at the end of the day, when I just want to tell the computer to shut down, rather than tap more keys. You can even anchor an object to a surface, such as your shoulder! With the latest update, you can set up Hello from the lock screen. You can also now customize toolbar icons.
Windows 10 Pro Version (1607, 1703, or 1709)
Do check for updates, install latest updates, reboot and check your version with 'winver' command. What should I do to remain current? I've been using a Firefox extension that does the same thing for several months. Using Bluetooth signals, you can configure your Windows 10 device to automatically lock when you walk away from it, or to prevent others from accessing the device when you are not present. Windows Analytics Upgrade Readiness Upgrade Readiness provides insights into application and driver compatibility issues. In settings, users are able to select their branch readiness level and update deferal periods. Action Center A Windows 10 feature with roots in mobile operating systems is the.
What’s new for IT pros in Windows 10, version 1809
Windows security baselines have been updated for Windows 10. Can Microsoft please let its business customers know whats going on. Windows 10, version 1703, adds support for customized taskbars to. Michael cowrote one of the first overviews of web services for a general audience. The Update also adds audio controls. Rich software and device ecosystem.
Windows 10 editions
Windows Information Protection 3 Protect your information from accidental or intentional data leaks. Like Firefox, Edge now blocks Flash from running unless you green-light it by tapping a puzzle-piece icon. In fact, 1809 has the since Windows 10 first released. In addition to its privacy and security enhancements, in Windows 10 benefits from recent updates. I appreciate that you can also set basic folder icons to appear, or not, as you choose.
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Taskbar configuration Enterprise administrators can add and remove pinned apps from the taskbar. Pro Education This edition was introduced in July 2016 for hardware partners on new devices purchased with the discounted academic license. All items we carry are backed by our 100% satisfaction guarantee. How can Windows To Go be deployed in an organization? The problem — from my perspective — is that the Group Policy Editor provides easy access to a number of important system settings and configuration choices. For a visual walk-through, read. It has all the features of Windows 10 Home, plus important business functionality for encryption, remote log-in, creating virtual machines, and more. Windows Insider Program for Business Leverage Insider Preview builds, content and tools to explore new features.
In March 2018, Microsoft announced that it would be phasing out Windows 10 S, citing confusion among manufacturers and end-users. It was built off of Windows 10 Enterprise and initially reported to have the same feature set. Nevertheless, the company has implemented more safeguards and. The work-around for Windows 10 Home edition involves modifying settings manually. Touch gestures like closing an app by swiping down from the top of the screen work in this mode, and the All Apps view stretches across the screen with large tiles so it's easier to get to any app. This functionality is based on the.
Windows 10, version 1809 rollout resumes; now available on VLSC
Choose some from the group of first-rate titles in our feature. With the release of Windows 10, version 1607, App-V is included with the Windows 10 for Enterprise edition. Windows Defender can schedule regular system scans and shows notifications about threats. This new feature update will begin rolling out globally via Windows Update in the coming weeks to ensure the best possible update experience for our customers. Team Windows 10 Team is a device-specific version of Windows 10 loaded onto the. Windows 10 free upgrade matrix for the first year of availability Windows version and edition Windows 10 edition Windows 7 Starter Home Windows 7 Home Basic Windows 7 Home Premium Windows 7 Professional Pro Windows 7 Ultimate Windows 8. The setting only affects the Other user tile.
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OUR STORY / CONTACT US
Welcome to my website. This page is a little about me and my background.
My name is Janak Patel, That's my gorgeous wife Nalisha next to me. Without her I would probably still be slaving away at a 9-5 instead of traveling the world for the past 4.5 years.
Believe it or not I actually studied to be an Engineer and worked for about 10 years climbing the corporate ladder before I started in the fitness industry with my wife Nalisha in 2005.
We grew our little in-home mobile personal training business into the largest in Australasia. We had dozens of trainers all over the country training our clients.
Nalisha Training Some of our Corporate Client in their Office
In 2010 we made a decision to no longer offer Face-to-Face in-home training services & shut that business down over night and went 100% Online. Even though our in-home training company grew to be one of the largest in Australasia, with dozens of trainers working for us and training our clients, every day felt like a grind.
Nalisha, beside our last company car. Yes We Sold off our complete fleet of Mini-Coopers, let all our employees go and let the Lease on our office building Expire.
Our Home-Office Building Based in Auckland, New Zealand - We let the lease expire and moved 100% online working from Home. No more traffic & no more commute...Awesome!
We got frustrated with the continual scheduling conflicts, losing money because we couldn't service a client, or our own trainers poaching our clients. Combined with those early morning starts, inconsistent income & crazy working hours, something just did not feel right.
After 5 long years of grinding it out, We realized that this Fitness Business model would NEVER help us Reach our true financial goals & dreams. It was time to stop trading our Time-For-Dollars and Re-Engineer our fitness business into something that was Scalable!
The Online world has been a huge learning curve but the years of struggle have finally paid off allowing us to help more people then we could have ever imagined from all over the world get into the best shape of their life’s.
Trainers are always asking us how we grew our in-home fitness business.
Truth is the real growth, freedom & profit came after we made a decision to move 100% online
If you would like to contact Janak Patel regarding business opportunities, media requests, business related speaking engagements on living the Mobile Lifestyle or how to transform your business, please email us/call us:
US Office: +1 213 984 1012 AU: +6 02 8091 2073
Email: Support (AT) DigitalFitnessMarketer.com
CLIPS OF US IN THE MEDIA
Tim Ferris with Janak & Nalisha on 60 Minutes Talking About How To Apply The 4 Hour Work Week To A Fitness Business
Janak & Nalisha on Australia's channel 10 "Wake-up" Breakfast show.
Janak & Nalisha on the "School of Success 3 part Documentary" on New Zealand Television
Janak & Nalisha Featured on The Huffington Post
Huffington Post - Interview - Use Your Bucket List to Design Your Life
Janak and Nalisha Patel made some big changes in their life, and fortunately, they had their bucket list to guide them. They've been together since they were 17 and 20 years old. Like anyone that age, they had big dreams; they wanted to travel, have nice cars, a huge house and live by the beach. They wanted it all.....
CLICK HERE TO READ THE FULL STORY
Yahoo! Travel - The New Digital Nomads
“We did not want to wait until we were 65 to live life,” said Nalisha, 33. As a lifestyle consultant, she and her husband, Janak, 36, a former mechanical engineer, own and run an online wellness and lifestyle business. Early in their marriage, the Patels wanted a house by the beach and fancy cars, but once they attained this, they became disenchanted. “The photocopy life — same work and experiences every day — did not provide lasting happiness,” she said. “We realized we really wanted to travel. It’s all about new experiences. That’s what excites us.”
NEWS.COM.AU/ Australia's Channel 10 Wake up Morning Show
How did this couple travel and live in 35 cities in two years?
NEW ZEALAND locals Janak and Nalisha Patel had always dreamt of travelling the world together.
Finally, they decided to make a move that changed their lives forever. They left their jobs and their home in New Zealand and set off an adventure that has turned into something much, much more: a lifestyle.
As seen in The Sydney Morning Herald
There was a time when Nalisha Patel and her husband Janak dreamt of having an expensive house, fancy cars and a bulging bank account.
These days – after a radical shift in thinking – they have designed their own fairytale life, living in dream locations around the world while continuing to build a successful digital business from their laptops.
Women's Health Magazine
Nalisha featured in Australian Women's Health Magazine
Discussing her ideal eating plan and how to 'cheat' on your diet, and still get results....
Nalisha Patel is an internationally recognized Health & Fitness expert on psychology based health & fitness training. She is the author and writer of several Health & Fitness books and has been featured as a wellness advisor in over 65 local & international magazines. She is the designer of the Look Forever30 Program and the SkinnyChick Challenge. Both programs are sold throughout the world. She’s a trusted health & fitness advisor, consultant and coach to thousands of clients worldwide who have participated in her unique online fitness programs.
Below are media samples from dozens of television & media publications which have featured Nalisha. Nalisha is always at the forefront on what is happening in the health & fitness industry. She regularly interviews leading experts from all around the world who are focused on personal development, wellness, fitness and health. All these learning's are then incorporated and interwoven throughout her programs combined with her unique psychology components ensure long term benefits in all areas of health & well being for her members. Read how the Editor of Next Magazine (Leading Women's Life Style Magazine) did on Nalisha's 12 week "Get the Body You Desire" Challenge. Click The Cover To Read The Full Story:
Discover how 4 lucky Readers of Woman' Day Magazine lost combined total of over 32 Kilos in 6 Weeks Following Nalisha's Weight Loss System. Click The Magazine Cover to read the full Story.
School of Success - TV Show
See Nalisha & Janak featured On The School Of Success Television Show... A 4 part documentary on business
From a millionaire aiming for the rich list, to an ATM installer hoping to become a police officer, the skills required are the same. Experts Dr Marc Wilson, business guru Tony Falkenstein and master motivator John Wall challenge the students to take responsibility for their own success.
For three months the students must undertake experiments, personality profiles and have their business plans put under scrutiny.
In a world laden with self-help books and get-rich-quick schemes, The School of Success examines why decisive action is the real secret to success. The series believes it's a common misconception that people are born lucky, but also wants to show viewers that even luck can be learnt. It is all about having the right mindset and understanding the psychology.
New Zealand Television One - News
Nalisha Appears on New Zealands Television One News discussing her views on BMI (Body Mass Index).
Nalisha Patel receives the award of 2008 New Zealand Young Business Person of the Year from Westpac -Runner up for Excellence in business & helping clients
Nalisha's Articles have been featured in over 52 Local and International Magazines. Click the covers below to read the full story.
Check out Nalisha's latest article on "How to get the best ROI from your workplace wellness program" featured in EHS Today Magazine read by over 87000 Industry professionals in America.
Click Here to read the latest column "Boost Club Member Retention by Creating Habits" by Nalisha as featured in Club Industry the worlds leading publication for Health & Fitness Clubs.
Past Columns Click Here "Three Ways to Nurture Prospects and Convert Them to Club Members" Click Here"Persuasive Tactics to Retain Health Club Members for Life"
Experts who have contributed to our programs to ensure members get the best results
Dr John Gray
Dr Michael Roizen
Dr Stephen Covey
Stedman Graham
Dr John Gray, author of international bestseller "Men are from Mars, women are from Venus". Nalisha interviews Dr John Gray in LA to learn how a relationship can influence each partners' weight. Nalisha interviews one of worlds best known Doctor's Dr Mike Roizen, as seen regularly on the Oprah Winfrey Show and the author of best selling health book "You, The Owners Manual". Nalisha learns the best secrets to staying young and healthy from her 1 hour interview with Dr Roizen. International best selling author Dr Stephen Covey talks to Nalisha about Self Leadership and how this can cross over into being more healthy and happy. Nalisha flys to Chicago to meet Stedman Graham, best selling author on leadership and empowering yourself to be better. She learns about his 9 steps to success process and how it can be used for better health and wellbeing.
Nalisha Interviews Dr John Gray - The Author of the most popular relationship book on the Planet - "Men are from Mars Women Are From Venus" and discusses the topics of why women start gaining weight after marriage.
Magazine Feature Nalisha
Her Magazine
Her Business Magazine
IMPORTANT: Earnings and Legal Disclaimers Earnings and income representations made by Janak Patel, DigitalFitnessMarketer.com, the Fitness Evolution Book Strategies are aspirational statements only of your earnings potential. The success of Janak Patel testimonials and other examples used are exceptional results only which are not typical of the average person and are not intended to be and are not a guarantee that you or others will achieve the same results. Individual results will always vary and yours will depend entirely on your individual capacity, work ethic, business skills and experience, level of motivation, diligence in applying the Fitness Evolution Book Strategies, the economy, the normal and unforeseen risks of doing business, and other factors. Fitness Evolution Book/ Digital Fitness Marketer is not responsible for your actions. You are solely responsible for your own moves and decisions and the evaluation and use of our products and services should be based on your own due diligence. You agree that Fitness Evolution Book Strategies is not liable to you in any way for your results in using our products and services. See our Terms & Conditions & privacy policy for our full disclaimer of liability and other restrictions. Fitness Evolution Book, including Janak Patel personally, may receive compensation for products and services they recommend to you. Fitness Evolution Book Strategies personally uses a recommended resource unless it states otherwise. If you do not want Fitness Evolution Book Strategies and Janak Patel to be compensated for a recommendation, then we advise that you search online for the item through a non-affiliate link. Do you have questions about Fitness Evolution Book? Are you wondering if the principals in the book will work for you? Give us a call at +1 213 984 1012. We will be happy to discuss your goals and how the Fitness Evolution Book may help you. HealthMastery Group, Ltd Po Box 33105, Takapuna, Auckland, New Zealand
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Lysets Engel
Composer: C.E.F. Weyse
Instrumentation: Mixed choir
Work Category: Choir a capella
Catalogue No.: TOV017r
Theatre of Voices Edition is a publishing initiative founded by and under the artistic leadership of the singer and conductor Paul Hillier. Each publication is prepared carefully to meet the standards of professional choir singers and conductors of the 21st century.
Read more about C.E.F. Weyse
Weyse composed songs to both Danish and German texts (he was born in Altona in Holsten, then still under the Danish crown), and his style reflects the prevailing early romantic idiom of the day. As a song composer he perhaps found his most personal voice in the two groups of songs (for voice and piano) to words by Bernhard Ingemann (1789-1862): the Morgensange for Børn (Morning Songs for Children) and Syv Aftensange (Seven Evening Songs), published in 1837 and 1838 respectively.
Lysets engel is from the Morgensange and is widely known in Denmark. My choral arrangement, made for Ars Nova Copenhagen and dedicated to my daughter Freya, retains the original piano harmonisation in its first and last verses, while gradually developing and varying ideas from it in the central verses. I am very grateful to James Manley for allowing us to use his excellent English translation. Choirs may want to sing this if they wish to avoid the struggle with Danish, a language whose colour and intonation are difficult for the foreigner to grasp (though no more so than English) — after seven years I am still trying. However, it must be said that the delicacy, transparency and expressive intensity of Ingemann’s verses do repay the effort.
Paul Hillier
OTHER WORKS BY C.E.F. Weyse
Voice + piano
C.E.F. Weyse: Sange med klaver, bind I "Songs with Piano, volume 1" (1841)
C.E.F. Weyse: Sange med klaver, bind II, "Songs with Piano, volume 2" (1841)
Choir a capella
C.E.F. Weyse: Lysets Engel (1837)
C.E.F. Weyse: Symfoni no. 6 (1798)
Vocal score DKK43.75(€ ~5.75)
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‘Pandas’ Review: Cute, Light-Hearted, Yet Heartbreaking
Warner Brothers and Imax bring us the story of a panda’s quest to find a home for her species in the 2018 documentary film Pandas. The documentary is narrated by Kristen Bell.
Team behind the movie
Don’t get us wrong, the film isn’t your usual action-adventure film. It tells a real-life story depicting the struggle to fit into an unknown world, similar to what the character Po experienced in the movie Kung Fu Panda. The live-action documentary film follows the cute, roly-poly Qian Qian, the domesticated panda.
Along with her in the journey are several human characters including independent wildlife biologist Ben Kilham, Chinese scientist Rong Hou, and the jolly, optimistic, and omniscient voice of Kristen Bell. With jaw-dropping cinematography, compelling narration, and the oh-so-lovely pandas compacted in a 45-minute format, the film summons feelings of awe, wonder, and ultimately, heartbreak (we’ll get to that later on.)
With jaw-dropping cinematography, compelling narration, and the oh-so-lovely pandas compacted in a 45-minute format, the film summons feelings of awe, wonder, and ultimately, heartbreak. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
The documentary film narrates the preparations of Chinese researchers before releasing captive-bred pandas into the wild, which is riddled with hardships, heartaches, and a lot of rolling and eating tons of bamboo. Like a beautiful scrapbook, we see the first two years of her life in stunning shots, in the backdrop of Chinese wilderness in full 3-D.
Accompanying these must-see moments, which encompass pretty much every scene, is Mark Mothersbaugh’s lively composition. The music perfectly blends in with the scenes and evokes appropriate emotions from the audience. And of course, to add a touch of Disney to this real-life fable is Kristen Bell’s voice. She actually voiced Anna in the Disney film Frozen.
Qian in the wild
However, this isn’t a fairy tale story. It’s a true-to-life fight of a Panda coming back to a home that she never knew. Hou Rong and the other specialists’ purpose is to train Qian Qian to be ready to take on a world that’s always been hers. China has had success in keeping pandas safe in man-made habitats. However, Hou and her colleagues at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding face a difficult problem — how can they reintroduce these creatures, which are born in captivity, back into the wild?
Other specialists joining the journey also chip in with their ideas of reintroducing Qian into the wild. Ben Kilham’s reintroduction method is adapted by Hou Rong for this purpose. American conservation biologist Jake Owens’ expertise in rugged terrains also proves crucial for the reintroduction. But the heart and soul of the documentary lies in the perspective of giant panda cub Qian Qian. She’s sweet, innocent, her human friends love her, and every time she interacts with them, you’ll just be hooked.
Hou Rong and the other specialists’ purpose is to train Qian Qian to be ready to take on a world that’s always been hers. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
You’ll watch her learn to climb trees and other activities, mainly sitting around and eating bamboo. But by the end of the film, the emptiness in your heart will kick in as you watch Qian Qian left all alone, fending for herself, and not knowing if she can survive in the wilderness. Looking into her eyes, you’ll know that she’s not the panda cut out for this.
Still, we love this film for its honesty and non-sugary climax. It may have left a dent in our hearts, but it just gives us hope — a hope that one day, many pandas like Qian Qian will roam in the wild, like they were meant to.
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Ultra-modern NIMS cancer facility to start from today
Thu 13 Sep 2018, 12:26:13
A state-of-the-art cancer centre is set to be thrown open for patients at Nizam’s Institute of Medical Sciences (NIMS) on Thursday. Developed at a cost of Rs 10 crore, the 50-bed facility has been developed by Megha Engineering Infrastructures Ltd (MEIL) and is equipped with all ultra-modern facilities on a par with corporate hospitals.
There are five beds in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU), 12 beds for men, 10 beds for women, 11 beds for children and 12 beds have been set aside for a speciality leukaemia ward. The 18,000 sft completely air-conditioned cancer centre also has an exclusive Oncology Critical Care Unit (OCCU).
Started in June, 2017, the cancer centre building works were completed within a year. According to MEIL authorities, the entire building has false ceiling with LED lights, CC cameras, electrical room and a bed lift to carry 20 patients at a time.
The ICU is provided with oxygen and vacuum pressure facility and every two beds in wards have access to oxygen and vacuum facility. Doctors’ room, faculty room, store room, processing room and staff rooms at the facility make it a full-fledged unit to deal with any kind of emergency with regard to cancer patients.
Minister for Municipal Administration and Urban Development (MA&UD) K T Rama Rao, Health Minister C Laxma Reddy, MEIL chairman P P Reddy and co-founder and MEIL Managing Director Krishna Reddy will participate in the inaugural event on Thursday.
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Nuke this site from orbit. Only way to be sure
Posted by: Elizabeth Sandifer 4 years ago
Part One: Comics
From worst to best of what I voluntarily paid money for.
Secret Wars #4
It's not even that it's a bad comic. It's just that, well, at this point it's become impossible to read this comic as a separate phenomenon from the overall realignment of Marvel comics (see part two of this post). Here we have what is in effect a brutal rejection of an entire line of thought in Marvel comics that has been going for several years - the Cyclops-as-Revolutionary angle. The comic is explicitly configured to allow Cyclops's vision of fiery rebirth a moment in the sunlight and then to cut it down. Specifically in favor of a Reed vs Doom story. Although with the knowledge that both X-Men and Fantastic Four are being consciously downplayed within Marvel right now for broader corporate reasons, it's tough to see that as a promising dualism either.
The real problem, though, is that I've always wanted to root for the Cyclops-as-Revolutionary angle. I've always thought that challenge to what superhero narratives are was worth exploring seriously and allowing the possibility of moral validity. Hickman turns away from it very, very hard here. I reject that, aesthetically. It's not even that I think Cyclops is morally right. I think that's a functionally meaningless question within the melodramatic metaphysics of a superhero universe. It's that I think Cyclops is a vehicle for giving voice to perspectives superhero narratives don't usually get to explore, and that Hickman gave him depressingly short shrift here.
Yes, there's more issues and this may turn around. But this is a review of this specific issue. And given Secret Wars demands to be read as a meta-commentary on the state of Marvel Comics, I think what it's saying this month is rank fucking bullshit.
Grant Morrison's 18 Days #1
Honestly, I just think it's unfair to ask the world to offer any sort of critical judgment of this, and I'm half-inclined to say that I'm going to buy it and not review it. It's clearly not a major Grant Morrison project. And look, I don't begrudge him taking the money and running, which he's clearly done with this. But this book is a Kirby pastiche reworking of the Mahabharata with an artist who is not Jack Kirby. And a writer who is not Jack Kirby. It's pretty. It's competent. But what on Earth is one supposed to say of it? Morrison is in the backmatter comparing himself favorably to Lord of the Rings and Shakespeare. This issue doesn't stand up to either. But equally, it seems vital to note that the problem is not what the book is - a western comic based on Hindi mythology. The problem is that this is just a Kirby pastiche of novel subject matter.
Ultimate End #3
There's a shell game here, obviously. This book inherits its premise from other bits of Secret Wars. Not all of those bits are out yet. So the precise nature of Manhattan and of this mash-up of the 616 and Ultimate Universes is not yet revealed. I am interested in that question. The problem is, like Jason Aaron's Thor run, it's an intellectual problem, not a story.
Darth Vader #7
We switch to the good stuff for the week, I'm happy to say. Or, at least, what we might call the "good but didn't quite work for me" stretch of reviews. This is capable, interesting, and still a Star Wars comic that I'm buying purely for the fact that I enjoy watching the writer work. In this case he doesn't do anything that immediately grabs me, which is in no way a valid criticism.
Years of Future Past #2
A serviceable comic undermined by the fact that anything X-Men and Secret Wars related is aggressively ephemeral. That's not a problem of course; the demand that comics "matter" is a very silly one based on a misunderstanding of what comics are. The problem, I think, is that Bennett is too restrained as a writer. She's got loads of talent and style - the Colossus monologue page is a brilliant piece of style. She writes a brilliant Magneto. The final page reveal is a massive grin-inducer. But she has a post-apocalyptic team of mutants none of whom have to survive, and this book comes off as timid compared to its canvas.
Chew #50
I can tell that this is a well-structured issue. It's obvious that it's an interesting plot beat to throw at issue #50 of a sixty-issue series. It pays off a lot of stuff. It's clearly a good comic. And I am entirely aware that my problem with this issue is quite literally my problem - one unique to me, and a failing on my part as a reader. That said, it builds to a final page reveal that depends on my being able to identify a character who has no dialogue in this issue. And... I can't. I forget who the blonde woman in Chu's arms is. I don't remember her relationship with anyone. I'm sure she's done stuff in the book and is important, but... nope. Total blank. So the whole thing just sort of... deflates for me. Like I said, my fault. My failing. Still didn't work for me.
A-Force #2
It's interesting to basically watch a book be demoed on a setting other than its actual one. Which is to say, I like A-Force, the comic about female Avengers led by She-Hulk. I like the takes on the major characters. I like the choices of major characters. But this still falls slightly short for me. I think it's because, as an issue, it's kind of vacant. As with Years of Future Past, Bennett (and she would appear to be lead on this issue) doesn't really go for the sort of "and now for the big moment" revelry that the pop comics style she's a best fit for demands. There's no moment that feels like punching the air and saying "that's what I spent my money for." She's good. I think she can deliver some top drawer comics. But she needs to work on that aspect of her game.
The Wicked and the Divine #12
And now we shift to the great stuff. And this is great. Gillen handles the shift away from McKelvie well. Kate Brown is a good transitional artist for this, maintaining the book's basic visual grammar but introducing us to a spin on the premise. But this is a calm between the storms issue; Gillen is running out the clock, going down some side alleys and doing his worldbuilding. But it's an obvious bit of non-misdirection. He's flagging, in a variety of ways, that we're eventually going to circle back to Laura and, by extension, Lucifer. I mean, if nothing else, gee, it's funny how every god who's died so far is an underworld god. I WONDER WHAT THE AFTERLIFE IS LIKE.
Which works. There's a tension of an eventual reveal that infuses a side trip like "let's pay attention to Cass's old assistants for an issue" with a really compelling tension, especially as the larger "who's going to figure out what Ananke is actually up to first" game plays out in the background. As serialize drama, the moving parts are exquisitely put together.
Equally, and again this comes down to "we're judging issues here, not books," Gillen makes a Sandman analogy in the backmatter that's on point. This issue - maybe this arc, but certainly this issue - is one of those side trips like the dead boy detectives in Seasons of Mists or the entirety of World's End - a conscious step away from the main story. And the truth is... well, that's why Sandman works better in trade.
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl #7
What can I say. Ryan North is funny. He has clever ideas. This book shows that off. There are many highlights, and I will not spoil it for anyone who hasn't read it. Oh, OK. Ratatoskr.
Uber #26
Sheer bravado. Uber's version of "Blackwater" or "The Watchers on the Walls," with an entire issue spent on a single battle. With twenty-five issues of buildup that have screamed loudly that this is not a book that offers a rosy view of war or history, the idea of a major battle testing a sympathetic character's technical capabilities is genuinely terrifying. Uber has taught us to fear, very much, for our main characters. And this issue trades on that, while maintaining an exquisite balance of personal character focus and sweeping historical scope. Small moments and big ones juxtapose. It's awful. It's ugly. It's intriguing. It's brilliant. Fucking hell, this book.
Part Two: The Marvel Previews
From best to worst, with a clear marker of where the stuff I'll buy ends.
Karnak - Well, it'll only be six issues, but this is delightfully batshit.
Ms. Marvel - "Crushed it" indeed.
Spider-Man - Love me some Miles Morales.
A-Force - Wilson is an autobuy. Love the cast.
Ultimates - Galactus on a team book by Al Ewing, yes please. Also Miss America. All the yes.
Invincible Iron Man - Bendis on Iron Man sounds a safe bet.
All-New All Different Avengers - Great cast, Waid's a reasonably secure bet as a writer.
Uncanny Avengers - Have liked enough of what I've seen of Duggan to try this, but Deadpool is worrisome.
New Avengers - Buying entirely because Ewing is an autobuy for at least a first issue, but nothing that grabs me here as such. Squirrel Girl's nice.
Guardians of the Galaxy - Bendis is, ultimately, still an autobuy, although this has hardly been my favorite book of his.
Contest of Champions - Seems very silly, but I'll always give an Ewing book a shot, as I said, and very silly could be fun.
Spider-Gwen - The abrupt pause in the series after #5 definitely screwed up momentum on this for me, not least because it wasn't a great issue, so this could end up being a jumping off point for me eventually, but it's not yet.
Angela: Asgard's Assassin - As the above reviews suggest, Bennett isn't quite catching for me, but I kind of want to give her more chance, and I am already invested in the plot here. This is the lowest-ranked book to be a definite buy for #1.
Spider-Woman - The premise grabs me, and I have a vague intention of giving Hopeless a try, as I don't think I gave him a fair shake previously, so this is the best bet of where that might happen.
Howard the Duck - Have had enough recommendations for this that I mean to check out the first run. If that's good, will buy this too.
Sam Wilson, Captain America - Nick Spencer can be good, and I like the idea of a Sam/Steve schism. Give me more premise and we'll see.
Daredevil - Soule is hit and miss, but he does do good lawyers, and the Daredevil/Gambit pair is intriguing.
Web Warriors - Maybe, as I like some of the characters, but I'm pointedly trying to keep my pulls down, and this seems exactly the sort of book I can decide against.
The Totally Awesome Hulk - I don't know, who is the Hulk? I tend not to like questions like that, but the name charms me.
Venom: Spaceknight - OK, those are not two words I expected to see together, and that raises an eyebrow at least.
Uncanny Inhumans - Probably not, as I haven't fallen in love with any of Soule's previous Inhumans work, but I'm not saying no.
All-New Wolverine - OK, this doesn't grab me inherently, but mostly because I don't know who Taylor is. I like the art and the premise. The highest-ranked "maybe" for me - everything below this is a 0% chance of my buying it barring new information.
Amazing Spider-Man - Haven't loved Slott's stuff post-Superior Spider-Man, and think this will be my exit from Spider-Man.
Captain Marvel - I haven't gotten to Agent Carter episode two yet, and it's been months, so I don't think this team will win me back.
All-New X-Men - Of the three X-Men books, this is the most promising, not least as I do mean to give Hopeless a try on something, as I said. But with the X-Men line on the whole looking droppable right now, this falls below the plausibility point.
Extraordinary X-Men - Lemire and Ramos are both "not dealbreaker" sorts of creators, so this just sort of leaves me cold, but I do like the feel for an X-Men book.
Uncanny X-Men - Interesting premise, but I have no faith in either Bunn or Marvel tackling this sort of sinister X-book.
Nova - Gutted to see that this does not feature the awesome Nova family from Infinity Gauntlet.
Doctor Strange - I don't think I like Jason Aaron's work.
The Mighty Thor - Will be dropping this, as I just don't dig the angle.
Hawkeye - I like the Clint vs Kate premise, but I've not been following post-Fraction Hawkeye, and this doesn't look set to grab me.
Spider-Man 2099 - Glad people who like this have a book.
Star-Lord - Haven't felt a hole in my life without a Star-Lord book before, don't imagine I'll start now.
Old Man Logan - Not the Wolverine book I suspect I want.
Ant-Man - Just sort of the purest distillation of "meh" for me.
Silk - The character hasn't grabbed me yet, and the villainy tone of the solicit leaves me cold.
Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. - I don't even like the television series.
Drax - Can't see this working for me.
Vision - Don't know the writer, no obvious hook in the premise, not a character that grabs me
Illuminati - this looks utterly not like my thing.
Deadpool - I don't like Deadpool.
Howling Commandos of S.H.I.E.L.D. - Cute premise, but this seems the embodiment of "cool idea but not a book I would enjoy." Low place mainly due to the appalling resolution of the art, I suspect.
Scarlet Witch - Robinson does not currently interest me, especially not after this shitstorm.
Squadron Supreme - Cannot imagine why I would buy this.
Carnage - I loathe Conway's work.
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unnoun 4 years ago
I am not seeing nearly enough Squirrel Girl on this list. What even is this garbage?
Alan 4 years ago
I stopped collecting comics after Civil War Frontline #11. Nothing that has happened in the nearly ten years since has induced me to start back. BMB's run on Uncanny X-Men came close, but, as I anticipated, it was a 25 issue build up to "hey, let's crap all over Cyclops again."
Pantswilder 4 years ago
**Uber vague spoilers below**
I am curious what you see as the point of the Uber comics as of the end of issue 26? I will happy acknowledge the high level of quality in its production. The writing is excellent, the characters compelling, and the art, while occasionally spotty, really delivers where it counts.
But it seems to be little more than a very well made argument for nihilism at this point. The series relentlessly points out the uselessness of honor, bravery, sympathy, and self-sacrifice in the face of evil's overwhelming strength or just good luck.
The Road was a relentlessly depressing book about the more positive aspects of humanity in the face of unavoidable, unconquerable evil, but it managed to put meaning in the struggle to maintain humanity in the face of that doom. If it had taken the same tack as Uber, the main character would have had 3 children so he could watch helplessly as one at a time they were taken from him despite all efforts to save them, and then eaten slowly before his eyes by the cannibals.
I saw someone else say reading Uber is like an abusive relationship, and that has the hard ring of truth to it. It beats you mercilessly with unrelenting horror. Then it offers you hope, shows you a light at the end of the dark, DARK tunnel, and takes sadistic glee in dismantling that hope in as ugly a way as possible.
****MORE SERIOUS SPECIFIC SPOILERS****
The extremely tight timing and blind luck of the Japanese battleship's appearance in the Battle of Calais beggars belief. As does the idea that for a full 30 minutes of fighting, and despite her much greater speed, durability, and reach, Leah is never able to land a single punch or grab on either Seiglinde or Siegmund? I thought when Gillen said this would be a comic where Galactus always beats Spider man meant that the strong would always beat the weak. But I suppose he meant the evil would always beat the good, regardless of relative strengths.
Though, I guess, he did sort of write himself into a corner. By choosing the very end of the war, and keeping the number of battleships so small but so invincible, he is stuck with a situation where the loss of even a single German battleship battleship or the presence of even a single competent Allied battleship means game over.
I get it, good triumphing over evil is for some other comic. Spiderman does not always beat Galactus. But what is the point? What is this comic proving other than it is possible to abuse your readership and they will come back for more if the pain is packaged well enough?
Because honestly, Uber has made my life in the last week materially worse, and I want to understand why that is okay.
Elizabeth Sandifer 4 years ago
Well, first of all, I'm not sure we can conclude that Uber is nihilistic until, well, Uber concludes. Although even if it is nihilistic... is that a bad position to take on war? Especially on the particular nexus of World War II and superheroes? Even if all Uber amounts to is a condemnation of the poisoned roots of superhero comics... that's hardly a small aesthetic achievement. Certainly it's a critique on new grounds.
I confess that the precise strength mechanics of the Ubers is not something I keep good track of. I appreciate that Gillen has clearly put a tremendous amount of thought into the mechanics and the plausibility of his wargaming, and I think that comes out in the end result, but I don't have anything near the patience to check his math, as it were.
But in the end... I don't think "nihilist" is a flaw in a work of art. I am perfectly willing to embrace well-done nihilism.
To be fair, it's not Bendis that took the final crap here.
Firstly, thank you very much for responding! I have had very little luck finding anyone to discuss this comic with. And it has had a very powerful effect on me that I really wanted to explore.
I have some nits to pick with the supposed plausibility of the wargaming*. And I guess I am not sure what you mean by the "poisoned roots of superhero comics". What exactly is the issue with Jewish kids in New York writing stories about powerful good guys protecting the weak from evil? And why would World War 2 be a good setting for exploring nihilism? World War 1 fits the bill, a horrific, monsterous, grinding conflict filled with futility and horror started for no real reason and ultimately accomplishing nothing but setting the stage for World War 2. But World War 2 itself? It is the best, and possibly only, example in human history of a war that is clearly a fight between good and evil, and good won.
*Mostly the large numbers of new ubers the Germans produce AFTER the Battle of Berlin, compared to the Allies. Germany's economy and infrastructure were smoking ruins in April 1945, while the US economy at the time was producing 2-4 times what Germany was able to produce at the height of their power. America had the money, manpower, infrastructure, population buy-in, and institutional organization to test huge swaths of their population and the industrial power and natural resources to massively produce catalyst.
Germany on the other hand, while assuredly having a huge up-swell of patriotic fervor following the appearance of the Ubers, faced massive breakdowns in every area of their national structure. Certainly that would have turned around with the victory in Berlin, but it would have taken time to build factories and create a mass testing program.
And thanks to Freya's sabotage, Germany and the western allies are starting from the same place production-wise in May, just with Germany having ~1000 ubers including 3 battleships already made. If Sankt was able to produce 1000 ubers in a couple years in secret with the budget one imagines granted an unsuccessful weapons program, the fully awakened American giant with six months should have had many times that number ready for Calais. But this is just a long-winded nit. My problem with the comic goes beyond internal consistency.
Ultimately, I think a lot of the point of Uber is to challenge the idea that World War II is "the good war." Not, mind you, to challenge the idea that the Nazis were evil as fuck. It's *very* unambiguous on that point. But to challenge the idea that opposing evil constitutes goodness, and to look at a lot of the assumptions about power that underly superhero comics. (The Superman/Ubermensch parallel being an oft-observed one.)
So I suppose my answer would be that I think your discomfort and unease is a sign that the comic is working as intended.
Jeff Heikkinen 4 years ago
I agree on Robinson not being terribly interesting, but not on the linked article being a good reason for avoiding him. All it shows is that he wrote something in which a character uses some anti-trans slurs. There doesn't seem to be any indication, in the excerpts given, that Robinson endorses these views. If anything, what little we see of his other characters suggests they think the slur-using character is a bit of a dick.
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Crash log of the Singularity
Posted by: Josh Marsfelder 6 years ago
Shame I already used "I got your gun".
I suspect if there's one episode of the original Star Trek that my readers will expect me to come up with some mad, overblown stream-of-consciousness, recursive mess of a writeup for it would probably be this one. I hate to disappoint expectations, but that's not going to be the case here. There was a fairly unbroken streak of episodes starting midway through the season that all seemed to call out for that kind of interpretation, hence a number of the last few blog posts have been in that style, and there's at least one more coming up that will more likely than not warrant it as well, so my abandoning that structure is certainly not something to worry about for the short term. However, “Space Seed” calls for a different approach.
The elephant in the room is naturally that this episode provides the subject matter for the consensus-best Star Trek movie, which is at once a kind of revisit and reimagining of the events of “Space Seed” and also the debut of Nicholas Meyer's unique, and much loved, interpretation of the franchise. Whether or not I feel Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan is actually deserving of the kind of breathless worship it gets from mainline fandom or is worthy of the title of Best Trek Ever, let alone Perfect Cinematic Masterpiece, is something I'm not going to even begin to worry about until we reach 1982, which is still quite a long ways off from where we are now.
The more important thing to keep in mind for now is that Carey Wilber, who was the actual writer of this episode is not Nicholas Meyer, and this is really where we need to begin before we get anywhere near close to figuring out what this episode really is. Gene Coon has a secondary credit on the teleplay, but given this episode's plot and general tone I'm going to assume he just did some cleanup work after the fact because, for reasons I'll get into a bit later, “Space Seed” doesn't feel like Coon's material at all. Actually, I'll just come out and tip my hand right away. I'm positive this is going to be a nuclear bomb of a claim to make and this is without doubt the entry that will turn away any longterm Star Trek fans who haven't been driven off already, but this is my reaction and my blog and I get to say it: This episode is bad. Really bad.
Actually, I take back part of that last paragraph. This isn't *bad* television: It's as competently and professionally made as any of the strongest episodes of the series so far. In this regard, the incoherent structural jumble of something like “The Menagerie”, or especially “The Alternative Factor”, is much worse. But the thing is both of those episodes hinted at, or maybe accidentally hit on, deeper, more exciting concepts and wound up delightfully oversignified as a result. No, “Space Seed” isn't *bad* television, it's *wrong* television. We're right back in the territory we last tread in “The Corbomite Maneuver”, and in fact this one is infinitely worse: What we've got here is a perfect microcosm and embodiment of everything that's wrong with Star Trek in 1967.
Let's start with the obvious. Marla McGivers is terrible. She spends her off-time drawing and lusting over erotica of muscly, hyper-masculine historical figures and when she actually has a job to do she stands around dumbly and immediately falls for Khan before the dude's even been defrosted. Once Khan comes aboard the Enterprise, she quickly and enthusiastically submits to his dominance and authority and than enters into what can absolutely only be described as an abusive relationship with him. Furthermore, McGivers' character is *defined* by her submissiveness: In Wilber's original script, she was meant to have a friend named Yeoman Baker, and there was to be a scene where Baker tells her a Lieutenant Hanson wants to take McGivers to the ship's dance, which is apparently a thing now. McGivers was to have told Hanson to “get lost” and that she was “waiting for a man who will knock down my door and carry me to where he wants me”. And, well, there's not a whole lot of ways for me to redeem that.
What's almost even worse than McGivers herself is how the rest of the crew treats her. Kirk is noticeably disdainful and dismissive towards her from the beginning, sneering at the notion a mere historian would be a part of his crew. With one line, the show brings up years and years of prejudice towards both women and the humanities, and how the two are a natural, proper fit for each other. The humanities are frequently seen as more “feminine”, and thus inferior, fields of study when compared to the hard sciences, or indeed the military. That scene was enough to get me balled up with rage, and this offensively authoritarian, male supremacist attitude defines the rest of the episode. McGivers might even have been acceptable to me had there been other women to contrast her with: Maybe Yeoman Baker would have been that character. I doubt it, but we'll never know. Even when “Shore Leave” gave us Yeoman Barrows, who was almost comically stereotypical, that episode at least also had Alice to contrast with her. McGivers is played painfully straight and just lands at irredeemably offensive and retrograde.
There's Uhura, of course, but I can't keep leaning on Uhura as a feminist and racial Get-Out-Of-Jail-Free card for the show. The blunt reality is she's simply not an important enough character according to the show's own internal structure and logic. I wish she was, but 23 episodes after her debut, her role hasn't developed much beyond generic background space switchboard operator and she barely gets any lines in any given episode. Nichelle Nichols is a wonderful stage presence and makes Uhura far more memorable and likable a character than she would have been without her, but the sad truth is this simply isn't enough. And here, of course, she gets beaten by Khan's super-soldiers and bursts into tears.
Then we come to Khan himself. Now, before I get any more hate for this piece than I already know I'm going to get, let me first say for the record Ricardo Montalbán is brilliant: He delivers a tremendously multi-layered and charismatic performance that's unlike just about anything else we've seen on Star Trek so far, and that alone may be the reason this story gets revisited in fifteen years' time. The first thing to note about Khan as a character then is he's another in a line of evil or otherwise dark doubles or reflections of Captain Kirk. A surprisingly significant number of episodes this season have dealt with this theme: First we had Gary Mitchell in “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, then the Good!Kirk/Evil!Kirk split in “The Enemy Within”, Kirk's android duplicate in “What Are Little Girls Made Of?” and Trelane in “The Squire of Gothos”. By this point this particular thread could charitably be called “tired”, but Khan is without question the most memorable of the lot.
Khan is also a unique twist on this particular formula, and it's worth putting in the context of all those other characters like him. Coon's big contribution to this script seems to be changing Khan's background details. Wilber originally wrote him as Harold Erikson, a regular, non-enhanced criminal who would become a space pirate. Coon apparently suggested Erikson should become “a true rival to Kirk” and introduced the genetic engineering dictator plotlines. The name change to Khan came when Montalbán was cast (the Noonien was apparently Gene Roddenberry's idea, who named him after an old Chinese friend of his he wanted to reconnect with, which I'll just let speak for itself). Of course, as conceived this gives the character rather disturbing Nazi overtones, especially given the way the episode as filmed actually plays out. Whether or not it's better he became a charismatic, masculine, generically foreign man (Khan is supposedly Indian, Montalbán is Mexican, the show seems to think the two are one and the same) is something I'll leave to you to hash out.
Regardless, Coon's edit is worth paying very close attention to: He specifically said in order to become a match for Kirk, Khan would need to be functionally superhuman, which is highly interesting given the reading about Kirk's character we've been building since “Where No Man Has Gone Before”. We should also contrast Khan with Trelane, the last such instance of an antagonist being a mirror of Kirk: What's crucial to note here I feel is that Trelane was for all intents and purposes a mirror of William Shatner, or at least Shatner's performance-He's the other side of Shatner's drag action hero. Khan, however, is explicitly a rival for *Kirk*, or at least he's meant to be, and Jim Kirk-as-written and William Shatner are absolutely not interchangeable, something a great many Star Trek fans and, actually, members of the larger pop culture, would do well to remember. But Khan is more than just Kirk's evil clone or doppelganger; He's also his equal, and by doing this the show opens up a whole host of problematic subtexts, and I'm not sure exactly where this leaves Star Trek at the end of it all.
What I do know is that, through this, “Space Seed” takes the show to some very dark places, and I'm not convinced this is a good thing. Khan is a ruthless dictator and the product of eugenics such that he considers himself morally, intellectually and physically superior to anyone not of his lineage. Also, as befits his name, his one desire is to conquer the universe and lord over an empire of his making. But Khan is also frequently and distressingly validated in these beliefs: In many ways he really *is* superior, or at least the show seems to want us to think he is. He frequently comments on how humanity hasn't fundamentally changed in two centuries, easily outmaneuvers and dispatches the Enterprise crew, and the only reason Kirk survives his intended execution is due to McGivers betraying Khan and saving his life at the last second in an act that is framed both diegetically and extradiegetically as a “weakness” on her part. Even once Kirk regains control of the ship and rounds up Khan and his soldiers, the hearing he gives is essentially a surrender-As Khan explicitly says, he gets what he wants. A planet to rule and turn into the seat of a new empire. Khan wins.
What's even more disturbing is that Kirk, McCoy and Scott *admire* Khan, and are furthermore actually in *awe* of him. Once they discern his identity, they take turns musing that he was “one of the good ones”, stresses that there were “no deaths” under his rule and go out of their way to praise his charisma, energy, ambition and style of dictatorship. This manages to do the impossible and cause Spock to be visibly shocked and appalled, but his protests are laughed down and dismissed with an incredibly unconvincing bit from Kirk and McCoy about how humans can detest a person for what they did while admiring their stamina. This is exacerbated by the fact Kirk and McCoy are just about the most patronizing and demeaning to Spock we've ever seen them: McCoy calls him unfeeling and inhuman and launches into an ugly rage for really no reason and Kirk is intolerably smug and condescending to him throughout the entire episode. This is, frankly, undistilled speciesism conveyed in racist language and bald-facedly patriarchal. No manner of diverse casting is going to make up for this.
But this is, sadly, to be expected, given what the rest of this episode is doing. Look at the word choice here: If Khan is Kirk's “rival” or equal and opposite, than we're to take them as expressly comparable entities. The threat Khan poses is not that of a dark mirror of what humanity might become or the dangerously re-emerged relic of a misbegotten age long in the past, it's that he might just show himself to be manlier and more competent than Kirk. The central battle of “Space Seed” isn't authoritarianism sparring with democracy, nor is it even a fight over the value of eugenics: It's a war to control the Enterprise and over who gets to be the leading man. The show is overtly likening Kirk to Khan, and it's not doing anything to problematize this. And Kirk definitely is not opposed to Khan on principle: Putting aside for the moment his hero worship of Khan's suave badassery, his dropping of official charges against him and granting him and his followers a planet has to be seen as a tacit endorsement of his beliefs. If he were truly interested in demonstrating humanity had evolved, he absolutely would have brought Khan to justice. Even Spock gets to say “It would be worthwhile to return in several centuries to see what grew of the seed you planted here today”.
Aside from once again completely derailing the ethics of Star Trek, this also gives us one of the most distressing morals in the show's history. There is an unsettling tendency amongst some classical liberals to believe that a temporary dictatorship might be beneficial, even necessary, to bring about true egalitarianism in the future. There is a quote often attributed to 18th century French economic philosopher Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune in which he is alleged to have said “Give me five years of despotism and France shall be free”. The alleged theory, which is scarily believable given some aspects of liberal thought, is that an enlightened absolute ruler would be better than looser, more generative forms of government because we'd finally have someone who knew what they were doing in charge and he (it's always a he) would be able to institute reform without hindrance from annoying checks and balances from less-intelligent obstructionists. I'm also reminded of the Philosopher Kings mentioned in Plato's The Republic, which uses very similar language: People would be best served under the kind, wise and benevolent patrician authority of a king who was also a scholar. Jesse Walker, editor of Reason Magazine, further elaborates on these issues in this article, where he takes to task free-market economist F.A. Hayek, Jorge Louis Borges and other such leftist thinkers who, in seeming violation of their stated beliefs elsewhere, at one time or another expressed fondness and admiration for Vladimir Lenin, Mao Tse Tung and Augusto Pinochet, some of the most violently right-wing totalitarian governments of the modern age.
This is what Khan is. A tyrannical dictator, but one of the “good” ones. A monomaniacal despot, but one who is somehow more “enlightened” and “liberal” in his views, as if that's supposed to be some kind of excuse. His eugenics backstory and the crew's deference to him is incredibly telling: Khan is not some artefact of Earth's shameful past: If Star Trek is about idealistic futurism, then Khan is the show's own potential future. After all, as he is so fond of saying, humanity hasn't evolved much, and right now the terrifying thing is he's the only clear-cut vision of the future Star Trek's given us so far. And why wouldn't he be? Wasn't the original pitch for the show about a crew of space naval officers going around telling morality plays, teaching everyone the difference between Right and Wrong? Just last episode we had Kirk strolling onto Eminiar VII and making all their decisions for them, all the while touting humanity's inherent barbarism. Here we have him the most stern, authoritarian and masculine he's been since “The Corbomite Maneuver” and treating Spock with open contempt for not being human enough to understand the value of emotion and illogic. Why isn't the end result of this train of thought going to look suspiciously like Khan Noonien Singh?
And let's go one better. Let's also take another look at Khan's relationship with McGivers. At first, this seems to open up the one confusing structural logic hole in the otherwise very tight production we've got this week: Khan has thirty genetically perfect Überfraus aboard the Botany Bay: Why would he waste his time pursuing someone of inferior stock? His interest in McGivers can really only be seen as a means to an end to get access to the Enterprise. Sure, he gets a line at the end about how she's a “superior woman” and he's glad she's joining them, but it really doesn't take as far as I'm concerned. But that's exactly it. The reason Khan is interested in McGivers is horrifically clear: Because he can use her. Because he can control her. He can dominate her completely and utterly and she'll love it. Oh, she may not at first, but he'll just need to give her a strict lesson from the back of his hand to make her step in line before him. Of course he's not going to be interested in the Überfraus: They're his equals, or perhaps they might be superior to even him in some respects. Either way he'd have to treat them accordingly, and that's not something Khan wants in a female companion. Nor, would it seem, is it what Star Trek wants in its female characters.
We're coming off of a stretch of episodes that have been about nothing if not tearing down the show as it exists right now bit by bit. This isn't by definition a bad thing, but against that backdrop “Space Seed” is horrifying. This episode would have us believe the only way forward for Star Trek is Khan's enlightened despotism. Well I'm not going to stand for that: There is absolutely nothing leftist or progressive about authoritarianism, totalitarianism and male supremacy, no matter how much “liberal” or “socialist” language the monster wishes to clothe himself in. Tyranny and domination are tyranny and domination regardless of the form they take. I cannot tolerate this and I will not accept this. The other side of the argument is no better: Can the equation of Kirk and Khan, and thus “Space Seed” on the whole, be read as yet another condemnation of the show's militarism and patriarchy? If so that's even worse, as Coon has doomed the show to an inevitable and inescapable future of iron-fisted despotism.
But, no matter how toxic it may be, I'm stuck with it for now. Thanks in no small part to the success of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, there are few episodes in the Original Series more influential, more fondly remembered or with more of an artificially inflated reputation than “Space Seed”. And, as a result, I'm marooned here. Trapped once again facing down the show's Death Drive, this time brought upon by its own egotistical conception of itself and delusions of lordship. I really want to help turn Star Trek into something that can be taken as a genuine source for good in the world and as a version of idealism that it's actually possible to respond to and is something to strive towards. But at the moment the biggest obstacle in my path is Star Trek itself: I can, once again, appeal to the future, but now it's a question of what that future is going to entail, exactly. A future that leads to Khan Noonien Singh is not one anyone should be allow to come to pass.
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Adam Riggio 6 years ago
I feel bad that no one has commented on this, because this was cruising for a bruising from fans of traditional Star Trek.
