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Buffy: Guaranteed fifth place
I'm sure this isn't how you're really supposed to warm-up for a Sunday evening gig. But it worked for me.
A couple of observations. Next time I'm sailing in snow, I'm going to wear my shades; sure, no sun, but snowflakes really sting the eyeballs when you're beating to windward. Secondly, snow is much easier to bail than water. But if you don't keep it up, it melts. And perching on the balls of your feet in iced water gets very painful on the toes.
Oh, and in the end, we did better than fifth.
It's been a good day. 0219, and I've not yet wound down enough after the gig to go to bed. So it was obviously the right choice of warm-up.
Calstar: prettiest sky
Friday and Saturday were gig bound, so no sailing for me.
So I booked Monday off work and Dad and I took advantage of a window in the weather to sail up to Portishead Sunday afternoon and back Monday morning.
In the three years we've had Calstar now we've frequently left harbour in the darkness of the early hours and sailed into the dawn. We've not ever left during daylight and sailed into the night however.
Spring tide, low water Cardiff on Sunday was around noon with less than a meter. We could've left before the water ran out, but decided to leave later and aim to arrive up in Portishead a little after dark. We both know the route and destination very well by now.
If nothing else, it meant I could have a relative lie-in on Sunday morning to recover from Saturday night's gig.
Except for a bit of squally rain that blew through and quickly passed about an hour out, it was a gentle sail up, a deep reach under full sail with no more than a F3 out of the west to carry us along with the tide.
The light and the sky were exquisite, through the couple of hours leading into dusk through to the sunset itself, a gorgeous finale to what had been the gradually mounting crescendo of the encroaching evening.
It wasn't cold, and once the earlier squall had passed through, the evening stayed dry.
The lights of the Clevedon and Portishead shore were very pretty, and the hour of sailing through the darkness up the four miles from Welsh Hook up the King Road after the sun had gone down was tranquil and quite uneventful.
Anticipating things being slower in the dark, we dropped the sails earlier than usual on the final approach to Portishead, turning head to wind off Kilkenny Bay and stemming the tide. The main halyard tangled itself up into a veritable bird's nest, but I spotted the problem before I released it and spent a couple of minutes cussing and muttering with Dad holding us head to wind under the engine as I un-nested it.
Sails down, Dad now on the helm for the last half a mile, I was focused on sorting the fenders and mooring lines when I just casually glanced up and saw a dark mass looming up on us. For a moment I thought we'd failed to spot another craft, then saw the bright flash of red atop it and realised it was the Newcombe buoy.
The tide was carrying us into it at about 6 knots plus our own speed through the water. I shouted a warning to Dad, but he still couldn't see it in the darkness. I tried to tell him to turn, but in the panic of the moment simply couldn't remember my left from right or port from starboard.
I grabbed the tiller and Dad and turned hard to port to dodge the oncoming mass. Dad now understanding the direction needed, but still unable to identify the buoy we were trying to dodge went with me and helpfully gunned the throttle.
Newcombe slid pass, missing us by a good boat-length or more.
It was a salutatory lesson. I'd handed over control to Dad when we took the sails down but hadn't warned him the buoy was coming up, even though I new perfectly well where we were and what was ahead. Then I'd become distracted by the bird's next of my halyard and lost track completely, my focus now in the boat on fenders and lines rather than looking out, where it should've been.
Dad hadn't spotted the red flash of the buoy's light against the glitter and glow of the lights of Avonmouth and Portbury and hadn't seen the hole in the darkness even once it was on top of us. With the moon hidden behind thick cloud, the night was as black as pitch, but the shore line very brightly lit to starboard and ahead (and distractingly pretty)
Safe into port we had supper at The Royal, overlooking the Bristol Channel. The views from their carpark are lovely, but whilst the food was nice, we both felt we'd probably have been better fed had we gone to our usual Italian.
It was an easy 9am lock out the following morning for the sail back to Cardiff. The wind was on the nose this time, giving us a three hour, 20 mile beat close hauled all the way back. Most of it was under full sail, except for about an hour when the wind increased and I pulled the first reef into the main and put a roll into the headsail.
It blew through though, and dropped back to a lazy F2 or 3. We arrived off the Outer Wrack outside Cardiff about an hour before low water. Barrage Control advised they still had a bit of water in, so we should be okay if we kept to the channel, but gave no guarantees.
We gave it a shot.
There was about 3 knots of flow pushing against us, down and out of the Wrack Channel, so we crawled up the middle of it with no more than a knot and a half of speed over ground. Dad was being conservative with the throttle in case we bottomed out unexpectedly.
The spur leading from the channel to the outer harbour wasn't much more than a muddy ditch. As we turned into it, the depth sounder optimistically read 0.1m under us but we could feel the silt sucking at our keels.
Barrage Control advised he was reading 2.6m over the sill of the lock, but couldn't account for silt. We were welcome to try and enter if we could get there, but he stressed there was no rush and we were equally welcome to sit it out and wait for the tide to turn.
Calstar continued to push along at about half a knot through the outer harbour, dragging her fins through the mud. We were inching forwards and Dad wasn't labouring the engine, so we kept at it.
As we passed through the lock gate and over the sill she finally came free, and, so liberated, we pulled up alongside the lock and made fast to the pontoon, just in by the very skin of our teeth.
Freefall: mid-week gigs & weekend plans
The Horseshoe, about twenty minutes before the band went on earlier this week. Was a good night. Always a treat to have professionals providing the lights and PA. Means it's really easy to pack up afterwards. Just unplug and carry your amp to the car. I was home by midnight!
Still had a very hard job getting up for work the following morning. Old age is catching up with me. Mid week gigs ain't so easy with the late nights any more.
But we soldier on.
Busy weekend ahead.
Smart togs and best behaviour tonight, as we're playing a cricket club's annual ball. Will hopefully have time for karate tomorrow morning then Saturday evening we're playing in a lovely little pub just down the road from the sailing club; expecting lots of friends and family at that one so it should be most excellent.
Sunday I'm heading down to the boat. Dad and I are planning to sail up to Portishead on the Sunday afternoon tide and then back again Monday morning. Weather currently looks great and I have Monday booked off work.
Unfortunately, Nikki doesn't, so it's just me and Dad. But she's working all day Sunday as well, so she'll hardly have time to miss me.
In other news, it's my little girl's birthday today. I have the gig of course, so won't see her until tomorrow, but she's coming to tomorrow night's gig. I won't sing her Happy Birthday, but I might just sing her a version of Don McLean's American Pie when she inevitably asks for it. There is possibly nobody else in the world the band will let me do that for. And her brother Ben is coming home from Bristol for it as well, so we'll have all the kids around the house for the weekend.
I'm looking forward to seeing them, but glad I have plenty of excuse to be out of the house. I miss them, but I've gotten used to the peace and quiet and lack of inevitable disruption and find I quite enjoy it. Of course, their littlest brother Sam still lives at home, but he's unobtrusive to the point that he's a pleasure to have around.
My little girl is 29 today. That should probably make me feel old, but it hasn't caught up with me yet. Don't see that it ever will.
Calstar: dreaming of blue water
I mean blue as opposed to the silt-brown of the Bristol Channel. Not the "proper" blue water of ocean sailing; although that's always at the back of my mind, we shall leave that ambition for a later day. Walk before we run, etc, etc.
I think I've almost persuaded Dad on Plymouth as opposed to Torquay. I like Torquay, but would prefer to have it as a place to visit, and Plymouth is just so much closer to all the places I really want to sail.
When I'm not around, Dad visits the boat as much as we visit other places aboard the boat. So having it somewhere "nice" is important to him, as he spends a lot of time pottering about on and around her whilst she's moored up in her home berth. He likes the seaside atmosphere of Torquay and views Plymouth as being just a little bit too grimy and industrial.
I don't think he's necessarily seen Plymouth in its best light, so I've agreed Nikki and I will take him back down there for a wander about before the year's over.
Our current contract in Penarth Marina runs out at the end of March, so that's when we really want to move the boat around. Doesn't have to be then, but any variation either way is going to start to cost us money in short term berthing arrangements.
I'm a little bit daunted by the prospect of the trip. Although only a coastal passage, it's somewhat bigger and certainly more intense than anything we've done so far by quite some margin. Then again, if I were ever inclined to let a little thing like that put me off from doing something, I'd have never set myself afloat in the Bristol Channel in the first place.
Anyway. All of the following are just my initial thoughts and estimates. The one thing I do currently have is the luxury of time to mull all this over. Any comments or advice are always very welcome. I'm very aware this isn't anything anybody hasn't done before. It's just a first time for us.
So, the way I see it, the smallest I can reasonably break it down into is into seven legs. I can probably get two weeks off work in the spring and equivalent leave of absence from the wife, so finding seven stretches of favourable weather and tide in the space of two weeks seems plausible, even in March / April.
All measurements and estimates very approximate, times underway assuming an average of 4 knots over the ground, which I think is quite conservative:
1. Cardiff to Lundy - 60nm - 15 hours
2. Lundy to St Ives - 65nm - 16 hours
3. St Ives to Newlyn - 31nm - 8 hours
4. Newlyn to Falmouth - 35nm - 9 hours
5. Falmouth to Fowey - 21nm - 5 hours
6. Fowey to Plymouth - 21nm - 5 hours
7. Plymouth to Torquay - 43nm - 11 hours
Total 276nm - 69 hours / 3 days underway
The big stretches, Cardiff to Lundy, Lundy to St Ives, are early in the endeavour on purpose. In part, it's the Bristol Channel, so there aren't many options to stop off in between, and in part, it's the Bristol Channel, so if we get the tides right, we should manage an average speed over the ground of somewhat better than 4 knots.
On the Bristol Channel side, obvious bolt holes between Cardiff and Lundy are Ilfracombe or (a bit more out the way) Swansea. Between Lundy and St Ives I think we only have Padstow as an alternative.
Bristol Channel aside, which is a beast we know well enough, the two big, daunting lumps I think I need to worry about are rounding Lands End, and getting around The Lizard.
So St Ives seems a good staging post to time our rounding of Lands End. Calstar's bilge keels can take the ground happily if we want to, so the drying harbour isn't a problem. Unless the weather's very settled, I'm going to go around the outside of Longships. I'd like to do it in daylight, if only to enjoy the view.
And once around Lands End, Newlyn seems a good spot from where to stage our rounding of The Lizard. Once past the Lizard, everything there on is relatively straight forward.
I think the above, with bit of fair weather, Dad and I could probably manage on our own over a space of two weeks.
Alternatively, if we had a third or even a fourth hand to share watches with us, we could condense this into fewer, longer passages:
1. Cardiff to St Ives - 125nm - 31 hours
2. St Ives to Falmouth - 66nm - 17 hours
3. Falmouth to Torquay - 85nm - 21 hours
We would need assistance though. I reckon I could stand a 16 hour watch on my own, but more than that I suspect would be questionable. Dad's fine helming the boat under power or sail in good visibility and fair conditions, but he's a boatman at heart and not a sailor, so it wouldn't be fair to expect him to stand a four to six hour watch alone with the boat beating to windward through the dark of night whilst I slept below.
And, were it just he and I aboard, I know for a fact he wouldn't be able to leave me alone on watch above and go below to rest himself. So I think the passage will either be bite-sized chunks, or we'll have to find a friend or two willing to sail it with us.
Calstar: Bristol Channel webcams
There are a couple of webcams on the Bristol Channel that I quite like. The Porthcawl webcam has long been my favourite (the above was a screenshot taken during one of the October storms), but a close second has always been the Ilfracombe webcam.
Ilfracombe remains one of Dad's favourite destinations with Calstar, and following our last trip there this summer with the Lyndey Yacht Club mob, I think this year it's probably become one of mine.
They've just installed new cameras for the latter, and the image is superb. For a webcam, that is.
Having spent an idle few minutes watching it today, I was suddenly struck by how empty the harbour is a this time of year.
Then I remembered it is, of course, late November. Most sensible people around these parts are off the water now till next spring.
The last photo was taken back in August from up above in the town overlooking the harbour. Calstar is grounded alongside another bilge-keeler (a lovely couple visiting from Newport that same week) furthest but one boat to frame-left, by the bottom of the slipway.
I'm not actually sure when we'll get the chance to revisit. I doubt again this year now, with so little of it left, the weather turning cold and daylight growing short. And although jury is still out as to whether we move to Plymouth or Torquay next spring (in my mind, if not, admittedly, in Dad's), regardless of the choice, we'll probably just sail straight past Ilfracombe on the way down, intent on getting straight to Padstow or St Ives before rounding the corner.
It's almost a shame, but there is at least the comfort of new adventures to be had.
Freefall: an October evening
Talking of moments. I just stumbled across the above snap amongst my photos. I'm not sure who took it, obviously not me, as I'm frame right, so it was probably Dad.
Last night's gig was a much quieter affair, as you'd expect for a Thursday evening in Oldland Common, but still very enjoyable. The photo above was taken on a Saturday night in Fishponds, Bristol, at The Railway, at the end of last month.
That was a good evening's work.
I have this weekend off. Watching the weather forecast, trying to decide where to go and when to sail. Current thinking is to sail up to Portishead Saturday afternoon, supper in Portishead Saturday evening, then back to Cardiff Sunday morning.
I have Monday off work, but at the minute the weather forecast is strongly suggesting I want to spend Monday ashore.
Steve Earley is a man I admire as both a sailor and a photographer. He sails a Pathfinder called "Spartina", a gorgeous little yawl that he built himself, and keeps a journal of his adventures in his blog, The Log of Spartina.
In one of his more recent entries, he wrote of a collection of photographs he recently had cause to look through that ". . . . when scrolling through them . . . . I could remember the moments surrounding each of those images, some a decade old, often being able to recall what I was thinking about while taking the photograph."
I wouldn't, in any way, compare my own photos to the clear artistry in almost every image Steve captures, but in this, at least, we are quite the same.
I'm privileged to enjoy a chaotic, kinetic, fast moving life full of rich and varied experiences, and equally rich and varied relationships. And all to often the narrative gets lost amidst the noise and fury of living in the moment.
Ask me what I was doing this time three days ago, and I have no idea.
Show me a photo I took on a beach in Weston in 2001, or a souk in Kuwait in 1989 or a dog and a boy on a sofa in Gloucester in 2016, and I'll tell you exactly what I was doing, what I was thinking, what I could see, taste, smell and how I felt as the moment was caught by the camera.
One thing that does seem to catch me though, more and more, is just how much time has passed since the photo was taken. It's as if the perspective of time passed is amplified by how clear those images still remain in my mind's eye.
One of the contributions to the comments section of the previously mentioned Ormerod piece concerning the furore Greggs have kicked up:
What do you get if you spell Jesus backwards?
That made me chuckle.
Comment: holy sausage rollers
This story made me chuckle; the whole outrage about Greggs the pasty shop substituting a sausage roll for the baby Jesus in a navity scene. And I chose my capitalisation and spelling with irreverent, intentional care.
Some of the comment that followed I found quite insightful though, especially Peter Omerod's thoughts in the Guardian:
www.theguardian.com/.../christian-greggs-sausage-roll-jesus-bakery-chain
I personally feel it's still far too early in the year to be putting up Nativity Scenes anywhere, involving sausage rolls or not, but I guess I'll have to bow to the inevitable. Halloween is out of the way, Christmas is as good as here. However, good on Greggs for scoring a double publicity win with a single PR stunt. It's certainly had me thinking about the convenience pastry chain store significantly more this week than I normally think about them.
Which is to say I probably thought about them twice. Three times, if you include my writing this comment.
Much as I enjoyed Mr Omerod's musings, one in particular made me chuckle:
"The fact that it’s funny tells us just how potent some of these key aspects of Christian iconography remain. A picture in which a sausage roll replaced, say, Alan Titchmarsh, wouldn’t have nearly the same effect."
I don't necessarily agree. We played a gig once, many years ago, for the Mess at RAF Brize Norton (a local airbase). It was packed, very lively, with a very good-natured, "work hard play hard" and exceptionally drunken, boisterous crowd. Really good fun. And one of the few gigs I've played where the bouncers had guns and combat boots.
At one point, they kidnapped our keyboard player from the stage and replaced him with a lilo.
They found it hilarious. As did we. Not so sure Jim (said keyboardist) was as comfortable with the joke, but it goes to support my own view that almost any ridiculous substitution is generally grounds for hilarity.
Besides, substituting a sausage roll into any pastiche involving Alan Titchmarch can surely only ever be a step in a positive direction in terms of increasing the interest and engagement of said picture?
Buffy: an unexpected day off
The forecast was an interesting one for this weekend just gone. An essentially moderate 15ish knots or so, but gusting to 35 or more. Things are around here are definitely beginning to feel autumnal.
That put paid to any plans for sailing Calstar, so Saturday was, following an hour of karate in the morning, squandered at home tidying up the garden and cleaning the kitchen. That pretty much saw off the day. The evening didn't involve anything more aduous than watching "Blackhawk Down" on Netflix and a few bottles of beer. I sometimes think I ought to feel guilty about drinking at home. But if I didn't drink at home, then when would I get the chance to drink?
We'd had a gig booked for early Sunday evening down in Bristol, which originally put certain restrictions on any other plans for the weekend, but on Saturday morning I had a call from the venue's new manager explaining that he'd been told the previous manager had cancelled us earlier in the year so he'd subsequently double-booked us with a karaoke. I'm never one to turn down the offer of a gig, but I have to admit I was almost relieved. I'd spent the week working up to it trying to work out what time we'd need to get to the venue to set up, and whether or not that would give me enough time earlier in the day to race Buffy at Frampton first. With the gig cancelled, I effectively had an unexpected day off, so freedom to race around the lake at my leisure. And I'd had the foresight to message Amanda a few days earlier to ask if she was available to race with me.
So I had a crew to race with.
35 knot gusts. I was trying, ever so hard, not to get my hopes up too much.
It was grey, flat and raining softly when I first arrived at the Club on Sunday morning at a little after 1000, so the first thing I did was go get changed into my drysuit before getting the boat out.
Which duly brought the sun out not ten minutes later. A light wind was blowing from a northerly direction as I rigged the Enterprise. Two minutes silence for Remembrance Sunday at 1100 and then we launched. Two races, the first a pursuit, then followed by a general fleet handicap, both races about an hour long and running back to back, the latter being a new format for Frampton. In the lead up to the start of the first race, the wind began to build as forecast. There was one other Enterprise on the water with us, Geoff and Sue in "Ghost". The wind, typically shifty as it always is when in the north, put a huge port bias on the start line but neither us nor Geoff thought to do anything with it. Ghost had a pretty grim start, about ten seconds late to the line; for reasons I can't explain let alone begin to excuse, ours was worse, and we were closer to twenty seconds late going over. The first beat was a boisterous, gusty affair, both Amanda and I hiked out hard for a lot of it to keep the boat flat and driving.
Since Hels retired from sailing to chase other interests, I've raced with Amanda a couple of times now, but both the previous occasions had been little more than drifts. We're not especially practiced at sailing together, and still find ourselves pulling on the wrong bits of rope and rushing the occasional roll tack, although we've mostly stopped colliding with each other when we do so (although I did in the second race accidentally clout her around the back of the head with the tiller extension). However, Amanda's quick on her toes, has good balance and is not shy of hiking hard when needed; although we started well astern of Ghost, the blustery, energetic beat up to windward saw us catch back up with them and pass ahead just before we rounded the windward mark.
They snuck back past us again halfway through, but with the conditions building through the race, our stamina paid off and we regained our lead again. And then, in the closing five minutes of the pursuit, we found ourselves ahead of and outside of a gust astern on a downwind leg that brought Ghost, Phil in his Aero and Ian in his Solo screaming down on top of us just as we hit the gybe mark.
The Aero left us for dust as we sailed high, pushing Ghost hard to windward. I don't remember if we broke her overlap, it's possible we might have cleared the leeward mark just ahead of them, but the wind had dropped for the last beat, and so between there and windward they inexorably pulled out in front to round ahead of us in the dying minutes of the race. Another unlucky gust accelerated the Solo past us to leeward shorty after, again leaving us untouched,fading just as the increased pressure would otherwise have hit our sails. Three places lost in the final moments of what was otherwise a great race.
The second race saw the wind building even more as noon came and passed. A heavy port bias but relatively short startline meant we all queued up and started in an unruly gaggle on starboard, with most of us tacking off onto port as soon as we were able.
I don't remember if we beat Ghost to windwards again in the second race, but we had a better start (which, to be fair, isn't saying much compared to start of the race before), and by the second lap were certainly ahead, but with her and a gaggle of Solos snapping closely at our tail. The OOD had set a classic Frampton course back and forth across the lake around six separate racing marks, including, perhaps maliciously given the forecast, four gybes; although even in the gusts, at least up until about then, they had been quite managable in the Ent. A few of the single-handers were capsizing here and there to keep the safety boat on their toes, but we'd not had any real concerns.
After the inital beat and the first windward mark at Yellow, the second leg of the course was a broad reach from the there down to the first gybe at Red, which turned into goose-winged run about halfway down as the wind bent to port. Ghost and the clutter of single-handers were just astern of us as we prepared to take the gybe, when a massive gust hit just as I started the turn to leeward. The little dinghy lurched violently, trying to claw back to windward and broach; already too far committed, I brutally forced the tiller over and Amanda hauled on the kicker to coax the boom across. A tangle of shouting and spray passed to windward of us as the boats astern, Ghost amongst them, aborted any attempt to gybe and instead tried to tack through. Our boom came across with a bang and a splash, Amanda and I hiked to try and bring the boat flat and hauled in on the sails. Buffy lept away like a thing possessed, gripped in the teeth of a huge gust.
The next leg should've been a close-hauled fetch, but I quickly gave up any pretense of trying to lay the mark and instead footed off to flatten the boat and let her plane down towards the opposite shore on a close reach, determined just to keep her upright until the gust had blown through. The compromise paid rich rewards, and we were already happily gybing around the next mark at Green-White by the time Ghost and the Solos astern had untangled themselves enough to finally navigate their way around Red.
The rest of the race kept up this brutal tone. A short while later, Ghost capsized, took a while to get back up, and so retired. We took one tumble, simply overpowered on the beat, my tiring hands not spilling the wind from the sail before the heeling boat locked the boom in to the water and a swim became inevitable. For Amanda, at least. For my own ignoble part, I stood on anything I could find and scrambled up over the windward gunwhale and straight onto the centreboard, keeping happily dry. But it also meant we were able to get Buffy back up quickly, still pointing in the direction we'd been going, and were able to get on with our race. Of course, an Enterprise being what it is, she came up swamped with water, gunwhales submerged, hanging on her bouyancy bags. The next half a lap was akin to sailing a bathtub full of water.
The rest of the hour was fantastic, physical sailing, hard hiking up the beats, joyous screaming down the reaches, and abject terror at the four gybe marks. We chickened out at two of them and wore around with a tack instead, but didn't capsize again despite everything the afternoon had to throw at us.
We finally finished fourth out of a fleet of twelve, the swamping that resulted from our one capsize inevitably costing us, despite our quick recovery. Of the twelve boats that started, six had retired before the end, so it's probably fair to say we secured our fourth place through simple attrition rather than any great merit due our sailing.
It's sailing like that which leaves me feeling conflicted and thinking twice as to whether or not I'm going to sell the Enterprise at the end of this year. I really enjoy the freedom and flexibility of racing single-handed, but there is definitely something very rewarding about finishing a hard race in a double-hander, about sharing the thrills and spills of such a race with your crew.
Of moonlight & evening classes
Last Tuesday evening after work; the lake at Frampton, very pretty beneath the moonlight. Back there again tomorrow night, in the middle of an RYA "Yachtmaster Coastal" theory course that's being run at the Club. Three and a half hours every Tuesday evening for 16 weeks, the instructor is running it alongside a Day Skipper course at the same time.
I'm finding this dual running format very tedious, it's very difficult to stay engaged. I appreciate the Coastal syllabus has to involve some revision of the theory we covered with Day Skipper, but so far the content has felt very "Day Skipper revision" heavy, so the three and a half hours every Tuesday night do seem to drag out interminably, despite the obvious proficiency, experience and charm of the instructor.
Not to mention I'm missing my regular, local Tuesday evening karate sessions. I'm trekking out to Cinderford every Thursday evening to train there instead. Same club, albeit a mostly different set of students, but 40 minutes drive each way which I've got to admit takes an amount of grit to work yourself up into doing after a long day in the office, even when you know it has to be done and it's always going to feel like it was worth it afterwards.
The course runs through till February. At this point I'm very much wishing I'd taken Dad's advice, spent the extra cash and taken the necessary two weekends out of sailing and the extra day off work to do the whole course in five days at a commercial training center down in Portishead.
Never mind. I'm sure it'll be worth it in the end.
And last week the moonlight did look ever so pretty as it danced over the waters of Frampton lake.
Calstar: lake sailing
I had a gig Friday night, but the rest of the weekend free, and Nik, unusually, had the entire weekend off work to spend with me. So the original plan was to sail up to Portishead from Cardiff on Saturday afternoon, supper in Portishead Saturday evening, and sail back to Cardiff Sunday morning.
The gig went to plan. But that was about it.
November 5th is, of course, Bonfire Night here in the UK. In previous years, this hasn't caused much of a problem for our dogs; most of them couldn't care less, and those that did fret took comfort from the confidence of the others.
This year, Jack who in previous years has been oblivious, decided that this year he was going to go all barky and hyper excitable at the merest hint of a pop or a crackle. This in turn left poor Boo, not the most confident of furry souls in the best of times, feeling decidedly edgy and anxious every time Jack went off on one.
So instead of sailing up from Cardiff for supper in Portishead on Saturday night, I spent most of Saturday evening like this:
It wasn't entirely the fault of the fireworks. The forecast wasn't exactly playing ball either. It was lovely for Saturday, a fresh northwesterly set to drive us up to Portishead. But the promise for Saturday was not so great; wind increasing to 25 knots and backing more to the west of northwest.
Hardly terrible weather, especially with the sun expected to shine, but as a general rule of thumb, I don't take Nikki out sailing with us unless I can avoid it if the forecast is for more than 20 knots. Add in Sunday's spring tide of the weekend (13m range) and things had the potential to get quite lively.
I nearly broke the rule and went anyway.
Instead, we decided to have a quite Saturday night in (that is, Jack, Boo, Lilly and I; Nikki opted to leave us to it and go out to bingo, a strange, infernal game the charm of which utterly evades me) and then go down to the boat on Sunday and have a sail in the bay, behind the shelter of the Barrage, before heading over to Mermaid Quay for lunch.
The advantage of Cardiff Bay is that it's typically flat, sheltered water, essentially a big freshwater lake. So even if it's gusting past 25 knots, it's still usually a relatively benign place to potter about under sail with the family.
There were a couple of other yachts out, reaching back and forth across the mile wide stretch of water under their headsails alone, and a charming little Drascombe Coaster called "Pintail" making a very fine show of handling the conditions. We spent a very pleasant hour in the chill autumn sun ourselves reaching from one end to the other, Dad on the helm and me coaching Nik with handling the sheets through the occasional tack. She made an initially grudging crew, but gradually warmed to her task.
Although I kept two reefs in the main and a couple of rolls in the genoa, the conditions didn't really warrant it. The general wind speed was in the end within the shelter of the bay no more than a F3 or low 4, but the occasional gusts that blew did push into a definite 5. Having the sails reefed down made life a lot more relaxed for Dad at the helm.
I think Dad would happily have stayed out there reaching back and forth all morning, but hunger eventually got the better of us and we dropped the sails, put in alongside Mermaid Quay, and went ashore to get a late lunch at a Chinese in Cardiff's Red Dragon Centre. One of these "all you can eat" type buffet affairs, pleasant enough food within the limits of what it was but wouldn't have been my first choice. However, Dad had remembered the ice-cream machine from the last time we'd eaten there, and the lure of it was too much to resist a return.
What the food lacked in quality it more than made up for in quantity. Sated, almost to the point of unconsciousness, it was fortunately only a quick fifteen minute trot back across the Bay to our berth in Penarth, managed without mishap, and then a relatively easy drive back home.
A most enjoyable way to spend a Sunday.
Morning Lilly
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You'd think she owned the place, the way she lords it around here.
October: proof of life
The month is almost out, and I realise, with not a little surprise, that I've not posted up here since September. Life has been busy. October has kind of sped by. But I'm still here, and we're all happy and well.
Back at the beginning of the month, Dad declared that next year he'd very much like to move Calstar around the corner and into the English Channel. His opening offer was Exmouth. Not completely against the idea, but not overly enamoured about the restrictions of getting in and out of the marina there (can't get through the bridge at the entrance after the restaurant closes at night) I suggested we pick somewhere in Plymouth instead.
Not too much of a further drive, but unrivalled access to open water, and a day's sail from some of my favourite Cornish haunts. So rather than sailing the first weekend of October, we took a day trip (by car) down to Plymouth to have a look around.
The photo above was taken as we were being given a tour of Sutton Harbour by the marina office there.
I did open heart surgery on my trusty old Xperia Z tablet. The USB charging socket had been degenerating for a while, and had finally failed; either salt induced corrosion, or physical damage, it's led a demanding life.
I've been living with Dad's iPad and Navionics for most of this season and whilst it does the job, I'm not a great fan. I was going to throw the Xperia out and buy a new tablet, but in an idle shift of fancy, decided to have a go at replacing the USB socket.
The replacement part, sourced online, cost little more than a fiver. The tools needed cost a little more. Removing the back, glued securely on and not intended to provide user access, was a tortuous affair. I then removed the failed USB socket and replaced with the new component.
Plugged in. No light. Then I noticed a "stray" resistor sitting on the battery. A closer look revealed that in removing the back of the tablet, I'd caught the power switch circuit, and severed one of the components.
The same company that provided the replacement socket also provided a replacement powerswitch and circuit. Again, little more than a fiver, and delivered via the post the next day.
The red glow in the bottom right insert of the above photo shows the happy conclusion.
The Xperia is back in service. I'm not entirely confident it is as water resistant as it once was, but it's not as if I actually go swimming with the thing. Only sailing. In occasional rain and inevitable spray. We shall see how long it lasts, but every trip it makes from here on in is an unexpected bonus.
The weekends have been a bit full. By the time we get to the end of the year, the band will have played 46 gigs, and I will have been at every one. Realising I wouldn't get much chance of sailing with Dad with the weekends being so busy, I booked a Friday off early in the month and we took a trip out of the Bay and around nearby Flat Holm.
It was a very low spring tide, so although the winds were forecast to be relatively light, in the end the day delivered more wind than promised, and with so much water flowing, the numerous races between Lavernock and the Holm were in boisterous form.
It made for a lively sail and a very enjoyable afternoon's sailing.
The dogs and kids are well. Although in principle two of the three kids have now moved out, leaving only their younger brother at home, the middle one has been regularly coming home every weekend. He's living down in Bristol now, where he's settling into his first year as a science teacher, but apparently the convenience of our washing machine and tumble-drier are too much for him to resist.
And, despite his decision to work in Bristol and so move down there (it was where he spent his three years at Uni so he has an affection for the place) his friends live up here, so he's continually drawn back to see them at weekends.
Ending the month in similar fashion to how we began, Dad and I took another day trip down south to look at marinas, this time Torquay and neighbouring Brixham.
Dad was quite taken with Torquay. Closer than Plymouth by about twenty minutes drive, it is an undeniably lovely spot. A bit too "busy" for my personal taste, as it's a classic English seaside town and a tourist spot, but that appeals to Dad, who spends as much time visiting the boat whilst I'm at work during the week as we do sailing her.
Personally, I favour moving to Queen Anne's Battery in Plymouth next year, putting us within a day's sailing of either Fowey or Torquay as the mood and weather dictates, and keeping Torquay as a destination, and not a base.
Plenty of time to think about it still, however. And whichever new home we choose, getting the boat there next spring is going to be quite the adventure.
Once more not having any time to sail last weekend, I snuck out of the office again on Friday to go for a sail with Dad. In contrast to the low water spring tide at the beginning of the month, we had a high water neap; with relatively little flow in the water, the corresponding reduction in silt almost made the sea look blue.
With little wind, we simply pottered about in the Penarth Roads outside the Barrage, Dad at the helm for the three hours we were out. He's taking much more interest in the actual sailing of the boat these days, so it was a good opportunity to practice gybing and tacking in the light and forgiving conditions.
With blue skies and calm seas, you could almost be forgiven for forgetting that winter is just around the corner. But the leaves are almost all gone from the trees now, and with the clocks slipping back last Sunday, it's now dark by the time I'm driving home from the office in the evening.
I was still in shorts when running the Safety Boat for a Laser Open on the lake at Frampton this last Saturday, but we did have the first frost on the car windscreen when setting off for work this morning.
Summer is finally done.
Buffy: all change
Geoff (of the Frampton Enterprise "Ghost") collared me at the Club whilst I was helping out with their open day on Saturday. He's without crew next Sunday and asked if I fancied a sail. Naturally I said yes, and as an aside hoped for a little bit of wind to play with on the day.
Checked the forecast on Monday; heart sank.
It was almost as if somebody had thrown a switch and shut everything off. Big, heavy high sat over the continent apparently, blocking all the lovely Atlantic weather out.
This morning, it being wet but windy outside the window, I had another look. Things are definitely looking up.
I'm almost certainly going to sell my own Enterprise "Buffy" at the end of the year and buy a Laser. The lady that has sailed with me for nearly every race over the last five years is hanging up her buoyancy aid to focus on other interests, and I really do fancy returning to the comparative freedom and independence of a single-hander again.
Ever since I first introduced her to the Club, took her out for her first sail and promptly knocked her out with the boom during an ill-advised gybe, Hels and I have had some fantastic adventures over the last half a decade of racing together. I'm going to miss sailing with her.
So if anybody wants to buy a "well-loved" Enterprise dinghy by all means feel free to make me an offer. To be fair, a lot of that has been very rough love, but she's held up well all things considered. She's not a pretty young thing anymore, but she's still quite capable of winning the odd race or two.
That said, I'm in no great rush. We still have a whole winter's worth of sailing ahead of us yet, including the Enterprise Open at Frampton in a couple of weeks time, so I'm planning to get through that and then replace her in the New Year. Not the best time to sell a boat, but what I lose on the selling I'll hopefully gain on the buying.
The photos accompanying this post are just an exercise in nostalgia on my part; various shots of the two of us racing the two Enterprises we've owned together over the last few years.
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Tech stocks are August’s winners thanks to Apple
Investor enthusiasm ahead of the launch of the new iPhone lifted Apple shares to a new record high, and helped make technology the best performing sector of the US market in August.
The upswing marked a sharp turnround from earlier in the month, when the sector had been weakened by bouts of profit-taking, especially for the so-called FAANG stocks — Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix and Alphabet, which was formerly known as Google. The sector has led the market this year with a gain of more than a fifth.
The renewed buying also pushed the Nasdaq Composite to a fresh closing high on Thursday.
Investors attributed the gains of recent days to various factors, including a spillover of momentum from Apple shares, which have jumped on news that the new iPhone will be unveiled on September 12. Its stock added more than 10 per cent in August.
For some investors, the interest in tech was a case of FOMO — fear of missing out.
“If tech is the gainer, I don’t want to be the loser,” explained JJ Kinahan, chief market strategist at TD Ameritrade. “I don’t want to miss an up move on these stocks.”
One catalyst on Thursday, Mr Kinahan said, was word that the Trump administration plans to release a more detailed tax plain in the next few weeks, according to an interview with Steven Mnuchin, US Treasury secretary, in the Wall Street Journal.
“If the hunch is that there is going to be something in that tax plan about repatriating money [held by US companies overseas], that sector [tech] will benefit most,” Mr Kinahan said.
Others pointed to a return of the “risk on” trade, a reversal of a move by investors this month to what are perceived as stable, dividend-paying areas, such as utilities. As recently as a few days ago, utilities shares were on track to be the top monthly performer in the S&P 500 for the first time since September of 2015.
“It was ‘risk off’, then we saw a re-risking in the last few days,” said Michael Underhill, chief investment officer at Capital Innovations. “Apple, Facebook — those are the go-to names in the risk-on mentality.”
Mr Underhill also said that concern about the negative effect of Hurricane Harvey on US economic growth has driven investors back to tech, which offers the hope of growth regardless of the underlying economy.
Tech also benefits from growth outside the US.
“It has to do with making up lost ground, strong earnings growth and it is the most internationally exposed place to be,” said Burns McKinney, a portfolio manager with Allianz Global Investors. “You have had European growth that has been solid, China has actually had good GDP numbers and . . . Japan posting 4 per cent GDP growth.”
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Legal Marijuana Farming's Phantom Profits and Why The Real Profits Are For Crooks
"The boom in medical pot farms has led to a decline in pot prices, which in turn has caused people to grow even more to make up for their income losses, further exacerbating the problem, state and federal law enforcement and environmental officials say. Both public and private lands are suffering as a result."
-- From Cleaning Up After Pot Growers Challenges North Coast; The Press Democrat (Santa Rosa, California); July 24, 2014
In response to every study and news report revealing more about the environmental damage done by commercial marijuana ("pot") cultivation, in answer to every report about criminal involvement in the industry, advocates of pot have one reply: Legalize it.
By this they mean legalize the cultivation of pot at the federal level of U.S. government. This on the argument that once the federal government puts its weight behind regulating commercial pot growing it will result in better enforcement of regulations and knock criminals out of the pot growing business. That last on the assumption that under a legal regime the price of pot would decline to the point where legal growers could match or even beat the price charged by organized crime.
Yet the entire argument is wrong. This is first because it ignores retail business economics 101. The chaos that erupted in California, indicated in the quote I provided above, could have been predicted by any Walmart executive.
Second, the pot legalization argument can't seem to distinguish between agriculture for human consumption and the manufacture of chachkas. Pot agriculture intersects with no less than four heavily regulated retail areas in the USA. This is because pot is used as a medication, added to processed foodstuffs, and cultivated commercially both indoors and outdoors. Those last two items also fall under every kind of American environmental regulation one can name.
Add to this the fact that while virtually all the regulations also apply to other types of agriculture for human consumption in the USA, there are features of pot agriculture that place a unique regulatory burden on it.
All this means the regulatory regime covering just the agricultural aspects of marijuana is only slightly larger than the planet Saturn.
The cost of complying with this regime is in the stratosphere. How, then, have any licensed commercial pot growers been able to make a profit up to this point? Because the U.S. states that license the growers have never enforced any more than a fraction of the regulations and even then only in haphazard fashion.
And even with the will to enforce compliance, the cost of doing so is fabulously expensive. This is because commericial pot agriculture has two unique aspects:
1. The dual nature of commercial pot cultivation -- indoor and outdoor -- places it under two large and vastly different sets of regulations.
2. Pot's cultivation sites are ubiquitous. If you want to inspect, say, commercial corn farms in your state, it's pretty hard to miss a corn field. But if you want to inspect commercial marijuana, first you have to find where it's grown. This can be anywhere -- inside a private home, a warehouse in a town's commercial district, in a forest or back yard, or interspersed with other crops in a field.
Piling those two factors on top of a regulatory regime larger than Saturn means that enforcement would gobble up all the revenue pot-licensing states realize from taxing pot sales, and then some. Yet by skimping on regulation the states have in effect been subsidizing commercial pot agriculture. This has created the illusion that there are profits in the industry that don't actually exist.
It's this illusion that investment funds, venture capitalists, pot legalization advocates, and economists have been pitching when they laud the big profits in legal marijuana farming.
There are big profits all, right. The fine print is that the profits can only be made illegally -- by both the regulators and pot farmers cutting regulatory corners.
But if pot cultivation is legalized at the federal level, this would bring in a host of federal agencies that would set about enforcing codes, chiefly by handing out mountains of fines for noncompliance.
This would force state governments to spend their revenue from taxing pot sales on code enforcement, a problem they'd try to solve by slapping all kinds of fees and taxes on pot farmers in their states.
There's only a handful of U.S. agricultural corporations with deep enough pockets to cover expenses from that big a double whammy. However, Big Ag would have three good reasons not to grow pot: its cultivation can't be offshored, the product can't be exported, and the law suit regime that would gear up if pot is legalized at the federal level. The regime would be huge because it'll cover so many issues, including environmental and health ones.
That would leave the smaller fry to attempt to eke out pennies in profits from high volume production of pot.
To boil it down, under a federally enforced regulatory regime, commercial marijuana farming would be so costly the only entities that could legally make a decent profit from it would be law firms, accounting firms, auditing firms, and banks.
That would keep the door open for organized crime, which can make a good profit under a federally enforced legal pot regime in the same way it does now: by ignoring every U.S. law related to agriculture.
It would also continue to incentive lawbreaking by licensed pot growers. California's 18 year experience with licensed medical pot growing demonstrates that there is no surer way to turn law-abiding citizens into scofflaws than by setting up an industry that delivers good profits only by breaking the law.
So a bonus for forcing down the price of pot through high volume production while forcing up the cost of compliance is that it switches out Mexican organized crime's control of the illegal pot industry for American organized crime's control of the legal industry. One consequence would be a level of corruption in U.S. state governments not seen since alcohol's prohibition days.
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"Once in a lifetime there comes a sportsman who defies any description. He defies suggested wisdom, past experience, the quality of opposition or the law of averages. There is a vision in his eyes which only he could conjure up. And execute."
SACHIN RAMESH TENDULKAR
Shane Warned!
"Australia,we have a problem" wrote Malcom Knox in an SOS in The Melbourne Age,describing what he called "the first time an Australian attack featuring Warne has been put away with masterly precision".
Dono Bradman?
It all started with the great Don himself appreciating Sachin's talent in an interview. High praises had been sung before by others but the Don's comments made the fans go into a frenzy. The icing on the cake cake came when Sachin was invited to Adelide to meet Don Bradman on his 90th birthday.
Operation Desert Storm @ Sharjah
A willow-wielder gifted with such an exciting co-ordination of brain, eye and foot can make the bat do anything. It all unfolded in that blooming cricket desert Sharjah on two days, the first day to take India into the final and on the next, to win the cup, outclassing the Australians.
The Back Injury
It was an injury that threatened to end an illustrious career. It was an injury that made headlines all over the cricketing world. It was an injury that made celebrities of unknown people. It was an injury that had India on its toes ...
The Grace & Diana Memorial match
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Sachin as Captain - 1st Innings
It was hailed as a great decision, one which millions of Indians had been eagerly waiting to happen. An year later, it proved to be a disaster.
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Billie Tweets, iPhone heats
As Steve Jobs returns to work at Apple, several other sci-tech developments also are making news today. Here's a brief looks at these start-of-the-week stories:
Climate: The U.S. House on Friday passed a climate bill that would cap emissions of heat-trapping gases. Time has a story about what the bill could mean for climate change. Scientists have been asking for action to curb global warming for some time, and The Guardian reports on a new study that says the New Orleans coast will be under water by 2100 because of rising temperatures.
Jackson: Michael Jackson continues to make tech headlines following his death on Thursday. News of the King of Pop's death was so popular it nearly took down some parts of the Internet, CNN reports. If you're not completely sick of MJ videos yet, check out the site Billie Tweets, which pairs Twitter posts about "Billy Jean" with the music video. (Thanks to TechCrunch for linking to the site). It's cool how technology leads to new means of expression.
iPhones: And finally, speaking once more of Apple, reports are surfacing that the new iPhone 3GS is suffering from overheating problems. PC World's Melissa J. Perenson says she was playing a game on her phone and surfing its Web browser Friday for news about Michael Jackson when she noticed the device getting hot:
toasty doesn't even describe how surprisingly hot it got. It was too hot to even put the phone against my face. No discoloration to report, though; I have the black handset, and didn't see any effects.
Wired.com's Charlie Sorrel also discusses the issue in a blog post.
We'll monitor this to see whether these are isolated incidents or the start of a bigger problem for Apple. As always, we'd like to hear from you, too. Have any iPhone 3GS owners out there noticed your new phone getting unusually hot?
Filed under: iPhone Twitter
Jerry Stroh June 29th, 2009 2:12 pm ET
Yes I have noticed my iphone getting warm while in use. I hope they fix this
Brian in Houson June 29th, 2009 4:32 pm ET
I dont have an iphone 3GS just the previous 3G. And on some apps my phone has always gotten hot.
Dan June 30th, 2009 1:03 pm ET
I would use the word warm as opposed to hot, and mainly in conjunction with apps that I instinctively know use more processing power or silicon chips. If you turn the brightness up on high and play on Google Earth or any 3D game for a little while you'll understand. ...but, it's consistent with every other device I've ever used. Whoever invents a processor that is both (relatively) powerful, small, and doesn't generate heat (pretty sure it's impossible unless we're talking carbon nanotubes) we'll be a wealthy and recognized individual.
Alexis Martin May 3rd, 2010 2:19 pm ET
i will really miss the King of Pop. michael jackson is truly the best pop artist in this lifetime.`*'
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PRESS RELEASE:Jones Paases Legislation to Protect Stalking Victims
Jones Passes Legislation to Protect Stalking Victims
Springfield, IL – Today State Senator Emil Jones (D-Chicago) passed legislation through the Senate that will make stalkers face another barrier to finding their human prey. Senate Bill 2267 makes it illegal for a stalker to use a private investigator to stalk his or her victim.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION:
April 15, 2011 Larry Luster 217-782-0907
The legislation stems from a 2003 incident when Patrick Kennedy shot and killed Margaret “Peggy” Klinke and then committed suicide. Due to threats against her, Klinke obtained a restraining order against Kennedy and changed residences. Unfortunately, despite Klinke’s efforts to defend herself, Kennedy tracked her down with the help of a private investigator.
“Today we enacted a common sense provision to protect innocent victims from these brutish crimes. Nobody should have to live in fear of a stalker,” Jones said.
The legislation is based on the belief that someone who has been legally restrained from contacting another individual has no legitimate reason to discover that person’s whereabouts. The bill would provide one more barrier for stalkers to overcome and create one more tool that law enforcement can use to protect victims of stalkers.
“My heart goes out the families that have experienced similar situations as the Klinke family. It is my duty to help prevent these same incorrigible circumstances from occurring in our communities,” Jones said.
Senate Bill 2267 now goes before the House of Representatives for consideration.
Letter from debbie riddle, sister of Peggy Klinke
Senator Emil Jones III
I back Senate Bill 2267 100%. Using a private investigator and the information that he/she provides the stalker makes the process of tracking
down the victim much easier and quicker. This is precious time when a victim is forming a safety plan or is on the run from her abuser.
We need all the help the law can provide when holding stalkers accountable for their actions, no matter what venue they choose to stalk
their victim - private investigators are a very popular and easy source to work with when obtaining information about a victim.
Had Peggys stalker, Patrick Kennedy, not utilized information from a private investigator, it may have taken him longer to find her, the
trial would have happened and he would of been behind bars. The use of the information from the private investigator made it a faster
and easier path to locate Peggy and murder her.
Thank you for all that you do to protect the lives of the victims.
Debbie Riddle
sister of Peggy Klinke
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AeroVironment Shares Jump on Hedge Fund Interest
By Business Journal Staff
AeroVironment Inc. shares jumped 14 percent Wednesday on news that a Newport Beach hedge fund had acquired a 5.1 percent stake in the Monrovia maker of unmanned drone aircraft and electric-car charging stations.
Engaged Capital, an investment firm specializing in small- and mid-cap companies, now owns about 1.6 million shares. According to regulatory filings, it began acquiring its stake in November. The purchases make it the third-largest shareholder, after Chief Executive Tim Conver and L.A. mutual fund giant Capital Group Cos. Inc.
Engaged said in a press release that AeroVironment’s share price could be boosted with better corporate governance and financial disclosures, a stronger capital structure and renewed focus on capital allocation.
“In our view, concerns over an excess of cash in the capital structure, a lack of granularity and specificity with respect to its growth plans, and uncertainty surrounding its heavy exposure to the defense budget are all addressable issues,” Glenn Welling, Engaged’s principal and chief investment officer, said in a statement.
In its own statement, AeroVironment, which also has operations in Simi Valley, noted that the company has an experienced board of directors that regularly evaluates the company’s capital structure and capital allocation priorities so as to “support growth initiatives without compromising our ability to make quick and decisive strategic investments in emerging opportunities.”
That being said, the company said it “welcomes open communications with all of its stockholders and values their input towards the goal of enhancing stockholder value.”
Pentagon budget cuts have slowed the pace of orders for AeroVironment drones, and sluggish adoption of electric cars in United States has stunted growth in its car-charger unit. The company announced job cuts in May, and last month reported it had moved to a loss in its fiscal fourth quarter.
Shares at one point been were down 20 percent from the first of the year, but have recovered in recent weeks, and before today’s news were off only 7 percent from the beginning of the year.
AeroVironment shares closed up Wednesday $2.92, or 14 percent, to $23.57 on the Nasdaq.
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Cheerleaders finish 11th at state championship
by jgoralski • March 14, 2018 • 0 Comments
The Knights finished 11th at the Class LL cheerleading championship on Sunday, March 4. (Submitted)
By BRIAN JENNINGS
The Lady Knight cheerleading squad placed 11th out of 16 teams with a score of 126.4 at the Class LL Championship on Sunday, March 4. Only allowed six competitions in a season, it was Southington’s fifth, and Coach Heather Allenback said that the team had some big hurdles to overcome following the loss of a couple key cheerleaders in the month of December.
“We had to kind of reconfigure everything that we had been working on up until that point,” said Allenback. “We had to relearn everything that we had been working on.”
The Knights almost lost three cheerleaders for the season after one of their girls had undergone major back surgery, missing about a month of school. At this point last year, Allenback said that she didn’t know if that girl was ever going to cheer again.
Sure enough, that girl returned, and Allenback said that she went back to her usual position of being thrown back into the air as a flyer, regaining about 85 percent of what she was able to do before.
“Her growth, leadership, and willingness to step up through a potentially risky injury was just remarkable,” said Allenback. “I am so proud of her.”
Allenback said that she’s going to try to continue her cheerleading career with what she can do.
“She just can’t do the tumbling piece because she doesn’t have the back flexibility anymore, but she has everything else,” said Allenback. “She went up in the air and did all the things that we really needed her to do. It was amazing.”
Senior cheerleaders Shelby Doerfler, Michelle Flynn, and Sarah Newhart model the new Southington uniforms. (Submitted)
During the regular season, the Knights came away with third and fifth-place performances in meets at Windsor and Torrington. The Knights earned a West Division title after finishing fourth overall at their league competition, and headed into the state meet with a first-place finish in their category at the New England Cheerleading Association Open Cheer and Dance Championship.
“We were pumping along really well, and then when we got to states, we probably let our nerves get the better of us,” said Allenback. “We just had a few incidental mistakes that cost you in the world of cheerleading. So, we just didn’t perform as well as we could have, but I was really proud of them. They did a really good job this year.”
Although the state meet hasn’t been so kind to the Knights in recent years, Southington is no stranger to medaling there. From 2012 to 2015, the Knights have had top-five finishes in either the Class LL or coed division, and Allenback said that the program had gone through a little bit of a lull since then, but is starting to make its way back to the success it once had.
“We really haven’t had the best middle school feeder programs,” said Allenback. “Middle school sports have been sliced and diced in Southington, and cheerleading was part of that. So, I relied a lot on and made relationships with the youth program in town.”
Allenback said that the requirements are also harder now than they were back in 2012.
“Things have gotten a little more stringent and difficult,” said Allenback. “It’s a really demanding sport, and in Southington, it’s a commitment. It definitely can take its toll on individuals.”
Allenback said that she’s still trying her best to keep building up the program, and one way of doing that is through their youth cheerleading program. Allenback said that she is expecting a good turnout from the Southington Knights travel cheerleaders to come out for the team next season.
She’s had one or two girls from the youth cheerleading program in town come out for the team over the past few years, but Allenback said that she is relying a lot on that program to produce future Lady Knight cheerleaders, and next season is the year of a big incoming group that’s had experience on the national and competitive stages.
This past December, the Division 14 (ages 11-14) team qualified for the national championships for the third-straight year and finished as runner-up by nine tenths of a point for the Division 14 national title.
“That’s a pretty well-established program, and there’s a lot of work going on there,” said Allenback. “I think that promoting that relationship with the youth will really start to pan out.”
Members of this year’s varsity team included seniors Shelby Doerfler, Michelle Flynn, and Sarah Newhart; juniors Samantha Callaghan, Caitlin Cochran, Jade O’Keefe, and Julia Uba; sophomores Kelsie Downey, Bella Maindon, Natalie Paré, and Sophia Sarlo; and freshmen Taylor Gaudiosi, Madison Johnston, and Kristy Palmieri.
The junior varsity team from this season included sophomores Gabby Flynn, Ryley Gianni, Abbey Halloran, Erika Miller, Karissa Pfeiffer, Hailey Ryder, Rachel Strillacci, Megan Tedeschi, Martyna Tomczyk, Alyssa Watrous, and Jillian Zitofsky; and freshmen Angelina Angelillo and Casey Blumetti.
To comment on this story or to contact sports writer Brian Jennings, email him at bjennings@southingtonobserver.com.
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Mortality and life’s afterglow
Submitted by admin on Mon, 06/18/2018 - 7:00am
Mary Lee Hagert
Joan Hagert
A death in the family and the feeling of grief that comes with it always bring one’s own mortality into focus, even though we try to blur it as we go about living.
But there was no way to escape thoughts of death as I walked into Maternity of Mary Church in St. Paul last week and picked up a funeral program for my 83-year-old aunt, Joan Theyoan (Delaney) Hagert, and looked at a tinted photograph of her lovely, youthful face on the cover.
Sunlight spilled into the sanctuary, creating a golden glow that early June morning as the soloist sang a beautiful rendition of “Ave Maria,” a family funeral tradition. Tears clouded my vision as the hymn resurrected so many memories of deceased loved ones and connections with the past.
After all, death is that final oblivion we all face, and moves ever closer with the passing of each aunt, uncle and parent. As much as we want it to be otherwise, there’s simply no avoiding that fact.
Watching my cousins sit solemnly in the pews, it hit me they were now much older than their mother was when that portrait photo was taken. I also was struck by the realization that they were now “adult orphans” — their father, Gerald (Jerry), died in 2009.
My dad likes to say that Joan was “the glue that held her family together,” and her death leaves a hole, especially in the hearts of her four sons, three daughters and their spouses and children. But even after she took her final breath, she had an incredible gift for them.
She had pre-planned her entire funeral — from the outfit she wore in her casket to the hymns and Bible passages included in the ceremony. In their grief, my cousins didn’t have to wonder, “What now?” or “What would Mom want?” because she had taken care of it all.
That was typical of Aunt Joan, whose house was always in order, even when my family dropped by unannounced on summer afternoons more than a half century ago. How had so much time passed?
But I had attended Jerry and Joan’s 50th wedding anniversary celebration in 2003, so I knew that passage of time was real. At the party, Joan was all smiles as she posed for photographs and circulated among the many guests.
I once asked her about the origins of her unusual middle name, and she rolled her eyes and laughed as she explained, “I have no idea how my mother came up with Theyoan. I’m sure I was the only girl in Iowa with that name.”
Just days after my aunt’s funeral, the country marked the 50th anniversary of Robert F. Kennedy’s assassination while he was campaigning for the presidency.
Though much of the nation’s attention turned to memories of the turbulent 1960s, my reflections also included a childhood spent in a quiet small town, of lazy afternoons playing games with my cousins, and of listening to the comfortable rhythm of my mother and Aunt Joan’s conversations around the kitchen table.
Just as RFK is forever that handsome 42-year-old man, in my mind’s eye, Joan is still that fetching young woman with an infectious smile and dark brown hair in the photograph.
In a tip of her hat to her Celtic heritage, her funeral prayer card had the traditional Irish Blessing. The card also included this poem by the late American poet Helen Lowrie Marshall.
I’d like the memory of me
To be a happy one.
I’d like to leave an afterglow
Of smiles when day is done.
I’d like to leave an echo
Whispering softly down the ways,
Of happy times and laughing times
And bright and sunny days.
I’d like the tears of those who grieve,
To dry before the sun
Of happy memories I leave
Behind — when day is done.
It was the perfect choice of verse for my aunt. While death may have moved one step closer, a happy afterglow remains in its wake.
Farewell, Joan Theyoan ...
– Mary Lee Hagert can be reached at roseville@lillienews.com
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Toyota Camry hybrid: cheap to drive, but not the best driving experience
Toyota's new generation Camry can be a surprisingly nice ride, but it appears that the quality of the driving experience may depend on the trim level.
The Camry SE I drove earlier this year was a fantastic car, a real surprise. I've always liked and respected the Camry as a mainstream sedan that will probably satisfy its owners for many years, but never really looked at it as a particularly compelling vehicle to drive. I've called it vanilla – as in (as I noted in my review of the new Camry SE earlier this year) that it was "unthreatening and ubiquitous, a fixture in kitchens where it fits in beautifully in any number of applications."
That was in the context that, while there's nothing wrong with vanilla, I'm a butterscotch kind of guy and so I like a dash of élan in my cars.
But the SE model left me absolutely gobsmacked with its unexpectedly and relatively "élan-filled" ride compared to other Camrys I'd driven. I mentioned in my earlier review that I was surprised I didn't get struck by lightning for praising the car as much as I did – praise that included the assessment that the Camry was finally near the top of my list for cars in this price range, rivaling my other faves, the VW Passat and the Kia Optima.
I write this to put into perspective my impressions of the Camry hybrid Toyota Canada provided for my driving pleasure. This, despite a lot of things to really like about the car, is definitely not the same driving experience as the Camry SE.
In fact, the Camry hybrid is loose and sloppy, its front end bobbing over road irregularities like a floating buoy and otherwise handling like a 1970's land barge. I was afraid it was going to rock me to sleep while I drove it…
It's too bad, because even despite my aversion to hybrids this is a very nice car – and the hybrid aspect of it meant I spent very little on gas during my week with it. I never bother tracking my gas mileage because I was born with a lead foot and you really need to drive a car gently to get the most out of its mileage (hybrids are supposed to be great in the city, but with not so much advantage on the highway). I got with the program a couple of years ago and drove a Toyota Highlander hybrid as gently as I could stand it (actually, I drove it even more gently than I could stand it) and still didn't approach the posted mileage.
So much for stats. But I did notice in my week with the Camry hybrid that I spent far less than I spend normally (all things, including type of car and price of gas) being equal. So that was pretty amazing.
And while you sometimes have to give up such things as acceleration with a hybrid (depending upon the hybrid) I really had no problem with the Camry's ooomph. It's more than adequate.
But that suspension! Yikes!
The "Camrybrid" is available in two trim levels, both of which Toyota says start at lower initial prices than they did last year. The Hybrid LE kicks off the sticker at $26,990 Canadian, while for an extra two grand you can get into the Hybrid XLE, which is what Toyota's sample car was. The company says its $28,990 entry price is $2,320 less than the 2011 model's, yet it's stuffed with $745 worth of extra standard equipment.
The lower price also hides a larger, 2.5 liter four cylinder gasoline engine as the eco-raping part of Toyota's "redesigned Hybrid Synergy Drive." When you include the electrical stuff, Toyota claims an output of 200 horsepower (up 13 from the previous model), which isn't bad. As mentioned, I had no issues with the car's acceleration.
Yet you apparently don't pay a penalty for this extra oomph, because Toyota estimates the new hybrid power train improves city fuel economy by 39 percent, delivering what they trumpet as "class leading fuel efficiency of 4.7 l/100 kilometers combined for the LE model and 4.9 l/100 km combined for the XLE." Those are pretty skookum specs and I have no reason to call BS on them.
The engine, as is often the case with hybrids, is mated to a continuously variable automatic transmission and it is definitely quieter and nicer than some others I've tried, though no more interesting. The front wheel drive hybrid also comes with stability control and traction control, as well as the usual braking aides such as ABS.
The brakes are power-assisted discs all around and pedal feel and brake performance are just fine.
Toyota's press release trumpeting all this goodness also says their engineers "paid careful attention to the suspension system in the all-new Camry Hybrid to maximize ride comfort and control," which I guess means they've never driven the non-hybrid Camry SE. Perhaps we just define "comfort and control" differently because, while the ride is definitely comfortable, the control is such that I found the car wandered all over the lane when I was driving it despite the Macpherson struts up front and dual link independent suspension in the rear, with stabilizer bars at both ends.
My test XLE was pretty well the base model of that trim level, but it still included such niceties as a power driver's seat and dual zone automatic climate control. And you can add the optional Moonroof Package, which includes an upgraded audio system (and upgrading from standard Toyota stereos is rarely a bad idea), navigation, glass breakage sensor, power moonroof, integrated garage door opener, back-up camera, dual illuminated vanity mirrors and more. It adds about two grand to the base price, which isn't bad for all the stuff you're getting.
You can upgrade it even more with the Leather and Premium Audio Package, which adds everything from the Moonroof Package and ups the ante with such stuff as an even more upgraded audio system and leather seats (heated up front). This one adds nearly five big ones to the tab, but Toyota says it's actually more than $2,000 lower than the 2011 equivalent's price while adding $1,755 in additional standard equipment.
My more Spartan Hybrid XLE featured a handsome and comfortable cabin with nice seats and straightforward control. It also featured Bluetooth, but without voice control, which kind of defeats the purpose. I had to pull over and stop before I could dial a phone number via the LCD screen, though it did remember my call history, which cut out a few pokes at the screen on subsequent calls.
Voice activation angst aside, the Camry's cabin is still full of modern design and technology, and it's executed very nicely. As I said about the Camry SE, I'd almost expect to find this interior in a Volkswagen, the company I consider to be the model for how to do such things.
So other than my incessant whining about the ride, which may not matter to lots of people (neither the ride, nor the whining, I daresay), this is still a very nice car. I expect it will serve its owners faithfully at least until the battery pack needs to be replaced.
Jim Bray is a member of the Automobile Journalists Association of Canada. His columns are available through the TechnoFile Syndicate.
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Links 1610/2018: Linux 4.19 RC8, Xfce Screensaver 0.1.0 Released
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Free Software/Open Source
Chrome OS Stable Channel Gets Linux Apps
After months of user testing in developer and beta channels, the Crostini project at Google finally delivered the goods, Linux apps for most users of Chromebooks in the stable channel—definitely worth the wait. While this still is aimed primarily at developers using Chromebooks, I think there’s a good chance these Linux apps will be used and enjoyed by the general public using Chromebooks as well. There’s still a bit of a learning curve to overcome before that possibility is realized, but if you already are a user of any Linux distro, it will feel very familiar. Here’s an overview of how to install it and what to expect afterward.
After getting the update to version 69, go to Settings and scroll down a bit, and you’ll see the option to turn on Linux apps. Figure 1 shows this first step. Note that this isn’t available on all Chromebooks; if you’re using an older one, you’ll have to wait a while before this function is available. If you don’t see the option to turn on Linux apps, your Chromebook currently lacks that functionality. But, if you have a Chromebook produced in the past two years, you probably will see the option.
Update KB4468550 Fixes Audio Issues Caused In Windows 10 October Patch [Ed: Alternative (better) headline is, Microsoft admits breaking your machine]
If your Windows is updated to the latest Windows 10 October 2018 update then there are chances that you might be facing audio problems , something along the lines of “No Audio Output Device is installed”.
The October 2018 patch caused this issue on many machines running Windows 10 version 1803 or above. Many users tweeted about this problem almost instantly as it was happening on such a wide scale when they realized that they Windows has stopped giving them audio when they start playing games, or launch a video player all while the sounds on their browser as well as the system sounds were working perfectly fine.
Kernel Space
Linux 4.19-rc8
As mentioned last week, here’s a -rc8 release as it seems needed.
There were a lot of “little” pull requests this week, semi-normal for
this late in the cycle, but a lot of them were “fix up the previous fix
I just sent” which implies that people are having a few issues still.
I also know of at least one “bad” bug that finally has a proposed fix,
so that should hopefully get merged this week. And there are some
outstanding USB fixes I know of that have not yet landed in the tree (I
blame me for that…)
Anyway, the full shortlog is below, lots of tiny things all over the
tree. Please go and test and ensure that all works well for you.
Hopefully this should be the last -rc release.
Linux 4.19-rc8 Released With A Lot Of “Tiny Things”
Linux’s Qualcomm Ath10k Driver Getting WoWLAN, WCN3990 Support
The Qualcomm/Atheros “Ath10k” Linux driver coming up in the Linux 4.20~5.0 kernel merge window is picking up two prominent features.
First up, the Ath10k driver is finally having WoWLAN support — Wake on Wireless LAN. WoWLAN has been supported by the kernel for years and more recently is getting picked up by Linux networking user-space configuration utilities. Ath10k is becoming the latest Linux wireless driver supporting WoWLAN (WIPHY_WOWLAN_NET_DETECT) for automatically waking up the system when within range of an a known SSID.
FUSE File-Systems Pick Up Another Performance Boost With Symlink Caching
FUSE file-systems in user-space are set to be running faster with the upcoming Linux 4.20~5.0 kernel thanks to several performance optimizations.
The FUSE kernel code for this next Linux kernel cycle already has a hash table optimization and separately is copy file range support for efficient file copy operations. Staged today into the FUSE tree for the next cycle was yet another performance-boosting patch.
Another Change Proposed For Linux’s Code of Conduct
With the Linux 4.19-rc8 kernel release overnight, one change not to be found in this latest Linux 4.19 release candidate are any alterations to the new Code of Conduct. The latest proposal forbids discussing off-topic matters while protecting any sentient being in the universe.
While some immediate changes to the Linux kernel Code of Conduct have been talked about by upstream kernel developers, for 4.19-rc8 there are no changes yet. We’ll presumably see some basic changes land this week ahead of Linux 4.19.0 expected next Sunday as not to have an unenforceable or flawed CoC found in a released kernel version.
Linux v4.18: Performance Goodies
Linux v4.18 has been out a two months now; making this post a bit late, but still in time before the next release. Also so much drama in the CoC to care about performance topics As always comes with a series of performance enhancements and optimizations across subsystems.
Automotive Grade Linux Enables Telematics and Instrument Cluster Applications with Latest UCB 6.0 Release
Developed through a joint effort by dozens of member companies, the AGL Unified Code Base (UCB) is an open source software platform that can serve as the de facto industry standard for infotainment, telematics and instrument cluster applications. Sharing a single software platform across the industry reduces fragmentation and accelerates time-to-market by encouraging the growth of a global ecosystem of developers and application providers that can build a product once and have it work for multiple automakers.
The AGL UCB 6.0 includes an operating system, middleware and application framework. Key features include: [...]
Graphics Stack
CodeXL 2.6 is released!
For current users of CodeXL, this new release may look and feel a little different. The AMD Developer Tools team has been busy working on many new tools, some of which replicate functionality found in older versions of CodeXL. Thus, to limit confusion for our users, we have removed several major components from CodeXL.
AMD CodeXL 2.6 Advances GPU Profiling, Static Analysis & GPU Debugging
But what is found within CodeXL 2.6 for GPU developers are the GPU profiling features, static analysis features, and GPU debugging features.
[ANNOUNCE] xorg-server 1.20.2
Lots of bugfixes all over the map. Thanks to all for testing and patches!
X.Org Server 1.20.2 Released With A Bunch Of Bug Fixes
It’s almost been a half-year already since the release of the long delayed X.Org Server 1.20, but with no signs of X.Org Server 1.21 releasing soon, xorg-server 1.20.2 was announced today as the latest stable point release.
FreeDesktop.org Might Formally Join Forces With The X.Org Foundation
FreeDesktop.org is already effectively part of X.Org given the loose structure of FreeDesktop.org, the key members/administrators being part of both projects, and FreeDesktop.org long being the de facto hosting platform from the X.Org Server to Mesa and much more. But now they may be officially joining forces.
As a formality, the X.Org Foundation is seeking to change their foundation’s by-laws to reflect that the X.Org Foundation shall also “Support free and open source projects through the freedesktop.org infrastructure. For projects outside the scope [of the X.Org Foundation] support extends to project hosting only.”
Experimental Patches For Using SIMD32 Fragment Shaders With Intel’s Linux Driver
Existing Intel graphics hardware already supports SIMD32 fragment shaders and the Intel open-source Linux graphics driver has supported this mode for months, but it hasn’t been enabled. That though is in the process of changing.
Since June the Intel Mesa driver’s fragment shader code has supported the SIMD32 mode supported by the past number of generations of Intel graphics hardware, but it hasn’t actually been turned on. That enabling wasn’t done over not having the heuristics in place for determining when to enable it over the other code paths.
Windows 10 October 2018 Update Performance Against Ubuntu 18.10, Fedora 29
As the latest of our benchmarks using the newly re-released Microsoft Windows 10 October 2018 Update, here are benchmarks of this latest Windows 10 build against seven different Linux distributions on the same hardware for checking out the current performance of these operating systems.
For this latest Linux OS benchmarking comparison against Windows, the following platforms were tested:
- The Windows 10 April 2018 release as the previous major milestone of Windows 10.
- The newest Windows 10 October 2018 build as the latest Windows 10 build from Microsoft.
- OpenSUSE Tumbleweed as the openSUSE rolling-release distribution that as of testing was on the Linux 4.18.12 kernel, KDE Plasma 5.14, Mesa 18.1.7, and GCC 8.2.1 atop an XFS home file-system with Btrfs root file-system (the default partitioning scheme).
8 of the Best Free Linux Comic Book Viewers (Updated 2018)
A comic book is a magazine which consists of narrative artwork in the form of sequential images with text that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by brief descriptive prose and written narrative, usually dialog contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. Comics are used to tell a story, and are published in a number of different formats including comic strips, comic books, webcomics, Manga, and graphic novels. Some comics have been published in a tabloid form. The largest comic book market is Japan.
Many users associate desktop Linux with their daily repetitive grind. However, we are always on the look out for applications that help make Linux fun to use. It really is a great platform for entertainment.
Some document viewers offer a good range of different formats. Although they are not dedicated comic book viewers, Evince and okular have support for the common comic book archive files, and merit mention here.
Nativefier – Easily Make Any Website into Desktop Application
Nativefier is a CLI tool that easily create a executable desktop application of any website with succinct and minimal configuration. Anybody can use it and it is a lot lighter than typical Electron apps.
Nativefier is based on the electron-package and since Electron apps are platform independent, any Nativefiered app will run on GNU/Linux distros as well as on Windows and Mac Operating Systems.
Linux NVENC OBS Screen Capture – For The Record
Linux NVENC OBS Screen Capture. How does it compare to a USB hardware capture device? With select NVIDIA cards and a NVIDIA modern driver for Linux, my OBS installation is able to take advantage of GPU video capturing.
Instructionals/Technical
Learn the Method to Install Kali Linux on Virtualbox
How to List All Virtual Hosts in Apache Web Server
How to install ownCloud with ONLYOFFICE using Univention App Appliance
How to create a hard links in Linux or Unix
Configure System Locale on Debian 9
Get all documents (doc,docx,xls,xlsx,pdf,ppt,pptx,…) linked in a webpage
Complete guide to Dual Boot Ubuntu 18.XX with Windows 10
Ubuntu 18.04 aka Bionic Beaver was released on April 26th, 2018 with a lot of changes on front end as well as on backend. Major change that anybody who has ever used Ubuntu, will notice is the Desktop Environment.
Working with Calendars in the Linux Terminal
Windows 7 to Linux: Backup and Media creation
This is the second part of our migrating from Windows 7 to Linux guide. We talked about general preparations in the first guide that looked at choosing the right Linux distribution, finding out if a certain Linux flavor supports needed features or software, or how one would go about migrating data to Linux.
Microsoft will retire Windows 7 on January 2020 for home users and small businesses. The company won’t release security updates for the operating system after January 2020 which means that any vulnerability that is detected after January 2020 remains unpatched.
Learn About Linux Bash for Loop with Examples
CentOS 7 Run Script When Network Interface is Up (Network Manager)
What To Do After Installing Xubuntu 18.04
Ubuntu -bash: do-release-upgrade: command not found
Give your Ubuntu User Account a Profile Picture
Check how many CPUs are there in Linux system
Contributing to OSP upstream a.k.a. Peer Review
How to run Python Scripts with Apache and mod_wsgi on Ubuntu 18.04
Install Ansible in Linux
Install Plex Media Server on CentOS 7
Installing Ubuntu Using Hyper-V Quick Create
An introduction to Ansible Operators in Kubernetes
20 Basic Ubuntu Commands Every Beginner Should Know
Deploying Ubuntu root on ZFS with MAAS
Print to Google Drive in a non-Gnome desktop
Basic photo editing with Darktable
Deploy Apache Kafka using Docker Compose
The Illustrated TLS Connection
Set Up a CI/CD Pipeline with Kubernetes Part 1: Overview
Get an Introduction to Open Source, Git, and Linux with New Training Course
Running Linux containers as a non-root with Podman
How To Browse And Read Entire Arch Wiki As Linux Man Pages
How to Change User Password in Linux
How to Enable or Disable Services on Boot in Linux Using chkconfig and systemctl Command
How To Search Available Packages From Command Line In Debian, Ubuntu Or Linux Mint [APT]
How to Setup FTP Server with VSFTPD on Ubuntu 18.04
How to Set up RabbitMQ Cluster on CentOS 7
Install and Configure Webmin on your Ubuntu System
Grand strategy game AI War 2 is now available in Early Access
AI War 2 from Arcen Games has finally entered Early Access today after being funded on Kickstarter back at the end of 2016. Thankfully, they’ve lived up to their promise of Linux support as it’s available right away.
Play It Now – PixelJunk Shooter
Welcome to the another review in the PIN (Play It NOW) series, where we highlight under-rated games that didn’t get the praise and attention they deserved on release and still don’t to this day. Until now! This time, we’ll take a look at PixelJunk Shooter by Q-Games Ltd.
The deep monster taming RPG ‘Siralim 3′ has now officially launched with Linux support
For those after their next RPG fix, the monster taming game Siralim 3 [Official Site] is now officially out with Linux support as it has left Early Access.
While not the most graphically pleasing, the Siralim series do always have a really good amount of depth in them allowing you a ridiculous amount of fun.
Feral show off Total War: WARHAMMER II on Linux, along with confirming more Linux ports and a Vulkan teaser
Feral Interactive just put up a YouTube video to show off Total War: WARHAMMER II running on Linux, it’s looking good and they confirmed again their future Linux plans.
What’s interesting, is that in this video they did confirm a few interesting bits of extra information. Firstly, they confirmed that Total War: WARHAMMER II is using Vulkan (which we knew already) but the more interesting thing is what they said after. They said “By the way, we do have more sweet sweet Vulkan plans up our sleeves, but they’re secret.”. It’s going to be interesting to find out what they mean by that, since they wouldn’t say such a thing if it just meant future ports will use Vulkan, since we already know that as they’ve said it multiple times before.
Eternum EX, a retro-inspired action platformer comes to Linux this month
Inspired by ’80s arcade cabinet games, Eternum EX aims to be a challenging retro action platformer that’s releasing this month.
The developer said they were inspired by games like Bomb Jack (Tehkan, 1984), Ghosts’n Goblins (Capcom, 1985), Baluba-louk no Densetsu (Able, 1986) and Psychic 5 (Jaleco, 1987).
Smith and Winston, a metroidvania-styled twin-stick shooter in a voxel world has Linux support
For those who love a good twin-stick shooter, Smith and Winston certainly looks quite interesting and it has some pretty sweet design.
Today, Linux game porter Ethan Lee begins officially working on Steam Play’s Proton
A small update for those interested in keeping up with the news surrounding Steam Play and Proton development.
In September, we spoke to Linux game porter Ethan Lee where he went on to mention how he would like to officially work on Steam Play’s Proton. Not long after our article went up, he ended up speaking to Valve so things started moving pretty quickly. All was quiet, then, at the start of this month he wrote a post on Google+ to mention that he was working out some sort of contract to officially begin working on it.
Mounting And Optimizing A Linux Gamer Computer
We have had a lot of news about games in the Linux world coming out in recent weeks. We already have an interesting performance for games like Grand Theft Auto V, and the trend is for the compatibility level to improve every day, with Valve’s recent announcement of Proton as announced here! This even was the head behind the development of DXVK which brought a new step in the compatibility of Windows games on Linux.
Stranded Deep adds a new experimental couch co-op mode to survive together
To go along with this new feature, they also added a Player Ragdoll for when you’re knocked out or dead. You partner can help you up with bandages before you bleed out and bodies can be dragged as well for maximum fun. It’s good to see them add more from their roadmap, with plenty more still to come before it leaves Early Access.
They also added a Raft Passenger Seat, fixed a bunch of bugs and updated Unity to “2017.4.13f1″. Also the shark music won’t play until you’re actually attacked so no more early warnings for you.
.Age (dot Age) is a turn-based village builder showing off the harsh reality of the Dark Ages
.Age (dot Age) seems like it could be a very interesting game. A harsh turn-based village builder that will throw events at you like candy, don’t be fooled by the cute and colourful style as this is a menacing game.
Developed by CKC Games, it’s due out sometime next year. When spotted on Twitter, we spoke to the developer who confirmed “I’ve had a linux build for years” so it’s coming to Linux at release.
inXile confirm the Linux version of The Bard’s Tale IV is being worked on
For those waiting on the native Linux version of The Bard’s Tale IV, fear not, as inXile Entertainment have confirmed they’re working on it.
AI combat arena ‘Gladiabots’ has enabled Linux support on Steam
No longer hidden behind a beta of Steam, AI combat arena Gladiabots from GFX47 is now officially supported on Steam for Linux. Do note, the game is still in Early Access.
If you love strategy games and feel like you want a little more control over unit AI, this might be the game for you. In Gladiabots you assemble a team of robots, design their AI with a handy drag and drop interface and attempt to beat another AI in battle. There’s decent tutorials, a campaign, cross-platform online play that doesn’t require you to be online at the same time and it’s really quite clever.
Dungeon crawler ‘The 7th Circle’ adds Linux support, looks pretty good
For those who love their first-person dungeon crawlers, The 7th Circle actually looks pretty good and they recently added Linux support.
It’s not going to win any awards for originality here, but 68k Studios seem to have created a reasonably good retro-inspired dungeon crawler. With traditional turn-based combat, more than 60 spells to wield, a crafting and upgrades system and so on it’s pretty full on features.
Action-RPG ‘Moonlighter’ has a juicy free Adventure Update, now live on Linux
It’s time to close up shop and go on another run through the dungeons as Moonlighter has a free update now out. This update originally released last week, with the Linux version only seeing the update today.
Desktop Environments/WMs
Xfce Screensaver 0.1.0 Released
I am pleased to announce the release of Xfce Screensaver (xfce4-screensaver) 0.1.0! This is an early release targeted to testers and translators. Bugs and patches welcome!
Xfce4-Screensaver Has Its First Release – Fork Of MATE Screensaver, Forked From GNOME
As a new alternative over XScreenSaver or using other desktop environments’ screensaver functionality, xfce4-screensaver has out its first release albeit of alpha quality.
The xfce4-screensaver project made its preliminary (v0.1.0) release today that is described of alpha quality intended for testers and translators. This new screensaver option for Xfce users is forked from the MATE Screensaver code, which in turn was forked from the GNOME Screensaver.
K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt
Plasma 5.14 – Phasers on stun
Linux is much like the stock market. Moments of happiness broken by crises. Or is the other way around? Never mind. Today shall hopefully be a day of joy, for I am about to test Plasma 5.14, the latest version of this neat desktop environment. Recently, I’ve had a nice streak of good energy with Linux, mostly thanks to my experience with Slimbook Pro2, which I configured with Kubuntu Beaver. Let’s see if we can keep the momentum.
Now, before we begin, there are more good news woven into this announcement. As you can imagine, you do need some kind of demonstrator to test the new desktop. Usually, it’s KDE neon, which offers a clean, lean, mean KDE-focused testing environment. You can boot into the live session, try the desktop, and if you like it, you can even install it. Indeed, neon is an integral part of my eight-boot setup on the Lenovo G50 machine. But what makes things really interesting is that neon has also switched to the latest Ubuntu LTS base. It now comes aligned to the 18.04 family, adorned with this brand new Plasma. Proceed.
Release of KDE Frameworks 5.51.0
KDE Frameworks are 70 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the Frameworks 5.0 release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
KDE Frameworks 5.51 Released
KDE e.V. receives a sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation
Of the total donation amount, 100,000 USD will be specifically allocated to pursue the development of the Calligra office suite.
“Handshake is pleased to be able to support KDE’s international community of dedicated volunteers and their continued commitment to a free desktop environment with the current release of KDE Plasma 5 and the Calligra office suite”, says Rob Myers from the Handshake Foundation.
The fruits of this contribution will soon become visible and available to everyone. Meanwhile, don’t hesitate to join the KDE Community and be part of our mission to help everyone protect their privacy and control their digital lives with Free Software.
