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St. Columba's School, Miri, Sarawak 1965-1966
Education | 1965 - 1966 | Guy Sanderson S
I was a cadet volunteer teaching in a well established secondary school in East Malaysia.
I like to think that my students benefited from having a natural English speaking teacher whose youth and enthusiasm made up for his complete lack of teaching experience.
I think they also benefited from my introduction of new curricular and after-school sports and activities.
I was dismayed when VSO discontinued cadet volunteering as the benefit to both volunteers and their hosts was surely enormous.
Here follows an extract from my autobiography, The Accidental Prawn, (my Chinese wife could never correctly describe her accident prone husband), avaiable on Kindle:
Chapter 2 - Voluntary Service Overseas
Although I had been interested in police work and the army from an early age, I had always loved animals and decided that I should become a veterinary surgeon. But after experiencing life at the sharp end working unpaid for my local vet in Moseley (I was always given the rear end of suffering animals to hold and suffered the consequences at least once; useful preparation for service in the Royal Hong Kong Police perhaps!) by the time I had taken my "A" Levels in Biology and Chemistry, I had cooled on the idea.
In any case, I had been forced to give up Physics because my Maths was not up to it and the tuition was hopeless. So by the time I had been offered a place at Edinburgh to study veterinary science for seven years, I had decided that I had had enough of study and applied to Voluntary Service Overseas (VSO) to become a cadet volunteer. I was quite surprised and very pleased to be accepted when others from Bromsgrove School failed but was somewhat disconcerted to find that my intended posting was somewhere I had never heard of (despite passing "O" Level geography), namely Sarawak.
John Hedley DSO, my Gordon Housemaster, quickly put me straight and told me that it was NOT pronounced "SARAWACK" but "SARAAWAK".
By this time, my last days at Bromsgrove were approaching and despite having a horrible ear ache, I managed to win all the backstroke races in the swimming sports on the last day before my brother took me off for a boozy lunch. When the alcohol wore off at home, however, I was in agony and my mother took me in the car to the Birmingham ENT hospital in the middle of the night. Here the Indian doctor did what the fraud of a school doctor should have done two weeks earlier; diagnosed a serious inner ear infection and treated me accordingly.
Luckily, I was able to attend the residential volunteer training course and my flight out to Sarawak was one of the last confirmed. Instead of suffering on the VSO charter flight, visiting all countries en route, four of us were booked onto a BOAC flight to Singapore. So with my arm still sore from all the jabs and a suitcase and rucksack crammed with what I thought was suitable "jungle" kit, I set off on my first great adventure overseas.
My destination was Saint Columba's School, Miri, Sarawak. I had hoped that I would be sent miles up river to some remote head hunters’ long house to teach young children in a wooden hut. But here my luck ran out, or so I then thought. Miri was the second town of Sarawak after the capital, Kuching and its main activity centred around the offshore oil industry. The school was a well established Anglican secondary school with a feeder primary school which received a government subsidy. My predecessor wrote to me and warned me of the dangers of being drawn too much into expatriate society and VSO warned me not to fall into the same traps that he had. What was I getting myself into?
The flight itself was fairly dramatic. We stopped at Rome and then at Baghdad where it was 45C at 10 PM and we were all herded into a Nissen hut guarded by soldiers with old Lee Enfield rifles; no duty free here! Later we landed at Colombo and the local youths all started screaming at us yelling "Beatles" and, in my case, "Ringo"; I suppose the four of us did have rather long hair and some Carnaby Street gear; and I do have a beaky nose. Then we were hit by a tremendous thunderstorm on our approach to Kuala Lumpur and the plane was pitching and rolling and all I could see was flashes of jungle not very far below through the driving rain. This delayed our arrival in Singapore and we missed our connection to Kuching. Then the fun started.
BOAC very kindly, but quite routinely, sent us to the Raffles Hotel, made famous by Somerset Maugham , the Long Bar and the Singapore Sling. They gave us two rooms in the Palm Court on the ground floor bordering the central garden with its ponds and palm trees and we settled down in air-conditioned comfort.
We then went in search of food, wearing our smartest jungle kit. The dining room was closed, it being late in the evening, and we entered the very grand Elizabethan Grill. Here we were seated by four waiters and given large leather bound menus. Then I saw the prices and, feeling like Oliver Twist, plaintively inquired whether or not we had to pay? On receiving a somewhat pompous reply in the affirmative, we beat a hasty retreat to our rooms and ordered in sandwiches.
The next morning, after checking our VSO handbooks, we called the British Council to report our presence. "Where are you?" some matron-like madam asked. "The Raffles" we replied. "What?! We can't have that; check out now and we'll send a van for you!" So we were unceremoniously moved to the Seaman’s Rest Home which was in a much less salubrious part of town. Our rooms had large shutters without glass and creaking and dusty ceiling fans. There was, however, a 50 meter pool and a bloke in a trishaw outside the font door offering dirty pictures for sale! This was not all; the other inhabitants, not surprisingly, were seaman from all over the world who knew Singapore and its more seedy environs backwards.
However, I managed to survive Bugis Street and its various attractions without getting gypy tummy or the clap or getting taken in by the gorgeous looking transvestites. In fact, I retained my virtue somehow all the way to Sarawak and back to the UK until I arrived in Hong Kong. Boys Public Schoolboy randiness, it seams, is not a guarantee of sexual success. Co-educational schools are probably better!
So, after a week of sunning ourselves and spending what little money we had, we finally flew out to Kuching on a Malaysian Airways Fokker Friendship turbo-prop. Here we were accommodated overnight in the Government Rest House. My memories of this place are fond; it was a gorgeous bungalow covered in bougainvillaea not far from the famous Sarawak Museum. It was cool and comfortable and there were some really hip local girls living opposite who played Beatles discs all day long and made me feel quite at home, though I never got to meet them. (Sadly, the rest house has now been demolished and a Malay museum occupies the site although the bougainvillea plants survive.)
On our first night we had a meal at the open air bazaar with the local VSO. Not long after we had left, though, a grenade was thrown into the bazaar and several people were injured. Some other unfortunate using the public facilities at the museum was also blown off a booby trapped toilet seat. Thus it was that we first heard of the "Confrontasi" with Indonesia, a quiet little war being waged between Indonesian invaders from Kalimantan east Borneo and Malaysian, British, Australian and New Zealand troops defending Sabah (formerly British North Borneo), Brunei and Sarawak in west Borneo.
In the end, I spent a full week in Kuching because the airstrip at Miri was waterlogged by heavy rain. I finally made it up there in an ageing Dakota and was met by the Australian headmaster, Hayward and his Indian deputy, Varghese.
They took me back into town and my home for the next fourteen months. This turned out to be a Public Works Department junior quarter, a small wooden bungalow on stilts comprising two bedrooms, a living room, a kitchen, a toilet/shower room and a back balcony. My own room, overlooking a grass area next to the main road, had its own small balcony. The whole place was filthy and the headmaster explained that my predecessor had let himself degenerate to living in squalor by the time he had left. I assured him that this would not happen to me.
Because of the state of the place, he took me back to his own home, a lovely house in the grounds of the school and next to another occupied by the deputy. The school was a mixture of old wooden buildings and modern, two storied classroom blocks adjacent to the beautiful old wooden St.Columba's church. The grounds were enhanced by several fragrant frangipani trees, bougainvillaea and a lily pond. There were playing fields next door and the two Sarawak Shell clubs, the junior ranks Miri Recreation Club (MRC) and the rather posh Gymkhana Club with its swimming pool, were nearby. Hayward told me that I could use both, but advised against using the latter too much in case I got spoiled. Once again I assured him that I intended to get on with my job and get to know the children and the local customs as best I could.
The next day the school clerk took me into town where I bought shorts, long socks and shirts for teaching. Hayward later told me that the shorts were too short (his own reached to the knee) and might excite the girls. I kept them! I also opened an account with the Chartered Bank and met the Scots manager, “Drunken” Duncan. He was not very exited when I deposited my advance monthly pay of $175! (About HK$400).
Then Varghese took me back to my hut where I was introduced to my fellow lodger and teacher, a Canadian University Volunteer (CUSO) who had been at the school for a year already. Unfortunately, he and I were not to get on; he was older than I, loved to talk, tugging furiously at his ginger beard and bouncing his leg up and down as he did so, and hardly ever washed. He dressed like a slob for school and in a dirty sarong at home. His bedroom stank because he never changed his sheets. He left the bathroom and the kitchen in a filthy state whenever he used them. In short, he was the co-lodger from Hell and he ignored all my pleas to clean up his act. None of the staff or children could stand him.
After the introduction, I set about my room. The mosquito screens, the ceiling fan and the room itself were caked in grime and I cleaned every inch. I then had a go at the kitchen and bathroom and by the time I had finished, felt confident enough to move in the next day. This I did and then went shopping on the ancient bicycle lent to me by the school.
I soon discovered that bicycling in Sarawak could be dangerous. The roads are bounded by deep open storm drains and on one trip home when my attention was distracted by a pretty girl, I rode straight off the road into one and ended up riding along in it for several yards with only the top of my head above the lip. Screams of laughter went up from the local kids and after that, I regularly took to crashing my bike near the house just to amuse them.
They obviously found the "orang puteh" (white man) living next door highly amusing; they took to lining up in front of my bathroom to watch me shave in the mornings and used to enjoy provoking me into mock rage and pursuits by chucking large snails onto our roof.
My first night in my new bed was not a success. I itched all over and in the morning was covered in bites. Some were from mosquitoes but not all. I discovered to my horror that the bed and mattress were infested with hidden bed bugs. So I took the whole lot outside and set fire to the frame after soaking it in paraffin. The mattress I sprayed with Shelltox and left both in the hot sun all day. Then I closed all the screens (there were no windows, only shutters) and sprayed the whole room to get rid of any hidden mosquitoes.
This became a nightly routine. I soon discovered that I had to leave the screens and both doors to my room open during the day to keep it as cool as possible. The mosquitoes would hide in dark corners, under the bed, the desk, in the cupboard. But at dusk, they would emerge. I would close everything and blast them with my flit gun as they flew onto the inside of the screens to get to the dying daylight. It proved very effective and I had no more problems from then on.
My first week or so, I tried cooking a full breakfasts but soon gave up. It wasted too much time and the school shop sold very tasty peanut snacks. The kitchen was curious in one respect, though; the gas supply was free because enormous quantities were produced by the offshore oil wells and the Lutong refinery. So the locals used to leave the gas burning continuously, to save money on matches!
Anyway, because I didn't need to get up so early to cook, I used to stay in bed as long as I could. I would shower last thing before turning in, to cool off, and hang my towel on a line on the front balcony. At night I slept naked under a thin sheet with the fan turning gently; any faster and it would heat up alarmingly and blow hot air everywhere. On awaking, I would nip out smartly, but still bollock naked, grab my towel and head for the shower.
After a few mornings of this, I thought I could hear giggling. So I then risked a quick look around as I retrieved my towel but could see nothing. But I was sure that I could hear giggling. Then one morning, I glanced down. To my horror, several grinning female faces stared back at me and then burst into unrestrained laughter as I attempted to conceal myself and bolted for my room. What I had not realised was that the bus stop was nearby and several girls would shelter from the morning sun under the overhanging eaves of our hut just below my balcony. Once the word had spread that this was a prime location for viewing a naked young male orang puteh, the number of girls using this particular bus stop had grown rapidly and the giggle volume along with it. Thereafter I disappointed them by wearing a second towel but still enjoyed greeting them daily.
My meagre pay was banked at the Chartered Bank where the manager recruited me into the Miri Hash House Harriers, the local “Drinking Club with a Running Problem”, the 7th H3 ever formed after the 1st in Kuala Lumpur in 1938. Known as “Drunken Duncan” he was one of a small select group of like-minded expats in government, military and commerce who met every Monday evening for a run and a few beers followed usually by what we called a 1000 Year Old Chicken Curry at the Miri Hotel. Torn up Shell computer punch cards were used to lay a trail through the farms and jungle and on one notable occasion, through a remote brothel in the woods.
I think it was on my first night in my own house that I was sitting alone in the Miri Recreation Club that I was invited upstairs by a member of the Royal Tank Corps to join their party. Their camp was very close by and on another occasion they threw a curry party to which just about everyone was invited, including the most senior government official in the Division, the Resident, one Drake-Brockman. I spent a large part of the evening drinking Tiger beer with him and piling the empties into a huge pyramid which eventually collapsed.
Someone then suggested music and a someone else suggested that we borrow the piano from the Gymkhana Club. A Land Rover was then commandeered, crammed with volunteers, and we somehow gained access to the locked club and drove back to camp with our trophy. Another time I was playing football in their camp and went to retrieve a lost ball. Clambering foolishly over the rusting barbed wire fence, it broke leaving me embarbed by my leg and hanging upside down while the squaddies cheered. The hospital stitched me up but I still have some interesting scars. Accidental Prawn strike one!
The RTC detachment, which charged around in Rolls Royce powered Ferret scout cars, was commanded briefly by a dopey subaltern whose name I forget. One day, travelling back from a Lutong date on the bus, I saw a burnt-out car by the roadside. The newspapers reported that the driver had hit a tree and died when the car exploded into flames. Later, however, my friend the FINCO (Field Intelligence NCO from the Intelligence Corps attached to the local Special Branch) told me that they had given the subaltern the task of setting up a road block to intercept a car suspected of carrying documents of interest to the security forces. The ambush was poorly designed and when the car attempted to escape, someone blew it away with an RPG roasting the occupants and their documents. I believe the subaltern was swiftly and appropriately posted to the Catering Corps.
My career as the Accidental Prawn was furthered again when I was assisting Varghese to preserve a large iguana road kill for a biology display. He showed me how to use a syringe to methodically inject the carcase with formaldehyde before we bottled it in the stuff. I suppose I must have injected a load of it into its urethra because it cam straight back out into my eyes. Varghese quickly washed them out under a running tap but I still left the hospital later with the best pair of preserved eyeballs they had ever seen.
I was planning an up-river trip over Christmas when some 5th form students asked if I would like to join them on a trip to their home outside Kuching, a Land Dyak kampong called Quop. I accepted and we all boarded the coastal steamer, the Rajah Brooke, as ordinary passengers. I slept on deck with the students and others who preferred the fresh air but sneaked into the 1st Class bathrooms to wash. There was a choice of Chinese or Malay food, the former kitchen being in the stern so that the smell of cooking pork would not offend the Muslims in the bow.
We steamed in past Santubong to Pending (pending what?) and then bussed up to the 10th mile where we walked a couple of miles to the village. It was beautiful, a village of dozens of solid wooden individual houses, all provided with an amazing overhead bamboo piped water system running from a stream a few hundred yards away in the forest.
I was made extremely welcome, and everyone turned out to see the visiting orang puteh. It being Christmas Eve, I was then dragged off on a tour of most of the houses where I was plied with tuak and arak. I eventually made it back to the students’ home but passed out. I missed Christmas Day completely and woke on Boxing Day to find myself surrounded by several giggling young girls flapping me with towels to cool me down.
I took my teaching duties seriously and quickly discovered that the key was preparation and an ability to keep things interesting and preferably amusing. I taught an amazing list of subjects: English, History, Geography, Scripture, Maths (I think) and , to the 5th Form, Nutrition, a very practical subject designed to educate children to in their turn educate their parents about such things as the benefits of brown instead of polished rice.
The “children” in the 5th Form were in some cases older than me! However, my own form was the 2nd Form, about 30 mixed boys and girls; Chinese, Malay, Indian and various indigenous children including Iban, Land Dyak and Kelabit. Their ages ranged from twelve to sixteen! The youngest was a very cute little thing called Janice Yap, a doctor’s daughter. After she was forced to have a short haircut by her mother, she hid for a week behind a pile of books on her desk. Another very attractive girl was Hajji Shekiah Hajji Shadan, about fourteen and the daughter of a hotel owner. Both she and her father had done the Mecca pilgrimage, hence the Hajji title. Amongst the boys were two scallywags called Sarakawi and Matthew, both Iban and trouble! My experience as a Gordon House Jout (prefect) came in handy here and they quickly learned not to push me too far.
I don’t think any of them had seen hairy legs close up before. On patrol between the desks one day, Sarakawi couldn’t resist grabbing a handful. I took him on a punishment run. In fact, I introduced cross-country running to the school and donated a cup for a competition. I think Sarakawi won it; he got in plenty of practice from me!
Something else they were unused to was the European habit of using a handkerchief to blow one’s nose. They collapsed in uncontrollable mirth when I first used one. Thereafter, if the class ever appeared to be down in the dumps, all I had to do was pull out my handkerchief and pretend to loudly blow my nose and cheer them up.
There was very little sport apart from hockey when I arrived so I started the cross-country, volleyball and softball and livened up the PT sessions with British Bulldog, Grandmother’s Footsteps and other traditional activities which they enjoyed immensely. I also introduced a Chess Ladder, tarted up the Library and held Photographic and Art Competitions.
Playing hockey in Miri was a nightmare; the grass was so thick that the ball would hardly travel at all if hit. The only solution was to flick, push or lift it. Astroturf had not been invented. Varghese got me involved with the Miri Hockey Association and I was the Secretary for several months.
We had an away school coach trip to Seria for an athletics and sports competition one term. The coast road via Lutong, across the Baram river at Kuala Baram by ferry and on into Brunei, was mostly deeply rutted sand. The driver’s solution was to drive on the beach most of the way! I remember little of the event except my entry into the 1500 meters. I sat on the heels of the front runners until the final bend and then struck. I remember everyone in the stands leaping to their feet and going wild at this display of brilliant tactical finishing and I lapped it up. I never again won another race that I can remember though.
My other away trips were during the Spring and Summer holidays, both up the Baram River as far as the Confrontasi would allow me. I would travel first by bus to Kuala Baram and then by Chinese launch up the wide, meandering river for several hours to Marudi. Here, another VSO, Jill Currie, taught in a boarding secondary school, a rather lonely existence as the only expatriate female for hundreds of miles. Marudi was famous for its annual Baram Regatta, first introduced by Rajah Brooke as an alternative to head-hunting. Fiercely competitive, the regatta comprised a weekend of longboat races between longhouses from all over the Ulu Baram and 4th Division.
From here I travelled by longboat, with outboard engine, upriver to Long Lama bazaar and Long Laput. In the former, I slept under a mosquito net in the old Kubu or fort, built by the British as a police post. In the latter, I slept on the Kenyah longhouse veranda after drinking too much borak (rice beer).
I was impressed with the skulls of human heads taken in a previous era’s hunting excursions to rival longhouses and from Japanese in WW2 and the old photographs proudly displayed of the Queen and Duke and all the White Rajahs. Apparently, the headman or Tua Kampong would politely accept the photographs of the latest Malaysian King and Queen from visiting officials every five years and then chuck them straight in the river as soon as they had left.
Before I departed Sarawak, I was given and traded some wonderful examples of native art work and weaponry; a Punan blowpipe and darts, three parangs, one quite antique and supposedly “blooded”, hats, mats and beads. I also had a tape of some beautiful, haunting Sapai (a Dayak guitar-like instrument, probably of Chinese origin?) music, later borrowed and never returned in Hong Kong.
Although I spent most of my spare term time preparing lessons and marking school work, I did socialise a little. Mostly I went to the MRC for dinner where there was a dining room serving local and European food. The operator was a wizened old Chinese bloke whose food was tasty, plentiful and cheap. However, he eventually complained about the amount of tomato “catsup” I slopped onto my nasi goring and started charging me an extra 50 cents for it! I retaliated by bringing in my own bottle!!