Which is a shame, because I pretty much agree with you about this whole episode. The idea that Kirk and most of the human crew would admire Khan is ridiculous, but a lot of people still remember Franco and Pinochet and Stalin positively. So just as the distance of history can let us sometimes get a more clear view of past atrocities, that same distance can also blind us to some terrible things.
Some random thoughts:
- The conflict of Kirk and Khan in this episode isn't a moral conflict, but a turf war. Kirk (and likely most of the human Enterprise crew with their rose-tinted glasses) has no trouble letting Khan settle an uncolonized world to build his new dictatorship. The only problem Kirk has is when Khan wants his ship to lead his new empire. Space Seed's conflicts are about territorial pissings.
- Khan's ethnicity is clear throughout his portrayal here, in Wrath of Khan, and in his portrayal by Cumberbatch. He's obviously Shiftystani.
- No Star Trek writer knew how to write for women until probably around DS9 (ie. just as you'd write a fully developed male character with a complex history, personality, and individual backstory, except her name is Kira).
Iain Coleman 6 years ago
As far as Wrath of Khan is concerned, come on. It's Moby Dick in space, with Shatner as the whale. What's not to love?
Josh Marsfelder 6 years ago
Well, Khan, for one. And the fact it retroactively makes people think "Space Seed" was a good idea. And then there's the issue of Nicholas Meyer, but I'm keeping mum on him for now.
"No Star Trek writer knew how to write for women until probably around DS9..."
I thought Counselor Troi and Doctor Crusher turned out pretty well. It took Micheal Piller to make them work, naturally, but the redemption job he pulls on TNG is the stuff of legends. And of course, he's the same guy primarily responsible for making DS9 as good as it was.
Tasha Yar had a ton of potential and is one of the most unique and special characters in all of Star Trek IMO, but Gene Roddenberry and Maurice Hurley screwed the pooch on her so hard it can be tough to see sometimes. Also, don't forget Ro Laren and Guinan.
"(ie. just as you'd write a fully developed male character with a complex history, personality, and individual backstory, except her name is Kira)."
Or Jadzia.
BerserkRL 6 years ago
he (it's always a he)
Except when it's Elizabeth I.
One thing that "Space Seed," Wrath of Khan, and Star Trek: Into Darkness have in common is that we keep being told that all of Khan's people are genetic uebermenschen, but Khan is the only one we ever see do anything interesting.
If the other people on Khan's ship in Wrath of Khan were really hyper-intelligent, super-strong, ultra-ambitious uebermenschen, they'd say to each other: "Khan's obsession with Kirk is counter-productive. Let's relieve him of command and get the hell out of Federation space." Not "yours is the superior intellect, and I am happy to die pointlessly as cannon fodder in your personal grudge match."
Maybe that's another reason he didn't like the Überfraus and why we never see them again after that first scene where they're revived.
A very interesting argument could be made about women in positions of absolute power (or even just aspiring to it) internalizing specific aspects of patriarchy and male supremacist thought. Queens are already treated as "exceptions" to many things.
Though not everyone was willing to play along.
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Chestnut Hill Investments v 169 Stamford Hill Road [2006] JOL 18330(D) - Guarantees: Due date not stipulated in contract - When must it be furnished?
If an agreement of sale of immovable property makes no provision for a guarantee date, and the purchaser stalls in furnishing it, what must be done before the seller can cancel the agreement?
In terms of the law the seller/conveyancer needs to place the purchaser in mora, give him reasonable time to rectify the breach and if he then does not rectify the breach, he can cancel. No surprises here - this has been the law all along. But see how this turned out in practice, in the Durban case of Chestnut Hill Investments v 169 Stamford Hill Road [2006] JOL 18330(D).
The seller in this case cancelled - or rather purported to cancel - the agreement due to the purchaser's failure to provide an acceptable guarantee for the purchase price after being placed on terms to do so. But the purchaser argued that the purported cancellation was not effective and applied to court for a declaratory order that the agreement was still valid and binding and that it was entitled to transfer of the property.
For those of you in a hurry, I will not keep up the suspense: The court (Southwood, AJ) found that the seller did succeed "albeit in a confused and inept way" in putting the purchaser in mora, and did effectively cancel the agreement. (I thought the 'inept' comment somewhat unfair, given the facts, but it is true that we must all remember the finer nuances of law that we sometimes overlook in the pressure of everyday conveyancing life.)
A brief discussion of the case follows below, but in the meantime here is a summary of the lessons that I learned from the case:
Those who draft agreements of sale for immovable property must remember to insert a due date for furnishing of guarantees. If such a date is not furnished it causes tremendous difficulties and could, like in the case under discussion, result in costly and lengthy litigation.
An attorney dealing with an agreement which makes no provision for a guarantee and where the purchaser fails to provide the required guarantee will first need to clearly place the purchaser in mora. If a purchaser is not duly placed in mora, any subsequent cancellation letter is void.
Remember not to ask for the guarantee too soon: This may be premature and jeopardise all further attempts to enforce or cancel the agreement. In the unfortunate event of an agreement not making provision for a due date for guarantee, the prevailing law is as set out in Hammer vs Klein 1951 (2) SA 101 (A), as discussed, interpreted and applied by various subsequent cases.
Be sure to study the breach clause in the relevant agreement and make sure of full compliance when sending "place you in breach" letters or cancellation letters to a party to the contract.
Hammer's case provides: "in such a case the date on which the buyer is obliged to provide a banker's guarantee depends upon the date on which the seller will be able to lodge the documents required for transfer with the Registrar of Deeds. The seller does not require the banker's guarantee until he is ready to lodge".
This position is highly unsatisfactory viewed from a transfer conveyancer's prospective. Be it as it may, this is the prevailing law, and a good reason for ensuring that due dates for guarantees are inserted into the agreement.
Summary of case
On 1 July 2004 the company known as 169 Stamford Hill Road ("S") sold remaining extent of erf 1436 Durban to Chestnut Hill Investments ("C") 150 Pty Ltd.
The agreement provides for a purchase price of R950,000 and paragraph 2.2 states the purchase price is to be provided by obtaining a loan from an acceptable financial institutions " … which the parties record has already been obtained". Nowhere in clause 2 is any specific mention made of a guarantee for payment of the purchase price.
Paragraph 4 of the agreement reads as follows:
The seller appoints conveyancers, J ... to attend to the registration of transfer.
The property must be transferred to the purchaser as soon as possible after the purchaser has delivered the guarantee referred to in 2 and paid the costs referred to in 4.3.
The purchaser shall pay the costs of the transfer, including transfer duty or VAT (if applicable) within seven (7) days after being called upon to do so by the conveyancers.
The parties shall, on request by the conveyancers, sign any documents required in connection with the registration of transfer.
Note that clause 4.2 states there is a reference to a guarantee in clause 2, but clause 2 does not mention such a guarantee.
Clause 11 of the agreement reads as follows:
"11. CANCELLATION FOR BREACH
11.1 Should either party commit a breach of this agreement and fail to remedy the breach three (3) days after receiving written notice to do so, then the other party will be entitled, without prejudice to any other remedy it may have, to cancel the agreement by giving written notice to that effect to the other party.
(No notice will be required if the purchaser fails to furnish the guarantee referred to in 2.1). (my emphasis).
11.2 Any notice sent to either parties pursuant to the agreement by way of a prepaid registered post addressed to the parties chosen domicilium shall be deemed to be received by the parties four (4) days after the posting thereof. Any notice delivered by hand shall be deemed to have been received on the day of such delivery".
Note that this breach clause makes reference to the guarantee in clause 2.1, but clause 2.1 bears no such reference. For 11.1 to become operative, there must first be a breach of the agreement. Secondly the breach must be followed by written notice to remedy the breach; and thirdly the notice to remedy must be followed by three (3) days during which there is a failure to remedy the breach complained of. Only if these three events occur a right to cancellation of the agreement arises.
The words "no notice will be required if the purchaser fails to furnish the guarantee referred to in 2.1" was found by the Court to mean that if the breach by the purchaser involved the purchaser being in mora due to non-delivery of the guarantee, it was not necessary to give three days in which to remedy the breach. In such a case (in other words as soon as the purchaser was in mora), the agreement could be cancelled by written notice.
The court found that the following rationale existed for this special treatment (no notice required, as soon as in mora may cancel) relating to guarantee-breach:
"...payment of the purchase price is the most important obligation imposed on the purchaser, and failure to provide for payment by a guarantee is a breach of the purchaser's most fundamental obligation. Thus the words in brackets provide both an incentive to the purchaser to be prompt in ensuring performance of this most important obligation, and a means for the seller to escape more quickly from a purchaser who fails promptly to make a proper provision to pay."
The court then discussed three cases which have a bearing on the matter, namely Hammer vs Klein 1951 (2) SA 101 (A), Linton vs Corser 1952 (3) SA 685 (A) and Wehr vs Botha 1965 (3) SA 46 (A). Even though an agreement does not expressly oblige a purchaser to provide a guarantee for the purchase price, and where no due date for it has been specified, the seller is entitled to ask for a guarantee (how else can he trust the purchaser to deliver payment against transfer?) but the seller cannot ask for this guarantee before a certain time in the transfer process.
In the Hammer case the rule was laid down that the buyer's obligation to provide a guarantee depends upon the date on which the seller will be able to lodge the documents required for transfer in the Deed's Office. Linton's case tempered this rule somewhat by stating that there is no duty on the seller to inform the buyer of the exact date when he proposes to lodge. The rule is sufficiently complied with if it is obvious to the purchaser on the receipt of the demand, that the seller is in a position to take immediate steps to give transfer and will do so, as soon as he is furnished with a satisfactory guarantee. In Wehr vs Botha it was found that there may sometimes be good reason for a seller to call for a guarantee at an earlier stage, for example when a seller 'parts with any possession' before transfer or in case of another act which may cause him prejudice if he is not eventually paid.
Despite the statement in clause 2.2 of the agreement that the loan had already been obtained, it became apparent to the transfer attorneys during the course of administering the transaction that the loan was still to be obtained from a company called Business Partners (Ltd). The conveyancers contacted Business Partners who informed them that it required the sale to be advertised in accordance with Section 34 of the Insolvency Act. The conveyancers did this shortly before 6 August 2006 despite expressing a view that Section 34 was not applicable and that S, the seller, had no contractual obligation to do so.
On 6th August the conveyancers wrote to C (the purchaser) insisting that they receive written confirmation from Business Partners that all the requirements have been met and that they were ready to proceed with registration of a bond. They stated in their letter: "we can unfortunately not tolerate any further delays in registering and should the matter not be expedited, we will have no option but to give effect to the cancellation of the sale and give you notice to vacate the premises on a monthly tenancy." This letter does not contain an explicit demand for a guarantee and as such cannot be said to have placed the purchaser in mora.
Also on 6 August 2004, the conveyancers received notification (the usual "letter from bond attorney to transferring attorney") from another firm of attorneys that they were attending to registration of the relevant mortgage bond.
On 18 August 2004, the conveyancers wrote to the bond attorneys enclosing their draft deed and containing the usual conveyancing provisions. As the judge put it, "thus the arrangement for the registration of the mortgage bond and payment of the purchase price were put in hand".
On 17 August 2004, the conveyancers wrote to C asking for the company documents as well as a copy of the VAT registration certificate and other relevant conveyancing documents. They also said in their letter: "we call upon you in terms of clause 11 of the agreement which will be enforced should the above not be provided within three (3) days as stipulated in this clause." In other words, the conveyancers placed the purchaser in mora with regards to furnishing of personal documents required for conveyancing purposes.
In the same letter, the conveyancers called for payment of costs "in terms of clause 4.2 of the Sale Agreement which indicates that we need payment of the transfer costs within seven (7) days from the date of this letter".
On 2 September 2004, the conveyancers wrote to C stating that, despite an undertaking to that effect, the name and identity number of the person who would be signing documents on behalf of C had not yet been furnished and neither had costs of transfer been paid. The conveyancers gave three day's notice under clause 11.1 in regard to these items.
On 9 September 2004, the conveyancers sent C various documents for signature and asked for their return duly signed and for payment of costs of transfer. Various telephone conversations took place and file notes confirm this.
By 28 September 2004 the position was that documents had still not been completed and costs of transfer had still not been paid. The conveyancers wrote a letter to C pointing out these facts and stating that they had cancelled the agreement.
This drew a reply from C's attorneys dated 30 September 2004. C's attorneys stated that the conveyancers had prematurely tried to force their client's hand and that their client would shortly be in a position to "attend to the necessary". It also confirmed that certain documents had been delivered.
By 20 October 2004, the only acts still outstanding/necessary to enable lodgement at the Deed's Office were:
(a) C giving its VAT number to the conveyancers;
(b) payment by C of its share of rates; and
(c) C's completion of the documents needed to register the mortgage bond in favour of Business Partners.
On 20 October 2004, the conveyancers faxed the bond attorneys and asked them to "please advise when we may receive the guarantee as required in our letter to you dated 18 October 2004". The conveyancers on the same day also faxed C stating that they were still waiting for the VAT number to get the transfer duty exemption certificate as well as payment of C's share of rates of R10,000.
By 5 January the only outstanding items were the furnishing of C's VAT number and the furnishing of guarantee. C's representative had by then signed all documents required for registration of the bond, with the bond attorneys. By 5 January 2005 both transfer attorneys and bond attorneys were ready to lodge their bond documents.
Then came the important letter in this case. On 5 January 2005, the conveyancers wrote to C the following letter:-
"We refer to the above and note that we are still not in receipt of your VAT number nor payment of the purchase price or guarantees securing same despite numerous requests, both written and telephonically.
This transaction has been going on for seven months and we are no closer to registering the transfer. We now have been instructed that the sale will be cancelled should we not receive payment of purchase price or guarantees securing same and your VAT registration number.
In this regard we draw your attention to clause 11.1 of the agreement of purchase and sale which reads as follows:
'should either party commit a breach of this agreement and fail to remedy the breach (3) three days after receiving written notice to do so, then the other party will be entitled, without prejudice to any other remedy it may have, to cancel the agreement by giving written notice to that effect to the other party' (no notice will be required if the purchaser fails to furnish the guarantee referred to in 2.1).
Due to your failure to comply with the above-mentioned clause, we have been instructed to give you notice as we hereby do that, unless you remedy such breach within three (3) days of date hereof, the seller shall have no alternative but to exercise its rights as set out in clause 11 of the aforesaid agreement and cancel the agreement.
We look forward to hearing from you as a matter of extreme emergency."
(** Dear reader: do you see the problem with this letter? If not, then you and I may easily have made the same mistake: The conveyancer assumed the purchaser was already in breach and intended this to be the letter demanding rectification of breach. The purchaser was, however, not in breach, due to there being no specific due date for guarantee in the agreement, and due to it not having been placed in mora. The conveyancer should first have placed it in breach (by writing a letter demanding delivery of guarantee within a specified reasonable period. Only once the purchaser was in mora could the conveyancer write the 'breach letter' in terms of section 11 of the agreement.)
On 6 January the conveyancers received the applicant's VAT number.
On 7 January the bond attorneys sent a guarantee dated 7 January 2005 to the conveyancers. The guarantee was for the right amount and contained the three usual conditions for transfer, namely (a) cancellation of all bonds (b) transfer into the name of the purchaser, and (c) registration of a new bond. However, it contained a fourth condition which read as follows:-
"1.4 Advertising of the sale in terms of Section 34 (of the Insolvency Act No 24 of 1936 and expiry of the thirty day period referred to therein)"
On 10 January the conveyancers wrote to Business Partners, to C and to the bond attorneys. In the letter to the bond attorneys and to Business Partners they stated that they had already - despite their own views on the legal necessity of the matter - complied with this request months ago and that they were not prepared to re-advertise in terms of Section 34. They then said: "In the circumstances we do not accept your conditional guarantee and have confirmed the cancellation of the sale with Chestnut Hill Investments."
The letter to "C" read:
"We refer to the above matter and attach herewith correspondence from Business Partners received from your bond attorneys and our reply thereto.
You will note we have received a conditional guarantee from Business Partners which does not accord with the agreement between our client and yourself and in the circumstances we confirm the cancellation of sale as per our previous correspondence."
C received the letter addressed to it. C's attorneys wrote to the conveyancers on 11 January stating that C had acted in terms of the agreement and requesting that transfer be registered.
On 13 January 2005 the conveyancers answered this letter as follows:-
"We refer to your fax of 11 January 2005.
The agreement was signed in excess of seven months ago and your client is the author of its own misfortune. Your client has been placed on terms on several occasions and the goal posts are always shifted, a situation which has now ended with the cancellation of the agreement.
Our client believes that it has validly cancelled the agreement and we suggest that you point us to the clause in the agreement wherein our client agrees to accept the conditional guarantee or for that matter any guarantee for payment of the purchase price. We further call on you to point us to the clause in the agreement wherein our client is obliged to place Section 34 advertisements which by the way were placed by our clients some months back and your client's mortgagee is now attempting to make it our client's responsibility to re-advertise due to your client's continual delay after the adverts were placed.
You request that we now proceed to transfer the property and we request that you advise how it is possible for us to do so in the light of clause 1.4 of the guarantee provided by Business Partners.
You are further referred to clause 2 of the guarantee entitling Business Partners to cancel the undertaking at their discretion which no seller will be prepared to accept and which simply means that the purchase price has not been secured.
Should your client wish to continue with it's allegations that the agreement is valid, we suggest that your client institutes appropriate proceedings which will be contested."
The court, after a comprehensive deliberation and discussion of the legal issues at hand, found as follows:-
On 5 January 2004, the conveyancers were in a position to lodge the transfer immediately upon receipt of a proper guarantee. At this stage therefore, the conveyancers on behalf of S were entitled to demand that a guarantee be furnished. This is what the court said:
"In terms of the principles explained in the decisions I have cited above, respondent was entitled to demand that the guarantee be furnished by a fixed time occurring a reasonable time after the demand so as to put the applicant in mora if it failed to comply with the demand. In the circumstances it would be putting form above substance to ignore the fact that the letter of 5 January 2005 actually demanded that applicant furnish a guarantee, which respondent was then entitled to do. It also demanded that the guarantee be furnished within three (3) days of applicant's receipt of the demand. Applicant received the demand on 6 January 2005, so the demand required the provision of the guarantee by the end of 9 January 2005. The correspondence I have quoted shows that when it received the demand, applicant knew that respondent was going to proceed to register the transfer without delay. If there was any doubt about this, it is dispelled by the last part of the last sentence of C's letter of 6 January 2005. If the three day period was reasonable in the circumstances and the applicant failed to comply with the demand and had not furnished the guarantee by the end of 9 January 2005, there is no reason why the applicant would not then have been in mora in regard to the furnishing of the guarantee."
The court then considered whether the three day period was reasonable and found in the circumstances that the three day notice period was reasonable.
It then considered the adequacy of the guarantee that was furnished, and found that the condition requiring the notice in terms of Section 34 rendered it to be not suitable to enable simultaneous transfer and payment. As a result it found that the guarantee did not comply with what the agreement demanded.
The court then found that S succeeded "albeit in a confused and inapt way, in putting the applicant in mora by means of its letter of 5 January 2005. In terms of the letter the applicant, C was in mora as from 10 January 2005.
Because C did not remedy the breach and was still in breach after 10 January 2005, the conveyancer's letter of cancellation on 10 January 2005 effectively cancelled the agreement.
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It’s On Fire
Fred here. The following is an excerpt of a post I made to the FateRPG Yahoo Group, where someone was trying to wrap their head around the whole “On Fire is an Aspect” thing that pretty much comes up every time someone’s talking about aspects with folks who are less familiar with them. High time I get this written down somewhere official, yeah?
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Stress, Consequences, and the Fractal
Today I’m going to dig deeper into the notion of stress and consequences in Fate, and talk about how the principle of the Fate Fractal can be applied to complicate the model (in a good way).
A Few Words About Stress
When it comes down to it, consequences are the real meat of the system, by dint of being aspects. But in order to get to them, we’ve got to talk stress.
So, what is stress — really?
From a system standpoint, stress is, simply, a pacing mechanism (this is equally true of hit points in D&D). It’s a means of measuring how long a character can stay in a fight, and thus, a measure of how long fights are.
I can’t stress (ha) that point enough — the length of a combat scene creates a variety of experiences for the player. Systems where fights can be suddenly, brutally over with a single swing of the sword can feel “grittier” or “more dangerous” or “too fast”. Systems where characters can endure a quite staggering variety of abuses before falling to the ground can feel “more cinematic” or “too slow” (this certainly arises with Spirit of the Century’s five to eight box stress tracks).
Even when consequences come into play, it’s the length of the stress track that ultimately sets the pace. Run out of stress track boxes, and you’re going down even if you can reduce that 7 stress hit to a 1 stress hit with your consequences.
Generalized, a stress track counts the number of blows a character can receive before he falls down. There’s finesse there, for sure; if you adopt a weapons and armor system like the Dresden Files RPG, you’ll have some means whereby you can draw out the effectiveness of those boxes — or shortcut them. A bigger blow has fewer places to go on the track than a smaller one as things start to fill up. You can go with the default of those blows landing on a specific numbered box, or you can backfill any lower boxes, or you can simply go for a hit point style track, but at the end of the day those are simply decisions about how much of your time-resource (your pacing) gets consumed when someone lands the blow.
Countdown to Consequence
As such, as a resource, as a countdown clock, the stress track is a prime location where the player will or won’t experience tension during a conflict. This can be a bit of an art, and is absolutely something that should be tuned and play tested until it fits the experience you want to create with your particular implementation of Fate.
But that clock is pretty boring by itself, all the same. It does one thing: it counts down. It doesn’t have a lot of flavor (even if it comes in a few different types). You have to add in consequences to really get the jazz.
Consequences have a bit of a pacing element to them as well. They’re a finite supply, so you’ll see that resource getting spent down, and they’re differently weighted in terms of the amount of stress they absorb when taken. Go for our standard of -2/-4/-6 and you can still suck up some pretty big punishments — they’ll just hurt real bad. This also sets the maximum amount of stress a target can take in a single blow and still have a chance of walking away. If characters can take only one consequence per attack, then the biggest is their track length plus six, for example. If characters can take multiple, the biggest is a fair bit higher. The bigger this number is, the more durable characters will be in the face of attack — but if they’re taking consequences, they’ll be measurably diminished for a time. Past fights will be able to catch up with the present. All the same, in many respects the bigger the “biggest number” is, the more cinematic the feel (but cinematic in a Die Hard way more than a Three Musketeers way, perhaps).
In SOTC, we wanted heroes to stay on their feet in a variety of circumstances unless the odds were really stacked against them. Frankly, we overdid that: at a base of 5, extensible up to at least 8, stress tracks in SOTC just ran too deep. We also hadn’t embraced the -2/-4/-6 consequence method yet, instead making it a steady progression from Mild to Moderate to Severe to Taken Out. In doing this, we missed out on driving folks to the fun part (consequences), and we devalued the magnitude of hits when the stress boxes ran out. (“I hit for 5!” “Well, he has no stress left, so that’s just a mild consequence the first time.) Once Lenny put the -2/-4/-6 method out there (he is the very original source on that), we quickly saw that was the way we should’ve gone, and recommended folks go for a base track length of 3 or 4, with what’s now our standard for consequences.
In Dresden Files, we wanted the fights to be scary, sudden, and brutal. But we also didn’t necessarily want the heroes to drop in the first round; Dresden Files is a curious blend of a gritty feel alongside some cinematic durability. Testing showed us that meant making the stress tracks shorter, but keeping the -2/-4/-6 ratings on the consequences. We gave means to shortcut the track further when the lethality dials got cranked — and made sure the characters had enough consequence slots available so they could really feel the hurt, but avoid the “instant drop”. We also had the stress track lengths top out at a certain point (extensible only through superpowers), with characters at high stress-track-granting skill levels getting additional minor consequence slots instead. And we added in the idea of a permanent consequence at -8 that could redefine your character when it landed. And taking multiple consequences in a single blow was a-OK. In aggregate this got us scary+gritty+cinematic thanks to a short stress track but a large (really large) maximum hit number, which was just about right. Fights didn’t run too long and players could make some choices about whether to fight and hurt for it, or run away prudently.
While we didn’t directly work on Diaspora, the guys there made some decisions that fit their sensibilities but I believe also helped uphold more of a hard SF feel (this may have been intentional design). I’ll be saying this off the top of my head, so forgive me if I have some inaccuracies: there, consequences land in a -1/-2/-4 progression rather than our more broad one; I forget if you could only take one consequence at a time, but it wouldn’t surprise me; and if I recall correctly their stress track backfills lower boxes when a blow lands. This gets you a quicker pace through the length of the stress track, and a low maximum hit number. Diaspora ain’t cinematic, but the experience of play as felt through stress and consequences should certainly feel authentic to a hard SF fan.
When designing your Fate implementation, don’t be afraid to try a few different configs. If it’s in the middle of campaign you’re running, fess up to it and explain why you’d like to make a change — we certainly did once we realized SOTC’s config was a bit too far in one direction. Also, play other games and keep tabs on yourself and your fellow players. How many times around the table before interest starts to flag? You probably don’t want your stress tracks to be much longer, and probably a bit shorter, than that number. Get suggestions from the Fate community and be clear about the experience you want your conflicts to produce. The dials are yours to spin.
Compound FracturesFractals
So that’s an exploration of stress, consequences, and some of the thinking that goes into setting the dials. Is that good enough for your purposes? I think it’ll work well for most people, and at the very least I think it’s the right kind of starting point. But, being Fate, there are always places you can hook in something more detailed or (YMMV) more evocative by involving the fractal.
Here, I’m thinking about consequences. Consequences are aspects, and to a fractal-hacker, an aspect being on or representing something is a bit of a flag that “hey, this could be treated like a character”. So here’s a grab bag of thoughts about that. If you’re looking for consequences to have more depth or teeth, any one of the ideas below might give you what you’re looking for.
Consequences are like characters, therefore…
… they’re represented by aspects.
This is the core already-established function, our springboard for the rest. It means that consequences can be compelled and invoked (usually by someone else, in acting against the possessor, but not always).
… they have a skill rating.
Maybe a consequence could have an adjective rating tied to it based on the number of shifts it absorbed, so a 4-shift consequence would be rated at Great (+4). (Or maybe you’re doing away with the stress track entirely, with rated consequences replacing that function.)
That skill could then be used as a block on actions that you’re trying to take that would be affected by the consequence. Or it could even launch attacks of its own if the consequence represented something ongoing, like a festering wound or a nasty scandal. Or maybe those are too heavy-handed; even then, the skill could be used as an opposing difficulty when trying to do away with the consequence.
… they have stunts.
Stunts might resemble special conditions imparted by specific kinds of attacks or weapons. To reference the above, maybe your festering wound consequence gets the “Ongoing Damage” stunt, granting the ability for the consequence to make its own attacks. Or maybe it’s an “Entangling” stunt that says “this consequence will prevent your movement” (or maybe just add a border value of 2 to moving out of your current zone).
… they have a stress track.
For real! The consequence might have a stress track of its own, for tracking your progress in getting yourself rid of the consequence. “I attack the Ongoing Scandal with my Politician skill!” Which takes us back around to…
… they HAVE aspects.
If you’re going really nuts, consequences might possess aspects of their own (aspects inside of an aspect! aaaaagh!) — at least temporarily. A doctor might maneuver/assess/declare a temporary aspect on the consequence as part of his diagnosis, which he later invokes to help in the operation to fix the condition. If a stress track is in play, a particularly tough consequence might take consequences of its own before getting taken out. (For that matter, if a consequence can be taken out, what’s to say it can’t concede? What sort of concessions might be offered, then? “The treatment sends the cancer into remission, but there are complications…”)
Old School Stress Tracks
Stress tracks in Fate 2.x had a different vibe going to them. Ultimately it was the Fate 2 implementation of stress at that got split into two parts to get us the stress and consequences model we have today in Fate 3.
In Fate 2, a stress track was a series of boxes organized into “tiers”, each of which had a range, and each of which would cause a side-effect when a box on that level first got checked off. It looked something like this:
1 [][] Take a -1 to your next action
2-4 [][] Take a -1 to all actions this scene
5-6 [][] Take a -1 to all actions per box checked until healed
7+ You are taken out
This was fun and had some nifty crunch to it (you could vary the number of boxes at each tier, vary the range of stress needed to hit each tier, etc), but as we moved into Fate 3 we realized that minuses weren’t as much fun as plusses (and provided less incentive for the recipient to remember to account for them), and moved several parts of the system on to a +X rather than -X footing. Plus we realized that lasting wounds could be aspects (that’s the fractal in action: using an existing piece of the system rather than adding something new). So we moved to the current model.
Still, there’s something to be said for that older method. Those who prefer it could set things up such that the tiers are instead:
1 [][] Your opponent gains spin
2-3 [][] You take a mild consequence
4-5 [][] You take a moderate consequence
6-7 [][] You take a severe consequence
… and get the best of both worlds. I say this, but haven’t had a chance to play test it. If you do, let us know how it works out.
Posted by fred at 10:35 am Tagged with: core, fractal, stress
The Core of Fate Core
I’ve seen folks describe Fate in a variety of ways. Collect them all together and it becomes a big jumble of paradoxes. It’s rules light and it’s heavy, etc. And it’s true, we’ve certainly “overwritten” our Fate 3 based games out of a great love for explanation, examples, guidance, and advice. But at the end of the day, is the system all that heavy?
If I’m right, there are two things that lead to the Big Tome Effect. The first is the above “great love” I’ve already mentioned. The other is additional scaffolding provided in service of a particular implementation.
With that in mind, I’m going to write up Fate Core without the overwriting tendencies — so, minimal explanation and advice, no examples — and see if it’s really all that big. My suspicion, not so much. This will be largely off the top of my head, with an occasional reference to the books when I’m doublechecking something. When I’m done this should read like a brisk version of The Basics chapter from either of our games, plus condensed versions of a few system components outside of that content.
This is a rough draft, written with minimal revision and editing.
When you’re done reading — what did I forget?
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June 2, 2017 Posted by Forest Avenue Press 1 Comment
PORTLAND, OREGON—Gigi Little, Forest Avenue Press’s graphic designer, received a gold medal in the Small Format Cover Design category of the 2017 PubWest Design Awards for her work on Froelich’s Ladder, the debut novel by Jamie Duclos-Yourdon.
The cover features an endorsement by Brian Doyle, who died on May 27, and was well known for supporting and encouraging debut authors. Doyle called Froelich’s Ladder “A wild odd funny picaresque headlong fervent fever dream of a dense moist prickly novel—the most unusual fiction I have read in years.”
“When Gigi Little first shared her idea for this cover, I asked her to make sure it didn’t look too historical and stuffy,” said Publisher Laura Stanfill. “She responded with the perfect touch: adding a dangling bare foot, which belongs to Froelich, the titular character who lives his life atop a mythical ladder. We knew as soon as Brian Doyle sent his blurb to us that his ebullient string of adjectives was the perfect piece of language to fit inside that cloud. The bare foot only added to the magic and whimsy of the words themselves.”
Little has been designing covers for Forest Avenue since the press’s founding on June 26, 2017, when she and Stanfill decided, on a streetcorner outside Powell’s one night after a meeting of the Henry Writers, their writing group, that they both wanted to work on the book project that became Brave on the Page: Oregon Writers on Craft and the Creative Life.
“I wouldn’t have a publishing house, and Forest Avenue wouldn’t have such a strong visual identity, without Gigi’s talents, hard work, and commitment to small-press publishing,” Stanfill said. “We started this ride together five years ago with a what-if, and a why-not, and a let’s-go-for-it, and now she designs for other presses and is the editor of our bestselling title, City of Weird: 30 Otherworldly Portland Tales. We’re all so thrilled she received a gold medal from PubWest, because this gives us a wonderful chance to celebrate her important role as our graphic designer.”
PubWest will honor the award winners at its next conference, slated for Feb. 15-17, 2018, in Pasadena, California. The nonprofit is based in the Portland area and has members in 33 states and two foreign countries.
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(WJBK) - A Michigan man who was found guilty in the murder of his girlfriend's 4-year-old daughter was sentenced Tuesday.
Brad Fields, 29, received a mandatory sentence to life in prison without parole after he was convicted of murder and torture. The 4-year-old girl, Gabrielle Barrett, was found dead in January with severe burns all over her body. A Washtenaw County Medical Examiner told police that it was the "worst child death case" seen in 27 years.
Fields and his girlfriend, Candice Diaz, Gabrielle's mother, had been on the run since the girl died.
Police were called to a trailer home in Sumpter Township on New Year's Day and found the girl with severe burns all over her body. She was pronounced dead at a hospital. Investigators said Fields and Diaz discussed online how to punish the girl for wetting herself.
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Editor's note: Some of the abuse investigation details you'll read below are disturbing.
According to documents, Gabrielle was found with burns on body including her legs from the knee down, her buttocks, posterior to both elbows and bruising all over. A medical examination found that she had been physically abused prior to her death.
Diaz told police that Gabrielle ran her own bath water on Dec. 31, 2017 causing to burn her skin. The mother said she did not seek medical attention and claimed the girl wanted to take another bath the next day.
Police say Diaz claimed she left Gabrielle alone in the tub and went to make pancakes in the kitchen. She said she returned to find Gabrielle submerged up to her nose in the water. She said she pulled Gabrielle out of the tub who then vomited and called Fields to the bathroom for help. Diaz said Gabrielle continued to vomit and Fields attempted to provide CPR.
The report says that "notably, Fields has refused to provide CPS with an explanation of how Gabrielle suffered such extensive injuries." Michigan State Police found a large amount of melted skin in the bathtub drain. One detective said that Gabrielle had been burned so badly that her large toe fell off her body.
A relative of Fields told us couple have been together on and off for six years, but during that time one thing that remained constant was the violence. All of that allegedly led to the death of little Gabby.
"Not in my 21 years of being a judge have I heard medical terms that were this graphic," Judge Vonda Evans said at Tuesday's sentencing. She compared the home to the castle in "Beauty and the Beast" -- but said the beast "had a good heart" while Fields was a "murderer."
"The terrible King Brad Fields has been dethroned by a brave, courageous warrior named Gabby Barrett, who gave her life to end your reign of terror and close down the palace of pain," she added.
Fields declined to speak in court. Diaz is scheduled to be in court for a jury trial next March.
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Workshop: Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Local Symmetries
Schedule of the Workshop: Algebraic Quantum Field Theory and Local Symmetries
9:30 - 10:30 Klaus Fredenhagen: Gauge symmetry in perturbative algebraic quantum fi eld theory
10:30 - 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 - 12:00 Walter van Suijlekom: Quantization of gauge fields, graph polynomials, and ghost cycles
12:00 - 15:00 Lunch break
15:00 - 16:00 Chris Fewster: Endomorphisms and automorphisms of locally covariant quantum field theories
16:00 Coffee
9:30 - 10:30 Roberto Longo: How to add a boundary condition in Conformal Field Theory
11:00 - 12:00 Gandalf Lechner: KMS states of deformed quantum field theories
15:00 - 16:00 Thomas Hack: On the consistency of quantum supergravity
19:30 Social dinner
9:00 - 10:00 Claudio Dappiaggi: New insights in the quantization of Maxwell's equations on curved backgrounds
10:30 - 11:30 Alexander Schenkel: Quantum field theory on affine bundles
Abstracts:
Klaus Fredenhagen: Gauge symmetry in perturbative algebraic quantum field theory
In gauge theories, the structure of the algebra of observables is typically too complicated for a direct treatment. Therefore one introduces auxiliary quantities which allow a treatment by standard methods. The crucial question is whether the obtained structure depends on the choices one has performed. The formalism of Batalin and Vilkovisky admits in principle a discussion of this question in terms of cohomology. But up to recently, this formalism could be made rigorous only for theories where spacetime is replaced by a finite set. The reason for this restriction was the essential use of the path integral. It will be shown that an adapted version of the Batalin-Vilkovisky formalism can be rigorously obtained in the framework of perturbative algebraic quantum field theory.
Walter van Suijlekom: Quantization of gauge fields, graph polynomials, and ghost cycles
We review quantization of gauge fields using algebraic properties of 3-regular graphs. We derive the Feynman integrand at n loops for a non-abelian gauge theory quantized in a covariant gauge from scalar integrands assigned by the help of graph polynomials to 3-regular graphs. This implies eff ectively a covariant quantization without ghosts, where all the relevant signs of the ghost sector are incorporated in a double complex furnished by a newly defi ned cycle cohomology and by graph cohomology.
Chris Fewster: Endomorphisms and automorphisms of locally covariant quantum field theories
In the framework of locally covariant quantum field theory, a theory is described as a functor from a category of spacetimes to a category of *-algebras. In this talk, I will describe how the global gauge group of such a theory can be identified as the automorphism group of the defining functor. This is intended as the first step towards an implementation of the theory of superselection sectors at the functorial level. Various developments will be described. For instance, the gauge group may be given a topology and multiplets of fields may be identified at the functorial level. It will be shown that locally covariant theories obeying standard assumptions in Minkowski space, including energy compactness, have no proper endomorphisms (i.e., all endomorphisms are automorphisms) and that the global gauge group is compact under these circumstances. Finally, I will describe how the endomorphisms and automorphisms of a locally covariant theory may, in principle, be classified in any single spacetime. As an example, the endomorphisms and automorphisms of a system of finitely many free scalar fi elds
are completely classified .
The talk is based on arXiv:1201.3295; I will aim to discuss more of the technical detail than in other talks I have recently given on the subject.
Thomas Hack: On the consistency of quantum supergravity
We discuss the quantization of arbitrary supergravity theories on general curved Bosonic backgrounds. In this context, two potential obstacles have to be overcome: 1) as supergravity is a gauge theory, the equations of motions are not hyperbolic a priori, i.e. a causal propagation of the degrees of freedom is not manifest. 2) due to the Fermionic nature of the gauge fi elds in supergravity a nontrivial "unitarity problem" appears which has to be overcome in order to obtain a quantum theory on a Hilbert space. We address both issues by introducing a novel "causal" gauge fixing and by proving that the unitarity problem can be solved; our resulting formulation of the quantum theory is manifestly gauge-invariant. We discuss only the lowest order in perturbation theory, as the above-mentioned obstacles appear already at this level.
Roberto Longo: How to add a boundary condition in Conformal Field Theory
Given a conformal QFT local net of von Neumann algebras B2 on the two-dimensional Minkowski space-time based on the same completely rational chiral net A on the left/right light-ray, we show how to consistently add a boundary to B2: we provide a procedure to construct a Boundary CFT net B of von Neumann algebras on the half-plane x > 0, associated with A, and locally
isomorphic to B2. All such locally isomorphic Boundary CFT nets arise in this way. There are only finitely many locally isomorphic Boundary CFT nets and we get them all together. In essence, we show how to directly redefine the C* representation of the restriction of B2 to the half-plane by means of subfactors and local conformal nets of von Neumann algebras on the circle.
Gandalf Lechner: KMS states of deformed quantum field theories
Recently new quantum field theoretic models have been constructed by deformations of free field models in their vacuum representations. The field operators of these models satisfy certain residual (wedge-) locality properties which are closely connected to the spectrum condition of the undeformed theory. This talk is about a situation where the spectrum condition fails, namely the situation of a thermal equilibrium state at finite temperature. It is discussed how to compute KMS functionals of the deformed field algebra. The main problem consists in analyzing which of these functionals are positive, and some partial results in this direction will be presented.
Claudio Dappiaggi: New insights in the quantization of Maxwell's equations on
curved backgrounds
We show that the standard quantization scheme for fi eld theories on curved backgrounds, when applied to Maxwell's equations, does not abide to the principle of general local covariance. We propose an approach to bypass this obstruction, which relies on the possibility of reading electromagnetism as a U(1) gauge theory and, thus, on the existence of an underlying natural principal bundle structure.
Alexander Schenkel: Quantum field theory on affine bundles
In quantum field theory on curved spacetimes the field confi guration space is typically modeled in terms of the space of sections of a vector bundle over a globally hyperbolic spacetime. While this is certainly appropriate for scalar, spinor and vector fields, the Maxwell fi eld (described in terms of principal connections) is di fferent since the underlying bundle is an a this talk we study the formulation of noninteracting quantum field theories on general affine bundles. Using an affine generalization of the concept of linear hyperbolic operators we give a categorical formulation of such theories. We prove that this leads to a locally covariant quantum field theory, in particular the causality and time-slice axioms hold true. We compare this affine theory to linear quantum field theories on vector bundles and highlight nontrivial features.
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Scarsdale Inquirer: Grad Bag Solves Social Need
Although Dean Trusty received a good financial aid package to SUNY Farmingdale, he still has many economic challenges to overcome. Fortunately, Trusty, a first-generation college student from the Bronx and son of a single mother, will not have to worry about outfitting his dorm room. Thanks to Grad Bag, an organization that collects and redistributes new and lightly used dorm room essentials, Trusty received full bedding including a comforter, set of sheets and pillows as well as a rug, hangers, shower caddy and a table lamp all at no cost.
To distribute the goods it collects, Grad Bag works with Yonkers Partners in Education, a nonprofit organization that helps low-income Yonkers Public School students prepare for college. Grad Bag also works with Let’s Get Ready, a 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that provides low-income high school students from Philadelphia to Lewiston, Maine, with free SAT preparation, admissions counseling and other support services needed to gain admission to and graduate from college.
Joseph Martinez of Yonkers, who is attending a summer program at Cornell before beginning his freshman year, was an early recipient of Grad Bag’s giveaway this year. “Grad Bag helped me immensely to offset some of the cost when it comes to college,” said Martinez. “My parents are also very grateful, and I hope to one maybe able to pay it forward.”
On July 21, more than 100 incoming college freshmen, who participated in YPIE’s transition workshop at Sarah Lawrence College, came to Grad Bag’s one-day pop up “store” filled with dorm room items—all without price tags. In addition, more than 350 students in New York City, Connecticut, Boston and Maine also received free dorm room items at other events. Last year, Grad Bag gave away more than 400 comforters, 500 decorative and bed pillows, 150 rugs, 300 bunches of hangers, 400 blankets, 500 twin XL sheet sets and 150 desk and standing lamps.
According to the National Retail Federation’s 2016 Back to College Study, students spend an average of $114.21 outfitting their dorm room.
Grad Bag was founded in 2012 by two Westchester County moms, Liz Gruber and Tara Tyberg, who realized there was so many dorm room items that graduating seniors no longer needed, but were still in great condition. Instead of having the sets of XL sheets and twin comforters thrown away or gathering dust in attics, Grad Bag addresses two social issues: ensuring that low-income students won’t have to stress about equipping their dorm rooms while recycling objects that would otherwise not be used.
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Tim Aylward
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Medical Malpractice Litigation
Personal Injury Litigation
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U.S. District Court, Western District of Missouri
U.S. District Court, District of Kansas
Co-founded Horn Aylward & Bandy, LLC, 1999
Blackwell Sanders Peper Martin, 1982-1999
Washburn University, J.D., 1982
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University of Missouri at Columbia, B.J., 1975
Kansas City Metropolitan Bar Association
Ross T. Roberts Inn of Court
Master (instructor) [1995 - 2010]
Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers
Full Advocate of the American Board of Trial Advocates
“Proper Documentation” - Children’s Mercy Hospital
“Documentation and Depositions” - Saint Luke’s Hospital
“Medical Malpractice - How to Avoid it and What to Do if You Get Sued” - Truman Medical Center & University of Missouri at Kansas City Dental
"Management Liability" - Health Educators Alliance
"Medical Malpractice - Medical Records Documentation" - Kansas City Metropolitan Hospital, Risk Managers Association
“Understanding Peer Review” - St. John’s Regional Medical Center
"Recent developments in Tort Reform and Constitutional Challenges to Statutory Corps'
K.C. Obstetrics and Gynecology Society Nov. 2012
Significant Accomplishments
Voted by peers as “Best of the Bar” in The Business Journal publication that recognizes the top lawyers from the Kansas City metropolitan area for nine consecutive years (2002 - 2010)
Named as a “Super Lawyer” from the State of Missouri (2006 - 2011)
Martindale-Hubbell AV rated
Inducted into the American Board of Trial Advocates in 2010 as a full member
Inducted into the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2011
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San Cristóbal de la Habana cigars were introduced in 1999 on the threshold of the new Millennium as a tribute to the city’s long history.
At first the range comprised just four vitolas, each named after one of the fortresses built from the 16th to the 18th Centuries that defended Havana when it was the hub of Spain’s American empire. These are: El Morro, La Fuerza, La Punta and El Principe.
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Distribution/Warehouse - Seasonal Full Time Material Handler
Location WILKES-BARRE , Pennsylvania , United States
Category Distribution Center
Job Number 190004FS
Job Type Seasonal/Temporary
Our leading banners across North America and Europe include Hudson�s Bay, Lord and Taylor, Saks Fifth Avenue, Gilt, Saks OFF 5TH, Galeria Kaufhof, the largest department store group in Germany, and Belgium�s only department store group Galeria INNO.
We have significant investments in real estate joint ventures. HBC has partnered with Simon Property Group Inc. in the HBC Global Properties Joint Venture, which owns properties in the United States and Germany. In Canada, HBC has partnered with RioCan Real Estate Investment Trust in the RioCan-HBC Joint Venture.
A truly global corporate citizen, HBC is committed to responsible business practices to bring about positive change, and we work hard to shape a sustainable future for people and the planet. Our philanthropic initiatives help create healthy families, strong communities, and sport excellence in the cities and countries in which we operate around the world, while striving to create innovative programs and resources that provide flexibility for work-life balance in order to maintain a positive working environment
The Material Handler is an integral part of the distribution operation. Essentially, you are responsible for making sure that merchandise reaches the designated end-destination in a timely fashion. You will be part of a dynamic, fast-moving, team, playing an integral part in the overall shipping and receiving operation.
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6 months of experience in a distribution center in similar position is a strong asset but not necessary
Basic computer skills and proficiency with Microsoft Office suite
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Be part of a world-class team; work with an adventurous spirit; think and act like an owner- operator!
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Home / Gossip / news / politics / Police Officer, Soldiers And Road Safety Officer Clash In Abuja Over Environmental Issues
Police Officer, Soldiers And Road Safety Officer Clash In Abuja Over Environmental Issues
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Should I call it a fracas or a show of shame in the Federal Capital Territory today as fight broke out amongst Nigerian law enforcement agencies in Abuja on Wednesday, after an attempt to seal a Road Safety office went bizarre.
The violence broke out after soldiers and policemen attached to The Abuja Environmental Protection Board (AEPB) tried to serve the Road Safety office in Wuze Zone 7 a violation notice. The police officers and soldiers attached to the AEBP officials allegedly assaulted a female Road Safety marshal in the process, leading to confrontation according to reports by Premium Times.
The AEPB task force members denied assaulting the Road Safety personnel, saying they were resisted from sealing the Road Safety office as ordered by a magistrate’s court. During the fight, a soldier was reportedly wounded and a civilian staff of the AEPB was “taken hostage” by the Road Safety marshals. In fiecre respond, soldiers and police officers who were part of the AEPB team seized a Road Safety officer.
A female legal officer at AEPB, Esther Isaac, who led the team to enforce the court order against FRSC, sustained injuries from what appeared to be an impact of broken windscreen on her body. The disagreement resulted in a temporary stalemate over the release of the “hostages”, as neither party was initially willing to free the persons in their respective custody first. The Road Safety demanded that its personnel must be released first while soldiers stood their grounds that Road Safety should first release the seized civilian AEPB staff, whom they escorted to serve the notice.
The matter was later resolved around 12:00 noon. The police and Nigerian Army declined comments about the violence, telling saying that the AEPB was the appropriate agency to direct enquiries to.
How the even unfolded;
Findings revealed that the crisis has been imminent since mid-February when environmental experts inspected the FRSC Sector Command Headquarters in Wuse Zone 7, adjacent NAFDAC Headquarters, and discovered that the facility did not conform with extant environmental regulations. Subsequently, the FRSC was informed of its violations through a notice of abatement served on it on February 16. The FRSC acknowledged receipt of the abatement notice on the same day.
After the FRSC allegedly failed to comply with the demands of AEPB, the environmental protection office sued for the enforcement of the abatement notice. The suit was filed at the Chief Magistrate’s Court, Wuse Zone 2, before Ibrahim Jobbo, a magistrate. In its suit, the FRSC was accused of discharging sewage into an open space, offensive odour, dumping refuse on the ground, burning of waste, blockage of drainage, failure to fumigate, amongst other gruesome violations of environmental regulations.
On February 26, Mr. Jobbo ordered that the FRSC office be temporarily shut with immediate effect, saying the agency had failed to appear before the court despite several summons.
In am interview with PT, Ms Isaac said;
“It was the court order that we came to enforce today when they attacked us,” She also said she arrived at the FRSC office with her colleagues and a police officer around 10:00 a.m. Wednesday. After identifying themselves appropriately and informing the FRSC officers on duty of their mission, they were told to go ahead and carry out their enforcement.
“The FRSC officers started moving their official vehicles out of the compound, saying that we may seal the office after all their vehicles have been moved out,” Ms. Isaac said. “But after all the vehicles had been moved out with only an unofficial black car left in the compound, we saw another two vehicles trying to drive in.” she said that the two vehicles being driven in were those of senior FRSC officers, but when she moved to tell them that they were about to seal the premises, she was met with violence.
“One of the officers that I could only remember her name as ‘Martha’ started slapping me saying I pushed their boss,” she said. “Then other Road Safety officers joined in and they started pummeling me from all sides.” During the violence, she admitted hitting a female officer with one of the heavy-duty chains she was holding, but emphasised it was “not intentional.”
Some of Ms. Isaac’s colleagues called in a reinforcement from the police and the Nigerian Army, and the violence intensified as soon as the team arrived. Ms. Isaac said she may pursue assault charges against FRSC.
‘You can’t seal a government office’
The FRSC told PREMIUM TIMES it had a court case with the AEPB bordering on violations of environmental regulations, but said its premises should not have been sealed.
“What happened was that they actually came that they wanted to seal the place up because we didn’t appear in one summon,” Bisi Kazeem, a spokesperson for the FRSC, told PT on Wednesday afternoon. “But our lawyer was there to tell us we could go another time because we didn’t get a summon on time.” Mr. Kazeem said sealing a building that is being occupied by a government agency could be problematic.
“Trying to forcefully seal off an office of government, there was a sort of resistance,” he said, but added that the matter is “being resolved.” He also said all allegations of brutality on all sides would be investigated. The AEPB, however, disagreed with the Road Safety spokesperson, saying no federal agency is above the law.
“Environmental protection is a serious task that we should ordinarily expect government agencies to comply with all regulations,” said Muktar Ibrahim, a spokesperson for the AEPB, in an interview with PREMIUM TIMES on Wednesday afternoon.
“It is when government agencies comply with rules and regulations that we could expect ordinary citizens to comply.” Mr. Ibrahim said AEPB officials are likely to return to the FRSC office to enforce the court order by sealing the building, but insist that the mission was not to seal the building for too long, but only to enforce environmental laws. "The AEPB and the FRSC are not in any form of competition with each other, so there’s no point sealing the premises perpetually,” he said.
