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Bellagio Conservatory unveils Italian summer exhibit
The Bellagio’s Conservatory & Botanical Gardens have opened the gates to its summer display. (Mat Luschek / Review-Journal)
June 24, 2019 - 3:04 pm July 1, 2019 - 1:08 pm
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Pacquiao-Thurman press conference highlights - VIDEO
At the final press conference leading up to their July 20 bout at the MGM Grand Garden Arena, Keith Thurman and Manny Pacquiao talked about their upcoming welterweight title bout and squared off in a staredown. Thurman says he intends to knock out the Philippine senator. The 40-year-old Pacquiao talked about the shape he's in ahead of the fight. (Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Aces Host Basketball Clinic at Local YMCA - Video
The Las Vegas Aces are on a mission to encourage the love of basketball in the city of Las Vegas. To help grow that passion, Las Vegas Aces guards Sydney Colson and Sugar Rodgers hosted a basketball clinic for camp attendees at SkyView YMCA.
The Strat Updates- Video
The stratosphere changes its name to The Strat, but still retains the same thrills as before.
Aviators Finn The Bat Dog Treated as One of the Guys - Video
Aviators Finn the bat dog is treated as one of the guys at the Las Vegas ballpark and has received recognition from other teams throughout the country.
Golden Knight's owner Bill Foley's House for sale in The Ridges - Real Estate Millions
The Degree Apartments at UNLV
The Degree, UNLV's new 226-unit apartment complex, is complete and open for student living on campus. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Dana White signs four fighters to the UFC - Video
Four fighters were put under contract with the UFC following their performances at Dana White's Contender Series on Tuesday night at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
Manny Pacquiao and Keith Thurman arrive at the MGM Grand
Keith Thurman says he will be the one to retire eight-division boxing champion Manny Pacquiao when they trade leather at the MGM Grand Arena on July 20 for the WBA world welterweight title.
Golden Knights resign defenseman Jake Bischoff
The Golden Knights locked up another restricted free agent Tuesday, re-signing defenseman Jake Bischoff to a three-year, $2.15 million contract. (Cassie Soto/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Lady Luck Showtime Chorus
Members of the Las Vegas-based ensemble sing July 13 at Jennifer Ringler’s Henderson home.
A Personal Video for You
Affect of earthquake on Devils Hole pupfish
A 7.1 M earthquake on July 5, 2019, had an impact on pupfish at Devils Hole at Death Valley National Park. (Death Valley National Park)
Water Grill opens at The Forum Shops at Caesars in Las Vegas
Water Grill, from a 30-year-old California company opening its first Las Vegas location, specializes is fresh seafood including 16 types of oysters. (Al Mancini/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Cat's Meow comes to Las Vegas
New Orleans-based karaoke chain opens new location in Neonopolis. (Jason Bracelin/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Making the Loco Moco Breakfast Burger at Broken Yolk Cafe in Las Vegas
Manny Menina, line cook at Broken Yolk Cafe in Las Vegas, stacks 8 ounces of beef, 2 strips of bacon, hash browns, caramelized onions and 2 fried eggs on 4 King’s Hawaiian slider buns to make the Loco Moco Breakfast Burger. (Heidi Knapp Rinella/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Henderson Fire Department on checking back seats in the heat - Video
The Henderson Fire Department talks about double-checking car seats in the Las Vegas heat to remember children who may be in the car. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Vegas Golden Knights, Fleury Make Day for Critically Ill Teenager in ESPN “My Wish” - Video
A 13-year-old Las Vegas boy who has faced Hodgkin’s lymphoma is treated to a special day by the NHL’s Vegas Golden Knights in a new ESPN “My Wish” Series feature debuting Wednesday, July 17, on SportsCenter. In the feature, Doron Coldwell spends a day with the team and even gets an opportunity to replace his favorite player, three-time Stanley Cup winner Marc-Andre Fleury, in the net.
NBA Summer League Sets Average Daily Attendance Record - Video
The 2019 NBA Summer League set a new average daily attendance record, with just over 12,000 people coming over the 11-day timespan to enjoy some basketball. After 83 games it was the Memphis Grizzlies that raised the championship trophy, defeating the Minnesota Timberwolves 95-92.
Mother of 3 detained by ICE
Apollo 11 engineer recalls lunar landing
50 years ago William Corney was an engineer on the Apollo 11 mission at a tracking station in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.
Take the Red E Bike tour of Red Rock Canyon
The Red E Bike tour of Red Rock Canyon outside of Las Vegas starts at the visitors center for a three-hour, 17-mile ride. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Grizzlies rely on experience
Memphis Grizzlies coach Taylor Jenkins talks about his relatively older Summer League team. (Video by Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Golden Knights Sell "Battle Worn Armor" To Season Ticket Holders - Video
The Golden Knights sell their "battle worn" apparel throughout both of the teams seasons including pucks, sticks, helmets and skates.
Payton powers Aviators to win over Bees
Mark Payton homered three times and drove in five runs as the Las Vegas Aviators beat the Salt Lake Bees 13-9 in a Pacific Coast League game before 9,340 fans Saturday night at Las Vegas Ballpark. (Las Vegas Aviators)
Aces sneak by Mystics in Washington — VIDEO
The Aces overcame an early 14-point deficit to score an 85-81 victory over the Washington Mystics — sans star forward Elena Delle Donne — at Entertainment Sports Arena in Washington D.C. (Aces/WNBA)
Animal Foundation Helps Unreclaimed Pets After July 4th - Video
The Animal Foundation is offering a new adoption special to find homes for pets who were never reclaimed by their owners after July 4th. They gave free pet adoptions that included spay/neuter surgery, microchip and up-to-date vaccines. This latest promotion is one of the foundation's efforts to save all healthy and treatable animals in their care. The foundation provides refuge for thousands of animals throughout the Las Vegas Valley.
USA Dodgeball President Jake Mason
USA Dodgeball president Jake Mason talks about the impact the 2004 movie "DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story" had on growing the ancient pastime during a tournament in Las Vegas, Nevada, on July 13, 2019. (Ron Kantowski/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Hello Kitty Cafe Opens on Strip - Video
More than 500 fans of Hello Kitty lined up for the grand opening of the Hello Kitty Cafe on the strip. The first 50 customers received a Hello Kitty themed keychain with their purchase. Hello Kitty appeared as a special guest to greet all of the fans in line and gave out hugs. By 7 p.m., the cafe sold more than 1000 pastries and beverages with 150 people still in line waiting for their treats.
Salt Lake rallies in the 9th to beat Aviators
New Leader Takes Control of Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base - Video
Maj. Gen. Charles Corcoran took the reins of the U.S. Air Force Warfare Center at Nellis Air Force Base on Friday, replacing a commander who was relieved of his duties last month.
Nellis Airman receives military honor for Oct. 1 Actions - Video
Air Force Staff Sgt. Kenneth DeLongchamp on Friday, July 12, 2019, received an honor normally reserved for those who display valor in the field of battle for his heroics during the mass shooting on the Las Vegas Strip on Oct. 1, 2017.
Lt. Dori Koren speaks about the ShotSpotting program
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department Lt. Dori Koren, the ShotSpotter program manager, speaks about the ShotSpotting technology. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
SecretBurger at China Poblano at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Carlos Cruz, executive chef of Jose Andres’ China Poblano at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas, makes the SecretBurger off-menu, one-night-only ‘All Quacked Up’ with a kimchi pancake, Peking duck, house-made hoisin sauce, a fried duck egg, pickled micro-vegetables, caviar and gold flakes and serves it with a Stillwater Artisanal Ale. (Heidi Knapp Rinella/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Raiders top out Henderson Headquarters - Video
The NFL’s Raiders have topped out its Henderson headquarters. The team recently held a quarterly lunch with workers that included a steel beam signing ceremony. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Aviators wallop Salt Lake Bees
Home trends in Las Vegas
Las Vegas Review-Journal business reporter Eli Segall sits down with Aaron Drawhorn to discuss four key trends in the Las Vegas housing market. (Las Vegas Review-Journal)
MLS and Liga MX Leagues Cup Final coming to Sam Boyd Stadium in September - VIDEO
MLS and Liga MX announced Thursday at a press conference at the Bellagio that their newly formed Leagues Cup, which pits four teams from each league in a tournament, will hold its final at Sam Boyd Stadium on Sept. 18. (Heidi Fang/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health celebrates 10 years in Las Vegas
Cleveland Clinic Lou Ruvo Center for Brain Health marks their 10 year anniversary with plans for the next 10 years, including transforming Alzheimer’s from a terminal to a chronic disease, and that a blood test to diagnose Alzheimer’s. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
Peter Lik Designs Homes In Las Vegas - Video
Photographer Peter Lik has teamed up with Jewel Homes to design new homes for Las Vegas that take inspiration from different parts of the world.
Famous Blue Angel statue commemorated in downtown Las Vegas mural
The 16-foot tall Blue Angel statue that stood above the Blue Angel Motel for six decades is featured in a mural spanning three walls at a downtown Las Vegas building. James Stanford designed the “A Phalanx of Angels Ascending" mural based on his photography, and Cliff Morris painted the mural at 705 Las Vegas Blvd. North, near the Neon Museum. (K.M. Cannon/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @KMCannonPhoto
UNR explosion caused by malfunctioning boiler
University of Nevada, Reno, officials allowed the media to enter part of Argenta Hall on Thursday, July 11, 2019. The dormitory was damaged in a blast on Friday, July 5. (Bill Dentzer/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Steve Meriwether talks about his son, who was killed by a drunk driver
Retired Metro sergeant Steve Meriwether talks about his son, Garrett Meriwether, who was killed by a drunk driver. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Review-Journal) @bizutesfaye
Gyrocopter pilot attempts to circumnavigate the world
Capt. James Ketchell of England shows off his gyrocopter at Henderson Executive Airport on July 11, 2019. (Michael Blackshire/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Ugly Duckling sign returns to the Neon Museum - VIDEO
The whimsical Ugly Duckling sign has returned home to the Neon Museum’s Boneyard after receiving extensive restoration and refurbishment. The popular, double-sided sign has been re-electrified in all its glory for the public to enjoy during boneyard admission hours.
Making Castle Frites at the new Frites at the Excalibur in Las Vegas
Tom McGrath, district manager/executive chef at Frites at the Excalibur in Las Vegas, tops his beef-tallow fries like a loaded baked potato - with white and yellow cheddar, sour cream, bacon and chives. (Heidi Knapp Rinella/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Retzl discusses CCSD, funding formula and charter schools - VIDEO
The reorganization of the Clark County School District is contributing to the district’s budget pinch. At this point, it’s impossible to predict know how the new education funding formula will work. Also, Nevada charter schools need to serve more high-need students before it’s possible to tell if they’re successful. That’s according to Kenneth Retzl, director of education policy with the Kenny Guinn Center for Policy Priorities.
Earthquake might have caused Pahrump man's death
Officials in Pahrump believe that the recent Fourth of July earthquake caused the death of resident Troy Ray as he was working on his car. If true, it will be the first earthquake-related death in the state in recorded history, according to research geologist Craig dePolo. (Rachel Aston/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Metro Police holds press conference about Oct. 1 report
Clark County Sheriff Joe Lombardo held a press conference on Wednesday, July 10, regarding a new report about the police department's performance during Las Vegas shooting on Oct. 1, 2017. (Mat Luschek/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas to Host 2020 NFL Draft, But Where? - Video
The city of Las Vegas will host the 2020 NFL Draft, but the question that still lingers is where exactly it will be held. The Bellagio is currently the frontrunner to stage the main event, but it would mean closing down multiple streets on Las Vegas Boulevard for draft preparations weeks before the first pick is made. LVRJ host Cassie Soto and LVRJ Transportation Reporter Mick Akers discuss various locations where the draft could be held as well as the economic impact it will bring to the city.
Surveillance footage of persons of interest in deadly shooting
Las Vegas police have released surveillance footage of two persons of interest in a fatal shooting at Desert Shores Villas. (Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department)
Bail for Cierre Wood set at $500,000 for murder charge
Bail was set at half a million dollars for Cierre Wood, the ex-pro football player who faces a charge of first-degree murder with his girlfriend Amy Taylor in the death of 5-year-old La’Rayah Patra Nicole Lamont Davis. (Michael Quine/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
Las Vegas Aces defeat Indiana Fever, 74-71 - HIGHLIGHTS
The Las Vegas Aces claimed the best record in the WNBA with a 74-71 win over the Indiana Fever on July 10, 2019, (WNBA)
Contender Series fighters react to being signed to the UFC
After making history as the first batch of winners to all earn contracts following their performances at Dana White's Contender Series, the fighters react to making it to the UFC.
Dana White signs all five winners at Contender Series
For the first time in the three-season history of Dana White's Contender Series, every winning fighter earned a UFC contract. Maki Pitolo, Joe Solecki, Antonio Trocoli, Hunter Azure and Jonathan Pearce impressed the UFC brass and were awarded contracts by the UFC president.
Contender Series Ep3
Adam Silver addresses media at Vegas Summer League
NBA commissioner Adam Silver held a news conference Tuesday at Wynn Las Vegas. (Mark Anderson/Las Vegas Review-Journal)
The Right Take: New Zealand Gun Ban - VIDEO
New Zealand banned most semi-automatic rifles just weeks after horrific shootings at two Christchurch mosques. American gun grabbers hailed it as a model for this country. There’s just one problem. The ban isn’t going as planned.
Emotional and proud, Clarke welcomes Open back to N. Ireland
By Steve Douglas The Associated Press
Officer-involved shooting leaves truck-theft suspect in hospital
July 18, 2019 - 12:51 am July 18, 2019 - 5:31 am
Las Vegas police on Wednesday night shot a man suspected of stealing a truck after he appeared to reach for a gun while officers tried to apprehend him in the east valley.
Oscar Goodman’s 80th birthday party promises to be one for the ages
By Al Mancini / RJ
July 18, 2019 - 12:35 am July 18, 2019 - 12:35 am
The downtown Las Vegas community will celebrate former Mayor Oscar Goodman’s 80th birthday at 6 p.m. Thursday with an 80-martini salute at the Fremont Street Experience.
Cat’s Meow aims to hit all the right notes in downtown Las Vegas
By Jason Bracelin / RJ
The 10,000-square-foot-plus entertainment/karaoke club on the second floor of Neonopolis will host its grand opening Thursday.
Stream away rest of the summer with 10 long-running TV shows
These series, lasting anywhere from six to 15 seasons, should make it easier for you to spend all of your upcoming leisure time indoors.
Today’s local and national sports
Here’s today’s local and national sports schedule, including television and radio listings.
Aviators beat Tacoma in rain-shortened game
Right-hander Tanner Anderson scattered four hits Wednesday in a game shortened to five innings because of rain as the Aviators topped the Tacoma Rainiers 3-0 in Pacific Coast League play at Cheney Stadium.
A Japanese fire official says nearly 30 people are presumed dead and more could be missing after they were trapped by fire at a popular animation production studio in Kyoto.
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Focus: Special election for SoccerCity, convention center could hinge on Monday budget vote
Some San Diego City Council members may try to strip funding for a November special election out of the mayor’s budget. (FOX5 San Diego)
By David Garrick
San Diego —
Prospects for a November special election on SoccerCity and the convention center expansion could face a pivotal vote Monday, prompting a flurry of last-minute lobbying by supporters of the two proposals.
The San Diego City Council isn’t scheduled to decide the election dates for the convention center proposal until June 12 and SoccerCity until June 19, but the council may tip its hand on Monday by eliminating funding for a special election.
Such a move, which could come during a vote on the city’s budget for the fiscal year that begins July 1, would make it highly unlikely that either measure would go before voters until sometime in 2018 – probably in the November general election.
Because four of the council’s nine members have declared their opposition to a special election this year, supporters of the two measures have become increasingly concerned that a majority of the council will remove $5 million for the special election that Mayor Kevin Faulconer included in his proposed budget.
Poll shows San Diego voters opposed to special election.
Supporters, who contend a special election is crucial because both measures are time-sensitive, must persuade each of the other five council members to leave that money in the budget and then decide later this month to send both measures to voters in November.
So far, only Councilman Scott Sherman has expressed support publicly for a November special election featuring both measures.
The four council members opposed to a special election for either measure are Barbara Bry, David Alvarez, Chris Ward and Georgette Gomez. That leaves Council President Myrtle Cole, Lorie Zapf, Chris Cate and Mark Kersey as potential swing votes.
Kersey said recently that he’s open to a special election but not ready to declare his support. Cole, Zapf and Cate have declined to discuss their positions publicly.
RELATED: Divided council to tackle possible public votes on SoccerCity, convention center
Arguments for waiting until the 2018 general election include significant extra costs for a 2017 special election with the city already facing a deficit, unresolved details of both proposals and city voters easily approving a ballot measure last year that said such proposals should be decided in higher-turnout general elections.
“Given where we’re at with our budgetary situation, I just don’t see how a special election makes any sense at this point,” Alvarez said on Thursday.
Proponents of SoccerCity say delaying a vote on their proposal until late 2018 could cost San Diego a Major League Soccer franchise, essentially killing the entire plan.
Proponents of the convention center expansion, which would raise hotel taxes, say there’s an urgent need for additional convention space and the extra money the measure would provide to fight homelessness and help fix San Diego’s crumbling streets.
Mayor Faulconer, who supports a November special election, said on Thursday that he’s making it a priority to convince council members that it’s crucial for voters to approve both measures as soon as possible.
“They’re both incredibly important to the city and we need the voters to have the opportunity to weigh in,” said Faulconer. “There’s nothing more open than a public vote.”
Delaying a vote on the convention center proposal by one year would cost the city an estimated $75 million, Faulconer said.
That figure includes $43 million in higher construction costs for the expansion, $10 million for street repairs, $10 million to fight homelessness and $10 to $15 million in additional revenue from the proposed hotel tax increase.
“You can’t say that there’s a homeless crisis in San Diego and not want to take action now,” said Faulconer, estimating the measure would triple annual funding for homelessness immediately. “Why on Earth would we wait?”
The measure would provide San Diego its first consistent, guaranteed funding stream for homelessness, reducing the city’s reliance on state and federal money that varies from year to year, said Bob McElroy, chief executive of the nonprofit Alpha Project.
“From a provider standpoint, it gives us the ability to build the programs that we are going to need to deal with this issue in a comprehensive way,” McElroy said.
Critics of the convention center proposal, which would require approval by two-thirds of voters because it’s a tax increase, have stressed that the city no longer controls the site of the proposed expansion and that a developer is planning a hotel there.
Faulconer also stressed the need to move quickly on SoccerCity, a proposed $4 billion redevelopment of the Qualcomm Stadium property with condos, retail, a professional soccer stadium and a river park.
“To get a river park now and not years from now is a huge benefit,” he said. “To get housing where we need it — close to transportation corridors — is a huge benefit.”
Critics say a major concern about SoccerCity is San Diego State University’s decision last month to cease negotiations with FS Investors and declare that the project wouldn’t meet its athletic and academic needs.
City Attorney Mara Elliott has also raised concerns that the measure doesn’t guarantee San Diego a professional soccer stadium or a river park, and could burden taxpayers with hefty costs for environmental clean-up.
RELATED: San Diego city attorney raises concerns about SoccerCity proposal
Opponents of a special election also point to Measure L, which more than 65 percent of voters approved last November. It says citizens’ initiatives and referendums must be submitted to voters in November general elections, but gives the council the authority to submit them to voters earlier.
Faulconer said the council was given that authority in case time-sensitive measures like these two come up.
Nick Stone, spokesman for the investment team behind SoccerCity, said Thursday that people who supported Measure L never envisioned the council using it to deny voters a chance to decide key issues.
He said San Diego will lose its chance to get professional soccer if the vote is delayed until November 2018, so the council would be essentially eliminating any chance for voters to support the SoccerCity measure.
“A vote in November 2018 is a vote between no soccer and no soccer, and that is not a vote and that is not a choice,” he said. “I don’t think anybody who voted for Measure L believes that they voted to allow their City Council to selectively disenfranchise them.”
But the leader of the group that spearheaded Measure L disagreed with Stone.
“His position undermines our democracy and is really tone deaf to what our voters were trying to say,” said Andrea Guerrero, executive director of Alliance San Diego. “Two-thirds of voters supported Measure L because they believe democracy works best when the highest number of voters participate.”
A spokeswoman for Council President Cole said Thursday council members could vote Monday to spend the $5 million earmarked for a special election on other priorities. She said they also could leave the money in the budget, but stipulate it would be spent on other things if no special election takes place.
Regardless, she said the council is scheduled to vote June 12 on whether to have a special election, and then subsequently vote at the same meeting whether the convention center expansion would be on that ballot. A council vote on SoccerCity is scheduled for June 19.
david.garrick@sduniontribune.com (619) 269-8906 Twitter:@UTDavidGarrick
David Garrick
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Rep. Peters visits Texas-Mexico border, describes poor conditions and room for government action
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A SASHA FRENCH PRODUCTION
Opera to dine for. . .
We design and produce bespoke operatic entertainment to suit your needs and space; scenes from opera with singers of the highest calibre working with piano or orchestral accompaniment.
Linda Richarson, Soprano
Linda Richardson was born in Cheshire and studied at the Royal Northern College of Music, where she was a Peter Moores Foundation Scholar and winner of the Frederic Cox Award, and then at the National Opera Studio.
An English National Opera Company Principal between 1997 and 2005, her roles there included Virtue The Coronation of Poppea, Fiordiligi Così fan tutte, Lauretta Gianni Schicchi, Micaela Carmen, Gretel Hansel and Gretel, Gilda Rigoletto, Zerlina Don Giovanni, Sophie Der Rosenkavalier, Mimi La Bohème, title roles The Fairy Queen and Alcina, Violetta La Traviata, Woglinde Rhinegold, Helena A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Donna Anna Don Giovanni. Elsewhere she has sung Karolka Jenufa, Mimi, Nanetta Falstaff, Pamina Die Zauberflöte Countess Marriage of Figaro, Violetta La Travata Gilda Rigoletto with Opera North, Lisetta La Vera Constanza at Garsington, Norina Don Pasquale for Clonter Opera, Fairy Queen in Barcelona, First Niece Peter Grimes at Netherlands Opera, Amina La Sonnambula Mimi La Boheme and Alice Falstaff for Opera Holland Park. , Katya Kabanova with ETO, Alice Falstaff and Cio-Cio San Madama Butterfly Longborough Festival Opera, Mrs Coyle Owen Wingrave Nuremburg International Music chamber Festival, Linda performs extensively on the oratorio and concert platform, and is a frequent recitalist, recently singing at the V&A museum for their opera exhibition. She appeared as Annie in Jonathan Dove’s TV opera When She Died on Channel 4. Recordings include Hearts and Flowers, a collection of Victorian Parlour Songs, and Oscar Un Ballo in Maschera for Chandos.
Most recent and current plans include Violetta Scottish Opera and for WNO Anna Anna Bolena, Violetta Traviata, Almaltea Moses in Egitto, Elvira I Puritani and has recently sung Cio-Cio San Madama Butterfly.
She will return to WNO to revive the role of Violetta Traviata this autumn followed by her debut title role in Suor Angelica.
Jesús León, Tenor
Mexican tenor Jesús León’s Duke has been described as “impeccable,” his Edgardo “exquisite,” and his Nadir “clear and delicate.” His 2017-2018 season includes Il Duca in Rigoletto with Oper im Steinbruch, Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor with Florida Grand Opera, Christmas concerts with the Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, New Year’s Eve and New Year’s Day concerts at the Dubai Opera House, Elvino in La sonnambula with Staatstheater Stuttgart, the title role in Roméo et Juliette with Opéra de Nice, and Ismael in Nabucco with Opera de Toulon. Upcoming engagements have him returning to the United States as Alfredo in La Traviata, starring alongside soprano Nicole Cabell, as Romeo in Romeo et Juliette in Graz Opera, among others.
Recent engagements have included the title role in Roméo et Juliette with Atlanta Opera, Arturo in I puritani with Maggio Musicale Florentine in Florence, Tebaldo in I Capuletti e i Montecchi with Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Elvino in La sonnambula with Teatro Bellini Catania, Teatro Comunale Mario del Monaco in Treviso, Teatro Comunale Ferrara, and Teatro Alighieri Ravenna, Nadir in Les pêcheurs de perles with Opera di Firenze, Teatro Regio in Parma, Teatro Luciano Pavarotti in Modena, Korea National Opera Seoul, and Daegu Opera House, Pâris in La belle Hélène with the Châtelet Theatre in Paris, Ernesto in Don Pasquale with Innsbruck Landestheater, Alfredo in La Traviata with Scottish Opera, Dijon Opera, and Theatre Caen, and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni with Garsington Opera and Birgitta Festival. Mr. León started his vocal studies with the Cuban tenor Jesús Li. He studied at the UCLA Opera Studio, the Solti Accademia di bel Canto, the Boston Opera Institute, and as a member of the Domingo-Thornton Young Artist Program at Los Angeles Opera. He then trained for two years in Italy under the guidance of the legendary soprano Mirella Freni, who granted him the Nicolai Ghiaurov scholarship.
He first performed for A Sasha French Production in 2009.
Susannah Glanville, Soprano
Susannah studied at the Royal College of Music and the National Opera Studio.
Opera credits include title roles Luisa Miller, Giovanna d'Arco, Arabella and Tosca, Micaela Carmen, Fiordiligi Cosi fan tutte, Foreign Princess Rusalka, Donna Luisa La Duenna, Cressida Troilus & Cressida (Opera North), Alice Ford Falstaff, Pamina The Magic Flute (ENO), Lisa Queen of Spades (WNO), Vitellia La Clemenza di Tito (Glyndebourne on Tour), 1st Lady Die Zauberflöte (Metropolitan Opera), Countess Le Nozze di Figaro (Opéra de Nice) and Blanche Streetcar Named Desire (San Francisco Opera, Washington National Opera and Lyric Opera of Austin, Texas).
Other engagements include Hindemith’s Das Nusch-Nuschi and Mörder, Hoffnung der Frauen (BBC Symphony Orchestra), Mahler 4th Symphony (BBC Philharmonic), Spring Symphony (Oslo Philharmonic), Harvey's Mothers Shall Not Cry (BBC Proms), Adams How Could This Happen (Deutsche Sinfonie),
Recent engagements include Helena A Midsummer Night's Dream in Bari and in Reggio Emilia, Foreign Princess Rusalka for Opera North, the title role Luisa Miller for the Buxton Festival, Wagner's Wesendonck Lieder in the Leeds International Chamber Music series and at the Buxton Festival, the title role Tosca for Scottish Opera, female Chorus in The Rape Of Lucretia at the Maggio Musical Fiorentino, Florence, Reggio Emilia, Ravenna and Minnie La Fanciulla del West at Opera Holland Park, Blanca, Ines de Castro for Scottish Opera, Miss Jessel, Turn of the Screw for the International Chinese Opera Festival in Beijing and most recently Tosca, Opera North.
Susannah and Sasha first worked together in 1993.
Simon Thorpe, Baritone
Simon studied at the Guildhall School of Music and the National Opera Studio. Recent and future plans include Telramund, Lohengrin; Scarpia, Tosca and Salerio Merchant of Venice (Welsh National Opera); Manfredo, L’Amore dei tre Re (Opera Holland Park); Don Pizarro, Fidelio and Holländer, Der fliegender Holländer (Longborough Festival Opera); Monterone, Rigoletto (Northern Ireland Opera) and The King, The Travelling Companion by Stanford with Toby Purser (New Sussex Opera).
He has sung Escamillo, Carmen and Belcore, L’elisir d’amore for Scottish Opera; Zurga‚ Les pêcheurs de perles; Lescaut, Manon Lescaut and Sharpless, Madama Butterfly, Jack Rance, La fanciulla del West for Opera Holland Park‚ Donald Billy Budd; Belcore, L’elisir d’amore; Marcello La bohème; Scarpia Tosca; Ford Falstaff and Kothner Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (also at the BBC Proms) for Welsh National Opera; The Duke, Roméo et Juliette; Kuligin, Katya Kabanova; Sharpless, Madama Butterfly and Marullo, Rigoletto for Opera North; Anckarström, Un ballo in maschera for Cork Opera 2005 and the title role in Falstaff for Longborough Festival Opera.
International engagements have included Don Pizarro, Fidelio for Opéra de Baugé; Pacheco, Inés de Castro with Scottish Opera in Lisbon; Sharpless, Madama Butterfly and Scarpia, Tosca and Amonasro, Aida for Lyric Opera Dublin and Sharpless for Singapore Lyric Opera. The Steward, Flight; Escamillo, Carmen and Roucher, Andrea Chénier with the State Opera of South Australia and The Forester The Cunning Little Vixen‚ Private Willis Iolanthe and Montano Otello for Opera Australia.
His recordings include Second Mate/Arthur Jones, Billy Budd with Kent Nagano and on Erato and a more recent Opera Rara CD playing the role of Duclou in Leoncavallo’s Zazá. He sings regularly in concert‚ at major venues including the Barbican‚ Queen Elizabeth Hall‚ Royal Albert Hall and Bridgewater Hall. Particular highlights have included Carmina Burana with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, the Fauré Requiem with the Choir of King’s College‚ Cambridge‚ conducted by Nicholas Cleobury‚ Messiah with the Armonico Consort‚ Elijah at St David’s Hall‚ Cardiff and Mozart Requiem with the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Stanislaw Skrowacewski.
Simon first worked with Sasha in 1993
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Matt has 15 years of market research and analytics working across Radio and press before moving into world of sport in 2008 when he took over as Head of EMEA Research at Eurosport. He headed up insight teams at ESPN, BT Sport and Sky Sports before joining F1 as Global Research Director in June 2017. At F1 he is responsible for all data and insight which helps drive fan engagement and commercial revenue opportunities within the sport.
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Global and Cultural Effectiveness
Top 9 Diversity and Inclusion Stories for 2018
kathleen.gurchiek@shrm.org
By Kathy Gurchiek December 11, 2018
Dealing with, and preventing, racism and harassment in the workplace were popular global and cultural effectiveness topics for our readers in 2018. Here are the top nine stories from SHRM Online.
No. 1: Don't Look! Reports of Netflix's 'No Staring' Rule Raise Harassment Questions
Netflix employees reportedly are forbidden to look at each other for longer than five seconds under a strict new anti-harassment policy the online streaming service has rolled out, according to news reports.
Netflix did not confirm whether the no-staring rule is part of its anti-harassment policy or otherwise respond to SHRM Online's request for more information. But the reports raise the question of how anti-harassment policies and training have evolved in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
No. 2: Experts Weigh In on Starbucks' Racial-Bias Training
Starbucks announced plans to temporarily close 8,000 of its U.S. stores the afternoon of May 29 to conduct staff training on racial bias, it said in April.
Starbucks CEO Kevin Johnson called for the training after two black men were arrested for trespassing when they refused to leave a Starbucks in Philadelphia as they waited on a friend. One of the men had been denied access to the bathroom because he had not purchased anything. Charges were dropped, but the incident sparked a national furor.
What should the staff training consist of? Who should conduct it? SHRM Online reached out to diversity and inclusion experts to ask what they would do if they were tapped to deliver this training.
No. 3: How Do You Combat Racism at Work? Experts Offer Suggestions
Starbucks conducted staff training to "[address] implicit bias, promote conscious inclusion and prevent discrimination." Other companies may be asking themselves, too, how their workplaces can be more welcoming to people of color, whether they are job applicants, employees, customers or vendors.
No. 4: What Employers Can Do When Domestic Violence Enters the Workplace
When victims of domestic abuse are not believed and their concerns not treated seriously, it's unlikely that action will be taken to protect their safety. This could lead to a potentially dangerous situation in the workplace.
“Domestic violence is a workplace issue, not just a ‘personal’ issue,” said Maya Raghu, director of workplace equality for the National Women's Law Center in Washington, D.C. “Even if the violence occurs away from work, it has significant financial and security impacts on the workplace, from lost productivity, lost days from work, and threats to safety.”
#No. 5: What Motivates Your Workers? It Depends on Their Generation
Five generations work side by side in today's workforce, and each generation brings a distinct set of values, attitudes and behaviors to the workplace, said Kimberly Abel-Lanier. She is vice president and general manager of workforce solutions for St. Louis-based Maritz Motivation Solutions, an employee recognition provider.
Organizations should consider reinventing and customizing their recognition strategy by considering the motivation and recognition preferences of the different generations.
No. 6: Prayer and Meditation Rooms Can Increase Inclusion
The concept of bringing your whole self to work has been around for a while. For some organizations, that means providing a place for introspection—somewhere employees may pray, meditate, reflect—regardless of their faith or absence of one.
Here are examples of what some organizations have done to accommodate their employees.
No. 7: Sexual Harassment Prevention Training Should Involve Real Conversations
As media attention and public outcry shine a spotlight on sexual harassment in the workplace, there's a lesson for employers scrambling to address the issue: Make sexual-harassment education hit home.
That includes separate and different training for managers and individual contributors, bystander intervention, involving senior leaders, quarterly micro-learning sessions and tailoring training to the specific workplace and workforce.
No. 8: Use Winter Olympics to Light Up Employeement Engagement
Seymour Adler, an organizational psychologist with London-based Aon, encourages employers to embrace the 2018 Winter Olympics and its motto, "Higher, faster, stronger."
He thinks watching any of the 102 events—some of which began the day before the Opening Ceremony—can help unite work teams. Here are some ways companies embraced the Olympics at their workplaces.
No. 9: When Interviewers Press for Birth and Graduation Dates, Is It Discriminatory?
Age discrimination in employment is rampant, according to women interviewed by SHRM Online, as well as those who shared discrimination experiences in a LinkedIn discussion among professional women.
Asking for birth dates, high school graduation dates or college transcripts all can be ways that employers try to uncover a job applicant's age. And while such requests aren't by themselves illegal, according to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, they can raise questions about the motive for asking.
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Articles by Erkki Pulliainen
Erkki Pulliainen, Kalevi Loisa, Tauno Pohjalainen. (1968). Hirven talvisesta ravinnosta Itä-Lapissa. Silva Fennica vol. 2 no. 4 article id 4775. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a14560
English title: Winter food of the moose (Alces alces) in eastern Lapland.
Original keywords: hirvi; talvilaidun; talviravinto; paju; mänty; kataja
English keywords: Alces alces; moose; winter food; feeding; willow; Lapland; feeding behaviour; scots pine; juniper
The winter food of moose (Alces alces L.) was examined in 1967-68 in the Saariselkä fell area in the communes of Inari and Sodankylä, in the northern parts of the communes of Salla and Savukoski, and in the central part of the commune of Salla in eastern Lapland in Finland.
In northern parts of Salla and Savukoski 25 moose were followed during 3.-13.4.1968. This area is typical wintering terrain of moose in north-east Lapland. According to the estimate, 45% food taken by the moose was Scots pine shoots and needles, 28% birch, 17% juniper sprigs and needles, 9% willow, and 1.5% bear moss. According to observations of the researchers in 26.1.-16.5.1968, moose seemed to avoid birch, even if it was available in the area, and eat Scots pine shoots and needles and juniper.
Moose seemed to prefer willow in as a winter feed in the southern part of the area studied, where it accounts according to the present and earlier studies 50-90% of the winter food. In the northern wintering areas of moose, where willow is not as common, willow seemed to account for less than 10% of the winter food. There Scots pine is the most important winter food for moose.
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Erkki Pulliainen, Kalervo Salonen. (1965). Orava männyn siemen- ja silmutuholaisena. Silva Fennica no. 117 article id 4727. https://doi.org/10.14214/sf.a14285
English title: Damage caused by squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris) to pine-buds.
Original keywords: taimituhot; orava; silmut; kasvutappiot; mänty
English keywords: squirrels; Sciurus vulgaris; buds; seedling damages; Scots pine; Pinus sylvestris
When the seed harvest of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) and Norway spruce (Picea abies (L.) H. Karst.) are low, pine and spruce buds are among the secondary food items of squirrel (Sciurus vulgaris L.) in Finland. In this study, conducted in Nokia in Southern Finland in 1962-1963, eating of pine buds by squirrel is described. The eaten buds in 15-years old Scots pine seedlings were recorded in two seedling stands.
According to the results, the squirrels selected the largest buds of the best seedlings in the studied stands. In over 50% of the cases the squirrels chose only the buds of the leading shoot, especially the terminal bud. In half of the trees, a side bud of the leading shoot continued the growth, which causes form defects in the trees. In 35% of the damaged trees, a lateral branch continued the growth. Well-growing seedling stands may be especially susceptible for damages caused by, for instance, squirrels.
The PDF includes a summary in Finnish.
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Liberty Hill Foundation
When Liberty Hill began in 1976, it was a daring new foundation that turned philanthropy on its head. Today it is a national leader in social justice. Organizing and advocacy powered by Liberty Hill has changed national policies, launched social change movements, transformed neighborhoods, and nurtured hundreds of community leaders who respond to the experience of injustice by fighting for their rights.
Reporting to the Director of Individual Giving (DOI) The Data Manager is responsible for supervising and maintaining the foundation's various constituent relationship management (CRM) systems, including primary databases Raiser's Edge (RE) and EveryAction (EA), and coordination with other Blackbaud and Fusion Labs software (Financial Edge and GrantedGE). Responsibilities include database administration, maintenance, analysis, reporting and general data management for the Foundation. The Data Manager ensures integrity of the database; preparation and management reports; exporting information for email communications and mailings; building out modules and being the expert in all components of Raiser's Edge and Every Action. Additionally, the data manager reviews gift/transaction entry to ensure consistency and accuracy of reporting.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES AND ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS
Assesses current database functionality and makes recommendations to enhance effectiveness
Researches and plans for upgrades and overall sustainability of data management systems
Assures that all data complies with legal regulations
Ensures information is secure, backed-up
Monitors data, transaction, and gift entry procedures
Creates and manages all dashboards for analysis, tracking metrics, fundraising and financial reporting
Leads creative solutions in collaboration with IT vendor to troubleshoot problems with the database and stays current with updates to the system
Troubleshoots RE and EA, and provides support to end users
Identifies system integration capabilities and manages the implementation process of those system changes
Routinely reviews and updates data records to ensure data accuracy and integrity (RE and EA)
Generates event registration reports for Advancement staff as needed
Works with Finance Department in balancing gift accounts and monthly reconciliation
Builds and runs unique queries, exports, analysis reports, appeal lists and electronic or postal mailing lists in RE fulfilling criteria and deadline requests
Creates and manages lists in EA for e-communications
Extracts data and develops the necessary in-house coding for Advancement's fundraising database to create accurate reporting and tracking measures
Develops MS Excel spreadsheet tools to manipulate data where RE tools are insufficient
Develops and prepares standard weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly fundraising and management reports as requested by the Director of Individual Giving (DOI), in collaboration with the Finance Department
Works with the DOI to develop tracking and measurement reports that will analyze and evaluate data and allow foundation staff to monitor and measure performance against targets and key financial and operational objectives
Utilizes specialized modules in RE to ensure proper recording of data, such as the RE Event Module, Proposal Tab, etc.