Other times I frequented a little Chinese cafe which rented a space to a Malay chef. Here I had very cheap and tasty curries and watched the World go by. I would also go, without fail, to the very posh Shell Gymkhana Club for the Sunday curry lunch. I would often go hungry on Saturday, stuff myself silly on the wondrous buffet on Sunday and be unable to eat anything at all on Monday. Very occasionally, I would have a steak dinner at the GC, consuming it in the air-conditioned luxury of the TV room.
I used to spend quite bit of time with two other expatriates when I could. One was the Field Intelligence NCO attached to Special Branch, Alan Jacobs. Still a great friend who rose to Major in the Intelligence Corps, serving twice in HK, and then joining the SIS in UK after retiring from a brilliant Army career. He taught me to shoot a Browning Hi-power semi-auto 9mm pistol and generally kept me out of too much trouble. Another character was Dez Hadhazy, an American Peace Corps graduate teacher who was probably CIA.
A third was a Brit, Dave Stephens, who worked for Caterpillar Tractors and owned an amazing open sports car. In reality a five litre Allard, he had registered it as a half litre Morris or something, the Miri Transport department being a little naive. He took me for a couple of breathtaking spins in his infernal machine which, of course, had no seat belts and was capable of a least 180 mph. I survived, and so did a couple of unsuspecting junior members of the Tank Corps sitting on the back of the back seat one evening. They parted company with the car as it bucked over a Bailey bridge at about 80 mph. Luckily, they were so drunk when they hit the bridge’s wooden boards that they were merely bounced and bruised a bit.
So, after a fascinating and thoroughly enjoyable time, I eventually left Miri and Kuching on 15 August 1966 and returned to the UK via Singapore, Bangkok, Karachi, New Delhi and Istanbul four days later with no money whatsoever (I gave my last change to the toilet attendant at Bangkok Airport who all but zipped me up after I had finished). I presented myself at HM Customs in a highly dishevelled state after my final thirty-six hour flight on the crammed VSO turbo-prop charter flight.
“Anything to declare?” the Gatwick customs man asked. I produced six packets of rotting and worm eaten Sabah cheroots and a Clorox bleach bottle full of tuak (native rice beer). He sniffed the contents of the latter, retreated in disgust and waved me through. I did not produce the parangs, kukris and blow-pipe darts just in case he had a fit. I was puzzled that the throngs of tourists ignored us completely despite the fact that we were all wearing all kinds of exotic far eastern clothing. Then I realised, this is was the real UK. Luckily, my elder brother, David was there to meet me and take me home.
I returned to my home in Edgbaston, Birmingham wearing Kayan beads around my neck and wrists, long hair, streaked blond by the sun, tanned and gaunt. My mother threatened to feed me up. I was frozen despite the “heat wave”; I can remember wearing a duffle coat, scarf and cap to go shopping; this time, I was noticed but presumably dismissed as a mentally deficient street bum.
I did not last long in the UK. I went to the Crown Agents in Millbank, filled out an application to join the Hong Kong Police, was later interviewed and accepted as a Probationary Inspector and was on a plane with other new recruits on 6th January 1967, just in time for another Confrontation, this time the communist insurgency inspired by Mao's Cultural Revolution.
Here I served until 30th June 1997, choosing early retirement rather than another five years service under PRC sovereignty. I found work in the Home Office for a while, then became self-employed in the security industry before returning to Hong Kong where I still reside with my wife of 50 years and two rescued dogs.
St. Columba's School
Jalan Dato Abang Indeh
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If The Imbecile Dictator obama Gets Voted in Again, This is America..
Folks ! This is Serious !
Transformations of cultures, and countries and economic systems take time, decades in fact.
I see things happening along these basic lines of evolution.
1946 - A country was at war with some serious evil in Europe and the Pacific. Let's not rehash, but just agree that the vast majority of Americans were patriotic, pissed, but also emboldened by the fact that we kicked the world's ass. Mainly hitler and tojo... We being from the tip of the spear to Rosie the riveter to people buying war bonds to packing food or making uniforms.
My Father was one of those people He was fun loving, but he and millions like him knew what they were fighting for and when they got back they wanted to protect that 'thing'. That thing was Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - where no one owed you anything but the opportunity for you to make it for yourself.
That was the vast majority of people in America in 1946. They voted for politicians who appeared to uphold those values. They supported freedom and opportunity for everyone - black, red, yellow, gay, or fixated on bulldozer exhaust pipes. Who cares. They knew everyone must at least have the chance to succeed for America to work.
We've progressed to the point people vote for scum sucking anti-American POS's like john edwards, hairy reid, sheila jackson lee, baba boxer who disrespects men of service to the country like a general, john kerry, bawney fwank, chris dodd, the crying kucinich obsessed with aliens machine, pelosi, and hundreds of other POS's who have gained positions of power by disrespecting America and promising POS citizens free stuff, in deference to ALL Else.
Support the muslims who have the stated goal of killing us? No prob. Drug our children for acting like children in school? No prob. Photo-shop images, lie like worthless thieves, misinform, and Not inform, and it's All Good as long as there is a free lunch at the end of the rainbow. Nothing else matters.
It's the people, not the politicians. The scum sucking anti-American POS's will always be there. They Have always been there. People in earlier times simply rejected them. Told them sternly to go back behind the baseboards and don't even come out when the lights are off.
Today? There are too many people who invite the evil into their lives because they are weak and stupid. That's the difference. That's the challenge.
But we've been moving in this direction for about 56 years without doing a U-turn. Who or what is going to cause the U-Turn to occur. Damned if I know, but it sure isn't going to happen when the majority doesn't even understand or care about the problem.
I figure we're on our own to make the best of.
I hope y'all do make the best of.
Here's My Problem With "Minority" Groups
Here's the news article link...... You'll find an F-Bomb in here too.
Housing Project For Elderly Gays Gets Approval In Philadelphia
And to make myself and Fredd happier, here are My Thoughts.
So taxpayers get to subsidize elderly gay living, you know, because they are Gay, and as we all know deserve it because some redneck assholes actually spend time abusing on Gays, verbally and otherwise. (Not that I would even consider that a taxpayer problem, unless they end up in the grey bar hotel for it.)
Well; Here it is. My Mom lived in an economy 3 room apartment in one of those high-rise apartment buildings in an economy neighborhood North of Pittsburgh. The kind of place you find the majority of apartments occupied by older ladies who have lost their husbands, men who more than likely served in WWII and who have passed on.
She had to claim bankruptcy once, and barely scrapped by otherwise, with me helping her out from time to time.
Outside of the standard piss ant social security checks she got, she received No Money from taxpayers because of her status.
I could argue she deserved extra money like the 'older gays' are receiving because of what her and her husband did for this country but I'm not going to because I don't believe in begging unless you're living in a shoebox on the side of the road.
Conclusion: Fuck the older gays. Fuck the rest of the minority groups. Fuck the Bi-sexuals who I read recently want "Special Status". Here's the special status I will give them... I will actually loudly Say "Fuck You" along with giving them the Finger when they make demands on my hard earned tax money. If they're not happy with their lives, they can suck it up like everyone else does.
As far as I'm concerned, they get shit extra until good looking, non-minority status, hard working, tax paying studs like myself (and Fredd) as well as gorgeous hard working conservative women, and mothers (You know who you are) start getting Extra Pay for doing something in short "Minority" supply these days. They actually fucking Contribute to our society, culture, and country and the rest of the world's hurting and starving.
Just to clarify, if you're an able-bodied anything and you want money from me because you perceive someone doesn't like your pathetic ass, Fuck You.
If you're in a minority and you intend to make your own way, deal with life's little challenges and be self-accountable, then I love ya man, or women, or other. Please go about your business.
Another footnote in our War on Losers that we are very much currently involved in.
Could ANY Person Possibly Do Less About Anything ??
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Isn't it so cool how the democrat propaganda media includes a 'pensive' pose of the imbecile to include in this absurd 'news story' about the Effing CinC ! who proudly states he is going to "stand fast" just like the vast majority of the rest of the 310 million Americans and 'others', (but not including our military members who are out there actually doing something about the murderous jackals and are Not just 'standing fast').
The Idiot is not even 'Condemning the murder of the Ambassador and the raiding of the other embassies. Naw, the sociopath in chief is 'standing fast'.
Imagine the Loser Moron who reads such a POS article and thinks to themself "My Hero..." or "Our Very Cool Pres".
Good God Y'all !
Another almost noteworthy point of darkness in the imbecilic Loser War of 2012.
Pathetic as Defined by obama Is Yet Redefined Down Another Few Rungs
Why give a name(s) in the first place. Must be because he and staff are freakin geniuses of course.
Andy Green Training to Pilot the 1000 MPH Car
An update on the project which take place in 2013-14
But this isn't just about the need for speed. Bloodhound is being used as educational tool to try to inspire school children into becoming the next generation of scientists and engineers.
More than 5,000 schools across the UK will be using videos from the Bloodhound project as part of their lessons.
Andy says: "We want to showcase the great engineers we have in this country and can have in the future.
"When you go into schools and talk about this project, children's eyes light up and it inspires them. That's what it's about for us."
Click the picture to read the rest.
BTW, Here is the 763 MPH Run in 1997
... There's one! Oooh, there's another one. Wait, Two more ! And over there! Yes, 15 more! There's anoter one ! (Boy Howdy this sure is easier than spotting Volkswagon's with wood trim ain't it Gunny?!) There's another. And another. Hey, There's 6 more. And 50 more coming out of that field. Oh, yet another 3. OOoh, there's another 5. Over there! and Over here too, 4 more. Oh, there's one alone. And another. hey Gunny, how many do we need to spot tonight? Many as we can? Allright! 8 More right there. At least 5 in that Toyota... There's a bunch of em! Less see. 1..3...7...10...16...20..35...about 57 I guess. Same Number of states obama thinks are in America! heheheh. Oh, there's a couple more right there. hey, should we count the camels? No? Dang. Ok, well, here's 12 more.... and there another...7..............................
I'll trade you 6.5 billion Libtards for one of SSGT Lawrence E Dean.
92 Year Old WWII Veteran Shoots and Kills Burglar
Here is the Vid
VIDEO: 92-year-old vigilante
Excerpt: "Was I scared? Was I mad? Hell, no," Jones said. "It was simple. That man was going to take my life. He was hunting me. I was protecting myself."
Here is the Story
Oh, Hell Yes ;-)
Hit the full screen button on the lower right in the vid....
The Sun is shining......... The Weather is sweat..yea
The Lure of Easy Money.. It Has a Very Strong Appeal
Folks wonder what the hell has gone wrong with this country and it's citizens after a racist anti-American POS was put in the White House and allowed to stay there unfettered by media examination . I believe I can explain it.
You cannot give an inch to a worthless parasite. Seriously; even with everyone withholding aid and comfort to the low life parasites that are usually found behind the baseboards of America, they still found a way to get in our faces. Even when the living meme was get an education, get a job, work hard, succeed, make a life for yourself and family.
Standing on the corners with cardboard signs, working twice as hard as we do at regular jobs, just being bums, coming up with the par excellence sob stories that afforded them their daily Night Train (<=link) while being held at bay by a society that recognized these losers for what they were.
That all changed in 2007-2008, when the renamed barry soetoro came along to give them a glimpse of the promised land. They voted for this imbecilic loser in droves. They crawled from their freight train cars to the democrat courtesy buses to vote in 2008 and they put that ghetto couple into the White House.
They've grown more abusive, irrational, rude, disgusting, ignorant and annoying because they've been Emboldened by the Imbecile in Chief and his administration of vampire clowns.
There is nothing more relentless than a loser bum that has its teeth in a wad of free money.
They have a grip on the easy money now and they're not going to give it up without a big fight. Make no mistake - this war is against the low life of society, jazzed beyond description by the lure and capture of easy money.
Hell, let's lighten it up a bit. Here's a nice tune from Chet, where he plays all notes simultaneously and at the same time more or less with the only special effects being an echo effect. If you got to youtube to watch you'll see a live version he played on the Burt Reynolds show and can be amazed at the all notes on one guitar. I'd have posted that one but the sound quality is pretty bad. LA Guitar Quartet plays it with 4 guitars. I believe he wrote the tune while on a cruise.
The Cat's Eye Nebula, Served Two Ways
First, a wider view we haven't seen before.
And here is what that dealy-whopper (The Cat's Eye we're more familiar with[those of us who have been intimate with it anwyay]) in the very middle looks like up close.
As always, click the pictures to go to the APOD site and read a detailed explanation written by a smart person, then click again while there to get larger versions of the picture (usually).
If The Imbecile Dictator obama Gets Voted in Again...
Could ANY Person Possibly Do Less About Anything ?...
Pathetic as Defined by obama Is Yet Redefined Down...
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Iran warns missile attack on IS in Syria can be repeated
Thursday, 29 Jun, 2017
Manhunt launched after convicts overpower guards and escape prison bus
Authorities say Rowe and inmate Ricky Dubose escaped after killing two prison guards during a bus transport in Georgia. Both men are said to be highly risky . 'They just murdered two corrections officers in a brutal fashion, ' Sills said.
Shooter of Republican lawmakers a fan of leftist Sanders
President Donald Trump addressed the attack, saying the assailant has died because of injuries suffered during the shooting . "He was this union tradesman, pretty stocky, and we stayed up talking politics", Orear said .
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Freed US student `brutalised´ by North Korea captors - father
Speaking from Cincinnati Medical Center Thursday afternoon doctors treating Otto Warmbier gave an update on his medical condition. The move comes in the wake of a University of Virginia student succumbing to a coma while detained by North Korean authorities.
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His defeat to Fury was his first since the Ukrainian lost to Lamon Brewster in 2004, and only the fourth of his illustrious career.
Brazil president: corruption charge a 'fiction'
The criminal charges were filed Monday by Brazil's attorney general, Rodrigo Janot , the Wall Street Journal reports. In his first comments since returning from a trip to Russian Federation and Norway, the president was defiant.
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This is the first time since its 1980s war with Iraq that Iran has launched a major missile strike outside the country.
Iran's Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says its next "crushing response" to potential enemy missteps has already been planned days after it struck ISIL positions in Syria with missiles in revenge for its terror attacks on Iranian soil.
The IRGC said the missile strikes were a warning to deter future Islamic State attacks.
Iran is supporting the regime of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad with ground forces and advisors in coordination with Russian Federation.
The launch of surface-to-surface, medium-range missiles into Syria's Deir el-Zour province comes as Islamic State militants fleeing a USA -led coalition onslaught increasingly try to fortify their positions there.
Activists in Syria said they had no immediate information on damage or casualties from the strikes.
However, Spokesperson for the US Central Command Colonel John Thomas said Islamic State terrorists were not present in the Ja'Din village and that it was controlled by the Syrian Democratic Forces. Iran's last foreign missile strike is believed to have been carried out in April 2001, targeting an Iranian exile group in Iraq.
"The Saudis and Americans are especially receivers of this message", he said.
"We will retaliate against the terrorists and their supporters who martyred our people", the IRGC's second-in-command, Lieutenant General Hossein Salami, said after the Tehran attacks.
Iranian media has highlighted the missile attack as a success and the first by Iran outside its own territory in 30 years, since the Iran-Iraq war of 1980-88.
Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei today praised the "success" of Iraqi forces in the battle against the Islamic State group in Mosul. He has also criticized the nuclear deal between Iran and six major powers, including the U.S., that led to the lifting of most sanctions against Iran, in return for curbs on its nuclear programme.
But it was also meant to show that "Iran, in its fight against terrorism, needs missiles - and sanctions have no influence on its defence policies". "I have one message for Iran: Don't threaten Israel".
"Security cannot be traded and those who think they can provide their security by dragging extra-regional countries here are making a stupid strategic mistake", he said.
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Amy Hart's Parents Say It's Hard To Watch Curtis Disrespect Her
Jackie Ramsey | Sunday, July 07, 2019
SPLIT Curtis and Amy could be splitting
AJ Pritchard has come to the defence of his brother Curtis, after his Love Island relationship was left in a shambles last night (July 3).
Wednesday's dramatic instalment of the programme saw a number of other islanders choose to couple up with other people, prompting arguments and causing upset in the villa. "When I'm not near you I don't feel like me, and I genuinely mean that".
Social media lauded the pair as they joked about Ovie stealing Joanna from Michael -so that Amber could reunite with her former beau again.
Amber was shocked to see Michael stood with Joanna when she returned to the main villa, and hours later they had an explosive row after the firefighter branded her and pal Anna Vakili "childish". She tells Amber and Amy: "You've not been in a position where your guy has had his head turned and I have".
With Amy dropping the L-bomb whilst Curtis has been making moves on Jourdan, there is clearly trouble in paradise... but what lies in store for this couple?
Lucie asks Tommy for a chat and explains she still has romantic feelings for him.
One wrote: "I can't shake the sense that Lucie is holding out hope for Tommy to swoop in - just me?"
Others praised him for taking inspiration from Rihanna lyrics ('only girl in the world') and Tom Cruise in 1996 rom-com Jerry Maguire ('you complete me').
She will add: "There have been so many times where I want him to teach me how to dance". "I've known you for how many weeks now?"
Amber tells him: "It's alright". I have a good connection with Amy, she's a lovely young lady, she's fascinating. He captioned it "Am I bothered?"
Molly Mae knew what she was doing when she went to Casa Amor without Ellie Bellie.
Curtis tells Tommy: "I've been lying in mine and Amy's relationship without even realising it".
Tommy says: "You can't switch those things off".
Rather than apologising for his decision, he appeared to blame Amber for things that were wrong in their relationship, and called her "childish".
Later in the evening, Amy confronts Curtis to get some answers after writing a list of questions on her phone.
You are not going to find better than 1/4 about either and to win as a couple 5/18 is the best on offer, an implied probability of 78.3%. I don't like these things.
Love Island is always good at throwing a curve-ball or two into the show and that's exactly what went down as it was announced the girls in the villa would be moving to Casa Amor during the fourth week.
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Boys’ lacrosse is a contact game played by ten players: a goalie, three defensemen, three midfielders and three attackmen. The object of the game is to shoot the ball into the opponent’s goal and to keep the other team from scoring. The team scoring the most goals wins.
Each team must keep at least four players, including the goalie, in its defensive half of the field and three in its offensive half. Three players (midfielders) may roam the entire field.
Collegiate games are 60 minutes long, with 15-minute quarters. Generally, high school games are 48 minutes long, with 12-minute quarters. Youth games vary by level; please refer to theYouth Rules section from the main index. Each team is given a two-minute break between the first and second quarters, and the third and fourth quarters. Halftime is 10 minutes long.
Teams change sides between periods. Each team is permitted two timeouts each half. The team winning the coin toss chooses the end of the field it wants to defend first.
The players take their positions on the field: four in the defensive clearing area, one at the center, two in the wing areas and three in their attack goal area.
Men’s/boys' lacrosse begins with a face-off. The ball is placed between the sticks of two squatting players at the center of the field. The official blows the whistle to begin play. Each face-off player tries to control the ball. The players in the wing areas can run after the ball when the whistle sounds. The other players must wait until one player has gained possession of the ball, or the ball has crossed a goal area line, before they can release.
Center face-offs are also used at the start of each quarter and after a goal is scored. Field players must use their crosses to pass, catch and run with the ball. Only the goalkeeper may touch the ball with his hands. A player may gain possession of the ball by dislodging it from an opponent’s crosse with a stick check. A stick check is the controlled poking and slapping of the stick and gloved hands of the player in possession of the ball.
Body checking is permitted if the opponent has the ball or is within five yards of a loose ball. All body contact must occur from the front or side, above the waist and below the shoulders, and with both hands on the stick. An opponent’s crosse may also be stick checked if it is within five yards of a loose ball or ball in the air. Aggressive body checking is discouraged.
If the ball or a player in possession of the ball goes out of bounds, the other team is awarded possession. If the ball goes out of bounds after an unsuccessful shot, the player nearest to the ball when and where it goes out of bounds is awarded possession.