“The only thing we want from them is compliance, and once that is done, we would have no issues.” "We’re supposed to complement the efforts of each other for the overall benefit of the society, and obeying the law is a key part of that,” he said.
Mr. Ibrahim said AEPB personnel regularly face violent confrontation in the course of enforcing environmental laws, appealing to all residents around the capital city to desist from flouting environmental regulations in order to forestall further aggression against its personnel.
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CLA-2-39:S:N:N3G:221 857940
Mr. Marty Langtry
Castelazo & Associates
RE: The tariff classification of plastic canteens from Taiwan.
Dear Mr. Langtry:
In your letter dated November 5, 1990, on behalf of Sirco International Corporation, you requested a tariff classification ruling.
The canteens (Items KN1197 and KC1177) are composed of plastics. They have a nylon cover that is snugly fitted over the canteen. The cover is primarily decorative. The plastic canteens with nylon covers are composite articles. The essential character is imparted by the plastic canteen.
The applicable subheading for the canteens and their covers will be 3923.30.0090, Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United States (HTS), which provides for articles for the conveyance or packing of goods, of plastics, carboys, bottles, flasks and similar articles. The rate of duty will be 3 percent ad valorem.
This ruling is being issued under the provisions of Section 177 of the Customs Regulations (19 C.F.R. 177).
Tariff No.: 3923.30.00 - Carboys, bottles, flasks and similar articles for the conveyance or packing of goods, of plastics
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Soplao and Adventure-Tourism in Santander
For those that are daring, El Soplao offers a fantastic way to know the depth of the underground world. A route of 2,5 hours in which visitors will travel the galleries of Campamento, the Órgano and Bosque and, among all, walking on the original floor and least accessible zones of the cave. Visitors will be overwhelmed by the variety of formations and the diversity of spaces.
The organization provides the adequate equipment for the visit: helmet with a light, suit and water boots.
Those less than 12 years old will not be permitted. (Sigue leyendo.)
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MUSEUM OF PREHISTORY AND ARCHAEOLOGY OF CANTABRIA
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In the land of large caves decorated with paintings, the Museum of Prehistory and Archaeology of Cantabria has drawn together the material remains from such well-known sites as La Garma, El Castillo, Altamira… Collections of stone utensils and of palaeolithic portable art, carved in bone and antler, make it a reference museum among European museums of its kind.
The Museum also has a display of the development of material culture, from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, supplemented by a graphic display of ways of life, using multimedia, interactive, scenographic and infographic resources, designed to immerse the visitor in historical development.
Location: Avda. Los Castros, 65-67. 39005 Santander
Information and bookings: Telephone (+34) 942209922 / (+34) 942207107. Fax: (+34) 942207106.
Tariff: Free. Free guided visits.
Situation : Avda. Los Castros, 65-67. 39005 Santander
Information from http://www.museosdecantabria.com/preh/museo.htm
Cuevas de Cantabria
Altamira will open up again
The Government of Cantabria cast one vote “favorable” to the opening of the cave of Altamira if the report on the conservation status of the cavity that has developed the Center for Scientific Research (CSIC)-and has already delivered to the Ministry of Culture-“leaving a minimum gap” for the reopening.
This was stated today the Minister of Culture, Tourism and Sport of the regional executive, Francisco Javier López Marcano, who was in favor of “reconcile” the “obligation” assumed “conservation” and “preservation” of Altamira cave paintings and with the “enjoyment” of them by “the more people the better.”
Cueva de Altamira, Cuevas de Cantabria
Cullavera Cave
At the foot of Monte Pando Cullalvera Cave, has always been known by locals, is part of a highly developed karst complex, approximately 12 kilometers, where the action of water and time on the rock have created a unique cave.
Cueva de Cullalvera
Hornos de la Peña Cave
Cueva de Hornos de la Peña is located in the rock known locally as Rock of the Horn. Facing south, the entrance area highlighted in the landscape by its arched form.
Chufín Cave
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Chufín Moro Cave is located in a place of unique beauty Nansa river valley. Although the environment is modified by dam La Palombera, its location in an area of cliffs, dense tree line and the constant presence of water makes the visit will become a continued enjoyment
El Pando Cave
In the heart of Chapman Valley, near town of Escobedo, is this wide cave mouth and vestibule of monumental dimensions. It was discovered in 1878 by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola. Since that time has undergone numerous archaeological explorations have resulted in the discovery of a large panel of red paint in 1997. (Sigue leyendo.)
Covalanas Cave
Covalanas cave, the cave of red deer, is located on the northeastern slope of Mount Pando, above the cavity of El Miron, used as a dwelling place for at least the last 45,000 years.
Las Monedas Cave
At the edge of the river Pas, passing through Puente Viesgo, rises the Monte Castillo, a cone-shaped limestone elevation hiding inside a maze of caves frequented by humans during prehistory
El Castillo Cave
At the edge of the river Pas, passing through Puente Viesgo, rises the Monte Castillo, a cone-shaped limestone elevation hiding inside a maze of caves frequented by humans for at least the past 150,000 years.
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The Course Manager’s Calendar – March
8th Mar 2019 Uncategorized
The greens at Crieff Golf Club have never been drier. We catch up with course manager Charlie Macdonald to find out how kiln-dried sand has helped realise the club’s ambitious improvements.
Charlie, the last time we spoke, you were completing a big drainage project. How did that turn out?
“Well, at the back end of last year, we verti-drained down 10 inches and applied a tonne and half of Hugh King kiln-dried sand on each green. That really helped the greens drain especially after we put in all the drainage. We’re just tying up the drainage with the verti-draining, so together it will make a huge difference. The greens are absolutely bone dry. There’s not a green on the course that’s wet.”
How long did the verti-draining take?
“We started in the middle of October and it took us roughly two and half weeks to do all the greens because we hand-brushed the greens after. So it took five members of staff about two hours to do a green. It was a tough job, but it was worth spending that time to get the sand down deeper into the profile. The top two inches is already quite full of sand because of the amount of top-dressing we’ve put down.”
How long have you been using Hugh King’s kiln-dried sand?
“We’ve used the kiln-dried sand the last five or six years. We use it in September or October and then we use Hugh King’s medium coarse blend sand for top-dressing during the summer. We’ve used about 40 tonnes on the greens this winter.”
Was this done on both courses?
“Yes, we’ve got 29 greens. We did the nine-hole course in September. It has smaller greens so they probably took about half a tonne a green. It didn’t take us long; we were getting through five of them a day.”
What impact has this had on the greens?
“The greens are looking really healthy and dry. All the verti-drained holes have recovered so we have full grass coverage on all the greens. They’re looking pretty strong going into March which sets them up well for the spring. If your greens are dry throughout the winter, they’re a lot healthier going into the start of the season.”
Job done?
“Nearly. With the kiln-dried sand we have left, we’re going to give them a solid tine down to about 3 inches. We’ll probably use another 15 tonnes of sand for the 29 greens. We’ll be doing that in March weather permitting.”
And then you’re into the playing season.
“It’s a constant programme. You’ve got to keep going. If you stop, the thatch layer will start to build up again, so we’re constantly going over the greens every five or six weeks with vert-drains going down 9 inches followed by an application of sand and a rolling.”
How does that affect play?
“With the sweep-and-fill brush, we can get rid of the sand no problem. It just disappears. It’s great to use a sand that disappears with a few brushes. And it literally is a couple of brushes and it’s gone. If it’s dry first thing, one brush after a light application is good enough. Then we give it a cut and a roll and after that the surfaces are back to normal. Some of the golfers don’t even know it’s been done. The golfers don’t moan about it, which is a bonus.”
Those greens have been well looked after!
“We use a lot of sand, and we have always used dried sand at the back end of the year so the sand can penetrate down into the profile which has made a huge impact. The greens are firm and dry 12 months of the year. We have a parkland course in the centre of Scotland, so it just shows you how dry they are when you can ride a triple over them right through the winter. The sand has definitely helped. It’s been fantastic.”
How would you rate the service you’ve received from Hugh King?
“Hugh King has been fantastic. We get bunker sand, rootzone, topdressing and dry sand, and it is all so consistent. We’ve never had a bad load of any sand. It’s been absolutely spot on. I wouldn’t use it if it wasn’t good, and I wouldn’t tell you it was good if it wasn’t.”
“You trust the sand a lot more because when it arrives from Hugh King, it comes in clean”
Stuart Griffiths, Course Manager at Pitlochry Golf and Blair Atholl Golf
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Alex Wilson could have been a rock star but chose opera
Earlier this year young New Zealand tenor Alexander Wilson graduated from the University of Otago with a Bachelor of Sciences majoring in geology and a Bachelor of Music in classical performance voice under the direction of Judy Bellingham.
His singing talent has also recently earned him success in a variety of competitions throughout New Zealand including a well-deserved 3rd placing in the 2012 prestigious Lexus Song Quest which he backed up by winning the Otago Daily Times Aria competition.
Now, armed with the Patricia Pratt Scholarship and tuition grants from Creative New Zealand and the Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation Alex’s plans for the next stage of his musical journey are almost complete. In September he moves to the International Academy of Voice in Cardiff, Wales to complete a Master’s qualification in advanced vocal studies under the direction of Welsh tenor Dennis O’Neill. The Kiri Te Kanawa Foundation wishes him every success and will watch his progress closely.
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True Grit (2010)
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Harold Parmalee
Bruce Green
True Grit is the second feature film adaptation of the Charles Portis novel of the same name (the first being the 1969 classic John Wayne film). The 2010 film was directed by the Coen Brothers and Jeff Bridges starred as Deputy US Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn, and the cast included Matt Damon, Hailee Steinfeld, and Josh Brolin. The film's firearms were provided by veteran film property master Keith Walters, who has provided firearms for several recent Westerns including The Missing (2003) and Appaloosa. In an interview with True West magazine, Walters mentioned that several of the weapons seen in the film were replica firearms provided by Cimarron Fire Arms and Taylor’s & Co.
The following guns were used in the film True Grit (2010):
1 Handguns
1.1 Colt Dragoon
1.2 Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker"
1.3 Remington 1875
1.4 Smith & Wesson Schofield Model 3
2 Rifles
2.1 Winchester Model 1873
2.2 Winchester 1866 "Yellowboy"
2.3 Henry 1860
2.4 Hawken Rifle
2.5 Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine
3.1 12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun
3.2 Colt 1878 Coach Gun
Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld) carries her late father's 2nd Model Colt Dragoon, as described in Portis' book. It was waiting for her at the boarding house with his watch, knife and other of his 'traps' that Chaney hadn't stolen. Neither the boarding house landlady nor anyone else had seen fit to unload it for safety.
The gun used in the film is an actual percussion Dragoon, while the 1969 film used a cartridge-converted Colt Walker. It can be surmised that the Walker was used in the 1969 film due to its even more imposing size in contrast to Mattie's small stature. But the adherence to the source material in this version is much appreciated.
Deputy US Marshal Reuben J. "Rooster" Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) also carries a pair of revolvers in holsters that fit over his saddle horn. According to Keith Walters, these revolvers are 2nd model Colt Dragoons as well, despite them being referred to as "Navy Sixes". He uses them both in his famous charge at the end.
In both movies the Dragoon misfires at a critical point. The book explains this; while drunk, Rooster had used it to shoot a rat. Mattie insisted he re-load the two cylinders fired, which he did using defective old caps from a box under his bed - and still drunk. Jeff Bridges doesn't shoot the rat, and John Wayne used his Peacemaker, so viewers of both movies may get the unfair impression that Dragoons were simply unreliable.
Original Colt Dragoon 1st Model - .44 Cal. Designed to address some of the problems encountered with the Colt Walker.
Mattie's Dragoon. Her father had of course carried it loaded and capped - "If it ain't loaded.... it will not shoot".
Mattie holding her Dragoon.
Rooster with what appears to be a Colt Dragoon.
A production image of Mattie aiming her father's Dragoon.
Mattie pulls the Dragoon.
The pair of Colt Dragoons carried by Cogburn in the film. (From the Blu-ray Special Features).
Rooster with one of his "Navy sixes."
Rooster, reins in teeth, charges while dual-wielding his revolvers.
Rooster firing his revolvers with the reins in his teeth.
Rooster uses his dual pistols.
Colt Single Action Army "Peacemaker"
The primary firearm carried by Rooster is a Single Action Army Peacemaker. In the novel, it was stated that Rooster's "belt gun" was a .44-40, the same caliber as his Winchester. According to Walters, the revolver is a Colt Peacemaker with 7 1/2 inch barrel. Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Matt Damon) carries a Colt Peacemaker with ornate carved ivory grips.
Colt Single Action Army "Cavalry" model
Rooster draws his Peacemaker.
A production image of Rooster with his SAA, (note the missing cigarette).
The "Peacemaker" used by Matt Damon in the film. (From the Blu-Ray special features).
Texas Ranger La Boeuf (Matt Damon) fires his SAA at some cornbread tossed by Rooster.
A view of La Boeuf's pretty ivory grips.
Remington 1875
"Lucky" Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) carries a Remington 1875 revolver with custom four-leaf clover emblem ebony grips.
Remington 1875 - .45 Long Colt.
The Remington 1875 used by "Lucky" Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) in the film. (From the Blu-ray Special Features).
"Lucky" Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) draws his Remington 1875 revolver.
"Lucky" Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) reloads his Remington 1875 revolver with custom four-leaf clover emblem grips.
Smith & Wesson Schofield Model 3
Harold Parmalee (Bruce Green) carries a Smith & Wesson Schofield Model 3 as his sidearm. He is seen with the revolver out during the final confrontation with Rooster.
Smith & Wesson Schofield - .45 Schofield.
Harold Parmalee (Bruce Green) is seen with the Smith & Wesson Schofield Model 3 during the final confrontation with Rooster.
Winchester Model 1873
Rooster Cogburn (Jeff Bridges) carries a Winchester Model 1873 "Short" rifle as his long arm in the film. His questionable accuracy with the rifle might be due to the fact that he is shooting it right-handed while attempting to use the sights with his remaining left eye. A better notion would be to shoot left-handed, but Rooster seems very much like a proverbial 'old dog'.
Winchester Model 1873 "Short" rifle with octagonal barrel. - .44-40.
Rooster takes aim with his Winchester 1873 "Short" rifle.
Rooster fires on Ned Pepper's gang.
"Well, that didn't pan out."
Winchester 1866 "Yellowboy"
"Lucky" Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) wields a Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" during the famous charge at the end. This also appears to be the rifle carried by Clement "Doc" Parmalee.
Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" - .44RF.
"Lucky" Ned Pepper (Barry Pepper) wields a Winchester 1866 "Yellow Boy" during the famous charge at the end.
Lucky Ned with the rifle.
Henry 1860
True to the book, Tom Chaney (Josh Brolin) carries a Henry rifle. As in the original novel a length of rope is tied to both ends as a makeshift sling.
Henry 1860 - .44RF
Chaney with the Henry slung over his shoulder.
As in the original novel a length of rope is tied to both ends as a makeshift sling.
Hawken Rifle
When Mattie and Rooster confront the "Bear Man" Forster, the mountain man appears to be carrying a Hawken rifle on his horse.
Hawken Plains Rifle - .50 cal rifled
Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine
La Boeuf (Matt Damon) uses a Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine throughout the film. Mattie is later seen using the Sharps. It is a weapon of uncanny power and precision.
Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine - .45-70.
The Sharps 1874 used by Le Boeuf in the film.
Le Boeuf holds his Sharps 1874 Cavalry Carbine.
Le Boeuf drawing a bead on "Lucky" Ned Pepper with his Sharps.
Le Boeuf swinging his Sharps.
Le Boeuf setting up with his Sharps as Mattie looks on.
12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun
A 12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun is carried by a passing Native American who fires it offscreen to signal that they are being followed.
Charles Parker 1878 shotgun - 12 Gauge.
A 12 Gauge Double Barreled Shotgun is carried by a passing Native American who fires it off screen to signal that they are being followed.
Colt 1878 Coach Gun
A Colt 1878 Coach Gun is carried by Farrell Parmalee, one of the Parmalee brothers of "Lucky" Ned Pepper's gang.
Colt 1878 coach gun - 12 Gauge.
Farrell Parmalee (Mike Watson) carries a shotgun holstered in his saddle sheath.
Parmalee fires the shotgun.
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The Ryukyu Golden Kings rolled into Niigata for a weekend series with the Albirex BB, then 48 hours later got on a plane back to Okinawa two games richer.
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Michelle writes as both Michelle Sagara and Michelle West; she is also published as Michelle Sagara West (although the Sundered books were originally published under the name Michelle Sagara).
A LITTLE BIT ABOUT MICHELLE
She lives in Toronto with her long-suffering husband and her two children, and to her regret has no dogs.
Reading is one of her life-long passions, and she is sometimes paid for her opinions about what she’s read by the venerable Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. No matter how many bookshelves she buys, there is Never Enough Shelf space. Ever.
What was the greatest thing you learned at school?
That I had actual agency; that we collectively could take an action that had actual (positive) consequences. This would be in High School, though.
What was your favorite book as a child and why?
This one is hard. As a child, I think it was probably the (collective) Chronicles of Narnia, until I was twelve years old. Then it was Lord of the Rings, a book I read every year at least once until I had children.
Has reading a book ever changed your life?
Yes. It was Left Hand of Darkness. I was 15 years old. I was reading it – I loved it – and I reached a part where a character I hated went into kemmer. For background, this is a world of people who are sexually completely neutral during most of their life, but the kemmer cycle causes them to take on actual sexual characteristics. I fully expected that this hated character would become an actual male.
That didn’t happen. They went into the feminine sexual form.
There was so much cognitive dissonance for me that I had to stop reading. And then, I had the AHA moment: I realized that I was also sexist, or rather that I had absolutely categorized certain behaviour as male. It wasn’t just that I was categorized; I did it as well.
From there, I went on to examine – in as much as a fifteen year old can – other visceral responses, other “truths” that were perhaps... overly broad and prejudicial. I couldn’t necessarily transform other people, but I could start to work on me.
What advice would you give to someone who wanted to have a life in writing?
1. Go for it.
2. Ignore prescriptive writing advice. Learning how to write a book is actually the process by which you learn how to write your books. However you manage to reach your first THE END is your process. If you have to stand on your head and type upside down to do so, then you have my deep sympathy, but—also, congratulations. You might try different things. There are as many How-to-Write books as, well, books. Some of the things might work for you. Some won’t. Don’t be afraid to jettison the things that don’t work.
3. Hold on to the joy of creativity, the joy of discovery. Keep it as separate as you can from all of the rest of the external things. Being an author is not the same as writing, although you have to write in order to become an author.
Can you tell my Book Nerd community a little about FIRSTBORN?
Firstborn is the seventh of eight books in The House War series. It’s a book, for me, about consequences. About the clash between foresight and human nature, or perhaps a specific person’s human nature. It’s also about the things long buried beneath a large city that—if woken—will destroy the city and everyone who lives within it.
But... it’s also about Jewel, a woman who is born with the talent of foresight, who has learned at cost how to control or command it. It’s about the things that foresight changes, and the things that can’t be changed.
What was one of the most surprising things you learned in creating Jewel?
Jewel was not meant, when she was first created, to be a protagonist. She first appeared in Hunter’s Death, and I created her and her den-kin, a ragged group of street orphans, a proto-gang, because there were events that were happening within the city itself that the protagonist wouldn’t see; he didn’t live in the city and he didn’t know it. Jewel was a thief when necessity demanded it, and she could see: there were demons in the streets. There were people who had disappeared. They were poor, they were not people who would be easily missed, and even if they were, who would care?
But from the moment Jewel appeared on the figurative page (I work on a computer), she was viscerally real to me. She was seerborn; she was, in dream and occasionally while awake, visited by prophetic visions—visions she could not completely understand and could not control.
Her relationship with her den, the family she built, and her fear of losing them was so profoundly relatable to older-sister me that I could not really stop writing her. What she became, she became without planning or intent.
What was your inspiration for the series?
For The House War, or the world in which it’s set? For The House War, I wanted to focus on Jewel ATerafin, her den, and her climb from the streets of the poorest of the hundred holdings to the ruling seat of one of The Ten, the families that, beneath only the Kings, set the course for the Empire. By this point, I was very attached to the den and their various supporters (and in one or two cases antagonists).
If you mean did I have external inspiration, not so much; I had three scenes that came to me over the course of six months. I don’t take notes; books take a while to write, and I generally consider that any idea that won’t stick to me in some fashion probably won’t support a book. This is relevant to me and my process and other people’s processes and the gestation of ideas can be both totally different and totally valid. I started Hunter’s Death with several character arcs in mind—and Jewel’s is the first I’ve finished; it was the only one not dependent in some fashion on the final battle.
The end of The Sun Sword is the mid-point of one arc: Kiriel’s. The end of that arc is the end of everything. So those three scenes have an emotional weight to me that I want to share.
I want people to feel the way I felt when I first envisioned them. And the only way to do that is to write to give them context and meaning.
Aside from Jewel, which of your characters do you feel has grown the most since book one and in what way have they changed?
I don’t have just one character, but I’d suggest either Angel, Jester or Finch. Angel has fully committed to the House in a way he refused to do until Jewel was at its helm. Jester has opened up enough to allow at least one stranger to become important and he has begun to understand that his uneasy avoidance of general responsibility is based in some part on half-truths and the lies he tells himself about himself. And Finch?
Has gone from mousy, silent observer to active observer. She’s made choices, has had to make choices, and has taken up the mantle of regent and all that that entails. She’s come to understand that she will never feel ready—but it doesn’t matter because the responsibilities are still hers.
Which character have you enjoyed getting to know the most over the course of writing THE HOUSE WAR?
All of them? Haval and Jarven, possibly. Hectore. Andrei, especially toward the end. Calliastra. I feel strongly about and for the characters even if I don’t like or trust them (Jarven, for instance is charming and amusing and I would never turn my back on him).
What are some of your current and future projects that you can share with us?
The last arc of this series, which moves from Jewel and her den to Kiriel, Adam (who was a reasonable part of The House War series), and the Breodani hunters, one of whom is Stephen. It’s hard to discuss it without spoiling the ending of the series or discussing what happens after War, and I don’t want to be burnt in effigy!
What did you do for your last birthday?
I wrote. I had a pretty normal (for me) day. I am not really a big event celebrator >.>. There’s a cake I really like, though – strawberry meringue – and I had that, with my family and my extended family (which I guess would be considered found family?) in attendance.
Tell us your most rewarding experience since being published.
Over the years, the thing that I’ve found quietly the most rewarding is the email I get from people who have read—and been moved—by my books. I have had people read them while they were in the hospital, people who read them all through chemo, people who have found touchstones, symbols that have helped them to make sense of the general despair of their world at the time.
I think it is constantly rewarding.
I don’t really write to impress people; I write to move them. I read to be moved. (It’s true that odd things can move me in ways that leave others cold—but, reader.)
Books were hugely important in my childhood. They continue to be hugely important to me now. I can shriek in loud dismay while working in the bookstore when I discover that a book I was so looking forward to (the new Megan Whalen Turner) has been pushed from March 2019 to “Fall 2020”. There were tears. Tears, I tell you.
To know that there are people who feel that way about books I’ve written is both humbling and a life goal. I cannot love my books the way I love books written by other people; I’m too aware of the flaws or the execution decisions I might have changed had I been writing the book Right Now, etc. But... I’m so grateful that readers exist who can.
When you looked in the mirror first thing this morning, what was the first thing you thought?
I’m going to have lunch with my editor and I cannot dress like this, OMG. (Lunch was excellent. I did not spill soup or anything else in my lap. The company was great. Well, the editor’s company was great <wry g>)
If you could live in any period in history, where would it be and why?
Now. I admit that while I love fantasy and science fiction as a reader, I don’t want to live in a world where childbirth is the biggest killer of adults who have managed to stay alive to that point. Among other things.
Where can readers find you?
At: http://michellesagara.com, as @msagara on Twitter, as Michelle Sagara (page) on Facebook. Also, as a bookseller a couple of days a week at BakkaPhoenix books in Toronto, where I also live.
The seventh book in the epic fantasy House War series returns to a beloved world of magic and political intrigue, where new threats are stirring.
Jewel ATerafin has never wanted to be a power. What she truly wants, she built in the streets of the poorer holdings. To protect what she built, to protect what she values above all else, she has accepted that power is necessary.
But with power comes responsibility.
Jewel has forced herself to do what would have once been unthinkable: She has surrendered her den-kin, Carver, to the wilderness, because she must if she is to have any hope of saving the rest of her family, and the city in which they dwell.
But she cannot leave him with nothing. Into his hands, she has placed the single, blue leaf that came from the wilderness and the dreaming combined. She doesn’t know what it does or what it was meant to do—but it is the most powerful item on her person, and it is the only thing she can leave him.
That leaf, however, was created to serve a purpose that Jewel does not understand. Nor does Carver, who now possesses it. With Ellerson by his side, Carver intends to traverse the wild Winter in an attempt to reach home—and the people who are waiting for him.
There are those who do understand the significance of Carver’s gift, and the disaster that will prevail if it remains in his hands. But time is of the essence. These lands are not unclaimed, and the Lord of these lands is waking from his ancient slumber.
Nor is the Lord the only threat. Firstborn, demons, and wild elementals are swirling around two mortal men in a storm that threatens to end the only chance the city of Averalaan has of surviving what is to follow.
Praise for THE HOUSE WAR Novels
“Richly and superbly detailed. Her characters live and sing.” —Examiner
“Lush, richly intricate…Jay is charismatic, deeply compelling…. The story sucked me in and didn’t spit me out till the end…. Some say Michelle West has been propelled into the ranks of George R. R. Martin and Robin Hobb—I say she’s been there all along.” —Night Owl Reviews
“Fans of award-winning Toronto fantasy writer Michelle West will be delighted with this return to the vivid and detailed universe of the Sacred Hunt and the Sun Sword series…. In a richly woven world, and with a cast of characters that ranges from traumatized street kids to the wealthy heads of the most prominent houses in Averalaan, West pulls no punches as she hooks readers in with her bold and descriptive narrative.” —Quill & Quire
“This is a compelling story with riveting and finely wrought characters that will keep you up well into the night. This story will go down as one of the best novels in its genre, propelling West into the ranks of Robin Hobb and George R.R. Martin. It’s simply a great read, don’t miss it.” —The Main Edge
“West is growing into a superb storyteller as demonstrated by this best effort to date with a fully realized world populated by a diverse range of nicely developed characters and a compelling storyline that hooks readers in from the start.” —Monsters and Critics
“I am glad I read it. It is out of the ordinary for a fantasy tale, and is a Hamlet rather than a Henry V.” —Grasping for the Wind
“Michelle West tells a wonderful tale…. I really like the way West draws the characters, making them, even the children, memorable. A lot of untold riches are implied here, and I’m waiting eagerly for sequels.” —Philadelphia Center City Weekly Press
“The power and majesty of the series is in the characters, although the world itself is extraordinary…. The House War series is timeless and clearly takes it place at the top of its genre. It is a full-bodied piece of work that is satisfying, intriguing and thought-provoking.” —Bitten by Books
You can purchase Firstborn (The House War #7) at the following Retailers:
And now, The Giveaways.
Thank you MICHELLE WEST for making this giveaway possible.
Winner will receive a Copy of Firstborn (The House War #7) by Michelle West.
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6/26/2019 6:10 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern nance, northeastern merrick and western polk counties will expire at 615 am cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. however small hail and gusty winds are still possible with this thunderstorm. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 1000 am cdt for south central, central and east central nebraska.
6/26/2019 5:50 AM CDT At 549 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near clarks, or 29 miles southwest of columbus, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, fullerton, stromsburg, clarks and silver creek.
6/26/2019 5:26 AM CDT At 526 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near palmer, or 25 miles northeast of grand island, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/26/2019 4:44 AM CDT At 443 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near rising city to near central city to palmer to near elba, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/21/2019 2:31 AM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 300 am cdt for nance. york. northeastern hamilton. northeastern fillmore. northern merrick and polk counties. At 230 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near belgrade to near benedict to near friend, moving northeast at 40 mph.
6/21/2019 2:12 AM CDT At 211 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northeast of palmer to near bradshaw to near geneva, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/28/2019 3:10 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for east central nance, northeastern merrick and northern polk counties will expire at 315 am cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 700 am cdt for central and east central nebraska.
5/28/2019 2:45 AM CDT At 245 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over silver creek, or 18 miles southwest of columbus, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
5/28/2019 2:22 AM CDT At 222 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near clarks, or 29 miles northwest of york, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and nickel size hail. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, central city, osceola, clarks and silver creek.
5/28/2019 2:02 AM CDT At 202 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over archer, or 19 miles northeast of grand island, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
9/18/2018 2:56 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern nance and northeastern merrick counties will expire at 300 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire. to report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. they will relay your report to the national weather service hastings.
9/18/2018 2:45 PM CDT At 245 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over fullerton, or 30 miles west of columbus, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, fullerton and silver creek.
9/18/2018 2:35 PM CDT At 234 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near fullerton, or 35 miles west of columbus, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
9/1/2018 2:22 AM CDT At 222 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over central city, or 21 miles northeast of grand island, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
7/1/2018 12:36 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for york, fillmore, thayer, northeastern merrick and polk counties will expire at 1245 am cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
7/1/2018 12:06 AM CDT At 1205 am cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near benedict to near waco to bruning to near byron, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/6/2018 9:40 PM CDT At 940 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near belgrade to near silver creek, and are nearly stationary (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, genoa, silver creek and belgrade.
6/6/2018 9:18 PM CDT At 917 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near cedar rapids to near silver creek, moving west at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/6/2018 8:24 PM CDT At 823 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over silver creek, or 18 miles west of columbus, moving southeast at 15 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, genoa and silver creek.
6/6/2018 8:11 PM CDT At 811 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near silver creek, or 20 miles west of columbus, moving southeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/6/2018 4:39 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southeastern nance and northeastern merrick counties will expire at 445 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 1000 pm cdt for central and east central nebraska. to report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. they will relay your report to the national weather service hastings.
6/6/2018 4:30 PM CDT At 430 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near fullerton, or 28 miles west of columbus, moving northeast at 10 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, fullerton, genoa and silver creek.
6/6/2018 4:18 PM CDT At 418 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near fullerton, or 29 miles west of columbus, moving northeast at 10 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, fullerton, genoa, clarks and silver creek.
6/6/2018 4:06 PM CDT At 406 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near clarks, or 30 miles west of columbus, moving east at 10 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/1/2018 11:19 PM CDT At 1118 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from rising city to near chapman, moving south at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, central city, stromsburg, osceola, shelby, palmer, clarks, silver creek, polk, chapman, marquette, hordville and archer.
6/1/2018 10:54 PM CDT At 1053 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near bellwood to near palmer, moving southeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
5/1/2018 5:24 PM CDT At 524 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over polk, or 19 miles northwest of york, moving northeast at 20 mph. another severe storm was located north of osceola moving northeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, stromsburg, osceola, shelby, silver creek, polk, benedict and hordville. A tornado watch remains in effect until 1000 pm cdt for south central, central and east central nebraska.
5/1/2018 5:09 PM CDT The national weather service in hastings has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. northwestern york county in east central nebraska. northeastern hamilton county in south central nebraska. central merrick county in central nebraska. Polk county in east central nebraska.
10/2/2017 8:36 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northeastern nance and northeastern merrick counties will expire at 845 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has moved out of the area. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until midnight cdt for central and east central nebraska.
10/2/2017 8:29 PM CDT At 829 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over genoa, or 18 miles west of columbus, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, genoa and silver creek.
10/2/2017 8:11 PM CDT At 810 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near clarks, or 29 miles west of columbus, moving northeast at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
10/2/2017 7:19 PM CDT At 719 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near clarks, or 25 miles west of columbus, moving northeast at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, genoa, clarks and silver creek.
10/2/2017 7:12 PM CDT At 711 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over clarks, or 27 miles northwest of york, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, genoa, clarks and silver creek.
10/2/2017 6:51 PM CDT At 651 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located over central city, or 21 miles northeast of grand island, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
8/27/2017 3:53 AM CDT At 353 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near duncan, or 12 miles west of columbus, moving east at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and half dollar size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. This severe thunderstorm will remain over mainly rural areas of northeastern merrick and northeastern polk counties.
8/20/2017 12:10 AM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northeastern hamilton, northeastern merrick and polk counties will expire at 1215 am cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however heavy rain is still expected with this thunderstorm. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 100 am cdt for south central, central and east central nebraska.
8/20/2017 12:04 AM CDT At 1204 am cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near clarks, or 21 miles northwest of york, moving east at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, stromsburg, osceola, clarks, silver creek, polk and hordville.
8/19/2017 11:37 PM CDT At 1137 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near hordville, or 22 miles northwest of york, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, central city, stromsburg, osceola, clarks, silver creek, polk and hordville.
8/19/2017 11:27 PM CDT At 1126 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near central city, or 24 miles northwest of york, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
8/15/2017 7:20 PM CDT At 719 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near cushing, or 24 miles north of grand island, moving northeast at 20 mph (radar indicated. quarter size hail has also been reported from this storm). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, st. Paul, fullerton, genoa, palmer, silver creek, belgrade, cushing and archer.
8/15/2017 6:58 PM CDT At 657 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near cushing, or 20 miles north of grand island, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/27/2017 6:57 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for nance, northwestern york, northern hamilton, merrick, polk and southeastern howard counties will expire at midnight cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe limits, and no longer pose an immediate threat to life or property. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds to 55 mph are still possible with these thunderstorms. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 200 am cdt for south central, central and east central nebraska.
6/27/2017 6:40 PM CDT At 1140 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northwest of monroe to near clarks to near aurora, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, central city, fullerton, stromsburg, genoa, osceola, palmer, clarks, silver creek, polk, chapman, benedict, marquette, hordville, belgrade, archer and st. Libory.
6/27/2017 6:20 PM CDT At 1120 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near albion to near archer to near st. libory, moving east at 45 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. expect damage to roofs, siding, and trees
6/16/2017 7:28 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 2.3 miles N of Silver Creek, NE, 3 s of silver creek. nws employee reported quarter sized hail.
6/16/2017 7:27 PM CDT At 727 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near bellwood to near silver creek to clarks, moving south at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/16/2017 6:58 PM CDT At 658 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near genoa, or 16 miles west of columbus, moving south at 30 mph (trained weather spotters reported quarter to golf ball size hail near genoa). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. Locations impacted include, genoa and silver creek.
6/16/2017 6:47 PM CDT At 646 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near genoa, or 18 miles west of columbus, moving south at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
6/13/2017 8:56 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for eastern clay, east central nance, northwestern york, hamilton, northeastern merrick and polk counties will expire at 900 pm cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have moved out of the area. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. however gusty winds and heavy rain are still possible with these thunderstorms. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 100 am cdt for south central, central and east central nebraska. to report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. they will relay your report to the national weather service hastings. remember, a severe thunderstorm warning still remains in effect for york, polk and northern fillmore counties until 930 pm.
6/13/2017 8:38 PM CDT At 838 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near duncan to near stockham, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. locations impacted include, york, aurora, sutton, stromsburg, harvard, henderson, osceola, clay center, shelby, hampton, fairfield, clarks, silver creek, giltner, polk, bradshaw, benedict, marquette, gresham and hordville. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 324 and 350.
6/13/2017 8:24 PM CDT At 824 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near duncan to near saronville, moving east at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings. locations impacted include, york, aurora, central city, sutton, fullerton, stromsburg, harvard, genoa, henderson, osceola, clay center, shelby, hampton, fairfield, clarks, silver creek, giltner, polk, glenvil and phillips. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 318 and 350.
6/13/2017 8:09 PM CDT At 809 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near genoa to near clay center, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 70 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect considerable tree damage. Wind damage is also likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
6/13/2017 7:53 PM CDT At 753 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near genoa to near clarks to near aurora, moving east at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, grand island, aurora, central city, fullerton, genoa, henderson, doniphan, hampton, clarks, silver creek, giltner, polk, chapman, phillips, bradshaw, marquette, hordville, belgrade, stockham and archer. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 310 and 343.
6/13/2017 7:41 PM CDT At 741 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near st. edward to near aurora, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. locations impacted include, grand island, aurora, central city, fullerton, genoa, henderson, doniphan, palmer, hampton, clarks, silver creek, giltner, polk, chapman, phillips, bradshaw, marquette, hordville, belgrade and stockham. This includes interstate 80 between mile markers 308 and 343.
6/13/2017 7:29 PM CDT At 729 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near genoa to near giltner, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include golf ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
3/23/2017 11:27 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for northwestern york, eastern hamilton, northeastern merrick and polk counties will expire at 1130 pm cdt, the storm which prompted the warning has weakened below severe limits, and no longer poses an immediate threat to life or property. therefore, the warning will be allowed to expire.
3/23/2017 10:51 PM CDT At 1049 pm cdt, severe wind gusts from thunderstorm outflow were located near polk, or 12 miles northwest of york, moving northeast at 65 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 70 mph wind gusts. Expect considerable tree damage. Damage is likely to mobile homes, roofs, and outbuildings.
7/5/2016 8:52 PM CDT The severe thunderstorm warning for southwestern polk, eastern nance and northeastern merrick counties will expire at 900 pm cdt, the storms which prompted the warning have weakened below severe limits, and have exited the warned area. therefore the warning will be allowed to expire. a severe thunderstorm watch remains in effect until 200 am cdt for southeastern nebraska. to report severe weather, contact your nearest law enforcement agency. they will relay your report to the national weather service hastings.
7/5/2016 8:39 PM CDT At 839 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near genoa to near silver creek to 8 miles north of osceola, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. These severe thunderstorms will remain over mainly rural areas of southwestern polk, eastern nance and northeastern merrick counties.
7/5/2016 8:22 PM CDT At 821 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from fullerton to 6 miles west of silver creek to 7 miles northwest of osceola, moving northeast at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. these severe storms will be near, silver creek around 825 pm cdt. Genoa around 845 pm cdt.
7/5/2016 8:08 PM CDT At 808 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near palmer to near fullerton to near clarks, moving northeast at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. severe thunderstorms will be near, clarks around 815 pm cdt. fullerton and belgrade around 830 pm cdt. silver creek around 835 pm cdt. Genoa around 840 pm cdt.
7/5/2016 7:57 PM CDT At 756 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near archer to polk, moving northeast at 25 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include ping pong ball size hail and 60 mph wind gusts. the greatest threat for hail is currently near palmer, in northwestern merrick county. People and animals outdoors will be injured. expect hail damage to roofs, siding, windows, and vehicles. expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees. these severe storms will be near, polk around 800 pm cdt. Fullerton, stromsburg and osceola around 815 pm cdt.
7/5/2016 7:36 PM CDT At 736 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles east of st. libory to 6 miles north of hampton, moving northeast at 20 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and penny size hail. Expect damage to roofs. siding. and trees. severe thunderstorms will be near, hordville around 750 pm cdt. archer around 755 pm cdt. polk around 800 pm cdt. central city around 805 pm cdt. Stromsburg and osceola around 815 pm cdt.
4/24/2016 7:12 PM CDT At 710 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near fullerton, or 34 miles northwest of york, moving north at 30 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding, and trees.
7/31/2015 3:36 PM CDT At 336 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near fullerton, or 28 miles west of columbus, moving south at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees. Locations impacted include, fullerton, clarks, silver creek and belgrade.
7/31/2015 3:28 PM CDT At 328 pm cdt, a severe thunderstorm was located near fullerton, or 28 miles west of columbus, moving south at 35 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts and quarter size hail. Hail damage to vehicles is expected. Expect wind damage to roofs, siding and trees.
7/24/2015 11:13 PM CDT At 1113 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near silver creek to near lushton, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
7/24/2015 10:34 PM CDT At 1034 pm cdt, severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from near chapman to near aurora to near stockham, moving east at 40 mph (radar indicated). Hazards include 60 mph wind gusts. Expect damage to roofs. Siding and trees.
4/12/2015 6:00 PM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 615 pm cdt for southeastern nance and northeastern merrick counties. at 600 pm cdt. severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 8 miles northeast of fullerton to near genoa to near silver creek. moving northeast at 35 mph. hazard. Quarter size hail.
4/12/2015 5:58 PM CDT The national weather service in hastings has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. northeastern merrick county in central nebraska. central polk county in east central nebraska. until 630 pm cdt * at 558 pm cdt. a severe thunderstorm was located near clarks. Or.
4/12/2015 5:48 PM CDT A severe thunderstorm warning remains in effect until 615 pm cdt for eastern nance and northeastern merrick counties. at 548 pm cdt. severe thunderstorms were located along a line extending from 6 miles northeast of fullerton to 6 miles south of genoa to 6 miles northeast of clarks. moving northeast at 35 mph. hazard. Quarter size hail.
4/12/2015 5:29 PM CDT The national weather service in hastings has issued a * severe thunderstorm warning for. eastern nance county in central nebraska. northeastern merrick county in central nebraska. until 615 pm cdt * at 528 pm cdt. A cluster of severe thunderstorms were located.
6/3/2014 6:19 PM CDT Quarter sized hail reported 4.8 miles SW of Silver Creek, NE, 35-45 mph winds also reported.
6/14/2013 6:25 PM CDT Ping Pong Ball sized hail reported 1.2 miles SSE of Silver Creek, NE, public report relayed by nws employee.
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Power lines down and 6 inch diameter tree branches down in merrick county NE, 1.2 miles SSE of Silver Creek, NE
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Estimated 60 mph winds in town in merrick county NE, 1.2 miles SSE of Silver Creek, NE
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Golf Ball sized hail reported 1.4 miles E of Silver Creek, NE, corrected location from original report
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Golf Ball sized hail reported 2.2 miles ESE of Silver Creek, NE
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Corrected location from original report to put in merrick county. old elevator blown across highway 30. debris covering the road between clarks and silver creek. power in merrick county NE, 1.4 miles E of Silver Creek, NE
1/1/0001 12:00 AM Old elevator blown across highway 30. debris covering the road between clarks and silver creek. power lines down in clarks and power is out to the town of clark in nance county NE, 2.2 miles ESE of Silver Creek, NE
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Investors Iraq News
By Ahmed Mousa Jiyad.
Any opinions expressed are those of the author, and do not necessarily reflect the views of Iraq Business News (http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/).
Midyear Review of the Iraqi Upstream Petroleum Sector 2016 has been, financially as in any other aspects, so far very difficult and the fiscal difficulties are likely to persist during the second half of the year, though at slightly lower scale.
This half-yearly brief review addresses basic issues pertaining to the upstream petroleum sector in the country. The analysis focuses on the middle and southern petroleum producing provinces and the exports from southern terminals; while exports from KRG are addressed briefly.
The covered basic issues are:
Oil Exports Revenues and Fiscal Deficit;
Brent/ Iraqi Oil Price Differentials;
Associated Gas Utilization and Development of Gas Fields;
The Progress in the Awarded Exploration Blocks;
KRG’ Oil Exports, Revenues and Fiscal Difficulties; and finally,
Petroleum Issues in the IMF-Iraq Stand-By Arrangement.
Please click here to download Ahmed Mousa Jiyad’s full report (http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Ahmed-Mousa-Jiyad-Midyear-Review-of-the-Iraqi-Upstream-Petroleum-Sector-July2016-IBN.pdf).
Mr Jiyad is an independent development consultant, scholar and Associate with Centre for Global Energy Studies (CGES), London. He was formerly a senior economist with the Iraq National Oil Company and Iraq’s Ministry of Oil, Chief Expert for the Council of Ministers, Director at the Ministry of Trade, and International Specialist with UN organizations in Uganda, Sudan and Jordan. He is now based in Norway (Email: mou-jiya@online.no, Skype ID: Ahmed Mousa Jiyad).
Source: Iraq-BusinessNews.com. (http://www.iraq-businessnews.com/2016/07/18/midyear-review-of-iraqi-upstream-petroleum-sector/)
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born: 1962, Spokane, Washington
current: lives and works in Hudson, New York
MFA, Visual Communication, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Full Scholarship), Chicago, IL, 1997
BFA, Concentrations in Graphic Design, University of Idaho, College of Art and Architecture, Moscow, ID, 1986
National Student Exchange Program, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, 1985
AA, Spokane Falls Community College, Spokane, WA, 1982
solo projects/installations
2015 Roadside Topiary, Hudson, NY; self published artist book (November)
2011 Outdoor Kiosk, Hudson, NY; installation, “voters” (May)
2009 Garage Editions, Brooklyn, NY; “Public Comment” (July)
2007 Brooklyn, NY; installation, “Toll Ahead” (May)
2002 Hillsdale, NY; installation, “Embalm” (August)
2000 City of New York Parks and Recreation; public art program, Tompkins Square Park, New York, NY; installation, “WinterProvisions” (January-April)
1998 6th Street and Cooper Square, New York, NY; installation, “Royal Pine” (March-April)
1997 Gallery 2, Chicago, IL; Graduate Thesis Exhibition, installation, “Timber” (April)
2015 Basilica, Hudson, NY, Farm and Flea, (Dec)
Inky Editions, Hudson, NY, Woodcuts, inaugural Opening, (Nov)
2009 Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY, “Hall of Gowanus” Permanent Exhibiiton
2008 Gowanus Canal Conservancy, Brooklyn, NY; “Gowanus: A Sense of Place” (Dec)
Proteus Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY; “Mend” (October)
Windows Brooklyn, Court and Smith Streets, Brooklyn, NY (June)
2007 A.G.A.S.T. Annual Gowanus Artists Studio Tour, Brooklyn, NY (October)
Ed Schmidt’s Dumbolio, The PowerHouse Arena, Brooklyn, NY (April)
2005 College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME; “Design Series” (January-May)
2004 Contemporary Artists Center, North Adams, MA; “DeTour,” organized by Nato Thompson (August)
The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY; “AIM:24, Artist in the Marketplace” (April-June)
1998 Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL; “Posted@Beret” (February)
collections and archives
Tipoteca Type Museum, Cornuda, Italy
Department of Cultural Affairs, Percentage for Art Program Artist Directory, New York, NY
retitle.com, online Artist Directory, London, UK
Artists Space, Irvin Sandler Artist File onlne, New York, NY
awards and residencies
Tintoretto Studio, Member, Venice, Italy, 2006
Tipoteca Italiana Fondazione, 2 week Residency, Cornuda, Italy, 2006
NYFA/Arts Center of the Capital Region, Special Opportunity Stipend, 2004
AIM:24, Artist in the Market Place, Professional Development Program, Bronx Museum of the Arts, 2004
The Little Tree Corporation, material donation for “Royal Pine,” 1998
SEGD (Society for Environmental Graphic Design) Educational Grant, 1996
Full Tuition Trustee Scholarship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1995-1997
Osterink, Carol, “Public Displays of Disdain,” The Gossips of Rivertown, May 22, 2011
Chase Gulden, Amy. “The Gallery,” Apartment Therapy, October 11, 2007
Burkett, Brent, “Death Toll,” Heart as Arena, June 20, 2007
Guskind, Robert, “New Gowanus Signage: Toll Ahead,” The Gowanus Lounge, May 31, 2007
Herzberg, Julia, “Aim: The Artist in the Marketplace,” ArtNexus, No. 54, Volume 3, 2004, p.177
Mitchell, John, “City Exhibit: All you need is Love,: The North Adams Transcript, August 19, 2004, Entertainment Section
Genocchio, Benjamin, “A Chance to Fill Up on Visual Treats,: The New York Times, Westchester Late Edition, Sunday, April 25, 2004: Section 14, p 9
AIM:24 (cat), Artist in the Marketplace. The Bronx Museum of the Arts (April), 2004
Cattelan, Maurizio, Funche, Bettin, Gioni, Massimillano, Subotnick, Ali (eds), Charley Magazine, May, 2002
“Sculptural memorial recalls victims of genocidal famine,” The Ukrainian Weekly, April 9, 2000, p.9
Kellogg, Craig, “Insites,” Metropolis, July, 1998, p.42
Ferrara, Annette and Liese, Jennifer. “Shopping in the Art Supermarket,” F magazine, May, 1997, p.27
Roberts, Karla. Presentation: “Winter Provisions,” SEGD Conference, Society for Environmental Design, Boston, MA, (May), 1996
Roberts, Karla. “Commemorationg the Ukrainian Famine,: Dimensions: A design Journal of the Society for Environmental Graphic Design, Vol. 3, No. 2, 1996, p.32
related professional experience
Garage Editions, Independent publisher, small printshop with a growing number of book projects, cards and prints. In-house capabilities include letterpress printing on a Vandercook 219, silkscreen, design and development.
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Lil Ugly Toes (@liluglytoes) – “Fuck the Opps”
October 1, 2018 • 8:40 pm
Up and coming rapper Lil Ugly Toes is prepping the release of his song “Fuck the Opps” (Prod by JuiceRose).
Since getting the Adam 22 co-sign and premiering his “Fuck 12” video on No Jumper’s YouTube Channel, Lil Ugly Toes has racked up over half-a-million views on his visuals including the Elevator premiered video “Two.”
Most recently, Lil Ugly Toes continued to build his internet presence with the bass heavy screamo friendly track “Bheeep” using world renown Hip-Hop staple WorldStarHiphop.com as the outlet for his release.
“In a lot of my newer projects I’m trying to dig deeper into my feelings and express the things that I’ve been going through more,” Lil Ugly Toes explained. “The big homie Triston (@thereddwarfs) shot the video. I met Triston through another friend when shooting my first music video for the song Two.”
Known as “Toes” amongst close friends and labelmates, the 6’4” rapper began his career in the state of Indiana being influenced by Biggie, Chief Keef and Metallica, but ultimately realized that he needed to move to Los Angeles to further pursue his goals of commercial success.
“I believe that I am the next wave, people gravitate to what I’m doing and I have put myself on another coast away from my family and everything I know strictly to reach my goals. I bet it all on me when I came to LA,” LilUgly Toes said.
In 2018, Lil Ugly Toes formed a partnership with Hollywood, California based record label Starboss. Building brick by brick from their multi-level studio and compound, “Toes” embodies every bit of Larry Bird’s Indiana State days hooping with friends in between studio sessions and video shoots.
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More British Comic Creators announced for Lakes International Comic Art Festival
Home / Blog / News / More British Comic Creators announced for Lakes International Comic Art Festival
Christopher Muscat, June 17, 2016 June 17, 2016 , News, 2000AD, British, Bryan Lee O'Malley, Charlie Adlard, Duncan Fegredo, Ilya, John Reppion, Lakes International Comic Art Festival, Leah Moore, Mick McMahon, Rufus Dayglo
Kendal, 17th June 2016: Just ahead of tickets going on sale on Friday 1st July, the Lakes International Comic Art Festival is delighted to announce the upcoming appearances by a number of top British comic creators, all looking forward to a weekend of comics fun 14th – 16th October 2016.
Joining the already-impressive guest list that includes Bryan Lee O’Malley and 2000AD‘s Mick McMahon will be artists Charlie Adlard, Rufus Dayglo and Duncan Fegredo; writer, artist and editor Ilya; and writers Leah Moore and John Reppion.