Develops, maintains and updates information on new and existing donor prospects
Keeps an eye on donor giving in order to report trends and/or research to solicitors on a regular basis
Supports and trains Foundation staff on basic data entry, data management and other database issues/processes
Creates pledge invoices and processes documentation
Assists with managing data for donor advised program and giving circles
Serves as back-up to the Advancement Associate as needed
Provides excellent customer service in a timely manner, according to established standards
Engages in special projects as assigned
Bachelor's degree in Finance, Information Systems or related field of study (or equivalent combination of education, training and experience).
3-5 years' experience in Raiser's Edge management, preferably as an administrator in a non-profit fundraising environment.
2-4 years of experience designing, developing, and producing reports from a database application
Proficiency in MS Office Suite
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
Ability to troubleshoot software and hardware issues
Systems and methods used to store, organize and retrieve data.
Advanced working knowledge of Raisers Edge, Blackbaud software, Every Action (preferred), and connected tools.
Current relevant technology and computer software applications.
Strong organizational, administration, interpersonal communication skills, and "big picture" oriented.
Strong ability and commitment to accuracy and database integrity.
Ability to manage confidential information, multiple priorities and competing deadlines plus maintain an attention to detail.
Relevant mission related work.
Knowledge of basic fundraising and donor relations processes.
Manual dexterity for operating a computer keyboard, printer, facsimile machine, photocopier, calculator and/or ten-key adding machine.
Ability to sit at a desk or conference table for extended periods of time within an office environment.
Ability to lift up to 15 pounds.
Applicants should send a resume, salary requirements and cover letter outlining how they meet the specific requirements of the position to [email protected](link sends e-mail). Only applicants whose resumes are selected for an interview will be contacted.
Liberty Hill is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to having the rich diversity of our community reflected in our workforce.
Liberty Hill promotes equal opportunity for all employees and applicants. In doing so, we comply with local, state, and federal laws and regulations to ensure an equal employment opportunity for everyone. We don't discriminate in employment opportunities or practices on the basis of race, ancestry, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, citizenship, military service obligation, veteran status or any other basis protected by federal, state or local laws. Our policies and personnel practices are intended to ensure that all of us are treated equally with regard to recruiting, hiring, and advancement, and our decisions on employment are made to further the principle of equal employment opportunities for employees.
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Pete Woodhead
Queen Elizabeth Hall Auditorium 2018
MORLEY VON STERNBERG
Queen Elizabeth Hall leather seating (2018)
Queen Elizabeth Hall reopened in April 2018 following almost three years of renovations with world class, environmentally-improved new facilities for audiences and artists. The building is also home to Purcell Room—a smaller, more intimate space.
The design led by architects Feilden Clegg Bradley Studios (FCBStudios), focused on refurbishing the auditoria, foyer and artists’ back of house facilities. Improved access, ventilation and lighting systems, and new production infrastructure enhance the experience for audience and performers alike. New leather upholstery revitalises the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Purcell Room’s distinctive and comfortable seating.
The building was originally opened in March 1967 by Her Majesty the Queen and this historic restoration has been made possible through generous support from Arts Council England and the Heritage Lottery Fund, thanks to National Lottery players, and through Southbank Centre friends, trusts and foundations supporting the Let The Light In campaign.
10am – 11pm every day except Christmas Day
To find out first about what's coming up and for your best chance to secure tickets to events, join now as a Member
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Tales of the Turntable
Travel through musical history at a ZooNation Youth Company show for all the family
For access to Queen Elizabeth Hall Foyer and Purcell Room please use Royal Festival Hall JCB glass lift to Level 2 and enter via Riverside Terrace.
For access to Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium seating row A and all wheelchair spaces please enter via the Artist Entrance in the Queen Elizabeth Hall slip road (Level 1).
For lift access to Queen Elizabeth Hall Roof Garden please use the Roof Garden Lift in the Queen Elizabeth Hall slip road (Level 1).
download step-free access map
We welcome wheelchair users and guide companion dogs. Wheelchairs are available for visitors by visiting the Royal Festival Hall Artists' Entrance when you arrive (subject to availability).
Talk to a member of staff at the auditorium entrance if you have a disability that means you can’t queue, or you need extra time to take your seat. They can arrange priority entry for you as soon as the doors open.
Situated downstairs from the main foyer, our cloakroom opens approximately 60 minutes before the start of any Queen Elizabeth Hall show, and closes around 15 minutes after the performance ends. It is also open on selected festival days. It’s at the bottom of the stairs next to the Ticket Desk.
An accessible toilet and gender neutral inclusive toilets are located in the foyer.
A Changing Places Toilet is located on Level 1 Royal Festival Hall next to the JCB Glass Lift, for the exclusive use of disabled people who need personal assistance to use the toilet.
The facility includes a height-adjustable bench, tracking hoist system, a centrally-placed toilet, a height-adjustable basin and a shower. The key for this room is available from the Welcome Hub, Level 2 Royal Festival Hall. The facility is open daily 10am – 11pm.
Blue Badge holders and those with access requirements can be dropped off on the Queen Elizabeth Hall slip road off Belvedere Road (the road between Royal Festival Hall and Hayward Gallery).
The Hayward car park is now closed to cars. Alternative parking is available nearby at the National Theatre car park (330 metres) and APCOA Cornwall Road Car Park (490 metres), subject to charges. Alternative parking for Blue Badge holders visiting Southbank Centre can be found at the National Theatre car park (330 metres). Just take your badge and car park ticket to Royal Festival Hall Ticket Office on Level 2, for validation before you leave.
Please note: there is no step-free access from the National Theatre car park when the building is closed on Sunday.
Alternative parking for Blue Badge holders visiting Southbank Centre can also be found at the South Bank car park – APCOA Cornwall Road Car Park. Just take your badge and car park ticket to the parking attendant office at the entrance to the car park for validation before you leave.
A drop-off point at Royal Festival Hall (30 metres) has been created for visitors who are unable to walk from alternative car parks.
We politely ask you to follow our house rules and any requests from our Visitor Experience team. Please help us to keep our foyers looking welcoming and presentable to everyone.
Our cafe/bar seating is for visitors who are purchasing food and beverages from the venue. No food and beverages bought outside may be consumed in this area.
Thank you for respecting that the cafe is a gadget and laptop free area. You are welcome to use your laptop, tablet, e-reader or other equivalent device in other areas from 10am – 5pm.
We cannot guarantee that the space is always available for non-socialising activity and ask that you pack up all laptops, tablets and e-readers by 5pm. After this, our foyer is dedicated to fun and relaxation, especially in the hours leading up to evening concerts.
more about facilities and access
Get an overview of the layout and different seating sections of the Queen Elizabeth Hall auditorium by downloading our seating plan.
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How to love the brutalist architecture of Southbank Centre, with John Grindrod
The author of How To Love Brutalism explores our Queen Elizabeth Hall
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Queen Elizabeth Hall and the evolution of electronic music
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Get more from your Southbank Centre experience by joining as a Member or Supporter
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SOUTHBANK CENTRE AERIAL VIEWS BY INDIA ROPER-EVANS84
Aerial Views at the Southbank Centre Credit India Roper-Evans
Find out what's on at Royal Festival Hall, London's leading music venue located on the banks of the River Thames at the heart of Southbank Centre, plus all the best places to eat, drink and shop while you're here.
As well as a 2,700 capacity auditorium, the Royal Festival Hall is also where you'll find The Clore Ballroom, National Poetry Library, Southbank Centre Shop, Riverside Terrace Cafe, Central Bar and Skylon restaurant.
Opened in 1951 as part of the Festival of Britain, the Grade I listed Hall is one of the world’s leading performance venues.
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10am – 11pm every day
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Planning a visit to our iconic Royal Festival Hall? Here’s some useful information.
Royal Festival Hall is open 10am – 11pm every day*.
Auditorium doors open 30 minutes before the start time of an event.
Entry to our foyers is free although sometimes it is restricted to provide space for audiences as they arrive for performances – please look out for signs and listen to announcements.
*Occasionally Royal Festival Hall is closed to the public due to private hire. We publicise these times across the site and online, so please check before visiting.
facilities & access
At Southbank Centre we welcome everyone and want our site to be available to all. We are working hard to remove barriers so that our facilities and events can be accessible to as many people as possible.
Tickets to all of our events and exhibitions can be booked online, by telephone in person. Find out all you need to know about tickets, including collection, concessions, group bookings and more on the link below.
tickets & concessions faqs
We're easily accessible by public transport on road, rail and even river. Find information on the best ways to get to us on the link below.
You certainly won’t go hungry at Southbank Centre. Find out more about the wide range of food and drink options available here on site on the link below.
cafes, restaurants and bars
There are bars on Levels 2, 4 and 5 of the building open to the public. The Members' Cafe-Bar, located on Level 6 with panoramic views over the river, is open to Southbank Centre Members. If you fancy some alfresco dining, the Riverside Cafe is located on Level 2.
Royal Festival Hall has the acclaimed Skylon restaurant with contemporary food, original cocktails and stunning views over the river.
There's something for all tastes, occasions and ages.
Members' Cafe-Bar
All restaurants, bars and cafes
Mendelssohn’s Elijah
Marvel at Mendelssohn’s choral masterpiece performed by the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment
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Circus 1903
Roll up, roll up for the daredevil entertainment and sensational animal puppetry of this circus
Jurowski's Tchaikovsky
Encounter the composer’s final symphony with the London Philharmonic Orchestra
Weimar Berlin: Bittersweet Metropolis
The Philharmonia and Esa-Pekka Salonen explore the music of the Weimar Republic
Southbank Centre Archive Studio
Our extensive archive of information accessible for the first time
Find the most comprehensive collection of poetry from 1912 in Britain on Level 5 of Royal Festival Hall
Hayward Gallery Art Library
Visit the Hayward Gallery Art Library at Royal Festival Hall
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Hire Royal Festival Hall
The Royal Festival Hall Auditorium is available to hire for very, very special occasions
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Tag Archives: occult
FP429 – Coffin: Dislocation
Posted on June 24, 2015 by jrdskinner | Leave a comment
Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode four hundred and twenty-nine.
Tonight we present Coffin: Dislocation
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This week’s episodes are brought to you by Nutty Bites!
Flash Pulp is an experiment in broadcasting fresh pulp stories in the modern age – three to ten minutes of fiction brought to you Monday, Wednesday and Friday evenings.
Tonight, Will Coffin, urban shaman, and Bunny, his apprentice, find themselves dealing with an apparition that simply wants to move on.
Coffin: Dislocation
Written by J.R.D. Skinner
Art and Narration by Opopanax
and Audio produced by Jessica May
It was a strange gig.
Bunny stood at the edge of the lake, her hands deep in her pockets and her denim jacket shut against the wind that roared across the water.
She stood with Mantas and Greta Kulpa, whose hard faces watched Will Coffin swing high his arcane token upon the rocky shore.
Behind them was a plain white cross, nailed together and painted by Mantas’ own hands.
The sky howled and the rain came, yet still somehow the Kulpa’s cheeks remained dry.
Their English was crisp, but they delivered it as embittered spitting.
Mantas asked, “is this going to take long?”
Bunny shrugged. “Do you really hate it that much here?”
“How much do we hate this place?” asked Greta.
“We hate this place so much we are literally driving directly to the airport to leave,” replied Mantas.
“We hate this place so much I may lobby the Grand Duchy to declare war on your miserable nation. I hardly think you’ll notice, but hopefully it will be enough to find us on the no fly list, and thus free of your grubby hands, sarcastic remarks, and ironic tourist sunglasses.”
“Not much longer,” answered Bunny.
The Crook of Ortez maintained its revolutions, its power, waxing in these late days, summoning up waves as well as pulling at the phantoms of the dead, teasing them to rise.
Bunny had seen her partner conjure the apparitions dozens of times, but never quite like this. It certainly was dramatic, at least.
On this occasion, however, no shimmering form appeared. Her partner made no extended entreaties, nor threats, nor even dry coughs. The storm hit a furious tempo, and then he let the chain drop, and the gale with it.
Thunder broke and rolled across the calming blue, and a downpour began to march in their direction from the distant shore. It’s ferocity, however, was nothing more than natural.
“It’s done,” said Will, his leather jacket dripping as he approached the cluster of observers.
“Great light show,” said Bunny, “but next time play some Floyd or something,”
The comment was out of her mouth before she considered her audience, but, given the Kulpa’s stolid indifference, she found it difficult to deliver a sorry.
“You spoke with her?” asked Greta.
“Yes,” replied Coffin.
“You told her we still intend to depart?” asked Mantas.
“How did she take it?” asked the mother, and Bunny thought it seemed as if she expected the dead girl would talk back.
Will shrugged. “She seemed okay.”
“Indifference? Typical,” said Greta. “I told you this place had warped her. Even in death she does not care about her parents. So ungrateful – so, so: So American.”
Mantas only grunted.
Coffin and Bunny stood together as they watched the pair climb the embankment, arm in arm. Within seconds the rented yellow hatchback was back on the highway and out of sight.
There was no wave goodbye, but Bunny consoled herself with the fact that they at least hadn’t spit on her as they departed.
“I missed what you were supposed to tell her – was it anything that would make me feel bad about thinking they’re a couple of puckered-asshole righteousness fondlers?”
“Nah,” answered Coffin. “They said, ‘tell her we can not stand this place. We are still leaving, good luck in the afterlife.”
“They didn’t seem too fuckin’ wadded up about the untimely death, and still missing corpse, of their only offspring? For all they know the bass are slowly shitting out their daughter down there. Why didn’t they at least ask her where her remains were?”
“Some use ritual as a system for dealing with the guilt they ignore. Those folks know they are right and proper, so it’s not their fault they’ve failed to make it in America, or failed to raise their daughter, or failed to change in any way as the world has ground on around them.
“They came to me not to get answers, but to simply put a period on the sentence. They have, to their own minds, done what they can – and now they’ll get on with the next thing.”
As they spoke, the pair climbed the same hill they’d watched the parents scale. Shuffling towards the car they’d rented at the Kulpa’s expense, a sixteen-year-old girl in a Ramones t-shirt and frayed-kneed jeans joined them.
“Exactly,” she said, “and it’s that same unthinking dedication to their ancient ways that would have forced them to drag me back to a place I remember hating as much as I remember it at all – or, if I’d fought hard enough, would have left them in a small town half a world away, complaining endlessly about the daughter they never saw, talked to, or in any way helped support. Still, they’d cry over it, and they wouldn’t even understand why. Just that it’s what is done.
“Better they think I’m dead then a blight upon the family, carousing and living a wild life in America.”
With no more time spent lingering than Matas and Greta had invested, Will, Bunny, and the very alive Melina Kulpas leaned into a quick U-turn, then sped back to the city.
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FP416 – Mulligan Smith in Skipping a Beat: a Molly Blackhall Chronicle
Posted on March 5, 2015 by jrdskinner | Leave a comment
Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode four hundred and sixteen.
Tonight we present Mulligan Smith in Skipping a Beat: a Molly Blackhall Chronicle
This week’s episodes are brought to you by Green Light, Red Light
Tonight, Mulligan Smith, private investigator and lifelong resident of Capital City, finds himself drawn to the edge of civilization by one Molly Blackhall.
Mulligan Smith in Skipping a Beat: a Molly Blackhall Chronicle
There were no windows in the room, only empty expanses of bare plywood nailed onto a sloppily erected frame. To Mulligan’s left was a door, to his right a simple table holding a camping lantern that acted as the sole source of light. Beneath him was a creaking wooden chair to which he’d been zip-tied, and before him sat the man with the gin-blossomed nose he’d come to think of as Red Parka.
He knew that just beyond the walls was a view to steal the breath from a Capital City Morlock such as himself, but it did him little good.
Red Parka shifted on his stool, settling the hunting rifle across his lap into a more comfortable position.
There was rarely any magic in Mulligan’s job, and here was the epitome of the mundane: He’d often wondered if this was how he might perish, in some dingy hovel at the hand of a man with petty reasons and a terrible need for a shower.
From beyond the crookedly hung door, in the room that made up the other half of the shack, there came a trio of knocks.
Smith could hear Blue Parka, the one who’d tazed him, rise to answer the summons.
“I’ve lost one of my tourists, have you seen an idiot in a hoodie stumbling around out here?”
Smith knew the woman’s voice, longed, in fact, to hear it say just a few more words, but Red Parka’s arms stiffened at the intrusion, and the gun barrel hovered above his knees.
It would do no good, Smith knew, to drag Molly into the calamity.
She’d been the one who’d summoned him to the Arctic Circle. They’d been introduced when he’d had need of a bush pilot on a previous job, and she’d been impressed enough with his work to ask for assistance when the small community of Suinnak had charged her with rum running.
Her email had been as straight to the point as Blackhall herself.
I realize chasing bootleggers sounds a bit ridiculous to a fellow who can walk a block and pass three bars and a booze megastore, but these folks generally see limited supplies, and a sudden bump in the market can cause a lot of havoc. I’ve been the only one in and out lately, so they figure I must be the source, and I haven’t been able to spot any amateur moonshiners while waiting for my court date.
I hate to have to ask – and I think you know it – but I could really use some help.
In truth, Molly’s face, and his trip north, had floated to mind more than once in his idle hours parked outside cheap motels and heavily-curtained bungalows, and he’d been eager to be of assistance.
“I haven’t seen him,” answered Blue Parka.
There was a pause, and Molly lost the majority of the politeness in her voice.
“I heard he was coming here to visit,” she insisted.
Red Parka had the stock of his weapon under his arm now, the barrel endangering the ground midway between Mulligan and himself.
“Nope,” said Blue Parka, “probably best to go back to your plane and wait to see if he shows.”
The door closed. Smith felt his shoulders relax.
At least she’d be safe.
When he’d arrived, a day earlier, it had been an easy enough thing to locate the real origin of the free-flowing liquor. His filing cabinets at home were filled with letters from his ex-police-sergeant father that provided advice along the lines of, “it takes money to catch money,” and he’d known exactly how to begin the search.
Locating the most notorious drunk in town had only taken three sets of questions, and, as the PI had told Molly when he’d retrieved his bribe from his travel bag, it wasn’t as if the community was about to be overrun with 18-year-old single malt Talisker scotch.
She’d grown red faced and angry when he’d handed the cup to a fellow obviously killing himself with such.
At the first drink, the man had denied knowing anything about locals involved in distilling.
At the second, both men were chuckling, and Molly joined them in a sullen cup.
At the third she too was laughing, as Mulligan laid out his usual jokes and admitted, sheep facedly, that he rarely drank.
At the fourth, the interviewee, still denying he knew anything, did admit it was better booze than the locally made stuff.
When they’d reduced the bottle by half, the private investigator had found his feet suddenly, thanking his host for his time.
“Perhaps you could top my glass before you go?” the drunk had asked.
“Sorry, I need to save some reward for someone who can help,” Smith had replied.
The tippler’s face went to war with itself for thirty seconds, twisting between resolve and thirst, then the man had stood to point at the shack on the hill.
Smiths’ victory was quickly forgotten, however, as Molly landed on a decision that seemed to have been hovering at the edge of her mind for a while, and dragged him back to the cabin she occupied when visiting the remote hamlet.
Two hours later, half-sobered and sweating from exertion, she’d apologized for growing angry over tweaking the old lush’s weakness to dig for an answer.
“We Blackhalls have always had a temper,” she explained.
They’d fallen asleep soon after.
Awaking to her satisfied snoring had given him the chance to creep up the hill and be tazed.
He’d expected to find a still – instead, seconds before being electrified, he’d discovered just a spout to collect snow and a pot-bellied stove that struck the PI as a fire hazard, especially in an all-wood shanty.
That’d been half an hour ago, but now there was a hitch in his chest as he realized the distance between them was so close that he could hear her muttering as she followed the thin trail down the hillside.
“Oh,” she was saying, “I’m-a go back to the goddamn plane…”
In the next room, Blue Parka returned to murmuring. He’d been at it when Smith had originally arrived, and until this second interruption the chanting had been the only relief from Red Parka’s thick mouth-breathing.
Smith returned to the impossible task of finding some leverage that might keep him out of a shallow permafrost grave.
He considered using his increasingly angry bladder as an excuse to attempt to run, but he doubted he’d make it far from Red Parka’s rifle given the barren white slopes that surrounded the hut.
Blue Parka’s droning stopped, and Mulligan’s bladder doubled its demands.
He had little interest in finding out what the pair had in mind once done singing for the day.
It was apparently just another interruption, however.
“You gotta see this,” called the crooner, “there’s a – I think it’s a wolverine? – out front. Bring the rifle.”
Red Parka stood and pulled the door shut behind him.
Through the flimsy barrier Smith heard Red Parka ask, “is it dancing?”
“Maybe it’s rabid?”
The slamming of the outside exit cut off any further conversation.
Breathing heavily, the PI began to thrash in his bonds. The chair went over sideways, but did not break. The zipties dug into his ankles and the flesh of his wrists, but did not give.
Still, it was shouting and gunshots from the far side of the cabin that brought his flailing to a halt.
Then the air filled with the scream of a chainsaw.
As he lay askew on the rough planks, the tip of a high-speed cleaver pushed through the wall and sliced downward in a long diagonal stroke.
Two more incisions followed, and the splinter-edged triangle fell inward.
Molly Blackhall said, “so, sometimes you’re out in the woods and some bloody beavers start lodging up on the river you figured you could use to exit. I keep this Mama Jama to clear the runway, as it were.”
“You shouldn’t have come back,” answered Mulligan, “they’re armed with worse than chainsaws. If that animal hadn’t come along…”
“Oh, she’s part of the plan too.”
“You have a pet wolverine?”
“It’s not a pet, it’s more like a friend,” she replied. “Anyhow, talk less, escape more.”
She did him the favour of using a knife to remove his bonds.
Still, the PI could not resist a final peek into the adjoining room to see the product of the seemingly neverending incantations. He thought the man had been simply whistling while he worked, but the only changes he could spot in the plain chamber were the location of the barrel, which was now at the center of the floor, and the nature of what it held.
Then he was again being pulled along by Molly’s insistent grip, though this time through the ragged hole and down the hill.
White powder crunched underfoot. The mountain range on the far horizon watched impassively. Behind them echoed more shouts, and more gunshots, and perhaps even a gravel-throated chuckle.
It was at that moment Mulligan Smith realized he was in love, but he would be left wondering, for a long while afterward, how the Parkas had transformed a barrel of snow melt into wine.
He would not see the pair again, nor would the people of Suinnak, but the discovery of the supply – and the signed confession they nailed to the Game Warden’s office before they departed – were enough to clear Molly for a brief southward vacation.
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Tagged audiofic, bootlegging, crime, occult, podcast
FP415 – Coffin: Moving, Part 3 of 3
Posted on February 22, 2015 by jrdskinner | Leave a comment
Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode four hundred and fifteen.
Tonight we present Coffin: Moving, Part 3 of 3
(Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3)
This week’s episodes are brought to you by the Earth Station One podcast
Tonight, Will Coffin, urban shaman, and Bunny, his increasingly sober apprentice, eat pancakes and aid a man haunted by his past.
Coffin: Moving, Part 3 of 3
The Denny’s stood at the low tide between breakfasting retirees and office workers on a panickedly short lunch break. Only three other booths were occupied, beyond the trio of customers clustered in the corner, and one of those appeared to be the store’s manager entertaining himself with online trivia instead of instructing the waiter in heavy eyeliner to clear the last of the Grand Slamwich wreckage.
Bunny gave the kid a nod, and the kid nodded back.
“Napkins?” he asked.
“Nah, I’ll take some of the s##t water you folks call coffee, and maybe a two buck pancake stack?”
“We’re only supposed to sell the cheap plates as a side.”
Bunny raised a her brow and shrugged. Coffin waved off the topping-up of his mug, and their interviewee, one Douglas Holloway, continued to gently weep into the collar of his polo shirt.
When they were once again alone, the crying man worked at clearing his throat, then asked, “how did you find me?”
“How badly do you want to be free of -” began Coffin, but Bunny overrode the statement.
“His ex put us in touch with yours,” she said to Holloway, “but don’t worry about that. We’ll get to the haggling and details, just give us the rundown on your wife and girlfriend.”
To Bunny there was something familiar in Holloway’s stunned yet exhausted face that left her with the impression that he’d simply been waiting for this particular dam to break.
“Arlene died five years ago,” replied the widower. “It was eighteen months after we were married, and we were infatuated with each other till the end. We’d known she had a fight in front of her when we went down the aisle – her chemo meant all of her wedding photos were hairless – but she was the sort of person who was strong enough not to wear a wig.
“We were the classic goofballs-in-love couple, content just to be close to each other; to hold each other. She seemed magical, and I always assumed somehow that that would win us the war.
“She died at home. I did my damndest to make it as comfortable and peaceful as possible, but by the end there was a miniature hospital set up in our living room. It was like a pocket universe in there, an eternity of listening to her ragged breathing over constant Law & Order reruns. I still change the channel as soon as I hear that damned theme. When she let go I was at the bed’s edge, holding her hand, and she was surrounded by her sisters. I thought it was the hardest moment I’d ever have to survive through, but that I’d done the right thing.
“My first notion was to move away from the memories, but two years later I was in the same bungalow, alone with our mortgage and our corgi, Sycamore. Every time I stepped onto the living room carpet I could feel the anxiety of those last days creep in, but I hadn’t finished paying the bills for high powered narcotics and medical staff.
“Even if I couldn’t escape, things changed around me. I spent a lot of hours at the kitchen table with work I’d taken home, just to avoid the rest of the house. If I wasn’t working, Sycamore and I patrolled the block. Despite my evasions, or more likely because of it, I got promoted. I made new acquaintances around the neighbourhood.
“The second January after Arlene’s death I met Selena. I wasn’t looking to. I’d spent so long focused on the next set of reports, and the next patch of sidewalk ahead of me, I hadn’t realized how far I’d gone with my head down.
“I was re-tying a shoelace outside the local Starbucks when she exited with a white chocolate mocha. One of the tallest ladies I’d ever seen, and with a smile as friendly as a children’s television show host.
“She said ‘excuse me,’ because she walked near me while I was hogging the sidewalk and she’s the sort of person who’d rather be polite than annoyed.
“As she’s adjusting course though, she reaches into her pocket and retrieves a dog treat shaped like a bone. Sycamore sits, which is a trick that I’d forgotten Arlene had taught him, and she tosses him the mini-femur.
“That dog was all the family I’d had for two years, and I loved it like a child, but for whatever reason it’d never struck me to carry treats with me. It sounds kind of stupid, but it was just different than anything I’d known until then. Somehow that brought my chin up.”
The tale paused as the narrator was distracted by his audience straightening in their seats. Before he could turn to identify what had roused them, however, the waiter strolled by at a near trot, a plate tucked tight to his side, out of sight of his trivia master manager.
With a twist of his wrist the low mountain of pancakes slid across the largely empty table, stopping just short of Bunny’s coffee.
There was no opportunity for a thank you before he was beyond hearing range.
“Don’t stop now, Dougie,” said Bunny, while twirling her syrupy fork encouragingly, “we haven’t even gotten to the spooky s##t.”
“We dated for six months,” answered Holloway. “A lot of movie theaters, diner dinners, and dog parks with Sycamore. When we started spending the night together it was always at her apartment. Eventually I moved the dog dishes and I almost sort of forgot that I had another home.
“Then I got a funny letter: I’d accidentally paid off my mortgage while I wasn’t paying attention.
“Now, it’s not like I’d ever forgotten Arlene, but I’d had some time away. Selena loves renovation shows, and we kind of jointly arrived at the idea that we should do some repair work before putting the shack on the market and maybe looking for a fresh place together. Thing is, the more effort we sunk into projects, the more it began to feel like a new house – our house.
“One night we were both exhausted from a day of basement drywalling, and we decided to just sleep in my, uh, our, uh, the old bed – the bed that was there – instead of heading back to Selena’s.
“I woke around three in the morning thinking I heard someone talking in the dark. I pulled on pants and went down the hall to the living room, and for a second I thought I saw Arlene’s face.
“Now, I should be clear, it wasn’t a huge ‘Arlene, is that you!?’ moment, it was more like thinking you see a person standing in a corner, then realizing it’s actually that robe you draped over a chair with the shadow of a lamp behind it that looks like a head.
“The only thing out of place was that Sycamore was sitting perfectly upright in the middle of the carpet, but I was so tired I assumed that I’d heard him growling at dreams and went back to bed.
“With the seal off, so to speak, we spent more and more nights there. We were already investing the majority of our evenings tag teaming plumbing, or hoisting hammers, so why leave?
“When we first, uh, made love in the old house, I later awoke thinking I heard Selena crying. I actually prodded her until she responded with a clearly still sleeping “no.”
“It happened again the next night, then everything went smoothly for about a week.”
“The calm before the s##t storm,” said Bunny, through a mouthful of fluffy batter.
“Yeah, then the screaming started. I couldn’t see where it was coming from, it just chased me from the sheets, then around the house. I kind of stopped when I was rampaging along the hallway for a second loop, because – well, it’s incredibly terrifying, but after a bit you lose steam when you can’t see the source of your panic.
“Selena, wearing only my stained work t-shirt, comes running, and suddenly she’s slapped across the face, hard. It kept going, like someone clapping to count time, and then gained momentum into a hail storm.
“I’d never seen her cry before.
“I followed her through the door, but she was in her car and on the street before I could catch up. Her place was close enough to walk, but it was cold, so I decided to risk going back inside to pull something on. Besides, I needed to get Sycamore.
“Everything was silent when I re-entered. I whistled for the dog, but he didn’t come. I found him in the living room again, sitting at attention.
“The call came before I was done packing. Everything had changed for me in the moment I’d seen Selena with that dog treat, and everything had changed for her in the moment she’d been chased from the house by an invisible hurricane. She was clearly having difficulty making sense of what had happened, but it seemed to her that it was my fault.
“While I was sitting there at the edge of the bed, crying, I heard laughter. I knew that giggle. Without even realizing I’d fully accepted all of the implications, I started a screaming match with a ghost.
“‘How could you do this?’
“‘How could you? I’m dead!’ she shrieks back.
“‘You had it easy, I was the one who had to keep living” – and on and on.
“At some point the door slammed shut, and I somehow fury’d myself to sleep.
“The alarm clock woke me for work, and I went in on automatic. Tried texting Selena, but she ignored it. I ignored the ignoring by staring at reports. I went home.
“While I was watching Sycamore sniff around the backyard I heard Arlene say, ‘I’m sorry.’
“That was – I dunno, three months ago? Since then it’s just been crying, every night. Sometimes it’s me, sometimes it’s her. I’d like to try and reach out to Selena again. I miss her – but at the same time, the woman I loved, whatever is left of her, is somewhere in that house. I swear, some nights the bed shifts with her weight.
“I want to move on. I want her to move on. I just feel so guilty.”
Washing away the pancake crumbs with a deep pull of coffee, Bunny said, “in a situation like this, it’s really nobody’s fault. You can’t blame Selena for running off after getting in a one-sided slap fight with Sue Richards, and you can’t blame Arlene for being pissed she’s been trapped in your empty living room until you started f##king another lady in her bed – but you also can’t blame yourself. You didn’t know she was lingering around until she was furious enough to get all Amityville about s##t.
“We think your ex-wife needs to date and we know just the fellow. He’s also into Law & Order and cuddling. He currently has a thing for a lady named Laila, but all you sentimental motherf##kers have the same problem: You need to learn to move on.
“Actually, Laila’ll probably be looking for a new place soon, you should meet her. You might make a nice couple.”
In unveiling her solution, Bunny did not delve into the complicated game of telephone that was communication between the dead. Adding to Dougie’s sense of guilt would not get him any closer to moving, which was clearly the opening step.
In the end, Holloway agreed acting as dating coach to his dead wife was worth at least a nicely pawnable ratchet set, and Coffin had to nod in agreement.
Matchmaking was not his usual sort of work, but rent was due.
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Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode four hundred and fourteen.
Tonight, Will Coffin, urban shaman, and Bunny, his vodka-dependent apprentice, encounter the strange tale of Laila Hamilton, wife and secret nuzzler.
It was chill as Coffin stepped onto his balcony, and the leaf husks of the philodendron that Bunny had attempted to grow, a month earlier, rattled in the wind.
Had he been neglectful in not making more appearances? No, he told himself, he’d simply been busy – but, then, Sandy had also been busy once.
His dead wife, on the pavement eighteen floors below, grunted.
Rolling his shoulders, Will asked, “how’s the afterlife?”
There was a long pause before Sandy’s shattered jaw murmured, “you always were terrible at small talk,” into the unyielding cement.
“Must be going well if you’re not even trying to murder me,” he replied.
Silence, then, “you’re not worth the effort,”
“Huh,” said Will, but he couldn’t help but crack a smile. There were many reasons to fear Sandy’s apparition, but her skill at delivering the cold shoulder was not one of them.
Coffin leaned over the railing. She could have heard him whisper, even at that height, and the slab walls and platform of the balcony echoed with her every crush-lunged breath. Nonetheless, he squinted through the bitter wind to make out her twisted form.
He counted a dozen skipping inhalations, and a dozen moist and whistling exhalations, before she gave up her hush.
At another time he probably would have just invented something. The matters he conveyed were trivial at best: He could easily fake calls on the two birthdays he’d missed and stitch those falsehoods with the same old arguments Sandy’s family were constantly re-chewing – but he didn’t.
Things were changing. She’d always been so sure when she’d worn the jacket and held the chain, and he envied it.
He knew, however, that her certainty had also been her downfall.
“I’ve been too busy to call around. I’m sorry,” he said. It was a vague sort of statement, and intentionally so.
With the dragging effort of a winded marathoner, Sandy’s left arm, the bones at her wrist projecting through her torn skin, rose, and her palm set its heel firmly on the pavement. She began to drag her motionless legs towards the apartment block’s foundation.
“Too occupied with your new sidekick?” she asked.
“The ogre’s amok out west, the city seems to be overrun with Kar’Wickians, and someone’s dispatching ghosts without my assistance.”
“Which one am I supposed to be able to help with?” she asked, as the fingernails of her right hand came loose on a particularly jagged ridge of mason work. Yet still she climbed.
“None,” he answered, and, as she scaled the second through fifth floor, he recapped his encounter with Laila Hamilton.
When he’d completed his recitation, she asked, “didn’t you say there were Kar’Wickians in the city?”
“Didn’t you say the ogre was up and the dead were going missing?”
“Why are you working this thing then?”
It was his turn to fall quiet.
At the twelfth floor he changed the subject.
“You understand what I need then?”
“Yeah,” replied Sandy, not stopping in her attempt to scale the building and murder her former husband.
“Sandy, I’m sorry,” he said.
“So you’ve said,” she replied.
“It was for your own good,” he said.
“So you’ve said,” she repeated.
With a gap where her front teeth should have been, she bit her lip, then continued. “Don’t get weak kneed now, you put that jacket on yourself. If you were going to start second guessing I would’ve appreciated if it happened before I landed.
“Will, if you can’t handle this business pass it on and join me at the bottom.”
There was a pause then, and suddenly her ascent stopped. Her decades-old plunge played itself back at triple speed, and she once again returned to her place of rest.
“Go buy some belated birthday cards and I’ll ask around,” she concluded.
He turned, eagerly pawing at the sliding screen with chilled fingers.
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Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode four hundred and thirteen.
Laila Hamilton was maybe thirty. Black hair clipped down to a stout Afro, but otherwise left to its own means. She was nearly in tears, but she kept her chin tight and the tension mostly in her hands.
It wasn’t the sort of job Will Coffin would normally take on, but rent was due even if the mystical seams of the city seemed to be coming undone around him.
Bunny, his currently sober roommate and apprentice, had also insisted.
“I’d hate-ta ####in’ see you have to offer up the tight jeans treatment to the guy at the front office,” she’d explained while offering no financial support of her own.
The bored looking kid in too-much eyeliner poured their coffees and pulled a notepad from his Denny’s apron.
“Can I get you something to eat?” he asked.
“More ####ing napkins,” answered Bunny, her eyes on the wrung and torn serviette the client was working over with both clenched hands.
Snapping his pad shut in a way that conveyed as much obscenity as anything that drifted out of Bunny’s mouth, the waiter departed.
“What do you want to know? Can’t you just go over and fix it?” the woman asked the shredded tissue before her.
“There’s a process,” said Coffin. “For example, what exactly do you plan on using to pay for -”
Bunny cleared her throat, blotting out the statement, and replaced it with, “start barfing from the beginning and tell us everything that happened.”
Nodding, Laila took a breath, held it, exhaled. “I like to watch old Law and Order episodes as I’m falling asleep. They’re constantly running on one of the deep cable channels, and there’s something homey to them. I know they were old even then, but my Dad always had them on when I was a kid dozing on the couch.
“Anyhow, my husband, Orlando, he’s not such a fan. He’s not much of a fan of anything these days, really. I keep it way down, and I set a timer so the TV isn’t blathering uselessly into the dark, but Orlando still moved the set over to my side of the bed so I could turn it down a couple more notches.
“It’s a queen-sized mattress, but he only uses the lip of the distant edge.
“If I thought he’d bother coming closer if I kept the thing off I’d go to bed in silence, but he was sleeping way over there well before I started allowing myself a little murder in the evenings.”
Will was surprised to see the server return with a stack of fresh napkins, and the trio paused as he laid them on the table.