An attacking player cannot enter the crease around the goal, but may reach in with his stick to scoop a loose ball.
A referee, umpire and field judge supervise field play. A chief bench official, timekeepers and scorers assist. There are personal fouls and technical fouls in boys’ lacrosse. The penalty for a personal foul results in a one-to-three minute suspension from play and possession to the team that was fouled. Players with five personal fouls are ejected from the game. The penalty for a technical foul is a 30-second suspension if a team is in possession of the ball when the foul is committed, or possession of the ball to the team that was fouled if there was no possession when the foul was committed.
The attackman¹s responsibility is to score goals and help his teammates score goals by passing the ball. The attackman generally restricts his play to the offensive end of the field. A good attackman demonstrates excellent stick work with both hands and has quick feet to maneuver around the goal. Each team has three attackmen on the field during play.
Midfield:
The midfielder¹s responsibility is to cover the entire field, playing both offense and defense. The midfielder is a key to the transition game, and is often called upon to clear the ball from defense to offense. A good midfielder demonstrates good stick work including throwing, catching and scooping. Speed and stamina are essential. Each team has three midfielders on the field.
The defenseman¹s responsibility is to defend the goal. The defenseman generally restricts his play to the defensive end of the field. A good defenseman should be able to react quickly in game situations. Agility and aggressiveness are necessary, but great stick work is more essential to attack. Each team has three defensemen on the field.
The goalie¹s responsibility is to protect the goal and stop the opposing team from scoring. A good goalie also leads the defense by reading the situation and directing the defensemen to react. A good goalie should have excellent hand/eye coordination and a strong voice. Quickness, agility, confidence and the ability to concentrate are also essential. Each team has one goalie in the goal during play.
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Ticketmaster falls victim to worldwide digital card skimming attack
At the end of June, online ticket company Ticketmaster confirmed that Inbenta, a third-party website supplier, suffered a security incident. However, researchers now reveal it was more complicated than it appeared, and definitely not a one-time attack, reported RiskIQ.
Investigations show it was part of a highly sophisti cated scam that targeted 800 e-commerce sites worldwide. The hackers responsible go by the name Magecart, a group of digital card skimmers with an elaborate technique: attacking companies that integrate their software with Ticketmaster and replace their javascript modules with malicious code designed to steal payment information. For example, Inbenta’s javascript module was compromised in this scam campaign. Besides its UK site, a number of Ticketmaster websites were affected, including sites from Ireland, Turkey and New Zealand.
“Ticketmaster Germany, Ticketmaster Australia and Ticketmaster International (previously mentioned in the Inbenta breach) were also compromised via another completely different third-party supplier of functionality,” the firm said.
It seems website hacking has lost its glory and Magecart is a group that researchers are familiar with, having expressed concern about them in the past. The breach affected other providers including a social media integration company, a web analytics company and a CMS platform. According to research, the hackers have been sending the skimmed payment details to a server from as early as December 2016
“Our investigation following the Inbenta breach uncovered evidence that the Inbenta attack was not a one-off, but instead indicative of a change in strategy by Magecart from focusing on piecemeal compromises to targeting third-party providers like Inbenta to perform more widespread compromises of card data,” analysts wrote.
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Missouri hospital forced to divert patients after ransomware attack
A Harrisonville, Missouri-based hospital has been forced to shut down some operations and divert patients after a ransomware attack on its infrastructure and electronic health record (EHR) vendor.
Ransomware operators have shifted focus from the consumer segment to the more lucrative business sector. In recent months, bad actors have acquired a specific taste for healthcare providers.
Earlier this week, Cass Regional Medical Center – a hospital in Harrisonville, Missouri – posted a notice announcing it has fallen victim to a ransomware attack. The incident is only the latest in a long string of ransomware attacks targeting the healthcare industry in the past 12 mon ths.
“At approximately 11 a.m. this morning, Cass Regional Medical Center became aware of a ransomware attack on its information technology infrastructure,” reads the notice, posted by the hospital on Facebook. “Affected areas include internal communication systems and access to the organization’s electronic health record (EHR). At this time, there is no evidence that patient data has been breached, but as an extra precaution, Meditech, the hospital’s EHR vendor, has opted to shut down the system until the attack is resolved.”
Hospital leaders hip was prompt in responding to the attack. Within half an hour of the first signs of attack, patient care managers reportedly met to devise a plan to continue to tend to patients safely and effectively. The IT department, meanwhile, called on law enforcement and cybersecurity experts to take steps toward mitigation.
To ensure optimal care for its patients, clinical leaders have decided to go on “ambulance diversion” for trauma and stroke emergencies, according to the notice. “Hospital personnel will continue to evaluate the situation and respond accordingly,” Cass Regional Medical Center said.
Details about the ransomware strain used by the attackers were not available at press time.
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Vengeful hacker exposes DomainFactory customer banking data and passwords
A German web-hosting firm has suffered a severe data breach because one of its employees reportedly owed money to the attacker. The company only learned of the breach when the hacker announced it himself, on its support forum.
On Jan. 29, the attacker compromised customer names, company names, various addresses, telephone numbers, DomainFactory passwords, dates of birth, bank names and account numbers, and Schufa scores (German credit score).
However, the company and its customers only learned of the breach six months later, on July 3, when he made an entry on the DomainFactory support forum to break word of his deed. As proof, he published the data of a number of customers for everyone to see.
The reason beh ind the attack, according to German news outlet Heise Online, was to obtain the credentials of an employee who owed the attacker money. When he noticed that DomainFactory was reluctant to acknowledge the breach, he decided to make it public.
DomainFactory’s explanation, however, differs a bit. In a forum post, the web hosting firm explains (machine-translated from German):
“The result of an initial investigation was that after a system change that took place at the end of January, certain customer information was unintentionally accessible to third parties via a data feed. This data feed was triggered when customers made changes to their DomainFactory accounts, but they caused system errors when they were saved.”
DomainFactory said it quickly shut down the forum to prevent further access to the leaked data. The firm then hired an unnamed security company to focus additional resources on mitigation.
The firm urges all customers to change their DomainFactory passwords as soon as possible. These include customer passwords, phone passwords, e-mail passwords, FTP / live disk passwords, SSH passwords and MySQL database p asswords. Detailed instructions on how to do that can be found here: blog.df.eu/pw.
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New iOS security feature can be defeated by a $39 adapter… sold by Apple
Yesterday Apple released a brace of updates for its software – fixing bugs and patching security holes in the likes of MacOS, watchOS, tvOS, Safari, iTunes for Windows, iCloud for Windows, and iOS for iPhones and iPads.
The update for iOS, bringing it to version 11.4.1, is particularly interesting as it includes a new feature – “USB Restricted Mode.”
USB Restricted Mode is designed to disable an iPhone or iPad’s Lightning port, preventing it from transferring data, one hour after the device was last locked.
You can still charge your device after its Lightning port has been disabled, but you need to enter a smartphone’s password if you wish to use the port to transfer data to an d from device.
A support advisory from Apple shares more details:
“Starting with iOS 11.4.1, if you use USB accessories with your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, or if you connect your device to a Mac or PC, you might need to unlock your device for it to recognize and use the accessory. Your accessory then remains connected, even if your device is subsequently locked.”
“If you don’t first unlock your password-protected iOS device — or you haven’t unlocked and connected it to a USB accessory within the pa st hour — your iOS device won’t communicate with the accessory or computer, and in some cases, it might not charge. You might also see an alert asking you to unlock your device to use accessories.”
Which sounds, of course, like bad news for law enforcement and intelligence agencies who may want to crack into a locked iPhone using tools like GrayKey. GrayKey, and similar tools, use the Lightning port to help anyone with physical access crack their way into a locked device – without having to manually guess the passcode.
Unfortunately for Apple, and customers who like to believe that their phone is private, a workaround has been discovered whereby police could prevent an iPhone or iPad entering USB Restricted Mode if they act quickly enough.
Researchers at Elcomsoft discovered that the one hour countdown timer can be reset simply by connecting the iPhone to an untrusted USB accessory:
“In other words, once the police officer seizes an iPhone, he or she would need to immediately connect that iPhone to a compatible USB accessory to prevent USB Restricted Mode lock after one hour. Importantly, this only helps if the iPhone has still not entered USB Restricted Mode.”
And where might you find such a compatible USB accessory that can prevent USB Restricted Mode from kicking in?
Look no further than Apple’s own online store, where the company will happily sell you a Lightning to USB 3 Camera Adapter for a mere $39. Chances are that there are even cheaper accessories which will do the job just as well.
Apple has successfully made the window of opportunity smaller for anyone (whether they be a member of law enforcement or not) to crack into an iPhone, but this discovery means that they have not closed it completely.
Apple will need to continue to strengthen the security and privacy of its mobile devices if it wishes to maintain its edge over many Android smartphones. Nice try with iOS 11.4.1 Apple, but we need you to do more.
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Data on 21 million users compromised in Timehop hack
Data collected by smartphone app Timehop on its entire customer base of 21 million users was compromised following a security incident, the company confirmed on its website on July 4.
According to their statements, the breach was detected within two hours and 19 minutes, while the attack was still in progress, and only some user data was compro mised, including names, emails, a few phone numbers and access keys that linked user social profiles to Timehop.
What led to the breach was a vulnerable cloud computing environment with an account that lacked two-factor-authentication.
“The breach occurred because an access credential to our cloud computing environment was compromised,” reads the statement. “That cloud computing account had not been protected by multifactor authentication. We have now taken steps that include multifactor authentication to secure our authorization and access controls on all accounts.”
The company assures account holders that no messages, financial data, photos or social media posts were compromised in the breach.
“To reiterate: none of your ‘memories’ – the social media posts & photos that Timehop stores – were accessed,” Timehop said. “We have no evidence that any accounts were accessed without authorization. ”
Access keys were deactivated and users logged out of their accounts as a preventative measure. The company is collaborating with law enforcement and security experts to reduce impact. Also, they assure users that none of their credit card or financial data has been stored on their servers, nor location data, IP addresses or copies of their profiles and content.
Timehop is a memento collector, it mines user photos and posts from social networks and from Dropbox and resurfaces them online.
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Survey identifies three types of consumer attitudes to data privacy
Leveraging customer data is the lifeblood of today’s digital economy, but regulations like the EU’s GDPR threaten to make it difficult to mine this precious “ore.” Businesses still have a few options at their disposal, if they are to continue to sell their services – and stay competitive.
A poll of 11,474 consumers commissioned by market intelligence consortium DMA has revealed that 51% are more than happy to hand over their personal data to businesses that can offer a clear benefit in exchange.
The report – Global data privacy: What the consumer really thinks – places these 51% into a category called “data pragmatists,” a group described as those who exchange their data as long as there’s a clear benefit.
Another important demographic is the “data unconcerned” (26%), described by the surveyors as those who do not mind how and why their data is used. The remaining 23% are the so-called “data fundamentalists,” or those who never share their data for any reason.
Countries with the most data pragmatists include Spain (59%), USA (58%) and Singapore (57%), while data fundamentalists are mostly found in Australia (27%), The Netherlands (26%), and Germany (26%). However, these countries also house a sizeable proportion of data-unconcerned folk (Netherlands 35%, Germany 34%, Argentina 29%).
“We are in a new era of data privacy,” said Chris Combemale, Group CEO of DMA. “Questions have been raised about whether major data breaches and increased talk about the value of our personal data is impacting consumer anxiety over how their information is used. In fact, our research shows that even though consumers are more aware than ever and have concerns about their online privacy, the majority will continue to share their personal information if they trust the organisation and gain something in return.”
Respondents further revealed that they place great importance on transparency (86%), simple terms and conditions that they can properly interpret and understand (84%), and flexible privacy policies (82%).
On a global level, 83% of consumers would like more control over their data, and 49% named “trust” as the most important factor when deciding w hether to hand over their data to an organization.
“Globally, the majority of consumers are pragmatists – willing to share their data so long as there is a benefit. Trading data is a common desire amongst consumers and data as a commodity will become more important for companies in the years to come,” reads the report. “However, ensuring that your organization is transparent, with its customers in how data is used and stored, together with putting them in control of their own data, is key to building trust with consumers and making them comfortable with data sharing. This can build a solid platform for the future of data economy, bringing benefit to consumers and businesses alike.”
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US is the most vulnerable nation to attacks; White House working on executive order for agency CIOs
Enterprises are not the only ones at risk when it comes to cyberattacks. Government institutions can also fall victim to a nation-state attack at any time. Digital frameworks are still very vulnerable and, quite surprisingly, the US has been declared the most vulnerable nation by Rob Knake, the official in charge of the country’s cybersecurity policy during Barack Obama’s administration.
“We are going to be less reactive to incoming cyberattacks because we have more to lose and we’re in a democratic society that is going to force government to take certain responses,” Knake said at the Council on Foreign Relations. “That’s not true of China, Russia, Iran or North Korea.”
While the Obama administration allegedly carried out the famous Stuxnet attack on Iran’s nuclear program, it has been accused of introducing a rather laid-back approach to cyber policy. The Donald Trump administration wants to release an executive order to redefine the role of agency CIOs, as part of an IT modernization strategy.
The bizarre twist is that the executive order they’re working on will not include CIO authorities in the Defense Department, although Congress has been pushing to redefine CIO authority and responsibilities to make them more strategic and aggressive. According to the Defense Authorization Bill signed this year by President Donald Trump, the CIO has to be appointed by the president and confirmed by the Senate. It’s still unclear why the Defense Depar tment has not been included.
Former officials have anonymously commented on the executive order which, in their opinion, brings few additions to other plans that have been presented in the past 15 years.
By enforcing the executive order, the administration’s goal is to enhance “the management and oversight of federal IT by designating the chief information officer of each covered agency as the primary point of responsibility and accountability for management of IT resources within that agency. The agency chief information officer should be the key strategic advisor to the agency head concerning the use of IT to accomplish the agency’s mission, reduce cybersecurity risks, and improve efficiency,” the draft EO states.
“Consistent with statute, the agency chief information officer should play a central role in all annual and multi-year planning, programming, budgeting, acquisition, and oversight processes related to IT. As such, the agency chief information officer should establish an enterprise wide technology roadmap and govern its execution. This requires the latitude to operate across agency component organizations and to drive the enterprise wide consolidation and modernization of the agency’s IT portfolio.”
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Samsung Message App flawed; random user pics leaked to contacts
A flaw detected by users in the pre-installed Samsung Message App on Samsung Galaxy phones causes the app to forward random user photos to arbitrary contacts without the user’s knowledge, according to discussion threads on both reddit and the manufacturer’s forum.
“The Samsung Messaging has become VERY BUGGY after the RCS / Advanced Messaging Update on T-Mobile,” a user wrote on the company’s forum.
“1. I have only noticed the issues when scheduling SMS/MMS.
The recipients are not on any specific plan or carrier that I can tell.
They are all my contacts. All my contacts are stored in / synced with Outlook Exchange.”
Another customer said on reddit that “S9s have been sporadically sending the entire contents of one’s gallery to a contact via SMS, and it doesn’t show up on your side. Might be worth checking logs on your carrier’s site, because it happened on my T-Mobile Note8.”
Because there is no history to confirm the images were sent, users only find out about the error if a contact replies with questions about the odd photo. The phone sends out not only pictures from the image gallery but also other images, such as emojis, from the smartphone’s internal memory.
According to forum statements, the flaw affected only users who have just updated the app, and since they haven’t experienced a similar issue on the Samsung Galaxy 7, they concluded it was a software flaw, and not a mobile operator error, as was initially suggested by a customer support representative from Samsung.
Owners of Samsung Galaxy phones such as S9, S9 Plus and Note should postpone the update. As the manufacturer has been informed, it is probably working on fixing the bug.
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US Homeland Security’s ICE demands Twitter release data on cryptic Flash Gordon account
Flash Gordon (@s7nsins), a mysterious Twitter user based in New Zealand, announced in a tweet that the US Department of Homeland Security’ Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) sent Twitter an export enforcement subpoena in April to disclose the real identity of the person behind the account.
ICE demanded private information such as na me, address, phone number, credit cards linked to the account, IP address history, complaints filed against the account and any other information that might lead to identifying Flash Gordon. Private messages and similar content were not requested, as a court order is necessary.
Following its guidelines and policies, Twitter informed the user of the legal request. Flash Gordon received legal assistance from the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the subpoena was unsuccessfully challenged on June 20.
The reasons behind the demand were not explained, but ICE could be interested in uncovering the person’s identity because the account has regularly released information about data breaches and leaked information found on unencrypted servers.
In the past, Flash Gordon reported finding an inventory of nearly 1 million patient records stolen from HealthNow Records, a medical telemarketing company based in Florida. The database was located on an Amazon Web Services server via Shodan and included sensitive personal and health information of senior patients with diabetes, including Social Security Numbers, health insurance data and names.
Flash Gordon recently revealed another leak, this time related to the cache of law enforcement data by ALERRT, a company that trains police and civilians to respond against shooters. The leaked cache revealed which police units in Texas lacked resources to react to active shooter situations.
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Ticketmaster breached for months, personal data stolen by hackers
Ticketmaster has warned customers that their personal information may have been compromised, after malicious code was discovered running on its website.
Up to 40,000 UK customers who purchased, or attempted to purchase, tickets between February and June 23, 2018 are thought to be affected. In addition, international customers who purchased, or attempted to purchase, tickets between September 2017 and June 23, 2018 may also be at risk.
Personal information compromised includes names, addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, payment details and login details.
Which is all bad news of course, but how did the breach happen in the first place?
It appears that the malware was introduced to Ticketmaster’s site via a piece of external third-party code from Inbenta, a technology company that provides online chatbot and support ticketing services for websites.
As soon as Ticketmaster recognised the issue it disabled Inbenta’s code across all of its websites.
In a statement, Inbenta said that the source of the data breach was a “single piece of Javascript code” that had been customised specifically for Ticketmaster’s purposes. The code, Inbenta says, it is not in use on any other company’s websites.
Inbenta says it has now resolved the vulnerability, but not before attempting to pass some of the blame onto Ticketmaster for using its risky code on a payment page:
“Ticketmaster directly applied the script to its payments page, without notifying our team. Had we known that the customized script was being used this way, we would have advised against it, as it incurs greater risk for vulnerability. The attacker(s) located, modified, and used this script to extract the payment information of Ticketmaster customers processed between Febr uary and June 2018.”
Although it’s obviously trying to pass the buck, Inbenta certainly has a point. Embedding third-party Javascript onto an online payments page introduces risks. After all, if the third-party code gets compromised there is a danger that online criminals could use it to secretly steal payment card information.
Ticketmaster says that it has emailed all customers who it believes are affected by the security incident, and is offering 12 months’ free identity monitoring for those who have been impacted.
Potential victims are also advised to keep a close eye on their bank account transactions for signs of suspicious activity.
But aside from the financial risks, Ticketmaster customers would also be wise to look out for phishing scams, where an attacker might exploit the situation by sending out bogus emails purporting to come from the company.
Curiously, digital bank Monzo claims that it warned TicketMaster that data had been compromised three months ago, in early April. In a blog post, the firm says that it met with members of Ticketmaster’s security team on 12 April, and were told that an internal investigation would take place.
“Over the course of Thursday 19th April and Friday 20th April, we sent out six thousand replacement cards to customers who had used their Monzo cards at Ticketmaster. We let them know that we were replacing their cards through their Monzo app, but didn’t name Ticketmaster as the reason at the time.”
“Throughout this period we were in direct contact with Ticketmaster. On Thursday 19th April, they told us an internal investigation had found no evidence of a breach and that no other banks were reporting similar patterns.”
And yet Ticketmaster’s official statements say that it only discovered it had a serious security issue on June 23rd.