“I’m really looking forward to seeing a whole town decked out with love for comics,” says Leah Moore, of late busy with the exciting Electricomics project, offering an app that allows you to read four stories by some of the industry’s top talents, as well as read and collect stories created using the Electricomics Generator.
“Comics are immediate and the most accessible media there is, so hiding them away in convention halls is a huge shame.
“We are bringing all the kids along so we will be really getting involved with the children’s programme, and showing them what it is mummy and daddy actually do for work which is cool. I’m away teaching a graphic novel course at an Arvon Centre this week and have found out my co-tutor Kate Charlesworth and the guest speaker Isabel Greenberg are both going to be at the Lakes, so it will be fantastic to see them again too.”
“I’m excited about attending my first LICAF,” enthuses artist Rufus Dayglo, who teases that he will, hopefully, be revealing a few surprises at the Festival, along with bring along original art. “It has a wonderful reputation for promoting the Arts, and being a Festival that concentrates on creators. I attend many festivals and conventions around the world, and LICAF is definitely internationally renowned and respected. To be invited is a great honour.
“Added to that it’s in one of the most beautiful places in the world, what not to love?”
“I’m really looking forward to the Lakes again this year,” says Festival regular, Walking Deadartist Charlie Adlard. “I’ve attended every year so far and I truly believe that the organisers are trying something different to make it the most exciting convention of the season. It’s certainly my favourite show!
“This year I’m teaming up with my friend Dan Berry to do a very special life drawing class for any interested festival attendees who wish to pursue a career in this crazy industry or who simply want to improve their drawing skills.”
These creators join the other already-announced guests (and many others) for the Lakes International Comic Art Festival 2016: artist Jordi Bernet (Torpedo and Jonah Hex); writer Joe Kelly (I Kill Giants, Deadpool), Bryan Lee O’Malley (Scott Pilgrim, Seconds), top US cartoonistsLuke and Steve McGarry; 2000AD artist Mick McMahon; artist Ken Niimura, who has designed this year’s Festival art; Benoit Peeters, Britain’s first Professor of Graphic Fiction and Comic Art, at Lancaster University; and Paco Roca, best known for his award-winning graphic novelWrinkles.
Also on the guest list in partnership with The Finnish Institute in London are comic creators Hanneriina Moisseinen, Virpi Oinonen, Ville Ranta, Johanna “Roju” Rojolaand Petteri Tikkanen, along with musicians Niko Kumpuvaara and Aleksi Ranta – whose visit is part of an extension to the Lakes Festival’s rapidly-expanding Comic Creator Exchange Program with other major comics events around the globe.
Many more international and British comic creators will be announced over the coming weeks, joining a host of writers, artists, publishers and retailers for a long weekend in the Lakes crammed with panels, exhibitions, children’s events and other activities. The town will be entirely given over to comics, with business owners lining up to support the Festival’s famous “Windows Trail“, giving over store front space to display comics art created by artists and local groups and school children.
The October weekend is just one of a number of comics projects from the Festival on its way this year, which has included the world premiere performance of Black Dog – the Dreams of Paul Nash by Dave McKean that took place in May and will return to Kendal for the Festival.
• Lakes International Comic Art Festival: www.comicartfestival.com | Find the Lakes International Comic Art Festival on Facebook | Follow the Festival on Twitter @comicartfest
• For more information on the Lakes International Comic Art Festival, contact: Julie Tait: julie@kendalartsinternational.com
Charlie Adlard has been a “veteran” of the comic industry for over 20 years. He’s spent the majority of his time since 2004 working on The Walking Dead for which he has received many industry awards.
In his time as a cartoonist he has worked on many other projects as far reaching as Mars Attacks, The X-Files, Judge Dredd, Savage, Batman, X-Men, Superman etc and creator-owned projects closer to his heart like Astronauts In Trouble, Codeflesh, Rock Bottom, and White Death.
Charlie Adlard Online
Web: http://charlieadlard.com
Twitter: @charlieadlard
Facebook: facebook.com/Charlie-Adlard-294491250606774
Dan Berry
Dan Berry is an illustrator, designer, cartoonist and lecturer based in the town of Shrewsbury. He is the Programme Leader for the BA/MDESIllustration, Graphic Novels and Children’s Publishing degree courses at the School of Creative Arts, Wrexham Glyndwr University.
A previous guest of the Festival, he co-ordinated the 2014 Comic Marathon that led to the publication of the Eisner Award-nominated collection of stories from that project, 24 by 7, featuring strips by Dan, Kristyna Baczynski, Joe Decie, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Sarah McIntyre, Fumio Obata and Jack Teagle.
Since 2012 he has produced the podcast Make It Then Tell Everybody in which he has spoken to over a hundred other artists about what they do and how they do it. He also records a comedy podcast with Hannah Berry (no relation) entitled No YOU Hang Up. He has produced illustration work for The NME, Michael Rosen, The National Union of Teachers and more.
He has produced the following books (in a roughly chronological order): The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head with David Gaffney & Sara Lowes (2016); Sent/Not Sent (2016) 24 by 7 (2015, with Kristyna Baczynski, Joe Decie, Warwick Johnson-Cadwell, Sarah McIntyre, Fumio Obata & Jack Teagle, published by Fanfare Presents in partnership with the Lakes International Comic Festival, nominated for Best Anthology, Eisner Awards 2016); Bear Canyon (2015); Hourly Comics 2015 Nicholas & Edith (2014); The End (2014); Carry Me (2013); Throw Your Keys Away (2013); The Suitcase (2013, by Blank Slate Books); Hey You! (2013); After We Shot The Grizzly (2012, with The Handsome Family); Cat Island (2012); Lasagne (2011); Silky Wilson (2010); Onion Soup (2010); Oxford Clay (2009-10); and a bunch of mini comics and stuff too profoundly embarrassing to share before that.
He also makes, modifies and enthuses about pens and custom typefaces.
Dan Berry Online
Web: www.thingsbydan.co.uk
Twitter: @thingsbydan
Rufus Dayglo
Rufus Dayglo is a comic book artist currently living and working in Berlin for 2000AD, IDW and DC Comics. He relaunched Tank Girl with writer Alan Martin (and Ashley Wood), and drew six series of the comic book, “The Gifting”, “Visions of Booga”, “Skidmarks”, “The Royal Escape”, “We Hate Tank Girl”, and “Bad Wind Rising”. He has also worked extensively with Britain’s weekly 2000AD and the 2000AD-published Judge Dredd Megazine. He has also worked with Image Comics, IDW Comics, DC Vertigo, etc.
Rufus has just completed drawing “Bad Company” for 2000AD, (with Pete Milligan, and Jim McCarthy ), and is now working on Last Gang in Town, published by DC Vertigo monthly.
Rufus is also reuniting with writer Peter Milligan for two new projects later this year, as well as working on his own projects, Solid Gold Death Mask and Big Time Charlie (with Al Ewing).
Rufus currently lives in Berlin, with a collection of dusty toy Gundam robots, lots of pencils, and more Lewis leathers jackets than he could ever hope to wear. He likes Kit Kats and coffee.
Rufus Dayglo Online
Web: http://rufusdayglo.blogspot.co.uk
Twitter: @rufus_dayglo
Duncan Fegredo has been drawing comics since (noncommittal grunt), his most well known works being his collaborations with Mike Mignola on Mignola’s Hellboy.
Books include Darkness Calls, The Wild Hunt, The Storm & The Fury and The Midnight Circus, all published by Dark Horse Comics. Earlier significant works include Enigma with writer Peter Milligan (Vertigo), Jay & Silent Bob with writer/director Kevin Smith and more recently MPH with writer and iconoclast Mark Millar (Image books).
A step outside comics saw Fegredo work as lead storyboard artist on Darren Aronofsky’s NOAH movie, – he’d like to do more.
Fegredo is currently working on a new Hellboy volume but as of writing is unsure if he’s allowed to give the name away. Suffice to say at some stage things will go BOOM!
Duncan Fegredo Online
Web: www.duncanfegredo.co.uk
Twitter: @hduncanfegredo
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKVtUhspW2kZ22aCu8i2KhQ
ILYA has more than 30 years experience as a comic book writer, artist and editor, published internationally by Marvel, DC and Dark Horse in the US, Kodansha in Japan, and numerous independent companies worldwide.
Book titles include award-winning graphic novel series The End of the Century Club, Manga Shakespeare’s King Lear, and Room for Love: as editor, Mammoth Books of Skulls, Cult Comicsand Best New Manga, plus, Colour Me Bad.
A designer and tutor of workshops on the art of comics and manga for prisons, colleges, galleries, museums, libraries and schools across the UK as well as abroad, his How to Draw Comics is a new title for 2016. Also, Kid Savage from Image, in collaboration with co-creator of Ben 10 and Deadpool magister, Joe Kelly.
Leah Moore and John Reppion
Leah Moore is a Liverpool based writer. Together with her husband, John Reppion, she has co-written series such as The Trial of Sherlock Holmes, Damsels and most recently, for 2000AD‘s “Black Shuck”.
Her Irene Adler / Dejah Thoris mini series formed part of Gail Simone’s Swords of Sorrow crossover event for Dynamite Entertainment.
She is project manager on Electricomics, and contributing editor on its flagship anthology.
John Reppion is a Liverpool-based writer. Working with his wife, Leah Moore, he has co-written series such as 2000AD‘s “Black Shuck”, Judge Dredd Megazine‘s “Storm Warning”, and two Sherlock Holmes series for Dynamite Entertainment.
A love of Victoriana, horror, weirdness, and passion for research has led to his working on comic adaptations of Lovecraft’s Shadow Over Innsmouth, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, and even Lewis Carroll’s Alice books.
Leah Moore & John Reppion Online
Web: www.moorereppion.com
Leah Moore on Twitter: @leahmoore
John Reppion on Twitter: @johnreppion
Moore & Reppion on Facebook: facebook.com/moorereppion
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Public advocate backs power line; environment group opposed
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Title: Creed
Director: Ryan Coogler
Actors: Michael B. Jordan Sylvester Stallone Tessa Thompson Phylicia Rashad Anthony Bellew
Genre(s): Drama
Official Site: Official Site
For some reason I found it sort of impossible to believe that Sylvester Stallone is actually IN Creed. I figured it was just a cameo that he so totally knocked out of the park that it warranted Best Supporting Actor awards and nominations. It didn't make any sense, but I think I was struggling to comprehend that another real Rocky movie had been made. Indeed, Creed is a legitimate addition to the franchise that both honors and expounds upon the Rocky story.
We first meet Adonis Creed as a troubled twelve year old whose father (Apollo) died before he was born and whose mother has also passed away. Though intelligent, Adonis is constantly acting out and regularly in trouble for fighting. He is essentially an orphan when Mary Ann Creed (Phylicia Rashad) steps forward and takes him in, finally giving him a sense of stability, structure, and family in a fabulously opulent Los Angeles mansion. These conflicting influences ultimately create a very complicated individual, The one thing Adonis struggles with into adulthood is his identity.
After developing a promising white collar career, Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) abruptly quits his job to pursue boxing (against Mary Ann's wishes). Tracing his father's roots, Adonis moves to Philadelphia, where he settles into a dumpy apartment and begins training. He soon becomes friends with his downstairs neighbor, Bianca (Tessa Thompson), a talented young singer with progressive hearing loss, and tracks down his father's old friend and rival Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone). Though he comes to Philadelphia with nothing, these two connections (and his indomitable willpower) prove to be enough.
Adonis quickly convinces the reluctant Balboa to train him, ultimately moving into his home and setting the stage for the nontraditional training montages that make every Rocky movie great. Adonis chases a chicken. Adonis runs alongside Rocky's van. Adonis learns to be strong and wily and fast in totally unique ways, while fighting under the name Donnie "Hollywood" Johnson (his mother's last name). His intent is to operate under the radar, but his real identity is soon revealed. And just as Ivan Drago fatally challenged Apollo to a showdown, some crappy Irish fighter with anger issues named Conlan (Tony Bellew) turns up wanting to fight Adonis Creed. Of course when I say "crappy", I mean that Conlan is an undefeated powerhouse of insanity who wears COLORED MOUTH GUARDS. (You can always spot a Rocky villain by their mouth guard.)
Naturally this creates the build up to a fight that is central to every Rocky movie, but the fight is really secondary to the characters and their relationships. In Adonis, Rocky discovers a sense of friendship and family that has been lacking since the death of his beloved Adrian and Paulie, his "friend who wasn't so friendly". Though he has never had a great relationship with his own son, Rocky finds himself quite capable of serving as a father figure to a young man more similar to himself. Bianca too becomes a fixture in Rocky's home, creating light and laughter where there had been loneliness. When Rocky faces difficulties of his own, he is surprised to find that this newfound little family gives him the motivation he needs to keep fighting.
Though not quite on par with the love story between Rocky and Adrian, the romance between Adonis and Tessa is sweet and challenging. Both characters have their hard edges, but they complement one another nicely and drive home the point that love will always carry you through. The whole movie follows a formula, but it's a formula that works and writer/director Ryan Coogler is smart enough to make it fresh. Adonis and Bianca are their own people, and Rocky is at a dignified and believable place in his life. Once again it's possible to see this saga continuing with Michael B. Jordan as the relatable underdog who never gives up.
Extra features include Deleted Scenes and the making-of featurettes "Know The Past, Own The Future" and "Becoming Adonis". Each includes cast and crew interviews as well as a look back at the Rocky legacy.
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New Age Review: Seay-In The Garden
Release Date: June 1, 2016
Label: Tuscan Sun Music
Seay (pronounced say) brings her love for music and the environment to the recording studio with In The Garden. With her voice and a host of talent contributing to the effort such as Wouter Kellerman, Rickey Kej, Jerry Watts and several others, this is a lush tribute to our planet.
Earthy tones and sounds dominate as Seay adds her deeply expressive vocals. The mix of earthy drums with keys and strings make for the fullest expression that one can imagine. The very first track sets the precedence and message right away with “Beautiful Earth.” While most of the music I have the opportunity to review is instrumental, and I have a preference for that actually, this recording made me forget about that and I fell right into it with joy. The one thing that made it easier for me is what the premise of the album is. This is about mother earth all the beauty and miracles she gives us every day. And most importantly how sacred the earth is and how we should cherish and protect our life giving planet.
“Oceanus” is reminder of from whence we came. We are bodies made of 75% water and all life begins in the ocean. The sounds of ocean life is present and the music is layered with keyboards and delicate sounds of stringed instruments then textured to perfection with Seay’s fertile vocals. The tide is strong while voice and music combine to pull you into another world far below the land where you live. A new appreciation can be found envisioning this journey and yet another reminder of how important it is to keep our oceans clean and teaming with life so that we may continue to live in sync with the incoming and outgoing tides of the powerful bodies of water that surround our lands. The end of the track Seay says “Thank you Ocean,” and you can hear the sound of whales speaking to each other. It is thing of beauty that you will not forget.
Many new age artists are using the vehicle of music to make a strong statement in support of the environment. It is the most impactful and touching way to deliver a message and more likely than not people will listen. It encompasses not only a message but music that attracts the mind, body and spirit in the most delightful way. Our planet and all life are sacred.
“We Are One” most definitively puts everything in the right place. The idea of all life as an integral part of mother earth is a fact and we must respect that. One beating heart and rhythm that works together, it is the daily miracle that we take for granted and music such as this brings that thought into proper light and importance. We are indeed one entity living together bound to each other for our very existence.
I did not know what to expect with this music but had a very nice introduction to the artist. She was kind, thoughtful and so respectful of my position in life. I am sure that Seay would be a pleasure to meet and discuss her music and the environment. How it all ties together would be different for each individual but we all cannot deny the common denominator, life and the earth fit together like a hand in glove.
In The Garden is a triumph for the artist and being alive on this great planet. The message is clear, concise, and delivered with so much elegance and distinction that you simply cannot ignore it.
Key Tracks: Beautiful Earth, Oceanus, We Are One
01. Beautiful Earth
03. Oceanus
05. We Are One
06. Hearts Afire
07. Anima Mundi
08. The Golden Spiral
09. I Will Love You Still
10. Seraphim (Breath of the Angels)
11. Full Moon Sonata
12. Into the Blue (Oceanus Reprise)
Keith “MuzikMan” Hannaleck
Founder of:
MuzikMan Productions
Review Provided By New Age Music Reviews
Labels: In The Garden, Music About The Environment, Music Reviews, MuzikMan Productions, MuzikMan.net, New Age Music Reviews, Seay
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Mike Mignola cover revealed for sci-fi epic, Sea Of Stars
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Image Comics is pleased to reveal a special Mike Mignola (Hellboy) cover forSea of Stars #1 Mignola cover the forthcoming Sea of Stars by Jason Aaron (Southern Bastards, Thor), Dennis Hallum (Cloak & Dagger, Vader: Dark Visions), Stephen Green (Hellboy and the B.P.R.D.), and Rico Renzi (Spider-Gwen), an ongoing series launching from Image Comics this July.
When recently widowed Gil gets a long-haul gig across the universe, he figures it’s safe enough to bring his young son Kadyn along for the ride—that is, until their “big rig” gets bitten in half by a gigantic Space Leviathan! Sea of Stars follows Gil, now separated from his son—with a breached suit that’s venting oxygen at an alarming rate—as he struggles to defy the odds and stay alive long enough to rescue Kadyn. But meanwhile, Kadyn seems to be getting all the help he needs from a talking Space Monkey riding a Space Dolphin… or maybe it’s the strange powers he’s suddenly manifesting…?
As Hallum told Deadline, “Jason and I talked about co-writing a story for years, but our sensibilities are so different it never clicked. He had an adventure story about a little boy swimming through the stars. I wanted to turn it into an ice-truck driver who’s kid goes missing in the arctic. Our brains just wouldn’t line up. Instead of compromising, we decided Stephen could pull off both stories at the same time.”
Sea of Stars is a brand-new science fiction series with all the scope and heart of the The Neverending Story crossed with the imaginative weirdness of Miyazaki and promises an intense, galaxy-spanning adventure perfect for fans of Jeff Lemire and Dustin Nguyen’s Descender.
Sea of Stars #1 Cover A by Green (Diamond Code MAY190023) and Sea of Stars #1 Cover B by Mignola (Diamond Code MAY190024) will be available on Wednesday, July 3. The final order cutoff deadline for comics retailers is this Monday, June 10.
Sea of Stars #1 will also be available for purchase across many digital platforms, including the official Image Comics iOS app, Amazon Kindle, Apple Books, comiXology, and Google Play.
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The Age of Reason Set in France during the days immediately before World War II this is the story of Mathieu a French professor of philosophy obsessed with the idea of freedom Translated from the French by Eric Sutto
Title: The Age of Reason
Author: Jean-Paul Sartre
Set in France during the days immediately before World War II, this is the story of Mathieu, a French professor of philosophy obsessed with the idea of freedom Translated from the French by Eric Sutton.
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Jean Paul Charles Aymard Sartre, normally known simply as Jean Paul Sartre, was a French existentialist philosopher and pioneer, dramatist and screenwriter, novelist and critic He was a leading figure in 20th century French philosophy.He declined the award of the 1964 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work which, rich in ideas and filled with the spirit of freedom and the quest for truth, has exerted a far reaching influence on our age In the years around the time of his death, however, existentialism declined in French philosophy and was overtaken by structuralism, represented by Levi Strauss and, one of Sartre s detractors, Michel Foucault.
This is an excellent novel about unpleasant people, with some unforgettable scenes. Here's one of the ones I liked most. Daniel, a strange character who has never managed to establish a normal connection with the world, has been hovering on the edge of suicide for some time. He's finally decided he's going to do it. But he can't just leave his three cats to starve to death, so he puts them in a wicker basket and takes them down to the river to drown them. The basket is too small, and he can hear [...]
I had this job one summer at a Dillard's department store. I worked in the linens section. Nobody shops for sheets in the summer, I guess, because I spent a lot of time doing absolutely nothing. My boyfriend used to write me letters and send me to work with them so that I would have something to read. Well that got old so one day when I was poking around the props (you know - how they set up the entire fancy-pants mock bedrooms?) I found a copy of this book on a table. So I parked myself on a st [...]
Tej says:
‘Age of Reason’ is all about existentialism. Fiction and philosophy inextricably and ‘entertainingly’ combined almost rendering it a page-turner. I had never previously come across the guile and craft of Sartre, the artist and only knew Sartre, the philosopher whose authoritative philosophical monologues were curt and declarative, sans the resplendence of an artistic canvas. The vivacity and vividness with which Sartre paints each one of his characters amidst their existential exigencies [...]
سن الرشد جان بول سارترالكتب لم توضع كي نؤمن بما تقوله، ولكن كي نتحرى فيها، لا يجب أن نتساءل أمام كتاب ماذا يقول، ولكن ماذا يريد أن يقول.هذه الرواية لم تُخلق ليُكتب عنها، بل وُجدت لتٌقرأ وتُقرأ فقط لنعيش في أجواءها.ملحمة من العلاقات الإنسانية شديدة التعقيد والتداخل تدور أحدا� [...]
Stephanie A. Higa says:
This is basically a soap opera with brains and direction, which is my favorite kind of book ever. The character development is EXTRAORDINARY. I recommend this book on that facet alone. I didn't read this as an exemplification of Sartre's philosophy, but rather as a study of the philosophy of the characters in the story. None of these people are truly likable, but they are all the more human because of that. Even the most agreeable people think disagreeable thoughts. This is something most of us [...]
Introduction--The Age of Reason
Soap opera with brains. Yes, I can agree with this. Caring about other people while watching their little lives and dramas is so much more fulfilling when they prove themselves to have complex despair behind their everyday actions. It never ends, really. The constant proving to oneself that this life is worthwhile, that the hopes of the past and the dreams of the future won't go to waste. Mathieu keeps to his belief of freedom, to be capable of anything, no matter what constraints have been laid [...]
Deema says:
“I have led a toothless life a toothless life. I have never bitten into anything. I was waiting. I was reserving myself for later on – and I have just noticed that my teeth have gone.”Reading The Age of Reason felt like navigating the dark recesses of my subconscious and coming face-to-face with my innermost anxieties. If that sounds awful, that’s because it kind of was. I don’t think I’ve ever finished a book on such a low note. I also don’t think I’ve ever finished a book feeli [...]
Keinwyn Shuttleworth says:
I found this book on a much neglected dusty shelf in a back-alley-esque section of my local library and decided to take it home with me. I had never read anything written by Jean-Paul Sartre before (purely due to Sartre's intimidating reputation) but something about The Age Of Reason demanded to be read. Needless to say, I soon found myself swimming in the erratic seas of Mathieu Delarue's chaotic existence, completely in awe of Sartre's understanding of human impetus. We meet Mathieu, a philoso [...]
The first part of his Freedom series should be required reading for any existentialist approaching his mid-30s without any aspirations of marrying or falling in line. Mathieu, a French philosophy professor, spends most of the novel trying to borrow money so he can pay for his mistresses' abortion. His friends are a sorted bunch who attempt to take away his only goal: ultimate freedom.Some literary experts say the protagonist must transform by the end. But what makes this book so great is that Ma [...]
StevenGodin says:
Over the course of two days in Paris during a hot summer in 1938, philosophy teacher Mathieu Delarue has a crisis on his hands, he needs to raise funds for an abortion so his life can retain the total freedom that he so dearly clings to, all the while there is a circulating tension with the threat of war looming. 'The Age of Reason' captures this period in time very well, but the overall narrative left me cold.Expertly written?, yes, but drags along in places, Matthieu himself was a deeply studi [...]
Sean Wilson says:
Jean-Paul Sartre's The Age of Reason combines the author's existentialist investigations along with an analysis of human relations, continuing the philosophical intensity of Dostoevsky's complex melodramas. However, instead of an emphasis on religious morality and redemption, Sartre opts for a colder, more atheistic tone all under the threatening heat of the impending war. Sartre's tightly structured, dialogue-heavy novel works well in order to showcase his rather blunt but well observed viewpoi [...]
Bettie☯ says:
Apparently the BBC aired this series of books back in the 70s but now there is a conspiracy of silence as to just why it is not available. sourceAll that I have found is a documentary here. Easy to see the free-press roots of Charlie Hebdo in this and aren't we all vehemently against terrorism in all its forms? Sartre in his later years endorsed attacks as 'the atomic bomb of the poor.'Seems like a flip-flop to me. He was a man for and of a tiny window in on-going history.
Natali says:
I wouldn't call this novel beautiful because the characters are so tedious, but the story is strangely captivating. It reminded me why we should all tame our runaway thoughts. If, as this book and existentialist theory would have us believe, the most profound philosophical condition revolves around individual thought, then our philosophical condition can be so silly. Superfluous even. Jean-Paul Sarte writes about really capable people who are fundamentally insecure, petulant, and selfish. They r [...]
آلاءبن سلمان says:
مرعبة ، عظيمة ، تقدّس سارتر.
Greg Deane says:
Jean-Paul Sartre’s three volume work, “Les Chemins de la liberté” (The Roads to Freedom), may be one of the earliest literary endeavours featuring an existentialist hero, through whom Sartre explores the problems that modern man encounters as individuals came to terms with the onus implicit in freedom and decision. The first book, “L'âge de raison” (The Age of Reason), introduces Mathieu Delarue, based on Sartre himself. He is a recluse with few friends and little money, confronted w [...]
Surbhi Verma says:
The Age of Reason constantly debates what the idea of freedom is for a man. Whether growing old means one should make every decision with reason or simply reconciliation. Set in the backdrop of Second World War, the characters seem completely oblivious, choosing to live their insular lives with their selfish ambitions - chasing their own version of freedom. Seen from an individual's perspective, freedom seems justified but not entirely when contrasted to humanity. Sartre's thinking makes for a t [...]
Ninni says:
A middle-classed white man finds life difficult, because annoying unattractive women either don't fall in love with him, or fall in love too easily, or just go and get pregnant as soon as you fuck them. Life is so damn unfair because one can't just do whatever one likes without consequences. Oh, and life beyond 30 is pointless.
Talie says:
نظریات اگزیستانسیالیستی سارتر در قالب رمان.شخصیت دانیل شباهت داشت به استاروگین داستایوسکی.
Sérgio says:
Comprei esta velha edição de bolso francesa numa feira de antiguidades por 1€ e estava longe de esperar algo tão marcante.Numa Paris em que a tensão pré-2ª Guerra Mundial é algo palpável seguimos a vida de algumas personagens, sendo a principal Mathieu, um professor de 34 anos que tenta levar à prática um ideal de vida de liberdade sem compromissos (tanto emocionais como a ideologias particulares). Quando a sua amante engravida, ele vê-se perante um dilema sem respostas fáceis.Para [...]
Alyssa Mitchell says:
One of my favorites. However, I only appreciated it once I reached a certain level of maturity. It dives into the deeper consciousness of each character underneath the basic thoughts. It makes you realize how insecure and all over the place all of humanity really is. The message I get from this book is "Miserable? You are not alone."
Vonia says:
The Age of Reason (L'âge de raison) is a 1945 novel by Jean-Paul Sartre. It is the first part of the trilogy "The Roads to Freedom". The novel, set in the bohemian Paris of the late 1930s, focuses on three days in the life of a philosophy teacher named Mathieu who is seeking money to pay for an abortion for his mistress, Marcelle. Sartre analyses the motives of various characters and their actions and takes into account the perceptions of others to give the reader a comprehensive picture [...]
Sara Abdulaziz says:
“إنهما يتشبثان بشبابهما كما يتشبّث محتضرٌ بالحياة”. | سارترالتشبُّث بالشباب كان وظيفة كل شخصيات الجزء الأول من ثلاثية سارتر “سن الرشد”، إذ تمسّكت به مارسيل الفتاة العليلة حبيسة المنزل لأن الموت يترصدها خارجه عبر التمسك بحملها الذي لم يكن مخططًا له، ولا مرغوبًا من قِبل شر� [...]
I'd never read Sartre before and was expecting a difficult read. Whilst I probably didn't pick up on all the philosophical themes I did thoroughly enjoy this tale of fairly unlikeable people and their relationships with each other. There's little fun to be had with this novel but it does convey a remarkable depth of characterisation, nobody comes out of it very well and indeed none of the cast seem particularly enamored with each other. It all takes place over a very brief period of time just be [...]
I read Nausea by Sartre while in college and really go into Existentialism and novels based on Existential themes. After Nausea (which is great!) I had only read a few essays and some short stories by Sartre. Now, a few years later, I wanted to get back into Sartre and I thought I would start by reading his Freedom trilogy. I began with The Age of reason, a story about a man dealing with the inevitability of becoming middle-aged and possibly becoming a father. The catch ishe is neither ready to [...]
d. says:
"ponavljao je u sebi zevajući: tačno je, ipak je tačno: nalazim se u zrelom dobu."matje, boris, danijel, marsela, ivish, lola su lichnosti na chijim ispreplitanim egzistencijama se zasniva ovaj blago filozofichni roman. poredjala sam ih po lichnom nahodjenju-dopadanju; mushki karakteri se bore za prevlast prvog mesta poshto mi se emocije bude i nadilaze jedna drugu dok razmishljam o svakom ponaosob, chudno je to. bih mogla napraviti definitivan izbore je prvi samo zato shto je ovo njegovo zre [...]
There's a bit where Sartre describes Mathieu's sister-in-law: she's pretty, but "Mathieu had on countless occasions tried to unify these fluid features, but they escaped him; as a face, Odette's always seemed to be dissolving, and thus retained its elusive bourgeois mystery." (p. 127) And that's a little how I feel about this book, halfway through; it's certainly very good, and pretty to look at, but it's weirdly slippery. I can't quite get a handle on it.That may be my fault. Tough to say what [...]
Perry Whitford says:
The first book of Satre's Roads of Freedom trilogy, set in the Paris of 1938, with war and occupation still an unlikely prospect. The main character, school teacher Mathieu, flirts with bohemianism and communism whilst rather ignobly trying to force his mistress to have an abortion, asking friends and family to help him out so that he can retain his freedom.Not very nice behaviour, but what the hell, existence precedes essence right? therefore all behaviour is essentially meaningless!It's a long [...]
Manasvi mudgal says:
The book would have been much better had Hemingway written it. The setting, the characters are all there, and in the end it's just too much naval gazing. I'd summarize the difference as follows:In a similar setting Hemingway's characters while knowing life is shit, would drink and stay miserable while having mighty grand fun, and so would the reader. There would be fishing, whining, drinking, smoking, more fishing, more whining and so on. They'd be like "fuck it man, let's drink and chill and wh [...]
I read this when I was 19 and am now re-reading it at 51. Oh boy - my perspective has changed! Review to follow when I am done.
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Jewel Match
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Jewel Match Review (DSiWare)
Version Reviewed: North American
A traditional match-three lacking in splendour
review by Tim Latshaw Thu, 15 May 2014 18:30:00 +0100
Anyone familiar with the world of match-three games will know almost exactly what to expect from a title such as Jewel Match. Released, oddly enough, after Jewel Match 3 on the 3DS, this DSiWare version strips out the story, hidden object finding, and other extra mini-games of the past sequel and concentrates solely on the gem-swapping experience.
Jewel Match offers 150 boards to clear by switching gems around to form lines of 3 or more of the same colour. In this case, however, completing a board does not depend on the quantity of matches made, but their positions. Certain squares will be filled in with gold tiles, and a match made over those tiles will cause them to shatter. Clear all the tiles and you complete the stage.
A few roadblocks are thrown in to increase the challenge. Some jewels will start out chained, rendering them immovable and often blocking the flow of other gems until they are made part of a match; what’s more, some tiles and chains will be silver instead of gold, requiring two matches to make them disappear. Boulders will also occasionally trickle down onto the board, getting in the way and actually forming new tiles if three of them are matched.
On the helpful side, creating matches anywhere on a board will fill a meter that provides access to different levels of hammers. These tools range in strength from being able to shatter a single gem, to shattering chains and tiles, to clearing all of a single colour from a board. Creating a match of four will create a pearl that counts as a wildcard, while creating a match of five will create a Helix gem that can smash every jewel, tile, and chain in a row. There are even some power-ups that will shuffle jewels or remove tiles by blowing into the microphone.
Even with the power-ups and obstacles, Jewel Match fundamentally plays like many of the other match-three games out there. Its emphasis on where you make your matches draws the attention away from creating huge chains and cascades, however, and makes it more about filtering gems through quickly enough so that a match will eventually line up where needed.
This pressure is felt most in the “Normal” mode of play, which makes you play the boards in order and gives each one a set time limit. It is not too difficult to clear the stages, but it can be frustrating when time is running out (you never know exactly how many seconds you have left as you are given an hourglass and not a digital readout) and the right gems just aren’t coming. It can feel a lot more like luck than strategy in these cases, but the game thankfully grants you the opportunity to exchange one of the “lives” you earn throughout play for an extra 2 minutes instead of making you start over outright.
A “Relaxed” mode kills the pressure altogether by removing the time limits. It also begins at the first stage and climbs up, however, so if you start on one mode and switch to the other, expect to replay all the boards leading up to your drop-off point.
Finally, there is a “Hotseat” mode where two players can take turns tackling an already played board and compete for the best time. It’s difficult to see a pair of people becoming engaged in this, as jewel matching is not exactly the most exciting thing to watch someone do over their shoulder.
Even though it is a DSiWare game, the overall presentation of Jewel Match seems muted. Colours are somewhat dim and lacklustre (the screenshots provided appear more vivid than the actual product). Sound effects are also a bit tinny and the music, while not unpleasant, features the same short loops and can grow boring. The jewels themselves also rotate GIF-like and can even become a bit sickening if stared at for too long, but the animations can thankfully be stopped with a simple press of the X button.
Jewel Match provides a classic, basic match-three experience, but it’s hard to recommend it over the sea of other, similar titles out there; especially when it lacks any real elements that provide a unique twist or make it aesthetically pop. Big fans of match-three games who are always looking for more may still find enjoyment in this, but might also want to consider our review of Jewel Match 3 if they’re looking for more outside the jewelry box. If not, though, this may be their preferred pick.
Poor 4/10
Review copy provided by Joindots
Thu 15th May 2014
Wow, no comments yet... I guess I'll be the first, then
Uuh...game looks nicely pretty.
Blooby
When will they learn?
Imagamerboi
People are still supporting dsiware?
Eisenbolan
I loved Jewel Match 3. I liked the relaxed mode. I may wait to see review of Candy Match 3 to decide.
Fri 16th May 2014
@Imagamerboi Dat install base tho
@Eisenbolan Candy Match 3 will be my next review and should hopefully be up next week.
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Can You See The Sky From Here is the Cure for Your Childhood Trauma
// Music // January 5, 2017 // Adam
Serious Matters, from Union Beach, has burst on the scene like a battering ram through a trap house with their debut EP, Can You See The Sky From Here. This five-piece ensemble has been together for less than a year, but they attacked this album and scene with a tenacity of a far more experienced band. These six tracks are nonstop, full-throttle, ass kicking. I’ve been in a neck brace for over a week from banging my head so hard listening to this album. It was worth it.
Can You See The Sky From Here is plain and simple, just a good fucking hard rock album. It sounds better loud. Your head doesn’t bop, it bangs. You let your hair down for this one. This album sounds the way the combination of blood, sweat, and whiskey smells. If that last statement made any sense to you, at all, stop reading this review and go listen to it right now. This is for you.
The guitars are as violent and aggressive as that bully from second grade that was the reason you got into emo music in the first place. Tim Vecci’s vocals are everything you loved about that classic emo sound. The high-pitched screams and the slow, almost nasally delivery keeps you hanging on every pained word. Serious Matters asks the hard questions in the simplest ways, like “In Eyes Wide Shut,” the chorus echoes, “Living in a dream/ Where is home?” The crashing cymbals sound like that same bully smashing your head into the locker. You black out for a second, elbows flying, feet kicking. Now you’re in the mosh pit at the next Serious Matters show, screaming along to “Vacant,” “You can run but you can’t hide/ I’m sending shivers down your spine.”
Check out this album now, while you can still say that you were a fan of Serious Matters in their first year, before they were cool, or at least before everyone else caught on that they were cool.
Written by Adam
Adam gave man-birth to N.J. Racket and is as close to an "editor-in-chief" the site has. He's a god awful photographer.
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· Korean People's Cause of National Reunification Supported in Pakistan
We are convinced that Korea will be surely reunified under the Songun revolutionary leadership of.... ...in their efforts to pull the U.S. forces out of south Korea, establish new peace-keeping mechanism on the... ...country by federal formula. We support the south Korean people and patriots in their heroic struggle... (186 words)
· S. Korean Authorities Urged to Pay Heed to DPRK's Patriotic Offer
The DPRK government issued a statement on the 15th anniversary of the June 15 joint declaration in.... ...says Rodong Sinmun Monday in an article. Had the south Korean puppet authorities been responsible for the... ...relations proves that the true colors of the south Korean authorities can never change as they are... ...the fellow countrymen in the north. The south Korean ruling quarters' persistent policy of... (258 words)
· Rodong Sinmun Accuses S. Korean Regime of Abusing Sports for Sinister Politically-motivated Purpose
Shortly ago, Choe Yun Hui, chairman of the south Korean puppet Joint Chiefs of Staff, appeared in... ...that whenever international games took place in south Korea, the DPRK rendered strong support to their... ...says, and goes on: What matters is why the south Korean authorities are intensifying politico-military... (279 words)
· S. Korean Authorities' Fascist Suppression Slammed -- Jul 06, 2015
The South Headquarters of the Pan-national Alliance for Korea's Reunification, the Association for.... ...and other civic and public organizations in south Korea held a press conference outside the Suwon... (206 words)
· S. Korean Regime Urged to Opt for Improving Inter-Korean Relations
The Solidarity for Democracy, People's Life, Peaceful Reunification and Sovereignty in south Korea held a press conference on July 3 at which it... ...4 joint statement. It charged that the south Korean authorities have not made efforts to mend... (172 words)
· S. Koran Organization Slams Puppet Military Group for Shunning Troop Reduction -- Jul 06, 2015
The People for Achieving Peace and Reunification in south Korea held a press conference outside the building of... (135 words)
Leading newspapers here on Sunday carry commentaries in denunciation of the south Korean puppet authorities for issuing the "2015... (299 words)
· Minju Joson on World Peace-Loving People's Strategy on U.S. World Domination Strategy
Some days ago, BBC disclosed that a British civilian research institute had received live anthrax.... ...the U.S. sent the said germs to five countries -south Korea, Australia, Canada, Japan and UK. Minju Joson... (283 words)
· Struggle against Construction of Jeju Naval Base Declared
Civic and public organizations in south Korea held a press conference in Seoul on June 30 in... ...of a naval base on Jeju Island, according to the south Korean internet paper Chamsesang. Speakers said 3 000... (141 words)
· Reunification of Korea on Three Principles Called for in S. Korea
The Family Movement for Realizing Democracy in south Korea held a rally in Seoul on July 2 at which it... ...according to Jaju Sibo, an internet paper of south Korea. Speakers said July 4 is the anniversary of the... (186 words)
· S. Korean Newspaper Denounces Present Chief Executive -- Jul 05, 2015
The south Korean newspaper Media Today editorially denounced the... (93 words)
· Explosion at Factory in S. Korea Causes Casualties
There was an explosion in a chemical factory in Ulsan, south Korea on July 3, according to the south Korean KBS. The accident left four dead and two... (33 words)
· Japan Urged to Admit and Apologize for Its Crimes of Aggression
The Council for the Solution of the Issue of the Volunteers Corps in south Korea and the Washington Committee for the Solution of... ...of aggression, according to Yonhap News of south Korea. South Korean woman Kim Pok Dong, a victim of the sexual... (159 words)
· S. Korean Authorities' Human Rights Campaign against DPRK Accused by Swiss Organizations
The Switzerland-Korea Committee and the Swiss Group for the Study of the Juche Idea issued a joint.... ...a joint statement on June 24 lashing out at the south Korean puppet group for hosting the UN "office on... ...pro-U.S. puppet conservative authorities in south Korea are vociferating about non-existent "human... (180 words)
· Immediate Removal of UN Office in S. Korea Demanded by Austrian Body
The Solidarity Committee of Unionists for the Peaceful Reunification of Korea in Austria in a.... ...in Austria in a statement on June 27 blasted the south Korean puppet conservative regime for hosting a UN... ...on human rights in the north" was set up in south Korea under the pretext of non-existent "human... ...a matter of fact, it is not the DPRK but south Korea where human rights are wantonly abused. The south Korean regime should immediately close the office,... ...should immediately close the office, guarantee south Koreans genuine human rights and stop at once all its... (141 words)
· S. Korean Puppet Forces' Nonsensical Talks about "Provocations" Slammed
The south Korean puppet chief executive invited major commanding... ...the U.S. imperialist aggressor forces present in south Korea to wining and dining recently at which she cried... ...of the chief executive-led puppet regime in south Korea that the north-south relations are inching close... ...harm to the lives and interests of the people in south Korea. Such acts are as foolish as dropping axes on... ...more than a poor trick to divert elsewhere the south Koreans' attention in an effort to calm down their... (301 words)
· S. Korean Organization Calls for Probing Truth behind Introduction of Anthrax Germs
The south Korean Federation of University Students held a press... ...have posed a serious threat to the lives of the south Korean people through the introduction of anthrax... ...make apology for abusing the human rights of the south Korean people through the introduction of anthrax... (183 words)
· S. Korean Regime Accused of Trying to Evade Responsibility for Suspended Tour of Mt. Kumgang
A spokesman for the DPRK Guidance Bureau of Special Zone for International Tour of Mt. Kumgang gave.... ...the question put by KCNA Saturday as regards the south Korean regime's desperate bid to evade its responsibility for the suspended tour of Mt. Kumgang. He said: Recently, south Koreans are becoming increasingly vocal calling for... ...of the Kumgangsan Businessmen Council of south Korea have urged the regime to pay compensation for... ...indifferent to the aspiration and wishes of the south Korean people and their right to existence. Nevertheless, the south Korean authorities are misleading public opinion,... ...15 joint declaration was suspended because the south Korean conservative group has deliberately blocked its resumption by abusing the incident of a south Korean tourist for the confrontation with the fellow... (392 words)
· Czech Organization Supports June 15 Joint Declaration -- Jul 03, 2015
The Paektusan Czech-Korean Friendship Association made public an information bulletin on June 15 on.... ...nation. The U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppet authorities have ceaselessly launched... (199 words)
· Rodong Sinmun Warns of Consequences to Be Entailed by THAAD Deployment in S. Korea -- Jul 03, 2015
The U.S. persists in grumbling about "nuclear and missile threats" from the DPRK in a bid.... ...in a bid to justify deployment of its THAAD in south Korea. Rodong Sinmun Friday says this in an... ...is seeking through THAAD deployment in south Korea is to carry out its Asia-Pacific... ...already on show. The U.S. is forcing the south Korean puppet forces to introduce THAAD, touching off... ...clear as pikestaff that if THAAD is deployed in south Korea, this will spark off fiercer race for developing ultra-modern striking weapons among big powers. THAAD deployment in south Korea will drastically increase military tension... ...the DPRK and the U.S. If a conflict occurs, south Korea will be the first target of the DPRK's... (304 words)
· Rodong Sinmun Slams Poor Burlesque of S. Korean Defense Minister -- Jul 03, 2015
Shortly ago, south Korean puppet Minister of Defense Han Min Gu in a... ...be drawn from the present situation in which the south Korean puppet forces have gone desperate in their war... (256 words)
· Three Principles for Korea's Reunification -- Jul 03, 2015
It is 43 years since the north and the south of Korea have adopted the July 4 Joint Statement in.... ...Party, social organizations and individuals of south Korea. And he met with a delegate of south Korea visiting Pyongyang to attend the north-south... ...number of political parties and organizations in south Korea issued statements in support of it. And media... (263 words)
· Battle on Mt. Songak -- Jul 03, 2015
Mt. Songak, located in the north of Kaesong City, the DPRK, is no more than 490 meters high above.... ...repulsed a series of armed attacks made by the south Korean puppet army in Juche 38 (1949). Korea... ...the south due to the U.S. military occupation of south Korea. At that time, the puppet army of Syngman Rhee... ...Mt. Songak that the U.S. imperialists and the south Korean puppets will meet only death if they dare... (201 words)
· KCNA Commentary Denounces S. Korean Puppet Regime's Foolish "Sanctions" -- Jul 03, 2015
The south Korean puppet regime took a measure for independent... ...is caused by the MERS case sweeping across south Korea, the puppet regime's unpopular rule, its moves... ...of direct armed attack, as recognized even by south Korean media. The service personnel and people... (462 words)
· S. Korean Authorities Accused of Distorting Truth about Young Joblessness -- Jul 03, 2015
The south Korean internet paper Voice of People carried an editorial on July 1. The editorial recalled that the south Korean authorities would make public "general... (87 words)
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Tyrannosaurus Beth #1
by Rob McMonigal May 15, 2011
Written by Matthew Petz
Illustrated by Matthew Petz
If sugar is near, evil-doers better fear! Beth is a relatively normal teenage girl who has an interesting experience at the dentist, and the next thing you know, she's got the ability to change into a Tyrannosaurus Rex. What better to do with this strange power than to fight crime? After all, chasing robbers and robots is an awful lot of fun!
This is one of those comics that's just plain fun to read. Beth is an engaging character who clearly loves what she does, without having a lot of angst or baggage. The comic itself doesn't think too hard about its premise, either, which is a nice change of pace. Too many creators seem ready to explain everything and a lot of times, that sucks some of the fun and life from the idea. Not Matthew Petz, who happily described this one to me as his attempt to come with his own version of the Incredible Hulk.
That sense of fun from his voice definitely carries into the comic. There's quite a bit of story packed into a limited number of pages, as we see Beth's origin story, a fight, and even a rogue's gallery. The artwork is clear and crisp, looking just a bit sketchy but in a practiced manner. Best of all, Beth is a positive female character who is, unless I read things wrong, of Latina origin. It's nice to see a creator going that direction for a change.
My only problem with Tyrannosaurus Beth is that there's apparently only one issue. I'd love to see more of this young heroine from Petz if he gets a chance to work on her story again.
I got my copy of Tyrannosaurus Beth at a show. You can order one from Mr. Petz here.
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Residential and commercial building in Kalkbreite, Zurich
How do you build a seven-storey construction with a jointless façade and outstanding environment credentials quickly, economically and in compliance with the Swiss Minergie P-ECO standard? The new Kalkbreite residential and office building in the heart of Zurich shows how it can be done. This forwardlooking building was constructed as a hybrid structure consisting of a concrete frame with prefabricated façade modules. The external insulation is ensured by PAVATEX DIFFUTHERM wood fibre insulation boards. Acting as render carrier boards, they permit not only a jointless façade construction but also an outstanding level of energy efficiency, respect for the environment and comfort for building occupants.
NBT insulates luxury Scottish countryside home
Natural Building Technologies’ (NBT’s) building systems have been used to deliver exceptionally high energy performance and comfort in the construction of a luxury, eight-bedroom holiday home in Perthshire, Scotland, named Alexander House.
NBT insulates 'Outstanding' SucCon
Natural Building Technologies’ (NBT’s) high performance woodfibre insulation systems have been used in the construction of SusCon, a sustainable construction training and research centre. Following a recent BREEAM Education 2008 design stage assessment, the building has been awarded an ‘Outstanding’ rating with a score of 88.85%. This is the highest BREEAM score ever achieved for a UK education building.
NBT meets 'Excellent' criteria for One Brighton
High performance building materials from Natural Building Technologies (NBT) have been specified for one of the UK’s most sustainable developments, One Brighton. NBT’s building systems provided exceptional thermal performance levels and helped the development achieve a true zero carbon status and an EcoHomes ‘Excellent’ rating.
PAVATEX vapour permeable roof renovation system in St. Gallen (CH)
Particularly energy-efficient insulation coupled with effective protection against cold, heat, noise and fire hazards – these were the requirements specified for the roof renovation of an historic residential and commercial building in the center of St. Gallen. The PAVATEX vapour permeable roof renovation system proved more than capable of rising to the challenge.
« Refuge du Goûter », Mont Blanc (F)
PAVATEX is delighted to contribute to the building of the new Refuge du Gouter, located at the bottom of the Mont Blanc. Really blended with the surroundings, the building combines aestheticism with energy efficiency. The high-quality wood fiber insulating systems made by PAVATEX have been chosen for this exceptional building site.
Company headquarters of Abensberger Holz 100-Haus GmbH (D)
The new company headquarters of Abensberger Holz 100-Haus GmbH in Abensberg demonstrates how successful the new PAVATEX profile geometry is in practice.
Renovation of a building housing three families in Penzberg (D)
The permanent reduction of energy costs coupled with the long-term increase in the value of the property were the main reasons for the energy-conserving renovation of a building housing three families on the Starnberger lake.
Roof restoration with PAVATEX system solutions (CH)
The listed Château d‘Allaman near Lausanne is one of the oldest castles on Lake Geneva. It is currently being restored and converted into luxury residences.
Energy-saving renovation of a wooden house in Völs (A)
The scout building in Völs near Innsbruck is a wooden building dating back approximately 30 years which was originally constructed as a site hut for workers' accommodation.The long overdue renovation of the building to meet modern energy standards was completed in the summer of 2010.
Detached family house in Bad Dürrnberg/Hallein (A)
In the Austrian town of Bad Dürrnberg, Hallein, architect Walter Scheicher has modernised his parents’ 48-year-old home, providing the solid-built house with a wooden facade and insulating the existing building fabric in energy-efficient fashion. In doing so, he placed his trust in the ideal properties of PAVATEX wood fibre insulating materials.
Commercial and residential building in Locarno/Ticino (CH)
In Locarno, Switzerland, a six-storey commercial and residential building was completed in just 15 months using an innovative and cost-effective modular design concept. The facade consists of over 100 prefabricated modules in timber-frame design with integrated PAVATEX DIFFUTHERM boards to provide perfect insulation. The physically forgiving baseboard provides optimum stress relief, even in the case of renderings that are subject to severe and rapid fluctuations in temperature.
Environmentally-compatible building with PAVATEX (F)
In a housing project in Saint Dié des Vosges, eastern France, a company called “Le Toit Vosgien” (“The Vosgian Roof”) has demonstrated once again that publicly-assisted housing can be friendly to the environment and to the occupants alike. The company opted for PAVATEX high-performance, wood fibre insulation boards to insulate the exterior of the 22 properties.
Insulation with PAVATEX system solutions (D)
In a project to renovate an over 500-year-old building in Landshut, internal thermal insulation of the listed facade and acoustic insulation of the intermediate ceilings were among the main challenges to be faced. The solution came in the form of PAVATEX wood fibre insulating boards which blend in perfectly with the historical fabric of the building and thus satisfy all the physical requirements to the letter. As a result, the newly renovated building now meets the stringent KfW 60 energy standard applicable to new builds in Germany.
Aschach castle mill (Germany)
Aschach castle is in the Saaletal near Bad Bocklet, around eight kilometres from Bad Kissingen. The original medieval castle was built in the 12th century, but this was destroyed in the Peasants' War and subsequently rebuilt by the Prince Bishops of Würzburg. As of 1874, the castle was the seat of the Counts of Luxburg, and in 1955 it was gifted to the district of Lower Franconia.