He did not hover, he simply laid the stack at Laila’s fingertips and said, “let me know if you need me.”
To Coffin’s eye it appeared this small act of kindness pushed Laila as much towards tears as anything she’d related so far in her story.
The tale continued.
“There have been a few nights in the last couple years when Orlando drifts across the bed. I get my hopes up that it’s the sparking of something new, but usually he’s just looking for a bit of pokin’ and proddin’, then he’s back to snoring on the opposite end of the continent.
“Maybe a month ago, the Law is done and the Order has arrived. They’re trying to figure how they can bust a murderous grandmother despite having their best evidence thrown out, and I’m fighting to stay awake for the conclusion. You know how it is: You’re so tired you don’t even realize you should simply give in and be unconscious. I’ve got half my face buried in the pillow and I’m spending more time focused on keeping my eyelids cracked than the jury’s reactions to closing arguments.
“I was sort of drifting in and out of it, missing snippets and then catching myself dozing, and I remember thinking it was really nice that Orlando had come to hold me. When we were kids that’s how we curled-up, his arm on my belly and his leg over mine.
“That’s when I realized there was no one there: I could feel the weight on my stomach and thigh over the blanket, but I could hear Orlando wheezing at his usual distance.
“You’re dreaming, I told myself, then I fell asleep.”
There was a pause as a fresh napkin began to suffer.
“It happened again maybe a week and a half later, but – well, I’d been thinking about it a bit, but I couldn’t make up my mind as to if I’d been imagining the whole thing.
“That second time, I kept my eyes closed, but I let my palm drift over the blanket to where I could feel the heft – and there was something there. Not a hand, only a chill spot. I lay like that for maybe a half hour, no longer near sleep but not sure what to do next. Then the weight disappeared, and the cold too.
“It happened again the next night, and the next. If I snuggled into the feeling, it would shift against me, but moving my arm would leave me with nothing more than frosty goosebumps. Every now and then I’d brush up against something though – my guest seemed to get more solid as the visits went on.
“A week later I awoke holding no one, and it was nice.”
“Slow workin’ Casanova of a #### monster?” asked Bunny.
The question was aimed at Coffin, but it was Laila who replied.
“I – I Googled some things before Martin gave me your names. If it’s a sexy demon type it’s not really showing it. I couldn’t find any good cuddle beasts, online, that matched the profile though.
“That’s why I’m here.”
Coffin nodded. It wasn’t the sort of job he’d normally take on, but rent was due.
FP398 – Understanding: a Blackhall Tale, Part 1 – The Maiden
Posted on September 3, 2014 by jrdskinner | Leave a comment
Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode three hundred and ninety-eight.
Tonight we present Understanding: a Blackhall Tale, Part 1 – The Maiden
This week’s episodes are brought to you by The Melting Potcast
Tonight we present an occult fairy tale of sorts, as we enter an ancient forest to happen upon a bloody scene and an abandoned child.
Understanding: a Blackhall Tale, Part 1 – The Maiden
Centuries ago, during the dark times, in a village whose name died with its last progeny, there was a girl of round face and bright eyes. Her mother had not survived her labour, and her father died, moments thereafter, of a despairing jump while attached to a short rope.
Though orphans were not uncommon, the deceased parents had been well liked, and the tales told around their demise struck the community at large as particularly shocking.
The arrival of Nona the Seer an hour after the culmination of events simply reinforced the tragedy. Nona had overseen the majority of successful births in the loose confederation of hamlets that made up the bairn’s home, but ill weather that had kept the midwife from plying her simple magics and root craft at the delivery – or even providing a calming leaf to chew, and thus sustain the mourning father through his grief.
It is for these reasons, perhaps, that Nona lifted the babe from her abandoned swaddling, cut her tie to her dead mother, and carried her into the dusk.
Some frowned upon the woman acquiring a ward, as it went against the nature of her station, but those who complained were equally often hushed with a reminder that the Seer’s bony wrists seemed ever-more frail at each visit, and that even she could not live forever – and, besides, it was better the girl fill the station rather than their own kin.
The Seer’s position was enshrined in regional tradition. It was held solely by a woman of arcane knowledge and occult training – and, though she would be entrusted with the gathered secrets of the people she served, she must treat each nursling as her own, and thus never give birth herself.
According to proper telling, as passed from parent to child by fireside, the title befell only a virgin.
It was obvious by the girl’s eleventh year, however, that this was not entirely true.
Life with Nona was a life on the road. Many was the night that they slept in humbly offered rough-timbered barns, and for the first four of the foundling’s years she was sustained on naught but goat’s milk. To Nona’s thinking each step between visits was an opportunity to collect reagents, and there was not a bush she would not pry apart, nor thistle she would not ransack, to fill the sacks hung diagonally across her chest by a trio of belts.
Though none were labelled, Nona’s fingers never seemed to misstep when contriving a poultice or tincture.
It was the girl’s own education, and slow memorization of where each ingredient lay, that made clear that her mentor sometimes imbibed the same concoction provided to daughters who’d planted a seed too early.
Discretion, however, was also a large part of the girl’s schooling, and so she said nothing regarding her discovery.
Before long the thin-limbed lass whose wide brown eyes seemed to reflect an unflinching depth beyond a natural understanding was known simply as the Maiden.
She was taught the reading of runes, palms, and leaves; balms for rashes and burns; the skill, simpler in those times, of starting a flame with naught but a thought and a few arcane gestures. Her curiosity was insatiable, and, in those endless hours awaiting a delivery or the breaking of a fever, she would inquire after the traditions and superstitions of her hosts.
None refused the Maiden the words whispered by their grandmothers to halt bleeding, cease drunkenness, or cure an aching head.
Many were the maladies of the era that were incurable by prayer or patience, the dominant medicines of the time, and in a decade and a half few were the families who could not claim some assistance by “Nona and her Maiden.”
All – having conveyed some otherwise secret knowledge to the girl – felt some kinship, and even ownership, in regards to the child. Her cheeks were pinched, and her head patted, well beyond a reasonable age for such.
Many imparted the same wisdom in her ear: “Someday you too shall be like Old Nona, second mother to each one of us, and our grandchildren shall be your grandchildren. Tradition says it is so.”
It was Nona who first spoke against her, though they all soon followed.
On the evening of her sixteenth birthday she’d snuck from the birthing room of Adela Rose’s eighth child, and called Adela’s eldest, Marcus, to her side. The boy was but two months her elder, though she’d tended him through an infected broken arm at twelve. She’d held some fondness for him since.
Despite the number, the birth was no quick affair, and the girl and boy had often found excuses to stand close in the quiet heat of the kitchen while the focus was elsewhere.
The mess of the process was not enough to quench the desire pulling at her bones, and it was only noisily amongst the wheat that she finally mastered her need.
Marcus put up a noble attempt at future interest, but the girl had never known a stationary life, and her lust had been kindled on the farmhand’s shoulders, not his mind. He’d seemed just as relieved as she at her departure, hours later, and she thought nothing but kind thoughts of the incident until the day she grew suspicious at her own lack of blooding, a regular reality since the age of fourteen.
She herself had provided the diagnosis often enough to know the cause, but kept the insight to herself through another birthing, a leg amputation, and the lifting of a shaman’s curse.
It was after the extraction of this last, a wolf daemon bound to a woodsman of notorious temper, that the girl let slip her secret.
Nona had selected a field in which to camp beneath the clear stars, and the fire was there but for illumination, not warmth. The spirit had been pulled from its home with much howling, and the shattering of the woodsman’s jaw. Ignoring the blood and tears, the women had driven the phantasm forth, ending its victims unintentional string of homicides – though not before the man had left his own family shredded amongst their bedding.
All told, the girl had thought her own troubles slight in comparison, and it was in this light that she had spoken – and why not? She had reckoned herself a match in intellect and skill to any in the area but perhaps Nona, and she had undertaken matters both physical and metaphysical that would likely ruin the psyche of the farmers and petty merchants she served.
“The traditions!” Nona had replied. “Well, all is not lost. I will mix you up a snifter, and you’ll soon be fit for the position once again.”
“Damn the traditions,” the girl had replied. “I did not ask for this position, but my sole request is a child of my own.”
It was the single time she defied the woman, but it was enough.
There was no solution in the hours of argument that followed, and the news soon grew that the pair had split.
Within weeks there came to be no door friendly to the girl’s plight, and if it was a barn’s comfort she sought she had to be sure to depart before the cock’s crow.
On those few occasions when she was not quick enough, or on which a response might be made to her knocking, the answer for the source of their cruelty was always the same: “There was a tradition to be maintained.”
The girl, however, refused to yield her child.
Under a half moon, on the banks of a glass-surfaced creek, she attended her own birthing, and yet she cut the child’s cord with as firm a hand as she cut her ties with the name of Maiden.
In ten months’ time she was well upon the road, Nona buried of a broken heart, and the county decimated by a plague without a healer in place to check it.
Soon she was known by but one, and he called her simply Mother.
Coffin’s theme is Quinn’s Song: A New Man, by Kevin MacLeod of http://incompetech.com/
Posted in Blackhall, Flash Pulp
Tagged fiction, frontier, occult, podcast, The Maiden
FP396 – The Weeping Woman: a Blackhall Tale, Part 3 of 3
Posted on August 26, 2014 by jrdskinner | Leave a comment
Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode three hundred and ninety-six.
Tonight we present The Weeping Woman: a Blackhall Tale, Part 3 of 3
This week’s episodes are brought to you by Earth Station One
Tonight, Thomas Blackhall, master frontiersman and student of the occult, finds himself in an unlikely conversation, with a fairy woman and a deaf man, on the lonely banks of the Malhousen River.
The Weeping Woman: a Blackhall Tale, Part 3 of 3
Blackhall’s limbs were heavy with memory and heartache as he pulled himself over the side of the tiny rowboat, yet the banshee’s song of tears would not relent.
It took Wyatt’s guiding hand to keep the frontiersman on course through the fog of sentiment that pooled on his cheeks, but it was not a distant journey to the stone on which she perched, head in hands.
A sleek limbed figure in a dress of archaic form, she looked as if a village girl lost some two-hundred years – it was only the bolt of anguish that accompanied each convulsion of her shoulders that marked her as otherwise.
The sound of Thomas’ knees collapsing upon the wet sand drew her gaze, and the curve of her brow betrayed her surprise at their arrival.
Still, though her eyes were red with use, the banshee’s spine braced, and chin stiffened, at the intrusion.
“Is this what it’s come to,” she asked her damp palms, “the hayseeds have rallied to accost me like some whisky-tongued roustabout?”
Her hushed tone broke the weight of emotion upon Blackhall’s spine, however, allowing him to push to the surface of his grief.
While he could, he said, “not at all – though they do worry over what your despair portends. If hearing the sobbing of a banshee signals death, what then, they must wonder, does it mean for one of your kind to weep so long and so deeply? No doubt they believe the entire township is on the verge of depopulation by plague.”
“Always for you, always for you, damnable humans,” she replied, but her whisper was low enough to let him to stand without aid. “Why should I worry over their lot? The white-collar yonder has launched a multitude of prayerful curses in my direction: First wishing me away, then requesting my obliteration.
“Where is his concern for my anxieties? Does he not consider that I too may seek succor, or at least simple understanding?”
Desperate to be clear of the unblinking memory of Mairi’s slack face, Blackhall nodded, replying, “I’m sure the Father means well, but ‘tis an easy lesson to forget that charity means considering the flow of hard nature, and not just the metaphysical.”
Wyatt, unsure of how to add to the conversation, removed his hat and took a seat upon a tumbled log as if welcomed into any mundane stranger’s parlour. In truth, it was this act more than any of Thomas’ words that brought the banshee’s tone some patience.
“For five hundred years,“ she said, “I watched every birth and burial the Ó Braonáin family undertook. I wept silent tears of joy at the arrival of every bairn, and wailed a warning at the death of every drowned fisherman or tottering grandmother. I chased them from farm to salt and back again a dozen times, and never once did I fail in my craft.
“Yet this is where it ends. I followed the last transplanted branch of the clan over sea and up river. I watched his every struggling effort, and shared his joy at the hope that comes at a new start, even if it means a sore back and tired arms. Still, his fate was nothing more than a growth in his belly, and a moaning death before he might take wife and renew the line in this fresh soil.
“Now it is he who was planted: A year dead in the ground, buried under Father Stroud’s guidance.”
Her tone was thick but controlled, allowing Thomas to ask, “do you feel they treated the last of the Ó Braonáins unfairly?”
“No more than any else,” she answered, “- but what of me? Where should I go? What do I have? There is no one left to watch over, no one left to mourn. I can feel the drain of the occult from this world, yet I can not bring myself to despair any further.
“It would have been better to wither at home, where at least I knew the stones upon which I’d rot.”
Her gaze was locked on Thomas, as if he might have an answer, and, while her lips refused to tremble, he could see the pain of five-hundred-years of loneliness.
However, though he could but make out half her words, it was Wyatt who replied first.
“I spend most evenings in cloistered silence,” said the deaf man, his throat tight, “but I would be most pleased to come calling across the brook, or wherever else you might wish to meet. I have little to offer beyond lopsided conversation, but I would be happy to share my letters from beyond, and perhaps a taste of my dandelion wine, should you be so inclined. Moreover, if you have the patience to tell it to a man who needs much repeating, I would glory in the tales you’ve no doubt collected in your time on watch. There is no reason the Ó Braonáin line you knew can not live on in story.”
His words echoed Thomas’ thoughts. It was a temporary solution at best, but Blackhall knew that any lifeline was better than none to lungs and heart drowning in depression.
Nodding, he added, “- and I can no doubt convince the parish that the peace your company offers is worth a handsome payment, Wyatt.”
It was only then that proper introductions were made, but a night’s worth of conversation brought them to many matters: The foibles of men and women long deceased, the idiosyncrasies of penpals from distant lands, and even the seemingly endless march to Mairi.
By the hour at which dawn fell upon the trio, there was naught but laughter.
Tagged audiofic, Fantasy, fiction, occult, podcast
Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode three hundred and ninety-four.
This week’s episodes are brought to you by The P.G. Holyfield Appreciation Dept.
Tonight, Thomas Blackhall, master frontiersman and student of the occult, chases dark portents into a small town on the river’s edge.
On a morning so fierce and dry it made even the greenest timber seem at threat of flaring up from simple exposure, Thomas Blackhall stumbled into the village of Malhousen.
He had been summoned over the mystic aspect of an apparent impending demise.
Malhousen proper was little more than a trading post facing down a small churchyard, but the two dozen families that populated the surrounding rocky lands were on friendly enough terms to call each other neighbour, and the occasional mail delivery seemed to indicate that the government agreed on the designation.
Still, visitors were a rare thing that far off in the bushlands, and there was no public house, nor inn, motel or tavern – as a field-tromping farmer had passed word to Thomas that any with interest enough to make the journey likely did so because they knew someone in the area well enough to board with them.
“If you need a place to stay, though,” the muck-handed man with the broad straw hat had said, “I’m sure a few coins could clean mother’s sewing parlour for the evening.”
The offer had stood as long as it took Blackhall to explain what had brought him.
Strolling beyond the low white fence that separated the churchyard cemetery from non-hallowed turf, Thomas came to the river that had given the town its name, then cast off his gear with the tender concern of a man who’d just spent a full two weeks cursing at its weight.
Retrieving a small pouch from his breast pocket, he lay his great coat across his packs and sat upon the sandy bank to take in the current’s breeze. In time his fingers found a fine Spanish paper and stuffed it with tobacco, then, in more, the sun nuzzled the horizon.
Not being the Sabbath, there seemed to be only the church’s red-faced Scottish priest to glower at the stranger loafing away the afternoon.
At first, as his smoke had chased the water bugs downstream, Blackhall had thought that the cleric was simply the type to disapprove of all outsiders, but, by the hour at which his stomach began to call for supper, Thomas had decided the Scot likely knew why he was at hand, and that the holy man wanted nothing to do with his occult concerns.
It was his thinking that a true busy body could not be content to maintain a distance, but the priest had spent his day at just the distance necessary to be always aware of Blackhall’s position.
As Thomas began to consider what he was carrying that might appease his complaining appetite, a man exited from the trading post, walked the short breadth of its porch, then joined him on the riverbank via the fence-side route.
“I apologize,” said the prematurely-graying newcomer. “I’m Wyatt, the man who requested your presence. I would’ve joined you earlier, yet – well, you may’ve noted that business is sluggish, but what customers I receive depend on the regularity of my habits.
“I should also mention that my ears aren’t of much use. Though I could hear till my eighteenth year, they’re long gone now. It makes me poor conversation, as I talk too much about nothing and with little response. I’ve some skill at reading lips, but there are few here who will allow me to practice. They have fields to till and cows to slaughter, I suppose.”
“You’re sole occupation is running the store?” asked Blackhall, his words slow and clear.
The man raised his brow.
“The store?” repeated Thomas, his fingers waving in the squat shack’s direction.
“Oh, I act as middleman between those who grow beats and those who grow potatoes. The potato men come to me for their beats, the beat men come to me for their potatoes, and I make barely enough between them to taste either.
“In addition, the same boatman who collects the post brings up a selection of needles and dry goods that I resell. Despite my deafness I hear complaints over even that tiny profit.”
Blackhall nodded, and the shop keep smiled to have a friendly ear.
“The truth,” he continued, “is that I receive a child’s treatment because of my conversational difficulties. You’ve been a kind audience, but those who care for anything beyond inquiring about carrot seed often grow loud, which is a body posture as much as a tone, and neuter their language to a level more appropriate for a mush-headed bairn.
“It is usually those same folks who can’t scratch their own names, and thus can’t simply write out their orders and questions for prompt service.”
“It must be a lonely life,” Blackhall repeated until the man caught his meaning.
“It’s the postal counter that most keeps me in place,” replied Wyatt. “I’ve made a tangle of friends across the globe with those simple scraps of paper, and I collect more news than a dozen broadsheet hawkers. It was those same that gave me your name to search out when the matter of the death bringer raised itself.
“Still, as you can perhaps tell, I do long for the simple pleasure of seeing a face react, instead of outwaiting the slow transmission and careful composition of a letter.”
The conversation continued forward in little ways until dusk, but, due to their minor discussion, they did not note the departure of the flame-haired priest on his sagging, silent, pony.
By the time the frogs had begun to sing and dew was forming on the grass, Wyatt and Thomas were no longer alone.
Several men with lanterns, slurring courage and raising enough noise to find each other despite the wobbling of their illumination, began to gather about the white picket fence.
Their filth-kneed pants marked the crowd as farmers, but Thomas could discern nothing more as they took to shouting commands and demanding answers, simultaneously and without deference for his neighbour’s bellowing.
The priest was close behind.
It was as the Father moved to the forefront and raised his arms for silence, however, that there came, from beyond the river, the keening sound of death – a high and jittering wail that was no more dampened by the babble of men and water than would be a bullet.
Then the evening’s trials truly began.
Tagged fantasy fiction, occult, podcast, pulp, story
FP391 – Coffin: Weakness, 6 of 6
Posted on July 24, 2014 by jrdskinner | Leave a comment
Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode three hundred and ninety-one.
Tonight we present Coffin: Weakness, Part 6 of 6
(Part 1 – Part 2 – Part 3 – Part 4 – Part 5 – Part 6)
This week’s episodes are brought to you by Bothersome Things!
Tonight Will Coffin, urban shaman, and Bunny, his roommate and apprentice, find themselves rudely rebutted by a nymph.
Coffin: Weakness, Part 6 of 6
Anger, Will reflected, is supposed to be a young man’s game. No one takes a punk band over fifty seriously, and most aren’t interested in seeing two grandfathers beat each other bloody in a boxing ring – well, more than once.
Yet, here at the edge of Lake Clark, with his boots wet and his eyes grimy from too much worry and too little sleep, Coffin was decidedly angry.
Though he’d tried to convince himself it was having to depend on the pretentious owl to locate Jenny Greenteeth that was the source of his unrest, being so far from home had brought Will to finally admit, at least to himself, that it was the notion that his homicidal dead wife might suddenly be washed away like the spirits of the four drowned cadavers that had him agitated.
The moment of truth did little to better his mood.
Neither did the nymph’s reaction to his demand to surrender.
Her tiny form had surfaced readily enough, but so distant from the shore as to be nothing more than a speck on the horizon.
Jenny’s words had traveled well, however: “Gobble a chode you bloody Tin Star!”
It was also fairly easy to guess which fingers she was waving.
Coffin started to chuckle, and he recognized it as the same dry rattle Sandy had taken on before the end.
He shrugged it off and reached into the black leather satchel slung at his side.
Within lay a jeweled baton, atop which, to his apprentice’s eye, rode a tiny blizzard. The storm seemed held in place by several bands of gold laid across the clouds and snow in thin ribbons.
A flick of the wrist brought a point to the occult tool, its base extending suddenly to the form a staff.
From over his left shoulder, Bunny asked, “what in the Go-Go-Gadget #### is that?”
“The Winter Scepter,” replied Will. “As far as artifacts go, this is actually a fairly recent ancient one. The telescoping does nothing but make it more portable, and it’s just clever metalworking, nothing mystical.
”Watch this though.”
With a firm grip he pinned the water’s edge to the sand below, and the reaction was immediate.
A wave of ice moving at a sprinting dog’s pace began to roll across the surface, and even as practiced a swimmer as Jenny could not outrun its frigid clench.
It was a ten minute walk to the spot at which the nymph waited, her left arm aloft, mid-breaststroke.
“Shoulda brought some ###damn skates,” said Bunny.
Knowing full-well that her song would do nothing against Will’s defenses, Jenny replied, “taste Tartarus, frails.”
There was the rage again, crawling up Coffin’s back and pulling his belly tight. His boot heel twisted in the snow and his fingers dug deeply into his pockets.
Instead of a roar, however, his mouth formed the words, “I’m sorry.”
Both women raised a brow in surprise, but he continued.
“Given your history, trapping you tightly like this isn’t exactly something I’m excited about. I’m not saying you’re justified, but I understand your vendetta.”
The algae upon her chin had begun to frost as Jenny replied, “are you giving a ‘this is going to hurt me more than it is you’ speech? Because it seems easy to be remorseful about how delicious the fish in your net are, and, after the last job I did for him, I’m sure the owl has no more patience for keeping me around.
“Frankly, I would’ve rathered he did it himself, but, that’s never been that dainty fop’s style, so I’ve been left to die at the hands of lice.”
“Actually,” said Coffin, as he leaned low into her vision, “what I do next is going to depend very much on how you answer this question: Were you responsible for the disposal of the phantoms on behalf of the Kar’Wickians, and, if so, how?”
It was the first time Jenny had been in proximity of a non-drowning mundane human in hundreds of years, and she found she missed the other stupid faces the mortals made.
“No, I’d love to drive you mad and claim I made them disappear, but really the spider children’s representative simply passed on that Abe and Tina would ‘clean things up.’”
Standing, Coffin began to stride towards the distant rental car, but stopped to repeat himself.
“I really am sorry.”
Wonder had made the gathered emissaries careless, and it was clear even before he reached the shore that the treeline was brimming with wildlife come to witness his actions – which is why, when Wide Eye confronted him on the beach, the avian lord whispered.
“You let her live!?” he demanded, his four wings in constant motion.
Coffin shrugged. “You were so insistent that the last one was yours to deal with, I figured I’d leave you the pleasure. You’ve got about three minutes before the ice transmutes back to water.”
To Will’s mind the owl, as much as the bird hated acting publicly, could try his luck with Jenny Greenteeth: There were no more questions of secret rituals or unknown magicks or an arcane plague – the shaman finally had names to blame for the spectral disappearances, and now the hunt could truly begin.
He found himself whistling.
Tagged Fantasy, fiction, Flash Pulp, giant owls, murder, nymph, occult, podcast
Welcome to Flash Pulp, episode three hundred and ninety.
Tonight Will Coffin, urban shaman, and Bunny, his roommate and apprentice, discuss the unfortunate history of nymphs.
It was noon, and they were at Denny’s.
“####,” Bunny was saying, around a mouthful of pancake, “so she couldn’t stop doing it? The incubus thing kinda makes sense then, I guess.”
Turning from the window, Coffin winced. “Not a nymphomaniac, a nymph. Way back in the toga days they were a sort of nature spirit who’d live in rivers, streams, tributaries, fjords – basically every wet place you figure’d be worth taking a vacation photo at would have one.
“Generally they manifested as shapely naked ladies, in their early twenties, who’d come ashore to sing and dance when visitors or worshipers arrived, but otherwise they maintained a dwelling within the depths of their swimming pool for privacy.”
Lifting another wad of syrup and batter to her mouth, Bunny asked, “sounds like they’d be pretty popular, so where’d they go?”
“Well, see, the nymphs were pretty into free love. They didn’t need it, like Valentine, but they were, uh, very welcoming to friendly shore-side visitors. The more civilized folks got, though, the less their spouses appreciated it.
“Nymph culture was slow to change, mostly because they were so localized, and their reputation went from something akin to a regional deity to the mess dumped on sex workers.
“I should be clear though: Their interest was really only in natural beauty. They danced because of the elegance of grass swaying in the wind, they rutted on the shore because that’s the way of the wild, and they sang because it called beasts and birds of all shape to their banks and kept them there in peace.
“Still, as things got worse some of them tried to go clean – the lady who supposedly lobbed the sword at Arthur was probably a nymph – but I think they hoped pants and religion were fads.”
“Me too, me too,” answered Bunny.
Will shrugged, taking advantage of the interruption to sip at his coffee. Despite his best efforts to be patient, his eyes wandered to the window.
There was nothing of note in the tightly stuffed parking lot.
Frowning, he continued. “You’re familiar with the old ‘I read it for the articles line’? In those days sneaky husbands and unsatisfied wives would claim they were just ‘going to hear the nymphs sing.’ Maybe that’s what started the trade – whatever the case, there was no Top 40 back then, and the medieval nobles, sick of having their trophy spouses sneak off, began to improvise jukeboxes.
“The real problem was that the nymph’s mystic song couldn’t help but bring a sense of soothing, even if weepily sung after having had their limbs clipped and being entrapped in tiny caskets.
“Now, this isn’t something just anybody would know about, this is the sort of secret treat rich people like to save for their most special guests. You’d be lead into a well sealed room by a deaf servant and your host. and there’d be a decorated box with what looked like a fairly heavy trashcan upside down on top.
“Your host would invite you to lie down on a lounge chair, priming you the whole time about what a wonderful surprise you were about to have, and the servant would lift the iron lampshade to reveal a young woman who’d lay out a tune so lovely it was like taking a mouthful of rave pills.
“When the allotted period was up, the servant would drop the shade. The attendants were also in charge of punishment for lack of performance, but we don’t need to get into the abuses you can inflict on a head in a cabinet.
“Immortality can be a rough gig like that, but even occult beings need to eat.
“In the end they all starved to death.
“Jenny though – Jenny was a fighter. Jenny gave up her home, the hardest thing for her kind, and set herself loose in the wilds; Let her hair grow long and tangled, let the muck of the river bottoms cover her skin, let decay and fish guts cling to her teeth. She hid like that for years, until even the memory of the slaughter of her people was forgotten, and her rage simmered.
“She started trying to avenge herself.”
“#### yeah,” said Bunny, “I’d go Rambo over that #### too.”
Will nodded, but replied, “consider the flip side though: You’re strolling by the river and you hear a whisper. You stop and there’s a woman – or is it a woman? She almost looks like nothing more than a collection of lily pads and stones – a face hovering at the still surface. Maybe you don’t listen at first. Maybe you’ve got a strong aversion to getting wet, maybe you’re smart enough not to talk to entities speaking from ponds, maybe you just have no sense of curiosity.
“Whatever the case, it doesn’t matter, because that slight, cheerless face begins singing, and suddenly everything is beautiful and calm. Suddenly you have no interest but in relaxing in the cool damp. Suddenly you’re drowning.
“Beloved family pets taking a drink, children roaming alone, lovers skinny dipping – anyone that would make others share some of the pain.
”Eventually she gained a new reputation: As a killer. Even the mystical and the immortal need the occasional human disappeared.”
Leaning back to bask in her victory over the forces of dough, Bunny asked, “so she’s some kinda supernatural hitman now?”
“Basically.”
In truth, however, Bunny already knew all this – she’d read the same texts Coffin was reciting from – but, even with his neck-cramping turns to peer out the window, it was the calmest she’d seen him in days.
She did not mention that the tale explained nothing of the missing phantoms.
The real question she wanted answered involved what exactly was in the worn leather messenger bag he’d taken to carrying. Before she might ask, though, a blur of movement to her left caught her attention. Beyond the dusty cream shades six dozen cats sat atop the sea of sun-baked cars.
Noting her gaze, they began to wail.
It was time to go.
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Intel Honeycomb Glacier, Twin River rethink dual screen laptops
JC Torres - May 28, 2019, 11:01 pm CDT
Remember the Microsoft Courier? What was once fodder for the imagination seems to be taking hold of the PC market. While OEMs are not so hasty to jump on the foldable screen train pushed by Samsung, Huawei, and Lenovo, they are, instead seeing some merit in laptops that offer two screens. Or at least one and a half. While not a PC maker itself, Intel invests in building designs that manufacturers will be interested to make for Intel-powered computers. And, according to Intel, those manufacturers seem to very interested indeed, especially in the Honeycomb Glacier dual screen gaming laptop.
Let’ get the Twin River out of the way first. Of the two, this has the most semblance to the unicorn that is the Courier. It has two separate screens that can work together, not unlike the Tiger Rapids that eventually became the Lenovo Yoga Book C930. But unlike the LCD and e-paper display combo, the Twin River prototype has 12.3-inch 1920×1280 LCD touch screens on both sides, wrapped in polyester, polyamide, and lycra fabric.
More than the design, however, The Verge notes how the Twin River’s real centerpiece is the part that no one ever sees. Inside is a 15-watt quad-core Intel U-series processor crammed in a thin, fanless chassis. That’s thanks to some unconventional and super secret design and a thin vapor chamber cooling solution.
The real star of Intel’s Santa Clara lab, however, is the Honeycomb Glacier prototype. AT first glance, it might look like the newly announced ASUS ZenBook Pro Duo, with a second screen occupying the upper half of the keyboard space. But thanks to some, again super secret, mechanisms, the Honeycomb Glacier is able to lift its primary 15.6-inch 1080p screen to eye level and also raise the 12.3-inch 1820×720 secondary screen at an angle.
The primary purpose of this design is to save the user’s neck and back by not requiring them to hunch over the keyboard to see and use the second lower screen. It also has a neat special trick thanks to Tobii Eye Tracking where it can automatically switch between the two screens at a literal glance, no Alt=Tab necessary. In theory, you can have your game displayed on top and Twitch at the bottom and switch fluidly and seamless between the two just by looking at one or the other screen.
The odd design also brings another benefit. As a gaming laptop, it naturally needs to have big muscles to power the experience, in this case a 45-watt octa-core Intel CPU with an NVIDIA GeForce 1060. Most laptops will have to settle for two cooling fans but the Honeycomb Glacier can do with just one fan thanks to the custom cooling the extra space underneath the hinge.
Drool-worthy as these prototypes may be, they will not matter much if no manufacturer bites. Intel says it has never seen a prototype generate so much interest as the Honeycomb Glacier has. Whether that will also appeal to buyers, however, is a bigger question and the answer will depend on how much they will have to pay for a piece of the future.
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On October 22, Paula England, Professor of Sociology from New York University, will provide some insight into that question, as part of the Department of Sociology’s Balakrishnan Distinguished Lecture in Population Dynamics and Inequality.
Relying on US data from the last 50 years, England will investigate what the trends are in the gender gap in pay, women’s employment, and segregation in employment fields.
“On all indicators, pay and segregation, while there is continued progress, the speed of progress has slowed down from what it was in the 1970s and 80s,” said England.
There are still large gender gaps in employment rates, which jobs people are in, and pay, which England will explore in detail during the lecture.
The changes that have occurred have come through a change in women’s roles, for example whether they are employed and working in traditionally “male” jobs, much more than through a change in men’s roles, England said.
“Women have increased their employment much more than men have reduced theirs,” said England. “If it was really a two-sided thing, we would find that for every woman entering work force, a man dropped out, but has not really happened.”
Another big change has been the desegregation of certain occupations, which has occurred primarily through women moving into male dominated fields as opposed to men moving into female dominated fields.
England points out that for some population groups, there has been some improvement in relative status for women in the past decades because men’s employment rates or wages went down. Among less educated males, those with no more education than high school, for example, there has been a decline in employment and earnings.
Less educated men are less likely to be employed than more educated men, and we see the same thing for women.
“There is a real education gradient that goes the opposite way most people think,” said England. “Many people think women working most are working-class women, but they are actually employed less than well-educated women, even though the latter have richer husbands.”
England said subsidized child care centres would be one way to address this situation, and help improve employment rates for poorer women.
“Less educated women may be less employed, as they can’t really make enough to bring home much after they pay for childcare costs,” England said.
England will provide evidence that progress toward gender equality has stalled on many indicators. “It may be that we picked the low hanging fruit decades ago. Somethings were easy to change, and we got progress, but now what’s left is more difficult,” said England. “When starting from a huge gap, it may be that you can first get rid of the most obvious and blatant discrimination, but harder to get rid of more subtle discrimination.”
“It certainly makes clear that it’s not the case that once you start the gender revolution, finishing it is automatic,” said England, “because sometimes progress does stall out.”
England will present her lecture on Monday, October 22 at 3 pm in Conron Hall, University College 3110.
Paula England is Professor of Sociology, Silver Professor of Arts and Science, and Director of Graduate Studies, at New York University. England has received the Jessie Bernard Award for Distinguished Scholarship on Gender, a Distinguished Career Award from the American Sociological Association’s Family Section, and the 2015 Harriet Presser award for research on gender and demography from the Population Association of America. She was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2018.
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SSI donated a pharmacy vaccine refrigerator to the Asylum Seeker Centre (ASC), so that the centre can provide free vaccines to those asylum seekers who are not covered by Medicare.
During a meeting convened by Refugee Health and attended by David Keegan, SSI Manager Humanitarian Services, it was revealed that some groups of asylum seekers did not have access to important vaccinations, such as immunisations for children.
Immunisations prevent disease and can save lives.
This group included people who had recently arrived to seek asylum and those who appealing decisions.
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Simon Shahin: The road from Syria to Australia
From the first day I arrived in Australia, it felt like home. Everyone gets homesick sometimes, but if you have goals and dreams, it constantly drives you forward and takes your mind off the past.
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Former Sheffield United star calls for armed police at football matches after Jack Grealish attack
A former Sheffield United star has said he wants to see armed police officers at football matches after Aston Villa star Jack Grealish was attacked during a game.
By Darren Burke
Former Blades ace and ex-Wales international David Cotterill says armed officers should be drafted in in the wake of yesterday’s incident which saw Grealish struck in the face by a Birmingham City supporter.
Aston Villa player Jack Grealish attacked by Birmingham City fan during game
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“It’s a disgrace; very dangerous for the players because the pitch invader could have had a weapon or anything really, we need to stamp down on this as soon as possible,” he told BBC Radio Wales.
“The guy who ran on the pitch has gone there to cause havoc, not watch the football.
“We need more security. I am not condoning guns at games but if the police are going to be armed, I think that is the way forward.
“It needs to be top-end stuff, the players need protecting more than anything else.
“Otherwise we are heading back to where we were years ago with giant fences… and that isn’t good for anyone who wants to enjoy the game.”
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Comburg Abbey
Comburg, Germany
Comburg was a Benedictine monastery founded in the late 1070s by the Counts of Comburg-Rothenburg on the site of their castle. The first monks were from Brauweiler Abbey, but in the 1080s an abbot from Hirsau Abbey was appointed, and this brought Comburg into the movement of the Hirsau Reforms.
The monks of Comburg were exclusively of noble birth, and accordingly resisted the Benedictine reforms of the 15th century, under the pressure of which the monastery became a collegiate foundation in 1488, rather than admit non-nobles to the community.
In 1587 Comburg was mediatised by Württemberg, which brought to an end its status as an Imperial abbey.
The community was secularised in 1803. The library survives in the Württemberg State Library, but the church treasure was melted down in the Ludwigsburg mint.
The buildings have had a number of uses since then. Until 1909 a regiment of invalid soldiers was based here. During World War II the site was used for a variety of training purposes and also at one point as a prisoner of war camp. After the war it was used briefly for housing displaced persons, but since 1947 it has housed a teacher training establishment.