KDE e.V Receives Generous Handshake Donation, Ubuntu Touch OTA-5 Is Out, Geoclue 2.5 Now Available and Asking for Help, New Code of Conduct Proposal and Internet Freedom Festival
KDE e.V. announces it received a $300,000 USD donation from the Handshake Foundation. According to the KDE blog post, it plans to use $100,000 USD of the donation specifically toward development of the Calligra office suite. Also, KDE celebrated its 22nd anniversary yesterday—Happy Birthday KDE!
digiKam Recipes 18.10.15 Released
It’s time for another digiKam Recipes update. The most visible change in this update is the new book cover. All screenshots were also updated to reflect changes in the current version of digiKam.
[Krita] Interview with Sira Argia
2014 is the year that I first started to try Linux on my laptop, and then I knew that Windows programs don’t run perfectly on Linux even using “wine”. My curiosity about Linux and the alternative programs led me to Krita. The more time I spent with Linux, the more I fell in love with it. And finally I thought that “I’ll choose Linux as a single OS on my laptop and Krita as a digital painting program for work someday after I get my first graphic tablet.”
And so the [Krita] Fundraiser Ends
Yesterday was the last day of the developers sprint^Wmarathon, and the last day of the fundraiser. We’re all good and knackered here, but the fundraiser ended at a very respectable 26,426 euros! That’s really awesome, thanks everybody!
Sizeable donation from Handshake Foundation
We’re glad to announce that we received donation of 100,000 USD, which is part of 300,000 USD offered to our KDE organization. Quite appropriate for a birthday present, as the KDE project just turned 22 this last weekend! It’s true recognition for KDE as one of the world’s largest open source project.
Qt 5.12 beta2 released
We have published Qt 5.12 beta2 today. As earlier you can get it via online installer. Delta to beta1 attached.
Qt 5.12 Beta 2 Brings Many Fixes
Just two weeks after the Qt 5.12 beta release, a second beta is now available for testing of this forthcoming tool-kit update.
The Qt 5.12 Beta 2 update is made up of bug fixes with changes ranging from build fixes for different platforms to disabling mouse tracking by default within the QtWebGLPlugin to fixed Ozone platform detection. There are more than 200 changes to Qt 5.12 that have been queued over the past two weeks.
The complete list of the 200+ changes that are mostly fixes in Qt 5.12 Beta 2 can be found via today’s release announcement with the attached change-log.
Krita at the University of La Plata
Sebastian Labi ha sido invitado para presentar Krita en el Laboratorio de herramientas de software libre de la Universidad de La Plata. Hablará sobre ilustración digital y usará Krita para dar una demostración de cómo usar Krita para el campo de la Ilustración Digital.
El SLAD- FBA (Software libre para Arte y diseño) es una nueva unidad de de investigación y formación en la Facultad de Bellas Artes que promueve el conocimiento y uso del software libre en la capacitación académica de la Universidad de La Plata.
LaKademy 2018 – Third and Fourth Days (October 13th and 14th)
The third day of LaKademy 2018 was my last day participating on the event.
During October 13th, we started the day with a promo reunion. This reunion was done to discuss about some plans and actions for the Latin American KDE community over the next year. Some decisions were made and topics were discussed involving KDE participation in some events, promotion of our own events in Latin America, including LaKademy 2019 and Kafé com Qt, and some details in general about our community.
GNOME Desktop/GTK
Restyling apps at scale
Over the past few months we’ve had a lively debate about “theming” in GNOME, and how it affects our ecosystem. In this discussion I’ve found that there is a divide between people who design and/or develop apps, and people who don’t. I have yet to see an app developer who thinks the current approach to “theming” can work, while many people who aren’t app developers are arguing that it can.
After a few long discussions I started to realize that part of the reason why there’s so little agreement and so much drama around this issue is that we don’t agree what the problem is. Those who don’t work on apps often can’t see the issues with theming and think we want to remove things for no reason, while those who do are very frustrated that the other side doesn’t want to acknowledge how broken everything is.
Geoclue 2.5 & repeating call for help
Also, while I’m at it, I wanted to highlight the “call for help” at the end of that post by repeating it here again. I apologize of repeating to those who already read it but a friend pointed out that it’s likely going to be missed by many folks:
The future of Mozilla Location Service
When Mozilla announced their location service in late 2013, Geoclue became one of its first users as it was our only hope for a reliable WiFi-geolocation source. We couldn’t use Google’s service as their ToC don’t allow it to be used in an open source project (I recall some clause that it can only be used with Google Maps and not any other Map software). Mozilla Location Service (MLS) was a huge success in terms of people contributing WiFi data to it. I’ve been to quite a few places around Europe and North America in the last few years and I haven’t been to any location, that is not already covered by MLS.
Making a first contribution in Outreachy usability testing
If you want to join us in GNOME usability testing as part of the upcoming cycle in Outreachy, you’ll need to make a first contribution as part of your application process. Every project in Outreachy asks for a first contribution; this is a requirement in Outreachy.
Don’t make too big of a deal about your first contribution in usability testing. We don’t expect interns to know much about usability testing as they enter the internship. Throughout the internship, you’ll learn about usability testing. So for this first contribution, we set a low bar.
Kali Linux: What You Must Know Before Using it
Kali Linux is the industry’s leading Linux distribution in penetration testing and ethical hacking. It is a distribution that comes shipped with tons and tons of hacking and penetration tools and software by default, and is widely recognized in all parts of the world, even among Windows users who may not even know what Linux is.
Because of the latter, many people are trying to get alone with Kali Linux although they don’t even understand the basics of a Linux system. The reasons may vary from having fun, faking being a hacker to impress a girlfriend or simply trying to hack the neighbors’ WiFi network to get a free Internet, all of which is a bad thing to do if you are planning to use Kali Linux.
Install, install, install! The dance of panic!
3. PicarOS Diego. My daughter’s desktop dual-boots Mageia and PicarOS Diego, a great MiniNo GalpON respin for children. Since the game she likes is neither running with WINE on Mageia 6.1 nor with Windows Vista, I tried to run it on WINE in PicarOS. The packages were old, so I updated the system. Big mistake! In the end, I was left with an up-to-date MiniNo that removed all the special tweaks for children and, to add insult to injury, the game would not run at all!
Kali Linux for Vagrant: Hands-on
I recently saw the announcement for Kali Linux on Vagrant. I have been a huge fan of Kali Linux for a very long time, and I am interested in virtualization (and currently using VirtualBox in an educational environment), so this was a very interesting combination to me. I have now installed it on a few of my systems, and so far I am quite impressed with it.
The logical place to start is with a brief overview of Vagrant itself. What is Vagrant? According to their web page:
Vagrant is a tool for building and managing virtual machine environments in a single workflow
What Vagrant actually does is provide a way of automating the building of virtualized development environments using a variety of the most popular providers, such as VirtualBox, VMware, AWS and others. It not only handles the initial setup of the virtual machine, it can also provision the virtual machine based on your specifications, so it provides a consistent environment which can be shared and distributed to others.
IPFire 2.21 – Core Update 124 released
…this is the official release announcement for IPFire 2.21 – Core Update 124. It brings new features and immensely improves security and performance of the whole system.
Red Hat Family
Redis Labs Collaborates with Red Hat to Deliver Redis Enterprise with Built-in Support for Kubernetes Operators on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platfo
New Redis Enterprise Kubernetes Operator simplifies the development of cloud-native applications and services across hybrid and multi-cloud footprints
Red Hat Flexes CoreOS Muscle In OpenShift Kubernetes Platform
The growth of a new technology as it enters the industry can tend to take on a certain pattern. At first, users begin to get a feel for what it does and what problems it can solve. That can lead to the next step of deploying successive generations of the technology, a greater understanding of it by customers, and more widespread use, which then drives more deployments, expanded use, and greater developer participation.
The evolution of Kubernetes, which has become the dominant container orchestration technology since being contributed to the open source community by Google several years ago, has been so fierce that it has caught up to and outran similar tools like Docker Swarm, Mesos, and OpenStack in the market. Since 2015, Kubernetes has marched through the first two phases of its evolution and is now entering its third phase, according to Brian Gracely, director of product strategy at Red Hat, which has embraced Kubernetes in its OpenShift platform.
Identity Management and Load Balancing in Red Hat Enterprise Linux
In the recent months I have been getting more and more questions about identity management (IdM) in Red Hat Enterprise Linux and best practices around load balancing. This post dives into the details and recommendations related to this subject.
EventFlow: Event-driven microservices on OpenShift (Part 1)
In this post, we will focus on processing CloudEvents, which provide a standard mechanism for describing event data in a platform-independent manner. The CloudEvents specification aims to make it easier to write portable applications that produce and consume event-based services. The specification provides a base level of metadata, which might be of interest for an event, and the payload, which can be of arbitrary structure. CloudEvents are distinct from a binding to any particular serialization format, but the event-flow platform uses a JSON representation of them. Even though we are focussing on CloudEvents in this post, the EventFlow platform is not specific to them. It can be used to transport any other type of “serializable” data between processors.
MongoDB releases its Kubernetes Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
The newest release of Red Hat OpenShift, version 3.11, introduces Kubernetes Operator support. Operators, along with Custom Resource Definitions, allow OpenShift to be extended to support custom types and manage complex services. The Kubernetes MongoDB Enterprise Operator in conjunction with MongoDB Ops Manager supports provisioning and lifecycle management for multiple MongoDB Enterprise clusters. An OpenShift user can more easily deploy MongoDB replica sets or sharded clusters, perform upgrades to future versions, and change configurations directly from the standard Kubernetes API’s, or from tooling (such as kubectl). The Kubernetes MongoDB Enterprise Operator is available directly in Dev Preview as an optional install in OpenShift 3.11.
Designing a better user experience for open source software
For the past few months, I’ve contributed to ChRIS (Childrens’ Research Integration Service) as a user experience (UX) designer.ChRIS is a cloud-based, open source framework for processing medical imaging data; it was originally conceived by a team at Boston Children’s Hospital and successfully executed with help from the Mass Open Cloud (MOC) and Red Hat.
Working on the ChRIS project is fulfilling in a direct way; it applies open source technology and principles to improve patient care. Doctors shouldn’t have to be computer scientists to be able to use the best innovations in medical image processing technology to improve their patients’ outcomes.
Bacula Systems Introduces Native Backup and Recovery for Red Hat Virtualization
Continuing to lead in high-performance backup and restore for large enterprises, hosting companies and managed services providers, Bacula Systems today announced Bacula Enterprise Edition 10.2, featuring new functionality for integrated backup and recovery of Red Hat Virtualization environments.
ROAD TRIP: Umphrey’s McGee at Red Hat Amphitheater
Sumitomo Mitsui Asset Management Company, LTD Buys Deere, Netflix Inc, Red Hat Inc, Sells Broadcom Inc, Western Digital Corp, Alphabet Inc
2 Stocks Taking a Gut Shot: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), Patterson-UTI Energy, Inc. (PTEN)
Stocks Ready To Soar: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), United Continental Holdings, Inc. (UAL)?
Its time to set off for the next journey: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)
Red Hat, Inc. (RHT) has a value of $122.51 per share While Paycom Software, Inc. (PAYC) is stand at $130.88
Confidence and clarity can do wonders: Red Hat, Inc. (RHT), Owens Corning (OC)
Red Hat, Inc. (RHT)’s Run May Be Ending
Hills Bank & Trust Co. Raises Stake in Red Hat Inc (RHT)
Mover to Watch — Red Hat (RHT)
Mike Shapiro’s Bullish Red Hat Trade
CommOps takeaways from Flock 2018
The annual Fedora contributor conference, Flock, took place from August 8-11, 2018. Several members of the Community Operations (CommOps) team were present for the conference. We also held a half-day team sprint for team members and interested people to participate and share feedback with the team.
Flatpaks, sandboxes and security
Last week the Flatpak community woke to the “news” that we are making the world a less secure place and we need to rethink what we’re doing. Personally, I’m not sure this is a fair assessment of the situation. The “tl;dr” summary is: Flatpak confers many benefits besides the sandboxing, and even looking just at the sandboxing, improving app security is a huge problem space and so is a work in progress across multiple upstream projects. Much of what has been achieved so far already delivers incremental improvements in security, and we’re making solid progress on the wider app distribution and portability problem space.
Sandboxing, like security in general, isn’t a binary thing – you can’t just say because you have a sandbox, you have 100% security. Like having two locks on your front door, two front doors, or locks on your windows too, sensible security is about defense in depth. Each barrier that you implement precludes some invalid or possibly malicious behaviour. You hope that in total, all of these barriers would prevent anything bad, but you can never really guarantee this – it’s about multiplying together probabilities to get a smaller number. A computer which is switched off, in a locked faraday cage, with no connectivity, is perfectly secure – but it’s also perfectly useless because you cannot actually use it. Sandboxing is very much the same – whilst you could easily take systemd-nspawn, Docker or any other container technology of choice and 100% lock down a desktop app, you wouldn’t be able to interact with it at all.
Fedora/RISC-V now mirrored as a Fedora “alternative” architecture
PSA: System update fails when trying to remove rtkit-0.11-19.fc29
Debian Family
Canonical/Ubuntu
Canonical collaborates with Eurotech on edge computing solutions
Coinciding with IoT World Solutions Congress in Barcelona this week, Canonical is pleased to announce a dual-pronged technological partnership with Eurotech to help organisations advance their internet of things enablement. Eurotech is a long time leader in embedded computing hardware as well as providing software solutions to aid enterprises to deliver their IoT projects either end to end or by providing intervening building blocks.
As part of the partnership, Canonical has published a Snap for the Eclipse Kura project – the popular, open-source Java-based IoT edge framework. Having Kura available as a Snap – the universal Linux application packaging format – will enable a wider availability of Linux users across multiple distributions to take advantage of the framework and ensure it is supported on more hardware. Snap support will also extend on Eurotech’s commercially supported version; the Everywhere Software Framework (ESF). By installing Kura as a Snap on a device, users will benefit with automatic updates to ensure they are always working from the latest version while with the reassurance of a secure, confined environment.
Self-containing dependencies LogMeIn to publish their first Snap
Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter Issue 549
Welcome to the Ubuntu Weekly Newsletter, Issue 549 for the week of October 7 – 13, 2018.
Librem 5 general development report — October 15th, 2018
Hi everyone! Phew, it has been a busy and exciting time these last several weeks. Here is a fairly detailed summary of the progress that has been made on the various pieces of the Librem 5 project.
In phosh, there have been many bugs fixed and the code has been cleaned up. Also an effort has gone towards translations, updating the German and French translations as well as standardizing the po headers to hopefully make it less confusing for new translators.
Purism Shares The Latest Librem 5 Smartphone Progress – Dev Kits Going Out Soon
Purism has shared the latest details on their efforts to deliver the open-source Linux Librem 5 smartphone to market in 2019.
Arm brings Intel, Arduino, myDevices into the Pelion IoT platform ecosystem
Arm on Monday is announcing a series of new partnerships that will enhance Pelion, its Internet of Things platform, making it easier for customers to deploy and manage a wider range of IoT devices on the platform.
First, the Peltion Platform can now be used to manage Intel Architecture (x86) platforms, in addition to Arm-based IoT devices and gateways. Next, Arm is partnering with myDevices to make it easier to quickly onboard a wider array of devices. Additionally, Arduino is partnering with Pelion Connectivity Management to enable developers to quickly create and scale cellular IoT designs.
ARM expands Pelion IoT platform to Intel, Linux ecosystems
In addition, the company announced Mbed Linux OS, which builds on its Mbed OS for IoT devices based on Cortex-A. Mbed Linux OS is integrated with the Pelion IoT Platform and is designed to open up new classes of IoT devices with complex applications, such as those processing video or edge gateways. Developers can sign-up now for early access to the new software.
Raspberry Pi A+-sized $10 La Frite Linux board has better specs at half the price
The La Frite board is a follow up to Libre Computing’s $25 Le Potato board and is “loosely based” on the design of the Raspberry Pi A+ — a smaller and cheaper Pi than the $35 Raspberry Pi B+ — due to the 40-pin GPIO header setup.
It’s currently available to backers on the device’s Kickstarter page and will be generally available in November.
Samsung’s Android Pie beta program may go live soon as support pages appear
See How Many Dollars You’ve Spent On Android Apps with This Free Tool
ASUS Zenfone 4 Max gets ZenUI 5.0 update with Android 8.1 Oreo
The ZTE Axon 7 gets Android 8.0 Oreo, with several catches
Palm is Releasing a Mini Companion Android Phone at Verizon for $350
Just tell Google Assistant to play Netflix on Android TVs
Ahead of OnePlus 6T release there’s big Android update news for OnePlus 6 owners
Android Pie update for OnePlus 5 and OnePlus 3 series will take some time: Pete Lau
BetterBatteryStats updated with Android Pie support
Over 75 percent of Pixel users are on Android Pie
The Best Free Offline Music Player Apps for Android
Google Assistant can now play Netflix on Android TV devices
OnePlus 6T release date, price and specs: Geekbench listing confirms 8GB RAM, Android Pie
Smartphone Operating System Battle: Android P vs iOS 12 [Infographic]
Android warning for users over ‘extremely powerful’ FAKE Google Play Store scam
Here is a list of every device compatible with Lineage OS
Nokia 5.1 Plus to get Android Pie by the end of 2018
Google Maps receives a fresh new look and Android fans will be very happy
Sony Xperia fans receive good news as Android 9 Pie updates arrive for these smartphones
Poco F1′s Poco Launcher Comes Out of Beta, Now Available to All Android Users
ASUS ZenFone 4 Max updated to Android 8.1 Oreo with ZenUI 5.0
Palm is a 3.3-inch Android sidekick that won’t replace your phone
New FIDO2 Security Key Will Be Open Source
A new security key solution is poised to further extend the reach of the FIDO Alliance’s new FIDO2 authentication standard.
Called “Solo”, the security key is currently in the works from San Francisco-based SoloKeys, which currently has a Kickstarter campaign underway to support the product. Like other prominent security key solutions, Solo is designed to plug into a computer or laptop’s USB port, allowing the user to confirm with an authenticating service that they are physically present at the device by pressing a button on the key.
IOTA (MIOTA) – Biilabs launches GDPR compliant open-source implementation of TangleID
The rise of IOTA as a top DLT continues. Earlier this year, the city of Taipei announced that they were using the IOTA tangle in implementing their smart city project. The project has largely been a success in implementing a decentralized digital identity system that runs on the IOTA tangle. That’s a major plus towards the growth of the IOTA ecosystem, and gives a huge intrinsic value to the IOTA coin. However, the best news is that this system is now open source. This means that it can be applied to any other city all across the world.
Open Source Healthcare Journal Preview at the Connected Health Conference in Boston
The debut issue of the Open Source Healthcare Journal, a magazine advocating innovative open-source solutions in health, will be available for preview by over 2,000 technology innovators and healthcare providers at the Connected Health Conference at the Seaport World Trade Center in Boston, October 17-19. The Open Source Healthcare Journal’s forward-looking point of view is the perfect match for the industry-leading conference, known for provocative discussions on the future of tech-enabled health. The first issue of the journal — published by GoInvo, a healthcare design studio located in Arlington, Massachusetts — features a Q&A with digital health leader and best-selling author Eric Topol, MD as well as articles by Jane Sarasohn-Kahn of HealthcareDIY and Juhan Sonin of MIT and GoInvo.
Hedera Hashgraph releases open source SDK
Hedera Hashgraph, the public distributed ledger that enables globally decentralized applications recently announced the public release of the Hedera SDK in Java.
The SDK is open source under an Apache 2 license. With the SDK, developers can now begin to develop Hedera-based applications for use on the Hedera platform.
4 [free] open-source network monitoring tools
Just as with commercial, for-pay monitoring software, there are open-source options that have varying features, and the goal of an enterprise is to find the best fit for its environment.
That’s where this downloadable PDF package of reviews can help. It evaluates four popular free, open-source network-monitoring platforms – Icinga, Nagios, Observium and Zabbix – highlighting pros and cons and giving enough context that this bundle can serve as a guide for IT pros seeking advice.
Open Source MANO Needs a Reality Check
So what’s next? Another ONAP update is due soon (in November, dubbed Dublin) but that will only cover up some of the cracks.
But you know what — that’s OK! No one actually expects an open source development comprising millions of lines of code to be made useful in a blink of an eye, or even a few months. Iterative progress and a very clear indication of the state of documentation, exactly which modules might be ready to be either used by an operator’s team or considered for “industrialization” by a vendor and even highlighting areas where more community activity would all be useful and not at all damaging: Promoting ONAP as “ready to deploy” currently invites suspicion, because that suggests 100% readiness and that’s very far from reality.
Is Open Source the Right Approach for NFV Orchestration?
Once upon a time there was a maharaja who decided to raise a baby elephant as a pet (stick with me…). As the elephant grew, it became more and more expensive to feed and created such a mess that eventually the maharaja told his courtiers that he was gifting them the elephant out of the generosity of his heart. In return they would have to look after the elephant and bring it back to him when it was a bit more mature and stable enough for him to ride.
Some might say that, in the context of NFV MANO (management and orchestration), the elephant is Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) and the maharaja is AT&T Inc. (NYSE: T). But that would be unfair. In reality there are two maharajas — AT&T and China Mobile Ltd. (NYSE: CHL) — and two elephants that have been merged into a six-legged Loxodonta with two tails and three tusks. (See MANO Marriage: ECOMP, OPEN-O Converge as ONAP.)
Nuclear Reactor Startup Transatomic Power going Open Source after Closure
It seldom happens that certain circumstances do not allow one idea to prosper as planned. But Open Source can solve that issue, once the idea is shared with the world. Others can take on that work, build upon and keep improving it.
This recently happened with Transatomic Power (founded by Mark Massie and Dr. Leslie Dewan in April 2011), a Nuclear Startup that introduced a brand new design of its own Nuclear Reactor that is a lot more efficient than conventional ones.
As they haven’t been able to build it within their targeted timeframe, they announced suspending operations on September 25, 2018. But declaring their designs Open Source is certainly going to help change things for the better.
Hacktoberfest 2018 – Celebrate Open Source!
Hacktoberfest is an annual event sponsored by DigitalOcean in partnership with GitHub and Twilio and while “Hacktoberfest” might sound or give the impression of something doable only by very experienced hacker programmers, in essence, it’s just a wrapper around having to submit 5 Pull Requests to any Github hosted repository and earn some swag in return.
Mangaluru: Sahyadri Open Source Community holds Hacktoberfest HackNight
Sahyadri Open Source Community (SOSC) at Sahyadri hosted Hacktoberfest HackNight in association with K-Tech Innovation Hub on October 13 and 14 at Sahyadri to celebrate the month of open source with Hacktoberfest.
The event was inaugurated by Shashank Krishna, Padma Shri 2019 (nominee) and director of Katmai Infotechnology Pvt Ltd, Bengaluru, followed by interaction with students regarding Smart India Hackathon. Dr R Srinivasa Rao Kunte, principal of Sahyadri College of Engineering and management, Prakhyath Rai, faculty coordinator, asst professor of Information Science, and Arjun Suvarna, chairperson of Sahyadri Open Source Community, addressed the crowd.
Announcing Linux Autumn 2018
Linux Autumn is an annual meeting of Free Software and Linux enthusiast from Poland organized since 2003 which means this year it will be its 16th time. This year it will be organized in Ustroń in the southern Poland from 9 to 11 November. The town is the same as the last year but in a different hotel.
As the place is located near the Czech and Slovak border we would like to invite more people, both speakers and attendees, from other countries. We are aware of strong presence of Fedora contributors in Brno and other nearby cities just across the border.
Play Your Favorite Old Web Games Now, Chrome 71 May Break Them
hen Google rolled out Chrome 66 earlier this May, it offered a tweak that pleased almost everyone by muting sites that would play sound automatically. Unfortunately, it also ended up breaking several projects’ audio.
This meant that a variety of different media, from popular web games to some of Google’s own projects effectively had their audio broken beyond repair. Users were understandably upset, and in response to an overwhelming amount of backlash, Google retained the browser alteration that blocked autoplaying video and audio, but decided to push back the feature’s application for games and web apps to Chrome 71, which is set to debut in December.
Apply to Join the Featured Extensions Advisory Board
Do you love extensions? Do you have a keen sense of what makes a great extension? Want to help users discover extensions that will improve how they experience the web? If so, please consider applying to join our Featured Extensions Community Board!
Board members nominate and select new featured extensions each month to help millions of users find top-quality extensions to customize their Firefox browsers. Click here to learn more about the duties of the Featured Extension Advisory Board. The current board is currently wrapping up their six-month tour of duty and we are now assembling a new board of talented contributors for the months January – June, 2019.
Extension developers, designers, advocates, and fans are all invited to apply to join the board. Priority will be given to applicants who have not served on the board before, followed by those from previous boards, and finally from the outgoing board.
Mozilla VR Blog: How XR Environments Shape User Behavior
In previous research, The Extended Mind has documented how a 3D space automatically signals to people the rules of behavior. One of the key findings of that research is that when there is synchrony in the design of a space, it helps communicate behavioral norms to visitors. That means that when there is complementarity among content, affordances, and avatars, it helps people learn how to act. One example would be creating a gym environment (content), with weights (affordances), but only letting avatars dress in tuxedos and evening gowns. The contraction of people’s appearances could demotivate weight-lifting (the desired behavior).
This article shares learnings from the Hubs by Mozilla user research on how the different locations that they visited impacted participant’s behavior. Briefly, the researchers observed five pairs of participants in multiple 3D environments and watched as they navigated new ways of interacting with one another. In this particular study, participants visited a medieval fantasy world, a meeting room, an atrium, and a rooftop bunker.
Removing Old Versions of TLS
In March of 2020, Firefox will disable support for TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1.
On the Internet, 20 years is an eternity. TLS 1.0 will be 20 years old in January 2019. In that time, TLS has protected billions – and probably trillions – of connections from eavesdropping and attack.
In that time, we have collectively learned a lot about what it takes to design and build a security protocol.
Though we are not aware of specific problems with TLS 1.0 that require immediate action, several aspects of the design are neither as strong or as robust as we would like given the nature of the Internet today. Most importantly, TLS 1.0 does not support modern cryptographic algorithms.
Wladimir Palant: So Google is now claiming: “no one (including Google) can access your data”
A few days ago Google announced ensuring privacy for your Android data backups. The essence is that your lockscreen PIN/pattern/passcode is used to encrypt your data and nobody should be able to decrypt it without knowing that passcode. Hey, that’s including Google themselves! Sounds good? Past experience indicates that such claims should not always be taken at face value. And in fact, this story raises some red flags for me.
The trouble is, whatever you use on your phone’s lockscreen is likely not very secure. It doesn’t have to be, because the phone will lock up after a bunch of failed attempts. So everybody goes with a passcode that is easy to type but probably not too hard to guess. Can you derive an encryption key from that passcode? Sure! Will this encryption be unbreakable? Most definitely not. With passwords being that simple, anybody getting their hands on encrypted data will be able to guess the password and decrypt the data within a very short time. That will even be the case for a well-chosen key derivation algorithm (and we don’t know yet which algorithm Google chose to use here).
Rabimba: Voting impartially for fun and profit a.k.a Mozilla Reps Council Voting
I am part of a program called Mozilla Reps. Though I am involved as a volunteer contributor with Mozilla for quite some time now, I am relatively new to the Mozilla Reps program and hardly know anything about the program apart from my scope of work in it.
Apparently, this is the Election time for voting the nominated candidates for the Council who will spearhead the program for the next session. Since I am new to the program reading about everyone’s election campaign and hearing about what they will do for the program was not giving me any clear motivation to vote for anyone specific. Though this wasn’t anything super important, I still thought since I have a bit of time in my hand why not do something interesting about it.
FirefoxOS, A keyboard and prediction: Story of my first contribution
This was at IBM, New York where I was interning and working on the TJ Watson project. I returned back to my desk, turned on my dual monitors, started reading some blogs and engaging on Mozilla IRC (a new found and pretty short lived hobby). Just a few days before that, FirefoxOS was launched in India in the form of an Intex phone with a $35 price tag. It was making waves all around, because of its hefty price and poor performance . The OS struggle was showing up in the super low cost hardware. I was personally furious about some of the shortcomings, primarily the keyboard which at that time didn’t support prediction in any language other than English and also did not learn new words. Coincidentally, I came upon Dietrich Ayala in the FirefoxOS IRC channel, who at that time was a Platform Engineer at Mozilla. To my surprise he agreed with many of my complaints and asked me if I want to contribute my ideas. I very much wanted to, but then again, I had no idea how. The idea of contributing to the codebase of something like FirefoxOS terrified me. He suggested I first send a proposal and then proceed from there. With my busy work schedule at IBM, this discussion slipped my mind and did not fully boil in my head until I returned home from my internship.
Quality Speakings
Unfortunately my suite of annoying verbal tics – um right um right um, which I continue to treat like Victor Borge’s phonetic punctuation – are on full display here, but I guess we’ll have to live with that. Here’s a talk I gave at the GTA Linux User Group on “The State Of Mozilla”, split into the main talk and the Q&A sections. I could probably have cut a quarter of that talk out by just managing those twitches better, but I guess that’s a project for 2019.
Encryption bill will cause ‘significant risk’ to Internet: Mozilla
Any measure that permits a government to lay down specifications for the design of Internet systems would cause significant risk to the security, stability and trust of such systems, the Mozilla Foundation has said in a submission about Australia’s proposed encryption bill.
Mozilla warns decryption laws will break open source
Mozilla is worried that Australia’s proposed decryption laws will break the principles and licensing terms of open source software.
The foundation said in a submission [pdf] to the government that being forced to secretly create vulnerabilities in an open source product would be extremely difficult.
“For an open source organisation, which would need to close portions of its source code and/or release builds that are not made from its publicly released code bases, this is at odds with the core principles of open source, user expectations, and potentially contractual license obligations,” Mozilla said.
SaaS/Back End
Nginx Updates Web Server Application Platform
Nginx Inc. held its annual customer conference on Oct. 9-10, announcing a series of updates to its namesake Application Platform.
While Nginx was originally best known for the open source nginx web server, Nginx Inc. has expanded in recent years to enable a larger set of web application capabilities, with a series of different products.
Nginx first announced its Application Platform in September 2017, which includes the Nginx Plus Application service combined with the Nginx Controller management and Nginx Unit application server.
Container-native, it’s now ‘a thing’
San Francisco headquartered software analytics company New Relic has acquired Belgian container and microservices monitoring firm CoScale.
Neither firm is essentially open source in its core approach, but the technologies being interplayed here essentially are.
CoScale’s expertise is in monitoring container and microservices environments, with a special focus on Kubernetes — the open source container orchestration system for automating deployment, scaling and management of containerized applications originally designed by Google.
Open source tool simplifies Kubernetes on AWS
AWS Service Operator relies on the Kubernetes controller pattern, which packages various basic tasks, integrates disparate components and keeps an application in a desired state. This information is stored on a single API server for the Kubernetes and AWS assets, with AWS services defined as custom resources, and a user can potentially deploy the entire lifecycle process through a single YAML manifest.
Etc.io, a Dallas-based consulting firm, doesn’t use any AWS container services at scale, and relies primarily on Google Container Engine. AWS Service Operator could make it more convenient to use Kubernetes on AWS, but it doesn’t help organizations that want to move to a microservices architecture that doesn’t rely on a single vendor, said E.T. Cook, managing partner at Etc.io.
Pseudo-Open Source (Openwashing)
How Azure became the place for open source in the cloud [Ed: Well, guess who? Asay became a stream of endless Microsoft propaganda and if they aren't paying him or rewarding him in the future, then this man has lost his mind.]
Should you pay or should you go for free open source software? [Ed: Cliff Saran doesn't get it still. What "free open source software" refers to isn't price, so he presents a false dichotomy again.]
INGDAN.com Partners with Unisound’s Open Source Chip Program to Support AIoT Technology Development [Ed: "Unisound's UniOne Open Source Chip Program" seems like pure openwashing to facilitate surveillance]
Nvidia and IBM Partner for Open Source Machine Learning
Nvidia and IBM team up on open source machine learning [Ed: Proprietary hardware]
New Open Source ERP Suite Written In ILE RPG
There’s something quite novel being introduced today at the Fall COMMON conference in Pittsburgh: An open source ERP package written in free-form RPG. Dubbed intERPprise, the software project is intended to harness core IBM i strengths – its integrated database and ILE environment – but above all, provide an example for what modern and native open source software can look like on IBM i.
Open Source Health Announces Roll Back, Amalgamation with Weekend Unlimited Inc., New Private Placement [Ed: Open Source Health Inc. (formerly OHS) is just a parasite riding the “brand”…]
Implementing ChatOps Using Open Source Tooling [Ed: Meaningless buzzwords]
Identity Community Invited to Contribute to Landmark Open Source Identity Initiative [Ed: “Open Source API” is meaningless. It’s not Open Source.]
Open-source this, open-source that, and the end of the Windows 10 Creators Update [Ed: Openwashing by Microsoft helped by Richard Speed. He speaks of proprietary software and games with a ‘tinge’ of code.
DragonFlyBSD Lands Another NUMA Optimization Helping AMD Threadripper 2 CPUs
DragonFlyBSD lead developer Matthew Dillon has been quite impressed with AMD’s Threadripper 2 processors particularly the Threadripper 2990WX with 32-cores / 64-threads. Dillon has made various optimizations to DragonFly for helping out this processor in past months and overnight he made another significant improvement.
Fosdem 2019: BSD devroom CfP
The Fosdem is a free event for software hackers to meet, share ideas and collaborate. Every year 8000+ open source developers from all the world gather at the event in Brussels, Belgium. During the Fosdem, developer rooms (devrooms) are assigned to self organized open source groups and projects to meet together and showcase their projects.
FSF/FSFE/GNU/SFLC
GNU Guile 2.9.1 beta released JIT native code generation to speed up all Guile programs
GNU released Guile 2.9.1 beta of the extension language for the GNU project. It is the first pre-release leading up to the 3.0 release series.
In comparison to the current stable series, 2.2.x, Guile 2.9.1 brings support for just-in-time native code generation to speed up all Guile programs.
[FSF] Introducing our new associate member forum!
I’m excited to share that we’ve launched a new forum for our associate members. We hope that you find this forum to be a great place to share your experiences and perspectives surrounding free software and to forge new bonds with the free software community. If you’re a member of the FSF, head on over to https://forum.members.fsf.org to get started. You’ll be able to log in using the Central Authentication Service (CAS) account that you used to create your membership. (Until we get WebLabels working for the site, you’ll have to whitelist its JavaScript in order to log in and use it, but rest assured that all of the JavaScript is free software, and a link to all source code can be found in the footer of the site.) Participation in this forum is just one of many benefits of being an FSF member – if you’re not a member yet, we encourage you to join today, for as little as $10 per month, or $5 per month for students.
The purpose of this member forum is to provide a space where members can meet, communicate, and collaborate with each other about free software, using free software. While there are other places on the Internet to talk about free software, this forum is unique in that it is focused on the common interests of FSF members, who care very much about using, promoting, and creating free software.
The forum software we chose to use is Discourse.
GCC Is Preparing To End Support For Solaris 10
Solaris 10, what may will argue as the last “good” Solaris operating system release before Sun Microsystems fell under control of Oracle, may soon see its support deprecated by the GCC compiler stack.
With upstream Solaris 10 soon reaching its end of life and an increasing number of failures/issues coming up when testing the GNU Compiler Collection on Solaris 10, the GNU toolchain developers are looking at obsoleting that support.
Programming/Development
uTidylib 0.4
Two years ago, I’ve taken over uTidylib maintainership. Two years has passed without any bigger contribution, but today there is a new version with support for recent html-tidy and Python 3.
Rewrote summain from Python to Rust
I’ve been learning Rust lately. As part of that, I rewrote my summain program from Python to Rust (see summainrs). It’s not quite a 1:1 rewrite: the Python version outputs RFC822-style records, the Rust one uses YAML. The Rust version is my first attempt at using multithreading, something I never added to the Python version.
Which programming language for work? For the weekend?
Our writer community grows each month as new, interesting folks write for us and join in on the fun of sharing their expertise and experiences in open source technology. So, it’s no surprise that they are brimming with fascinating information. It’s just asking the right question to release it.
Recently, I asked: What programming languages do you use at work, and which ones do you use on the weekend?
Go command and packages cheat sheet
Of the many things the go executable can do, most people know only go run and go build. And, of the many packages in the standard Go library, most people know only the fmt package. This cheat sheet will list many uses of the go executable and the most important packages in the Go standard library.
piwheels: Speedy Python package installation for the Raspberry Pi
One of the great things about the Python programming language is PyPI, the Python Package Index, where third-party libraries are hosted, available for anyone to install and gain access to pre-existing functionality without starting from scratch. These libraries are handy utilities, written by members of the community, that aren’t found within the Python standard library. But they work in much the same way—you import them into your code and have access to functions and classes you didn’t write yourself.
“Fixed mindsets” might be why we don’t understand statistics
Roughly 96 percent of the general population struggles with solving problems relating to statistics and probability. Yet being a well-informed citizen in the 21st century requires us to be able to engage competently with these kinds of tasks, even if we don’t encounter them in a professional setting. “As soon as you pick up a newspaper, you’re confronted with so many numbers and statistics that you need to interpret correctly,” says co-author Patrick Weber, a graduate student in math education at the University of Regensburg in Germany. Most of us fall far short of the mark.
Elon Musk cuts almost $500K check to bring clean water to Flint, Michigan schools
“The People’s Prescription”: New Report Calls For Value Creation Instead Of Value Extraction In Pharmaceutical R&D
“This report maps the fault lines of this system and sets out principles for a new model,” it states. “While it suggests quick fixes that policymakers can implement in the short term, it crucially proposes concrete policy actions that can be taken in the long term to actively shape and co-create a health system that delivers real public value.”
The report is structured into two sections. The first is “DIAGNOSIS,” with chapters on “Problems with the current health innovation system,” and “Principles for a health innovation model that delivers public value.” The second section, “REMEDIES,” includes chapters on “Immediate policy actions: Getting better prices today,” and “Transformative proposals: Re-imagining our health innovation system to deliver public value.”
“A pharmaceutical industry that makes billions in profits without providing the affordable medicines that people need is one of the scandals of our time,” Heidi Chow, senior campaigns manager at Global Justice Now, said in the report press release.
“Until governments follow the recommendations in this report and set about creating a pharmaceutical system that puts patients and public health at its core, our health and our health systems will continue to suffer as pharmaceutical profits continue to soar,” Diarmaid McDonald, lead organiser from Just Treatment, also said in the release.
How to irregular cyber warfare
It’s been fashionable lately to quote Sun Tzu or von Clausewitz on cyberwar, but it’s just pretentious nonsense. Cyber needs to be understand as something in its own terms, not as an extension of traditional warfare or revolution. We need to focus on the realities of asymmetric cyber attacks, like the nation states mentioned above, or the actions of Anonymous, or the successes of cybercriminals. The reason they are successful is because of the Birthday Paradox: they aren’t trying to achieve specific, narrowly defined goals, but are are opportunistically exploiting any achievement that comes their way. This informs our own offensive efforts, which should be less centrally directed. This informs our defenses, which should anticipate attacks based not on their desired effect, but what our vulnerabilities make possible.
Open Source Security Podcast: Episode 118 – Cloudflare’s IPFS and onion service
Josh and Kurt talk about Cloudflare’s new IPFS and Onion services. One brings distributed blockchain files to the masses, the other lets you host your site on tor easily.
Security updates for Monday
Multiple Vulnerabilities in PHP Could Allow for Arbitrary Code Execution
Around 62 percent of all Internet sites will run an unsupported PHP version in 10 weeks [Ed: Around 62 percent of all CBS/ZDNet articles will be security scaremongering if Catalin Cimpanu carries on like this...]
Usage statistics and market share of PHP version 5 for websites
The diagram shows the percentage of websites using PHP version 5 as server-side programming language.
Wannacry ransomware cost the British National Health Service £92m ($121m)
Among the most prominent ransomware victims were NHS facilities, including hospitals, across the UK. All told, the epidemic cost the cash-starved health system £92m (£19 in lost output, £73m in IT expenses in the aftermath).
WannaCry attack cost cash-strapped NHS an estimated £92m
Until now, the financial damage caused by the sweeping cyber attack – which it’s now been revealed affected 8 per cent of GP clinics and forced the NHS to cancel 19,000 appointments – has been unclear, but the DHSC estimates in a new report that the total figure cost in at £92m.
WannaCry cost approximately £19 in lost output, while a whopping £73m was racked up in IT costs in the aftermath of the attack, according to the report. Some £72m was spent on restoring systems and data in the weeks after the attack struck.
[Old] Ethical [crackers] show that Windows 10 isn’t immune to WannaCry
And secondly, the exploit they crafted only works against older versions of Windows 10 (pre-Anniversary Update), but that isn’t really the point. It’s about showing the lines along which these sort of exploits can evolve, and reminding folks not to sit back smugly even when the OS they’re running appears to be bulletproof to a new threat.
Police body cameras ‘could be hacked’ [sic] to access confidential data
Defence/Aggression
Tech companies need to work with US military, says Amazon boss Jeff Bezos
Speaking at the Wired25 conference in San Francisco, Mr Bezos said he would continue to work with defence agencies even if it was unpopular among his own staff, because the US “needs to be defended”.
Jamal Khashoggi’s ‘Disappearance’ Highlights Growing Threat to Journalists
Forty-eight journalists have been killed so far this year, according to a VOA tally, adding to the thousand killed in the past decade-and-half.
Intimidation, detention, even murder: World is full of many potential Jamal Khashoggis
Badawi was arrested in Jeddah in 2012 for “insulting Islam through electronic channels.” He was a blogger and, according to his wife, a humanitarian and free thinker. In 2013, he was convicted of several charges, including apostasy, and sentenced to 7 years and 600 lashes, a form of punishment with a whip or stick the United Nations says is cruel and inhumane. A year later, the prison term was increased to 10 years and 1,000 lashes. Badawi suffers from hypertension and Haidar, who was granted asylum in Canada with her three children, said her husband’s health is deteriorating. “I hope President Trump can help release my husband,” she said when asked whether Khashoggi’s case would bring new scrutiny of Badawi’s plight. One of Badawi’s alleged crimes was to mock Saudi Arabia’s prohibition against celebrating Valentine’s Day.
Deaths of high-profile Iraqi women spark fear of conservative backlash
Yet it was also shockingly distinctive; the body slumped in the car seat was not a politician, official, insurgent or warlord. She was a former beauty queen; a young woman with both profile and attitude, one of four high-profile Iraqi women to have been killed across the country in quick succession.
The four were unknown to each other, but their lives – recently at least – had shared common themes. All had a public presence and a voice that had unsettled elements of Iraqi society, which has retained rigid views on how women should behave, even as relative freedoms have crept into a still conservative culture.
Woman says she was tased by police while bleeding out from gunshots
According to the Wayne Circuit Court lawsuit, Rebecca Sevilla of Britton was driven to a Motel 6 in Southgate by her husband on June 17, 2017. In the parking lot, her husband shot her three times — in the stomach, chest and head — and then killed himself.
Police responding to the scene determined that the husband committed suicide and saw Sevilla “sitting upright, bleeding from gunshot wounds to her body and head,” according to the lawsuit.
It goes on to assert that officers “began yelling verbal commands to” Sevilla, who “was unable to (respond]) as a result of her injuries.”
Kashmir rebels hiding in mosque shot
“Pertinently, the terrorists fired on a search party from a nearby mosque and subsequently the area was cordoned off. The local Auqaf committee was engaged to convince the terrorists to come out. Security forces also appealed to the terrorists to come out,” the police spokesperson said.
Silicon Valley’s Saudi Arabia Problem
Long before the dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi vanished, the kingdom has sought influence in the West — perhaps intended, in part, to make us forget what it is. A medieval theocracy that still beheads by sword, doubling as a modern nation with malls (including a planned mall offering indoor skiing), Saudi Arabia has been called “an ISIS that made it.” Remarkably, the country has avoided pariah status in the United States thanks to our thirst for oil, Riyadh’s carefully cultivated ties with Washington, its big arms purchases, and the two countries’ shared interest in counterterrorism. But lately the Saudis have been growing their circle of American enablers, pouring billions into Silicon Valley technology companies.
Transparency/Investigative Reporting
Assange communications to be partly restored: report
Ecuador tells Assange to avoid political activity online – and feed the cat
Assange to tweet another day
Leaked memo: No internet until you clean your bathroom, Ecuador told Julian Assange
Julian Assange ordered by Ecuador to curb speech, clean bathroom, look after cat if he wants internet
Ecuador Tells Assange to Clean His Bathroom
Assange’s Limited Wi-Fi Access Shouldn’t be Mistaken as a Victory – Associate
Though it was reported this week that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would be granted limited internet access by the Ecuadorian embassy in London should he agree to stipulations mentioned in a nine-page memo, it shouldn’t be considered a victory, Randy Credico told Sputnik.
The memo, which was published by Ecuadorian website Codigo Vidrio on Monday, offers a series of conditions that Assange must abide by if he chooses to continue his residency at the London-based embassy. In order for Assange to have his internet privileges restored, he must steer clear of political matters that could disrupt Ecuador’s diplomatic interests. Assange will only be allowed to use the embassy’s Wi-Fi network.
He’s Baaack! Julian Assange Has WiFi Again
After putting WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange in solitary confinement by effectively banning his internet usage, Ecuadorian embassy has restored the controversial figure’s WiFi usage, allowing him communication with the outside world.
According to The Guardian, “Ecuador has partly restored Julian Assange’s communications with the outside world from its London embassy where the WikiLeaks founder has been living for over six years.”
Ecuador tells Julian Assange to feed cat in leaked document
Ecuador will reportedly restore Julian Assange’s internet connection, in return for a long list of leaked restrictions on his behaviour.
BBC accused of ‘fake news’ after quoting parody Assange account as real thing
The BBC were accused of spreading ‘fake news’ about Julian Assange after attributing quotes to the whistleblower that originated from a parody account.
The story was instigated after conditions put on Assange for allowing him access to the internet were leaked online.
In an article headlined: “Julian Assange given feline ultimatum by Ecuador” on the alleged warning the embassy has given the activist over his treatment of his cat, the BBC write: “It is unclear what is behind Ecuador’s concern over Mr Assange’s treatment of his roommate.
Report: Ecuador tells Assange to curb speech, look after cat
Behave yourself! Assange given rules of conduct online and off
According to sources, Julian Assange has been given a list of restrictions on his behaviour by the Embassy of Ecuador, London which includes less visits.
Julian Assange given feline ultimatum by Ecuador
Wikileaks co-founder Julian Assange has been given a set of house rules at the Ecuadorean embassy in London that include cleaning his bathroom and taking better care of his cat.
The whistle-blower was sent a memo in which he was warned that his feline companion could be confiscated.
He was also told to look after its “well-being, food and hygiene” in the set of guidelines, written in Spanish.
Julian Assange banned from political activity by Ecuador embassy and ordered to take care of his cat
To keep access to the internet, he has been told to refrain from activities “that could prejudice Ecuador’s good relations with other states”, the nine-page document said.
The nine-page memo published by Ecuadorean website Codigo Vidrio said Assange is prohibited from “interfering in the internal affairs of other states” or from activities “that could prejudice Ecuador’s good relations with other states.”
Assange’s internet access ‘partly restored’ by Ecuadorian embassy
RT’s Anastasia Churkina reports as Julian Assange’s internet access is ‘partly restored’ by Ecuadorian embassy.
WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to regain internet access at Ecuador’s London embassy
WikiLeaks said in a statement: “Ecuador has told WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange that it will remove the isolation regime imposed on him following meetings between two senior UN officials and Ecuador’s president, Lenin Moreno, on Friday.”
Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks editor-in-chief, added: “It is positive that through UN intervention Ecuador has partly ended the isolation of Mr Assange although it is of grave concern that his freedom to express his opinions is still limited.
Ecuador to partially restore Julian Assange’s access to communications and visitors
Assange, an Australian citizen, was compelled to turn to Ecuador because the Labor Party-led government of Australia had fully lined up with Washington and denied him his right to assistance and protection against persecution.
The British government, acting in concert with the Obama administration and most likely Australia, responded to Ecuador’s granting of asylum with the most vindictive measures. British authorities threatened that Assange would be immediately arrested on bail-related charges if he ever set foot outside the embassy. As a result, Assange has been unable to get adequate medical treatment for a range of serious conditions.
Ecuador lets Julian Assange go back online
Julian Assange has had his phone and internet access at the Ecuadorean embassy partly restored, seven months after they were cut off.
Ecuador To Partly Restore Internet Access For Julian Assange
Sweden dropped its investigation last year, but British authorities say they still want to arrest him for breaching his bail conditions.
Assange’s communications to be partly restored by Ecuador government
WikiLeaks’s Julian Assange Regains Partial Internet Access in Ecuadorian Embassy
WikiLeaks claims to publish confidential AWS data centre location information
WikiLeaks has published what it claims is a ‘highly confidential’ document outlining the addresses and operational details of Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centres.
The whistle-blowing organisation claims to have published the document, originating from late 2015, as an attempt to shed light on the ‘largely hidden’ nature of cloud infrastructure locations.
“While one of the benefits of the cloud is the potential to increase reliability through geographic distribution of computing resources, cloud infrastructure is remarkably centralised in terms of legal control,” the company wrote in a statement. “Until now, this cloud infrastructure controlled by Amazon was largely hidden, with only the general geographic regions of the data centres publicised.”
AWS’ global infrastructure page outlines geographical locations in terms of ‘regions’; for instance, US East has six in North Virginia and three in Ohio, while Europe has presence in Frankfurt, Ireland, London and Paris – with three zones, or data centres, each.
Ecuador’s ‘purely political decision on Assange’ is likely result of ‘US pressure’
Assange’s access to internet to be partially restored
The Wikileaks founder, who has been holed up at the embassy since 2012, was stopped from using the internet or a mobile phone to communicate with the outside world in March.
LEAKED: Here Are the Demands Ecuador Has Given Julian Assange in Order to End His Isolation
Despite numerous reports claiming that the communications of Julian Assange have been restored, they are not yet — and there will be a severe regime of penalties and sanctions on his speech and writing when they are.
The team at WikiLeaks was informed on Friday that his communications would be restored on Monday, October 15, but so far there has not been any change. In a grave violation of free speech, Assange was also presented with a nine page document that includes outlining limitations and restrictions on what he will be able to do and say online.
Bitcoin must die
If Bitcoin were to cease trading tomorrow, 0.5% of the world’s electricity demand would simply disappear. This is roughly equivalent to the output of ten coal-fired power plants, emitting 50 million tonnes of CO2 per year – which would cover one year’s worth of the carbon emission cuts required to limit temperature rises this century to 2C. It is not a solution by itself, but it would be a good year’s work.
AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
Facebook to show who buys British political ads in a bid to tackle election meddling
Facebook will also include new features on its website to show who has paid for adverts and begin an archive of all political ads that are purchased on the site in an effort to clamp down on election fraud.
Judge dismisses Stormy Daniels’ defamation case against Trump
She filed the case after the president tweeted that she had invented a story about being threatened for speaking out about the alleged affair.
But the judge ruled that the tweet was protected by the First Amendment, which guarantees freedom of speech.
Stormy Daniels was also ordered to pay Mr Trump’s legal fees, although the amount is yet to be determined. Her lawyer said she would appeal against the decision.
High rate of absentee ballots thrown out in Gwinnett
Nearly one in 10 vote-by-mail ballots have been rejected by Gwinnett County election officials, alarming voting rights groups.
Gwinnett is throwing out far more absentee ballots than any other county in Georgia, according to records from the Secretary of State’s Office. Ballots were discarded because of allegedly mismatched signatures, incomplete forms or missing residential addresses.
The county rejected 390 absentee ballots through Sunday, which represents 8.5 percent of all mailed ballots received in Gwinnett so far, according to state figures. Across Georgia, less than 2 percent of absentee ballots have been rejected. Gwinnett accounts for about 37 percent of all rejected ballots in Georgia.
“They’re putting an extra burden on someone to come back in to get another absentee ballot. That’s unheard of,” said Helen Butler, executive director for the Coalition for the Peoples’ Agenda, a civil rights group.
Censorship/Free Speech
Aasia Bibi’s family fears for safety if court sets her free
But in any case they feared for their future living in Pakistan under the blasphemy laws, they told AFP.
Family Of Pak Christian First To Face Death For Blasphemy Holds Out Hope
Her family said that if Bibi is released, it would be difficult to stay in her homeland.
‘Missing, Sex Trafficked’ Children Neither Missing, Nor Victims Of Sex Trafficking
For quite some time we’ve highlighted the horrible laws being pushed by aggressively misrepresenting the size of the problem of sex trafficking — and especially sex trafficking of children. This is not to say that it never happens. Nor is it to suggest that the crime of sex trafficking, especially of minors, is not horrific and hugely problematic. But we shouldn’t overreact to false information. A year ago, we looked at some of the numbers being presented in favor of passing FOSTA, and found they were almost entirely bullshit. This included Rep. Ann Wagner’s (who is the leading pusher of bad laws around “sex trafficking”) claim child sex trafficking alone was a $9.5 billion industry. As we noted, this number came from a bizarre nonsensical extrapolation of a very misleading and confused report by ICE that covered issues of smuggling (not just sex trafficking). Other stats — such as the supposed number of kids “lured” into sex trafficking — showed even more extrapolation, while police were finding very, very few actual cases of this happening.
So, remember, the headline screamed that 123 missing children were found in a sex trafficking “operation.” Now it seems that most of them were “found” at home with their parents, and only three of them might have been victims of sex trafficking. These seem like important details, especially when you have election officials like Rep. Ann Wagner pushing a vast surveillance bill on the basis of the problem of sex trafficking. Pushing bogus information like over a hundred missing kids being engaged in sex trafficking only helps build that narrative — one that appears to actually be much, much more limited than the media or lying politicians will let you know about.
Privacy/Surveillance
Vizio Customers Get A Pittance In Settlement Over Snooping Televisions
As we frequently note, most of the “smart” products you buy are anything but intelligent when it comes to your privacy and security. Whether it’s your refrigerator leaking your gmail credentials or your new webcam being hacked in mere minutes for use in massive new DDoS attacks, the so-called “smart” home is actually often dumb as nails and potentially hazardous. So-called smart-televisions have been particularly problematic, whether that has involved companies failing to encrypt sensitive data, or removing features if you refuse to have your daily viewing habits measured and monetized.
Last year Vizio joined this not-so-distinguished club when it was discovered that the company’s TVs had been spying on users for the last several years, starting back in 2014. Vizio’s $2.2 million settlement with the FTC indicates that the company at no time thought it might be a good idea to inform customers this was happening. The snooping was part of a supposed “Smart Interactivity” feature deployed in 2014 that claimed to provide users with programming recommendations, but never actually did so. Its sole purpose was to hoover up your data and help Vizio sell it, without your express consent.
On Election Day, the Voters of New Hampshire Can Protect Their Privacy in the Digital Age
Ballot question 2 seeks to guarantee that residents’ right to privacy in their “private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.”
“Live free or die.”
As reflected in its official state motto, no state has unequivocally embraced the principles of liberty and privacy more than the state of New Hampshire. These ideals make up the core of the state’s philosophical DNA. It is therefore surprising that New Hampshire is conspicuously missing from the list of the 10 diverse states that have explicitly enshrined the right to privacy in their constitutions. But on Election Day, Granite State voters will have a chance to remedy that oversight.
Earlier this year, the New Hampshire Legislature passed by a necessary two-thirds vote a proposed amendment to the state constitution guaranteeing the right to privacy in the digital age. Now it’s up to voters to enshrine that natural right. New Hampshire’s ballot Question 2 (Q2) would do just that by adding simple but mighty language to the constitution: “An individual’s right to live free from governmental intrusion in private or personal information is natural, essential, and inherent.”
Already facing an uphill misinformation fight, Facebook loses to scammers, too
The scam pages share a variety of common characteristics, and in many cases they use the same profile pictures. This type of scam should be easy for a site as sophisticated and well-resourced as Facebook to uproot. But four days after Abrams began reporting it, the campaign remained active, with the exception of 11 profiles Ars reported to PR representatives.
The Facebook representatives have yet to explain why the security department is having such a hard time dismantling the campaign. People who use the site should remain alert.
Civil Rights/Policing
Pakistan’s Ahmadis fearful as leaders bow to extremists
Pakistan’s embattled Ahmadiyya minority enjoyed a brief moment of hope earlier this month when one of its own, a U.S.-based Princeton economist, was appointed to an economic advisory council.
But the backlash from Islamic hard-liners, which led newly elected Prime Minister Imran Khan to quickly rescind the appointment under political pressure, has only underscored the Ahmadis’ fraught position in the conservative, Muslim-majority country.
What Will It Take To Wake Up America?
Christian Man Beaten Nearly to Death, Body Burned on His Muslim Mother’s Orders for Choosing Jesus
His mother left, warning that he will “pay the price” for his decision. Abdel was kidnapped by a Muslim gang two months later and beaten nearly to the point of death, with cigarettes burned to his body.
NYC Prosecutors Accidentally Admit They Use Bail To Deprive Presumably-Innocent People Of Their Freedom
New York City’s prosecutors just admitted they use the bail system to punish people for being accused of criminal acts. It’s not there to serve its intended purpose: to ensure the return of charged individuals to court, where they’re presumed innocent until proven guilty.
The bail system isn’t supposed to keep people locked up. But that’s the way it’s been used for years. Prosecutors often ask for excessive bail amounts. Judges often grant them. The argument made for high bail amounts — which ensure only the most well-to-do can remain free while awaiting trial — is that arrested people are flight risks and/or more inherently dangerous than all the people the police haven’t gotten around to arresting yet.
The stats don’t back up the parade of horribles offered by prosecutors at bail hearings. People have done the math. And this excellent article by the Boston Review compiles the damning numbers.
In the Name of Public Safety
New York City’s district attorneys are on edge. Beginning this week and extending through the month of October, as many as 500 women and teenagers currently imprisoned on Rikers Island and juvenile jail facilities will walk free when volunteers pay their bail. This Mass Bail Out Action, which is sponsored by RFK Human Rights and a network of grassroots groups, is hoping to post bail for every woman, sixteen- and seventeen- year-old currently sitting in jail in New York City because she or he cannot afford bail. The effort is similar to the powerful work of community bail funds and the recent National Bail Out projects, in which grassroots groups throughout the country have engaged in mass bailouts of black people incarcerated pretrial because of their poverty. The Mass Bail Out volunteers hope to bring urgency both to the effort to close Rikers Island (which the City has said it plans to close within ten years) and the push to eliminate the use of money bail nationwide. They are engaging in a profound act of resistance even as officials such as the DAs insist that freeing these incarcerated people will threaten the “public safety.” New York’s officials have strongly resisted the Mass Bail Out and are “scrambling to prepare,” according to the New York Times. If released from jail, their story goes, these women and teenagers will engage in violence, re-offend, or as Bronx District Attorney Darcel Clark warned, “end up being a victim of violence themselves,” especially if they are mentally ill or homeless.
Much like the famed “Willie Horton effect,” when we focus on sporadic acts of violent crime we overreact with excessive punishment and obscure the everyday mass violence that pre-trial incarceration does to millions of ordinary people—and their families. In the case of bail, this punitiveness is especially pernicious because it pretends to be a neutral financial calculation: if only this person had enough money, they could be free and would not be a threat to the public.
The Mass Bail Out forces us to confront the ways in which pretrial incarceration is itself a public safety threat. Placing women and minors (or anyone, for that matter) in jail exposes them to violence and misery. It exposes their families and neighborhoods to loss of income, stability, and the everyday companionship of a parent, spouse, sister, brother, neighbor, or coworker. When volunteers post bail for women and minors detained at Rikers Island, they will demonstrate that they, as members of the local community, actually feel safer knowing that a woman or teen has left the violence of jail and returned home to go to school, earn money at their job, raise their children, and participate in their own defense, while waiting for trial or other resolution of their case. Individual freedom is a part of public safety, too.
More Than Me CEO Katie Meyler Temporarily Steps Down
Katie Meyler, the founder of More Than Me, temporarily stepped down from her position as the American charity’s chief executive officer pending the results of a Liberian panel’s review of an investigation published by ProPublica and Time magazine last Thursday. The focus of the article was the rapes of girls by a senior employee of the charity Meyler created to protect them from sexual exploitation.
“In reviewing the allegations as published by ProPublica and TIME, we uncovered several statements that were either inconsistent with the information provided to us by More Than Me leadership or that were new information,” the charity’s Liberian advisory board said in a statement.
Protest Song Of The Week: ‘American Dream’ By J.S. Ondara
As Ondara told NPR Music, “The video follows a man, as he sets upon a journey to purchase a weapon. While on his way, we get a glimpse of the world around him through his eyes, which gives us some insight into his state of mind.”
“Ultimately, the video explores the turbulent times in the country, socially and politically, thereby throwing a shade of irony to the popular notion of ‘The American Dream.’”
The video also references Dylan’s classic protest anthem “The Times They Are a-Changin’,” with the lyric, “Your sons and your daughters are beyond your command,” inscribed on a sheet of paper.
During the 1960s, Dylan wrote several timeless socially conscious tunes. With “American Dream,” Ondara offers his Dylanesque reflection on America.
A Decade’s Worth Of Meth Convictions Overturned Due To Drug Lab Employee’s Misconduct
Massachusetts prosecutors are seeing a bunch more Drug War wins turned into losses by drug lab misconduct. Annie Dookhan, a drug lab technician, falsified countless tests, ultimately resulting in the overturning of more than 20,000 convictions. Dookhan was valued for her productivity, but no one above her bothered to wonder why she was able to process samples so quickly. Turns out tests go much faster when you don’t actually perform the tests.
If that were it, it would have been more than enough indication the nation’s crime labs need more oversight and auditing. But it isn’t. Another tech at another Massachusetts drug lab is erasing thousands of convictions. Chemist Sonja Farak, an 11-year veteran of the Amherst drug lab, apparently spent much of that time using the substances she was supposed to be testing, turning in falsified test results that landed people behind bars.
The Farak investigation uncovered the drug lab’s lack of standards, which included more than allowing an employee to use drugs while on the clock for at least eight of the eleven years she was employed. There’s no way of telling how many drug tests might be tainted, not just by employee malfeasance, but by a lack of best practices, like running blanks through testing equipment to ensure new tests weren’t tainted by residue left behind by previous tests.
The total number of convictions expected to be thrown out due to Farak’s abuse is currently sitting at 7,690 cases. But this won’t be the final total. Zach Huffman of Courthouse News Service reports an entire decade’s-worth of convictions is being examined.
DOJ, Trump Decide The Federal Government Needs To Give Chicago The Police Department It Doesn’t Want
In a move that’s tone deaf if nothing else, the DOJ is going to court to block a consent decree put in place to overhaul Chicago’s unconstitutional policing. This announcement comes days after a jury convicted Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke of second-degree murder for killing 17-year-old Laquan McDonald. He was also convicted of 16 counts of aggravated battery — one count for each bullet he fired at the teen as the teen walked away from him.
This also follows more tone-deafness from the “law and order” presidency. Trump’s speech to a law enforcement convention contained several comments about Chicago and its perceived police problem. But the problem Trump sees is police not policing hard enough. Trump wants stop-and-frisk brought back — one of the key modifications contained in the consent decree.
Charlottesville’s Other Jim Crow Legacy: Separate and Unequal Education
High school seniors Zyahna Bryant and Trinity Hughes have been friends since they were 6 years old, raised by blue-collar families in this affluent college town. They played on the same T-ball and softball teams and were in the same church group.
But like many African-American children in Charlottesville, Trinity lived on the south side of town and went to a predominantly black neighborhood elementary school. Zyahna lived across the train tracks on the north side and was zoned to a mostly white school, near the University of Virginia campus, that boasts the city’s highest reading scores.
“I know what I’m capable of and what I can do,” Trinity said, “but the counselors and teachers, they don’t really care about that.”
For every student like Zyahna in Charlottesville’s schools, there are scores like Trinity, caught in one of the widest educational disparities in the United States. Charlottesville’s racial inequities mirror college towns across the country, from Berkeley, California, to Evanston, Illinois. But they also match the wider world of education, which is grappling with racial gaps — in areas from gifted programs to school discipline — that can undercut the effort to equitably prepare students for college in a competitive economy.
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More importantly today’s readers need to be a little more than cautious when believing anything. Native advertising is a most insidious concept and should be rejected by every publisher. Instead it is welcomed by the broadcasting networks and most of the major newspapers including the New York Times. Are the writers saying nice things or are they paid to say nice things?
Wall Street Quietly Warns That 5G Wireless Is Being Aggressively Over-hyped
As hardware vendors and cellular carriers prepare deployment of fifth-generation wireless networks, you may have noticed that the hype has gotten a little out of control. Claims that 5G will magically revolutionize the broadband sector sound nice and all, but as we’ve noted repeatedly, 5G is really more of a modest evolution in existing networks, not some kind of revolutionary panacea that’s going to change everything. Still, claims that 5G will somehow usher in amazing smart cities or somehow result in a four day work week for everyone (what?) get far more traction than they probably deserve.
Alongside the generalized hype, carriers are pushing another narrative: that 5G wireless is so incredible, it’s going to fix all of the telecom sector’s biggest problems by delivering a massive new wave of competition. This competition will be so amazing that net neutrality will apparently be made irrelevant. It’s largely bunk originating with telecom industry marketing departments, dutifully swallowed and regurgitated by an unskeptical press.
Epson ‘Security Update’ Bricks Third-Party Ink Refills, Opens Up Possibility Of A Competitive Trades Investigation
It’s no secret the printer business relies on hefty ink refill markups. The printers are disposable, often cheaper than the ink they come packaged with. But customers aren’t usually willing to toss out a printer when it runs out of ink, even if refilling it costs more than replacing it.
And good for them! I mean, at least in an environmental sense. Let’s not toss a bunch more non-decomposables into the nearest landfill the moment they refuse do anything until their inkwells are filled. But this does nothing for consumers, forcing them to become unwilling adherents to the sunk cost fallacy, especially after they’ve paid for a couple of ink refills.
Printer companies know their system is ripoff. They know their customers know it’s a ripoff. That’s why they engage in shady tactics to ensure this steady stream of revenue doesn’t dry up. For years, third parties have offered compatible ink refills. And for years, printer companies have been lying to customers to lock these competitors out of the market.
A couple of years back, HP pushed out a firmware update that made it impossible to use third-party refills. It didn’t tell customers the update would do this. It just sent out the DRMbomb and triggered it remotely, saying things about “security” and “protecting customers,” even as it eliminated their refill options.
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Damages may be considered proven when the facts speak for themselves
A recurring topic of discussion in patent infringement proceedings in Spain is the degree of evidence required to prove the damage caused by acts of patent infringement. According to a line of case law handed down by the Supreme Court, the existence of the damage may be proved by demonstrating the existence of the unlawful act in cases where such damage is the logical consequence of the unlawful act considered. In such circumstances, the facts speak for themselves (“res ipsa loquitur“).
The Barcelona Court of Appeal (Section 15), in a judgment handed down on 26 July 2018, used the following arguments to justify the applicability of this principle:
“60. Case law has specified that the existence of losses or profits not obtained as a result of the infringing act must, in all cases, be proven, albeit “not with greater rigour or restrictive criteria than any which constitutes the basis of a claim” (Supreme Court judgments of 2 March 2001 and 7 July 2005). However, demanding this proof is compatible with the possibility of establishing their “ex re ipsa” existence, with it being sufficient to prove the unlawful act in those cases where its connection to the alleged damage allows it to be considered that, according to the rules of logic, the latter is a necessary, logical and inevitable consequence of the illicit action.
Consequently, it is stated that there are times when the facts speak
FTC and Qualcomm trying to settle antitrust matter by November 14, but Judge Koh may rule on chipset licensing anytime
Judge Koh gave this administrative motion short shrift: she denied it quickly, without any further explanation.
Since my first commentary on the motion, I’ve always felt that nothing would make a settlement more likely at this stage than an order granting the motion and reminding Qualcomm of obligations it entered into when it made FRAND licensing declarations to two U.S. standard-development organizations, TIA and ATIS. Yesterday’s administrative motion validates that assessment: while the FTC and Qualcomm have presumably talked about settlement on numerous occasions (even if just calling someone to find out whether the other party’s position has changed), the current situation is unique. The importance of SEP licenses to competitors couldn’t be made clearer than by a motion that says the parties don’t have a problem with decisions on any other pending motion but this one. This motion unsurprisingly appears to scare the living daylights out of Qualcomm.
Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Fed. Cir. 2018)
Last month, in Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc. v. TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc., the Federal Circuit affirmed a decision by the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey finding that U.S. Patent Nos. 7,722,898; 7,910,131; and 8,821,930 were not invalid and would be infringed by Defendants-Appellants TWi Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and TWi International LLC, DBA TWi Pharmaceuticals. The ’898, ’131, and ’930 patents are owned by Plaintiff-Appellee Supernus Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Seeking approval to market generic versions of Oxtellar XR®, an oxcarbazepine extended-release tablet for treatment of partial epilepsy seizures in adults and children over the age of six, TWi filed an Abbreviated New Drug Application (ANDA) with the FDA. In response to that filing, Supernus brought an action for infringement of the ’898, ’131, and ’930 patents, and TWi counterclaimed for invalidity.
United Kingdom: Saab Seaeye Limited v Atlas Elektronik GmbH & anr, Court of Appeal of England and Wales, Civil Division, [2017] EWCA Civ 2175, 19 December 2017
In a case concerning two patents in the field of underwater mine clearance, the Court of Appeal upheld the Patents Court’s decision that claims 1 and 2 of the 576 Patent were invalid for obviousness, but allowed the appeal in relation to the validity of the 861 Patent, finding that the claims in question were invalid for obviousness.
Museum of Modern Art Wins Injunction Against MOMACHA On Merits of Trademark Infringement, Dilution Claims
U.S. District Judge Louis Stanton recently issued an opinion granting an injunction requested by New York City’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). The injunction prevents the operator of an art gallery and café located in close proximity to a MoMA Design Store in New York’s SoHo neighborhood from using a pair of marks that infringe upon MoMA’s own marks. The marks in question in this case are ‘MOMA’ and ‘MOMACHA,’ both of which were filed by MOMACHA, the SoHo café that began operating in April of this year.
The marks were filed with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for use in commerce with beverages and restaurant and café services. Although MOMACHA has changed the font used in its original logo, that logo uses a font that “greatly resembles ITC Franklin Gothic Heavy,” a font which served as the basis for a MoMA logo first designed in 2003. MOMACHA continued its use of its old logo on its coffee cups and on its social media accounts.
Argos goes to the Court of Appeal but leaves empty handed
Can a US corporation selling construction software only in the Americas under the name ARGOS be sued for infringement of a registered trade mark by a UK based consumer goods retailer who trades mainly in the UK and Ireland under the same name?
This question is posed by Floyd LJ in the introduction to the Court of Appeal decision on the Argos Ltd v Argos Systems Inc [2018] EWCA Civ 2211. The formulation of the question may make it easy to guess the Court of Appeal’s ultimate decision.
NCC sues COSON for operating without approval
The Nigerian Copyright Commission has filed a criminal charge against the Copyright Society of Nigeria, its Chairman, Chief Tony Okoroji, and principal officers for carrying out the duties of a collecting society without the approval of the Nigerian Copyright Commission.
The NCC, in a statement signed by its Director-General, Afam Ezekude, and made available to our correspondent on Tuesday, said, “In Charge No FHC/L/338C/18, filed on October 8, 2018 at the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court, the accused persons were alleged to have performed the duties of a collecting Society by demanding and collecting royalties from Noah’s Ark of 9 Sowemimo Street, GRA, Ikeja, Lagos.”
African Nations Rife With Illegitimate Collection Societies: Nigeria Files Criminal Complaint Against COSON
You may recall that we have discussed the complete chaos that is copyright collection societies in Kenya over the past few years. At issue in Kenya is that the country has multiple collection societies, which are overseen by a government sanctioned body that can request to look at their books to make sure artists are being paid appropriately, and officially licenses the collection societies themselves. Some of those collection groups have apparently not felt the need to respond to requests for oversight, leading the government to pull or not renew their licenses. Instead of being the end of the story, a number of those collection societies continue to threaten people and collect royalties anyway, acting essentially as an illegal extortion outfit.
Kenya is not the only African nation going through this, it seems. Across the continent on the opposite coast, the Nigerian Copyright Commission has been going through similar issues, specifically with a collection group called COSON.
Stairway To Heaven Is Not Blurred Lines
A few weeks ago, we wrote about the 9th Circuit overturning the district court’s ruling in a copyright case questioning whether the song “Stairway to Heaven” had infringed on the song “Taurus” by Spirit. We were less than pleased with this result, as we felt the original ruling was correct. Copyright lawyer Rick Sanders disagreed with part of our analysis and made some really great points in a two part blog post series, which he’s graciously allowed us to repost in slightly edited form here. Part II will be published tomorrow.
Yes, the new 9th Circuit surprising reversal of the jury verdict looks like “Blurred Lines” all over again — only in reverse. Whereas in “Blurred Lines,” the jury reached the “wrong” conclusion, and the Ninth Circuit refused to fix the jury’s mistake, here it looks like the jury reached the “right” conclusion,” and the Ninth Circuit is screwing up the jury’s work. Techdirt all but said so, in an article 9th Cir Never Misses a Chance to Mess Up Copyright Law: Reopens Led Zeppelin ‘Stairway to Heaven’ Case.
I’m pleased to report that, far from taking this opportunity to further screw up copyright law, as Techdirt fears, the panel of judges is attempting to improve copyright law by replacing the Ninth Circuit’s (very bad) framework for copyright infringement with a much better one. Indeed, the “Stairway to Heaven” opinion may be seen as a rebuke to the “Blurred Lines” opinion. The pity is that Led Zeppelin must bear this burden by having to do the trial all over again.
The reason the “Stairway to Heaven” has to do with our old, misunderstood frenemy, the “Inverse-Ratio rule,” which is only tangentially related to why the case is being sent back for a second trial. I blogged extensively about the “inverse-ratio” rule in connection with the “Blurred Lines” case, and how the Ninth Circuit (correctly) amended its opinion to excise (its terrible) discussion of the rule. But here’s the deal: the inverse-ratio rule provides that the more similarity there is between the two works, the less proof of access you need, and vice-versa. It is highly beneficial when applied to the right legal framework for copyright. It is a perverse disaster when applied to the wrong legal framework.
Legal Search Engine with Pirate Keywords Confuses ‘Web Sheriff’
Last year the film industry launched a legal search engine that targets ‘pirates’ specifically. The site is set up in such a way, that it draws people who search for pirate related terms. However, this also appears to have confused the “Web Sheriff,” who targeted the site’s URLs with takedown notices.
You’re About to Drown in Streaming Subscriptions
But while tailored, a la carte services have long been the promise of streaming TV, it’s starting to look more like a series of pricey buffets. Competing megacorporations are all pumping billions into original content, much of it designed for mass appeal. (Apple has reportedly mandated no “gratuitous sex, profanity or violence” on its incoming streaming service.) And even if each also produces more experimental or idiosyncratic options, you’ll be hard pressed to access all or even most of them. The show that scratches your itch won’t necessarily be on a platform you can afford to pay for.
GTA ‘Cheat’ Developers Have Homes Searched and Assets Frozen
Rockstar Games and Take-Two Interactive Software are taking a clear stand against cheat developers. An Australian Federal court has granted search and seizure orders against several people who are believed to be connected to the cheating software “Infamous.”
Japan Plans to Criminalize Pirate Link Sites, Up to Five Years in Jail for Operators
Sites that link to copyright-infringing content aren’t currently illegal under Japanese law but efforts are underway to close the loophole. The government is considering prison terms of up to five years for site operators who knowingly link to pirated content and refuse to respond to takedowns requests.
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PODIUM FINISH FOR REFUGEE ATHLETE AT NAIROBI CHAMPIONSHIPS
Our very athlete, Domnic Lokinyomo, continued his fine form when he finished at position 5 out of 83 elite athletes, drawn from all sub-counties in Nairobi, at the Nairobi Regional Cross Country Championships held at Posta Grounds, Ngong Road, on Saturday, 9 February 2019. Domnic who competed in the 10km race not only improved his performance position-wise from the last championship in Kisii where he was placed 8th , but he also smashed his previous time by more than a minute by clocking 28:32.24 compared to his previous Kisii time of 29:53.0. Domnic will be looking to shatter even more records when he competes at the Monaco Run 5km Road Race this coming weekend. Following on from his excellent performance in Kisii, the International Association of Athletics Federations (IAAF) has graciously sponsored him to the Monaco Run. The Nairobi Championship also gave us an opportunity to select a team of 8 refugee athletes who will compete at the National Cross-Country Championship in Eldoret on 23 February, in preparation for the World Cross-Country Championships in Aarhus, Denmark on 30 March.
Dominic in pink leading the pack
The selected team of refugee athletes is as follows:
Domnic Lokinyomo- 28:32.24Paulo
Amotun- 29:49.65
Simon Ayon- 30:50.49
Pur Biel- 31:05.30
John Lokibe- 31:10.68
Dominic Lokolong- 31:27.62
Ubaa Dinta- 33:02.88
Ukuk Uthoo- 33:04.44
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The 8th Wonder of the World: Feeding 1,500 people every 15 minutes for FREE!
September 13, 2015 Jonathan Su 2 Comments
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“Bang, bang, bang…bang, bang…bang, bang, bang, bang…” The loud, erratic but never-ending metallic noise filled our ears as we head closer to the multi-story sandstone building.
“What is that?” We all wondered to ourselves.
However, before I had the chance to figure out the source of the loud banging, a large round metal tray was thrust into my hands by a man wearing a turban. Immediately, a round metal bowl was placed on the tray by another person. Then a metal spoon was placed on the bowl. Without realizing it, our family of five were pulled into a stream of pilgrims of all ages all with metal trays in our hands heading up a stairway.
There was a constant stream of people lining up to eat inside the Golden Temple complex.
Little did we know at that point that we were about to witness the “8th Wonder” of the world – the feeding of the pilgrims at the Golden Temple in Amritsar, India.
We followed the crowd into a spacious, rectangular hall with rows and rows of long narrow carpets lining the white marble floor. Every person was ushered to sit closely side-by-side on the carpet floor in long rows and to placed the metal tray with the bowl and spoon on the uncovered marble floor.
As we put our trays on the marble floor, volunteers scoop different curry onto the trays down the row.
“What do we do now?” Nathan asked, echoing the same question we all had in our mind.
A man carrying a large tray full of chapatti (Indian flat bread) stood in front of me, holding two pieces of chapatti towards me. I looked at him, held out my tray but he just stood there still holding the chapatti in his hands. He was saying something in Punjab but I couldn’t understand.
I looked around and saw a local Indian holding out his two hands with palms facing up so I did the same. Immediately, two chapatti fell into my hands!
Soon, another man with a metal pail went down our row and skillfully scooped curry containing potatoes, onion, and cauliflower into the tray. Then another followed with dal, then another with rice, and then another with rice pudding all in the same way. Without realizing it, my metal tray contained a full set of hot, fragrant smelling Indian food.
“The curry is so good!” Joani yelled out with a big smile.
“The rice is the best I had tasted yet in India,” Olivia added.
We were all surprised at the tastiness and the variety of the food especially since the food is free.
While we were busily glopping down the food, a man pushing a large barrel with four small wheels stopped in front of us.
The water dispenser was an intriguing and ingenious invention that quickly fills water without spilling.
With a quick push of a lever, similar to the brake lever of a bicycle, cold water gushed out of a opening near the bottom of the barrel unto the metal bowls we had placed on the marble floor. We watched in amazement as the bowl filled quickly with water to the rim without spilling. After one bowl was filled, the cart moved quickly to the next bowl and so on.
“Look, there are refills!” Olivia exclaimed..
More servers came along our row and scooped more curry, rice, and rice pudding onto our tray. We had to keep gesturing “no more” to stop them from filling the tray with more and more food.
It was a new experience for us to eat in such a large dining hall on the floor.
“I have not been so full since coming to India,” Olivia gestured at her stomach.
“We have never ordered five plates of the same food for each of us like this when we travel,” stated Nathan.
“This place is soooooo amazing, awesome,” Joani exclaimed.
“Do you think that we can just keep coming here again and again whenever we are hungry?” Joani laughed, imagining what it would be like.
I started counting the number of people eating in the hall and quickly estimated the number to be around 1500.
“In fifteen minutes, 1500 people were fed. Was this how it was like when Jesus fed 4,000 with two loaves and five fishes?” I thought to myself. Later, I asked and found out that around 100,000 people were fed each day here in the Golden Temple. The dining hall was open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
The cleaning up of the dining area floor was just as quickly as feeding the pilgrims.