The Pfister family home in Zweisimmen (CH)
Best possible insulation, high energy efficiency and sound ecological values – these were the three criteria that led the Pfister family to choose PAVATEX wood fibre insulating materials in their home. PAVACLAY is a clay and wood fibre board for dry construction that ensures a particularly agreeable, balanced atmosphere in the room – an atmosphere to feel at home in.
Office and residential building in Bützberg (CH)
The house in which MOTOREX Oil of Switzerland was founded is to be found in Bützberg in the canton of Berne: Built in 1816 and now protected by a preservation order, it a is magnificent, albeit dilapidated, half-timbered building in the style typical of the Berne region. Before the Scheidegger family could start living and working in the house, the new owners were faced with a number of problems during renovation.
Zipperle residential property in Merano (l)
The owner's requirements were very precise: The new house in Merano was to provide accommodation for three generations and at the same time satisfy comprehensive ecological criteria. In 2001 the Zipperle family – grandparents, parents and three children – moved into a modern new building, which stands out from the crowd as a result of its special architecture and provides around 240 square metres of living space on two levels.
Apartment building in Baar (CH)
1964 was a case for renovation at the start of the new century. Owner Nick Mijnssen had put the planning of the renovation work out to competitive tender. He placed particular importance on eco-friendly construction, and the minimum objective was to meet the 'Minergie' standard.
Residential property near Hamburg (D)
The two-storey KfW40-standard building with residential and other floor space totalling 250 square metres looks rather unimpressive from the outside: A closed façade facing north, with its large glass frontage opening up the building to the south. The special feature of this property in the vicinity of Hamburg is the concept that has been implemented for better residential health.
Schafalm ski lodge in Schladming (A)
Planai is part of the Schladming Vier-Berge-Schaukel, Austria’s biggest ski area, with 115 kilometres of piste and 52 cable cars. Situated right next to the mountain gondola station, the Schafalm first opened its doors for the 2003 winter season.
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These People Took Dumpster Finds and Created Amazing Rooms with Them
Dumpster finds, sometimes affectionately known as “freeganism”, is when people eschew buying expensive items in the store and take people’s throwaways instead. It’s certainly not something everybody does, but those who do believe they’re saving money and the environment by reusing still-useful objects. Regardless of whether you practice freeganism or not, it’s hard to argue against people in general throwing away items that are still capable of more life. Some freegans, though, have taken these objects and breathed really creative, amazing life into them. Let’s take a look at a few of them.
Gregory Kloehn: Uses Dumpster Finds to Help the Homeless
Many people would dismiss dumpster diving as something left to the homeless, but that’s an unfair stereotype. Kloehn is an artist who uses dumpster finds as a way of tangibly expressing the relationship between the wealthy and poor, but with a concrete side effect: people can actually use his artwork for their own good.
He goes through dumpsters where people have illegally dumped their goods, sorts through the mess, and then uses an artist’s eye to create mini-homes — one-room shelters — for the homeless. They may only be the size of a couch, but Kloehn has built them with slanted roofs to let the rain fall off and wheels so people can move them around.
Elizabeth Gibson: Discovers Lost Masterpiece Painting
Rufino Tamayo was a Mexican painter who made art based on his interpretation of traditional Mexican culture and not the politicized one. He was also half-responsible for creating a new artistic medium called Mixografia, where prints have a 3D textural aspect to them. Tamayo also gained critical respect in the US when he lived in New York for 12 years and had his artwork shown at Knoedler Gallery and Marlborough Gallery, which helped him gain even more respect in his native Mexico.
Tamayo’s paintings are generally hung onto by people who purchase them, but one found its way into a dumpster. It was his 1970 work called Tres Personajes (Three People), and somebody had stolen it from its owner and tossed it away. Elizabeth Gibson just happened to see the $1 million painting and recognized it as something special, even though she was no art aficionado herself. Although she had it in her living room for three years, she had no idea it was actually stolen; when she did learn of that, she went on a lengthy mission to reunite the painting with its owners so they could hang it in their living room.
Paulo Goldstein: Decorates London’s Central Saint Martins Room with Dumpster Finds
Central Saint Martins is a college in London where undergraduate and graduate students study arts and design, a school where Paulo Goldstein attended and graduated. His work at school evidently impressed the head, Jeremy Till, enough that Goldstein was approached to turn around an empty room on campus.
Instead of painting a mural or installing a neat light fixture, Goldstein wanted his art to have a message, to say that the world can’t continue to grow if we use up cheap resources. So, in his mind, the perfect answer was to collect dumpster finds and remodel the room with them. And when the project was finished, Goldstein and his team had transformed a previously empty room into one usable for everyday purposes.
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U.S. NAVY VISITS BOOST SAIPAN COFFERS
SAIPAN, CNMI (Mariana Variety, Jan 4) - The Saipan seaport accommodated five military vessels last month, which brought in 293 service members to the island.
Commonwealth Ports Authority board member Antonio S. Camacho, chairman of the seaport facilities committee, said these vessels were the USNS Watson with 39 personnel; USNS Watkins, 40; USNS Martin, 37; USNS Charlton, 40; and USS Buffalo, 137.
The vessels docked here during the November 18 to December 20 periods.
Commercial vessels made 37 port calls during the same period.
According to the summary of passenger fee collection at the port of Saipan, total revenue in November amounted to US$6,049 and US$9,708 in December.
On Rota, MV Super Shuttle which is the only vessel servicing the island docked there on November 19, December 9 and 16.
The estimated revenue for the Rota port was US$5,399.
Super Shuttle also serviced the port of Tinian three times...
GASTROENTERITIS EPIDEMIC THREATENS PALAU ECONOMY
By Bernadette H. Carreon
KOROR (Palau Horizon, Jan. 3) - The number of gastroenteritis cases has reached a record high of 443 as of December 27, according to the Ministry of Health.
The number of cases included five tourists; it is not clear however whether they were ill upon their arrival or contracted the disease on the island.
The ministry said that the major concern now is more than just a health issue and that it can potentially become an economic issue if it is not contained.
The ministry further added that while they continue to monitor the number of cases that present themselves at the hospital and the dispensaries, these cases represent only about 10 percent of the actual number of persons that may be potentially infected.
Even with the low of reported cases, the illness has affected the entire island. The Belau National Hospital has in fact taken measures to cordon off the pediatric section of the medical ward for patients, both young...
SIX INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES BOOST TAHITI TOURISM
PAPEETE, Tahiti (Tahitipresse, Dec. 28) – The six international airlines serving Tahiti carried 7.6% more overall passengers with 11 more flights and a 0.5% greater seating capacity in November, compared with a year ago, according to French Civil Aviation Office statistics.
Those airlines filled an average of 70.1% of the November flights, compared with an average passenger load factor of 66% a year ago.
This year's 303 November flights carried 52,388 passengers in arriving and departing destination traffic, compared with 48,276 passengers for 292 flights a year ago. There also were 5,812 arriving and departing transit passengers this November, 390 fewer than last year's 6,202 transit passengers.
During the first 11 months of this year, the six airlines had a combined average passenger load factor of 67.9%, slightly lower than the 68.9% average for the same period last year.
This year's first 11 months were highlighted by 224 more flights than a year ago...
FIRST CHARTER FLIGHT BRINGS RUSSIANS TO SAIPAN
By Liberty Dones
SAIPAN, CNMI (Saipan Tribune, Jan. 3) - For the first time, a direct chartered flight from Russia landed on Saipan yesterday, bringing in 130 tourists, many of whom are families and couples.
"We are very, very excited about this Russia charter flight. I hope this is the beginning of more charter flights. Russia is one of the five key markets that we identified in our five-year plan," said MVA chair Jerry Tan yesterday.
Originating from Khabarovsk in the Russian Far East, the Russian tourists arrived yesterday on Saipan at past 1pm via Dal Avia airline.
Marianas Visitors Authority marketing director Wayne Pangelinan, who led the welcoming delegation at the airport, said that most of the visitors are staying on Saipan for 14 days.
"There's so much potential in this market. When they travel, they stay longer [than other groups]," said Pangelinan.
Kwang Joong Kim, Asiana Airlines general manager on Saipan, joined in welcoming...
FIJI COMPANY CHARGES ILLEGAL MAHOGANY LOGGING
SUVA, Fiji (Fiji Times, Jan. 3) - Fiji Hardwood Corporation Limited is currently processing papers to bring to justice those that had been involved in the illegal harvesting of mahogany from plantations around the country.
FHCL board chairman Winston Thompson said they are currently pursuing a case to prosecute those that had been involved with the illegal logging.
"We are looking at taking all those that were involved in the illegal logging of mahogany to court and this would include those who had been removing them from the site. It is a serious offence and those involved will be dealt with," Mr. Thompson said.
[PIR editor’s note: The government-owned Fiji Hardwood Corporation manages 66,981 hectares (165,513 acres) of timber in Fiji, of which 42,788 hectares (105,731 acres) is mahogany.]
He would not reveal the names of companies or places where mahogany had been logged illegally.
ANCIENT POTTERY FOUND IN SOLOMONS’ SANTA ISABEL
HONIARA, Solomon Islands (SIBC, Jan. 3) - The Director of the Solomon Islands National Museum, Mr. Lawrence Foanaota, says that for the first time, ancient pieces of pottery have recently been found in the Sepi area of Bugotu in Isabel Province.
He says the pieces of pottery were found during a preliminary fieldwork relating to archaeology, anthropology and history.
[PIR editor’s note: The island of Santa Isabel is located north of Guadalcanal and west of Malaita in the Solomon Islands.]
Foanaota says the trip was part of a planned three-year program on Isabel to try to establish the historical links Isabel may have with neighboring islands of Choiseul, Western, Guadalcanal and Malaita.
"My two colleagues, Dr. David Rowe from James Cook University and Field Archaeologist from the National Museum and Mr. Lawrence Kiko, went out to do surveys, in caves," Foanaota said. "On the...
SOLOMONS FISHERMAN RESCUED AFTER 12 DAYS ADRIFT
HONIARA, Solomon Islands (SIBC, Jan. 3) - A man from Nukapu Island in the Solomon Islands’ Temotu Province who had been adrift for 12 days is reportedly well and in stable condition after being picked by a fishing vessel on New Years day.
[PIR editor’s note: The Temotu island chain, easternmost of the far-flung Solomon Islands, borders northern Fiji and includes Polynesians as well as Melanesians.]
Head of Search and Rescue Centre, Mr. Jack Bana says the fishing vessel picked up Mr. David Bawe at around half past twelve on New Year's Day, 120 nautical miles northeast of Sikaiana.
Bawe had gone fishing when strong winds carried him out into the open sea.
Bana says he received assurance yesterday from the fishing vessel that Bawe is well.
Bana says arrangements are underway with the vessel's sister ship to deliver Bawe to Honiara.
FORD SUPPORTED COMMONWEALTH STATUS FOR GUAM
SAIPAN, CNMI (Mariana Variety, Jan 3) - Guam may have missed its chance to achieve commonwealth status, but local leaders thought it fitting to pay tribute and remember the late President Gerald Ford for supporting self-rule for Guam and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands.
Governor Felix P. Camacho and Lieutenant Governor Mike Cruz this morning will host a memorial service at Saint John’s Episcopal Church in Upper Tumon in honor of the 38th United States president, who died last week at the age of 93.
His remains were laid to rest Wednesday at the Gerald Ford Museum in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
The 28th Legislature last week capped its session by adopting Resolution 208 commending Ford "for his historic, but long-secret decision to negotiate commonwealth status with Guam leaders."
Ford served in Congress for 25 years before being appointed vice president by then President Richard Nixon in 1973. Nixon resigned in...
AMERICAN SAMOA COURT UPHOLDS SENATE SUBPOENAS
By Fili Sagapolutele
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa, (Samoa News, Jan. 3) - The American Samoa High Court has denied the American Samoa Employees Retirement Fund's (ASGERF) request for a temporary restraining order against subpoenas issued by the Senate Retirement Investigative Committee, according to the fund’s attorney, Charles V. Alailima.
Alailima told Samoa News via e-mail that the subpoenas issued by the committee are now a "moot point since the committee hearing has already concluded."
The hearing, which was to gather the documents subpoenaed by the committee from ASGERF and the two local banks, was held last Friday. The court's decision came out late Friday, according to Alailima.
Samoa News has not received a copy of the decision, as Monday and yesterday were government holidays.
Alailima said the ASGERF board has requested the appropriate legislative committee to take up the issues relating to the expenditures of funds (information being...
DHL ‘ICE’ DELIVERY ON SAIPAN LEADS TO ARREST
By Gina Tabonares
SAIPAN, CNMI (Mariana Variety, Jan. 3) - A 32-year-old man who received a DHL package that contained more than 100 grams of "ice" was arrested and was charged before the U.S. District Court of Guam yesterday.
Ryan Jason Wall was charged with attempted possession of methamphetamine hydrochloride with intent to distribute after he was arrested in a controlled delivery operation at the DHL complex in Tiyan on Tuesday.
According to Michael C. Perkins, a task force agent of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration a Guam Resident Officer received an anonymous telephone call on December 29, 2006 about a DHL package containing the drug "ice."
The caller provided the DHL tracking number and stated that the package was originally sent from Fife, Washington on December 15, 2006.
On December 29, at 7 p.m., Officer Perkins met with the anonymous caller and stated that the DHL was sent to a...
HUNDREDS APPLY FOR 14 JOBS AT FIJI PORT
NATIONAL TRUST FUND FOR NIUE CONSIDERED
SOLOMON ISLANDS STUDENTS ASSURED PLACES IN PAPUA NEW GUINEA
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Out & About #520 | Downtown Things Feat. Fune
And with the New Year resumed the pre-arranged catch-up sessions. Three continuous days of toiling away at a major, soon-to-be released project had resulted in the over-exertion of wrist and ocular muscles. A breath of fresh air was needed before one could summon up the strength to proceed with the lengthy assignment.
I first stopped at Chinatown, a district that has never witnessed a shortage of bubble tea joints. Arriving after 3 PM meant the availability of Cactus Tapioca, so I headed to the spot that I hadn't frequented for quite some time. (Of course, I had to have forgotten my stamp cards at home...)
With utmost confidence, I can now proclaim that One Zo has officially gone down the drain.
The pricing system and loyalty program have been altered such that customers are paying even more than before, but with fewer rewards even swearing loyalty. What's more is that drink quality has plummeted significantly - terrible to the point where nausea and stomach sickness were experienced after only one-third of the cup had been consumed.
Purchasing a large-sized Caramel Oolong Latte had been an awfully uninformed decision, and I ultimately tossed the seven-dollar atrocity into the trash to prevent further unpleasantness.
To atone the lingering slickness of One Zo, I made a brief stop at Juicy Dumpling at Dragon City Centre. It was appropriately named after their signature $2.99 Steamed Soup Pork Dumpling - also known as Xiao Long Bao (小籠包/XLB), though the menu also comprised of savoury pancakes and other carby delights.
At a measly $3.14 after tax, one could not go wrong with the eatery's namesake S1 order. The bite-sized dumplings were positively delicious with an insanely reasonable price. Moreover, seating was plenty and service was friendly and efficient. Several diners took their orders to go, but many also stayed to enjoy some chitchat time with their fellow feasters.
I met up with feedthebear shortly afterwards, at which point we leisurely made our way over to our chosen dinner destination in the Entertainment District.
Fune was located in close proximity to Roy Thomson and the largely familiar King/John intersection, yet I had never batted an eyelash while striding past in the past (unintentional homograph usage).
The Japanese restaurant was located at the basement level of the building, with three areas of separation: a bar with backless stools, an oval-shaped sushi bar, and table seating. We opted for the second option, as the concept of à la carte items revolving about us on small, wooden boats proved both fascinating and intriguing.
Once seated, we were informed that items could be plucked from the boats as they were traversing along their passageway, and that we would be charged according to the colour of the plate. Unlike Hana, our seats were devoid of a printout that listed these rates. Instead, a series of labelled plates floating atop the waterway informed customers of the associated prices.
Alternatively, customers could also order from the given menu; this was a great option for those craving hot plates such as udon or donburi.
We weren't completely made aware of the dishes we were consuming, but it wasn't much of an issue for us. For those with allergies, on the other hand, it is best to inquire the ingredient breakdown from one of the five sushi chefs at the bar to ensure the meal progresses without health hazards.
Amongst our selection were: kanpachi sashimi, rice paper maki, sushi pizza, cuttlefish/shiso roll-ups, torched salmon California Rolls, and avocado-scallop nigiri. Sweet finishes such as dorayaki (original and matcha flavours) and daifuku were also witnessed occasionally. The cost of the items added up quickly, and before we realized, the bill had totalled a whopping sixty-seven dollars. Eleven plates had been consumed between the two of us, yet each ceramic serving device had only held two pieces of each variety. Some items were tasty, while others lacklustre and somewhat warm from being left out for extended periods of time.
The scallop nigiri, in particular, wasn't half bad. Though, the slightly bitter aftertaste was an indication of inadequacy (whether it be in terms of freshness, quality, or handling techniques). Conclusively speaking, inconsistency surfaced periodically; still, it remained far better than AYCE (and Hana).
The bathrooms were disappointing given the overall atmosphere and intricate furnishings of the dining floor. On the other hand, staff members were friendly and attentive throughout our prolonged stay, and didn't hesitate to aid us in taking countless commemorative shots upon our request.
Adopting a "fune" (boat in Japanese) concept is interesting, however it entails steep prices reflective of its coordinates in the Entertainment District. The novelty of it all guarantees a fun experience. That said, be mindful that taste and value may not necessarily live up to expectations.
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Sung Home: Chapter Forty One. {fiction}
Sarah welcomed Victorio and I into the tipi she shared with her sister, Nell, a younger, shier version of Sarah. Frank was invited to stay at Barbara’s and her husband’s yurt.
After tending to the horses and unloading our belongings, Victorio and I rested on our guest bed in Sarah’s tipi, Sarah discreetly tugging her sister out the door.
A couple of hours later, we emerged well-rested from our womb-like lodgings to wander around the camp. I couldn’t help but stare at everyone, much as Jeanne’s small children had gawped at me. Now I knew why the others who had traveled here were so happy and animated when they returned home. To see so many new faces and experience a whole other way of living from ours felt invigorating.
Soon we crossed paths with Frank. He joined us on our rounds, introducing us to many of the people we encountered. Noah was nowhere in sight.
I had so many questions. Where did they get the clay that one woman carefully coiled into what looked like would become a broad bowl? Where did they find the obsidian and chert that the knappers used to form arrowheads, axes and knives? If I only had time to learn a little about one of the two, should I pick clay or stone?
A lot of the people wore a comfortable looking cloth I couldn’t identify. What was it made out of? Did they grow it or collect it?
That evening, we gathered around the large fire pit in the center of the circle of tent-homes. Rough-hewn tables held a buffet of fresh corn, salads of wild and garden greens, rabbit fajitas in hand-ground corn tortillas, an herbed sacaton grain dish that reminded me a little of rice, mesquite mush and a salsa made from tomatoes, green chiles, garlic, cilantro and onions.
As had happened when I first arrived at the Cave People’s home, I was also peppered with questions non-stop. They were especially curious about and disturbed by my description of Darian’s compound and wide-eyed at my tale of escape from there. I left out the part about how the Cavers had left me nearly to die. I didn’t want them to have a bad impression of them, of us. And, of course, I never spoke about Sylvia.
It felt strange and exciting to sleep in Sarah and young Nell’s tipi after so many months of sleeping in caves. The wind buffeted rhythmically against our conical shelter, punctuated by a gentle pattering rain that came and went through the night. Coyotes yipped and unknown critters skittered furtively in the nearby grasses.
I had forgotten how much more insulated, protected, we were in our caves, even after sleeping outside for so long on my way to the village of Gila Hot Springs. Our garden, goats and horses were sheltered from predators by the circular concave butte. It had been easy to get used to such safety and luxury.
I also had become accustomed to sleeping next to Victorio. After lying face to face with him while my thoughts settled, I squirmed around with my back against his chest, legs tucked up along the inside curve of his, feeling his steady breath in my ear as I drifted off. He had fallen soundly asleep the instant he lay down his head.
The next day, our one full day in the Forest People’s camp, I chose to study clay and Victorio went to the knapping pit hoping to at least learn the basics of making a stone knife. We had plenty of regular, metal knives at home, but one day we might need to make new ones. Frank spent a lot of the day conferring with Barbara, her husband Steven, and others who appeared to make up some kind of council.
After another feast that evening, we were treated to a whole chorus of singers, singing everything from old-timey bluegrass, to jazz, rock-n-roll, and gospel hymns. Three guitars, a harmonica and drums provided accompaniment.
I had never noticed the lack of music in our own community before the Forest People came to visit us, but now it seemed impossible that we could survive without it.
I thought about what Barbara had said about wanting to preserve the songs. Some paper and pens would go a long way towards doing exactly that. Maybe the library should be storing musical knowledge as well as books. Instruments could be constructed, but songs had to be sung regularly by each generation to be remembered, or they would be lost.
Even the little that this group had retained, just a few years after the virus, was too much for a few people to maintain over generations. Unless it were written down.
The next morning came too soon. Frank and the Forest People’s leaders had decided that we would not bring more of them back with us this time. Although the first frost was still several weeks away, it was close enough that every person was needed to pour their energies into preparations for the uncertain winter months.
On the way home, Frank told us that he and Barbara and the rest of their council had spoken at length about our long-term relationship with them. They had proposed an exchange of teachers, since both communities would need as many skills and as much information as they could get in order to improve our chances of survival in the long run.
Starting in the spring, we would trade people for a month or so at a time so each community could learn from the other. Jeanne could come and teach them about herbs and other healing methods. Sarah would come and instruct Jeanne, Olga and Kate on midwifery. Devon would come to share some of her gardening techniques.
Their best clay person, Claude, who had taught me, would come and explain about how to identify suitable clay in the river bed, how to fire pots properly and use decoration techniques. Ching Shih would teach martial arts. And so on. By cooperating this way, each community could vastly expand their knowledge.
“And yet we’re going to hold out on them. We have a huge advantage that they don’t,” I said, referring to our library, the paper, the ink, and the printing press.
Frank cocked his head in amusement at me as we rode side by side. “Lakshmi, you’re the one who was so fired up about keeping the library a secret! Which is it then? Share and share alike? Or protect the library from others at all costs?”
Confusion buzzed inside my head like bees caught in a jar. Which was the right answer?
We arrived home at dinnertime three days later to find that another trip, this one into Silver City, was being hotly debated, even before we could formally address the proposal at the next official community meeting the following day.
“This will probably be the last chance to take a trip like this until after the winter, and I want to have as much as possible to move my work forward during the winter,” said Tochuku, leaning forward over his half-eaten dinner. Victorio, Frank and I dug in ravenously, having pushed past lunch in order to make it home before dark.
I had whacked a lot of rabbits on their sweet heads for meals along the way, but we didn’t want to stop to hunt or cook the last day of travel. Some sat back watchfully while others stared at their plates, nibbling.
“We already lost one person because of these trips,” said Hallie, mouth tight, eyes bright with pain from the fresh departure of her brother to live with the Forest People.
“I can’t believe we’re even having this conversation again,” added Olga shaking her head defeatedly.
“I understand your fears, but look at what we’ve gained from these trips. We’re now working well with a whole other community. We’re already trading goods and information, skills. And the last trip to Silver gave us a lot more viability in the long run. We can’t have our decisions based on one disastrous trip,” Yazmin declared.
Olga said, “I agree that it’s been good to get to know the Forest People. I really do see that. But going into Silver is much more risky. We know they have Slavers there.”
“Some of us don’t mind taking that risk,” responded Tochuku.
“But a risk that any one of us takes will affect the rest of us if it goes wrong. We can’t afford for anyone to be captured or killed. Or for the wrong person to follow you back,” countered Olga.
The room fell silent for a few long moments, considering the truth of her statement.
Beto broke the silence, asking, “How would you even get to the Makers? The Monks said the Slavers patrol the whole area a lot. How would you make it from the Monks to the Makers without being caught?” Beto sounded more curious than defiant.
Frank set down his fork, still chewing, “I know how we could do it.” Everyone turned to look at him. He hadn’t weighed in pro or con, but apparently took the question seriously.
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Civilization: Call to Power
Developer: Activision
Genres: Strategy / Turn-Based Strategy
Game Modes: Singleplayer / Multiplayer
A better looking yet woefully dumbed-down Civ II.
Activision and MicroProse were fighting tooth and nail for the Civilization license, and the result of that struggle was Activision’s victory and a new game in the series – Call to Power, a Civ game that was developed without the guiding hand of Sid Meier. Call to Power isn’t necessarily bad so much as it’s misguided, trying to do many things all at once. Some of them work, many don’t. It seems that for every idea that Activision successfully implements (unconventional warfare, a new trade model, public works), they also manage to botch two (interface, play balance, combat model).
First the good. With bright clear graphics worthy of Heroes of Might and Magic III, the game looks fantastic. The maps are truly huge (talk about a long endgame). The later eras open up the seas and outer space for colonization and combat, where building and fighting are dramatically different. But Call to Power is, at its heart, Civilization II with some new ideas, not all of them sustainable within the game’s logic. Although it doesn’t share any code with Brian Reynolds’ and Sid Meier’s landmark title, that game is clearly the kernel for Call to Power.
In Call to Power, all your food, production, and gold go into central coffers, where you set the rations, workday, and wages that determine your base happiness. Similarly, your units consume production for maintenance, but you can alter this by changing your level of military readiness. If you don’t anticipate a war soon, you can order your military to stand down, decreasing your maintenance costs and dropping your units to half health.
But where this federalism works best is in the game’s public works scheme. Rather than sending workers out, you divert a percentage of your production to public works. This stores up points that can be spent to improve tiles and terraform terrain. You can keep points on hand to help grow small cities with fisheries and farms. You can level entire forests or irrigate vast deserts in a few mouse clicks. Sea and space cities can thrive and quickly become productive with public works helping them along. And there’s no more trying to remember what you were going to do with that engineer after he spends four long turns cutting down a forest.
But alas, play balance went on the wayside. It’s clear Activision is unpracticed at making strategy games. For instance, consider the new super-units introduced in Call to Power. These threats arise from within your civilization, and can cripple your infrastructure quite easily. The Televangelist, for instance, can siphon your gold. The Slaver can steal your citizens, while the Eco-terrorist can pretty much decimate an entire city. There are so many potential threats, and their effects are so destructive, that you’ll spend a lot of time preparing against any and every scenario. It’s here that the game’s complexity works against itself.
The power and pervasiveness of this kind of civil warfare means you’ll almost always have to be ready to fight two different kinds of war. It channels the gameplay through waypoints that can’t be skipped. Slavers mean you must build walls. Corporate branches and televangelists mean you must research democracy and build lawyers. The discovery of genetics and infectors means you must race to research human cloning and build microdefenses. These chokepoints shoehorn the tech tree along preset paths, limiting the game greatly.
There are hints of balance that come maddeningly close to making Call to Power as good at combat as Alpha Centauri. Defenses are particularly difficult to overcome, making entrenched growth a viable strategy (and also making unconventional warfare impossible to ignore). Units can gather in stacks of up to nine. This allows some interesting possibilities, such as balancing first strike ranged attackers with melee fighters or escorting your invaders with slavers to boost your workforce. But the stacking also highlights the gross imbalance in the combat system. Call to Power’s conventional warfare favors the number of units over the level of technology, rewarding quantity over quality.
It downplays the importance of technology in warfare and t penalizes advanced civilizations. Their cheaper units are rendered obsolete, so they’re forced to build more expensive advanced units at a price out of proportion with their effectiveness. Also, it leads to some outrageous combat results that don’t jibe with what we expect from their real-world analogs. Civilization was notorious for occasional battleships sunk by phalanxes; these sorts of idiosyncrasies are rampant in Call to Power.
The interface presents its own problems to consider. The guiding principal in information presentation is to never take you away from the main map. To get all the details of a city, you have to click through a series of small tabs, meaning you never get a satisfying overview. Information is tucked in weird places. The autocycle and autoturn features are broken; there’s no autocenter feature to move your view with your unit selection. Different buttons and keys are required to close different types of windows.
You can’t start a game during a later era in the single player games, there are no scenarios, and there’s no scenario or map editor. There are few gameplay options. And the manual is poorly writter (the Brady Games strategy guide reads more like a proper manual than the manual itself). The game also falls flat when it comes to diplomacy (Imperialism II and Alpha Centauri) and multiplayer options (no play-by-e-mail or hotseat).
Civilization: Call to Power is an ambitious attempt to follow greatness of previous Civ games, but ended up being a shallow and unbalanced mess that only pales to the quality seen in earlier games. It’s a good indication of what happens when you switch developers, going from a team who has ample experience with creating strategy games to another that has next to none.
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Surge in Satanism sparks rise in demand for exorcists, says Catholic Church
A surge in Satanism fuelled by the internet has led to a sharp rise in the demand for exorcists, the Roman Catholic Church has warned.
By Nick Squires, in Rome
(The Telegraph) The web has made it easier than ever before to access information on Devil-worshipping and the occult, experts said.
Exorcism is the subject of a six-day conference being held this week at the Regina Apostolorum Pontifical University in Rome, which is under the Vatican's authority.
"The internet makes it much easier than in the past to find information about Satanism," said Carlo Climati, a member of the university who specialises in the dangers posed to young people by Satanism.
"In just a few minutes you can contact Satanist groups and research occultism. The conference is not about how to become an exorcist. It's to share information about exorcism, Satanism and sects. It's to give help to families and priests. There is a particular risk for young people who are in difficulties or who are emotionally fragile," said Mr Climati.
The object of seminars was to scrutinise the phenomenon of Satanism with "seriousness and scientific rigour", avoiding a "superficial or sensational approach", he said.
The conference in Rome has brought together more than 60 Catholic clergy as well as doctors, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and youth workers to discuss how to combat the dangers of Devil-worship.
Organisers say the rise of Satanism has been dangerously underestimated in recent years.
"There's been a revival," said Gabriele Nanni, a former exorcist and another speaker at the course.
In theory, any priest can perform an exorcism – a rite involving prayers to drive the Devil out of the person said to be possessed.
But Vatican officials said three years ago that parish priests should call in professional exorcists if they suspect one of their parishioners needs purging of evil.
An exorcist should be called when "the moral certainty has been reached that the person is possessed", said Father Nanni, a member of the Vatican's Congregation for the Causes of Saints.
That could be indicated by radical and disturbing changes in the person's behaviour and voice, or an ability to garble in foreign languages or nonsensical gibberish.
While the number of genuine cases of possession by the Devil remained relatively small, "we must be on guard because occult and Satanist practices are spreading a great deal, in part with the help of the internet and new technologies that make it easier to access these rituals," he said.
The Vatican's chief exorcist claimed last year that the Devil lurked in the Vatican, the very heart of the Catholic Church.
Father Gabriele Amorth said people who are possessed by Satan vomit shards of glass and pieces of iron, scream, dribble and slobber, utter blasphemies and have to be physically restrained.
He claimed that the sex abuse scandals which have engulfed the Church in the US, Ireland, Germany and other countries, were proof that the anti-Christ was waging a war against the Holy See. He said Pope Benedict XVI believed "wholeheartedly" in the practice of exorcism.
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Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir
Feb 1, 2018 , 8:00pm - 9:00pm
Weill Hall at Green Music Center
Tickets will be required for admittance
tickets@sonoma.edu
Join us in this kick off to Black History Month, Lobofest and Spring 2018! Under the direction of the Emmy-winning Terrance Kelly, the Oakland Interfaith Gospel Choir brings together over fifty-five singers and four instrumentalists who embody a community of diverse races, cultures, and faiths. They also share an uncontainable passion for music. Their mission is to inspire joy and unity among all people through black gospel and spiritual music. Judging by their audiences’ reactions--clapping, cheering, and singing along--it is apparent that they succeed in that mission. This is a FREE show, but it is ticketed, so stop by the Box office in the Student Center or at the Green Music Center to get one!
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Los Angeles-based chamber orchestra Wild Up is a modern music collective committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking happenings.
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Rock Collegium
SSU Rock Collegium
John R. Palmer, director
Classic rock remakes plus new songs composed and performed in the classic style.
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Directing: Bodies in Space and Time (Williams College, Fall 2018)
This is a laboratory in which we will investigate the holistic art of directing live performance. The director is both a creator and interpreter. Students will sharpen their visual, spatial, sonic, and kinesthetic sensibilities while developing a clear, cogent directorial voice. We will learn by doing. Assignments will involve hands-on directing projects presented in class for collective critique. Through these weekly assignments, directors will devise and discover strategies for collaboration and vocabularies of action and intention.
Ways of Knowing: Music, Movement, Memory (Williams College, Fall 2017)
This interdisciplinary seminar proceeds from the premise that the body knows. Ongoing colonial modernity is rooted in a racialized hierarchy: the “civilized” life of the mind vs. the “primitive” instincts of the flesh. According to this binary, the body is marked as irrational, sinful, outside of the archive. The body cannot know because the happenings of the body are ephemeral: unlike documents, they don’t last. In this course, we will subject this logic to close scrutiny. As performance scholar Diana Taylor asks, “Whose memories, traditions, and claims to history disappear if performance practices lack the staying power to transmit vital knowledge?” In this course, we look to music, movement, and other repertoires as ways of knowing, remembering, and world-making. How does embodied knowledge travel across time and space? How have performance practices served as modes of what Ashinaabe cultural theorist Gerald Vizenor calls “survivance” (survival + resistance) for indigenous, nomadic, queer, and colored communities. Case studies include: the Middle Passage and the syncretic birth of the Blues in the Americas; nomadism, the nation-state, and the migration of Romani music; and the evolution of queer ball culture. Students will engage with a variety of texts (verbal, sonic, visual, kinesthetic) and respond to them critically not only through writing and discussion, but also through their own performance practices.
Queer Drama (Williams College, Spring 2019)
This seminar course is a deep dive into the richly dissonant dialogue between queer lives and live performance. How have queer artists shaped and reshaped the field of theatre and performance over time? How has drama, in turn, shaped the landscape of queer life? What inventions and innovations might we attribute to the evolution of “queer”? We will look to the work of artists such as Tennessee Williams, Tarell McCraney, Taylor Mac, Reza Abdoh, Sharon Bridgforth, Virginia Grise, and many others as we seek to map the messy topography of queer performance.
Devised Performance: The Art of Embodied Inquiry (Williams College, Spring 2018)
This studio course offers students hands-on experience in devising new performance work as an ensemble. Looking to the work of practitioners and collectives like Jerzy Grotowski, El Teatro Campesino, Tectonic Theater Project, Pina Bausch, Belarus Free Theatre, Nrityagram, and SITI Company, we will challenge ourselves to really probe what live performance is capable of. How might we think of performance as a research methodology? As a lifestyle? As a form of political action? This class will function as a laboratory, forming its own unique structure for developing and realizing a live performance. The course provides an opportunity to navigate the complex dynamics present in collaborative creation. Guest classes with practitioners will offer a fuller range of skills for the student ensemble to utilize during the devising process. Work-in-progress presentations spaced regularly throughout the semester will allow the ensemble to receive feedback from small, invited audiences, as well as the opportunity to apply that critique to an ongoing creative process. At the end of the semester the accumulated work will have a public presentation in a workshop format.
Writing in the Margins: Race, Performance, Playgiarism (Williams College, Fall 2018)
There is no such thing as an original play. So says playwright Chuck Mee. Someone else, certainly, said it before him. What does it mean to own a story? This seminar/studio course proceeds from a historical understanding that writing and performance are, and have always been, practices of plagiarism. We begin by looking at how bodies, thoughts, and words come to be understood as ownable property in the modern era, and how that process of commodification is inextricably tied to colonialism and the production of race. How do performance and bodily practices trouble our ideas about individual ownership? We look to writers and other artists of color who have plundered “classic” texts and radically reclaimed the colonial canon. We will read intertextual works by Suzan-Lori Parks, Young Jean Lee, Salman Rushdie, Cherrie Moraga, and others. Taking these artists as inspiration, students will choose a text as source material and write in the margins of that text to create new, re-visioned work.
Writing for Performance (Williams College, Spring 2018)
This studio/seminar course is designed for students with some experience in creative writing and/or performance interested in a deep dive into the art of playwriting. What is a play? What distinguishes writing for performance from writing that is meant to be read? How do we craft a blueprint for a live event? In our rapidly evolving digital world, what sorts of stories and phenomena still ask to be experienced live? How are contemporary theater and performance makers pushing the boundaries of what “writing” means and what constitutes “liveness”? We will read works by Sharon Bridgforth, Sarah Ruhl, Tarrell Alvin McCraney, Tony Kushner, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Sarah DeLappe, Suzan-Lori Parks, Edward Albee, August Wilson, Chuck Mee, María Irene Fornés, Young Jean Lee, Stew, and Lightning Rod Special, who have deepened and widened the possibilities of the form. We will also write, beginning with exercises in character, dialogue, action, and world-building, and working toward a longer final project. Students will be expected to present their own work and respond to each other’s work regularly. At the end of the term, we will present excerpts of our one-act length works as part of an open studio experience.
Rigor Mortis: A Poetry Workshop (Williams College, Spring 2018)
Rigor is a word we use to prove something is serious—worthy of attention. As queer and colored bodies, we are asked to prove our worth in myriad ways. We are asked to prove our work is rigorous. The etymology of “rigor” is stiffness. After death, our joints and our muscles stiffen. The title of this workshop is stolen from a subheading in José Muñoz’ essay “Ephemera as Evidence”, in which “queer acts” push back against the burden of proof that stiffens our living bodies. How might poetry help us look to death as evidence of our ephemerality? In this workshop, we will practice poetic logic as another kind of evidence—one that is both rigorous and ghostly.
Chican@ Theater: Other(ed) Bodies in the Act (Co-taught with Cherríe Moraga, Stanford University, Spring 2016)
This is a one of a kind acting course designed for those students who may never have “darkened the doorway” of a theater or a theater class, but have always felt themselves called to ‘act’ or ‘act out’ in their own bodies, grounded in their own cultural landscape. The class is also open to students with acting experience, and for whom the sense of “acting in translation” applies. In this course, the Chicano and Chicana experience serves as the cultural axis upon which the embodied theory and practice of people of color and queer performance spins. Taking up the indigenous mandate that the body is a site of collective knowing and of action, this class trains actors to work collaboratively, from and through their bodies. Working in tandem with Guest Director, Misha Chowdhury, the class will provide an intensive approach in the practice of performance – both through ensemble work, as well as through monologue and scene dialogue study. Over the course of the quarter, we will work and train as a theater company, honing our abilities to act and react, while generating and shaping material toward an ensemble-devised production. Readings will accompany the actor’s journey regarding the philosophy and origins of Chican@ Teatro (and related approaches), as we map out together its political past, aesthetic origins and its 21st century promise. But, mostly ‘homework’ will take place in the home-body. Students can expect to put in minimally another three to six hours of time in and out of the theater learning to ‘act’ (out).
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The Royal Train & Wolverton Works 175th anniversary book official website
Willen Village
Milton Keynes MK15 9AD
cleekrail@btinternet.com
The Full Works book
The Royal Train
Shop/Talks
Wolverton Works news
About Phil Marsh
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ANNOUNCEMENT! Phil Marsh is delighted to have John Kitchen, Wolverton Works artist in residence, with him at the Great Linford Community Fun Day on Sat 7 July. Follow this link for details: www.great-linford.gov.uk/events/community-fun-day/
The Full Works book will be available at £5 and photographs of the Royal Train and the Works also available in addition to John's artwork.
Welcome to the Royal Train & Wolverton Works Official book website. The author is looking forward to seeing the Channel 5 Royal Train documentary he has been assisting with. No transmission date yet though!
The Royal Train is shunted every couple of weeks by Gemini Rail Services' staff within the Works to keep it serviceable. They also trip it in and out of the Works to Haversham Bank or the Centre Sidings depending on the length of the train.
Images show the RT inside the Works and passing through Wolverton. And a Royal visit in 1948 by Princess Elizabeth.
Royal Trains have fascinated people worldwide for over 150 years as these rather special trains reflect social, royal and railway history across the world.
Wolverton railway works in Milton Keynes has seen Royal Saloons built at the home of the UK Royal Train for 150 years this year. The corner of the 1869 Saloon is on the left.
The author has given, and been booked to do many more talks about The Royal Train - please contact him for details. Talks can be from 45 minutes to 90 minutes and tailored to the audience.
These reflect the contents of the official authorised 175th anniversary book about Wolverton Works entitled 'The Full Works'. Plenty of Royal Train anecdotes from those who worked on it are recounted!
The Full Works contains over 100 images over 68 pages documenting the history of Wolverton Railway Works and was published to mark the Works' 175th anniversary in September 2013. It contains previously unpublished details of the UK Royal Train and how its proposed privatisation in 1997 was prevented - by the author. An update is provided with every book sold keeping the story up to date. Over 1200 have been bought following continuing good reviews and feedback.
Right is the keyring for Queen Adelaide's and Queen Victoria's Saloons
Please note that all images on this site and in the book are strictly copyright protected but may be purchased up to A3 size using professional printers, paper and inks. Please visit the shop page for details.
www.wolvertonworksonline.co.uk provides the latest news on Planning and any demolition progress and other Wolverton related news and archives. Click on the above link to visit the site. Site updated 14 July 2019.
wolvertonworksonline.co.uk
The Full Works is the official Wolverton Works 175th anniversary book and includes an in-depth look at The Royal Train. It retails at £5 plus £1.50 P&P from: Phil Marsh, 14 Milton Road, Willen Village, Milton Keynes MK15 9AD.
@marshrail
The Royal Saloons stabled outside at Wolverton and the Morris Minor that I drove into the Royal Train shed in Nov 1997. This was my day on the Royal Train when I had to place a value on it and to decide whether to privatise it - or not. Details are in The Full Works book.
Please email me on cleekrail@btinternet.com to order or come to any talk I'm giving.
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Ben Youssef Medersa, Marrakesh
The Ben Youssef Medersa, an Islamic school attached to the Ben Youssef Mosque, is home to some of the most beautiful art and architecture in Marrakesh.
History of the Ben Youssef Medersa
The medersa, where students memorized the Qur'an by rote, was founded by the Merenid Sultan Abou el Hassan in the 14th century. It was, however, almost completely rebuilt under the Saadian rulers in the 1560s and it is they who made their distinctive mark in its architecture and art. See the near-contemporary Saadian Tombs for similar beauty of decoration.
What to See at the Ben Youssef Medersa
The medersa centers around a large courtyard with a central pool for ablutions. The buildings are covered in an abundance of decoration: carved cedarwood, exquisite stuccowork, and colorful zellij tiles. Some elements of the medersa are remarkably similar to the Alhambra palace in Granada, indicating that Andalusian artists were likely brought from Spain for the project.
At the back of the courtyard is a sizable prayer hall, which contains the most elaborate decoration. The interior is covered in an abundance of pine cone and palm motifs, which are used around the mihrab to create a three-dimensional appearance.
Throughout the medersa are many Arabic inscriptions in stucco and zellij tile, the most common of which is the bismillah invocation: "In the name of Allah, the Compassionate, the Merciful."
Above the central courtyard are the small windows of the tiny student dormitories. The rooms are arranged around smaller inner courtyards, rimmed with fine wood railings. Nearly 900 students were once housed here, and it's difficult to imagine how they all squeezed in. Via stairs in the entry vestibule, visitors can explore all the rooms and enjoy good views over the courtyard.
Quick Facts on the Ben Youssef Medersa
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31.632040° N, 7.986444° W
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Note: This information was accurate when first published and we do our best to keep it updated, but details such as opening hours and prices can change without notice. To avoid disappointment, please check with the site directly before making a special trip.
Personal visit (April 9, 2007).
The Rough Guide to Morocco, 7th ed. (October 2004).
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Map of the Ben Youssef Medersa, Marrakesh
Below is a location map and aerial view of the Ben Youssef Medersa. Using the buttons on the left (or the wheel on your mouse), you can zoom in for a closer look, or zoom out to get your bearings. To move around, click and drag the map with your mouse.
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A Vulnerability Has Been Discovered in the Nintendo Switch
With all of the security breaches that have happened lately, I’m not surprised that we have a vulnerability on our hands. It’s not to the magnitude of Equifax, mind you, but as I’ve been saying for a while now, we have to keep our data safe and protected. Security researchers from ReSwitched have discovered a vulnerability in the Nintendo Switch. The problem is that this could let hackers run arbitrary code on all current consoles. Known as “Fusée Gelée” (“Frozen Rocket”), it exploits code in the NVIDIA Tegra X1s USB recovery mode, bypassing software that would normally protect the critical bootROM.
The biggest concern is that this appears to be something that can’t be patched, and could allow users to run pirated games. While no vulnerability is good, I think on the scale of good versus bad, this certainly isn’t bad. I mean, the worst thing you can do is run a pirated game. Oooh. Too bad, Nintendo. Like I said before, it’s not the magnitude of Equifax, for example, because no confidential data should be present. But again, that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t keep your data protected.
The exploit involves kicking the Switch into USB recovery mode by shorting a pin on the right-hand Joy-Con connector. A payload is then sent at a crucial point during a USB check, forcing the system to “request up to 65,535 bytes per control request,” much more than it can handle. That causes a DMA buffer overflow in the bootROM, giving hackers access to the normally-protected application stack. From there, they can run whatever code they want.
This is where it becomes a problem for Nintendo. Much like the one on your PC, the Tegra X1 bootROM on the Switch is hardcoded and can’t be changed once it leaves the factory. This would be fine if it was secure, but unfortunately, it has the bad length error built into it. Which means, there’s nothing that NVIDIA or Nintendo can do about it. And that’s bad news for Nintendo because they have shipped 14.8 million units already, according to ReSwitched.
By exposing secret code in the Application stack, the exploit might allow hackers to reverse engineer application security and run pirated or emulated software. It could also be useful for less dodgy functions, like finally giving users the ability to backup game saves in case their Switch is stolen or broken. Again, this isn’t extreme, but it is a pretty good way to be able to get around some of the rules imposed on us by Nintendo.
Nintendo does have one method of recourse. If they can detect users taking advantage of this bug, they can block them from being able to play online. Which may be a small price to pay for someone wanting to get around the system. There are a number of hacks online but beware of using any of them. As with anything – it may or may not harm your actual device.
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AUIRON ENERGY LTD: PANEL PUBISHES REASONS
The Panel has today published the reasons for its decision in the proceedings (the Proceedings) relating to AuIron Energy Ltd (AuIron).
The Proceedings arose from an application made on 10 September 2003 by Westchester Financial Services Pty Limited (Westchester) in relation to the affairs of AuIron. The Proceedings considered, amongst other things, the information provided to shareholders for the purposes of a general meeting held to seek shareholder approval of the acquisition by AuIron of the Yarrabee Coal Company Pty Ltd, in exchange for a substantial interest in AuIron. The Panel decided to make no declaration or final order. The conclusion of the Proceedings was announced on 22 September 2003 in Panel media release TP 03/88.
The Panel was Jeremy Schultz (sitting President), Marian Micalizzi and Alice McCleary.
The reasons of the Panel in the Proceedings are available on the Panel's website at: http://www.takeovers.gov.au/Content/Decisions/decisions.asp
The earlier Panel media release mentioned in this media release is available on the Panel's website at: http://www.takeovers.au/Content/MediaReleases/MediaReleases.asp
George Durbridge,
Director, Takeovers Panel
80 Collins Street, Melbourne VIC 3000
george.durbridge@takeovers.gov.au
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PETER'S RAILWAY TO BE STATIONED AT THE ENGINE HOUSE (16th May 2014)
A new exhibition for budding young engineers and steam train fans, based on the popular series of children's books Peter's Railway, is to become the latest addition to the Severn Valley Railway's (SVR) visitor centre.
The Peter’s Railway Young Engineers Centre opens at The Engine House, Highley, on Saturday, 24th May and will teach children more about railway engineering and how a steam locomotive works. The Young Engineers Centre will feature interactive exhibits and informative visuals from Christopher Vine’s popular children’s books about Peter, his Grandpa and the miniature steam railway they build and operate down on the farm.
To launch the exhibition, the books’ author Christopher Vine will be putting in an appearance on 24th, 25th and 26th May to meet budding engineers and sign copies of his books. He will also showcase miniature steam engine ‘Bongo’ (the model for engine ‘Fiery Fox’ in the Peter’s Railway series) during the three days.
Other exhibits will include a piston from full sized locomotive BR Class 4 no. 75069 and point rod, coil spring and pressure gauge demos.
There will also be a Peter’s Railway treasure hunt and a quiz which children can participate in throughout the season with some great prizes up for grabs.
On Saturday, 24th May, which also coincides with the start of half-term activities at the Railway, every child who brings a copy of a Peter’s Railway book, or buys one on the day, will receive a free return child’s Freedom of the Line ticket to visit the exhibition at The Engine House.
Clare Gibbard, the SVR’s marketing and communications manager, said: “We are very excited to be opening the Peter’s Railway Young Engineers Centre at The Engine House to add to the wonderful range of exhibits already on offer there.
“We know a lot of the families that visit us are huge fans of Chris’s books and the exhibit is both the perfect introduction to railways for a growing new audience of steam fans and a thorough lesson in railway engineering for budding young engineers.”
The Peter’s Railway Young Engineers Centre will run at The Engine House until 30th November (see visitor centre opening times for more information).
Entrance to the Engine House Visitor Centre and Young Engineer’s Centre is FREE with a ‘Freedom of the line’ ticket or Annual Family Pass.
Train services at the SVR are now running daily until Sunday, 5th October.
For more information on the SVR and up-coming events, or to book tickets, visit www.svr.co.uk, search for Severn Valley Railway Families on Facebook, or call 01562 757900.
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Is Lord Sugar and The Apprentice out of touch with start-ups?
This year sees sixteen wannabe entrepreneurs go head to head in the desperate bid to become Lord Sugar's business partner and secure £250,000 investment in the process. . . It may be difficult for start-ups to raise funding right now, but there's no way times are this desperate, surely?
The show opened with each candidate pitching to the camera as if they were Mohammed Ali in his pomp. The self-belief and self-promotion intolerable yet annoyingly infatuating at the same time.
"My intelligence is like a machete in the jungle," was one quote from Jason Leech. While Zeeshan Shah says he takes business inspiration from Napoleon. Yep, that's right. Forget Branson, Jobs even Lord Sugar himself - Shah's most favorite entrepreneur is a warlord.
Predictably the candidates were split into boys v girls and sent to Tilbury docks where there are two containers full of tat for them to sell - bottled water, lucky Chinese waving cats, toilet paper, leather jackets and cat litter. . .Why Lord Sugar's investment hinges on the candidates ability to sell plastic cats we're not sure.
At the start of the show the candidates revealed their business ideas. Jaz Ampaw-Farr's sounded interesting, "an online learning platform" while Neil Clough mentioned how he might "revolutionise the estate agent industry."