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Coagulation Abnormalities
Abnormality of Coagulation
PRINCIPAL FINDINGS: In the present work, we demonstrate a consistent procoagulant profile on 40 reactional and non-reactional multibacillary leprosy patients.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Abstract A 6-year-old male patient presented with Budd-Chiari syndrome and glycoprotein abnormalities associated with carbohydrate deficient glycoprotein syndrome type I with yet unidentified molecular defect (type Ix).[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
In one of these, abnormalities frequently found in association with acute hepatic failure were present. Disseminated intravascular coagulation was noted in two, while in the fourth child laboratory data were most consistent with that process.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The aim of the present work was to study some coagulation parameters in the Egyptian children with type 1 Gaucher disease. Five newly diagnosed patients and another 5 patients on enzyme replacement therapy (ERT) were enrolled in the study.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Collection includes both citations and many full-text, downloadable documents from mid-1900s to present. AULIMP - Air University Library Index to Military Periodicals.[dtic.mil]
Massive Splenomegaly
Abstract In type 1 Gaucher disease a bleeding tendency occurs which is partly caused by thrombocytopenia due to massive splenomegaly. In addition, low levels of factors IX and XI have been described.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Entire Body System
Bleeding disorders in Gaucher disease are believed to be due to thrombocytopenia but there may be additional factors that influence coagulation and fibrinolysis in Gaucher disease patients.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Thus, severe disorders of the coagulation system occur in Gaucher disease, contributing to the bleeding tendency.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Hematological
However, the main signs include: unexplained and easy bruising heavy menstrual bleeding frequent nosebleeds excessive bleeding from small cuts or an injury bleeding into joints Schedule an appointment with your doctor right away if you have one or more[healthline.com]
Symptoms include easy bruising, bleeding in small cuts that stops and starts, abnormal bleeding after surgery, and abnormally heavy menstrual bleeding.[medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]
We report the case of a 26-year-old woman suffering from borderline personality disorder (BPD), major depression and bulimia nervosa according to DSM-IV who showed unexplained impairment of the vitamin K-dependent coagulation pathway.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
[…] and other hemorrhagic conditions D69.0 Allergic purpura D69.1 Qualitative platelet defects D69.2 Other nonthrombocytopenic purpura D69.3 Immune thrombocytopenic purpura D69.4 Other primary thrombocytopenia D69.42 Congenital and hereditary thrombocytopenia[icd10data.com]
Cancer patients may also suffer from the impediment of hemolytic uremic syndrome or thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (HUS/TTP).[als-journal.com]
Bleeding Disorders SPONTANEOUS - petechiae, purpura, mucous membranes, GI bleeding, hematuria, into joint spaces EXCESSIVE - after trauma or surgery - range is from lethal diseases (factor VIII deficiency, Bernard-Soulier's, Glanzmann's) to asymptomatic[slideshare.net]
If there is suspicion for thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura, ask the lab or your hematologist to look for fragmented red cells (schistocytes) on peripheral blood smear.[pulmccm.org]
If the smear shows signs of hemolysis (fragmented RBCs on smear, decreasing Hb level), thrombotic thrombocytopenic purpura (TTP) or hemolytic-uremic syndrome (HUS) is suspected.[msdmanuals.com]
Face, Head & Neck
As the platelet counts are usually 50x10 9 L -1 there is an increased incidence of bruising, epistaxis and gingival bleeding. Treatment aims at increasing platelet count.[frca.co.uk]
INCREASED VASCULAR FRAGILITY seldom serious skin bruises, dependent petechiae, gum bleeding, hematuria, nosebleeds, GI bleeds. Infections - damage endothelium Amyloidosis Collagen problems Immune-complex deposition in vessel walls 7.[slideshare.net]
Platelet Aggregation Abnormal
In 2 patients (5.1%) with TSC and platelet aggregation abnormalities, the authors noted normal standard screening laboratory studies and an uneventful detailed personal and family history.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The treatment of the two conditions is very different.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
An understanding of the mechanisms involved in coagulation and thrombosis is valuable in choosing from the increasing treatment options available.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Pre-treatment aPTT and PT were prolonged in 42% and 38% of patients, respectively. In 30-60% serious deficiencies ( 50%) of coagulation factors XI, XII, VII, X, V and II were observed.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
The incidence of bleeding at 130 days of treatment with capecitabine was 18% with warfarin versus 2% without (P 4 x 10(-13)).[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Despite inhomogeneities in reported parameters, results, patients' collectives, and treatment strategies, these data suggest that coagulation abnormalities may play an important role in the emergence of osteonecrosis and bone marrow edema syndrome.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
While the chapters discuss definitions, pathophysiology, clinical course, complications, and prognosis, the primary emphasis is devoted to patient management.[books.google.com]
Predicting the prognosis of chronic liver disease: an evolution from child to MELD. Mayo end-stage liver disease. Hepatology 2001; 33: 473-5. 8.Garrison RN, Cryer HM, Howard DA, Polk HC.[pacificejournals.com]
Additional therapeutic efforts, like administration of heparin or antifibrinolytic drugs, have failed to improve the prognosis of patients with severe coagulation abnormalities.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Prognosis The prognosis for patients with mild forms of coagulation disorders is normally good. Many people can lead a normal life and maintain a normal life expectancy.[medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com]
Prognosis The prognosis for individuals with mild forms of coagulation disorders is normally good. Many people can lead normal lives and achieve normal life expectancy.[healthofchildren.com]
The etiology probably involves successive vascular occlusions, in which hypercoagulable disorders may play a role. We evaluated the etiologic role of thrombophilia in Legg-Calvé-Perthes disease in a pediatric population.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Thirteen etiologies were identified as possible factors for the emergence of secondary osteonecrosis, and 1 study describes cases of osteonecrosis and M Perthes (Table 2 ). 46 Table 2: Etiologic Factors for Secondary Osteonecrosis Localization of Osteonecrosis[healio.com]
The etiology of this coagulation abnormality remains unclear. There are 3 mechanisms currently under discussion: activation of coagulation, activation of fibrinolysis and an increased activity of specific leucocyte proteases.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Escherichia coli O157:H7 and the hemolytic uremic syndrome: importance of early cultures in establishing the etiology. J Infect Dis 1990 ;162: 553 - 556 3. Tsai HM, Chandler WL, Sarode R, et al.[nejm.org]
Acute upper gastrointestinal bleeding in patients with liver cirrhosis and in noncirrhotic patients: epidemiology and predictive factors of mortality in a prospective multicenter population-based study.[pacificejournals.com]
Von Willebrand disease (VWD) VWD is the most common hereditary bleeding disorder with, according to epidemiological studies, an estimated prevalence worldwide as high as 1 to 2% in the general population [ 5 - 7 ].[wrbd.org]
Sex distribution
This review addresses the pathophysiology of coagulation abnormalities in HF, examines the available evidence regarding the use of anticoagulants and antiplatelet agents in HF, and discusses its therapeutic implications.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Kwaan Springer Science & Business Media, ٢١/٠٤/٢٠٠٩ - 339 من الصفحات Coagulation in Cancer informs professionals working in the field of cancer about the pathophysiologic mechanisms of cancer-related thrombosis and bleeding.[books.google.com]
In this article, we review the pathophysiological bases of coagulation abnormalities, in cirrhotic patients, the diagnostic therapeutic strategies to be followed and its impact on the clinical outcome in the cirrhotic patient.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Discussion Our data shed light on the pathophysiology of the progression of E. coli O157:H7 infection to the hemolytic–uremic syndrome.[nejm.org]
Among 1,032 patients evaluated we found that 534 coagulation tests were needed to prevent one case of bleeding associated with an abnormal coagulation test result. Copyright 2011 American Society for Reproductive Medicine. Published by Elsevier Inc.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
Early diagnosis of hypercoagulability in the group of patients at risk may allow pharmacologic intervention that may prevent this devastating process from developing.[ncbi.nlm.nih.gov]
It provides assistance in recognizing the various bleeding and clotting disorders associated with cancer and includes current recommendations for the management of hemorrhage, and prevention and treatment of thrombosis in the patient with malignancy.[books.google.com]
Patient and family teaching includes: Preventing bleeding episodes: •Avoiding contact sports or other activities in which head injury might occur •Avoiding accidental cuts by using an electric razor and taking care when using sharp tools or kitchen implements[rnceus.com]
Thus, further research into the mechanisms and treatment of coagulation dysfunction after trauma will continue to prevent early and late deaths in severely injured patients.[dtic.mil]
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Hannah Arendt, Guilty Pleasure
Thrill to the Jewish Philosopher Queen as she does battle with boring Nazis, The New Yorker, and Mossad
May 24, 2013 • 12:00 AM
Barbara Sukowa as Hannah Arendt in Hannah Arendt, a film by Margarethe von Trotta.(Zeitgeist Films)
You can keep Fast & Furious 6 and The Hangover Part III. My guilty pleasure this week is Hannah Arendt (premiering at New York’s Film Forum May 29), the latest collaboration between actress Barbara Sukowa and director Margarethe von Trotta. Guilt, of course, being the operative word.
How to characterize the movie’s protagonist? Hannah Arendt (1906-1976) was that German-Jewish wild child who embarked on a teenaged love affair with a married professor twice her age, the philosopher king (and future Nazi) Martin Heidegger; who wrote her dissertation on the concept of love in the writings of St. Augustine; who, costumed as a harem girl, met her first husband attending a Marxist-sponsored masquerade ball at Berlin’s Museum of Ethnology. The young Hannah smoked cigars and exhibited an intellect so dazzling that her mainly Jewish cohort nicknamed her Pallas Athena. She messed with future colleague Leo Strauss’ mind, was arrested only weeks after the post-Reichstag Nazi seizure of power for engaging in illegal Zionist activities, then smuggled herself out of Germany and into Paris (where she directed the local branch of the Youth Aliyah) only to be “interned” by Vichy before escaping again.
Arendt arrived in America carrying a cache of manuscripts entrusted to her by Walter Benjamin—appropriate in that, more than any other individual, she brought the culture of Weimar Jewish intellectuals to New York. She wrote for the German-Jewish press, worked for Schocken (where she edited the second edition of Gershom Scholem’s Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism as well as Kafka’s Diaries), introduced American readers to novelist Hermann Broch, contributed to Partisan Review and Commentary, and addressed the central political issue of her life with The Origins of Totalitarianism, published in 1951—the same year that she, stateless since 1933, was allowed to become an American citizen.
A decade later, Arendt traveled to Jerusalem to report on the trial of Adolf Eichmann, the onetime Nazi “Administrator for Jewish Affairs,” captured by the Mossad in Argentina; in the late winter of 1963, nine months after Eichmann’s execution, she all but overshadowed the trial with five articles in The New Yorker that were shortly thereafter collected as Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. The most scandalous Jewish-American text to appear between Sholem Asch’s The Nazarene and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint, Arendt’s report made “the banality of evil” a world-renowned phrase and its author the most reviled Jewish thinker since Baruch Spinoza.
Delivering a robustly physical performance, Barbara Sukowa embodies the tension between Arendt’s pure reason and her concrete emotion. Here I feel obliged to admit my own irrational affection for the actress—not just because of her turns as a Fassbinder femme fatal (in Lola) and a good-hearted Weimar whore (in Berlin Alexanderplatz), although those performances certainly got my attention, but also because she left Germany in the early ’90s and has been since living among us in Brooklyn, mainly as a singer (even with a rock band, The X-Patsys).
It’s not every week that you get to see a movie about an intellectual contretemps, let alone one that rocked the Jewish world. Indeed, in a way, Von Trotta and screenwriter Pamela Katz have attempted something far more difficult and potentially absurd than making a documentary, namely setting out to dramatize an upheaval in the life of the mind. The only filmmaker who has ever really turned the trick is Roberto Rossellini in his early-’70s telefilms Socrates, Descartes, and Blaise Pascal. (Would that he had also essayed Spinoza!)
Von Trotta and Katz could not possibly do justice to the outrage—and outrageous abuse—that Arendt inspired, or to the breadth of her continents-spanning life and thought. A sprinkling of flashbacks notwithstanding, it’s Arendt in Jerusalem and on Eichmann that Von Trotta considers in her film.
Greatly simplified, Arendt’s three great sins were 1) suggesting that the “desk murderer” Eichmann was a mediocre opportunist rather than the devil incarnate (and thus all the more frightening); 2) publicly discussing and denouncing the role of Nazi-appointed Jewish Councils in the Final Solution; and 3) examining the judicial basis for the trial itself. Arendt, however subtle in her analysis, was not given to understatement; still, to a large degree the tumult she inspired was a case of blaming the messenger. (For a pithy, reasoned historical contextualization of the reaction to Arendt’s report, see Peter Novick’s The Holocaust in American Life.)
As a film, Hannah Arendt is a sort of hybrid and not just because it is half in German. The movie is a didactic docu-drama, part old-school Soviet “publicist” film in its idealized, ideological representation of historical figures, and part Hollywood biopic in its entertainingly kitschy notion of how they might have interacted in real life.
Even more fun that the introductory repartee between chain-smoking Hannah and her BFF Mary McCarthy (Janet McTeer)—with McCarthy’s reference to “wild Berliners” and Arendt’s amused, heavily accented, snort: “Wild, because we don’t marry all of our lovers?”—is the consternation caused at The New Yorker by her offer to cover the Eichmann trial. While the magazine’s circumspect editor William Shawn (Nicholas Woodeson) is intrigued, his blasé assistant Francis (Megan Gay) is unimpressed: “Philosophers don’t make deadlines.” A teenage intern (revealed in the end credits as none other than Jonathan Schell) can’t restrain himself, excitedly piping that “Hannah Arendt wrote The Origins of Totalitarianism!” “Catchy title,” Francis drawls. Cut to: Hannah, political philosopher and happy hausfrau, slicing a cabbage to make sauerkraut for her beloved second husband, Heinrich Blücher (Axel Milberg, who, unlike Sukowa or McTeer, has a strong physical resemblance to his character).
Hannah is also, as we will discover, a courageous hausfrau who is unafraid to wash her dirty laundry in public. Arriving in sunbaked Israel where she is reunited with her old friend and erstwhile Zionist mentor Kurt Blumenfeld (Michael Degen), she first worries that the Israelis are essentially staging a show trial and then has her eagerness to see Nazi evil in the flesh dashed by Eichmann’s equivocating performance: “He’s a nobody!” she tells Blumenfeld, greatly compressing the detailed descriptions of Eichmann given throughout her report, all predicated on her recognition of the gap between “the unspeakable horror of the deed and the undeniable ludicrousness of the man.”
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The trial gets a few scenes, with Von Trotta’s use of reaction shots amid archival footage cueing Hannah’s dismay when confronted with testimony regarding the Jewish Councils that were forced or obliged to cooperate with Eichmann, although this is information that she was far more likely to have absorbed from Raul Hilberg’s The Destruction of the European Jews. In any case, her Israeli friends are concerned. “Your quest for truth is admirable but this time you’ve gone too far,” one says, while Blumenfeld uneasily defends her by explaining that it is Hannah’s nature to make people angry. Flashback to Heidegger (Klaus Pohl) telling the young Hannah (Friederike Becht) that “thinking is a lonely business.” (Were Hannah Arendt true socialist realism, that mantra could serve as the movie’s subtitle.) Back in the USA, The New Yorker is shaken by Hannah’s report. Shawn questions her over-the-top characterization of the Jewish Councils; snooty Francis turns abruptly ethnic. Playing pool with Mary, Hannah wonders if her tone was too “ironic”—which is one way to characterize it.
For all its studied objectivity, Eichmann in Jerusalem reads as a highly personal, even traumatized, work. What some described as Arendt’s “arrogance” was a mind-blown absence of self-censorship. The author outs herself in the book’s very first paragraph by citing the “old [Israeli] prejudice against German Jews.” She seems to regard Eichmann’s incapacity for thought as his worst crime, and, in the book’s notorious 11-page section on the Jewish Councils, effectively popularized Hilberg’s then-shocking research. (Hilberg who, like Arendt, was a Central European Jew who escaped to America on the eve of the Holocaust, never forgave her for stealing his thunder even as she replaced him as a target for the ADL, the New York Times, and Dissent alike.)
True, Arendt’s judgment on the Jewish Councils was harsh. Accused, in the movie, by one old friend of insufficient love for the Jewish people, hard-hearted Hannah logically replies that as she had “never loved any ‘people’ ” in the abstract, she cannot love the Jews. “I only love my friends—that’s the only love of which I’m capable.” Meanwhile, friends are dropping like overripe fruit amid the piles of hate mail, some of it sent by her neighbors via the doorman in her Upper West Side apartment building. Colleagues excommunicate her. She is savaged in the journals for which she used to write. Lionel Abel contributes a hatchet job for Partisan Review. Norman Podhoretz publishes an attack called “The Perversity of Brilliance” in Commentary. Both men are represented—although not named—in the movie to be dressed down by loyal Mary McCarthy. (Arendt was hardly a feminist but it’s impossible to miss the sense of a gender-based gang-up of incensed, self-righteous mansplainers.)
Meanwhile, even more dramatically, a car filled with Mossad agents stops Hannah on a country road to lay a vicious guilt trip on the plucky writer: Her report has effectively killed Kurt Blumenfeld. While it is true that Blumenfeld died, refusing to speak with Arendt, and that Eichmann trial prosecutor Gideon Hausner flew to New York to denounce her, the role of the Mossad would seem to be poetic license. Hannah Arendt is, after all, a movie.
It’s also a vehicle. With regards to Arendt’s lecture style, Mary McCarthy called her “a magnificent stage diva” and so she is here, defying her department chairman and shunned by the faculty at the (unmentioned) University of Chicago, and delivering a stirring defense of her position to a rapt audience of students. This grand finale returns the movie to the realm of courtroom drama even as it leaves us with Hannah still pondering the contradiction in her thinking—how can the “radical evil” she analyzed in The Origins of Totalitarianism also be “banal”? (Hegelians have decided that they are identical. See the third appendix of Slavoj Žižek’s Plague of Fantasies.)
Hannah Arendt is ultimately a pleasure, because Sukowa plays the most forbidding of intellectuals as a fabulous, passionate doll. Sometimes clueless, sometimes kittenish, and always, always thinking, her Hannah is not only admirable but lovable. Sukowa’s vitality succeeds in bringing at least some of Arendt’s ideas to life—it should be interesting to see the degree to which, a half century after the controversy she inspired, its embers will be rekindled.
For more of J. Hoberman’s film criticism for Tablet magazine, click here.
J. Hoberman, the former longtime Village Voice film critic, is a monthly film columnist for Tablet Magazine. He is the author, co-author or editor of 12 books, including Bridge of Light: Yiddish Film Between Two Worlds and, with Jeffrey Shandler, Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting.
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The attack against Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem was hardly a gender attack. There were plenty of women who also joined the critique — especially the American Labor ZIonist leader Marie SYrkin and the Warsaw Ghetto survivor, Vladka Meed. And why does Hoberman not mention Arendt’s exchange with her old friend Gershom Scholem who disparaged many of her conclusions.
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Debby Barton Grant says:
Our Jewish Federation just finished its Michiana Jewish Film Festival at the University of Notre Dame in South Bend, Indiana and this was our opening film! A sold out crowd and a pure audience pleaser. This film was a rare treat and let to a wonderful discussion. Thank you for your excellent article.
Emanuel S. Lombard says:
At the time of the trial in Israel, it was generally reported that Ben Gurion thought it important that the Jews from Arab countries learn about the Shoah and better appreciate what the Ashkenazim had gone through in Europe. It had turned out that the Mizrahim had little or no knowledge of what their Ashkenazi brethren had suffered. The Eichmann trial it was rumored would help in this educational matter. I wasliving in Israel at the time and this is what I recall hearing then. To many there still remains a gulf and a sense of privilege and prejudice that many feel more keenly than others.
Mr. Lombard my understanding is that Ben Gurion wanted all young Israelis to learn about the Holocaust and not just Mizrahim. Young Israelis then and now seem not to want to know much about antisemitism. Ben Gurion was right to broadcast the trial to the nation’s youth.
A close family member married a Mizrahi from North Africa and she knew quite a bit about the Nazis since North African Jews in many places came into contact with German soldiers during WW2.
Also Mizrahi Jews covers a vast geographical area form Libya to Yemen and Iraq. Yemenite Jews probably knew the list about the Holocaust since they were so remote from these events. I suspect that Iraqi Jews knew quite a bit because of the German agitation in that country and the Arab Fascist parties they sponsored.
How come you don’t seem to know about this?
btw: you quip about discrimination against Mizrhim was taken from page 167 of the Soviet anti Zionist manual.
Jan Rice says:
How much did Hannah Arendt know about the religion of Judaism (as opposed to philosophy, for example, or as opposed to Christianity)?
She knew more than most American Jews do. Still, her dissertation was on St. Augustine on love which should tell that had been seduced by the majority culture in Germany.
I suggest that people read
“The Eichmann Trial” by Deborah E. Lipstadt before the see the movie.
http://www.amazon.com/Eichmann-Trial-Jewish-Encounters/dp/0805242600/ref=la_B000APZVQS_1_1_title_1_har?ie=UTF8&qid=1369445610&sr=1-1
Arendt missed half the trial because she flew to Germany to meet her German friends.
Natan79 says:
Including her Nazi lover Heidegger, who she helped after the war. A true bitch. If she were alive, she would be a BDS queen.
Miha Ahronovitz says:
We should be grateful that we have publications like The New Yorker, and now the Tablet. Liel Leibovitz, among others, on a regular basis makes all the political correct Jews shiver. There is no much different from what Hannah Arendt reported in 1961
That Jewish Councils were compiling lists to send other Jews to deportation, we have a long tradition. In Russian shtetles , the community leaders prepared the lists of of the Jews to be conscripted in the 25 years compulsory military service. The judge and prosecutors who sent the Rosenberg husband and wife to the electrical chair for being soviet spies were Jewish.
I think Israel as Jewish state and we all thinking Jews with Yiddishkeit, learned from Hannah Arendt. In 1992 Ivan Mykolaiovych Demianiuk who 99.99% was a guard at the Treblinka extermination camp, – was acquitted by the Israeli Supreme Court, because of the missing 0.01% evidence.
IMHO, the same would have had happen with Eichmann today. We simply made him a piniata and placed inside all our disgust for what the Nazi did. It gave us an illusory feeling of vengeance. Quote:
“Forgiveness is the exact opposite of vengeance, which acts in the
form of re-enacting against an original trespassing whereby far from
putting an end to the consequences of the first misdeed, everybody
remains bound to the process, permitting the chain reaction contained in
every action to take its unhindered course.”
Arendt, Hannah.
Miha, you are so wrong on most points that one would have to have a lot of patients and time to rebut them all.
I’ll just address one: Eichmann to day or in 1961 would have been found guilty and executed. It was Hannah Arendt who said that it would have been barbaric not to execute him after he was found guilty. (I doubt you have read much of her work, Mihal.)
In some cases a refusal to execute an abominable murderer is in itself a barbarism.
Jacob, can you point us to the entire page written by Hannah Arendt from where you extracted this pearl; “It was Hannah Arendt who said that it would have been barbaric not to execute him after he was found guilty.”
I did find the paragraph you are quoting from Hannah Arendt, completely out of context:
“We refuse, and consider as barbaric, the propositions “that a great crime offends nature, so that the very earth cries out for vengeance; that evil violates a natural harmony which only retribution can restore; that a wronged collectivity owes a duty to the moral order to punish the criminal” (Yosal Rogat). And yet I think it is undeniable that it was precisely
on the ground of these long-forgotten propositions that Eichmann was brought to justice to begin with, and that they were, in fact, the supreme justification for the death penalty”
So what she says, the basis for condemning Eichmann to death penalty originate in “barbaric” propositions, exactly the contrary of your statement
msmischief says:
The Rosenbergs, husband and wife, were guilty as charged. Their KGB handler has written the definitive book on them.
Here is a quote from Hannah Arendt from the debate with Noam Chomsky and others in “The legitimacy of violence”.
“I very much agree with Mr. Chomsky’s assertion that the nature of new societies is affected by the nature of the actions that bring them into being.”
“… American political attitudes are known as “moralistic” all over the world; in this country we seem not to be aware of the seriousness of this reproach. Moralistic attitudes in politics tend to provide moral justifications for crimes, quite apart from leading into pseudoidealistic enterprises which are obviously to the detriment of the intended beneficiaries….”
Jacob A. who has read everything it seems, probably read the Torah as if it were a newspaper. msmischief also believes that being guilty, the harshest punishment is already justified.
Is this supposed to mean something? Are you arguing that Jewish prosecutors ought to let Jewish spies off because they are Jews?
There is a proportionality between the crime and the punishment. I am not judging. I am observing. In middle ages they burned Giordano Bruno for saying the world is not flat. .
Moralistic attitudes pre judge and fix the sentence even before the trial.
DoomsdayPicnic says:
Norman Podhoretz nailed Arendt long ago -not in the same sense that Hitler’s favourite philosopher Heidegger nailed her, of course:
“The brilliance of Miss Arendt’s treatment of Eichmann could hardly be disputed by any disinterested reader. But at the same time, there could hardly be a more telling example than this section of her book of the intellectual perversity that can result from the pursuit of brilliance by a mind infatuated with its own agility and bent on generating dazzle. The man around the corner who makes ugly cracks about the Jews is an anti-Semite, but not Adolf Eichmann who sent several million Jews to their death: that would be uninteresting and would tell us nothing about the Nature of Totalitarianism…
This habit of judging the Jews by one standard and everyone else by another is a habit Miss Arendt shares with many of her fellow-Jews, emphatically including those who think that the main defect of her version of the story is her failure to dwell on all the heroism and all the virtue that the six million displayed among them.”
Hannah Arendt on Eichmann:
A Study in the Perversity of Brilliance
Norman Podhoretz, September 1963
CiporaJuliannaKohn says:
Arendt’s use of the term “banality of evil” shows that she had no understanding of sociopathy.
A sociopath is never one who has recognizable evil characteristics to the average observer.
It is very significant that Arendt was the lover of the Nazi Heisenberg. It is significant that she did not feel any shame that she admired an evil man.
Heisenberg was neither a Nazi and nor Arendt’s lover.
You are right. I meant Heidegger. It was a very foolish mistake.
Tut Ankh Amon says:
You make alot of them
June 2, 2013 - 11:09 pm
Ian Thal says:
June 3, 2013 - 3:58 pm
Heisenberg may not have been an ideologically committed Nazi, but he was committed to developing a nuclear weapon on behalf of the Nazis.
It takes one to know one
Quote from the article of J. Hoberman:
“Arendt’s three great sins were 1) suggesting that the “desk murderer” Eichmann was a mediocre opportunist rather than the devil incarnate (and thus all the more frightening); 2) publicly discussing and denouncing the role of Nazi-appointed Jewish Councils in the Final Solution; and 3) examining the judicial basis for the trial itself. ”
I see the comments to this article in 2013 show in great majority an outrage against Hannah Arendt equal to 1961. After all she was and remained Jewish all her life, the same as Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem. The greatest Jews ever were never politically correct.
Again, Mihal knows not what he writes:
Gershom Scholem never was neither politically correct or incorrect, and neither was Walter Benjamin. Neither writer was ‘political” in the narrow sense of the word. Besides Scholem excoriated Arendt over her book on Eichmann. She broke relations with him, not he with her. (Yes, she was very petty sometimes.)
Gershom Scholem regarded Benjamin as colleague and friend. He wrote about him. Did you read the book? Benjamin unfortunately was hesitant on many issues which in the end cost him his life.
Hannah Arendt was not politically incorrect neither. She was very wrong about a number of historical and philosophical issues she took up. Her treatment of Totalitarianism in her famous book describing its origins hasn’t stood the test of time
He major philosophical work “The Human Condition” also wasn’t well received bu her fellow philosophers (with the exception of Paul Ricoeur who,liked her references to Jesus.0
To my mind her most important contribution were her essays on education Did you read them?
Melvin Backstrom says:
Walter Benjamin wasn’t “political in the narrow sense of the word”?!? Are you kidding? How can one read “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” or “Theses on the Philosophy of History” (to take two of his most famous essays) and not be aware of the strongly Marxist undercurrent that motivates them? After all, this was a man who was very good friends with Brecht and sought to match Brecht’s didactic Marxism in his own work. Benjamin was political through and through. And I’m not sure how you understand his supposed hesitancy as costing him his life. Yes, he should have left Paris far earlier than he did but once he did so it was in fact his lack of hesitancy—having been denied entry into Spain he decided to kill himself rather than wait till the next day when he likely would have been let in—that killed him.
Bablat says:
Although so unforgiving toward the Jewish Councils which consisted of beaten, defeated, hunted people, operating under the threat of death she showed great understanding toward her Nazi lover to whom she extended great helps. Yes she was brilliant but “Eichmann in Jerusalem” is a hatchet job if there ever was one. It is a poor and arrogant work.
How forgiving are people of German Gentiles who were also living in a police state, and whose families would be tainted by their “bad blood” if they were caught?
Excellent point: There was a striking parallel between Arendt’s dismissal of Eichmann’s evil as banal, and her dismissal of Heidegger’s Naziism as momentary naivete– when of course, even if Heidegger hadn’t joined the Nazi party until 1933, he had been a member of a number of far-right, German nationalist, and anti-Semitic organizations, prior.
herbcaen says:
One wonders whether Arendt had the hots for Eichmann. Arendt had similar views toward Jews as did Eichmann. Kind of like the young women today who want the Chechen terrorist in Boston freed
Dan_Simon says:
I saw von Trotta’s “Marianne and Juliane” on television some years ago. The film grapples with the moral question, “is it sufficient merely to propagandize on behalf of terrorists, or must one actually murder innocents with one’s own hands to fulfill one’s duties to the radical left?” Among the many obscenities von Trotta includes in the story is her glorification of a German terrorist’s period of collaboration with Palestinian terrorists–five years after the famous episode in Entebbe, where German and Palestinian terrorists re-enacted the Nazi practice of separating their prisoners, releasing the non-Jews and holding only the Jews. I would no more see one of her films in a theater–thus contributing to her royalties–than I would have paid to see a Leni Riefenstahl film.
llwyd says:
To characterize Heidegger as her “nazi lover” is rather harsh. Or at least it leaves quite a bit out which would give some context to Arendt’s postwar support for him. Anyhow, surely the question is about her analysis and not her past relationships. And wasn’t Eichmann really banal, a small, insignificant man? And if not, what was he then?
In Israel, only three people faced a death sentence: Meir Tobianski executed in June 30, 1948 for treason during the early days of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Tobianski was acquitted in 1949 and posthumously promoted to the rank of captain
Adolf Eichmann executed May 31, 1962 for crimes against humanity and war crimes, crimes against the Jewish people and membership of an outlawed organization involving the murder of many Jews. Nazi criminal John Demjanjuk, has been sentenced to death but won appeals to overturn the sentence.
So Israel capital punishment record is appalling. Meir Tobianski. did not deserve to die. And we should have the courage to admit 50 years later that a death penalty for Adolf Eichmann was not a suitable punishment in the Jewish ethical standard. .. Just as is unethical as keeping Jonathan Pollard, a Stanford University graduate locked as an Israeli spy, because he must be treated more harshly than any other spy just because he made all Jewish Americans look potentially suspect.
In 1937, Eichmann travelled to the British Mandate of Palestine with his superior Herbert Hagen to assess the possibilities of massive Jewish emigration from Germany to Palestine. They landed in Haifa using forged press credentials, and spent two days there. They next visited Cairo, where they met Feival Polkes, an agent of the Haganah, with whom they were unable to strike a deal of any kind. Eichmann and Hagen were unable to re-enter Palestine when the British authorities refused to give them the appropriate visas
Eichmann petitioned Israeli President Yitzhak Ben-Zvi for clemency (maintaining that he was “a mere tool”). Prominent persons also sent letters on his behalf. These included Martin Buber, Gershom Scholem, Hugo Bergmann, Akiva Ernst Simon and Leah Goldberg, who wrote: “We do not want the enemy to lead us to bring forth from among us a hangman, and if we do so, this will constitute a victory for the enemy and we do not want this victory of his.
Hannah Arendt movie is not complete without all these passages from Wikipedia. We executed a minor clerk, the banality of evil, who would equality work to solve the problem of Jews by emigration or by gas chambers. It depends what orders he received from his superiors.
During cross-examination, prosecutor Hausner asked Eichmann if he considered himself guilty of the murder of millions of Jews. Eichmann replied: “Legally not, but in the human sense … yes, for I am guilty of having deported them”
We are not them. Quoting from Wikipedia again: “Moses Maimonides argued that executing a defendant on anything less than absolute certainty would lead to a slippery slope of decreasing burdens of proof, until we would be convicting merely “according to the judge’s caprice.” His concern was maintaining popular respect for law, and he saw errors of commission as much more threatening than errors of omission.
Can you believe he said that in 11th century? The biggest challenges our Rabbis had in the concentration camps, is to answer questions on how to maintain out humanity and not behave like threatened beasts.
Ch Hoffman says:
As controversial now as 50 years ago. And yet, her prose still has the ability to convey a message and to force the reader to think. Those are rarities in themselves.
Seth Edenbaum says:
Sad that Hoberman writes a review about German guilt kitsch and publishes it in a Zionist web rag. My strongest memory of Barbara Sukowa’s husband was seeing him perform at one of his openings in the mid 80’s, with Rhys Chatham et al. doing their power-chord channeling of Hannibal crossing the Alps, and Longo walking to the the front of the band and giving the fascist salute. The audience booed and at least one beer got thrown.
The Arendt film has been extended. The theater at Film Forum is packed.
For the Ozu retrospective is the rooms are mostly empty, but I read Arendt waiting for the films to begin.
Zionism is racism.
Eichmann Trial
Margarethe von Trotta
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The Siege of Seringapatam
Watercolour, gouache and graphite on paper
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Colnaghi, London
Bought 1948 by Ray Livingston Murphy, New York (died 1953)
Murphy estate, Christie’s, London, 19 November 1985 (26, as by William Daniell), withdrawn
Sold Christie’s, London, 18 March 1986 (109), acquired on behalf of Tate
The forces of General Baird took Seringapatam from Tipu Sultan in May 1799, bringing to an end the Mysore Wars. A large oil painting of the siege was produced by Robert Ker Porter (1777–1842), Turner’s colleague in the Royal Academy Schools; it is now in Tipu’s Summer Palace at Seringapatam. Porter made a series of engravings after it, which were widely circulated. Many other artists also recorded this important battle.
A group of three watercolours, formerly attributed to William Daniell (1769–1837) but in fact by Turner, apparently based on drawings by one or more eye–witnesses, show the Residence of the Mysore Rajah within the fort of Seringapatam, during the last three years of his confinement, Hoollay Deedy, or new Sally–port in the inner Rampart of Seringapatam, where Tippoo Sultaun was killed, on the 4th May 1799, and the present work, a general view of the siege with the British forces crossing the river Cauvery (all with Colnaghi, 1948; bought by Ray Livingston Murphy, offered for sale at Christie’s, London, 19 November 1985 as lots 24, 25 and 26, as by Daniell, but withdrawn).
A coloured study adumbrating the whole composition of this last of these subjects was in Turner’s studio, and is now in a private collection.1 A study for a further subject in the series is Tate D17190 (Turner Bequest CXCVI Z), which seems to have been based on an anonymous drawing. Hoolley Deedy was based on a drawing made on the spot by Thomas Sydenham (1780–1816), now in the India Office collection at the British Library, London.2 The watercolour of the siege itself follows a drawing by Captain Alexander Allan, present at the battle, which Turner might have seen either in the original or in the form of an engraving. Visible amid the smoke of battle are the fortifications of the city, the pyramidal gopura or entrance tower of the Hindu temple, and the minarets of the Mosque.
See Wilton and |Brown 1988, p.59, reproduced.
See Wilton 2001, pp.40–1.
Martin Butlin and Evelyn Joll, The Paintings of J.M.W. Turner, revised ed., New Haven and London 1984, pp.7–8 no.10.
Andrew Wilton
Revised by Matthew Imms
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Joseph Mallord William Turner Battle of Seringapatam
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ActiveX is Microsoft proprietary software that allows your Internet browser to display and interact with certain documents and websites. Sometimes, ActiveX will be required before a user can view any part of a website or document; other times, it may be required to launch only certain functions or sections of a website. Because ActiveX is developed only by Microsoft, only Microsoft’s Internet Explorer browser can fully support ActiveX. However, other browsers have created their own methods of displaying website and documents that require ActiveX.
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Microsoft’s Internet Explorer is the only browser that fully supports ActiveX controls and plug-ins. When you navigate to a website or document that requires a new ActiveX control, you will see an alert appear at the top of your webpage, under the browser’s toolbar. By clicking this alert, you can view information about the ActiveX controller that you will need and allow Internet Explorer to download the plug-in. Internet Explorer will retain the ActiveX control any time you return to that site or document, or attempt to view a document that requires the same plug-in.
Mozilla’s Firefox browser is a popular alternative to Internet Explorer. Since it is not developed by Microsoft, it does not fully support Microsoft’s ActiveX controls. However, Firefox developers often create new plug-ins that users can install to help support features required by websites and documents that would usually require ActiveX controls. If you run across a website that uses ActiveX that appears broken in the Firefox browser, you can report it to the development team by clicking on “Help” and “Report Broken Web Site” from your toolbar. You can also download the “Esker ActiveX Plug-in” from the Firefox add-on that attempts to imitate ActiveX controls on the Firefox browser. This is an experimental add-on that must be kept up to date with your version of Firefox.
Google’s Chrome browser is a newer alternative to Internet Explorer and Firefox. Like Firefox, Chrome does not support ActiveX natively, and uses Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) to view and interact with sites that require the controls. Because it is a newer browser, the add-ons and extensions that help support ActiveX controls may still be in development. If you find a website or document that requires Active X controls that Chrome cannot access, you can report the situation by visiting Google’s Known Issues website and clicking the button under “The ActiveX plugin isn't working” link. This may alert developers to your specific needs and help them develop add-ins to support specific browsing issues.
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By Alex Hernandez | June 27, 2017
SEPTEMBER 18: Finn Coleman, 2, of Alexandria, plays on a giant Chutes and Ladders game on the east front of the Capitol during an event to draw attention to the role of early education. The event was hosted by the National Womens Law Center, the Strong Start Campaign for Children and MomsRising.org.Photo: Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call
Career & technical ed is not just a chute for non-college-goers. It's a ladder for all Americans -@thinkschools
Career prep needs a central role in all schools & #highered, not just for non-college-goers -@thinkschools
If life were a game of Chutes and Ladders, career and technical education has historically been a chute, an off-ramp for students who, for a variety reasons, were not succeeding in “traditional” education.
But students across the academic spectrum — even bachelor’s degree holders — are battling to find their footing in today’s economy. Our schools and colleges are good at sorting students, but few economically empower them.
Career preparation is good for all kids, not just “those” kids. And if we want to build ladders to better opportunities, career preparation needs to be featured in our schools and colleges.
New rule: A college degree is no longer enough
National career-matchmaking firm GradStaff surveyed 503 recent college grads seeking their first entry-level jobs between May and December 2016. The headline: “70 percent of respondents were either unemployed or working in a full-time non-professional job to make ends meet.”
Play that out a few more years and 43 percent of recent college graduates ages 22 to 27 are in jobs that do not require a bachelor’s degree.
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My suburban friends are fond of saying things like, “Your kids will be fine no matter what.”
But higher education expert Ryan Craig observes that colleges and universities are falling down when it comes to the “last mile” training students need to make the jump from college to the workplace.
There are a few reasons for this.
First, the job market is shifting. Employers want skills, like project management or Apache Hadoop, in addition to high levels of education. But four-year colleges struggle mightily to think beyond their traditional curricula. If employers can’t get skills, then they ask for more experience and more education, creating a Catch-22 for new grads.
Second, students receive very little support when it comes to career preparation. The median ratio of students to college and university career counseling staff is 1,765 to one. This means most students receive little to no guidance during a time when hiring processes are changing rapidly, like the shift to applicant tracking systems that use algorithms to screen résumés.