What happened next amazed us again.
The water barrel cart came by again, but instead of filling the bowls with water, it dripped on the floor a controlled amount of water along the rows of carpet. Another person quickly came with a meter-wide floor wiping mop and scraped the marble floor, pushing the water on the floor towards the side of the hall along with all the spilled food and water. At the side of the hall was a shallow gutter that ran all along the four walls. The dirty water was pushed into the gutter and flowed quickly along the gutter down a drain.
Just like that, the eating floor of 1,500 persons was cleaned!
The cooking pots are large enough to fit several bodies inside!
There is a line of volunteers that collects all the dirty dishes as pilgrims leaves the dining hall.
We followed other pilgrims down the stair with our now empty plates and bowls. We first dropped our spoons into a metal container then we passed the empty tray and bowl to two rows of people who continued to pass them down to a 1.5 meter diameter container, where two persons bang the tray very hard onto the side of the container to clean out whatever food was left.
“BANG, BANG, BANG…” There we finally saw the source of the loud banging that we had heard earlier.
Plates and bowls flew everywhere with loud bangs as the leftover are dumped into a large container.
Immediately, the trays and bowls “sailed” into the air into another large container where two people tried to catch them and organized them in order to fit more trays and bowls in the container. The scene was so out of this world that visitors just stood there taking photos and video of the whole chaotic but seemly logical flow of dishes.
“I read that all these people here are volunteers,” I told the children. “Why don’t we also volunteer to better understand how this entire operation functions? Especially if Olivia is going to study at the school of hospitality!”
“Do you know how we can sign up to be volunteers?” I asked Amritpal, the person in charge of our dormitory inside the Golden Temple complex.
“No sign up. Just go and do it,” Amritpal smiled.
We volunteered to help wash dishes and cut vegetables to better understand how the entire operation works.
So for the next few days, we volunteered doing different tasks after every meal we ate at the Golden Temple. We started with washing the dishes, then peeling garlic, then buttering chapatti, and then cutting eggplants. Each time we volunteered, we came away with even more appreciation for the Golden Temple. Afterwards, we each shared our experiences.
“Now I know the dishes we use are so clean!” I exclaimed. “Each dish goes through so many washing stations from soaping, to second soaping, to first rinse, to second rinse. Can you imagine how many thousands of dishes are washed each day?”
Nathan said excitedly, “Washing the dishes was so amazingly efficient. No matter how fast the dishes come in, they pass through so quickly. As soon as the dishes were thrown in, everyone rushes to wash them.”
“The volunteers there are so nice. They allowed our family to participate even though the place was already overflowing with eager volunteers! They created room space so that we can join in. They distribute the bowls to our side so that we have dishes to wash. I actually didn’t work that hard or else I am taking away chance for pilgrims to express their devotions.” Annie commented.
As soon as the dirty dishes were dumped into the trough, volunteers rushed eagerly to wash them.
Thousands of plates are used and washed every hour.
“It was weird to see everyone fighting to wash dishes. At home I never saw people fighting to do chores…except maybe for Daniel Clark when he stayed with us for a week…It was the first time washing dishes was so fun!” laughed Joani.
Olivia sighed, “When these people serve, I felt that is what Christians should be like. They seemed so happy do all these work, even men. Inspiring. I am definitely inspired.”
The girls joined the many other volunteers in peeling the garlics.
Olivia joined other pilgrims around a big pile of egg plants to cut them into smaller pieces.
“I learned a new trick peeling the garlic. If you first soak the garlic in water, the skin falls off so much easier!” Annie said delightfully.
“I actually didn’t want to stop peeling garlic when Dad told us it is time. I was just getting good at it!” Olivia laughed.
“My favorite was buttering the chapatti. It was easy, fast, and fun!” added Joani. “The eggplant curry was the best though. Maybe we are eating the eggplants we helped to chop!”
Annie worked with other women to butter the chapatti bread.
Not only did we eat and volunteer there, we also stayed inside the Golden Temple complex. At least 10,000 to 20,000 pilgrims slept on the marble floor of the Golden Temple complex every night as well. But they put foreigners in a special foreigner dormitory with simple bed-frame, air-conditioning, cold water, and shower, which were all free. The dormitory was set up to be a communal living space with about 48 bed spaces spread out in 5 to 6 sections. We slept at the most open section so everyday we met many new guests.
It is estimated that more than 10,000 people sleep inside the golden temple’s marble floor every night, mostly out in the open.
“I am glad that we stayed longer to be integrated to the life there. Most foreign backpackers just came and took a quick look. In our five days there, we must have seen three to four batches of backpackers come and leave,” Annie reflected.
Indeed, our family stayed the longest of all the foreigners during the period we were there.
“At night, we couldn’t do our homework or watch movies because new backpackers kept coming in to stay, but it wasn’t like we don’t like it. We were actually very excited to talk to them because they were all so interesting,” Joani recalled.
We stayed for free inside the temple at the foreigner dormitory where we met new backpackers every night.
“After five days, we became like a tour guide for the backpackers,” Olivia joked. “We can even charge money: ‘If you go on the tour with us, we will give you a free meal, free chai, cold water, free bed…”
When it was time for us to leave the Golden Temple, we were really sad to leave.
“Golden Temple was so amazing. There was free chai, food, cold water, air-conditioning…” Joani shared.
The golden temple is situated in the middle of a large pool surrounded by four sides of large marble walkways.
“It was such a big contrast between the dirty, narrow, and hectic streets outside the temple and the clean, peaceful atmosphere inside,” I added.
“Golden Temple was special because it was a ‘living’ temple.” Olivia added. “At the Red Fort in Delhi, the tour guide would say that there used to be water here, the roof used to be covered with gold, ceremony was held there, and thousands of people lived here…”
The Golden Temple glitters brightly over the pool at night.
The sun set over the outer wall of the golden temple.
“But at the Golden Temple, the pool is filled with water. There is ceremony every night. Thousands of real people come here every day. The roof is stilled covered cover with real gold. The entrances are still guarded by Sikh saint soldiers with spears. I felt like I was Marco Polo, going back in time seeing exotic places in foreign land the way it was in the past, except it’s the present!”
“I can imagine a thousand years later, when the Golden Temple become an archeological ruin, the tour guide would tell the tourists that this location used to be where the holy book was placed, instead of bronze there was real gold covering the dome, people used to dress with turban carrying daggers…”
“…and this used to be the sleeping quarter where foreign visitor stayed!” I interrupted jokingly.
Most of all, we and the children experienced first-hand, through joining them side-by-side, the heart of service and generosity shown by these thousands of pilgrims.
Annie had the best conclusion, “A heart of service glitters more than gold.”
Many men and women washed themselves in the pool of the Golden Temple.
We did go on two tours while staying at Amritsar: Heritage Walk and Border Closing Ceremony.
Davinder was one of the best guide we had as we took a Heritage Tour of the city of Amritsar.
We took a Heritage Walk with Davinder to understand the origin of the Sikh religion and the history of the city of Amritsar. At one point he asked, “There are two ways we can take to reach the wall gate. One passes through one point of interest and one passes three points of interest, which way would you like to take?” Luckily I said “the one with three places” because he later said, “That was a test question for me to see if the tour is interesting for you or not. If you seem interested, I would tell you more. If not, I would tell you less!”
As a show of national pride, border guards from India and Pakistan compete to see who can kick the highest.
The daily border closing ceremony between India and Pakistan was hilarious. We had crossed countless number of borders in the last few years, but we had never witness any place where the closing of border each day was like attending a college football game between two rivalry schools — Indian style with Bollywood dancing, stadium seats, pop corn, and cheerleaders! The border guards reminded us of cock fighting where they crow and raise their feathers in a fighting stance.
The border crossing closing ceremony was like a college football game, even has popcorns!
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2 thoughts on “The 8th Wonder of the World: Feeding 1,500 people every 15 minutes for FREE!”
Barbara Suppe says:
The heart of service indeed shines better than gold – thank you for inspiring us by this story. It is amazing grace.
Karen Cheng says:
That is truly amazing!
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Harp saved
A harp owned by Theo Landon, wife of former Gov. Alf Landon, was the only musical instrument not damaged when the tornado demolished Washburn University’s MacVicar Chapel. James Van Slyke, university band director, stored the harp temporarily in his basement at 1317 S.W. College. Landon loaned the harp for use by the Washburn music department and the Topeka Civic Symphony. Also saved from the chapel was the civic symphony’s music library.
Myth busted
Prior to the Topeka tornado, the assumption was the safest location during a tornado was the southwest corner of a basement. But Joseph Eagleman, a professor at the University of Kansas, proved the notion wrong based on a survey of destroyed properties after the Topeka disaster. His study in Topeka showed the north side of homes was the safest location, both on the first floor and in the basement, while the southwest corner was unsafe in 75 percent of the damaged homes. His findings were confirmed when he repeated the study after the Lubbock, Texas, tornado of May 11, 1970.
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The Luftwaffe Lair
by Lindy P. Lawrence
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By the year 2115, the world population has exponentially declined, due to a century-old contaminated flu vaccine. The sinister inoculation caused serious defects in the human reproductive system, causing some females to be born with male genitals, and some males to be born with a vulva. The unfortunate group of humans cannot reproduce, and they are targeted for elimination by the Luftwaffe, a clandestine organization.
A scientist, who was on the verge of discovering a cure, and her lover, are assassinated, and Detective Kyle McKay and his emotionless partner, Simon Scalene, are the homicide detectives assigned to the investigation. They soon discover that a special weapon was used to commit the murders, and a prominent senator is the prime suspect in ordering the murders. The detectives must stop the senator, and the underground organization, but they discover the Luftwaffe organization has many members…and very ominous facets.
About the author Lindy P. Lawrence
Lindy P. Lawrence was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri and currently resides in Salt Lake City. He recently started writing erotic novels and enjoys combining obnoxious characters with exciting action thrillers, who must overcome insurmountable odds to survive. Inspiration for his work relies heavily on sipping Booker’s Bourbon, and listening to classic southern rock music.
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CHICAGO BECOMES A HUB OF STARTUP ACTION
An entrepreneurial ecosystem takes root in the Windy City
Re: Lakshmi Shenoy (MBA 2010)
by Julia Hanna
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Business Ventures-Business Startups
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Silicon Valley’s name is dominant in the history of entrepreneurship. So where does that leave other cities that want to get in on the action?
On April 13 in Spangler Auditorium, Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel and a panel of area business leaders discussed what differentiates their city as a swiftly developing “ecosystem” for starting new ventures. HBS professor Lynda Applegatemoderated the event, which was inspired by a case she coauthored with Alexander Meyer (MBA 2005), SAP vice president of global business development. “Rising From the Ashes: The Emergence of Chicago’s Entrepreneurial Ecosystem” details the city’s evolution as a growing hub for startup activity.
“Chicago has been called the most American of American cities,” Emanuel commented. “It’s a very big city but a small town.” He cited its diverse economy (no single sector represents more than 13 percent of employment), its position as “capital of the heartland” (making it a magnet for graduates of the Midwest’s top universities), its relatively low cost of living (number 10 in the nation), and its position as a central aviation hub as just a few of the qualities that make the city an ideal site for entrepreneurship—not as a clone of Silicon Valley, but as a unique, networked support system with its own identity.
Positioning Chicago as a city conducive to entrepreneurship required ongoing, deliberate efforts on the part of Emanuel (who was sworn in as mayor in 2011) and the other panelists, each of whom brought their own perspective on the city’s evolution as an entrepreneurial ecosystem. Emanuel, for example, cited an historic event that fostered the city’s resilient, civic-minded culture: the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. Having the can-do attitude required to pick up the pieces after surviving a disaster that destroyed several square miles of the city feeds directly into the energy and vision required to start a new business, he said. (A hub for early-stage ventures located in the city’s Merchandise Mart is named 1871 for just that reason.)
“We try to link universities, entrepreneurs, and innovation space,” Emanuel said. An effort to make Chicago the capital of cybersecurity that involved a city-funded training program, for example, ultimately led to KPMG making Chicago its cybersecurity headquarters—a move that has created 500 new jobs, with 500 more to come by 2020.
“That’s platform thinking,” Applegate said.
Steve Collens, CEO of MATTER, a health care startup incubator, and Kevin Willer, a partner at Chicago Ventures, agreed that entrepreneurial activity in Chicago really started to take off in 2010 and 2011, when a critical mass of companies that had made successful exits began looking for ways to reinvest in the area.
“The announcement of 1871 made me start to think about moving back to Chicago from New York,” said Lakshmi Shenoy (MBA 2010), who last year became the organization’s vice president of strategy and business development. “Entrepreneurs need a sense of network that’s intimate and immediate,” she said, noting that 1871 is home to 500 early-stage tech startups.
“We’re a place to bring together all of the stakeholders—venture capital, universities, and corporate partners,” she said.
Mark Tebbe, who founded the technology consulting firm Lante Corporation in 1984, noted that entrepreneurship has been happening in Chicago for a while, “but we were missing an opportunity where we could talk.” As chairman of ChicagoNEXT, a group of business leaders working with city government and other stakeholders to shape the city’s economic agenda and raise its profile in technology, Tebbe is a chief organizer of the third annual Chicago Venture Summit this September. “We have capital returning from both coasts,” he said.
Efforts are in place to ensure job growth and economic activity are available to all, Emanuel added, citing entrepreneurship courses offered on the city’s South Side through 1871, BLUE1647 (a technology skills center), and a $30 million startup fund for neighborhood businesses, among other efforts.
“I have one goal,” he said. “If a child walking out of his house looks at the city skyline and thinks, ‘This is my home,’ nothing can stop us. If we can do that—game on.”
“Chicago is a relevant story because it came from a point of relatively little entrepreneurial activity after the fallout from the dot-com crash and managed to develop a vibrant ecosystem,” Meyer said in a post-event interview. “I think there’s a momentum here right now that can be self-sustaining. In that sense, I hope the case will be useful to leaders in other regions working to develop an ecosystem for entrepreneurship.”
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Don’t Slow Down Your Startup
Too many young businesses don't get to become old businesses because they get sidetracked by tangents of technology, markets and competitors. Why build yourself a bigger mountain to climb?
By Howard Tullman
CEO, 1871@tullman
In case it's not abundantly clear to just about everyone, starting a business from scratch and then growing it into something with some decent traction, modest momentum, and a real reason for being is plenty tough. And, of course, that's just the beginning of a long, often painful, and assuredly bumpy ride. But here's the deal: you don't have to make things even harder on your business or build yourself a bigger mountain to climb than you absolutely must.
Don't try to be or to own everything-- no one can afford that approach today. Don't be too proud or stupid to ask for help, find smart partners, ride the rails that someone else already built at great cost, or use a platform that's already reaching the markets you're aiming for instead of trying to build your own. The latest and greatest case of not reinventing the wheel is Instagram, whose Snapchat clone already has more daily users after only 8 months than Snapchat did at the end of 2016. And Snapchat is 6 years old. The message is simple. Take the path of least resistance as long as it moves you forward; plan to fill in the missing pieces down the line (if needed) when you can actually afford them.
Do what you absolutely have to do right now and do whatever can wait when you get a chance. It turns out that a lot of things-- equipment, investments, marketing campaigns, etc.-- that were absolutely vital and mission-critical in the moment turn out to be unnecessary, outmoded, or just wrong if you give yourself a little time and space to see what happens in the meantime. (See The Beauty of Backing into a Business .) As you develop and build out, you should take every chance you have to shed the stuff that doesn't matter or simply makes the struggle tougher or more expensive. Every marginal cost and capital investment that's avoidable needs to go. Spending money is easy; making money is hard. Here's the basic rule: dump the dumb stuff and double down on what can make a real difference in your destiny. (See Five Keys to Effective Outsourcing .)
And when the world is sending you a message or giving you a golden opportunity, you need to go with the flow. That's why The Lone Ranger used to say: it's so much easier to ride the horse in the direction it's headed. Find the fastest bandwagon out there and jump aboard. Inertia is very tough to redirect or overcome-- but it's a real blessing when it's working for you.
Habits are hard to break for a good reason-- they're based in what has worked well for us in the past and we're reluctant to part with them. But we're happy to expand and enhance our ongoing experiences if you can give us a solid reason and a convincing argument for why we should. The closer you can align your "asks" of the consumer/customer to existing actions and behaviors, the happier everyone will be and the quicker people will adopt your solution and incorporate it into their day-to-day lives. Why try to hurdle the fence when the gate's wide open.
On the other hand, if it's student body left and you're the only one headed in another direction, you can scream all day at the top of your lungs, but it won't make much difference or move the crowd your way. And if the technology has already advanced to the point where no one needs your help or your product or service, you might just as well pack it in and try something else. No company can produce, pivot or innovate fast enough to outrun a future that's already miles ahead of them and preordained. Our smart phones (and eventually our smart watches although it won't be any time soon, see Five Reasons the Apple Watch Failed) are already comprehensive trackers and capable of any measurements critical enough to matter to us and in our lives on a regular basis. We just don't need another dedicated device.
I wrote a piece here recently (See Where Will Your Business Be When the Music Stops.) about how Fitbit doesn't have much of a future and how it really wasn't anyone's fault other than the guys who failed to realize that we need another rechargeable pain-in-the-ass device on our wrists (or tacked to our t-shirts) about as much as we need a third elbow. In fact, there are already activity-tracking t-shirts on the market. So, a product with a very, very short remaining shelf life and really no next act isn't much of a business and it's not even a novelty for much longer.
But there are smart examples of companies going with the flow. One, for sure, is the Chronos Disk which is a thin, smart device that attaches to the back of your watch and instantly adds Bluetooth-enabled fitness tracking, music controls, and a "find my phone" function. Takes a couple of minutes to attach (or remove and switch to another watch) and you're good to go. An hour into the process and you completely forget that it's even there. So, for you folks who love your fancy watches (yes, I know you're all over 30), you can have the best of both worlds in a minute. Habit? Check. Existing behavior? Check. Barriers to adoption? None.
It's pretty straightforward. Build your business to capitalize on someone else's capital investments-- such as TV monitors already installed in every venue imaginable. Plan your product or service so that it rides right along with existing activities: no new learning curves, no new apps to download (even if you could find them in the clutter), no hurdles to overcome. And then it's off to the races.
Warren Buffett said it all: "I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over."
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Jal Sahelis quench the thirst of parched villages in Bundelkhand
By Kanchan Srivastava on May 1, 2019 in Food and Water
Jal sahelis of Nadia village, Mohangarh tehsil in Tikamgarh district (Madhya Pradesh). Photo by Kanchan Srivastava.
A network of women across Bundelkhand villages are reviving water harvesting techniques and traditional water bodies in the drought-ridden region.
The ‘Jal Sahelis’ construct check dams and desilt old ponds to collect rainwater for use in summer and to keep wells, borewells recharged.
Their efforts have helped agriculture in the villages where farmers now grow three crops instead of traditionally one.
It is just the onset of summer and mercury is already touching 42 degrees Celsius in Bundelkhand. Water has evaporated from most rivers and ponds. Tube wells and handpumps have gone dry here, in, one of the most underdeveloped regions of central India. Even urban households get brief water supply once in three days.
Water is the most precious item, found Mongabay-India while travelling through Jhansi, Lalitpur and Tikamgarh, three water-stressed districts in the hilly and plateau terrain of Bundelkhand which is spread over six districts in the states of Madhya Pradesh (MP) and seven districts in Uttar Pradesh (UP).
“There is no water left for irrigation and drinking water is likely to vanish in the next two weeks, like previous years. All 650 families here are having sleepless nights anticipating the hardships in coming days. Monsoon is still two months away and we would have to rely on water tankers once again,” says Rani, a resident of Rajpur, Talbehat tehsil of Lalitpur (UP), about 370 km from the state capital Lucknow.
Districts in Bundelkhand, spanning U.P. and M.P., are facing a water crisis. Photo by Kanchan Srivastava.
But just 15 kilometres away, in Chandrapur village, a part of the same tehsil, 170 families are comparatively more relaxed. A check dam, built by a women’s group, Jal Sahelis (women friends of water), five years ago, is full of water collected during monsoon. The water is being used extensively for irrigation and domestic purpose in the village.
Started in 2005 from Madhogarh in Jalaun (U.P.) the network of Jal Sahelis across 200 villages in U.P. and M.P. is reviving water harvesting structures and traditional water bodies through community participation.
“Over 670 rural women are working actively to change the fate of 200 villages. They are an inspiration to many others,” says Sanjay Singh who is guiding the network of water-women of Bundelkhand. Pushpa Vishwakarma (40), a woman farmer who set-up the Jal Saheli group in the village, says, “I got married in this village 22 years ago. Trekking long distances to fetch drinking water was a routine. Life of other women in the neighbourhood was not much different. Farming, household chores and then fetching water were taking a toll on our health and family life. It was the year of 2011-12 when we were told the importance of rainwater harvesting and we realised how important it was for the women of Bundelkhand.”
A check dam, built by Jal Sahelis in Chandrapur village (Talbehat tehsil, Lalitpur) has helped save rainwater which is now used for agriculture and household use. Photo by Kanchan Srivastava.
The women joined hands and organised themselves as a “Paani Panchayat” under the mentorship of Singh, the founder of Jalaun-based non-governmental organisation Parmarth Samaj Sevi Sansthan and Jal Jan Jodo Abhiyan, a nationwide campaign which works to ensure water security through community participation.
The Jal Sahelis, who are illiterate or semiliterate, then involved the entire village for a 25-day massive digging exercise and revived a dying two-acre pond by converting it into a check dam before the monsoon season. Check dams are small, sometimes temporary dams built across the direction of water flow on shallow rivers or rain streams, for the purpose of water harvesting. They retain excess water flow during monsoon. The pressure created in their catchment area helps force the impounded water into the ground, resulting in the replenishment of nearby groundwater reserves and wells.
“Our hard work got recognition in the following summer when the check dam we built, recharged wells and handpumps and met the water needs of the entire village, including our farms and cattle,” said Devwati Sharma, another Jal Saheli.
The initiative brought a major socio-economic change in the village where agriculture was confined to a single crop (wheat) in the entire year. In Bundelkhand, canal irrigation is unavailable in most parts which severely hampers agricultural production leading to poverty, indebtedness and farmers’ suicide.
Ramkishore, a fellow villager says, “We never sowed more than one crop till a decade ago. Since water is now available round the year, we are sowing all three crops. Now, even animals from nearby villages come to drink water here. Very few farmers migrate now.”
In another village of Talbehat tehsil, Udguwan, the women take pride in their work of constructing a check dam and two ponds, eight years ago. Shirkunwar Rajput, a woman farmer who led the Paani Panchayat campaign in her village and doubles up as a cook in primary school, says, “Now the village is self-reliant in both water and food.”
Sanjay Singh who formed and guides the network of Jal Sahelis of Bundelkhand. Photo by Kanchan Srivastava.
As many villages in Bundelkhand are facing a serious water crisis, farmers are migrating to cities in search of water and jobs and women are walking for 2-3 km to get water. Meanwhile, Chandrapur and Udguwan are set to grow pulses after harvesting the wheat crop, thanks to the efforts of the Jal Sahelis.
700 Jal Sahelis changed the fate of 200 villages
“These Jal Sahelis meet with women every month, discuss water distribution, potential water resources and problems and then follow it up with the authorities,” says Singh who ropes in private donors to bear the cost of construction material for check dams. The cost of one check dam is about Rs. 200,000 – 300,000 and labour is provided by the villagers themselves.
The network of Jal Sahelis across 200 villages in U.P. and M.P. is reviving water harvesting structures and traditional water bodies through community participation. Photo by Kanchan Srivastava.
Water availability and awareness have encouraged many villagers to grow vegetables in their backyard and in unused small patches. “We don’t need to buy vegetables from cities as we started growing onion, potato, gourd and other vegetables in our small backyard. Banana and jackfruit trees have also started bearing fruits,” says Bharti Ahirwar of Nadiya village of Tikamgarh (MP). Even teenage girls in the district’s Nandanpur village are maintaining kitchen gardens after school hours to support their parents.
Women have the first right on water resources: Jal Sahelis
Over the last five years, the Jal Sahelis have emerged as a group of empowered women who speak like seasoned activists. Clad in simple sarees and with their heads covered, the women water warriors speak in Bundelkhandi Hindi, a local dialect, and articulate the importance of water harvesting and rights of women as well.
“It is the women who suffer the most in Bundelkhand because of water scarcity, says Shirkunwar Rajput, the woman who led the Paani Panchayat in Udguwan (Lalitpur). “In Bundelkhand, fetching water is entirely a woman or girl’s job. Hence, women have the first right on water resources. And it’s women who can ensure water security for the community.”
At the check dams, these thoughts are literally set in stone which state, “Women have the first right on water resources.”
Water availability and awareness have encouraged many villagers to grow vegetables in their backyard and in unused small patches. Photo by Kanchan Srivastava.
According to a World Resources Institute blog post, UNDP research on 44 water projects across Asia and Africa shows that when both men and women engage in shaping water policies and institutions, communities use water services more and sustain them for longer.
Pointing out that Bundelkhand got ample rains last monsoon, after seven years of consecutive drought, Ganeshi Kushwaha, a Jal Saheli in Nadiya village of Tikamgarh, says, “Every village could have enough drinking water this time had the people conserved and recharged their water resources during the last monsoon.”
Tikamgarh received 51 percent excess rainfall last year while the districts of Jhansi and Lalitpur had little less than the average, 8 and 11 percent less respectively.
Was it difficult to convince people to take matters into their own hands instead of waiting for the government to do its bit? “It wasn’t, as everyone was suffering,” smiles Rajput, who has gradually emerged as a leader in her village, fighting for government funds to help all villagers get toilets and houses.
While the reach of the Jal Sahelis is limited, they hope that the government scales up its efforts for rainwater harvesting across India.
First published by Mongabay India on 30 April 2019
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The New Adaptation of Lord of the Flies Will Have an All-Female Cast. But Guess Who’s Directing It?
By Shruti Sunderraman
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William Golding’s 1954 novel Lord of the Flies details how a group of boys stranded on an island without adult supervision eventually resort to violence and murder to survive. It was adapted into a movie by Harry Cook in 1990. In a lot of ways, it reinforced stereotypes of ‘boys will be boys’, by depicting that boys will inherently be violent and aggressive like society teaches them to be.
But now, the story is about to get a new adaptation. It will be a group of girls and not boys who will be stranded on an island in the new Lord of the Flies. And guess who is going to be helming this movie with an all-girls cast? Directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel. Yep, two men are directing a movie in attempt to have more women-centric films. Did they miss the memo on what women-inclusive films are supposed to be? (We need more women helming films and not just piling women on in the cast as token representation.)
According to a report, McGehee says, “(The new film) breaks away from some of the conventions, the ways we think of boys and aggression. People still talk about the movie and the book from the standpoint of pure storytelling. It is a great adventure story, real entertainment, but it has a lot of meaning embedded in it as well.”
But what will the girls on the island do now? To counter all the boys’ aggression in the 1990 film, will the new Lord of the Flies try to show that girls are just as aggressive? Or even worse, will it show women, sitting next on a cold surface (because duh, why would girls know how to make a bonfire, right?), talking about boys?
The hypocrisy of two men trying to show how women are, is not lost on us. Feminist writer Roxanne Gay says, “The plot of that book wouldn’t happen with all women.”
If the movie touches upon female cohesion without piling in loads of stereotypes, it will be the movie’s salvaging quality. Hollywood has tried to tell women’s stories through men’s lenses multiple times. Mean Girls was directed by Mark Waters and touched upon hierarchy of ‘girl world’ in high school. But hey, at least, it has Tina Fey.
But the all-girls Lord of the Flies is worrisome, thanks to yet another pair of men trying to mansplain women about women. We’d like to sit with them around a bonfire we’ve created to tell them what’s up about men trying to show how women behave.
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As you know, every Friday at The Max, we provide to you the most clever links we can find on the Internet. The hope is that we can pry you away from being productive at work. This week, however, we’re guessing you’re not at work… you know, ‘cuz of the whole Turkey Day thing. But that doesn’t mean we’re gonna take the day off, especially because we know that you may have the in-laws at your house. Use the below links as a way to waste time, rather than sitting at the kitchen table talking about how much you love watching the leaves change or the falling price of gas.
Scott Proctor’s Arm takes a look at the Yankee Stadium soundtrack. We are a little curious why they didn’t link to our version, which we published well before theirs. But we’re not bitter, and we like their work. We just wish they gave partial credit to The Max.
Speaking of the musical arts, Cracked.com has the worst band names of all time.
Hulk Hogan is getting taken to the cleaners by his wife.
The Max has long wondered how Lenny Dykstra is as successful as he is. The Sports Hernia, apparently, shares the same thought.
JSF looks at some of sports’ worst bodies. Very similar to our Thanksgiving piece, but they did their first. They win (That wasn’t so hard, Scott Proctor’s Arm).
Page 2’s Turkey of the Year Awards are somewhat funny. We wish we did a version; we just couldn’t find the time with all the sitting around and drinking.
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We first saw this at SI.com. And while the Donovan McNabb thing is old news now, his stupidity will never get old to us. Here, Rosie explains ties to the Eagles QB:
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We have to apologize for the tardiness of our weekly Friday Surfing The Web feature. We spent the majority of the morning dreaming about Matt Holliday in pinstripes. Anyway, we hope you were able to find some other things to help you get through the work day. The below links should get you to 5 p.m. There’s nothing The Max promotes more than a lack of productivity at the workplace.
Page 2 updates you on all the recent uniform changes in the NBA. Continue…
Si.com tries to get to the bottom of the Derek Jeter-Minka Kelly rumors. Continue…
The Sports Hernia has an exclusive interview with the bozo that painted his face for the Phillies post-season games. Continue…
Maxim takes a look at the NFL’s mid-season MVPs… for CHEERLEADERS! Continue…
The Sports Muffin counts the things Greg Oden has more of than games played in the NBA. Continue…
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The Top 10 things that went through Cole Hamels’ mind after winning the World Series:
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Michael B. Jordan to Produce World War II Drama ‘Liberators’
By Amanda Rey on March 21, 2018
In the wake of Black Panther’s massive success, Michael B. Jordan will be hopping off screen and into the producer chair and for the forthcoming World War II action-drama “Liberators.”
According to The Hollywood Reporter, the film will portray the true-life 761st Tank Battalion – a predominantly African American armored unit whose accomplishments on the battlefield aided to desegregation of the armed forces. The independent army unit fought in the Second World War under General George S. Patton. The drama will be based on a script by Madison Turner. Jordan will be producing the film under his Outlier Society Productions with Alana Mayo, along with Safehouse Pictures’ Tory Tunnell and Joby Harold. Safehouse’s Matt Schwartz will serve as executive producer.
Although there is no word is Jordan will be starring in the film, the actor is using his star-power and production company to make strides in diversifying Hollywood. “In support of the women & men who are leading this fight, I will be adopting the Inclusion Rider for all projects produced by my company Outlier Society.” He wrote on Instagram. “I’ve been privileged to work with powerful woman & persons of color throughout my career & it’s Outlier’s mission to continue to create for talented individuals going forward.”
In support of the women & men who are leading this fight, I will be adopting the Inclusion Rider for all projects produced by my company Outlier Society. I’ve been privileged to work with powerful woman & persons of color throughout my career & it’s Outlier’s mission to continue to create for talented individuals going forward. If you want to learn more about how to support the cause – link in bio. #OutlierSociety #AnnenbergInclusionInitiative
A post shared by Michael B. Jordan (@michaelbjordan) on Mar 7, 2018 at 3:03pm PST
Recently, Jordan starred in the Ryan Coogler-directed blockbuster Black Panther as the villain Eric Killmonger. The New Jersey native also starred in other Coogler-directed films including Creed and Fruitvale Station. Outlier Society Productions, which launched back in 2016, is working of numerous projects including the sci-fi series “Raising Dion”, which has a straight-to-series order from Netflix, an adaptation of the bestselling YA novel “The Stars Beneath Our Feet,” which Jordan will make his directorial debut, and an untitled project for OWN.
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Willow Smith Releases New Album ‘The 1st’ for Her 17th Birthday
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Former HIV Positive School Aide Responsible for Sexually Assaulting 42 Students
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Jaden Smith Previews Visuals and Announces the Release Date for ‘SYRE’ Album
After years of randomly dropping singles and visuals for different musical endeavors, Jaden Smith is finally putting his official mark onto the music world. He...
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Places to Go in Austin for National Hot Dog Day
President Trump Touts Tax Bill During Minnesota Visit
Filling out taxes this year wasn't as simple as filling out a postcard, undercutting one Republican promise - but the typical taxpayer did have a much easier time of it, saving hours of time thanks to the 2017 overhaul, according to a study released Monday. According to Mother Jones, a campaign aide for the New Jersey Democrat said reforms to the federal estate and inheritance tax could fund Booker's plan to provide every newborn in the USA with a $1,000 savings account until they turn 18 with more money going toward lower-income families. And there's something to their gut instinct: The top 1 percent of income earners received an average tax cut of $51,310 past year, or more than $900 per week, the Tax Policy Center said in its analysis. "He said, 'Took our life away, took our blood, and you gave it back to us, '" Trump said.
"For many, it means those workers took home more money in their paychecks during the year because employers began using the new IRS income tax withholding tables". He claimed his tax cuts are the largest in USA history, but the facts show otherwise.
The White House's Council of Economic Advisers also says the economy saw a boost, despite the naysayers.
■ Vermont US Senator Bernie Sanders also released 10 years of returns Monday.
"We have once again reiterated our objections to the unconstitutional demand for the President's tax returns", the president's personal lawyer Jay Sekulow said.
"The metro was hard for us in 2018, but we're confident that the second congressional district, the third congressional district, we can get these seats back", said Carnahan.
Zidane openly admits Real Madrid are 'going to make changes'
In recent years the team has not changed much and we have been European champions for 1,000 days". The defender claimed Benzema has been Madrid's best player during a hard season for the team.
National Basketball Association playoffs 2019: Western Conference first-round series by the numbers
If the Pacers had homecourt, I may be able to talk myself into it, but they finished the season 29-12 at home, 19-22 on the road. Tough to stop around the rim, but can also handle the ball and is an elite passer - averaging 7.7 assists per game.
BCCI announces the 15-man squad, Rishabh Pant not included
Vijay Shankar is the new addition to the squad as an all-rounder along with Hardik Pandya, Ravindra Jadeja and Kedar Jadhav. He'll have a trial by fire, for India's first four opponents are South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and Pakistan.
"Doesn't bother me, not at all", said Don Tomann of Buffalo, who owns a manufacturing plant and went to show his support. "I think there probably is a better, easier way than it was past year, but I think because it's new I think most people don't realize that it's easier".
Nuss (right) tells Trump how excited his employees were when they learned of the president's planned visit.
Trump had sold his tax plan as a deficit reducer and economic booster, both nationally and personally.
The U.S. economy, Trump said, is "maybe as good as it's ever been". Along with additional spending that's been signed into law, the CBO projects the deficit will surpass $1 trillion by 2020. It doubled the standard deduction and enhanced the child tax credit. Numbers show most are getting tax cuts, though polls say they don't know it. And it closed or tightened various tax breaks - most notably by capping the amount of state and local taxes that can be deducted - which had its biggest impact on residents of high-tax, largely Democratic-run states.
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin has said the administration intends to respond to Neal by the April 23 deadline but said there are "complicated legal issues" at play.
Mr. Hall said he is hearing anecdotally of more people asking for extensions this year.
All Digital Xbox One S Leaked, Launching May 7 in Europe
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Lori Loughlin, husband plead not guilty in college admissions scam
The couple and more than a dozen other parents were indicted last week on charges of mail fraud and money laundering conspiracy . Loughlin and Giannulli reportedly were slapped with an additional charge of money laundering after rejecting a plea deal.
Journalists willing participants in Ecuador’s attempt at Assange character assassination
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'We watched Tiger' - Robertson says Reds ignoring City
Manchester City's fans must match the players' desire to reach a Champions League semi-final, according to manager Pep Guardiola. Without Kane to call on, Pochettino will delay a decision on whether to start Dele Alli , who broke his hand in the first leg.
Sanders has entered millionaire class, tax returns show
Governor Jay Inslee of Washington released 12 years of tax returns, showing that he and his wife earned US$202,912 last year. Sanders said that his newer returns will show that he is a millionaire thanks to book sales.
Scientists Create World's First 3D-Printed Heart Using Patient's Own Cells
The researchers are now planning on culturing the printed hearts in the lab and "teaching them to behave" like hearts, Dvir said. Furthermore, because the heart is made from the patient's own cells, there is a reduced chance that the transplant would fail.
Boston Celtics win Game 1 in defensive struggle vs Indiana Pacers
Points are going to be at a premium in this series, which works for the Pacers but someone has to make shots. The Indiana Pacers are shooting 22.2 percent from beyond the arc and 57.1 percent from the free throw line.
Nazem Kadri And Mike Babcock's Future In Doubt?
The incident occurred with 5:57 left in the Maple Leafs' 4-1 loss in the first-round playoff series. Morgan Rielly wasn't out of breath when he spoke to media late on Monday night.
India called Pakistan's bluff with air strikes: PM Modi
But the parties do not want to recognize the truth". "The Congress ignored their plight because of vote bank politics", the PM said.
Omar reports more death threats against her since Trump tweet
He also asserted, without evidence, that Omar is "out of control , expected for her control of Nancy". The women-led group also denounced the video, calling it "a risky incitement [that] puts Rep.
Notre-Dame cathedral on fire in Paris
The state of those works is unknown, but the BBC reported Paris firefighters are scrambling to remove as many pieces as they can. Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo said firefighers were on the scene and she asked everyone to respect the security perimeter.
Fordham student dies after falling from clock tower
The waiter, whose roommate allegedly arrived on the scene shortly after the fall, said she was gravely injured. Sydney and her friends had climbed the tower to take photographs for social media, according to their friends.
Disney stock soars after release of streaming service
The monthly payment for the basic plan is as low as 6,500 won ($5.70) when consumers limit the use of service to mobile devices. Disney + doesn't launch until November 12, so you still have plenty of time to enjoy all these Disney movies on Netflix.
A new Lego Star Wars game is reportedly on the way
She adds, "We're not just looking at what the next three movies might be, or talking about this in terms of a trilogy". This weekend's reveal of Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order was met with a lot of enthusiasm from the gaming public.
British police arrest 113 climate change activists after London roads blocked
What are the group's demands? "In the majority world, indigenous communities are now on the brink of extinction". Environmental protesters have blocked Waterloo Bridge in London as they try to bring the city to a standstill.
Google Tease Pixel May 7 Launch Event
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Ocasio-Cortez says cutting military, economic aid to Israel 'can be discussed'
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Sudan protesters block attempt to break up sit
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Game of Thrones Season 8 Ep 1 Bran Memes Rule the Internet
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Watford supporting players over racism, says manager Javi Gracia
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Joel Embiid cleared to play in Game 1 of playoffs
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Microsoft Support Breach Gets Ugly, Hackers Could Read Outlook, MSN, Hotmail Emails
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Trump celebrates Tiger Woods' success at 'LIFE' with Presidential Medal of Freedom
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Tesla Is Increasing the Price of Full Self-Driving Feature
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The New Star Wars: The Clone Wars Trailer and Three Clips
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Blake Griffin Likely To Miss First Round
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Release of Mueller Russia Report on 2016 US Election Appears Imminent
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World Crude Oil Consumption to Grow 1.1 Percent by 2020
Gold prices zoom on firm global cues
Fed chairman hints at first interest rate cut in over a decade
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China fails to buy agricultural goods as promised
Housing, autos drive US inflation higher in June
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Summer County League
VYI is not directly involved in the summer program except to encourage any County, and interested House league players, to participate to improve their basketball skills. To assist in this endeavor, VYI has its County coaches administer the summer program by coaching themselves or helping to find a coach for their age group, and forming teams from VYI County players and House League All Stars from the previous year. Any parent interested in summer play should contact the VYI Division I coach or House League commissioner of their respective child's age group not later than May 1 to determine eligibility and availability of teams and coaches.
Summer basketball is operated by the Fairfax Stars AAU program for County level players who wish to continue to develop their skills in what is typically considered the "off-season" for County basketball. Normally, play is supported for age levels from 10 to 14 years old and Division play will be supported based on the teams that apply for summer play .(Team sign-ups ONLY through Donna Troup, 703-455-5068, )
Summer basketball is intended for County level players who wish to play year round to hone their skills for high school basketball. It is not a recreational league for all of VYI because gyms are unavailable, and the league is not set up to compete with AAU and other summer programs.
Typically, the VYI County Commissioner oversees the summer program for VYI. The Division I County coach who is selected in the Spring of each year, organizes the summer program for projected Division I, Division II, and All Star House players for the coming Fall season. It is in the best interests of the Division I coach to be able to view the skills of all available players in a game environment so that impressions of players skills are formed before tryouts in October.
No Division I coach will form his winter team solely on the basis of the Summer league activity. Each player who tries out in October is provided a fair and completely unbiased evaluation based on their performance relative to others at the four scheduled October tryouts.
Any player who meets the age requirements may participate, but the player should possess the playing skills to make a County level basketball team.
4th graders may participate in the summer before their 5th grade year. The 4th grade commissioner provides an All Star roster to the Division I coach of the 10 year old teams. Then the summer coach should contact each person on that roster before May 15 to determine their interest in the summer program. If more than 15 players (VYI recommends a team size of 15 players for summer ball) are interested the summer coach must recruit a parent or another adult to handle the second team. It then becomes that coaches responsibility to fill out his team, pay the appropriate fees and obtain uniforms.
VYI discourages the participation of rising 4th graders in the summer program unless they are required to fill out a team. VYI recognizes that AAU clubs are forming teams for summer play from some rising 4th graders, but VYI wants their age appropriate members to get as much play as possible.
Any parent may form a team and join the league simply by contacting the Fairfax Stars, normally by June 1, and paying the league fee. Anyone who is unknown to VYI league officials and asks to use VYI rosters to create a team will be required to submit a coaching application to VYI. The summer league is sigificantly more competitive then the VYI House League. There is no participation rule and full court pressing and zone defenses are common.
Who will coach?
In the past, the Division I coach, parents of aspiring players, a colleague of the Division I coach or an assistant coach will volunteer to handle the team during the summer. If more than one team is entered in an age division, a parent normally steps forward in May to volunteer to the Division I coach to handle the second team made up of the players not selected to play on the team managed by the Division I coach.
Summer League Coaches
In years past the fee for summer play has been approximately $50 per player and is at the discretion of the coach. This normally covers the league fee of $500 per team as well as paying for team jerseys, shorts, or other items.
Fees are collected by the coach and submitted directly to the Fairfax Stars without the involvement of VYI.
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“I’m Fixing It” Zuckerberg Calmly Douses Facebook HQ In Petrol
January 5, 2018 - BREAKING NEWS, BUSINESS
STAFF at Facebook’s headquarters in California have been advised by senior members not ask anymore questions as the company’s owner casually douses the 430,000 square foot campus in petroleum.
In a post on his page on the social network yesterday, CEO Mark Zuckerberg vowed to “fix” Facebook, in what he described as his personal challenge for 2018, admitting it was making too many errors enforcing policies and preventing misuse of its tools.
However, several concerned staff members at the HQ reported that Mr. Zuckerberg came to work this morning driving a “pickup full of gas”, before dousing corridors and offices in petrol, while maintaining an “eerily calm demeanor” and repeating the phrase “I’m fixing it”.
“Mark seemed a little vacant as he poured gallons of fuel around the place, just staring off into space and muttering to himself,” a source at Facebook explained, “he’s making his way around the whole building, and all we’re being told is to continue working and just to trust him, and let him do his thing. The whole thing is a little odd”.
Mr. Zuckerberg has famously set himself challenges every year since 2009, including previous years when he promised to learn Mandarin, only eat meat he had killed himself, and to kill anyone who calls him Data from Star Trek.
It is understood the 33-year-old billionaire has vowed to “totally fix” Facebook over the weekend when most employees are off.
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Category Archives: Season 8
Anoop Desai: Slumdog Idol
By Laiza | March 10, 2009 - 5:09 pm | Episode Recaps, Season 8
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Anoop “Unibrow” Desai totally bombed with his rendition of “Beat It” on tonight’s American Idol Top 13 show.
Full episode recap coming soon!
American Idol Season 8: Top 13 Episode Recap (3/10/09)
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Finally, the auditions and semi-finals are over. I never thought they’d end. Two people are going home tomorrow. Who’s it going to be? Let’s go over tonight’s performances.
TOP 13: Michael Jackson Night (3/10/09)
LIL’ ROUNDS kicked off the show with “The Way You Make Me Feel.” Her voice was decent, but her clothes were hideous. Come on. White parachute pants? Was she channeling the spirit of MC Hammer?
SCOTT MACINTYRE sang “Keep The Faith” while he played his stupid piano. The performance was SO BORING. Unfortunately, his hair literally looked like a bird’s nest. I was far too preoccupied by his gross ‘fro to care about his voice. And get this! Apparently, his sister is blind too! And they sing really bad blind music together. Tragic. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: if this guy was not blind, he wouldn’t be on this show. Here’s the memo guys: we’re all watching PITY IDOL.
3. DANNY GOKEY sang “PYT.” (Disclaimer: I HATE DANNY GOKEY and his lame-ass glasses and his moronic facial expressions.) He gave a self indulgent performance that reeked of his false self confidence and his Deisgner Imposters Wal-Mart body spray. Spit flew out of his mouth every time he screamed, and it was really revolting to look at. And so was his dated, tired tweed blazer. Who dressed him? His 8th grade Social Studies teacher?
Apparently, Gokey is a loser at home, too. His intro video showed him walking around imitating a chicken, as his lame family looked on and laughed. I’m glad I’m not a GOKEY.
4. Michael Sarver sang “You Are Not Alone.” Nice guy. Loves his family. Takes care of his kid and I can respect that. But this asshat has no Earthly business being on this show. His performance was horrible and cheesy and was literally painful to listen to. I felt like I was in a dentist’s office reception room, waiting to get a tooth cleaning. Kill me now.
Kris Allen sang “Remember The Time” (with his guitar that you couldn’t even hear, so what the hell was the point?) He has one doofus facial expression, the “constipated John Mayer,” and he flashes it to the point of nausea. The judges didn’t really like the performance. Because it SUCKED ASS.
Allison Iraheta sang “Give It To Me” – and unfortunately, she wasn’t referring to a box of hair dye. I thought this was one of the worst performances of the night. Clotheswise, it looked like Avril Lavigne threw up on her upper half, with all those silver chains and that cheap black plastic coat she was wearing. And apparently, she sings at some random Mexican Costco at home when she’s bored:
After her performance, Simon told her to lighten up. And the bitch actually snapped back, “I’m not dark. It’s not like I’m cutting myself.” The crowd went silent. Her parents gasped. Even Paula Abdul was mortified, and made the “zip your mouth and throw away the key, you stupid bitch” gesture:
Anoop Desai then sang “Beat It” which – coincidentally – is what he does by himself every night in his parents’ basement. OH SNAP! The performance was GOD-AWFUL. Even Paula Abdul hated it and slammed him, and that has to tell you something. And WTF? Is that The Matrix in the background?
Adam Lambert. Another “performer” on this season of Idol that I really CAN’T STAND. He sang “Black Or White” as he fantasized about having skin that wasn’t more riddled with craters than the surface of the moon. As usual, he had on more makeup than Tammy Faye Baker. His voice was grating and his singing was off pitch, and yet the judges licked his ass. Did they watch the same performance? Because I thought he sucked. Paula told him to “take it all in.” Yeah, I bet he did that last night, if you catch my perverted drift.
Everyone else:
Jasmine Murray sang “I’ll Be There.” Good vocals, but really boring and forgettable. And why was she wearing a nightgown from 1972?
Jorge Nunez sang “Never Can Say Goodbye” and his performance was awful. Slow, boring, and dull. Something you’d hear while picking out baked potatoes in a low-end supermarket in Miami. That shit may fly in Puerto Rico, but not on the mainland, buddy. Even Paula Abdul hated it.
Megan Corkrey sang “Rockin’ Robin” – and I hated it. I felt like I was at a sock hop. And for Christ’s sake, Megan, clean the boogers out of your damn kid’s nose. Is it that hard??? Gross.
Matt Giraud sang “Human Nature” and played the piano. He’s like a less entertaining, uglier version of Justin Timberlake.
Alexis Grace was last. She sang “Dirty Diana” and it was average. She would have had the 1-866-IDOLS-13 phone number, but since it’s a PORN HOTLINE, they gave her “1-866-IDOLS-36.” Ryan said they chose the number 36 because there was a top 36 in the competition. I thought they chose it to honor the number of brain cells Paula Abdul had left.
So there you have it. Leave your thoughts on the episode in the comments, and we’ll bring you the results as soon as they go down.
4 Wildcards Chosen; Top 13 Complete (Finally)
By Laiza | March 5, 2009 - 5:11 pm | Episode Recaps, Season 8
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Tonight’s wildcard show was mind numbingly boring. Most of the contestants sang songs they’ve already sung before, including Tatiana, who sang “Saving All My Love For You” for the THIRD time this competition. Her performance was weak, and she was kicked to the curb. Bye-bye, Tatiana. Exit stage left. And take your new fake British accent with you.
They’re mixing it up this year, and having a top 13 instead of a top 12. The final 4 chosen during tonight’s Wildcard competition: JASMINE MURRAY, MEGAN CORKREY, MATT GIRAUD, and ANOOP.
The complete top 13: Scott Macintyre (the blind guy), Jorge Nunez (the Puerto Rican guy), Lil Rounds (the girl with the lame name), Allison Irahetta (the tween with the pink hair and unfortunate braces on her lower teeth), Kris Allen (the country hillbilly), Adam Lambert (the broadway freak), Alexis Grace (the boring meek mouse), Michael Sarver (the fat oil worker), Danny Gokey (the dork with the 92 pairs of glasses who pimps his dead wife for votes), Jasmine Murray (the boring black girl), Megan Corkrey (the raspy blonde mother with the tattoos), Matt Giraud (the dorky Justin Timberlake piano player), and Anoop (the Indian dork with the unibrow).
Translation: Officially the LOSER-IEST CAST OF ALL TIME.
The top 13 will be performing on Tuesday night.
American Idol Season 8: THE TOP 9
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Scott Macintyre, Jorge Nunez, and Lil Rounds were the top 3 chosen from last night’s Group 3. They will join Allison Irahetta, Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Alexis Grace, Michael Sarver, and Danny Gokey as the top 9.
The final 3 wildcard finalists will be chosen tomorrow, and we’ll bring you the results as soon as they go down.
American Idol Season 8: First 3 of the Top 12 Revealed
By Laiza | February 18, 2009 - 12:46 pm | Episode Recaps, Season 8
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After a painful performance by Carly Smithson and Michael Johns, and more of Ryan Seacrest’s cheesy bullshit, the first three contestants of the Top 12 were revealed.
TOP 12: FIRST THREE CONTESTANTS (2/18/09)
1. ALEXIS GRACE (aka Cyndi Lauper’s stunt double). She’s boring and meek. And where’d she get that hideous wicker fedora? As a free gift for spending more than $50 at Pier 1 Imports?
2. MICHAEL SARVER, the oil worker. At least he’ll have a job to go back to when he gets thrown off Idol after the first week.
3. DANNY GOKEY. I have to borrow a phrase from my friend Lydia to describe my feelings for this guy: I HATE HIM WITH THE FIRE OF TEN THOUSAND SUNS. Those glasses. That cocky attitude. Ugh.
Everything about him screams, “I want to quit my job at the church and start singing karaoke at a gay club.”
It all came down to Tatiana and Danny – and as mentioned above, Danny made it to the top 12 and Tatiana got sent home. She clutched her hand to her chest, and cried in the corner as Danny sang. Tatiana, you let me down, girl. I was expecting a full-on collapse, resulting in Paula Abdul having to puncture a hole in your chest with your star bracelet to re-inflate your lung.
Bottom line: Alexis Grace, Michael Sarver, and Danny Gokey are the first 3 members of the top 12. Shoot me now.
The DANNY GOKEY GLASSES COUNT is up to: 7 PAIRS OF GLASSES. Yes, Danny Gokey has worn SEVEN pairs of glasses so far. Photographic proof is in the works.
Leave your thoughts on the episode in the comments, and we’ll see you next week for the 2nd group of 12.
LIVE BLOGGING: American Idol Season 8 (Top 36, Group 1)
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2/17/09 – Hi, I’m Jillian Madison, and I’ll be LIVE BLOGGING tonight’s episode of American Idol. Our votes tonight will send 3 people through to the top 12. Let’s do it.
8:00: Tonight, we’ll be hearing from 12 performers who make up group 1 of the Top 36. It’s the first live broadcast of the season and the theme is Billboard Top 100.
8:05: Jackie Tohn is up first. She’s spazzing around the stage in black spandex pants, a thick red Minnie Mouse belt, and glittery high top sneakers. Does she think she’s on American Idol, or Sweatin’ To The Oldies infomercial?
8:08: The judges are all screaming into the microphone. There are some serious audio issues going on. The volume is way too loud. Who the hell is working the audio booth, Marlee Matlin?
8:10: Jackie’s parents just got interviewed by Ryan and the mother totally choked. She stared into the camera, and stuttered for 45 seconds before turning the questioning over to Jackie’s dad . Most awkward interview ever.
8:15: Ricky Braddy? Who is this guy? And why is Ryan talking to him about chicken fingers? Is he a contestant – or one of the workers from the cafeteria?
8:17: Ok, he’s singing now, giving a boring performance that is currently only being enjoyed by people over 73.
8:19: Paula is standing up and clapping. Randy is raving about him. They’re all kissing his ass. Clearly they were not watching the same performance. Simon says he has no star quality, and that’s the biggest understatement of the century. He doesn’t look like a star – he looks like an employee at a children’s shoe store.
8:20: Seriously, somebody tell Kara DioGuardi to stop screaming and spitting into the microphone.
8:21: Ricky Braddy’s parents are wearing shirts that say THE BRADDY BUNCH. Wow, how clever they are.
8:27: 21 year old Alexis Grace can NOT sing Aretha Franklin. At all. This is horrifyingly bad. Is she wearing a slip? Go home, honey, and color your hair. You’re not Cyndi Lauper.
8:31: Alexis’ dad looks like David Crosby. But with less teeth.
8:37: OMG. More technical problems. Brent Keith’s video didn’t play, and it caught Ryan off guard and made him stutter. Ok, issue fixed. Now this Brent guy is singing some come country song called “Hick Town” by Jason Aldean, but his performance is low energy and super boring. He’s like the poor man’s Kenny Chesney: totally forgettable and completely unoriginal, but yet makes me want a Corona with lime really bad.
8:43: Is that Brent’s wife? Or his mother? Never a good question to have to ask.
8:50: Stevie Wright. Oh poor, poor 17 year old Stevie Wright. This is the worst performance of the night thus far. Wow. Just painful. She’s not ready to be on live TV.
8:54: Anoop Desai is up next. He’s singing “Angel Of Mine” by Monica. Unfortunately, he hasn’t tweezed his GIANT UNIBROW yet. He is a decent singer but he has negative star quality. There’s a zero percent chance he will win this show, especially with cheesy cruise ship karaoke performances like this one.
9:05: Casey Carlson is singing “Every Little Thing HE Does Is Magic” by The Police. This song is way too big for her and she can not handle it. EVEN WORSE, she’s doing way too many facial gymnastics. What’s with all the smirking and winking. Simmer down, Sarah Palin.
9:07: Two minutes into her performance, and it has somehow managed to get even more awful. Ugh, the judges hated it too. Get this bitch off my TV right about… now.
9:16: Michael Sarver, the oil rigger from Jasper Texas, is up next. Exactly how many embellished button down shirts does he own?
9:17: He’s singing a very overdone, whiny version of Gavin DeGraw’s “I Don’t Wanna Be.” He’s really out of breath. I hated every single minute of his performance – and the judges were underwhelmed too. Except Paula, but that’s not saying much.
9:22: Ann Marie Boskovich is singing “Natural Woman” – but she only has one move: standing still and pointing at the camera with her left hand. She looks more like a “Mannequin Woman.” Her performance is ehhhhh. Good by default, only because the others have been so bad.
9:32: Stephen Fowler forgot his words during Hollywood week, but made it through anyway. He’s singing Rock With U by Michael Jackson. Oh god. He’s snapping. This isn’t good.
9:35: Scratch that, this performance is AWFUL. Off pitch, out of tune, and self indulgent. He got a second chance here, but he ruined it. Paula called it the “kiss of death” and Simon called it “pointless.” They’re too kind.
9:38: Stephen is the only one performing without a family member present. Even his family members think he sucks. Now that’s awkward.
9:42: Tatiana Del Toro is up next… brace yourselves. She’s singing “Saving All My Love For You” by Whitney Houston.
9:45: I feel like I’m at a cheesy fucking cabaret club off Sunset Blvd. She’s whisper-singing. Even worse, her hot pink lipstick is making my retinas hurt. And can I just say, she should NOT be showing off her upper arms like that. Shudder.
9:46: Paula called her the “most talked about contestant” of the season and Simon called her a “total drama queen who only wants fame.” She replied, “I believe in marketing as a business and I want to market myself.” Good. You can start by moving to Guam.
9:52: The consensus amongst the WEHATEIDOL commenters is that Tatiana was the best female vocalist of the night. Maybe. But I don’t care – I still don’t want to hear from her anymore. Plus, I want to see her GIGANTIC MELTDOWN when she gets sent back to Puerto Rico with her “cousins.”
9:55: Danny Gokey is last, singing “Hero” by Mariah Carey. He’s squinting and rubbing his chest a lot, and is apparently wearing one of Michael Sarver’s button down embellished shirts.
9:58: The judges are kissing his ass. Paula said “I have 2 words: sold out arenas.” Um, too bad that’s three words., Paula. Personally, I think there is way too much hype around this guy.
Ok, here’s how it works — the 3 people who get the most votes from tonight’s performances get sent through to the next round. So let’s hear it: Who do you want to stay? And who do you want to go?
My top 3 performers of the night (and this is NOT saying much) were: Anoop, Ann Marie Boskovich, and Danny Gokey.
My bottom 3 performers of the night were: Stevie Wright, Casey Carlson, and Stephen Fowler
We’ll be back tomorrow night with your Idol results. See you then.
BREAKING NEWS: Joanna Pacitti Disqualified From American Idol
By Laiza | February 12, 2009 - 12:51 pm | News, Season 8
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AND SHE’S OUT! FINALLY!
Joanna Pacitti, the annoying ex child actress who has already been signed – and dropped – by two major record labels, has officially been disqualified from American Idol. She was replaced with Felicia Barton, after Fox released a statement saying they wanted to “avoid the appearance of impropriety.”
PLEASE. This girl shouldn’t have made it to the top 36 to begin with. She forgot the lyrics THREE TIMES, and she didn’t even have to “sing for her life” last night.
Here’s one of the corny videos she had made before her label dropped her:
And here’s Felicia Barton singing on the street for anyone who will listen:
We’ll bring you more news as it becomes available.
LIVE BLOGGING: American Idol Season 8 – Hollywood (Day 5)
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2/11/09 – Hi, I’m Jillian Madison, and I’ll be LIVE BLOGGING tonight’s episode of American Idol for you guys – because let’s face it, sitting around on your computer and hitting refresh is underrated.
Leave your thoughts on the episode in the comments. Let’s do this.
8:01 pm: Nathaniel is crying again. Already. This is going to be a long hour.
8:04 pm: The judges are sitting on huge red velvet chairs that make Simon’s skin look even more pasty. They just sent Anoop the Indian through to the next round. Von Smith is currently sweating in his imitation Banana Republic blazer.
8:06 pm: Ew, the skin around Von Smith’s neck is ALL BLOTCHY. He made it through to the next round. I don’t like him. To me, he looks like a British elf.
8:11 pm: Wayne Brady is doing public service announcements for the big “Digital Switch.” Times must be rough.
8:12 pm: Ooh, big news. There may be a “sing-off” between contestants if the judges are on the fence about them.
8:13: The judges are already invoking their right to invoke a sing-off. They’re randomly making Cody Sheldon, the weird Goth filmmaker, sing a song in front of them. He looks unshowered and greasy.
8:14: Now Alex Wagner, who coincidentally also looks like a British elf, is singing for the judges. He’s clutching at his purple Freddy Kreuger sweater and nervously butchering Elton John.
8:16: Alex the British elf made it through. Cody got sent home, hopefully to bathe.
8:18: Adam Lambert, the loser who painfully sang “Believe” by Cher last night, is heading to the judging room. Oh God. They’re replaying last night’s performance.
8:19: Simon said, “It’s not good news, it’s great news. You’re on the show.” I don’t think so, Simon. For Adam, great news would have been “Marilyn Manson is in your bedroom waiting for you – and he’s naked.”
American Idol Season 8 Episode Recap – Hollywood (Day 4)
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It’s STILL Hollywood Week on American Idol. And after tonight, I NEVER want to hear “Hey There Delilah” or “I Hope You Dance” EVER again.
EPISODE RECAP: HOLLYWOOD, DAY 4 (2/10/09)
Adam Lambert sang a disgustingly hideous cruise ship version of Cher’s “Do You Believe.” I’ll tell you what I believe, Adam: I believe you need some of Cher’s make-up, and a singing job off-off-off Broadway. This loser, Danny Gokey, is so in love with his “friend” Jamar Rogers that he watched him performing from behind a curtain. He had a huge shit-eating grin plastered across his face the entire time. One of his hands was on the curtain, and let’s just say I bet I know what his other hand was on. He then came on stage and sang “I Hope You Dance” like the 17 year old girl that he is. He made it through to the next round.
Ah yes, Scott Macintyre, the BLIND GUY WHO KEPT LOOKING DOWN TO STARE AT HIS KEYBOARD KEYS. What the hell was up with that? Is this guy even blind? One thing’s for sure, he is MEDIOCRE. If he wasn’t “blind” there’s no way he would still be around. He made it through to the next round. And then pretended he didn’t see Paula Abdul’s standing ovation. But he saw the keyboard keys. Um, sure.
Tatiana. Would you look at this bitch’s pointy teeth? Why is this stupid bitch still here? Shouldn’t she be out biting necks and converting mortals to vampires? Yes, she made it through to the next round. And I wanted to kill myself.
Nathanial looks like a lesbian. Actually, wait, that’s an insult to lesbians. This talentless douche actually made it through to the next round, and a small part of me died inside.
Joanna Pacitti, the annoying ex-Annie actress, forgot the lyrics to “If I Ain’t Got You” by Alicia Keys. She sang, “hum doo wahhh mmmm na naahh” for 2 minutes. And guess what? The bitch made it through to the next round, too. Are we being punked?
I don’t know what this loser’s name is, but I can tell you he COMPLETELY forgot the words to his song. So he started over. And then he forgot the words to his song AGAIN. And guess what! He fucking MADE IT THROGH to the next round. What will it take for someone to be sent home? Urinating on the stage? Pulling out a gun and shooting the lighting guy?
These three look like a rejected rap act on Star Search. Paula Abdul looked like she was wearing the remains of her old Chrysler LeBaron around her neck.
All the annoying people made it through. All the people who blatantly forgot their lyrics made it through… even though Simon made it a point to say “FORGET THE LYRICS AND YOU’RE OUT” before Hollywood Week even started. What a crock of shit. They eliminated all the people that never got air time. At least Jason Castro’s brother got sent home tonight.
Leave your thoughts on the episode in the comments, and we’ll see you tomorrow night when the top 36 are revealed.
American Idol Season 8 Episode Recap – Hollywood (Part 2)
By Laiza | February 4, 2009 - 2:43 pm | Episode Recaps, Season 8
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On tonight’s episode of American Idol, the remaining 100+ contestants separated into groups. It was just like high school gym class – the losers were picked last, or weren’t picked at all, and just shuffled around the stage uncomfortably until some other losers took pity on them and invited them into their group. The entire episode basically focused on three people – Nathaniel (the gay kid with the pierced chin), Tatiana (the annoying girl with the shaggy brown hair and awful giggle), and ugly Katrina the bikini girl. There was lots of crying, lots of whining, and lots of BORING… so let’s get on with the review.
EPISODE RECAP: HOLLYWOOD, GROUP NIGHT (2/4/09)
Nathaniel Marshall is one of the most annoying, whiny, overly dramatic contestants in Idol history. He looks like a rejected WHAM! back-up singer.
Some eliminated dweeb named Ryan Pinkerton said he got kicked off because there was “evil in Paula’s eyes.” That’s not evil, buddy. It’s 1200 milligrams of Prozac.
Katrina, the ugly bitch who shares her name with one of the worst hurricanes in our nation’s history, ditched her group to go to sleep. Why? She was “tired after wearing heels all day.” More like “tired from sucking dicks all day.” However, we’re happy to report KATRINA WAS KICKED OFF THE SHOW TONIGHT. Good riddance. You’re not all that. Your nose is busted and your smile is gummy. Have a nice life.
TEAM LAMDA LAMDA LAMDA… the team of geeks and losers led by nasty Tatiana… actually made it through. Tatiana asked Jesus for strength tomorrow. Perhaps she should also ask him for a new set of teeth, because hers are literally more brown than a 3 week old rotting banana for sale at Trader Joe’s.
The last group of the night was TEAM COMPROMISE (wow, what a cool name guys). Whiny Nathaniel made it through to the next round, even though he sounded more like he was auditioning for The Birdcage: The Musical. The blonde girl made it through, but I don’t know her name because she was a boring bitch. The other girl was out because her voice kept cracking like Madonna’s face when she smiles.
And that brought this episode to an end. Bottom line: most of the ugly people were eliminated, because that’s how Simon Cowell and American Idol roll. Sad but true. Stay tuned next week, when we’ll be in for more of the same. The top 36 will be announced, which is no big deal because that’s still too many people to give a shit about.
Leave your thoughts in the comments, and we’ll see you next week.
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In Her New Book, Wendy Goodman Asks May I Come In? Thankfully, a Lot of People Said Yes
by Lilah Ramzi
Photo: Courtesy of Harry N. Abrams
If anyone knows how to be a good house guest, it’s Wendy Goodman. As New York Magazine’s celebrated design editor, Goodman has had the privilege of touring some of the world’s most marvelous homes. And long before apartments were scouted for staged Instagrams, Goodman was hunting for authentically good design. Her search had her criss-crossing around the globe—from Nice, to the Li Galli islands, to Manhattan’s East and West sides.
It’s her job to seek out interiors that transport you the instant you enter them, or rather, open up a magazine. Goodman, whose sister is none other than Vogue’s very own editor extraordinaire Tonne Goodman, actually cut her teeth under Anna Wintour, who was then at Harper’s Bazaar. Stints at House & Garden, Travel + Leisure, and Departures would follow before she landed at New York Magazine. She added to the gilded glow of magazine’s golden age and today, continues to dazzle us with her eye for design. Now, the result of all this work is neatly bundled up in the eye-candy-filled, coffee table book, entitled, May I Come In?
Page after page reveals interiors that practically vibrate with charisma, while others wax a poetic minimalism that, despite a lack of things, overwhelm with grace. Goodman says the book is something she’s wanted to do for a long time. Early on in her career, she says, “I realized that I was fascinated by interiors; the more private, the more fascinating; the more impossible to get into, the more obsessed I became.” Some of these homes, she explains, were just short of impossible to gain access to. She was most surprised when the notoriously private Adelaide de Menil granted her entry into her Central Park South duplex, with its dining room a tangle of trees and a Calder mobile hovering above.
John and Dodie Rosekrans, San Francisco art collectors and philanthropists, enlisted Tony Duquette and Hutton Wilkinson to create a Venetian fantasy in the piano nobile of the Palazzo Brandolini, where they had a long-term lease in the late 1990s. John with Dodie, dressed in John Galliano. Photograph by Fernando Bengoechea.
On the phone, Goodman reveals all sorts of behind the scenes moments (many of which are published in blurbs throughout the book). There’s the time she had to convince Gianni Versace of her “crazy” idea to transport tutus from the Versace archive to transform classical-style busts into ballerinas that would populate an otherwise empty terrace at his Milanese apartment. There’s also the time she was eager to feature Donald Trump’s latest acquisition, Mar-a-Lago. Before it was the billionaire's golf destination, it was the jazz-era mansion associated with American heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. Shortly after the Spanish-style property came into Trump’s ownership, it served as the location of a fashion shoot for New York Magazine’s spring fashion issue of 1989. “Trump had not messed with that beautiful house,” Goodman remembers of the time, “there were still Marjorie Merriweather Post photos behind the model Tasha, and it was so beautiful.”
Then, there was the time photographer Fernando Bengoechea added a last minute flourish to John and Dodie Rosekran’s Palazzo Brandolini in Venice. “Fernando came to me and he grabbed my arm and he said, ‘now listen, you're going to be upset. I did something. I just want you to look at it.’” Bengoechea had pulled a medieval-looking flag from the Palazzo’s exterior through a window, allowing the flag to spill inwards, and cover the exquisite marble work like a carpet. “I thought, oh my God, it's so brilliant. It makes the picture,” she remembers. And not only did it make the picture, it made the cover of the book. Enjoy this, along with dozens of other inspirational interiors in May I Come In?, out now.
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Alice Walker and Danny Glover: Fidel Inspired their Struggle
By Gloriadelys Wright Hernandez (ACN) 08 December 2016
By Gloriadelys Wright Hernandez (ACN)
Category: Special Reports
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Alice Walker and Fidel. Photo taken from www.alicewalkersgarden.com HAVANA.- (ACN) The same ideals united US writer Alice Walker and actor Danny Glover with the leader of the Revolution Fidel Castro despite having been born in different countries and era.
The struggle for justice and for the rights of humanity unified the will of these three figures that began a battle that as every action, emerges from ideas.
“No other Revolution has meant so much for me like the Cuban process”, said months ago the Pulitzer 1983 laureate Alice Walker and which denounced in many occasions the US attempts to dominate the Caribbean island.
Regarding the book The Economic War against Cuba, by journalist and researcher Salim Lamrani,
the social activist expressed that for the last four decades she has witnessed the destructive damages of the US economic blockade against one of the most noble peoples in the world.
The US writer has reiterated the work of Fidel Castro in favor of education and considers Cuba “as an illustrative revolution” and recalled “when the Cuban youth went to the mountains and valleys in the 1960’s to teach each person how to read and write”.
The renowned author of Color Purple expressed her admiration for the ideas and actions of the leader of the Cuban Revolution on his path to eternity who received the appreciation of different generations that shouted, Yo Soy Fidel (I am Fidel) with tears in their eyes.
Danny Glover and Fidel. Photo taken from www.ips-dc.orgMeanwhile US actor Danny Glover expressed that his convictions are very much linked to the “Green Olive Giant”, expressed in his tireless activism for the release of the Cuban Five.
Glover made known to the world through Youtube the injustices committed against Cuba by the United States despite the media outlets reporting its government’s policies and erasing those that differ from the interests of the Empire.
His commitment with the truth and just causes highlighted Fidel Castro´s and Hugo Chavez’s wisdom, total conviction to defend the rights of the humble and uniting Latin America and the Caribbean.
The common struggles of Fidel, Alice Walker and Danny Glover continue.
Both US intellectuals were present in Havana to pay tribute to Fidel, on his path to immortality, homage offered by representatives of over 60 high ranking delegations and a nation committed to defend the causes in which their leader struggled for all his life.
Despite his physical disappearance at the age of 90, Fidel’s legacy has multiplied; and as World Human Rights Day approaches, activists like Alice Walker and Danny Glover and many others will
defend Fidel’s Concept of Revolution saying that this idea “will be defended at any cost”.
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Any Given Child Harrisonburg Installs Mosaic in City Hall
By PETE DELEA
Daily News Record
More than 900 Harrisonburg children have left their mark inside City Hall.
On Friday, Any Given Child Harrisonburg unveiled its Faces of Diversity social art project in the lobby of the building at 409 S. Main Street.
The artwork include the thumbprints of every kindergarten and first-grade student in Harrisonburg City Public Schools.
"It's the community's piece," said J.R. Snow, director of Any Given Child Harrisonburg. "It's reall exciting. It's leaving a lasting impression."
Any Given Child Harrisonburg is an initiative whose goals is to ensure all students have access to arts education, and it "encourages students to creatively connect and explore the value, relevance, and impact of the arts,'" according to its website.
Artist Edwin Gil, 45, of Charlotte, arrived in the Friendly City on Sunday and began working on the project Monday morning.
During the week, Gil visited all five of the city's elementary schools to collect thumbprints.
Each school used a different color of paint, and the prints were attached to recycled pieces of glass.
Gil, who moved to the United States in 1998 after fleeing Colombia, used them to create an 8 by 8 foot mosaic.
The thumbprints surround a face that was created by blending three students' faces.
The pieces of glass were taken to the Any Given Child's office in The Hub on West Bruce Street, where Gil went to work creating the artwork.
It was then moved to City Hall, it's permanent home.
Throughout the week, Gil talked to the students about diversity. He said explaining to them that everyone is different might make for a more peaceful community.
"If we put a little seen in their head, it's going to change our society." he said.
Snow said his daughter Olivia, a six year old kindergarten student at Keister Elementary School, got to see the mosaic Thursday night.
As she looked at the artwork searching for her thumbprint, he asked her what she learned from the project.
Her response: "Diversity is different, and different is good."
Why Are the Arts Important?
“The arts are an essential element of education, just like reading, writing, and arithmetic…music, dance, painting, and theater are all keys that unlock profound human understanding and accomplishment.”
–William Bennett, Former US Secretary of Education
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Willard Says...
The Pittsfield Building
By Jonathan Zimmerman
“Is the Pittsfield Building cursed?” This is the title of the featured article in a recent edition of Crain’s Chicago Business. (Read it here) Without even reading the story, a sea of memories and emotions washed over me. Why? Because I served as the leasing agent for this mess of a tower for 5 long years and lived to tell the tales.
It was 1996: I was fresh into the real estate business and my attire proved it. Right away, my boss decided that my wardrobe needed an upgrade. He took me over to the Kuppenheimer men’s clothing store located in the Pittsfield lobby and after wandering around for a bit, I was absolutely in awe of the spectacular 5-story atrium, marble finishes and history that oozed from every crevice. That day, I told my boss that we had to find a way to get the leasing assignment. It never happened with him, but little did I know what the future would hold.
Four years later, I was awarded the leasing assignment and it felt like a significant step forward in my effort to build the commercial operation of Rubloff. We were quite excited, especially since our appointment was with the promise that the building was about to be declared a Chicago landmark and embark on a substantial renovation. A public relations firm was hired to promote “the rebirth of the Pittsfield” which was to include modernized elevators, mechanical systems and common areas, as well as a scrubbing of the classic facade back to its original color. I was still under the notion that for many years, this classic Loop tower located at 55 East Washington had a rather prestigious reputation—or so I thought.
Our very first day on the job, my late partner, Matt Gould, and I took up every bit of 7 hours to walk through all the vacancies. The list was so overwhelming that we had to assign grades to each space, A – F. For leasing purposes, we decided that only the A and B suites were to be shown, occasionally the Cs, but the Ds and Fs were off limits until they were fixed up.
After a full day of suite grading, we were mentally exhausted and collapsed into the seats of the legendary Pittsfield Café in the lobby. We sat and ate cheeseburgers while we wondered what the heck we had gotten ourselves into. It did not take us long to figure out how dysfunctional this situation was.
I have endured numerous difficult landlord representation assignments over the years, but nothing quite compares to Pittsfield.
Just in the first year, we witnessed the chief engineer getting fired for stealing a conference table in the middle of the night, another engineer getting fired for allegedly reporting a code violation to get revenge against a perceived slight by the building manager, build outs being completely botched or sometimes not even started at all, bills never being paid on time (especially ours), and got stuck in an elevator during a showing with a woman who then started hyperventilating. The overriding source of angst, however, was an owner who made it next to impossible to lease space.
He insisted on using a 32% common area loss factor, applied to existing tenants on renewals (hey tenant, so, your 500 square foot space was remeasured and is now 800 square feet, and your rent is also increasing!) as well as new deals, had a completely overblown view of what the rents should be, refused to fix up vacancies and generally was averse to spending money on just about everything. Deals were few and far between and frustration set in quickly.
When Matt informed me that he was making the switch to another firm, the very next thing I did was resign the account. After 5 years, ridding myself of this albatross was a tremendous relief. Since then, there seemingly have been never-ending efforts to redevelop the building and move away from office use.
Like so many vintage properties in downtown Chicago which recently have received a new lease on life, Pittsfield deserves to have a similar fate. Fixed up with a well-capitalized developer, it would make a wonderful hotel or apartment building; it has an amazing location and there is just too much natural beauty in this landmark for it to waste away. I will continue to sit on the sidelines as an interested observer, hoping for the best – and grateful to not be involved. So, is the building cursed? Well, maybe a little.
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Voodoo Kudus go the distance at Frisbee tournament
by Ortal Hadad | Apr 30, 2019
Newbies help Wits team to win half of matches played
Wits Ultimate Frisbee Club ranked 11th out of 16, at the South African Mixed Nationals tournament in Stellenbosch on April 26-28.
Wits Ultimate Frisbee captain Ross Bentley told Wits Vuvuzela that he was proud of the team’s progress since 2011, when it was formed. He said the team had gone from struggling to get out of last place to becoming a squad that consistently challenges all opponents.
“This club is made special by its legendary people, those who got us to where we are today and those who are part of our family now,” he said.
In Stellenbosch, out of the eight matches played, Wits won four. They were victorious against Maties 2 with a score of 15-3, defeated the Eastern Skies 13-10 and beat Ultitude 12-11.
The highlight for Bentley and Wits Ultimate Frisbee chairperson Merete Goosen was the last match they played on Sunday against Potch Elevation, with the final score of 13-12. Although there were injuries by then, “each individual showed true grit and passion”, Bentley, a third-year BA student, said.
Both Bentley and Goosen felt that the new team members learned a lot from the tournament.
“The improvements from all of our ‘newbies’ exceeded all expectations and made sure that the future of this club is in good hands,” said Bentley.
However, Goosen, a third-year BSc student, said that the team could make some improvements.
“We should have slightly trained more for [the tournament]. Making sure we kept up a good spirit was also something we needed to work on,” she said.
The overall winning team, The Long Donkeys from Pietermaritzburg, won all seven games they played and scored 15-9 against UCT Flying Tigers in the finals.
Petro van Eck, the lead coordinator of the tournament, said the tournament was highly competitive, and that the highlight for her was “seeing how the participants in the tournament enjoy playing Ultimate Frisbee”.
“The tournament was definitely challenging! More experienced players pushed themselves to play harder against teams amongst the best in South Africa,” said Rubina Valodia, a Wits team member and a fifth-year MBBCh student.
FEATURED IMAGE: Wits Ultimate Frisbee chairperson Merete Goosen (in red cap) plays in the match against Potch Elevation at the 2019 Mixed Nationals tournament. Photo: Provided
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At the Bay View, we know from the long list of prisoners on our waiting list for a subscription to the paper that prisoners are hungry for reading material that is spiritually, culturally and politically nourishing. Donations to the Bay View Prisoners Subscription Fund are always welcome; you can donate online at Many prisoners, like these in Georgia, form study groups to discuss what they learn from Bay View stories. Write to them: Eugene Thomas, 671488; Claude Simpson, 823914; Anourak Thammasithikoun, 978141; Jacoub Burgoyne, 1208453; David Morgan, 334127; and Nikko Lattimore, 1174901; all are at Autry State Prison, P.O. Box 648, Pelham GA 31779. Note they must live triple-bunked in tiny cells. – Photo: Mr. M. fka Robert Mitchum II, 1279255
The Prison Literature Project has been sending free books to prisoners all over the country since the 1980s. We are an all-volunteer organization and most of our books are donated. We do buy some popular items like dictionaries, Spanish-English dictionaries and how-to-draw books. We do not send out racist, sexist, homophobic or escape literature (thriller, romance, Westerns etc.).
Our goals are threefold:
1) To provide prisoners with the education most of them did not receive. Almost everyone in prison is poor and most have had only a spotty education. Many were illiterate before prison and have used the time to teach themselves to read.
2) To help them maintain their sanity by giving them something to do with their minds. Many prisoners spend long periods in solitary confinement and lots of prisons are on almost permanent lockdown.
3) To educate young people about the prison industrial complex. We have many groups of high school students who do their community service with us. By reading prisoners’ letters, they have a direct experience with incarceration.
For many years, we have been receiving more letters than we can handle: around 1, 000-1, 500 every month. We are always several months behind in filling requests. But, unfortunately, now we have run out of money. Our expenses are small: postage, mailing supplies, rent, post office box and the purchase of books. We need about $1, 500 every month.