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Toolbox and methods
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In this section, you will find a description of the tools and methods that were found to be useful during the research carried out throughout the T.E.E.N. project.
The tools are meant to act as inspirational reference points for you to adapt to your own needs, structures, projects, and desires. One of the most important things we have discovered throughout our experiences of working with teenagers is that there are no hard and fast rules, so by all means use the tools and methods we include here, but make sure you adapt them accordingly.
1. Pepy’s Diary
We asked everyone involved in the project to create a diary in which they could not only reflect on the performances they had seen, but also on the wider world and how the performances they had seen might impact the public sphere. The goal was to intertwine ideas about life, theatre, writing, and public debate in order for the participants to understand that performances actually inhabit a public space and that there is no way to escape the spectator’s subjectivity.
Pepys Diary TEEN Booklet
1.1 Introduction to Pepys diary
1.2 Pepys Diary
2. Three Questions on Criticism
Everyone involved in the project was asked to answer three questions about theatre criticism. This was used as a starting point to reflect on what theatre criticism is, who uses it, and how they go about it. This tool is especially good if you work with a group over a longer time, where you can go back and look at the starting point together with the participants as the project develops. The questions can also be answered in audio or video if the participant prefer other medias than writing.
Three Questions TEEN Booklet
3. Post-Show Questions
Questions were developed by the Stratagemmi Association who specialize in audience development, and the Codici Association that promotes research and social transformation. In the project, they were used by the Italian team to help them to express their feelings and opinions having journeyed to the Italian festival Santarcangelo dei Teatri in 2017, where they had met another group of teenage theatre-goers.
Questions TEEN Booklet
Questions template
4. How to write about performing arts
The Norwegian web platform for teen critics ungestemmer.no was opened in 2012 by Norsk Scenekunstbruk. Since then critics, interviews and videos have been uploaded from all over the country. The tool How to write about performing arts was made by the Norwegian Union of Critics as a guideline for teenagers using the platform wanting to express their critical thoughts about their art experiences.
To write about performing arts
Unge Stemmer – Norway
TEEN web Italy
5. Hacking the Theatre
Every workshop began by watching a performance together. Groups then explored how they could form and express their opinions, and then produced a ‘hack’. This was intended to allow and inspire to express themselves and comment on their experience in ways other than writing a review. For example, they might make a video that presents an idea about how the audience are let in and out, or they may offer suggestions about the production of supplementary learning materials.
Hack the theatre TEEN Booklet
TEEN web Denmark
6. Talking about Theatre
These tools were developed by Matthew Reason, Professor of Theatre and Performance in the Faculty of Arts at York St John University, and helps to initiate conversations about theatre from six different points of view. The tools were presented to the TEEN ambassadors during a workshop in the April festival in Denmark in 2017.
Talking About Theatre
7. The Kitchen Table Format
The Kitchen Table manifesto was written by the teen ambassadors as a handbook for facilitators who want to host a Kitchen Table discussion. Whilst the content of the discussion is of course flexible, the format should remain consistent. The format has been growing into its form and has been presented at several festivals in Europe and Asia. The format will also play a major part in the TEEN 2 project that will be launched in 2019.
Kitchen Table Manifesto TEEN Booklet
Manual for The TEEN Kitchen Table
8. Experiencing Theatre
Questions about young people’s habits and engagement as theatre-goers, as well as expectation and experience cards that can be printed, ready to use.
Experiencing Theatre
Pre knowledge
Two needs were identified as fundamental: increasing the knowledge about audience development’s processes and about the target of the project. This led to organizing two workshops, one to develop expertise and a second one to train crucial skills for the development of the process.
Here you find one presentation developed by the Fitzcarraldo Foundation, and one by Codici Association. They were used during the training workshop for professionals at the TEEN projects kick-off meeting in 2016. they aimed to give the professionals common ground for further work on the theme.
For more information, please contact the Fitzcarraldo Foundation: Alessandra Gariboldi and the Codici Association: Stefano Laffi
Audience development and teens
Self portait
Segni d’infanzia
Teatercentrum
Norsk Scenekunstbruk
Cultuurcentrum Hasselt
“la Caixa” Foundation
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Zayn Malik hints to cover Atif Aslam song
LONDON: Zayn Malik, a sensational singer, hints to cover Atif Aslam song. British-Pakistani singer Zayn Malik has previously been rolling out renditions of several Bollywood numbers and sharing them on his Instagram handle. While he was trolled for some reworks including Kailash Kher’s Teri Deewani and Allah Ke Banday, it seems like the Pillowtalk singer still hasn’t ...
Salman Khan once again says no to Arijit Singh
BOLLYWOOD: Arijit Singh may be one of the most sought after playback singers in Bollywood but not for Salman Khan who still seems to be holding grudges against the singer. In 2016, singer Arijit Singh had shocked everyone when he posted a heartfelt letter on his Facebook page apologizing to ...
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Child Rape Victim Goes to Police for Help and Is Tied Up and Raped By Her Detective
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Spread the love Tweet To date there have been an astounding 31,741 adverse events, 10,849 hospitalizations and 144 deaths on record due to this popular vaccine. A public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, issued an update on adverse reaction reports relating to the HPV Vaccine, Gardasil. The documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug …
Tens of Thousands of Adverse Reactions to this Popular Vaccine Being Labelled “A Coincidence”
Matt Agorist March 8, 2014
To date there have been an astounding 31,741 adverse events, 10,849 hospitalizations and 144 deaths on record due to this popular vaccine. A public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, issued an update on adverse reaction reports relating to the HPV Vaccine, Gardasil.
The documents obtained from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the provisions of the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) detail 26 new deaths reported to the government following HPV vaccination (Gardasil) between September 1, 2010 and September 15, 2011. That’s 26 reported deaths of young, previously healthy, girls after Gardasil vaccination in just one year.
Serious Vaccine Reactions, Deaths, Often Labeled “Coincidence”
As of November 2013 there have been 31,741 reported adverse reactions to the HPV vaccine, and the position of the Pharmaceutical companies which make the vaccine, as well as the Department of Health and Human Services which holds patents and profits on the vaccine, is that they are all a coincidence. .
HPV Vaccine VAERS Reports as of November 2013
Total Disabled 981
Deaths 144
Did Not Recover 6,248
Abnormal Pap Smear 542
Cervical Dysplasia 221
Cervical Cancer 67
Life Threatening 581
Emergency Room 10,849
Hospitalized 3,213
Extended Hospital Stay 239
Serious 4,270
Adverse Events 31,741
Call your Congressman and tell them you want an investigation into the HPV vaccine and the damage it is causing to young men and women.
“Not a Coincidence” is a campaign started by The Canary Party to address the medical community’s repeated excuse that the symptoms, too many experience, after vaccination are just coincidental. Seizures, fainting, rashes, allergies, GI dysfunction, loss of speech, etc, etc all labeled a coincidence. It’s time to end the excuses and start to listen to the injured and the parents of the injured.
They deserve a forum to be heard, they deserve a voice, respect, attention, hearings and answers. They need a medical discovery process that uses their symptoms and their progression of illness in the process of finding treatments. All injured are worthy of being treated individually instead of disregarding their many medical maladies because of a vaccination program that is not allowed to be questioned.
It’s time for the government, the medical community and the media to start taking into account the too many that are affected. Please take the time to hear from these beautiful, well-spoken girls and Moms tell their stories of injury after Gardasil.
Watch the extended version here: https://youtu.be/Ijwlo_NnPQc
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Turning Research Into Practice
Latest & greatest articles for screening
The Trip Database is a leading resource to help health professionals find trustworthy answers to their clinical questions. Users can access the latest research evidence and guidance to answer their clinical questions. We have a large collection of systematic reviews, clinical guidelines, regulatory guidance, clinical trials and many other forms of evidence. If you wanted the latest trusted evidence on screening or other clinical topics then use Trip today.
This page lists the very latest high quality evidence on screening and also the most popular articles. Popularity measured by the number of times the articles have been clicked on by fellow users in the last twelve months.
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1. Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening Final Update Summary: Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening - US Preventive Services Task Force Search USPSTF Website Text size: Assembly version: 1.0.0.308 Last Build: 5/9/2019 1:01:08 PM You are here: Final Summary YouTube embedded video: https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/guahk43RkV4 Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) Infection: Screening Release Date: June 2019 Recommendation Summary Population Recommendation (...) Grade Adolescents and adults aged 15 to 65 years The USPSTF recommends that clinicians screen for HIV infection in adolescents and adults aged 15 to 65 years. Younger adolescents and older adults who are at increased risk of infection should also be screened. Pregnant persons The USPSTF recommends that clinicians screen for HIV infection in all pregnant persons, including those who present in labor or at delivery whose HIV status is unknown. To read the recommendation statement in JAMA , select
2019 U.S. Preventive Services Task Force
2. Cervical screening: acceptable HPV tests
Cervical screening: acceptable HPV tests Cervical screening: acceptable HPV tests - GOV.UK GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Accept cookies You’ve accepted all cookies. You can at any time. Hide Search Guidance Cervical screening: acceptable HPV tests Updated 18 June 2019 Contents © Crown copyright 2019 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit or write to the Information Policy Team (...) , The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: . Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cervical-screening-acceptable-hpv-tests/cervical-screening-acceptable-hpv-tests 1. Introduction The following high risk human papillomavirus ( has published the contract prices for test kits in an NHS Framework. Only test kits detailed
2019 Public Health England
3. Newborn Screening and the Role of the Obstetrician-Gynecologist
Newborn Screening and the Role of the Obstetrician-Gynecologist ACOGCOMMITTEEOPINION Number 778 (Replaces Committee Opinion No. 616, January 2015) Committee on Genetics This Committee Opinion was developed by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Committee on Genetics in collaboration with committee members Britton Rink, MD, and Stephanie Dukhovny, MD. Newborn Screening and the Role of the Obstetrician– Gynecologist ABSTRACT: Newborn screening is the largest genetic screening (...) program in the United States, with approximately 4 million infants screened annually. Newborn screening is a mandatory state-based public health program that provides all newborns in the United States with testing and necessary follow-up health care for a variety of medical conditions. The goal of this public health program is to decrease morbidity and mortality by screening for disorders in which early intervention will improve neonatal and long-term health outcomes. The program’s functions
2019 American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists
4. Digital media: Promoting healthy screen use in school-aged children and adolescents
Digital media: Promoting healthy screen use in school-aged children and adolescents Digital media are integrated into the everyday lives of children and adolescents, with potential benefits and risks for learning, mental and physical health, and for social life. This statement examines the cognitive, psychosocial, and physical effects of digital media on school-aged children and adolescents, with a focus on family routines, context, and activities. Evidence-based guidance for clinicians (...) and families involves four principles: healthy management , meaningful screen use, positive modelling , and balanced, informed monitoring of screen time and behaviours. Keywords: Adolescents; Children; Development; Digital media; Family; Health; Screen use
2019 Canadian Paediatric Society
5. Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening: newborn outcomes system
Sickle cell and thalassaemia screening: newborn outcomes system SCT newborn outcomes system: overview - GOV.UK GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Accept cookies You’ve accepted all cookies. You can at any time. Hide Search Guidance SCT newborn outcomes system: overview Published 19 March 2019 Contents © Crown copyright 2019 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit or write (...) to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: . Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/sickle-cell-and-thalassaemia-screening-newborn-outcomes-system/sct-newborn-outcomes-system-overview System overview The sickle cell and thalassaemia ( . team in Public Health England ( ( Is this page useful? Thank you
6. Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: ultrasound equipment guidelines
Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: ultrasound equipment guidelines Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: ultrasound equipment quality assurance guidelines - GOV.UK GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Accept cookies You’ve accepted all cookies. You can at any time. Hide Search Guidance Abdominal aortic aneurysm screening: ultrasound equipment quality assurance guidelines Updated 22 March 2019 Contents © Crown copyright 2019 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open (...) Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email: . Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-ultrasound-equipment-guidance/abdominal-aortic-aneurysm-screening-ultrasound
7. Child vision screening
Child vision screening Service specification - GOV.UK GOV.UK uses cookies to make the site simpler. Accept cookies You’ve accepted all cookies. You can at any time. Hide Search Guidance Service specification Updated 24 April 2019 Contents © Crown copyright 2019 This publication is licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence v3.0 except where otherwise stated. To view this licence, visit or write to the Information Policy Team, The National Archives, Kew, London TW9 4DU, or email (...) : . Where we have identified any third party copyright information you will need to obtain permission from the copyright holders concerned. This publication is available at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-vision-screening/service-specification 1. Purpose 1.1 Purpose of the specification This service specification for the child vision screening programme outlines the service and quality expected by the commissioning body, currently the local authority, for the population for whom
8. Breast screening: Planmed Clarity 3D DBT system
Breast screening: Planmed Clarity 3D DBT system NHS Breast Screening Programme Equipment Report Technical evaluation of Planmed Clarity 3D digital breast tomosynthesis system March 2019 Technical evaluation of Planmed Clarity 3D tomosynthesis system 2 About Public Health England Public Health England exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing and reduce health inequalities. We do this through world-leading science, knowledge and intelligence, advocacy, partnerships (...) /PublicHealthEngland About PHE screening Screening identifies apparently healthy people who may be at increased risk of a disease or condition, enabling earlier treatment or informed decisions. National population screening programmes are implemented in the NHS on the advice of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which makes independent, evidence-based recommendations to ministers in the 4 UK countries. PHE advises the government and the NHS so England has safe, high quality screening programmes
9. Breast screening: Planmed Clarity digital mammography in 2D mode
Breast screening: Planmed Clarity digital mammography in 2D mode NHS Breast Screening Programme Equipment Report Technical Evaluation of Planmed Clarity digital mammography system in 2D mode March 2019Technical evaluation of Planmed Clarity digital mammography system in 2D mode 2 About Public Health England Public Health England exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. We do this through world-leading science, knowledge and intelligence (...) : @PHE_uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/PublicHealthEngland About PHE screening Screening identifies apparently healthy people who may be at increased risk of a disease or condition, enabling earlier treatment or informed decisions. National population screening programmes are implemented in the NHS on the advice of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which makes independent, evidence-based recommendations to ministers in the 4 UK countries. PHE advises the government and the NHS so England has
10. Breast screening: Hologic 3D digital mammography system in 2D mode
Breast screening: Hologic 3D digital mammography system in 2D mode NHS Breast Screening Programme Equipment Report Technical Evaluation of Hologic 3Dimensions digital mammography system in 2D mode March 2019Technical evaluation Hologic 3Dimensions digital mammography system in 2D mode 2 About Public Health England Public Health England exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. We do this through world-leading science, knowledge (...) Twitter: @PHE_uk Facebook: www.facebook.com/PublicHealthEngland About PHE screening Screening identifies apparently healthy people who may be at increased risk of a disease or condition, enabling earlier treatment or informed decisions. National population screening programmes are implemented in the NHS on the advice of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which makes independent, evidence-based recommendations to ministers in the 4 UK countries. PHE advises the government and the NHS so
11. Breast screening: Hologic 3Dimensions DBT system
Breast screening: Hologic 3Dimensions DBT system NHS Breast Screening Programme Equipment Report Technical evaluation of Hologic 3Dimensions digital breast tomosynthesis system March 2019 Technical evaluation of Hologic 3Dimensions digital breast tomosynthesis system 2 About Public Health England Public Health England exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. We do this through world-leading science, knowledge and intelligence, advocacy (...) : www.facebook.com/PublicHealthEngland About PHE screening Screening identifies apparently healthy people who may be at increased risk of a disease or condition, enabling earlier treatment or informed decisions. National population screening programmes are implemented in the NHS on the advice of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which makes independent, evidence-based recommendations to ministers in the 4 UK countries. PHE advises the government and the NHS so England has safe, high quality screening
12. Breast screening: Hologic Affirm Prone Biopsy System
Breast screening: Hologic Affirm Prone Biopsy System NHS Breast Screening Programme Equipment Report Practical Evaluation of the Hologic ® Affirm Prone Biopsy System March 2019 Practical Evaluation of the Hologic Affirm Prone Biopsy System 2 About Public Health England Public Health England exists to protect and improve the nation’s health and wellbeing, and reduce health inequalities. We do this through world-leading science, knowledge and intelligence, advocacy, partnerships and the delivery (...) /PublicHealthEngland About PHE screening Screening identifies apparently healthy people who may be at increased risk of a disease or condition, enabling earlier treatment or informed decisions. National population screening programmes are implemented in the NHS on the advice of the UK National Screening Committee (UK NSC), which makes independent, evidence-based recommendations to ministers in the 4 UK countries. PHE advises the government and the NHS so England has safe, high quality screening programmes
13. Practice Guide for Sickle Cell Trait Identified in Newborn Screening
Practice Guide for Sickle Cell Trait Identified in Newborn Screening PRACTICE GUIDE FOR SICKLE CELL TRAIT IDENTIFIED IN NEWBORN SCREENING | April 2019 These recommendations are systematically developed statements to assist practitioner and patient decisions about appropriate health care for specific clinical circumstances. They should be used as an adjunct to sound clinical decision making. OBJECTIVE To provide guidance to health care providers when they receive notification a newborn (...) be implications for other family members. See Appendix B for frequently asked questions to help guide your discussions with the family. 1 Practice Guide for Sickle Cell Trait Identified in Newborn Screening | April 2019 Practice Guide Page 2 of 9 Implementation Considerations HEALTH EXPECTATIONS FOR PEOPLE WITH SICKLE CELL TRAIT Most people who carry SCT will not have associated health problems and they will not develop SCD. In rare cases, carriers may experience some health issues such as hematuria
2019 Toward Optimized Practice
14. Screening hysteroscopy in subfertile women and women undergoing assisted reproduction. (PubMed)
Screening hysteroscopy in subfertile women and women undergoing assisted reproduction. Screening hysteroscopy in infertile women with unexplained infertility, or prior to intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilisation (IVF) may reveal intrauterine pathology that may not be detected by routine transvaginal ultrasound. Hysteroscopy, whether purely diagnostic or operative may improve reproductive outcomes.To assess the effectiveness and safety of screening hysteroscopy in subfertile (...) women undergoing evaluation for infertility, and subfertile women undergoing IUI or IVF.We searched the Cochrane Gynaecology and Fertility Group Specialised Register, CENTRAL CRSO, MEDLINE, Embase, ClinicalTrials.gov, and the World Health Organization International Clinical Trials Registry Platform (September 2018). We searched reference lists of relevant articles and handsearched relevant conference proceedings.Randomised controlled trials comparing screening hysteroscopy versus no intervention
15. Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Childhood and Pregnancy: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. (PubMed)
Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Childhood and Pregnancy: Updated Evidence Report and Systematic Review for the US Preventive Services Task Force. Elevated blood lead level is associated with serious, often irreversible, health consequences.To synthesize evidence on the effects of screening, testing, and treatment for elevated blood lead level in pregnant women and children aged 5 years and younger in the primary care setting to inform the US Preventive Services Task Force.Cochrane (...) CENTRAL and Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (through June 2018) and Ovid MEDLINE (1946 to June 2018); surveillance through December 5, 2018.English-language trials and observational studies of screening for and treating elevated lead levels in asymptomatic children and pregnant women.Independent critical appraisal and data abstraction by 2 reviewers using predefined criteria.Elevated blood lead level, morbidity, mortality, clinical prediction tools, test accuracy, adverse events.A total of 24
16. Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. (PubMed)
Screening for Elevated Blood Lead Levels in Children and Pregnant Women: US Preventive Services Task Force Recommendation Statement. Elevated blood lead levels in children are associated with neurologic effects such as behavioral and learning problems, lower IQ, hyperactivity, hearing problems, and impaired growth. In pregnant women, lead exposure can impair organ systems such as the hematopoietic, hepatic, renal, and nervous systems, and increase the risk of preeclampsia and adverse perinatal (...) outcomes. Many of the adverse health effects of lead exposure are irreversible.To update the 2006 US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) recommendation on screening for elevated blood lead levels in children and pregnant women.The USPSTF reviewed the evidence on the benefits and harms of screening for and treatment of elevated blood lead levels. In this update, an elevated blood lead level was defined according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reference level of 5 μg/dL.The USPSTF
17. Accuracy of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression: individual participant data meta-analysis. (PubMed)
Accuracy of Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression: individual participant data meta-analysis. To determine the accuracy of the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) for screening to detect major depression.Individual participant data meta-analysis.Medline, Medline In-Process and Other Non-Indexed Citations, PsycINFO, and Web of Science (January 2000-February 2015).Eligible studies compared PHQ-9 scores with major depression diagnoses from validated
18. Prehospital stroke scales as screening tools for early identification of stroke and transient ischemic attack. (PubMed)
Prehospital stroke scales as screening tools for early identification of stroke and transient ischemic attack. Rapid and accurate detection of stroke by paramedics or other emergency clinicians at the time of first contact is crucial for timely initiation of appropriate treatment. Several stroke recognition scales have been developed to support the initial triage. However, their accuracy remains uncertain and there is no agreement which of the scales perform better.To systematically identify (...) and review the evidence pertaining to the test accuracy of validated stroke recognition scales, as used in a prehospital or emergency room (ER) setting to screen people suspected of having stroke.We searched CENTRAL, MEDLINE (Ovid), Embase (Ovid) and the Science Citation Index to 30 January 2018. We handsearched the reference lists of all included studies and other relevant publications and contacted experts in the field to identify additional studies or unpublished data.We included studies evaluating
19. Screening for Breast Cancer in Average-Risk Women: A Guidance Statement From the American College of Physicians. (PubMed)
Screening for Breast Cancer in Average-Risk Women: A Guidance Statement From the American College of Physicians. The purpose of this guidance statement is to provide advice to clinicians on breast cancer screening in average-risk women based on a review of existing guidelines and the evidence they include.This guidance statement is derived from an appraisal of selected guidelines from around the world that address breast cancer screening, as well as their included evidence. All national (...) is all clinicians, and the target patient population is all asymptomatic women with average risk for breast cancer.In average-risk women aged 40 to 49 years, clinicians should discuss whether to screen for breast cancer with mammography before age 50 years. Discussion should include the potential benefits and harms and a woman's preferences. The potential harms outweigh the benefits in most women aged 40 to 49 years.In average-risk women aged 50 to 74 years, clinicians should offer screening
2019 Annals of Internal Medicine
20. Depression in primary care: part 1-screening and diagnosis. (PubMed)
Depression in primary care: part 1-screening and diagnosis. Depression is a common and heterogeneous condition with a chronic and recurrent natural course that is frequently seen in the primary care setting. Primary care providers play a central role in managing depression and concurrent physical comorbidities, and they face challenges in diagnosing and treating the condition. In this two part series, we review the evidence available to help to guide primary care providers and practices (...) to recognize and manage depression. In this first of two reviews, we outline an approach to screening and diagnosing depression in primary care that evaluates current evidence based guidelines and applies the recommendations to clinical practice. The second review presents an evidence based approach to the treatment of depression in primary care, detailing the recommended lifestyle, drug, and psychological interventions at the individual level. It also highlights strategies that are being adopted
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What's everyone reading/listening/playing/watching
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Posted: 15 July 2015 at 7:59pm
What media y'all consumin these days?