Third, tremendous barriers still exist for first-generation college students who lack the means to take an unpaid internship or buy that first work outfit. Internships help students build the social networks and connections that are so critical for job seekers.
And even in 2017, minority job candidates still face discrimination. Harvard researchers recently found that African-American applicants were 2.5 times as likely to get a callback for interviews if they eliminated any clues to their race in their résumés.
It’s time to admit that a bachelor’s degree is simply not enough to help our most successful students — our four-year college graduates — find their way to upwardly mobile jobs and choice-filled lives.
And we have not even begun to talk about the majority of Americans, like those who dropped out of college with student debt or never went at all.
Has our country run out of ideas for how to create opportunity?
Rewrite the rules around opportunity
We can and should reframe our education agenda around economic empowerment, meaning that all students who want a path to a better life have several ladders they can climb to do just that.
Economic empowerment means helping students find the very best experiences in the classroom and in the workplace. There is a false divide between the college-for-all and career and technical education crowds. Team College-for-All has steadily improved traditional classrooms while generally ignoring career readiness. Team CTE generally sins in the opposite direction. Kids need better experiences on both sides of the playing field, and we need a new generation of leaders that can help us bridge that divide.
For example, Carmen Schools of Science & Technology, a network of four public secondary schools in Milwaukee, offers career preparation programs to all students, no matter where they land on the academic spectrum. (Disclosure: My employer, Charter School Growth Fund, philanthropically supports Carmen Schools of Science & Technology.) In addition to high school classes, Carmen students can earn skills certifications and college credits from Milwaukee Area Technical College. They do health care apprenticeships at Froedtert and the Medical College of Wisconsin hospital system or IT support apprenticeships at local companies. Students who go on to attend four-year colleges can see higher earnings while working their way through school ($12 to $18 per hour, vs. minimum wage) and, perhaps more important, accrue valuable professional experiences and contacts. Early job exposure helps inspire and motivate students to consider higher positions in these fields — and avoid careers that seem less attractive after closer inspection.
Shifting the frame to economic empowerment can also broaden our perspective of what we mean by academic and career readiness. I would argue that Braven, an accelerator that helps low-income college students graduate and land a strong first job, is one model for what CTE will look like in the future if we build programs through the lens of economic empowerment.
The ladders to upwardly mobile careers will take different forms, depending on the intensity of students’ needs. Year Up is a nonprofit that offers a one-year program to 18-to-24-year-olds who are out of school and living in poverty. It reports that four months after completing the program, 85 percent of their students are in professional jobs paying an average of $36,000 per year or enrolled in a post-secondary institution. But their students are not just struggling to get back into school and navigate the workplace. Many are experiencing deep trauma and chaotic home lives. In addition to college and career counseling, Year Up offers wraparound supports and mental health services to help students transition to a better life. It does not fall under the traditional definition of CTE programs, but it is squarely an economic empowerment play.
A shift to economic empowerment means helping students find productive pathways that lead to opportunity and avoiding toxic pathways where the odds are stacked against them from the outset. For example, only 39.3 percent of two-year community college students complete some type of degree (associate’s or bachelor’s) in six years — not great odds. But are there pathways through those institutions, such as a certification in cybersecurity, that have higher chances of completion and lead to upwardly mobile careers? And what does it look like to make those productive pathways transparent for students? The good news is that we have more data than ever to identify productive pathways through college and career. It really becomes a matter of institutional will to grow productive pathways and trim the toxic ones.
Close the chutes; let’s build new ladders
We need to stop thinking in terms of chutes, and start building ladders across K-12, higher education, and industry, where economic empowerment for all Americans is the goal.
The opportunity to infuse career preparation throughout K-12 and higher education is spurring educators to try new approaches to school, like the High School of Health Sciences in Wales, Wisconsin, where a student can do an off-campus internship for two full weeks knowing that her Advanced Placement classes are designed to flex around this valuable experience.
In higher ed, the U.S. Department of Education is helping traditional colleges and universities partner with nontraditional providers to find better ways to prepare students for jobs.
And forward-thinking cities are investing in efforts like TechHire, YouthForce NOLA, and CareerWise Colorado to help students transition from classrooms to careers.
In a world where career preparation is good for all kids, we must find more tactical ways like the ones here to connect youth to opportunity — and invest public and private dollars in the educators leading the way.
Alex Hernandez
Alex Hernandez is a partner at Charter School Growth Fund, a nonprofit that supports the growth of the nation’s best public charter schools. He is a former high school math teacher and lives with his family near Boulder, Colorado.
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LG village leaders commit to sewer plant construction
Grant funding needed to help offset local tax hike for 30 years
by Thom Randall
Lake George Village trustees Joe Mastrodomenico (left foreground) and Ray Perry (left rear) test out tablet devices that will be receiving and displaying municipal documents vital to the five trustees’ decision-making. This switchover for the Lake George Village Board is intended to save printing out hundreds of pages of information per week — and to provide the village leaders better access to the material. At their most recent village meeting, the village trustees reviewed documents pertaining to their pending sewer plant construction — and they voted to go ahead with the $24 million project, while expressing dismay over the substantial burden on taxpayers that would extend for 30 years.
LAKE GEORGE | Despite their qualms about the potential impact on local taxpayers, Lake George Village trustees committed this week to the construction of the new $24 million sewage treatment plant that has been years in development.
On June 24, the village board voted to authorize village Mayor Robert Blais to sign contracts with the contractors who recently bid on the various aspects of the construction.
The decision, however, was made by the very minimum number of votes required for the village board to pass the landmark measure.
Trustees John Earl and John Root as well as Blais voted in favor of the resolution introduced at the special meeting, and Joe Mastrodomenico voted against the measure. Trustee Ray Perry was absent from the 8 a.m. meeting.
Following the meeting, Blais offered his thoughts about the vote to move ahead with the project, despite its cost prompting — without more grant funding — a 67 percent tax increase in Lake George Village and a 150 percent or so increase in fees for residents of the Caldwell Sewer District outside the village.
“We continue to keep the taxpayers in mind,” Blais said. “I do believe we will get additional funding from the state.”
He said that the staff at Chazen Companies engineering firm had thoroughly checked into the qualifications and reputation of the contractors that were the successful bidders for the work and found them “highly qualified,” as they had all worked previously to construct other wastewater treatment plants.
ADDITIONAL GRANT FUNDING NEEDED
Blais said that although the project still required $9 million in additional grant funding to keep future village and town tax increases at a reasonable level, the decision to move forward was necessary.
“We are approving contracts to stay in-line with our consent order from DEC, and we would hope that construction will now begin in early August,” Blais said. “There’s a great deal of work to be done now — signing contracts, working with the Environmental Facilities Corporation, and other preliminary steps.”
Town officials have stated in recent weeks that they oppose going ahead with the plant’s development until additional grant funds are appropriated.
On June 18, Lake George Town Supervisor Dennis Dickinson reiterated the town board’s opposition to proceed unless at least $9 million in grant funding — or about twice the amount already pledged — is earmarked for the project.
“I’m not going to break the backs of our taxpayers,” he said.
Six days later — after the village trustees voted to proceed, Dickinson said he would be consulting with the town attorney to determine the town’s options.
“In the meantime, we’ll continue to be working with the village, helping them lobby for more money,” he said.
Dickinson, Blais and Warren County Board of Supervisors Chairman Ron Conover were initially scheduled to meet up with Gov. Andrew Cuomo June 19 at a hangar at Albany Airport — and area officials speculated that the gathering was being held to announce more funding for the sewer plant. The meeting, however, was canceled by a Cuomo aide hours before it was to occur.
Dickinson and Blais said this week they were holding out hopes for more grant funding. Both noted that an aide to Cuomo had made initial calls to arrange logistics for an appearance by the governor at the Lake George Steel Pier. Weeks earlier, such initial phone calls were made concerning Cuomo’s potential appearance at the Charles Wood Park’s grand opening ceremony May 29, Blais and Dickinson said.
‘SAD STATE OF AFFAIRS’
Without more grant funding, Lake George businesses will be paying far higher taxes or sewer fees, Dickinson said, noting that the Lake George Holiday Inn, which now pays about $50,000 annually in sewage fees, may be paying an additional $90,000 — if an additional $9 million to $10 million more in grants aren’t obtained.
“Where would the Holiday Inn get that much more money?” he asked, noting that hotels and motels in Lake George operate on slim profit margins — and that if they had to raise their rates to compensate, the area’s tourism would suffer substantially.
“It’s really a sad state of affairs,” Dickinson added. “I really hope the state comes through with a good grant.”
On Monday, Blais repeated Root’s comment a week earlier that he couldn’t imagine that the state would not fully support preserving the water quality of Lake George — rated the most beautiful lake in the nation recently by travel agents, according to Oyster.com — “The Hotel Tell-all website.” About five other publications and websites have also bestowed similar awards on Lake George within the last seven weeks.
Blais said that in the absence of more state funding, he’d renew his lobbying to have Warren County provide an annual stipend toward the plant, likely drawn from county occupancy tax receipts. He said that an annual contribution of $200,000 by the county toward the estimated $566,000 annual debt payment for the plant over 30 years would cut the tax increases of local residents substantially.
“An annual payment of $200,000 would be a huge help to the taxpayers of both the town and village,” he said. “But the county would be our last gasp.”
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How Meghan Markle's Body Language Has Changed Since She's Joined the Royal Family
By Madison Feller
Ever since Meghan Markle joined the world of British royalty, there's beena very public change in her style. While she's still channeling the casual vibe she always embodied as an actress, she's now a little more covered up, a little more demure, and a little more polished. I mean, did you see that engagement photo call? Her coat screamed Future Royal Human.
Turns out, Markle's body language has also changed from her early days as a celebrity. Here, Traci Brown, body language expert and author of Persuasion Point, takes a look at how Markle's body language has evolved and what that means for her future royal life.
Becoming More Comfortable
"The most striking thing I notice in these pictures is how much more comfortable she is in her skin since she's been in the royal scene," Brown says. "In the past when we see her pictured alone, there's always a smile on her face, clearly she's comfortable in the spotlight. But when she's with Harry, that smile is more relaxed. She's more engaged and having an easy time sharing this much bigger spotlight with Harry."
A Less Forward Posture
Brown also says there's a difference in the way she stands. "In some of her early solo shots, we see her standing with her legs crossed. This is a common way we see starlets posing. Why? It creates a look where their hips look a little more accented." In short, it's a sexier, flirtier pose. Brown says time will tell if Markle continues to avoid this posture, though she also noticed that Markle is now taking a more conservative approach to posing with her hands across her body rather than perched on her side.
Showing Attachment
Markle's gestures also suggest she has a closer and more intimate relationship to Harry than she did with some of her other celebrity pals. "In group pics, we see her very attached to Harry," Brown said. "She's always got her hand on him. It's way more than the casual connections we see in other pictures with her friends."
Learning Royal Etiquette
Looking at photos of Markle pre-engagement, you can see she often chooses to cross her legs at the knees. At the recent Royal Foundation Forum, Markle crossed her ankles, instead, just like the Duchess of Cambridge. "That's more royal etiquette," Brown said. "Has she been coached on that? It could be. She and Kate are doing it; she could very well be adapting that as more of a royal shift in body language." According to Reader's Digest, women in the royal family must keep their legs and knees together while sitting, but crossing your legs at the ankle is acceptable. Known unofficially as the "duchess slant," royal women keep knees and ankles tightly together as legs slant to the side. You can see Markle exhibiting that very pose at the Royal Foundation Forum.
Adapting to Her Environment
Brown notes that when Meghan is put in certain, more serious environments, she's great at adapting her body language to reflect her surroundings. During a trip to Nottingham Academy, a prestigious school, Markle adopted a "very conservative, prim and proper way to sit."
But Still Staying True to Herself
On the flip side, when you look at photos of Markle and Harry at the Invictus Games or on their trip to Cardiff, you can see she's not super formal and still loves to show her personality. As opposed to the Queen of England, who typically has one look no matter where you see her, Brown says Markle has more flexibility to be herself. But she also knows when to reel it in. "That's what makes her fun to watch. She shows a lot more personality than even her soon-to-be sister-in-law Kate, and Kate is super fun to watch. I think were going to have a really fun time watching her move forward into this royal role."
From: ELLE US
Madison Feller Madison is a staff writer at ELLE.com, covering news, politics, and culture.
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In Photos: A Monsoon Train Journey In The Ghats
by Deeptangan Pant August 1, 2014, 12:39 pm
There is something fascinating about train journeys. Trains are much more than just a mode of transport. As the train moves forward smoothly passing through beautiful locations and landscapes, we all fall in love with it. The journey becomes all the more amazing during the monsoon when the fresh rain cleans the surrounding and makes it a journey to remember. Have a glimpse of the lush monsoons in the Western Ghats.
Murmagao to Hubli – A railway line is born
In 1888 a meter gauge railway track was inaugurated joining the port town of Murmagao in Portuguese Goa to New Hubli in Dharwar district of British India. Privately owned by the London based Portuguese West of India Guaranteed Railway Company, its purpose was to stimulate the ailing economy of Goa that had suffered a steady decline due to the rise of the port city of Bombay. The railway track ran from the sea-shore, threaded the Western Ghats and met the westwards running connecting line of Southern Mahratta Company.
The challenge of the daunting Ghats
One of the major obstacles to the Murmagao track was the possibility of building a line to the port town of Karwar (in present day Karnataka) instead, a few miles to the south of Goa. The other was the inhospitable terrain of the Ghats – the steep slopes, very few gentle passes, dense jungles, heat, incessant rain during the monsoons, diseases, landslides and the presence of tigers posed considerable difficulties to the builders. The project witnessed the best of engineering expertise, skilled labour, suitable machinery and thousands of labourers – mostly South Asians – toiling in dangerous conditions and moving large chunks of earth manually.
Human resolve matches nature’s might
Making use of intense manual labour, explosives and drills fourteen tunnels were dug (twelve in Portuguese territory) through the hard granite and schist. The rotten and hot air in the tunnels added to the woes of the workers and the progress was severely hampered by the unforgiving rain which caused the unstable tunnels to collapse. In addition to the tunnels seven bridges and five viaducts (including the ones over the Paroda and Sanguem rivers and the Dudhsagar Waterfalls) were other notable features along the track. The longest tunnel, today, is the Tunnel No 2 (traveling from Castle Rock in Karnataka to Kulem in Goa) measuring 409.95m.
Trekking the rail track from Castle Rock to Kulem
The Murmagao railway line is still functional today though it has been converted to broad gauge. The section of the track from Castle Rock to Kulem is a popular trekking route particularly during the monsoon season. The trek entails walking along the railway track, diving into tunnels, shuffling over high bridges connecting the rugged mountains, swift streams and waterfalls, the fickle fog, darkness of the tunnels, the wail of train sirens, pouring rain, occasional leeches and unbridled greenery. The icing on this delicious cake is the Dudhsagar Waterfalls, around 14kms from Castle Rock and if attempted from the Goa side, 11kms from Kulem.
The Dudhsagar Falls
Witnessing the DudhSagar Waterfalls cascading down the mountain, shrouded in a veil of fog with a train thundering below on the viaduct is a sobering experience. Located high up on the Mandovi River’s watershed the falls are quiet during the dry season and roar during the monsoons -the volume of water in the falls during the rainy season is intimidating. A camping ground beside the railway track is a stone’s throw away from the base of the falls and spending a night here is eventful with the trains chugging all night long, the pitter-patter of rain and the crashing of water on the worn out rocks.
Monsoon magic along the track
The railway track between Castle Rock and Kulem has three small stations – Caranzol, Dudhsagar and Sonalium – where the otherwise single line is doubled. From Sonalium a mud track diverges into the jungle running parallel to the track for quite a distance. This path is motor able and during the non-rainy season vehicles ply from Kulem ferrying tourists to Dudhsagar. However during the monsoons all the streams and rivulets across the path are overflowing though a few motorcycles do undertake this treacherous route. There are small waterfalls tucked away into the forests that are perfect for a therapeutic soak.
The ruins of a bygone era
The ruins of railway stations and offices can be seen in Castle Rock and Dudh Sagar. Castle Rock, in the past, served as the frontier between British India and Portuguese Goa where all immigration checks were done for people traveling across borders. Moss and lichen carpet the walls of these relics, an evidence of the insane amount of rainfall received here. A distinct sense of nostalgia infects these abandoned buildings whose prominence has been forgotten with the passing of time.
The wail of a train engine
The silence of these wooded hills is constantly broken by the rushing streams, the tall waterfalls and the wails of a train engine. Trekkers scurry off the railway track and hastily cross the dark tunnels in anticipation of the appearance of a great mass of metal rattling the rails and breathing smoke and heat. Trains, passenger and goods, play hide and seek with the mountain curves, appearing and disappearing behind the bends. Due to the incline of the track from Kulem to Castle Rock two engines lead the train up the slope complimented by two other engines pushing it forward from the rear.
Keeping the trains chugging
The maintenance of these tracks is a major challenge even today especially during the rains. Groups of workers, in colourful raincoats and gum boots, can be seen along the tracks and in the tunnels ensuring that the conditions are ideal for the trains to pass. The role of technology is not substantial and manual labour is still involved in facilitating the smooth running of the railways.
About the Author & Photographer: An engineer by profession, Deeptangan likes to explore India, meet its people, savour its cuisines, climb its mountains and sail down its rivers. Born and brought up in the shadow of the Great Himalayas, he reveres the mighty mountains as the temples where he has been educated. When not writing code, he is trekking in the Himalayas and the Western Ghats, writing, reading books and enjoying music.
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Man late for train led to dangerous ride
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The step similar to the one used by the unauthorized train passenger. Photo: Austrian Rail ÖBB
A Salzburg man who was too late to catch his train decided to travel on it anyway, riding on a step outside the passenger carriage.
According to a report from Austrian national broadcaster ORF in Carinthia, the 22-year-old musician from Salzburg decided to catch a train from Bad Gastein to Spittal an der Drau.
He purchased a valid ticket, but accidentally went to the wrong train platform. Upon discovering his error, he jumped across the platform, arriving just as the doors were closing, and the train began to move out of the station.
In that instant he made a very risky decision, and chose to stand on the running-board - the step leading up into the carriage - despite the doors being closed and locked.
The train continued for several kilometres, with the man holding on for dear life at speeds of up to 80 km/h, until his presence was discovered in the Tauerntunnel. Rail officials then immediately blocked the train, resuming service 30 minutes later after the crew had caught up with him.
It wasn't reported whether the crew allowed the man to continue his journey inside the train, or whether he will face police charges for his dangerous actions.
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Five dead in alpine avalanche
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File Photo: Thermodynamic/Wikimedia
Five skiers from the Czech Republic were killed on Saturday in an avalanche in the Austrian alps that also engulfed 17 other people, police said.
Two of the skiers were injured, but not critically, they added.
The five fatalities, men and women, belonged to two groups of off-piste skiers in a valley south of Innsbruck in western Austria.
Around mid-day, a third group of skiers had raised the alert about the avalanche at an altitude of some 2,000 metres (6,500 feet). Some skiers had managed to pull themselves out of the snowslide, police said.
Saturday also saw a number of other avalanches -- the result of instability caused by recent snowfall and a slight thaw -- in which skiers had to be rescued in Austria's Tyrol state, famed for its ski resorts and winter sports.
The deaths follow a string of fatal snowslides in the French Alps this season.
In the most recent, five soldiers from the French Foreign Legion died near the resort of Valfrejus on January 18 with a sixth dying days later in hospital.
Two French teenagers were also killed on January 13 when a teacher took a group of students onto a closed skiing piste at the Deux-Alpes resort. Seriously injured himself, he was later charged with involuntary manslaughter.
A Ukrainian tourist died in the same avalanche.
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SOURCE: Kia Motors Corporation
All-new 2017 Kia Cadenza takes the stage at the New York International Auto Show
(SEOUL) March 23, 2016 – The Big Apple today is playing host to the world debut of the all-new 2017 Kia Cadenza at the New York International Auto Show. The stunningly beautiful Cadenza improves upon all the elements that made its predecessor an award-winning success, boasting a precisely crafted cabin, cutting edge technology for connectivity and driver assistance, a stronger body structure, and powertrain enhancements for a more premium experience behind the wheel.
“The new Cadenza adds an extra dose of excitement to the large-car segment with its striking, aggressively handsome looks and premium refinements,” said Orth Hedrick, vice president of product planning, Kia Motors America. “Everything you see and touch in the Cadenza’s cabin has been improved, but it’s underneath where the Cadenza truly shines with a stiffer and lighter chassis, eight-speed transmission and vastly improved driving dynamics.”
The second-generation Cadenza is set to go on-sale in late 2016, and pricing will be announced closer to the vehicle’s launch date.
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Widening the Lens: Integrating the Toronto International Film Festival
by Bilal Qureshi Sep 17, 2018 6 minutes
Barry Jenkins' adaption of James Baldwin's novel "If Beale Street Could Talk" premiered at this year's edition of the Toronto International Film Festival. Source: Courtesy of TIFF
"Rapturous," "Soaring," "Masterful!" It's that time of year again when critics use their hyperbolic best to preview the fall's most anticipated films. Starting at the end of August, studios show their Oscar hopefuls to accredited press across a trinity of prestigious film festivals – Venice, Telluride, and Toronto – the last of which concluded on Sunday night.
At this year's Toronto edition, the headlines were awash in Lady Gaga's soaring big-screen debut in "A Star Is Born" and Alfonso Cuarón's masterful memoir of his Mexican childhood, "Roma". Accredited critics were debating whether the Gaga-issance could triumph over the rapturous return of Best-Picture winners Steve McQueen and Barry Jenkins.
But for the past few years, the insular – and homogeneous - world of critical consensus has been disrupted by a new generation of writers, most of whom are neither accredited, nor paid to attend film festivals. Last year, "Three Billboards outside Ebbing, Missouriearned rave reviews at Toronto, even winning the – or blacklash - began. Similarly, Louis C.K.'s "I Love you Daddy" was one of the year's hottest festival tickets, igniting early Oscar buzz and studio bidding wars - despite the discomfort about the expressed by several women critics. Subsequent revelations of sexual misconduct against the star derailed the film's momentum. It was never released.
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2 injured when SUV hits school bus in Lake Stevens
Two people in a Chevrolet Tahoe have been injured after their SUV struck a Lake Stevens school bus this morning.
The bus accident occurred around 7am this morning when the Tahoe crossed into the oncoming lanes at South Lake Stevens Road and South Davies Road. Police cite excessive speed as a factor in the accident.
The driver of the SUV and passenger were taken to Providence Regional Medical Center in Seattle for treatment of undisclosed injuries.
Fortunately no one on the bus was injured in the accident.
School buses take millions of children to and fro school and are one of the safest ways for children to travel.
During the 10 year period from 2001 to 2010, there were 1,236 fatal school transportation-related accidents which accounted to 0.34% of the total of all fatal motor vehicle accidents.
The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) reports that in 2010 there were 129 people killed in school transportation related accidents and of those, only 12% were occupants of the school vehicle including six drivers and 10 passengers. When you realize that there are approximately 10 billion student trips every year, they are very safe vehicles. Another way of looking at school accident data is that there are 0.2 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles traveled in school buses compared with 1.5 deaths per 100 million vehicle miles for cars.
School buses have many safety upgrades including warning light, tall seats, thick padding and strong internal structures. School bus drivers are held to a high standard as to training and physical well-being.
This information is provided by Seattle Car Accident Lawyer blog, a service of The Farber Law Group. We represent people who have been seriously injured in motor vehicle accidents including school bus accidents, metro bus accidents and airport shuttle bus accidents. For more information, see King County Transit Bus Accidents for information on legal assistance for people seriously injured in metro bus accidents.
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https://www.seattlepi.com/local/politics/article/Howard-Schultz-Sonics-Presidency-Politics-2020-13568420.php
Connelly: Howard Schultz sold our Sonics, now selling himself as president
Updated 4:22 pm PST, Monday, January 28, 2019
Howard Schultz: He sold the Sonics for $350 million. Now he wants to run as an independent for President. The reaction is Seattle is scathing. (Mario Tama / Getty Images)
The man who sold the Seattle SuperSonics out of town is facing a landslide of hostile comment as he raises the trial balloon for an independent run for president in 2020.
Ex-Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz is getting exactly the opposite reaction on the home front than California Sen. Kamala Harris, who announced her bid for the presidency before 20,000 people Sunday in her hometown of Oakland, Calif.
"The guy who sent the SuperSonics to Oklahoma," wrote Todd Donovan, Western Washington University elections expert and member of the Whatcom County Council.
"I didn't think my opinion of Howard Schultz could get any lower after he stabbed our entire community in the back and sold the Sonics: But I guess he could stab the entire country in the back," Derek Richards, chair of the King County Young Democrats, wrote on his Facebook page.
Even Sonics "flop " Vin Baker"thought you were a joke," Seattle sports columnist Art Thiel tweeted at Schultz. "What would you do when Bad Vlad Putin takes you down low? Walk away? It's a habit with you."
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Schultz sold the Sonics in 2006 to Oklahoma City businessman Clay Bennett. The team was moved to Oklahoma City two years later and rechristened the Thunder.
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Why the continuing anger? Part of it was Schultz's nonstop whining about the lease on Key Arena. But the NBA franchise was Seattle's entree into major league spots. It brought home a championship.
"The Sonics MATTER," David Brewster, then-editor of the Seattle Weekly, wrote in a long-ago article.
Schultz built a massive coffee empire based in Seattle. He is out with an autobiography, hawked Sunday night during an adoring interview on "60 Minutes." He delivers a mea culpa to Seattle area fathers and sons who no longer have the Sonics to root for.
But business leaders, no matter how successful, have been unable to translate their boardroom performance into the public square.
"I wanted to riff on why business people like Howard Schultz usually make terrible political leaders: Put aside Howard's policy positions on economics which are straight up trickle down positions," tweeted Seattle entrepreneur Nick Hanauer.
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From left to right: SuperSonics assistant coach Les Habegger, head coach Lenny Wilkens, team captain Fred Brown and player Dennis Johnson celebrate as their 1979 championship win over the Washington Bullets nears.
From left to right: SuperSonics assistant coach Les Habegger, head coach Lenny Wilkens, team captain Fred Brown and player Dennis Johnson celebrate as their 1979 championship win over the Washington Bullets ... more
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Schultz has put his toe in the political waters. A Knicks fan as a kid, he was an outspoken backer of the 2000 Democratic presidential campaign of ex-New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley. The 2000 Washington primary was the death knell for Bradley's campaign.
Schultz hosted President Clinton later that year in a fundraiser for Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. The event is memorable for bringing a presidential motorcade into Madrona, and for the sour, lukewarm coffee served in the press pool holding area.
The then-CEO later made a brief, maladroit attempt to get Starbucks baristas to rap about race relations with company customers.
It is hard to see what or where would be a base for Schultz's campaign. Independent voters are a rising percentage of the American electorate, but no third party candidate in the last century has captured a single state's electoral votes.
State Democratic Chair Tina Podlodowski has spent the last week churning out statements denouncing Schultz, and did so again Monday in a brief gig on CNN. She posted on Facebook late Monday a Starbucks coffee cup decorated with the message, "Don't do it, Howard."
Fellow billionaire, and presidential prospect, ex-New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg, toyed with an independent run in 2016, and had a harsh message for Schultz.
"In 2020, the great likelihood is that an independent would just end up reelecting the President," Bloomberg wrote. "That's a risk I refused to run in 2016 and we can't afford to run it now."
Patrick Stickney, a lawyer in Olympia, added in a Facebook posting, "Schultz running an independent campaign puts ego before country. Hope every penny he puts in is wasted, without bringing the rest of us down with him."
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Howard Schultz through the years
Over a decade late, here is the mea culpa from Schultz's book:
"The sharpest pains hit me not when I'm personally insulted but when I'm walking or driving and see someone wearing a Seattle SuperSonics T-shirt or cap. If it's a boy with his dad, it's like a stake through my heart.
"Losing the Sonics has been tragic for generations of fans, especially kids who are growing up without the benefit of an NBA team in their city. It's a public wound I cannot heal. For that I will forever be deeply sorry."
We do have a championship basketball team in Seattle -- the Storm.
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Google’s conduct may result in denial of market access for competing apps: CCI
PTI, Jul 2, 2019, 9:57 AM IST
New Delhi: The Competition Commission has ordered a detailed probe against Google for alleged abuse of Android mobile platform after concluding that the conduct might result in denial of market access for competing apps.
The order came on a complaint which alleged that the search giant indulged in anti-competitive practices by mandating smartphone and tablet manufacturers to exclusively pre-install Google’s applications and services in smartphones manufactured or sold in India.
Besides, it was also alleged that Google prevents device manufacturers in India from developing and marketing modified and potentially competing versions of Android for other devices, thereby allegedly hindering the development and market access of rival mobile applications.
Ordering the investigation, the watchdog said it is of the prima facie opinion that “mandatory pre-installation of entire GMS (Google Mobile Services) suite under MADA (Mobile Application Distribution Agreement) amounts to imposition of unfair condition on the device manufacturers” which contravenes competition norms.
It also amounts to prima facie leveraging of Google’s dominance in Play Store to protect the relevant markets such as online general search, the 14-page order said.
“Mobile search has emerged as a key gateway for users to access information and Android is a key distribution channel for mobile search engines.
“Search engines exhibit data-driven scale effects. Improvements in search algorithm require sufficient volume of data, which, in turn, needs sufficient volume of queries from users who are increasingly resorting to mobile search.
“Thus, the impugned conduct of Google may help perpetuate its dominance in the online search market while resulting in denial of market access for competing search apps…,” the order said.
According to the CCI, Google’s plea that MADA pre-installation conditions are not exclusive or exclusionary can also be appropriately examined during the investigation.
The probe would also look at the role of persons who were in charge of and were responsible to the companies at the time the alleged contravention was committed.
“The Director General (DG) will also investigate such officers of the companies who consented to or connived in respect of the alleged contravention or the alleged contravention was attributable to any neglect on the part of such officers,” the CCI said.
The regulator has directed the DG to complete the investigation and submit the report within a period of 150 days.
Responding to the allegations, Google contested that the pre-installation obligation is limited in scope.
“Android users have considerable freedom to customise their phones and install apps that compete with Google’s. Consumers can quickly and easily move or disable pre-installed apps, including Google’s apps,” it said.
The order dated April 16, 2019 has now been made public by the CCI.
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Plotting to Buy – A Guide To House And Land Packages
As a prospective home buyer, you’ll naturally be looking at all available options and knee-deep in research. It can be an exciting and also overwhelming time, which is why we have written an easy and accessible guide to house and land packages.
When considering a new home, the standard options include buy and buy to build. If you are looking for a new house to live in or invest in buy to build packages are a great way to get a home exactly how you’d like it and well worth considering.
House and land packages aren’t as complicated as you might think. We’ve broken down what you need to know in the succinct sections below.
Types of house and land packages
There are two types of house and land packages:
Buy to build
Buy to build is where a developer has already purchased the land, divided it into different plots and has designed and costed a number of different home design packages for you to choose from. Like these house and land packages in western Sydney, where you have a choice of a different price points, locations and designs.
Is where the developer has already completed the above and the construction and is selling the new home. These won’t allow for customization but does been you can move into a new home straight away.
Although developers are the majority of people who off house and land packages, it can be done by a collective. The premise is that land is purchased from the government and the developers then lay down the infrastructure needed to develop the land into housing.
Things like sewage, electricity, gas, water pipes, and roads.
What you’ll need to consider
The purchasing of a house and land package is similar to purchasing any other type of house, however the main difference are the types of loans and stages.
Two step approach;
Land mortgage
Construction loan.
Land mortgage is a regular mortgage, whereby you agree to the price of the land and find a mortgage provider which gives you the best rates.
Construction loan is slightly different in the sense that this loan will be drawdown in stages. When each stage of the build is completed by the developers and to your satisfaction you drawdown on that stage of the loan and make payment.
Similar to financing other properties house and land packages still require a minimum of 5-10% deposit and will be dependent on your mortgage and loan providers requirements. For example, you can use short term loans from CashnGo for funding the shortfall.
Savings or concessions on stamp duties is an advantage of house and land packages as dependent on your state or territory’s requirements, you may only paying stamp duty on the land not the house and land. Furthermore, there are government assistance grants which can provide further benefits to people building their own homes.
When looking at different house and land packages it is important to consider the current and future infrastructure of the area. Connection to public transport may not necessarily be of interest to you due to your particular circumstances. However, it is something that can negatively affect you if it isn’t there, particularly if you are looking to rent out the property in the future.
New homes have little or no maintenance in comparison to older pre-lived in homes, adding to peace of mind and purse.
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London Bees Head Coach Rachel Yankey
PFATV: Rachel Yankey
Rachel Yankey studied for her coaching badges with the PFA and is now the Head Coach at London Bees
PFATV talks to former Arsenal and England player and London Bees Head Coach Rachel Yankey.
England and Arsenal legend Rachel Yankey has always been involved in coaching, during her playing career Yankey would coach in the morning at Arsenal before playing in a professional match in the afternoon.
She was keen to test herself and prepare for life after playing so enrolled on the PFA’s coaching courses.
With the help of the PFA she passed her A Licence, a fantastic personal achievement.
So, when the chance to become Head Coach at London Bees came along, it was an opportunity she couldn’t turn down.
Yankey admits the immense responsibly of being Head Coach was at first daunting but she was keen to continue to challenge herself.
Her coaching style mirrors the style of play she was taught as a player, to go out confident and positive, it is up to the opposing team to try and beat them.
Yankey would encourage other players who are still in the game to look ahead to the end of their playing career and use the PFA’s courses as an opportunity to educate and further your career.
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The PFA offer a wide selection of education programmes, and funding is available to support any nationally recognised qualification for current or formermembers. If you’re interested in exploring your next steps, learn more here.
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Exclusive KYLIE MINOGUE The Singles Remixed!
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“Rhythm Of Romance” is a song from the “No Sound But a Heart” album sessions by Scotish Diva Sheena Easton.
No Sound But a Heart was Sheena Easton’s eighth studio album, released in 1987 on the EMI label. The album’s original U.S. release was canceled but some copies were found stateside. The album was issued in Canada, Mexico, Japan, and other Asian markets. The album consisted of midtempo and ballad songs. The disc features Journey’s ex-front man Steve Perry on backing vocals on “Still in Love” and Eugene Wilde on “What If We Fall In Love”.
The release of No Sound But a Heart was hampered in the United States after an EMI America was absorbed into EMI Manhattan records and two scheduled release dates for the album (February and June 1987) were not met.
The album was reissued in 1999 by the One Way Records label, marking the first time it has been officially available in the United States. The album produced one single and video, “Eternity”, written by Prince. The 1999 reissue added several bonus tracks. This was Easton’s final release on the EMI label, where she had started her career. She subsequently moved to MCA Records the following year in 1988.
It is good to listen to Sheena voice again!
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Shirley Temple Net Worth
Film, Television, Public Service
Santa Monica, California, U.S.
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Actress, Singer, Dancer, US Ambassador
Westlake School for Girls
3 (Lori Black, Linda Susan Agar, Charles Alden Black Jr.)
About Shirley Temple Black
Shirley Temple is an icon of an entire era of classic American films. Shirley Jane Temple's net worth at time of death was $30 million dollars.
She was born on the 23rd of April 1928, and first appeared at the age of six in Bright Eyes. This early role skyrocketed her to stardom, and propelled her into such major motion pictures as Heidi and Curly Top. The ultimate child star, she peaked at a young age while appearing as an endearing, little curly haired girl who could sing and tap dance.
After captivating America's hearts as a child she used her fame for endorsement purposes, but stopped in her early twenties to take a break from the spotlight. Temple also became a US Ambassador later in life.
Shirley Temple is an actress, singer, and dancer, was the epitome of an age. To this day her childhood role continues to make the lion's share of her earnings.
The below financial data is gathered and compiled by TheRichest analysts team to give you a better understanding of Shirley Temple Net Worth by breaking down the most relevant financial events such as yearly salaries, contracts, earn outs, endorsements, stock ownership and much more.
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How to Get Rid of Bamboo Naturally
Methods to Remove This Invasive Plant Without Using Herbicides
By David Beaulieu
David Beaulieu
Many people want to know how to get rid of bamboo plants naturally—that is, how to remove them without resorting to the use of herbicides. Indeed, trying to contain one of the "running" types (as opposed to the tamer "clumping" types) is one of the toughest problems known to gardeners and landscapers. Below, we touch upon three ways often discussed and evaluate their merits.
Getting Rid of Bamboo by Digging
To get rid of bamboo naturally, some suggest digging. This method may work for a small stand of bamboo, but it is problematic for larger stands. Pick a shoot to start with and begin digging gingerly around the base. After you have loosened the soil enough to wiggle the plant, tug at it gently. You want to try to pull up as much of the plant and its rhizome system as possible with your tug, as opposed to just ripping it out and leaving a lot of the rhizomes behind. When you have done your best in that area, move onto another shoot, and repeat the process. Chances for success using this method will be enhanced if the soil is moist, so water the affected area beforehand.
Even if you are successful, there will inevitably still be rhizomes left behind in the soil. So carefully excavate down and around your original hole in pursuit of those fugitives! It may help to have a sifter so that you can sift through the soil as you inspect it to locate the rhizomes. Any fraction of a rhizome left behind now will result in a new shoot later, thus mocking your efforts to get rid of bamboo. Indeed, you will probably have to repeat the process many times.
Methods That Employ Tarps and Barriers
Another method used for getting rid of bamboo is smothering it with tarps. However, note that the bamboo plants may be able to outflank the tarps by spreading beyond their perimeters. Therefore, employing tarps can result in the bamboo's popping up somewhere else in the yard—clearly not a desirable result.
To prevent such a result, consider using the tarp tactic in conjunction with burying barriers. That is, many people contain rhizomatous bamboos by sinking plastic barriers into the ground all around them, effectively "fencing" the bamboo in. Barriers should run 30 inches deep; also make sure a couple of inches of barrier extend above the surface so that the rhizomes do not weasel their way over the top of the barrier. Using such a barrier in conjunction with the application of a tarp makes sense: the two tactics complement each other.