Projects like ours are especially important now as most prison programs have been eliminated and the prison libraries that still exist only carry books like westerns and romance. Because most prisoners have had little or no education and have no way to legally earn a living when they get released, prison becomes a revolving door for them. We want to change that cycle.
Amazingly enough, we have to jump through a lot of hoops to get books into prisons. And if we don’t follow all the rules and regulations, the guards destroy the books. Some of these rules are very arbitrary. For example, many prisons won’t accept hard cover books because they believe that prisoners will make weapons out of the covers.
The prisoners who are our clients are sophisticated readers. They read philosophy, history and anthropology. They study the Black Panthers and foreign languages. There is a hunger for knowledge. And so many of them are desperate to find a way to support themselves when they get out.
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Auburn to present budget at Thursday hearing; water rates hiked
Mike Buffington
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Wednesday, August 29. 2012
Spending by the City of Auburn would be cut 14 percent in a budget to be presented to the city council Thursday. The council reviewed the budget last week and a final vote is set for 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6. City administrator Ron Griffith presented a summary of the main cuts and budget highlights to the council last week. Included in the proposal is a $3-5 hike in water fees. Expenses previously absorbed by the city’s general fund will be shifted to the water fund next year.
Also in revenue increases, the city is anticipating a huge bump in its building permit revenues if TBG Residential Inc. decides to proceed with its 72-unit apartment complex in Auburn. The city projects to collect $118,000 in building permit income next year. But Auburn also now expects to collect less income from its new transportation system known as A.N.T. Passenger fares are expected to bring in just $38,400, which is a $22,000 decrease from previous estimates.
As in the past, the police department remains Auburn's largest department and accounts for $1.4 million — half — of the city’s budgeted spending next year.
Over the past four years, the city has drawn from its reserves to pay for capital projects and cover general expenses. But with reserves now running low, that put pressure on the council this year to slash expenses in order to meet revenues that continue to shrink. The city expects large declines in the property tax digest as well as a decrease in sales tax income. The FY2013 budget projects no capital improvements and city employees will not get across-the-board raises.
For the full story, see the Aug. 29 issue of the Barrow Journal.
Auburn reviews tax increase for Gwinnett County residents
The Auburn City Council reviewed a higher 2012-2013 tax rate for city residents who live in Gwinnett County during its work session Thursday, Aug. 16. City administrator Ron Griffith proposed a tax rate equal to 4.931 mills for the 2012-2013 year. Since 2007, the Gwinnett millage rate has been 4.793, Griffith said. A public hearing is required to set the millage rate and is scheduled for Sept. 6 at 7 p.m. at 1361 Fourth Avenue in council chambers. This rate, if passed next month, will bring the Gwinnett residents' tax rate equal to that paid by Auburn residents who reside in Barrow County and receive the benefit of a LOST rollback, he said. He added that the formula used to determine the Gwinnett rate has included a deduction for LOST, which does not exist in that county. He said he did not know exactly how that came about in 2007.
BOC to sue Auburn over debt
Thursday, August 16. 2012
Three months after offering to settle a three-year-old dispute over $76,500 in unpaid sewer tap fees, the Barrow County Board of Commissioners on Tuesday night voted to sue the City of Auburn for the full amount. In a letter a couple of years ago, Mayor Linda Blechinger offered a compromise in which the city would pay half of the disputed amount over a period of five years. But county officials didn’t show any interest in compromising until this spring, when on May 8 the BOC voted to accept the $38,250 offer but wanted it paid in full within 30 days. Auburn officials didn’t pay the money. So Tuesday night, Commissioner Larry Joe Wilburn made a motion to turn the matter over to the county attorney for collections, saying he wanted Angela Davis to pursue the full amount of the tap fees since the county would incur legal costs to get the money.
Auburn struggling to balance FY2013 budget
Wednesday, August 8. 2012
The Auburn City Council met on Saturday in a special budget session to try and find a way to cut the city’s spending in the 2013 general fund budget. Projected lower revenues could leave the city $250,000 short in that budget unless the city can find new revenue, or cut spending. The council will hold another budget session on Aug. 23 at 7 p.m. On Aug. 9, the council will evaluate city department heads.
For the full story, see the Aug. 8 issue of the Barrow Journal.
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CNG fueled 2-wheeler fitted with Lovato kits launched in India
Mumbai – India – Continuing in its endeavor to protect the environment through its eco-friendly fuel, Mahanagar Gas Limited (MGL) in association with Eco Fuel (Indian Partners of Lovato, Italy) launched CNG fueled two-wheelers thus enabling them to run on safe and economical fuel, further contributing to a pollution free environment.
Speaking at the occasion, Union Minister of State for Petroleum and Natural Gas Dharmendra Pradhan said that the launch of CNG fueled two wheelers will give an opportunity to more than 3.6 million two wheelers running in the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR) to opt for this eco-friendly fuel. In the last few years CNG powered vehicles have grown in Mumbai Metropolitan Region at a CAGR of over 70% given the fuel economics and eco-friendly nature of CNG.
The CNG kit for two wheelers comprises of two CNG cylinders of 1.2 kg each, which can run up to 120 to 130 km per kg at an approximate cost of INR 0.60 per km per single fill and is expected to be substantially economical as compared to a similar petrol run vehicle at the current level of prices as per the kit manufacturer. In the initial phase, the scooters shall be retrofitted with a CNG kit manufactured by Lovato.
Presently two kit manufacturers namely ITUK & Lovato have got two-wheeler CNG kits approved by ARAI, Pune and ICAT Gurgaon respectively. Lovato has got approval for 18 Scooter models of various OEMs present in the market. Considering the huge potential of this segment other kit manufacturers are also planning to launch their two-wheeler kits.
Additionally, MGL has also launched ‘MGL Connect’ Mobile App (available on Google Play Store) which will assist consumers to find the nearest CNG station in MMR and nearby areas for convenient refueling experience.
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The Archway of Tears at the City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham
Posted March 23rd, 2010 by Birmingham Conservation Trust with 38 Comments
The Archway of Tears
Birmingham Conservation Trust have secured funding to carry out an Options Appraisal on the Archway of Tears at the City Hospital on Dudley Road. This is the initial stage in a proposed larger project to restore the Archway of Tears – the entrance to the former Birmingham Union Workhouse.
The building was designed by J.J. Bateman and completed in 1852. It was here that people driven by poverty and circumstance arrived to be assessed for entry to the workhouse. Its evocative name reflects the sorrow suffered by new arrivals as families were split by gender and age to relevant living and working areas. Have a look at Ted Rudge’s website http://www.winsongreentobrookfields.co.uk/workhouse.htm to read stories about the Workhouse.
We will look at ways to re-use the building in a sustainable way and we also will tell the story of the Workhouse in some way. If you or your family have any memories or artefacts you want to share with us, please get in touch.
38 Responses to “The Archway of Tears at the City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham”
diane horton September 26, 2018
my dad was in dudley road hospital infarmary 1939 to 1940 and is name was frank davitt
i am looking for anyone that was in dudley road hospital as the same time as my dad in 1939 and is name was frank horton
Malcolm Rooke August 16, 2018
Hi having checked the 1911 census I found out my Grand mother Mary Ann Rooke formally Parry age 40 along with Edith Rooke age 14 her daughter and (James Rooke age 12 my father her son ) also she had two other sons a Walter Henry Rooke age 4 and Arthur Phillip Rooke age 5 were all in the workhouse which is now city hospital. Mary was 40 at the time of the census she died two years later at 42 leaving I assume all her children still trapped in the workhouse. Is there any way of finding out individual information on my family, medical records etc. I know little or nothing about them and would love to find out as much as possible. It must have been very hard and sad times for them. However, it seems they all survived the workhouse. Edith actually died in the city hospital according to info I found on Ancestry.
Shirley Leaver May 19, 2018
When my grandmother, Hannah Leaver, died in 1928, it was stated on her death certificate that she died at
77 Dudley Road, Dudley. This was not her home address. She was at this address for some time, she was suffering from pernicious anaemia for which there wasn’t any treatment at that time. Does anyone know if this was the hospital or maybe the workhouse please.
Vicki Cox May 21, 2018
Hi Shirley,
The postcode for 77 Dudley Road is the same as that for the current City Hospital. The National Archives show that postcode as also having belonged to the Workhouse Infirmary (until 1920) and the Hospital from 1920-1948. You can find the information here: http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/hospitalrecords/details.asp?id=207&page=18
Judith Chadwick nee Beswick July 20, 2017
I trained at DRH in 1951 to1956 but did not hear of the Archway,how interesting.I visited about 20 yrs ago and saw many changes and there are many more now Iam sure including the name which is a shame Why.If ther is anyone about from the PNS of 1951 to 1952 please get intouch,would love to hear from someone.
Paul May 1, 2018
Hello; I was interested to read about your connection to DHR. I am looking for information about my father Ray Bradbury who was hospitalised in 1945 with a hip trauma injury. I am trying to find out when he was admitted, whether Penicillin was available and who was the young surgeon who operated on my father. Any leads would be appreciated. Many thanks and regards, Paul
Julie Smith October 9, 2016
Hello, I am researching my family tree and am looking in particular for my Grandmother, Gladys Woodbridge who was born in 1915 in Colnbrook, Eton, Bucks to an unmarried Mother. I have an autograph book dating from 1930-1934 including from different people, e.g, “Mother”, D. Stanmore, E. Taylor, Mrs J. Wallen, A. Wheatly and I know my Grandmother worked at Dudley Road Hospital at some point so wondered if she may have been brought up in the adjoining Workhouse. My Grandmother married in 1935 to Edward Albert Newton. I wonder if anyone knows of a relative who worked at the Workhouse in the 1930’s matching any of the above names.? I would love to hear from you. Kind regards, Julie.
Laura August 7, 2016
I was wondering whether there might be any records of hosiptal staff working during the 1940s and 1950s? I’m very interested in finding out more about my grandfather who was the Hospital Administrator around this time. His name was James Preston. If anybody has any idea on how to find this out, I would be most grateful.
David Preston September 29, 2016
I am David the youngest son of James Preston. We lived in Dudley Road Hospital until dads death on 5th November 1960 when I was 10 If I can help in any way it would be nice to be in contact with relations I didn’t know we had
My brother, also called James will also get in contact with you
Jim Preston September 29, 2016
Laura, my brother Dave just phoned me: James Preston was our father, and we lived in the grounds of DRH until he died in November 1961. How strange to see your message, especially as I’ve recently been doing some digging into my past. Does the name Mabel Preston mean anything to you?
Please get in touch.
Jim ( Thomas James Preston)
I forgot to mention that I have some photographs of your grandfather in his grander moments at Dudley Road.
Vicki Cox October 3, 2016
Jim Preston has been in touch and left his contact details with us. If you give us a call on 0121 2334785 we can take your details and pass them on so that you can contact each other directly.
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Dr.Krishna Kumar April 11, 2017
Dear Vicki
I am most touched by Laura’s search for her grandfather and subsequent replies by David and Jim. I am not related or known to anyone but only keen to learn if she managed to satisfy her quest.
With kind regards.
Jayne Casey September 21, 2015
I just wondered if there was any news about the Archway of tears ? I have told you previously about my family connections to the building through Nathaniel Freeth Felkin my ggg grandfather who assisted Mr Bateman build the workhouse and have found documents that my ggg grandfather even assisted Mr Batman go to Birmingham Heath with 7 men to dig holes to find out if the land was suitable for building the new workhouse. He then went on to be Superintendent of Labour in the new workhouse so you can see I’m very attached to the building and also understand the sadness attached to it as other family members died there. It would be a fabulous museum as I’ve said before to show what happened before the welfare state. I just wondered if there was any new news.
Thanks Jayne Casey
ybonne September 5, 2014
I was a student nurseliving in the nurses home and then the sisters home at DRH in1986 at that time there were rooms above/adjacent to the archway of tears where we had lessons in elderly care. It was definately a very enigmatic place, not creepy but you could feel the sadness
Keith Bracey August 1, 2013
My Dad and Gran passed away in Dudley Road Hospital as it was known and my Mom received marvellous care there when she fell down her stairs at home. We lived not far away on the Number 11 Corporation Bus in Willow Avenue, where the Sandon Road Number 6 bus had its Terminus and Corporation clock, on The Poplars Estate on the Birmingham side of Bearwood. I went to school at George Dixon Grammar School for Boys and when we got injured playing rugby at the playing fields in Portland Road we were carted off to ‘Dudley Road’ as my Gran always called it when they lived in ‘Back-to-Backs’ in Dugdale Street off Dudley Road, Winson Green. My Grandad Arthur Lewis Merriman worked at Hudson and Wright in Dugdale Street now long gone and drank in The Park Tavern on the corner of Dugdale Street and Dudley Road and ‘The Engine’ as he called it: ‘The Locomotive Pub’ on Dudley Road, right next to the main entrance to The Cape Hill Brewery where he joined The Auxiliary Fire Service at The Cape Hill Brewey Fire Station as he was too old at 40 to join up. Grandad was often on ‘Firewatch’ during the Birmingham Blitz in 1941 with his stirrup pump (which we had into the 1970’s but which has now been thrown away and his ARP tin hat and he would put out German fire bombs and incendiaries as he patrolled the streets of Winson Green, Cape Hill and Ladywood. When he left Hudson and Wright he joined GKN in Heath Street, Smethwick, not far away and walkable for a fit man like Arthur where he worked for over 30 years as a Furnaceman, making nuts, bolts and screws. His daughter my Mom Dot Bracey, later on after he passed away worked as Executive Tea Room Lady at the GKN HQ also in Heath Street Smethwick. Mom went to City Road Junior and Infants School in City Road, Edgbaston near to Dudley Road Hospital.
Sandra Rees August 1, 2013
I have been wondering about the Arch Way a lot,of late, when is the work going to start, it must have a place in history, I have never been up close to the Arch but was born and breed around Winson Green, I feel I have always had a connection to it, if I could, can, help in anyway, please contact me.
Suzanne Carter August 1, 2013
Hello Sandra, Thanks for your offer of help. our Director Simon is looking into the situation and I have asked him to respond to you with news when he gets some. Best wishes, Suzanne
Jayne Casey July 3, 2013
I was in touch in 2011 (see above) and I wondered if there was any news on the archway, as things seem to have gone quiet again.
Your hopefully !
Jayne Casey@btinternet.com
Simon Buteux July 4, 2013
Hello Jayne, thanks for bringing this up. I haven’t heard anything about the Archway of Tears recently but I understand that the NHS Trust have recently undertaken a survey of their estate. Unfortunately their Director of Estates is out of the office till Tuesday, but I have asked him to get back to me when he returns and I hope that I will be able to update you on the situation then.
Julia Larden February 15, 2013
I have not yet seen anyone referring to the history of this building after it ceased to be a workhouse. From 1948-1974 the building was Summerfield Hospital: a geriatric hospital later integrated into Dudley Road Hospital (Now ‘City Hospital’) My father worked there, and I often played in the grounds as a child. I know Summerfield was proud of the number of elderly patients who were treated, and successfully discharged, for various aliments of the elderly, but I believe that many elderly people and their relatives were initially distressed on arriving at Summerfield, thinking they would never come out again! I remember my father saying that they frequent cry, at least in earlier years, was: ‘I’m going to the work ‘us’
Ted Rudge January 18, 2013
Dear Lucie
At the start of the “The Archway of Tears at the City Hospital, Dudley Road, Birmingham” link of your site could you please change the following.
from http://www.ted.rudge.btinternet.co.uk/workhouse.htm
to http://www.winsongreentobrookfields.co.uk/workhouse.htm
Thanks and are there any new developments / news on the workhouse???
Ted Rudge
Suzanne Carter January 28, 2013
Hi Ted
Lucie no longer works for the Trust, i’ve taken over as Development Officer. Sorry to say there have been no developments to report on. Thanks for sending over the link. Have changed. Best wishes, Suzanne
Lucie Thacker April 28, 2011
We are still talking to the NHS, the Constituency Manager, the City Council and other agencies to negotiate a sustainable long term end use for the building.These projects always seem to take ages and I wish things could move faster, but we are still very much involved and moving forward inch by inch! Thank you all for your comments and interest – it gives us comfort that this building is valued by the people of Birmingham.
steve whyte April 27, 2011
Hi how is the work to save the archway of tears progressing?it would be a great shame to see the building collapse due to neglect and finance.Surely something must be done,its part of Birmingham’s wonderful history.
mark powell April 25, 2011
Great news I hope the archway is saved for future generations worked here as a voluntary worker in the early 1990s and was so sad to see this place destroyed and seemed such a waste at the time the admin block used to stand behind this
Jayne Casey January 20, 2011
So glad Ive just found out this good news as I have a family connection to the workhouse.
My great great great grandfather Nathaniel Felkin served 15 years in the Royal Marines after seeing action in the French Wars and left in 1816. On his return home it seems that he was an inmate of the old Workhouse in Lichfield Street and was a stone breaker. By 1823 I have found him in the records as Superintendent of Stone Breakers earning 20 shillings a week. His wife Sarah was Launderess of the infant department.
In 1848 he was directed by the board of guardians and Mr JJ Bateman to gather 7 of the parish men to make holes in the field at Birmingham Heath and assist Mr Bateman the architect to ascertain the fitness of the land for the building of the ‘New Workhouse’ in Western Road.
The ‘New Workhouse’ was opened in 1852 and Nathaniel was appointed the Superintendent of Pauper Labour and assisted Mr Bateman in such jobs as finishing the drainage systems.
From the records I found and read about Nathaniel he sounded a very fair and caring man.he put it to the Guardians in 1849 that the indoor and outdoor paupers do cease work on the following Thursday as the day has been appointed a day of great thanksgiving on acount of the cessation of cholera in this county. I have many stories showing he was caring probably due to the fact that he used to be an inmate himself.
Nathaniel worked at the Workhouse well into his 80’s as the Guardians were happy for him to stay on as he ‘rendered good service’. He died in 1864 aged 86 of Senile Decay. The Guardians placed an obituary in the Birmingham Daily Gazette which read ……….
Felkin – on the 16th inst.in the 86th year of his age Nathaniel Felkin, who for nearly 40 years filled the office of Superintendent of Outdoor Labour in the parish of Birmingham.In which he rendered good service to the rate payers. He for several years served as a marine in the Royal Navy during the reign of George the Third, and was present at the Battle of Trafalgar and Several other engagements by sea during the French War.
Nathaniel was buried in All Saints Church just around the corner from the workhouse, it is not clear if he had a headstone or not but the church yard was cleared in the 1970’s and now is a housing estate which upset me as there is nothing to say that this great man who served his country all his life ever existed.
I am very proud to be his great great great grandaughter and to have found out about his life.
Lucie Thacker January 20, 2011
What a fascinating family history to have discovered. Many thanks for sharing it with us – it is a story of great hardship but also amazing fortitude and you are rightly very proud of your great great great grandfather. I am so glad that you have written about Nathaniel – his story tells us a great deal about the way the Workhouse operated and the good people who could end up there.
This is an inspiring story and one I hope we can tell again if we can find a way to save the Archway of Tears.
That would be fantastic !!
cecilia morrall August 7, 2010
myself my older brothers and sister and my younger siter all have conections with the city hospital site as we were all born there in the 50’s and 70′
i have recently found out through tracing my family history on the morral side
that my great great grandmother maryann morral was addmitted to the work house infirmary in 1901 due to the fact that there was nobody to look after her after her husband edward morrall died and she was also of feeble mind
i think it is a crying shame that the the archway of tears could possable be demolished and i think every effort should be made to try and save this wonderfull historic building for furture generations and also for the memory of the poor souls who where there through no fault of their own
Lucie Thacker August 17, 2010
Thanks for your message of support, Cecilia, and for sharing your sad story with us.
Birmingham Conservation Trust is working with the NHS and our partners to find a sustainable solution for this building – it has so many important memories for lots of people.
Thanks for that, Neil. I look forward to hearing more about what the local community is interested to see the building used for. We will explore all the options as we do the appraisal. We have to ensure that we have a long term sustainable use (which can change over time – thankfully it no longer need be a sad place) so that the building and its very special history is preserved for future generations.
Neil De-Costa April 14, 2010
We’ve just written about this project on our blog and are really hoping to continue to support the work that you are doing. This is a really important building locally and historically. We would like to see it brought into positive use by the community.
Victoria L. Holland March 25, 2011
Hello from Texas, I was born in Dudley Rd. Hospital in May of 1960. At that time period, was the Infirmary the only functional part of the Hosspital? I think it’s great that you are doing this project.
Lucie Thacker March 29, 2011
Hi Victoria
thank you for getting in touch. I think the hospital was extensive and included all departments as it does today. The former Workhouse had become the geriatric unit and was demolished in 1993, with the exception of The Archway of Tears. we are still working on ways to save this special place.
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POLLARD & PICKETT V. DWIGHT, 8 U. S. 421 (1808)
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Pollard & Pickett v. Dwight, 8 U.S. 4 Cranch 421 421 (1808)
Pollard & Pickett v. Dwight
8 U.S. (4 Cranch) 421
ERROR TO THE CIRCUIT COURT
FOR THE DISTRICT OF CONNECTICUT
The appearance of the defendants to a foreign attachment in a circuit court of the United States waives all objection to the nonservice of a process.
The district judge may alone hold a circuit court, although there be no judge of the Supreme Court allotted to that circuit.
An action may be supported on a covenant of seizin, although the plaintiff has never been evicted, and the declaration need not aver an eviction.
Under the foreign attachment law of Connecticut, an absent person who is liable for damages for breach of his covenant is an absent debtor.
The official certificate of survey returned by a legal sworn surveyor in Virginia cannot be invalidated by a particular fact tending to show an impossibility that the survey could have been made in the time intervening between the date of the entry and the date of the certificate of survey.
On the trial of an action in Connecticut for breach of a covenant of seizin of lands in Virginia, the question whether a patent from the State of Virginia for the lands be voidable is not examinable. Parol testimony is not admissible in an action on the covenant of seizin to prove prior claims upon the land.
Dwight and others brought a foreign attachment against Pollard and Pickett in the County Court of Hartford, and declared in an action of covenant upon a deed of bargain and sale in fee simple of certain lands in the County of Wythe and Commonwealth of Virginia by which the defendants below covenanted that they were
"lawfully seized of the lands and premises, with their appurtenances, and had good right and lawful authority to sell and convey the same in manner and form aforesaid,"
and the breach assigned was
"that they were not nor were any or either of them lawfully seized and possessed of any estate whatever in the said land and premises nor in any part thereof, nor had the said Pollard and Pickett, or either of them, good right and lawful authority to sell and convey the said land and premises as aforesaid."
The defendants appeared and removed the cause to the Circuit Court of the United States for the District of Connecticut, and there pleaded to the jurisdiction of the court, and prayed
"judgment whether the honorable Pierpont Edwards, District Judge of the District of Connecticut holding said court, there being no justice of the Supreme Court of the United States present in court, will have cognizance of the said cause, because they say that, by the law of the United States, the Circuit Court of the Second Circuit in the District of Connecticut shall consist of the Justice of the Supreme Court residing in the third circuit and the District Judge of the District of Connecticut, and that when the said law was enacted, viz., on 3 March, 1803, the Honorable William Paterson was the only Justice of the Supreme Court residing in the said Third Circuit, and that he died on or about 10 September last past,
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and that there is not now, nor hath there been, since the death of the said Paterson, any Justice of the Supreme Court residing in the said third circuit; and there hath not been by the Supreme Court of the United States, or by the President of the United States, any allotment of a Chief Justice or an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States to the said second circuit, and this they are ready to verify,"
&c., which plea, upon general demurrer, was overruled and a respondeas ouster awarded, whereupon the defendants pleaded that they were, at the date of the deed,
"well seized and possessed of the said land, and had good right to bargain and sell the same in manner as is alleged in the said deed, and so they have kept and performed their said covenants, and of this put themselves on the country . . . and the plaintiffs likewise."
The verdict was for the plaintiffs, and damages assessed to $27,497. The defendants moved in arrest of judgment because it appears by the declaration that the said deed was executed, and the lands lie in the State of Virginia, and because the declaration is insufficient and will not support any judgment; but the motion was overruled and judgment rendered on the verdict.
On the trial, a bill of exceptions was taken which stated that the defendants claimed to be seized under a patent to them from the Governor of Virginia dated March 20, 1795, and grounded on a survey in favor of David Patterson by virtue of an entry, dated September 1, 1794, on sundry Treasury warrants to the amount of 150,000 acres, and completed on 8 September, 1794, which survey had been assigned to the defendant, Pollard; whereupon the plaintiffs offered to read in evidence copies of two surveys made for one Wilson Carey Nicholas, by virtue of two entries made on the same 1 September, 1794, in the office of the same surveyor, one to the amount of 500,000 acres and the other to the amount of 480,000 acres, the greater part of which laid in the County of Wythe, and bounding on the land surveyed for Patterson, and that the said survey for 500,000 acres purported to be completed on 9 September, 1794, chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
and that for 480,000 on the 10th of the same month, and that the extent of all the lines of the said surveys was more than 320 miles, and offered to prove by Erastus Granger that the nearest part of the said lands to the office of the surveyor of Wythe County was distant therefrom two days' journey and that a surveyor could not, in that county, survey a line longer than seven miles in a day, and that he (Erastus Granger) had surveyed the land surveyed for Patterson and found marked trees only for about three or four miles from the starting point of the survey, and two or three only of the first corners mentioned in the survey, and that the streams ran in opposite directions to those laid down in the plot, which testimony of the said Granger was offered to prove that Patterson's survey was fraudulent, and not made conformably to the laws of Virginia, and the plaintiffs further offered to prove by the testimony of the said Granger that there were prior claims upon the land in question to the amount of upwards of 90,000 acres. It was admitted that Granger was not a sworn surveyor. The defendants objected to the above evidence, but the court overruled the objection and suffered it to go to the jury.
The defendants sued out their writ of error to this Court, and the errors assigned were,
1. That the plea to the jurisdiction ought to have been allowed.
2. That the evidence stated in the bill of exceptions ought not to have been admitted.
3. That the declaration is insufficient.
4. That the title of the land could not be tried in Connecticut.
5. That the circuit court had not jurisdiction, the plaintiffs being citizens of Massachusetts and Connecticut and the defendants citizens of Virginia, not found in the District of Connecticut. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
6. That the judgment ought to have been rendered for the defendants. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
MR. CHIEF JUSTICE MARSHALL delivered the opinion of the Court as follows:
In this case, objections have been made to the jurisdiction of the circuit court and to the proceedings in that court.
The point of jurisdiction made by the plaintiffs in error is considered as free from all doubt. By appearing to the action, the defendants in the court below placed themselves precisely in the situation in which chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
they would have stood had process been served upon them, and consequently waived all objections to the nonservice of process. Were it otherwise, the duty of the circuit court would have been to remand the cause to the state court in which it was instituted, and this Court would be bound now to direct that proceeding. As little foundation is there for the exception taken to the manner in which the circuit court was constituted. That court consists of two judges, any one of whom is capable of performing judicial duties. So this Court consists of seven judges, any four of whom may act. It has never been supposed that the death of three of the judges would disqualify the remaining four from discharging their official duties until the vacant seats of their departed brethren should be filled. There is nothing in the peculiar phraseology of that part of the Judicial Act which establishes the circuit courts that requires a different construction of the words authorizing a single judge to hold those courts, from what is usually given in other cases, to clauses authorizing a specified number of justices to constitute a court.
The exceptions taken to the proceedings of the circuit court are more serious. These are,
1. To the pleadings.
2. To the opinions of that court, admitting certain testimony in support of the action.
The objections to the pleadings are
That the different parts of the declaration are repugnant to each other, and that the declaration is itself insufficient as the foundation of a judgment.
In deciding on so much of this objection as depends on the laws of Connecticut, this Court would certainly be guided by the construction given by that state to its own statute, and if it was indispensably necessary now to decide that question, the evidence in favor of the construction maintained by the defendants in error would seem to preponderate. chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
Another objection taken to the declaration is that it ought to have alleged a disseizin of the plaintiffs below in order to enable them to maintain their action.
On this part of the case, the Court can only consider whether the declaration in itself, unconnected with the testimony which was adduced to support it, is so radically defective that a judgment cannot be rendered on it. This leads to the inquiry whether the covenant of the vendors can be broken, as stated in the declaration, although no eviction has taken place, and the Court is of opinion that it may be so broken. 9 Co. 60.
The covenant is that the vendor is seized in fee of the premises which he sells and conveys. Suppose the fact to be that he had no title nor pretense of title to those premises; that he had conveyed lands for which he had never received a patent or a title of any kind. Could it be said that his covenant that he was seized in fee remained unbroken until the real proprietor should think proper to eject the vendee? This question, in the opinion of the Court, must be answered in the negative. The testimony, which would be sufficient to establish the breach assigned, may be a subject for serious consideration, but on the sufficiency of the breach as assigned to support a judgment, there is no doubt.
The exceptions to the testimony admitted in the circuit court consists of two parts.
1st. To the admission of certain copies of surveys made for Wilson Carey Nicholas, connected with the testimony of Erastus Granger, describing the face of the country on which the surveys purported to be made.
2d. To the admission of parol testimony to prove prior titles to the lands conveyed in the deed on which this suit was instituted.
1. The surveys of Wilson Carey Nicholas, and the explanatory testimony of Granger, were introduced for the purpose of showing that the patent for the lands sold by Pollard and Pickett was void, because it issued on a chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
plat representing a survey which, in point of fact, could not have been made.
In examining this exception, it becomes proper to inquire what was the real issue between the parties.
The plaintiffs below averred in their declaration that the defendants were not seized and possessed of any estate whatever in the land and premises nor in any part thereof, nor had they or either of them good right and lawful authority to sell and convey the same. The defendants in their plea do not set forth their title, but say generally that they were seized of the land sold and conveyed by them and had good right to sell and convey the same as is expressed by their deed. On this plea an issue is tendered which is joined by the plaintiffs.
To prove that the survey on which the patent granting the lands to the defendants was issued could not have been made, the plaintiffs produced two other surveys made by the same person for Wilson Carey Nicholas, which were said to be completed only two days succeeding the completion of the survey of the defendants, which three several surveys could not possibly have been made in the time intervening between the entries in the surveyor's office and the day on which they are alleged to have been completed, whence the jury might conclude that the survey of Pollard and Pickett was not made.
The surveyor was a sworn officer, and his survey was returned upon oath. This is an attempt to invalidate the evidence derived from his official return by a particular fact which has no relation to the cause before the court and with which the parties to this controversy have no connection. Had it even appeared that the copies offered in evidence were authenticated, they would on this account have been inadmissible.
This whole testimony is inadmissible on other ground. Were it even true that this patent is voidable if the surveyor had not run round all the lines of the land, a chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
point not yet established, it cannot be deemed absolutely void -- it cannot be deemed a mere nullity. While it remains in force, it is a valid title and vests the fee simple estate in the patentee. In this action and on the trial of this issue, the question whether the patent be voidable by Virginia or not is not properly examinable. Testimony, therefore, tending to establish that point is irrelevant and inadmissible.
2. But had the court entertained any doubt on this point, the second part of the exception would be clearly decisive with regard to this judgment.
Parol testimony is admitted to show prior claims to the land in controversy. The defendants in error attempt to defend the admission of this testimony by supposing it auxiliary to other testimony which had previously established the validity of those claims, and that this witness was only adduced to show that those claims covered this land. Had the fact supported the argument, a private ex parte survey would have been a very improper mode of establishing it; but the language of the exception excludes that construction of the opinion which the counsel for the defendants in error would put upon it. The proof offered and admitted is not that those particular titles which were exhibited and proved to the court covered the land conveyed by Pollard and Pickett, but "that there were prior claims upon it to the amount of upwards of ninety thousand acres." The prior claims rest upon the oath of the witness. If those claims were valid, their validity was established by his testimony, which cannot be tolerated on any legal principle; if they were mere claims, not good titles, they ought not to have been stated to the jury. They were irrelevant to the point in issue.
Upon the whole, the Court is unanimously of opinion that the circuit court erred in permitting the copies of surveys made for Wilson Carey Nicholas and the testimony of Erastus Granger to go to the jury for the purposes mentioned in the bill of exceptions, and chanroblesvirtualawlibrary
that the judgment of the circuit court must on that account be reversed and the cause remanded for a new trial.
Judgment reversed.
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Hazelnut & Orange Chocolate Bar
by Eddy Van Damme on January 3, 2012
After talking to countless Pastry chefs and Chocolatiers who are in search of fillings for chocolates with an extended shelf life, I thought it was time to highlight such filling which may be of use to you. This particular filling contains nougatine which adds a layer of complexity, but the good news is that the nougatine is chopped and therefore rolling it to a thickness of 2 stacked bank cards is not a total necessity. Although on the picture this particular filling is piped into a chocolate bar mold, any shallow type of chocolate mold should work. The filling tilts on the sweet side and therefore I do recommend to use shallow chocolate mold as the flavor balance between the chocolate and the filling will then be optimal. For the molding process I recommend a semi sweet chocolate couverture with a cocoa mass content of 52-58% maximum. Milk chocolate mixed with dark chocolate can also work well and be equally delicious. Using ¾ milk chocolate couverture combined with ¼ dark chocolate couverture will provide good balance. Using bitter chocolate for the molding process will make it hard to properly experience the hazelnut flavor which we all know is a rather expensive ingredient not to be noticed.
17 oz Hazelnut paste, 50% sweetened 500 g
3.5 oz Chopped nougatine 100 g
2 oz Chopped Candied orange peel 60 g
For enrobing, as needed Semisweet chocolate 52-58% For enrobing, as needed
Combine the hazelnut paste with nougatine and candied orange peel and set aside.
Temper chocolate and proceed as customary.
17 comments on “Hazelnut & Orange Chocolate Bar”
Hilary Adams on January 3, 2012 at 1:30 pm said:
Looks so heavenly!!
ghizlane on January 3, 2012 at 4:18 pm said:
it’s really nice of you to share this delicious treats , i love what you do and i made a lot of your recipes OH MY GOD they are extremely delicious
thank you and bonne continuation
Eddy Van Damme on January 3, 2012 at 8:24 pm said:
Ghizlane,
Diana Wallace on January 5, 2012 at 8:53 am said:
Eddy this looks wonderful!
Carol on January 9, 2012 at 5:53 pm said:
Hello Eddy,
The hazelnut orange bar sounds delicious.
I also like the bar mold in the picture.
Do you know where I can get one like it?
Niah Clark on January 27, 2012 at 12:09 pm said:
Sounds really good. It’s much cheaper to make your own chocolate then buying candy bars everyday
Raymond Estrada on January 30, 2012 at 3:53 pm said:
How big or long is the Hazelnut & Orange Chocolate Bar? It kind of reminds me of the kit kat bar commercial.
Savanna Cunningham on February 1, 2012 at 8:10 pm said:
could use milk chocolate instead of semi sweet? and those sound delicious
Tilly Sherwood on February 1, 2012 at 10:21 pm said:
Chef,
If you make your own candied orange zest, I just recently found an easy recipe that I really like. How long would I want to dry out the orange zest before using it. I know that moisture inside chocolates can be bad for shelf life and bacteria growth.
Eddy Van Damme on February 2, 2012 at 4:02 pm said:
If it is properly candied it will last for a while. If you are in doubt I would rotate on a weekly basis.
Yes you can as long as the milk chocolate has a high cocoamass %
Marklester on March 19, 2012 at 6:50 am said:
I love that site! And as weird as it sounds, I’ll bet caocolhte dipped bacon is good! I had just heard about chicken-fried bacon last week… may have to try that this weekend!
Roslen Hamilton on April 26, 2012 at 9:49 am said:
Chef if I don’t want to use orange peel is there what can I use as a substitution?
valerie alexander on December 2, 2012 at 5:31 pm said:
This is another chocolate lovers delight and orange pairs beautifully with chocolate.
Amalia posada on June 30, 2013 at 9:05 am said:
I love chocolate and orange paired together! How small do the candied orange peels need to be cut. I would think quite a pit if its going to be piped! I wish we made this one in class! Doing the molds was super fun!
Kristy Wiley on July 2, 2013 at 10:00 pm said:
Love hazelnu and for it to be with chocolate sound great
Kellie Betz on July 3, 2013 at 6:46 am said:
Anything dealing with the hazel nut paste was always a little too sweet for me. and most times the hazel nut flavor outshowed the rest of the flavors, which I didnt mind, but I would like a fine balance where I can test everything when I first bite into it, instead of lingering on the hazelnut paste taste. All in all, still looks like a great recipe. Orange and chocolate mix very well together.
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Pooey Puitton Goed on the attack
April 2019. French fashion house Louis Vuitton was unlikely to be happy about a make-up case bearing the name Pooey Puitton being marketed by toy retailer MGA Entertainment. Surprisingly, though, it’s not Louis Vuitton who’s taking legal proceedings, but MGA, who’s asked the court to rule that its Pooey Puitton case doesn’t infringe Louis Vuitton’s trademark rights.
MGA’s Pooey Puitton make-up case
STEALING A MARCH
MGA’s unexpected move doesn’t of course come out of thin air. Last December, Louis Vuitton had already expressed displeasure over the make-up case. In that case, we’ll steal a march on them and go on the attack ourselves, the toy giant probably said to itself.
NO CONFUSION
The fact that the design of MGA’s Pooey Puitton case was ‘inspired’ by the world-famous Louis Vuitton bag isn’t at issue. MGA is instead arguing that no rational consumer would ever confuse its plastic, poo-shaped Pooeye Puitton toy case with the exclusive handbags made by Louis Vuitton. And if there’s no risk of confusion, then there’s no trademark infringement, claims MGA. According to MGA its product is an obvious parody.
There’s no doubt that in Europe, a joke of this kind (with commercial intent) would be seen as a straightforward infringement of the rights of Louis Vuitton. In the US, however, things could be seen differently, as Louis Vuitton itself can testify.
CLEAR PARODY
Some years ago, the French fashion giant instigated legal proceedings in the US against Chewy Vuiton, a canine chewy toy in the shape of a little plush bag. However, Louis Vuitton lost its case. The court concluded it was a clear parody and that there was no risk of public confusion. Now let’s see what happens with the make-up case.
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Nadal, Sharapova survive scares as Serena makes winning return
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World No. 1 Rafael Nadal (right) hugs Italy's Simone Bolelli after winning his first-round match 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (9) on Court Philippe Chatrier yesterday. The Spaniard saved four set points before sealing his 80th win at the claycourt Grand Slam. Both the matches were held over from Monday after rain interrupted play.
Rafael Nadal racked up his 80th French Open win, while Maria Sharapova battled back from a final-set deficit to reach the second round as Serena Williams made her eagerly-awaited — and triumphant — Roland Garros return to Grand Slam tennis yesterday.
Nadal, the 10-time champion, defeated Italian lucky loser Simone Bolelli 6-4, 6-3, 7-6 (9).
World No. 1 Nadal had been two sets up but 0-3 down in the third when rain caused the tie to be suspended late on Monday.
He quickly levelled at 3-3 yesterday, saved four break points in the eighth game before saving four set points in the breaker.
The top seed eventually claimed victory on a third match point on Court Philippe Chatrier when Bolelli dumped a forehand into the net.
Nadal, bidding for an 11th title in Paris and his 17th major, next faces Argentina's Guido Pella for a place in the last 32.
"I really suffered today but it was a good test," said Nadal who had been in danger of dropping his first set at Roland Garros since his 2015 quarterfinal loss to Novak Djokovic.
"Simone is a very good player and he had lots of chances and was very aggressive."
Two-time champion Sharapova survived a serious scare to claim a 6-1, 4-6, 6-3 victory over Dutch qualifier Richel Hogenkamp, ranked 130, in her first French Open match since 2015.
The Russian was not given a wildcard for the tournament last year, which took place shortly after her return from a 15-month doping suspension.
Sharapova, the 28th seed, faces Croatia's Donna Vekic next.
The 31-year-old, five-time major champion, took just 24 minutes to win the first set of a match which was delayed from Monday, but threw away a 3-1 lead in the second.
Sharapova was staring down the barrel of falling at first hurdle in a Grand Slam tournament for the first time since the 2010 Australian Open when trailing 0-3 in the third, but the former world No. 1 dug deep and reeled off six straight games to edge into round two.
The Russian, who was Paris champion in 2012 and 2014, fired 35 winners in her victory on Court Suzanne Lenglen.
Even the Parisian stormclouds cleared for Williams yesterday, as the new mother's baby steps back to GS tennis became a stride into the second round.
Krystina Pliskova, who shared the Wimbledon winners' stage with Serena back in 2010 — the Czech was junior champion as Serena won the real thing that year — played her part across the net on Court Chatrier, but there was only one star.
Dressed in skintight, all-in-one black bodysuit, broken up by a vivid scarlet belt, Serena captivated the French crowd from the start of the contest to its 7-6 (4),6-4 conclusion.
The last time she had appeared in a GS tournament was at the Australian Open in 2017, when she won it while pregnant with daughter Alexis Olympia.
This time there was a little rust to shake off — she gave birth in September — and she didn't quite move as when at her best. But all the same Serena was too strong, too good, simply too Serena for her world 70-ranked opponent.
Third seed and 2016 champion Garbine Muguruza defeated 2009 winner Svetlana Kuznetsova of Russia 7-6 (0), 6-2.
Spain's Muguruza next faces French wildcard Fiona Ferro, ranked 257, for a place in the last 32.
Third seed Marin Cilic reached the second round with a 6-3, 7-5, 7-6 (4) win over Australia's James Duckworth.
Wimbledon and Australian Open runner-up Cilic, 29, fired 47 winners and 13 aces past the 1,072nd-ranked Duckworth who was playing his first match since the 2017 Australian Open.
Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov eased to a 7-5, 6-4, 6-2 victory over Australian John Millman in his first ever main-draw French Open match.
The 19-year-old, who lost in Roland Garros qualifying last year but is now the 24th seed, will next take on German world No. 70 Maximilian Marterer for a place in the last 32.
"The last couple of weeks I've been playing unbelievable on this surface," said Shapovalov, the youngest player to break into the world's top 30 since 2005.
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Why Selena is the only Latina role model I can relate to as a Mexican woman
Filed under Life at Mar 2018
Cassandra Jaramillo, Staff writer
Connect with Cassandra Jaramillo
Editor's Note: This story originally published March 2017. We are bringing it back to honor the singer who was killed March 31, 1995.
I’d entertain myself for hours with my cassette player while my mother worked, singing Selena’s cover to “Where Did the Feeling Go?” I’d sing her songs at school, too, flowing from her English songs into her Spanish language songs like "Como La Flor."
Tributes to Selena are everywhere this time of year, as the anniversary approaches of her murder at age 23 on March 31, 1995, by a fan club president.
Fans adored Selena for being talented but humble, ambitious and close to her family. She became an icon for Mexicans and many Latinos. What I admire most about Selena is that she seamlessly balanced a tremendous career in two cultures.
I’ve struggled to balance my two cultures my whole life.
After a high school academic competition in Corpus Christi junior year, I had to pay a visit the Selena statue. I was 17.
(Cassandra Jaramillo/ The Dallas Morning News)
Every child has a movie that they beg their parents to play, even if it’s been watched dozens of times. For me, it was the biopic Selena.
I was obsessed with watching Jennifer Lopez embody Selena’s swift cumbia dance moves and hearing Selena’s own beautiful vocals in Spanish and English. My mom reminds me that when I would see the film as a toddler, I’d dance along with her and sob at the end -- every time. I was only 3.
After I saw the movie, I wanted to hear all of her songs.
So many girls grew up wanting to be Selena Quintanilla-Perez. Twenty-three years after the Texas singer's death, they still do.
At a talent show in Oak Cliff last weekend, yet another generation influenced by the late Queen of Tejano celebrated her life. Six-year-old Azlie Jolie Garcia, who sang “Dreaming of You,” won a look-alike contest. Local artists paid homage to her through crafts and mural paintings.
Fans buy out a Selena-inspired makeup collection overnight, wait hours in line to see her wax figure and dress up like her on Halloween and other occasions.
Hundreds of Dallas-area Selena fans line up for limited makeup collection
I was born in the city of Monterrey, Nuevo León but came to the United States when I was 2. Growing up in a small, predominantly white town gave me an identity crisis. There weren’t many Latino students in my school district and I didn’t know where I fit in.
At home, I only spoke Spanish, but at school it was English. I greeted Americans with handshakes, and then was expected to say hello with a kiss on the cheek to Latinos. Friends at school had slumber parties, but my traditional Mexican parents didn’t allow that until high school. We were U.S. citizens, but lived with two sets of rules and expectations.
When I saw Selena, I met someone who was going through the same thing.
"We gotta be more Mexican than the Mexicans and more American than the Americans, both at the same time! It's exhausting!" is how her father in the movie describes the cultural balancing act.
Selena pulled it off so well.
She was a woman who, despite being born in the U.S., appeared on Spanish-language magazine covers and television shows as her music took off. She didn’t speak much Spanish growing up, but she learned it as her career thrived with her Latino audiences. She never appeared nervous performing in her second language.
Azlie Jolie Garcia from Dallas won the Selena look-a-like contest at Country Burger in Oak Cliff . She is 6 years old.
(Photo Courtesy : Barbie Garza)
Azlie Garcia, 6, third from left, reacts as a crowd cheers for her vote to win a Selena talent contest at #214Selena: A Tribute to Selena, held at Country Burger restaurant in Dallas, Saturday, March 25, 2017. The fourth annual event hosted a Selena talent contest, lowriders, a Selena art show and a mural painting of the Queen of Tejano music by artists Arturo Donjuan and Ponchaveli Studios. Ben Torres/Special Contributor
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Cynthia Camero, 28, of Grand Prairie, performs during a talent contest at #214Selena: A Tribute to Selena at Country Burger restaurant in Dallas, Saturday, March 25, 2017. The fourth annual event hosted a Selena talent contest, lowriders, a Selena art show and a mural painting of the Queen of Tejano music by artists Arturo Donjuan and Ponchaveli Studios. Ben Torres/Special Contributor
Monique Garcia, left, walks with her daughter Azlie Garcia, 6, dressed as Tejano singer Selena, during #214Selena: A Tribute to Selena at Country Burger restaurant in Dallas, Saturday, March 25, 2017. The fourth annual event hosted a Selena talent contest, lowriders, a Selena art show and a mural painting of the Queen of Tejano music, by artists Arturo Donjuan and Ponchaveli Studios. Ben Torres/Special Contributor
Selena Quintanilla-Perez was 23 when she died.
(Agencia Reforma)
But she would stumble during interviews. Although Spanish is my first language, I also get self-conscious about it. I worried whether my Spanish was mocho, a word typically used to describe someone’s subpar Spanish.
I had a Mexican boyfriend who told me I couldn’t dance and my Spanish sounded “funny.” Family members joked that I became too gringa when I would forget certain words in Spanish.
Ouch. It hurt to hear those words.
The Spanish-language media made a point of grilling Selena when she performed in Mexico, trying to see how Latina she really was. After all, by that time, generations of Mexican-Americans had stopped speaking the language entirely. And for Mexicans, the Spanish language is our cultural pride and joy -- besides our food and music.
“Have you been able to always speak Spanish, or have you learned it more singing the music?” Don Francisco, the David Letterman of Spanish media, asked Selena in Spanish in 1994.
“Well, I’m still learning,” the 20-something said as she stumbled on bits of her Spanish. Nerves, probably. “But one has to practice to learn it,” she added with a smile.
Reporter Cassandra Jaramillo was born in Mexico but raised in the United States. Selena became a role model as a bicultural icon.
(Dom DiFurio/ The Dallas Morning News)
So I also practiced. I started to speak more in Spanish without fear. I didn’t shy away from dancing at Latino events. I told my parents that certain American customs, like moving away for college, are normal. It’s a part of the American Dream! I didn’t have to live at home until I got married.
My fav quote from #Selena. My life assimilating to the US as a first-generation immigrant. I know I'm not alone. pic.twitter.com/djt8tdZKMm
— Cassandra Jaramillo (@cassandrajar) March 29, 2015
Selena continues to be an important role model in my life. In fact, she’s the only Latina role model that I’ve been able to relate to as a Mexican woman. There aren’t many Latinas in mainstream music and television. The celebrities that go mainstream often are warped into stereotypical narratives as being sexy and sassy, or they don’t necessarily show pride in their culture.
But not Selena. She was herself. Unapologetically.
I was just a baby when she died but I felt like I knew her my whole life.
I still miss her so much, every day.
Everything Selena: Remembering the Tejano star's legacy
Selena lives on: How this Oak Cliff burger joint became a shrine to the Tejano star
Anything for Selena: Where to celebrate the Queen of Tejano's legacy in Dallas
Flashback: Selena was gone but not forgotten in the hearts of Dallasites
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Wechsel zu ger mit URL: http://www.desy.de/aktuelles/news/archiv_vor_2010/2010/bjrn_h_wiik_preis/index_ger.html
2.2.1.10.1: Honorary Doctorate .
2.2.1.10.2: PhD thesis award .
Standort: 2.2.1.10.3: Bjørn H. Wiik Prize .
2.2.1.10.4: Full Speed for PETRA III .
2.2.1.10.5: Photowalk .
2.2.1.10.6: water window .
2.2.1.10.7: cavities .
2.2.1.10.8: TULA´s arrival .
2.2.1.10.9: CFEL .
2.2.1.10.10: Hand-over .
2.2.1.10.11: Faraday Cup .
2.2.1.10.12: FLASH record .
2.2.1.10.13: Flat FLASH .
2.2.1.10.14: Strong partners .
2.2.1.10.15: Röntgen Medal .
2.2.1.10.16: Minister visit .
2.2.1.10.17: Kestrel .
2.2.1.10.18: LHC first physics .
2.2.1.10.19: Bird´s navigation .
2.2.1.10.20: Tate Medal .
URL: http://www.desy.de/news/news/archive_before_2010/2010/bjrn_h_wiik_prize/index_eng.html
Bjørn H. Wiik Prize
Henry Chapman is awarded the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize
Prize winner 2010 is Henry Chapman (left). The Prize was handed over by the chairman of the prize committee, Professor Peter Schmüser (right).
On 15 November, Henry Chapman received the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize 2010. The 43-year-old physicist and Professor at the Centre for Free-Electron Laser Science (CFEL) at DESY is awarded the prize for his groundbreaking experiments in the field of structural analysis of complex molecules at free-electron lasers.
“It was a unanimous decision for Henry Chapman”, said the chairman of the prize committee, Professor Peter Schmüser. “Henry is a pioneer in research with free-electron lasers and his experiments lay the foundation for a whole generation of new research possibilities”.
“I am extremely honoured for this award”, said prize winner Henry Chapman, “for work by my colleagues and I which would not have been possible without Bjorn Wiik´s early vision for a superconducting linear accelerator and free-electron laser, which led to the world's brightest source of soft-X-rays here at DESY. This has made DESY one of the most exciting and stimulating centres for X-ray science in the world.”
“Henry Chapman’s research successes are extremely diverse”, explains DESY research director Professor Edgar Weckert. “Especially essential for free-electron lasers are his studies on imaging of single biological objects as viruses and small crystals. With his experiments, Henry Chapman for the first time proved that FELs are able to take diffraction images of these objects before they are destroyed by the brilliant light.”
Henry N. Chapman was born in the UK and studied physics and graduated in Melbourne, Australia. After carrying out research in the United States for 16 years, until he came to Hamburg in 2007. Since that time he is professor at the University of Hamburg and head of the CFEL Coherent Imaging Group. Henry Chapman is a well-known expert in the field of three-dimensional imaging and phase retrieval. His development of investigation methods in this field is equally important for both, materials science and biology.
Since 2000, the Bjørn H. Wiik Prize is presented in memory of the chairman of the DESY directorate who died in 1999. It is financed by the proceeds of the donations received on occasion of the death of Bjørn Wiik. This prize is awarded to scientists every two years to acknowledge their outstanding contributions to the advancement of DESY research programmes or to developments in technology that especially promote DESY projects.
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Tyne Daile Sumner, University of Melbourne
In this task students create their own online museum by uploading digital items to an Omeka site and describing them using Dublin Core metadata standards. By completing the task, students demonstrate the capacity to articulate and record the historical and/or cultural significance of a range of digital articles by assigning them metadata and then using Omeka’s Content Management System (CMS) to place them in appropriate historical and literary contexts. After populating the Dublin Core metadata element set for each uploaded item, students are then able to: place related items into ‘Collections’; create ‘Featured Exhibits’; populate an ‘About’ page; tag items with useful key terms; add ‘Simple Pages’ (i.e. additional information and analysis); curate and enhance the appearance of their site; and promote their finished product via social media using the #omeka hashtag.
This task develops students’ academic skills in: close reading, historical and cultural analysis, archival practice, and digital curation. By encouraging students to investigate the ways in which digital methodologies can be used to enhance research in the Arts and Social Sciences, the task also develops their knowledge and skills in the Digital Humanities more broadly. The theme or style of the online museums created in the task will depend upon the disciplinary angle taken by instructors or the subject into which this task is taught. Students have the flexibility to create Omeka sites showcasing anything from digitized Early Modern manuscripts to photographs and accompanying literary analysis of C20th Beat poets.
Omeka is a Swahili word meaning ‘to display’ or to ‘lay out wares.’ The digital tool Omeka is a free and flexible web-publishing platform for the display of library, museum, archive, and scholarly collections. Omeka was developed by the Roy Rosenzweig Centre for History and New Media at George Mason University. Omeka’s smooth and intuitive ‘five-minute setup’ makes launching a digital museum as easy as launching a blog. Exciting new plugins have put the tool at the forefront of research and pedagogy at the crossroads of Web Content Management, Collections Management, and Archival Digital Collections Systems.
Educational Level
Beginner through Graduate.
Writing Component
Depending on the scope of the task and the ascribed task outcomes, students can populate all aspects of their Omeka site ranging from the fifteen vocabulary that comprise the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set for each item, through to detailed historical descriptions or short essays in the ‘About’ and ‘Simple Pages’ sections of the site. For example, a student may populate the following Dublin Core descriptors for 10-20 historical or literary resources, place them into relevant ‘Collections’ and then, upon constructing a ‘Featured Exhibit,’ write a short essay in an ‘About’ page outlining the scholarly significance and interrelation of the objects contained within.
Dublin Core Metadata Element Set
While each of the headings in the Element Set above usually require short entries of one to two lines, the analytical and discovery work involved in populating each of these descriptors encourages students to develop their research and investigative skills prior to discovering the utility of digital methodologies for transforming the possibilities of research discoveries.
Tools/technology
Content Management System (Omeka), CSV files (for bulk uploading of metadata, if necessary), social media, digital mapping tools; data set/s (this could range from open data sets such as those discoverable on TROVE, though to materials that require institutional and/or university logins).
This task can be adapted to suit either short ‘intensive’ style teaching practice or it can be assigned at the beginning of a Semester, with a due date set for several weeks later.
For the purposes of an in-class, 1-2 hour length task, students can be assigned a pre-made package of digital resources, which can then be used to populate an Omeka site. Alternatively, students completing the task as a semester-long exercise should be asked to research and locate digital content themselves in accordance with a designated theme, text, or historical period.
Medium to large.
Level of preparation For group assignments, instructors are required to set up a number of template Omeka sites, to which they are then able to ‘Invite’ students to work on. Alternatively, if the task requires students to work on their individual sites, they will need to set these up themselves by making a free Omeka.net account and logging in.
The acquisition of digital resources that will be uploaded to the Omeka site/s could comprise part of the work done throughout the completion of the task. Alternatively, instructors could provide students with a pre-made package of relevant digital articles via Dropbox or Google Drive, for example.
In its current form, there are two versions of Omeka:
www.omeka.org is free, downloadable software for users who want to run an independent Omeka website on their own servers.
www.omeka.net is the better choice for users who are new to Omeka. Through this service, you can easily build an Omeka website hosted for free on the Omeka.net servers.
Omeka.net also provides subscriptions for educational institutions with lots of users. The resources for this version range from a free trial plan that includes a single site, with limited themes and plugins through to the Platinum plan for institutions that includes 50 GB storage, Unlimited sites, 32 plugins and 11 themes. Prices vary depending on storage, number of sites, plugins and themes.
To prepare and implement this task or assessment, all an instructor needs to do is sign up for a free Omeka account from either of these two services and follow the prompts.
Students respond positively to the investigative and creative aspects of this task. The Dublin Core Metadata element set guides and encourages their research methodology by prompting them to consider the complexity of historical and/or cultural objects.
Students could also be tasked with writing a reflective or analytical essay on the process or metadata collection. Possible essay questions could include:
Describe the digital methodologies and processes used to locate and ascribe critical information to articles, such as date or creator?
What effect did tagging items with key terms have on the connections made between different digital articles?
How did you curate your Omeka site for enhanced user engagement and what kind of narrative did your online museum seek to tell?
The central challenge of this task is the structuring of complex digital information in order to produce a coherent narrative. By using a digital tool to create their own online museum, students are positioned to consider the ways in which metadata, digital curation, and historical and cultural analysis work together to tell engaging and informative stories.
Omeka.net www.omeka.net
Omeka.org (the full implementation of Omeka for setting up your own Omeka website on your own server) www.omeka.org
Tutorials for using Omeka.net http://info.omeka.net/help/
Omeka Gym (tutorials for Omeka users) https://omekagym.omeka.net/tutorials
The Roy Rosenzweig Centre for History and New Media (A premier institute for digital history and the creators of Omeka) https://rrchnm.org/
Directory of exemplar Omeka sites for inspiration and guidance http://omeka.org/classic/directory/
TROVE: a database for the sourcing of digital articles https://trove.nla.gov.au/
Europeana: a vast and evolving platform of Pan-European digital collections https://www.europeana.eu/portal/en
DIRT (Digital Research Tools) http://dirtdirectory.org/
Omeka Showcase site http://omeka.org/classic/showcase/
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In this episode, we explore the power of music in bringing everyday people together and solving issues around the world. We begin in South Korea to understand the impact of a global phenomenon such as the Gangnam Style and travel to Iraq to speak to the Conductor of the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq, Paul MacAlindin, whose new book, ‘Upbeat’, tells the story of the orchestra’s fascinating story – Listen below (And be sure to follow Diplomantiq to receive the free, monthly e-magazine).
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The universal idea of ‘sharing is caring’ also extends to the arts, where, in this case, music is a platform understood across languages and borders and is a powerful way to communicate and to engage with others and to share your story. the question is; how?
In 2012, a South Korean artist, Psy, released a song accompanied with an entertaining music video and a dance routine that created a viral, media storm both online and offline. The song took South Korean pop-culture, language, social dynamics into the homes, hearts & minds of millions of people around the world. Ultimately, playing a part in bringing the world closer to South Korea, and opening many avenues for growth in many sectors, including media, tourism, and trade.
Gangnam style is now (Nov. 2016) the most-watched video in YouTube history with over 2.6 Billion views. The song topped the music charts of over 30 countries, while its accompanying dance moves were becoming a craze – did you try them out as well? It’s ok, they were also attempted by numerous world leaders and the UN Secretary-General, who actually dubbed the song as a “force for world peace”.
Now, let’s think about that for a second… a pop-song, is a force for world peace?… Could it suggests that Korea had then a powerful new source of Soft Power in its diplomatic toolbox – and some of you are thinking well what does that mean; soft power? In short, it’s an approach to dealing with international relations – typically involving cultural or economic influence. Often also labeled as Cultural diplomacy, it is where ideas, information, art and other aspects of culture among nations and their peoples are exchanged in order to “build mutual understanding.”
And in this case, Psy managed to engage the global audiences and educate it on South Korean pop culture, humour, social issues, and even the South Korean language and thus, bringing South Korea into millions of people’s homes, hearts, and minds.
Now.. When you hear the word diplomacy what instantly comes to mind? You don’t often associate Singers or artists with diplomacy or playing the role of diplomats.
And that’s because, amongst many things, you may have said it is related to international affairs or politics. However before it is a profession, it is a skill that each of us possesses – A skill that we use when interacting with friends, family, colleagues and people in our everyday life.
We can also argue that – The more conscious we are of our own ability to be diplomatic in our daily life the greater our chances are in improving interactions with people through increased tactfulness and sensitivity while being aware of others circumstances and needs. Do you agree?
Another great example of a cultural diplomacy initiative playing a successful role in building bridges and solving social and international issues is that of the Youth Orchestra of Iraq… Founded in 2008 by, then a 17-year-old, Zuhal Sultan, a student and musician, living in Baghdad, who wanted to do something for her Iraqi peers.
‘This idea came into my head – Of course… A national Youth Orchestra of Iraq, why not!?’
but it wasn’t going to be an easy task, she had to overcome her mental blocks first, speaking to the Euphrates Institute she says:
‘I’m 17, I’m studying for my High School finals, I’m a girl, I have no money… How do I get this started? And I looked at the computer and said ‘Well, I have the internet, I can start from there’.’
She began searching for Iraqi musicians from all over the country and at the same time contacting music teachers from all over the world to join her in making this a reality. When the Orchestra was ready, they then faced many challenges from divisions inside Iraq and in the European countries they visited, who all had their own agendas that the orchestra had to maneuver through.
And, of course, given that the country was still occupied and in conflict, the media attention created an over-shadowing narrative that resulted in portraying Iraqis as mere statistics, collateral damage or victims of one form of atrocity or another. The reality is, each human has their own unique individual story, talents, skills and ambitions, these were and still are often negated from mainstream media reporting, and as a consequence remove the emotional, human connection we need to have and share with Iraq and Iraqis.
Conductor Paul Macalindin and the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq
Zuhal and the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq managed to successfully tackle this and bridge the communications gap between Iraqi people and international audience, and ultimately help pave a path for progress in this world. We caught up with the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq’s Conductor, Paul MacAlindon, and author of the book ‘Upbeat‘, to find out how they did it – Listen below:
There are many lessons to learn from this – Firstly, progress can be achieved by everyday citizens.
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The journey of the orchestra from 2008 to 2012 has created ripples that are being felt today with many avenues being opened in the Arts and Culture as a consequence of their work. Above all, it has played a significant part in giving hope and inspiration to a generation of Iraqis when everything seems out of their hands and not in their control. For us, now as witnesses, there are many lessons to learn from this – Firstly, progress can be achieved by everyday citizens.
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The NGS MAC and its Molecular Services LCD
Most is written about the MolDX molecular coverage program at CMS, and for several years, the Novitas contractor has had elaborate LCDs for both oncology and non oncology molecular tests.
Don't lose track of the fact that the NY/New England and Upper Midwest IL/MN/WI contractor "NGS" (originally standing for National Government Services) has produced its own elaborate molecular diagnostics LCD.
The LCD was released in draft form last fall. (Separately, the MAC has an LCD, effective April 1, 2016, for lung cancer genomic profiling, here, L36376. This attracts a lot of attention as this is the LCD for lung cancer genomic profiling in Massachusetts, where Foundation Medicine is located.) Details follow.
Original NGS MAC LCD for Molecular Testing
For historical purposes, the original 2015 draft LCD was still online at this website here. Since government websites change as LCDs move from draft to future-effective to final-effective, I have put a Word copy of the draft LCD in the cloud, here.
January-March 2016 Version
The LCD was in an effective version revised effective January 1, 2016, here.
April 2016 Future Effective Version
The most recent version is "Future Effective April 1, 2016" and is online here. A word version of the April 2016 future effective LCD is in the cloud, here.
Covered tests below the break, based on the "Future Effective" April 2016 version.
Special bonus: For readers who are overexcited by watching paint dry, and need to calm themselves down, I provide a redline of the October 2015 version to the April 2016 future effective version...in the cloud, here.
Note: Clippings below are from the FUTURE EFFECTIVE version for April 1, 2016.
TIER 1 AND TIER 2 INDICATIONS AND LIMITATIONS OF COVERAGE
TIER ONE:
CPT Code 81170
ABL1 (ABL proto-oncogene 1, non-receptor tyrosine kinase) (eg, acquired imatinib tyrosine kinase inhibitor resistance), gene analysis, variants in the kinase domain is considered medically necessary in patients with acute lymphoblasic leukemia (ALL) and chronic lymphoblastic leukemia (CLL) to guide therapeutic decision making.
CPT Codes 81206, 81207, and 81208
BCR/ABL is considered medically necessary in the evaluation of individuals with chronic myelogenous leukemia or BCR-ABL positive acute lymphoblastic leukemia to evaluate treated individuals who manifest suboptimal response to initial tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy or loss of response to tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy.
BRAF gene analysis is considered medically necessary for patients who have malignant melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer, or hairy cell leukemia when needed to determine if a Medicare covered therapy is a reasonable option given the individual's specific clinical presentation.
CPT Codes 81162, 81211, 81212, 81213, 81214, 81215, 81216, 81217
BRCA1 and BRCA2 genetic testing is considered medically necessary for a beneficiary with a personal history of a cancer associated with the BRCA mutation who meets one or more of the criteria found in the most recent version of the NCCN guidelines for Genetic/Familial High-Risk Assessment: Breast and Ovarian or other evidence based guideline addressing genetic testing.
CEBPA (CCAAT/enhancer binding protein [C/EBP], alpha) (eg, acute myeloid leukemia), full gene sequence is considered medically necessary in patients with Acute Myelogenous Leukemia (AML) to guide therapeutic decision making.
CALR (calreticulin) (eg, myeloproliferative disorders), gene analysis, common variants in exon 9 is not covered.
CYP2C6 19-cytochrome P450 CYP2C6 19-cytochrome P450
Based on the FDA’s Black Box warning for clopidogrel, the effectiveness of clopidogrel is dependent on its activation to an active metabolite by the cytochrome P450 (CYP) system, principally CYP2C19.
CYP2C619 genotyping may be medically necessary once per lifetime to identify individuals:
Who are poor metabolizers of clopidogrel, so that alternative treatment or treatment strategies can be considered.
Who are poor metabolizers of clopidogrel with acute coronary syndrome or who are undergoing percutaneous coronary intervention.
CYP2D6 (cytochrome P450, family 2, subfamily D polypeptide 6) (e.g., drug metabolism), gene analysis, is only considered medically necessary for individuals with Huntington’s disease for whom doses of tetrabenazine greater than 50 mg per day are being considered, and for testing prior to the initiation of CerdelgaTM (eliglustat) for Gaucher’s disease.
CPT Code 81227 Use only G9143 CYP2C9 and/or VKORC1 Gene Testing for Warfarin Response
Pharmacogenomic Testing for Warfarin Response, gene testing on CYP2C9 and/or VKORC1 see NCD 90.1 for coverage information.
EGFR (epidermal growth factor receptor) (eg, non-small cell lung cancer) gene analysis, common variants (eg, exon 19 LREA deletion, L858R, T790M, G719A, G719S, L861Q) [when specified as EGFR mutation analysis testing]
EGFR testing is considered medically necessary as a technique to predict treatment response for individuals with non-small cell, non-squamous cell lung cancer undergoing treatment with EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) therapy (for example, erlotinib [Tarceva® ], gefitinib [Iressa® ], or afatinib [Gilotrif® ]).
CPT Code 81240 and 81241
F2 gene (prothrombin coagulation factor II) and F5 gene (coagulation factor V)
The F2 and F5 genetic tests are not considered to be clinically efficacious; therefore, testing is not medically necessary.
CPT Codes 81245, 81246
The FLT3 is considered medically necessary in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to guide therapeutic decision making.
The HFE (hemochromatosis)(hereditary hemochrosis) gene analysis, common variants (e.g. C282Y, H63D) is considered medically necessary in patients with iron overload of uncertain etiology (e.g. when the test is used to avoid liver biopsy in someone when the ferritin and the transferrin saturation are elevated greater than 45%). The genotyping of patients with iron overload of uncertain etiology is allowed only once per lifetime.
CPT codes 81261-81264
The IGH@ (Immunoglobulin heavy chain locus) is considered medically necessary for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and lymphoma, B-cell to guide therapeutic decision making.
Chimerism analysis to identify appropriate donors and monitor engraftment success or disease reoccurrence is considered medically necessary.
CPT code 81265 includes donor and recipient testing and should be reported with one unit of service. Except in rare cases, this service would only be performed once per lifetime.
CPT code 81266 describes a service that may be used for two different reasons: additional births and bone marrow transplant. When used in bone marrow transplants to report an additional double-cord blood sample, it is a covered service. Since its use to report multiple births would be atypical for the Medicare population, it would not be a covered service.
CPT code 81267 is considered medically necessary in patients with diagnoses of leukemia and lymphomas and should be used post transplantation to confirm successful engraftment or disease reoccurrence. Although the original donor specimen may be referenced, an additional 81265 should not be submitted in addition to the 81267 service. For labs that hold the pre-transplant specimen (81265 and/or 81266) until after the transplant occurs, use 81267 plus 81265 and 81266 if necessary.
CPT code 81267 may be reported for the findings of the pre and post-transplant comparison.
CPT code 81268 may be used to report chimerism using a buccal or other germline tissue specimen from the recipient post-transplantation. For laboratories that hold the pre-transplant specimen (81265 and/or 81266) until after the transplant occurs, use 81267 plus 81265 and 81266 if necessary.
National Government Services would not expect to see a claim for 81265 pre-transplant and an additional 81265 and 81267 post-transplant or a claim for CPT codes 81265 pre-transplant and an additional claim for 81268.
Note: Although the initial chimerism testing, CPT code 81265, for engraftment is usually limited to once in a lifetime, National Government Services recognizes special circumstances may require an additional service and will consider approval on a case-by-case basis through the appeal process.
JAK2 genotyping is considered medically necessary in patients who have myeloproliferative disease (MDS), or for whom MDS is a strong consideration to guide therapeutic decision making.
CPT Code 81272 KIT (v-kit Hardy-Zuckerman 4 feline sarcoma viral oncogene homolog) (eg, gastrointestinal stromal tumor [GIST], acute myeloid leukemia, melanoma), gene analysis, targeted sequence analysis (eg, exons 8, 11, 13, 17, 18) is considered medically necessary in patients who have GIST, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) or melanoma to guide therapeutic decision making.
CPT Code 81273 KIT (v-kit Hardy-Zuckerman 4 feline sarcoma viral oncogene homolog) (eg, mastocytosis), gene analysis, D816 variant(s) is considered medically necessary in patients who have mastocytosis to guide therapeutic decision making.
KRAS gene analysis, variants in codons 12 and 13, is considered medically necessary in patients with colorectal cancer or non-small cell lung cancer when needed to determine if a Medicare covered therapy is a reasonable option given the individual's specific clinical presentation.
KRAS (Kirsten rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog) (e.g., carcinoma) gene analysis; additional variant(s) (e.g., codon 61, codon 146) is considered medically necessary in patients with colorectal cancer or non-small cell lung cancer when needed to determine if a Medicare covered therapy is a reasonable option given the individual's specific clinical presentation.
MGMT (O-6-methylguanine-DNA methyltransferase) (e.g., glioblastoma multiforme), methylation analysis) is considered medically necessary in patients with glioblastoma to guide therapeutic decision making.
Microsatellite instability analysis (e.g., hereditary non-polyposis colorectal cancer, Lynch syndrome) of markers for mismatch repair deficiency (e.g. BAT25, BAT26), includes comparison of neoplastic and normal tissue, if performed may be considered medically necessary in patients with colon cancer to guide therapeutic decision-making.
NPM1 (nucleophosmin) is considered medically necessary in patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) to guide therapeutic decision making.
NRAS (neuroblastoma RAS viral [v-ras] oncogene homolog) (e.g., colorectal carcinoma), gene analysis, variants in exon 2 (e.g., codons 12 and 13) and exon 3 (e.g., codon 61) is considered medically necessary in patients with colorectal cancer when needed to determine if a Medicare covered therapy is a reasonable option given the individual's specific clinical presentation.
PCA3 testing is considered medically necessary in patients ONLY when all biopsies in previous encounter(s) are negative for prostatic cancer, the subsequent prostate specific antigen (PSA) is rising, and when the patient or physician wants to avoid repeat biopsy (“watchful waiting”).
When the physician plans to biopsy the prostate, NGS will consider a PCA3 test as not medically necessary, and thus, not a covered Medicare benefit. NGS considers all other indications for PCA3 not reasonable and necessary.
Medical record documentation must indicate the rationale to perform a PCA3 assay.
PDGFRA (platelet-derived growth factor receptor, alpha polypeptide) (e.g., gastrointestinal stromal tumor [GIST]), gene analysis, targeted sequence analysis (eg, exons 12, 18) is considered medically necessary in patients with PDGFRA-associated chronic eosinophilic leukemia or GIST caused by mutations in the PDGFRA gene to guide therapeutic decision making.
CPT Codes 81370- 81383
HLA Class I or II typing is considered medically necessary when one of the following indications is met:
Transplantation:
Standard of care determination of HLA matching for solid organ transplant (donor/recipient). – Solid organ transplant registries include both serological HLA testing (e.g., crossmatch) and genomic molecular DNA typing. Family members, or unrelated living donors or cadaveric donors who donate bone marrow or a solid organ are HLA tested pre-transplant to determine compatibility with the potential recipients.
Standard of care identification of determination of HLA matching for hematopoietic stem cell/bone marrow transplantation -allele-level typing will provide clinical guidance for the HLA-A,B,C Class I and DRB1, DQB1,DPB1, and DQA1 Class II loci in the average transplant program because it is well established that mismatches at certain HLA loci between donor-recipients are closely linked to the risk of graft versus host disease. Potential marrow donors may enroll with a national registry such as the United States National Marrow Donor Program or the Canadian Blood Services registry.
Disease Association:
Standard of care testing to diagnose certain HLA related diseases/conditions when the testing is supported by the clinical literature and is informative for the direct management of a patient bearing a certain allele(s). It is not expected that more than one test would be required in a given beneficiary’s lifetime. Possible covered indications when standard laboratory testing (tissue typing) not adequate:
HLA-B*27 for the diagnosis of certain cases of symptomatic patients with presumed ankylosing spondylitis or related inflammatory disease. HLA-B*27 is covered for ankylosing spondylitis in cases where other methods of diagnosis would not be appropriate or have yielded inconclusive results (NCD 190.1).
In the work-up of certain patients with an unclear diagnosis of celiac disease and gluten hypersensitivity usually related to ambiguous standard laboratory results and/or inconsistent biopsy results (e.g., HLA-DQ2 by HLA-DQB1*02 and of DQ8 by HLA-DQB1*0302).
Pharmacogenetics:
Standard of care testing to diagnose certain HLA related drug hypersensitivity reactions when the testing is supported by the clinical literature and is informative for the direct management of a patient bearing a certain allele(s) associated to fatal skin drug reactions (Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis). It is not expected that more than one test would be required in a given beneficiary’s lifetime. Possible covered indications:
HLA –B*5701 when testing performed prior to the initiation of an abacavir-containing regime in the treatment of HIV Infection.
HLA-B*1502 when genotyping may be useful for risk stratification when the testing is performed prior to the initiation of carbamazepine therapy in the treatment of patients at high risk of having this allele. HLA-B*1502 occurs almost exclusively in patients with ancestry across broad areas of Asia, including South Asian Indians.
Identification of HLA compatible platelets for transfusion when standard typing is not adequate.
DEK/NUP214 (t(6;9)) (e.g., acute myeloid leukemia), translocation analysis, qualitative, and quantitative, is considered medical necessary for patients who have AML to guide therapeutic decision-making.
IGH@BCL2 (t(14:18)) (e.g., follicular lymphoma), translocation analysis; single breakpoint (e.g., major breakpoint region [MBR] or minor cluster region [mcr]), qualitative or quantitative is considered medical necessary for patients who have Non- Hodgkin’s Lymphoma to guide therapeutic decision-making.
CPT code 81404, and 81405
RET (ret-proto-oncogene) is considered medically necessary in patients with medullary CA of thyroid, multiple endocrine neoplasia, pheochromocytoma, and parathyroid tumors) to guide therapeutic decision making.
ATP7B is considered medically necessary in patients with symptoms of Wilson’s disease to guide therapeutic decision making.
ROS proto-oncogene 1, receptor tyrosine kinase, is considered medically necessary in patients with non-small cell lung cancer when needed to determine if a Medicare covered therapy is a reasonable option given the individuals specific clinical presentation.
MET proto-oncogene, receptor tyrosine kinase, is considered medically necessary in patients with non-small cell lung cancer when needed to determine if a Medicare covered therapy is a reasonable option given the individuals specific clinical presentation.
TIER 1 COVERED MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY PROCEDURES
Please refer to CPT/HCPCS Code section (Group 1) for specific tests.
Limited coverage may be provided for specific genes. Any Tier 2 genetic test, not listed, will require individual review.