I made a new Last.fm profile this year after using the same one since 2008, fresh n clean: https://www.last.fm/user/Nude_Riker
Been going to gabber, breakcore and jungle shows lately.
Haven't been reading a lot the past few months, mostly because I haven't gotten a comfy chair and lamp for my new apartment (lame excuse), but I'm in the middle of/recently finished:
The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Leguin
Blackwater by Jeremy Scahill
Some Chekhov shorts
Five episodes in I've given up on the second season of True Detective, feels like a parody of season one, but not self aware enough to be funny. :-/
Massively disappointed to hear NBC canceled Hannibal, which is probably the most visually creative show on tv.
Really enjoyed the first two seasons of Silicon Valley, especially now that I'm in an organization that mirrors a lot of silicon valley tropes (scrum, tons of buzzwords, etc).
Vidya Games:
Still playing through GTA V, which I bought day of release for PC. Writing is still pretty stilted and off-kilter, I don't think Rockstar is anywhere near as funny as they think they are. I spend most of my time exploring the mountains on a dirtbike in first-person.
Still spending a fair bit of time in driving sims with my G27 pedals/wheel/shifter setup. Mostly Assetto Corsa (here's a video of me poking around the laser scanned Nurburgring in a very fast car): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyiyNaRYOno (embed didn't work for some reason)
Well? How are you wasting your time?
Edited by BARREL BREAK - 15 July 2015 at 8:00pm
Eville
More than 'evil' but not quite 'eviller'
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Quote Reply Posted: 16 July 2015 at 2:08am
Woooo one of these!
I mostly listen to music when I'm at the gym, so it's mostly some flavor of metal. Lots of Lamb of God.
I still don't know how to read, but I'm about 20% through the first 4 GoT books.
I try to catch the weekly Last Week Tonight. GoT when it's on. Finished Parks and Rec, and COmmunity. Now I'm working my way through the 2nd season of True Detectve and Season 3 of Eastbound and Down. I've only seen one episode of True Detective so far.
Vidya Games: Internet here sucks too much for online gaming. I'm playing through Metro 2033 and FF Class Zero now. Fallout 4 is pre ordered. I plan to get to Witcher after Metro 2033 and Last light. FF is pretty meh.
Reb Cpl
Has to say "yes" to "are you a cop?"
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I think this thread will reveal a pretty sad existence for me.
I'm in a 'louder the better' mode right now. Who or what isn't really important, as long as its loud enough that I can't hear myself think.
Currently not reading anything. But I'm looking.
I'm on Netflix a lot, and just started watching the 'old' Spartacus, Blood and Sand series. For its gratuitous violence and almost laughably frequent boobage, I find it to be pretty well written and am enjoying it.
Network shows, I gave the pilot of the Jim Gaffigan Show a try last night, and while I enjoy him as a comedian, I think the show will fall flat, and in spite of the controversy surrounding Clarkson, I've remained a devoted Top Gear UK fan, and got to watch their final episode the other night. Classiest ending to a show ever. "Thanks for watching. Goodbye."
Other than that, my television is usually packed with kids' shows.
Vidya Games: Nil. Unless you count dropping into armor games every now and then when I've got a couple of minutes of boredom at work. Although I dusted off my Mario Kart Wii game and am using it as a parenting tool. My six year old is super competitive, and his report card this year said he needs to work on sportsmanship and teamwork a little. So, I'm kicking his ass on a regular basis in an effort to teach him to "Win without being a jerk, lose without being a baby." If he takes a loss well, I'll let him win a few until he starts to get cocky again, then he finds himself rammed into the lava pits.
....I don't know if its working, but its fun.
Edited by Reb Cpl - 16 July 2015 at 10:09am
usafpilot07
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Music: Most mid-aughts/earlier rap and newer rock/country.
Books: I'm re-reading the Song of Fire and Ice series right now. Crazy to see all the foreshadowing and everything when you go back through and re-read them, plus now that I've read it once, I notice smaller details that really add to the experience.
TV: I really don't watch much TV, though I have it on in the background pretty often. I mostly leave it on reruns of sitcoms I like.
I started watching Spartacus, like Reb, but lost interest in Season 2. I thought the new actor was awful.
Other than that, I mostly wait around for new episodes of Archer.
Video Games: 13 year old USAF would be incredibly disappointed in me. I haven't really played any video games since I started the process of moving out of my apartment/into my house at the beginning of May. I can't access my PSN account, and honestly just don't have a big enough desire to play to go through the hassle of going through tech support.
I did play through one of the HALO games I hadn't played before when my SO brought her 360 out of storage, which I enjoyed.
I think I'm boring now....
Edited by usafpilot07 - 16 July 2015 at 10:04am
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I'm just about to the finale of the first season. Content-wise, was the second season as good as the first? Or did it go downhill along with the quality of the actor?
If the whole thing started to sag, I'm going to be bummed because I've really gotten into it so far, but if its just the actor, I can limp through it for the enjoyment of the show itself.
procarbinefreak
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Music/reading: not much to be honest. I work a mile and a half away from home, so I may get a song and a half in on the way in. I was never a big reader to begin with. I am however listening to a lot of podcasts when I get the chance. Penn's Sunday school, My brother my brother and me, Sawbones, adam savage's podcast, and a few others sprinkled in there.
TV: lots of junk. I loved hannibal, but seemed to lose interest during the current season. I watched 2 episodes and the rest are sitting on my DVR. Penn and Teller Fool Us just started and I'm a sucker for magic. I binge watched all 5 seasons of GoT in the past month and a half and I'm hooked. I was also lucky enough to avoid knowing too many spoilers going into it. I work 2nd shift, so if I don't DVR it I'm not going to randomly watch something and get sucked into it.
Video games: candy crush.
I'm a pretty boring person these days.
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Still really into the folk-punk thing. Been listening to a lot of Andrew Jackson Jihad, which is always great to have playing when students come in for office hours.
Also started getting into proto-country, which has been kinda cool. It started with a mild obsession with Jon Snodgrass after seeing him on the Revival Tour, but now I'm into Drag the River pretty hard. It's good stuff for sitting on a porch and contemplating your life.
Other than that, just keeping up with feeding my love of pop music. I really dig everything about Taylor Swift's latest album.
Oh, and for some reason, I've been listening to a lot of Run the Jewels while I drive. Dunno what that is about.
TV!
Oh man. I've got the summer off, just planning out classes and writing research and drinking on porches, so I've been watching a lot of TV series. Here's my thoughts on some of them:
Treme: It's museum quality. I want to hang it in some kind of "This is what good TV can be" museum so everyone can see what they should be aspiring to in storytelling. I love that it tells the story of regrowth without pulling punches or pandering to a sappy mentality. I love that it tells the story of people of color. I love that it tells the story of people in poverty.
Boardwalk Empire: Sigh. I wanted to like it. I really did. It's an interesting time period, I really dig Steve Buscemi as an actor. No reason that this should have just come across as "meh" to me. I honestly think it has to do with the incredibly slow development on some characters, and overall the lack of a coherent attention to a single character. Part of the reason that Sopranos was so good was that, despite everything else going on, it always kept Tony and his progression and struggles in mind. Boardwalk would have grabbed my attention a ton more if they'd have stuck with Buscemi's character just a little bit more. Instead the whole thing just feels scrambled.
Bloodline: Yo. This show is legit. It's probably the best single season of a thing that Netflix has put together. It's a slow burn that teases you with multiple timelines (Think a less-confusing Memento), and combines a lot of wonderful genres: a murky murder/detective story, a family drama, and most importantly, a noir. Put those together in the sketchy-ass Middle Keys as a setting, and man, it's a fun ride with a fun ending. They very delicately sprinkle in the ways you find things out about the characters, in a way where you almost don't realize you're realizing it. I'm almost kind of upset they are making a second season. Just let this one exist.
House of Cards: I watched the third season. The third season is embarrassingly bad. I have no idea if I'll bother watching the fourth, to be honest.
True Detective: Ohhhh. I like this season. I like it a lot. I think True Detective may be one of my favorite things on the television, and it's one of the only shows I crave week to week, I honestly think it's because I grew up reading noir-like detective books, but man, the setting is great, the characters are deep in a gross, rotten way, where you don't know if you actually want to find out more about them. One of the big criticisms I've read about Season 2 compared to Season 1 is that it lacks the close edge of supernatural, that it's not as spooky. Which is true, this one is more of a straight-up noir, but Christ it's good.
I've been staying with my girlfriend this summer, and she lives across from a thirft store that has an enormous used book section. So I've read a bunch of cheesy paperbacks, Michael Crichton, James A. Michener, etc.
Right now, though, I'm reading Watergate: A Novel, by Thomas Mallon. It's pretty good so far.
Video Games!
I've gotten big into iPad games, so I try to keep on top of what is fresh there. It's my little ritual that once a week, usually on Sundays, I look in the iPad store and see what is new and highly reviewed. I also listen to Giant Bomb's podcasts, so I keep track of the iPad games they talk about. It's a really fun platform to deliver a game, for sure.
I usually fall back on playing CrossyRoad.
Edited by agentwhale007 - 16 July 2015 at 11:01am
Anyone watched FX's "Tyrant?" The commercials have looked interesting/well put together, but I haven't even checked it out.
Reb Cpl wrote:
I think I only watched a couple episodes from season two. II couldn'tget past the actor change. I do think the quality or acting dropped as well. II couldn'tcomment on the story though
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With my new job I mostly listen to whatever is on the radio and speaker tapes I download.
Books: Took a break from the SHTF/dystopia genre. Read Looming Tower: Rise of Al-Qaeda and also Ghost Wars (A wee bit dry, but absolutely fascinating). The wifey bought me a book called Blackout, which is about a female alkie who I assume gets sober, haven't got that far into it.
Shows: Broke down and watched Sons of Anarchy, made it halfway through the last season and got bored.
Orange is the New Black, Shameless, Homeland, Bloodline, and saw the Minions movie last weekend (which was amazing btw)
Video Games: I bought GTA V for my laptop thinking it could run it..... No such luck. Sold my PS3 and 360 years ago. Have no desire to plop down money for a new console.
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Music: I've been on a huge Devin Townsend kick. The man is my god. I've also been doing banjo lessons for a couple of years now, and I'm putting a little more effort into expanding my bluegrass tastes. Really, the banjo is simply a joy to play.
Books: I just finished the latest "Song of Ice and Fire" novel, and am waiting excitedly for the next ones. I've picked up the Dune novels again, and am reading "God Emperor of Dune." I recently read "Hatchet" as well. Apparently that's a common one for grade-schoolers to read, but I never read it, so I made up for lost time. It's definitely targeted towards young teens, but I still thoroughly enjoyed the read. I've been trying to power through "1,001 Arabian Nights," but that's a bit of a tough read for me. Also, can't go wrong with Lovecraft, if you can get past the racist undertones...
Shows: I don't really watch a lot of TV. I've been wanting to watch the Game of Thrones series, as well as Breaking Bad.
Games: Oh lord, where to begin... I'll start off with Bloodborne. Great game. I've been playing a metric boatload of indie games as well, thanks to Steam sales and PS+ handouts. Rocket League is a fantastically fun game. You drive a car, playing explosive soccer with it. Go. Splatoon is more fun than I know what to do with. Skullgirls is probably my favorite fighting game. I've been really eying Elite: Dangerous lately as well. Just downloaded Her Story, but haven't started it yet. Gaming is kinda a big thing for me, and I really don't have the gumption to type it all out here. :p
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Quote Reply Posted: 18 July 2015 at 12:12pm
Music: nothing particular. Lots of my teenage Blink 182 esque music on pandora while reloading.
TV: nothing now. Gearing up for Walking Dead, Better Call Saul, Homeland, HOC, and The Americans. I agree with Whale that the past season of HOC was sub par.
Video games: Unturned, H1Z1, and Payday 2 ebb and flow for me.
Quote Reply Posted: 18 July 2015 at 4:28pm
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Oh it's so boring.
The wifey
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Also, I forgot to add that I'm an avid Clasher (of clans) now.
DeTrevni wrote:
Also, can't go wrong with Lovecraft, if you can get past the racist undertones...
Oh they're frequently overtones. (Look up his cat...)
Eville wrote:
If you want to talk mobile games too, I'm neck deep in Boom Beach.
Hah, I started playing boom beach but it sucked my battery down so darn fast I finally gave up on it. Wasn't worth it.
I got really into Fallout Shelter for a day. Then logged back in the next morning and half my people were dead, the other half were super pissed, and I had no water and almost no power.
That was the last time I played.
BARREL BREAK wrote:
Oh man, I know what you're talking about...
The man was blatantly and openly racist, and a lot of that translated into his stories. It's unforgivable, but I do have to say that the stories he wrote and the universe he spun fascinate me.
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Obama-Rouhani phone call gets divided reception
Friday Sep 27, 2013 7:49 PM
President Barack Obama's telephone call with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani marks the first time the nations' leaders have communicated directly since 1979. NBC's Chuck Todd reports.
Politicians and analysts were sharply divided over the importance of President Barack Obama's telephone call Friday with Iranian President Hassan Rouhani.
Iran scholars broadly praised the first direct talks between the U.S. and Iranian leaders in 34 years. Iran itself sounded notes of caution. And Republicans scoffed.
Obama dramatically revealed the 15-minute discussion at the top of a televised statement mostly devoted to challenging House Republicans to reach an accommodation on spending that would avoid a government shutdown next week.
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, wasn't alone among those in his party who accused Obama of preferring to talk to Iranian dictators over talking to them:
Pres. Obama talks on the phone w/ Iran, still refuses to talk with #GOP about govt’s spending problem http://t.co/jlWxlw1n7Z
— Team Boehner (@TeamBoehner) September 27, 2013
Likewise the chief spokesman for Boehner's deputy, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor of Virginia:
The President won't talk to people with bombs strapped to their chest...only the Iranian president, who literally funds that.
— Rory Cooper (@rorycooper) September 27, 2013
"Iran's government remains — in spite of President Rouhani's rhetoric — a brutal, repressive theocracy," Cantor said later in a statement. "... The President suggests there is 'new leadership' in Iran, yet Supreme Leader Ayatollah [Ali] Khamenei remains the true ruler in Tehran, and we are only fooling ourselves when we suggest otherwise."
Meanwhile, Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif., chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee, saw the discussion not as a breakthrough but as a capitulation.
"Our damaging sanctions have gotten Rouhani on the phone," Royce said in a statement. "We must increase the economic pressure until Iran stops its nuclear drive."
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The telephone conversation between the U.S. and Iran could change their relationship. NBC's Ann Curry examines what it could mean
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Yasmin Alem, a senior fellow with the South Asia Center at the Atlantic Council, a nonpartisan public policy center in Washington, said the call was "an important milestone — a calculated risk bytwo cautious leaders mindful of domestic constraints.
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Key to the initiative is support — or lack of it — from Israel, whose prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, will be in Washington and New York next week to make his case against Iran's nuclear program. The Israeli Foreign Ministry had no comment on the news Friday.
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Ali Arouzi and Stacey Klein of NBC News contributed to this report.
Historic call: Obama and Iran president talk; nuke deal possible
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Notes on Berlin: Grunewald Forest and the listening station
May 8, 2015 Ellie Stewart
The listening station at Devil's Mountain
Do you know that in the volkspark in Freidrichshain you can walk up a hill created from the rubble of Berlin left after the Second World War? Sit on the grass beside the soaring fountain, enjoy a beer, admire the mandarin ducks and the mallards sailing on the water of the pond: then make the climb. The paths are cobbled, curling; the plants and trees have claimed this place, though here and there you can still see signifiers of the past: bricks emerging from soil where the earthworms crawl, rusted metal, a steep wall to sit upon and hang your legs and see the ground below swim in and out of focus til you pull yourself away to safety.
Mandarin ducks at volkspark in Friedrichshain
At Grunewald Forest, there is a similar place – though much steeper, and at its peak a listening station left over from the Cold War.
Tuefelsberg (Devil’s Mountain) rises about 80 metres above the surrounding Teltow plateau. Just like the hill we walked up in Friedrichshain, this artificial hill was built from the rubble of the city left after its decimation in WWII. As the city was cleared and rebuilt, these mountains rose and over the decades have been grown over with trees and grasses. Nature rolls over: unknowing, unseeing, unaware of where these bricks stood and what they saw and what the world cannot forget.