If the Above Methods Just Don't "Cut It"
The American Bamboo Society recommends a different approach to getting rid of bamboo: cutting. Since their specialty is bamboo, I would lend the most credence to their advice, which, in sum, runs as follows:
Cut the bamboo shoots down.
Apply water to the area.
Cut down the new crop of bamboo resulting from #2.
Repeat the process until shoots stop coming up.
The idea behind doing all of this is to deplete the reserves of energy in the plants' rhizomes, after which they will not be capable of sending up new shoots. Those reserves are no longer being replaced because you are removing the plants' mechanism to do so—photosynthesis—by depriving them of vegetation. They can only hold out so long without being replenished (although it may seem an eternity if you are itching to be rid of the plants so that you can start a garden in that spot).
As a concluding observation about using this method, the American Bamboo Society writes that, once you are done, "The rhizomes will be left behind, but will rot away." The reason that these old rhizomes will rot away is that they have been depleted of their energy reserves. By contrast, when you use the digging method (discussed above), the rhizomes you leave behind are still fresh—and that is why they generate new shoots (rather than just rotting away).
Not sure if you want to stick to natural methods for removing bamboo? Glyphosate is the chemical herbicide most often used to kill bamboo. If you decide to use glyphosate-based Roundup herbicide, cut the canes (also called "culms") down almost to the ground. Make your cut just below the node closest to the ground. This will expose the hollow tube within—a perfect receptacle to hold herbicide. Just pour the Roundup into the canes, then wait and observe. If vegetation still re-sprouts (which it probably will), apply herbicide directly onto that vegetation. Stay ahead of it, because you will win out only through persistence!
While Polygonum cuspidatum (sometimes called "Japanese bamboo" but more commonly named "Japanese knotweed") is not a true bamboo, it acts somewhat like one. Efforts to control bamboo will be similar to those required to tame Japanese knotweed.
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How to Remove Japanese Knotweed
How to Get Rid of Creeping Charlie
How to Control or Get Rid of Chinese Lanterns
How to Get Rid of Poison Oak Plants
Japanese Knotweed Removal Tips
How to Kill Japanese Knotweed by Choking It Out
Methods for Killing Weeds in Your Yard
American Bittersweet Plants vs. Invasive Oriental Vines
How to Get Rid of Grass
Plant Sumac Trees for Fall Foliage
How to Kill Grass in Your Flower Beds
How to Remove a Tree Stump Without a Grinder
How to Remove Poison Sumac From Your Garden
How to Control Dandelions
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Susan Elkin: Let’s get the boys dancing
The Billy Elliot effect has made a difference but more needs to be done. Photo: Alastair Muir
by Susan Elkin - Sep 18, 2015
The training industry continues to bewail the number of young male dancers it manages to recruit. Yes, the Billy Elliot effect has made a real difference but the old perceptions and stereotypes are still there. When I talk to anybody training young performers – and dancers generally need to be caught young – they are usually very pleased if they can coax a couple of boys into a dance class. In most cases, with honourable and notable exceptions such as the full-time Royal Ballet School, 50%, or anywhere near it, is a long way off.
So I’m delighted to hear that the London Boys Ballet School, which launched last year, has just enrolled its 100th pupil. It follows the Royal Academy of Dance syllabus, recruits all ages (four to 18) and abilities for classes and – so far – boasts a 100% examination pass rate. And of course, it isn’t just ballet. The school teaches a range of dance styles including jazz, contemporary, modern, tap, singing, strength and conditioning, musical theatre training and more. It also brings in guest teachers, puts on shows and takes students out to see performance and meet professionals.
Founded by James Anthony, who has been running part-time schools in Wales for 40 years, the organisation is new in London but it has a long track record of sending its students on to prestigious dance and drama schools. That, and the central location – in Urdang’s new building in Angel, Islington – are clearly helping to drive recruitment.
There’s a healthy emphasis on the LBBS website, too, on the strength and ‘macho’ athletic determination needed to do well in dance. Andy Murray did ballet classes, apparently, so did Christian Bale, who plays Batman, footballer Rio Ferdinand and martial arts expert Jean-Claude Van Damme.
I’m reminded (and I think about it whenever I see a dance performance) of a veteran former dancer and teacher with whom I sat on an advice panel, telling a group of interested students: “Never pick a fight with a dancer. You’ll lose. Dancers have to be physically very powerful indeed.”
Congratulations LBBS on your 100th pupil. Let’s hope you’ll soon be telling us about the 200th.
Agent apprenticeship
An unusual story reached me last week – about a scheme that has enabled a drama-trained graduate to go into working for an agency via an apprenticeship. Cardiff graduate Louisa Palmer, 22, studied drama, performance and media at Atrium: Cardiff School of Creative and Cultural Industries. She is now undertaking an apprenticeship as an assistant agent at the Big Talent School and Agency in Cardiff Bay.
The Big Talent School and Agency includes a drama school, but also represents actors aged three to 26. Palmer’s duties include putting clients forward for roles, assisting with casting sessions, running casting searches, helping with administration and aiding when the school puts on shows and performances.
Itec Training Solutions, which placed Palmer, is one of Wales’ largest providers of skills and employment services based in Cardiff. Its team of more than 170 employers is able to support in excess of 4,000 learners and work in partnership with circa 1,000 employers per year in Wales. Good to see such organisations recognising that there are some very worthwhile opportunities in this industry which is, as readers of this newspaper know, anything but fluffy.
Critical advice
And finally folks, whatever else you read this autumn, Mark Fisher’s new book How to Write About Theatre (Bloomsbury) has to be top of the list. If you’ve ever tapped out so much as a tweet about a show (which is in effect a mini self-published review), then this is the book for you. An awful lot of twaddle is written and said about reviewers and critics (and yes, according to Fisher, there is indeed a difference) and, of course, there is ultimately no single correct way of doing it well. So it’s good to hear a still small voice of calm – authoritative but open minded.
My reviews tend to be written fast, often late at night and very instinctively. I don’t usually consciously think about the elements which inform the writing. It is, I’m now convinced, time I did. Fisher very helpfully breaks down writing about theatre into ways of dealing with things such as audience, production, emotions, context and more. He even discusses star ratings, writing about your own bias (remember how Charles Spencer, former Telegraph lead critic always declared his passion for musicals?), and how to write about culture, society and politics.
Along the way this accessible, moderate, helpful and very thorough book suggests learn-the-ropes exercises. Whether you’re a highly experienced writer about theatre or a raw beginner desperate for advice and training, there is something for you here.
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Brand Reviews February 17, 2017
Nixon Watches Review & Information
Many people judge a watch by its design, sometimes I do too. But there’s so much more that defines a timepiece: quality, movement, size, features, materials, comfortability, durability.…
Stuhrling Watches Review & Information
Stuhrling watches were kind of a mystery for us, but once we tested a few of them, we’ve come to a conclusion. They are not only affordable but…
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Skagen Watches Review & Information
This company from Denmark was founded on minimalist values. The watches they manufacture are simple, clean and aesthetic. In fact, they have a whole different approach to the…
Bulova Watches Review & Information
Is there a perfect watch, that would satisfy every single person on Earth? No, there isn’t. But is there a watch that could fulfill most people’s needs, and…
Daniel Wellington Watch Review & Information
About the brand Daniel Wellington, the company that was founded in 2011, was named after a men, who was wearing an old, vintage watch on weathered NATO straps.…
Brand Reviews January 23, 2017
Komono Watches Review & Information
Introduction Komono, the word means “small things”, but in fact, the founders of the company, Anton Janssens, and Raf Maes designed big things. With Komono watches, they influence…
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Brown Line Kedzie and Rockwell Stations to Re-open Wednesday, August 16
Both the Kedzie and Rockwell stations on the Brown Line will re-open to customers at 4:45 a.m. on Wednesday, August 16. Both stations had been temporarily closed since February 20 as part of the capacity expansion project on the Brown Line. The stations will re-open for service on Wednesday, however, construction work at the stations will continue through fall.
A major portion of the reconstruction has been completed at Kedzie and Rockwell including new glass station houses, new platforms, brighter lighting and accessible features including ramps, tactile edging and accessible gates. A new auxiliary entrance (formerly an exit only) at the west end of the Kedzie station at Spaulding Avenue has also been completed.
Construction crews will continue to work in the weeks ahead to complete construction. These finishing touches include permanent station signs, a compass rose to help customers more easily navigate the system, and new fencing along the alley.
Opening the Kedzie and Rockwell stations brings the total number of accessible CTA rail stations to 74 out of 144, or 51 percent. Providing station enhancements in accordance with American with Disabilities Act (ADA) guidelines is just one important aspect of the project, which also includes building longer platforms to accommodate eight-car trains once the project is completed in 2009 instead of the six-car trains currently in use.
During the temporary closure of the Kedzie and Rockwell stations, rail customers were encouraged to board at nearby stations ? Kimball, Francisco and Western ? or to use existing CTA bus service near the stations. A free bus shuttle also was provided on the select weekends when the Kimball and Francisco stations were closed in order to allow construction crews unlimited access to the Kedzie and Rockwell stations free of rail traffic.
Thirteen other stations on the line are subject to temporary closure at different points during construction. Work will be scheduled so that no two consecutive stations are closed at the same time on weekdays.
Temporary closures are necessary in order to have the type of access needed to extend platforms, make stations accessible, stay within budget and keep the project on schedule.
Construction work will soon be underway at the nearby Francisco and Kimball stations. The Kimball station will temporarily close for four months during its nine month construction period. The Francisco station will close for six months during its 11 month construction period. Both stations will close temporarily in the fall and CTA will provide advance notice and alternate service options for customers as that schedule is finalized.
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Events Affecting CTA Service Beginning Weekend of December 1 - 3
Brown Line Capacity Expansion Project:
CTA is working to expand capacity on the Brown Line. When the work is completed, customers will benefit from longer trains during rush hour and accessible, modern stations and platforms.
Throughout the Brown Line construction project, slow zones and single track operation are periodically necessary near construction activity so, as a general rule, rail customers should allow extra travel time.
Five Brown Line Stations Temporarily Close for Construction This Weekend
The Armitage, Sedgwick and Chicago Brown Line stations will temporarily close from 10 p.m. Friday, December 1 through Sunday, December 3. The Montrose and Addison Brown Line stations will close Saturday, December 2 for 12 months for construction.
From Friday night through Sunday, Brown Line trains will operate only between Kedzie and Fullerton and will not serve the Loop. Normal Brown Line service will resume at 5 a.m. on Monday, December 4 at Armitage, Sedgwick and Chicago stations, but will not resume at Montrose and Addison.
CTA is encouraging southbound Brown Line customers to make the free transfer to the Red Line at Fullerton to complete their trips into the Loop.
CTA will provide a bus shuttle as a substitute for Brown Line rail service between the Fullerton and Clark/Lake stations. The bus shuttle will make stops near the Armitage, Sedgwick, Chicago, Merchandise Mart and Clark/Lake stations.
(See separate releases for details)
63rd Street Closes for Holiday Parade Saturday
The CTA will detour five bus routes off 63rd Street and adjacent streets around the Greater Southwest Development Holiday Parade Saturday, December 2. The parade will assemble on Tripp and Kildare starting at noon, and proceed east on 63rd to Oakley and to 62nd. The street closures will remain in effect until approximately 3:30 p.m.
The affected routes are the #49 Western, #52A South Kedzie, #53A South Pulaski, #63 63rd and #94 South California. Customers should allow extra travel time.
Holiday Train Brightens Blue and Green Line Travel
The festive Holiday Train will brighten the Blue Line on Friday, December 1 and the Green Line on Wednesday, December 6 through Saturday, December 9. The train will make stops at all stations running between approximately 1 p.m. and 9 p.m. on weekends and 3 p.m. and 7 p.m. on weekdays.
For more specific information on dates and times for the Holiday Train, customers should call 836-7000 (any local area code) or visit CTA's web site at www.transitchicago.com.
December 6 - 9
(See separate press release)
Maintenance Work on Red Line Howard Branch Sunday
Northbound Red Line trains will be operating on Purple Line tracks at Morse and Jarvis from 7 a.m. until noon Sunday, December 3. As a result, northbound Red Line trains will be unable to stop at the Morse and Jarvis stations during these hours. Northbound customers who wish to exit at Morse or Jarvis must travel to the Howard station and take a southbound train back to these stations.
Northbound customers who wish to board at Morse or Jarvis must take a southbound train to Loyola and board a northbound train back to Howard. Southbound service is not affected.
Customers should allow extra travel time.
Blue Line Signal Upgrade:
CTA is working to upgrade approximately 20 miles of the existing 40-year-old train control system and power supply equipment from the Forest Park terminal of the Blue Line Forest Park branch through the Dearborn subway to the Jefferson Park station of the Blue Line O'Hare branch.
These systems ensure the safe operation and movement of trains and the appropriate speed and distance between trains as well as help CTA personnel manage rail service in the event of an emergency. The upgraded signal system will result in improved reliability of service for Blue Line customers, and also includes upgrades to the power cables and communication system needed to connect the Red Line State Street subway and Blue Line Dearborn Street subway.
Late Night Single Track in Effect on Blue Line Forest Park Branch Friday
A single track will be in effect between the Racine and LaSalle stations from 11 p.m. Friday, December 1 until 8 a.m. Saturday, December 2. North and southbound customers boarding at the Halsted, Clinton and LaSalle stations must board on the southbound side of the platform.
Late Night Single Track in Effect on Blue Line Forest Park Branch Next Week
A single track will be in effect between Forest Park and Lathrop from midnight Monday, December 4 until 3:30 a.m. Tuesday, December 5 and again in the same location, during the same hours Tuesday and Wednesday nights, December 5 and December 6.
During the Monday and Tuesday single tracks, customers boarding and exiting at the Forest Park station must do so on the south side of the platform. During the Wednesday single track, north and southbound customers boarding at the Forest Park station must board on the north side of the platform.
Another single track will be in effect between the Forest Park and Harlem stations from 11 p.m. Thursday, December 7 until 4 a.m. Friday, December 8. Customers boarding and exiting at the Forest Park and Harlem stations must do so on the south side of the platform.
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Events Affecting CTA Service Beginning Weekend of March 7-9
A Reminder for CTA Customers: Daylight Saving Time begins on Sunday, March 9 and clocks are to be set forward one hour.
Slow Zone Work
Southbound Red Line Trains to Temporarily Reroute to Elevated Tracks Next Week
While work is under way to eliminate slow zones, southbound Red Line trains that normally operate through the subway between the Fullerton and Cermak-Chinatown stations will reroute to the elevated tracks from 6 a.m. Saturday, March 8 until 6 p.m. Sunday, March 9. Elevated stations are located within a block of Red Line subway stations in the Loop. Customers are advised to allow extra travel time.
Red Line trains will operate normally between the Fullerton and Howard stations and between the Cermak-Chinatown and 95th stations.
Rerouted trains will stop at the following elevated stations between Fullerton and Cermak-Chinatown: Sedgwick, Chicago/Franklin, Merchandise Mart, Clark/Lake, State/Lake, Randolph/Wabash, Madison/Wabash, Adams/Wabash and Roosevelt/Wabash. The Merchandise Mart station is available as an exit only (via stairway) on Saturday morning from 1 a.m. to 5 a.m. and on Sunday morning from 12:50 a.m. to 7:10 a.m.
(see separate release for additional details)
Red and Brown Line Trains Temporarily Reroute at Fullerton
From 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. on Saturday, March 8 and Sunday, March 9, southbound Red and Brown Line trains will be temporarily rerouted to the northbound Red Line tracks at Fullerton while crews conduct slow zone elimination work.
Southbound Red and Brown Line customers at Fullerton will board and exit trains from the northbound Red Line side of the platform. Northbound Red Line customers must board and exit trains where northbound Brown Line trains stop.
During this time, southbound Brown Line trains will be unable to stop at Wellington. Southbound Brown Line customers who wish to exit at Wellington should exit at Fullerton and board a northbound train to Wellington. Customers boarding at Wellington who wish to head southbound should board a northbound train and exit at Belmont to board a southbound train.
In addition, #76 Diversey buses will reroute from 5 a.m. until
6 p.m. on Saturday,March 8 and Sunday, March 9 due to street closure for the construction work. Buses will operate in both directions via Diversey, Sheffield, Fullerton, Halsted and return to Diversey to resume the regular route.
Customers are advised to allow extra travel time.
From 8 p.m. each night until 4 a.m. the following morning beginning Monday, March 10 through Thursday, March 13, southbound Red and Brown Line trains will be temporarily rerouted to the northbound Red Line tracks at Fullerton while crews conduct slow zone work.
During this time, southbound Red and Brown Line customers must board and exit trains on the northbound Red Line side of the platform. Northbound Red Line customers must board and exit trains where northbound Brown Line trains stop.
During the same hours, southbound Brown Line trains will be unable to stop at Wellington. Southbound Brown Line customers who wish to exit at Wellington should exit at Fullerton and board a northbound train to Wellington. Customers boarding at Wellington who wish to head southbound should board a northbound train and exit at Belmont to board a southbound train.
Daytime Single Track in Effect on Brown Line This Weekend
A single track will be in effect on the Brown Line between the Paulina and Addison stations from 7 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Saturday, March 8.
Northbound customers at the Paulina and Addison stations must board and exit trains on the southbound platform.
Northbound Red Line Trains Temporarily Reroute at Sheridan
Northbound Red Line trains will be temporarily rerouted to operate on the Purple Express tracks from 7 a.m. until,br>3:30 p.m. Saturday, March 8 and again during the same hours on Sunday, March 9.
During these times, northbound customers at Sheridan will board and exit trains on the Purple Express side of the platform.
Northbound Red Line trains at Sheridan will operate on the northbound Purple Express tracks from 10:50 a.m. until
2 p.m. each day beginning Tuesday, March 11 through Friday, March 14.
Daytime Reroute at Fullerton
Northbound Red Line trains will be temporarily rerouted to the Brown Line tracks at Fullerton from 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. each day beginning Monday, March 10 through Friday, March 14.
Northbound Red Line customers at Fullerton must board and exit trains on the Brown Line side of the platform.
Other Events Affecting Service
Single Track in Effect on Red Line,br>A single track will be in effect between the Grand and Roosevelt stations on the Red Line from midnight each night until 4 a.m. the following morning on Monday, March 10, Tuesday, March 11 and Thursday, March 13.
Northbound Red Line customers at the Roosevelt, Harrison, Jackson, Monroe and Lake stations must board and exit trains on the southbound side of the platform.
Single Track in Effect on O'Hare Branch of Blue Line This Weekend
A single track will be in effect between the Damen and Grand stations from 10 p.m. Saturday, March 8 until 8 a.m. Sunday, March 9.
Southbound customers at the Division, Grand and Chicago stations must board and exit trains on the northbound side of the platform.
Howard Station Construction
The northbound platform at the Howard Red Line station will be temporarily out of service for construction work from 8 p.m. Friday, March 7 until 2 a.m. Monday, March 10. Customers must board trains from the southbound platform.
#201 Central/Ridge buses will temporarily reroute from 7 p.m. Friday, March 7 until5 a.m. Monday, March 10. Buses will operate via Ashland, Howard, Rogers, Sheridan, Howard and Rogers to Howard via the Howard Terminal. Customers will board westbound buses at Ashland/Howard.
Single Track in Effect on Dan Ryan Branch of the Red Line
A single track will be in effect between the Red Line's Cermak and Roosevelt stations from 8 p.m. Sunday, March 9 until
4:30 a.m. Monday, March 10.
Northbound customers at Cermak must board and exit trains on the southbound side of the platform.
#19 United Center Express Serves Bulls, Blackhawks and Concerts
CTA will operate its #19 United Center Express buses on the following dates and times:
Sunday, March 9 at 2 p.m. " Blackhawks versus Edmonton Oilers
Tuesday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m. " Bulls versus Utah Jazz
Wednesday, March 12 at 7:30 p.m. " Blackhawks versus Carolina Hurricanes
Friday, March 14 at 7:30 p.m. " Bulls versus Philadelphia 76ers
Buses will leave every 12 minutes from Michigan and Superior starting two hours before game time until 30 minutes before the events begin. When the game ends, #19 buses will depart the United Center approximately every 15 minutes for one hour.
#19 buses will make all stops on Michigan from Superior to Washington, and on Madison from Wabash to Clinton. From Clinton, #19 buses run express to the United Center.
After the game, #19 buses will await customers on the north side of the United Center eastbound on Madison near Gate 3. On the return trip, #19 buses operate through downtown east on Washington to Wacker, then head south to Monroe and east to Michigan, making all stops from Jefferson to Michigan before turning north on Michigan and making all stops from Randolph to Chicago.
Buses Continue to Reroute Due to Construction
Westbound #70 Division buses continue to undergo reroutes until Friday, March 21 due to street repairs at Division and Kolmar.
Buses will travel over the regular route to Kostner then will operate via Kostner, Augusta, Cicero then return to Division and resume the regular route.
Helicopter Lift on State Street
A helicopter lift will take place on State Street on Saturday, March 8 from 9 a.m. until10 a.m. Red Line customers at Madison will be redirected to other nearby entrances during this time as the lift occurs near the Madison/Monroe station entrance.
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An Edwardian gem of a restored Bed and Breakfast is among numerous historic homes and hotels that offer accommodation in Victoria, British Columbia. Beaconsfield Inn
Staying in lovingly-restored boutique hotels, historic inns and character-laced bed and breakfast properties has become a significant part of vacation planning for many mature travelers. There are plenty of feature articles in our collection that offer a peek through the front door of some distinctive accommodations whether your travels take you across Canada or the U.S., to the Caribbean, Mexico, Asia or Europe. You will even find historic treasures in some surprising places like Hawaii and Alaska!
A week exploring canals and lochs aboard the Scottish Highlander barge offers a memorable sleep with history. European Waterways
We have also highlighted some multi-day experiences “on the move” – historic canal barges and narrow boats, trains of an earlier era and small-ship coastal vessels whose original purpose was not tourism – all providing equal opportunity to do some sleeping with history.
This is one of a series of travel theme pages we have prepared to showcase popular articles by regional destination or topic of particular interest to our readers. Enjoy browsing the entire theme collection!
Have you ever stayed at an historic accommodation that was built as an emigrant center, or served as a refugee center or been a prison before it was transformed into an acclaimed international hotel and richly-artistic “embassy”? How about all of the above? Alison Gardner shares her stay at this unique, playful property.
In the Fall of 2014, a new 7,000-kilometer luxury train journey was unveiled between Budapest, Hungary and Tehran, Iran (think Persia!). Its first 15-day trip sold out in just 10 days. Ride along through five countries as Sophie Ibbotson and Max Lovell-Hoare share their adventures and insights, including appreciative glimpses of Persia’s archaeological treasures, and warm encounters with the Iranian people. More journeys are scheduled for 2015 and 2016.
It is rare that a government makes a good accommodation host. Spain is the exception. The country’s collection of paradors, or historic venues converted to one-of-a-kind properties dating back to medieval times, offer a thrilling opportunity to sleep with history. And, these paradores are found throughout the country!
La Belle Province de Québec offers Canada’s finest collection of opportunities to explore, eat and sleep with a deep-rooted culture and history dating back four centuries. This article spotlights an amazing variety of historic “sleeps” in Old Montréal, the Eastern Townships and Old Québec City.
Eastern & Orient’s restored rail car service whisks readers over 1,943 kilometers or 1,165 miles in the pure luxury of a bygone era from Singapore through Malaysia to Thailand while sampling the trappings and gastronomic delights previously accessible only to a galaxy of kings, queens, presidents, dictators, millionaires and theatrical stars.
Celebrating 432 years of history, stay at the original breeding and training estate for the dazzling white Lipizzan horses with dancing feet. Once the exclusive preserve of kings and nobles, it now welcomes international vacationers for shows, tours, horseback riding lessons, and carriage rides while staying on the estate.
Wrapped in 400 years of colonial history, Northeast Florida’s Amelia Island and the picturesque city of St. Augustine a little further south each offer a host of uniquely-furnished historic sleeps. A welcome bonus is the wide variety of signature breakfast cuisine that leave visitors begging for recipes.
Explore the Scottish Highlands from the Atlantic Ocean to the North Sea on a one-week barge cruise through the Caledonian Canal, Loch Ness and other lakes [lochs] of the deeply-chiseled Great Glen. There will be heather-clad hills and clan castles that reflect this ancient land’s colorful history, and the famous Scotch whiskey guaranteed!
Southwest Nova Scotia’s Evangeline Trail is perfect for the independent road tripper, inviting close-up encounters with nature (especially birds and marine life), 400 years of settler history, fresh cuisine at every turn, and one-of-a-kind historic sleeps that will erase any desire to return home.
A self-guided narrow boat exploration of the Trent & Mersey Canal in the North Midlands of England offers a taste of Britain’s network of historic canals for adventurous senior vacationers navigating an authentic 45-foot-long, 7-foot-wide narrow boat through tight spaces, many locks and beautiful English countryside.
Small-scale, owner-operated hotels, inns and guest houses are an essential part of Trinidad’s history and rural charm where you can expect attentive hospitality and the finest in fresh, local cuisine from lip-licking homemade coconut ice cream and mango cheesecake to Creole and Caribbean dishes with a Trinbagonian twist!
Visit Québec’s Iles de la Madeleine (Magdalen Islands) in the Gulf of St Lawrence while enjoying Acadian history, fabulous seafood cuisine and a chance to stay in an historic mansion or a finely-restored former convent school for girls, now offering memorable sleeps in these picturesque islands.
Marine mammal lovers will find vacation heaven in the historic sawmill village of Telegraph Cove on Vancouver Island with days spent tracking and learning about local whales, dolphins, sea lions and porpoises, and nights spent either sleeping in the original workers’ accommodation or on an authentically-restored logging boat.
Originally built as a Scottish munitions carrier in 1917, our Burgundy barge offers a classic cruise adventure, barging the picturesque Canal du Nivernais from Clamecy to Auxerre, while sampling the region’s distinctive cuisine and enjoying daily excursions to historic chateaux, medieval towns and wine tastings en route.
Take a cruise through the lock system of Ontario’s Rideau Canal or drive the beautiful countryside along the canal route while staying at historic accommodations. Learn why this 179-year-old waterway is unique in North America, making it a worthy UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Tucson, Arizona offers several historic hotels, manicured gardens and character accommodations, dating back to the 1870s. Whether rescued from the wrecker’s ball or lovingly nurtured through generations of proud ownership, Tucson’s treasures will add richness to any stay in this gracious, perfect-size desert city.
Long a popular day-stop on Alaska’s summer cruise ship circuit, Juneau, Alaska’s capital, is worth a longer visit, with a wide range of character accommodations and eclectic eateries, abundant accessible nature, colorful native culture and rich pioneer settler history.
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While the palace-sized Empress Hotel has reigned for a century as a Victoria, British Columbia landmark, smaller-scale “crown jewel” accommodations have carved a creative niche in this capital city’s tourism market by offering guests a variety of signature experiences for sleeping and eating.
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Cauvery row: Rajnikant observes fast
Chennai, October 13
Leaders of various political parties, including the DMK, BJP and Congress, thousands of fans and scores of film personalities today rallied behind Tamil film superstar Rajnikant when he sat on a nine-hour fast near the Chepauk cricket stadium in the city, demanding immediate release of Cauvery water by Karnataka.
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Tamil film superstar Rajnikant (2nd from left) on a nine-hour fast in Chennai on Sunday. Actors Vijaykumar, Sarath Kumar, Nepolean and actress Radhika Sarathkumar are also seen in the picture.
— PTI photo
Another feather in NHRC’s cap
New Delhi, October 13
President A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, the supreme commander of the armed forces, has sanctioned Rs 3 lakh interim relief to a woman from Manipur whose husband had disappeared while in the custody of 17 Assam Rifles.
6 Abu Salem men to face trial
Manisha secy’s murder case
Mumbai, October 13
A Sessions Court will tomorrow record evidence against six members of the Abu Salem gang, who had allegedly shot dead Ajit Dewani, secretary of film stars Manisha Koirala, Aftab Shivdasani and Lisa Ray, in June last year.
BJP harps on achievements
The BJP today announced its achievements in the three years of the NDA rule at the Centre and pointed out that Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee was the longest-serving Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi.
VHP warns NDA govt of snapping ties
Udaipur, October 13
The VHP today warned that it would be forced to snap ties with the NDA government at the Centre if did not handle firmly the growing menace of terrorism in the country.
Priyanka Chatterjee,7, portrays goddess Durga in front of an idol, during the traditional ‘Durga Puja’ celebration in Kolkata, on Sunday. — Reuters
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Mr Robert Vadra, husband of Priyanka Gandhi, sells his handicraft products to foreign buyers at a Indian handicrafts and gift fair (autumn) at Pragati Maidan in the Capital on Sunday.
— A Tribune photograph
People perform the Monastic dance, which is performed mainly by monks, at the inauguration of a three-day Buddha festival at a monastery in Tawang district of Arunachal Pradesh on Sunday. — Reuters
Salman to apply for bail afresh
Actor Salman Khan, allegedly involved in a hit-and-run case which claimed one life, will be produced tomorrow before a local court here, which will decide on his bail plea depending on the progress in the investigation.
Sanjay, 88 accused to appear today
In keeping with a judicial order, film actor Sanjay Dutt and 88 other accused in the 1993 bomb blast case will appear before a Special Court tomorrow even as the CBI has sought time until October 21 to submit arguments in the last phase of the marathon trial.
One injured in Solapur police firing
Solapur , October 13
One person was injured in the riot-torn district when the police resorted to firing to disperse two clashing groups in Vijayanagar area today. Two groups had a confrontation around 3 p.m. at Nai Zindagi Chowk and the police had to open fire to disperse them.
Bangladesh ‘haven’ for anti-India ultras
Bangladesh has become a hotbed of terrorists waging a war against India, and its intelligence agents have been maintaining contact with their counterparts in Pakistan’s ISI, according to the latest issue of “Time”.
Railways told to compensate passengers
The Delhi State Consumer Dispute Redressal Commission has ordered the Railways to pay Rs 2,500 as costs for filing a “frivolous” appeal to delay the proceedings in a case of gold-chain snatching of two women passengers and also found it guilty of being deficient in service.
Industrialist axed to death
Varanasi, October 13
Industrialist and owner of Annapurna Mills Atram Dhandhania was axed to death at his residence in the Kashi Vidyapith area this afternoon.
At the end of his nine-hour-long fast, which clearly established his individual popularity, he sipped a glass of juice offered by a little girl and then drove to the Raj Bhavan, where he presented a memorandum to Governor P.S. Rammohan’s Secretary, as the Governor was out of station.
Speaking briefly after ending the fast, the actor, hailing from Karnataka, said it was in the hands of the Supreme Court and the Karnataka Government to decide whether his fast was a success. “The Supreme Court order should be obeyed and Karnataka should release water” was his brief comment.
He also thanked the state government and leaders of various political parties for extending their unstinted support to his struggle.
The fast by the actor came a day after the Tamil film industry organised a mammoth rally in Neyveli, where they demanded disconnection of power to Karnataka from the Neyveli Lignite Corporation thermal power stations.
Film director and convener of the “Kalaiyulaga Cauvery Poratta Kuzhu” (Tinselworld Cauvery Agitation Committee), K. Bharati Raja, hit out at DMK president and Rajnikant, who had opposed the idea of stopping power to Karnataka from Neyveli stations.
Rajnikant began his fast at 8 am with only veteran actor Vijaykumar by his side. As the day wore on, many of his colleagues, including the South Indian Film Artistes’ Association president, Vijaykant, turned up to greet him. The notable absentee was Bharati Raja. PTI
The Defence Ministry has conveyed this in its compliance report sent to the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) which had earlier directed Ministries of Defence and Home to pay an immediate interim relief of Rs 3 lakh to Meena Khatoon whose husband Mohammad. Tayeb Ali had disappeared from the custody of Assam Rifles and was not seen thereafter, NHRC sources told UNI.
This is a significant victory for the NHRC which has been consistently demanding that human rights violation by the defence personnel be brought under its ambit and they be made accountable.
Meena of Keirang Muslim village in Imphal had complained to the Manipur Human Rights Commission (MHRC) saying her husband was picked up by uniformed Army personnel on July 25, 1999, while he was going from his village towards Imphal on a two-wheeler. He and his moped were put inside a van which was without a number plate and carried inside the battalion headquarters of 17 Assam Rifles.
An acquaintance of Ali, who had followed the van in a taxi, informed about this to the victim’s family. But all efforts to find Ali by his family and villagers were resisted by security personnel at the headquarters and he remained untraceable since then, the complaint had stated.
The MHRC considered the matter, examined five witnesses and issued notices to the Inspector-General of Police (Law and Order) who informed the commission that the DGP of Imphal had issued messages to all police authorities concerned in Manipur to find Ali. The police took up the matter with Assam Rifles, but was told that no individual by the name of Mohammad. Tayab Ali was picked up by any of its unit. The state commission then referred the matter to the NHRC as it related to the “armed forces.’’
Thereafter, the NHRC using its power under Section 19 of the Protection of Human Rights Act, 1993, called for a report from the Defence Ministry and the Union Home Ministry, the sources said.
In its report the Defence Ministry informed the NHRC that Assam Rifles had received information that some insurgents after firing on CRPF personnel were fleeing towards Dimarpur so a team was established to apprehend them. The team tried to stop a speeding vehicle upon which there was exchange of fire and one person died while the driver of the vehicle managed to escape. The dead was later identified as Mohammad Tayab Ali and his body was handed over to the local police. UNI
The charges were framed against the accused last week by designated judge A.M. Thipsay, presiding over a special court set up under the Maharashtra Control of Organised Crime Act (MCOCA).
Abu Salem, facing charge of illegal stay in Lisbon, is absconding accused in this case. His case is likely to be separated from other accused and will be tried as and when he is available to the police in India.
The accused are Upendra Singh, Deepak Singh, Akhilesh Kumar Singh, alias Kallu, Nizamuddhin Abdul Rauf Khan, Ayub Ibrahim Patel and Saheblah Santoshi Giri, alias Goswami.
They are charged with offences under Section 3 of MCOCA (committing organised crime activities, abetting offences and harbouring offenders), Sections 25 and 27 of the Arms Act (for possessing weapons and using them in the crime) and Section 120, IPC (conspiracy).
They are also facing the charges of house trespass (Section 449, IPC) and criminal intimidation (Section 506 IPC).
According to the prosecution, the deceased was the secretary of three film stars and the gangsters had asked him to pay extortion amount. As he failed to pay the money, he was killed by the gangsters on June 30, 2001.
The gangsters, armed with lethal weapons, barged into victim’s premises in suburban Andheri and shot him at point blank range. After committing the crime, they escaped from the scene. Dewani died on the spot. PTI
Apparently feeling the heat with its popularity chart dipping, the BJP attempted to play on the front foot through Deputy Prime Minister L.K. Advani, who asserted that the NDA had provided the country with the much-needed political stability and an honest government at the Centre.
Speaking at a function at the BJP Headquarters here the Deputy Prime Minister said, “It is a matter of pride that Vajpayee has been the Prime Minister since 1998 .... and very soon he will become the longest serving Prime Minister after Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi”.
Stating that Mr Vajpayee has been providing leadership to the country for four-and-a-half-years now, Mr Advani said in eight years before the NDA Prime Minister assumed office, there had been five to six Prime Ministers.
“Even now we can say that Mr Vajpayee is the longest non-Congress Prime Minister to be in power,” he said.
The Deputy Prime Minister said the NDA Government had given political stability and an able and honest government to the country and added that one of its major achievements was that it had included regional parties in the national government.
“We have strengthened both federalism and democracy,” he said.
Mr Advani said the proposal for linking the major rivers was being given a serious thought as its need was being felt all the more because of the drought-like situation in different parts of the country.
Mr Vajpayee saw a presentation on the project before he left on a three-nation tour and efforts are on how to carry it forward, he said.
Speaking on the occasion, BJP President M Venkaiah Naidu said the completion of three years of the NDA government had proved the Congress wrong that it alone could provide stability.
“We have proved that the coalition of 23 parties has given a stable government, he said and asserted that the country had progressed in leaps and bounds in every sector, transforming itself from a country of shortages to one of surpluses.
However, he said, there were several challenges before the government and the important ones included wiping out terrorism and checking infiltration, particularly in the North-East.
On the drought situation in the country, he demanded that interest on loans to farmers should be waived off there was drought for two consecutive years and said the proposal for linking major rivers like Ganga, Cauvery, Godavari and Krishna should be expedited to help check both floods and drought and also to boost navigation.
He suggested a mid-term review of the government’s functioning to analyse what had been promised and what had been done.
Mr Naidu rubbished Congress President Sonia Gandhi’s allegation that the Centre was not giving enough assistance to states to tackle drought.
A number of Union Ministers and senior party functionaries were also present on the occasion.
The VHP today warned that it would be forced to snap ties with the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government at the Centre if did not handle firmly the growing menace of terrorism in the country.
It also demanded that the Centre should forthwith stop the policy of appeasement of minorities.
Talking to mediapersons here, VHP National Secretary Surendra Jain alleged that there was no difference in the policy of minority appeasement being pursued by the NDA government and the Congress.
He accused the Centre of adopting this policy also on the pretext of “secularism’’.
However, the VHP leader was all praise for the Union Government on its successful completion of the poll process in Jammu and Kashmir Assembly “to keep democracy alive there.”
Mr Jain urged the Centre to hold talks with elected people’s representatives to sort out the problems being faced by Jammu and Kashmir otherwise, the election might be rendered unfruitful. UNI
The actor’s lawyer Abad Ponda is all set to move a fresh petition for bail as Salman’s plea for liberty was turned down by the court on October 10.
Magistrate S.Y. Shisode had asked the police to inform on October 14 the progress made in tracing the owner of the vehicle involved in the mishap.
The prosecution had told the court that a team had gone to Kerala to trace Abdul Rahim from whom Salman had procured the car. The actor allegedly rammed his vehicle into a bakery on September 28 in suburban Bandra killing one person and injuring four others. Salman was arrested on the same day on the charge of causing death by negligence and granted bail. He was again arrested on October 7 on the charge of culpable homicide (Section 304-II of the IPC).