81400 ACE
81400 F13B
81400 F5
81400 FGB
81400 Human Platelet Antigen ANTIGEN 1(HPA-1)
81400 Human Platelet Antigen ANTIGEN 15(HPA-15)
81400 Human Platelet Antigen ANTIGEN 6(HPA-6w)
81400 Human platelet antigen 9 genotyping (HPA-9w),
81400 SERPINE1 (PAI, PAI1, PAI-1, PLANH1)
81401 CCND1/IGH
81401 CYFB-MYH11
81401 DEK/NUP214 (t(6;9))
81401 E2A/PBX1
81401 EML4-ALK
81401 ETV6-RUNX1
81401 EWSR1/ERG
81401 EWSR1/FLI1
81401 EWSR1/WT1
81401 F11coagulation factor XI
81401 FIP1L1-PDGFR
81401 FOXO1/PAX3
81401 MUTYH (mutY homolog [E.coli])
81401 NPM/ALK
81401 PAX8/PPARG
81401 RUNX1/RUNX1T1
81401 TPMT (thiopurine S-methyltransferase)
81401 TYMS (thymidylate synthetase)
81403 F8 (coagulation factor VIII)
81403 VHL (von Hippel-Lindau tumor suppressor)
81404 CDKN2A (cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor 2A)
81404 PRSS1 (protease, serine, 1 [trypsin 1])
81405 MEN1 (multiple endocrine neoplasia I)
81406 ATP7B (ATPase, Cu++ transporting, beta polypeptide)
NON COVERED TESTS
TIER 2 NON-COVERED MOLECULAR PATHOLOGY PROCEDURES
The following Tier 2 individual genetic tests are also unlikely to impact therapeutic decision-making, directly impact treatment, outcome and/or clinical management in the care of the beneficiary and will be denied as not medically necessary (Please note that this list of non-covered genes is not exhaustive, and the fact that a specific Tier 2 gene is not mentioned does not mean it is covered. In addition, many genes have several names that are used. The most common names have been used in this policy):
81400 ABCC8
81400 ACADM
81400 AGTR1
81400 CCR5
81400 CLRN1
81400 DPYD
81400 DYT1 (TOR1A)
81400 FGFR3
81400 IVD
81400 SMN1
81400 TOR1A
81401 ADRB2
81401 APOE
81401 AR (androgen receptor)
81401 ATN1
81401 CFH/ARMS2
81401 CYP3A4
81401 DMPK (dystrophia myotonica-protein kinase)
81401 GALT (galactose-1-phosphate uridylyltransferase)
81401 H19
81401 HTT (huntingtin
81401 KCNQ10T1 (KCNQ1 overlapping transcript 1)
81401 MEG3/DLK1
81401 MLL/AFF
81401 MT-ATP6
81401 MT-ND4, MT-ND6
81401 MT-ND5 mitochondrially encoded tRNA leucine 1 [UUA/G] mitochondrially encoded NADH dehydrogenase 5)
81401 MT-RNR1 (mitochondrially encoded 12S RNA)
81401 MT-TK (mitochondrially encoded tRNA lysine)
81401 MT-TL1
81401 MT-TS1
81401 SEPT9 (Septin 9)
81401 SMN1/SMN2 (survival of motor neuron 1, telomeric/survival of motor neuron 2, centromeric)
81402 CYP21A2
81402 Chromosome 18q-
81402 MEFV (Mediterranean fever) (eg, familial Mediterranean fever)
81402 TRD
81402 Uniparental disomy (UPD)
81403 ANG (angiogenin, ribonuclease, RNase A family, 5)
81403 FGFR3 (fibroblast growth factor receptor 3) one exon
81403 GJB1 (gap junction protein, beta 1) (eg, Charcot-Marie-Tooth X-linked), full gene sequence
81403 HRAS (v-Ha-ras Harvey rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog Costello syndrome)
81403 IDH1
81403 IDH2 (isocitrate dehydrogenase 2)
81403 MT-TS1 (mitochondrially encoded tRNA serine 1)
81403 SMN1 (survival of motor neuron 1, telomeric)
81404 ACADS (acyl-CoA dehydrogenase)
81404 AQP2 (aquaporin 2 [collecting duct])
81404 ARX (aristaless related homeobox)
81404 BTD (biotinidase)
81404 CAV3 (caveolin 3) (eg, CAV3-related distal myopathy, limb-girdle muscular dystrophy type 1C), full gene sequence
81404 CLRN1 (clarin 1)
81404 CYP1B1 (cytochrome P450, family 1, subfamily B, polypeptide 1)
81404 DMPK (dystrophia myotonica-protein kinase (DM gene and DM1)
81404 EGR2 (early growth response 2) (eg, Charcot-Marie-Tooth)
81404 FGFR2 (fibroblast growth factor receptor 2) (2 EXONS)
81404 FKRP (Fukutin related protein)
81404 FOXG1 (forkhead box G1)
81404 FSHMD1A (facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1A)
81404 FSHMD1A (facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy 1A) (eg
81404 FXN (frataxin)
81404 HBA1/HBA2 (alpha globin 1 and alpha globin 2)
81404 HBB (hemoglobin, beta, beta-globin)
81404 HNF1B (HNF1 homeobox B)
81404 HRAS (v-Ha-ras Harvey rat sarcoma viral oncogene homolog)
81404 KCNJ10 (potassium inwardly-rectifying channel, subfamily J, member 10)
81404 SLC25A4 (solute carrier family 25 [mitochondrial carrier; adenine nucleotide translocation]
81404 TP53 (tumor protein 53
81404 VWF (von Willebrand factor)
81405 CASR (CAR, EIG8, extracellular calcium-sensing receptor, FHH, FIH, GPRC2A, HHC, HHC1, NSHPT, PCAR1)
81405 CYP21A2 (cytochrome P450, family 21, subfamily A, polypeptide2)
81405 MPZ (myelin protein zero)
81406 ACADVL (acyl-CoA dehydrogenase, very long chain)
81406 CBS (cystathionine-beta-synthase)
81406 CDKL5 (cyclin-dependent kinase-like 5)
81406 DLAT (dihydrolipoamide S-acetyltransferase)
81406 DLD (dihydrolipoamide dehydrogenase)
81406 HADHA (hydroxyacyl-CoA dehydrogenase/3-ketoacyl-CoA thiolase/enoyl-CoA hydratase [trifunctional protein] alpha subunit)
81406 HEXA (hexosaminidase A, alpha polypeptide)
81406 LMNA (lamin A/C)
81406 MUTYH (mutY homolog [E. coli])
81406 NF2 (neurofibromin 2 [merlin])
81406 NSD1 (nuclear receptor binding SET domain protein 1)
81406 PAH (phenylalanine hydroxylase)
81406 PAX2 (paired box 2)
81406 PDHA1 (pyruvate dehydrogenase [lipoamide] alpha1)
81406 POLG (polymerase [DNA directed], gamma)
81406 PRKAG2 (protein kinase, AMP-activated, gamma 2 non-catalytic subunit)
81406 PTPN11 (protein tyrosine phosphatase, non-receptor type 11)
81406 RET (ret-proto-oncogene) full gene sequence
81406 SLC9A6 (solute carrier family 9 [sodium/hydrogen exchanger] member 6)
81406 SOS1 (son of sevenless homolog 1)
81406 TAZ (tafazzin)
81406 TSC1 (tuberous sclerosis 1)
81406 UBE3A (ubiquitin protein ligase)
81407 Level 8 Molecular Pathology Procedures
81410-81440 Genomic Sequencing Procedures
81479 SLCO1B1-Statin Myopathy
81479 PIK3C, PI3Ks, PI(3)Ks, PI-3Ks
81479 AKT1
81479 MEK1
81479 VEGFR2 (CD309, FLK1, VEGFR)
81479 LPA intron 25 genotype
81479 KIF6
81479 SPG4
81479 C9orf72
81479 MLH1
81479 AIRE (APSI)
81479 SCA1
81479 SDA2
81479 HAX1 (HAX1_HUMAN, HCLS1- associated protein X-1, HCLSBP1, HS1-associating protein X-1, HS1 binding protein, HS1-binding protein 1, HS1BP1, HSP1BP-1)
NON-COVERED GENOMIC SEQUENCING PROCEDURES
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Lee Na Young's Biography
이나영 / Lee Na Young
Birth Place: Seoul, South Korea
Lee Na Young's Dramas & Movies:
A westernized Irish adoptee, Joong-Ah inevitably flies back to Korea to confront her past and to see the country she is really from, only to fall in love with her brother, Jae-Bok. Their love is painful, as they are never meant to be together as lovers, but merely as brother… [More]
All her life Jin Ji Ni has been running for her life as the anonymous and seemingly omnipresent Melchidech tracks her down. When she decides that she needs to attack rather than run away, she seeks the help of Private Investigator Ji Woo, a man who will solve any case… [More]
Status: Completed Released: 2010 Rating: 9/10 (3 Votes)
Bi-mong (Movie)
In the aftermath of a car crash, a man discovers his dreams are tied to a stranger's sleepwalking. [More]
Please Teach Me English (Movie)
Mun-su (Jang Hyuk) and Na Young-ju (Lee Na-young) are classmates in a private English class. Mun-su frequently chases women while working in his shoe shop. However, Young-ju has an unreciprocated interest in him. They eventually become friends, and frequently sit together in class. One day, Young-ju boasts about a pig… [More]
Status: Completed Released: 2003 Rating: 6.67/10 (3 Votes)
Cha Eun Ho is a genius writer and the youngest chief editor ever at his publishing company. He is smart and handsome. He is also even tempered at work, but he has a warm heart and a reasonable personality. Kang Da Ni used to be a popular copywriter, but she… [More]
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Additional Testing & Active Recovery
Nutrition Products- CCN
Personal Trainers Association- PROPTA
Coach Tony Falce and his Elite Skills Training staff has been a huge asset to our volleyball program. Strength training is such an important part of any athletic team’s success, and having a program like his available to my program has been invaluable. He has taken over strength training, and has allowed me to focus on coaching on the court. Tony has vast experience and knowledge in athletic strength training, and has provided a training program that has challenged the girls to do things that they have never done before. Tony and his staff take time to know the players, their individual strengths and weaknesses, and push them to improve during every training session. His genuine heart for what he does in evident in each session as well, and has been contagious to the team. I have seen the pride that each player has in what they have been able to accomplish under his guidance, and it keeps them coming back for more.
Chad Beeten
Head Basketball Coach Clark High School
It is my pleasure to recommend Tony Falce for training your Student Athlete. By every standard, Coach Tony is one of the most outstanding people I know. He is a wonderful example of hard work and he is a positive influence for those around him. I have known Coach Tony for over 20 years. His success in training is directly related to his hard work and dedication in getting young athletes ready for the next level. He has a tremendous drive within him and is motivated by challenges. Coach Tony is also supportive, friendly and trustworthy. In Coach, you will not only be training and learning from one of best in his field, but creating a relationship that will last for years.
Jim Hostler
Offensive Pass Game Coordinator Green Bay Packers
My son was an average high school football player. Big, but not too fast or particularly strong. I was introduced to Tony Falce by a mutual friend. He said Tony could help my son get faster and stronger. After working with Tony for just a little over 6 months he had already taken almost a half a second off his 40 yard dash time. In the following year he lowered it even more all the while putting on about 25 pounds of muscle. His lifting totals increased from 10 per cent to almost 50 per cent in certain lifts. His footwork increased so much, along with aforementioned gains, he was awarded a scholarship to play football at the University of Washington this fall. Without the work with Tony Falce none of this would have been possible. Tony thanks for all you have done for my son. Go Dawgs!
Mark Sosebee- Parent of Jesse “Boomer” Sosebee
As a former college volleyball player, club volleyball coach and parent of three highly competitive indoor college, high school, and club players as well as very successful sand players, I attribute much of my daughter’s successes to Tony Falce’s training. He has done for their athleticism what their volleyball coaches have done for their skills. As a direct result of his training they have developed explosive, powerful and dynamic games that have made them more productive on the court. After training with Tony, my college daughter led her team and conference in kills, total attacks, service aces and hitting percentage. She was also one of the top passers in the conference because she could get to the ball quickly due to her training. My high school daughter has consistently been one of the top 15’s club players all year long. She is a six rotation player that has the stamina and power needed for success in long tournaments. She is a dynamic jump server that can score off of her serve consistently. Tony has made a big difference in her sand game as well. She made the USA Volleyball High Performance Sand Team not only because of her skills but also because her athleticism translates well to the sand game. My middle school daughter is a setter. Her strength and stamina have improved greatly since working with Tony. He has worked directly with her entire team and has made a big difference in their strength, power and stamina. As a coach and parent, I would highly recommend Tony Falce’s training to improve a player’s athletic ability.
Jauna Falcone-Sanchez– Parent of Jordyn, Cami and Jaclyn Sanchez
Training with Tony Falce was possibly the best decision I have ever made in my sports life. His extensive knowledge on how to prepare an athlete for the next level of sports is absolutely astonishing. I automatically wanted Tony to help me train so I can go into college with an upper hand. Tony knows all there is to know about strengthening and conditioning. His strong desire for helping athletes become better and stronger is the main reason I return day after day. He has helped me increase my stamina, vertical, and speed all within a months training. Tony is a great leader with a big heart, and that is why I would and still do recommend him to any athlete that wants to become the best.
Amanda Chamberlin- University of North Texas (UNT’s first two-time AVCA All-Region selection and only player with 1,000 kills and 370 blocks).
I have been working with Tony for a year now, and I couldn’t be happier with the results and experience. Tony is extremely encouraging and pushes me to achieve the goals we have set. The workouts are customized based on the multiple sports I played in high school and the current sport I play in college. Tony is very personable and a well-rounded person and trainer. He has helped me build and strengthen my body so I will be able to compete to the best of my ability in D1 Power 5 Football. I would definitely recommend Tony; he is the best trainer around!
Danny Longman
Boston College K/P
tonyfalce@yahoo.com
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Fattening pigs in willow Research Centre Foulum
AU DK. Photo by Anne Grete Kongsted
Goats and Fraxinus, Portugal
Photo by Joana Amaral Paulo
Grazed orchard
Photo by Michael den Herder
Traditional meadow in Joensuu, Finland
Knepp Re-Wilding Project
New agroforestry climate project launched in Switzerland
Coop, one of the largest supermarket chains in Switzerland, has launched a new support programme for agroforestry as part of its voluntary climate protection activities in collaboration with the myclimate foundation and Bio Suisse.
Farmers are financially supported in setting up an agroforestry system. The focus is on wild fruit trees and trees for high value timber that have rarely been planted so far.
"Agroforestry was common in Switzerland over centuries and characterized the landscape in many places. It serves primarily for fruit production, which is nurtured this way alongside cattle-rearing, arable farming and vegetable production. Since the 1950s, however, the number of trees in agricultural areas has fallen dramatically", they claim.
In addition, the farms receive free advice and support from the consultancy organisation AGRIDEA.
Further information can be found here.
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Torsten Krause
University of Lund
Josephsonhuset Biskopsgatan 5
22362 Lund, Sweden
Biodiversity Conservation Ecosystem services Forests Sustainability Science
torsten.krause@lucsus.lu.se https://www.lucsus.lu.se/torsten-krause
Assistant professor/Associate senior lecturer in Sustainability Science at Lund University.
Torsten is an associate senior lecturer at the Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS), Sweden. He has a BSc in International Business Administration from the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt/Oder, Germany and the Ecole Superieure de Commerce in Montpellier, France; and a MSc in Environmental Studies and Sustainability Science from Lund University, Sweden.
From 2009 to 2013 he conducted his PhD research as part of the newly established research school LUCID. Torsten has extensive experience in conducting field work in Chile and the Ecuadorian Amazon on the social and environmental impacts of conservation projects.
Research focus:
Torstens current research covers hunting and defaunation in tropical forests, with a focus on the Colombian and Ecuadorian Amazon (financed by the Swedish Science Counsil - Vetenskapsrådet).
He is also involved in a EU FP7 project where he studies the governance of ecosystem services in a European context. Other research interests include agroforestry and the use of new agroforestry tree products and how these can support small-scale and local indigenous farmers in maintaining their agroforestry practices for a more sustainable forest management in Latin America.
A. Ruiz-Frau, T. Krause, N. Marbà. 2018. The use of sociocultural valuation in sustainable environmental management. Ecosystem Services 29(A), 158-167
T. Krause, B. Ness. 2017. Energizing agroforestry: Ilex guayusa as an additional commodity to diversify Amazonian agroforestry systems. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystems Services and Management 13(1), 191-203
S. Airey, T. Krause. 2017. “Georgetown ain’t got a tree. We got the trees” — Amerindian Power & Participation in Guyana’s Low Carbon Development Strategy. Forests 8(3),
W. A. Collen, T. Krause, L. Mundaca, K. Nicholas. 2016. Building local institutions for national conservation programs: lessons for developing Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD+) programs. Ecology and Society 21(2)
L. Stiem, T. Krause. 2016. Exploring the Impact of Social Norms and Perceptions on Women's Participation in Customary Forest and Land Governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo-Implications for REDD+. International Forestry Review 18(1), 110-122
L. Heinrich, T. Krause. 2016. Fishing in acid waters: A vulnerability assessment of the Norwegian fishing industry in the face of increasing ocean acidification. Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 13(4), 778–789
A-M. Vargas Falla, T. Krause. 2016. Utan stöd utifrån är den fred som var så nära plötsligt mycket långt borta igen. Sydsvenskan Debatt
J. Rode, E. Gomez-Baggethun, T. Krause. 2015. Motivation crowding by economic incentives in conservation policy: A review of the empirical evidence. Ecological Economics 117, 270-282
M. Hansen, M. Islar, T. Krause. 2015. The Politics of Natural Resource Enclosure in South Africa and Ecuador. Conservation and Society 13(3), 287-298
Krause, T. & Nielsen, T.D. 2014. The legitimacy of incentive-based conservation and a critical account of social safeguards. Environmental Science & Policy 41, 44-51.
Krause, T. & Lasse, L. 2013. Benefit Distribution and Equity in Ecuador’s Socio Bosque Program. Society & Natural Resources 26(10), 1170-1184.
Krause, T., Collen, W. & Nicholas, K.A. 2013. Evaluating safeguards in a conservation incentive programme: Participation, consent and benefit sharing in Indigenous communities of the Ecuadorian Amazon. Ecology and Society 18(4): 1.
Krause, T. & Zambonino, H. 2013. More than just trees – animal species diversity and participatory forest monitoring in the Ecuadorian Amazon. International Journal of Biodiversity Science, Ecosystem Services & Managament, 9(3), 225-238.
The politics of natural resource enclosure in South Africa and Ecuador
Exploring the impact of social norms and perceptions on women's participation in customary forest and land governance in the Democratic Republic of Congo— implications for REDD+
A recap from workshop on Forest Conservation, Agroforestry and Livelihoods
Reflections on participatory monitoring
Focali-SIANI policy brief on the key to successful partnerships with forest communities
Deforestation in the void behind the demobilization of the FARC - Research blog from the Amazon, Colombia
Agroforestry in the western Amazon – opportunities for new markets and threats from expanding natural resource extraction
Energizing agroforestry: Ilex guayusa as an additional commodity to diversify Amazonian agroforestry systems
Bottom-up but also top-down – why local institutions matter for REDD+
“Georgetown ain’t got a tree. We got the trees” - Amerindian Power & Participation in Guyana’s LCDS
Not seeing the forest for the trees: The oversight of defaunation in REDD+ and global forest governance
What future for primates? Conservation struggles in the forests of Cross River State, Nigeria
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First look as Donald Glover as Lando Calrissian…
So we did the photoshop image above when we heard that Community star Donald Glover was playing Lando Calrissian in the Han Solo movie.
And now we have the first image of Glover as Lando… complete with moustache!
On his final day of filming…
Yes, Glover has completed filming on the movie and Ron Howard has shared the image below.
How cool does Glover look?! But can he possibly live up to the work of Billy Dee Williams?
The untitled young Han Solo film hits theaters on May 25th, 2018 and stars Alden Ehrenreich (Hail Caesar!) as Han Solo, Donald Glover (Atlanta) as Lando Calrissian, Emilia Clarke (Game of Thrones), Woody Harrelson (True Detective) as Beckett, Phoebe Waller-Bridge (Fleabag), Thandie Newton (Westworld), and Joonas Suotamo (The Force Awakens) as Chewbacca. The film is directed by Ron Howard (A Beautiful Mind), with a script by Lawrence Kasdan (The Empire Strikes Back) and his son Jon Kasdan (The First Time).
Wildly impressive @donaldglover wrapped his work on #UntitledHanSoloMovie last night. We’re all gonna miss you Donald! pic.twitter.com/04uZIjG0DZ
— Ron Howard (@RealRonHoward) August 26, 2017
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Kindertotenwald – Franz Wright
by Sam Rowe
[Knopf; 2011]
Franz Wright’s new volume of prose poetry, Kindertotenwald, translates the Pulitzer prize-winner’s sensitivity for emotional distress and existential longing from verse into prose. Since it’s a Franz Wright book, it comes as no surprise that Kindertotenwald discovers and traverses new emotional spaces, new ways of naming desire, loneliness, guilt, and grief—from a poet with a long track-record of piercing, lucid insight into the human condition. We could hardly expect otherwise. Unfortunately, the relationship Wright establishes with the prose format feels less cogent—the collection contains poems that seem to “fit” beautifully in prose, but also others that seem to wander through it absent-mindedly. Kindertotenwald certainly constitutes a masterful expansion of Wright’s technical resources, it will certainly consolidate his already well-established renown as a discoverer of new affective resonances.
While it seems clear that Kindertotenwald successfully extends Wright’s track record of generating stark, sensitive revelations about our connections to others and to ourselves, it is less clear how well his sensitivity fares when transposed into the diffusive expansiveness of prose. In many poems, Wright deftly finds ways to channel his considerable powers through the freedoms (and constraints) of the prose medium, but at times, one can sense a certain discomfort in coming to terms with the realities of the format. In all fairness, prose poetry is an often enigmatic and maddening form, and while finally starting to make its way into the work of mainstream poets like Wright, it remains largely uncodified and underexplored. Furthermore, perhaps a certain difficulty inheres in the very structure of a form which, as its name manifests, is founded on a heterology: how can the delicate quality of verse, which poets have always insisted can be attributed very specifically to its formal qualities, be transposed to prose, a form seemingly designed to obscure its own status as form?
The texts I would identify as the masterpieces of the genre (including John Ashbery’s Three Poems and Vermont Notebook, Ron Silliman’s Ketjak, and Bob Perelman’s “An Autobiography”) all find ingenious and productive ways of integrating prosaic and poetic modes, whether by crafting essayistic narratives that are easy to follow at any single point but somehow never quite cohere in the way good prose is supposed to (a la Ashbery), embedding constellations of prosaic statements within intricate sculptural arrangements (a la Silliman), or distorting a preexistent prose form with unaccountably manneristic, dreamlike elements (a la Perelman).
Often, Wright is able to take advantage the unruliness of the prose format by harnessing its essential relentlessness, creating texts that slowly build to a roiling climax. “Litany”, for example, suspends a wide variety of material within a simple, driving repetitive structure, seeming increasingly to push at the constraints it has established for itself, only to close with a terse, paranoiac collapse back into form: “While we slept, no one held a gun to my head. While we slept, I hate my only friend.”
At other times, however, the fit between form and content is less comfortable, rendering the rhythm a bit choppy and the development a bit digressive. Perhaps the least successful pieces in the collection are those in which Wright’s biting sense of humor, by turns bitter and incredulous, jumps the rails and skids into a carnivalesque snarky-ness (think Ashbery without the technical precision and restraint) not necessarily becoming in a poet whose strength is spare lyricism (in “The Peyote Journal Breaks Off”: “So things do not appear to be headed in an especially auspicious direction [. . .] I switch on the TV with the idea of checking out the action on CNN. It’s not long before I discover that it is possible to weep from sheer astonishment and rage, I never knew that.”).
Often, though, we get the directed energy and sensitive control of imagistic palette that characterizes all of Wright’s best work, most notably in the lovely “Bees of Eleusis”: “The ingredients gathered, a few small red tufts of the dream spoor per sheaf of Demeter’s blonde wheat, reaped in mourning, in silence, ground up with the pollen and mixed into white wine and honey. These stored forms of light taken under the ground.”
The work in Kindertotenwald draws on a variety of sources, including literary biography and musical ekphrasis (with shout-outs to Basho, Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Saints Teresa and Bernadette, Kierkegaard, and Messiaen), history and politics (most notably in “One Hundred and First Reason to Stay into Your Room”, an odd but tidy little poem that modulates from a personal anecdote to a reflection on colonial history), and biblical and mythological material (the aforementioned “Bees of Eleusis”). The primary impetus for the collection, however, seems to be—obliquely or otherwise—autobiographical. Wright is at his best when meditating on work, youth, aging and family life.
Most particularly, Wright is endlessly captivated by the dynamics of the dysfunctional family, specifically his dysfunctional family: check out “Circle” and “The Last” for evocative portraits of, respectfully, Wright’s mother and his father (the equally prominent poet James Wright). The latter, while it lacks the effortless technical facility that Wright’s work can show at times, is gut-wrenching, brutally honest, and probably the highlight of the collection. The volume’s centerpiece—and the poem from which it draws its (gloomy) title—“The Scar’s Birthday Party” doesn’t seem to be about Wright’s own life, but is nevertheless wonderfully precise and humane in describing the suffocating family to which a successful young professional returns home: “For the time being, she is still sitting here, right next to Mother the fixed smiling glare and her husband the mumbled joke nobody gets, they appear to be sleeping, reclined in their chairs, all year long they’ve been sleeping, sleeping as snow fell, blowing all around the house, spring branches tapping at windows, each alone in their rooms [. . .]”
All reservations aside, Franz Wright fans who pick up Kindertotenwald are likely to find what they are looking for, and readers new to the poet’s work, though encouraged to check out earlier, masterful collections such as Walking to Martha’s Vineyard and Wheeling Motel, may also find much to hold their interest. More personally, I feel obligated to salute a truly mainstream poet for unconditionally embracing a difficult, inscrutable format which has long been primarily the domain of folks operating in the small-press world. Here’s hoping that Wright is not finished exploring the possibilities of the form. More specifically, here’s hoping that he continues to deploy his tremendous gifts as an affective autobiographer within the domain of the prose poem, a domain whose latent productivity lies in its inextricable fusion of truth and fiction, storytelling and poesis, life and beauty.
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Re: Ghosts/hauntings in around Fairfax County
Posted by: abelard ()
>There were no reenactments going on that day, and we didn't see her there.
I go to the battlefield pretty often and it's not unusual to see folks there in period dress - they work there. More than once I've ended up taking a leak next to soldiers in full dress, and not on reenactment days. They're usually in the vicinity of the visitor's center and the buildings nearby. Consider the possibility that it's just staff and you just don't remember seeing her.
>told us that he saw what looked like Civil War soldiers crossing over Rt.
> 29 very late at night (about 1am I think).
I've heard stories like this second hand a couple of times, especially from the area around the stone bridge - not sure what to make of them. It's possible that human suffering 'leaves an imprint' of some sort (oh so goes the theory) but I'd expect other places to absolutely glow with ghosts. I'm been to Dachau and Passchendaele, and as far as I know, neither is famous for ghosts. This even though you can fairly well feel the horror radiating from these places.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/10/2014 01:21PM by abelard.
Posted by: CSA 11B ()
Ghost on the Battlefield Wrote:
> Manassas Battlefield Ghosts Wrote:
> > We go up the Manassas Battlefield sometimes and
> > sometimes we hear the sounds of cannons and
> > muskets on the hills and trees. Some people
> tell
> > us that all we're hearing are the sounds from
> > however I can tell the difference. Plus we live
> > nearby (even closer to 66 and 29, and they
> aren't
> > the same sounds).
> > Some years ago, my brother - who was a
> sheriff's
> > deputy at the time, told us that he saw what
> > looked like Civil War soldiers crossing over
> Rt.
> > 29 very late at night (about 1am I think).
> Scary
> > place to be!
> My family and I were on vacation in DC and we went
> to the Manassas battlefield. We video taped there,
> and later that day we were watching the tape and
> we noticed the woman dressed in white walking
> along the fenceline. There were no reenactments
> going on that day, and we didn't see her there. If
> you look to the left of the house, you will see a
> small black fence with a marker that encloses the
> graves of Mrs. Henry, her daughter, and her son.
> The ghost is walking away from the graves to just
> an open field. We are convinced that this was a
> paranormal experience.
> You can watch the video here:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detail
> page&v=G27tgEiUE2o
I work there for the NPS, and one of my buddies there and I have heard some strange shit before sunrise inside the visitor center, which of course in stellar 1940s thinking was built on the exact scene of some brutal combat. Amongst other things sometimes the water faucets in the bathrooms turn themselves on, the lights will turn on and off. I just tell them to knock it off please because i have work to do, and strangely, it stops. I've also had some weird chills and sensations over near the Deep Cut section of the second manassas battlefield, another scene of brutal fighting with lots of hand to hand and artillery. I spoke to an old timer who used to live on a nearby farm back in the day and he spoke of seeing "haints" in the woods, where there yet remain unmarked graves, though most were found by the UDC and local farmers after the war. Some folks get offended when I remind them not to play sports games on the fields, I let them know the place is more of a cemetery then anything else. A 5300 acre battleground of lost soldiers and with the parts of unaccounted for.
Posted by: Manassas Battlefield Ghosts ()
Date: February 11, 2014 06:54AM
abelard Wrote:
> >told us that he saw what looked like Civil War
> soldiers crossing over Rt.
> I've heard stories like this second hand a couple
> of times, especially from the area around the
> stone bridge - not sure what to make of them.
> It's possible that human suffering 'leaves an
> imprint' of some sort (oh so goes the theory) but
> I'd expect other places to absolutely glow with
> ghosts. I'm been to Dachau and Passchendaele, and
> as far as I know, neither is famous for ghosts.
> This even though you can fairly well feel the
> horror radiating from these places.
When we were there last, I got the feeling that I was just on the "other side of the looking glass". That those gunshots we heard were just down the hill. We were on New York road over there where the Union's New York division was wiped out. In the picture with one of the two cannons on the hill, you can see a small road in the background. Just go down that road and you'll come to a creepy parking lot/turnaround where there are (2) Memorials for the New York units there. That's where we heard the shots being fired some weeks ago and the occassional cannon. You can also hear the traffic on 66 as well. There's alot of echo there because the unusal treelines and the terrain. Curiously, we did not hear anything on the hill that day.
Posted by: Haunted Stone House ()
I live in Manassas, VA right down the street from the Manassas Battlefield. I LOVE taking my dog out there for walks and ever since I moved to Virginia I've been intrigued with one house in particular on the battlefield. The old Mathew's Stone house is so mysterious. You can find some information about the place online, but in comparison to other records of history; the history of this house is not as well advertised all over the internet.
I'm still researching the home but here is some of what I found...
http://www.nvrha.com/sth2.htm
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"The Civil War brought devastation to the cluster of families living near the Stone House intersection. Most families suffered, with their crops destroyed, fences burned, or houses damaged. The Matthews at the Stone House found themselves in the thick of the fighting during the first battle. The battle began a third of a mile north of the Stone House where a brigade of Southerners, hurrying from Stone Bridge, met Union attackers advancing south on the Sudley-Manassas Road. From the shelter of the Stone House, retreating Southerners fired on the advancing Yankees until the 27th New York Infantry drove them from this cover, across the Warrenton Turnpike, and up Henry Hill. Wounded from the fighting sought shelter in the basement of the Stone House. Corporal William H. Merrell of the 27th New York Infantry joined them and observed, “the floor above was also covered with wounded soldiers, whose cries could be distinctly heard.” A makeshift red flag appeared on the building to mark the Stone House as a place of refuge and suffering. After the fighting ended, company A of the 28th Virginia Infantry arrived at the Stone House to find 100 weapons and “a large number of the wounded enemy, some dead, and thirty-six men, who surrendered themselves prisoners.” Among the prisoners were two Union medical officers, a surgeon and an assistant surgeon. Only the assistant surgeon was allowed to remain and care for the many sufferers as best he could. No evidence exists that any surgical operations took place inside the house. Two primary battlefield hospital sites were located nearby at Sudley Church and the Francis Lewis House, “Portici.”
During the Second Battle of Manassas, Union commander John Pope established his head-quarters on Buck Hill overlooking the Stone House. On August 30 most of the defeated Union army passed the Stone House on the Warrenton Turnpike in retreat toward Washington. Private George Edgcomb of the 23rd New York wrote that he entered the Stone House at this time to rescue a wounded comrade. The weight of the man proved too great a burden for Edgcomb to carry and he had to abandon the soldier along the road near Stone Bridge. At least two other wounded soldiers also occupied the Stone House that day. Privates Eugene P Geer and Charles E. Brehm of the 5th New York Infantry were wounded on August 30, 1862 in a futile attempt to halt General James Longstreet’s counterattack. Somehow the two men found their way to one small upstairs rooms at the Stone House. There, carved in the floorboards in the late summer of 1862, and still visible today, are the initials “E.P. Ge” and “Brehm Aug 30.” Charles Brehm recovered from his wounds and survived the war. Eugene Geer died of his wounds September 30, 1862, he was 17."
I'm really interested in history so this place just absolutely intrigues me... but there's more to it. My friend Devon and I were driving down the road one day. I looked up and saw a face in the top right window that faced out towards the street. The face was staring out the window right at me. I couldn't define the face as a man or woman. I got Devon's attention and told her to look at the house and tell me what she saw. She freaked out and said, "OMG there's a face... in that top right window." We wrote it off as possibly being someone who broke into the house to play a prank or possibly a homeless person.
I found out a few days later that a friend of ours had also seen something at the Stone House. When I spoke with him he said that a few weeks prior he had seen a face in a window. When I asked him what window he said that if you're looking at the house from the street it would be the top right window. Ok... a little creepy now, but still can be explained right?
The other night my friends and I had a bonfire at my friend Shanna's farm. We all got to talking about spooky happenings and this guy and his girlfriend that had showed up brought up the stone house. They said that occassionally when they pass by the stone house they'll see a face in the top right window. Sometimes it's clear like you'd see any person, but sometimes it's less visible and more of a cloudy appearance fogging the window in the shape of a face.
Ok... so now we have my interest really getting at me. I decided I want to research this place and find out what may be. It could be coincidence... it could be easily explained... but I'm all too curious. I love the battlefields. They're filled with so many stories and I have a deep respect for the soldiers that died on those fields. There have been lots of stories about ghosts inhabiting the fields and soldiers seen marching along the cobblestone bridge out here. There's been stories about the cannonfire which could honestly be mistaken by the gun fire that takes place over at Bull Run Park... still... when you hear the gun fire in the middle of the night that's a bit odd.
My friend Devon decided to look into this with me. I think it'll be a lot of fun. I feel like a kid again... off on my explorations... my adventures...
Here's my thought maybe.... Eugene Geer died of his wounds. I don't think he ever left the Stone House. He was too hurt. He may have died in that room where he carved his innitals. Could it be that maybe that room is the same room that looks out of that top right window? Could it be that he looked out the window from time to time longing for the help that never came? Who knows...
Like I said... I feel like a kid off on an adventure
Here's a picture of the stone house. It's the top right window I believe that you see in the picture that people tend to see the face in. There's a chimney on one side and can't remember what side it's on. I believe this is the side that faces the street that is now RT 29.
Posted by: NnUFt ()
Speaking of Ghosts and Ghost stories. I have a few.
I used to live in Germany in a town called Wildflecken. We lived in an attic apartment. You'd go to bed at night with everything in the house as it should be and find everything in a chaos the next morning. For example, shoes would be moved elsewhere and stuff would be broken. Cabinets and drawers in the kitchen would be wide open when you made sure before going to bed that they were closed. We had no animals at the time and had no way to explain why all the drawers and cabinets would be wide open in the mornings.
My mom kept telling my dad that she thought we seriously had a ghost in the house. Now mind you, my dad is the biggest skeptic I know. He's a "I wont believe that crap till I see it" kind of guy. He told my mom she was full of it and that there's no such thing as ghosts.
My mom grabbed me and took me to the nearest church that was open at the time. She prayed for a while thinking that was how she would get rid of whatever was in the house. When she was walking home she turned the corner into an alley shortcut back to the apartment. Right as she turned that corner an older lady had her head out the window and said to my mom something in German which translated into, "My child, No Evil." Strange, but eh ok.
Anyways... back to my Dad, the skeptic. He seriously though my mom had gone crazy. One night he woke up in the middle of the night to go to the bathroom. The lights are located on the outsides of the rooms instead of inside. Not sure if most places in Germany or like that or just the area we lived in at the time. Anyways, he was in the bathroom doing his thing and all of a sudden the light turned off and the door slammed shut. His first thought was that my mom was being annoying and playing a stupid prank on him. He finished up and when he opened up the door there was an old woman. She turned her face to him and then vanished. He ran to his room and hid under the covers and we moved out I think within the week.
Here's one more. I was at my Great-Uncle's memorial (funeral) that took place in a small church in the middle of a cemetary. When the memorial was over and we were walking out to our cars I saw a small boy that looked about 5ish playing in the cemetary. I looked around and didn't see any adults nearby. I didn't recognize him from the memorial. He looked at me, smiled and started to play peekaboo with me from behind a nearby tree. I seriously thought it was a real living kid honestly. He went and hid behind the tree again and when he didn't pop back out from behind the tree for peekaboo again I decided to investigate. It was a very short walk to the tree. I would have seen him if he had decided to leave. I got to the tree and there was no kid. It was the strangest thing I had ever witnessed. No real kid could have just vanished into thin air like that. You can't just lose a kid behind a tree. He would have had to make himself visible if he left to go anywhere... strange.
Posted by: pheobe ()
I was living in a townhouse in Chantilly and was always hearing strange noises. I kept telling my parents I thought there was a ghost in the house. They told me I was just freaking out too much and chill out. I woke started waking up and finding scratches on me. Every morning there were more. They weren't so bad at first, but then occasionally they would be bad enough that it drew blood. My step-mom started making sure my nails were always trimmed since they thought maybe I was just scratching myself in the middle of the night. That didn't stop them though. I continued to have scratches on me and started hearing voices talking to me at night. I was so scared of that particular place and was happy when we moved out.
Another encountered when I was at a friend's house. Her house was FREAKY. The tv volume would go up and down on it's own. The channels would change on their own. etc. I spent the night one night and decided I was going to hop into the shower. You know how the mirrors sometimes fog up? Well that happened. I got out of the shower and had the towel wrapped around me. I went to rub my hands on the mirror to wipe the fog away so I could see myself. Just then I saw a male figure walk by behind me as I was looking in the mirror. I turned around and there was no one there. Creepy?
Posted by: Mandi's Story ()
Found this story online...
http://www.ghostvillage.com/encounters/2010/05282010.shtml
This all started in May of 2009. My dad brought me to Washington DC, for the police memorial. I was studying the Civil War in history class and so before we left, we went to Manassas Battlefield (site of the famous battles of Bull Run). Anyone who has been there knows that there is a well-known field house there called the Stone House. Anyway, people aren't allowed into the field house, but you can look in the windows. So that is exactly what I did. When I looked into the window, I saw a man in all gray, pacing. I quickly stepped away from the window and walked back to my dad's car. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary for a while after that.
When I went to a summer camp in late June, I kept having weird dreams about the field house. On the last night I had a dream that I was back at the field house... but this time I was in the field house. I figured that it was directly after the first or second battle of Bull Run. There were Confederate soldiers with blood on them, some were missing limbs. No one paid attention to me, except for one soldier. He had brown eyes and light brown shaggy hair, he also had bloody a scar going across his face. He looked at me and said, "This is only the beginning." I assumed he was from Tennessee from his accent, he grabbed my shoulders and ran through me. I woke up in a cold sweat back at the summer camp. I sat up and read the clock, it said 3 am and everyone was asleep. I laid back down and let out a sigh, It was only a dream I thought. I looked around one more time to see if I had woken anyone up, and the same Confederate soldier that talked to me in my dream was standing next to my bed, looking at me! Before I could scream he put his hand over my mouth. I could smell the gun powder, and he shushed me and told me, "I won't hurt you." I blacked out after that. I didn't eat much that morning... everything smelled like gunpowder.
Not that long after I came home from the summer camp I had another dream. The Confederate soldier kept saying he wouldn't hurt me. He also confirmed that he was from Tennessee. In late July, my parents, two sisters, and I drove down to Florida. We were at a gas station in Tennessee early in the morning, I was walking around the perimeter of the gas station while everyone else was inside going to the bathroom. I was behind the gas station when I felt a rough hand grab my shoulder. I balled up my fist and spun around, trying to punch whoever grabbed my shoulder, but my hand went through air. The same Confederate soldier was smiling and laughing at my reaction. "What do you want?" I hissed at him. He laughed some more, and I couldn't help but smile for a second. He stopped laughing and said, "I want to welcome you to my home... and give you this." He handed me my phone charger, which, I realized, I had left still plugged into my wall, "Thank you." I said, and he laughed some more. My mom started calling my name, and he disappeared. Throughout my entire week in Florida, the soldier would show up and tell me stuff about the Civil War. When my dad, my friend (she and her family had joined us on the trip), and I went into the war museum, we stopped by the Civil War section. I felt a rough hand on my back and I could see a faint outline of the soldier pointing at some pictures and other artifacts from the Confederate army. He was talking, but I couldn't hear him. Finally he pointed to a Confederate uniform and I could lip-read what he said, "That was mine." I almost fainted. After I finally got my SD card back from the Walgreen's where I got my pictures from Washington DC, developed, I went through the pictures on my computer and came across a picture of the Stone House. It looked like a normal picture, except if you look by the fence in the bottom-right, there is a picture of a man crouching and maybe holding a riffle.
Posted by: battlefield visitor ()
First time I had visited Manassas. That was sixteen years ago. My relatives there took me to the Manassas national battlefield park. As I walked over the actual terrain of the battlefield, I felt something under my shoes that held me to step over the ground lightly. I realize that it was that of the fallen who tried to send their message to the living who crossed it. I looked around, nothing but solemn silence.
Posted by: ghost pics ()
Hello, Well my husband and I drove to the Manassas Battlefield to check it out last week. I took a bunch of photos because it was impressive, and for the hope to maybe catch something on film. I came home, looked at the pictures and at first glance nothing caught my eye. But this evening upon looking for the third time I saw something. We looked inside the Henry house that still stands there. It was locked so we just looked in the windows and took pictures from the outside. Look at the bottom two windows carefully. On the left, the lower middle pane you can see the faint image of a face, two eyes and nose defined. On the right, second pane from the bottom left you can see a face also. It almost appears to be a female face smiling.
AND COULD THIS BE A REAL GHOSTS FACE PEERING OUT ALSO? THIRD WINDOW PANE DOWN ABOVE THE BOYS HEAD? MANY OF OUR VISITORS THINK SO!
According to http://womenshistory.about.com/library/pic/bl_p_judith_henry_house.htm: "Judith Carter Henry, 84 or 85 years old and bedridden, refused to leave her upstairs bedroom as the First Battle of Bull Run was fought on the hill surrounding her home. Snipers used the house; Judith Henry was killed by a bullet meant for the snipers. She was the first civilian killed at First Bull Run, July 21, 1861." And according to further reading there was also a Union soldier killed inside the house.
Posted by: Peanuts ()
The two stone houses in the photos are two different stone houses. They are different sizes and have different colored doors.
And no, I don't see anything ghostly in those windows.
Posted by: chuckhoffmann ()
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Posted by: again debbie does dallas fan ()
a zombie in tatters was sighted by many early in the morning before sunrise, carrying a bag of justice denied
limping down a road many mc mansions were popping up
on the passing of thanksgiving day, 2013
Posted by: GhLCx ()
again debbie does dallas fan Wrote:
> a zombie in tatters was sighted by many early in
> the morning before sunrise, carrying a bag of
> justice denied
> limping down a road many mc mansions were popping
> up
> on the passing of thanksgiving day, 2013
Hi Svestle, your medication run out again?
There are stories of a ghost, maybe female, at the Stone House, though I haven't seen it while at work there for the last few years. I did get a really weird vibe down in the basement, which was packed with wounded and dying soldiers of both battles. Out its closed to the public, sorry. Longstreet's wing decimated the Yankees there by New York ave, above Youngs branch, sad. Them yanks really fought but got smashed by numbers. They were shot down en mass in three stream valley as they tried to run back to the Chinn farm and shelter. Be aware that there are shooting ranges within ear shot of the battlefield.
CSA 11B Wrote:
> There are stories of a ghost, maybe female, at the
> Stone House, though I haven't seen it while at
> work there for the last few years. I did get a
> really weird vibe down in the basement, which was
> packed with wounded and dying soldiers of both
> battles. Out its closed to the public, sorry.
> Longstreet's wing decimated the Yankees there by
> New York ave, above Youngs branch, sad. Them yanks
> really fought but got smashed by numbers. They
> were shot down en mass in three stream valley as
> they tried to run back to the Chinn farm and
> shelter. Be aware that there are shooting ranges
> within ear shot of the battlefield.
Yep, that's right where we heard the sounds. The shooting sounds were different that modern gun shots (I own and fire several different types of handguns and rifles). The weird thing is, they sound like they are in front of you facing in the direction of 66 but are only about 100 feet.
Posted by: ???? ()
> Be aware that there are shooting ranges
Where is there a shooting range near the battlefield?
Posted by: No shooting range ()
???? Wrote:
> CSA 11B Wrote:
> > Be aware that there are shooting ranges
> > within ear shot of the battlefield.
> Where is there a shooting range near the
> battlefield?
There's no shooting range anywhere near the Battlefield.
Posted by: GBW ()
No shooting range Wrote:
> ???? Wrote:
> > CSA 11B Wrote:
> > > Be aware that there are shooting ranges
> > > within ear shot of the battlefield.
> > Where is there a shooting range near the
> > battlefield?
> There's no shooting range anywhere near the
> Battlefield.
Could they be hearing the shotgun ranges at Bull Run? He did say "within ear shot". I live near Fair Lakes and can here them most Saturdays when the weather is good. I would guess it is about the same distance as the battlefield is from Bull Run.
Posted by: CSA11B ()
GBW Wrote:
> No shooting range Wrote:
> > ???? Wrote:
> > > CSA 11B Wrote:
> > > > Be aware that there are shooting ranges
> > > > within ear shot of the battlefield.
> > > Where is there a shooting range near the
> > > battlefield?
> > There's no shooting range anywhere near the
> > Battlefield.
> Could they be hearing the shotgun ranges at Bull
> Run? He did say "within ear shot". I live near
> Fair Lakes and can here them most Saturdays when
> the weather is good. I would guess it is about
> the same distance as the battlefield is from Bull
> Run.
Yup, that's it. I forget which club is also near enough to hear sometimes too. We sometimes hear charges set off at the quarry. Also, if you are there during the warm months, you could be hearing the infantry display our interpretive rangers do up on Henry Hill...our it could be the ghosts of some poor yank that got smoked up on that ridge. There was fiercer fighting in Groveton village too, with Confederate soldiers shooting yanks from the houses. The yanks were firing artillery towards Groveton from the middle of the road near where the Confederate cemetery is today, there was a very broad firefight along Groveton road and the ridge top, lots of casualties besides the NY boys...
Posted by: UyPmn ()
In the war between the states, the North and South met up twice in what is known as the battles of Bull Run. June 1861 and again in August 1862. Around 24,000 men died in those two conflicts. I think some of them still think it's still going on.
In April 1964 me and two of my friends went camping up on a wooded area of the park. My oldest sister owned a house not more then a 1/2 mile from the park. It was Easter break from school and we had four days of camping and hiking to do. She picked us up and took us back to her house. We told her about where we were headed and off we went. We went about a mile or so and found the spot we wanted for the night. It was up on a small rolling hill and had a wonderful view of the area.
We set up the tent and got the campfire going. After we cooked our food it started to rain so in the tent we headed. As a bunch of 12 year old boys would do we started talking about the girls at school and what ever else 12 year olds talked about. Not once did the subject of ghost come up. We all started to dose off when we heard what sounded like Jug band music. By this I mean someone blowing on a jug and playing a harmonica. I had never heard the tune they were playing but it was foot tapping. You could hear men talking and clapping along with the music.
We at first thought some other group of people had camped close to us. We got out of the tent and could see a campfire down the hill from us about 100 or so feet. There seem to be about 10 or more people that we could see around the campfire. They were glowing blue in color. That might have been from the flames of the fire. You could see what looked like rifles, some had crossed in their arms. As we were looking down the hill everything went dark. There was no campfire or music or people in blue.
I think we all felt fear at the same time. We started running as fast and hard as we could. We took nothing with us. We ran the wrong way hitting trees and each other and when we did get back to my sisters house we all were shaking in her hallway next to her bedroom.
After the sun came up we went to get our stuff. We decided to go down the hill to see about the campfire and people we had seen just hours before. The underbrush was too much to have had a camp there and we could not find any traces of a campfire.
We stayed at my sisters house the rest of the time, and went hiking only. No more camping for that trip.
I had never been so frightened in my life, but could not have asked for a better camping trip. What an adventure that was.
I have not seen my friends in twenty or more years as we all went different ways and I no longer live in Virginia but the last time I saw one of them was around 1986, the camping trip was brought up and relived once again.
I still wonder if they were Northern or Southern troops and if they were reliving a happy night before their last battle.
Whatever it was, it sure got me thinking about ghosts and wanting to find out more.
Posted by: white orchids ()
My life is that of a Buddhist nun, sometimes called an ani. I live near the Manassas Battlefields in Virginia, and I've frequently gone there to pray for the lives that were lost so tragically. The battlefields cover many miles, and some of the bloodiest battles of the US Civil War were fought in that area. Many Buddhists believe that praying for the dead can help them, especially if they died in confusion or misery. I wanted to help anyone trapped there if I could.
A couple of years ago I went to the battlefields as usual and did my prayers. This time I chose a new site, the location of a mass grave of unknown Union and Confederate soldiers. I thought how horrible it was that these young people died and were buried, without their families ever knowing conclusively what happened.
When I returned home that day, my television set turned itself on and off, twice. It has never done that before, or since. I prayed again, and asked forgiveness from any spirit I may have brought home with me.
I haven't been back there since. I've always heard that the intent of the prayers is what matters, not the faith. But I think maybe I offended a spirit out there, because when my tv turned itself on and off, I felt my hair stand on end and an awful feeling in my stomach.
Posted by: front royal ghost? ()
When my husband and I purchased a house on Washington Avenue in Front Royal our plan was to fix it up and rent it. My two girls were little at the time and both refused to go in this house. It scared them. I was in there one day cleaning upstairs and had a tremendous sense of someone wanting to push me down the steep stairs. I turned around and said aloud don't even think about it. I found out later a man had hanged himself upstairs in the attic.
Posted by: tyler civil war ghosts ()
UyPmn Wrote:
> In the war between the states, the North and South
> met up twice in what is known as the battles of
> Bull Run. June 1861 and again in August 1862.
> Around 24,000 men died in those two conflicts. I
> think some of them still think it's still going
> on.
> In April 1964 me and two of my friends went
> camping up on a wooded area of the park. My oldest
> sister owned a house not more then a 1/2 mile from
> the park. It was Easter break from school and we
> had four days of camping and hiking to do. She
> picked us up and took us back to her house. We
> told her about where we were headed and off we
> went. We went about a mile or so and found the
> spot we wanted for the night. It was up on a small
> rolling hill and had a wonderful view of the area.
> We set up the tent and got the campfire going.
> After we cooked our food it started to rain so in
> the tent we headed. As a bunch of 12 year old boys
> would do we started talking about the girls at
> school and what ever else 12 year olds talked
> about. Not once did the subject of ghost come up.
> We all started to dose off when we heard what
> sounded like Jug band music. By this I mean
> someone blowing on a jug and playing a harmonica.
> I had never heard the tune they were playing but
> it was foot tapping. You could hear men talking
> and clapping along with the music.
> We at first thought some other group of people had
> camped close to us. We got out of the tent and
> could see a campfire down the hill from us about
> 100 or so feet. There seem to be about 10 or more
> people that we could see around the campfire. They
> were glowing blue in color. That might have been
> from the flames of the fire. You could see what
> looked like rifles, some had crossed in their
> arms. As we were looking down the hill everything
> went dark. There was no campfire or music or
> people in blue.
> I think we all felt fear at the same time. We
> started running as fast and hard as we could. We
> took nothing with us. We ran the wrong way hitting
> trees and each other and when we did get back to
> my sisters house we all were shaking in her
> hallway next to her bedroom.
> After the sun came up we went to get our stuff. We
> decided to go down the hill to see about the
> campfire and people we had seen just hours before.
> The underbrush was too much to have had a camp
> there and we could not find any traces of a
> campfire.
> We stayed at my sisters house the rest of the
> time, and went hiking only. No more camping for
> that trip.
> I had never been so frightened in my life, but
> could not have asked for a better camping trip.
> What an adventure that was.
> I have not seen my friends in twenty or more years
> as we all went different ways and I no longer live
> in Virginia but the last time I saw one of them
> was around 1986, the camping trip was brought up
> and relived once again.
> I still wonder if they were Northern or Southern
> troops and if they were reliving a happy night
> before their last battle.
> Whatever it was, it sure got me thinking about
> ghosts and wanting to find out more.
Well one night my uncle, a friend, and I went riding. We went down the old Civil War battlefield.
We parked down by the trail to the bridge and cut the truck off. The electric mirrors started turning,
no one was touching the switch. Then when they stopped we saw two red eyes in the woods. We got out and
nothing. Ran off and there was nothing there but there was a cross hanging in a tree.
We started to walk down the trail. You could hear people talking and people walking . Then we could
see a shadow walking on the bridge; we turned around to go home and we all could feel someone pushing
us. When we got in the truck we could see yellow light moving around in the woods then just went out
so we left.
Olde Town Inn Hotel- they say there is a ghost named Miss Lucy who haunts rooms # 50 to 54. It is said that she sometimes holds people a few inches in the air over their bed, moves things in the room, turns on water faucets or turns off lights. They say s
Posted by: Olde Town Inn Hotel ()
At the Olde Town Inn Hotel in manassas they say there is a ghost named Miss Lucy who haunts rooms # 50 to 54. It is said that she sometimes holds people a few inches in the air over their bed, moves things in the room, turns on water faucets or turns off lights. They say she loves to play pranks on whomever sleeps in one of those rooms. Before the place had its reputation for being haunted my kids and i stayed in room 54 ..the only thing that happened to us was the lights kept going off and on periodically, and the kids ( they were all under 5 at the time).. would say they saw someone briefly and then the 'someone ' disappeared...also you got this strange feeling that you were being watched.)
Whether that was Miss Lucy or not i have no clue....but it was kinda cool staying there...lol.
Manassas Battlefield Unfinished Railroad - Ghosts?
Posted by: does anyone know? ()
During the Civil war Robert E. Lee ordered the construction of a railroad that he could use more efficiently to transport supplies to Bull Run for his army. The workers were massacred and the railroad was never finished. They say that people have heard strange noises including banshee yells, and sometimes just murmurs. Voices have been heard in the woods bordering the paths, too.
Has anyone else heard these stories or gone out there?
Posted by: Ghost man in VA hospital ()
So I work in a nursing home, and due to HIPAA regulations, I will not include names or my location. We have a "ghost" man that is seen during periods of death. What I mean by periods of death is usually we have residents die in sets of 3, 6, 9, and occasionally 12. It's unfortunate and scary, but when our resident "angel of death" that we refer to as "the man in the brown suit" is seen, I can't help but get an extremely uneasy feeling.
Sometimes he is seen by the person whom passes, but usually he is seen by persons whom do not. He is always described as a male, with white hair, wearing a brown suit, hat, and tie. The residents that see him are very frightened.
Normally, he simply passes by their room and looks at them. Occasionally, it has been reported he comes out of the closet, or through the wall, or simply been sitting in a chair in their room. Once, he asked a resident what the time was. Another time a blind woman described him in detail. I would not have believed it, had I not already heard the stories.
He is seen during all hours of the day, but more often at night; however, every time he is reported as being seen, someone passes away. Nurses and CNA's have seen him as well, like walk into a room, but then he is gone when they investigate. I personally have seen a shadow in the corner of my eye, but it disappears when I turn to look. For that I am thankful because I do not want to see him... I would probably quit.
I just wonder who he is and what he wants? It's creepy. Could he really be taking people to the other side? I'm not sure if it is him or not, but sometimes call lights will go off by themselves and once a bed started raising while I was changing a resident without me pushing the button. Perhaps it is more than one ghost.
Posted by: YikesFC ()
This just happened last week, although we've suspected we have some spirits around for the past few years. A few nights back, I was rocking our baby before bed. All of a sudden I heard the baby's name repeated three times in a whisper. I thought perhaps it was my husband talking over the monitor, but when I walked out, he was on the main level of the house and our monitor was in our bedroom. I hadn't mentioned anything to him and ran upstairs to grab the monitor. When I came back down, I told him I thought he'd had the monitor this whole time. About 15 minutes later, he took a peek in the monitor and saw something in the crib with our baby. The baby was holding some solid item. He went upstairs and there was a toothbrush in her hand! We weren't exactly worried, because it wasn't like a toothbrush is particularly harmful unlike maybe a blanket or some other strangle-prone object. When he came back downstairs, I told him what I had heard earlier.
Throughout the whole night, the baby would wake up crying. The only thing the baby wanted was out of the crib (very unusual). At one point, I asked my grandma, who passed on 10 years ago, to watch over the baby. At that moment, the baby stopped crying and slept through the night. In the morning, I went upstairs and told whatever it was that it was welcome to stay with us, but it had to leave the baby alone. We haven't had an issue the past few days.
It's not really scary, but it is very weird. I've always felt my grandma's presence with me, so I feel we are all safe and she wouldn't let anyone/anything harm us. But, it's still unsettling.
Posted by: CEYdk ()
Ghost man in VA hospital Wrote:
> So I work in a nursing home, and due to HIPAA
> regulations, I will not include names or my
> location. We have a "ghost" man that is seen
> during periods of death. What I mean by periods of
> death is usually we have residents die in sets of
> 3, 6, 9, and occasionally 12. It's unfortunate and
> scary, but when our resident "angel of death" that
> we refer to as "the man in the brown suit" is
> seen, I can't help but get an extremely uneasy
> feeling.
> Sometimes he is seen by the person whom passes,
> but usually he is seen by persons whom do not. He
> is always described as a male, with white hair,
> wearing a brown suit, hat, and tie. The residents
> that see him are very frightened.
> Normally, he simply passes by their room and looks
> at them. Occasionally, it has been reported he
> comes out of the closet, or through the wall, or
> simply been sitting in a chair in their room.
> Once, he asked a resident what the time was.
> Another time a blind woman described him in
> detail. I would not have believed it, had I not
> already heard the stories.
> He is seen during all hours of the day, but more
> often at night; however, every time he is reported
> as being seen, someone passes away. Nurses and
> CNA's have seen him as well, like walk into a
> room, but then he is gone when they investigate. I
> personally have seen a shadow in the corner of my
> eye, but it disappears when I turn to look. For
> that I am thankful because I do not want to see
> him... I would probably quit.
> I just wonder who he is and what he wants? It's
> creepy. Could he really be taking people to the
> other side? I'm not sure if it is him or not, but
> sometimes call lights will go off by themselves
> and once a bed started raising while I was
> changing a resident without me pushing the button.
> Perhaps it is more than one ghost.
I don't know if this is related, but your story sounded a bit familiar to me. And then I recalled both of my older sisters (both retired RNs) had told me similar stories about the hospitals where they had worked. The one (they're twins so it can get confusing) had worked in a VA hospital, and she said many claimed to see a 'visitor' at odd hours, right before someone passed. The other had worked at a Catholic hospital, and there it was an old nun in full habit that would pass through. Could these be angels of death? I don't think anyone knows for certain. But, in a strange way, is not the thought comforting? If someone comes for us, when we pass, then no one ever really dies alone. We tend to think of death as something to be feared and fought against. But what about when the pain and quality of life outweigh what joy a body has? Would death not be welcomed then? And perhaps, they only come for those who are ready to go. Who knows?
Re: Manassas Battlefield Unfinished Railroad - Ghosts?
Sorry but that story its nothing but a story, regarding the unfinished RR, if y'all want I can fill ya in on the real story...
CSA11B Wrote:
> Sorry but that story its nothing but a story,
> regarding the unfinished RR, if y'all want I can
> fill ya in on the real story...
Sure, I'd love to hear it. The floor is yours...!
Posted by: kev ()
Cool story. Wonder if workers at other nursing homes have similar experiences. Are you sure your not trying to find patterns (when you talk about people dying in sets)?
kev Wrote:
> Cool story. Wonder if workers at other nursing
> homes have similar experiences. Are you sure your
> not trying to find patterns (when you talk about
> people dying in sets)?
Realistically, I think the "death comes in threes" thing might be a matter of perception. (Though, ironically, I argued the other side of this question just a couple of days ago.) In other words, whenever two bad things happen close together we wait for a third. Then, when something does eventually happen, we connect it.
I say this because I was remembering several years ago when three very similar actors died, as I recalled, one right after the other. I went back to check my memory before posting about it. Bob Denver (who played Gilligan) died 10/02/05 and Don Adams (Maxwell Smart) died 10/25/05. Don Knotts (Barney Fife), though, didn't die until five months later on 2/24/06. So is that connected or just a coincidence?
A friend of mine has worked there for eleven years, and heard about him when she started, so I'm not sure. The facility is around thirty-five years old. I don't think the people who see him know a death follows his appearance; they are just frightened. I want to clarify though: residents do not always report his appearance before someone passes away; however, any time he is reported being seen, a death follows very shortly after. (Usually within hours.) Thank you for your questions! I would like to know what is going on!
Posted by: bT9e3 ()
This reminds me of what the pastor at my great uncle's funeral said.
He said that my great uncle had been sickly, obviously so during services, and had been slowly getting better. The pastor had thought to go over to his house and try to cheer him up a bit as being sick will bring anyone down.
While there, my great uncle asked the pastor to go get them a cup of iced tea each. When the pastor got back to the room with the drinks, my uncle looked right at him and said, "Isn't she pretty?"
When the pastor asked who he was talking about as he could only see my great uncle and himself in the room, my great uncle looked at him and said, "The angel that's come to take me home."
The pastor said right after saying that, my uncle fell out of his chair already deceased.
Posted by: Valkyrie ()
> Ghost man in VA hospital Wrote:
> > So I work in a nursing home, and due to HIPAA
> > regulations, I will not include names or my
> > location. We have a "ghost" man that is seen
> > during periods of death. What I mean by periods
> > death is usually we have residents die in sets
> > 3, 6, 9, and occasionally 12. It's unfortunate
> > scary, but when our resident "angel of death"
> > we refer to as "the man in the brown suit" is
> > seen, I can't help but get an extremely uneasy
> > feeling.
> > Sometimes he is seen by the person whom passes,
> > but usually he is seen by persons whom do not.
> > is always described as a male, with white hair,
> > wearing a brown suit, hat, and tie. The
> residents
> > that see him are very frightened.
> > Normally, he simply passes by their room and
> looks
> > at them. Occasionally, it has been reported he
> > comes out of the closet, or through the wall,
> > simply been sitting in a chair in their room.
> > Once, he asked a resident what the time was.
> > Another time a blind woman described him in
> > detail. I would not have believed it, had I not
> > already heard the stories.
> > He is seen during all hours of the day, but
> > often at night; however, every time he is
> reported
> > as being seen, someone passes away. Nurses and
> > CNA's have seen him as well, like walk into a
> > room, but then he is gone when they investigate.
> > personally have seen a shadow in the corner of
> my
> > eye, but it disappears when I turn to look. For
> > that I am thankful because I do not want to see
> > him... I would probably quit.
> > I just wonder who he is and what he wants? It's
> > creepy. Could he really be taking people to the
> > other side? I'm not sure if it is him or not,
> but
> > sometimes call lights will go off by themselves
> > and once a bed started raising while I was
> > changing a resident without me pushing the
> button.
> > Perhaps it is more than one ghost.
It isn't just nursing homes. Death/tragedy always seems to come in sets of three. Some people claim that 3 is a mystic number.
does anyone know? Wrote:
> CSA11B Wrote:
> > Sorry but that story its nothing but a story,
> > regarding the unfinished RR, if y'all want I
> can
> > fill ya in on the real story...
> Sure, I'd love to hear it. The floor is yours...!
Disclaimer, I don't work in interpretation and more info can be found on the parks site...
The remains of the railroad bed that pass through the battlefield are pat of a track that was being laid through the 1850s by a group of investors who wants a more direct route to get cross to market without having to pay the existing railroads fees. I believe it was to go from Culpepper or somewhere (I forget) to Alexandria's port. But they ran out of money just before the war started, never laying ant track on the bed. There are many cuts and fills as well as culverts and bridge abutments still remaining.
> does anyone know? Wrote:
> > CSA11B Wrote:
> > > Sorry but that story its nothing but a story,
> > > regarding the unfinished RR, if y'all want I
> > can
> > > fill ya in on the real story...
> > Sure, I'd love to hear it. The floor is
> yours...!
> Disclaimer, I don't work in interpretation and
> more info can be found on the parks site...
> The remains of the railroad bed that pass through
> the battlefield are pat of a track that was being
> laid through the 1850s by a group of investors who
> wants a more direct route to get cross to market
> without having to pay the existing railroads fees.
> I believe it was to go from Culpepper or somewhere
> (I forget) to Alexandria's port. But they ran out
> of money just before the war started, never laying
> ant track on the bed. There are many cuts and
> fills as well as culverts and bridge abutments
> still remaining.
Pt.2
So as far as the unfinished railroad is concerned within the park boundary, General Jackson used its cuts and fills as a ready made fortification when he his his soldiers behind it. He engaged passing Yankee troops at the Brawner farm and the battle lasted three days, with very fierce combat between the armies along the railroad grade. Hoo visit the Second Manassas battlefield and hike the unfinished railroad, its a haunting place where thousands were wounded and killed in brutal combat.
Sorry all for the word butchery, my phone is possessed!
Posted by: Not me ()
The woods on Braddock road near union mill. Haunted for many years. Even the homeless will not camp in them.
Posted by: History Buff ()
> > does anyone know? Wrote:
> > > CSA11B Wrote:
> > > > Sorry but that story its nothing but a
> story,
> > > > regarding the unfinished RR, if y'all want
> > > can
> > > > fill ya in on the real story...
> > > Sure, I'd love to hear it. The floor is
> > yours...!
> > Disclaimer, I don't work in interpretation and
> > more info can be found on the parks site...
> > The remains of the railroad bed that pass
> through
> > the battlefield are pat of a track that was
> being
> > laid through the 1850s by a group of investors
> who
> > wants a more direct route to get cross to
> market
> > without having to pay the existing railroads
> fees.
> > I believe it was to go from Culpepper or
> somewhere
> > (I forget) to Alexandria's port. But they ran
> out
> > of money just before the war started, never
> laying
> > ant track on the bed. There are many cuts and
> > fills as well as culverts and bridge abutments
> > still remaining.
> Pt.2
> So as far as the unfinished railroad is concerned
> within the park boundary, General Jackson used its
> cuts and fills as a ready made fortification when
> he his his soldiers behind it. He engaged passing
> Yankee troops at the Brawner farm and the battle
> lasted three days, with very fierce combat
> between the armies along the railroad grade. Hoo
> visit the Second Manassas battlefield and hike the
> unfinished railroad, its a haunting place where
> thousands were wounded and killed in brutal
> combat.
Very Interesting, I didn't know that!
Not me Wrote:
> The woods on Braddock road near union mill.
> Haunted for many years. Even the homeless will not
> camp in them.
Not surprising, I did some research and found this:
http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2003/jan/29/when-union-mills-stood-prominent/
In 1861, Union Mill Road was a dirt wagon track used primarily by local farmers. It ran south from Braddock road, and after meandering through the countryside on the east side of Little Rocky Run for nearly four miles, it crossed the Orange and Alexandria railroad tracks.
#Situated next to the road and tracks was Union Mills Station, one of the original stops on the railroad line. Located near Popes Head Creek close to its confluence with Bull Run, Union Mills was, along with Sangster, Fairfax and Burke, among the first stations opened when the Orange and Alexandria Railroad began operation in the early 1850s. This far-reaching new form of transportation technology helped expand the markets for the region's farm products and drastically reduced transportation and travel costs. The railroad brought increased prosperity and improved the quality of life for the people in Northern Virginia even though train wrecks at the unheard of speed of 25 miles per hour rapidly became a major cause of accidental death.
#When the Civil War began, the railroad was suddenly transformed from being a benign mover of civilian freight and passengers into a military implement of war. Almost overnight, its benefits changed into hardships for those who lived near the tracks. Union Mills was no longer a quiet country station; it became a place with a high degree of military significance. It was so important that U.S. President Abraham Lincoln and Confederate President Jefferson Davis knew all about Union Mills. Generals such as Joseph E. Johnston, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson, John Pope, George Meade and thousands of the soldiers who served with them also became familiar with the location. During the first year of the war, the Confederates made the Union Mills area part of the defense line that ran from Centreville to Manassas Junction. After the Confederates departed in early 1862, Federal troops were stationed at Union Mills to protect the Bull Run railroad bridge (destroyed and rebuilt seven times during the war) and they expanded the fortifications and constructed a number of new ones. As the armies marched and countermarched along the railroad line, the defenses were further modified as they changed hands.
#As the war got underway, it became clear to President Lincoln and his advisors that it was going to be impossible to guard long stretches of track against attack by Confederate raiders. If the rail lines could not be protected from damage, they would have to be repaired and returned to service in the shortest time possible. In April 1862, Herman Haupt, a railroad construction genius who had a reputation for getting things done, was called to Washington by the Lincoln administration and asked to fix the vexing problem. Haupt was appointed to the position of Chief of Construction and Transportation of the newly established U.S. Military Railroad (USMR), an organization responsible for all railroad operations on captured Confederate tracks.
#As Haupt went to work, it was at places such as Union Mills that his highly organized and specialized repair crews honed their skills as they struggled to keep the Orange and Alexandria line functioning. The rapid repair procedures Haupt developed to replace bridges, track and just about everything else involved in keeping a railroad operating allowed the USMR to keep vital rail supply lines functioning.
#The USMR established a base of operations at Union Mills. It was a facility to service equipment and store replacement parts for railroad rolling stock, water tanks, prefabricated bridges, ties and rails. The knowledge USMR crews gained in Northern Virginia proved to be an invaluable logistical asset to Lincoln's war effort. As new techniques were developed and tested, the information was passed along to the other locations where the USMR operated trains. During the later years of the war, Gen. Sherman's Union army drove into Georgia utilizing a sophisticated rail supply network that could be repaired almost as fast as Rebel raiders could wreck it.
#Down the tracks west of Union Mills, the Union army established a massive quartermaster depot at Manassas Junction. By the late summer of 1862, the sprawling depot covered nearly a square mile, its warehouses crammed with military supplies of every description. On the depot's two spur railroad sidings, each a half mile long, were parked more than 100 box cars. When the telegraph line to Washington suddenly went dead in late August 1862, Union commanders had no way to know that it was Gen. Stonewall Jackson's 23,000 man army corps that had suddenly emerged out of nowhere and pounced on the supply base. Thinking that it was no more than an annoying cavalry raid, they rushed a brigade of New Jersey troops by rail to the vicinity of Union Mills with the objective of holding the bridge and possibly driving away the raiders. Having no idea of what they were getting into, the unseasoned and eager troops disembarked from the trains and marched west. When they ran into Jackson's veterans they were routed, their commander and approximately 135 others killed or wounded and another 200 captured. The panicked survivors fled eastward, abandoning the bridge and bringing with them the shocking news that there was more than Rebel cavalry at the supply depot.
#To prevent another rude interruption of the depot's looting and to disrupt rail traffic, Jackson ordered the bridge destroyed. When the Confederates pulled out during the night of Aug. 27, 1862, they left behind them a sky reddened by burning warehouses, rail cars and exploding ammunition dumps. The great Union supply depot had been obliterated, never again to be rebuilt. Haupt's crews went to work and reconstructed the Bull Run railroad bridge, only to see it quickly lost again after the Union army retreated into Washington in early September following the battle of Second Manassas.
#On Oct. 15, 1863, Gen. George Meade, located at his headquarters in Centreville, notified the War Department in Washington that "Generals Warren and Sykes were successfully withdrawn last night, and the army is now at Union Mills, Centreville, Chantilly, and Fairfax Court House, awaiting the movements of the enemy." Union Mills was the southern anchor of a strong Federal defensive position that stretched through Centreville to Frying Pan Church. The VI Corps held the line between Frying Pan Church and Chantilly. The II Corps occupied the section between Chantilly and Centreville. The I and III Corps controlled the ground south of Centreville to Union Mills. The V Corps, in reserve, oscillated between Centreville and Fairfax Court House, marching back and forth four times in four days while its weary soldiers tried to figure out what the generals were trying to accomplish with all the useless movement.
#Knowing that Gen. Meade had 80,000 men in his battle line, President Lincoln wrote to him on Oct. 16, 1863, strongly suggesting that Meade launch an attack against Lee's forces. The President told the general that he would personally take the blame if the attack failed. We will never know if Gen. Meade intended to take President Lincoln's advice because Lee's army began to withdraw on its own accord on Oct. 17. As the Union army moved slowly in pursuit through the chilly early autumn mud, the repair gangs began the work of rebuilding the destroyed Orange and Alexandria right of way.
#A new stop named Devereux Station was established on the railroad line less than two miles east of Union Mills during the war. It began as a place to load and ship the wood burned in steam locomotives and the timber needed for military construction projects. The station's name was changed to Clifton in the late 1860s. After the war ended, Union Mills faded from the maps, its civilian functions most likely absorbed by the new station at Clifton. With the control and repair of the railroad line no longer a military necessity, Union Mills had lost its last reason for existence. The modern railroad follows the route of the old Orange and Alexandria line. The abutments of the Civil War era bridge still stand like lonely sentinels next to current railroad bridge over Bull Run. The stretch of shiny track running west out of Clifton is a reminder of the time Herman Haupt and his repair crews helped make military history and Union Mills was a location of real consequence.
Posted by: Jimmy's Old Town Tvn in Herndon ()
Jimmy's Old Town Tavern in Herndon is said to be haunted. From their website...
http://www.jimmystavern.com/history.html
The town of Hemdon sits on land that once belonged to Robert "King" Carter Jr. and Thomas Barnes through King's grants. Originally a small crossroads and farming community, it began to grow in importance as the port city of Alexandria was looking to expand the Loudoun & Hampshire railroad during the mid 1850's. The rail depot was built in 1857, and the rail lines reached Herndon in 1859. More buildings and stores were built as people moved into the area. Soon a small town developed with dairy farming as the main industry.
On July 13,1858, the town was named Herndon after Captain William Lewis Herndon, a Naval hero who went down with his ship, the "Central America", on September 12, 1857. The building Jimmy's is in is believed to have been built in 1897, and was originally both a Tavern and a General Store. Many tenants and businesses have come and gone since 1897 including a grocery store, sporting goods store, and a butcher shop! Some local residents will tell you the story of Walter, a friendly ghost who resides here at Jimmy's !
After countless hours of planning and renovating, proprietors Jimmy, Maureen, and Kelsey Cirrito opened Jimmy's doors on May 29,1997, and are happy to bring a bit of history back to downtown Herndon -- Jimmy's Old Town Tavern. We at Jimmy's sincerely hope you'll enjoy the oak, brass, and antiques, as well as our commitment to impeccable service and products.
Has anyone ever seen anything there?
Posted by: Walter the Ghost???? ()
Jimmy's Old Town Tvn in Herndon Wrote:
> Jimmy's Old Town Tavern in Herndon is said to be
> haunted. From their website...
> http://www.jimmystavern.com/history.html
> The town of Hemdon sits on land that once belonged
> to Robert "King" Carter Jr. and Thomas Barnes
> through King's grants. Originally a small
> crossroads and farming community, it began to grow
> in importance as the port city of Alexandria was
> looking to expand the Loudoun & Hampshire railroad
> during the mid 1850's. The rail depot was built in
> 1857, and the rail lines reached Herndon in 1859.
> More buildings and stores were built as people
> moved into the area. Soon a small town developed
> with dairy farming as the main industry.
> On July 13,1858, the town was named Herndon after
> Captain William Lewis Herndon, a Naval hero who
> went down with his ship, the "Central America", on
> September 12, 1857. The building Jimmy's is in is
> believed to have been built in 1897, and was
> originally both a Tavern and a General Store. Many
> tenants and businesses have come and gone since
> 1897 including a grocery store, sporting goods
> store, and a butcher shop! Some local residents
> will tell you the story of Walter, a friendly
> ghost who resides here at Jimmy's !
> After countless hours of planning and renovating,
> proprietors Jimmy, Maureen, and Kelsey Cirrito
> opened Jimmy's doors on May 29,1997, and are happy
> to bring a bit of history back to downtown Herndon
> -- Jimmy's Old Town Tavern. We at Jimmy's
> sincerely hope you'll enjoy the oak, brass, and
> antiques, as well as our commitment to impeccable
> service and products.
> Has anyone ever seen anything there?
Does anyone know the story of Walter the ghost? I couldn't find anything about it online.
Posted by: wEPKM ()
> kev Wrote:
> > Cool story. Wonder if workers at other nursing
> > homes have similar experiences. Are you sure
> your
> > not trying to find patterns (when you talk
> > people dying in sets)?
> Realistically, I think the "death comes in threes"
> thing might be a matter of perception. (Though,
> ironically, I argued the other side of this
> question just a couple of days ago.) In other
> words, whenever two bad things happen close
> together we wait for a third. Then, when something
> does eventually happen, we connect it.
> I say this because I was remembering several years
> ago when three very similar actors died, as I
> recalled, one right after the other. I went back
> to check my memory before posting about it. Bob
> Denver (who played Gilligan) died 10/02/05 and Don
> Adams (Maxwell Smart) died 10/25/05. Don Knotts
> (Barney Fife), though, didn't die until five
> months later on 2/24/06. So is that connected or
> just a coincidence?
> A friend of mine has worked there for eleven
> years, and heard about him when she started, so
> I'm not sure. The facility is around thirty-five
> years old. I don't think the people who see him
> know a death follows his appearance; they are just
> frightened. I want to clarify though: residents do
> not always report his appearance before someone
> passes away; however, any time he is reported
> being seen, a death follows very shortly after.
> (Usually within hours.) Thank you for your
> questions! I would like to know what is going on!
The scariest story I have heard is from a nurse who said that one night she was floated to oncology at the hospital she used to work at. She was given a patient who was passing away and had been unconscious for several days. At one point during the night the nurse went into the room and the patient was at the top of the bed and looked at her and said, "don't let them take me!", the nurse was freaked out and asked her who was going to take her and she said that black thing up there and pointed up in the air. This patient died within minutes.
Posted by: black footprints ()
Some years ago my friend's fiance and 3 other friends moved into a brand new 4 bedroom townhouse near George Mason. From the very first night they moved in they would hear someone running in the hallway banging on everyone's doors (typical of guys), this would happen when the guys would be in bed. Everyone would be in bed but they would all think that one of the other guys was doing it.
Finally after a week they all had enough and confronted each other about the racket every night. All 4 of them denied it. By now they were all spooked. So that night after they all went to bed, they hear the same thing again - somebody running past their bedrooms and banging on the doors. This time they were really ******* themselves. They heard really loud bangs like heavy stuff being thrown around. They all jumped out of bed and ran out into the living room -
They found all their furniture upside down.... AND, the walls in the living room had been CLAWED. Like really deep huge claws.
THEN as they were standing there thinking what in Gods name happened they saw black footprints appearing on the ceiling coming towards them!!
They took off from the house and rang the landlord trying to tell him that they cant stay there anymore. The landlord comes over and says - well, you guys lasted the longest. The other tenants dont even last one night. I just recently learned that the townhouse was heavily damaged in a fire.
Posted by: NAVY BRAT ()
My Grandparents lived outside of Pinckneyville. My cousins RuthAnne (age 11) and Frankie (age unknown at the time) were brother and sister who spent most of their childhood at our Grandparents house. One night in 1969 they were coming home from town and my cousin RuthAnne was struck by a drunk driver – she was thrown from her bicycle and died instantly. My family was in California when we received the sad news of her death.
In 1971 my Dad retired from the Navy and he got a job in the Chicago area. This was great because his family in Southern Illinois were much closer and as a result we spent a lot of weekends visiting them. We spent the night at his parents’ house and here is where the ghost story begins.
During one of those visits in the middle of the night my Mom heard a child calling for their “Mommy”. Thinking it was one of her 5 children she got up to see if we were okay. We were all sound asleep so she went back to bed.
The next time we visited she woke up with the feeling that something was not right. She looked out into the living room where my two sisters were sleeping and saw a young girl standing there looking down at my younger sister with her arms outstretched. Mom got spooked and hid her head under the blanket. She then realized it was my dead cousin standing out there and peeked her head out from the blanket. RuthAnne was still there. All of a sudden she started to evaporate and went out of the room through the living room wall.
The next morning Mom tells my Dad that we are leaving. Dad, as expected, was mad and asked why. Mom said she saw RuthAnne and was never going to spend another night in this house. And she never did. When we visited again her, my dad and my youngest sister always stayed in a motel. We had other relatives but she refused to stay at their house too. She later told me that she felt uneasy at my Aunt’s house. I think that’s because she sensed that it was haunted too.
So my Aunt lived in Nashville, Ill. Her house had 4 ghosts – her dead husband, the original owner and her little dog, and a little blonde haired girl.
The original owner didn’t like anyone sleeping in her room. If you did she would pull the blankets off in the middle of the night. Her little dog was seen by my cousin and her friend. One day while doing homework in the kitchen, in walked a little black dog who went under the table. My cousin and her friend were stunned and when they looked the dog was not there.
My Uncle died in 1976 when a piece of steel fell on him at the steel mill where he worked. In 1979 my Grandpa died and while staying at my Aunt’s house my Dad had two ghostly encounters. He had the privilege of having his blankets pulled off of him one night while sleeping in the original owner’s room. While sitting at the kitchen table one evening my Aunt told him that every night at a certain time (the same time her dead husband came home from work when he was alive) the back door would open by itself. And sure enough it did at the time she said it would.
My Aunt would later tell me that she could never get anyone to spend the night at her house. She told me that my cousin Cathy, who was very little when her Grandpa died, had made it clear she wouldn’t. Seems she had woken up one night and saw a man in overalls standing in the doorway. My Aunt told me she had woken up on several occasions and saw her dead husband standing next to the bed. She told me she wasn’t scared and always asked him what he wanted.
No one knows who the little blonde haired girl is. She likes to cry. One night my Aunt woke up to this crying and when she went out to the hallway she saw this very pretty little blonde haired girl standing there just crying. My Aunt asked her if she needed help and when she did she just evaporated. Later when she told my cousin Tina about this ghost Tina said she always used to see her when she was little. My Aunt has passed away and one wonders if she too is now a ghost in her house.
Getting back to my cousin RuthAnne, when my Mom told my Dad that she saw RuthAnne that night his parents said nothing – they just smiled. Everyone thought she was “crazy” but my cousin Steve had an experience that convinced him something wasn’t right in that house. He told my Mom that while standing in one part of the living room it got real cold all of a sudden. My sister also thought she was nuts but after hearing some of the stories about “that house” as she put it, she realized that Mom wasn’t so nutty. She’s never told me the stories though.
As for me, I never thought Mom was crazy because I believe in ghosts and had my own encounter with RuthAnne I believe. During the latter ‘70s when Grandpa was ill from cancer he and Grandma moved into Nashville. During one of our visits he, Tina and I went to the old house to retrieve some things. It was a hot day. I was standing right in front of the door and when he opened it the BIGGEST burst of cold air shot out of that door as if it was greeting us. The cold air was just not “normal” because the house had been shut up for so long and it was a hot day. I believe it was RuthAnne.
Alexandria - Hospital woods
Posted by: vauxcleus mansion ()
Alexandria INOVA hospital is built on the site of the Vauxcleus mansion, an ante-bellum plantation mansion. During the Civil War a Confederate soldier was seen and shot dead by a Union picket while sneaking up the ravine to visit a girl friend in the Vauxcleus mansion. Since, it is said you can see his ghost moving through the woods on moonlit nights.
Has anyone ever seen or heard this story?
Posted by: Lake Accotink Park ghost info ()
Springfield - Bablat Afif - In the 1880s a Palestinian immigrated to the US and was brutally tortured and then murdered in some woods which are now known as Lake Accotink Park. It is said that on some nights he is heard moaning, "Arrrrrghh". On rare occasions he is also have said to appear in the form of have human half beast with an eye patch.