Fast forward and Jaz is trying to sell plastic Chinese cats to a Chinese tourist shop owner, who points out the obvious, "I can buy these direct from China at half the price." While Neil's ended up at Battersea Dogs home doing his most to get the best price from a man who looks after vulnerable animals - nice one.
At the end of all the chaos, it's the girls who lose out, with team leader Jazz Ampaw-Farr bringing Sophie Lau and Uzma Yakoob back with her to face Lord Sugar in the boardroom. The girls fall into a backstabbing frenzy, while Sugar looks on gleefully before telling Jazz she's fired.
We love entrepreneurs at Smarta and Lord Sugar's an inspiration, but we can't help feeling let down by the Amstrad founder. Why's he judging the business ideas of the so called brightest bunch of entrepreneurs around on their ability to sell rubbish? Also, a business partner should be looked upon as an equal. We're struggling to see how Sugar can respect someone enough to be their partner, when for weeks before he had them jumping through hoops. The candidates would probably go and force a shopkeeper to sell them tartan paint or a long wait if he asked them.
These candidates have been plucked from thousands and supposedly they've got great business ideas. If that's the case, then we'd like to see Sugar being the lackey in a bid to work with the fresh ideas and talent.
Maybe this is what's wrong with the start-up world as a whole. We're always talking about how great the past is, rather than paying more attention to the ideas that'll make money in the future.
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Mayo spending $223 million on Florida cancer center
New cancer center will offer advanced, targeted therapies to patients.
By Christopher Snowbeck Star Tribune
Mayo Clinic plans to build a $233 million facility for cancer patients at its Florida hospital that includes “proton beam” radiation, an advanced treatment that Mayo currently provides at medical centers in Rochester and Phoenix after making big infrastructure investments earlier this decade.
The 140,000-square-foot facility being planned for Jacksonville is scheduled for completion in 2023.
Monday’s announcement came about three years after Mayo said it would spend $100 million for a new medical building that significantly expanded space for cancer patients in Florida, a state where Mayo and some of nation’s most prominent health care groups all compete for patients.
“This facility will give us the ability to offer our patients the full spectrum of cancer treatment options,” Dr. Kent Thielen, the chief executive of Mayo Clinic in Florida, said in a statement.
There’s already a proton beam treatment center in Jacksonville operated by a different health care provider. A Mayo spokeswoman said by e-mail that Mayo will be unique in Florida for running a “Comprehensive Cancer Center” as designated by the National Cancer Institute that includes proton beam therapy.
Mayo Clinic is Minnesota’s largest private employer with a network of hospitals and clinics that spans five states. At a price of more than $300 million overall, the clinic opened new centers for proton beam therapy in Rochester in 2015 and Phoenix in 2016.
The technology is designed to provide precise treatment of certain cancers while delivering low doses of radiation to healthy tissue.
Advocates for proton beam radiation have decried decisions by health insurers to deny coverage in some cases for the costly treatment. Some patients have filed lawsuits as a result.
The judge assigned to one such case recused himself earlier this year in a written order where he called it “immoral and barbaric” for an insurance company to deny a patient the treatment if it is available.
But researchers published a study last year saying some advertisements for proton beam centers have promoted the treatment as an option in some cases that aren’t endorsed by professional guidelines.
The researchers wrote of an “urgent need for comparative effectiveness [proton beam therapy] research in order to develop updated and high-quality evidence-based recommendations that can be used to inform its judicious use and to generate appropriate informational materials for patients.”
Mayo officials have said they set prices for proton beam treatments at rates comparable to standard radiation, so there’s not a financial incentive for doctors to use the high-tech care.
Last year, Mayo Clinic and Eagan-based Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota announced a new contract that expanded access to the therapy.
“Proton radiation represents a major technological advancement in the treatment of cancer, allowing for radiation therapy used to be carefully and exactly directed in a manner superior to traditional radiotherapy,” Mayo said in a statement. The clinic is involved in active research studies involving use of proton beam therapy.
Christopher Snowbeck covers health insurers, including Minnetonka-based UnitedHealth Group, and the business of running hospitals and clinics.
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August 25, 2018 Siddharth Naik News, Smartphone 0
OPPO officially launched the OPPO F9 and F9 Pro smartphone in the Indian market last week. Both the smartphone was powered by Helio P60 chipset and the main highlight of the device was the Waterdrop screen with a V-shaped notch. Just after a week of the launch, Vivo has confirmed to launch the Vivo V11 Pro in India on September 6th 2018. The images confirm the V11 Pro to come with the V-shaped notch display, but company calls it as halo display. The full specification of the device is already leaked online.
The Vivo V11 Pro also comes with the in-display fingerprint sensor like the Vivo X21 which was the first device with this technology to launch in India. The upcoming Vivo V11 Pro will also come with the same set of sensors. Also, the rear camera on the smartphone feature 12MP and 5MP sensors. While the front of the smartphone comes with a 25MP sensor which will give out good pictures. The Vivo V11 Pro comes with a gradient finish back body with curved edges.
Vivo V11 Pro Specification
The V11 Pro is powered by Qualcomm Snapdragon 660 processor with Kryo 260 CPU and Adreno 512 GPU. The device packs 6GB RAM and 128GB of internal storage which can be expandable up to 256GB using microSD card. It runs on Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box with FunTouch UI on top. Along with the in-display fingerprint sensor, the Vivo V11 Pro also supports face unlock feature. The display on the smartphone sports a 6.41-inch Super AMOLED Halo display with Full HD+ resolution and aspect ratio of 19.5:9.
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The smartphone is backed by a 3,400mAh battery which supports fast charging. These details could be very little information. We will have to wait for the official announcement which is happening on September 6th. Stay tuned on Techipundit for more details about the upcoming smartphone from Vivo.
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In-Display Fingerprint Technology with an AI-powered camera and Dual Pixel technology Vivo V11 Pro will be available for pre-order across online and offline channels from 6th September Vivo unveiled the V11 Pro smartphone in India yesterday at a launch event in Mumbai. The smartphone comes with In-Display Fingerprint Technology, Halo […]
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Home Obituaries KATHARINE V. GREENLAW KATHARINE V. GREENLAW
KATHARINE V. GREENLAW
Friday, January 19, 2018 - 6:18pm
Baileyville – Katharine Vashti Greenlaw, 84, passed away at her home on January 13, 2018 surrounded by the love of her family. Katharine was born in Princeton to Dexter and Olive (Robb) Edgerly on November 21, 1933. She graduated from Princeton High School, class of 1953 and married Arnold Kidder with whom she raised their three children.
Having a strong work ethic and desire to provide for her family led Kay to work several jobs, including Wareknitters until becoming a nurse’s aide and working many years at Calais Hospital. In 1978 she rekindled her love with her high school sweetheart, James Greenlaw and on December 6, 1980 they were united in marriage. Kay was a member of The Rebekahs, The American Legion Auxiliary, W. T. Wren Post 23, and the People’s United Methodist Church in Baileyville. She enjoyed reading, knitting and traveling and loved most of all, spending time with her children and grandchildren.
In addition to her parents, she was predeceased by her parents-in-law, Keith and Irene Greenlaw; brothers, Earl, Franklin and Edward and her son-in-law, David “Bert” Lawless.
Kay will be remembered by her husband of over 37 years, James Greenlaw; children, Calvin Kidder of Rockland, Eric Kidder and his wife, Kandee of Machias and Lynn Lawless of Baileyville; stepchildren, Pamela Faas and her husband, Randy of FL, James Greenlaw, Jr. and his wife Laurie of OH, Cheryl Kircher and her husband Larry of VA, Anthony Greenlaw and his wife Amy of Cushing, Katherine Foster of Bangor and Russell Greenlaw and his wife Kimberly of AL; grandchildren, Erica, Amanda and Dennis Kidder, Todd, Melissa and David Lawless, Michelle McVicar, Wendy and Jennifer Newman, Melissa Stampler, Matthew Greenlaw, Andrew, Heather and Christine Kircher, Julie and Robbie Foster, Katie Foster MacArthur, Jacob, Hannah and Jared Greenlaw and many great and great-great grandchildren.
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“19 states prohibit partial birth” or late term “abortions, 3 of those laws apply only to postviability abortions.”
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Scientists See Inside the Minds of Dreamers
In the movie “Inception,” the characters enter and manipulate other people’s dreams. Today’s real scientists can’t do that, but by using brain imaging technology, they are getting closer to being able to tell whether a person is doing math calculations, talking, reading, or is frightened in their dreams.
“This imaging technology will continue to get more precise, but I doubt it will ever be as exact as to content as, say, the depiction in ‘Inception,'” said Deirdre Barrett, a psychologist at Harvard University.
But scientists are able to see what parts of the brain are activated during various sleep cycles by using electroencephalography (EEG), electrocardiography (EKG) and rapid eye movement technology (REMT) to record and analyze a sleeping person’s brain waves, and in some cases, they can interpret what someone is dreaming about.
A peek into your dreams
In one experiment, for example, researchers wired up a sleeper and connected him to a robot that was programmed to act out the motions of the dreamer. For example, the robot used data about the dreamer’s eye position to know in which direction to look.
Brain waves can be studied and translated into actions – for example, brain imaging technology can tell whether a person is having a nightmare or dreaming about flying, Barrett said.
The mind uses sleep as a time to reboot itself and problem-solve, said Barrett, who discussed her theory at the Association for Psychological Science Convention in May. In one experiment, Barrett had college students focus on a homework problem each night before they went to bed. At the end of a week, about half the students said they had dreamt about the problem and about a quarter had a dream that contained the answer.
In the same way that a person’s brain works to solve problems when they are awake, the mind also works at resolving issues when a person is dreaming, according to Barrett. Scientists have already discovered the benefits of getting a good night’s sleep – from weight-loss to improved heart health – but the psychological benefits of dreams and their meanings remain elusive.
Most dreams occur in the rapid eye movement (REM) stage of the sleep cycle, during which parts of the brain rest and brain chemicals, such as neurotransmitters, are replenished, according to the National Center on Sleep Disorders Research (NCSDR). However, dreams do occur in other stages of sleep occasionally, especially in people with severe Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and other problems which deregulate sleep, according to Barrett.
“Bizarre dreams may be equally important and more metaphorical,” Barrett said. “Many dreams make more sense and are more helpful if we think about what some of their content might be symbolizing.”
Necessary nightmares
So if dreams are designed by nature to be a way for the mind to creatively problem-solve real-life concerns, then what’s the purpose of nightmares?
“Nightmares probably evolved to help make us anxious about potential dangers,” Barrett said. “Even post-traumatic nightmares, which just re-traumatize us, may have been useful in ancestral times, when a wild animal that had attacked you, or a rival tribe that had invaded might well be likely to come back.”
But this evolutionary alarm bell may not be so useful in today’s world.
“With the modern dangers of house fires, car crashes, rapes and muggings unlikely to repeat soon for the same victims, this adaptive mechanism doesn’t always serve us well,” Barrett notes. “However, some nightmares may be calling to your attention something you might do well to worry about—or something that, once you are more conscious of the concern, you can convince your unconscious to stop wasting time on.”
Although Barrett’s research shows that many dreams have hidden meanings and messages meant to assist the dreamer in their life outside of dreamland, sometimes strange dreams don’t hold any significant meaning.
“Just as with waking thoughts, I certainly think some dreams are minor, silly, repetitive—just like much of our waking thinking is pretty trivial stuff too.”
source : http://www.lifeslittlemysteries.com/like-inception-scientist-see-inside-the-minds-of-dreamers-0948/
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Preacher, Volume 9: Alamo
Garth Ennis Steve Dillon
April 11, 2019 April 11, 2019 Garth Ennis Steve Dillon
Preacher Volume Alamo The final chapter in the Preacher storyline is the conclusion of Jesse Custer s quest to literally find God and take Him to task for the world s injustices As the Preacher s crusade draws to an end a
Title: Preacher, Volume 9: Alamo
Author: Garth Ennis Steve Dillon
The final chapter in the Preacher storyline is the conclusion of Jesse Custer s quest to literally find God and take Him to task for the world s injustices As the Preacher s crusade draws to an end, all of the players converge at the Alamo for a final showdown With the love of his life, Tulip, by his side, Jesse makes his last stand against all of his enemies, includingThe final chapter in the Preacher storyline is the conclusion of Jesse Custer s quest to literally find God and take Him to task for the world s injustices As the Preacher s crusade draws to an end, all of the players converge at the Alamo for a final showdown With the love of his life, Tulip, by his side, Jesse makes his last stand against all of his enemies, including the Irish vampire known as Cassidy, whom he used to call friend But as the dust settles in the Texas desert, no one can believe how this epic battle of good versus evil will end.
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So that was it, huh? I have to say it was underwhelming. Not bad, but kind of anticlimactic and tidy and predictable. Overall, this is a solid series, I'm glad I finished it, and I would still recommend. Now, what bugged me about this final volume:- WTH happened to Cassidy's character? Disappointing.- The whole Genesis thing wasn't developed well and ended up being disappointing.- The resolution with God was disappointing.- The resolution with Herr Starr was disappointing. - Tulip. Yes, she can [...]
Damn near perfect. All the threads come together, snarl, and then make something gloriously beautiful even though it looks the the end of a horrible, horrible mess. And you know what? I actually kinda expected the dog to actually be god. But No. Spoiler time: the dog is just a dog. :)All through this comic, I knew it was always about these three, or five if you include the redoubtable Starr and the merciful Saint, but how it all came back to the first three, the story's core, is just so goddamne [...]
Where else would Jesse Custer’s quest end but at the Alamo?As for the how it happens, I think the book says it best:“Isn’t it funny when you think your story’s going one way, and it turns out it was going another way all along?”
First and foremost, Preacher did not end as I expected it to be. It has less violence and blood than the previous concluding arcs. The final setpiece is rather subdued and "quiet", save for a couple of explosions and gunshots. Though it is not the end I have expected, Garth Ennis has ended it in the best way Preacher could have possibly ended. And surprisingly, the ending has a heart and full of hope. Thus in a few words, I try to summarize what I felt about the ending, and please pardon my lang [...]
Until a few months ago, I had never heard of this series or its author (I know, is unforgivable). I read the first for curiosity and then, I am going forward, devouring one book after another, following the adventures of Tulip, Jesse, Cassidy and all other major and minor characters who appear in these books.Ennis is in no hurry to conclude, carries the various stories, unfolds them with precision and concludes some (such as Arseface and Lorie). The result is a stunning final, with a double conf [...]
God damn, for some reason I've been wanting to read this book for YEARS, but never got around to it until now. Preacher was one of the gateway comics - got me back into comics after 12 years away from that rather expensive and addicting habit. I couldn't believe after so long away, just how *adult* and hilariously vile and updated my love had become. And Mr. Ennis (and Ellis, in that most ridiculous and hilarious Transmetropolitan) were such masters of the profane, how could I possibly refuse th [...]
After reading the previous eight volumes, I was committed to this series in a big way. So for Alamo to have an ending worthy of the series' overall quality was, in a word, a relief. There is little I can say without spoiling the ending, except that every major character has their moment in the sun, and a satisfying resolution to their story.
You'd think a storyline about holding God "accountable for his crimes" that has stretched out over five years would come to a slightly more epic conclusion. Yes, I understand that killing God could be considered a somewhat epic undertaking, but it was delivered with all the style and panache of a wet newspaper. Just a tad anticlimactic.
The Preacher series are the most brilliant comics ever written. If fact, it's some of the best fiction ever written, irrespective of the format. All nine books are masterpieces. It is a little hard to review this book for the common reader. All I can really say is if you haven't read the rest of this series than you should not be starting with this one. Go back and get Gone To Texas first. Then read through the rest of it and come back for Alamo. For those of you who have read the whole series s [...]
Following Jesse Custer through nine volumes of Preacher has been an exercise in hilarity and despair. And a hell of a lotta gore. It had its ups and downs in terms of pacing, but I can forgive the lackluster moments when I consider how captivating Garth Ennis’ characters are. From the first volume, I was hooked. Jesse’s determination, Tulip’s loyalty, Cassidy’s devil-may-care attitude, Starr‘s fanaticism, the Saint‘s focused hatred--it’s the personalities involved that make Preache [...]
Unfortunately, the last book in this series turned out to be a major disappointment. This review will talk briefly about this last book, but also the series as a whole.Let's start with the main character, Jesse Custer. I loved that he stood for doing the right thing no matter what, that he wasn't afraid to call anyone (even God) out on their bullshit. However, for someone who is so bent on holding God accountable for bad things, for justice, and for doing right, he kills a lot of people. A lot o [...]
The question above the screen where you put in your review says: "What did you think?" Well, what can I say? It's the last volume in this great otherworldly, in every sense of the word, story.I have a couple of moments in this volume that stand out for me: Agent Hoover finally gets himself to curse, Jesse and Cassidy get into one last barfight, Jesse remembering his father's wise advice when he says goodbye to the Duke.The second half of the story is just You know the story is coming to an end a [...]
So, I've read the whole "Preacher" series over the last few months.The Pros:-Steve Dillon's artwork, especially the facial expressions he draws. He is able to convey far more emotion than virtually any superhero-style comic artist, and his character actually look like humans. He doesn't really do anything interesting with form--he's not an experimental comic artist--but he does what he does very well.-The relationships between the characters, and especially how they change over time.-The anti-re [...]
I was going to review the whole series in this final volume of Preacher, but in the end this is a story that can resonate with different people in different ways. The praise for the writing is just deserved, but I would like to pay tribute to the artwork of Steve Dillon. His death last October, leaves a big hole in the comics world, and this series wouldn't have been nearly as memorable without the sublime simplicity of his art. RIP Steve.
Any fan of comics knows about Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon’s “Preacher,” and I think it is fair to say that at least 50% of the comic community has read it. To be honest that percentage may be a little bit on the conservative side and this is a good thing, “Preacher” is a book that more people should read. Unfortunately, I have found that that main thing that people have taken away from the book is the spectacle, but not the meaning behind it. Sometimes I think that it is possible that [...]
The grand finale. Jesse and Cassidy face off in front of the Alamo while Starr runs his endgame.I still have a few complaints. The Grail just isn't the all-powerful organization it's supposed to be. Preacher continues to suffer from Cassidy's being rewritten as a useless backstabbing asshole. Tulip's interpretation of "I don't want you to fight the lethal shadow organization" as "you're a silly girl who can't take care of herself" is a blatant strawman and Jesse should be calling her on it. And [...]
I am glad I am done with this. I read it because I am working on the pilot, and wanted to be familiar with the characters and story. My final reaction is, "Meh." I found it expository (Jesse always talking out loud to himself being the classic irritating voiceover, or Cassidy spilling his beans to someone in a bar). And, while the general outline of the story is an interesting idea - God leaves heaven, Jesse Custer (J.C.) is inhabited by a superpower baby (who is the incarnation of good and evil [...]
Excelente. Superó con creces los dos volúmenes anteriores. Debo reconocer que esperaba un enfrentamiento entre Jesse y Dios, pero me satisface la manera en que se desarrolló todo. La premisa del cómic me gustó mucho desde el principio, pero sí creo que Ennis se desvía en algunos momentos y terminas por olvidar el propósito inicial del protagonista. A nivel gráfico, me encantó. El manejo del espacio y del color me engancharon desde el comienzo y en todos los volúmenes.Una historia poco [...]
Los finales de los personajes secundarios son cojonudos, pero el de los tres principales y el de la trama principal Psé. Pese a sus altibajos durante los 9 volúmenes, es una gran historia desde el principio. Muy muy recomendable.
Bye, God.
EPIIIIIIIIIICCC!!! FREAKING epic!!!! I am not even sad it's ended . I am beyond fulfilled ( to a point I guess) . oh Garth Ennis your big beautiful brain .
Is the conclusion everything I wanted it to be? No. Is it still fucking incredible? yes.
Ties up all loose ends but man, the fun was missing in this one.
This series is done, and for the right reader it's incredible! Who is the right reader? Well, you have to be the type who doesn't flinch at virtually unfiltered visually drawn violence, sex, profanity and sadism. This is a fight between flawed good and sympathetic evil, muddy at times but with a clear dividing line, but it is far from sanitized. Stay away if you desire a "clean read", or if you're sensitive to the aforementioned comment because it is NOT subtle. Related to this, you need to be t [...]
04 January 2013Rating:* * 1/2Sigh. Preacher, Vol. 9: Alamo is a disappointing, anti-climatic end to the series. The Saint of Killers couldn't even save the show and that's saying a lot. I equate this journey with Preacher to having a major case of blue balls. It got me excited at times, but never quite got me there.While I enjoyed the extremes to which this series dared to go, I don't think I would ever read this again. It wasn't consistently interesting enough for me to commit the time to it ag [...]
A strong end to a great series. After several collections in which the plot slowed down considerably, in the name of character development, the series concludes in grand fashion.The first few issues involve the major players' final manuevers before the final confrontation. Jesse reconnects with Tulip, and then tracks down the Saint of Killers to strike a deal. Jesse then settles things with Cassidy, the weak-willed former friend whom he now finds irredeemably despicable. Gradually closing in is [...]
Que puedo decir, un buen comic, una buena historia, los comics son mas que marvel y dc, y este saca la cara por los demas.Puedes contar la misma historia mil veces pero si la cuentas de forma distintas, seras escuchado la mil veces. y en ese aspecto PREcher no cuenta nada nuevo, osea nuevo en su conjunto, pero separadas son todas historias de otras partes, pero lo supieron contar y eso es lo que mas importa, temas muy maduros visto de otro puntos de vista, podria analizarlos tema por tema pero n [...]
This seriesIt's hard to sum it all up given that it spans nine volumes, but I suppose I should first start with a warning that anything, and I mean ANYTHING written by Garth Ennis is not for the feint of heart. I first was introduced to him by a happy accident of running across his Punisher Max series and fell in love from there. Ennis has a way of making stories as visceral and stomach churning as he does emotional and, at their core, wholly human. It is a detriment to society that there are no [...]
শুয়ে শুয়ে, বসে বসে, চা খেতে খেতে, হেঁটে হেঁটে, রাতের ঘুম শিকেয় তুলে, টিউশনির ফাঁকে ফাঁকে পড়ে শেষ করে ফেললাম বিখ্যাত কমিক সিরিজ 'প্রিচার'। প্রথমেই এটি পড়ার স্বাদ জেগেছিল এএমসি এর একই নামের টিভি স [...]
I'll be honest, after reading volume 8 I was ready to be let down. The first half of this volume was ok, not great, but the second half made up for it. It was really good. It is not a happy ending for the majority of people. All the final confrontations come to a head, fittingly at the Alamo. The grail is still this ramshackle outfit that supposedly rules the world. Granted, they lost the majority of their people and they are now ruled by a vengeful imbecile (sort of) but you'd think these elite [...]
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The goal: spend the night at Prewitt Ridge in Big Sur. The challenge: getting there before dark. We got off to a late start, pushing off from San Jose at around 4PM on a Friday and made a beeline for the southern side of Big Sur where the Nacimiento-Fergusson Road begins a steep ascent off the PCH.
A secret spot right off the One. Wait? You've seen it before? McWay Waterfall at Julia Pfeiffer Burns State Park.
Nacimiento-Fergusson Road twists and turns above the Pacific and quickly you find yourself high above the fog. Once you're up here, the air is bone dry with all the moisture stuck down below.
It was dark by the time we reached Prewitt Ridge and, as luck would have it, the camp was full. Tired and hungry, we were content to set up camp on a dirt turn-off.
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Cone Peak, the second highest peak in the Santa Lucia Range
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Posted on Jan 10th, 2000
Antonio Resendiz S. Hidalgo,, Beatris J. Resendiz, Jeffrey A. Seminoff, and Wallace J. Nichols. 2000. Research and management of loggerhead sea turtles, Caretta caretta, at the CRIP sea turtle research station, Bahia de los Angeles, Baja California, Mexico. In: Abreu-Grobois, F.A., R. Briseno-Duenas, R. Marquez, and L. Sarti, compilers. Proceedings of the Eighteenth International Sea Turtle Symposium. U.S. Dep. Commer. NOAA Tech. Memo. NMFS-SEFSC-436, 293 pp.
The origin of loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) along the coast of Baja California has until recently been a mystery. Various authors have cited the abundance of subadult and adult individuals in this area (Shaw, 1947, Marquez,1969, Ramirez Cruz et al., 1991, Bartlett, 1989), but no nesting areas along the eastern Pacific are known.
Sternberg (1981) speculated that C. caretta nested in Panama and Cornelius (1982) in Nicaragua, but these re- ports are unsubstantiated. Bartlett (1989) was the first to sug- gest that these animals originate in the western Pacific (Aus- tralia).
In 1993 a group of geneticists from the United States and Mexico investigated the genetic affinities between indi- viduals captured as bycatch in the Pacific high-seas fishery and individuals along the Baja California peninsula (Bowen et al.,1995). They demonstrated that loggerheads found in the eastern Pacific had affinities with nesting populations in Japan (95%) and Australia (5%). Following this, two adult loggerhead sea turtles raised in the CRIP-Sea Turtle Research Station (STRS) and included in the Bowen et al., survey were released along the Pacific coast of the Baja Peninsula in the summer of 1994. One of these two adults was later captured along the southeastern coast of Japan near Kyushu (Resendiz et al., 1998). In the summer of 1996 an additional adult fe- male raised at the CRIP-STRS was released with a satellite tag along the Pacific Coast of the Baja Peninsula. The trans-Pacific migration of this turtle, "Adelita", has been followed by thousands of people over the Internet (Nichols, et al., 1997) and she has recently completed the journey (Nichols et al., in prep).
CRIP SEA TURTLE RESEARCH STATION
The CRIP Sea Turtle Research Station in Bahia de Los Angeles, Baja California, Mexico was founded in 1979. Dur- ing times of a legal sea turtle fishery in Bahia de Los Ange- les, the monitoring of this fishery was carried out by the lo- cal Canal de Las Ballenas fishing cooperative. Originally, all harvested turtles were inventoried at the Coronado Island lagoon north of town. In 1980 monitoring efforts were up- graded and a holding facility (later to become CRIP STRS) was constructed on the northern edge of Bahia de Los Ange- les. The first studies of captive sea turtles at this facility occurred in 1981 when several juvenile loggerheads and black sea turtles were donated from the Canal de Las Ballenas fish- ing cooperative. The original goal was to house and reha- bilitate turtles injured in fishing nets and keep undersized animals (< 75 cm) for studies and eventual release. In 1982, economic hardship in Mexico and declining sea turtle popu- lations brought about the collapse of the fishing cooperative in Bahia de Los Angeles and marked the independence of the CRIP Sea Turtle Research Station.
Loggerhead sea turtles (Caretta caretta) captured in the central province of the Gulf of California near Bahia de los Angeles, Baja California, Mexico (28 58 N,113 33 W) were held in outdoor circular concrete tanks (5 x I.5 m). Turtles were fed a variable diet consisting of fish, shark, and ray in addition to seasonally available items such as the Cali- fornia sea hare (Aplysia californica), giant squid (Dosidicus gigas), mussels (Modiolus capax), blue swimming crabs (Gallinectes arcuatus), princely fiddler crabs (Uca princeps) and pelagic red crabs (Pleuroncodes planipes). Weight and straight carapace length were taken every month. Cleaning occurred every day. Tanks were shaded with plastic mesh. Turtles were identified with plastic tags placed on the front flippers. All loggerheads were released offshore from Santa Rosaliita, Baja California, Mexico (28o40' N, 114o12' W).
Loggerhead #1 ID# 309 and 39;
Origin: Donated from local Fish Coop. "Canal de Ballenas" BLA;
In Captivity: 1981-1994;
Released: July 19, 1994;
Growth: From 42.0 cm / 12.7 kg. to 79.8 cm /80.8 kg. (Female);
Comments: This loggerhead had the longest stay (13 yrs) at the STRS and was released with "Rosita" in 1994 (see Resendiz et al., 1998).
Loggerhead #2 ID# 27 and 310;
Origin: Donated from a sport fisherman;
Growth: From 32.9 cm / 6 kg. to 85.6 cm / 97 kg. (Female); Comments: 478 days after her release from Baja California waters, this turtle ("Rosita") was caught by a fisher- man off-shore from Kyushu, Japan (Resendiz et al.,1998).
Loggerhead #3 ID# 38;
Origin: Donated by Canal de Las Ballenas Fish Coop.,BLA; In Captivity: 1981-1991;
Released: Oct. 18,1991;
Growth: From: 46.7 cm. / 11.4 kg to 74.6 cm. / 69.9 kg.(Male);
Comments: Released with Loggerhead #4 (Resendiz et al.,1992).
Origin: Donated by Canal de Las Ballenas Fish Coop., BLA; In Captivity: 1981-1991; Released: Oct. 18,1991; Growth: From 36. 2 cm / 7.2 kg to 77.9 cm / 78.0 kg. (Female);
Origin: Donated by Canal de Las Ballenas Fish Coop., BLA; In Captivity: 1982-1993;
Released: Donated to Museo*;
Growth: From 40.0 cm / 10.4 kg. to 65.4 cm / 48.12 kg.
(Female);
Comments: This individual was donated to the Museo de La Tortuga, Mazunte, Oaxaca, Mexico for Pacific loggerhead exhibit (Nov. 1993).
Loggerhead #6 ID# 302;
Origin: Donated by local fishermen;
In Cap-tivity: 1986-1996;
Released: Aug. 10,1996;
Growth: From 29.9 cm / 4 kg. to 83 cm / 95.3 kg. (Female); Comments: This turtle ("Adelita") was released with a
Telonics ST-3 satellite transmitter supplied by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service. It has recently completed an east-west transpacific migration that was followed by many via the Internet (Nichols et al., 1997).
Each of these six turtles was used in the initial genetic analysis of the Pacific loggerhead assemblage (Bowen et al., 1995) and have been confirmed to have haplotypes consistent with those found on Japanese nesting beaches.
The migratory and genetic research that has been fa- cilitated by this station has been important to our understand- ing of Pacific loggerhead ecology. The genetic analyses (Bowen et al., 1995), the flipper tag recovery (Resendiz et al., 1998), and the migratory route as demonstrated through satellite tagging efforts (Nichols, this symposium) all sup- port the transpacific migratory nature of this endangered spe- cies. Movements that encompasses the entire North Pacific emphasize the importance of increasing the geographical scale of investigations and modifying our approach to sea turtle conservation to incorporate such vast migrations.
We suggest that efforts must continue to perform simi- lar flipper-tagging and satellite tracking efforts with wild- caught individuals so that our findings may be supported. Regardless, the research efforts carried out at the CRIP-STRS illustrate the importance of an interdisciplinary approach to sea migratory studies and the benefit of cooperative multi- national investigations of sea turtle biology.
We would like to thank the local community of Bahia de los Angeles (Ejido) and the hundreds of volunteers and fishermen who have been involved with this project. In ad- dition, Dr. Grant Bartlett, One World WorkForce, Coastal Conservation Foundation were critical to the success of these projects. We would especially like to thank CRIP-PESCA, the Bartlett Lab, Foundation For Field Research, Sea Turtle Center, and University of Arizona for their generous finan- cial assistance.
Bartlett, G. 1989. Juvenile Caretta off Pacific coast of Baja California. Noticia Caguamas 2:2-10.
Bowen, B.W., F.A. Abreu-Grobois, G.H. Balazs, N. Kamezaki, C.J. Limpus and R.J. Ferl. 1995. Trans- Pacific migrations of the Loggerhead sea turtle demonstrated withmitochondrial DNA markers. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. Vol. 92, pp. 3731-3734.
Cornelius, S.E. 1982. Status of sea turtles along the Pacific coast of Middle America. Pages 211-219 in K. Bjorndal (Ed). Biology and conservation of sea turtles.Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.
International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources. 1995. By UCN/SSC Marine Turtle Specialist Group.
Marquez, M.R. 1969. Additional records of the Pacific Loggerhead turtle, Caretta caretta gigas, from the North Mexican Pacific Coast. J. Herp. 2:108-110.
Nichols, W.J., J.A. Seminoff, and L. Jimenez. (In Press.) Sea turtles, Science, and surfing: Riding the Internet from the classroom to the field. Proceedings of theSeventeenth Annual Sea Turtle Symposium. Sharon Epperly (Comp.).
Ramirez Cruz, J.C., I. Pena Ramirez and D. Villanueva Flores. 1991. Distribucion y abundancia de la tortuga perica Caretta caretta Linnaeus (1758) en la costa occidental de Baja California Sur, Mexico. Archelon 1:1-4.
Resendiz, A., B. Resendiz. 1992. Loggerhead turtles released after ten years in captivity. Marine Turtle Newsletter 57: 7-9.
Resendiz, A., B. Resendiz, W.J. Nichols, J.A. Seminoff, and N. Kamezaki. 1998. First confirmed east-west transPacific movement of a loggerhead sea turtle, Caretta caretta, released in Baja California, Mexico. Pacific Science, Vol. 52, no. 2: pp. 151-153.
Shaw, C.E. 1947. First record of the red brown loggerhead turtle from the eastern Pacific. Herpetologica 4:55-56. Sternberg, J. 1981. The worldwide distribution of sea turtle nesting beaches. Center for Environmental Education, Washington DC.
Uchida, S., and H. Teruya. 1988. Transpacific migration of a tagged loggerhead Caretta caretta. International Symposium on Sea Turtles, Hiwasa, Japan. Poster presentation.
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A Look Back at Where We've Been & a Reminder of Where We Are Going: 5 Years of Gratitude & Awe
Todd Wagner · Nov 07, 2004
Watermark was created to call all people to be fully devoted followers of Christ and to minister to the unchurched, de-churched, dead churched, and unmoved, and the body exists today for that same purpose. We celebrate what God has been doing during the last five years and challenge ourselves to excel still more. If we're not all in with Christ, then we're missing out on what God will do in and through us when our hearts are yielded to Him.
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Jesus, Our Ironman from the Manger
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More Than Enough: How It's Going and How We'll Know
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The Wrestling Match: Holding Out or Holding On
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Embracing Messy Christianity
How Can I Help? A God Who Knows How to Do It
How Are You Doing? A God that Means it When He Asks
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Debt: A Biblical Perspective
Homosexuality and Same-Sex Marriage: An Apology, an Answer & an Assignment
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Childrens DVDs: July New Releases
Katie 16 July, 2019 0 Comments
Hey kids! The next lot of school holidays are around the corner and Wellington City Libraries has some new DVDs to keep you amused during the wintery-est of days. So what are you waiting for? Go down to your local branch and borrow the following DVDs:
A Dog’s Way Home.
A female dog travels four hundred miles in search of her owner throughout a Colorado wilderness. It chronicles the heart-warming adventure of Bella, a dog who embarks on an epic 400-mile journey home after she is separated from her beloved human.
Dino King: Journey To Fire Mountain.
An action-packed family adventure that combines the realism of Walking With Dinosaurs with the heart of Finding Nemo. Speckles, a ferocious tarbosaurus and his young son junior, mourning the loss of their family in an epic battle, roam the lands in search of food, adventure and peace.
Due to be released in August 2019.
Boonie Bears: The Big Shrink.
One day Logger Vick receives a mysterious machine from an old friend. A shrink ray! While Vick is tussling with his old pals, The Boonie Bears Briar and Bramble, they are shrunk when the device malfunctions! The three now go on a wild chase through a magnificent world just underneath our feet to not only restore their size, but to restore family.
Barbie Dreamtopia, Vol 2.
Chelsea and big sister Barbie travel through the whimsical world of Chelsea’s vivid imagination. Whether they are repairing a supersonic sparkling lemonator or flying kites, Barbie and Chelsea’s journey in the Sparkle Princess is sure to captivate and engage!
Barbie: Welcome To The Dreamhouse!, Vol 2.
Barbie along with her friends and family embark on thrilling escapades including puppy fun, beach adventures and journeys of self discover. Join Barbie with Ken, Skipper and all of Barbies best friends for fun, laughter and friendship.
PAW patrol. Ultimate rescue.
Get ready for an Ultimate Ruff-Ruff Rescue! Gear up with Marshall and his team as they roll out in the Ultimate Fire Truck to cool off a fire-breathing robot. Then, join Skye, Chase, Rocky, and Zuma for more Ultimate Rescue missions.
Blaze And The Monster Machines: Robot Riders.
Blaze, AJ and their monster truck friends Zeg, Starla, Darington and stripes go on adventures and solve everyday problems while using math, science and physics. Crusher most of the time makes bad choices and is followed by his friend pickle.
Manou The Swift.
The little swift Manou grows up believing he’s a seagull. Learning to fly he finds out he never will be. Shocked, he runs away from home. He meets birds of his own species and finds out who he really is. When both seagulls and swifts face a dangerous threat, Manou becomes the hero of the day.
Tea Pets.
A group of tea pets-cute clay figurines that are good-luck charms for tea drinkers-embark on a magical animated adventure to find a fabled mystic.
Adventure time. The complete tenth season.
The end is finally upon us. Can Finn protect the banana guard? Can The Ice King cut it in the harsh world of door-to-door sales? Can Flame Princess defeat Son Of Rap bear? Will the Candy Kingdom descend into full scale war?? Find out in the epic tenth and final season of Adventure Time!
Find me in Paris. Face the music.
The story of Russian Princess and Ballerina Lena Gretsky, who suddenly finds herself transported to modern day from 1905. Having missed joining Henri, a time traveller from 1905 and Lena’s boyfriend, Lena has to come back to the school and face the music after embarrassing herself in the mid-year performance. Whilst Henri fights to burst the time bubble, the Bloc crew have problems of their own. Overcoming injuries, heart breaks, the Time Chasers all whilst learning new choreography won’t come easy.
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Disney Pixar Revolution at Wellington City Libraries!
Katie 28 June, 2019 0 Comments
The Pixar revolution has arrived at Wellington City Libraries and just in time for the wintery-est of school holidays. It is an exciting time with the release of Toy Story 4, produced by Pixar Animation Studios and released by Walt Disney Pictures,
Check out the teaser trailer reaction below! …. Even the toys can’t wait for the movie to be released!
So to celebrate the release of the forth instalment of the lovable classic where toys come to life, why not go down to your local library and check out some other DVDs released by the same companies, such as:
Brave.
Be brave and grab life by the horns with Merida, the feisty, Scottish princess and skilled archer who dreams of following her own path living her own life, even if it mean defying the traditions and expectations of her family and people. However when her pride gets in the way and a spell is cast upon her mother, Merida must use her wits and skills to “mend the bond caused by pride” and save the day “highlander” style.
Cars Trilogy.
Take a ride on the wild side with Lightening McQueen and the gang in Cars 1, 2 and 3, that chronicles the secret life of race car driving, from the race car’s point of view. This is a movies that boys will enjoy, especially boys into cars and formula one racing.
Finding Nemo.
Go back to where it all began where Marlin goes on an epic quest from the great barrier reef to Sydney in order to find and save his son, Nemo, while meeting and encountering new friends on the way such as surfer turtles that live to 150 years old, vegetarian sharks who have regular meetings and of course, Dory herself!, a good-hearted and optimistic regal blue tang with short-term memory loss.
Finding Dory reunites the friendly but forgetful blue tang fish, Dory, along with her friends, Marlin and Nemo on an epic quest to find Dory’s family. The questions that hangs on everyone’s lips are what does she remember? Who are her parents? And where did she learn to speak whale? Favourite moments in the film include Dory as a baby – Boy, she’s adorable!, Marlin and Nemo’s encounter with the seals, Still can’t get the ‘OFFOFFOFFOFF’ aka the seal talk out of my head, Dory making new friends with Hank, an octopus with seven tentacles and who, for a guy with three hearts is very bad tempered, Dory reuniting with her childhood friend, Destiny and the odd cameo of previous characters from Finding Nemo.
The Incredibles 1 and 2.
The secret life of superheroes comes to life with the Parrs aka The Incredibles, where you watch them balance secret identities, families and saving the day. Overall, both films are funny, action packed and will keep you entertained for hours on end.
Inside Out.
What happens when your emotions go into overdrive? They manifest in the form of Joy, Sadness, Fear, Anger and Disgust. This film is set in the mind of a young girl, Riley Andersen, where the five personified emotions try to lead her through life as her parents move the family to a new city. Some very funny moments in the film, especially when Anger loses his temper, Disgust’s sarcastic and cynical behaviour and finding what role Sadness plays in our lives (Spoiler: Very important role).
Also check out the amazing books, ranging from official movie/character guides, stories and comics adapted from the Pixar movies such as:
Disney Pixar storybook collection.
This audiobook features retellings of all seventeen Disney-Pixar feature films such as Toy Story, Finding Nemo and much more!
Disney Pixar Character Encyclopedia.
Dive into the wonderful world of Disney.Pixar with this colourful, fact-filled guide to your favourite Pixar characters. Find out more about the greatest and funniest heroes, villains, sidekicks and oddballs from across all 21 movies- including the newest characters from Toy Story 4. For ages 7- 9.
Cars 3 : the essential guide.
Describes the memorable and ever-popular characters, including race car Lightning McQueen, plus key locations, themes, and iconic moments from the movie.
Incredibles 2 : heroes at home.
“Trying to help… Violet and Dash are part of a Super family, and they try to help out at home in two adventures! Can they pick up groceries and secretly stop some bad guys? And can they clean up the house while Jack-Jack is ‘sleeping?’ Find out in these Super stories! Also included in this volume are a variety of activities, and a special feature on how comic books come to life!” — From publisher’s description.
Incredibles 2 : the official guide.
“Discover everything you wanted to know about brave superheroes, dastardly villains and cool vehicles from Incredibles 2, the awesome new sequel to Disney-Pixar’s smash hit movie, The Incredibles. When a new villain hatches a brilliant and dangerous plot, the Parr family and their old friend Frozone must find a way to work together again – which is easier said than done, even when they’re all Incredible. This book covers all the memorable and ever-popular characters, plus key locations, themes and iconic moments from the movie.” — Amazon.com.
Coco : the essential guide.
Explore the art of the Disney movie Coco! Despite his family’s baffling generations-old ban on music, Miguel dreams of becoming an accomplished musician like his idol, Ernesto de la Cruz. Desperate to prove his talent, Miguel finds himself in the stunning and colorful Land of the Dead following a mysterious chain of events. Along the way, he meets charming trickster Hector. Follow along with word-for-word narration as, together, they set off on an extraordinary journey to unlock the real story behind Miguel’s family history.
Toy Story: Woody‘s Augmented Reality Adventures.
Bring the world of Toy Story, one of the most beloved animated films of all time, off the pages of the book and into your room with Augmented Reality! Since it was first released, Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story has been a global phenomenon. For ages 6+
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Keep warm this winter with Disney movies.
Katie 8 June, 2019 0 Comments
Hey Kids! Winter is around the corner and there will be more days spending indoors. To curb the winter’s blues… and boredom, why not head on down to your local library and rent some Disney movies to keep you entertained. Featured in this post are recommendations on classic and some what recent Disney movies, with some movie trailers of latest Disney releases coming to theaters later this year!
Fr… Fr… Frrr…. Frozen
You can never go wrong with Frozen. Relive the magic and musical renditions of “Let it go” in this amazing classic about family, friendship and diversity.
Brace yourself, kids! The gang – Elsa, Anna, Olaf, Kristoff and Sven are back for a chilly instalment of Frozen 2. Judging from this trailer, looks like the sequel is going to be better than the first movie!
Olaf’s Christmas adventure
Olaf teams up with Sven on a merry mission. It’s the first holiday season since the gates re-opened and Anna and Elsa host a celebration for all of Arendelle. When the townspeople unexpectedly leave early to enjoy their individual holiday customs, the sisters realise they have no family traditions of their own. So, Olaf sets out to comb the kingdom to bring home the best traditions and save this first Christmas for his friends.
Also is Maleficent back to her evil ways? Find out by watching the official trailer to Maleficent 2: Mistress of Evil.
Chase away the winter blues with some Polynesian themed movies, such as Moana and Lilo and Stitch:
Moana , a spirited teenager, who like most Disney princesses has a lot on her plate. This involves sailing out on a daring mission to save her island, restore the heart of Te Fiti – the island goddess, fulfill her ancestors’ unfinished quest and save the world. During her journey, Moana meets the once-mighty demi-god Maui, and together, they traverse the open ocean on an action-packed voyage, encountering enormous fiery creatures against impossible odds.
Check out songs featured in the movie soundtrack such as How far I’ll go performed by Auli’i Cravalho and You’re welcome performed by Dwayne Johnson.
They certainly didn’t get that wrong in the wonderful world of Disney with regard to Stitch, a genetic experiment who has escaped from an alien planet and journeys to the lush and tropical Hawaiian Islands. There he is adopted by a lonely tittle girl named Lilo, who thinks he is an innocent puppy.
Check out Walt Disney movies trailers where Stitch gate crashes classic Disney movies such as Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Lion King and The Little Mermaid! Man oh man, are they funny! A repetitive line throughout the trailers are “Get your own movie!” Hmmm irony?
Also check out songs featured in the movie soundtrack: Hawaiian Roller Coaster ride performed by Mark Keali’i Ho’omalu and New Zealand’s own North Shore Children’s Choir and a cover of Elvis Presley’s hit song, Can’t help falling in love by A-teens.
Take a magic carpet ride into whole new worlds with Pocahontas and Aladdin
Pocahontas II, Journey to a new world
Escorted by dashing British gent John Rolfe, her oversized bodyguard Uti and stowaways Meeko, Percy and Flit, Pocahontas begins an important mission of peace. An eye-opening “new world” awaits her on the bustling streets of London – but so does a deadly new threat from Ratcliffe!
Soar away on a magic carpet ride of nonstop laughs and thrills in one of the most spectacular adventures of all time! Now meticulously restored and enhanced – experience the wonders of Aladdin like never before – In the heart of an enchanted city, a commoner named Aladdin and his mischievous monkey Abu battle to save the free-spirited Princess Jasmine from the schemes of the evil sorcerer Jafar. Aladdin’s whole life changes with one rub of a magic lamp as a fun-loving, shape shifting Genie appears and grants him three wishes, setting him on an incredible journey of discovery
Here is another trailer to the live action movie, Aladdin, which will be released in theater on May 23rd… not long to go.
Try Toy Story
Brace yourself for another Toy Story adventure with Toy Story 4! When a new toy called “Forky” joins Woody and the gang, a road trip alongside old and new friends reveals how big the world can be for a toy.
Check out the official trailer below!
In the meantime, why not watch the original movies back to back with Toy Story 1, 2, 3, and relive the magic of the Toy Story trilogy/soon to be quadrilogy. DVDs are available at various Wellington City Library branches.
These films are timeless classics that takes you on a journey into the world of the secret life of toys. Join Buzz, Woody, Jessie and lots of amazing toys that unexpectedly embark on adventures that challenge and change them. These films are full of excitement, adventure and will change the way you think of toys.
Get wild with The Jungle Book (Animated and Live Action)
An epic adventure about Mowgli, a man-cub who’s been raised by a family of wolves. Mowgli finds he is no longer welcome in the jungle when fearsome tiger Shere Khan, who bears the scars of Man, promises to eliminate what he sees as a threat. Urged to abandon the only home he’s ever known, Mowgli embarks on a captivating journey of self discovery, guided by panther turned stern mentor Bagheera, and the free spirited bear Baloo.
And, finally, we love Pete’s Dragon…
Pete’s dragon
For years, Mr. Meacham has told tales of the fierce dragon deep in the woods. To his daughter, Grace, these stories are little more than tall tales, until she meets Pete. Pete is a mysterious ten-year-old with no family who claims to live in the woods with a giant, green dragon named Elliot.
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Kids’ Club Review by Stephanie: Maddigan’s Quest
Maddigan’s fantasia by Margaret Mahy
I love the book so much that I have read it more than four times in a row. It is about a girl who loses her dad while being sent on a mission around the map. I like it because, it brings out my imagination. She is the daughter of the new leader (her mum) and a travelling circus participant. Her name is Garland. It is also a TV series on Lightbox.
Reviewed by Stephanie from Tawa and , 10 years old
Kids’ Club Review by Luna: The Lion who stole my arm
The Lion who stole my arm, Nicola Davies ; with illustrations by Annabel Wright
It is an exciting book about a lion who stole a boys arm. The boy is on an adventure on finding “his” lion. This story is held in Africa.
“One day… Pedru told the lion. One day soon I will come and get you.”
Reviewed by Luna from Newtown and , 11 years old
Childrens DVDs: New Releases.
Katie 9 May, 2019 0 Comments
Hey kids! The school holidays may be over, but Wellington City Libraries has some new DVDs to keep you amused in between school hours and at the weekend! So what are you waiting for? Go down to your local branch and borrow the following DVDs:
Spider-Man : into the Spider-Verse.
Miles Morales is the new Spider-Man but must also walk the balance between his personal high school & family life and his life as a superhero. While being Spider-Man, he becomes familiar with the Spider-Verse, where there are endless variations on Spider-Man. One of the Spider-Man variations living inside the Spider-Verse is Spider-Man, Peter B. Parker, who guides Miles in his journey as the new Spider-Man and introduces him to the multitude of other Spider-Men, including Spider-Man Noir and Spider-Ham. All of the various Spider-Men will have to band together when villains threaten the safety of the Spider-Verse and of the world itself.
Dragons. : race to the edge. Season three.
Hiccup and Toothless are back along with the favorite dragon riders in these two action-packed seasons. The high stakes continue as the riders advance in their hunt for Viggo, Ryker, and their expanded Dragon Hunter army. Tune in as the riders discover that Viggo has a Dragon Eye, a dragon fortress, and sinister plans which include putting a pricey bounty on Hiccup’s head.
How to train your dragon. The hidden world.
Now chief and ruler of Berk alongside Astrid, Hiccup has created a gloriously chaotic dragon utopia. When the sudden appearance of female Light Fury coincides with the darkest threat their village has ever faced, Hiccup and Toothless must leave the only home they’ve known, and journey to a hidden world thought only to exist in myth. As their true destines are revealed, dragon and rider will fight together-to the very ends of the Earth-to protect everything they’ve grown to treasure.
Also check out the trailer to How to train your dragon. The hidden world.
Sgt. Stubby.
The true story of a stray dog who joins his new master on the battlefields of the First World War. For his valorous actions, Sgt. Stubby is still recognized as the most decorated dog in American history.
The kid who would be king.
Arthur’s legendary weapon, Excalibur. Unfortunately for Alex, the sword also comes with an enemy — the sinister Morgana, who has plans to conquer Britain. Alex’s only chance is to assemble a new Round Table to fight Morgana and save the world.
Avengers Assemble:
Captain America.
It’s time to celebrate the best of the best, the Avengers Heroes that have saved the Earth from mortal danger (more times than we can count). Known as the Super Soldier, Captain America lives up to his name. From infiltrating the enemy in disguise to being the last one standing in a fight, Steve Rogers is the epitome of a hero.
Hulk.
It’s time to celebrate the best of the best, the Avengers Heroes that have saved the Earth from mortal danger (more times than we can count). Known as the Strongest Avenger, the Hulk undertakes missions deemed impossible for the other Avengers. But what is the Hulk without his gamma radiation? Can Bruce Banner be as useful to the team as his big, green, smashing partner?
Iron Man.