Salman’s lawyer has questioned the police action to arrest the actor afresh in the same case. He said only the Magistrate could cancel Salman’s bail, not the police.
The defence lawyer has also challenged the police move to book the actor under Section 304-II. According to him, this section presumes knowledge on the part of the accused to kill a person. PTI
On a plea by defence lawyers Farhana Shah and Subhash Kanse, 89 accused, including Sanjay, had been exempted till October 14 by judge P.D. Kode. The court has summoned them tomorrow.
The CBI has sought time to conclude its arguments in this marathon trial which has reached its fag end after seven years. The agency pleaded that it was seeking time as its officer had gone to Lisbon to seek extradition of notorious gangster Abu Salem, also an absconding accused in this case.
In a related development, accused Shaikh Aziz has challenged the constitutional validity of the TADA (P) Act. His lawyer, Nafiz Siddiqui, argued that the Act was ultravires the constitution and the special court should make a reference to the Supreme Court to determine the validity of the Act.
CBI lawyer S. Natrajan, on September 16, opposed the plea of the accused to make a reference to the Supreme Court. He said the Special Court had no powers to entertain such a petition. He also opined that the accused should have gone directly to the apex court instead of approaching the designated TADA (P) court.
The court is yet to pass order on Shaikh Aziz’s petition. PTI
One person was injured in the riot-torn district when the police resorted to firing to disperse two clashing groups in Vijayanagar area today.
Two groups had a confrontation around 3 p.m. at Nai Zindagi Chowk and the police had to open fire to disperse them.
The injured was admitted to Solapur Civil Hospital, the police said, adding that 45 persons were arrested in this connection.
The situation continued to remain tense for the third consecutive day here, with sporadic incidents of rioting since morning despite the imposition of curfew and the deployment of the Rapid Action Force.
Curfew, which was imposed till 6 a.m. today, was relaxed till 8.30 a.m. and later reimposed indefinitely, the police said. UNI
Quoting sources in the Indian intelligence and Bangladesh’s largest Al-Qaida allied terrorist group Harkat-ul-Jihad-al-Islami (HUJI), the magazine said agents of Bangladesh’s military intelligence service DGFI, “maintain their contact with their counterparts in the ISI and have a long history of supporting rebels fighting Indian rule across the border, including providing safe houses in Dhaka for leaders of (banned) ULFA”.
A HUJI source told the magazine that 150 men belonging to “Taliban and Al-Qaida fighters from Afghanistan” had entered Bangladesh through the Chittagong harbour in December. They came in a boat with ammunition and AK-47 rifles.
The source in the 2,000-strong HUJI and port workers, who saw the boats arrival, claimed that the man who greeted the new arrivals was a Major in the DGFI even though a spokesman for the intelligence service denied the Major’s existence despite diplomatic registration records showing the officer was a long-standing member of the DGFI and was once posted in Kolkata, posing as a diplomat.
According to the magazine, the HUJI source and a Bangladesh military source maintained that the Major was the last line in an operation that began in Afghanistan.
“Time”, which quoted reports from Cairo, Jakarta and Washington, said: “The emergence of the Al-Qaida in Dhaka is merely the latest sign that Bangladesh’s more radical Islamic groups are coming out from the forests.” PTI
Dismissing an appeal filed by Northern Railway, commission president Justice Lokeshwar Prasad and member Rumnita Mittal said: “Instead of filing this frivolous appeal, Northern Railway should have taken remedial measures to ensure that innocent passengers do not become prey to anti-social elements while travelling by train.”
The complainant, Amar Nath Aggarwal, had alleged that in the wee hours of April 25, 1991, some persons snatched a gold chain worth Rs 12,000 from his wife and another chain valued at Rs 20,000 from another woman.
The forum had found the Railways guilty of deficiency in service and had ordered it to pay Rs 32,000 for the loss of the gold chains and Rs 50,000 for mental agony and torture suffered by the passengers. The Railways had contended that it was the duty of the passengers to keep their belongings safely and it was not responsible for the personal belongings of the passengers.
Holding that the appeal filed by the Railways was not only delayed but also devoid of merits, the commission said the passengers suffered the loss and trauma due to the defect, deficiency and negligence on the part of the Railways. PTI
A man with a ‘katar’ (a sharp-edged weapon) was arrested while trying to flee from the spot, police sources said adding the industrialist was perhaps killed with the seized weapon.
Senior police officials rushed to the spot and were conducting investigations. PTI
FOUR UP COPS SUSPENDED
LUCKNOW: Four personnel of a district Special Operations Group (SOG) have been placed under suspension for allegedly kidnapping a person and later getting him ‘released’ from the clutches of abductors in a bid to win applause. The DGP office said here on Sunday that a case of kidnapping of S.C. Verma was registered at a police station of Bulandshahr district on October 12. Soon after, Mr Verma was shown to have been freed. UNI
4 ULTRAS HELD IN MANIPUR
IMPHAL: Four militants of two valley-based organisations were arrested by a combined police commando team from separate places on Saturday. The police said on Sunday that two ultras, identified as Salam Jiban Singh and Premjit Singh of the United National Liberation Front were arrested from Ithai village bazar under Kumbi police station. In another incident, two People’s Liberation Army (PLA) activists, identified as M. Surjit Singh and L. Chalamba Singh, were arrested from Kakching Khunour Bazar under Waikhong police station. UNI
12 KILLED IN BIHAR ROAD MISHAP
BIHARSHARIF: Twelve persons, including a woman, were killed and nine others injured when a minibus collided head on with a truck near Manglasthan on the Patna-Ranchi National Highway in Nalanda district on Sunday, the police said. The accident took place when the driver of the over-crowded minibus coming to Biharsharif from Deepnagar lost control and rammed into a speeding Ranchi-bound truck coming from the opposite direction. PTI
EXPRESS PASSENGERS ROBBED AT GUNPOINT
KANPUR: Armed robbers struck passengers of the Allahabad-bound Ambala-Allahabad Unchahaar Express early Sunday. A police spokesman said here that about half-a-dozen robbers boarded the train from Etawaha and snatched money and other belongings from passengers at gunpoint. They robbed at least 13 passengers, the spokesman added. UNI
CPI LEADER BHIKHARI NATH DEAD
PATNA: Veteran CPI leader and one of the party’s founder members in Bihar, Bhikhari Nath, died here on Saturday night after prolonged illness, party sources said on Sunday. He was 82. PTI
BSP EX-PRESIDENT’S HOUSE ATTACKED
LUCKNOW: The former state BSP President’s house was attacked here on Saturday when two unidentified persons hurled a countrymade bomb on it, the police said on Sunday. No one was injured in the attack. Daya Ram Pal was not present in his house when it was attacked, the police added. PTI
EIGHT PILGRIMS KILLED
LAKHIMPUR(KHERI): Eight pilgrims were killed and 20 injured when their tractor trailer collided head-on with a bus in this district of Uttar Pradesh on Sunday, police sources said here. The mishap occurred near Sansarpur village when the tractor trailer was on its way from the Purnagiri temple to Lucknow. PTI
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TV and multimedia content producer Zinc Media Group has appointed Roy Ackerman as managing director of Films of Record and director of International Strategy, TV. Prior to joining Zinc Media, Ackerman served as managing director at Pulse Films. In his new role, he will help develop Films of Record and work with Zinc’s senior management to continue the company’s business strategy in the U.S. and global market.
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Stringer Still Thinking About Senate Run | Village Voice
Stringer Still Thinking About Senate Run
by Tom Robbins
Manhattan beep Scott Stringer says he’s still eyeing a possible primary against Kirsten Gillibrand despite President Obama’s successful move last week to get Long Island Dem Steve Israel to stand down.
Either that or he’s still waiting for his own White House call and an offer of a sweet ambassadorship.
“Borough President Stringer respects Congressman Israel’s decision and continues to explore his options for a potential run,” says Stringer campaign spokesman, Eric Pugatch of Knickerbocker SKD.
Stringer launched an exploratory committee last month saying Gillibrand does not represent “core Democratic values” regarding issues such as guns and immigration. What started as a lark picked up speed as other Democrats encouraged him to make the challenge.
Also unmoved by the Israel withdrawal is another potential challenger, Manhattan congresswoman Carolyn Maloney. In a statement released yesterday Maloney said: “Steve Israel’s decision to not run for the U.S. Senate was his choice to make, but it doesn’t affect my decision-making process.”
Yet to be heard from is Long Island congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy who had the toughest comments on Gillibrand immediately after the upstate congresswoman was picked by Governor Paterson to fill Hillary Clinton’s senate slot.
Meanwhile, state Senate majority leader Malcolm Smith is ready to fall right in line and endorse Gillibrand, reports The News’ Liz Benjamin. Smith is the first of what Senator Chuck Schumer — Gillibrand’s biggest booster — hopes will be an onslaught of endorsements.
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Couple accused of stealing nearly $190k from…
Couple accused of stealing nearly $190k from western Wisconsin church
By The Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis. |
A former church treasurer and her husband have been charged in St. Croix County Court with stealing nearly $190,000 in church funds over about 10 years.
Kara K. Amundson LaVenture, 42, and Michael J. LaVenture, 45, of rural Roberts are each charged with five felony counts of theft in a business setting, while Kara LaVenture also faces a felony count of identity theft. Both are scheduled for preliminary hearings on Jan. 3.
According to court records:
Officials at New Centerville United Methodist Church have known since May 2015 that Kara LaVenture admitted to embezzling funds from the church, but church officials kept it secret. No annual audits were conducted about the church’s finances.
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The church’s insurance company said it would not cover a claim unless a police report was filed, which a church official later filed.
Michael LaVenture, who told police he was not involved with the thefts, estimated the amount stolen at about $39,392 and said it would be repaid in three installments.
Auditors instead estimated Kara LaVenture, a volunteer treasurer from February 2006 through May 2015, had stolen $189,448 in checks and cash.
Kara LaVenture is also accused of using the church’s information to open a credit card account without church approval, and of using that card for charges to several hotels, gas stations and clothing retailers, including Victoria’s Secret.
The Leader-Telegram, Eau Claire, Wis.
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Jeanne Socrates is heading north after passing the French Polynesian Islands. (File submitted/Jeanne Socrates)
Victoria senior sails past Tahiti on her journey to break world record
Jeanne Socrates is on track to be the oldest person to sail the world on a solo trip
Jeanne Socrates is heading north after passing the French Polynesian Islands on the 280th day of her global sail.
The 76-year-old Victoria resident is aiming to break the world record as the oldest person to sail around the world on a solo trip. She already earned the title as the oldest woman to do so in 2013.
Socrates launched her ship, Nerida, on Oct. 2, 2018, from Victoria. Now, on day 280, she is just shy of the equator on her journey home.
ALSO READ: Senior sailor en route to Victoria after near-disaster during trip around the world
In the past few weeks, Socrates faced rough waters while heading towards Tahiti from New Zealand.
“It’s been rough now for so many days, I’ve lost count … and seas are set to continue tossing us around at just over 4 [metres] for another two days at least,” she wrote in her blog. “The best, safest place to be is on or in my bunk – moving around the heeled, ever-lurching boat in these very big, rough seas is difficult, so kept to a minimum.”
On day 280 of her sail, Jeanne Socrates just passed the French Polynesian Islands (mmsn-shiptrak.herokuapp.com)
During the rough weather, she’s been able to use her radio to stay in contact with people and even came across some old friends.
“I was delighted to be able to chat to friends from two different boats – one of which I’d not seen for three years or more but suddenly heard their boat name mentioned by someone else – so we ended up making contact,” she wrote. “I’m also chatting daily to amateur radio friends … Am I lonely? Not at all.”
ALSO READ: Victoria’s record-breaking senior sailor hits rough waters
Finally, after weeks of lurching, Socrates found warm temperatures and smooth waters – though still not without a surprise or two.
“[I] suddenly noticed quite a large flying fish behind the steering wheel that must have flown on board overnight – bit [sic]. enough to eat but now rather dried up.”
As she continues north now, Socrates will focus on repairing her main sail, which has several holes and tears in it from the wind.
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NFL Week 4 MNF Recap, Vikings defeat New York Giants 24-10, Monday October 3, 2016
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The Vikings grabbed a Week 4 victory over the Giants on Monday, winning 24-10 at U.S. Bank Stadium.
Minnesota was the ATS victor, as they covered the -3.5-point spread as a favorite. Over-Under bettors who played UNDER the total of 42.5 were rewarded at the payout window.
Jerick McKinnon rushed for 85 yards, while Matt Asiata added 6 yards in the win. Charles Johnson and Kyle Rudolph added 70 and 55 receiving yards respectively.
Orleans Darkwa rushed for 48 yards for New York, while Bobby Rainey added 22 yards. Eli Manning threw for 261 yards for the Giants, while receivers Paul Perkins and Victor Cruz had 72 and 50 yards respectively.
New York lost the offensive yardage battle to Minnesota 366-339 yards in Monday’s game. Minnesota had more first downs as that total ended up 22-18.
New York lost the time of possession battle 35:32-24:28, leaving their defense on the field more than they wanted.
Next game, Minnesota takes its act home to face Houston looking for another win. For New York, they head on the road to face Green Bay.
MINNEAPOLIS — The only place the Minnesota Vikings look perfect is in the win-loss column. But for new quarterback Sam Bradford, that’s enough for now.
Bradford threw for a touchdown and played turnover-free football on Monday night as the Vikings beat the New York Giants 24-10 at U.S. Bank Stadium. The win moves Minnesota to 4-0, where they join the Eagles and Broncos as the NFL’s only remaining unbeaten teams.
Jerick McKinnon and Matt Asiata, the running back committee that’s carrying the load for Minnesota with star Adrian Peterson out for the long term, each had a rushing touchdown as the Vikings never trailed for the first time this season. McKinnon led all rushers with 85 yards on 18 carries, while Bradford was 26-of-36 for 262 yards in the air.
“It doesn’t matter who’s playing, we expect them to perform,” said Vikings coach Mike Zimmer of his makeshift lineup, having lost Peterson and starting quarterback Teddy Bridgewater before Week 3. “I say it all the time, because it’s true about this football team, it’s so important to have the right kind of guys in here — guys that when we get down to it, they fight.”
The Giants (2-2) protected quarterback Eli Manning throughout, not allowing a Vikings sack, but were generally held in check otherwise and lost their second consecutive game. Manning was 25-of-45 for 261 yards and directed one touchdown drive, but was intercepted once and now has thrown five touchdowns and 15 interceptions in eight career starts versus Minnesota.
“I didn’t play well enough,” Manning said. “Didn’t find enough completions, didn’t move the ball well enough, had an interception. They play good defense and had a good scheme. They took away some of our passing game, so you’ve got to give them credit.”
Vikings kicker Blair Walsh, who has had a rough season, missed a 46-yard attempt on the opening drive of the second half, but redeemed himself later in the third quarter with a 44-yarder that gave Minnesota a 17-3 lead. They took that advantage into the fourth quarter, but the Giants’ first play of the fourth was a 67-yard catch-and-run by Paul Perkins down to the Vikings 4-yard-line. Orleans Darkwa scored from a yard out three plays later, cutting the Minnesota lead to 17-10.
But the Vikings answered with a 76-yard drive of their own, capped off when McKinnon scampered into the end zone from four yards out, re-establishing a two-touchdown lead. The Giants turned the ball over on downs with 1:51 to play and Minnesota was able to run out the clock.
The Giants’ defense held Bradford and company to three-and-out on Minnesota’s first possession, but a special teams error gave the Vikings a second chance. Giants returner Dwayne Harris muffed the punt, and Minnesota recovered at the New York 41, which led to Asiata’s 1-yard run and a 7-0 Vikings lead.
“The message is getting through, I just think we need to take care of the ball,” Giants coach Ben McAdoo said. “We need to catch the punt, obviously. And there was a collision that happened on the interception. The ball was outside, and they made a nice play on it.”
The Minnesota defense forced a trio of New York punts, then Bradford led a nine-play, 65-yard drive in the second quarter, finishing with a 7-yard pass to tight end Kyle Rudolph for a 14-0 advantage. Rudolph has quickly become one of Bradford’s favorite targets since the quarterback came to Minnesota on Labor Day Weekend, and the quarterback said he felt immediate chemistry with Rudolph, whose wife is expected to have twins on Tuesday.
“When he has the confidence to make those throws, especially in big situations, the touchdown from (the) 7-yard line, all those big third downs, you want him to keep coming,” Rudolph said, after catching five balls for 55 yards. “If you want him to keep coming, you’ve got to make those catches.”
The Giants broke the shutout with two seconds left in the half, when Josh Brown hit a 40-yard field goal.
Minnesota’s defense, averaging five sacks a game coming into the contest, was held without a first-half sack.
The Vikings host Houston on Sunday, while the Giants stay on the road in the NFC North, traveling to Green Bay.
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A message from CEO
We will deliver the power and possibilities of fucoidan to customers.
VENTUNO, the Italian for “21″.
As the name suggests, VENTUNO was established in 1990 with its sights set firmly on the 21st century. In the remote past, before the existence of life, Earth was covered by a primeval ocean. It was this ocean that gave birth to algae, the earliest form of life on our planet. Miraculous Mother Earth and algae, its blessing to our world, are the origins of all life as we know it. Our encounter with fucoidan, derived from a slimy substance found on algae, led us to focus our attention on the natural powers inherent in fucoidan. These powers include the capability to stimulate our natural immune systems and moisturizing/regenerative properties that are effective at promoting a beautiful complexion. We have continued to focus only on developing excellent products that support both health and beauty on the inside and out. In addition, we have been involved in research and development in collaboration with experts in medicine and science, including at public institutes. And our research and development of fucoidan continues in a range of fields worldwide, unravelling the mysteries behind its inestimable potentials. As well as generating awareness of the amazing powers of fucoidan among a wider audience through health food and cosmetic products, we are making every effort to explore further possibilities for fucoidan and make these available to the world.
We at VENTUNO will continue to pursue the potential for change and evolution!
We are still a young company, but all our employees possess a level of power second to none, moving forward in their day-to-day work in a spirit of endeavor. We believe that the source of our drive is the voices of satisfaction from our customers, and it is these voices that in turn act as a source of joy and personal development for our employees. “Things that only we are capable of doing”; “Things that are possible because of us” – we would like to become the “one and only” company in which these mottos are shared by all employees and continue proposing products in close relation with each and every customer. We continue to be a company that provides customers with pleasing products and services that will bring them a healthy and happy future, while providing our employees with a fun and challenging work environment.
Chairman & CEO: Masaji Nakamizo
President: Hayato Nakano
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Providing customers with safe and reliable products based on our integrated management system, from initial development through to sales.
The 21st century has seen a surge in global awareness of healthy living, and the market is awash with a diverse range of health foods. It is against this background that we encountered the ingredient fucoidan. This encounter was a revelation to us, and made us determined to approach product develop with the wish of delivering even better products to our customers, products that would promote real health and beauty.
Our hope is to continue providing customers with products that they really want to use.
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Umi no uta, Kikou-cha
Okinawa Mozuku, ingredient of fucoidan
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“Laboratory of Bioactive Polysaccharide Analysis” was established at Department of Bioscience and Biotechnology Faculty of Agriculture, Kyushu University
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*KYUTEC: Kyushu-Yamaguchi High-Tech Enterprise Development Foundation (as of 2011)
We develop products with a scientific basis that explore the possibilities of natural ingredients.
What is mozuku?
Mozuku, a type of edible seaweed that has been consumed as food throughout Japan since ancient times, contains extremely large quantities of minerals and dietary fiber.
Mozuku is mainly found in shallow waters from tropical to temperate areas. Consisting of a series of irregular brown branches 1.5-3.5 mm in diameter, its surface secretes polysaccharide and is slimy.
What is mekabu?
Mekabu is a thick ruffled sprout located within a leafy section found on the appressoria of wakame. Located in a section containing reproductive cells, it is equivalent to matured leaves or fertile leaves. Wakame is a type of seaweed and as such does not have roots, but mekabu is also known commonly as “wakame roots.”
Source: Wikipedia (Japanese language edition; accessed 10/04/2013 11:45 UTC)
Fucoidan is a slimy constituent from seaweed, such as mozuku and mekabu
Our company utilizes fucoidan in health foods and cosmetics.
We have also developed and commercialized an original formula called Fucoidan Mix, which contains agaricus.*
We are involved in joint research with national universities in Japan, and the products we develop are based on firm scientific foundations.
We have total confidence in our products!
*Agaricus is an edible Brazilian mushroom and is said to be effective in supporting good health.
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How Common are Charter Bus Safety Issues?
Everyday, in every major city in the country, charter buses, or tour buses, transport countless tourists, gamblers, sports teams and commuters, on round trips or one way, between cities, to venues or tourist sites. As recently as Monday Dec. 3, a third grader was killed and at least 45 were injured when a Tennessee charter bus carrying youth football players rolled off an interstate and overturned in the early morning just before sunrise in central Arkansas. Scott Shuttle, the charter bus company had a history of federal bus safety violations and was once fined $3,250 for allowing an unlicensed driver to operate one of its vehicles.
For Californians, the national coverage of that crash recalled images of a more horrific event that occurred in California where ten people died in a fiery crash, on the 5 Highway near Orland in 2014, when their college tour bus collided with a FedEx truck and was engulfed in flames. That accident spawned legislation for the addition of a second door to be added for charter bus safety as escape route.
Other recent charter bus crashes include:
Nov. 14, 2018 – A tour bus overturns in Mississippi killing two and injuring 44. The bus was traveling southbound on Interstate 269 in Desoto County when it skidded and rolled in bad weather. The bus company, Teague Express of Anniston Ala., had a satisfactory bus safety record from the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA)
Oct. 14, 2018 – Approximately 40 people were hurt when a bus careened off a barrier crossed the lanes and crashed through the divider on California’s 405 in San Fernando Valley.
April 5, 2018 – A bus shuttling fans to the Masters golf classic in Augusta Ga. flips over. 18 people were injured and the driver was charged with DUI.
Mar. 13, 2018 — The driver of a tour bus carrying 40 students and six adults home from Disney World crashed in Loxley Ala. killing the driver after it plunged into a ravine. The bus company, World Class Tours Inc. had a history of bus safety issues and accidents, one of which involved a fatality.
Sept. 19, 2017 – A charter bus driven by a fired MTA driver crashes into a transit bus in Queens NY, killing three and injuring 17. One year later the Dahlia bus company was still racking up bus safety violations.
How Common are Charter Bus Accidents?
Because there is a large number of buses on the nations roads and highways, the statistical likelihood of being hurt or injured as a passenger, driver, pedestrian or cyclist are low but when these accidents do occur the chance of severe injury or death is high.
According to statistics from the FMCSA, bus accidents rose from 236 in 2014 to 261 in 2015, an increase of 11%. In 2015 alone, approximately 24,000 people were injured in bus accidents and there were close to 300 fatalities. These statistics include:
School buses – 99 fatal crashes resulting in 107 fatalities
Transit buses – 93 fatal crashes resulting in 106 fatalities
Cross country intercity buses or “motor coaches.” – 33 fatal crashes resulting in 40 fatalities
“Other” types of buses – 17 fatal crashes resulting in 19 fatalities
The FMCSA maintains detailed records on every company’s bus safety profile, which includes but is not limited to driver inspections, vehicle inspections, driver fitness, and hours of service (HOS) violations, which occurs when drivers exceed shift limits that are in place to prevent drowsy driving, a leading cause of all commercial vehicle crashes. To view a bus companies safety violation summaries, visit the FMCSA’s Safety Measurement System (SMS) website and select the company in question from the SMS drop down menu.
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Accueil > Volcans > South America > Argentine & Chili (sud) > Chaitén > Chaitén
Chaitén volcano (Chile): activity updates & news
Chaitén volcan
Chaiten is a caldera volcano in southern Chile that had its first historic eruption on May 2, 2008 when it erupted violently. Ash fall and lahars during the eruption largely damaged the town of Chaitén, which had been evacuated as the eruption started.
Caldera, lava dome 1122 m
Argentine/Chili (sud), South America, -42.83°S / -72.65°W
Condition actuelle: normal / en sommeil (1 sur 5)
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Eruptions du volcan Chaitén:
2 May 2008 (plinian eruption) - ongoing
Style éruptif tipique:
Explosive, lava dome growth
Derniers séismes proches
Chaitén volcano Volcanic Ash Advisory: VA REPORTED AT 1435Z
Wed, 1 Feb 2017, 16:00
Volcanic Ash Advisory Center Buenos Aires (VAAC) issued the following report: ...plus
FVAG02 at 15:58 UTC, 01/02/17 from SABM [moins]
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Chaitén volcano (Chile): alert level raised, seismic unrest
Fri, 22 May 2015, 07:01
The alert level of the volcano was raised to "yellow", after an increase in seismic activity was detected. ...plus
Chaitén had a famous catastrophic plinian eruption in 2008, which followed centuries of quiescence and ended in the construction of a new lava dome. [moins]
Chaitén volcano (Southern Chile and Argentina, South America) activity update
Tue, 24 Dec 2013, 09:06
Steaming Chaitén volcano seen from Chaitén town on 23 Dec 2013
A visitor sent us the following short update: "Today (as of 23 Dec) the volcano was rather calm; from the town, one can identify 9 areas of incandescence at the lava dome".
Chaitén volcano (Chile): new incandescent spots at lava dome
Mon, 23 Dec 2013, 08:31
The glowing lava dome from Chaitén last night (photo: Francisco Negroni)
The lava dome of the volcano has become more active recently. Incandescent spots are visible at night and a thermal anomaly is visible on satellite data. This suggests that new magma might be rising into the volcano. No explosive activity has (at least so far) occurred.
Chaitén volcano (Chile): increased seismic activity
Fri, 22 Nov 2013, 08:57
Increased seismic activity has been detected under the volcano, Chilean scientists reported. ...plus
The devastating Plinian eruption of Chaitén in May 2008 forced the evacuation of the entire population of the small coastal town of Chaitén, located only a few kilometers south of the volcano. After the initial explosive phase, several lava domes have been growing slowly by extrusion of degassed, viscous magma. This phase ended in 2011 and since then, the volcano has only produced degassing.
On 20 Nov at 08:07 (local time), a volcano-tectonic magnitude 2.4 earthquake occurred at 6 km depth north-east of the volcano. It was followed by a swarm of more than 80 quakes of mostly long-period type, characteristic for movements of fluids (gasses, water, and possibly magma) inside cracks inside the volcanic edifice. They are considered potential precursors to eruptive activity. In addition, pulses of volcanic tremor and a second volcanic-tectonic quakes of magnitude 2.7 at 11:39 local time, this time at shallow 4.4 km depth were recorded. [moins]
Chaitén volcano (Chile), eruption update: growing lava dome
Chaitén's lava dome continues its growth and can shed pyroclastic flows and produce ash eruptions at all times. The alert level remains at its highest (red).
Chaitén volcano (Chile), activity update: lava dome collapse & lava domes growing & steam plumes
Tue, 10 Mar 2009, 12:54
On 24 February it was reported that a partial dome collapse of Chaitén's Domo Nuevo 1 lava-dome complex a large amount of material accumulated in the basal ring depression surrounding the dome complex and throughout the Blanco River valley. Steam plumes with little ash content and explosions were noted. ...plus
On 26 February, it was reported that plumes rose 2 km above the complex. During 26-27 February, there was another small dome collapse. [moins]
Chaitén volcano (Chile), activity update: lava dome collapse (19 Feb 09)
Fri, 20 Feb 2009, 12:00
Chaitén volcano experienced an increase in activity over the past few weeks. Yesterday, around 11 am local time on 19 Feb., a largere section of the growing lava dome in the crater collapsed, triggering a large pyroclastic flow that came close to the already largely abandoned town of Chaitén. According to press reports, heavy ash falls occurred in the area and the evacuation of the remaining residents of the town is under way. ONEMI reports the eruption of a considerable column of ash. ...plus
Similar future events triggering pyroclastic flows, as well as mud flows by remobilization of fresh ash by rains could occur any time and threaten what is left of the town of Chaitén.
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Chaitén volcano (Chile), activity update: continuing lava dome growth, ash eruptions
Thu, 15 Jan 2009, 22:45
It was reported that during 29 December-9 January Chaitén's lava dome continued to grow. Plumes rose to altitudes of 2.6-3.1 km. Block-and-ash flows from frequent spine collapses fell down from the edge. ...plus
On a flight it was seen that 9 January Domo Nuevo 1 and Domo Nuevo 2 filled up the 3-km-wide inner caldera. Activity was concentrated on the S part of Domo Nuevo 2. Argentine Airlines resumed flights into Esquel airport (about 120 km E) on 12 January, because of ash. Web camera views reported that on 10 and 12 January ash plumes continuously were rosing. [moins]
During 12-17November ash plumes from Chaitén continuously rose to altitudes 1.4-3.7 km and a thermal anomaly was detected on satellite photos on 12 November
Wed, 12 Nov 2008, 14:39
The new lava dome of Chaitén volcano continues to grow and emit a dense plume of mainly vapour, typically rising to ca. 2 km altitude. Seismic activity beneath the volcano remains high. ...plus
Heavy rainfalls cause the Chaitén river and tributaries to transform into mud flows and overflow their natural and artificial banks. Water and mud have been destroying ever larger parts of Chaité city, which is now almost completely abandoned. [moins]
Chaiten volcano (Chile): mudflows breaking barriers and destroying 30 homes in Chaitén
Sat, 8 Nov 2008, 13:50
Heavy rainfalls have caused Rio Blanco river (Chaitén r.) to swell dramatically. Floods have broken through the barriers and containment works that have been built since June, destroying at least 30 homes in Chaitén town. ...plus
(Source: Chilenean newspapers reported through The Volcanism Blog) [moins]
Chaiten volcano (Chile), activity update: ash plumes, lava dome growing
Fri, 31 Oct 2008, 14:22
Ash plumes were reported by viewing the volcano webcam and satellite images from 24-28 October. Also a thermal anomaly was detected.
Thu, 23 Oct 2008, 15:55
SERNAGEOMIN reported that during 14-20 October a gas-and-ash plume ...plus
from Chaitén rose to an altitude of 3.1 km (10,200 ft) a.s.l. The lava
dome continued to grow, especially the E side. The Volcanic Alert [moins]
Chaiten volcano (Chile), activity update: ash plumes
Sun, 14 Sep 2008, 20:22
It was reported that during 3-5 September two moderately vigorous plumes from Chaitén were visible on a web camera and rose to altitudes of 2.1-3.1 km. The plumes drifted NW, N, SE, and S. Based on web camera views, analysis of satellite imagery, and information from the Puerto Montt Flight Information Region (FIR), the Buenos Aires VAAC reported that during 3-6 and 8 September, ash plumes rose continuously to altitudes of 1.5-3 km (5,000-10,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted NW, ESE, and SE.
Chaiten volcano (Chile), activity update: growing lava dome, ash eruptions
It was reported that continuous emissions of gas-and-ash plumes from Chaitén were observed on 13 August. ...plus
Ash-Plumes rose to an altitude of 2 km a.s.l., but later that day rose to greater altitudes of 6-7 km a.s.l. The increased activity did not correspond to any significant variation in seismicity. Plumes were emitted from two areas on the E and S flanks and were different colors; the area on the E flank produced steam plumes with minor ash content and the area on the S flank emitted darker ash plumes. The plumes drifted SW and caused ashfall in Chaitén town for several hours. The ash accumulation was 1.5 cm thick. [moins]
Chaiten's new lava dome continues to grow rapidly inside the crater left by the sub-plinian eruption on 2 May. Over the past week, ash plumes produced by explosions rose to maximum altitude of 3 km (10,000 ft) a.s.l. and drifted SE. ...plus
SENAGEOMIN reported from overflight observations that about 2500 hectares (6,200 acres) of forest on the N and NE flanks of the volcano were burned by pyroclastic flows or lateral explosions.
The area around Chaiten remains closed. Slowly the evacuated town of Chaiten is being buried under mud flows (lahars). [moins]
Chaitén volcano (Chile), activity update: continuing strong ash eruptions, pyroclastic flows
Chaitén volcano continues to erupt strong ash plumes although none during the past weeks reached the intensity of the large explosion on May 2nd. Based on observations of satellite imagery, SIGMET reports, and pilot reports, the Buenos Aires VAAC reported that during 7-13 May ash plumes from Chaitén were continuously present and during 7-9 May rose to altitudes of 6.1-10.1 km (20,000-33,000 ft) a.s.l. The plumes drifted E and NE. ...plus
SERNAGEOMIN reported that on 7 May, seismicity from Chaitén increased and a large explosion was registered. On 8 May small pyroclastic flows traveled E and contacted the Rayas River, possibly causing steam plumes. During a break in the cloud cover, the ash-and-gas plume, present since 2 May, was seen rising to an altitude of 15.1 km (50,000ft) a.s.l. and drifting NE. The W side of the plume was darker and denser. ONEMI (Oficina Nacional de emergencia - Ministerio del Interior) reported ashfall in multiple areas on 7, 8, and 10 May. [moins]
Chaitén volcano (Chile), eruption news: summary of the subplinian eruption on 7 May
Thu, 8 May 2008, 09:54
This is a summary of the eruption events at Chaitén volcano: ...plus
The subplinian eruption of Chaitén volcano on May 2, 2008 followed increased seismicity in the region the day before. A pulsating white to gray ash plume rose to an estimated altitude greater than 21 km (68,900 ft) a.s.l. and drifted SSE. The Alert Level was raised to Red.
Based on observations of satellite imagery and pilot reports, the Buenos Aires VAAC reported an ash plume at altitudes of 13.7-16.8 km (45,000-55,000 ft) a.s.l. drifted NE. According to news articles, Chile's government declared a state of emergency on 2 May and several hundred people were evacuated from the town of Chaitén (10 km SE). The eruption was initially thought to have been from Minchinmávida, about 17 km ENE, which last erupted in 1835. [moins]
Chaitén volcano (Chile), eruption news: large explosive eruption
Sat, 3 May 2008, 10:01
The until now rather unknown Chilenean Chaitén volcano erupted violently on 2 May. Chaiten is a small, glacier-free caldera with a lava dome located 10 km NE of the town of Chaitén on the Gulf of Corcovado. There were no known historic eruptions and its last activity might go back several thousands of years.
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Explore a space station, direct traffic and even destroy some cities this weekend.
By Nikholai Koolonavich Last updated Sep 16, 2018
Carly and the ReapermanCatan VRDownward Spiral: Horus StationFrankenstein: Beyond the TimeHop Step Sing!Something for the WeekendThe WizardsTraffic Cop VR
Time for another entry of Something for the Weekend, the weekly series where VRFocus bring you a number of deals on virtual reality (VR) titles. As the month of September continues it’s time once again to check out the Steam store and find the latest deals on all things VR. This week you’ll find a range of unique experiences that let you explore a space station, enjoy an idol show and even direct traffic. As always, be sure to check back every weekend for even more deals right here on VRFocus.
“Downward Spiral: Horus Station does exactly what it needed to, presenting a far grander and more engaging instalment to the VR series. It’s not perfect, with some annoying glitches that really do need to be ironed out. However, the core experience is thoroughly enjoyable and more importantly massive. With eight acts to play through, and each one taking around an hour – depending on how long you search for collectables – there’s a solid amount of content to get engrossed in. For players that enjoy floating around in space, Downward Spiral: Horus Station is a great all-rounder.” – Read VRFocus’ Senior Staff Writer Peter Graham’s review of Downward Spiral: Horus Station.
Downward Spiral: Horus Station is available now for £8.99 (GBP) down from the usual £14.99 for the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality.
Hop Step Sing! Nozokanaide Naked Heart (HQ Edition)
Step into a virtual world and enjoy the songs and performance of this VR idol group. This time, players are heading to a magic factory where the wounded hearts of the world go to be healed. As the girls’ leader, it’s your job to bring a smile back to the world through the power of song and dance. More of a music video than the videogame, this title has a lot of colour and style that is sure to put a smile on your face.
Hop Step Sing! Nozokanaide Naked Heart (HQ Edition) is available now for only £4.15 (GBP) down from £5.19 for the HTC Vive.
The ever popular and best-selling board game has made it’s way to VR in this immersive and exciting installment. Now with online multiplayer making it easier than ever to play against others and friends alike, you’ll never be without someone to play against. Featuring AI personalities as well, you’ll be able to play offline and enjoy the same experience as the table top version.
Catan VR is available now for £7.51 (GBP) down from £11.39 for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality.
Walk on Arrow
“Walk on Arrow is an innovative hybrid of archery and complete freedom of movement only possible in VR! Hide, trace and fight! Using your bow and arrow to beat all of your opponents and become the one stand at last.”
Walk on Arrow is available now for £6.63 (GBP) down from £8.29 for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality.
Traffic Cop
Welcome to the 1950s where you are starting your job as a traffic cop smack dab in the middle of a busy intersection. You’ll need to direct traffic, dodge flying food, fight off alien attacks and hunt birds. With 20 different levels of traffic to direct and a number of different difficulty levels, players will find plenty to do and enjoy as a traffic cop.
Traffic Cop is available now for £4.67 (GBP) down from £5.19 for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
Frankenstein: Beyond the Time
“Now everyone can go on a discovery quest taking place in a Victorian mansion, where the task is to solve the greatest mystery of Dr. Frankenstein. The game makes innovative use of Virtual Reality with a well-known hidden object model and crafting simulations combined with the fight against time. Placing these mechanisms in a world inspired by the novels about Dr. Frankenstein provides a unique gameplay in a dynamic world full of adventures. The more we learn about the mad scientist’s experiment, the more frightening and mysterious the story becomes.”
Frankenstein: Beyond the Time is available now for £7.74 (GBP) down from £15.49 for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
Carly and the Reaperman – Escape from the Underworld
Work together with a friend to master platforming, solve puzzles and build your way through the underworld in this unique asymmetrical cooperative game. One player in VR will be able to control the platforms and make changes to the world while another player uses a controller to navigate each level and overcome the challenges. The title even now supports the option to play in single player as well but make sure to try it with a friend to have the full experience.
Carly and the Reaperman – Escape from the Underworld is on sale now for £15.19 (GBP) down from £18.99 for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality.