Posted by: Battlefield Cobblestone Bridge ()
Bullrun Manasses/Cobblestone Bridge - Civil War soldiers have been seen crossing the bridge at night.
Re: Alexandria - Hospital woods
chuckhoffmann Wrote:
> vauxcleus mansion Wrote:
> > Alexandria INOVA hospital is built on the site
> > the Vauxcleus mansion, an ante-bellum
> plantation
> > mansion. During the Civil War a Confederate
> > soldier was seen and shot dead by a Union
> picket
> > while sneaking up the ravine to visit a girl
> > friend in the Vauxcleus mansion. Since, it is
> said
> > you can see his ghost moving through the woods
> > moonlit nights.
> > Has anyone ever seen or heard this story?
> You're thinking of Vaucluse. It was located in
> what was then Fairfax County near the Virginia
> Theological Seminary. It was destroyed during the
> Civil War to make way for Fort Worth, one of the
> many forts that ringed Washington D.C..
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaucluse_%28plantatio
> n%29
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Worth,_Virginia
Do you have anything on the story of the soldier that was killed and the rumors of a ghost being spotted in those woods?
Posted by: Civil War Ghosts ()
I had a friend down from CT. I was showing him the historical sites around Richmond, specifically Cold Harbor Battlefield on Route 156, Hanover County, VA. I happened to bring my tape recorder with me. At Cold Harbor, we left the tape recorder running and walked away from it. My CT friend got the strangest feeling of deja vu. He knew exactly what had happened there without reading the markers. He had a strong feeling he was actually there. He pointed out the very few trees that were 140 years old or more. He knows nothing about how to tell how old a tree is. When we picked up the tape recorder and got back in the car, we rewound the tape and pressed play. There was shouting, cannon fire, gun fire and screams on the tape. It gave us both goose bumps! I took photographs over there not too long ago. Appearing on the photograph was an officer on horseback. That battlefield is very active, especially on the anniversary of the battle.
Posted by: Still from video ()
Creepy, I managed to get this screenshot of the figure from the video. Very interesting.
Battlefield Cobblestone Bridge Wrote:
> abelard Wrote:
> > I've heard stories like this second hand a
> couple
> > of times, especially from the area around the
> > stone bridge - not sure what to make of them.
> > It's possible that human suffering 'leaves an
> > imprint' of some sort (oh so goes the theory)
> > I'd expect other places to absolutely glow with
> > ghosts. I'm been to Dachau and Passchendaele,
> > as far as I know, neither is famous for ghosts.
> > This even though you can fairly well feel the
> > horror radiating from these places.
> Bullrun Manasses/Cobblestone Bridge - Civil War
> soldiers have been seen crossing the bridge at
> night.
Maybe those are ghosts of retreating Yankees, were they headed towards Centerville and DC at top speed?
All jokes aside, the Confederate army blew the "Stone Bridge" in 1862 to slow down any union units that were to advance after the Confederate army left the immediate area. The bridge was re-decked enough to suffice through the war, and ultimately rebuilt. That said, the current Stone Bridge over Bull Run is a recreation of the original, with only some of the base support pieces as remaining original parts. It has been a popular tourist attraction since the war and remains a very photogenic location, especially in the spring when our native bluebells are in bloom along Bull Run.
> > chuckhoffmann Wrote:
> > > vauxcleus mansion Wrote:
> > > > Alexandria INOVA hospital is built on the
> > site
> > > > the Vauxcleus mansion, an ante-bellum
> > > plantation
> > > > mansion. During the Civil War a Confederate
> > > > soldier was seen and shot dead by a Union
> > > picket
> > > > while sneaking up the ravine to visit a
> girl
> > > > friend in the Vauxcleus mansion. Since, it
> > > said
> > > > you can see his ghost moving through the
> > woods
> > > on
> > > > moonlit nights.
> > > > Has anyone ever seen or heard this story?
> > > You're thinking of Vaucluse. It was located
> > > what was then Fairfax County near the
> Virginia
> > > Theological Seminary. It was destroyed during
> > > Civil War to make way for Fort Worth, one of
> > > many forts that ringed Washington D.C..
> > > n%29
> > Do you have anything on the story of the
> soldier
> > that was killed and the rumors of a ghost being
> > spotted in those woods?
> Not to piss on your Post Toasties, but it sounds
> like it's just a story. The mistress of Vaucluse
> was Monimia Fairfax Cary, a daughter of Thomas
> Fairfax, 9th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, who moved to
> Vaucluse after her husband, Archibald Cary, died
> in 1854.
> Monimia and Archibald had three children,
> Constance, Falkland and Archibald. Constance, so
> the story goes, buried two trunks full of the
> Fairfax family silver on the property and fled
> with the rest of the family to Richmond.
> There's no buried treasure at Vaucluse, though.
> After the war, Constance (who had written
> newspaper columns in Richmond under the name
> "Refugitta" and also met her future husband,
> Burton Norvell Harrison, there) returned to the
> rubble of Vaucluse and dug up the Fairfax family
> silver.
> 50 years after the war, Constance Cary Harrison
> wrote a memoir called "Recollections Grave and
> Gay" which is available on Google Books at
> http://books.google.com/books?id=UeUEAAAAYAAJ and
> was reprinted in "Refugitta of Richmond: The
> Wartime Recollections, Grave and Gay, of Constance
> Cary Harrison", edited by Nathaniel Cheairs Hughes
> Jr. and S. Kittrell Rushing.
> Vaucluse was leveled pretty quickly when the Union
> soldiers took over. There's a diary entry dated
> July 30, 1861 by Judith McGuire that describes it
> as being completely destroyed and Fort Worth
> erected in its place.
> So, no mansion (destroyed, and it wasn't really a
> mansion anyway) and no girls (fled to Richmond)
> for some hapless Confederate solider to risk and
> lose his life trying to visit. It's possible some
> Confederate infiltrator made it this far east and
> was shot for his trouble, but unlikely.
> Mominia Fairfax Cary died in 1875, and Constance
> Cary Harrison lived until 1920.
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constance_Cary_Harris
Boy, that would stink, Johnny Reb says "I'll come back to see ya if my unit comes back up from Richmond", comes back to Fairfax area, sneaks away from camp, finds the house gone, girl gone, and then gets shot by a Yankee vidette from the near by fort. Bummer, I'd haunt the damn place too!
Posted by: Ghost Hunter ()
Well that answers that. Now is that Jimmy's Tavern in Herndon haunted or not?
Posted by: walters ghost ()
Ghost Hunter Wrote:
> Well that answers that. Now is that Jimmy's Tavern
> in Herndon haunted or not?
Only by generations of beer farts!
Posted by: Martha ()
I am such a frail woman these days that I'm not sure if this is a ghost sighting or if I'm going crazy. Today I was just watering my plants when I heard a sudden noise. I went back to my house to see what was going on, but I stopped dead in my tracks. There was a ghost of my childhood playmate! She smiled lovingly and said ''Martha, oh Martha, oh how I miss you dearly! Martha, oh Martha, my days are every dreary! So help little old woman! I thought we were friends!''
All while this was going on my friend (Samantha/Sammy) was transforming from a child to an old frail woman! It scared me out of my mind, so I got in my car and drove to my son's house. After that he said I had been foolish, and I was seeing things. I headed home, and this has been happening every day since.
Posted by: mcWbY ()
Martha Wrote:
> I am such a frail woman these days that I'm not
> sure if this is a ghost sighting or if I'm going
> crazy. Today I was just watering my plants when I
> heard a sudden noise. I went back to my house to
> see what was going on, but I stopped dead in my
> tracks. There was a ghost of my childhood
> playmate! She smiled lovingly and said ''Martha,
> oh Martha, oh how I miss you dearly! Martha, oh
> Martha, my days are every dreary! So help little
> old woman! I thought we were friends!''
> All while this was going on my friend
> (Samantha/Sammy) was transforming from a child to
> an old frail woman! It scared me out of my mind,
> so I got in my car and drove to my son's house.
> After that he said I had been foolish, and I was
> seeing things. I headed home, and this has been
> happening every day since.
This means that you will probably die soon. My mother passed away a few months after she started seeing dead friends. First she saw them outside the house and in the few weeks before her death, she could see them in the house. Always nice, always smiling.
Posted by: Julianna ()
Used to live on Pace Street and I have seen / heard so many things like scratching behind me when I'm trying to sleep and when I turn nobody is there and it stops. One time out the corner of my eye I saw a dark black hand that was torn and hurt reach from the top of the steps and pull back. I see kids a lot that are in orange torn robes; I have dreams about them that leave me thinking their names are Niki and David, a girl and boy. I know they're there because I never told my bff about it and she told me she saw a boy in an orange robe! :o other things have happened too- very scary things!.
Revisiting a family ghost story, from the Civil War…
Posted by: Ghosts of the Civil War ()
http://cenantua.wordpress.com/2011/10/31/revisiting-a-family-ghost-story-from-the-civil-war/
Despite being part of a series of victories in 1862, the “Page Grays” of Co. H, 33rd Virginia Infantry, had seen their fair share of desertions (not, by any means, that the “Grays” were slackers, as the company also saw more than its fair share of casualties in some of the hottest contests of the war… and was regularly designated the color company for the regiment, quite possibly an honor bestowed upon the company for their part in taking the guns at First Manassas). While in winter quarters, and during the high tide of courts-martial in Stonewall Jackson’s Second Corps, those desertions caught-up with the company, and more than a few charges were brought to courts-martial. Seven men were sentenced to death, while eleven others were sentenced to a wide array of punishments, including the laying-on of 25-39 lashes across a bare back. Four of those sentenced to death were fortunate enough to evade execution because of technicalities; specifically, the courts-martial recorder had improperly maintained a complete record of the courts. In the end, however, Gabriel L. Price , Andrew J. Knight [note 1], and William Pence were not among the luckiest men. I have the good fortune of knowing more about Pence’s story than that of the other two.
Pence had actually deserted at Elk Run [in the vicinity of Conrad's Store] on April 20, 1862, as Jackson was gearing-up for the best days of his 1862 Valley Campaign; but didn’t show-up again in the muster rolls until December 21, 1862, when he was recorded as having “joined from desertion”… and, by the way, the “joined” part is not indicative of a voluntary event. Also, Pence had just “enlisted” on April 5… so his quick desertion seems to reflect another story altogether, regarding enlistments immediately following the enforcement of the first Confederate Conscription Act… but that will be a story for another time, perhaps.
On a local level, Pence’s story was documented in April 1927, when Jacob H. Coffman wrote about the events surrounding his capture by conscript/deserter hunters:
Pence… lived with his wife on the Pike, a mile West of Stanley. She was Rebecca Short, a daughter of the late ‘Dickey’ Short, by his first wife. They were law-abiding people. When the officers came to take him, she would not let them in the house, but they forced an entrance and the wife became so enraged that she hit one of the officers over the head with a frying pan. He told her for that act she would be sorry as long as she lived. They then went away taking Pence with them and he, with the other two was booked to pay the penalty.
Despite the sentence, Stonewall Brigade commander, Gen. E.F. Paxton, intervened. It may be that Paxton’s actions were the result of appeals made by, as Coffman put it, “influential citizens” of Page County, who “went to work to bring about his reprieve”. Paxton did note that with all three of these men being from the same company and county, the execution of the three might bear some undesirable implications in discipline and morale in the “Grays”. In lieu of the execution of all three, Paxton recommended that the men be allowed to draw lots, leaving only one to be executed. Not one for leniency in these matters, Jackson did not endorse the idea on the routing slip, and forwarded the paperwork to Gen. Robert E. Lee, who, in turn, agreed to Paxton’s recommendation.
Lots were drawn by the three men… and Pence became the unluckiest of the unlucky three. On February 28, 1863, the execution was carried out… and documented by some who watched.
Map-maker Jedediah Hotchkiss wrote simply that “A deserter from the 1st Brigade was shot today, and one escaped yesterday” [though I also recall finding, somewhere, that Hotchkiss remembered that Pence "wept bitterly, wishing to see his family"].
Mager William Steele, of the 48th Virginia Infantry documented a good deal more. After the entire division had formed near the site of the execution, in a deep hollow near Camp Winder, “the condemned man leaning on the arms of two chaplains” was brought into view. Steele wrote:
… we went up to the stake playing the Dead March… When we got to the place the men that were carrying the coffin put it down by the side of the stake and the condemned man sat upon it leaning against the stake. the preachers sang and prayed and then shook hands with him.
It so happens that Jacob Coffman’s brother, James H. Coffman (remember the story about the desertion of the Coffman brothers?), was also among the men who witnessed the execution. Coffman recalled the story of the incident, as remembered by his brother:
Pence was taken out in a field and set on his coffin, back of which a stake had been driven, his hands tied back of him and to the stake and while the band played that old familiar hymn, ‘Oporto,’ found in the old Harmonia Sacra, beginning with ‘Come Hither Ye Faithful,’ etc.; twenty men were drawn up in line, some twenty steps off and each man was handed a gun, ten supposed loaded and the other ten primed only, so in this way it might be known, who shot him.
When asked for his last statements, Pence asked to see his brother; a request that was not honored.
Again, Pence was asked for a last statement, to which he replied, “No, nothing.” When the order to fire was given, Pence “threw up his hands and fell over. He did not speak after he was shot, he gasped for breath twice. His last words were “O, what will my poor wife do…” it was just three weeks since William’s seventh wedding anniversary.
Jacob Coffman continued:
A shallow grave was dug and they buried him, notifying his relatives… Henry Pence, a full brother, who was at that time in charge at the Gibbons Mills, now the Willow Grove Mills, South of Luray, together with Frank Short, a half brother of Rebecca Pence, went with a two-horse wagon and brought the body home. I went to see him after he was laid out and he had a very peaceful look. The late T.M. Offenbacker [... and here's the first family link to this story... Offenbacker being my third great-grand uncle], cut a bullet out of his wrist and it may have been found among some of his effects after his death.
Clearly, Rebecca Pence was not like the Southern woman portrayed in this image, refusing to let her male relative into her home because he had deserted his unit.
Re: Revisiting a family ghost story, from the Civil War…
(Cont. from above)
And now comes a part of this story that some have felt inclined to doubt, but we have it from the mouth of two witnesses, the way the truth is supposed to be proven, for both Pence and Short vouched for the story. They said on the way home with the body as they came to the foot of the Ridge, on the Madison side, night came upon them, and as it was raining very hard, they pulled aside, unhooked the horses and after giving them hay, they lay down under the wagons, not for a bed, but to keep out of the rain and just as all was quiet, the voice of a man was heard singing directly over the wagon and little higher than the tops of the trees and continued to sing until the break of day. As they began to hook up, the singing ceased. They said it was beautiful, but only one hymn, and it sounded very much like Pence, the dead man.
So, in the end, we not only have a sad story surrounding an execution, but also a ghost story… and was there also the hope of a curse fulfilled?
Coffman also remembered…
Mrs. Pence said that her prayer was that all three of the men that had a hand in bringing about her husband’s death, might be killed before the war ended. Now I knew all three of the men she held responsible, and the one, a captain, was soon shot in the forehead and killed instantly; the next one, a lieutenant, was shot in the throat and killed instantly; the third man, also a lieutenant, was shot through the lung and lingered a while, but died; thus, Mrs. Pence claims to have had her prayer answered. She afterwards married Wm. Flemmings, of Leaksville, where both lived for many years and passed on.
Were Rebecca Pence’s prayers really… curses?
Among the three indicated officers who met death, we have… yet another family tie in one of my third great grand-uncles, Captain Michael Shuler… and one of my distant first cousins, Lieutenant Oliver Hazard Perry Kite. Shuler was killed “instantly” (and, yes, I believe he may have been shot in the forehead) at the Wilderness on May 5, 1864. Kite was seriously wounded in the chest on May 10, 1864, and “lingered”… dying on the one-year anniversary of Shuler’ death, May 5, 1866. As for the other lieutenant, who was shot in the throat and killed instantly… I can’t seem to pinpoint who this may have been.
Ghosts and curses? What do you think?
Note 1. Knight later deserted again, with B.F. Price; both were taken as POWs in Pennsylvania in July 1864, and sent to Washington, D.C. Jacob H. Coffman wrote about Knight in 1927:
Andrew Knight, [was] of the Mountain district near Mauck. He was a brother of Jacob, George and Jack Knight. I do not think he sought a reprieve but took a chance in the dead hour of night and got behind the tent of the guard house and slipped through a wagon train parked just back of it. He made for dear life for such it proved to be to him. He made his way to Media, not far from Philadelphia, where he worked on a farm until after the war, when he came back home and took his family back with him, where he stayed until the death of his wife, after which he came back to Page county and later on went to Baltimore, where he married the widow of Jas. Knight, but died about two years later.
Capt. Michael Shuler (image from his headstone)
Posted by: Civil War ghost Warrenton va ()
Love this discussion. We grew up in a new home just off Rt. 605. I believe the road was Rt 626. The house had a Civil War Officer in it. He was often spotted by my siblings and parents. He enjoyed moving and reading the local newspaper and turning the water on and flushing the toilets. We could hear him often at night pacing up and down the hallway. If my bedroom door was open, he would stand at the foot of my bed like he wanted conversation. If I spoke he would disappear in smoke.
My brother was getting a glass of water one night in the kitchen, and someone behind him said they would like a glass too. He filled the second glass with water, turned to offer it to his sister, and the officer went up in smoke. This house has been sold multiple times and always back on the market within 6-8 months each time. I think others have seen this officer!
Posted by: North High Street ghosts ()
Julianna Wrote:
> Used to live on Pace Street and I have seen /
> heard so many things like scratching behind me
> when I'm trying to sleep and when I turn nobody is
> there and it stops. One time out the corner of my
> eye I saw a dark black hand that was torn and hurt
> reach from the top of the steps and pull back. I
> see kids a lot that are in orange torn robes; I
> have dreams about them that leave me thinking
> their names are Niki and David, a girl and boy. I
> know they're there because I never told my bff
> about it and she told me she saw a boy in an
> orange robe! :o other things have happened too-
> very scary things!.
Wow small world! We rented a house on North High Street that was haunted. The house had been divided into 2 apartments. One upstairs and one down. On several occasions I left the apartment only to return to having tons of houseflies on my windows in the back of the apartment where the kitchen area was. They weren't buzzing around just on the windows inside. No windows or doors were left open. I never could find a logical explanation for this. Once I was awakened by a loud banging in the empty apartment downstairs. I never felt comfortable in that apartment and once when I went to look at the empty apartment downstairs I was alone and an overwhelming feeling of doom came over me and all I wanted to do was just get out of there quickly. It was horrible. I found out much later when I was moving that several people had experienced these things too. I never knew the history of the house but I know what I felt and heard were real. I was glad to get out of there.
Posted by: u4kjY ()
On Black Creek Road, there is a house that is known to have a ''portal of hell''. Just recently, I have witnessed a spirit of someone from the 1800's who seemed to be stabbed or shot in the gut. Stories tell that the spirit I witnessed was that of a teacher that went insane and became a murderer who was either shot or stabbed in the gut.
This spirit is very dangerous and should not be messed with. There are many others in this house as it was built in 1801. This house is extremely dangerous and should be left alone.
Death at the Train Station—Bristol, Virginia
Posted by: Civil War Ghosts - Train station ()
Bristol Train Station
101 Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard
http://southernspiritguide.blogspot.com/
“I’m a thousand miles away from home just waitin’ for a train.”
--Jimmie Rodgers, “Waitin’ for a train,” 1928
Until it was replaced by the interstate highway system, the railroad was the predominant mode of transportation in the nation for more than a century. For small towns and communities, the train station served as a link with the outside world and even deeper as a place of transition. From these stations, children began the transition to adulthood, leaving a provincial life behind to pursue opportunities in the larger world. All who left would be changed; some for the better, some for the worse and some would never return.
Still, others would transition from life to death at the very beginning of their journeys: they would find death awaiting them at the train station.
Straddling the state line between Tennessee and Virginia, Bristol’s State Street sits directly on that line with the street’s north side in Virginia and its south side in Tennessee. Originally part of a large plantation, the land now occupied by the town was developed once the owner was notified that two railroads would be meeting at that spot. Joseph R. Anderson—son-in-law to the plantation’s owner—erected a home and business house just south of what is now State Street, directly across the street for what would become the site for the town’s train station.
The first train pulled into the original depot at this site in 1856. With it, the train brought decades of prosperity to the town. Local historian, V. N. “Bud” Phillips, notes that, “there would have been no Bristol had it not been for the coming of the railroad.” The massive brick station that currently stands was constructed in 1902 and is the third building to stand on the site. Once passenger service ended in 1969, the depot was used briefly for shopping and dining but then it stood empty for some years. In 1999, the Romanesque structure was purchased by a foundation and renovated into an events facility.
The great country singer, Jimmie Rodgers began his transition here from itinerant musician and railroad employee to the Father of Country Music when he stepped from a train in 1927 and recorded two songs in a makeshift studio. Those two songs would inspire a recording career that would propel Rodgers into history.
While no longer the scene of dramatic transitions with arrivals and departures, there remain some lingering spirits from those who made dramatic transitions at this spot.
On the platform of the previous depot, a young lady, Emma Tompkins, stood with her travel bag on the morning of May 5, 1887. Her good-for-nothing husband, known as “Big Will,” stood near cajoling her to stay. Emma had spent the previous night, like many nights, alone while her husband caroused among the town’s saloons and brothels. In despair, Emma had finally decided to leave her husband and join her sister in Radford, Virginia.
As she marched herself towards the station, Emma encountered her husband and he followed her to the station platform. As the train pulled into the station, Big Will grabbed the arm of his wife and the couple tumbled onto the track. Emma screamed but it was cut short as the train decapitated her. Her husband was cut in half by the train. Emma’s spirit joined the throng of spirits that already flit through the vast halls of the station.
Bristol Train Station, 2008, by Tim Emerson. Courtesy of Flickr.
One ghost hunting organization somehow determined that some 68 spirits haunt the building. Besides Emma’s wailing spirit, the spirit of a man by the name of Joseph Chalmers King has been known to appear in the building. Dressed in black pants, a white shirt, bowtie and derby hat, the spirit, according to legend, is still waiting on his lost lady-love to arrive. King’s spirit was known to appear when southwestern trains would pull into the depot. His last known appearance was in 1969, when the last southwestern train pulled in.
Throughout the building it still seems there is activity from former railroad passengers. In 2008, the building’s manager clearly heard the main door open followed by footsteps across the great hall. Peering down from a balcony near his office, the manager was unable to see anyone present and was shocked to hear a cough from the invisible being. He also reports the sounds of people talking, coins rattling in an unseen pocket, a clock that always stopped at 8:50 PM and elevators moving without passengers.
The paranormal group, HAUNT Paranormal (Hunting and Understanding National Terrors), investigated the building in 2010, an investigation documented by a reporter from the Bristol Herald Courier. Apparently, the group captured an EVP of a scream, perhaps the same scream that escaped the throat of Emma Tompkins before her neck was severed by the train’s iron wheels.
A 2011 investigation of the train station by Appalachian Truth Seekers was featured on an episode in season four of My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera. The episode concentrates on a few pieces of evidence captured during the investigation. While a few unintelligible EVPs were captured, the most compelling piece of evidence is a video that was captured mostly by accident. One of the investigators was testing out a video camera in what appears to be one of the station’s main halls. In the few seconds of video, a dark figure moves past an upstairs doorway. At the time, none of the investigators or station staff were upstairs.
While investigating the station’s basement, a female investigator was shoved by something that she claims rushed her. After she became angry and told the spirit to stop, an EVP was captured that argues that “I did not do it. Not here, not me.”
While the station has transitioned into its modern usage as an events facility, it seems that the spirits residing there may still be trying to make the transition into the afterlife.
Appalachian Truth Seekers. “Appalachian Truth Seekers Case—Bristol
Virginia Train Station Summary.” Youtube. 3 December 2011.
“End of the Line.” My Ghost Story: Caught on Camera. Biography Channel.
12 May 2012. Season 4, Episode 6.
Galofaro, Clare. “Ghost hunters gather at Bristol station.” Bristol
Herald Courier. 1 March 2010.
History. Bristol Train Station. Accessed 5 February 2014.
Jimmie Rodgers (country singer). Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Accessed
5 February 2014.
Phillips, Bud. “History of Bristol.” Bristoltn.org. Accessed 5 February
Phillips, Bud. “Tragedy at The Depot Claimed Bristol Couple.” Bristol Herald
Courier. 22 March 2009.
Tennis, Joe. Haunts of Virginia’s Blue Ridge Highlands. Charleston, SC:
History Press, 2010.
Virginia Historic Landmarks Commission Staff. National Register of Historic
Places nomination form for the Bristol Union Railway Station. August 1980.
A train pulls into the station on a cold morning. Photo 2013 by
Hunterrr, courtesy of Flickr.
He Came In the Night
Posted by: Ghost of man and boots ()
Civil War Field Hospital Wrote:
> http://autumnforestghosthunter.blogspot.com/2009/0
> 1/fairfax-virginia-green-acres-elementary.html
> Sharon, blog name, autum forest, lived in a house
> in Fairfax. I've looked up info. on this house.
> It was a while ago. I'll see if I can find the
> back story on it. If not, go to her blog & try
> to find the location yourself.
> This is what Sharon wrote on her site...
> I am a ghost hunter who grew up in a Civil War
> field hospital where many unexplainable
> occurrences changed the course of my life. Follow
> me as I toss out theories and mess with your
> thinking. You may not be the same after coming
> here. I plan to open your minds wide about all
> things paranormal
My family moved into Aspen Grove when I was a little toddler. The sights and sounds of the house to me were perfectly normal. Children adapt to realities, like tossing your ball in the air results in it coming back down every time and the sound of a sister screaming at the other sister in another room can be heard through even the thickest walls.
When we first moved in, our family dog, King (a Collie/German Shepherd mix) had some issues with--nothing. My mom would watch the dog growling at the wall, backing off from the center of the room, snapping at something not there, then jumping as if he had been kicked, tail between his legs, howling and rushing off, nearly going through the closed side door. My mother eventually got spooked by his reactions to what seemed to be something he was aware of that she was not. Eventually, King would not come in the house anymore and remained the rest of his 15 years outdoors. We set him up a sweet doggy place in the shed, but he would not go near the inside of the house again
Then, while father was away on his work that took him off in all hours of the night to locations around the country, mom would lie in bed alone and listen. The house seemed to come alive the minute the last person went to bed. Was it settling sounds? Well, nope. One time, father heard it too and commented. She felt great relief.
One day, an old owner of the house visited and lightly mentioned the ghosts. My mother blinked. She was not a believer in ghosts, but the woman explained a story that gave my mother shivers.
"During the Civil War when the home was being used as a field hospital, a young soldier was upstairs in bed when shooting erupted outside. He rushed out without his boots that his parents had given him. He was shot and killed outside. Every night, he still walks the stairs and hall looking for his boots."
My mom, being a closet historian and an art teacher, found some romance in that story and took pity on the soldier. She began to haunt the library and City Hall in search of information about the home's history. I grew up in the dusty records rooms glancing through old soldier's diaries and other books while mother gathered her information.
And, every night I heard him. Booted feet, walking up the stairs, then down the hall to the middle bedroom. He only took a few steps into the bedroom and then in front of the radiator, the board would creak and that was the end of his vigil. As a kid believing my life was being guarded by unseen soldiers, I would turn and whisper to him, "good night." It was a ritual I grew to appreciate until I became a self-conscious adolescent and the thought of a man in my bedroom was kind of creepy. So, I took the end bedroom in the newer part of the house that had no activity.
One night, tired of telling stories of the ghosts and having kids scoff at them, I sat down on the middle of the stairway, turned on my dad's recorder and waited. He started up the stairs. It was the first time I'd been there when it happened and it seemed to go so quickly and then he was on the board I sat on. And, for the first time in all those years, he paused a moment and then continued on. I held my breath and exhaled as he headed down the hall. I realized in that moment that he seemed to have sensed me just enough to stop a moment and wonder before finishing his trek.
It was in that moment one of my theories began and still persists--perhaps they are not the only ghosts; perhaps we are ghosts to them.
Whew! I’m glad we’re clear this place is NOT haunted
Posted by: Funny Real Estate signs ()
http://doubtfulnews.com/2014/02/whew-im-glad-were-clear-this-place-is-not-haunted/
Ghosts can be a draw. Some people want to live with them; some, not so much. So, a real estate agent has made this distinction perfectly(?) clear. He posts a sign.
‘Haunted’ real estate signs in New Orleans are grabbers.
http://www.freep.com/usatoday/article/5572685
A New Orleans real estate broker has been getting lots of attention since actor/director/comedian George Takei posted a photo on social media Monday of a real estate sign reading “Not Haunted.”
The signs are an apparent reference to New Orleans’ unofficial title as the most or one of the most haunted cities in America.
He says he thought what better way to edge out the competition than with creating a buzz about ghosts. All the signs say “Haunted” and “Not Haunted” because Shelnutt was once a bond broker and believes in hedging his bets, he says.
“Ghost tours is a very large business in the (French) Quarter – very large. I mean extremely large. You can’t imagine,” Shelnutt said. “Thousands of people a night doing ghost tours. It’s, like, real big.”
Shelnutt should know. He also is owner of French Quarter History & Ghostbuster Tours, a company that offers walking tours of French Quarter haunted spots.
Re: Whew! I’m glad we’re clear this place is NOT haunted
Posted by: long haul trucker ()
I've been having trouble sleeping & when I do I toss and turn. For years I was a long haul trucker. In December of 2004, I had a delivery in Winchester, Virginia and a second stop in Washington, D.C. At my first stop I was delayed and didn't get unloaded until after 2:00 AM. I left Winchester heading east on Highway 7. Around 2:30 I came to the intersection of Highway & and Route 601 near Bluemont. At a gas station, I pulled in to check my map of Washington in anticipation of my delivery. The station was closed at that hour. There was virtually no traffic going by and it was a cold, moonless night. While I was sitting there, someone knocked on my door, startling me. I jumped and turned off my interior light so I could see outside and rolled down my window.
A man was standing there in an airline flight crew uniform. He had four stripes on his shoulder epaulets indicating a Captain. He was without a jacket on a very cold morning. He climbed up on the step of my cab. He smelled like he had bathed in kerosene. When he got close to my face, I could see that his cap had the TWA insignia on it.
"Could you give me a lift?" he asked in a voice that seemed raspy. I assumed it was from the cold. I was really taken off guard. It was odd. I was in a dark, rural area on a freezing night being asked by an airline pilot wearing short sleeves for a ride. I asked him where he was headed.
"I work for TWA. I gotta get to Dulles to work a flight, please give me a ride, I'll pay you," he responded.
"Well, how about I give you a ride to the next open store where you can call a cab?" I offered.
"Okay, thank you, thank you," he mumbled. "He said that we could descend..."
I didn't know what he was talking about but I didn't want the guy to freeze out there. "Go around and get in," I instructed.
He climbed down and shuffled around the front of the truck. When he passed the first light, I was struck by the fact that he seemed to have long sideburns, a la Elvis. When he continued on to the right, he totally vanished. I don't mean faded away; he just ceased to exist.
I jumped down out of the truck and looked all around with a flashlight, even under the truck. He was just disappeared. As I continued on toward Washington, I remembered something odd. TWA had gone out of business over two years ago. What was going on, I wondered, totally perplexed and shaken by the experience.
When I got home, I did some online research. What I found has totally turned my beliefs upside down. I've always thought that ghost stories were hokum, but with what I learned, I'm no longer sure.
It turns out that on December 1, 1974 a TWA Boeing 727, Flight 514, descended prematurely through a low cloud deck and slammed into a rocky outcropping on Mount Weather,VA. The aircraft disintegrated with all 92 people on board killed. The flight had originated in Columbus, Ohio and was supposed to land at Washington National Airport. It was diverted to Washington's other airport, Dulles International, because high winds had closed National. According to cockpit voice and flight data recordings, the crew mistakenly believed that air traffic controllers had cleared them to descend to 1800 feet from their previous altitude fix of 7000 feet. This error, combined with strong downdrafts, caused the aircraft to hit the mountain at 1670 feet above sea level. At the last second they broke out of the overcast only to see the rocky and snow covered mountain looming in their windscreen. The captain's last words to his co-pilot were, "Get some power on!" just moments before the recording abruptly ceased.
The place of impact was less than a mile south of where I encountered whoever, or whatever, it was that I saw almost exactly thirty years later. I don't want to definitely say it was an ghost but the fact remains that there was someone who appeared to be an airline pilot with a very dated hairstyle wearing a uniform of a defunct business.
I no longer am a trucker, but this has troubled me for years. If anyone would have any insight into this, I'd appreciate your help. Thank you.
Posted by: Paul the drywall guy ()
There is a haunted apartment in Oakton I once owned. I had a cabinet dresser
In the laundry room with those handles that can be swung up and down
It happened a couple of nights when the handles to the drawers would
Go off by themselves. I would be so scared that I would take my baseball
Bat across the hall to check it out. Once I turn on the lights nothing
Would be there. Another occasion was my car keys and my books.
My keys were set on top of my books which were lying on top of
My kitchen counter. I had set them there for just a moment to grab something
From another room before leaving and found my keys to be moved, specifically on top of the refrigerator. One time walking out of the shower I noticed a pair of small feet that seemed to belong to a child that ran into the bathroom wall. All I saw were grey feet. After that I literally slept at a friends home for about 3 weeks. I have sold the property since and have not had I incident. I can say that the apartment I owned in Oakton was haunted. I have not been back there in 7 years.
Posted by: Mbmpc ()
Paul the drywall guy Wrote:
> There is a haunted apartment in Oakton I once
> owned. I had a cabinet dresser
> In the laundry room with those handles that can be
> swung up and down
> It happened a couple of nights when the handles to
> the drawers would
> Go off by themselves. I would be so scared that I
> would take my baseball
> Bat across the hall to check it out. Once I turn
> on the lights nothing
> Would be there. Another occasion was my car keys
> and my books.
> My keys were set on top of my books which were
> lying on top of
> My kitchen counter. I had set them there for just
> a moment to grab something
> From another room before leaving and found my keys
> to be moved, specifically on top of the
> refrigerator. One time walking out of the shower
> I noticed a pair of small feet that seemed to
> belong to a child that ran into the bathroom wall.
> All I saw were grey feet. After that I literally
> slept at a friends home for about 3 weeks. I have
> sold the property since and have not had I
> incident. I can say that the apartment I owned in
> Oakton was haunted. I have not been back there
> in 7 years.
Cool story! What part of Oakton Paul?
Posted by: Paul the drywall man ()
It is about a mile from Oakton highschool going towards chain ridge road.
Posted by: Night owl ()
I can tell you what happened to me. I was literally asking for this
Experience every night I used to go out at night to DC. Every time I went out I was always the designated driver so I was the sober one. Every night after going out and dropping off friends and family I would go to Arlington Cemetary. The only time I would not go is when it rained. I used to park near the Korean memorial and walk past the raising of the flag statue until I got to the brick wall. I hop over the wall and I was in the Cemetary. On a handful of occasions I would go all the way up to Robert E Lee's home. I used to dream about this place as a kid and always had a peaceful feeling about the place so I would walk over to the outdoor auditorium next to the house because there are two. The other is larger and newer with the tomb of the unknown, but I stay around the original. Well I would sit or lay around there until the sun would come up and discreetly leave, but what ended up happening these handful of time was voices. I heard two or more people having conversations around there, but it sounded like a friendly one and I never felt threatened.
Mbmpc Wrote:
> Paul the drywall guy Wrote:
> > There is a haunted apartment in Oakton I once
> > owned. I had a cabinet dresser
> > In the laundry room with those handles that can
> be
> > swung up and down
> > It happened a couple of nights when the handles
> > the drawers would
> > Go off by themselves. I would be so scared that
> > would take my baseball
> > Bat across the hall to check it out. Once I
> turn
> > on the lights nothing
> > Would be there. Another occasion was my car
> keys
> > and my books.
> > My keys were set on top of my books which were
> > lying on top of
> > My kitchen counter. I had set them there for
> just
> > a moment to grab something
> > From another room before leaving and found my
> > to be moved, specifically on top of the
> > refrigerator. One time walking out of the
> shower
> > I noticed a pair of small feet that seemed to
> > belong to a child that ran into the bathroom
> wall.
> > All I saw were grey feet. After that I
> literally
> > slept at a friends home for about 3 weeks. I
> > sold the property since and have not had I
> > incident. I can say that the apartment I owned
> > Oakton was haunted. I have not been back
> there
> > in 7 years.
> Cool story! What part of Oakton Paul?
Oh yes, I know that area well. I went to Oakton HS back in the 80's. I had a few friends that experienced some hauntings in the area, but nothing quite as scary as your experiences. There's actually another on it here...
Does anybody know of any ghost stories or haunted areas in the Vienna/Oakton area? There is mention of the hauntings at the apartment complex on Appalachian drive...
http://www.fairfaxunderground.com/forum/read/2/879497/902205.html#msg-902205
Posted by: Flight 514 info ()
long haul trucker Wrote:
> I've been having trouble sleeping & when I do I
> toss and turn. For years I was a long haul
> trucker. In December of 2004, I had a delivery in
> Winchester, Virginia and a second stop in
> Washington, D.C. At my first stop I was delayed
> and didn't get unloaded until after 2:00 AM. I
> left Winchester heading east on Highway 7. Around
> 2:30 I came to the intersection of Highway & and
> Route 601 near Bluemont. At a gas station, I
> pulled in to check my map of Washington in
> anticipation of my delivery. The station was
> closed at that hour. There was virtually no
> traffic going by and it was a cold, moonless
> night. While I was sitting there, someone knocked
> on my door, startling me. I jumped and turned off
> my interior light so I could see outside and
> rolled down my window.
> A man was standing there in an airline flight crew
> uniform. He had four stripes on his shoulder
> epaulets indicating a Captain. He was without a
> jacket on a very cold morning. He climbed up on
> the step of my cab. He smelled like he had bathed
> in kerosene. When he got close to my face, I could
> see that his cap had the TWA insignia on it.
> "Could you give me a lift?" he asked in a voice
> that seemed raspy. I assumed it was from the cold.
> I was really taken off guard. It was odd. I was in
> a dark, rural area on a freezing night being asked
> by an airline pilot wearing short sleeves for a
> ride. I asked him where he was headed.
> "I work for TWA. I gotta get to Dulles to work a
> flight, please give me a ride, I'll pay you," he
> responded.
> "Well, how about I give you a ride to the next
> open store where you can call a cab?" I offered.
> "Okay, thank you, thank you," he mumbled. "He said
> that we could descend..."
> I didn't know what he was talking about but I
> didn't want the guy to freeze out there. "Go
> around and get in," I instructed.
> He climbed down and shuffled around the front of
> the truck. When he passed the first light, I was
> struck by the fact that he seemed to have long
> sideburns, a la Elvis. When he continued on to the
> right, he totally vanished. I don't mean faded
> away; he just ceased to exist.
> I jumped down out of the truck and looked all
> around with a flashlight, even under the truck. He
> was just disappeared. As I continued on toward
> Washington, I remembered something odd. TWA had
> gone out of business over two years ago. What was
> going on, I wondered, totally perplexed and shaken
> by the experience.
> When I got home, I did some online research. What
> I found has totally turned my beliefs upside down.
> I've always thought that ghost stories were hokum,
> but with what I learned, I'm no longer sure.
> It turns out that on December 1, 1974 a TWA Boeing
> 727, Flight 514, descended prematurely through a
> low cloud deck and slammed into a rocky
> outcropping on Mount Weather,VA. The aircraft
> disintegrated with all 92 people on board killed.
> The flight had originated in Columbus, Ohio and
> was supposed to land at Washington National
> Airport. It was diverted to Washington's other
> airport, Dulles International, because high winds
> had closed National. According to cockpit voice
> and flight data recordings, the crew mistakenly
> believed that air traffic controllers had cleared
> them to descend to 1800 feet from their previous
> altitude fix of 7000 feet. This error, combined
> with strong downdrafts, caused the aircraft to hit
> the mountain at 1670 feet above sea level. At the
> last second they broke out of the overcast only to
> see the rocky and snow covered mountain looming in
> their windscreen. The captain's last words to his
> co-pilot were, "Get some power on!" just moments
> before the recording abruptly ceased.
> The place of impact was less than a mile south of
> where I encountered whoever, or whatever, it was
> that I saw almost exactly thirty years later. I
> don't want to definitely say it was an ghost but
> the fact remains that there was someone who
> appeared to be an airline pilot with a very dated
> hairstyle wearing a uniform of a defunct
> business.
> I no longer am a trucker, but this has troubled me
> for years. If anyone would have any insight into
> this, I'd appreciate your help. Thank you.
TWA Flight 514
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TWA_Flight_514
TWA Flight 514, registration N54328, was a Boeing 727-231 en route from Indianapolis, Indiana, and Columbus, Ohio, to Washington Dulles International that crashed into Mount Weather, Virginia, on December 1, 1974. All 85 passengers and 7 crew members were killed.[1]
The flight was originally destined for Washington National Airport. However, the plane diverted to Dulles when high crosswinds, east at 28 knots and gusting to 49, prevented safe operations on the main north-south runway at Washington National. The flight was being vectored for a non-precision instrument approach to runway 12 at Dulles. Air traffic controllers cleared the flight down to 7,000 feet (2,100 m) before clearing them for the approach while not on a published segment.
The jetliner began a descent to 1,800 feet (550 m) shown on the first checkpoint for the published approach. The data recorder indicated there was some confusion in the cockpit over whether they were still under a radar controlled approach segment which would allow them to descend safely. After reaching 1,800 feet (550 m) there were some 100-to-200-foot (30 to 60 m) altitude deviations which the flight crew discussed as encountering heavy downdrafts and reduced visibility in snow. The plane impacted the west slope of Mount Weather at 1,670 feet (509 m) above sea level at approximately 230 knots (430 km/h; 260 mph). The wreckage was contained within an area about 900 feet long and 200 feet wide. The evidence of first impact was trees whose tops were cut off about 70 feet above the ground. The elevation at the base of the trees was 1,605 feet. The wreckage path was oriented along a line 118 degrees magnetic. Calculations indicated that the left wing went down about 6 degrees as the aircraft passed through the trees and the aircraft was descending at an angle of about 1 degree. After about 500 feet of travel through the trees, the aircraft struck a rock outcropping at an elevation of about 1,675 feet. Numerous heavy components of the aircraft were thrown forward of the outcropping. Numerous intense post-impact fires were located, and extinguished. The mountain's summit is at 1,754 feet (535 m).[2]
The accident investigation board was split in its decision as to whether the flight crew or Air Traffic Control were responsible. The majority absolved the controllers as the plane was not on a published approach segment. The dissenting opinion was that the flight had been radar vectored. Terminology between pilots and controllers differed without either group being aware of the discrepancy. It was common practice at the time for controllers to release a flight to its own navigation with "Cleared for the approach," and flight crews commonly believed that was also authorization to descend to the altitude at which the final segment of the approach began. No clear indication had been given by controllers to Flight 514 that they were no longer on a radar vector segment and therefore responsible for their own navigation. Procedures were clarified after this accident. Controllers now state, "Maintain (specified altitude) until established on a portion of the approach," and pilots now understand that previously assigned altitudes prevail until an altitude change is authorized on the published approach segment the aircraft is currently flying. Ground proximity detection equipment was also mandated for the airlines.
During the NTSB investigation, it was discovered that a United Airlines flight had very narrowly escaped the same fate during the same approach and at the same location only six weeks prior.
The flight is also of note in that the accident drew undesired attention to the Mount Weather facility, which was the linchpin of plans implemented by the United States to ensure continuity of government in the event of a nuclear war. The crash did not damage the facility, since most of its features were underground. Only the facility's underground main phone line was severed, with service to the complex being restored by C&P Telephone within 2½ hours after the crash.
The crash, its aftermath, and its repercussions are the subject of the 1977 book Sound of Impact: The Legacy of TWA Flight 514 by Adam Shaw. TWA Flight 514 is also mentioned in the closing of the second chapter of Mark Oliver Everett's book Things the Grandchildren Should Know.
This was one of two Boeing 727s to crash in the United States that day; the other was Northwest Airlines Flight 6231.
U.S. Congressman Andy Jacobs was almost on the flight, but elected not to pay the $20 seat upgrade charge and decided to take another flight back to Washington. One of his staffers was killed on the flight.
Approx Dec 1975; looking west from road and then east from the road...
Posted by: Castlewood ()
Not in Fairfax but in Castlewood VA. I thought it might be of interest to those in the discussion. I have a 5th great grandfather was given a land grant from the king of England back in the mid 1700s. He built a 2-story log house, and the foundation is still there, but another house was built on the same location. The log cabin served as a fort when the Cherokee Indians would attack. The settlers would meet at the house to fight off the Indians. I got my PhD in Parapsychology and in 1999 I went to this house, my fifth cousin lives on the property. The grave yard belongs to the Historical Society and all my relatives are buried there. All my brothers and sisters are clairvoyant, and I have spent the night there on many occasions.
I see my 5th great grandfather on the second floor walking around. His bed is still there and my sister slept in the bed at the time she stayed there. She awoke one night to see him standing at the foot of the bed. Naturally we are not afraid of him or the spirits that we encounter. You hear voices and doors open and close and someone walking up and down on the stairs. I have found Indian artifacts on the property like Indian arrow heads, and most of them had blood markings on them. The whole farm is haunted. Let me add that no one is allowed on the property and the police will be there in seconds.
Posted by: ghosts of dryden ()
I'm from Dryden in southern virginia and we have alot of ghosts creeping about here. ghosts from the revolution and civil wars are commonly seen in areas around our area.
Posted by: nuJth ()
ghosts of dryden Wrote:
> I'm from Dryden in southern virginia and we have
> alot of ghosts creeping about here. ghosts from
> the revolution and civil wars are commonly seen in
> areas around our area.
Well don't keep us in suspense, share the stories!
nuJth Wrote:
> ghosts of dryden Wrote:
> > I'm from Dryden in southern virginia and we
> > alot of ghosts creeping about here. ghosts from
> > the revolution and civil wars are commonly seen
> > areas around our area.
> Well don't keep us in suspense, share the stories!
In Dryden there is a real headless horseman, it's not just a story around here. They say that he is a man that was in the army, that he lived in 1775 and lost his life during a fight with some Indians. And on a cool clear night you can see him riding his horse holding his sword, and if you are walking he will chase you, and if you can make it out of Dryden you are safe.
In Dryden there is a woman that walks the roads dressed in red. When you pick her up she just looks out the window, and says take me home. When you say where she says down next to R&R. When you go down that way you have to go past a graveyard, when you're by it she says thank you and then she's gone. This has happened for a lot of years here in Dryden. I heard that she was just recently seen again.
Ghost Fleet haunts the James River
Posted by: Ghost Fleet haunts the James Rvr ()
By Scott Harper
The Virginian-Pilot
http://hamptonroads.com/2010/10/ghost-fleet-haunts-james-river
ON THE JAMES RIVER
Armed with a pot of chili, some cameras and a notebook, we set out in a 36-foot power boat amid sunshine and fair seas Thursday afternoon in search of any spirits that might be hiding within the Ghost Fleet.
Formally known as the James River Reserve Fleet, this collection of creaky ships is the epitome of spookiness, an ideal set for a Hollywood horror show: empty hulks anchored alone and far from shore, abandoned corridors, greasy engine rooms in pitch-black, rust stains like dripping blood, frayed ropes that resemble Spanish moss swaying in the breeze.
With Halloween approaching, it seemed the perfect place to camp out and experience at night.
So we did, four of us: myself, a photographer, our captain, and a curious friend looking for adventure. The government caretaker of the Ghost Fleet, the U.S. Maritime Administration, agreed to let us spend the night on the river, but required we stay at least 500 feet away from the ships, for safety reasons. Beneath the fleet, there are underwater power cables and anchor lines that criss-cross the bottom of the James like a spider web - dangers to be avoided.
We parked in a sheltered corner of the fleet, near a lonely cargo ship named the Cape Ann, which stood silently by herself. The other ships are lashed together in groups of two, three or five, head to tail, like sardines in a can.
Some of the windows on the Cape Ann's bridge were broken out and we joked about the prospects of seeing a pale creepy face peek out around midnight.
We had arrived at the fleet, off Fort Eustis in Newport News, just before sunset. The sky was a spectacular pink when we noticed something weird - our first weird thing of the trip. The sunset was beaming light at just the right angle to color two of the Cape Ann's windows red, like two angry eyes peering at us.
It was like those red eyes in the demon-possessed house in "The Amityville Horror."
Our photographer went nuts, capturing frame after frame. Within minutes, though, the pink light changed angle and the windows went black and lifeless. The eyes had closed.
The James River Reserve Fleet has been a source of fascination, history and lore for decades. Its roots trace to 1919, just after World War I, when the Navy and Merchant Marine began mothballing their surplus ships within the river, not sure where else to put them.
At its peak, following World War II, the fleet held more than 700 ships, stretching in a line almost to Norfolk.
In the years since, disposing of those vessels deemed useless and obsolete became an exercise in imagination: the Korean War took a few, and others were spot-welded into giant paperweights for atomic bomb testing in the Pacific. The Navy practiced underwater demolition on some, and laws were passed allowing states to take hulls and turn them into offshore reefs.
Many others were converted to scrap. And in 1964, more than 120 Liberty ships became silos, their holds filled with surplus wheat that the government had bought to support grain prices.
Vietnam took more ships, and by the 1970s, the fleet had been whittled to about 300. About this time, media began calling the reserve fleet the "Ghost Fleet" and the name stuck - as it did on other federal stockpiles in New York, California and elsewhere.
The Maritime Administration has never been fond of the nickname. A manager complained to a reporter in a 1980 newspaper story, "Please don't refer to it as the Ghost Fleet, all right?"
For this story, the Maritime Administration declined to comment on the notion of "ghost ships" and said workers who maintain the fleet did not want to talk about their experiences aboard the ships.
One agency official, Willie Barnes, did relate a recent ghost tale. He said a James River ship, after being towed to a scrap yard for dismantling, had one of its interior doors abruptly close and lock - much to the surprise of a laborer walking down a nearby corridor.
Today, the fleet consists of just 23 ships, its smallest size ever. More than 80 junk ships have been removed and recycled since 2001, the push coming after Congress imposed a deadline of 2006 for getting rid of the vessels most likely to leak or spill oil.
Environmental groups had wanted to accelerate the disposal program, worried that used oil and fuel, asbestos, lead, mercury and toxic PCBs in paint and wiring might damage the James in an accident or major hurricane.
During a tour, former Gov. Mark Warner, now a U.S. senator, called the ships "ticking time bombs" and pressured for their hastened removal.
We kept a close eye on the Cape Ann and other ships as nightfall spread. We hoped to see something bizarre.
Sitting there in the quiet, the great ships now in silhouette, we could not help but think of things unexplained - UFOs, chilling experiences, the occult, brushes with ghosts. So we kind of made ourselves scared, or at least on edge.
On the water, there are lights all around and we kept trying to identify them - the James River Bridge, downtown Norfolk, a channel marker. We never could figure out one: a round and unblinking light, on the far side of the Ghost Fleet and definitely not on land.
About then, we decided to go swimming. And soon the talk turned to scary creatures in the water - sharks, eels, sturgeon - that might drag us under.
Our plan was to stay awake until at least midnight, the witching hour. Three of our team did not make it; I did. Just after midnight, a boat slowly cruised past the far end of the fleet and began flashing a spotlight on the sides of ships, scanning for something or someone.
Then, it was gone.
There have been many books written about ghosts in Virginia and many investigations of alleged local hauntings. The Ghost Fleet, though, has escaped such scrutiny.
L.B. Taylor Jr. has written several volumes of his popular "The Ghosts of Virginia" series, but he never has managed to dig up anything on the fleet.
"It's always sounded like a great place for ghosts to go," Taylor said by phone from his Williamsburg home. "I've tried to look into it, but have never had much luck."
About the closest thing, he said, were stories of ghosts knocking on the roofs of James River oystermen near Fort Eustis, whispering locations where they should next go fishing.
A local ghost hunter, Mike Joao, who runs the company Virginia Paranormal, has been intrigued by the fleet but has never scouted for ghosts there.
He has captured photos of veiled images aboard the Battleship North Carolina, anchored in Wilmington, N.C. Joao said the images appear to be of a Navy sailor crawling from a bunk in one of the old sleeping quarters.
He hopes to do a similar investigation on the Battleship Wisconsin in Norfolk.
Our calm, peaceful night was interrupted by a cold front slamming into us after 2 a.m. The dark and stormy night had arrived. White caps hammered our slumber.
Our captain, a former Coast Guard officer, decided to motor home rather than risk a problem in the waves. Except he could barely see, the windshield wiper broken and water splashing across his view.
The voyage back was treacherous but ultimately successful. We slept hard after tying up at our marina in Norfolk, almost two hours after leaving the storm-tossed fleet.
We woke to a sunny new day, a crisp fall day.
Halloween would soon be here.
Posted by: Swordsaint101 ()
Hello, I am a former Sailor with the US Navy and very interested in ghost stories involving naval vessels. My ship was decommissioned back in 2007. The Navy gave her crew an option to transfer to another ship, or to go ahead and get out of the military. Fed up with the treatment, I opted for the latter.
The USS Saipan, LHA-2, had been in service since Vietnam. It was 40 years old, and held together with rust and paint. Anytime we deployed, something broke, and we would have to limp to port, and we, the ships engineers, would fix it while the rest of the crew could take a leisurely leave wherever we pulled in to make repairs.
I worked with nearly a dozen other men and women in what was called the Main Space, where the ships engines and Main Reduction Gears were kept. It was a large, open space, with two floors. The floors were covered in industrial metal sheets, secured in place with rivets. The plates had three kinds of rivets, broke, bent, and missing. The plates rattled like crazy, with every step you made. The stairs (ladders, we called em) were secured in place with a pot metal pin at the top and the bottom. Everything in that place sounded like you were throwing pots down stairs when you walked.
At the head of the Main Space was our Center Console. It was an isolated room, with air condition, where the brass could sit and drink soda while the rest of us worked in 100+ degree temperatures, and tell us how we didn't work hard enough, or didn't make them look good enough for their bosses. While in port, when the brass wanted to go grab a beer with their buddies, when the fires of the boiler were out and the space was relatively cool... We sat in the console for Watch Duty.
From the console you could sit in the CHENG (Chief Engineer's) chair. A chair reserved for the well... Chief Engineer. It was for the big cheese to sit in, not some enlisted nobody! But hey, he's on shore! You could also see the entire upper level of the Main Space from that chair, making it ideal for watch standing. Nobody got in or out of the space without your knowledge. It was your job as watch stander to make sure that nobody messed with your space.
The strange thing was, I would talk to other watchstanders over the years, and they would mention things that didn't quite add up on watch. One fella told me that he heard someone running in the space. Like all-out booking it back and forth on the deck plates. He said at first it sounded like one guy, then several. He was convinced someone was messing with him, but this didn't make sense to neither him nor myself, as the space had a six foot bilge on the lower level... It would be a considerable drop if someone were to just hop the railing (also rickety, and held together with copper wire in many places) and you would hear them hit the bilge. All the entrances and exits to the place were dogged, mechanical hinges that operated with a lever, so it wasn't a quick exit. If anyone entered or left, the pressure in the whole place would have changed. We were on the very bottom of the ship. I'm not sure the mechanics of it, but anyone opening a door to that place made a huge vacuum, you could FEEL them open. Thing is, I had similar stories from other no-nonsense types that they felt a presence, or saw people walk by the front windows of the console (there was a super narrow catwalk by one window where the walkway was elevated, where you can see someones feet if they walked by, but there was really nowhere to go from that catwalk... It was for fixing insulation on steam pipes that ran over the console).
Also common, folks told of a Chief that would wake you if you fell asleep on watch in the CHENGS chair (which, surprisingly enough, was comfy, so falling asleep at 3am with the droning buzz of the console was easy to do!). Thing is, its the job of ALL khakis (Chiefs and Officers) to wake you if youre asleep on watch, but this one, no one had ever seen before. People would think we had a new chief, or after he left question just who he was, and why he was in our space.
Our Shaft Alley (yeah, I said it) was generally creepy as hell, you never quite felt alone down there, and people reported seeing spectral shadows moving about down there as well. The shaft alley was a six story ladder (a real ladder, not a stairs-ladder) down into a space that was maybe the size of a double wide trailer with the ships shaft (attached to the propeller) running through it. The path to the shaft alley was a rickety catwalk right smack in the middle of the ships hangar bay. It was shoddily constructed even when it was in its prime, and once you navigated this gauntlet of tetanus, you had the reward of your six story climb. However, whether due to design flaw or someone with a sick sense of humor, the light switch that controlled all of Shaft Alley... Was at the TOP of the six foot ladder. So just anybody could come and flick that switch and your happy butt was in the dark, and good luck climbing up that ladder. Thing is, no matter how ninja footed you were, you were making sound if you were trying to goof with someone. People reported having someone turn the lights off on them, and they start climbing the ladder, and demanding they cut the light back on. The light comes back on... They finish their climb, and there's no one around.
I never felt comfortable in certain parts of the ship. I told folks that there were places on the ship that I just WOULD NOT GO. Something just weirded me out in these locations. Without telling others what these places were, people would ask me...
"The lower V?" (Sort of like our ships basement, but this is where Morale Welfare and Recreation put our fun stuff... So the place was well-lit, open, and designed to be a warm and inviting environment...)
"Behind the fuel oil pump?" (Oddly, this was in the mainspace, and it was literally just on the other side of a machine only mildly larger than your oven... It, too, was well-lit...)
There were other places on the ship where I just didn't feel welcome, or I felt like I had an extra presence watching me play Playstation over my shoulder.
The O-2 deck took them all, though...
During your time as a Sailor, youre expected to mess crank. What that means is, that since the Galley workers cook your food and feed you, you're supposed to help lighten their load by helping them out for a few months. Staying overnight to chop onions, making sure things are clean, things like that. Granted they never came down and thanked us for making the ship move through the water by fixing the engine, but that's neither here nor there.
I lucked out. I got to spend my crank time taking out officer's trash, and keeping their hallways clean. It was long and thankless work due to the tyrant watching over the process.
The Navy is saturated in tradition. The O-2 level stood for Officers, level 2... It was the second floor for officers, and where they slept and did whatever else officers did. Enlisted personnel were not supposed to be up there for any reason. Often I had to explain why I was on THEIR level to passers by.
One night, as I was finishing my cleaning (I still had things to do before I was "done") I was struck with an overwhelming compulsion to run. To just haul it as fast as I could out of there. I saw nothing that caused me to want to run, I didn't hear anything. It was just an urge... The same urge I think that rabbits feel when they know a fox is near, but cannot see it. That was the most scared I had ever been in my life, and do you remember what I said earlier about all the doors having dogs? Could you imagine having to run from something that you are SURE was right on your tail but could not see, and having to undog and redog every door in your way? The strange thing was, I ceased to feel that urge, like a weight being removed, the SECOND I crossed the limit to the O-2 level and crossed into enlisted territory. I did not experience that again during the rest of my time cranking.
USS Saipan, LHA-2:
Posted by: Rook ()
Ahoy Swordsaint,
I too am a former sailor... Enlisted in 1987 Retired 2007. I know of the spaces you speak of. My second ship was a Knox Class Frigate the USS Trippe FF 1075... It was Old... Ragged and falling apart. It too had spaces that made you look over your shoulder. I would not be surprised if there were both residual haunts as well as intelligent haunts aboard the former USS Saipan. The residuals could be the walking on the deck plates... The intelligent... The unknown Chief who would wake folks... If no one was ever written up for sleeping on watch after being caught by this unknown individual that says volumes about his being non-corporal.
Some of these 'feelings' you experienced may have even been due to High EMF levels... Just imagine the levels it could reach in some of those spaces.
The Trippe had 'her' bad spots as well... While in dry dock our engineers were working down in the bilges... Scraping and Painting... Many of them reported the feeling of being watched or of hearing footsteps during this maintenance period... A friend of mine, a MM2 (Machinist Mate Second Class) was working a needle gun one night when he felt it 'punch through' the deck... He reached down and sure enough he felt a hole he had created with the needle gun... Unnerved by the fact the ships hull was that thin... Coupled with the felling of being watched MM2 'FREAKED OUT' when a hand grabbed his... MM2 bolted out of the space and it took a week before he would go back into the space.
A yard worker, working on scaffolding rigged around the outside of the ship so the hull could be scraped and painted had reached up and grabbed his hand when he put it through the hull he had caused.
I believe each and every US Ship could very well be Haunted...
Happy Spirit... When it comes to Decommissioned Ships it depends... Some go on to become Historic Sites and or Museums... Most go to the scrapyard... But a piece of each one gets 'broken off' (Ok cut off) and sent to what are called the Plank Owners... These are the members of the 1st Crew of the ship, the crew that Commissioned it. Some sit in a scrapyard others are recycled... And the BB's those big old Battle Ships with their 16 inch guns... Well they keep getting 'mothballed' and the retrofitted and used again...
Swordsaint...Thank you for sharing this and thank you for your service.
Here is some info on my old ship for you landlubbers
USS Trippe (FF-1075) was a Knox class frigate of the US Navy, built at Westwego, Louisiana, was commissioned in mid-September 1970. In July 1971, following shakedown training in the Caribbean area and a surveillance mission off Haiti, she entered the Boston Naval Shipyard for overhaul and installation of the Basic Point Defense Missile System, which featured short-range "Sea Sparrow" guided missiles in an eight-round launcher on her afterdeck. Trippe was the Navy's first destroyer-type ship to receive this later-widespread contribution to shipboard protection against air and missile attack. The first months of 1972 were spent testing her new weapons and participating in exercises. In June the ship passed through the Panama Canal en route to Southeast Asian waters, where she provided Vietnam War aircraft carrier escort and naval gunfire support services during July and August. Trippe then went to the Indian Ocean and Persian Gulf areas, visiting many ports in a region that would see increasing U.S. Navy activity in the coming decades. She returned to the U.S. East Coast in December 1972, after a deployment that had taken her completely around the World.
During an overhaul in 1973, Trippe was refitted to allow her to operate the larger helicopters of the Light Airborne Multi-Purpose System (LAMPS). From August of that year into January 1974 she made her first tour with the Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean. A second cruise to the Indian Ocean and Middle East followed in January–May 1975. Reclassified in mid-year as a frigate, with the new designation FF-1075, she spent the last three months of 1975 and the first five of 1976 in shipyard hands. Trippe returned to the Middle East Force in March–July 1977 and went back to the Mediterranean for her second Sixth Fleet deployment in April–October 1978. The next year she cruised around South American as part of exercise "Unitas XX" and operated off West Africa.
The busy frigate made four more Mediterranean deployments during the following decade, in 1982, 1983, 1985 and 1987. Some of her 1983 tour also involved visiting ports in West Africa, the southern Atlantic, and the Indian Ocean. In the mid-'80s she was also modernized, receiving a seakeeping-enhancing bulwark on her bow and the Close-In Weapons System. The latter's fast shooting radar-controlled 20 mm gun mount was installed on her afterdeck to improve her defenses against cruise missiles. She spent most of the late 1980s and the early 1990s operating in the Caribbean Sea area, with counter-narcotics service taking much of her effort. At the end of July 1992, Trippe was decommissioned and leased to Greece. The Hellenic Navy placed her in commission in April 1993 as Thraki, and she was formally sold to that nation in 2001. A major lube oil fire occurred while at Naval Dock Crete in 2003 melting the superstructure and destroying the interior of the ship.
In April 1989, the USS Trippe collided with fleet oiler Platte off the coast of Jacksonville, Florida. A crewmember, Michael MacHado, who served during the collision, indicated of his tour on the Trippe that he “could not forget colliding with the USS Platte and limping into Charleston with a 18 degree list to starboard.”
USS Trippe was named in honor of Lieutenant John Trippe (1785-1810), a hero of the Tripolitan War.
Posted by: Yvpn9 ()
Anyone who's ever lived in the Washington DC area knows you should stay away from New York Avenue at night. Not because of ghosts but it goes through some pretty rough neighborhoods. Going on New York Ave was a shortcut for me at the time and I decided to risk it at 3 am (doors locked just in case), I figured all the street weirdoes would have gone to sleep by then, there were still quite a few of them around though.
At a stoplight a homeless looking man walked up in front of my car and just stood there, I got scared to say the least. When the light turned green he didn't move. I honked and he didn't react in any way. I was the only car on the street so I backed up so I could go around him, that's when I saw he didn't have legs. He was just floating in the air. I've never been so scared in my life. I drove away as fast as I could and I have never taken that shortcut again after sunset.
Posted by: Strange Going Ons ()
Okay since I moved in to my new apartment in December this weird thing has been happening. At 2:30 am the phone rings I pick up and I just get the dial tone. Right after I pick up I hear a sound from the front door. I go out and my briefcase is knocked over. This happens about once a week on different days. My girlfriend who sleeps right next to me in the bed doesn't hear the phone ring only I do which makes me think it's not really ringing just in my head. But the knocked over briefcase is weird. I tried not picking up the phone and then my briefcase does not get knocked over. I've had my girlfriend lock the bedroom door and hide the key before bed and have her go with me and check the briefcase after the phone call, and yes the briefcase is knocked over.
This is real and it is happening often not sure what to do about it?.
A Haunting in Haymarket ***Updated***
Posted by: A Haunting in Haymarket ()
A Haunting in Haymarket Wrote:
> I lived in Fairfax County for much of my life, and
> recently moved out to Haymarket about 2 years ago.
> We rent a house out in Piedmont and I think its
> haunted. Some of our roomates say they have seen
> or heard spirits moving around downstairs during
> the day when no else in home. The owner has a
> satellite clock that automatically corrects it’s
> time when syncing up to the satellite in orbit.
> This one is very odd, because once and a while, it
> will be waaaaay off by about 8 to 10 hours. It’s
> pretty creepy to see the arms of the clock moving
> quickly to correct itself. I myself have dreams
> about a witch in our closet, coming out and saying
> scary or odd things to me. All in all though not
> much has happened since we’ve been there, that
> is until last night.
> We have a young son that is 18 months old, last
> night he was playing with the roomates downstairs
> in the large family room we have. The napkin
> holder in the kitchen jumped off the kitchen table
> and landed on the floor next to my son. (See the
> attached picture below). As you can see it’s of
> pretty solid weight and is flat, so it wouldn’t
> tip over. The only other thing is that one of the
> teenagers that lives with us, says that she feels
> like a creepy presence has started to follow her.
> She said that she was in Walmart one day and he
> felt the presence there in the store standing
> right next to her (too close). We take pictures
> all the time in the house and nothing unusual has
> showed up on them. However, there does seem to be
> some negativity in air (some of the roomates
> lately in the past 6-8 months) haven’t been
> getting along and get into yelling matches usually
> over nothing.
> The owner is an Asian man, and the reason I say
> that is, the house has several “Feng Shui
> deflectors” on it (see picture below). I looked
> them up and A “Feng Shui deflector” contains a
> small Bagua mirror in it’s center. The Bagua
> mirror protects and adjusts negative Chi directed
> at the house from outside forces and repel evil
> spirits and people with bad intentions towards
> you. There are at least 4 to 5 of them on the
> house that I have seen all on the outside
> (according to tradition it’s very bad to hang
> them up inside). I’ve asked him if the house is
> haunted and he didn’t come out and say yes, nor
> did he say no. He did admit that there were some
> small occurances that he couldn’t easily
> explain, but they were very few and far between.
> He raised a family in the house and later he and
> his wife moved to Maryland.
So tonight, while my son was downstairs playing with the other kids, I saw the ghost that lives in our house. My wife and I were in our bedroom watching her chick flick shows. I was a little bored and was just staring out our door which faces the bathroom door which was open. I saw what appeared to be a short old woman (possibly Asian) with short, curly black hair. I think she was rushing out of the bathroom to watch the kids downstairs playing and didn't realize my wife and I were still in our bedroom. From the upstairs the area is open so you can look down and see the foyer on one side and the large family room from the other side. The ghost seemed surprised to see me looking at her, and moved away from our door at a high rate of speed. My wife and I weren't scared at all, and in fact it seemed cute and hilarious.
About an hour after it happened, I saw an orange light (similar to those crappy flashlights from the 70's that were very weak powered) come on in the bathroom (reflected off the mirror facing the tube) and then go off right afterwards. There was no one in the bathroom.
In the past few months, the feeling of negativity has gone down some, but is still here. When I saw the ghost, I didn't get a negative or scary feeling. It was more like watching an old Asian lady running late to Bingo. LOL. Any insights from anybody on this?
Posted by: danielin dryden ()
> In Dryden there is a woman that walks the roads
> dressed in red. When you pick her up she just
> looks out the window, and says take me home. When
> you say where she says down next to R&R. When you
> go down that way you have to go past a graveyard,
> when you're by it she says thank you and then
> she's gone. This has happened for a lot of years
> here in Dryden. I heard that she was just recently
> seen again.
This is true. The lady in red has been spotted again. It's the same woman that will stop you and ask for a ride. When you ask her where she is going she says down by R and R. When you go down that way you have to go by a graveyard, and when you get by the graveyard she says ''stop here.'' She gets out of the car, and she vanishes.
Posted by: meghan ()
Last spring, I went on a trip to Washington DC with my husband to look at all the landmarks. In front of the capitol building there was a man wearing a 1700 style costume with the white curly wig and everything. I was going to go up to him and ask him if he wouldn't mind having his picture taken with me. I started walking towards him and he just vanished into nothing. My husband was there also and he didn't see anything.
Has anyone else seen this man?
Posted by: dc trip ()
meghan Wrote:
> Last spring, I went on a trip to Washington DC
> with my husband to look at all the landmarks. In
> front of the capitol building there was a man
> wearing a 1700 style costume with the white curly
> wig and everything. I was going to go up to him
> and ask him if he wouldn't mind having his picture
> taken with me. I started walking towards him and
> he just vanished into nothing. My husband was
> there also and he didn't see anything.
> Has anyone else seen this man?
When I was about ten years old my mom had a meeting in D. C. Well on the last day of the meeting the members of the group could bring their kids to a picnic and then we could go on a tour of the memorials.
At the picnic there were other kids there too. They were younger than us (my brother Malcolm and i) so they were scared easily. The place that the picnic was at was the octagon. My mom told us that it was haunted and that some people can see a girl falling off the balconey.
We saw that and it scared us so bad that we ran away but we went back about 5 minutes later. When we looked in the second time we saw a face in the window of one of the doors. It looked like it had glasses and it just stared at us.
I was really scared by then. About 2 minutes later we saw somebody come out of the building. We asked him if he saw anyone in there but (this is the scaryist part) he disappeared. He was a ghost! Only us kids saw it.
I am now 17 and I still can get this out of my mind.
Posted by: Déjà vu? ()
Strange Going Ons Wrote:
> Okay since I moved in to my new apartment in
> December this weird thing has been happening. At
> 2:30 am the phone rings I pick up and I just get
> the dial tone. Right after I pick up I hear a
> sound from the front door. I go out and my
> briefcase is knocked over. This happens about once
> a week on different days. My girlfriend who sleeps
> right next to me in the bed doesn't hear the phone
> ring only I do which makes me think it's not
> really ringing just in my head. But the knocked
> over briefcase is weird. I tried not picking up
> the phone and then my briefcase does not get
> knocked over. I've had my girlfriend lock the
> bedroom door and hide the key before bed and have
> her go with me and check the briefcase after the
> phone call, and yes the briefcase is knocked
> over.
> This is real and it is happening often not sure
> what to do about it?.
When I read your post it literally sent a chill down my spine. Something has been happening on and off with me since I moved a few months ago. One day, I was taking a morning shower and someone called my name from the living room. I live alone and I thought I must have left the door unlocked and one of my buddies must have let themselves in, I couldn't recognize the voice though. I yelled out 'hold on a minute I'll be out in a minute'. So I finished my shower and wrapped a towel around myself and went out to the living room. There was nobody there and the door was locked. I live on the 3rd floor so you can't climb in through a window besides they were all closed as well.
I have a common name so I figured I must have heard a neighbor calling another Mike. I went to the kitchen to get some breakfast and then I saw that my fridge was wide open and all the food was neatly stacked on the floor in front of the open fridge. Something weird is definitely going on in my apartment. I'm not scared of it but I'm looking for a new place.
Posted by: kwhLH ()
Déjà vu? Wrote:
> Strange Going Ons Wrote:
> > Okay since I moved in to my new apartment in
> > December this weird thing has been happening.
> > 2:30 am the phone rings I pick up and I just
> > the dial tone. Right after I pick up I hear a
> > sound from the front door. I go out and my
> > briefcase is knocked over. This happens about
> once
> > a week on different days. My girlfriend who
> sleeps
> > right next to me in the bed doesn't hear the
> phone
> > ring only I do which makes me think it's not
> > really ringing just in my head. But the knocked
> > over briefcase is weird. I tried not picking up
> > the phone and then my briefcase does not get
> > knocked over. I've had my girlfriend lock the
> > bedroom door and hide the key before bed and
> > her go with me and check the briefcase after
> > phone call, and yes the briefcase is knocked
> > over.
> > This is real and it is happening often not sure
> > what to do about it?.
> When I read your post it literally sent a chill
> down my spine. Something has been happening on and
> off with me since I moved a few months ago. One
> day, I was taking a morning shower and someone
> called my name from the living room. I live alone
> and I thought I must have left the door unlocked
> and one of my buddies must have let themselves in,
> I couldn't recognize the voice though. I yelled
> out 'hold on a minute I'll be out in a minute'. So
> I finished my shower and wrapped a towel around
> myself and went out to the living room. There was
> nobody there and the door was locked. I live on
> the 3rd floor so you can't climb in through a
> window besides they were all closed as well.
> I have a common name so I figured I must have
> heard a neighbor calling another Mike. I went to
> the kitchen to get some breakfast and then I saw
> that my fridge was wide open and all the food was
> neatly stacked on the floor in front of the open
> fridge. Something weird is definitely going on in
> my apartment. I'm not scared of it but I'm looking
> for a new place.
Seems like to me that in both cases, you could take these issues to the landlord. There might be some kind of history to these apartments, either by themselves or the entire apartment complex.
Can someone explain this to me. Why is it that if ghosts are real, we only see ones from the last couple hundred years or so? What about ghosts from 1,000/10,000/20,000 years ago? Granted, the world was less populated, but still...this seams like a bias to "newer ghosts" which makes me doubt the existance of spirits.
> Can someone explain this to me. Why is it that if
> ghosts are real, we only see ones from the last
> couple hundred years or so? What about ghosts from
> 1,000/10,000/20,000 years ago? Granted, the world
> was less populated, but still...this seams like a
> bias to "newer ghosts" which makes me doubt the
> existance of spirits.
There are a number of different theories. I suspect the answer lies in the surrounding environment. Ghosts are not humans anymore, but seem to be some sort of energy that seems to "Cling" to objects, structures, etc. around them. I suspect that if you separate, remove, or destroy those objects and take away any useful sources of energy, ghosts tend to either disppear or become visible less frequently. As for ghosts of people, creatures who have been dead for very long periods of time, some sightings of prehistoric looking creatures in the world could be ghosts. For example the Thunderbirds, Pterodactyls, etc. and those might be tied to the lands they used to inhabit. For me, I don't have the luxury of dis-belief. I've lived in a haunted house and have seen a UFO up close. I get chills thinking about what other things are out there that "shouldn't" exist also.
Posted by: Mount Vernon sighting ()
I was in Northern Virginia in the summer of 2008 with my family. On one of the days we visited Mount Vernon the site of George Washington's house and farm. We just entered his house with a bunch of people and were listening to the tour guide.
I was standing off on my own looking into the roped off doorways of a dining room and living room. I was looking ahead and listening to the tour guide when I felt a light tap on my left shoulder. A stranger was far over to my left blankly looking at the tour guide. My family was way over to my right also unaware of anything. No one was behind me, just a wall and the roped off dining room. I think maybe a maid or slave of George Washington's could have been trying to politely get my attention or George Washington himself.
Later in the tour we saw Washington's bedroom which the tour guide said he died in due to a fever or I think it might have been pneumonia. I told my family about what happened later on, they thought I was kidding at first but realized I was being serious. When I got back home to Massachusetts I researched Mount Vernon and discovered it's common place to have paranormal experiences. Some people had even seen a full apparition of Washington riding his white horse on the farm.
It was a very interesting way to experience history.
Posted by: Jaime ()
We grew up in Front Royal and we lived off Rivermont Dr. The house my father Billy built was definitely haunted, there were so many things that happened. And I wasn't the only one who experienced these things, my brothers and mom and cousins also saw and heard things.
Front Royal used to be called hells town for a reason.
Posted by: Ghostbuster ()
The theory I liked best was that most ghosts are "apparitions", which are emotional resonances that permeate the matter of a specific place, like a recording on magnetic tape. When a person who's sensitive to this phenomenon comes into proximity with a haunted location, they trigger a playback of the "recording" which tickles the neurons and synapses in their brains and leads to the highly subjective experience that most ghost encounters are.
This also explains why you don't experience ghosts from a thousand or two thousand or ten thousand years ago. Just like with any recording, the signal eventually degrades and ultimately fades away. (Although it'd be cool to think that you could see the ghosts of mammoths and cavemen.)
The biggest hole in this theory is that the recorded signal should be strongest shortly after the traumatic, emotional event, but I haven't heard any stories about something like Sandy Hook Elementary School being haunted.
Posted by: VvuV7 ()
Ghostbuster Wrote:
> The biggest hole in this theory is that the
> recorded signal should be strongest shortly after
> the traumatic, emotional event, but I haven't
> heard any stories about something like Sandy Hook
> Elementary School being haunted.
I noticed when my mother passed away, we had activity in our house until the day she was buried. (We could hear her calling my father's name through the air vents in the house, reflections off the glass doors and windows, etc.
Posted by: Maybe ()
I have read accounts of people in England encountering ghosts from Roman times and earlier, but such accounts are very rare, I suspect because they are more like recordings that simply wear out over time.
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"Flabby" in Feelers Show at The BCA
Friday, October 9, 2015 6:00 PM 18:00
The Boston Center for the Arts (BCA) presents Feelers, the 24th installment of the BCA Drawing Show, this year featuring work by 56 artists. In Feelers, curator Susan Metrican considers the possibilities of existing in a two-dimensional reality through drawing’s inherent encounter with flatness.
The exhibition draws its title from Edwin Abbott Abbott’s novel Flatland, a 19th century sci-fi examination of dimensions in which Abbott describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures. Metrican notes that in this novel, “the squares, octagons, straight lines and so on are all governed by the rules of their flat world, and their behaviors and customs reflect their limited reality as they can comprehend it. In Flatland, to be a ‘feeler’ is to determine one’s surroundings by reaching out to touch it with appendages.”
It is this kind of touching, testing and searching that unites the work in the exhibition. Feelers brings together a group of artists, works and practices that feature artists’ sensitivity to materials, subject matter and the ability to use feelers to explore through practice and ideas. Using the principles of drawing as its ground, the show opens up to gestures of flatness, line, touch and emotion. In Feelers, the work considers the line that is drawn between the experience of the three-dimensional world or the multi-dimensional interior world to a separate and exterior surface.
Exhibition curator Susan Metrican is an artist whose work includes painting, sculpture, and video. She is a co-founder of kijidome, an experimental collaborative and project space in Boston, which is a recipient of the 2015 James and Audrey Foster Prize awarded by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. In 2014, she had solo exhibitions at Boston University and Proof Gallery and was a participant at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. In 2013 she was the sübSamsøn artist-in-residence at Samson Projects. Metrican has been featured in group and solo exhibitions in New York, DC, Vermont, Chicago and holds a BFA from the Kansas City Art Institute and a MFA from Massachusetts College of Art and Design. She currently lives and works in Boston, MA.
Jennifer Amadeo-Holl, Erika Baglyas, Diana Behl, David Bligh, Dan Boardman, Adina Bricklin, Luke Buffenmyer, Theodore Cantrell, Kate Castelli, Xinyi Cheng, Brian Cirmo, Heather Clark, Barbara E. Cohen, Corey Corcoran, Ruth Daniels, Ian Deleón, Samantha Fields, Rachel Frank, Ariel Freiberg, Gabriela Gamboa, Brian Christopher Glaser, Carly Glovinski, Zachary Herrmann, Nona Hershey, Erika Hess, Kolbeinn Hugi, Vanessa Irzyk, Heather Kapplow, Heidi Lau, Sarah Lubin, Julie Martini, Timothy McCool, Valle Medina, Andrew Mowbray, Nancy Murphy Spicer, Jenene Nagy, Rebecca Newhouse, Liz Nofziger, Marcus Payzant, Diana Jean Puglisi, Carol Radsprecher, Benjamin Reynolds, Ellen Rich, Jennifer Schmidt, Lenny Schnier, Mark Schoening, Gary Setzer, Jim Shrosbree, Garric Simonsen, Jill Slosburg-Ackerman, Eric Stefanski, Willie Stewart, Alain Urrutia, Matthew Whitney, Fanny Wickström, Maxine Yalovitz-Blankenship
Speaking on Art Week Boston Panel: Change, Connection and Community
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Contributor Picks: Labour
By Chris Duncan, Pamela Howard, Dimitri A.C. Ly and Nick Ouellette | Leave a comment
Happy Labour Day! To celebrate hard work across the globe, our contributors give their labour-themed recommendations, touching on a wide range of jobs, from sweating it as a New York sous-chef to, uh, teaching ballroom dance at a summer camp… Really?!