After Germany and Berlin were divided, the US National Security Agency built one of its largest listening stations on top of Devil’s Mountain. British and American spies intercepted Soviet and East German communications throughout the Cold War. When the wall fell the spies left, but the domes stayed. On our third day in Berlin, James and I headed south from the tower blocks and wide roads of the city to the forest and the lakes that lay not far beyond.
We took the U-bahn to Yorckstrasse, then a bus through districts filled with designer shops (Prada, Chanel, Hugo Boss) until the bus turned and we were taken down winding roads lined with mansions of every architectural design you could imagine – austere and modern, traditional lodges, fairytale pink palaces – and the gardens were beautiful, filled with tulips, and all of it all shimmering and golden under the sun. It is important to note that the day was hot - about 25 degrees - the wind was minimal and the sky was clear.
the view from the listening station
We hired bikes and cycled through the glorious forest, sheltered by the soaring trees that cast cooling shadows across our path. At last we saw the tower and the radar dome from the bottom of a hill and dragged out bikes to the top- only to discover the cost of a tour was 15 euros per person and we had only a few euros between us. We cycled back to the town hoping to find a cash point, passing a nudist lake on the way, but no luck. The nearest cash point, we were told, was way back in the town, a good forty minute round-trip, and so our only option was to return to Devil’s Mountain and circle the perimeter with the hope of glimpsing the decaying towers through the trees.
Another steep climb. We fastened our bikes to a tree by a concrete shelter and climbed the last few metres. The gates were closed, as we had expected, so we walked round the double perimeter fence and found the huge white radar domes rising above the trees, presenting graffiti covered walls. Bulbs (spiked), running lines: a film set from a 60s sci-fi movie shuddering with paranoia but tinged with hope. Within and without, the inner rooms opened up, exposed, and the heavy sheets of torn white fabric whipped in the wind, jagged at the edges, like washing long forgotten on a line. A skinny black cat sat washing her paws just beyond the fence. From the interior, footsteps echoed on the metallic steps and dogs barked from somewhere on site. The gates were closed firmly shut, and I don’t know who was spending their time in that haunted place.
listening domes
There was no one around as we walked away from the buildings. But the birds struck up their evening song: a hundred tweets and whistles and trills all at once; competing, calling, marking territory, and the flying insects multiplied in the air around us, safe to come out now, in these hours before dusk.
So we left this memory void, the domes echoing only with the wind now, and the creaks and cracks as the old structure crumbles down. Not listening in anymore, no more signals, no more words.
Only the sounds the earth and her creatures makes, and the movement of the air, under the open sky.
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A Day at the Opera
Going to the opera has always been an expensive undertaking. After you pay for all that scenery, costuming and make-up, soloists, choruses, extras, orchestra members and everything else, it's a wonder anyone can afford it. In fact, opera attendance all over the world has been waning because many people don't have the price of a ticket.
There is nothing quite as wonderful as dressing up and going to an opera house, but there's something almost as good. The Metropolitan Opera in New York has started to do simulcasts of its Saturday matinees and showing them in HD at movie theatres around the country and the world. During the intermissions, a famous opera singer serves as MC and conducts interviews with various members of the cast and crew, and you get to see the backstage area as the techies set up for the next act. Not just any movie theatre may do this - they have to have a sound system that passes muster with the Met, so that you can enjoy the quality of the voices as much as those sitting in the expensive seats in New York.
So, today at 10:00 a.m. I paid my $22 at the Edwards Renaissance theatre in Alhambra, California and took a seat in the third row to enjoy Verdi's Aida. I sat in the third row because everything behind it was filled. My friend Alice, who has been attending these showings since they began last season, said that the theatre used to be only about 40% filled. Word is spreading. And what a pleasant way to spend a Saturday morning--and half of the afternoon, given the length of this particular opera.
Marnie said...
I had no idea this was being done. I do enjoy opera and all the frills but don't enjoy the cost of a ticket.
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The store homeowners themselves face a battle to take care of customers and are starting to look favorably at the incentives the developer is offering them. The Music Store is a novel about folks on the cusp of change and about having the braveness to bear personal transformation.
For me, music is such a trigger of emotion, and a particular song can easily transport me to a time, a spot, a special memory. If you’re seeking to take your percussion to the next degree, South Texas Music Mart has what you are on the lookout for! Electric guitars started showing in the 1930 s and are one of the most widespread musical instruments to purchase from a music retailer.
Regionally owned and operated in Corpus Christi since 1973, South Texas Music Mart specializes within the most interesting faculty band devices. I was reminded of all the extraordinary music creations the human thoughts has conceived. But most significantly – Ilse Brachmann – a ravishing German lady to whom Frank eventually gives music lessons and who is not as she seems.
I do not know sufficient about music to really know some of the classical or jazz titles however definitely acknowledged a few of songs. Our accessories embrace: Guitar strings; Guitar picks; Reeds; Musical instrument upkeep supplies; ligatures; Educational books; Sheet music; Instances; Drumsticks; And far more!
General music stores typically carry a variety of music accessories used during rehearsals and performances, equivalent to metronomes , electronic tuners , music stands , stand lights and conducting batons. Some shops art entertainment articles will track down guitars from a buyer’s beginning 12 months, or fashions tied to specific moments in music history (e.g. a late-Forties Gibson J-50, just like what Bob Dylan performed on his debut album).
In The Music Shop” she once again writes about these abnormal” individuals in a transparent-eyed, unsentimental, and galvanizing method. The new shop additionally features a package deal discount system, which affords an rising discount with each additional merchandise bought.
The music store is absolutely the good backdrop for such a narrative, reminding us of how necessary a role music, of all types, performs in our lives. Like a beacon, the store attracts the lonely, the sleepless, and the adrift; Frank, the shop’s owner, has a means of connecting his clients with just the piece of music they need.
Use our Music Faculty Finder Music College Finder to get linked with the perfect college. There are private stories of disappointment and ache, of hope and joy and remembrance, individuals attempting to assuage their wounds and preserve the reminiscences alive by music. And we’re working hard to help the heritage, artwork, and music of our group in Lincoln, Nebraska.…
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Musicroom has a huge online catalogue of sheet music, scores & songbooks for musicians of all ages and talents, and for a spread of musical devices, from trumpets to trombones and bass guitar to the bouzouki. Yamaha Music Europe GmbH (UK) trading as Yamaha Music London acts as a credit dealer and presents credit score merchandise from Secure Belief Financial institution PLC buying and selling as V12 Retail Finance. One of many difficulties of caring for sheet music collections is that they are typically treated as printed ephemera.
But it was not till the Victorian era that demand for illustrated music sheets reached the height of popularity. The composer could have a longtime working relationship with a music writer, or his or her agent could market the piece to publishers specializing particularly sorts of music.
Sheet music can be used as a record of, a guide to, or a way to carry out, a music or piece of music. We’re musicians dedicated to offering unsurpassed service to music lovers around the globe. Receiving a Ph.D. in Music Composition at the State University of Michigan, he has earned numerous commissions, grants and music awards, together with the title of Composer of the Yr by Tennessee Music Teachers Affiliation in 2005 and 2006.
Work together with, transpose and play your sheet music on-the-go using a suite of FREE cell & desktop apps. This collection makes obtainable the big selection of Ludiwg van Beethoven’s piano music, both acquainted and less nicely-recognized. Sheet music might work of art entertainment be issued as particular person pieces or works (for example, a well-liked tune or a Beethoven sonata), in collections (for example works by one or several composers), as pieces performed by a given artist, and many others.
A research rating, especially when a part of an anthology for educational examine, may embody extra comments about the music and markings for studying functions. The term rating has additionally been used to consult with sheet music written for only one performer.
Music And Art In The Solomon Islands
Musician, composer, and painter, a renaissance man with the objective to protect jazz as an American artwork type: enter GERALD CANNON. However, it appears reasonable to ask for more detailed examples since, on the one hand, we surely do really feel unhappy (in some sense) in response to tragedy and, on the other, it is not obvious that we don’t really feel pity (or imagined pity, or whatever one’s preferred idea of emotional response to fiction posits) in response to tragic music.
Should you can learn, the subsequent step for you need to be to join my free newbie’s composing course, which explains in in regards to the fastest way attainable, what all of these fundamentals of music theory are, and how to use them in composition.
In this train (which I’ve discovered works superbly in school), students study, by direct expertise, that composition involves revision: that sure noble art entertainment dinner theater musical choices don’t work, that some work better than others, and, extra usually, that a chunk of music (like an article) could be improved.
In other phrases, the answer to the question of the style and extent to which music should resemble some behavioral expression as a way to qualify as expressive of a selected emotion is just in whatever method and to whatever extent leads us to expertise the music as resembling the emotion”.
Finding out music as a liberal artwork gives college students the chance to consider the chance that Plato is true—that music shouldn’t be limited to taste and pleasure, but has a strong affect on who we are and whether or not we’re ennobled or debased.
Regardless of the problems of the arousal idea as the whole story of musical expressiveness, there is a growing consensus, thanks largely to the work of Jenefer Robinson (1994, 2005), that our decrease-stage, less cognitive responses to music must play some role in the emotional expressiveness we attribute to it. However, this role is likely to be a causal one, moderately than part of an evaluation of what it’s for music to be emotionally expressive.
Music is crucial to many people, folks listen to music on a regular basis as a result of music is a companion and it, not only brings joy,it additionally encourage us it helps us alleviate worries making it a rare function in our lives.…
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Here’s a brief crash course on abstract art, how it evolved and how you can respect it. Wherever however an art gathering, this would be thought to be a satire on fashionable cultural emptiness.” The more voices within the conversation about what is sweet artwork and bad artwork, the higher artwork can be. Norman Brosterman’s Inventing Kindergarten studied the affect of Froebel’s instructional toys on the abstract artwork of the twentieth century.
Peak, width and depth are the three phenomena which I must transfer into one aircraft to kind the abstract surface of the picture, and thus to guard myself from the infinity of house. It’s because, as I have talked about, Summary Expressionism just isn’t a lot a college of portray as a way of approaching and experiencing the act of creation.
Abstract expressionists approach abstract paintings by experimenting with gesture. If immediately an summary painter appears to attract like a toddler or a madman, it is not as a result art entertainment and history goals of he is childish or mad. Modern art doesn’t emphasize on actual representation of the true world, which is, in a roundabout way, abstract in comparison with realism art works in Renaissance.
All of the cries of anti-artwork or the elegant did not change the fact that audience might now appreciate art from a safe distance. Abstract Expressionism was typically characterised as a robustly masculine, white man’s discipline, chopping a bold and aggressive swath by way of the softer elements of advantageous artwork.
Not passing by means of objects of the world however passing over them, no longer depicting only fragments of actuality, summary portray, like music, was independent of the outstanding world of objects. It doesn’t matter what finally ends up characterizing the artwork you select, gallery partitions look great when they embody quite a lot of items in different sizes displayed in a balanced arrangement.
They had been influenced by the era’s leftist politics, and got here to value an artwork grounded in personal expertise. Willem de Kooning, a Dutch immigrant to New York, was one of many foremost Summary Expressionist painters. He went to Guide Artwork Excessive Faculty, generally known as the school where Philip Guston and Jackson Pollock also attended.
Lots of our summary dimensional art items look unbelievable on their own, too, permitting you to create a press release wall over a mantelpiece or at another design focus. Artwork gave expression to, and extended, the potential of this vast creative realm, the realm from which the human being extends into the world and creates it.
He had an awesome curiosity within the occult and revealed On the Non secular in Art in 1911. Traditionally, the abstract art motion emerged in the nineteenth century as a response to educational portray or realism. The historical past of modern art is offered as an inner, immanent process among the artists; abstract art arises as a result of, as the author says, representational artwork had been exhausted.
Ei-Q began writing artwork criticism in 1927, when he was solely sixteen, and started making photograph-dessins from 1930 at age 19 via the affect from Man Ray’s Rayographs or Moholy-Nagy’s Photograms. Supposedly, Kandinsky took up abstract art as a result of he noticed an image in his studio during twilight.
What Is Mosaic And What Is Not? Art Guide & Mosaic Scholar Daniele Torcellini Asks
In 5 days the individuals will achieve the abilities vital to design and craft mosaics within the historical type, and reducing smalti glass, marble and stone with the traditional instruments, akin to hammer and hardie. I imagine it’s potential to investigate mosaic through a picture in jpeg, an assemblage of garbage or whatever else. It’s also potential to analyze mosaic via materials that aren’t typical of mosaic or via other techniques. The mosaic panel in the apse showing the bishop with Emperor Constantine IV is clearly an imitation of the Justinian panel in San Vitale.
Among the uncommon examples are the sixth-century Christ in majesty (or Ezekiel’s Imaginative and prescient) mosaic in the apse of the Church of Hosios David in Thessaloniki that was hidden behind mortar throughout those dangerous times. There may be an fascinating mosaic medaillon from 1210 above the gate of the church of San Tommaso in Formis showing Christ enthroned between a white and a black slave.
Students are encouraged to experiment with color and texture to start to find the possibilities of mosaic. It is extremely just like that of the synagogue at Maon (Menois) and the Christian church at Shellal , suggesting that the identical artist most likely labored in any respect three places.
The impressive mosaic of Christ in Majesty, flanked by the Blessed Virgin and St. John the Evangelist in the apse of the cathedral of Pisa was designed by Cimabue in 1302. Artist Domenic Ghirlandaio phrase true image for eternity is a mosaic” led to many disputes to start with of the fifteenth century.
The Texas-primarily based artist uses entire tiles, fairly than damaged or lower ones, to make her work. Christian artwork furthered the ornamental method in churches and different non secular buildings, but under the Byzantines, mosaic art became a privileged language to specific divine, supernatural and mystic themes.
You might be encouraged to deliver a wide range of small odds and ends so as to add to your designs. The anti-Arian theme is obvious within the apse mosaic of San Michele in Affricisco , executed in 545-547 (largely destroyed; the remains art entertainment 1970s in Berlin ). I was immersed on the planet of mosaics, residing above the manufacturing facility where mosaic tiles have been produced for greater than a century.
It is all the time a great signal when the art materials look beautiful before you even start creating! Recognized in the mosaic neighborhood to ‘paint with glass, Tavonatti created this breathtaking piece ‘Svelata’, which secured her first place in open art competitors ArtPrize in 2010.
The conference is organised by the Mosaic Centre and Association professional Terra Sancta. Alll the guidelines and methods you want are right right here, you can be making stunning patterns and using your glass tiles to make awesome art projects in no time. During the period of Hellenistic art (c.323-27 BCE), Greek mosaicists made further progress.
One other method is the photocopying of the supposed art piece after which drawing the community of tiles over the photocopy. The publish-Iconoclastic period was the heyday of Byzantine art with essentially the most lovely mosaics executed. One of the earliest examples of Byzantine mosaic art in the area may be found on Mount Nebo , an vital place of pilgrimage within the Byzantine period where Moses died.…
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Matching folios are collections of music that match all of the songs on or in a compact disc, film soundtrack, or musical. If a chunk is composed for only one instrument or voice (such as a chunk for a solo instrument or for a cappella solo voice), the entire work may be written or printed as one piece of sheet music.
Even after the advent of music printing within the mid-1400s, a lot music continued to exist solely in composers’ hand-written manuscripts properly into the 18th century. Prime members take pleasure in FREE Two-Day Shipping and exclusive entry to music, movies, TELEVISION exhibits, original audio collection, and Kindle books.
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He writes music primarily for orchestra, giant band and wind ensembles, choir, but additionally has plenty of chamber pieces, electroacoustic works, some art songs and movie scores. Nonetheless, within the early years, the cost of printed music restricted its distribution.
Sheet music that is collected under a songwriter’s or performer’s identify is known as a character folio. Yamaha Music Europe GmbH (UK) buying and selling as Yamaha Music London is registered in England and Wales BRO14498 at Sherbourne Drive, Tilbrook MK7 8BL. Such preparations art entertainment 1970s are made for both piano solo (two arms) or piano duet (one or two pianos, four hands).
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Please contact us for more info or click on the registration hyperlink to start your musical journey as we speak! He has gained eight American Library Notable Awards, recorded over 46 href=”http://www.genevalanding.com/current_show/dickens_menu.pdf”kaleidoscope art & entertainment recordings, authored seven books, three of which have been with Random Home Kids’s division, and his music and art work had been featured at The San Diego Museum of Artwork during a live performance presentation.
Shifting focus from advantages positioned within the expressive work to those situated in the emotional listener, the oldest suggestion is Aristotle’s concept of catharsis, based on which our negative emotional response to negatively expressive art leads to a (positive) psychological purgation of the adverse feelings (Poetics, 6, 1449b21-1450b20).
Simply because the paradoxes and contradictions set up by such texts and the debates surrounding them identified double-edged ambiguity as a key attribute of late nineteenth-century considering, so, too, sure musical works, and the vital controversies they provoked, had been essential to modern reception of programmatic narrative arts.
Active as a clinician, Joe has been a featured performer and clinician on the Percussive Arts Society Worldwide Conference PASIC, Jazz Educators Community International Convention JEN, numerous PAS Days of Percussion, MusicFest Canada, The National Jazz Workshop, George Mason Univerisity Summer season Jazz and Percussion Seminars, The Jazz n Youth Trade of Germany, and lots of others.
As for the individuation and re-identification of the imagined brokers, no mention has been made from such complexities thus far and, as Levinson says, these are matters on which the account of basic musical expressiveness can remain agnostic” (2006b: 204).
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Non permanent plastic signs bearing the shop name await alternative by permanent signage as soon as metropolis approval comes via. Division of Cultural Affairs, the Florida Council on Arts and Culture and the State of Florida. Out, Out, Phosphene Candle: Pleasure Feasley and Paul Swenbeck installation view at the John Michael Kohler Arts Middle, 2018.
Out, Out, Phosphene Candle: Joy Feasley and Paul Swenbeck set up view on the John Michael Kohler Arts Heart, 2018. Fresno Music Academy was established in 2016, formerly known since 1998 as The Voice Shop Music Academy. The Grasp of Music in Collaborative Piano focuses on accompanying and chamber music, collaborating with a wide range of instruments and voice, plus the opportunity to play in massive ensembles and in operatic settings.
The Heart of Music and Artwork, located at 264 Fundamental Road, Wintersville, Ohio, is introducing a brand new program for young singers all through the valley. Dr. Cruz is a Texas Certified, Secondary Music Instructor and has a proven history of excellence in instructing college students from center school by means of the university stage.
We’re the only music faculty in Fresno that gives their college students the chance to earn particular coloration wristband bracelets (kids and teens love them!), trophies, AND certificates for passing musical checks. The Music Enjoyable Time program is the only childhood music schooling program of its type in Fresno!…
Summary Art For Kids
If you happen to prefer a colored background, purchase a jar of Gesso to prime the canvas and provides it a touch of shade. Ernst Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, Max Ernst, Alexei Jawlensky, Oskar Kokoschka, Franz Marc, August Macke and Max Beckmann) weren’t summary painters, but their vivid palette – along with Kandinsky’s theoretical writings – alerted different more summary-inclined artists to the power of color as a method of attaining their goals.
The interval timeline recommended by the art instructor in one of the solutions (1860 on) aligns it with the start of the economic revolution on. John Paul Getty left just about all his cash to his Artwork museum & he was definitely threatened by essentially the most fashionable of recent art.
The primary of the main fashionable art actions to subvert the tutorial style of classical realism was Impressionism (fl.1870-1880), whose palette was usually decidedly non-naturalistic, although its art remained firmly and clearly derived from the true world, even when Claude Monet’s last work on his Water Lilies genre appeared more akin to abstraction.