Worlds At War
“Worlds At War thrusts the player into the aftermath of an alien invasion. A small multi-national ragtag group of surviving fighter pilots and crew man a small carrier-group, roaming the oceans and trying to survive against all odds. The game features diverse fully pilotable aircraft, helicopters and boats, and players must learn to master them in order to defend the carrier-group from a relentless onslaught of alien attack-waves in a unique combination of some of mankinds best military equipment facing off with alien space-ships.”
Worlds At War is available now for £8.09 (GBP) down from £13.49 for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality.
VRobot: VR Giant Robot Destruction Simulator
Jump into a giant robot and start smashing cities using all sorts of unique weapons. Featuring multiplayer, a lighting hammer, a transformer sword, a tornado gun and even a tractor beam. Players will find plenty to do in this title as you’ll be kicking, punching and smashing your way through the different stages. You’ll even able to destroy a building, pick up that building, and then start smashing buildings with that building. It’s a great stress reliever.
VRobot: VR Giant Robot Destruction Simulator is on sale now for £9.34 (GBP) down from the usual £10.99 for HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality.
“Carbon Studio has also ensured there’s some longevity and a keen eye needed to get the most out of the whole experience. There are collectibles to find that’ll upgrade your spells, Fate Cards to locate which will modify the gameplay settings in future play throughs, plus an Arena mode for those interested in continual battles.What Carbon Studio has done is combine its knowledge from debut VR title Alice VR and the months of Early Access development and distilled it into The Wizards. If you want to feel like an all-powerful sorcerer then The Wizards is up there with the best, an entertaining adventure that will make non-VR players jealous.” – Read VRFocus’ Senior Staff Writer Peter Graham’s review of The Wizards.
The Wizards is available now for £6.00 (GBP) down from £14.99 for HTC Vive and Oculus Rift.
That is all for this week but remember that VRFocus gathers all the best sales and deals every week, so check back next weekend at the same time to discover more.
Nikholai Koolonavich
News Writer for all things and someone who drinks way to much tea.
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World stocks mixed ahead of Brexit address; Fed in focus
Currency traders watch monitors at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. Asian markets rose Monday on hopes that the Federal Reserve would re-evaluate its hawkish stance at a meeting later this week, following signs of slower global growth. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) (Source: Ahn Young-joon)
By ANNABELLE LIANG | December 17, 2018 at 12:33 AM CST - Updated December 17 at 3:23 AM
SINGAPORE (AP) — World markets were mixed on Monday as British Prime Minister Theresa May prepares to address the House of Commons over a messy exit deal. Most Asian indexes rose on hopes that the Federal Reserve would re-evaluate its hawkish stance at a meeting later this week, following signs of slower global growth.
KEEPING SCORE: Germany's DAX was 0.1 percent lower at 10,856.11 and France's CAC 40 fell 0.2 percent to 4,842.54. Britain's FTSE 100 index was down 0.3 percent at 6,825.02. Wall Street was set for a flat open. Dow futures added 0.1 percent to 24,147.00 and the broad S&P 500 futures rose 0.1 percent to 2,606.70. December is usually the best month of the year for stocks, because of a phenomenon known as the "Santa Claus rally" that sees them racking up gains. But all major U.S. indexes have fallen more than 10 percent from their record highs, reaching a mark known on Wall Street as a correction.
ASIA'S DAY: Japan's Nikkei 225 index added 0.6 percent to 21,506.88 and the Kospi in South Korea gained 0.1 percent to 2,071.09. The Shanghai Composite index edged up 0.2 percent to 2,597.97. Australia's S&P ASX 200 rebounded 1 percent to 5,658.30. Hong Kong's Hang Seng was less than 0.1 percent lower at 26,087.98. Shares were higher in Taiwan and Singapore but fell in Indonesia.
BREXIT TENSIONS: May's address comes after the European Union rebuffed her request to sweeten a divorce agreement that has been widely criticized at home. She will likely quash suggestions that the government is planning a second referendum on whether to leave the bloc. Her supporters have said that another Brexit vote would exacerbate divisions in the U.K. Britain is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29 and leaving without a deal could plunge the country into its deepest recession in nearly a century, its central bank has warned.
FED MEETING: The Federal Open Market Committee is expected to raise its short-term interest rate — a benchmark for many consumer and business loans — by a modest quarter-point to a range of 2.25 percent to 2.5 percent after a meeting on Wednesday. This would be its ninth hike since late 2015. The central bank forecasts three more rate hikes in 2019, but softer global growth could cause a shift in its hawkish stance. Last week, China announced that its industrial output and retail sales had slowed in November. France, which is racked by protests, reported that its purchasing managers' index fell to a level pointing toward economic contraction. Germany's reading, that still reflected growth, fell to a four-year low.
ANALYST'S TAKE: "The 'Santa rally' which had been hoped for has proven to be frustratingly elusive, and now markets are quite happy, if not desperate, for at least a dovish line to be thrown by the FOMC," Vishnu Varathan of Mizuho Bank said in a market commentary. Markets are "grasping straws led by hopes that there will be a material dial back of hawkish bias," he added.
ENERGY: Benchmark U.S. crude added 4 cents to $51.24 a barrel in electronic trading on the New York Mercantile Exchange. The contract dropped $1.38 to settle at $51.20 in New York on Friday. Brent crude, used to price international oils, gained 1 cent to $60.29 a barrel.
CURRENCIES: The dollar was flat at 113.38 yen. The euro strengthened to $1.1322 from $1.1306. The British pound rose to $1.2599 from $1.2583.
A currency trader gestures at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. Asian markets rose Monday on hopes that the Federal Reserve would re-evaluate its hawkish stance at a meeting later this week, following signs of slower global growth. (AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) (Source: Ahn Young-joon)
AP Markets Writer Marley Jay contributed to this report.
A currency trader gestures at the foreign exchange dealing room of the KEB Hana Bank headquarters in Seoul, South Korea, Monday, Dec. 17, 2018. Asian markets rose Monday on hopes that the Federal Reserve would re-evaluate its hawkish stance at a meeting later this week, following signs of slower global growth.(AP Photo/Ahn Young-joon) (Source: Ahn Young-joon)
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Shreveport police hold news conference after officer’s death
By KSLA Staff | January 10, 2019 at 8:48 AM CST - Updated January 10 at 4:43 PM
SHREVEPORT, LA (KSLA) - UPDATE: Shreveport police have identified the officer killed overnight as Chatéri Payne.
The Shreveport Police Department is releasing new information about the death of a police officer in a news conference at 11:00 a.m. Thursday. You can watch the news conference live below or click here.
Multiple sources have confirmed the identity of the officer to KSLA News 12, but out of respect to the department and the family, we will not release that information until the city’s news conference.
Corporal Marcus Hines, public information officer, said Police Chief Ben Raymond will update the public on the case.
“Sadly, Shreveport wakes up painfully aware of the sacrifices police officers make every day,” said Shreveport Mayor Adrian Perkins in a statement on Thursday.
Police officers are human beings just like the rest of us. Behind the badge is a beating heart—a father, mother, son, daughter, brother, and sister. When they put the uniform on, they put all that on the line. They are willing to sacrifice everything so you and I can feel secure; so our children can safely play at the park.
Mayor Adrian Perkins
Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards tweeted condolences on Thursday. “This is a tragic loss not only for the Shreveport community, but for all of us who rely on police officers to keep us safe,” wrote Edwards.
Police responded to the 1600 block of Midway Avenue for reports of a shooting. When officers arrived, they found an officer had been shot.
The Shreveport Police Officer’s Association posted that the female officer was a “capable professional” and dedicated to serving the City of Shreveport.
KSLA News 12 will stream the news conference and will have team coverage throughout the day.
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Warrington overpowers Hyland; Whyte dominates Allen
Phil Jay 30/07/2016
Josh Warrington impressed in joining current WBC featherweight champion Gary Russell Jr. as one of only two men to stop hardened Irishman Patrick Hyland.
In front of his adoring fans at the First Direct Arena, Warrington went through the gears and was never in any trouble against Hyland, who initially failed to make the weight and looked like a drained fighter.
Warrington, 25, scored only the fifth early finish of his career when dropping Hyland in the eighth, before ending the argument in the ninth. An argument could have been made to pull Hyland out earlier, although the former world title challenger wanted to trade blows and go out on his shield.
With the victory, Warrington retained his WBC International title and pushed one step closer to a shot at the likes of rival Lee Selby or even Russell Jr. himself in the next six months or so.
In the co-feature, Dillian Whyte took every round of ten from rival Dave Allen on WBN’s scorecard as the pre-fight bad blood between the pair failed to materialize.
Allen’s tactics seemed to involve tiring Whyte out and coming on strong in the later rounds, although the Yorkshireman found the Londoner too elusive and succumbed to a wide defeat on the cards.
Whyte saved energy by using his power shots sparingly and relying on his superior body shots, uppercuts and combinations to bank the points.
The final round proved the most entertaining and saw Allen come on strong but it was too little too late and Whyte came out on top 100-90, 99-90 and 99-91 on the cards to win the vacant WBC International title.
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Open Artist Commission - Mural competition
Calling all artists – Creative Learning at Mackintosh at the Willow
As part of the exciting restoration and reinvigoration of the tearooms at Mackintosh at the Willow (215-217 Sauchiehall Street) we now have a brand new arts education room. We’ll be using it to run workshops that inspire kids and young people, community groups and Mackintosh fans alike. But at the moment this is difficult because the room is a big white box!
Could you help us turn it into something that captures the spirit of Mackintosh but also encourages a whole lot of artistic flourishing in every person who walks through the door?
Artist brief
We invite anyone who lives in Scotland (birth or residency) to submit designs for the two large sliding cupboard doors in the art room (see details of specs below.) The chosen images should be connected in some way to the heritage and should inspire artistic output. There will be a £500 commission fee for the chosen image, which the Trust will transfer to wall vinyl to be fitted to the doors.
How you choose to creatively respond is totally up to you! Maybe you are inspired by Mackintosh’s iconic designs, or Margaret Macdonald’s friezes or Miss Cranston’s business savvy. Maybe you want to draw from pattern work or Art Nouveau but update it for a 21st century classroom. Maybe you love tea paraphernalia or steampunk or graphic novels or something else that you want to fuse with the tea rooms. We’d love to see your ideas!
Of course Mackintosh at the Willow is rightly proud of its famous son, but when Miss Cranston gave Mackintosh the commission he wasn’t the art rock star he is now. In that spirit we would stress that we’d love absolutely anybody who wants to enter to do so.
The chosen design will be selected by some children and a panel from Mackintosh at the Willow who will own the image outright, covering any future use.
We want to be as fair and encouraging to all as possible, so the competition will be judged anonymously. Please do not include your name or identifying mark on the image. Entries should be submitted with ‘Arts Education brief- artist’s name’ in the subject line.
There are two sliding doors, each measuring 170cm x 193cm. The right side door tucks behind the left and both have handles and locks so we suggest including a border of around 10cm for each. Bear in mind that a design for each door would be easier than trying to line up one image that spans the two, but it can be a repeat or a continuation.
The design must be age appropriate, as primary school children will be regularly using the space as well as adult learners.
Please bear in mind the winning image will be enlarged significantly.
Entries should be submitted by email or dropped into the building (Arts Education Department) with the final chosen image resubmitted via a format that allows for a suitably high resolution, such as a pen drive.
If you have any further questions feel free to email the arts education manager – jodie@mackintoshatthewillow.com
Entries should be submitted to the same email address by the end of the day, 30th September 2018.
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Merchant Seaman John SAINTY
Death registered at Lexden 24th October 1919
Ian Valentine based on research by Mary Norris
John Sainty, Mercantile Mariner, birth was registered at Lexden Jul-Sep 1876, the son of Benjamin Jas. (Marine Engineer) & Isabella M. Sainty.
In the 1881 census, the family is living at The Folly, and in 1891 on Black Buoy Hill.
In 1901 he is listed as Steward on the S.S. Medway, and in 1911 living in Brook Street, a Mariner Cook on a Yacht. In 1914/15 he is listed as Steward on the S.S. Quencast, a 280 ton ship owned by the London Granite Co.
His death was registered at Lexden as 24th October 1919. He was buried in Wivenhoe New Cemetery on 24 October 1919. He is named on Wivenhoe War Memorial.
The Fallen of WW1
“For Bravery in the Field”
10080 Private John Henry HEAD (died 21 October 1914)
10255 Private Charles James PITT (d. 2 May 1915)
10690 Serjeant Edgar WIlliam PIKE (d. 9 March 1919)
11137 Lance Corporal Felix James Corsellis SQUIRE (d. 4 June 1917)
1153153 Gunner Edgar Frank STEBBING (d. 15 July 1917)
11662 Corporal Cyril George HASE (died 1 July 1916)
14177 Private Joseph EAGLE (died 15 September 1916)
164966 Sapper George Ernest VARROW (d. 18 February 1917)
16595 Sgt Horace William PITT MM DCM - Died 31st March 1918 aged 22
17441 Private Albert BAKER (died 27 August 1915)
184 Private Henry James (Harry) JUBY (d. 25 April 1915)
1945 Private Oliver George RAND (d. 10 June 1917)
19494 Lance Corporal Fred NICHOLLS (d. 21 March 1918)
20942 Sergeant Ernest Fred SMITH
2143 Private Hugh Herbert HUSK (d. between 7-12 August 1915 )
24059 Private Horace T. BONES (died 18 November 1916)
250145 Private William E. WADE (d. 26 March 1917)
250295 Private Charles James TURNER (d. 26 March 1917)
250696 Private Alfred Charles PLANE (d. 26 March 1917)
258661 Sapper Claude Howard WILKINS (d. 19 April 1918)
26096 Private Phillip George FIRMAN (died 5 June 1917)
27528 Private Edgar BARR (died 7 April 1917)
27758 Private Edward William PIKE (d. 10 July 1917)
28932 Private Herbert Percy HART (died 16 December 1916)
2nd Lieutenant Stanley Robert PITT, M.C. (d. 23 October 1916)
2nd Lt. John ('Mad Jack') Lancashire BARLOW, R.F.C. (died 23 September 1917)
30370 Private Thomas Smee BECKWITH (d. 28 December 1916)
34613 Frederick Charles BLACKALL (died 20 August 1917)
35965 Sergeant Victor Oliver George LINEHAM (d. 15 September 1914)
3868 Private George Alfred BARTLETT (died 12th September 1917)
39297 Lance Corporal Samuel (or Stanley) MILLER (d. 16 September 1918)
40114 Private Thomas James WEAVERS
571 Lance Serjeant Harry Leggett BROWNE (died 5 May 1917)
59 Lance-Sergeant N.C. Corsellis LAWTON (d. 28 July 1916)
80613 Trooper Charles STEWARD (d. 11 April 1917)
9086 Private Arthur William CHAMBERLAIN (died 6 May 1915)
9291 Private Ernest BAKER (died 21 May 1915)
A4601 David William WADE, R.N.R. (d. 23 October 1916)
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Engineer Sub-Lieutenant H. Alexander LAWS (d. 19 October 1918)
Engineer-Lieutenant Reginald Charles COLLINS, R.N.R.
Ernest CLENCH
Ernest James RAND
Frederick Arthur NICHOLLS (died 28th Sept 1918)
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G/3364 Private Ernest Richard ODELL (d. 26 September 1916)
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Jack Durrell Green
Lance Corporal Jack F. PAYNE (d. 26 September 1916)
M.3780 William Hunter SALISBURY R.N., Engine Room Artificer 5th Class (d. 5 June 1916)
Petty Officer Arthur John PITT, jnr. J.383 R.N. (d. 16 December 1918)
PO/11216 Petty Officer Charles George (or John?) CANHAM, R.N.
Private John Henry HOWARD (d. 26 July 1916)
Private Tom TURNER killed in action on 3rd May 1917
Private William Virtue MORLEY (d. 2 December 1917)
R. ARNOLD
Rifleman Harold HARLOW (died 25th April 1917)
S/13163 Rifleman Harry Claude REED (d. 25 September 1915)
Sergt-Major Alexander John Kennedy AYRE (died 26 September 1917)
Sub-Lieutenant Frederick Charles HEATH (died 18 January 1917)
Telegraphist Jack Durrell GREEN R.N. J.30016.
Temp. Lt. Frederick J. SALISBURY, Royal Engineers
The Men who Died in WW1
Thomas William BAKER (died 24 April 1917)
William Arthur HENDERSON (died 14 November 1915)
William C. MARTIN (d. 13 December 1919)
William John GREEN, Mercantile Marine (died 21 March 1917)
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Australia’s plan to cut migrant intake
Picture: Quinn Rooney
THE federal government is expected to announce policies capping immigration at 160,000 and forcing a portion of skilled migrants to live outside Sydney and Melbourne.
Cabinet has authorised the changes, which would slash the targeted annual intake of permanent migrants by up to 30,000, The Australian reports.
A regional settlement policy would require a certain number of skilled migrants to live for at least five years in cities other than Sydney and Melbourne.
The government will also provide incentives for foreign students to attend universities away from the two major cities, as part of its bid to reduce congestion in Sydney and Melbourne.
The policy announcement will lower targets that were previously in place. The moves have been orchestrated by the Liberals' Expenditure Review Committee (ERC) and are part of the government's broader population policy.
There will also be incentives for international students to study at regional universities or at cities other that Sydney and Melbourne. Last year over 500,000 students from overseas attended Australian universities.
The immigration cap is aimed at easing congestion in Sydney and Melbourne. The final number of 160,0000 was reached after the ERC had argued for a much lower number, according to The Australian.
The migration policy will affect the government's budget estimates, as population growth from migration is linked to economic growth. The coalition last placed a cap on migration in 2015 at 190,000.
About 70 to 80 per cent of new migrants choose to move to either Sydney or Melbourne.
In the past financial year 112,000 skilled migrants arriving in Australia had chosen to permanently settle in Sydney or Melbourne. In total Australia took in 162,417 new migrants in the 2017-2018 financial year. The lowering of the intake is due to Home Affairs Minister Peter Dutton's new integrity measures around visas, which were introduced after debate around congestion issues in capital cities.
While NSW and Victoria have been calling for cuts to immigration, as Prime Minister Scott Morrison called on the states to make submissions on how many migrants they could accommodate, South Australia signalled it wants 5000 more.
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Naughtiest kids names revealed
Naughtiest kids’ names have been revealed
by Rebekah Scanlan
THE names of the naughtiest children have been revealed.
If you're already a parent to an Ella or a Joesph - this probably won't be fresh news for you.
According to a new study from School Stickers, they're the monikers that top the list for boys and girls.
To discover who the cheekiest children are, researchers examined rewards given to 63,000 kids for their behaviour in class, Mother and Baby reported.
The results were a list of the top ten names of little ones who are worst behaved - and also the nicest.
The naughtiest girl was found to be called Ella, followed by Bethany, Eleanor, Olivia and then Laura.
Kids most likely to cause trouble are ones named Ella and Joesph.
Holly, Courtney, Amber, Caitlin and Jade came just after.
In the boys' naughty corner, Joseph took home the crown, followed by Cameron, William, Jake and Joshua.
The names Jamie, Lewis, Benjamin, Ethan and Luke also made the list.
It's not all bad news though, as the study also revealed the names of the nicest kids.
Top of the list for girls was Amy, followed by Georgia, Emma, Charlotte and Grace - which is good news for Kate Middleton and Prince William.
While the ‘naughtiest’ kids names were shared, so were the nicest.
Sophie, Abigail, Hannah, Emily and Alice also win gold stars for good behaviour.
It's not just the girls who have been put on a pedestal for being well behaved, with Jacob topping the boys list.
Daniel, Thomas, James and Adam join the list as well as Harry, Samuel, Jack, Oliver and Ryan.
In January, a list of 66 banned baby names were revealed that included two that weren't even names, but Roman numerals II and III.
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HomeNews & Social MediaHaikou NewsShanshan Feng wins individual title at World Ladies Championship in Haikou
Shanshan Feng wins individual title at World Ladies Championship in Haikou
Shanshan Feng won the individual title and led China to the team victory Sunday at the inaugural World Ladies Championship on the Ladies European Tour.
Feng posted a one-under 71 on Sunday at the Vintage Course at Mission Hills Haikou, and finished at 10-under 206. She won by a single stroke and became the first player from mainland China to win on the Ladies European Tour.
"I wasn't really shooting a low score today," said Feng. "I think at one time I was like, three behind, but I wasn't worried at all because I knew I would have more chances on the back nine and I would catch up and finally I got it."
The team from China, which featured Feng and Li Ying Ye, came in at 17-under 415 to win by two strokes over Thailand.
Pornanong Phatlum of Thailand carded a two-under 70 on Sunday and finished second in the individual tournament. Pernilla Lindberg's three-under 69 gave her third place two strokes behind Feng at minus-eight.
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Johnny Cash performs "Gospel Boogie (A Wonderful Time Up There) " on Hee Haw 1986.
"A Wonderful Time Up There" is a song written by Lee Roy Abernathy and performed by Pat Boone featuring Billy Vaughn and His Orchestra and Chorus. It reached #2 in the U.K. and #4 in the U.S. in 1958. The song was featured on his 1959 album, Pat Boone Sings.
Johnny Cash released a version of the song entitled "Gospel Boogie (A Wonderful Time Up There)" on his 1979 album A Believer Sings the Truth.
Johnny Cash Gospel Boogie (A Wonderful Time Up There) Lyrics
Well, now, everybody's gonna have religion and glory
Everybody's gonna be a-singin' that story
Everybody's gonna have a wonderful time up there
Oh, glory hallelujah
Brother, there's a reckonin' a-comin' in the mornin'
Better get ready 'cause I'm givin' you the warnin'
Now listen, everybody 'cause I'm talkin' to you
The Lord is the only one to carry you through
Ya better get ready 'cause I'm tellin' ya why
The Lord is a-comin' from his throne on high
Goin' down the valley, goin' one by one
We're gonna be rewarded for the things we've done
How ya gonna feel about the things you'll say on that judgment day?
Well-a, well-a, well-a
Now ya get your Holy Bible in the back of the book
The book of Revelations is the place ya look
If you understand it and you can if you try
A-readin' in the Bible 'bout the things he said
He said he's comin' back again to raise the dead
Are ya gonna be among the chosen few?
Or will you make it through?
Everybody's gonna have religion and glory
Brother, there's a reckonin' comin' in the mornin'
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Why You Should Wait 6 Months Before Showing Off A New Boo On FB
Chris Marvel
Think of your new love connection as a newborn baby.
180 Days. Yes, six months of silence. Embarking on a new relationship is similar to getting the keys to a new car. (Well, without the pending car payment, need for fuel, and worry your friend is going to spill their caramel latte on your fresh leather seats.) It's similar in a sense that you want to slay everyone Beyoncé-style and show off the new love in your life.
I recall getting the keys to my first brand new car. Windows down, radio speakers bumping and nowhere important to go. I must have driven that day for an hour or more around the city. Seeing others gawk at my new wheels assured me back then. It made me feel like I arrived and that I was worthy of beautiful things.
The analogy works — except new boyfriends and girlfriends can break down sooner than the latest model luxury vehicle.
I write in my new book Love Laws about the relevancy of Instagram, Facebook and Snapchat, and how they have become the new gateway entrance not for drugs, but attention.
A few years back I learned the lesson of social media and love. 2008 was a year I started posting photos of me and my soon to be wife on Facebook. I remember the feeling of finality, a cloud that drew over my emotions after posting to the world. Not of regret, but a miscalculation.
What if this relationship didn't work out? What if an ex came out and spoke of my past? How would I handle a guy commenting on her page so soon? Is it fair if she interacts with guys of the opposite sex since we are just dating?
Reflecting back on this moment, I hope you do things differently. We have been married for five years and so much of our lives exist on social media. The roots are deep in the ground with love.
During our moments of tension and conflict, friends of ours reminded us of the perception and the reality of our relationship. That we are relationship role models to many who "follow" us. We didn't need that as motivation to get our lives in order.
But a newbie relationship in the first 180 days may not be able to sustain the pressure of perception.
Why wait 180 days? The six-month mark is equal to a fork in the road. Jitters and nerves have gone away. You're now forced with making a decision. Turn right and you're committing to what could be a promising future. Turn left and you're choosing to remain friends with a possible revisitation of a relationship down the road.
You have six months to pretend, wine and dine, movie dates and maybe an out of town trip. At some point things must evolve. If you don't enjoy their company now, that probably won't change in six more months. This is a major reason why privacy is vital. It allows you to shift course without much public explanation. Time may be wasted but egos and feelings may be saved.
Think of your new love connection as a newborn baby. The auntie with the smoker's breath and dirty coat doesn't stand a chance holding your baby. What about the neighbor you don't like too much: any chance she holds your newborn?
Probably not; your newborn baby is precious. Not just because of their soft hair and good-smelling skin, but more so because they are still developing. Their need to breathe air, see clearly, hear the environment, poop and pee are vital to live.
The old flame would never prowl if they weren't privy to your information. You wouldn't have so many enemies if you stopped sharing all your business with your friends and followers.
Wrap up the tender relationship you have. Change the settings on your connection to private and not public sharing. You don't need likes to find love and surely don't need new followers for friends.
Social media is dope, but we must resist its magnetic pull on the areas of our life not yet ready for its power.
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Empty Elegy: Adventure Time
Posted on March 01 2014 by Bastian
A few months back I had a weekly feature on various Zelda clones. Well, I’ve been away for far too long. Let’s talk about clones some more! The recent release of Adventure Time: Explore the Dungeon Because I Don’t Know got me thinking about the previous Adventure Time game, and how even though it was heavily inspired by the black sheep of the Zelda family, The Adventure of Link, it was actually quite good.
Released exclusively on the 3DS (and the DS), Adventure Time: Hey Ice King! Why’d you Steal Our Garbage? takes much of its design from Zelda II. Now why exactly the developers decided to base their first Adventure Time game on what most people consider to be the worst Zelda game remains a mystery. I, however, am not one of those people who hates The Adventure of Link. I love it despite its absurdly challenging ways and its sometimes questionable game design (after dying you have to start all the way back at North Palace? Come on!). There were very few games that ever tried to recapture the side-scrolling Action-RPG genre in its day – only Battle for Olympus and Wanderers from Ys come to mind. So for a developer to take such a risk as to base their first game for a wildly popular cartoon show on such a disliked game… seemed like a terrible idea. However, not only did they take inspiration from The Adventure of Link, they actually improved upon it!
But first, some details as to how exactly this game is inspired by the second Zelda game. Just like in Zelda II, exploring the overworld is experienced in a top-down view with towns, dungeons, and battles being experienced in side-scrolling action. Icons representing enemy types will appear on the overworld and if you accidentally touch one you are “warped” into a small, repetitive battle screen where your goal is to kill the enemies.
Attacking is done mostly via sword combat with the ability to attack regularly and then a ducking attack as well – just like in The Adventure of Link. And then to seal the deal, your character eventually learns a downward thrust and then an up thrust! And a bit later they throw in the spin attack just for the heck of it. Besides all of the Zelda II rip-off attacks, this game adds quite a few extra ones, along with some fun non-combat moves, all of which are provided by Finn’s trusty sidekick, Jake the Dog, who can transform into various useful shapes. This essentially replaces the need to collect various items; instead Jake just learns how to transform into them. It basically amounts to the same thing, though. And then there’s the fact that life is represented by hearts… which is actually not in keeping with The Adventure of Link, being the only Zelda game to use a more traditional heart-less gauge.
This game is, for all intents and purposes, a sequel to Zelda II – just with Adventure Time varnish. And that “varnish” is where this game really shines. The unique Adventure Time humor is infused to nearly every single line. Simply wandering around the landscape and encountering all of the strange Ooo characters would be enough to have satisfied me, but the fact that they’re all written with the same top-notch quality from the show makes it perfect. Even the items are creatively weird: instead of hearts to replenish your life, you eat things like Shoofly Pie and Birthday Cake, or drink a carton of Bug Milk. There are various other equally strange items to use for attacking as well, including the fun Habanero pepper which lets you shoot fireballs right from your mouth!
If you happen to be an Adventure Time fan and haven’t yet played this game, you need to change that fast. Or even if you’ve never seen Adventure Time but would like to play a game which has similar (but improved) controls to The Adventure of Link, then this game is for you, too. It’s algebraic!
Author: Bastian
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Towards equal access to digital coins
Published on Wednesday, 08 February 2017
Scientists at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust (SnT) of the University of Luxembourg have developed an important mathematical algorithm called “Equihash”. Equihash is a core component for the new cryptocurrency Zcash, which offers more privacy and equality than the famous Bitcoin. Zcash came into operation as an experimental technology for a community-driven digital currency in late 2016.
Competing cryptocurrencies
Bitcoin is by far the most recognised and widely used digital currency. It was introduced in January 2009 and has garnered much attention since then. But it is not the only one of its kind. Wikipedia lists nearly one hundred cryptocurrencies boasting more than 1 million US dollar market capitalisation.
One of the newest cryptocurrencies is “Zcash”, which can be seen as an update to the Bitcoin protocols. In Bitcoin, the transfer of coins is recorded in a global ledger, the so-called blockchain. The validity of the latest transfers in the blockchain is verified about every ten minutes. Verifying the transfers and creating new blocks for the blockchain (the so-called mining) requires a lot of computing power, which is provided by distributed computers worldwide. The “miners” who allocate the processing power are rewarded with new coins.
Zcash is trying to resolve two main shortcomings of Bitcoin: its lack of privacy for transactions and the centralisation of transaction verification into the hands of a mere dozen miners who have invested in large amounts of specialised mining hardware: Bitcoin is prone to such centralisation because the computational load of the bitcoin mining algorithm can be split into many different small tasks, which can be conducted in parallel. The algorithm is easy to implement in dedicated, energy-efficient and cheap microchips, but not suited to standard hardware. Bitcoin mining today is therefore done on special-purpose supercomputers which are located in places with cheap electricity and/or cheap cooling. Such supercomputers are expensive, costing millions of euros, but provide much more mining power than if one were to use standard PC hardware of the same price.
New algorithm for cryptocurrency
Prof. Alex Biryukov, head of the research group “Cryptolux” and Dr. Dmitry Khovratovich at SnT have developed the algorithm “Equihash” which can resolve this problem. Equihash is a so called memory-hard problem, which can not be split up into smaller working packages. It can be more efficiently calculated on desktop-class computers with their multiple processing cores and gigabytes of memory than on special hardware chips. “If 10.000 miners with a single PC were active, in Zcash the investment to compete with them would be 10.000 times the price of a PC, while with bitcoin, the investment would be significantly smaller”, says Khovratovich. This creates a more democratic digital currency by allowing more users to contribute to the mining process. Khovratovich adds: “The strength of a cryptocurrency comes from the fact that the ledger is globally distributed. Our Equihash algorithm reverses the situation back to this more ideal world.”
Alex Biryukov & Dmitry Khovratovich
Equihash was first presented at the Network and Distributed System Security Symposium last year – one of the top-5 IT security events. Prof. Biryukov comments: “Since Equihash is based on a fundamental computer science problem, advances in Equihash mining algorithms will benefit computer science in general. Equihash is so far unique among all the mining algorithms: it is memory-hard on the one hand and very easy to verify on the other.” In other words, while mining new coins with Zcash/Equihash is comparatively expensive, hence posing a smaller risk of monopolisation because it requires large amounts of computer memory and hard computational work, checking that the new coins are genuine is memoryless, fast and cheap.
Understanding these advantages, the creators of Zcash chose Equihash as the algorithm for mining coins and verifying transfers. Equihash itself is not limited to use in Zcash and can be used in any cryptocurrency, including Bitcoin.
“With our contribution to Zcash, the Cryptography and Security lab (CryptoLux) has shown its strength in innovative research that has immediate applications in the financial technology industry,” says SnT´s director, Prof. Björn Ottersten. “We invite students to follow us in this promising field,” adds Professor Biryukov: “There are still lots of challenging research problems to solve.”
This publication is available on ORBilu : Equihash: Asymmetric Proof-of-Work Based on the Generalized Birthday Problem
Previously released on a similar topic: Virtual money — at your own risk (2014)
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Introduction to Satellite Communications
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How is a satellite built? How do they fly? How do they communicate and how does the network operate? You will get all the answers in this course from teachers and researchers from three schools associated with Institut Mines-Télécom. The course is made of : teaching videos, equipment demonstrations and simulation programs. They will guide you through the discovery of satellite communications. Professionals in the space field will share there vocation for this scientific and technical sector. Have you ever wanted to know more about transponders, the geostationary orbit, QPSK modulation, channel coding, link budget, TCP over large bandwdith x delay product links ? This course is for you! This course is available in English: French-speaking lecturers with English subtitles and fully translated contents (slides, practices). This MOOC is supported by the Patrick and Lina Drahi Foundation.
Un cours vraiment excellent, qui rentre dans le détail de la mécanique des Satcoms.\n\nQuelques connaissances préalables en traitement du signal me sembler quand même nécessaires.
This is a very good introductory course, after completing this course you will have a very good understangindg of the overall architecture of satellite communications systems.
Satellite and communications
This module describes the overall architecture of a satellite communications system, discusses the concept of orbit and what are the typical sub-systems of a satellite
Overview9:26
Various types of orbit3:16
Relationship between orbit and service9:33
Conclusion0:40
Going further: Kepler lays down the law4:09
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-To give general remarks on orbits, I will have to limit our subject area
and only talk about orbits around the Earth.
With this hypothesis in mind, we will also simplify the problem
and say that, instead of considering the three-dimensional shape of orbits,
we will start with a two-dimensional case.
Meaning that as observers,
we will place ourselves a few thousand kilometers away from the Earth
and look at orbits from above so that they are included in a plane.
Now that these assumptions have been made,
here is what an orbit looks like. First surprise, it is not circular.
Indeed, the general shape of an orbit is elliptic.
An orbit is only circular when the major and minor axes
have exactly the same size. Second surprise,
the Earth is not at the center of this orbit.
Indeed, the Earth is located on one of the two focal points of the orbit.
The orbit shape depends on the eccentricity.
The eccentricity can be calculated with this formula.
This value varies between 0 and 1. When the value equals 0,
we are in the case of a circle.
We will then define two other concepts, the perigee and the apogee.
The orbit's perigee corresponds to the moment when the satellite,
represented by a green dot here, is the closest to the Earth.
The apogee is the exact opposite. It is when the satellite
is the farthest from Earth.
The specificity of the path followed by the elliptic orbit here
is that when we add up the x and y values represented here,
which link the satellite's position to the two focal points,
this sum is always a constant.
Finally, we will end with the definition of the orbital period.
It is the time the satellite needs to do a full revolution on the orbit.
How do satellites fly? Let us start with some vocabulary.
A satellite does not fly. In order to fly like a plane,
air is needed to create an overpressure phenomenon on a wing.
But in space there is no air. So how does it work?
We will assume, as illustrated here,
that the satellite revolves around the Earth on a circular orbit.
Its motion will be characterized by two factors.
First its altitude, second its revolution speed.
This speed will be expressed in meters per second.
We add a r factor, the satellite's altitude and the Earth's radius.
So it is the distance from the satellite to Earth's center.
In that case, we can find a formula linking speed and the r factor.
This formula is illustrated on the left.
Speed equals the square root of the product of two constants
divided by the distance from the satellite to Earth's center.
When the satellite's altitude and speed follow this equation,
a balance is established between the Earth's attraction on the satellite
and the satellite's will to escape thanks to its speed.
It can be compared to an object attached to a rope and spinning.
Consequently, if we reduce the satellite's altitude,
in order to keep this balance, we have to increase the speed.
Conversely, if we reduce the speed, we have to increase the altitude.
In both cases, if this equation is not obeyed,
the satellite will either escape its orbit towards space,
or crash on Earth. With this, we answered another question:
how do we place a satellite in orbit? By sending it at the right altitude
with an adequate speed considering the required orbit's altitude.
In practice, this calculation is not that simple.
We assumed that the Earth was perfect and immobile,
but it is obviously not true. But the general principle is correct.
Until now, we worked in two dimensions.
We now need to specify the references that allow us to define
the three-dimensional positioning of an orbit around the Earth.
To illustrate this, we will consider an elliptic orbit.
The green arrow on the illustration
specifies the satellite's direction of rotation.
We need six factors to characterize an orbit around Earth.
We already know the first two factors.
The first is the half of the ellipse's major axis' length.
The second factor is the ellipse's eccentricity.
Let us now see the other factors.
The third parameter is the angle between the orbital plane,
the plane which contains the orbit, and the equatorial plane.
This parameter is called the inclination.
To define the fourth parameter, we need to add two notions.
First the vernal point, and second the ascending and descending nodes.
Let us start with the vernal point.
By the way, do not hesitate to pause this video
to have a good look at the illustrations.
The vernal point is the junction between the equatorial plane
and the Earth's orbital plane in relation to the sun.
It is called the ecliptic. It can be simply considered
as a straight line from the center of the Earth
to a certain longitude reference.
It has nothing to do with the Greenwich meridian.
Once the vernal point is defined as illustrated here,
we can talk about the ascending and descending nodes.
They are located on a straight line which goes through the Earth's center
and represents the places where the orbit crosses the equatorial plane
by respectively going up and down. By measuring the angle
between the vernal plane and the ascending node,
we get our fourth parameter, the longitude of the ascending node.
Thanks to this longitude and to the inclination,
we fully define the orbital plane, but not the orbit yet.
The ascending node will allow us to define the fifth parameter.
It is the angle between the orbital plane,
between the straight lines from the Earth's center,
which go through the ascending node and the perigee.
This parameter is called the argument of the perigee.
Now that we have defined all these parameters, the position of the orbit
is now fully defined. There are no more ambiguities.
However, we still need to position the satellite on the orbit.
Let us imagine we have a t0.
We do not know where the satellite is at this t0 moment.
It will be defined in relation to the moment it reaches the perigee.
This moment must be defined in relation
to a known reference date.
Thanks to these six parameters, we can fully define the orbit's geometry
and thus the satellite's trajectory.
You will see that when we want to publish an orbital shape
we will give TLEs, a set of parameters
grouped on these two lines. In these parameters, these published TLEs,
you will find most of these values with other data
such as the satellite's name for example, etc.
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