© Copyright Random House
Christopher’s Pick:
Heat (2006)
I’ve never watched Master Chef or any of its spinoffs, which seem to reproduce faster than Tribbles. Still, there’s something about life in a professional kitchen that fascinates me. The hours are grueling; the slang is arcane; the work is fastidious and physically demanding; and the sign of a truly good day is that plates are empty and you’ve got nothing left to show for your success. Just the same, I consider Anthony Bourdain’s Kitchen Confidential an obvious genre classic and would recommend its litany of debauchery wholeheartedly. If you can, track down the audio book read by the author. Alternately, you could pick up Gabrielle Hamilton’s Blood, Bones and Butter for its literary merits and expert account of the path to opening a restaurant.
My true recommendation, though, blends both the high and low. Subtitled “An Amateur’s Adventures as Kitchen Slave, Line Cook, Pasta-Maker, and Apprentice to a Dante-Quoting Butcher in Tuscany,” Bill Buford’s Heat chronicles what may sensitively be described as a well-planned mid-life crisis wherein a budding foodie quits his prestigious job and throws himself into the fire of a real kitchen. A former New Yorker fiction editor, Buford brings pedigree to his own writing while maintaining a self-effacing tone. His account is exhausting, but it can thankfully be read at leisure over a nice meal and a glass of wine.
© Copyright Rapid Eye Movies
Dimitri’s Pick:
The Blessing Bell (2002)
You hear it a lot these days: “At least, I’ve still got my job!” In the current economy, losing employment can feel like a kick in the groin or five. I can only imagine how devastating it must seem in Japan, where work isn’t just a means to pay the bills but a life-long commitment, a source of pride, and, to some extent, a way of life. I don’t mean to reduce the Japanese culture to a tired stereotype. Rather, I want to provide context for one of my all-time favourite flicks: Tanaka Hiroyuki’s The Blessing Bell (a.k.a. Kôfuku No Kane), which tells of a factory worker (Terajima Susumu) losing his job and taking a long walk to clear his head.
No, really, that’s it. Along the way, our hero witnesses a criminal’s final moments, goes to jail, befriends a young widow, and finds a winning lottery ticket, but he never speaks a word. Iragashi is shellshocked, you see, struggling to readapt his values to a difficult new reality. Like 2009’s Up in the Air (another brilliant comedy), Tanaka’s film criticises how the modern work culture has come to define our sense of worth. However, instead of lashing out at our corporate overlords, The Blessing Bell does so by embracing its characters’ humanity in such a charming and profound manner that we can’t help but want to protect it. I feel I wouldn’t be doing my job if I didn’t encourage you to seek this movie out immediately (or didn’t conclude with this lame play on words).
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Pamela’s Pick:
Dirty Dancing (1987)
I know: what does a movie about vacation have to do with Labor Day? Well, when the film in question is Dirty Dancing, a number of arguments can be made. For one, this 1987 sleeper hit about an introverted girl (Jennifer Grey) falling in love with her dance instructor (Patrick Swayze) at a Catskills holiday camp provides a blunt contrast between the plight of the working class and the leisurely existence of those known today as the one percent. The film also highlights the hard labour required to master a discipline like dancing, something that money and brains alone can’t grant you.
However, despite its origins (who cares about seventy dead or injured Pullman strikers?), I feel Labor Day largely serves to demarcate the end of the summer. In this vein, a movie that celebrates the decadent beauty of summer ennui and dissects the end of innocence seems à propos. Ultimately, though, Dirty Dancing just makes you want to smile, dance, and shed nostalgic tears without fully understanding why. In sync with the reason for the season, the film epitomises the bittersweet nature of summer’s end. Also, yes, I was kidding about my insensitivity to the 1894 Pullman strike.
© Copyright Northway Games
Nicolas’ Pick:
Rebuild 2 (2011)
When you want to take a five-minute break from work, nothing beats a free online Flash game like Sarah Northway’s Rebuild 2. Just load it, start playing, and realise half an hour later that you should probably get back to work. Like so many of its kind, the strategy-based simulator takes place in a world overrun by the living dead. As the mayor of one of the few remaining cities, you must search for survivors, provide food and shelter, expand your small, fortified district, and defend it from hordes of undead ghouls. Keeping up the morale of your citizens also proves capital, as does conducting scientific research. You see, surviving the zombie apocalypse isn’t as easy as sending a few brave souls on suicide missions to the unknown.
The balance between expansion and protection is a tricky one, especially at the beginning of the game. As you send your loyal townspeople on scouting missions, scavenging runs, and zombie hunts, you’ll likely think to yourself, “Just one more turn! Just one more turn!” until you realise you’ve had twenty one-more-turns and an hour has gone by. Why do you think it took me a full afternoon to write little over two hundred words? In the spirit of these Labor Day recommendations, I invite you to try Rebuild 2 at the office, and, when your boss blocks Internet access for the entire department owing to low productivity, you can thank Idiomanic.
Category: Contributor Picks | Tags: Contributor Picks, Dirty Dancing, Heat, Labour, Rebuild 2, The Blessing Bell
About Chris Duncan
Literary Correspondent: With a sordid past involving illustrations, libraries, and subtitles, Chris has reinvented himself as a specialist in the liberal insertion of puns. Like anyone working with words, he hides an embarrassing novel in his drawer but not in his drawers.
About Pamela Howard
Podcast Hostess: A goddess to some but just strange to everyone else, Pamela has a joint B.A. in English and history. This, along with her children and her Star Wars fetish, informs everything she thinks but mercifully not everything she writes.
About Nick Ouellette
Video Game Correspondent: Nicolas or, as his friends like to call him, Dr Nick has a PhD in physics as well as an unhealthy obsession with video games. He won the 2006 Nininger Award for his work in astrophysics and hates vegetarians as a general rule.
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International Skeptics Forum » General Topics » Religion and Philosophy
Is the Roman Catholic Church in Freefall?
Tags !MOD BOX WARNING! , church scandals , George Pell , roman catholic church , sex scandals
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11th October 2017, 01:48 PM #361
Originally Posted by abaddon
What exactly is a "popewas"?
A ridiculous diversion.
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Originally Posted by Thor 2
Don't know why you are splitting hairs about this. The version you have quoted says the same thing as the one I did essentially. Here's another I found from a Catholic website:
Now which of these is the real thing then?
I would assume the Pope would have a look at different translations and give the nod if they were correct. Hang on though ....... if he were not doing his ex cathedra thing (which he does very sparingly), his opinion would not hold that much weight would it?
If he were not? You did not read your Wikipedia article at all.
It is fine, we get it
Originally Posted by The Big Dog
Why would I have any need for wiki? I was born and raised RCC.
Who is General Failure? And why is he reading my hard drive?
...love and buttercakes...
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Craig B
Um, you might want to direct that question to the person quoting scripture in the first place to "support" a bastardized and completely false assertion about Catholic doctrine that the Popewas "using his divinely inspired judgment promotes others"
Which was subsequently falsely denied, and which fact was curiously was not addressed by any fellow travelers.
Our atheism, right or wrong, huh folks?
I'll direct the question to you if you don't mind. Because you are the one who referenced
The actual Catholic bible:
Matt 16 18-20
and I asked why I should be impressed by such a source unless I was already a Catholic. The quoted verse has nothing to do with Pius IX anyway, who declared himself infallible because his territorial possessions were about to be annexed by Italy.
And I pointed out that he was running a Ghetto for Jews right up to that time. The only one left in Europe in those years. That's not infallible, is it?
And I quoted sources for this, and I quoted and commented on the encyclical Vehementer nos, which is a monstrosity; and your only response is "huh folks". Do you wonder sometimes why religion is losing its grip on society in general, in the more advanced countries at least?
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I was replying to Thor, Thor cited Wikipedia.
And I am citing the actual RCC as taught to the gullible masses.
Errr no, I didn't say that. I was just saying the Pope should have drawn on his non error making ability. I am not implying the big finger was coming down from the sky giving specific instructions on the issue.
Maybe I can help out here. Just to clarify the issue if as you are suggesting the Pope can only do the being infallible thing when it is ex cathedra.
From the Catholic Bible:
"And I say to you, that you are Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. "
"And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound, even in heaven. And whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed, even in heaven.”
Perhaps should be changed to:
"And I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven. And whatever you shall bind on earth shall be bound, even in heaven. And whatever you shall loose on earth shall be loosed, even in heaven. That is when you are speaking ex cathedra.”
Glad I could help with that.
Originally Posted by Craig B
I'll direct the question to you if you don't mind. Because you are the one who referenced and I asked why I should be impressed by such a source unless I was already a Catholic. The quoted verse has nothing to do with Pius IX anyway, who declared himself infallible because his territorial possessions were about to be annexed by Italy.
Please read the thread.
Cool, then you should have no trouble explaining it to him.
"Gullible masses".
Thor 2
Location: Brisbane, Aust.
What are you on about?
My argument is that the Catholic church is in trouble because the Catholic clergy are found wanting. A clergy that have enjoyed a special status in Christendom, because they are seen by their flock as an emissary, between themselves and God. A clergy that forgives sins and proscribes punishment on God's behalf. A clergy that manages to transform wine and wafers into the actual blood and body of Christ. A clergy ordained by God as it is precided over by the very rock that Jesus ordained as his spokesman on Earth. Someone incapable of error.
Other ex Catholics have written on these pages about the reverence accorded Priests in there former churches - a reverence not seen in many other Christian orders. Evangelical preachers are routinely caught out as sinners but only need confess there misdeeds and all is well. The congregations just swell all the more. My contention is this does not work in the Catholic Church because of the special status of priests. Just look at Craig B #354 quotation of Pius X.
Now we find from you, and the sources you quote, the Pope is capable of error most of the time, because he just doesn't use the God given power bestowed on him. He just hauls this out every couple of hundred years.
Thinking is a faith hazard.
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I already explained, as did the very Wikipedia article upon which our correspondent relied, that ex cathedra only related to issues of faith and not "promotions"
Of course, if it behooves the argument to assert that everything is divinely inspired (except when one lies and claims it was not said) one should expect that things like facts ain't gonna get in the way.
So you are unable to tell me why I should pay attention to what Matthew tells us Jesus said to Peter?
Rule of so.
Perhaps you should be paying attention to the post to which I was replying.
Straight from "Catholic Answers":
https://www.catholic.com/tract/papal-infallibility
I am now the full bottle on papal infallibility.
The Catholic Church’s teaching on papal infallibility is one which is generally misunderstood by those outside the Church. In particular, Fundamentalists and other "Bible Christians" often confuse the charism of papal "infallibility" with "impeccability." They imagine Catholics believe the pope cannot sin. Others, who avoid this elementary blunder, think the pope relies on some sort of amulet or magical incantation when an infallible definition is due.
Given these common misapprehensions regarding the basic tenets of papal infallibility, it is necessary to explain exactly what infallibility is not. Infallibility is not the absence of sin. Nor is it a charism that belongs only to the pope. Indeed, infallibility also belongs to the body of bishops as a whole, when, in doctrinal unity with the pope, they solemnly teach a doctrine as true. We have this from Jesus himself, who promised the apostles and their successors the bishops, the magisterium of the Church: "He who hears you hears me" (Luke 10:16), and "Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven" (Matt. 18:18).
It goes on for some pages. From my experience when something needs a great deal of explaining like this it is usually nonsensical to start with.
Last edited by Thor 2; 11th October 2017 at 03:44 PM.
Papal infaliabilty is generally misunderstood.
See: this thread.
Having read those few pages in "Catholic Answers" it is easy to understand why.
Do we agree that the infallibility thing is linked to:
"Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven"
If so can you list for me some of the binding that Popes have done in the last 100 years or so?
How about before we head down this frolic and detour we spend some time cleaning up the mess that was made in this thread by the contention that the promotion of Pell was divinely inspired?
It was not, papal infallibility has no application whatsoever to that situation, and the contention that it was is false.
Anyone have any further doubts before the goalposts get moved again?
Sorry, but I am an atheist. No way I am about to attempt to make excuses for the crossdressing child rapists. I leave that task to the faithful. Oddly, none of them have managed to do so.
It would seem not even by you.
Ah, that time of the thread, huh folks?
OK, I mentioned that I am an atheist, but was born and raised RCC.
You need to understand that there is a huge chasm between "official" RCC and what actually happens on the ground. This is the elephant in the room that TBD desperately avoids.
For example, what is the RCC position on contraception? Well, they are opposed to it in all it's forms, apart from the abacus method. They are quite happy to facilitate the spread of aids in Africa because god. And the Pope says so.
Find the ex-cathedra statement to that effect. You will search in vain. There is none.
Given that, the RCC congregation at large is quite free to ignore whatever the pope may say, and most do.
Take something more controversial, like abortion. The RCC is so vehemently opposed to to that, that they are willing to see women die needlessly. But still, no ex-cathedra statement about it.
It is simply the handiest of get-out clauses. One size fits nobody and the devil take the hindmost.
When the contraception thing reared it's ugly head, there were priests fulminating in the pulpit on the basis of authority they did not actually have.
I actually saw on such spittle flecked rant which provoked the entire congregation stand up and walk out mid sermon, which was astonishing, unprecedented.
But hey, what do I know, I only grew up in holy roman catholic Ireland in a catholic family, where sex was something that happened to other strange people.
Funny enough, also the first country to legalise same sex marriage, and by popular vote no less.
Boy it's hard to get this infallibility thing nailed down. All this talk about goalposts is not helping The Big Dog.
Have a look at the following extract from "Catholic Answers":
As Christians began to more clearly understand the teaching authority of the Church and of the primacy of the pope, they developed a clearer understanding of the pope’s infallibility. This development of the faithful’s understanding has its clear beginnings in the early Church. For example, Cyprian of Carthage, writing about 256, put the question this way, "Would the heretics dare to come to the very seat of Peter whence apostolic faith is derived and whither no errors can come?" (Letters 59 [55], 14). In the fifth century, Augustine succinctly captured the ancient attitude when he remarked, "Rome has spoken; the case is concluded" (Sermons 131, 10).
That Cyprian of Carthage and Augustine had the balls to tell it as it was. None of the wishy washy stuff we get today from the Vatican, a Vatican that leaves the no errors stuff alone.
Can we try another tack perhaps (no, not moving goalposts), and talk about Priests giving absolution.
When a priest gives absolution, on behalf of God, is he capable of error?
Would have loved to be there when that congregation walked out.
Boy it's hard to get this infallibility thing nailed down.
Nope, it is quite simple. This is wrong:
So the Pope, using his divinely inspired judgment promotes others, who in turn promote those below them. An uninterrupted chain so if mistakes are made the authenticity of the divineness must be in question..
oh well, we already got the denial, now lets take alook where the goalposts go to next?
Maybe they can catch up to the "elephant in the room..." LOLZ!!
Last edited by The Big Dog; 11th October 2017 at 05:23 PM.
It was really weird. There was no plan, there wasn't even the idea. Everyone simply got up and walked out, amusingly on moral grounds, they said after. I was floored. But it did give me pause for thought. If sheer masses of catholics walk out from moral indignation, where did that moral impulse come from? If it were god, then god is rejecting the RCC. If it was not god, then whence the motivation? Let me introduce Satan. Need to excuse the inexcusable? Cool, just invent yet another imaginary being, that will make everything better, right?
Brainache
Nasty Brutish and Tall
Re that commission that Peter supposedly got from Jesus, according to rational wiki:
Matthew 16:18-19[edit]
Matthew 16:18-19 reads, "And I say also unto thee, That thou art Peter, and upon this rock I will build my church; and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the keys of the kingdom of heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever thou shalt loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven." This evidence of Peter's leadership role among the apostles does not appear in the parallel gospel accounts and interrupts the natural flow of the passage. It is doubtful Jesus would have used "church" to refer to Christianity, since it did not yet exist, and in fact the only other verse in the gospels where the word is used is in Matthew 18:17, itself a likely interpolation. Additionally, the phrase "gates of hell" appears nowhere else in the Bible.
https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Bible_...tthew_16:18-19
I'm starting to suspect the whole question of apostolic succession is just a bit of ancient BS retcon. It's as if they based their authority on Greedo shooting first: It never happened.
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12th October 2017, 01:05 AM #386
Originally Posted by Brainache
Even if it did happen, how long did infallibility last? Until 1870 and beyond, as far as 1950? No, for it had evidently dissolved a mere four verses after Matt 16:19! In Matt 16:23 we read
But he turned, and said unto Peter, Get thee behind me, Satan: thou art an offence unto me: for thou savourest not the things that be of God, but those that be of men.
These are harsh and surprising words to be addressed to a person whom God has just made infallible. I don't think, on the strength of that, we need to bother our heads much about the ridiculous Bodily Assumption defined in 1950.
Why should any non-believer attend to the verse anyway?
No, for it had evidently dissolved a mere four verses after Matt 16:19! In Matt 16:23 we read
You won't answer anything, will you?
Why should a non believer believe in a verse because it comes from a source like Matthew, when it is contradicted four verses later anyway? This Petrine proclamation supposedly makes Pius IX infallible, eighteen centuries later, but it didn't even make Peter himself infallible, to whom it was allegedly addressed, eighteen days later!
LOL indeed.
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Why should a non believer believe in a verse because it comes from a source like Matthew, when it is contradicted four verses later anyway? This Petrine proclamation supposedly makes Pius IX infallible, eighteen centuries later, but it didn't even make Peter himself infallible, to whom it was allegedly addressed, eighteen days later?
Why indeed, but of course that does not stop anti-catholicists from doing so, rooting around for "inconsistencies" where none exist. heck your claims would not be out of place in a Chick Tract or on the web pages of Fred Phelps. But you have found another one that reflects what theologians call the “stumbling-block of the Cross” 1 Corinthians 1:18-25. Here Peter the man was concerned about his friend, Jesus the man. And Jesus said, to put it in the lingo even the kids can understand: Peter, stop opposing me and get behind the plan! Or to put it another way:
When Peter spoke rightly, Christ called him blessed, but when he was irrationally dismayed, and did not want Him to suffer, then Christ rebuked him and said, “Get thee behind Me, Satan.” “Satan” means “the adversary.” “Get thee behind Me,” that is, do not oppose Me, but follow My will. He calls Peter this because Satan, too, did not wish Christ to suffer. What He is saying, then, is this: with human reasoning you think that suffering does not befit Me, but you fail to understand that by this means God is accomplishing salvation and that this, on the contrary, greatly befits Me.
See Theophylact (a non-RCC!) as recounted in St Thomas Aquinas in Catena Aurea.
Must feel good to resurrect an argument that was rebutted 1000 years ago, and none of which you actually believe in the first place, huh?
Why indeed, but of course that does not stop anti-catholicists from doing so, rooting around for "inconsistencies" where none exist. heck ... Must feel good to resurrect an argument that was rebutted 1000 years ago, and none of which you actually believe in the first place, huh?
lol, heck, huh? What next, I wonder?
So, according to your source.
What He is saying, then, is this: with human reasoning you think that suffering does not befit Me, but you fail to understand that by this means God is accomplishing salvation and that this, on the contrary, greatly befits Me
So the first recipient of infallibility possesses only human reasoning, and therefore doesn't understand the means by which God accomplishes salvation. These are serious limitations in a person possessed of infallibility, I would think.
But I still take the view that in deciding if a person is infallible, one should pay attention to that person's deeds, not to the words allegedly addressed to another person two millennia earlier. Pius and his successors fail that infallibility test.
If one notes that the only use of Infallibility in practice has been to define the dogma of the Bodily Assumption in 1950, then it is of no relevance to the world at large. If God has in truth deigned to vouchsafe such a remarkable power to the Pope, why has He not made better use of it?
lol, heck, huh? What next, I wonder?...
If God has in truth deigned to vouchsafe such a remarkable power to the Pope, why has He not made better use of it?
I notice you complain about the single word "heck" but slice off the remainer of the sentence...
Your analysis of "human reasoning" predates the crucifixion, resurrection and Pentecost, the development of the Magisterium and the College of Cardinals. Plain cherry picking, folks.
Because it is a remarkable extraordinary power, that I have explained repeatedly. Here is another lesson from the wikipedia article:
In July 2005 Pope Benedict XVI stated during an impromptu address to priests in Aosta that: "The Pope is not an oracle; he is infallible in very rare situations, as we know."[22] Pope John XXIII once remarked: "I am only infallible if I speak infallibly but I shall never do that, so I am not infallible."[23] A doctrine proposed by a pope as his own opinion, not solemnly proclaimed as a doctrine of the Church, may be rejected as false, even if it is on a matter of faith and morals, and even more any view he expresses on other matters. A well-known example of a personal opinion on a matter of faith and morals that was taught by a pope but rejected by the Church is the view that Pope John XXII expressed on when the dead can reach the beatific vision.[24] The limitation on the pope's infallibility "on other matters" is frequently illustrated by Cardinal James Gibbons's recounting how the pope mistakenly called him Jibbons.[25]
but I guess the real question is why do you care? You don't believe a word of it anyway, right?
Last edited by The Big Dog; 12th October 2017 at 09:14 AM.
No but others do. Don't you care about others? You will recall that I have pointed out how on the basis, purely and admittedly, of pontifical authority the Church has imposed the disastrous encyclical Humanae vitaeWP on now two generations of suffering people. Agreed, Catholics in my home country, Scotland, and in other advanced countries, pay little attention to its terms, and are not normally sanctioned by the Church for their laxity; but the consequences in the third world, where sacerdotal authoritarianism, ignorance and superstition are more prevalent, have been malign in the highest degree.
Ah, the Third World "ignorance and superstition"? arguments based on racism, that was your go to? Damn.
But a bit off topic, because the Catholic Church is doing quite well there.
In what way is it an argument based on racism? I notice you've left my accusation of "sacerdotal authoritarianism" off your list. Why is that?
Yes, the Church does best where people have least. Or people have least in places where the Church does best; but to be fair, I think causality runs in the other order I put first.
I guess I was just blown away that that you went with the whole third world is filled with "ignorance and superstition."
I mean, claiming that "sacerdotal authoritarianism" "first" does not really do all that good of a job of walking back the whole racist "ignorance and superstition" that followed it, now does it, no matter what order you put it in, right?
Hey, I said a non-racist thing first, so that makes it pretty clear.
Say, thanks for posting today.
No. I didn't. I went with
... the third world, where sacerdotal authoritarianism, ignorance and superstition are more prevalent
as you will see if you look at my post again.
Heck, its no big deal. I might post again later, or tomorrow, OK, huh?
Yep, I saw that you did. Just to be clear you went with:
FIRST: sacerdotal authoritarianism!
SECOND: ignorance
THIRD: superstition
2 out of 3 racist, not really saved by your FIRST "point" but heck fire please don't let us forget :
"the third world, where sacerdotal authoritarianism, ignorance and superstition are more prevalent."
Heck, I look forward to more analysis about superstition, ignorance AND "sacerdotal authoritarianism" in the third world.
I made them three different colors in case any one got confused by the ignorance and superstition claims, and did not give proper heed to the equally important sacerdotal authoritarianism claim, which is also a thing.
Sorry to interrupt the friendly exchange between you guys but another news item of relevance is hot off the press.
It would seem the RCC are not changing much in spite of the rhetoric and breast beating by some. The "Good Name" of the church is floating in effluent and may be beyond resuscitation, but the coffers are being held in a tight grip.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-10-1...sation/9044660
Russell Clark is just one of many survivors of abuse who signed deeds of release, which prevent them from taking further legal action or requesting more compensation.
Catholic Church bodies are under fire for sticking to this and other historic settlements, signed with survivors of clergy child abuse for "pathetic" compensation sums despite the Royal Commission Into Institutional Responses To Child Abuse and the church's own bodies recommending they be scrapped in light of changes to the law.
"People in the past, hundreds of thousands of them, have had to sign these deeds for pathetic amounts of money — $20,000, $30,000, $40,000," lawyer Judy Courtin, who represents dozens of clergy abuse survivors including Mr Clark, told 7.30.
By contrast, in 2015 the Victorian Supreme Court awarded its largest ever damages payout to a survivor of institutional abuse — in this case, in an Orthodox Jewish school — for $1.2 million.
By the By, as I understand it these "deeds of release" were something Pell had a hand in, and were part of the "response' he championed, and was lauded for by his supporters.
So they settled the claim, signed a settlement document and now want to unroll that and get more money?
Is that something that is happening in all claims in Australia, are people who settled with doctors and hospitals and negligent drivers advocating for having their settlement agreements tossed aside because people who are going through trials now are getting more money?
"Catholic Church 'hiding behind the law' over historic abuse compensation claims." hiding behind the law? that is a hell of a way to put it by the ABC, or or it should be referred to as The Anti-Catholicism Broadcasting Network? Weren't they the ones who blatantly misrepresented the evidence on domestic violence in religious homes?
Yeah, that was them. Nice of them to act as press agent for the plaintiff's lawyer in support of her new case!
Maybe you missed this bit:
Yes that's right! Not only has the Royal Commission recommended the scrapping of the deeds of release but some of the "church's own bodies" agree.
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Hindu marriage ties non-Hindus in knots, couple gets HC wrap
MUMBAI: Marry in a hurry and repent at leisure, observed the Bombay high court as it grappled with a tangle that a Christian man had landed in by marrying a Muslim woman under the Hindu Marriage Act.
Mark Rebello had married Sakina Khan (names changed) on May 31, 1995 according to Vedic rites, apparently after being misguided by the marriage ’shops’ outside the Bandra courts, and their marriage was registered under the Bombay Registration of Marriages Act. They had a daughter in 1998. Till 2005 everything was fine, but then differences cropped up and the couple separated in 2008.
The Bombay High Court ruled that the marriage between a Christian man and a Muslim woman under the Hindu Marriage Act was illegal since day one.
The family court dismissed Mark’s petition in 2008 for nullifying the marriage under Section 7 of the Hindu Marriage Act, saying it was not maintainable as they were both non-Hindus.
"How did you select to marry under the Hindu Marriage Act?" asked Justice PB Majmudar, who along with Justice Anoop Mohta heard Mark’s petition challenging the family court order. "From day one, your marriage is illegal. Marry in (a) hurry and repent at leisure," he said. "They are opening shops for marriage and divorce also. Law-abiding citizens should never take advice from touts."
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When Bombay high court judges pointed out that couple Mark Rebello and Sakina Khan should have married under the Special Marriage Act instead of the Hindu Marriage Act, Mark’s advocate said they were misguided by the marriage ’shops’. "Marriages are solemnized here. They are giving divorces also on stamp paper. Their conduct must be deprecated by the court," he added.
Mark claimed in his petition that on June 16, 1995, he and Sakina, who got separated in 2008, had got married in church. But it did not seem to cut ice with the courts with the family court dismissing on November 10, 2011, his petition for declaration of the status of his marriage under section 34 of the Specific Relief Act.
The court reasoned that an earlier dispute between the same parties and under the same cause of action had attained finality and, hence, a fresh petition was not maintainable.
Sakina’s advocate opposed the stand, saying the family court was right in dismissing his petition.
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There is no better way than “the reel deal” to define Tonya Lee Williams, Founder and Executive Director of the Reel World Film Festival, this week celebrating its 10th anniversary year of enriching us with the finest cinema from multi-racial world communities.
Creating value is a core theme and belief that she passionately encourages and passes on to staff, volunteers, film makers and audiences alike. “I am grateful to still be around people who support and are part of the Festival and see the need and value of telling our diverse stories on the screen. We need to nurture our emerging Canadian and foreign film makers to make them feel loved and valued. I think of my mother. If she can come out year after year to applaud and give blessing, anyone can and should.”
The key to the Festival’s continuing success and her own longevity as its founder and visionary is frankly summarized, “If each staff member and volunteer assumes responsibility for themselves and everyone else in the running of the Festival, that’s all we can ask for … but after ten years, it’s still a struggle and challenge. I always hope that nothing goes wrong and if it does, I erase it and just keep looking forward.”
At Wednesday’s opening night reception, as I stood between Tonya and her mother, a woman of grace, beauty and surprisingly not quite as young as she looks, I felt the staying power of two generations. She proudly confided, “That girl had the same vitality and drive as a child that she possesses today in all she does for the Festival.”
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Antony and Cleopatra at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre
September 19, 2012 Filled under Events
William MacGregor (Antony) & Gillian English (Cleopatra). Photo credit Dahlia Katz
Where: Tallulah’s Cabaret at Buddies in Bad Times Theatre (12 Alexander St)
When: September 26, 2012 – October 6, 2012
Cost: $25/$20 (students and arts workers); Fri PWYC. Available at www.buddiesinbadtimes.com and by phone at 416.975.8555
Details: Antony and Cleopatra, directed by Rosanna Saracino, uses Shakespeare’s text to highlight the struggles women continue to face in the modern world. Starring – Gillian English (Cleopatra), William MacGregor (Antony), Spencer Robson (Octavius), Katie Ribout (Octavia), Eric Lehman (Lepidus), Jason Thompson (Soothsayer), Nathan Bitton (Enobarbus), and Kyle Purcell, Ryan Kotack, Danie Friesen and Jessica Salguiero (Ensemble)
Theatre Elusive regrets to announce that due to other commitments, Danny Pagett has left the cast of its upcoming production of Antony and Cleopatra. The company is happy to note that he will be replaced in the role of Enobarbus by Nathan Bitton.
As part of Elusive’s mandate to address the current state of gender, identity, sexuality and equality issues through theatre, director Rosanna Saracino says she wants the play to address the profound social inequality of the sexes.
“Women are still vilified and have their power reduced to their sexual value, their appearance,” she says. “In a world where the battle for women’s reproductive rights and stories about rape still flood our newscasts, where women are still underrepresented in significant leadership roles politically and artistically, and where young women believe that sexualizing themselves in the most patriarchal and debased of ways equals power, we believe that Antony and Cleopatra still has a lot to say.”
Elusive’s production of the Shakespearean classic is the company’s most ambitious show to date, following its success with last season’s production of Mindy Kaling’s Matt & Ben at the Bathurst St Theatre and Mikaela Dyke’s Dying Hard at the Tarragon.
More Info: www.buddiesinbadtimes.com
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Forever Outsiders Rush Against Time
There are two ways to think about Rush. Subscribe to the idea that they have somehow ascended to become the proverbial Pabst Blue Ribbon of progressive rock, citing their position as third in total record sales after only the Rolling Stones and The Beatles.
Or recognize them as the ultimate indie band, forming their own label (Moon Records) in 1973 before going on to become one of the most influential bands in history by never sounding like anyone else. I believe in the latter, enough so that I've held off writing about them even if they belong here.
Once this Canadian trio shuffled up and settled on Alex Lifeson, Geddy Lee and Neil Peart as their permanent lineup, they have consistently crafted some of the most relevant, dynamic, and uniquely listenable experimental music over 44 years. Incredibility, they aren't done. They never disappoint.
Clockwork Angels careens as a conceptual record, studio album number 20.
Lost cities, pirates, carnivals, steampunk themes and other fantasies might sound like an odd ensemble for the concept thread. But the mercilessly mechanical and bass-laden watchmaker story, with its tight lyrics and abundance of instrumental standouts, soars brilliantly over this fantastical landscape. It's meant to be listened to as an album, unfettered, or the experience will be somewhat lessened.
It was written to be an album; painstaking in its design. They didn't step inside of the studio and merely knock out 12 tracks. They started work on Clockwork Angels in 2009 with co-producer Nick Raskulinecz, who emerged much like the band did. The first record he produced was done on an 8-track recorder, well before he won a Grammy and worked with Rush on Snakes & Arrows.
Sure, many songs like the massive 7:21 minute Headlong Flight can stand alone. From the opening chords, you know there is an epic element in the instrumentals. Lifeson and Lee originally composed Headlong Flight as an instrumental, but the song was later reassembled after Peart crafted lyrics that accurately capture the spirit of the song.
It fits well within the concept, while sharing the sentiments of the band. Rush has had an entire lifetime of adventures as one of the few bands to successfully walk along the shore of the mainstream, watching everything that was happening and still always managing to do their own thing. Forever outsiders.
"To what I felt back then, I wish that I could live it all again," Peart sings. Bright. Dark. It doesn't matter. It's all good. There's nothing to regret. Individualism carries its own courageous triumphs.
There entire album is like that. After Caravan sets the tone of toiling away in the known world, Rush wastes no time at all questioning the commonplace. BU2B is the first flicker of dissent as the blue-infused riff and lyrics introduce an awareness that everyone plays their part, living in oblivious bliss.
The story of Clockwork Angels is a journey with time, the one we all share.
As the narrator travels his world, he shares feelings about the various places and people he sees, vignettes that sometimes encapsulate places like Chronos Square (the atmospheric Clockwork Angels), people he sees (the darkly evenhanded The Anarchist), or events such as the one when The Anarchist tosses him the device (and the determination along with it) to be different (the mystical trappings and climbing riff within Carnies).
Carnies, both in its prose and arrangement, is one of the finest tracks on the album for its primal feel. Much like throughout the album, Lee has never sounded better here. As much as the band worked to tighten their play even more, Lee has stepped up to the most vocally challenging Rush album to date.
Halo Effect is surprisingly light for Rush. Seven Cities of Gold is dynamically cinematic. The Wreckers is sad and harmonically stunning. And Wish The Well carries Peart's unique ability to write contemporary and poignant lyrics that play inside and outside the concept. No matter what happens or who wounds you, he surmises, just move on and wish them well. It's this astute piece of wisdom that gives measure to the album's conclusion.
The Garden is as close to a ballad as it gets. But the passion being sung about isn't a muse as much as love for life and the resolution that comes with one well lived. Whatever's next. Let it come.
In the immediate future, Clockwork Angels will be pushing the envelope further. Thinking big, Peart is collaborating with author Kevin J. Anderson to transform the album into a book. Anderson's a good choice. His first book, Resurrection Inc., was inspired by Grace Under Pressure.
Clockwork Angels By Rush Ticks On 9.9 On The Liquid Hip Richter Scale.
While the story isn't nearly as linear or overt as Hemispheres or 2112 (a century away this year), Clockwork Angels is a culmination of everything the trio has learned across their career and some surprisingly fresh material too. Long-time fans will no doubt hear the occasional nod to older works, but the bulk of this album is breathlessly original. It's as timeless as the band that made it.
The full album comes with a digital booklet filled with stunning art. You can download Clockwork Angels by Rush from iTunes. The album can be found at Barnes & Noble (and the novel is already available for preorder). The Clockwork Angels [+digital booklet] is also on Amazon.
Labels: Clockwork Angels, music, Rich Becker, Rush
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36th (Ulster) Division
The history of 36th (Ulster) Division
On 3 September 1914, just short of a month after Britain had declared war and after much discussion regarding what amounted to a political ‘truce’ with regard to domestic matters, Sir Edward Carson (one of the great political leaders opposing Home Rule for Ireland) made an appeal at the meeting of the Ulster Unionist Council in Belfast, urging the men of the Ulster Volunteer Force to come forward for service in the defence of the British Empire. Despite the fact that many Ulstermen had made their own decisions and had already enlisted, an entire formation known as the Ulster Division was soon raised – and all of its infantry units were based on existing units of the UVF. Thirteen battalions were raised for the three Irish regiments based in Ulster: the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, the Royal Irish Fusiliers and the Royal Irish Rifles.
August: formed in Ireland as the Ulster Division, with Brigades numbered 1,2 and 3. On 28 August 1914, the Division and its Brigades adopted the titles shown on this page.
July: the Division moved to Seaford on the Sussex coast of England. Lord Kitchener inspected the Division there on 27 July 1915, and later remarked to Carson “your Division of Ulstermen is the finest I have yet seen”. Another inspection took place, by King George V, on 30 September.
3-6 October: the Division moved to France, although the artillery remained in England until November.
The Ulster Division initially concentrated in the area around Flesselles, some ten miles north of Arras. Gradually, men were sent in groups for familiarisation with trench warfare conditions, and were attached to the regular army 4th Division for the purpose in the (at this time) quiet are north of the River Ancre near Albert.
On 21 October the Division was moved away from the fighting area towards Abbeville, where it spent most of the winter of 1915-16 continuing training. One of the Brigades was attached to 4th Division for several weeks at this time and the artillery finally rejoined.
The whole Division finally took over a complete section of the front line on 7 February, between the River Ancre and the Mailly-Maillet to Serre road. Division HQ was at Acheux. In the first week of March, the Division extended its front, the 109th Brigade taking over the sector south of the Ancre, known by the name of Thiepval Wood.
The Division remained in the Wesrern Friont in France and Flanders throughout the rest of the war and took part in the following engagements
The Battle of Albert* in which the Division attacked at the Schwaben Redoubt near Thiepval.
This map, an extract of a larger map from the British Official History, shows the ground over which the Ulstermen attacked on 1 July. Their front line skirted the northern edge of Thiepval wood, facing a gentle upward slope toward Schwaben Redoubt, a defensive complex in the second main German trench system north of Thiepval.
The Division was relieved on 2 July, having suffered 5104 casualties of who approximately 2069 died.
* the battle marked * is a phase of the Battles of the Somme 1916
The Battle of Messines, in which the Division captured Wytschaete
The Battle of Langemarck**
** the battles marked ** are phases of the Third Battles of Ypres 1917
The Cambrai Operations, including the capture of Bourlon Wood
The Division was substantially reorganised in February 1918.
The Battle of St Quentin+
On 21 March 1918 the Division was holding a sector of the British front line and Forward Zone south west of St Quentin. The main defences consisted of a number of isolated redoubts, in which the Ulstermen held on for several hours while under bombardment and ultimately being surrounded and cut off.
The Actions at the Somme Crossings+
The Battle of Rosieres+
+ the battles marked + are phases of the First Battles of the Somme 1918
The Battle of Messines++
The Battle of Bailleul++
The First Battle of Kemmel Ridge++
++ the battles marked ++ are phases of the Battles of the Lys
The Battle of Ypres^
The Battle of Courtrai^
The action of Ooteghem^
^ the battles marked ^ are phases of the Final Advance in Flanders
On 11 November the Division was at Mouscron, north east of Tourcoing. It remained there throughout the period of demobilisation. It ceased to exist on 29 June 1919.
The Great War cost 36th (Ulster) Division 32186 men killed, wounded or missing.
The order of battle of the 36th (Ulster) Division
107th Brigade
This brigade was attached to 4th Division for instructional purposes between 5 November 1915 and 3 February 1916
8th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (East Belfast) renamed as 8/9th from August 1917 and disbanded 7 February 1918
9th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (West Belfast) merged into 9th Bn from August 1917
10th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (South Belfast) disbanded 20 February 1918
15th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (North Belfast)
107th Machine Gun Company joined 18 December 1915, moved to 36th Bn MGC 1 March 1918
107th Trench Mortar Battery joined 1 April 1916
1st Bn, the Royal Irish Fusiliers joined August 1917, left for 108th Bde February 1918
1st Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles joined February 1918
2nd Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles joined February 1918
11th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (South Antrim) renamed as 11/13th from 13 November 1917 and disbanded 18 February 1918
12th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (Central Antrim)
13th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (County Down) merged into 11th Bn on 13 November 1917
9th Bn, the Royal Irish Fusiliers (County Armagh)
108th Machine Gun Company joined 26 January 1916, moved to 36th Bn MGC 1 March 1918
7th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles joined October 1917, merged into 2nd Bn November 1917
2nd Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles joined November 1917, left February 1918
1st Bn, the Royal Irish Fusiliers joined from 107th Bde February 1918
9th Bn, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (County Tyrone)
10th Bn, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Derry) disbanded January 1918
11th Bn, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (Donegal and Fermanagh) disbanded February 1918
14th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (Young Citizens) disbanded February 1918
1st Bn, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers joined February 1918
2nd Bn, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers joined February 1918
12th Brigade
This brigade was attached from 4th Division in exchange for 107th Brigade between 4 November 1915 and 3 February 1916
Divisional Troops
16th Bn, the Royal Irish Rifles (County Down Pioneers) Divisional Pioneer Battalion
1st Bn, the Royal Irish Fusiliers joined August 1917, left for 107th Bde same month
36th Battalion MGC formed 1 March 1918
Divisional Mounted Troops
Service Sqn, the 6th Inniskilling Dragoons left June 1916
36th Divisional Cyclist Company, Army Cyclist Corps broken up 31 May 1916
Divisional Artillery
The original artillery of 36th (Ulster) Division, shown below, did not accompany the Division to France in November 1915, but rejoined it there in December. The artillery of the 56th (1st London) Division moved to France with 36th (Ulster) Division and remained under command until 12 December 1915.
CLIII Brigade, RFA
CLIV (Howitzer) Brigade, RFA broken up late September 1916
CLXXII Brigade, RFA broken up 31 January 1917
CLXXIII Brigade, RFA
36 Heavy Battery RGA raised with that Division but broken up while still at home
36th Divisional Ammunition Column RFA
V.36 Heavy Trench Mortar Battery, RFA joined 20 June 1916; disbanded 11 February 1918
X.36, Y.36 and Z.36 Medium Mortar Batteries, RFA formed 1 June 1916; on 11 February 1918, Z broken up and batteries reorganised to have 6 x 6-inch weapons each
Royal Engineers
121st Field Company
122nd Field Company
150th Field Company
36th Divisional Signals Company
Royal Army Medical Corps
108th Field Ambulance
1110th Field Ambulance
76th Sanitary Section left April 1917
Other Divisional Troops
36th Divisional Train ASC 251, 252, 253 and 254 Companies.
48th Mobile Veterinary Section AVC
233rd Divisional Employment Company joined 21 July 1917
35th Divisional Motor Ambulance Workshop disbanded April 1916
Divisional histories
Divisional memorials
The Ulster Tower memorial , situated on the old German front line attacked by the 36th (Ulster) Division on 1 July 1916. A very popular spot on the Somme tourist trail for its memorials and views, but also in more recent times for a welcome tearoom. Author’s collection.
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"Lawyer must reveal co-counsel’s error to client if it could raise malpractice claim" --
"What should you do when you are co-counsel on a case or in a deal, and you become aware that the other lawyer has made an error? A new ethics opinion from the New York State Bar Association says that if you reasonably believe that your co-counsel has committed a significant error or omission that may give rise to a malpractice claim, you must disclose the information to the client."
"The lawyer had been brought into a case as co-counsel on the eve of trial, and found that the other lawyer had done virtually no discovery, and had not made any document requests — despite the fact that communications and e-mails between the parties would be critical to the case."
"The lawyer believed that the lack of discovery was a significant error, and that it could constitute malpractice. The outcome of the case was still pending. The lawyer was concerned that disclosing the information to the client could undermine the lawyer’s relationship with co-counsel, but was nonetheless convinced that it was in the client’s best interest to reveal the facts as soon as possible."
"Respect for client autonomy and decision-making means that the lawyer must provide information about all significant developments affecting the representation. That 'applies equally to a significant error or omission by co-counsel that may give rise to a malpractice claim,' said the Committee."
"When The Cover-Up Outweighs The Crime: Professional Discipline For Hiding Attorney Errors" --
"Lawyers owe an ethical and fiduciary duty to their clients to report their own “mistakes” in the course of representation. The source of the duty can be found, for example, in ABA Model Rule 1.4 (USPTO Rule 37 CFR Section 11.104), which in relevant part requires an attorney to 'promptly inform the client of any decision or circumstance” adversely affecting the representation, as well as to “keep the client reasonably informed about the status of the matter.'"
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We must learn how to work: Mbumba
27 Jun 2019 18:10pm
RUNDU, 27 JUN (NAMPA) Vice President Nangolo Mbumba has encouraged Namibian contractors to finish government undertakings entrusted to them and to desist from abandoning them midway.
Mbumba said this during his visit to the Rundu abattoir and the incomplete maternity ward at the Rundu Intermediate Hospital here on Wednesday.
Responding to questions from the media on the incomplete projects, he said although he is not at liberty to dictate how things should be done, Namibians should learn how to work and complete work that was given to them by Government.
Incomplete buildings and facilities mean nothing to the ordinary citizen of this country, the vice president said.
People involved in agriculture should also get returns from their livestock, he said in reference to the abattoir which is expected to be completed in November this year.
The abattoir, which is being constructed by the Ministry of Agriculture, Water and Forestry since 2014, should have been completed in January 2017, but work was delayed due to financial constraints.
We must learn how to build our country ourselves
It means we are exporting money because we are importing people to come do our work. We must learn how to work, Mbumba said, adding that Namibians should also stop accusing foreign nationals of stealing their work.
The maternity ward, which had a construction budget of N.dollars 28 million in 2014, is yet to be completed since the contractor abandoned the site due to a dispute with the Ministry of Health and Social Services.
Tuhafeni Nashitati, manager of Summerstone Construction which was contracted to build the ward, said they have been communicating with the ministry since 2015 about the insufficient funds since the initial budget could not cover all costs. He said they only got a favourable response in 2017.
The ministrys Executive Director, Ben Nangombe told Nampa on Thursday that they have engaged the Central Procurement Board to get the contractor back on site since the project was budgeted for.
We have communicated with the contractor on the way forward and as soon as procedures are completed, the contractor will resume work, he said.
The health ministry has requested an additional N.dollars 5.8 million to incorporate additional work on the theatre and neonatal unit as per the ministrys standards.
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The Ships Personnel Department of MGM is responsible for vetting, selection and recruitment of competent, qualified, trained and medically fit seagoing personnel, in accordance with Company's requirements and International and Flag State regulations, and to ensure that the Company has sufficient seagoing personnel to adequately man its vessels, as well as to maintain updated records of all seagoing personnel.
Generally, all ships are manned with two nationalities i.e. seafarers from Greece and Philippines.
The employment of Greek seafarers meets or exceeds the minimum mandatory requirements of the Flag Administration (Greece) and the remaining seafarers up to the above-defined manning level are normally recruited from Philippines. In this respect all Senior Officers, the majority of Junior Officers and a number of other seafarers are from Greece. It is therefore inevitable that the majority of ratings are from Philippines. A limited number of other nationalities may be employed as is needed.
The Company is efficiently contributing to the education of the next generation of Greek Officers by employing 2 Deck and 2 Engine trainees per vessel from every training semester. Since 2007, we are proud to have about 44 deck officers and 31 engine officers promoted on board our 7 vessels all coming from the company's cadets. The majority of our officers have been promoted on board Company's fleet (about 90% of senior officers).
In our Company we pride ourselves for the retention rate of 90% and that 50% of our shore based superintendents and managers are from our own seafarers.
The Company has established an innovative crew wages scheme, keeping officers in payroll for the period that they are on vacation (stand-by wages) and award crew loyalty with extra seniority bonuses. The Company covers in full, all crew training expenses whether in-house (Delphic Training Center) or out-sourced (KESEN).
In addition, the Company offers senior officers the advantage of having their families on board (maximum 3 at the same time) with all transportation expenses to be for Company's account.
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Masjide Noorul Islam (IES) have recognised that the Masjid is the hub of any Muslim community, and that Muslims turn to the Masjid to fulfil their religious requirements. Therefore, the Masjid provides a wide range of services for the Muslim community. A few of the main services are as follows:
Congregational Prayers
The Masjid provides prayer facilities for Muslims to fulfil their 5 obligatory daily prayers, Salaat, in Congregation (Jamaat) as well as the Friday (Jum'aa) Prayers (if time permits seasonally a second congregation is also arranged for those who cannot join the main congregation), the Tarawih (Night Prayers) in Ramadan and the 2 annual Eid Prayers.
Imams (Leaders of the Congregation)
The Masjid has 2 appointed Imams. The Principal Imam is Mufti Saleh Dhanchora Sb, who was educated in India, UK and Medina, Saudi Arabia. He has served the community since 1994. The secondary Imam who was appointed in 2012 is Mufti Abdullah Bismillah Sb, who gained his education in the UK and India.
Both Imams are fluent in English, Urdu and Arabic, are Hafiz, Qari and Muftis, and therefore have excellent strengths to lead the community in meeting all their religious duties and address any issues facing the community. Also they play a key role in engaging with the youngsters, our future generations, and the non-Muslim community in Inter Faith work with local organisations to promote a better understanding of Islam.
Spiritual and Moral development through Qur'an and Hadith Teachings
The Masjid, since it's establishment, has been actively providing for the development of spiritual and moral wellbeing of the community through a wide range of activities including educational lectures and study seminars of the Qur'aan and Ahaadith. The work of Dawah, through brothers engaged in Tabligh Jamaat, plays a key role in ensuring and encouraging Muslims to put the teaching of Islam into practice in our daily lives. The youth forum NIYC (see separate section for details) makes special efforts for youth development.
Darul Iftah (Islamic Jurisprudence)
Whilst abiding by the law of the land is a requisite of Islam, there are many aspects of a Muslims life which requires clarification and guidance in light of Islamic teachings through the Qur'aan and Sunnah. The importance of traditional and contemporary Islamic Jurisprudence (fiqh) is well known. Fiqh deals with all aspects relating to a believer's life. The Masjid is very fortunate to have many Muftis in addition to our Imams to guide the community in these matters, Mufti Tahir Wadee and our 2 Imams have been serving the community in this aspect and are all very learned and approachable to all who seek guidance. They also serve in matters of resolution of any conflicts / disagreements to maintain tranquillity within the community and individuals / family disputes.
The Masjid IES run many charity programmes and support many local, national and international Charity organisations to provide support for the poor, needy and those afflicted by natural disasters and conflicts in the world. Some Charity organisations supported are Blackburn Muslim Relief fund, Islamic Relief, Muslim Aid, Al Imdaad to name a few. The Masjid community have always responded quickly in providing funds to help victims of natural disasters in the world, tsunamis, floods, earthquakes etc.
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Top Single of 2013 – “Home” by Phillip Phillips
This picture here reminds me of the home I grew up in Odessa, Texas. It was a nice simple middle class brick home built to withstand the West Texas winds.
I am so thrilled that this song has won the Billboard top single of 2013. It reminds of that home. I am not surprised this won, as the publisher has done an awesome job of not only promoting it as a single, but using it on a tremendous amount of commercials. For the first half of the year it was practically HGTV’s theme song! It just goes to show you as a songwriter that if you write good solid lyrics and music that marries to the lyrics, that pull the entire audience into your song, it’s applicable through all kinds of sources.
This song was written essentially in what I call Form B. (You can check that out on my videos series “Big Bold Songwriting” soon to be on this website.) There’s a bit of change in the formula, but these songwriters know how to write and can change a bit to pulled the whole audience in and keep us there, to the very last note! Congratulations to GREG HOLDEN, ANDREW PEARSON, DREW PEARSON the songwriters!
By Lynn Barrington|December 29th, 2013|Blog|0 Comments|
Lyric Trash
Chris Brown has a new single that just dropped. I HIGHLY recommend you do NOT download it, or even listen to it. It’s just trash. It’s stinky. Check out the lyrics on a site like lyricmode.com (which does not give him or his label any money). You can look up “Loyal” lyrics by Chris Brown. If you just read what he has written, simply, it’s unbelievable to me. Clearly, this man is not finished with anger management. He is so angry at all women. Obviously, he is using his bully pulpit to propagate his lack of character, hate and judgement of women. If Justin Timberlake wrote this, he would be banned from music, called a racist, chauvinist, and white extremist!! This kind of rap has no place is excellent songwriting or music. Chris Brown is a sad, sad excuse for a human. I pray that he turns his life around to admiring and appreciating women. He could so use his platform to do good and build up all humanity. Right now, it’s just pitiful in the end.
3 Steps to Shake It Up!
Ok, so you have written five songs before the holidays. The holidays were crazy with family, friends and lots of eating. Now, it’s the New Year and back to work. You go back and listen to those five songs and they all seem a bit similar.
This is an issue that comes up with the most experienced songwriters. It’s time to shake it up! What can you do to shake it up? Here are some suggestions.
1. If you just have to start with a melody and then write your lyrics, force yourself to write at least the chorus and then write the music or vice-versa. The object is to shift the writing process to cause your brain to think in different ways. When that starts to happen, new words pop up or different melodies will come as a result of words already being there.
2. Go to a different location to write your songs. If you are in a house, get out!! Many are relegated to a piano or some keyboard, go to a church. The other day I was doing a co-write with a writer. He’s from out of town and needs a keyboard, I am a lyricist. So, we just walked into a local big church and happen to meet the head of maintenance. He was so great, and was a creative guy himself. We told him that we were writing Christian songs and needed a keyboard. Well, it turned out they had a $230,000 Bosendorfer Baby Grand piano. My guy had always wanted to play one and that day was his day. We wrote such a great song because he was so inspired.
3. Challenge yourself to write in a completely different style than you normally would. If you write country, try writing pop. If you write jazz try writing country. Again, the object of the game is to get your brain moving in a different direction.
The object of the game here is to feel a little, if not a lot, uncomfortable. Challenge yourself in at least some kind of way. Try adding more visuals, if you normally write more emotionally or thought provoking. You can never have too many visuals in my book.
So, people, let’s start the New Year by shaking, rattling and rolling your brain and step into a Big Bold Level of Songwriting!
By Lynn Barrington|January 4th, 2013|Blog|0 Comments|
Christmas is EVERYWHERE!
Everyone is busy during the holidays. But, immediately after, especially that week between Christmas and New Year’s there’s a lull in activity. This is the perfect time to write about Christmas. There are many, many issues that show up for us with our loves, friends and family. Christmas songs are the best, because if you write one good one, it can be cut over and over. It’s a challenge to write Christmas songs in March, it’s easier right now because you are in the middle of all the activity. But, if you can stop for just an afternoon and think through this season and hope that you have found through life, it will pay off as you try to write that hit Christmas song.
The key in all great Christmas songs is hope and joy. I’m a traditionalist and so I always want to encourage people to remember the true reason for this season. Christmas is more than giving gifts, eating and going back to hang with the family. It’s about the Baby Jesus being born and what that means for the world.
I just saw a sign that was posted in NYC that said, “Keep the merry, and dump the myth.” That made me as sad as some people will actually consider that suggestion. The fact that Jesus was born has been established over and over, it’s not a myth. The fact that anyone would try to mar this beautiful season by that kind of cynicism is disappointing. The way the cynicism can be discouraged is by writing great songs that express the love of God for all mankind.
So, look around there are hooks for your Christmas song everywhere. Write them down or log them on your smart phone ap. Make a concerted effort to notice the little things about Christmas. Pay attention to the little looks of a child, the small ornaments, what kind of story could be behind the mother and daughter walking down the aisle at the department store who is dressed in matching sweaters. Try to make notes why that hook caught your attention during this season. A great trick is to create the hook and use the opposite meaning to come up with a strong twist.
It’s Christmas and New Year’s..take advantage songwriters, take advantage!! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to all!
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In the music business, every second, minute and hour in your head can be about building a bridge. For in the music business, it’s all about the relationships you make and maintain. It can be the life or death of your career.
A good example of bridge building working in a big way is Ryan Seacreast. His mentor was Dick Clark. Mr. Clark taught him to build on each job he landed. He taught him to be nice, “”Little things really do matter”. That leads to creating a team to have a long term future, which Seacrest has already started by his own production company producing the Kardashians, and other huge hit shows. Those who desire to be successful over many years learn early on that building relationship to relationship is the key. Ryan Seacreast is the new Dick Clark. Right now, he working on a new game show experience, entering into even another television category!
An example that is not working for the bridge building concept is Lindsay Lohan. Though a wonderful child actress, and into her early 20’s, she continues to destroy one relationship after another. The bridges she built through her solid behaviors in her early career and personal life continue to dwindle. In the midst of the constant drama in her personal and professional life, eventually the drama will fizzle out and she will be left with no one who believes in her enough to risk the financial investment it takes to run the course of a project. The she will have burnt one too many bridges in the end.
The fact of the matter is you never know who you will be sitting next to at any given time. I cannot tell you over the years the number of relationships that I have had for 10+ years (some 30+) that I have developed from meeting person on an airplane, at a café bar, at the post office, grocery store, gas station, etc. Just being nice, friendly, or listening builds a bridge to a relationship.
If you will notice, in this picture it shows one bridge connecting to another. That’s the way a song is. That’s the way the music business is. Actually, that’s the way life is. My friends, get to bridge building!
By Lynn Barrington|November 29th, 2012|Blog|0 Comments|
THE DEATH OF THE LONG INTRO
Snip, snip, snip. Yeah, doesn’t that feel better? I can hear that 30 second introduction cut down to 15 seconds. It’s a nice smooth, hooky introduction.
The longer the intro the weaker the song immediately gets, and the sleepier the listener get. You want your intro no longer than 12 to 15 seconds. I have listened to songs that have 30 second intros, and I’m just done by the time I get to the first line. Done, done, done. I have also listened to minute and a half intros. This kind of activity in a song immediately qualifies you as a beginner and a person who has not invested in themselves as a songwriter or their craft to know better. The intro is there to give a moment for the songwriter to begin the feeling of the song. It’s also there to give the listener a chance to breathe and to be drawn into the song. However, if you go too long in the introduction it’s akin to meeting someone for the first time that just starts talking INCESENTLY. You are immediately turned off because you realize they really do not want to truly communicate with you, they want you to listen all about them. Great songs are a mutual communication between the songwriter and the listener.
Craft your introduction as you would craft and introduction to someone you really want to meet and already respect. It will work out perfectly. Remember, you are introducing your special “baby” that means so much to you to the new potential friend you have wanted to meet!
By Lynn Barrington|October 30th, 2011|Blog|0 Comments|
3 Steps to Bonding With Your Audience – Step 2 ~ Stepping OUT of Your Songwriting Box!
If you look at nt hit artists, the majority of the top ten have the sense to not write all of their songs, including the Usher, Brittany Spears, Rhianna, Beyonce, Keith Urban, Faith Hill and many more . There are a few (Taylor Swift, being one), but they are in the minority, that do not perform others songs. I can tell you though Taylor eventually will record another songwriter’s song. Taylor’s already starting performing them on her tour (Nicki Minaj, Usher, etc.). Even if the hit artist is a songwriter, their team has the ability and responsibility to know a great song and that always takes priority over the artist’s songwriting. The long lasting artists learn quickly that if their songwriting doesn’t rise up to the hit level, it doesn’t get on the cd.
Many indie artists are singer/songwriter artists. Few of them, in my opinion, are true songwriters. One of the main reasons there are more songwriter artists is that they don’t have any way to get to the good, much less the great songs. So, they are relegated to writing their own songs. Then they get used to writing their own songs and develop an unhealthy pride about it, when the truth is they are a far better artist than they will ever be a songwriter. The bottom line is, most of the time, they fall into wanting the money from publishing not realizing their focus on that money robs them of their true focus of performing as a hit artist that will create the necessary bond with the listener.
Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s good to have some of your songs on your cds, but it’s important to stretch yourself as an artist to sing outside of your own writing, and still make it powerful. If you are a songwriter, then really study the art. There are many awesome opportunities to coach, read and go to seminars to become the best you can be.
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Money Fears – 4 Tips for How to Accept, Release & Feel Better Now!
December 19, 2011 / Lynn Telford-Sahl
Psychology Today contributor Joan DiFuria, who writes a column called Affluence Intelligence, states that in 2000 Silicon Valley was birthing 64 millionaires a day. Today? Not many. A decade ago, we were so affluent that a new term “Sudden Wealth Syndrome” was coined. Yet, we also realized that wealth doesn’t necessarily make one happy. But as Woody Allen says, “It’s better than poverty.”
We’re just as obsessed with money these days, but it’s fear and anxiety about not having enough money. We have fear about losing our job, fear about ever finding a job again. Fear about paying the bills, and for some, fear about having enough to eat. And, of course this month, anxiety about Christmas!!
Fear is as much a contagion as the flu. It spreads through the air getting absorbed through the pores of the skin and inhaled into the lungs. Before you know it, the anxiety of those around you has permeated your world. Their worry becomes your worry. Every time the news broadcasts a new financial disturbance in the world, it adds to your sense of pending doom. You may feel disoriented, off-center, unsure of yourself. What can you do?
First, realize that fear is an emotion fueled by our thoughts. It’s not necessarily the truth. We either increase the power fear has over us by focusing on it and following the awful spiral downward or we use strategies to break the cycle and support more neutral or positive thinking. Rick Hanson, author of The Buddha Brain states that the brain is Velcro for negative thoughts and Teflon for positive. By its very nature, the way we think tends to be negative and critical. So, let’s give ourselves a break and take action to feel better.
Here are 4 Strategies I use and teach to shift to quickly feel better. 1) First, just acknowledge the feeling briefly. “I’m angry, sad, depressed, etc.” 2) Breathe INTO the feeling with an attitude of “Come on in,” for about 90 seconds. Jill Bolte Taylor, PhD, a neuroscientest who rebuilt her brain after a stroke, "says it takes only 90 seconds of feeling the emotion caused by a negative event before the body finishes processing its stress.” 3) Re-focus your thoughts onto more positive events and this is where the old “What are you grateful for comes in.” List 3 things you’re grateful for. And, this is my favorite: 4) Laugh – for 90 seconds. Come on – In the car or when you get up in the morning. You’ll probably start off feeling like a dork, but try it, you’ll be amazed. None of these strategies change the situation you’re facing, but they change how you feel and think so you can cope better!!
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Pump and Abrasion Technologies® (PAT) unveiled its latest product range CURVE™ to the African market at Electra Mining 2016 and to global markets at the recent MINExpo in Las Vegas, USA. According to Sales Director James Pienaar the reaction to the CURVE™ from potential international clients has been highly positive.
Pienaar says that the CURVE™ measured up well against competitor products on show at MINExpo. “MINExpo is widely regarded as the world’s leading international mining industry tradeshow event. The best and most advanced and respected companies from around the world come to this event to showcase their products and new developments. The fact that we were there representing South Africa and the Pump and Abrasion Technologies® brand, I feel, puts us and the CURVE™ range in the same league as these companies,” Pienaar commented. “The CURVE™ brand really stood out at the event as we felt that it competed well with other products on show due to the technology and benefits that the CURVE™ range offers. As a product with the potential to change the industry, we believe that the CURVE™ was head and shoulders above the rest and was definitely perceived as a product that has made significant improvements in its field.”
The CURVE range has been designed and developed by PAT over the past three years. Its design and features are based on in-depth research into what clients need backed up by extensive client feedback. The result is an innovative pump solution that is truly customized to the requirements of its end user, answering all of their operational needs. Based on the information that was gathered, the internal hydraulic layout of the CURVE pumps was redesigned to achieve a combined optimum for capital and operational cost when plotting the specific geometric size of the pump against the total lifecycle cost. In addition to this, PAT’s designers ensured that low energy consumption was prioritised in the CURVE’s™ design and that the CURVE™ could be retrofitted to legacy pumping systems with minimal changes to existing piping. This results in 40-60% reduction in total ownership costs.
Overall, the products in the new CURVE™ range offer decreased energy consumption throughout the product life cycle, TOC reduction, longer wear life, increased efficiency and improved safety for personnel during both installation and maintenance.
According to Pienaar, the overall reaction to the CURVE™ from international visitors to MINExpo was one of enthusiasm and relief. “I think if I had to describe their reactions, the right words to use would be eureka or maybe at last!” Pienaar explains. “Many visitors to our booth said that they were incredibly excited to see a slurry pump that caters for the needs of the client not just with regards to the engineer but from the ground up. They were relieved to finally see something new and different in an industry that really has been stagnant for a number of years in terms of product design and new technology.”
“Usually when there is an upgrade in old technology there are only one or two new added benefits. With the CURVE™ range of pumps the added benefits are limitless stretching from running costs and safety to ease of maintenance and efficiency. There are more than 20 added features that differentiate the CURVE™ range from older slurry pump technology.”
Pienaar continues that the product features that visitors were most excited by included the safety improvements that make it safer to work with the pump and the lowered maintenance requirements due to the CURVE™ range’s longer life cycles. Engineers were captured by the CURVE’s™ overall reliability and uptime. Most foremen were drawn to the fact that the CURVE’s™ disassembly and reassembly time is half that of other pumps on the market. Overall, says Pienaar, the feature that made the largest impact was the CURVE’s™ offering of reduction in total cost of ownership for the supply chain, engineer and the owner. “The CURVE™ truly takes a holistic approach to its clients’ needs and ensures that every single division benefits.”
This overall enthusiasm has translated into numerous new business and sales opportunities for PAT. “Following the launch of the range, there have been many enquiries from local, regional and international clients. We are currently in negotiations with several companies to facilitate an effective global rollout for the CURVE™ range,” Pienaar concludes.
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Come dance with the gypsies... Circulation: 139,732,769 Issue: 292 | 18th day of Hunting, Y9
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Reginald needed to talk to someone about this... feeling. That strange, inexplicable happiness had come over him again, and he wasn't used to it. He had no reason to be happy, really. Content, perhaps, with a touch of loneliness; not this all-encompassing joy. But who could he speak to?
Certainly not Gilly herself. Somehow Reggie knew that she was the root of this mysterious emotion... He knew she'd be happy to hear him out, and would listen intently to anything he told her. But it would be a bit strange - downright awkward - to discuss something like this with her.
But his parents were always out and about, visiting this old friend, going to that ball, attending this banquet... Reggie hadn't felt close to either of them in years, and it wouldn't be comfortable for him to approach Mother or Father about something as intangible as a 'weird feeling'.
He'd always been close to Brother Bruno when they were younger. In fact, it was more of a hero worship than a brotherly love. He'd wanted to be Bruno when he grew up. But Bruno had changed in his eyes... The physical difference was blatantly obvious, but Reggie noticed his brother's personality swing more sharply. The new Bruno was simple-minded, accepting of everything, and rather fatalistic. He seemed to believe that everything happened for a reason, and that nothing ever changed in the world.
So... who did that leave? There was no one outside of his family that he trusted to confide in at all. But...
There was always his little sister, Sophie. As the youngest children in the family, they'd gotten along well in the past. She was a timid, gentle Ixi, with huge adorable green eyes. Reggie still felt bad about that flight through the forest, when he'd led Sophie to what he thought would be safety - a haven in the swamp, protected by an Earth Faerie. But apparently that Faerie had left her to fend for herself, and the new Sophie he'd seen briefly had been harsh and very defensive. She had aged outside of the cursed fog, and now looked much older than him. The short conversations they'd exchanged when he'd seen her were tense and pointed, often drenched in sarcasm or downright animosity.
She was a complete stranger. But Reginald had made up his mind.
"I'll find Sister Sophie. As mean as she might be now, I'm sure she hasn't forgotten our past. I mean, she slaved on the elixir to break our curse, so she has no grudge against Neovia itself... and she accompanied Bruno and Gilly... so I'm certain she won't turn me away."
Reggie swallowed, steeling his nerve as he stood squared against the iron gate. Gilly would be fine at his house - his parents would see to that. No, this journey had to be alone - Reggie wanted to prove something to himself.
He would find his sister's swamp by himself.
But it would be the first time he'd ever left the town he was born in.
Sophie sighed, sinking back into her trusty (but overworked) chair. It creaked ominously, but managed to miraculously hold itself together once again.
"Finally, some peace and quiet," she murmured, allowing her emerald eyes to flutter shut.
It had been a trying day, but at long last, she could rest and watch the sunset. A gargling coo sounded at her feet. The Ixi witch glanced down and winced, upon seeing her new Slorgclops. It was a cheerful little petpet, not caring whatsoever that all of the other Meowclops were shunning it. It had merrily amused itself by sliming all over her house, leaving gleaming trails of mucous across Sophie's carpets, books, and bedcovers.
"What am I going to do with you...?" she mused, idly scratching the petpet behind its pointed ears. It garbled a muddy purr, eye half-closed in enjoyment.
"Maybe I should give you to the next salesman who barges in on me. You'll torture them better than I ever can... Hm?"
Sophie stood suddenly, sharp eyes trained on the window. She'd seen movement out there, on the outskirts of her clearing.
"Oh, not another one...!!"
She slammed the door open, shouting furiously at the trespassing Neopet. "You get off of my property now, or so help you, I'll - "
Sophie realized she'd left her staff inside, and couldn't possibly perform any kind of magic.
" - I'll sic my newest creation on you! You don't want that!!"
She tried to resist a smirk as the Neopet - a Lupe - stumbled over himself in his haste to hide behind a tree. Her threat wasn't an idle one - her Slorgclops could certainly repel intruders with its appearance! Oh, the Lupe was shouting something to her... What was he saying?
"...Sophie! ...Sophie, it's me! ...Your brother Reggie!"
The Ixi gaped. It really was! Reginald had actually come to visit her...? As he hesitantly drew nearer, she could more easily recognize him - red-and-cream fur, that silly brown ponytail, and the cocky attitude.
Why would her bookworm brother come all the way out here to find her? Had something happened at home that she needed to know about? Certainly no sentimental whim would drag Reggie from his precious family library out to the middle of a swamp... It was too much of a coincidence, that both of her distant siblings had visited in the same day.
"So I see, Brother Reggie," she said tartly, turning her back on him. She didn't lock the door after her - but she didn't hold it open for him, either. "Were your books so boring that you came out here for me to tell you a bedtime story?"
Reggie bit his lip, pride stung, but he refused to sink to her level. Sophie was still his little sister, no matter how adult she looked now, and he wouldn't let her get the better of him. Besides...
He wanted her advice. He'd travelled all day, wandering lost throughout the forest. His outfit was mud-spattered and torn from branches, and his usually immaculate hairstyle was mussed up and disheveled. Unaccustomed to travel or physical activity of any sort, Reggie had taken many rests, been startled by many things, and had found the swamp by pure luck. This was the only chance he'd get to find out what this feeling was...
"Sister, don't be so cruel! I came for your opinion on some personal matters that have weighed heavily on my mind of late. I came to the conclusion that you were the best - nay, the only - one to discuss these sensitive topics of the heart."
Ignoring him, Sophie knelt to mop up some stray slime with a handkerchief.
"I don't think it's really magic, per se; but there's someone I met who makes everyone around her feel at ease," he continued cautiously. "It's like her very presence seems to whisk away malcontent and replace it with a simple joy. Her very aura, if you will, promotes happiness and good feeling - and in a place like Neovia! Is that... is that natural? How can anyone invoke such a... a powerful effect, like... she's taking over my mind... I can't stop thinking about her, Sister. What does this mean? Have I been bewitched...?"
Reggie stood, fidgeting uncomfortably. The awkward silence was finally broken when Sophie straightened, smoothing out her skirts unhurriedly. Under her breath, she muttered something along the lines of, 'stupid older brothers being so out of touch with feelings' and 'why am I suddenly the resident psychiatrist', and stalked over to her table. She began leafing through various papers that poked up from the pages of her dusty books, emerald eyes scanning for what she was looking for.
A long time passed, and Reggie couldn't handle the tension any longer. Even his sister's sarcastic mockery was better than getting the cold shoulder. The Lupe stepped forward quickly, meaning to catch her and spin her around to face him - but he never made it. Something soft brushed against his legs, and he tripped and fell flat on his face. The breath whooshed from his lungs, and with a faint groan, he curled up into a ball on the hard floor. Sophie glanced down at him and pursed her lips.
"You should watch where you're going, Brother Reggie. You tripped on my Slorgclops."
Looking up from his stiff position, Reginald found himself staring into the bright green eye of the strange petpet. It had the quaint charm of a Slorg, with the innate cuteness of a Meowclops. Unperturbed by someone tripping over it, the petpet gurgled a cheerful greeting and bit him on the ear.
"Owch!" he yelped, quickly sitting upright. "Sister, your pet seems intent on injuring me! Kindly remove it from the room, or - "
Sophie's face lit up with a wicked grin. "Oh no, Brother Reginald, he seems to have taken a liking to you! Normally I'd be loathe to part with one of my precious companions, but I deem you fit to raise such a healthy specimen. Isn't he lovely? I'm sure you'll have a wonderful time, you reading novels, him sliming all over the shelves..."
Reggie stared in horror at the Ixi witch. "Y... you can't mean that... You want me to actually raise this thing?! Out of the question, I could never, I haven't the time or the desire to - "
She raised a gloved hand to cut him off. "You want my advice, you're taking the petpet. That's that. Nothing's free here."
His pointed ears drooped as he watched the slimy Slorgclops happily ooze its way onto his lap. Any hope the expensive clothes had of being refurbished was now dashed to nothingness. He sighed heavily. He'd come this far; no point turning back now...
"Fine, Sister Sophie, have it your way. Just tell me why I can't stop thinking about Gilly."
"...'Gilly'?"
Sophie's sharp gaze locked onto Reginald's countenance, making him nervously avert his eyes. She dropped the papers she was holding in a flurry of sheets, and quickly walked over to him.
"Did you say her name was 'Gilly'?" she repeated, her voice dangerously low.
Gulping, Reggie's head bobbed 'yes'.
"Y-you know, Gilly the Usul... The friend that you and Bruno -"
"Get up."
"Wh-what?" Reginald stood, awkwardly tucking the strange petpet under one arm. "But what did I -"
"Go now! Get moving! I don't want to talk about anything right now - we're going to Neovia!"
» Further Tales of Woe: Part One
» Further Tales of Woe: Part Two
» Further Tales of Woe: Part Three
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Historical Hunting and Territorial Museum
Medici Villa of Cerreto Guidi
Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Artistico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze Comune di Cerreto Guidi
Welcome in the home page of the Historical Hunting and Territorial Museum. The aim of this website is the presentation of a digital gallery in which the user may query part of the works exposed in the museum.
This site is the result of the collaboration between the Soprintendenza Speciale per il Patrimonio Storico, Aristico ed Etnoantropologico e per il Polo Museale della città di Firenze and the Cerreto Guidi county.
The Historical Hunting and Territorial Museum was opened on September 28 of 2002 and is dedicated to arms and more specifically to hunting and throw arms, partially coming from the Bardini Heritage, and in part from deposits and temporary lending.
In some rooms decorative frescos are visible. These go back to the late neoclassic period like the view of the ruins in the northern loggia.
The current villa furniture had been reconstructed following as much as possible the descriptions recorded in the historical inventories. Part of the ancient furniture (most of them from the Medicean era) came from the deposits of the Florentine Soprintendenza, originally donated from the 1844 Antonio Conti antique-dealer and from Stefano Bardini (acquired by the Government during the 1996). The exhibition count also a group of tapestries with the four seasons from a Granducal origin which although not originally form Cerreto, may offer an idea of the tapestry that once upon a time decorated the villa.
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Ed Maly-Guitar Jock Review
Artist: Ed Maly
Title: Guitar Jock
Label: Hot Texas Tunes
On his seventh release Guitar Jock, Ed Maly delivers a set of scathing blues-rock songs. Maly’s guitar playing on the album is a pleasure to any blues fan, and he is aptly backed by his band to create a smart combination of toe-tapping rhythms and inspiring guitar melodies. The guitarists’ raspy vocals on tracks like “That’s Just How Much” and “Seven Deadly” tops the sound of Guitar Jock off nicely, giving the album a classic blues feel.
Maly does a great job changing out guitar and rhythm styles on Guitar Jock to bring a level of diversity to his songs that keeps each track sounding fresh. The opening track “That’s Just How Much” and the title-song “Guitar Jock” are anchored by the impressive soloing of Maly. However, he adds in a second guitar line that makes the most of wah- wah pedal, giving the tracks an undeniable funk feel.
Maly pulls this funky-blues sound off several times on Guitar Jock with a lot of success, most notably on “Cinderella” and the correctly titled “Wah Wah Eyes.”
Other songs on the LP have their roots in jazz as well as blues. The wailing key melodies of “Seven Deadly” and “Guitar Man” showcase this aspect of Maly’s sound well.
At other times, Guitar Jock uses a more traditional blues sound. The simmering guitar melodies of “If You Were A Guitar,” “Happy Blues” and “History” leave no doubt that Maly is a talented blues musician.
Fans of country music will also find something to like on the record. The twangy melodies of “Country Girl” and “Get-ter Bug” build a rockabilly vibe that country fans will find hard not to get along with.
No matter what kind of stylistic changes Ed Maly uses on Guitar Jock, he has success with all of them. The album is a unique take on the blues that fans of the genre are sure to enjoy.
MuzikReviews.com Assistant Senior Editor- Chris Homer
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01. That’s Just How Much
02. Guitar Jock
04. Wants Her Guitar Man
05. Seven Deadly
06. Country Girl
07. If You Were A Guitar
08. Get-ter Bug
09. Wah Wah Eyes
10. Guitar Man
11. Happy Blues
12. Demo
13. You Just Keep On
14. History
15. For A Song
16. I’m So Sorry
17. To Get You On The Dance Floor
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Description of the programme: The aim of the comprehensive teaching programme is to train experts capable of understanding and explaining the most important practical and theoretical questions in French studies (language, literature, civilisation, culture, communication, translation). The programme provides thorough theoretical and practical knowledge. It enables students to use French in many work situations (business, travel, education, research, administration and diplomacy).
The programme covers the most important elements of French and Roman linguistics, French grammar, French and French expression literature, the history of French civilization, studies on contemporary France. The programme consists of 6 academic semesters with the possibility of practice (summer stage at the Alliance Française or at French enterprises of the region, e.g. EDF Group, GDF Suez, SADE).
Application requirements: B2 proficiency level language examination, with the option of a preparatory course at the University or at the Alliance Française of Szeged
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Tag: Jane Austen
Give a girl an education
So I’m still not sold on Jane Austen, having read four of her seven novels. I don’t think I will ever be a big fan, but I do increasingly appreciate her smart wit, her irony and sarcasm.
Fanny Price, however, is my least favourite Austen heroine so far. Her fate is predictable, telegraphed from the first few pages, but that’s not so bad if the journey is still enjoyable. However, Fanny is no fun at all. She’s delicate of health, oversensitive, prim, determined to believe that people can’t change, surprisingly impractical and generally a right goody-two-shoes.
Fanny is the oldest girl in a very large, not very well off family. When she is 10 she is adopted by her aunt Maria, who is married to the wealthy Sir Thomas Bertram, so Fanny moves from her chaotic but happy home in Southampton to the grandeur of Mansfield Park in Northamptonshire. She is shy, scared of her uncle and badly misses her home and family.
“Give a girl an education, and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.”
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Kate Gardner Reviews Jane Austen, money, morality, romance
Reading in August: to plan or not plan
Every month there are bookish challenges around and August is no different. My Twitter feed is full of Austen in August and Women in Translation Month, both of which tempt me for different reasons.
I’ve read three Jane Austen books and so far not been blown away, but I keep wondering if she’s a writer I’ll appreciate more as I get older. She’s certainly not flowery, which I have less and less patience for. And she’s smart, which I do like. It’s hard to talk myself into reading a book that I suspect I’m not going to enjoy. But I have heard good things about Mansfield Park, so maybe I’ll give that a go.
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Kate Gardner Blog Jane Austen, reading challenge, translation
It is poverty only which makes celibacy contemptible
In my late teens I went through a serious period drama phase, fuelled by TV miniseries based on classic books. A particular favourite was the 1996 ITV production of Emma starring Kate Beckinsale. I loved that show and watched it so many times I can still picture every scene now, a good 15+ years after I last saw it. Plus, of course I’ve seen the Gwyneth Paltrow film (meh), the 2009 BBC series starring Romola Garai (okay) and the greatest (or at least the most fun) Austen adaptation of them all, Clueless.
So you’d think I would have read Emma long ago. However, to date my experience of Jane Austen has not gone so well. I quite liked Northanger Abbey but I gave up multiple times on both Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility, finding the stuffiness outweighed the wit. I can’t say finally reading Emma has won me over; largely I think I only got through it because I already knew it so well.
Emma Woodhouse is young, rich, devoted to her family and determined to be cheerful. Her elderly father doesn’t like to go out and she doesn’t like to leave him home alone, so ever since her governess Miss Taylor left to marry Mr Weston she has been pretty bored. She makes friends with Harriet Smith, a girl of unknown parentage who was raised by the local schoolmistress. Harriet is dull but straightforward and quick to adore Emma. Emma’s friend and adviser Mr Knightley (her sister’s husband’s brother, who lives nearby) thinks she would do better to befriend Jane Fairfax, who is intelligent and accomplished. But Emma has always found Miss Fairfax cold and distant, not to mention being a little jealous of her musical skill.