The assault of the intellectuals in opposition to the provincial aristocratic traditions was in keeping with the curiosity of the dominant class; they elevated technical progress, aggressive individuality and the relativism of values into theories favorable to imperialist growth, obscuring the contradictory outcomes of the latter and the conflicts between courses by abstract ideological oppositions of the previous and the fashionable or the past and the future.
Taeuber-Arp was fascinated in the culture of American Indians from young agefig.sixty three, and studied inside and furnishings design at the arts and crafts faculty managed by Wilhelm von Debschitz.fig.64 From 1911, she grew to become a student of Rudolf van Labanfig.sixty five HYPERLINK HYPERLINK , studied architecture, and in 1915 met Hans Arp (1886-1966) who grew to become her life accomplice.
With this in mind, I lately wandered right down to an artwork exhibition at University College London’s Grant Museum, where chimp and elephant art is exhibited alongside artworks by abstract artist Katharine Simpson, whose blocky pieces are paying homage to Rothko’s, but on a smaller scale and with extra number of colour.
However, the truth that a couple of of the brushstrokes in the white squares are oriented in a right angle in direction of their edges suggests noble art entertainment dinner theater that he used a straightedge, and the subsequent narrowing of them by scraping away a band of two millimeters throughout might need eradicated a ridge.
After I fall in love with a piece of summary artwork enough to want to purchase it, beyond desirous to own the work’s beauty, it is as a result of I wish to hold alive the potential to suppose without words, and to proceed to find surprising and generally unexplainable emotions and things.…
What Is The Distinction Between Summary Art And Fashionable Artwork?
Having good art on your walls is likely one of the most effective methods to showcase who you are, inside your house. To say then that summary painting is solely a response against the exhausted imitation of nature, or that it is the discovery of an absolute or pure area of kind is to overlook the constructive character of the artwork, its underlying energies and sources of movement.
Summary artwork emphasizes a piece’s formal qualities over its representational subject matter, main artists to experiment with different methods such as using vivid but arbitrary colours, creating new shapes, and rejecting reasonable three-dimensional perspective.
With the method of the disaster of the Thirties critics like Elie Faure known as on painters to desert their art and turn out to be engineers; and designers, in America as well as Europe, delicate to the increasing financial strain, though blind to its causes, identified architecture with engineering, denying the architect an aesthetic operate.
For an early 20th century summary type of painting which tried to mix Cubist composition with color and music, see: Orphism A British pre-war art official entertainment art motion which was strongly influenced by the Cubist idiom, was Vorticism (1913-14), founded by Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957).
Though the motion has been largely depicted all through historic documentation as one belonging to the paint-splattered, heroic male artist, there were several vital feminine Abstract Expressionists that arose out of New York and San Francisco during the Nineteen Forties and ’50s who now receive credit score as elemental members of the canon.
The word abstract” comes from the light-tower of the philosophers, and it seems to be one of their spotlights that they have particularly focussed sic on Artwork.” So the artist is at all times lighted up by it. As soon as it—I mean the summary”—comes into painting, it ceases to be what it’s as it is written.
It is a reality of some significance that among the main figures who pioneered in the creation of abstract artwork, a number of of the most authentic and influential – Mondrian, Kandinsky and Malevich, for example – were true believers in occult doctrine.
A quick listing of the numerous different summary art styles/actions embody: minimalism, summary expressionism, aboriginal art, non-objective, neo-plasticism, coloration discipline, lyrical abstraction, put up-painterly abstraction, Russian Constructivism, geometric abstraction, and motion portray.
Just like the toys made by Taeuber-Arp, the Futurist Fortunato Depero (1892-1960)fig.119, Rodchenko, or the puppets Klee made for his son Felixfig.120 HYPERLINK , Garcia’s toys exemplified the elemental connection between the concreteness of avant-garde art and youngsters’s toys.
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TKO! Dismantling the racist machine: Ward crushes Kovalev to retain light heavyweight boxing title
Powerful left and right hand shots to the body and face destroyed Sergey Kovalev throughout the fight, culminating in the 8th round TKO.
Thanks to longtime press photographer and writer, Malaika Kambon for this excellent coverage of Andre’s latest fight.
TKO! Dismantling the racist machine: Ward crushes Kovalev to retain the unified light heavyweight boxing title.
When Joe Louis knocked out Max Schmeling via TKO 124 seconds into the 1st round of their legendary re-match, it was June 22, 1938, in a sold out Yankee Stadium arena. 70 million people listened in on their radios.
He was the heavyweight champion of the world, and a hero in Afrikan communities.
Public television was barely two years old, the U.S. was on the brink of WWII, and Hitler’s Germany had feted Schmeling as a Nazi hero and as Europe’s perfect specimen of Aryan superiority to defeat the Afrikan from the U.S.
79 years, 5 days later, Andre Ward knocked out Sergey Kovalev via TKO 129 seconds into the 8th round of their legendary rematch, it was June 17, 2017 in the Mandalay Bay Event Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, before 10,592 fans.
The bout was produced and distributed live by HBO Pay-Per-View®
Andre Ward is a two-division world champion. He is the reigning, unified WBA, WBO, IBF, and RING Magazine Light Heavyweight World Champion, the 2004 Olympic Gold Medalist, and the best pound for pound fighter in the world. His fans love him. His star is still rising in global Afrikan communities.
Racial tensions in this country have accelerated, mirrored, and surpassed those of pre-WWII 1938.
Meanwhile, Kovalev continued his historic architecture of nasty racist social media attacks against Afrikan opponents throughout the build up to the second fight.
Pre-fight media work out shows the power and speed of Andre Ward’s left hand
Andre Ward spoke out against Kovalev’s racism. “He’s culturally sound enough to know some of the things he’s been doing are racially motivated, “ Ward said. “He needs to be silenced.”
Mr. Ward should know. He was Kovalev’s prime target for nearly a year.
Kovalev should have spent more time training.
For on June 17, 2017, Andre Ward dismantled the racist machine called Sergey Kovalev, letting it be known – again – that Kovalev’s actions do not belong in any sport, anywhere.
In retaliation for her fighter’s 2nd loss to Andre Ward in 7 months, Main Event Boxing CEO Kathy Duva announced her intention to file a protest with the Nevada State Athletic Commission, seeking to have Andre Ward disqualified.
In Duva’s spectacular rant at the post fight press conference, she described Ward’s body shots as being “below the belt,” and said center referee Tony Weeks shouldn’t have stopped the fight.
But which should come first, Kathy: The “disqualification” plea to the Nevada State Athletic Commission, the “Instagram Apology” posted by your fighter after the fight, or the multitudes of newspaper reports of an impending official protest?
I invite my readers first, to listen to the words of veteran trainer Virgil Hunter.
Next, view the following videos of the eighth round of the Ward – Kovalev fight, by Boxing Doc and by Fannon International Boxing Channel, “Andre Ward vs Sergey Kovalev Stadium View/Round 8 Highlights”
There are no low blows. All punches were at the belt line.
Stevie Wonder could have seen that Kovalev was in no shape to continue, nor did he show any desire to do so. His body language indicated that he was broken mentally and physically. He wanted no more of Andre Ward in this lifetime.
Team Kovalev should thank the perspicacity of Tony Weeks for stopping the fight when he did.
Kovalev’s tantrums and excuses over the past year, the loss of two major boxing matches seven months apart, Duva’s performance at the post fight press conference, and Kovalev’s Instagram “apology” seem like red herrings sprinkled along the road to an official complaint to the Nevada State Athletic Commission.
Zebras don’t change their stripes. Kovalev is psychologically and physically broken.
He has a history of racism and excuses that cannot be cleaned up with a fake Instagram “apology.” Threatening Afrikan opponents – and by default, their families – with racial invective and physical harm is precisely what should not be done to a people who have suffered 600 years of a Holocaust that has not abated.
Threats to “destroy Ward as a man” come from the mouth of a racist, not a serious athletic competitor. This particular racist described Donald J Trump as “a nice guy” on Fox TV, while complaining about his first loss to Andre Ward.
Kovalev openly let it be known that he had no respect at all for Andre Ward, nor an Afrikan person.
He is dangerously sick, trying to spit in your eye and call it rain, and if you don’t believe him, he’ll take his marbles and go home.
Obviously the two fighters don’t like each other. This is not difficult to understand given that one is a racist bully and the other is the two weight unified light heavyweight champion and pound for pound the best fighter in the world, who has beaten a racist bully twice, and who hasn’t lost a fight in twenty years.
But there are so many things that go into a fight: the fighters’ skills, the fighters’ activity when they’re at the top of their game, the character of the man or woman, good coaching and training advice…all of these things and more go into the making of a good fighter.
And ultimately, the proof is in the fights.
Ward got inside Kovalev’s head in 2016, set up camp, and didn’t leave until the end of the re-match in 2017.
In fact, the beginning of the rematch was like round thirteen.
Kovalev was tired mid-way through the third round of the rematch. By the fifth round he was breathing through his mouth.
Throughout the fight, Kovalev’s stances were unstable. He had to be warned more than once about his grappling and holding, most of which was prevented by the center referee. He repeatedly threw punches that missed. He carried his arms low. He worried about Ward’s left hand.
That might explain why Kovalev couldn’t stop Ward’s left hand, and why he didn’t see the right cross to the chin that nearly knocked him out cold in the eighth round.
Kovalev threw a lot of rabbit punches. He didn’t use his feet effectively. On those rare occasions when he landed punches, they were not in combinations. He was up on his toes a lot, and he was constantly fighting his way out of corners. Between rounds his hands were outstretched on the ropes as he sat, indicative of being tired.
Ward on the other hand, fought a mainly defensive fight, until he unwound an offense reminiscent of Muhammad Ali’s October 30, 1974 “Rumble in the Jungle,” with a modified, Andre Ward version of Ali’s Rope A Dope – from the center of the ring.
Recall that in the Rumble, Ali let George Foreman tire himself out for 7 rounds, then in the 8th, unleashed a barrage of punches that put Foreman on the canvas.
Ward’s offense in the 8th round of the re-match began when he nearly floored Kovalev with a right cross. Kovalev didn’t see the punch coming. Ward then went mostly to the body until Kovalev folded.
Kovalev could do nothing about Ward’s offense, one that had Kovalev sitting on the ropes before Tony Weeks stopped the fight.
Reminiscent of Muhammad Ali after his first victory over Sonny Liston, Andre Ward shouts his victory to the world.
An exuberant crowd erupted after Ward’s victory over Kovalev
Ward’s economy of punches was accurate: less was more. Kovalev threw more punches but was less effective. Ward’s conditioning was superb as always, and he controlled the ring.
COMPU Box stats have Ward landing 80 of 238 (34%) of his total punches, which seems very low, and 95 of 407 (23%) for Kovalev, which seems a bit high. COMPU Box also has Ward landing 53 of 144 (37%) and Kovalev scoring on 50 of 223 (22%), with Ward often landing the harder shots.
What else is to be said?
Both fighters handle themselves very differently – outside and inside the ring.
Andre Ward continues to grace the sport with focused interviews, videos, press conferences, social media connections, media training days, and a growing fan base. Check out his poignant and heartfelt video-letter to Muhammad Ali, entitled, “Dear Muhammad Ali”
Sergey Kovalev, disgraces the sport with racist behavior, complaints, tantrums, and denying the legacies of great Afrikan fighters.
Team Ward has been together since his childhood.
But is Team Kovalev really a team? Their coach, John David Jackson made overtures about leaving, citing unprofessional treatment and nastiness on the part of Kovalev.
Given that Mr. Jackson is Afrikan, one wonders how he continues to coach a racist fighter.
Kovalev claimed he was “over trained” for the 2016 fight, so the world would see a new Kovalev in 2017.
Ward and his team said, “See you in the ring on the 17th, Sergey.”
Well, the world saw Andre Ward dominate, inside and outside the ring, and retain his World Boxing Association, International Boxing Federation, World Boxing Organization, and vacated RING boxing belts. Andre Ward is also up for an ESPY Award, in the Best Fighter category. Voting continues through July 12, 2017.
The world saw Sergey Kovalev fold after being hit – repeatedly – above the belt!
Champions in my books exhibit the kind of sportsmanship, athleticism, and savvy inside and outside the ring that mark them as competitors who are at the top of their game.
This fight reminded me a lot of the Rumble in the Jungle…except without the classic Muhammad Ali Rope A Dope. Mr. Ward spent no time on the ropes, except when Mr. Kovalev tried to hold him there.
Thankfully referee Tony Weeks, didn’t allow much holding to happen, like the referee in the previous fight did.
Kovalev tried to slip it in during the later rounds, but it was too late.
I spoke on that in my previous article and I was looking to see if it would happen again this time. It didn’t. Not as much.
Sergey Kovalev’s racist objectives failed. Kovalev lost – again. White supremacy lost again. It always will.
Thank you Andre Ward for winning this fight, and for being on top of your game.
Thank you Jack Johnson, John Lewis, Muhammad Ali and others who have come before.
Thank you, all of the Black Women who box.
Thank you Tony Weeks for stopping the fight before it became a truly ugly fight.
Thank you, all of the great ones.
Muhammad Ali’s eighth round victory over George Foreman on October 30, 1974 began with a right cross to the chin. Andre Ward’s right cross to Kovalev’s chin spelled the beginning of the end for Kovalev.
Posted on July 1, 2017 July 1, 2017 Author DaveCategories Fight Updates
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Felix says:
It was our pleasure to watch a true champ get it done fight after fight.. With Cotto retiring soon and now this news, boxing will not be the same for years in my opinion.. The skills that I believe you both posses are second to none… Thank you for the many nights you truly entertained my family and friends..Although, I must say, hopefully GGG can talk enough smack to lore you out of retirement for one more “last dance.” You’ll be missed CHAMP!!! Thank you!!!
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(7) Gerard Deulofeu
Discussion in 'The Team Bus' started by Meister, Jan 31, 2018.
kVA Reservist
He was only expected to be out for a matter of weeks but then our medical team got hold of him..........
Maybe he’s a union member and he’s been made fully aware of his entitlement.
kVA, Sep 25, 2018
CaveManHornet Reservist
I still can't quite comprehend how **** our medical team is... If they're going to lie to us, they should do it where we'd have forgotten about it. Saying he's back for next week, week after week looks totally tinpot. If they said he will be out for the next two months, we can accept that and move on with the team we know is currently available.
CaveManHornet, Sep 25, 2018
hornetboy1 First Team
CaveManHornet said: ↑
I wouldn't blame the medical team now. The club have got its act together after an appalling 18 months, which they even admitted to.
How many injuries have we had this season? Look at the high intensity game we play, and not one player has been injured. Deulofeu's injury was carried over from last season, he had an op and now he's slowly coming back.
So far, the medical team are doing a much better job.
hornetboy1, Sep 25, 2018
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I agree with Hb1 on that. apart from Deeney’s broken toes, we’ve been lucky so far this season (touch wood). Just Gerry and Cleverly out. It’s just fun to keep joking about the medical dept
Burnsy Squad Player
I agree with HB1. But in saying that, it’s still worrying that they literally cannot put any timeframe at all on Del’s return.
Burnsy, Sep 25, 2018
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UEA_Hornet First Team Captain
Burnsy said: ↑
Surely it's Gracia who is refusing to put a timeframe on it? He's the spokesman and no doubt also influences the urgency/risk taking around return schedules. If he's happy to wait, they presumably wait. Plus, there's sometimes a difference between the way his comments come across on paper and how they actually sound when you watch the press conference vid.
UEA_Hornet, Sep 25, 2018
UEA_Hornet said: ↑
Where have I suggested any different to what you say? I remember before our first game, he said he would be out for ‘1 day, 2, 3...maybe 5 days’. Weeks later and he’s still saying that. So what I’m saying is that I agree with HB1 and others that we are doing better with injuries. But the situation with Deulofeu is a worry given that they don’t seem to be any further forward with it. It’s not a criticism, it’s a viewpoint.
I took your 'they' to mean the medical team. If it didn't mean that then fair enough.
I'm just saying Javi's the front man, his English isn't great and he tends to blather on a bit in answering questions. That said, he said last week that the next step was Deulofeu joining the first team training and he said today he had, so that's slightly further forward.
The undeniable truth Squad Player
Clive_ofthe_Kremlin said: ↑
Only another week or two until Geri's back! Who can doubt it?
"I do not know when he will be ready,” Gracia said. "I do not know if he will be ready in three days, five days, one week or two weeks"
You'd have thought the medical team might be able to give some sort of estimate, wouldn't you?
As soon as they have worked out what's wrong with him I sure they will !
The undeniable truth, Sep 25, 2018
They clearly don't have a clue. If they did don't you think they'd tell Gracia. His return has been imminent since the start if the season. It seems far away as ever.
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Bwood_Horn Squad Player
I still can't quite comprehend how **** our medical team is...
I know what you mean mate - none of them are as good as the ones you see on the tele...
Bwood_Horn, Sep 26, 2018
BigRossLittleRoss Squad Player
Looking forward to next seeing Delefeou play ... which will be at his testimonial at The Vic in 2023 when his contract expires .
BigRossLittleRoss, Sep 28, 2018
BigRossLittleRoss said: ↑
If he's fit.
Looks like he's back
Gerard DeulofeuVerified account @gerardeulofeu
Very close
https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/s...ord-winger-teases-potential-return-to-action/
hornetboy1, Oct 2, 2018
Clive_ofthe_Kremlin Squad Player
Yes, very close now. Closer and closer.
Only a week or so away now.
Seven short days-ish.
We're saying about a week.
For training at the very least.
Clive_ofthe_Kremlin, Oct 2, 2018
Relegation Certs Squad Player
I've just calculated we've paid him £1.7m per minute he's played for us. Staggering.
Relegation Certs, Oct 2, 2018
Happy bunny Cheered up a bit
hornetboy1 said: ↑
He might play some part on Saturday, they say. A tryout as Harry?
Happy bunny, Oct 2, 2018
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wfc4ever First Team Captain
Unhappy bunny said: ↑
Well he might as well done really.
https://www.watfordobserver.co.uk/s...many-things-after-bournemouth-defeat/?ref=rss
Felt a bit for him - probably was hoping to come on and make a strong impact but basically the last 15 minutes was an easy run around to build fitness really.
wfc4ever, Oct 9, 2018
RookeryDad Squad Player
wfc4ever said: ↑
Unfortunately, no one passed to him on the left for 10 mins so he had to wander off to the right.
He took the last corner.
The only non Holebas set piece?
RookeryDad, Oct 9, 2018
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GD is a fantastic player, but is he a TEAM player, I am not so sure? I think he can be a bit greedy, which would not be so bad if his finishing was better.
He should probably have scored a hat-trick in our last two matches, but his finishing has not been good enough and his passing to others who may have been in a better position to score has also been sadly lacking. Hence my thoughts that he is not a team player despite his undoubted talents, and maybe Gracia should consider dropping him if he does not sort this out.
The Voice of Reason, Nov 11, 2018
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The Voice of Reason said: ↑
Posted this nearly 3 weeks ago, nice to see others are beginning to agree with me
The Voice of Reason, Dec 2, 2018
GoingDown Pizza & Figs
GoingDown, Dec 2, 2018
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Massive flop.
Doesnt want to be here at all. Has no respect for the club, his teammates or (understandably) his manager.
What a waste of a vast salary.
Relegation Certs, Dec 2, 2018
GoingDown said: ↑
And so you should
wfcmoog Tinpot
He is going to DESTROY Cité tonight, just wait. After the slating from Saturday, tonight's post match thread will be people oiling up their cranks and fapping over his masterclass of attacking supremacy, wondering whether we've got a £100m player on our hands.
wfcmoog, Dec 4, 2018
wfcmoog said: ↑
Benched as part of our 8-2-0 formation.
For 6 minutes.
The undeniable truth, Dec 4, 2018
Norwayhornet Squad Player
Thanks Moog that made me laugh.