It’s time to celebrate the best of the best, the Avengers Heroes that have consistently save the Earth from mortal danger (more times than we can count). Clad in his high-tech exosuit and his wealth of knowledge Iron Man is as much of the heart of the Avengers as the Arc-reactor is to his own body.
Thor.
It’s time to celebrate the best of the best, the Avengers Heroes that have saved the Earth from mortal danger (more times than we can count). The Most Worthy of all of the Avengers, Thor encompasses the most honourable traits of a hero and a god. But balancing the responsibilites of the Asgard throne and that of an Avenger is no easy task.
Also check out the trailer to the latest movie in the Avengers series: Avengers Endgame, showing now in local theatres.
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Star Wars Day back at the library… and May the forth be with you 2019!
Attention all Jedis, Bounty Hunters and Rebels! Star Wars Day is happening again on May the Forth, which is observed and celebrated by fans of the Star Wars franchise. While you’re at it, why not relive and check out the latest non fiction, (as well as Fiction, Audio CDs and movies,) all related to anything and everything from the Star Wars universe!
Enjoy!… and may the forth be with you!
Star Wars : aliens, creatures & beasts.
This book is packed with information, illustrations and stories featuring all the amazing aliens, creatures and beasts from the Star Wars saga!
Star Wars : 5-minute stories strike back.
Blast off into hyperspace with … twelve action-packed retellings that span the entire Star Wars saga–including two tales from Star Wars: The Last Jedi! Each of these exciting stories can be read in just five minutes.
Star Wars : the complete visual dictionary.
This comprehensive visual dictionary is the perfect Star Wars book for getting to know the galaxy far, far away. Packed with more than 1,500 stunning images, it showcases major and minor characters including Princess Leia and Luke Skywalker, creatures, vehicles, weapons, props, and items of tech in unparalleled detail. The definitive companion to the Star Wars movies, Star Wars The Complete Visual Dictionary is a must-buy for the beginner and the die-hard Star Wars fan alike.
Star Wars maker lab.
Offers young Star Wars fans projects and experiments inspired by the Star Wars universe, including instructions on making Jabba slime, Kyber crystals, and an Ewok catapult.
Lego Star Wars ideas book.
Recreate: Relive your favourite Star Wars moments — Expand: enlarge the Star Wars galaxy! — Challenge: Compete for fun with friends and family — Use it! Build treasures to keep or gifts to give.
Star Wars encyclopedia of starfighters and other vehicles.
This Star Wars encyclopedia profiles over 200 space ships and other vehicles. Find out about deadly starfighters, vast battleships, speeders, bounty-hunter craft, and many more iconic vehicles.
Solo, a Star Wars story : the official guide.
A visual guide to the movie offers a behind-the-scenes look into the lives of Han Solo, his allies and enemies, along with information on the planets, vehicles, and aliens he encounters.
Also check out the teaser trailer to Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker, produced, co-written and directed by J. J. Abrams. It will be the third installment of the Star Wars sequel trilogy, following The Force Awakens (2015) and The Last Jedi (2017), and the ninth and final episode of the main Star Wars film franchise.
“The saga comes to an end”… on December 19th 2019, and from the looks of this trailer, they definitely saved the best for last.
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Children’s DVD Reviews and Recommendations.
Katie 26 April, 2019 0 Comments
The school holidays have begun! There will be days during the Easter break where the library will be closed. So if are looking for some entertainments, why not have a read of my latest reviews of new DVDs: Mary Poppins Returns and The Nutcracker and the four realms.
And some oldies but goodies, Maleficent, (which aired on TV 2 last weekend), and Despicable Me 3, (which aired on TV 3 last weekend).
But you better get your hands on these DVDs quick … before someone else does!
Despicable me. 3.
They saved the best for last! Gru, the reluctant antihero of the previous films has come a long way from being a supervillian. He is married to his Anti-Villain league partner, Lucy, an involved father to Margo, Edith and Agnes and is working for the good guys bringing in the bad of the bad. However things go pear-shaped when Gru is fired from the Anti-Villain League for failing to take down the latest bad guy, Balthazar Bratt, a character completely stuck in the 80s with his music and his dance moves and armed with expanding bubble gum as his weapon of choice. But when a mysterious stranger shows up to inform Gru that he has a long-lost twin brother-a brother who desperately wishes to follow in his twin’s despicable footsteps-one former super-villain will rediscover just how good it feels to be bad. Will Gru complete his path back to the dark side?, you have to watch the film to find out.
Overall, a hilarious film! The minions are funnier than before! Agnes’ obsession with unicorns intensifies where she embarks on a quest to find a long lost legendary unicorn… only to end up with a one horned goat, (spoiler) and the showdown or “dance fight” between Gru and Balthazar Bratt, is funny and cheesy.
I rate this movie: 7/10!
The Nutcracker and the four realms.
This it The Nutcracker as you have never seen it before!
Based on the original story and ballet of The Nutcracker, Clara finds her way into a mysterious parallel world. She teams up with a soldier named Philip aka The Nutcracker in search of a key to unlock a box from her late mother. However things take a turn when it is up to Clara to brave the Fourth Realm to find the key and return harmony to the unstable world. Throughout this film, things aren’t always what they seem. You will find yourself wondering what lies is the mystery box, at times second guessing who the true heroes and villains are throughout this film and whether Clara will find what she is truly looking for.
This film is very entertaining and a fresh retelling of the original story and ballet of The Nutcracker.
Maleficent.
This is Sleeping Beauty as you have never seen it! The bad fairy was once a good fairy.
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there lived a beautiful, pure-hearted young woman called Maleficent, who had anidyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land and she is betrayed by her childhood friend, King Stefan. Bent on revenge, Maleficent places a curse upon Stefan’s newborn infant Aurora. However things take a turn while acting as an unofficial fairy godmother, Maleficent becomes fond of Aurora.
Poor Maleficent experiences conflict, similar to iconic Star Wars villain, Darth Vader, whether being trapped in the dark side is permanent or whether there is still good in her… and she will save the day.
Overall a great (alternative) retelling of the classic fairy tale Sleeping Beauty.
I rate this movie: 7/10.
Have a look at the trailer to the upcoming sequel: Maleficent: Mistress of Evil, which is scheduled to be released late October 2019.
Mary Poppins Returns.
After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children: John, Annabel and George, (named after and is a polar opposite of George Banks), after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal. Although it’s now the 1930s, she looks exactly the same. Her message to Michael, Annabel, John, George and Ellen, the family’s housekeeper, about enjoying life and loved ones is also still the same, even during hard and uncertain times..
This film is Mary Poppins at its best! With a fresh cast, new songs and additional characters, Mary Poppins Returns is fresh story and promising sequel that also stays true to the original film.
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Kids’ Club Review by Yuntao: The traitor and the thief
The traitor and the thief, Gareth Ward
Really good book
Reviewed by Yuntao from Karori and , 10 years old
Kids’ Club Review by Keya: Artemis Fowl [electronic resource]
Artemis Fowl [electronic resource], Eoin Colfer
Artemis Fowl wants fairy gold. He wants to make the Fowl name better again, especially after the death of his father.
Now he’s succeeded in kidnapping Captain Holly Short, the only female LEPrecon officer. The ransom: one ton of 24 carat gold.
Julius Root, commander of LEPrecon, is furious, as he nearly always is. With the help of the sarcastic computer-genius centaur, Foaly, they devise a plan to get their captain back.
But will it work? Or will Artemis become rich once again?
Reviewed by Keya from Central City, 11 years old
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Work in Progress Mural Project at Utah State University
The Work in Progress is a collage-style mural that is a stunning visualization of the impact of women on our society. It is a community project and the brainchild of Jann Haworth. To date, over 120 Utah men and women have created stencil portraits of more than 150 women who are catalysts for change in the arts, sciences and social evolution. Their portraits were then made into a beautiful collage by artist Liberty Blake. The mural is over 40 feet long and growing. A reproduction of the mural will be on view in the lower level of Utah State University’s Merrill-Cazier Library January 16 – March 29, 2018. Some 30 USU faculty and students will contribute to this mural as they propose names of women from their fields for inclusion in new segments of the mural. This project is being organized for USU by the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art who is partnering with Merrill-Cazier Library on this Year of the Arts initiative.
2/28 at 7:00 am | Merrill-Cazier Library | More Info
The Built Environment Exhibit
In commemoration of Utah State University’s 130-year anniversary and the Year of the Arts, the Merrill-Cazier Library presents an exhibit celebrating USU’s Built Environment. The exhibition tells the story of USU’s development – from the first master plan in 1912, through both world wars, the Great Depression, and beyond. Additionally, Built Environment highlights student and community efforts to shape the campus. Drawing on documents in the library’s Special Collections and Archives, student intern Cody Patton prepared the narrative for the exhibit under the direction of University Archivist, Robert Parson.
Emmy Lingscheit & Guen Montgomery Printmaking Exhibit
Through her work, Emmy Lingscheit investigates the interdependencies and exchanges between the biological and the man-made, revealing a postnatural world in which the line between synthetic and organic beings, systems, and materials is increasingly blurry. Guen Montgomery is an artist and performer whose work investigates identity through studies of gender, regional narrative and family mythology.
2/28 at 9:00 am | Chase Fine Arts Center | More Info
Spring Career Fair
Celebration/Fair/Festival
Utah State University's Annual Spring Career Fair provides an opportunity to network with employers interested in hiring Utah State students and alumni. This event will allow you to meet with visiting representatives to discuss internship/career employment opportunities.
2/28 at 9:30 am | TSC, Evan N. Stevenson Ballroom | More Info
Buffalo Wild Wings Fundraiser Night
Join the Society of Women Engineers at Buffalo Wild Wings for a fundraising night. Grab an admissions ticket from the Engineering Building, and a portion of your bill will be donated back to SWE. The address is 43 E, 1400 N Logan.
2/28 at 11:00 am | More Info
Adaptive Perfectionism
Workshop/Training
Have you ever been told you’re a perfectionist? Does perfectionism interfere with your happiness? This workshop will help you learn how to develop the characteristics of healthy perfectionism.
2/28 at 12:30 pm | Taggart Student Center | More Info
Space Dynamic Laboratory/ USU Lecture Series
Join us for our ongoing Space Dynamics Laboratory Lecture Series
2/28 at 4:30 pm | Engineering Building | More Info
Once Upon a Mattress
After a curse is placed upon King Sextimus, evil Queen Aggravain takes control of the kingdom and creates a test that any princess must pass in order to wed her son. This hilarious, romantic musical puts a rollicking spin on the familiar classic of royal courtship. You’ll never look at fairy tales the same way again!
2/28 at 7:30 pm | Chase Fine Arts Center, Morgan Theatre | More Info
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XANDERSCORES.COM – Film and Media Music Online Composition
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End Credits Music for “Your Name”
2018-12-29 Alexander S.GuessTheRescore 2018
The end of the year is near and it’s fitting that I share with you the one track from my #GuessTheRescore challenge that I haven’t included in my advent calendar yet. I’m talking about the[…]
Guess-The-Rescore #24 – Searching and Epilogue
2018-12-24 2018-12-21 Alexander S.GuessTheRescore 2018
We’ve come to the end – the end of the film and the end of this advent calendar. Below you find the answer to the rescore riddle. I hope you had fun and enjoyed listening[…]
Guess-The-Rescore #23 – The Comet
We have arrived at the key moment of the story. The music accompanies the girl who’s tried so much to avoid the catastrophe, but ultimately seems to have failed. The music starts when she has[…]
Guess-The-Rescore #22 – The Time Has Come
Though it’s not the last one, this track actually scores the finale of the film. It’s dramatic and functions as a pulse in this long scene which covers many perspectives and characters. Some of them[…]
Guess-The-Rescore #21 – A Moment Together
A magical moment arises in today’s track: Our two people are temporarily able to meet on a particular place at a particular time. The music leads through three stages – uneasy, solemn and relief –[…]
Guess-The-Rescore #20 – Realization
It’s complicated – again. There’s a kind of flashback and finally some important realization about events that happened in the past. That’s also our hint of the day: The whole story is about some kind[…]
Guess-The-Rescore #19 – Worried, The Town Gone
Today’s track was not easy to compose. It’s got a lot of psychology in it as it’s about a girl who is worried about the future and expressing that notion to others. There’s some subtle,[…]
Guess-The-Rescore #18 – Mission Briefing
Awkward music awaits today as three kids prepare for a somewhat childish plan. Enjoy some Mission Impossible heist music clichés embedded in comic relief. How it works: Based on the music and on small hints that[…]
Guess-The-Rescore #17 – Connection
Today’s track is very special: Firstly, it scores a key scene in which one character experiences scenes from the life of another – past and future. Secondly because it’s the first music I ever wrote[…]
Don’t Forget My Name
The Day Of The Falcon
Stranger Things (alternate)
Soundtrack Alley Podcast Music
The Dark Guardian: A Murderer?
Able Danger
Incog
Araclia Role-playing Game Music
Faendalar
The Curse of the White Wolf
Polyeder Podcast Music
http://www.xanderscores.com/resources/BatMurderer17.mp3
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Aladdin Score and Music Analysis
Track by Track: Day of the Falcon – Main Titles
Your Name, My Name, Our Name… naming matters!!
Track by Track: The Dark Guardian 17 – End Credits Suite
Track by Track: The Dark Guardian 16 – Resolution
Easy Mixing Advice
Modus Operandi Series
GuessTheRescore 2018
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2009-10Regular SeasonRound 9
Partizan 97
Lietuvos Rytas 67
January 06, 2010 CET: 20:45
Local time: 20:45 PIONIR
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Partizan routed Lietuvos Rytas 97-67
Despite losing the Euroleague's top-rated player to injury early in the game, Partizan roared into the Top 16 four a fourth consecutive season by overwhelming direct rival Lietuvos Rytas 97-67 at home in Belgrade on Wednesday. Partizan improved to 5-4 in Group B and with the huge margin of victory assured itself the Top 16 thanks to a tiebreak advantage over L. Rytas, now 4-5, even if they finish in a three-way tie for third place with Efes Pilsen, which is 3-5. In the games between the three, all teams went 2-2 against the others, but Efes has the higher point differential (+17), Partizan the second-best (-1) and L. Rytas the last (-16). The magic points came Partizan's way with a rabid fourth-quarter defense that held L. Rytas to 2 points for 9 full minutes. That defense was led by 2.29-meter center Slavko Vranes, who replaced December MVP winner Aleks Maric due to the latter's knee injury 8 minutes into the game. Vranes finished with 13 points, 9 rebounds and 4 of Partizan's 9 blocks. He basically scared L. Rytas away from the rim in the final quarter, which Partizan won 25-6. Aleskandar Rasic led the winners with 26 points by nailing 6 of 8 three-pointers. Lawrence Robers added 16 points, 7 rebounds, 2 steals and 2 assists, while Dusan Kecman scored 12 and Bo McCalebb 10. For L. Rytas, Bojan Popovic scored 17 points while Martynas Gecevicius and Arturas Jomantas had 11 each, Donatas Zavackas and Milko Bjelica 10 each. Lietuvos Rytas must hope it wins one more game than Efes Pilsen or else it will not reach the Top 16.
Zavackas from downtown and Gecevicius from closer in got L. Rytas off to a good 2-5 start, but Partizan had its roaring crowd behind it and didn't stay down long. McCalebb had his way going to the basket before Roberts downed the home team's first triple for a 7-5 lead. Popovic answered from the arc to take a lead back for L. Rytas, but Partizan's aggressive defense soon changed the scoreboard again. McCalebb's third layup was followed by consecutive steals and dunks by Jan Vesely and Roberts, prompting an L. Rytas timeout at 13-8. The visitors then went inside to Bjelica for a three-point play, which Partizan answered by doing the same with Maric, for a pair of free throws at 15-11. Partizan's defense took over again while Roberts hit free throws, Vesely drilled a triple and McCalebb blasted to the rim. When a lob to Maric extended the run to 9-0, Partizan had a double-digit lead, 23-13. Only free throws fell for several minutes until Jomantas connected on a triple to end the first quarter with 26-18 on the scoreboard.
Partizan opened the second quarter in style, with Maric finding Vesely for a big slam. A triple by Zavackas got L. Rytas within 28-21, but his next try was Partizan's fifth blocked shot already, and it sent Rasic the other way for his own triple to make it 31-21. After free throws by Bjelica, Partizan got bad news as Maric left the floor with a knee injury. Kecman buouyed the fans with a triple, but Zavackas matched it for a 34-26 score. After Zavackas scored again at 34-28, more bad news for Partizan, as McCalebb committed his third foul, but Strahinja Milosevic calmed the hosts with a basket and soon Vranes added a layup at 38-30. Next, Roberts stole the show with a short jumper and a spinning dunk on the break to restore Partizan's double-digit lead, 42-31, and force an L. Rytas timeout. Jomantas answered for the guests with a deep, deep triple, Partizan went to Vranes for a basket. Kecman made it 46-34 before Popovic added a new triple and Gecevicius a free throw for L. Rytas. Free throws by Roberts left Partizan in full charge, 50-39, at halftime.
Just a single free throw fell during almost 3 mintues after the break until a Serbian duo on L. Rytas, Bjelica and Dejan Borovnjak, connected for a reverse layup. When Gecevicius then stole and hit a layup, the visitors were within 51-43. Roberts got to the line to make 2 free throws before Vesely found Rasic in the corner for a fastbreak triple at 56-43. The slow scoring pace was perfect now for Partizan, so that even when L. Rytas had a 1-6 run on 4 points by Jomantas, the hosts still led 57-49. When Rasic rattled in another triple, the lead was back to double digits, 60-49. Next, Popovic and McCalebb exchanged layups. L. Rytas was in a zone defense now, and got a three-point play from Baynes, but he then committed his fifth foul and Vranes took advantage by backing down Bjelica, who had 4 fouls, for a 66-55 lead. Popovic stuck a triple to lift the visitors' hopes. Petar Bozic matched it for Partizan, then after fouling Popovic, who hit 3 free throws, made up for his mistake with a buzzer-beating triple for a 72-61 scoreboard after 30 minutes.
The crowd, already out of their seats for most of the game, almost brought down the Pionir Arena roof when Vesely opened the fourth quarter with a huge fastbreak dunk. L. Rytas took a new timeout to find a way to score, but when the visitors tried the paint, Vranes was there with 2 blocks in a row. Gecevicius didn't get the first points of the quarter for L. Rytas until almost 4 minutes were gone, and then Vranes answered at the free throw line. When Rasic measured and hit his fifth three-pointer in 6 tries, it was 79-63 with 5 minutes and little doubt left about the outcome. Since Partizan had lost by 22 in the first game in Vilnius, the hosts now searched to eclipse that margin by one, since 23 points was the magic difference to assure a Top 16 tiebreak advantage. L. Rytas was stuck on 2 points in the quarter through 7 minutes as Rasic buried another triple at 86-63 to give Partizan the needed edge with under 2 mintues left. The onslaught continued, to the crowd's delight, until the very last second when, after a timeout, Kecman beat the buzzer with a triple off an inbounds pass for the final 30-point margin in a victory that assured more Euroleague games at Pionir Arena this season.
Euroleague.net
Referees: LAMONICA, LUIGI; CHAMBON, DAVID; ANASTOPOULOS, PANAGIOTIS
By Quarter
Partizan 26 24 22 25
Lietuvos Rytas 18 21 22 6
End of Quarter
Lietuvos Rytas 18 39 61 67
4 ROBERTS, LAWRENCE 32:58 16 4/5 1/4 5/6 7 7 3 3 2 1 3 6 26
6 MCCALEBB, BO 19:02 10 5/5 0/1 4 1 5 9
7 KECMAN, DUSAN 32:19 12 1/2 2/4 4/4 1 5 6 3 4 1 4 6 23
8 MILOSEVIC, STRAHINJA 8:34 2 1/3 1 1 1 1 3 1 1
10 RASIC, ALEKSANDAR 21:54 26 0/2 6/8 8/8 1 1 1 2 5 27
16 LESIC, SAVA DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
19 MITROVIC, ALEKSANDAR 2:42 1 1
20 BOZIC, PETAR 16:55 3 1/5 1 1 2 2 3 4 -3
21 MARIC, ALEKS 8:21 4 1/1 2/2 2 2 1 2 1 1 9
24 VESELY, JAN 18:45 7 3/4 0/1 1/2 1 1 2 2 1 3 2 5
31 DJEKIC, BRANISLAV 9:38 4 1/1 1/2 1 1 1 1 1 5
33 VRANES, SLAVKO 28:52 13 4/5 5/6 2 7 9 1 4 3 7 27
Totals 200:00 97 19/27 11/24 26/30 4 30 34 18 11 12 9 0 27 29 134
Head coach: VUJOSEVIC, DUSKO
Min: Minutes played; Pts: Points; 2FG M-A: 2-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); 3FG M-A: 3-point Field Goals (Made-Attempted); FT M-A: Free Throws (Made-Attempted); Rebounds: O (Offensive), D (Defensive), T (Total); As: Assists; St: Steals; To: Turnovers; Bl: Blocks (Fv: In Favor / Ag: Against); Fouls: Cm (Commited), Rv (Received); PIR: Performance Index Rating
Lietuvos Rytas
4 POPOVIC, BOJAN 27:19 17 2/5 3/6 4/5 1 1 4 2 2 1 3 6 17
5 BABRAUSKAS, STEPONAS 20:11 2 0/1 0/1 2/5 1 2 3 1 3 2 -2
9 GINEVICIUS, VIDAS 4:14
10 BOROVNJAK, DEJAN 15:33 2 1/1 1 2 3 2 3
11 BJELICA, MILKO 22:55 10 1/10 1/3 5/5 3 3 6 1 3 4 5 5 -1
13 GECEVICIUS, MARTYNAS 33:25 11 4/6 0/5 3/4 2 2 4 3 2 1 1 1 6 15
14 ZAVACKAS, DONATAS 27:36 10 1/3 2/5 2/2 1 1 2 1 2 1 3 2 4
15 BUTERLEVICIUS, SIMAS DNP - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
21 JOMANTAS, ARTURAS 35:21 11 1/3 2/3 3/4 1 2 3 1 4 1 5 4 5
22 SINICA, JUSTAS 1:47 0/1 1 -2
31 BAYNES, ARON 11:39 4 1/3 2/3 1 1 2 1 2 1 5 2 -2
Totals 200:00 67 11/32 8/24 21/28 11 17 28 8 7 17 0 9 29 27 38
34.4% 33.3% 75%
Head coach: KURTINAITIS, RIMAS
VUJOSEVIC, DUSKO
"We were witnesses to the phenomenal support we had from our fans. My players were simply fantastic. The key moment of the game was when our center, Aleks Maric, was injured and left the court. He is such an important player in our team, but the other players managed to fill the gap after he was sidelined. We did not calculate the wining margins before the game. We simply wanted to beat Lietuvos Rytas. The good news is that Maric is not seriously injured. At first it seemed that his ligaments were torn, but his knee injury is lighter. He will be sidelined for a week or two."
KURTINAITIS, RIMAS
"Partizan deserved this win. They were a much better team in all respects. We have no alibi for our bad performance. No alibi for us. We have to sit and see what our problems are and try to solve them. Once again congratulation to Partizan."
RASIC, ALEKSANDAR
"We were not chasing the score that led us to the Top 16. We were patient and concentrated. That helped us to achieve our goal, which was to win by over 23 points."
BOZIC, PETAR
"With this win we marked a successful end to the first part of the season. All that we planned before the game we did on the court. I am extremely happy because we reached the Top 16 one leg before the end of the first phase of the Euroleague competition. Thanks to our great fans for the enormous support.”
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Lou Henson, the former Illinois coach and college basketball Hall of Famer, was named an adviser for New Mexico State. Jonathan Daniel/Getty Images
Weir said in a news release that he saw the chance to tap Henson's 41 years of experience as a one-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
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Substance on slide burns 2 children in eastern Michigan
LAPEER, Mich. (AP) — Police say two children have suffered burns from an unknown substance left on a slide at a municipal park in eastern Michigan.
Lapeer Police say a 1½-year-old boy got the substance on his legs while going down the slide at Cramton Park in downtown Lapeer, and a 14-year-old girl who went to help him also got some on her legs. The incident happened about 10:30 a.m. Thursday.
Police say both went to a local hospital, and the toddler was transferred to the burn unit at Hurley Medical Center in Flint.
WJRT-TV reports police found the substance on the slide and removed it after hospital officials alerted them. Samples have been sent to a laboratory for identification.
No other foreign substances were found on other playground equipment at the park.
Information from: WJRT-TV, http://abclocal.go.com/wjrt
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Apple CEO Tim Cook during a recent quarterly conference call in July was first to announce integration with 7-Eleven's network, saying the convenience store would offer full support sometime this year. Cook also said longtime Apple Pay holdout CVS would be brought into the fold in 2018, while German customers are expected to gain access to the service in the coming months.
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Director: James Ivory | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave, Lynn Redgrave
35. Prime Suspect 2 (1992)
203 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
DCI Jane Tennison's investigation of a murder is complicated with the unexpected participation of her secret lover in her detective unit.
Stars: Helen Mirren, Colin Salmon, John Benfield, Jack Ellis
36. Le marginal (1983)
100 min | Action, Crime, Drama
The story is about Commissioner Jordan who arrives in Marseille to combat drug trafficking activities in his own unique way.
Director: Jacques Deray | Stars: Jean-Paul Belmondo, Henry Silva, Carlos Sotto Mayor, Pierre Vernier
37. The Holcroft Covenant (1985)
R | 112 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
The son of a German General becomes part of a mysterious conspiracy to gain hidden Nazi funds.
Director: John Frankenheimer | Stars: Michael Caine, Anthony Andrews, Victoria Tennant, Lilli Palmer
38. Double Suicide (1969)
A doomed love between a paper merchant and a courtesan.
Director: Masahiro Shinoda | Stars: Kichiemon Nakamura, Shima Iwashita, Shizue Kawarazaki, Tokie Hidari
39. Salaam Bombay! (1988)
Not Rated | 113 min | Crime, Drama
The boy Krishna is abandoned by his mother at the Apollo Circus and she tells him that he can only return home when he can afford 500 rupees to pay for the bicycle of his brother that he ... See full summary »
Director: Mira Nair | Stars: Shafiq Syed, Hansa Vithal, Chanda Sharma, Raghuvir Yadav
40. Holy Rollers (2010)
R | 89 min | Biography, Crime, Drama
In Brooklyn, a youth from an Orthodox Jewish community is lured into becoming an Ecstasy dealer by his pal who has ties to an Israeli drug cartel.
Director: Kevin Asch | Stars: Jesse Eisenberg, Justin Bartha, Danny A. Abeckaser, Ari Graynor
41. Born Into Brothels: Calcutta's Red Light Kids (2004)
R | 85 min | Documentary
Two documentary filmmakers chronicle their time in Sonagchi, Calcutta and the relationships they developed with children of prostitutes who work the city's notorious red light district.
Directors: Zana Briski, Ross Kauffman | Stars: Kochi, Avijit Halder, Shanti Das, Manik
42. Miss Hokusai (2015)
PG-13 | 93 min | Animation, Biography, Drama
The life and works of Japanese artist and ukiyo-e painter Katsushika Hokusai, as seen from the eyes of his daughter, Katsushika O-Ei.
Directors: Keiichi Hara, Stephanie Sheh, Michael Sinterniklaas | Stars: Yutaka Matsushige, Anne Watanabe, Erica Lindbeck, Richard Epcar
43. De Marathon (2012)
107 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
After finding out that they have a debt of EUR40.000 with the tax service, four very out-of-shape men working at a car shop start to train for a marathon, in which they can win the money to pay the debt.
Director: Diederick Koopal | Stars: Stefan de Walle, Martin van Waardenberg, Marcel Hensema, Frank Lammers
44. The Ring Finger (2005)
Iris finds a new job working in a preservation lab where she gradually enters into a troubled relationship with her boss.
Director: Diane Bertrand | Stars: Olga Kurylenko, Marc Barbé, Stipe Erceg, Edith Scob
45. Bloody Marie (2019)
87 min | Action, Drama
Marie Wankelmut, once successful comic artist, lives among the prostitutes in Amsterdam's Red Light District. Nowadays drunken and bold, she gets into one conflict after another. A gruesome... See full summary »
Directors: Lennert Hillege, Guido van Driel | Stars: Susanne Wolff, Dragos Bucur, Alexia Lestiboudois, Teun Luijkx
46. Confessions of a Campus Virgin (1979)
Follows the experiences of Petra and her friends as they reach the final year at high school.
Director: Walter Boos | Stars: Marco Kröger, Katja Bienert, Ingeborg Steinbach, Wolfgang Plumhoff
47. The Phenix City Story (1955)
Approved | 100 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A crime-busting lawyer and his initially reluctant attorney father take on the forces that run gambling and prostitution in their small Southern town.
Director: Phil Karlson | Stars: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant, Edward Andrews
48. In Praise of Older Women (1997)
105 min | Drama, Romance, War
In the turmoil of the Spanish Civil War, a young man comes of age sexually, through a string of relationships with a wide range of mature, older women.
Director: Manuel Lombardero | Stars: Juan Diego Botto, Miguel Ángel García, Faye Dunaway, Carme Elias
49. Puppet on a Chain (1971)
PG | 98 min | Action, Thriller
Following a triple professional hit a U.S. agent arrives in Amsterdam to investigate a heroin smuggling ring. He finds a city rife with drugs and a police force unable or unwilling to do ... See full summary »
Director: Geoffrey Reeve | Stars: Sven-Bertil Taube, Barbara Parkins, Alexander Knox, Patrick Allen
50. Diary of a Hooker (1971)
In Amsterdam, two prostitutes makes a choice between love and work.
Director: Paul Verhoeven | Stars: Ronnie Bierman, Sylvia de Leur, Piet Römer, Jules Hamel
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The Good Shepherd is calling his servant priests, but he might need you to nudge them forward
Last week, I received an email from a friend, a woman in Philadelphia.
She wrote: “This morning we received devastating news at Mass. Our beloved Augustinian pastor has been diagnosed with liver cancer that has spread to his lungs. The priest who told us said that he was visiting him yesterday when a cousin came into the hospital room and told him that they are all praying for a miracle. His response was, ‘I have already received a miracle. I am a priest.’”
Those words were on my mind and in my heart this week. Today, “Good Shepherd Sunday,” is also the World Day of Prayer for Vocations. The Church asks us to pray for young people to hear the voice of the Good Shepherd mentioned in this Gospel, and to answer his call.
It is a call inviting us, as that priest knew, to be a part of a miracle.
Every Sunday, we gather in these pews and witness the greatest ongoing miracle in human history: God giving himself to us in the appearance of bread and wine.
Even now, after almost nine years as a deacon, I can’t believe I have the privilege of being at this altar every Sunday. And I can’t believe anyone would not want to be here.
A great poet once said that the “world is charged with the grandeur of God.” Well, at every Mass, the electricity begins right here.
But that’s just the beginning. Every day, the world is being recharged, reenergized, redeemed by prayer and service, sacrifice and sacraments. We are uplifted and fed by the Eucharist.
And it happens, whether we realize it or not, for one singular reason.
It happens because there is a priest.
Surveys tell us again and again that clergy and religious report among the greatest job satisfaction in the world.
That’s because it’s not a job. It’s a vocation.
As that priest in Philadelphia knew: it is, in fact, a miracle.
The challenge facing us as a Church: How can we get more young people to want to be a part of that miracle? Let me suggest three things.
First, make them aware of wonder. If kids think of church as something they have to do, it will never be something they want to do. We are a rich repository of history, inspiration and art. We are the faith of Augustine and Thomas Aquinas and Ignatius, of soldiers and saints, of martyrs and missionaries. We gave the world Catherine of Siena and Teresa of Calcutta, Oscar Romero and Pierre Toussaint—along with countless models for living who transformed how we think, how we study, how we pray.
Beyond that: we are one, holy, Catholic and apostolic church. We seek to live the Gospel—to love as Christ loved, to serve as he served.
And, we are people who dwell in grace. We have been marked. Our heads were drenched with the waters of baptism and our brows were emblazoned with the oils of confirmation. We are continually renewed by Reconciliation and Communion.
And this happens, again and again, not by accident. It happens because there is a priest.
Pope Francis speaks often of the church “accompanying” people on their journey. At so many moments in life, in times of joy and sorrow and searching, the one who accompanies us is the priest. He’s there at the baptismal font when life begins, and in the ER when it ends, and in the confessional when our own human weaknesses have become too much. He helps us start anew. He celebrates with us, grieves with us, walks with us.
Ask any priest and he will tell you that is a great privilege—and, yes, a miracle.
Secondly, add God’s name to your mailbox. What I mean is: make him the unseen guest in your home—at the dinner table, in the garage, in the rec room, in the car on the way to soccer practice.
My parents were hardly the holiest of people—they’d be the first to admit they weren’t saints—but my mother, a New Jersey Methodist who became a Catholic when she married my father, never failed to make faith a priority.
Every Sunday meant going to Mass. No meal began without grace. No long trip began without a prayer to St. Christopher. No month went by without us going to confession. Those things mattered. And they stayed with us.
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Luxury Swiss Maison unveils stunning collection of watches
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Last week while running around preparing to travel to Los Angeles for a Hollywood Premiere of All You Need is Love, I stumble my tired soul into Dubai mall to meet with Eberhard & Co., renowned Swiss master creators of technically complex timepieces where they were unveiling a stunning collection of novelty pieces for fine watch lovers in the region.
Presenting this exquisite collection of highly exclusive master creations at the Manufacture’s exclusive point of sale at the Damas Les Exclusives boutique in Dubai Mall was Eberhard & Co. CEO, Mario Peserico. A delightful soul himself who was most gracious about me being late, he explained how each one of the unveiled timepieces represented different facets of the skills and innovativeness of their master craftsmen.
They certainly are outstanding examples of high-end mechanical watchmaking. The Novelties Collection includes creative reworking of some of the Manufacture’s renowned classics including the new Contograf, a re‐edition of the 1960’s classic creation of the same name, which was an emblem of its era thanks to its innovative features.
Most of these original features have been maintained in the new 2014 edition, but there is no shortage of innovative details: the new ceramic bezel with unidirectional rotation serves as a frame for the tachymeter scale inspired by automotive design. The case back is screwed‐in like in the original version and contains the inscription “Tribute to Contograf ‐ 1960s”.
The date window at 6 o’clock has kept its particular trapezoidal shape. The innovations include the new metallic bracelet Chassis and an original black leather strap with a “red arrow” embroidered detail. The deployment buckle Déclic (Patented) is available as an accessory. The 8147 calibre (base ETA 7750 13¼) guarantees the reliability and precision that have made Eberhard & Co. one of the points of reference for mechanical chronographs.
Eberhard & Co. is offering the svelte Traversetolo watch in two new versions: – a version with a white dial and a white second’s counter highlighted by “azurée” finish and a black profile. The profile of the minutes hand is also black and has an “azurée” finish. The hour markers stand out as they are rhodium plated, rounded and inlaid with black superluminova, while the upper part has a diamond-shaped radius. A second version is black, with a black seconds counter highlighted by “azurée” finish and a white profile. The profile of the minutes counter is also white.
Gilda, the timepiece that exudes feminine charm and provides the complete expression of the watchmaker’s refined and elegant world is presented in a new floral version. Gilda Floral has soft, harmonious lines enveloping a white mother of pearl dial with a delicate floral motif, finished with beautiful sapphires. In this new version the bezel, covered with 66 enchanting blue sapphires, frames the dial with a total of 112 precious stones and an elliptical case in white gold. The result is a masterpiece of craftsmanship and style.
Eberhard & Co.’s brand new interpretation of the Extra-fort model produced in an edition that is limited to just 150 pieces, to celebrate the 150th anniversary of noted Italian author Gabriele D’Annunzio’s birth. An automatic chronograph with elegant and harmonious lines, a 41 mm steel case and a face that reflects the great personality of the man to whom it is dedicated: black with white contrasts, personalised with the author’s signature, the 150th anniversary date and the famous motto “Ardisco non ordisco” – in a Liberty style font – adorning the profile of the 30 minute chronograph counter at 3 o’clock. D’Annunzio’s signature is also etched on the case back, which is closed with 6 screws. 50 m waterproof, this special Extra-fort is available with a crocodile strap or “Chalin” steel bracelet.
Chrono 4 is the first and only chronograph in the history of watchmaking with four aligned counters. This Registered Design is an aesthetic and functional innovation and represents a technical revolution thanks to the device developed and patented by Eberhard & Co. with sophisticated complexity. Indeed the entire mechanism operates using no fewer than 53 rubies. Never before had minutes, hours, 24 hours and seconds been arranged horizontally in a linear progression. Never before had reading the time felt so extraordinarily natural.
Eberhard & Co. now presents this all-time classic in three new versions. The first version has a white face, 4 white counters with a contrasting black outline and azuré finishing; the second version has a black face, 4 black counters with a contrasting white outline and azuré finishing; the third is a rugged all-black version with a black face, 4 black counters with a contrasting silvery outline and azuré finishing, as well as a red hand for 24- hour counter.
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inCharge aim to bring out the smallest, most portable, mobile charging cable imaginable with their latest IndieGoGo campaign. The cable comes in the form of a keyring which folds out in to a truly tiny micro-USB cable.
The campaign has so far managed to raise $104,000 of it’s $20,000 target. This is a phenomenal response for such a small common sense device and it shows just how frustrating people find it when they don’t have a charging cable to hand.
The keyring itself will be available in a range of colours and will support both Apples lightning ports for iDevices and micro-USB for Android and all other handsets.
Check out the IndieGoGo campaign now before all the available perks sell out.
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‘Doozy’ by Richard Squires, UK Cinema Tour
‘Doozy is a creative documentary that mixes original animation, re-enactment, archive and expert testimony to look through the lens of one of Hollywood’s hidden queer histories’
Another chance to see the fantastic ‘Doozy’ and a brilliant lineup of Q&A’s, featuring the cast of Doozy.
23 April 2019 Fabrica, Brighton Q&A with Jamie Wyld
25 April 2019 Close-Up Centre, London Guest Dr Sophie Scott
30 April 2019 Exeter Phoenix Q&A with Dr Benedict Morrison
4 May 2019 Flatpack Festival, Birmingham Q&A with José Arroyo
7 May 2019 University of Warwick Q&A with Dr Julie Lobalzo Wright
9 May 2019 Phoenix, Leicester Guest Professor Paul Wells
10 May 2019 Birkbeck Cinema, London Guest John Airlie
You can read our review of Doozy here
April 11, 2019 by Ellie Land Categories: Festivals, Films, News & Events | Tags: q&a, Queer, Richard Squires, Tour, UK | Leave a comment
A view of Ecstatic Truth 2017
The 2017 Ecstatic Truth Symposium took place on May 27 and explored the field of animated documentary. Presentations by scholars and practitioners from around the world covered topics including memory, trauma, visual and verbal language, industry structure and new technologies.
The day kicked off with a keynote by Bella Honess Roe, who expanded on the idea of ‘absence and excess’ that she put forward in her monograph Animated Documentary. Using the examples of two short films – Abuelas and Irinka and Sandrinka – Honess Roe demonstrated that animation can be used both as metaphorical wish fulfilment and as an exploration of memory, both memories of events directly experienced and memories passed down through families and cultures. Honess Roe spoke about how animation studies academics strive to pin down animation in theoretical terms, but find that definitive conclusions are elusive. She suggested that this is due to the vastness of animation as a discipline: “Very few animated documentaries look alike”. Perhaps this resistance to reductive conclusions is one of animation’s strengths.
In her presentation “Traversing the terrain of space, time and form”, Rose Bond gave an insight into her research and production process when making large scale architectural animations. Her work interprets the histories of buildings into narratives and symbolic motifs that are then projected back onto the windows of the building itself. Her storyboarding process was particularly interesting to see, as she boarded the different narratives that played out across the different windows – a more lateral process than traditional storyboarding. She referred to this “multiscreen” boarding as “a different kind of editing, composing”. The process of storyboarding was the moment of ‘parataxis’, the juxtaposing of individual visual and narrative elements together to create new meaning for those elements. Bond explained that in her work it is important that the audience do not see all the material when they watch – they are required to chose which images to focus on throughout, so the experience is different with each viewing.
Broadsided! (Exeter, UK) from Rose Bond on Vimeo.
Next up I presented a paper about animated documentary and virtual reality, proposing that the absence and excess (Honess Roe, 2013) of animated documentary is complemented by the dual qualities of immersion and alienation present in VR. I supported my argument with the analysis of two recent animated VR documentaries – Nonny de la Peña’s Out of Exile and Michelle and Uri Kranot’s Nothing Happens.
Vincenzo Maselli’s presentation on “Deeper strata of meanings in stop-motion animation: the meta-diegetic performance of matter” explored ideas of performance and materiality of stop-motion, referencing the work of Marks, Sobchack and Barker in an analysis of the relationship between the human body and the texture of filmed material.
Sally Pearce’s paper entitled “Can I draw my own memory?” focused on her work tracking memory, and the problems presented by this. She showed a piece of work in which an animated horse wanders through bleak live action landscapes that represent her fractured memories from a time of serious illness. This record of illness is, she explains, “straight from the horse’s mouth”. She discussed her process of trying to capture and visualise memory, and the frustrations that come with this: “I try to use my pencil as a scalpel to extract a memory whole, but the memory will not be drawn out like a lump of tissue, instead it changes as soon as the pencil touches it. As my memory changes under the pencil, I am changed, I redraw myself.” Pearce particularly noted that her drawings can feel trapped in the language we commonly use about memory and illness and bound up in accepted metaphor, frustrated that “my drawing mind remains locked into the forms of the spoken and written word”.
Barnaby Dicker’s paper “A Quivering Terminus: Walerian Borowczyk’s Games of Angels, animated documentary and the social fantastic” analyses how Borowczyk uses ‘fantastic topography’ to play with tropes of both documentary and fiction, in order to a explore disturbing historical subject. Dicker’s analysis of Borowczyk’s disturbing and powerful short looked at how both imagery and structure worked to create meaning for the audience.
He commented on the clues the filmmaker’s uses to guide the audience, such as the inclusion of a title card providing assurance that characters and events portrayed in the film are not intended to resemble characters living and dead. Dicker noted that the film is highly abstract and would not in any way invite an assumption that it was portraying real characters – so in fact the title card may be working inversely, to suggest to an audience that what they are watching does, in fact, reflect reality.
The afternoon sessions included a talk from Chinese artist Lei Lei who offered a lively tour of the process behind his compelling and visually stunning artwork. LeiLei uses found materials and processes of enhancing and degrading images to interrogate history, memory and culture.
Recycled from RAY on Vimeo.
Guli Silberstein’s presentation of his work “The Schizophrenic State Project“, gave an insight into the personal context which led him to appropriate and adapt media footage of violence to specifically explore conflict in Israel, Palestine and the region. The presentation offered an intimate view of an artist striving to find a voice to communicate his complex relationship with a disturbing subject matter which is both deeply personal and boldly political. In processing and re-presenting footage of war and protest Silberstein recontextualises it, challenging a viewer to watch and consider it in a new way.
Becky James’ paper “Expanding the Index in Animated Documentary” considered the subgenre of animation about mental states through a close reading of Betina Kuntzsch’s Spirit Away. James also offered insights into the culture around animated documentary production in comparison to the fine art industry where she previously worked, suggesting that there is an absence of critique and serious professional support for emerging filmmakers through canonical institutions in the field of experimental animation.
Susan Young’s presentation “Bearing Witness: Autoethnographic Animation and the Metabolism of Trauma” showcased her PhD research on psychological trauma, in which she reflects on her own experience. Young showed her visceral short film The Betrayal and discussed her process, sharing the ways in which she managed the risks associated with conducting any research on trauma.
The Betrayal (Trailer) from Susan Young on Vimeo.
The 2016 Ecstatic Truth symposium had concluded with a sense of agreement that the arguments around the legitimacy of animation as a documentary form which have dominated much of animated documentary scholarship have reached the limits of their usefulness, and that we can progress better if we start from a working assumption that animated documentary can exist as a valid form. The 2017 event followed on from this, taking a broad perspective on animated documentary that allowed for an open, discursive atmosphere in which diverse ideas could be raised, considered and challenged. There were no definitive answers but, as Honess Roe suggested at the beginning of the day, maybe animation’s ability to elude the finality of concrete definition is at the heart of its charm.
June 28, 2017 by carlamackinnon Categories: News & Events | Tags: Barnaby Dicker, Becky James, Bella Honess Roe, Betina Kuntzsch, Carla MacKinnon, Ecstatic Truth, Guli Silberstein, Lei Lei, Nonny de la Peña, RCA, Rose Bond, Royal College of Art, Sally Pearce, Susan Young, The Schizophrenic State Project, Uri and Michelle Kranot, Vincenzo Maselli | Leave a comment
Ecstatic Truth II: ‘Lessons of Darkness and Light’ 27th May 2017 Symposium at the Royal College of Art
The second Ecstatic Truth symposium was held at the Royal College of Art, London, on the 27th May 2017. This postgraduate research event was organised by Animation Research Co-ordinator Dr Tereza Stehlikova, working closely with the Animation MA programme leader, Dr Birgitta Hosea. It takes place a year after the launch of the RCA’s MA Documentary Animation pathway. The event was introduced by Professor Teal Triggs, Associate Dean of the School of Communication.
This article is composed of summaries of the speakers and their papers, taken from the symposium programme, illustrated by Alex Widdowson.
Bella Honess Roe is is a film scholar who specialises in documentary and animation. Her 2013 monograph Animated Documentary is the first text to investigate the convergence of these two media forms and was the recipient of the Society for Animation Studies’ 2015 McLaren-Lambart award for best book. She also publishes on animation and documentary more broadly and is currently editing a book on Aardman Animations (I.B. Tauris), co-editing a volume on the voice in documentary (Bloomsbury) and co-editing the Animation Studies Handbook (Bloomsbury). She is Senior Lecturer and Programme Director for Film Studies at the University of Surrey.
Traversing the terrain of space, time and form
Rose Bond “Broadsided”
Must documentary be confined to a single screen? How does the siting of a screening influence its perception? This screening/talk focuses on documentary strategies in Rose Bond’s multi-screen animated installation Broadsided! which was sited in the windows of the Exeter Castle. A screened excerpt from Broadsided! documentation provides the basis for brief examination of documentary methods used to convey a point of view: research, reenactment, data visualization and parataxis.
Rose Bond creates monumental, content driven animated installations. Rear projected in multiple windows, her themes are often drawn from the site – existing as monuments to the unremembered. Her installations have illuminated urban spaces in Zagreb, Toronto, Exeter UK, New York City, Utrecht, Netherlands and Portland, Oregon.
Carla MacKinnon “Immersion and alienation: animated virtual realities”
This presentation will explore how animated documentaries are pioneering creativity in virtual reality (VR). I will propose that animated documentary is a good fit for VR technically and creatively, and that the distancing quality and ‘absence and excess’ (Honess Roe, 2013) of animated documentary complements the dual sensation of immersion and alienation evoked in the dreamlike experience of VR.
Carla MacKinnon is a filmmaker and practice-based PhD candidate at Arts University Bournemouth, whose moving image work has been exhibited widely. Carla has a Masters in Animation from Royal College of Art and has worked as a festival producer and manager of technology projects. She is also director of interdisciplinary events organisation Rich Pickings.
Deeper strata
Vincenzo Maselli: “Deeper strata of meanings in stop-motion animation: the meta-diegetic performance of matter”
Can puppets’ skin materials express deeper levels of signification in stop-motion animation cinema? The paper suggests the concept of autonomous performance of matter in stop-motion animation and aim to demonstrate that matter can express a sense of tactility and metaphorically act autonomously from the diegetic narrative, staging a second level of narrative (meta-diegetic).
Vincenzo Maselli is a PhD student in design at Sapienza University of Rome. His research aims to demonstrate how materials and puppets’ building techniques can communicate narrative meanings in stop motion animation cinema. In October 2016 he moved in London, where he is continuing his research at Middlesex University.
Sally Pearce “Can I draw my own memory?” A visual essay
I try to use my pencil as a scalpel to extract a memory whole, but the memory will not be drawn out like a lump of tissue, instead it changes as soon as the pencil touches it. As my memory changes under the pencil, I am changed, I redraw myself.
Sally Pearce studied philosophy at Cambridge, then became a nurse. She started making films while studying Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam, followed by an MA in Animation Direction at the NFTS. Her films have screened and been awarded at Festivals around the world. She hopes to start her PhD in October 2017.
Barnaby Dicker “A Quivering Terminus: Walerian Borowczyk’s Games of Angels, animated documentary and the social fantastic.”
This paper explores how Borowczyk’s Games of Angels (1964) utilises a fantastic topography to play with tropes of documentary and fiction in an effort to engage with painful social history in a direct, but far from literal way; its design and structure conveying, through a disturbing momentum, the experience of a quivering terminus.
Dr Barnaby Dicker teaches at Cardiff School of Art and Design. His research revolves around conceptual and material innovations in and through graphic technologies and arts.
Panel discussion chaired by Birgitta Hosea
Lei Lei always pay particular attention to collecting and collating historical texts and images during his experiment animated works and try to search for elements of the poetic and dramatic between reality and fiction. In Hand colored No.2, through the use of manual painting, Lei Lei and Thomas Sauvin try to connect black and white images of different people, attempting to construct a fictional character, narrating his personal history.
LeiLei 雷磊 Artist / Filmmaker 1985 Born in Nanchang, Jiangxi Province, is an experimental animation artist with his hands on video arts, painting, installation, music and VJ performance also. In 2009 he got a master’s degree in animation from Tsinghua University. In 2010, his film < This is LOVE> was shown at Ottawa International Animation Festival and awarded The 2010 Best Narrative Short. In 2013 his film <Recycled> was selected by Annecy festival and was the Winner Grand Prix shorts – non-narrative at Holland International Animation Film Festival. In 2014 was on the Jury of Zagreb / Holland International Animation Film Festival and he was the winner of 2014 Asian cultural council grant.
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Guli Silberstein: ‘The Schizophrenic State Project’
The Schizophrenic State Project, which started in 2000, contains a series of videos that appropriate mass media footage of violence, war, and protest, in the context of Israel, Palestine and the region. The images are processed via digital means in diverse ways, creating poetic works that formulate news media critique.
Guli Silberstein is an Artist and video editor, based in London UK since 2010, born in Israel (1969). In 2000 he received his MA in Media Studies from The New School NYC, and since 2001, he creates work shown and winning awards in festivals and art venues in the UK and worldwide.
Becky James: “Expanding the Index in Animated Documentary”
Documentary animation examining mental state is a robust subgenre; often these works try to recreate an unusual psychological state to promote empathy and understanding. Using patient records and contemporaneous film strips, Betina Kuntzsch’s 2016 animation Spirit Away avoids speaking for, explaining, or diagnosing the female patients at the Heidelberg Psychiatric Clinic. Kuntzsch does not use the index to provide truth claim or to promote understanding, but instead the index acts as metaphor and distancing mechanism in this work about isolation.