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Kate Gardner Reviews class, Jane Austen, money, romance
Disagreeing with the majority
March 1, 2011 March 11, 2012 5 Comments
This is a book I had started half a dozen times but never finished before. I downloaded it from Project Gutenberg so that I could help test the Kindle that we bought for Tim’s parents and somehow wound up reading the whole thing, finally!
My previous attempts at this book were thwarted by the detached, stuffy manner of the storytelling. I read recently that Jane Austen wrote all her books in secret while in a drawing room full of family and other guests, so she naturally turned to the type of drama that is played out in a drawing room. And that is certainly true. She turns a certain studious eye and ironic wit on her subject and I was surprised to find myself laughing out loud on occasion.
As a lover of the 1990s BBC retelling of this story starring Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth, it was hard to be indifferent to the love stories that were playing out or the comedy of some of the characters, however I still can’t say that I greatly liked this book. Austen never really gets under the skin of anyone and, though she hints that the social niceties being followed are silly or pointless, they are never truly thwarted.
I was surprised to find, despite this being a dialogue-heavy novel, that some of the most important moments are not told in enough detail. For instance, when Lizzie finally confesses her love to Darcy or when she tells her father of her love for Darcy, Austen does not actually give us the words Lizzie uses or hears in return, which I found deeply dissatisfying. Nor is there even one single kiss, and the only embraces are between friends and family. But there is a slightly odd final chapter summarising the next few years of everyone’s lives, giving the novel a feeling of not having a proper solid ending.
I know that a lot of people out there love this book and will wholeheartedly disagree with me. I should also say that I have read a couple of Austen’s other books and enjoyed them (though still not loved them). I recognise that Austen had great talent, intelligence and wit. Her style, however, is not one that I particularly enjoy.
First published in 1813.
For some alternative points of view, see reviews from Bookworm With a View and The Zen Leaf.
Kate Gardner Reviews classic novel, comedy of manners, drawing room drama, Jane Austen, romance
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EVERETT'S VERSION
An Open Letter to Congressman Jeff Fortenberry
Clean Sweep Time
by Everett Wilson
I write this during the first, hopefully the last, day of the government shutdown.
The behavior of Congress in this matter is intolerable, which means it is not to be tolerated. It also means that those who are misbehaving are not to be tolerated.
No incumbent in this situation deserves re-election, which sadly includes some good people who were not articulate enough or brave enough to block the willful stupidity that now controls the House of Representatives. The willfully stupid are those congressmen who are convinced, in defiance of Holy Scripture and the ethical consensus of the western world, that it is now righteous to break your word, renege on your commitments, and default on your debts. The President would be in the wrong if he were to yield to their unlawful demand to renegotiate legislation already authorized with scheduled effective dates.
Some of these people may not know better. If that is the case, they aren't qualifed for office.
Others, like Senator Cruz, have a deserved reputation for knowing better. That definitely disqualifies them. The Senator deserves censure from the Senate because he knows better.
Some may hope they will survive if they sit still, but it''s too late for them to hope for that.
When I first conceived this column a week ago, before the shutdown, I thought the lyrics of Johnny Horton's "Sink the Bismarck!" was a good analogy.
"Sink the Bismarck" was the battle cry that shook the seven seas.
We found that German battleship was makin?' such a fuss
We had to sink the Bismarck cause the world depends on us.
We hit the decks a-runnin and we spun those guns around
We found the mighty Bismarck and then we cut her down.
In my analogy the Bismarck was Congress as it has allowed itself to become, invincible in its self-serving rules and traditions. Today the proper analogy is not sinking the Bismarck, but abandoning a ship that Congress has got us all to board with them because we trusted them--not to agree with us on everything, but at least to do their job. Our rallying cry can'?t be as noble as ?Sink the Bismarck! ? hollered by the young men who hit the decks a-runnin? to spin the guns around.? They knew they were likely to die in the humanly devised hell of a battle at sea. They stuck to their guns, at great loss, and prevailed in a victory that mattered.
But we're not confronting an external enemy like the Bismarck. Today we are on the ship, and it is sinking! So I'm recalling a line from a World War II naval memoir, I believe it was "All the Ship'?s At Sea," by William Lederer. A young executive officer, cut off from communication with the bridge of his sinking ship, stands at the rail among young sailors milling around him, awaiting orders. So he roars his command in terms they can appropriate for themselves: ?"This is the Exec! I'm abandoning ship! Last one over is a pig'?s ass!" It was crude, but effective. Over the side they went, babbling their rallying cry. "Last one over. . ."! They were not abandoning their country. If they were going to fight another day, they would have to survive the sea. The ship could no longer do battle. They needed another one.
I would never suggest abandoning the country; it's our country. Instead I suggest we abandon all the incumbents in congress along with the parties that have enabled and encouraged their incompetence--not a single vote for their nomination or re-election, not a single dollar of contribution to their campaigns. Trust some new people. We will lose some good people who will sadly choose to go down with the ship. We grieve for them, but we aren't called to die with them.
Everett Wilson has been writing for the Partial Observer since the turn of the century. Recently he has been focused on a novel, Necessary Things. The first part is available on Amazon, in print and as an ebook, entitled "Scoundrels and Fools."
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Patent application title: THIN-FILM TRANSISTOR AND METHOD OF MANUFACTURING THE SAME
Inventors: Akihiro Hanada (Minato-Ku, JP) Masayoshi Fuchi (Minato-Ku, JP) Hajime Watakabe (Minato-Ku, JP) Takashi Okada (Minato-Ku, JP) Arichika Ishiba (Minato-Ku, JP)
Assignees: Japan Display Inc.
IPC8 Class: AH01L29786FI
USPC Class: 257 43
Class name: Active solid-state devices (e.g., transistors, solid-state diodes) semiconductor is an oxide of a metal (e.g., cuo, zno) or copper sulfide
According to one embodiment, a thin-film transistor and a method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor provided herein achieve enhanced reliability by preventing a disconnection in a gate insulating film at a position corresponding to an end surface of an oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer includes a channel region, a source region, and a drain region. The channel region is placed between the source region and the drain region. The gate insulating film covers the oxide semiconductor layer in a range from at least a part of an upper surface to an end surface continuous with the upper surface of the oxide semiconductor layer. The oxide semiconductor layer is formed so as to have an oxygen concentration that becomes lower from a top side to a bottom side and the end surface is inclined so as to diverge from the top side to the bottom side.
1. A thin-film transistor comprising: an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel region, a source region, and a drain region, the channel region being placed between the source region and the drain region; a covering layer that covers the oxide semiconductor layer in a range from at least a part of an upper surface to an end surface continuous with the upper surface of the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate electrode arranged at a position spaced from the channel region of the oxide semiconductor layer so as to face the channel region; a source electrode electrically connected to the source region of the oxide semiconductor layer; and a drain electrode electrically connected to the drain region of the oxide semiconductor layer, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer is formed so as to have an oxygen concentration that becomes lower from a top side to a bottom side and the end surface is inclined so as to diverge from the top side to the bottom side.
2. The thin-film transistor according to claim 1, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer is formed of an oxide containing at least one of indium, gallium, zinc, and tin.
3. The thin-film transistor according to claim 1, wherein the covering layer is a gate insulating film that insulates the gate electrode from the oxide semiconductor layer.
4. A method of manufacturing a thin-film transistor comprising: an oxide semiconductor layer including a channel region, a source region, and a drain region, the channel region being placed between the source region and the drain region; a covering layer that covers the oxide semiconductor layer in a range including an end surface of the oxide semiconductor layer; a gate electrode arranged at a position spaced from the channel region of the oxide semiconductor layer so as to face the channel region; a source electrode electrically connected to the source region of the oxide semiconductor layer; and a drain electrode electrically connected to the drain region of the oxide semiconductor layer, wherein an oxide semiconductor film is formed so as to have an oxygen concentration that becomes lower from a top side to a bottom side, the oxide semiconductor film is etched with a given mask formed on the oxide semiconductor film to form the oxide semiconductor layer with the end surface inclined so as to diverge from the top side to the bottom side, and the covering layer is formed so as to cover the oxide semiconductor layer in the range including the end surface.
5. The method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor according to claim 4, wherein the oxide semiconductor film is formed in a manner such that the oxygen concentration becomes lower from the top side to the bottom side by depositing the oxide semiconductor film while changing an oxygen flow rate.
6. The method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor according to claim 4, wherein the oxide semiconductor layer is formed of an oxide containing at least one of indium, gallium, zinc, and tin.
7. The method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor according to claim 4, wherein the gate electrode is formed on the covering layer in a manner such that the gate electrode is insulated from the oxide semiconductor layer by the covering layer.
INCORPORATION BY REFERENCE
[0001] The present invention claims priority under 35 U.S.C. §119 to Japanese Patent Application No. 2014-237937 filed on Nov. 25, 2014. The content of the application is incorporated herein by reference in its entirety.
[0002] An embodiment described herein relates generally to a thin-film transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer and a method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor.
[0003] A thin-film transistor has conventionally been used in a flat panel display device such as a liquid crystal display device or an organic EL display device, for example. In recent years, a flat panel display device has been required to respond to increasing demands for a larger screen, a higher resolution, and a higher frame rate, etc. Some flat panel display devices use an oxide semiconductor layer that can achieve high mobility as a semiconductor layer of a thin-film transistor. In particular, an oxide semiconductor layer made of IGZO, for example, has gained attention as an oxide semiconductor layer satisfying the aforementioned demands as it can be formed in a large area under a relatively low temperature and consumes a small current.
[0004] Wet etching is generally used for patterning of such an oxide semiconductor layer. As a result of a high etching rate during wet etching, the shape of an end surface of the oxide semiconductor layer being formed cannot be controlled easily. Thus, the resultant end surface is not given a substantially inclined shape but becomes a vertical end surface. This may cause a phenomenon that is called a step disconnection where a covering layer such as an insulating film formed so as to cover the oxide semiconductor layer is disconnected at a position corresponding to the end surface of the oxide semiconductor layer.
[0005] FIG. 1 is a sectional view schematically showing a thin-film transistor of an embodiment;
[0006] FIGS. 2A, 2B, 2C and 2D are sectional views schematically showing a part of a method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor in FIG. 1 in order from FIG. 2A to FIG. 2D; and
[0007] FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D are sectional views schematically showing a part of a method of manufacturing a thin-film transistor of a conventional example in order from FIG. 3A to 3D.
[0008] The structure of an embodiment is described below by referring to the drawings.
[0009] Referring to FIG. 1, 11 shows a thin-film transistor. The thin-film transistor 11 is a top gate thin-film transistor used in a flat panel display device such as a liquid crystal display device (LCD) or an organic EL display device, for example.
[0010] The thin-film transistor 11 includes an oxide semiconductor layer 12, a gate electrode 13, a source electrode 14, and a drain electrode 15. The thin-film transistor 11 is formed on an insulating undercoat layer not shown in the drawings that is formed on a glass substrate 16 as an insulating substrate.
[0011] The oxide semiconductor layer 12 is formed of an oxide containing at least one of indium (In), gallium (Ga), zinc (Zn), and tin (Sn). For example, the oxide semiconductor layer 12 may be made of IGZO. The oxide semiconductor layer 12 has a channel region 12c as a high-resistance region of a relatively high resistance formed into a given width in a central part of the oxide semiconductor layer 12. A source region 12s and a drain region 12d as low-resistance regions lower in resistance than the channel region 12c are formed while the channel region 12c is placed between the source region 12s and the drain region 12d. Further, the oxide semiconductor layer 12 has an oxide concentration gradient set in a manner such that an oxide concentration becomes lower continuously or stepwise from the top side to the bottom side (toward the glass substrate 16). The oxide semiconductor layer 12 has an inclined surface (tapered surface) that is inclined so as to diverge toward the glass substrate 16. The inclined surface is formed at each of an end surface 18 and an end surface 19 continuous with a planar upper surface 17, specifically, at each of an end portion of the source region 12s on an opposite side of an end portion thereof facing the channel region 12c and an end portion of the drain region 12d on an opposite side of an end portion thereof facing the channel region 12c. In this way, the oxide semiconductor layer 12 is formed into a tapered shape that expands from the top side to the bottom side, specifically, toward the glass substrate 16.
[0012] The gate electrode (gate metal) 13 is formed of an alloy containing one of, or at least one of copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), titanium (Ti), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), tantalum (Ta), and chromium (Cr). The gate electrode 13 is formed on the gate insulating film 21 as a covering layer formed on the oxide semiconductor layer 12 at a position facing the channel region 12c of the oxide semiconductor layer 12, specifically, at a position directly above the channel region 12c. The gate electrode 13 is insulated from the oxide semiconductor layer 12 (channel region 12c) by the gate insulating film 21.
[0013] The gate insulating film 21 is a silicon oxide film or a silicon nitride film, or the like. The gate insulating film 21 is formed so as to cover the oxide semiconductor layer 12 in a range from the upper surface 17 to each of the end surfaces 18 and 19, specifically, so as to cover the oxide semiconductor layer 12 across the upper surface 17 and the end surfaces 18 and 19 continuously. Thus, the gate insulating film 21 has step portions formed at positions corresponding to a position on the end surfaces 18 and 19 of the oxide semiconductor layer 12.
[0014] The source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 are formed of an alloy containing one of, or at least one of copper (Cu), aluminum (Al), titanium (Ti), molybdenum (Mo), tungsten (W), tantalum (Ta), and chromium (Cr). The source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 are formed on an interlayer insulating film 22 that is formed on the gate insulating film 21 so as to cover the gate electrode 13, so that the source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 are insulated from the gate electrode 13. Further, the source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 are electrically connected to the source region 12s and the drain region 12d of the oxide semiconductor layer 12 through a contact hole 24 and a contact hole 25, each of which is respectively formed so as to extend through the gate insulating film 21 and the interlayer insulating film 22. In this way, the source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 are arranged at positions between which the gate electrode 13 is placed. The interlayer insulating film 22 is a silicon oxide film (SiO), for example.
[0015] A method of manufacturing the thin-film transistor 11 of the aforementioned first embodiment is described next.
[0016] First, an oxide semiconductor film 27 to become the oxide semiconductor layer 12 is deposited on the glass substrate by sputtering, for example (FIG. 2A). During the deposition, an oxygen flow rate is increased continuously or stepwise, thereby growing the oxide semiconductor film 27 while increasing an oxygen concentration in the oxide semiconductor film 27 continuously or stepwise from the bottom side to the top side, specifically from a side corresponding to the glass substrate 16. Therefore, the oxide semiconductor film 27 has an oxide concentration gradient set in a manner such that the oxide concentration becomes lower continuously or stepwise from the top side to the bottom side.
[0017] The deposited oxide semiconductor film 27 is patterned by etching such as wet etching, for example. Specifically, the oxide semiconductor film 27 is etched with a given mask M formed on a part of the oxide semiconductor film 27 that is to remain to become the oxide semiconductor layer 12 (FIG. 2B). As described above, the oxide semiconductor film 27 has an oxygen concentration gradient set from the top side to the bottom side. This makes an etching rate differ from the top side to the bottom side. An etching rate becomes relatively high at the top side where an oxygen concentration is relatively high. An etching rate becomes relatively low at the bottom side where the oxygen concentration is relatively low. Thus, the oxide semiconductor film 27 is formed into a tapered shape with the end surfaces 18 and 19 that are inclined so as to diverge from the top side to the bottom side. Then, the mask M is removed and certain reduction treatment is performed to make a resistance lower in opposite regions than in the central part, thereby forming the source region 12s and the drain region 12d. Further, the channel region 12c of a relatively high resistance is formed between the source region 12s and the drain region 12d, thereby forming the oxide semiconductor layer 12 (FIG. 2C).
[0018] Further, the gate insulating film 21 is deposited on the glass substrate 16 so as to cover the oxide semiconductor layer 12 and then patterned (FIG. 2D). The gate electrode 13 is deposited on the gate insulating film 21 by sputtering, for example, and then patterned. If the gate insulating film 21 is to be formed only under the gate electrode 13, the gate insulating film 21 and the gate electrode 13 can be patterned together.
[0019] Then, the interlayer insulating film 22 is deposited on the gate insulating film 21 so as to cover the gate electrode 13 and then patterned. Further, the contact holes 24 and 25 are formed for example by etching in each of the gate insulating film 21 and the interlayer insulating film 22 at positions corresponding to the source region 12s and the drain region 12d of the oxide semiconductor layer 12, respectively. A given metal layer is deposited for example by sputtering so as to cover the contact holes 24 and 25 and then patterned for example by etching. As a result, the source electrode 14 and the drain electrode 15 are each formed into an island-shape, for example, so as to be electrically connected to the source region 12s and the drain region 12d, respectively.
[0020] According to the embodiment explained above, the oxide semiconductor film 27 formed to have an oxygen concentration that becomes lower from the top side to the bottom side is etched with the given mask M formed on the oxide semiconductor film 27. By using the difference in etching rate generated by the difference in oxygen concentration, the resultant oxide semiconductor layer 12 is formed with the end surfaces 18 and 19 inclined so as to diverge from the top side to the bottom side. This prevents a disconnection in the gate insulating film 21 covering the oxide semiconductor layer 12 in the range from the upper surface 17 to each of the end surfaces 18 and 19 that is to occur at a step portion including a part covering the oxide semiconductor layer 12 at the upper surface 17 and a part covering the oxide semiconductor layer 12 from each of the end surfaces 18 and 19 to the glass substrate 16 in a layer under the oxide semiconductor layer 12.
[0021] Referring to a conventional example shown as Comparative Example in FIGS. 3A, 3B, 3C and 3D, an oxide semiconductor film 27a has an oxygen concentration substantially constant across a range from the top side to the bottom side. Thus, in the case of an etching rate that becomes high particularly during wet etching, for example, the shape of an end surface 18a and that of an end surface 19a of the thin oxide semiconductor film 27a (oxide semiconductor layer 12a) cannot be controlled easily to form the end surfaces 18a and 19a as vertical end surfaces. This causes a disconnection (step disconnection) in a gate insulating film 21a in a layer above the oxide semiconductor layer 12a between a part covering the oxide semiconductor layer 12a at an upper surface 17a and a part covering the oxide semiconductor layer 12a from each of the end surfaces 18a and 19a to the glass substrate 16 in a layer under the oxide semiconductor layer 12a. In contrast, the occurrence of this disconnection does not occur in this embodiment.
[0022] As a result, reliability can be enhanced by preventing reduction in insulating properties due to the disconnection in the gate insulating film 21 or preventing reduction in insulating properties of the interlayer insulating film 22 formed in a layer above the gate insulating film 21 by preventing the occurrence of a void in the interlayer insulating film 22, for example.
[0023] The oxide semiconductor film 27 can be formed easily in a manner such that an oxygen concentration in the oxide semiconductor film 27 becomes lower from the top side to the bottom side by depositing the oxide semiconductor film 27 while changing an oxygen flow rate.
[0024] In the aforementioned embodiment, even if the thin-film transistor 11 is a bottom gate thin-film transistor including the gate electrode 13 arranged below the oxide semiconductor layer 12, the thin-film transistor 11 can still be formed in the same way.
[0025] The covering layer covering the oxide semiconductor layer 12 in the range from the upper surface 17 to each of the end surfaces 18 and 19 is not limited to the gate insulating film 21 but it may alternatively be any layer above the oxide semiconductor layer 12.
[0026] Further, the covering layer is not always required to cover the entire upper surface 17 as long as it covers the oxide semiconductor layer 12 in a range from at least a part of the upper surface 17 to each of the end surfaces 18 and 19.
[0027] The oxide semiconductor film 27 may alternatively be formed by doping, for example, in a manner such that an oxide concentration becomes lower continuously or stepwise from the top side to the bottom side.
[0028] While a certain embodiment of the present invention has heretofore been described, the embodiment has been presented by way of example only and is not intended to limit the scope of the invention. For example, the display device may be an organic EL display device and the like, in place of the liquid crystal display device. Indeed, the novel embodiment described herein may be embodied in a variety of other forms; furthermore, various omissions, substitutions, and variations may be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. The appended claims and their equivalents are intended to cover the embodiment and its modifications as would fall within the scope and spirit of the invention.
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China claims ASF cases are slowing
By PW Reporters on July 5, 2019 African swine fever, News
China claims the number of fresh outbreaks of African swine fever in the country has dropped this year and pig production is slowly returning to normal, amid suspicions that the full extent of the disease is not being reported.
Reuters reported that vice minister of agriculture and rural affairs Yu Kangzhen said China had seen only 44 new cases in the first six months of 2019.
That brings the total number of cases China has reported since the first one in August 2018 to 143, with 1.16 million pigs culled, Mr Yu said.
However, many outbreaks are not being reported, farmers have told Reuters, with local officials in some provinces unwilling to verify the disease.
Reuters reported this week that as many as half of China’s breeding pigs have died from African swine fever or been slaughtered because of the spreading disease, twice as many as had been officially acknowledged.
Mr Yu said the government is currently checking online reports of alleged outbreaks of the disease, adding that any party not reporting a case would be severely punished.
“Our attitude is very clear: when it comes to under-reporting of the disease, though we can’t guarantee zero cases [are not reported], we will definitely have zero tolerance for it,” he said.
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Inspiring Speaker, Author and Advisor, Rosie Unite, Hits Amazon Best-Seller List with The Big Question
admin October 9, 2018 October 9, 2018 No Comments on Inspiring Speaker, Author and Advisor, Rosie Unite, Hits Amazon Best-Seller List with The Big Question
Rosie Unite ranked on the Amazon Best-Seller list with the book that she co-authored with media and CNN legend Larry King, The Big Question.
London, UK – October 9, 2018 – Founder and CEO of ImaginateLife®, Rosie Unite, has joined a select group of experts and professionals around the world to co-write the book The Big Question: The World’s Leading Entrepreneurs and Professionals Answer the Big Questions to Help You in Health, Wealth, and Success Today! It also features content from JW Dicks, Esq. and Nick Nanton, Esq., international Best-Selling Authors®, marketing experts, and winners of multiple Emmy Awards (excellence in the television industry). The book was published by CelebrityPress®, a leading business book publisher that publishes books from ThoughtLeaders® around the world, and was released on May 10, 2018.
On the day of release, The Big Question reached best-seller status on Amazon. The profoundly personal story shared in Unite’s chapter, “Can I Heal and Connect With The Unified Field?” helped the book reach optimal best-seller placement. In sharing how an unexpected, extraordinary event forever transformed her life, Unite inspires and empowers readers to be open to possibilities beyond their imagination.
CelebrityPress® describes the book as an uplifting narrative about professionals around the world whose lives and livelihoods have been based on asking challenging and illuminating questions.
Asking questions is an art form learned at an early age to help one grow, evolve and achieve. The professionals in this book have asked themselves powerful and diverse questions. They know that the fastest, most effective, solutions in life often come from people who have walked similar paths. They have generously shared their insights and guidance to help others answer their own big questions along the personal, professional and aspirational spectrums.
After such a successful release, Rosie Unite will be recognized by the National Academy of Best-Selling Authors®, an organization that honors authors from leading independent best-seller lists.
Click HERE to order a copy of The Big Question.
A portion of the royalties earned from The Big Question will be given to Entrepreneurs International Foundation (EIF), a not for profit organization dedicated to creating awareness for charitable causes. EIF brings together top marketing and business minds to encourage and lift up those in need. Several of their supported projects are recipients of Emmy and Telly Awards.
About Rosie Unite and ImaginateLife®
Rosie Unite is the Founder and CEO of ImaginateLife®, a for-profit global social impact venture that was born from an unexpected, extraordinary event that forever transformed her life.
She is passionate about the power at the nexus of neuroscience, epigenetics, quantum physics, and spirituality to heal bodies, elevate minds, and transform lives. Known as The Possibilities Whisperer®, Rosie shares her extraordinary transformation to help others.
ImaginateLife® offers the knowledge, skills, and awareness that inspires and empowers others to discover their innate power and seed a greater consciousness in the world. Services include keynote speeches, workshops, advisory services, and special events.
Rosie is deeply grateful for her greatest teacher-of-life, Dr. Joe Dispenza, the compassionate visionary, renowned neuroscientist, educator, and NY Times best-selling author.
To date, she has completed nine of his profound workshops – mostly Advanced and Advanced-Follow-Ups. She is honored to have participated in his global research on meditation effects on the brain and body. She has been QEEG (quantitative electroencephalography) brain mapped by neuroscientists from the U.S. and Germany, measured for heart coherence by HeartMath Institute, and tested for individual energy fields by GDV technology.
Rosie is a globe-trotting, lifelong student of holistic learning, leading and service.
A Wharton MBA, she was invited to the ThoughtLeader® Summit, and is a member of the National Association of Experts, Writers & Speakers™ and National Academy of Best-Selling Authors®.
Rosie has received Quilly® Awards for three books she has co-authored: The Big Question with media and CNN legend Larry King, Performance 360: Second Edition with business magnate Sir Richard Branson, and Success Breakthroughs with Jack Canfield. The originator behind the Chicken Soup for the Soul® series (500+ million printed), Jack is a Guinness Book of World Records holder – the only author with seven books simultaneously on the NY Times Bestseller List. Rosie is a Certified Trainer in his best-selling book The Success Principles™ and the Canfield Methodology™.
She has also received two Expy® Awards for co-authoring the children’s book Leo Learns About Life and serving as an Executive Producer for the documentary film The Voice of a Generation: An Evening with Larry King. She has been featured on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Success Today, “Game Changers” in USA Today, and “Masters of Success” in the Wall Street Journal.
Rosie is honored to have delivered her signature speech at the Global Entrepreneurship Initiative annual meeting at the United Nations Headquarters and at Success LIVE™ held at Universal Studios.
Previously, in her 30-year global career, Rosie was a leader in both social impact and the Fortune 500. She began building businesses in the Peace Corps – guiding community-based microenterprises – and went on to help build, launch and grow new companies and emerging mobile, telecommunications, and digital technologies.
She worked with well-known organizations including: Sprint, GTE (Verizon),
DoubleClick (Google), Johnson & Johnson, Silicon Graphics (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), France Telecom, Intelig Brazil (TIM Italy), Deutsche Telekom, Women’s World Banking, World Bank, Inter-American Development Bank, Academy for Educational Development, and Habitat for Humanity.
Rosie is also a Sivananda Hatha Yoga Certified Instructor and has completed Vipassana 10-Day Meditation and Levels 1-2-3 of EFT Universe’s Certification Program (i.e. Tapping). Fulfilling a childhood dream, she has traveled in 65 countries and lived in eight: USA, Brazil, Netherlands, Hong Kong, Spain, Bulgaria, Dominican Republic, and the UK.
About CelebrityPress® LLC:
CelebrityPress® LLC is a leading business book publisher that publishes books from ThoughtLeaders® around the world. CelebrityPress® LLC specializes in business anthologies, among various other types of titles, and has published books alongside Jack Canfield, Brian Tracy, Dan Kennedy, Dr. Ivan Misner, Robert Allen, Michael Gerber, Tom Hopkins, and many of the biggest experts across diverse fields. CelebrityPress® LLC focuses on helping its authors grow their businesses and their personal brands through book publishing; the organization has successfully helped launch thousands of best-selling authors® to date.
Learn more at www.celebritypresspublishing.com
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Bo Manry and Chris Goff Named Executive Producers on Upcoming Folds of Honor Documentary
Tax Attorney, Cary B. Bryson, Named Acadiana Kingfish by Acadiana Profile Magazine
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Interviews | 28 Nov 2017 19:13 | By Namrata Kale
I love listening to Indian Classical music: Dee Wood
Dee Wood
MUMBAI: American bassist-composer D.Wood a graduate of Berklee College of Music has performed and recorded internationally with a host of musicians. The list includes Dave Valentin, Loy Ehsaan, Louis Banks, Z.M.Dagar, Samantha Edwards, Salim Sulaimaan. He has also collaborated on film projects with Kabir Mohanty, Vikram Joglekar, Mani Victor Banerjee and Kumar Shahani and many others.
In an exclusive interview with Radioandmusic, Dee Wood spoke about his musical journey and initial learning phases and more. Excerpts.
When and how did your musical journey begin?
My musical journey began when I was a kid. Initially, my parents gave me a little record player with a whole bunch of 45 RPM records. Those records were coloured yellow, red and green and you could literally see that light coming through them. They were magic to me with all those great songs. For some reason I used to listen to Irish tunes as a kid and my musical journey grooved from there which slowly set me up for music.
So, was it the initial learning phase?
My initial learning phases were pretty much determined by listening. I used to try playing tunes on guitar which I used to hear on the radio. I would also spend more time listening and imitating them. I learned music along with school pals in the garage every day, to which with sheer persistence I gradually improved.
WeÆve heard that you listen to a lot of Indian music.
I love North and South Indian classical music thatÆs what brought me closer to music. There are so many phenomenal musicians that this country has produced like Deepu Vinaykram, Bhimsen Joshi and many others. Classical music is inspiring and is regarded as the highest musical on this planet. ItÆs one of the most sophisticated systems of rhythm and melody.
I personally have worked with classical singers like Dhanashree Pandit Rai who specialises in Thumri and Vasundhara V, an Indian based singer who sings western music.
The popularity of Jazz is diminishing in India. What according to you are the reasons for the same?
Jazz isnÆt for everybody; itÆs for a certain type of listeners. Jazz is for those with certain kind of exposure to art, culture and travel. ItÆs a niche market we do not expect everybody to love it. But there are enough people collectively in the world that create a substantial scene for practicing this scene. Also now with the internet, we can connect with our audience at a much deeper level. We are using the internet to expand our network and we are trying to get a lot of people to come to India to play with us. But overall jazz music is not popular in India.
You also teach Jazz at Whistling Woods International.
Whistling Woods has provided us with an extraordinary opportunity to create an artistic community and that to not with just musicians but also filmmakers, writers, actors and technicians. ItÆs such a conducive environment filled with creativity and innovation. I feel like I have done some of the most substantial personal growth being associated with Whistling Woods. Thanks to Subhash Ghai for providing an incredible opportunity for musicians.
When did you fall in love with India?
I was working on my masters while doing musical research. I came to India thinking I would stay here for six months but India had other plans for me, my fascination with Indian music and Indian culture really took hold here. I started getting great opportunities, while I travelled and learned a lot. I found life so much more fascinating in India that I did not go back in my own country. It wasnÆt an easy journey but definitely a satisfying one. I have learned a lot while teaching; overall my journey in India has turned out to be an amazing one. I feel India is my adopted home.
YouÆre the co-founder of the Bombay Jazz Club.
We wanted to bring in a community of people who could play music together on regular basis. Performance is so important in terms of growing as an artiste as far as growing our audiences and to flex our creative muscles. Bombay jazz club has been around here for five years and we have interacted with hundreds of musicians from all over India, all over the world. Music is improving and every year we get more people coming to learn. Jazz was something that didnÆt exist in this city (Mumbai) at least till I knew. Eventually, we bound up with likeminded people and with Whistling Woods who entrusted this beautiful idea and believed in us.ö
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Interviews | 01 Dec 2018
My fans will witness crazy visuals, pyro and new music at Power Arena in Mumbai: Martin Garrix
Globally popular 22-year-old Dutch DJ and record producer Martin Garrix has been ranked as the number one DJ on DJ Mag's Top 100 DJs list for three consecutive years.
Interviews | 12 Jul 2018
No reality show defines singer's career, what does is their determination and hustle: Vishal Dadlani
Vishal Dadlani, one of the biggest names in the music industry, is currently seen judging Indian Idol Season 10, which is grabbing eyeballs for the right reasons. Vishal happens to be pepped up for the journey, where he is co-judging with Neha Kakkar and Anu Malik.
Interviews | 04 Apr 2018
Faculties share their experiences at Global Music Institute
New Delhi based Global Music Institute believes in working and promoting cross-cultural and more traditional folkloric styles of music. It also aims at developing well-rounded students who have a deep awareness and understanding of music.
India has so much energy and loyal fans: Martin Garrix
MUMBAI: Martin Garrix needs no introduction in India. He has been a part of the Indian music family. But, for the unintended this Dutch DJ has been ranked number one on DJÆs Mag not once but twice and he owns the STMPD RCRDS label. He has managed to do it all at just 21.
Interviews | 12 Jun 2017
"I will take my music as far as it goes": Maala
MUMBAI: He may not be very well known to Indians but heÆs quite the rage in New Zealand. Evan Sinton was a gawky, clumsy, fresh, nobody17-year-old who surprisingly got himself a ticket to the finals of æNew ZealandÆs Got TalentÆ and even went on to win the third spot in 2012.
RAM Week 26: Top stations maintain position
MUMBAI: In RAM Week 26, top radio players continued ruling charts in their favourite markets.read more
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Tapped & paired: New places invade Barracks
Published online 5:37am Thursday May 16th, 2013
Richmond's Sedona Taphouse comes to Millmont Street in June.
From Sedona Taphouse Facebook page
The idea behind the Sedona Taphouse is simple: good beer, good food, and a comfortable atmosphere for all.
Although Dish had no luck reaching the owners by presstime, owner Dennis Barbaro recently told local food website The Charlottesville 29 that he "wanted a place that would appeal to women equally as much as men, a place that I would like to go and enjoy quality food and awesome beer and also a place that my wife and her friends would feel equally comfortable.
The upscale brew pub, which is slated to open on Millmont Street (right behind Barracks Road Shopping Center) in the former Millmont Grille location in the first week of June, will be Barbaro’s second Sedona Taphouse. The first, located in Midlothian, won two 2012 Best of Virginia awards in Virginia Living magazine’s – a first place for Best Overall Bar, and a second place for Best Place to Buy Beer.
The Charlottesville location promises to follow this successful model, with a rotating list of over fifty local and international craft beers on tap, and nearly ten times as many bottled offerings, as well as an extensive wine list, and hand crafted martinis.
The food side of things will be captained by executive chef Jordan Clegger, formerly of eclectic Richmond eatery, Mosaic Restaurant.
Though Barbaro is a New York native, this new venture is a return to C’Ville. He trained for four years at the Bonefish Grille in the Hollymead Shopping Center, honing his craft beer knowledge.
Sedona Taphouse’s website emphasizes giving back to its local community, saying “We work tirelessly to support our local community through our ongoing charitable initiatives. We give back, every day and every month,” and in 2012, the Taphouse raised more than $20,000 for central Virginia charities.
The new Taphouse promises to respect Charlottesville brews. “Rest assured that our local breweries will be well represented,” touts the restaurant’s Facebook page. “We've been huge fans for years!” – Emma Eisenburg
Trio of new places at Barracks
Right next to Burger King in the Barracks Road Shopping Center, where they demolished the old Shell gas station, a trio of eateries is scheduled to open under the same roof by the end of the year, which, given how these things typically go, likely means the beginning of 2014.
One place, Zinburger Wine & Burger Bar, a small New Jersey-based chain, appears to have taken the stylish gourmet burger joint trend and added a a little twist– wine pairings with your grilled patty from an extensive wine list.
That's right, may we recommend a Zinfandel with that Sam Burger (smoked bacon and thousand island dressing), or a Shiraz with that Kobe Burger ( wild mushrooms on a Japanese style beef cut, typically darker and bolder in taste), or maybe the signature Zinburger, which is served with onions braised in Zinfandel.
They've got a lot of gourmet sandwiches as well, like a turkey sloppy joe, and a bunch of veggie burger options, too. They also have a pretty impressive gourmet shake and float menu, like a "Crème Brûlée" with crushed caramel and a "Strawberry Cheesecake" with strawberry cream cheese and graham crackers. Bunch of great gourmet salads, too. Full bar as well, cocktails, big beer list, and what they call a "sleek, contemporary, upbeat and playful" atmosphere " featuring rich wood and earth tones." Looks like they also feature panoramic art work on the walls featuring the animal who gives it up for your wine-paired patty.
Next up, Zoe’s Kitchen, a decidedly larger chain than Zinburger with restaurants in about 15 states from Pennsylvania to Arizona, that serves up "Mediterranean-inspired" food inspired by its Greek founder's mother, Zoe Cassimus. Started in Birmingham, Alabama in the mid-1990s, the place is often referred to as "fast casual" with a focus on health conscious food. So, we're talking Greek salads, hummus and pita, soups, egg salad, tuna, chicken salad, and turkey sandwiches, all at a relatively low price. There are also a lot of vegetarian and vegan options. Decor is on the modern side.
Finally, another New Jersey and New York-based eatery called Cups, yet another one of those self-serve yogurt places a la Sweet Frog and Bloop that have been capitalizing on the fro-yo fever over the last few years. Indeed, counting Arch's, the home-grown frozen yogurt place with locations on Ivy Road, Emmet Street, and on the Corner (which recently went self-serve to keep up with the trend), as well as the soon-to-open Spoon and Berry at The Shops at Stonefield, there will be eight places in town to get the stuff, including Berry Berry on the Corner.
How might Cups be different? Hmm…perhaps some different flavors, like sea salt caramel pretzel fray, a new store color scheme and house music, and video endorsements from pre-teen girls.
St. Halsey May 16th, 2013 | 9:50am
Sedona Taphouse location next to the monster new law/business student school apartment building should give it a very steady crowd during the school year. Go in the summer before the new "master's of the universe" take it over in the fall.
One wonders what might happen to nearby BW3 with it bad press (late night shootings) and mediocre to bad food.
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Image: Mike Keeling
Sphecius speciosus
Does exactly what it says on the tin! Such honesty is scant comfort if you're a Cicada.
Cicada Killers are about 20 species in the genus Sphecius, that can be found across the world in tropical and some temperate climes. North America's Eastern Cicada Killer (S. speciosus) seems to be the one that has most captured our malicious, little hearts.
Image: Steven Severinghaus
These are large wasps; the females may be 5 cm (2 in) long, the males a little smaller and quite a lot lighter. They can be seen sucking up nectar from flowers, using the sugar rush to keep those wings buzzing like an over-excited child at a birthday party.
Image: Chris Kreussling
But they can also be seen doing something significantly less palatable. The Cicada Killer Wasp kills Cicadas! There are no red herrings here. You're reading a murder mystery called "The Butler Did It" and the butler did indeed do it.
Or did he?
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It all begins when a whole load of Cicada Killer Wasps emerge from their burrows for the very first time. In the heat of the sun, it's time to get frisky. Males are extremely aggressive with each other, fighting both on the ground and in mid-air over females to mate with. They might even continue fighting while a male is in the very act of mating! Some guys just can't take a hint...
It's good that the males can't sting otherwise they'd probably just kill each other. Females do have venom, but they are thankfully uninterested in humans. These wasps are solitary, not social, so without a huge nest full of sisters, grubs, food and a queen, they simply have better things to do.
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After fighting and mating, the males promptly lie on their back, put their feet up and relax. By which I mean die.
For the females, however, life has barely begun. And it's a life of toil and labour punctuated by nectar to take the edge off. She must first get digging, burrowing a good 30 to 60 (foot or two) into the ground. This is just the kind of burrow she herself emerged from.
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Ruining
The sheer quantity of excavated earth is quite remarkable, and it can really ruin your lawn.
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Stinging
Now it's time for the female Cicada Killer to go out and earn her name. She has a huge stinger to plunge into hapless Cicadas and a terrible venom with which to paralyse them.
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Cicadas can easily be as big as their Killer and a lot heavier due to their more robust shape. They can't do much to defend themselves other than get really loud and annoying, and once the venom takes its toll, the struggle ceases.
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Now the Cicada Killer undertakes the arduous journey back to her burrow. She pulls it and drags it and heaves it and hefts it all the way home. She might even fly for short bursts if she can, but its exhausting work.
And now you know why the Emerald Cockroach Wasp zombifies her prey instead of paralyses it. It's so much easier if that thing can walk!
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She takes the Cicada deep into her burrow and drops it off. Her burrow may have several, separate rooms into which she will lay a single egg. The Cicadas serve as a substantial, nourishing meal for growing grubs, so each room is provisioned with one Cicada for a male and two or three for a female.
So now our doting mother must go on the hunt once more, probably sipping some more nectar for energy and respite from the terrible working conditions. She doesn't even get a pension! Once all her work is done, she simply dies and never sees her children grow and pay her back for the food and housing she provided them.
Meanwhile, in the burrow, the eggs hatch and a tiny grub wakes up to the sweet scent of food. They eat, they grow and they might even spend the winter months down there. Soon enough, they pupate and an adult Cicada Killer emerges.
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So what's the sting in the tail? Did the butler really do it? Who is the true Cicada Killer?
It's the larva.
The Cicada Killer Wasp we see buzzing around is a mere accomplice, paralysing the Cicada and serving up the unmoving body to her children. It's the larva who does the killing, who eats the Cicada to death in the quiet, untroubled darkness of the burrow.
Be thankful that an over-excited child at a birthday party only gets really loud and annoying...
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a horrible way to go for the cicada! and i was all for those wasps here until i saw the destruction to the yard.
It's amazing how much soil they pull up. It's a wasp making molehills!
Adam Orth said...
I'm working on a story in which these wasps hunt the children of my main characters, so thank you for this. Super informative and fun to read.
Glad I could help!
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Campfire Ghost Stories
The crackling fire provided a calming soundtrack to their yearly gathering.
A log shifted, and a swirl of sparks gusted heavenward, the sizzling sound accented by a choir of crickets in the darkness and the occasional blip of unseen fish breaking the surface of the tranquil lake.
“There is nothing new under the sun.” The Scholar quoted perhaps the most oft-repeated phrase from his area of expertise. “What we are experiencing today was known to the ancients just as well.”
The Historian nodded solemnly, his every mannerism soaked in the aura of musty books and tweed. “Same as it ever was,” he agreed.
The Younger spoke up, brows knit together as he carefully rotated the marshmallow he was attempting to brown without burning.
“It doesn’t feel like it’s a normal spiritual rhythm,” he mused. “My friends’ attitudes feel more like they’ve given up on their faith. And they don’t want to hear anything from me about it—they’ve made that clear. I feel handcuffed. Our faith used to be one of the things that bonded us, but now it’s become That Which Must Not Be Named.”
The Elder sipped his coffee—‘black, the way God drinks it’—and said nothing, content to allow his circle of friends to answer.
“The human heart has a rather predictable tendency to wander.” The Scholar puffed on his pipe, smoke wreathing around his long face. “The ancient Israelites, followers of Yahweh, forgot their covenant and fell into idolatry with alarming frequency.”
He paused for a moment, his thoughtful countenance illuminated by the flickering firelight. “Yet Yahweh was faithful even when they were not, sending prophets and leaders to turn them back to their faith. Nehemiah reading the Law to the people after rebuilding Jerusalem, for example. Or perhaps King Josiah’s discovery of the Torah in the ruins of the Temple and his subsequent reforms.”
“Church history is a record of the same pattern.” The Historian took up the narrative, shifting on the log he sat upon, searching for a more comfortable position. “The post-Nicean priesthood was no stranger to corruption, and there were many ‘reforming’ movements within the Catholic Church, long before the Reformation.”
“Isn’t that why there’s so many Protestant denominations?” The Younger came close to interrupting in his eagerness. “A new movement seeking to recapture the life of the New Testament church?”
The Historian smiled faintly. “Yes, but also many aberrant movements ended in heresy, even as they advertised themselves as returning to ‘biblical’ Christianity. One must be discerning.”
He leaned forward, elbows on his knees, staring into the campfire. “But it’s also quite true that the Holy Ghost was faithful to bring ‘revival’—if I may use the term—to rejuvenate a passion for Jesus even in a cold-hearted, corrupted church or denomination. If there was ecclesiastical resistance . . . Well, those whose hearts had been ‘revived’ were often given little recourse but to break away.”
“That reminds me of King Saul being replaced by David—the ‘man after God’s own heart’.” The Scholar knocked his pipe against his knee, dislodging the dead embers. Whether or not he intended his action as a metaphor was impossible to tell.
The Elder refilled his metal camping mug from his thermos. The steam from his hot coffee rose in a miniature counterpoint to the smoky campfire.
He spoke for the first time, with a nod of appreciation to his colleagues. “The lesson we can take from both biblical and church history is God’s faithfulness to rekindle the embers of a dying faith.”
He sipped his coffee cautiously. “The Holy Ghost can be trusted to re-ignite a passion for Jesus. Your friends may resemble what some Plymouth Brethren theologians call the ‘great falling away’—I won’t debate that.
”But the health of the Church universal is in the hands of Someone else. And I believe the Holy Ghost will do the work Jesus promised would be done.”
“Revival.” The Younger uttered the single word in a neutral monotone. He reached out and stirred the fire with his marshmallow stick, watching as sparks flared upward in response. “Let’s hope so.”
The Elder raised his coffee mug in salute, a knowing twinkle in his eyes. “Let us pray so.”
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A Decade Times Three
Thirty years is a significant chunk of time. For example:
In a typical music store in 1989, new-fangled Compact Discs (CDs) were still competing for shelf-space with cassette tapes and a nearly-extinct smattering of vinyl records.
Fast forward thirty years: cassettes have all but disappeared, people with extensive CD collections are mocked and/or pitied, and vinyl is back. Because trends.
Three decades can also go by with astounding speed. Jordan celebrated her thirtieth birthday this spring, Caleb is half-way to fifty, and Renee turned twenty-two and got married last month.
In other words, Wendy and I have just completed three decades of having children in our house. All of our kids are married—to wonderful people who we are thrilled to include in our family—leaving Wendy and I to explore this new reality called the “empty nest.”
A few early observations:
It’s fun having just the two of us around. Meal prep and clean-up is shorter, the laundry burden is less, and you don’t have to worry about children showing up unannounced in your bedroom (nudge, nudge, wink, wink).
Everything you discover as you tackle the basement seems to hold nostalgic value. Except the cat litter, but that’s always been true.
Spending time with your adult children—whether an impromptu coffee/beer, double-dates, or a family barbeque—is a treat, as their own adventures become the new stories told around the campfire.
Speaking of campfire stories, this “empty-nest” thing opens up all sorts of possibilities for Wendy and I to consider new adventures of our own. And that level of dream-for-the-future freedom is exhilarating.
But first, I think I’ll cue up another vinyl record while I wrestle the basement into submission.
Windblown
“Then we will no longer be infants, tossed back and forth by the waves, and blown here and there by every wind of teaching and by the cunning and craftiness of people in their deceitful scheming.”
(Ephesians 4:13-14)
The desert sun beats down upon the Traveler, its glare blistering and merciless. He pauses for a moment, shielding his eyes with one hand as he scans the horizon. The dry, searing wind raises another dust cloud. Somewhere—untold miles ahead—his destination lies waiting.
A frugal sip of tepid water from his half-filled canteen soothes his parched throat, at least for now. He must conserve his supply—hasty gulps would be his undoing in the wilderness.
He reaches inside his tunic to find the ancient map. The tanned leather is as soft as silk from years of use, handed down from his father and his father’s father. The intricate chirography has faded over time, and he squints at the faint markings, coaxing their reluctant hues to divulge his route.
The Traveler’s concentration is broken by the unexpected sound of a voice behind him. Startled, he clutches the map to his chest as he pivots to face the newcomer.
“Need some company?” The smile on the newcomer’s face is broad, his desert-roughened voice hoarse but clear. He glances at the map in the Traveler’s grip, intrigued. “Where’d you get the map?”
The Traveler recovers from his surprise, smiling at his unexpected companion. “Company’s always welcome. Are you heading for the Oasis, too?”
The other nods enthusiastically, and the Traveler remembers the leather map crumpled in his fist. He relaxes his grip and holds it out for the other to see. “Oh, and I’ve had this map for years. It’s a family heirloom, handed down from generation to generation.”
The smile fades from his newfound companion’s face, replaced by an expression of good-natured skepticism. “You’re still using the same map as your grandparents? No disrespect—but isn’t that just a little . . . old-fashioned?”
The Traveler laughs as he smooths the weathered fabric. “Well, to be honest, the markings are pretty faded. It’s not always easy to interpret. But it’s worth the effort—the map’s a reliable guide.”
His companion takes a deep breath, searching for the right words. He’s concerned but doesn’t wish to offend. “No, what I meant was—there’s many ways of getting to the Oasis. Hanging on to out-dated maps can be a little . . . confining, wouldn’t you say? It’s a new day, and maybe it’s time for new maps.”
The Traveler smiles, his dry lips feeling stretched. “This map’s never let anyone in my family down. I may not be able to understand every detail with perfect clarity, but it’ll guide me to the Oasis.”
“Well, to each his own.” The newcomer shrugs, and then his eyes light up as he catches sight of something over the Traveler’s shoulder. “Excuse me—but I think my ride’s arrived.”
He steps past the Traveler as an enormous tumbleweed bears down on them. The Traveler tightens his grip on the map as he scrambles out of its path. His companion inexplicably throws himself into the tumbleweed’s thorny embrace, and is carried off.
“New maps for a new generation . . .” his cheery voice fades quickly as the tumbleweed rolls on its way.
The Traveler watches him disappear from view, perplexed. He glances down at the faded map, studying the time-worn markings and comparing them to the hazy mountains in the distance.
Satisfied, he resumes his trek across the desert sands. Not long after, he sights a cluster of cacti ahead, their spiny arms held stiffly aloft. A single flower adorns the tallest plant, and the Traveler spots a young woman sitting cross-legged in its shade, shielded from both scorching sun and arid wind.
“Another pilgrim, bound for the Oasis.” The girl salutes him with an upraised canteen before taking a rejuvenating swig. She grins as she screws the lid back into place. “Which route are you taking, friend?”
The Traveler pauses in the shadow of the tallest cactus, mirroring her action with his own canteen. His moistened lips don’t feel as cracked as he returns her smile. “The same route I’ve been on since childhood.”
He shows her the map. The young woman runs a finger gingerly along its soft surface. Her eyes widen.
“I used to have one just like this,” she enthuses, handing the map back to the Traveler. “But I traded it in. I’ve heard that if you don’t change maps every so often, you run the risk of becoming too rigid. I make a point of trading for a different map every three years or so.”
The Traveler looks perplexed as he glances from the woman’s sincere face to the map in his hands. “A different map every three years? How do you know if they’ll lead you to the Oasis or not?”
She gets to her feet as another swarm of tumbleweeds approaches, smiling easily. “It’s the journey, not the destination, that counts.”
She leaps into the nearest tumbleweed, giving the Traveler a friendly wave as she is carried off.
Alarmed, he quickly consults his map and then races after her, waving his arms. “Don’t go that way—you’re heading straight into Dry Gulch! There’s nothing there but rattlesnakes and scorpions!”
“That’s just your interpretation.” Her voice wanes as the tumbleweeds reel on.
The Traveler slows to a halt. His examines the map again, and his heart sinks. The dry wind tousles his hair as he stares after the rolling tumbleweeds. They plunge over the edge of the precipice and disappear from sight.
The Traveler stands motionless, arms hanging loosely at his sides, feeling helpless. He looks over his shoulder at the cactus, as if hoping the spiny succulent could explain or offer comfort.
He takes another sip from his canteen, and turns to face the distance mountains. He wipes his mouth on his sleeve as he squints at the map’s faded markings. Tucking it into his tunic, he resumes his dogged trek.
“No turning back,” he tells the cactus as he passes. “No turning back.”
And Also With You
Wendy and I have long been fans of the Star Wars franchise.
For years, our youngest daughter, Renee, thought we chose May 4 as our wedding day because our excessive level of nerdification matched hers.
Alas, we were forced to explain that “May the Fourth be with you” simply wasn’t a thing back in 1985.
We chose this day because it was the first Saturday after college finals. Of course, that hasn’t stopped me from adopting the whole May the Fourth schtick in recent years.
Today is special on more counts than usual—Wendy and I celebrated thirty-four years of marriage AND Renee got married! And as the happy couple was introduced, it was only fitting that the Star Wars theme was their recessional music.
One year from today, Wendy and I will have the opportunity to say to Renee and Tobias: “Happy anniversary and May the Fourth be with you,” and hear them respond, “And also with you.”
And another family tradition is born.
The etymology of the term “graveyard shift” is less entertaining than I’d hoped.
I’d heard the apocryphal tales about people sitting in graveyards overnight, listening for bells rung by frantic people buried prematurely. “Saved by the bell”, “graveyard shift”—it was an entertaining tale, but not based in fact.
That’s a shame, really. I was all set to blog a merry metaphor about wandering the cemeteries of greater blogdom, looking and listening for signs of life.
That’s a convoluted way of simply noting that blogs come and go. There are always new people joining the ‘blogosphere’, while others have said their piece, made their peace, and moved on.
Sometimes, their blogs disappear entirely, usually coinciding with the expiration of their custom domain renewal. Their common epitaph is “404: Page Not Found”.
Other blogs remain online indefinitely, untended for months and even years. It’s akin to one of those ‘frozen in time’ moments you see in a movie—there’s an online record of what their last blog-worthy thoughts were, and then . . . silence.
The reasons and stories behind these missing and dormant blogs are as varied as the bloggers who created them. There’s no simple “one size fits all” explanation, except to note:
“There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.” (Ecclesiastes 3:1)
Someday, I would love to gather with my blogging kin around a campfire—a real one, with roasted meat and good ale—and share our present-day stories. I’m sure there’s a lot we could learn from each other.
I’d even be willing to spend a night on the graveyard shift, just in case.
I Just Play One on TV
A friend sent me a text the other day: “Dude! You’re on the front page!”
Mystified, I checked the online news source he directed me to, but couldn’t find anything.
Then I chanced upon an article about the Salvation Army’s push for volunteers to help with their roving food trucks.
And the accompanying picture of one of said trucks included yours truly (a volunteer) being served a meal by the nice folks at Sally Ann.
I had a brief chuckle at my inadvertent portrayal as one of the homeless community in K-town. On the heels of that thought, I realized how fitting my ‘mistaken identity’ actually was/is.
People experiencing homelessness—or at risk of homelessness—don’t always fit the stereotype. For every person you see pushing a heavy-laden shopping cart, there are dozens more who look pretty much like… me.
I’ve spoken with homeless people who were once wealthy real estate developers, gifted musicians, nurses, businessmen, etc. Yet in every case, something broke in their worlds, and here they are. They never foresaw where they’d end up. This wasn’t a ‘career choice’.
In any city, there are multiple ways of volunteering to serve among those who are experiencing or at risk of homelessness. Every person has a story, dreams, hopes for the future. Each one is an unique human being, worthy of dignity and respect.
The reporter who took my photo couldn’t tell the difference. That’s fine—it’s a good reminder that our society’s most vulnerable people look just like the rest of us, more times than not.
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Creative Writing is a Beach Ball
I wish I’d kept my first rejection letter.
It’s sort of like framing your first earned dollar bill (yes, I’m old enough to have had $1.00 bills in my wallet).
I’ve been asked in recent years if I’d kept that first letter, and I can only offer my best rueful smile/self-deprecating shrug in response.
But no, I was deep in the throes of a teen-aged fiction writer funk after my stunningly-brilliant creation was rejected. It never occurred to me to keep the letter.
It was a gem, too: photocopied crooked by a machine low on ink. I suspect the editor’s signature was also photocopied. A keep-sake if there ever was one—on so many levels. Alas.
Hey, I was 13 at the time. You don’t make your best life decisions during the early stages of puberty.
I started high school a year later. Despite the Department of Education’s cruel practice of adding Grade 13 to the timeless purgatory known as secondary school, there were exactly zero—ZERO—classes offered in creative writing. So, after a dubious attempt at one (1) short story in grade nine, my only notable output during five years of high school was this haiku:
School really bugs me
My freakin’ English teacher
Makes me write haikus
But writing is kinda like a beach ball. You can try to shove it underwater—out of sight and out of mind—but it eventually and inevitably escapes its watery dungeon and bobs to the surface once again.
I originally enrolled in the “RTJ” program in college: Radio, Television & Journalism. I went there with some vague idea of emulating Dr. Johnny Fever from WKRP in Cincinatti. I really enjoyed being a DJ on the college radio station. I also became fascinated with the Television section of the course. The last thing on my mind—grudgingly done only because it was required—was journalism.
Yet somehow, with far less interest and work ethic than my Radio & Television classes, guess where my best marks kept showing up?
I felt like Lady MacBeth: “Out, damned spot beach ball! Out, I say!”
Fast forward a couple of years, to a different college in a different province. Without planning it, guess who ends up writing an article or two for the college paper? And the following year, becomes the editor?
You’d think the sight of a brightly colored beach ball punching its way to the surface—repeatedly—would eventually qualify as a “sign”. Some of us aren’t as swift of wit as others…
I managed to shove the beach ball down again. Looking back, it’s both fascinating and a little disturbing to realize how much my first rejection letter controlled my view of writing: “Not good enough.”
Ten years later, a visiting prophetic dude from Kansas City—not knowing me from a hole in the wall—says: “you put down the pen because you felt your best efforts weren’t good enough, but you’re going to start writing again…” Aside from my beautiful wife Wendy, nobody in the room had any idea I was hiding a beach ball.
Seven years passed before I started blogging. Things went well for the first few years—I was even “discovered” and became a published author. The beach ball had arrived again with a big splash.
Then the marketing department torpedoed the book, and that (I thought at the time) was the end of it. Beach ball deflated.
In hindsight, I should’ve recognized the symmetry with the original rejection letter. But again, I was in a writer-blocked funk and tossed the beach ball away.
Fast forward another four years. The beach ball ambushed me again, like a oceanic saltwater slap in the face. And this time—finally—I surrendered. And I’ve been writing ever since.
Your gift may not be creative writing. But if there’s a beach ball of creativity/passion that you keep squelching because of (fill in blank as necessary), learn from my story.
Give up. Surrender. Embrace it. Pursue it as if your life depends on it.
Don’t mess with the beach ball. It’s relentless and will not be silenced.
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2019: the Call
My father got fired from his job in the spring of my grade nine year.
We’d moved only eight months earlier, after he’d accepted the position. We were still settling into our new home, new schools, and new routines while Dad endured the daily commute into the Big Smoke (Toronto) to his office in one of the gargantuan skyscrapers near Union Station.
New house, new mortgage, finally replacing an aging automobile, and three kids ranging from 12-15 years of age.
If there was ever a time when a husband/father would be sorely tempted to look the other way regarding some of the company’s financial ‘shenanigans’ (one of my Scottish mother’s favorite words), this would’ve been it.
Instead, he stood his ground, refusing to participate in ‘projects’ which he knew were sketchy at best. The company let it slide the first couple of times, but the third time, he was summoned into the president’s office.
“Your ‘style’ doesn’t suit our company. Clean out your desk.”
Later that evening, at our church’s weekly prayer meeting, I sat—a scrawny 15-year-old—and listened as my parents requested prayer regarding my father’s sudden unemployment. Our whole family was a little nervous about our future, for obvious reasons.
I vaguely recall that people prayed for us. I vividly recall, to this day, how proud I was of my dad for not compromising his faith-based principles. My father was—and is—of the firmly held belief that following Jesus impacts every aspect of life, including business ethics and practice.
Even when it cost him.
My father’s simple act of faithfulness—and faith—may not count as ‘epic’ on the world stage.
But it was undeniably ‘epic’ in the eyes of his 15-year-old son.
2019: Let this be a year of faithfulness, unfettered by any desire to be ‘epic’.
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King Frog Family Game Overview
Because we strive to bring you games by publishers you don’t normally see on the shelves of your local retailers, one of the cool things we get to do is watch as a company grows from their first issue to working on an expanded line of games. The vast majority of the time a company stays with what it knows best. Green Couch Games focuses on card games, while Genius Games is all about games with accurate science principles.
One company we featured last February was Brain Games Publishing and their first foray into the world of board games, Ice Cool. To say they “hit it out of the park” with this ice-themed dexterity game would be an understatement. Not only did it prove to be popular with hobby board game enthusiasts, it can now be found on retail shelves at Barnes & Noble and won the prestigious Kinderspiel des Jahres award (Children’s Game of the Year)! What would they do as a follow-up title? You’d expect it to be another dexterity game or even an expansion to Ice Cool. And you’d be wrong.
Instead, Brain Games came out with King Frog, a card-based game about frogs and their Royal Frog Race around the pond! About the only similarity to Ice Cool is the targeted age range of 7+. But as we mentioned in our original Ice Cool article, don’t let that fool you. King Frog is fun for anyone, even those much older than seven! King Frog is designed for 2-4 players, but we really suggest playing with the full complement of four. There are special rules for playing with less that take a little away from the game, so stick with four.
Included in the box you’ll find a total of fifteen tiles, 20 mosquito cards numbered 1 through 5, a crown and four adorable wooden frogs. Each player picks one of the frogs and the five mosquito cards of the same color. The lily tiles are set out in a circle, evenly spaced and including the three special tiles. The youngest player places their frog on any lily pad they like, and everyone else then places their frog either directly in front or behind this growing group. The front-most frog receives the crown to begin.
Working from a hand of five cards, everyone chooses one of their mosquito cards to play, revealing them simultaneously. Starting with the lowest-numbered revealed card, that person’s frog is moved clockwise an equal number of spaces. Only one frog can be on a lily pad at a time, so if they would land on an occupied space, they hop over to the next open pad. If more than one player is tied for lowest card, the frog furthest back in line hops first.
Once all frogs have moved, check which frog is in the lead and give it the crown. If a frog landed on a water lily of their own color (or a wild), the mosquito card they played is returned to them. Otherwise that card is lost and removed from the game. If you run out of cards to play, you lose the game and your frog is removed from the race while the rest of the players continue.
There are three ways in which a game of King Frog can end. First, if you are the last frog standing, you win immediately. If the last two frogs leave the game at the same time by running out of cards, the player whose frog has the crown at that moment is the winner. At any time if the lead frog laps the last frog in line, the game ends immediately and that player (owning the lead frog) wins King Frog.
Obviously, King Frog is nothing like Brain Games’ previous submission, Ice Cool. But it is much easier to set up and teach, and requires a lot more forward-thinking and planning than their previous title. At under $20 on Amazon, it’s a solid choice for someone who enjoys games with a little bit of planning and strategy. Keep in mind though, it is best with four players.
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13 comments on «King Frog Family Game Overview»
I personally love games with planning and strategy! My husband not so much. But I think we could still enjoy it!
Nellwyn says:
I like games that are easy to learn but challenge your planning and forward thinking skills. I bet I would enjoy this one.
I love playing games with my grandchildren. I will check this one out. It will make for good fun when they are home from school for snow days.
I’ve never heard of this game before. Looks like something my nephews would enjoy.
What a fun and silly game King Frog looks like! I know this would be a fun way for me to bond with my kids. I bet they would get a kick out of King Frog, totally going to see if we can’t get this for our board game closet! I love all the games you share, I am going to go broke this year on board games 😉
My son is 8 and finally old enough to get brain games. Love to have game nights and always looking for new games to add in.
I love card games and this particular title seems fun for the entire family. Those tiny crowns add a touch of cute too!
Carrie | The Lavender Hytta says:
Sounds like such a fun game! I am always looking for new games especially for us to take the Cabin. This would be perfect and our son turns 7 in August. Maybe Ill try to track it down for his birthday.
This looks like a lot of fun. We like strategy games that don’t take too long to figure out how to play.
Jordan Binkerd says:
I’m a few years from needing this kind of game, but I’ll keep it in mind!
Mia E. says:
This looks like one that would work so well with all of our grandkids of various ages. What fun to have a King Frog.
Farzan S says:
The games like this can be so absorbing for children and their families.
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Type (Any type)CanalForest or WoodlandLakeMountain or HillReservoirValleyViewpoint/Beauty SpotWalking RouteWaterfall or Gorge
Newborough Forest at Newborough Forest (NRW)0300 065 3000work Forest or WoodlandToday the forest is a great place to relax in. With waymarked trails to explore and wildlife to discover. It's also still a working forest, so areas may be closed for your safety when timber is being removed.
You can also get into the forest from the Malltraeth car park on the A4080, or why not visit Llyn Parc Mawr and its bird-rich lake? Don't forget Llys Rhosyr, one of the courts of the Princes of Gwynedd, on the way back to Newborough Village just before the church.
The wood is a small forest of mainly corsican pine planted on Newborough Warren sand dunes.
Horseriding available Permit Only Access - Newborough Forest permit available from Traeth Rhosyr Riding Association Tel. No: 01248 430 377
The Newborough Beach car park gives access to forest trails, the beautiful Newborough beach and Ynys Llanddwyn.
You can find accessible toilets and six trails of varying length and type here:
Newborough Animal Puzzle Trail (1 mile, 1.5 kilometres)
Use the clues to spot the carved wooden animals in the forest.
Princes and Pines Heritage Trail (2.5 miles, 4 kilometres)
This circular route goes through the forest and out to the outskirts of Newborough village before returning to the shade and shelter of the woods. If you download the PlacesToGo smartphone app, you can listen to the local stories of hardship, ingenuity and success that have helped to shape the land and the people here over the centuries.
Saint, Sand and Sea Trail (5 miles, 7 kilometres)
The Saint, Sand and Sea Trail gives an insight into Newborough’s unique geological and cultural features. Download the PlacesToGo smartphone app, and then listen to the audio files at the corresponding numbered posts. Please be aware Ynys Llanddwyn can be cut off in high tides and you should check tide times before starting this route.
Corsica Cycling Trail (6 miles, 10 kilometres).
The Corsica Cycling Trail is a waymarked circular route that is mainly on forest roads with views of the estuary. It goes through areas of mixed forest from mature pine trees to wet willow woods and passes by ponds, unusual rocks and wildflowers.
The running trail is waymarked and starts from Newborough Forest beach car park.
Please note: Ynys Llanddwyn, which is part of this route, can be cut off in high tides and you should check tide times before starting it.
Commonwealth Run Trail (6.8 miles, 11 kilometres)
In 2011, the Commonwealth Mountain and Ultra Distance Running Championships came to North Wales and the 55km Ultra Distance trail race took place in Newborough. Today, you can run (or walk!) the official race route which has been waymarked from the beach car park. It goes through the peaceful forest, the vast dunes of The Warren and onto the island of Ynys Llanddwyn. The route includes stoned forest roads, narrow paths on sand with exposed tree roots, loose sand and shingle, uneven grassland and rocky terrain.
The Trim Trail starts from Newborough Forest beach car park.
Newborough Trim Trail (1.7 miles, 2.7 kilometres)
The Newborough Trim Trail is designed to encourage and improve your fitness. It was developed by Age Friendly Communities project in partnership with Natural Resources Wales. There are 11 exercise stations along the track, two of which are wheelchair accessible.
Horse riding in Newborough Forest is by permit only. Permits are available from the Newborough Forest Driving and Riding Association.
Newborough Forest is half a mile south of the village of Newborough on Anglesey off the A4080.
From the centre of the village of Newborough, take the minor road opposite the Post Office down to Newborough. Forest beach car park, is signposted to Llanddwyn. Follow this road until you reach a barrier (There is a daily charge for car parking)) and then follow the road down to the beach car park.
You can also get into Newborough Forest from the Malltraeth car park on the A4080 between the villages of Newborough and Malltraeth.
The nearest train stations are Llanfairpwll and Bangor.
The OS grid ref is SH 413 669.
NewboroughAngleseySY23 3URUnited Kingdom53.154054920000-4.392608650000http://www.naturalresources.wales/newborough
Newborough Forest at Newborough Forest (NRW)
Forest or Woodland, free entry
Newborough Forest
Today the forest is a great place to relax in. With waymarked trails to explore and wildlife to discover. It's also still a working forest, so areas may be closed for your safety when timber is being removed.
www.naturalresources.wales/newborough
Please note: Sometimes we need to close or divert trails for your safety whilst we undertake maintenance work or forest operations. Occasionally we may have to close a site in extreme weather, such as high winds or snow and ice due to the risk of injury to visitors or staff. Please always follow any instructions onsite and make sure you follow any temporary diversion signs in place.
There is a daily charge for car parking in the main Newborough car park.
Llyn Parc Mawr
Newborough,
Anglesey,
SY23 3UR
Plan route using Google maps
Map reference: SN 592809 Lat: 53.15405 Long: -4.39261
Follow the A55 to Anglesey cross over the Britannia Bridge then take the A4080 to the village of Newborough
OS Grid Reference: SH400650
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Google.de and Yahoo! Deutschland are German versions of the popular search engine and web directory.
German Government - facts, figures and useful links from the Government Press Office. Or try the German Information Center from the German Embassy in the US, which also has a weekly newsletter round-up of German news.
Kuppelkucker is a fun guide to the German parliament (aimed at 10-14 year olds but good for grown up language learners too).
News and media on-line
Deutsche Welle Radio & TV have an extensive site; aside from the expected news and schedules, they have a daily audio Langsam gesprochene Nachrichten (Slowly-spoken News) with transcript, and Wort der Woche.
Die Welt - online version of the big daily.
Der Spiegel - selected articles from the political magazine.
Stern - "Germany's largest illustrated weekly"
Wiener Zeitung is an Austrian newspaper.
ZDF is the German TV channel available via satellite in the Language Learning Centre - their programme schedules are online.
Juma - a magazine for young people.
moviepilot.de is one of the largest film websites in Germany: interact with a community of native speakers around a database of over 50,000 movies with associated criticism, local and internationals reviews, and daily news articles.
Oxford Dictionaries - the University Library subscribes to the full, unabridged bilingual Oxford dictionaries in Chinese, French, German, Italian and Spanish.
LEO - German<->English dictionary including audio pronunciations and declinations.
dict.cc is a respected user-generated German-English translation dictionary.
Phonetics: The Sounds of German - animated articulatory diagrams from the University of Iowa (requires Flash 7 or above).
Literaturwelt - a jumping-off point for German literature on the Internet.
The Goethe-Institut is an official organisation which represents and promotes German culture and language world-wide. Their website includes a lot of teaching material.
GermanTeaching.com includes lots of German worksheets and exercises, courtesy of Katherine Munro.
American Association of Teachers of German
LinguaDict is a bilingual English<->German dictionary containing over 2 million words with many example phrases and idioms.
Internet Handbook of German Grammar.
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About.com Guide to German Language - original articles and lots of links, plus discussion forum and chat room.
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STEP is a community group dedicated to improving transportation in Somerville, MA. We advocate for the Green Line extension, a more livable city, and public health issues.
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Massachusetts to be sued for Green Line extension and other behind-schedule projects
The Conservation Law Foundation will file a Clean Air Act lawsuit against the State of Massachusetts early next year regarding transit projects that have not been completed or are not on schedule. It’s clear that the state won’t make the deadlines it committed to in 1990, including the Green Line extension. “The state found the money to spend $15 billion for the Big Dig. There should have been a parallel effort to find money for the transit piece of the puzzle,” said Philip Warburg, president of the foundation. “The state has to be held accountable.”
According to the Boston Globe, state officials acknowledge some problems, but also say that some projects need to be revisited to determine if they are really worth doing. State Transportation Secretary Daniel Grabauskas has said that the state wants to explore alternatives to certain projects (such as the Green Line extension) that would provide equal or better clean air benefits. As we know, the MBTA is looking at Rapid Bus Transit in Somerville as an alternative to extending the Green Line.
The Conservation Law Foundation is determined to hold the state to its promises. Without these transit projects attached to it, the Big Dig would not have happened. So far, the state has dragged its feet on its legally binding agreement to complete these projects. If this lawsuit is successful, it could lead to a judge ordering the state to build all the promised projects on a strict schedule. Stay tuned.
Read More Nov 8,2004
Somerville Journal: MBTA Green Line meeting
“Crowd to MBTA: Don’t give us no stinking buses”
Boston Globe: MBTA Green Line meeting
“In Somerville, they want to catch trolley” reports that about 500 residents gathered for the October 27 meeting at Somerville High School, in an effort to convince the MBTA of Somerville’s need for better transportation. Keep reading for quotes from the article.
Read More Oct 29,2004
“Green Line Lament”
by Asher Miller
I see this view:
The John Hancock
And the Pru
The Town of Bean
Saying, “Nuts to you!”
It hurts so much,
It can’t be true.
Mayor’s letter to DEP about Green Line
Somerville Mayor Joe Curtatone writes to the Department of Environmental Protection to push for the Green Line extension.
Letter (PDF)
Maps of some Green Line options
The Green Line study has mapped out nine different alternatives so far for better transportation in Somerville. Take a look through the options, and come to the public meeting on October 27 to let the MBTA know what you think – including any other options you want them to consider. This is our chance to be heard!
Massachusetts commuting study: It’s getting worse
A new study by MassINC shows that our commutes are getting worse at a faster rate than in all but five other states. The average commute is 27 minutes each way. Part of the solution is enhancing public transit.
MBTA considers Blue Line extension
The Boston Globe reports that the MBTA is studying extending the Blue Line to Lynn. This major project could compete for funding with the Green Line extension into Somerville, which is why it’s so important for us to work together to push for the Green Line. Please show your support by coming to the public meeting on October 27!
Green Line, Orange Line, Transportation News
Thanks for Boston MPO letters
Thank you to everyone who wrote letters to the Boston MPO about the importance of the Green Line and Orange Line in Somerville. 98 letters came from Somerville, which is almost half of all the letters the Boston MPO received regarding the Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) document. 92 of those letters pushed for the Green Line extension, and 47 were about the Orange Line stop at Assembly Square. Thanks for being heard!
Read More Sep 30,2004
Somerville Journal: Green Line options
“Board mulls nine Green Line plans”
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June STEP meeting
Monday, June 10, 7-9 pm
VNA 3rd floor community room, 259 Lowell St
Green Line Map
Explore an interactive map of Green Line stops, with aerial photos & station plans
Community Path Proposal
Check out the Friends of the Community Path alternative design for the Community Path Extension
STEP’s Green Line map with station plans and images
Official Green Line Extension site
Friends of the Community Path design
City of Somerville: Green Line
CAFEH study
Presentation on transportation-related
Studies on Somerville pollution near
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Somerville (2018 brochure)
Let’s Keep the Green Line Extensions on Track
(2013 brochure)
You can make a difference! Come to a STEP meeting or join our email list to stay up to date:
Follow STEP
Multiple ways to stay in touch with STEP:
Email us at info@somervillestep.org
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Whitby Gothic and Whitby Jet
My mother and I went up to Yorkshire to visit my cousin earlier this year, and I was delighted when she suggested a trip to Whitby: home of Whitby jet, part inspiration for Bram Stoker’s ‘Dracula’, and thus (probably) the Goth capital of the UK.
First a confession: several years ago I read ‘Dracula’ – part of which is set in Whitby - and was deeply unimpressed (‘The Historian’ by Elizabeth Kostova is a different take on Dracula, and is brilliant). Don’t get me wrong – I have a bit of a thing for certain (fictional) vampires, but it’s rather selective, and they veer away from traditional takes on vampire fiction. I was a HUGE ‘Buffy the Vampire Slayer’ fan – I especially loved Spike; ‘Sunshine’ by Robin McKinley is something of a comfort book for me – baking and vampires (trust me, it’s a strange mix but it works!). ‘Fevre Dream’ by George R. R. Martin (yes, that one) is very humane and adds a Deep South Riverboat twist. As a child I wasn’t into vampires, but I did have a soft spot for witches; Jill Murphey’s first three ‘Worst Witch’ books were great favourites, as was ‘Witch Week’ by Diana Wynne Jones (part of the Chrestomanci series). And not forgetting the fabulousness of ‘The Witch’s Handbook’ by Malcom Bird, with its brilliant and VERY funny illustrations and lots of practical advice on how to be a witch! Possibly slightly worryingly, it was my mother who bought me those books – so it’s definitely at least partly down to her that I’m rather weird… Anyway, the point is that whilst I don’t go around wearing nothing but black and accessorising with bats in my hair I do have a fairly well-developed Gothic streak (possibly also exacerbated by repeated reading of ‘Jane Eyre’ as a teenager). On a bit of a side note, a month or two ago I was in a haberdashery shop when I saw some skull-and crossbones ribbon, which led to a discussion with the shop assistant in which she revealed that when the Halloween displays get put up in shops she wanders the aisles singing ‘It’s the most wonderful time of the year’ to herself!
Fortune's Kippers advert on a wall next to Carol's Coffee Corner
Whitby jet and silver spider jewellery in the window of W. Hammond
View of Whitby harbour from the graveyard of St Mary's church
But I digress. Due to traffic jams and trouble finding a parking space our visit was way too brief, but you really can’t escape the Gothic in Whitby! One of the first things I saw in the town was a big, black, heart-shaped poster on a wall next to Carol’s Coffee Corner – which turned out to be an oblique advertisement for Fortune’s Kippers. The jewellery shops sell Whitby jet – modern and antique – ranging from plain and modest pieces to giant spiders. Something for everyone – as long as you like jet! The fudge shop, Justin’s of Whitby has a flavour called ‘Dracula’s Dream’, and it also sells strawberry truffle chocolates in the shape of coffins.
On the East Cliff the ruins of Whitby Abbey loom in a picturesque fashion, and it really is worth climbing the 199 Church Steps to St Mary’s church (on the way to the Abbey) to see a wonderful view of the harbour. I have M.E/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and am not a fan of stairs, but these were easier than I feared they would be, partly because I have a walking stick, partly because they were deliberately made shallow to make it easier for coffin-bearers to carry coffins from the town up to the graveyard. It’s these stairs that Dracula (in the form of a dog) ran up after his arrival in Whitby. The graveyard itself is wonderfully windswept and atmospheric. As for the Abbey – a casualty of Henry VIII’s Dissolution of the Monasteries – it really is magnificent and beautiful in its ruined state. The broken and jagged edges fit well with the cliffs and the bleak beauty of the North York Moors (it was so atmospheric that I found myself humming ‘Wuthering Heights’ on the car journey back to my cousin’s house!).
Last weekend Whitby played host to thousands of Goths, Steampunks and vampire fans at its October Whitby Goth Weekend (there’s another WGW in April), in all their spooky finery. Of course, every Gothic outfit needs accessories, and Whitby is world renowned for the quality of its jet and its history of jet jewellery-making. Whitby jet is the 182 million years old fossilised remains of an ancestor of the Monkey-puzzle tree. It can be carved, it polishes to a high shine, and is light to wear; it is ideal for jewellery. A lot of people say that it is warm to the touch; I would say that it’s more room temperature, or ‘not cold’! It is also rare, which gives it added status and interest value. Jet occurs in other parts of the world, but is often softer and less durable than that from Whitby. One way to tell if you have the genuine article is to gently drag the piece of jet across a slightly abrasive surface, such as unglazed tile (choose a discrete/hidden spot on the jet, because it will leave a mark); if it leaves a ginger or brown mark on the tile it is most likely the real deal, if it leaves a black mark it is a softer type of jet. You also have to beware of Victorian imitations such as Vulcanite and Gutta Percha – which are types of moulded rubber (Vulcanite will also leave brown marks in the abrasive test); sometimes there will be visible mould marks or crazing on such pieces. Other imposters are pressed horn and bog oak. And then there’s French jet, which is black glass; it’s colder, heavier, sparklier(?) and cheaper than real jet.
Raw Whitby jet
Carved Whitby jet book
Brown marks left by Whitby jet
The heyday of jet jewellery was in the Victorian era. Until very recently I thought that most antique jet jewellery was intended for mourning, but that wasn’t the case. Although the Victorians had very elaborate mourning rituals sometimes black was just a fashion statement; perhaps Queen Victoria wearing mourning for forty years after the death of Prince Albert made the wearing of black a more every day occurrence. For visitors to Whitby a piece of carved jewellery would have been (and still is) an interesting souvenir from a pretty seaside village/town – a chance to literally take a piece of Whitby away with you. Jet jewellery ranges from very minimal spheres and cabochons to wonderfully intricate creations of carved links with acorns dangling from them (I would LOVE to own such a piece some day!), so as long as you like black there’s something to suit most tastes. The links, and the faceted beads of the Victorian era are probably my favourites. Of course, the vast amount of symbolism of that time is also evident - jet lockets house photographs and/or locks of a loved one’s hair. Forget-me-nots, crosses, hearts, stars, moons, anchors and many other designs express love and devotion to the departed. Nowadays we view the rigidity of protocols for Victorian mourning as rather over the top, but I think that we in the modern world could take a few tips from our ancestors. When a loved one dies they leave a gap; that loss can take years to come to terms with, and a formal period of mourning allowed the loss to be felt and expressed. Wearing a piece of mourning jewellery was a tribute to someone dear and an indication to others that the wearer was still in an emotionally fragile state.
My first Victorian Whitby jet beads - bought from Robinson's in Whitby
Typical shapes of Victorian Whitby jet beads
French jet (black glass) beads
A French and a Whitby jet faceted bead
It’s possible that the ancient Earth energies of jet might have helped mourners who wore it - healing properties attributed to jet include: psychic protection; alleviating grief; releasing negativity; balancing emotions and alleviating depression. It is often paired with Baltic amber (indeed, some people call jet ‘black amber’) as the two have many properties in common, and look stunning together. A note of caution, though: I don’t know if Whitby jet provides any protection against vampires…!
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