Becky James explores the intersection of the individual and social through animation. She has exhibited in galleries throughout the US and at film festivals including SXSW, Jihlava Documentary Festival, Filmfest Oldenburg, and IFF Rotterdam. A native New Yorker, James graduated from Harvard and received her MFA from Bard. She currently teaches at Parsons School of Design.
Susan Young: “Bearing Witness: Autoethnographic Animation and the Metabolism of Trauma”
This presentation and short film screening examines my use of autoethnographic animation methodologies (which include myself as an experimental case study), in order to excavate and bear witness to the memories and lived experience of psychological trauma, and to challenge their related, often stigmatising and ‘othering’, psychiatric diagnoses.
Susan Young is an animation director who has worked principally in advertising, commissioned films and music promos. Her current RCA research is based on personal experience of psychological trauma, and includes a series of short experimental films that explore how animation might ameliorate trauma sympt oms. www.susanyounganimation.com
Concluding panel discussion, chaired by Barnaby Dicker
This event is supported by the Society of Animation Studies, an international organisation dedicated to the study of animation history and theory since 1987. For more information: https://www.animationstudies.org
For more information about studying MA Animation: Documentary: http://www.rca.ac.uk/schools/school-of-communication/animation/documentary-animation-pathway.
Video documentation of this event will be archived on our Vimeo channel at: https://vimeo.com/channels/documentaryanimation.
June 23, 2017 by Alex Widdowson Categories: News & Events | Tags: 2017, Barnaby Dicker, Becky James, Bella Honess Roe, Birgitta Hosea, Carla MacKinnon, conference, Ecstatic Truth, 雷磊, Guli Silberstein, Lei Lei, RCA, rca animation ma, Rose Bond, Sally Pearce, Society of Animation Studies, Susan Young, Symposium, Teal Triggs, Tereza Stehlíková, UK, Vincenzo Maselli, VR | Leave a comment
Ecstatic Truth 2016 and 2017
Ecstatic Truth 2016 panel discussion
With the next Ecstatic Truth symposium coming up on Saturday, this seems like a good time to revisit last year’s event and share the recordings of the jam-packed schedule of speakers, workshops and networking.
Video documentation of all the speakers who presented at the 2016 symposium, including keynotes from Paul Ward, Abigail Addison and Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, as well as our own Carla MacKinnon, is available here on Vimeo: https://vimeo.com/channels/documentaryanimation
Our own post from the event can be found here: https://animateddocs.wordpress.com/2016/05/28/ecstatic-truth-symposium/
Judit Ferencz introducing the workshop
‘Animating the layers of history’ workshop with Judit Ferencz
The 2016 symposium was held to launch the new MA Animation: Documentary Animation pathway: http://www.rca.ac.uk/schools/school-of-communication/animation/documentary-animation-pathway
Ecstatic Truth: Lessons of Darkness and Light is the second animated documentary symposium at the Royal College of Art, London, on Saturday 26th May 2017.
Book your FREE tickets here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/ecstatic-truth-lessons-of-darkness-and-light-animated-documentary-symposium-tickets-33257461964
May 24, 2017 by Alys Scott Hawkins Categories: News & Events | Tags: 2016, 2017, abigail addison, Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, Carla MacKinnon, Ecstatic Truth, event, Judit Ferencz, live event, London, news, Paul Ward, RCA, rca animation ma, Royal College of Art, Symposium, UK, workshop | 1 Comment
‘Animation Therapy’ workshop and ‘Animation on Prescription’ screening at Encounters Festival 2016
Helen Mason, founder of Animation Therapy, has been running Animation on Prescription conferences biannually at Encounters Festival since 2010. This year she organised a free public screening and a workshop for medical, dental and veterinary professionals designed to help them confront their own compassion fatigue. Helen explained that compassion fatigue was brought sharply to her attention when an occupational therapist colleague committed suicide. Further research revealed that both the dental and veterinary industries had very high suicide rates. Mason suggested that the same must be true for medical professionals, though the National Health Service here in the UK (NHS) does not keep records of staff suicides. She pointed out the irony that NHS staff absences due to illness or fatigue, are documented rigorously.
Lord Stone of Blackheath, an active political advocate for issues relating to mental health, started the morning session by sharing his personal perspective on compassion fatigue. He also discussed the awareness campaign he’s helping Helen Mason to launch.
Unfortunately I missed Lord Stone’s group discussion, but waiting for the next natural interval afforded me time to sketch the beautiful workshop setting. Floating Harbour Films is a Dutch barge moored to the Welshback stretch of the river Avon in the centre of Bristol. This venue, along with the workshop facilitators, donated their time and resources without charging in order to raise money for the Bluebell Charity fund. Bluebell supports people struggling with pre and post-natal depression and anxiety.
After some brief introductions the group began the first set of exercises. The majority of participants were occupational therapists (O.T.’s) looking to learn Helen’s techniques to use in their own practice. Each participant was given a few sheets of uniformly sized card and instructed to draw in landscape format. The first image could be whatever we liked, presumably to warm us up. For the second we were asked to express the concept of compassion (see example drawing above).
Maria Hopkinson-Hassell, the animation facilitator, encouraged us to place our drawings carefully within the defined brackets on a well-lit board. One by one we photographed our images, importing them straight onto a laptop which was running stop-motion software. When looped, the end result was a chaotic flickering montage, held together visually by the consistent paper size and positioning.
Our next task was to recall a moment of resilience from the past, a time when we had to keep going despite fatigue or distress. We were asked to express these feelings on a piece of paper, cut to the shape of our hand. An unexpected intimate moment was subtly orchestrated by Helen as she encouraged each participant to have their hand traced by someone else from the class.
This activity resulted in an explosion of colour. A herd of occupational therapists gathered around the art supplies table, gradually spreading them in disarray across the workshop. Time restraints prohibited us from attempting an animation with our kaleidoscopic hands; instead Helen insisted we write our names diligently on the back with the promise that they’d be animated in our absence and safely posted back to us.
After drawing Simon Critchley colouring in his paper-hand, we had a quick chat. In a few words he articulated why animation seems to lend itself so well to art therapy: for a lot of his clients, control is not something they have experienced much in their recent history: animation offers a chance to play with extraordinary levels of control, if only for the duration of these short improvised productions.
Nigel Smith, a retired-doctor-turned-animation-workshop-leader, volunteered his face to co-star in the next pixillation exercise. A rostrum-mounted camera photographed his expressions from above as a second workshop participant moved figures, cut from magazines, across a glass table which intersected the photographic field. This method sparked a conversation about Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer music video, produced in 1986 by Bristol- based Aardman Animation.
Following a sunny lunch on the deck of the barge, Helen gathered us in a circle to facilitate a group discussion about compassion fatigue.
Helen (above, identifiable by the black dress) concluded the group discussion by asking us to write a postcard to our future selves. In two weeks this will be sent back to us, along with our illustrated hands. We all wrote supportive advice that should remind us how to be kind to ourselves and help us prioritise our well-being.
The final animation activity was facilitated by Tim Webb, Royal College of Art, and the director of ‘A is for Autism’ (1992), a seminal animated documentary which emerged from a collaboration with several young people with autistic spectrum disorder (ASD).
Each workshop participant was instructed to make a miniature version of themselves out of colourful lumps of Newplast Modelling Material. The 11 tiny figures shared the limelight in a claymation ensemble within the short film which gradually emerged. In between frames we participants huddled around the set, incrementally adjusting our respective putty avatars.
At 3pm we dispersed across Bristol city centre, congregating a few hours later at the Watershed, Encounters Festival base camp. Helen presented two programmes of films; the first consisted of animations created in collaboration with service users. The aforementioned ‘A is for Autism’, kicked off the programme as an example of best practice.
The screening also included films produced by Animation Therapy such as ‘The Haldon’, a film made by staff and service uses at a ward for people struggling with eating disorders in Exeter.
The second programme included films by professional animators, many of whom are well known for their animated documentary work. Helen emphasised the value of collaborative work with animators when exploring therapeutic topics. Andy Glynne’s production company, Mosaic Films, featured heavily; several shorts from their British Animation Award winning series ‘Animated Minds: Stories of Post Natal Depression’ were included. ‘Mike’s Story‘ stood out to me, as particularly touching.
Follow this link if you wish to donate to the Bluebell Charity fund for people struggling with pre and post-natal depression and anxiety. We look forward to many more years of Helen Mason hosting Animation on Prescription events at Encounters Short Film and Animation Festival.
September 25, 2016 by Alex Widdowson Categories: Festivals, Films, News & Events | Tags: 2016, A is for Autism, Aardman studios, Andy Glynne, Animated Minds, Animation on Prescription, animation therapy, ASD, autism, autistic spectrum disorder, Bluebell Charity, British Animation Award, claymation, compassion fatigue, Encounters, face-down-restraint, Floating Harbour Films, health, Helen Mason, Lord Stone, Lord Stone of Blackheath, Maria Hopkinson Hassell, mental health, Mikes Story, Mosaic Films, NHS, Nigel Smith, occupational therapist, occupational therapy, Peter Gabriel, post natal depression, Royal College of Art, Simon Critchley, Sledgehammer, Stories of Post Natal Depression, suicide, The Haldon, Tim Webb, UK, women's health, workshop | Leave a comment
Apply for the AniDox:Residency
The AniDox:Residency is a fantastic opportunity for international filmmakers from The Animation Workshop, building on their successful Open Workshop residency and AniDox:Lab programme.
The organisers are looking for an artistic approach, exploring the possibilities and potential of animation documentary. They will provide studio facilities, workstations, accommodation, support and 27.000 EUR in financial support. For more information and to apply for the residency, go to the AniDox website.
September 6, 2016 by carlamackinnon Categories: Films, News & Events | Tags: anidox, commission, Denmark, funding, production, residency | Leave a comment
ANIDOX:LAB 2016
I recently returned from the second module of The Animation Workshop’s ANIDOX:LAB in Denmark. This development lab, supported by Creative Europe, brings together animators, documentarians, artists and producers from across Europe, all united by a common interest in exploring the form of animated documentary. Each participant enters the lab with a documentary idea which is then developed across three modules. At the end of the lab, the participant is expected to have a strong pitch package supported by a two-minute promo for their project. The team behind the programme then continue to support a selection of these projects, bringing them to European film markets where finance may be secured to take the project further.
Anidox is put together by filmmakers Uri and Michelle Kranot, and has emerged from their own practice and research in the field of animated documentary. The Kranots were originally animators, drawn to non-fiction through “a desire to make films politically”. Their work has gained international acclaim and continues to compel audiences with its combination of fluid, poetic imagery and strong political meaning.
Still from ‘Black Tape’ by Uri and Michelle Kranot
ANIDOX launched in 2013, with the original aim of bringing documentarians and animators together to find out what differences there are in their practice, and what challenges this brings to the production of the animated documentary. Over time common challenges which have been identified include:
Communication issues stemming from differences in use of language and terminology between the animation and the documentary community;
A lack of understanding in the documentary community of the production processes, timelines and budgets necessary to produce animation;
A mutual lack of understanding of the very different editing and post-production processes in documentary and animation production; and
Other difficulties with effective communication between animators and documentary directors and producers.
In response to these and other challenges, ANIDOX aims to foster dialogue between documentarians and animators, while providing business opportunities and a rich environment for creative development, helping filmmakers to develop the essence of their project and visual approach.
As well as being an excellent opportunity for project development, ANIDOX offers a diverse programme of talks from and about filmmakers, commissioners and other players working across animation and factual film production.
In the first Module of the programme, Uri and Michelle Kranot were joined by filmmaker Paul Bush to lead several days of workshops. Kicking off with an overview of animated documentary, Uri Kranot and Paul Bush discussed the history and current state of the field in broad terms. Bush voiced his opinion that while drama has always been influenced by documentary, animation is only now catching up as part of a “coming-of-age for the animation form”. Bush acknowledged that the ‘contract’ with an audience is different in an animated documentary from a live action one, since with animation the audience is clearly aware that what they are watching is not an indexical record of real events, but he claimed that this is a strength of the form. In his opinion the British documentary industry has given up on ethically trying to present any kind of objective reality, although audiences will still automatically believe live action documentary and assume it is ‘real’. In this way, he claimed, animated documentary is less ethically problematic than its live action sister – through it’s transparently constructed nature it is more honest in its complex truth claim.
While documentary often uses animation as a way to limit the damage of missing or poor quality live action footage, there are also many other approaches and opportunities for the form. Bush specifically mentioned the power of animation to show alternative viewpoints, stories told from perspectives other than the point-of-view of the traditionally empowered. This ability of animated non-fiction to challenge hegemonic power structures has been discussed by various scholars and the potential of the form to weave alternative histories to those recorded and presented by the mainstream is widely considered one of its key creative strengths.
In a presentation about the history of animated documentary, Uri Kranot showed a range of films spanning a century and discussed the merits of each, in the context of their time. Kranot believes that we are seeing a coming-of-age not just for animation but also for documentary – an age of creative docs which can question as well as represent reality.
This pit-stop tour of animated documentary took us from Winsor McCay’s The Sinking of the Lusitania (1918), through WW2 propaganda films to the more personal work of John and Faith Hubley and Aardman Animation, whose pre-Creature Comforts short films Conversation Pieces (1983) used the conventions of documentary alongside stop-motion to reenact mundane and amusing scenes and situations. Kranot showed how over time the animated documentary moved from telling big political stories to smaller personal stories, such as Chris Landreth’s Ryan (2004) and Jornal Adele’s Never Like the First Time (2007). With this came a plethora of ethical and creative considerations that continue to challenge contemporary filmmakers. The animated documentary form has shown itself to be a powerful medium for exploring these ideas, with films such as Is The Man Who Is Tall Happy (2013) deconstructing itself even as it tells its story, raising questions of transparency and authorial voice.
Still from ‘Is the Man Who is Tall Happy?’
Kranot also touched on the importance of technological novelty in animation trends, showing how many of the most successful short animated documentaries have found their success in part through the innovative use of new creative technologies.
Presentations on the first ANIDOX module also included talks by alumni filmmakers including Martina Scarpelli, who presented her recently commissioned work-in-progress short EGG, a poetic documentary about an anorexic woman’s complex relationship with food.
The second module of ANIDOX took place in Copenhagen with guest tutors including: Swedish-Italian documentary director Erik Gandini; animated documentary producer Andy Glynne (Mosaic Films); Katrine Kiilgaard, Head of Industry at CPH:DOX; Ane Mandrup, Head of Documentary and Shorts at the Danish Film Institute (DFI) and Cecilia Lidin, Documentary Film Consultant at DFI.
Gandini, who works predominantly with live action, screened his feature film The Swedish Theory of Love (2015) and talked about his relationship to documentary. After growing up in Italy, saturated as it was with flashy, misogynistic, Berlusconi-controlled media, Gandini then moved to Sweden where he had the life changing-experience of stumbling upon Claude Lanzmann’s 9+ hour long Holocaust documentary Shoah (1985) on television. He describes this encounter with documentary as a “reconquering of reality”. Gandini went on to study film and make many documentaries including Videocracy (2009), an indictment of the Italian media and its social context.
At film school Gandini leant the rules of documentary storytelling, which at the time favoured a journalistic approach: an invisible filmmaker interfering as little as possible in the action, no music and closeness to character identified as the most important element. Gandini believes that this approach is “gone now, thank god”, destroyed in part by the rise of reality TV.
Gandini’s own work moved towards an essay-film approach, focusing not on recording objective fact but rather building personal arguments: “Taking command of storytelling… not showing reality as it is, rather showing reality as I feel it”. His work uses manipulation of sound, image and situation to construct a representation of the filmmaker’s subjective perspective on a subject, and he believes that the concept of authenticity in film should include being true to your own thoughts and feelings as well as your objective observations. Despite this, he strongly identifies as a documentary filmmaker, believing that documentary contains an unpredictability which isn’t present in fiction or animation and that documentary storytelling should be open to including representations of fantasy and internal life as well as hard fact – an area in which animation can be a useful representational tool. It is this co-habitation with unpredictability that makes documentary magical for Gandini, and his challenge to animated documentary filmmakers is “to what level can we keep unpredictability a friend even when using animation?”
Producer Andy Glynne brought some good practical advice to his talks. At Mosaic Films approximately 30% of the documentary output is animated docs, usually with subject matter that deals with the internal and psychological world as well as subjects and situations that are inaccessible for various reasons, or that demand anonymity. Glynne spoke about Mosaic’s process for engaging contributors, through which they have placed safeguards to ensure the story they tell remains authentic and respectful to the contributor despite the mediation process of editing and animation. He also offered some valuable insights gleaned as a result of the development of Nothing to Envy, a feature length animated documentary about North Korea, currently in very early production. Originally conceived as a foreign language documentary, the film’s development process has seen it take on more fiction qualities as well as becoming an English language production – changes that were made partly in response to the requirements of the feature film industry.
Both Glynne and the representatives from DFI spoke at length on the issues that can arise when pitching animated documentary. A recurring challenge is the expectation in the documentary industry of having a promo to show of the film being pitched – relatively straightforward for a character based live action documentary but more complex for an animated documentary, where each second of footage incurs significant expense and visual development.
Representing the fast-growing documentary festival CPH:DOX, Katrine Kiilgaard spoke of the festival’s focus on hybrid and interdisciplinary work. With larger audiences than DOK Leipzig and Sheffield Docfest (though smaller than IDFA and Hotdocs) CPH:DOX is a force to be reckoned with on the documentary festival circuit. It is significant that it demonstrates a progressive attitude to form, with a programme that includes industry forums for art-documentary projects, some of which are intended for gallery exhibition rather than theatrical or broadcast. Despite this embrace of alternative forms, Kiilgaard noted that only a small percentage of work screened at the festival is animated – estimated at less than 5%. When asked why this was she responded that the animated documentaries they receive are often at odds with the larger programming direction of the festival. Hans Frederik Jacobsen, a programmer for CPH:DOX also present on the module added that animated documentaries “often don’t fit our understanding of what a film should do”, although he indicated that this was changing, partially due to the work of programmes such an ANIDOX, which help to develop innovative productions that exploit the potentials of both the documentary and animation form.
Through these and other talks, the ANIDOX programme offered its participants a rich insight into thought and industry process related to the animated documentary field. It also provided a fantastic forum for project development, in which ideas could be presented and worked on in a supportive environment with the help of tutors and participants with a great diversity of experience. Ultimately, as with most training programmes, it is this rich peer network which offers the strongest and most lasting benefit. Through this network, participants are able to draw on each other’s knowledge and experience across the spectrum of the industry, in order to develop and strengthen their own creative voices and professional acumen as filmmakers pushing the boundaries of the animated documentary.
More information about ANIDOX:LAB and other residencies the initiative offers can be found at anidox.com.
June 27, 2016 by carlamackinnon Categories: News & Events | Tags: Aardman Animation, Andy Glynne, anidox, anidox:lab, Cecilia Lidin, Chris Landreth, communities of practice, Conversation Pieces, CPH:DOX, Danish Film Institute, DFI, erik gandini, Hans Frederik Jacobsen, John and Faith Hubley, Jornal Adele, Katrine Kiilgaard, Mosaic Films, Nothing to Envy, Paul Bush, The Animation Workshop, The Sinking of the Lusitania, The Swedish Theory of Love, Uri and Michelle Kranot | Leave a comment
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The Apathy Party is still ahead in the Polls.
by Anna Raccoon on May 22, 2014
The EU candidate for Little Haddenham-under-Sea?
If democracy was truly the will of the majority of the populace, we would have no European parliament – nor British parliament.
That we do is because democracy has been hijacked by those with an interest in seeking power. The majority of the populace simply don’t engage with the process at all.
In Europe, some 200 million people are members of the Apathy Party. 150 million will decide their future for them and jostle to see their chosen representatives in power. In Britain, 65% of the population couldn’t be bothered to vote in the last European election, a slight drop in the fortunes of the Apathy Party for in 1999 they were able to, or would have been if they could be bothered to, claim the allegiance of 75% of the population. It’s around the same proportion as those who couldn’t be bothered to vote for the ‘X’ factor finalist in 2010…
In 2001, the low turnout so alarmed the Electoral Commission that they were seriously discussing making voting compulsory, as it is, surprisingly, in Australia. Other proposals included being able to phone your vote in, or vote by internet.
The shouting, sneering and sophistry from all parties in the television debates and late night set piece interviews just leave us cold. We are angry, alienated, austerity ridden – and apathetic.
Not so apathetic, alienated and austerity ridden as to prevent a third of Europe anxiously tuning in to see whether a bearded drag act would walk off with the prized first place in the Eurovision contest – but sufficiently apathetic that we care less whether Jean-Claude Juncker or Martin Schulz end up with first prize in the European Parliament contest.
Never heard of either of them? They will have more impact on your life than Conchita Wurst. They are hot favourites to replace José Manuel Barroso as European Commission chief.
More eye-liner? A glitzy dress? Fishnet tights? What do they need to do to activate the apathetic?
I’m not sure apathy is the right word here. Most people are so fed up with the braying half-wits who rise to office that we simply cannot be bothered to be seen to endorse any of them!
While I agree that this allows cliques and special interest groups to gain power (Bliar, the nastiest little bastard to ever oil his way into a post, Mandelsnake the same!), it is hard to blame the average person from becoming so disillusioned with the whole process that they just give up.
If we had the Australian system, we should also have a box marked “None of these tossers, not on your life!” I think the politicos would be horrified at the vote count then!
lack of interest, enthusiasm, or concern.
“widespread apathy among students”
synonyms: indifference, lack of interest, lack of enthusiasm, lack of concern, unconcern, uninterestedness, unresponsiveness, impassivity, passivity, passiveness, detachment, dispassion, dispassionateness, lack of involvement.
Well, indeed, so ‘disgust ‘ might be better as I cannot think of the English for ‘red hot clanging rage’
Do you get a postal vote in your French domicile or are you also one of the ignored?
No, I am disenfranchised…
As an expat who has no intention of returning, I am quite happy to be disenfranchised.
No Representation without Taxation? I’ll grab myself some of that.
Being pedantic, if Blair was indeed “the nastiest……”, then Mandelsnake could not be the same, otherwise it would have been a dead-heat for ‘joint nastiest’.
The sentiment may enjoy more accuracy than its presentation.
Perhaps “the award for joint arseholes in chief goes to ….” : )
Mrs Proudie of Barchester
Dear Robert, might I suggest the phrase ‘two cheeks of the same arse’ for Messrs Bliar and Mandelsnake?
Wigner’s Friend
With Balls in between?
….and Brown not far away….
Roobeedoo
What do they need to do to activate the apathetic? Well some respect for their constituents might be a start and a little humility possibly the next step. Or should that be the other way round ?
The media is the problem. The old principles of the BBC might have been patrician but they were far closer to the truth than the “free-thinkers” would like to imagine nowadays. A large number of the population are dumb and unthinking herd animals who only ever want to follow. If no attempt is made to educate them or challenger their beliefs, they will be only too happy to wallow in their brute ignorance and eat, drink and be happy. This is a boon for Elite rule of course since clever folks can twist dolts round their manicured little fingers. Adam Curtis tells you all you need to know about this disease from the West.
The business and political world uses psychological techniques to read, create and fulfill our desires, to make their products or speeches as pleasing as possible to us. Curtis raises the question of the intentions and roots of this fact. Where once the political process was about engaging people’s rational, conscious minds, as well as facilitating their needs as a society, the documentary shows how by employing the tactics of psychoanalysis, politicians appeal to irrational, primitive impulses that have little apparent bearing on issues outside of the narrow self-interest of a consumer population.
Bread and Circuses were the Roman methods of keeping the public happy and the system has been so successful that it is employed to this very day. Freebies from government and mind-rotting TV entertainment.
@Moor Larkin your link http://vimeo.com/67977038 is nothing short of brilliant —spent all day struggling through all four episodes but worth every moment
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@Moor Larkin & @Fat Steve,
This just to endorse Fat Steve’s earlier comments on the brilliance of Moor Larkin’s link http://vimeo.com/67977038 along with the other three episodes of the BBC series: ‘The Century of Self’ accessible from there. Utterly compelling & indeed worth every moment. Thank you.
And if all of the people voted and then chose ‘Bread and Circuses’, because the Butcher, the Baker and the Zyklon-B manufacturer appealed more to their baser instincts, would that ultimately be a better solution?
Getting what you wish for sometimes can sometimes have downsides, non?
Fear that the voters would vote for the Zyklon-B Party is one of the reasons Curtis theorises the American elites decided it was best to disenfranchise their voting masses via luxury.
Oddly enough it strikes me that our UK ancestors got it right when they declared WWI as the war to end all wars. Ever since, the British have had to be dragged into war, resisting all the way. The only time they seem up for it is when they perceive they are defending themselves, whether it be defending faraway homelands such as the Falklands, or attacking the faraway nests of danger, such as Afghanistan. Whilst Thatcher did seem to reap a war bonus for the short sharp shock of 1982, the decade and longer of Labour’s attrition seems not to have led anyone to want to vote for more of the same.
Indeed. Warsaw. That far flung corner of the British Empire….
Quite so, but the British only got serious about it after Dunkirk, when they had no other choice. It’s surely a truism that the government of the day wriggled like fury to avoid war. Chamberlain brought his paper home from Munich to national celebration. It’s not for nothing that the period between Sep 1939 and May 1940 was called the phoney war.
My understanding of the events of the time is that there was no real expectation of avoiding war. While avoidance might have hoped and wished for, and indeed worked for, Munich primarily bought time for rearmament. The British government was going at that hell for leather from the mid 1930s, particularly with regard to airpower, both in terms of its defence, and tactical and strategic attack, capabilities, as it sought to keep up
woodsy42
Maybe just an implicit understanding that it’s all nothing more than theatre, it makes no real difference to the EU project however we vote. I will vote, but more in hope than expectation.
Did my bit first thing. There seemed a bit moor activity around the Polling Station than last time I was there, voting my local Police chappie.
Christie Malry
A lot of people are apathetic because of the profund fucking stupidity of the party list system for electing MEPs. For example, it’s my personal view that Hairy Moneyball [TM] is one of the stupidest and most useless MEPs on the planet. But there’s nothing I can do to stop her from getting elected because, as Number 1 on the Labour list, she’s a shoo-in. How did she get to be Number 1? No idea. Nobody asked me. Even if I think the rest of the Labour slate are brilliant, I can’t stop her from getting the slot.
It’s ridiculous. No wonder people vote in droves for the Meh Party.
Only ‘one of’? That might just be the best piece of understatement for some time…
I wasted breath on my 22 year old daughter this morning trying to get her to vote today. “What’s the point?”, she said, and all I could say honestly was that voting UKIP might hasten change to our rotten system, but any other vote would be wasted. All her age group have similar attitudes – unsurprising in those “educated” under Labour’s politicised curriculum.
Its a good thing, do you want poorly educated fools cancelling your vote?
I think British politicians might finally hear from the silent majority today, despite the landlady’s misgivings.
Don Cox
I haven’t voted in the EU elections since they started making you vote for a party rather than a person. Parties are the bane of democracy.
Maybe I will vote today if the rain stops.
So at what point do I get to vote for Jean-Claude Juncker or Martin Schulz?
You don’t – yours to obey, my friend.
I am in Canada on holiday but posted my vote for UKIP won’t do any good but might just annoy the others.
Jim Bates
During a brief trip into the political morass about a hundred years ago, I was told that the best way to annoy the candidates/parties was to vote for everyone. Make one cross slightly bigger than the rest (so there’s a debating point). Then on your spoilt paper write a brief summary of your views on politicians (be as abrupt as you wish). All candidates/agents get to see the spoilt papers to agree their disqualification so you’ll know that your feelings hit some targets!
I wonder what might happen if the percentage of spoilt papers were to suddenly rise.
Of course it will do some good, even in the rabid liebour ghettos they will note with concern growth of other parties and loss of potential donors. I note that the lib-dums are trying to pretend that anything less than a total loss of all MEPs will be cause for celebration, their polling must be revealing some seriously bad potential results.
Enjoy your visit, stay away from Chuckles-the-clown retinue.
Listening to a phone in on LBC recently. Youngsters rang in to say that politicians mean nothing to them. They don’t keep promises. Evade questions. Cheat on expenses.Eton educated and out of touch. Too posh. Don’t understand ordinary people’s problems. Just after the money and being an MP. As usual, all the politicians who are not in this list of bitter comments get tarred with the same brush. Who or what put them in this frame of mind? Why should they vote for an MEP if they don’t even want to be in Europe anyway? Did the MSM, the aggressive anchor men et al foster this suspicion and distrust? Yes the European politicians do interfere in our every day life. Imposing bans on garden products we gardeners have used for years. Banning sulphur dust to stop bulbs rotting in storage. Not allowing a tar based product to be sold as a vine weevil killer but can advertise as a path cleaner, that comment was on the web from the manufacturer. Lots of other things they do as well, reaching into deep corners of our lives . We never get a say in how they reach some silly decisions. I have read a lot of European history in the last year or so and we do need to be united but not in the bossy way that has evolved since UK entered the EU. Our votes went by proxy a while ago.
Not only vine weevil killer – apparently it’s OK to advertise/promote a 100 Watt incandescent light-bulb as a ‘heater’, but not as an illumination device. The EUnatics are indeed now running the asylum.
I think a friend of mine has the correct attitude with his reply when I asked him about the elections, I’m hoping the next Parliament is hung one – I’ll even help build the gallows.
Tin hat on, I’ve got an MP who seems to take the job seriously, I’ve met him, and he seems more engaged in the local community than some district & county councillors. His name’s Nick Herbert. If you write to him you get a reply.
Perhaps he went to the wrong school.
I don’t think all our politicians are evil & grasping. I think first they operate in a culture that has a unique attitude to expenses, benefits and insider deals that no business would tolerate for a moment, and second they actually believe that their working conditions and duties are so uniquely demanding that they’re a special case. These people then engage in a system which requires that they are always on message, and I guess after time like performing seals they can be relied on to do exactly what they’re told. Which isn’t to represent us.
But that’s MPs. District councillors seem more like rats in the gutter individually, rats in a sack collectively.
And MEPs. Who knows? All I’ve ever seen is Mr Farage blasting Barroso & co, and an expose of fiddling MEPs signing in for the daily allowance, then nipping off without having done a stroke.
And yes I always vote. I’d prefer to vote for the man, but we can’t with MEPs so party it is.
And I think we should tighten up the whole procedure re postal votes & vote collecting.
Your MP certainly made an impression on BBC2’s ‘Daily Politics’ today, when he suddenly dropped the F-word into the conversation – much to the non-delight of hostess Jo Coburn, making a noble attempt to maintain her usual equilibrium, leading to a predictable grovel at the end of the show – your man made it all worth watching for a change.
Whether he’s a good MP or not you may judge, but he’s good lunchtime entertainment on a wet Thursday in May.
He has a habit of refusing a mic in meetings locally (that I’ve seen, anyway). Prefers to speak naturally.
And mention of wet Thursday in May, like her or loathe her, she seems better equipped in the trouser department than most of the blokes. Might even have swayed a few blue waverers today.
Disturbing thoughts come to mind, must stop listening to ‘Round the Horne’.
I remember the first time I went to a formal Council Committee meeting. Almost no public. A few officers. And Council and Opposition Leaders who both should have been put in a sack and drowned. No normal person would have missed either of them.
The irritating problem seems to be that there are MP’s who do the local bit well, i.e. helping people with their troubles with unresponsive corporations and local bureacracies, then vote the party line all the way, which usually means stuffing the locals who’se small troubles they’ve helped solve. So they get elected again because at least everyone know he’s a good egg even if his party is pants. (This applies no matter which party)
Must admit my MP Damien green was very helpful on the one occasion I had to contact him, in fact even invoking his name produced a very good result
I think the reasons for apathy with politics are many, and can’t be fully explained by a short blog post or comment.
One contributory factor, I think, was the relentless ‘news management’ techniques used by some political apparatchiks. People felt they couldn’t believe anything politicians said because it was always ‘spun’, even when they (occasionally) were telling the straight truth. The media knew they were being spun, and so now are even more cynical than politicians. The public, even the daft ones, pick up that something is amiss, and the idea is now firmly embedded that politicians routinely tell lies. That’s a pity, because with some exceptions, politicians don’t usually tell bare-faced lies, even if they are not fully open about the full facts.
Repairing the damage done to politics by ‘news management’ will take years.
I would support of any move to make voting a legal obligation, as it is in Australia.
Spoil your ballot paper if you must, but countless tens of thousands died to give us the freedom to vote, so we owe it to them to collectively get off our lazy backsides and get down to the polling station once in a blue moon.
No one, in my view, has any moral authority or right to express an opinion on any facet of any policy by an incumbent party or its various opponents, unless one fulfills the moral obligation to express an opinion through the ballot box when encouraged to do so.
How many people on the planet, even in 2014 still have no right to vote, or are presently fighting for the basic freedoms that we already enjoy and yet the majority of the UK population wears its freedoms so carelessly.
Disgraceful.
I would agree that they have the privilege of voting. As to their being free? That’s illusory.
As said above, if voting is to be compulsory, there should be a NOTA box, with the election re-run if it wins. That way people can better express their mandate.
@Guthrie –a NOTA box —now that’s a clever idea and would inspire me most certainly to take the trouble to vote
Yes, Peter Mandelson does have rather a lot to answer for in terms of creating the current form of political media management.
The problem is that the first time they tried it, it was new and funky and it made Tony Bliar look as though he was actually in control of his party AND represented something approximating public opinion – of course it was just a façade and actually hid the horrors of New Labour from genuine scrutiny.
Nowadays all the main parties attempt the same sleight-of-hand and the public are left jaded and cynical by it. This is why Nigel Farage and his beer-n-ciggies routine works. It’s still a façade (just a different form), but it’s one neither of the other main party leaders can pull off.
As an aside, I was chatting to Peter Mandelson at a BP Charity bash around 2003 or so. Very personable with a kin of impish grin, which is appropriate for the spawn of Beelzebub.
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We went to vote yesterday together with our just-18-year-old daughter and 20-year-old son. We were virtually congratulated by the staff manning the polling station for being accompanied by ‘yoof’ who could be bothered to exercise their right to vote!
And they weren’t bothered about the kids’ collars and leashes? Well, I suppose any vote is a good vote, as far as a polly is concerned
I said we were ‘virtually’ congratulated, I didn’t say we dragged them there. The young one was particularly keen to vote as she had just turned 18 and has a very strong opinion on everything under the sun, including politics; mind you, she was just as keen to buy a drink in the pub! The boy-child just happened to be at home as we were leaving and turned up to vote while we were still at the polling station.
The people handing out the ballot papers just mentioned that our two were by far the youngest people they’d seen all day and that it was good to see people of their age group making use of their votes.
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Sonar pings #80 – Palmeiras 2-2 Atlético Mineiro and then some
Kristian Bengtson May 10, 2015 Brazilian Championship, Players
No, it wasn’t the start of the Brazilian Championship we were dreaming off, drawing with Atlético’s rotation squad at the Allianz Parque. But Palmeiras were not in their full splendour either: forwards Leandro Pereira and Cristaldo injured, midfielders Arouca and Cleiton Xavier likewise. Nothing serious in any of the cases, but the impact was nevertheless felt as coach Oswaldo failed to provide solutions: in the absence of Arouca, Gabriel was overburdened; Robinho – pulled back – disappeared; Gabriel Jesus was of little use with his back constantly against the goal. Palmeiras frittered passes like we haven’t seen so far in 2015, while Atlético Mineiro seemed much more focused. In the end, the draw – Palmeiras finding the equalizer in the very last seconds of the came – could be considered a fair result. And a bit of a relief.
Yesterday was the first time Gabriel Jesus played the full 90 minutes. Expectations are still high regarding the future of the kid, but perhaps more realistic: he’s had his opportunities but not yet scored and the adaption from the U20 to the major league is taking time. Coach Oswaldo has been devoting special attention to Jesus, often having him stay a bit longer after regular training to work on positioning and finishing touches.
Yesterday also marked the debut of left-defender Egídio. The long-awaited paperwork finally arrived from Ukraine on Friday, just in time for Palmeiras to have him registered and in playing condition ahead of Saturday’s game. Egídio came on in the second half and looked good: I expect him to enter the starting eleven already coming week, either displacing Zé Roberto toward the middle or, more likely, alternating the bench with the veteran.
Speaking of veterans: Palmeiras this week finally reached an agreement to end the contract with centre-back Lúcio, who ever since the end of 2014 has been receiving his wages, although not anymore part of the working squad. The former World Champion has been negotiating with clubs from China and Australia, but without reaching a conclusion. After 47 games and two games for the Verdão, the club and athlete now part ways.
While some depart, others arrive. Palmeiras on Thursday announced having reached an agreement with 29-year-old attacking midfielder Fellype Gabriel, who started his career at Flamengo. The player has previously worked with coach Oswaldo both at Botafogo and Japanese club Kashima Antlers. Fellype’s arrival is one more indication that Palmeiras are preparing for a post-Valdivia experience.
— ooo —
For months, Palmeiras and Adidas have been negotiating a new agreement, Palmeiras always making clear they are open to new proposals from competitors. And proposals have indeed arrived – the most interesting one from Puma – forcing Adidas to step up its game. Paulo Nobre has recently expressed optimism a new agreement will be reached with Adidas, and leaked photos of a supposedly new Palmeiras jersey, made by Adidas, reinforce the impression. I wouldn’t be surprised if a new agreement is announced within a week or two, where the former R$ 10 million/year (US$ 3.3 million) agreement has been substantially boosted, perhaps reaching R$ 15 million or more. After all, only a handful of teams in the world sell more Adidas jerseys than Palmeiras.
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How to be a Craftivist
If we want a world that is beautiful, kind and fair, shouldn’t our activism be beautiful, kind and fair?
Award-winning campaigner and founder of the Craftivist Collective Sarah Corbett shows how to respond to injustice not with apathy or aggression, but with gentle, effective protest.
This is a manifesto – for a more respectful and contemplative activism; for conversation and collaboration where too often there is division and conflict; for using craft to engage, empower and encourage us all to be the change we wish to see in the world.
Quiet action can sometimes speak as powerfully as the loudest voice. With thoughtful principles, practical examples and honest stories from her own experience as a once burnt-out activist, Corbett shows how activism through craft can produce long-lasting positive change.
I read How to be a Craftivist by Sarah Corbett for a book club I’m part of, and I have to say my feelings were mixed. Part call to action, part campaign strategy and part activism memoir, the book details how Corbett launched her craftivist movement and the hard won successes of her creative campaigns.
There was a lot about her movement that I liked. For a lot of people, joining a march or – god forbid – canvassing feels difficult if not impossible (I know there can be some privilege wrapped up in this. I’m getting to it). As such, Corbett coming forward with a version of activism that holds out a hand to shy types to whom walking up to a stranger with a petition would feel like actual death felt inviting without being accusatory.
Her campaigns are so creative – with emphasis on using sustainable and ethically sourced materials (rather than, say, feminist slogan tees made by women making less than minimum wage in unsafe factories…). From creating small scrolls to slip in the pockets of garments at fast fashion stores asking #whomademyclothes to messages carefully stitched onto handkerchiefs and sent to local politicians, Corbett breaks down her campaigns stage by stage, inviting the reader to get involved at every turn. She describes how she goes about building relationships with those on the opposing side of the argument, and it is certainly interesting to see how she manages to engage with some powerful people using craftivism, getting them to interact with her work in a way they haven’t with activism before. Through her work she inspires people to communicate with her on an issue rather than go on the defence – something that often feels impossible to achieve.
She also makes a huge point of solidarity over sympathy; so, creating campaigns that centre the people affected by the issue with understanding that they know what the solutions to their problems are. People aren’t waiting for you to walk in and save them, they’re looking for support.
All that said, I have to admit I had a really hard time with her consistent use of the term ‘gentle’ to describe her method of protest. While I know I am coming at this with a certain amount of internalised gender-related garbage, the way her work emphasised being agreeable and non-threatening jarred with me. I wish that Corbett had addressed this, or at least taken an analytical stance on the way that agreeableness has been demanded of women to their massive detriment over time, but she never did.
And then there’s the issue of privilege. Sarah Corbett is a white woman (as am I) so carrying a lot of privilege that I don’t necessarily feel that she addresses particularly well during the book. As it goes on, it starts to feel like she is placing gentle protest in opposition to what she considers aggressive protest, and it was this slowly encroaching binary that I found myself taking issue with more and more. While I think her methods absolutely have value (she has achieved a hell of a lot more than I ever have!), I think that it’s much easier to make a gift for your local politician attached to a very friendly letter, as she recommends, when you’re dealing with a situation you’re not currently affected by. Right? If you’re personally impacted by the ‘hostile environment’ immigration practices or benefits cuts currently screwing over hundreds of thousands of people you’re probably going to feel a lot more like yelling in someone’s face – and I don’t think you would be wrong to do that.
Like I said earlier, craftivism, according to Corbett’s ideals is at least partly about welcoming in people uncomfortable with other forms of activism – I actually fall into this group. I deal with pretty bad social anxiety so the intensity of activism fills me with FEAR. But I also wonder whether we should expect – or even aspire, in this situation – to feel comfortable? Especially if you’re a white woman. I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my own accountability, and in particular all of the various (many) ways in which I don’t live up to my own ideals, and while a lot of actions Corbett presents in the book are great, there was a degree to which I felt she was offering people a way out of getting their hands dirty.
I guess I’m on the fence. There were times while reading that Corbett totally lost me – she tells this weird story about getting dumped by a Tinder date because he ‘didn’t want to date an activist’ until she told him that she was actually an agreeable nice activist, not an ‘angry’ one. I was waiting for her to be like and the moral of the story is fuck that guy, but instead she ended up dating him after she convinced him of her ‘gentle nature’. But at other times her methods really appealed to me, particularly in terms of her tenacity and her approach to a campaign as a long-term commitment.
Have you read How to be a Craftivist? What do you think?
Author Lydia TewkesburyPosted on May 24, 2019 Categories Non FictionTags Activism, book reviews, How to be a Craftivist, reading
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whatthelog says:
Huh, that’s really interesting! I’d definitely like to read this to see what she was actually making. I struggle with various mental health conditions that make protesting/a lot of organised movements really difficult for me, but I still want to help out various causes. I think that this could be a really great way for me to do so. (Not convinced about the messages in pockets at stores though – surely that would inconvenience minimum-wage workers more than anything else?) Disappointed to see that she tries to distance herself from more ‘hostile’ methods. I definitely agree that there’s a lot of privilege that needs to be checked there.
I think definitely pick it up in that case. She has a website where she sells a lot of her crafts to get you started as well. I think that her movement is GREAT for people who would find protests really difficult. I include myself in that camp! As I said it was just her attitude toward other activists that kind of put me off. And, like I said, I just wish she would have gone a little bit more into the privilege involved in ‘not getting angry about stuff’.
Hmm I can totally see why you had issues with this book, despite its supposedly incredible purpose.
I do find that the “gentle” and “non-aggressive” stance taken by the author and endorsed throughout sounds a bit too much like what men would want women to act like (or at least, the common misogynist).
It especially alludes to black women and how they are often accused of being too “loud” and “aggressive” whenever they expose their points of view or fight to be heard. That is another problem I see being unaddressed by the author, a white woman – feminism in its true form should include all women, of all ages, races, sexuality, etc. and that is not the case here.
Brilliant review as always, Lydia!
Right? That’s how I felt. I wanted to get on board with her project because I think she’s achieved a lot of really amazing things with it, but the whole polite, non-threatening white woman vibe was upsetting to me. I’ve read a few interviews with her since, and she does mention intersectional feminism and working with awareness of her privilege in those, but I just didn’t feel that at all while I was reading her book.
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Lashaan Balasingam @ Bookidote says:
This was definitely interesting. It is indeed often associated with activism the whole nature of aggressivity, or at least passive-aggressivity. But to then adapt some sort of “gentle” activism makes it sound like you’re trying to be acceptable, but still, have less impact in delivering your message and all… Great review, Lydia! 🙂
It’s a complicated one! I think it’s the word gentle I mostly object to. If she would have only given what she was saying some context that I think I’d have felt more comfortable about what she was doing with her book.
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Washington Indian Tribes
The State of Washington was occupied by a great number of Indian tribes formerly very populous, particularly those along the coast. There are few traditions regarding migrations and those which we have apply almost entirely to the interior people. After the Whites came it was unlikely that the Indians would move eastward in the face of the invasion and impossible for them to move westward; hence we do not have to trace various stages of long migrations due to displacement by the Whites and the overland retreat which followed, so marked in the history of the eastern Indians. Contrary to an older view, which held that Salishan tribes formerly extended to the lower Columbia and were driven north by Shahaptians, pushed forward in turn by Shoshonean peoples, it seems that the relative positions of Salishans and Shahaptians has been unchanged for an uncertain period of time and that, as a matter of fact, the Shoshoneans have been pushed southward although this movement was very recent. The Athapascan Kwalhioqua must represent a comparatively late invasion although that may not have been so recent as their anomalous position would lead one to suppose. There is also evidence of a much earlier movement when the Salishans came down upon the coast. The earliest European to meet any of the peoples of Washington was probably Juan de Fuca, a Greek navigator sailing under the Spanish flag, who, in 1592, visited the straits which now bear his name. Other Spanish explorers followed, and were later succeeded by English and Americans. The continual resort of trading vessels to Nootka on the west coast of Vancouver Island served to distribute European commodities and had a considerable influence among the tribes of Washington. In the latter part of the eighteenth century traders of the Hudson Bay and Northwest Companies made their appearance, but the Washington peoples first come squarely out upon the stage of history with the descent of the Columbia by Lewis and Clark in 1805-6. These pioneers gave the first general description of the region, enumerated the aboriginal peoples found in occupancy, and attempted estimates of their numbers. For some time afterward the territory was dominated by representatives of British companies and the land was claimed by England, while the only attempt to exploit it on the part of Americans, the settlement of Astoria, was soon abandoned. Following upon the acceptance of the 49th parallel of latitude as the International Boundary, however, and still more the discovery of gold in California and the opening up of the “Oregon trail,” settlers from the Eastern States began to pour in in numbers. It was thereafter inevitable that friction should develop between the newcomers and the aborigines. There were wars with the Nez Peru, Yakima, and other tribes, but the Indians suffered less in this way than from European diseases, particularly the smallpox, which began their ravages before Lewis and Clark appeared, from spirituous liquors, and from a general dislocation of their aboriginal adjustments. The destruction was greatest in the Columbia Valley, which as the main artery of travel and trade was peculiarly exposed to epidemics, and within a few years the greater part of the once teeming populations of the lower valley were practically wiped out of existence. Roman Catholic missions sprang up at an early date in the eastern part of the territory, and were soon followed by those of Protestant denominations, notable among which was that conducted among the Cayuse by Marcus Whitman (1838-47). As in other parts of the United States, the Indians gradually parted with their lands and were placed upon reservations, though in most cases they were not removed so far from their original homes as in the eastern parts of the Union.
The above sketch will show enough of the history of most of the tribes in this area, though some details have been added in certain cases (i. e., in connection with the Cayuse, Chilluckittequaw, Chimakum, Chinook, Klickitat, and Yakima. (See Ray, 1932, and Spier and Sapir, 1930.)
Cathlamet Indians
Cathlapotle Indians
Cayuse. The Cayuse were located about the heads of Wallawalla, Umatilla, and Grande Ronde Rivers, extending from the Blue Mountains to Deschutes River, Washington and Oregon. (See Oregon.)
Chehalis Indians
Chelan Indians
Chilluckittequaw Indians
Chimakum Indians
Chinook (See Chinook)
Clackamas. Placed on both sides of the Columbia, but I prefer to follow Berreman (1937) in limiting the term to groups living on the Oregon side. (See Oregon.)
Clallam Indians
Clalskanie. (See Oregon.)
Columbia Indians
Colville Indians
Copalis Indians
Cowlitz Indians
Duwamish(See Duwamish)
Hoh Indians
Humptulips Indians
Kalispel. The Kalispel extended over into the eastern edge of the State from Idaho.
Klickitat Indians
Kwaiailk Indians
Kwalhioqua Indians
Lummi Indians
Makah Indians
Methow Indians
Mical Indians. Significance unreported. Connections. The Mical were a branch of the Shahaptian tribe called Pshwanwapam. Location. On the upper course of Nisqually River. Population.-No separate data.
Muckleshoot Indians
Neketemeuk Indians. A supposed Salishan tribe placed by Teit’s informants at an early period near and above the Dalles. Ray (1932), however, discredits the existence of an independent tribe of this name.
Nespelem Indians A division of the Sanpoil.
Nisqually Indians
Nooksack Indians
Ntlakyapamuk Indians. The southern bands of this tribe hunted over in the territory now embraced in Washington. (See Canada.)
Okanagon Indians
Ozette Indians
Palouse Indians
Pshwanwapam Indians. Meaning “the stony ground.” Also called Upper Yakima. Connections. The Pshwanwapam belonged to the Shahaptian division of the Shapwailutan linguistic family, and probably were most closely connected with the Yakima. Location. On the upper course of Yakima River.
Puyallup Indians
Queets Indians
Quileute Indians
Quinault Indians
Sahehwamish Indians
Samish Indians
Sanpoil Indians
Satsop Indians
Semiahmoo Indians
Senijextee Indians
Sinkaietk Indians
Sinkakaius Indians. Meaning “between people.” Connections. The Sinkakaius belonged to the interior division of the Salishan linguistic stock and were composed largely of people from the Tukoratum Band of Sinkaietk and the Moses Columbia people. Location. Between Columbia River and the Grand Coulee in the latitude of Waterville.
Skagit Indians
Skilloot Indians
Skin Indians
Snohomish Indians
Snoqualmie Indians
Spokan Indians
Squaxon Indians
Suquamish Indians
Swallah Indians
Swinomish Indians
Taidnapam Indians. Also called Upper Cowlitz. Connections. The Taidnapam belonged to the Shahaptian division of the Shapwailutan linguistic family. Location. On the headwaters of Cowlitz River and perhaps extending over into the headwaters of the Lewis River.Population. Mooney estimates the population of the Taidnapam and the Klickitat. together at 600 in 1780, but extinct as independent tribes by 1907.
Twana Indians
Wallawalla Indians
Wanapam Indians
Watlala Indians. The Watlala occupied. the north side of Columbia River from the Cascades to Skamania and perhaps to Cape Horn, but a larger territory on the south side. (See under Oregon.)
Wauyukma Indians. Significance unknown. Connections. They belonged to the Shahaptian division of the Shapwailutan linguistic family and were very closely related to the Palouse. Location. On Snake River below the mouth of the Palouse. Population. Unknown but probably included with the Palouse, which Mooney (1928) estimates to have numbered 1,800 in 1780.
Wenatchee Indians
Wishram Indians
Wynoochee Indians. Significance of word is unreported. Connections. The Wynoochee were closely connected with the Chehalis Indians and belonged to the coastal division of the Salishan linguistic stock. Location. On the Wynoochee, an affluent of Chehalis River.
Yakima Indians
Swanton, John R. The Indian Tribes of North America . Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 145. Washington DC: US Government Printing Office. 1953.
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