Norwayhornet, Dec 4, 2018
luke_golden Space Cadet
We all knew he’d be crap. If anything, missing the first few weeks helped him out, because we all started dreaming of that Chelsea game, forgetting that he was utterly useless in every other minute before predictably getting hurt.
I remember when we were excited to get him back, even though deep down we knew he’d be rubbish.
It’s the hope that kills you.
luke_golden, Dec 4, 2018
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Delofail is finished.
How many one on ones has he missed? - for such a talented and skilful player Geri seems to have no conviction when facing the goalkeeper clean through.
wfc4ever, Jan 20, 2019
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La_tempesta_cielo_68 First Team
Compared to Gray he’s a master finisher
Isn’t Peneranda rumoured to be the best finisher at the club?
La_tempesta_cielo_68, Jan 20, 2019
Hornet4ever WFC Forums Last Man Standing Winner 2018/2019
Agree entirely. Like the fact he takes on his defender, relatively quick/technical feet & usually makes the space, but the downside to his game is the final end product. Seen it time & time again. Hence why he was surplus at Barca.
If he did have that he would be playing for the top 6 or one of the other top teams in Europe. In the meantime he is, at the time of writing, top 7 anyway, so he can't complain.
Reason I say this is unfortunately I do get the sense he likes a little sulk & sometimes the body language might suggest he believes he's better than Watford due to his Barca days, hope I'm wrong about that.
Hornet4ever, Jan 20, 2019
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La_tempesta_cielo_68 said: ↑
Believe it when I see it. Don't believe the hype.
Bring Back Standing Reservist
Probably is - he appears to have finished after a 70 minute appearance against Woking.
Bring Back Standing, Jan 20, 2019
RookeryDad likes this.
When he’s crap, he’s monumentally crap, but when he’s good, he’s really bloody good.
Despite the really good moments being few and far between, they also give you hope that one day he’ll put things together and become a consistent terror.
We all know he won’t ever achieve this, but those fleeting glimpses of divine talent are enough to keep you coming back to the well time and time again.
He’s crap, he’s petulant and he’s a bit of a *****. But he’s our *****.
luke_golden, Jan 21, 2019
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Instagram and Facebook will start censoring ‘graphic images’ of self-harm
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In light of a recent tragedy, Instagram is updating the way it handles pictures depicting self-harm. Instagram and Facebook announced changes to their policies around content depicting cutting and other forms of self harm in dual blog posts Thursday.
The changes comes about in light of the 2017 suicide of a 14 year old girl named Molly Russell, a UK resident who took her own life in 2017. Following her death, her family discovered that Russell was engaged with accounts that depicted and promoted self harm on the platform.
As the controversy unfolded, Instagram Head of Product Adam Mosseri penned an op-ed in the Telegraph to atone for the platform’s at times high consequence shortcomings. Mosseri previously announced that Instagram would implement “sensitivity screens” to obscure self harm content, but the new changes go a step further.
Instagram’s Adam Mosseri to meet UK health secretary over suicide content concerns
Starting soon, both platforms will no longer allow any “graphic images of self-harm” most notably those that depict cutting. This content was previously allowed because the platforms worked under the assumption that allowing people to connect and confide around these issues was better than the alternative. After a “comprehensive review with global experts and academics on youth, mental health and suicide prevention” those policies are shifting.
“… It was advised that graphic images of self-harm – even when it is someone admitting their struggles – has the potential to unintentionally promote self-harm,” Mosseri said.
Instagram will also begin burying non-graphic images about self harm (pictures of healed scars, for example) so they don’t show up in search, relevant hashtags or on the explore tab. “We are not removing this type of content from Instagram entirely, as we don’t want want to stigmatize or isolate people who may be in distress and posting self-harm related content as a cry for help,” Mosseri said.
According to the blog post, after consulting with groups like the Centre for Mental Health and Save.org, Instagram tried to strike a balance that would still allow users to express their personal struggles without encouraging others to hurt themselves. For self harm, like disordered eating, that’s a particularly difficult line to walk. It’s further complicated by the fact that not all people who self harm have suicidal intentions and the behavior has its own nuances apart from suicidality.
“Up until now, we’ve focused most of our approach on trying to help the individual who is sharing their experiences around self-harm. We have allowed content that shows contemplation or admission of self-harm because experts have told us it can help people get the support they need. But we need to do more to consider the effect of these images on other people who might see them. This is a difficult but important balance to get right.”
Mental health research and treatment teams have long been aware of “peer influence processes” that can make self destructive behaviors take on a kind of social contagiousness. While online communities can also serve as a vital support system for anyone engaged in self destructive behaviors, the wrong kind of peer support can backfire, reinforcing the behaviors or even popularizing them. Instagram’s failure to sufficiently safeguard for the potential impact this kind of content can have on a hashtag-powered social network is fairly remarkable considering that the both Instagram and Facebook claim to have worked with mental health groups to get it right.
These changes are expected in the “coming weeks.” For now, a simple search of Instagram’s #selfharm hashtag still reveals a huge ecosystem of self-harmers on Instagram, including self-harm related memes (some hopeful, some not) and many very graphic photos of cutting.
“It will take time and we have a responsibility to get this right,” Mosseri said. “Our aim is to have no graphic self-harm or graphic suicide related content on Instagram… while still ensuring we support those using Instagram to connect with communities of support.”
Instagram tackles self-harm and suicide with new reporting tools, support options
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A move is afoot to close the primaries in Tennessee!
A move is afoot to close the primaries in Tennessee and I wholeheartedly support this move.
I admit that I have often voted in the Democratic Primary, usually the Davidson County primary but sometimes the State primary as well. Most of the time, there is not even a Davidson County Republican County primary and if one wants a voice in who holds the Courthouse seats, one has to vote in the Democratic Primary. When I have voted in the Democratic Primary, I have usually voted for the most conservative Democrat. I suspect there are some closet Republicans holding office as Democrats in Nashville.
The effect of Republicans like myself voting in the Democratic primary is that by doing so we fail to build a Republican Party. Davidson County is a one-party town and unless primaries are closed it is likely to stay a one-party town. In much of East Tennessee the situation is reversed and many Democrats vote in Republican primaries. Also, if one Party's campaign is already pretty much a sure thing and the outcome can easily be predicted, members of that party are tempted to vote in the primary of the opposition Party where there is a real contest.
Republicans should not be allowed to choose the Democratic Party's nominee and Democrats should not be allowed to choose the Republican nominee. Moderates and independents will not like this move but anyone who believes the Parties should represent a set of clear values and present the public a clear choice should support it.
Below is the facebook announcement of this move and a copy of the proposed resolution. Mark Winslow is a member of the Republican Party State Executive Committee.
If you are a Republican and support the idea of closed primaries please contact your member of the State Executive Committee and urge them to support this resolution.
Standing Up for Tennessee Republicans
by Mark Winslow on Tuesday, November 30, 2010 at 6:24am
On Saturday our Tennessee Republican Party Executive Committee will meet in Nashville. At the meeting, a group of us will present the following resolution adopting the official position that our state should move to a system of registration by party and should structure our primaries so the political parties cannot interfere in other parties' primary elections and county party organization. Republicans deserve the opportunity to conduct our primaries free of influence from others and with the belief that we are selecting candidates who truly believe in the principles of limited conservative government. This is merely a long overdue first step and the final decision rests with the legislature and the new governor. But Republicans should know that their representatives at the Tennessee Republican Party are looking out for their best interests.
WHEREAS Tennesseans, on November 2, 2010, clearly and resoundingly affirmed their desire that conservative values are the guiding principles they wish to determine the future direction of our state.
WHEREAS the vote on November 2 completed a sixteen year transformation of Republicans to majority status in Tennessee.
WHEREAS the clearly voiced positions of Tennessee Republicans in favor of sound fiscal practices, respect for the value of human life, defense of our Second Amendment rights and opposition to a state income tax are the view of the majority of Tennesseans.
WHEREAS Tennessee law now permits participation in Republican primaries by those who do not act in the best interest of our party and the Republicans we represent.
WHEREAS the diminished status of the Democrat Party in Tennessee has lead to increased instances of coordinated crossover voting in Republican primaries with intent to influence Republican elections.
WHEREAS the bylaws of the Tennessee Republican Party are vague on the ability of non-Republicans to participate and influence the election of county party officers and committees.
WHEREAS a growing majority status for Republicans has resulted in increased participation and influence over county Republican conventions and caucuses by non-Republicans.
WHEREAS legislation to require voter registration in Tennessee has been proposed for the past three sessions of the General Assembly without moving to a vote of the full House and Senate.
WHEREAS it is the responsibility of the State Executive Committee to protect and promote participation in county party elections and Republican primaries by those who believe in the principles of the Republican Party.
NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by The State Executive Committee of the Tennessee Republican Party, in our capacity as the Republican State Primary Board, that we hereby adopt the official position that Tennessee should move to a system of registration by party.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the State Executive Committee adopts the position that participation in state primary elections, federal primary elections and county organization should be limited to those registering to vote in the party of their choice.
BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED the State Executive Committee directs the Chairman of the Tennessee Republican Party to convey adoption of this position to the Governor of Tennessee, The Leadership of the Tennessee House of Representatives and the Leadership of the Tennessee Senate by transmitting a copy of this resolution to all Legislators Elected as Republicans serving in the 107th General Assembly as well as Governor Haslam. We further direct the Chairman to work with the Office of the Governor and the Legislature to promote this important matter and ensure its passage into law.
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Right the wrong and redraw the districts!
by guest blogger J. Lee Douglas
It's been a good harvest and now we need to get the grain to the threshing floor.
Ten years ago in 2001, Jimmy Naifeh and seventy-eight power-hungry democrats agreed to redraw Tennessee's nine US congressional districts into serpentine patterns that grouped conservative-leaning neighborhoods into one single district that would give conservatives such as Marsha Blackburn an almost 95% voter selection. Among conservatives, she could almost not lose because the bulk of conservatives were strategically placed in her district. Sucks, eh? Get mad!!
The net effect for the democrats was that the remaining areas would contain conservatives who would be the minority and never able to have a fair chance to choose someone who might represent their views. An example of this thievery is Jim Cooper's district which consists mostly of Davidson County which was drawn in a way to almost guarantee his election regardless of his obedience to Madame Pelosi.
Look below at the Tennessee congressional map and notice Marsha Blackburn's (teal) district #7 how it runs from outside of Memphis, pinches off where Williamson and Hickman counties touch and then all the way to the Kentucky border in middle Tennessee north of Clarksville! Is that reasonable division of the populous? Mad yet?
This was done for the simple reason that these geographic areas are largely conservative and doing the districting this way creates an imbalance that gives a material edge to people such as Cooper or Lincoln Davis. The math becomes that we get one, they get two, three or four!
The irony? You are disenfranchised and the dems accuse you of their crime and the Tennessean carries their story. Get this, the dems who controlled all houses of the state were so happy with their divisions of congressional districts that from 1902 for sixty years they refused to reapportion the districts and finally relinquished when the US Supreme Court ordered reapportionment in 1962. Let's now act to have this injustice righted. Let's also lobby all of our representatives to NOT do to them what they did to us. We'll reap what we sow. Trust me, justice will prevail.
With the 2010 census now being complete, the new republican legislative body has a chance to right this wrong and to insure that conservative, fair policies and block redrawing of the districts takes place January 11, at the beginning of the next legislative session.
J. Lee Douglas is a practicing dentist in Brentwood Tennessee. He is married, father of four and grandfather of five. He established a Christian dental/medical clinic in Iraq in 1996 and had done oil and gas exploration in West Africa and lived for several years in Switzerland. He is a local political activist and a Middle Tennessee leader in the TEA party movement and helped start the 9-12 Project Tennessee within 3 months of President Obama’s taking office. Prior to that time he had not been involved in political activity.
Labels: 9-12 Project, J. Lee Douglas, Redistricting
Why Republicans won in Tennessee
by guest commentator Mark Rogers
Tuesday’s election results mark the culmination of a gradual shift in political power in Tennessee that began around 1970. The traditional Democratic Party coalition of urban residents, union members and rural ‘yellow dog’ voters which had withstood 20 years of Republican Governors, a series of popular Republican senators and other challenges seemed to virtually collapse in the face of surging voter anger.
To appreciate the extent of Tuesday’s defeat, it is important to remember that in Tennessee power comes mostly out of the state legislature not the Governor’s Office or from Washington. Starting in the early 1970s Speakers of the House Ned McWherter and Jimmy Naifeh along with Lt. Governor John Wilder consolidated power in the two chambers of the Legislature in an unprecedented manner. McWherter and Naifeh both served far longer than any other Speakers of the House while Wilder’s 36 years as Speaker of the Senate and Lt. Governor set a national record.
By consolidating legislative power in their hands, McWherter, Naifeh and Wilder created a power base that allowed them to control the levers of power despite Republican successes at winning the Governor’s Office. That, in turn, gave the Democrats access to the vast majority of financial support from lobbyists, which provided the critical resources to continue winning elections. Control in Nashville also enabled the Democratic machine to use redistricting to prevent Republicans from gaining more seats in the Legislature despite the growing number of Republican voters in the state.
The combination of demographics and a growing disconnect between Tennessee Democrats and the far more liberal national party were always factors in Republican success in congressional and senate elections. By the early 2000s, the stress on the Tennessee Democrats in state elections was begging to show. Middle Tennessee, always a Democratic bastion in state races, was trending heavily Republican. Not just Williamson County but Rutherford, Wilson, Sumner, Maury, Montgomery and other counties all began sending Republicans to Nashville. Redistricting was no longer able to hide the power of Republican growth.
The election of Governor Bredesen in 2002 and Ron Ramsey’s accession to the position of Lt. Governor and Speaker of the Senate in 2006 were major blows to the Democratic power structure.
Bredesen became Governor on the heels of four years of bitter fighting within both parties over the income tax. The Democrats suffered a number of legislative losses and Speaker Naifeh’s position in the caucus was hurt by his advocacy of the income tax. Republican gains in the state senate and the growing frailty of Lt. Governor Wilder reduced the strength of the Democratic control of the senate, for years a less partisan body anyway.
A strong Democratic Governor with limitless funding was able to take more power from the Democratic legislative leadership than a previous Governor would have. Some of this was simple exhaustion after the bitter income tax years and some was resentment of the Speakers for ever supporting an income tax. The result was several years where Governor Bredesen was able to mostly dominate the Legislature.
Lt. Governor Ron Ramsey’s success in 2006 in capturing control of the Senate marked a crucial moment in Tennessee history. A Republican Senate meant that lobbyists who traditionally only supported Democratic candidates now had to support both sides. That meant better funded Republicans and less money for Democrats, very damaging to the Democrats since they lacked the ability to raise money from wealthy donors that had been the Republican alternative to lobbyist funds.
In 2008 the nomination of Barak Obama finally broke Democratic control of the House. From the Democratic Presidential primary where Clinton crushed Obama by 3 to 1, 4 to 1, 5 to 1 and even greater percentages, it was clear that traditional Democratic voters were unexcited by an Obama candidacy. In November Republicans netted 4 seats in the House giving them a 50 – 49 margin for the first time since Reconstruction. Not surprisingly Republican victories correlated with those counties where Clinton handily defeated Obama. While the Kent Williams flip thwarted true Republican control of the House, the 2008 results were an ominous sign that rural and suburban Democrats had finally broken with the changes in the national party.
Tuesday’s election returns were more than a defeat for Tennessee Democrats. Incumbents thought to be safe were washed away in a tide unlike anything in Tennessee history. Open seats previously held by Democrats in areas like Nashville flipped. A college professor who spent less than $2,000 beat Doug Jackson, a long-serving Senator. Three congressional seats, all previously considered safe, went Republican. And, most important for redistricting next year, 13 seats in the state House went Republican.
Before election day many Democrats were resigned to losing 3 or 4 seats or more. Republicans projecting more than 6 or 7 wins were seen as overly optimistic. Journalists who know Tennessee politics intimately were projecting few wins.
So, what happened?
Factors in the Republican wave include:
The Haslam Factor. From the start, there was an inevitability to the Haslam campaign that sucked any optimism out of the Democrats regarding the Governor’s race. Haslam perfectly fits into the Howard Baker / Lamar Alexander / Bill Frist / Bob Corker model that has demolished Democrats in election after election. Add the unlimited fundraising power of his family and the effect was to deter any conventional opponent. As Haslam’s strength grew across the state and across voter groups, the chance of a strong Democratic turnout that would save down-ticket candidates vanished.
The McWherter Factor. From the first, I contended McWherter was the one candidate who could rally the Democrats alienated by the leftward trend in the national party. Unlike Jim Kyle, who represented the liberal wing of Tennessee Democrats, McWherter’s name might reignite the traditional loyalty of those Democrats who abandoned the party in 2008. As McWherter’s campaign flailed around with attacks on Haslam’s ties to Iran, that ray of hope went out.
The National Factor. Many of the Democrats losses on Tuesday came in areas dominated by ‘yellow dog’ Democrats. These are voters who inherit their Democratic voting along with their other genetic traits. These voters tend to live in counties that are socially and economically conservative but Democratic by birth. A quick look at past elections will show that for all their conservatism, these counties voted for Mondale over Reagan, Kerry over Bush, Cooper over Thompson and so on. That these voters not only elected a Republican Congressman but also finally elected Republicans at the state level suggests that the traditional link to the Democratic party has been broken.
The Issue Factor. Despite the fact that traditional Democrats are usually reliable votes for the conservative position on social or values issues, the position of the national party on abortion, guns, gays and other topics may finally have driven voters into Republican arms.
The Fear Factor. Parts of Tennessee have been suffering economically for several years before the crash of 2007 -2008. Rural areas that relied on low-skill industries have been particularly battered by the relocation of plants abroad. As rural Democratic legislators have lost power, there has been less largess funneled to those areas. With the national economy lagging, the Republican alternative may be less scary than the Democrats.
The Republicans did it Right Factor. Republican leadership in the House and Senate deserves credit for some excellent candidate recruiting and fundraising. Recent state party chairs Robin Smith and Chris Devaney also deserve credit for their management of the party and their work in recruiting and fundraising. Congressional Republicans including Senators Alexander and Corker worked hard for their state counterparts.
The Civil War Factor. The conflict between the left and center of the Democratic Party has been a serious problem at a time when the Democrats had little margin for error. The efforts of the TEA to derail Race to the Top legislation, the fight over the job of party chair and a variety of other conflicts hurt Democratic efforts to unite behind candidates and wasted scarce resources.
With redistricting coming up and no barrier to Republicans drawing lines that will favor them, it seems that the best the Democrats can hope for is holding their House seats although that may be difficult as Republicans target close races like three in Nashville. The Senate offers Republicans the opportunity to gain two or three more seats. The Democrats also face a serious problem in that their bench is weak. Their two Congressmen are not serious threats for statewide office. Their House and Senate Leadership is older and not likely to consider uphill congressional races. And the financial support of those lobbyists who once served at their beck and call will now flow to the Republicans who dominate the Hill.
Mark Rogers is a long-time Republican activist and commentator. His experiences range from campaign strategy to policy development to speech writing.
Labels: Davidson County Republican Party, Mark Ro, Republican Party, Tennessee
$45 billion wasted later, Al Gore admits that ethanol was a mistake.
Better late than never, Al.
Al Gore admits that ethanol was a mistake. Wow! You mean just because diverting food to fuel causes worldwide hunger and starvation, and the production of all that extra corn was bad for the environment and created a large dead spot in the Gulf of Mexico, and just because if takes almost as much energy to create a unit of ethanol energy as the amount of energy produced that it may not be a good idea? Well, Al I could have told you that. I could have told you that before we wasted 45 billion dollars subsidizing the ethanol industry. Anyway, I am glad you saw the light.
Also, Al they say confession is good for the soul and I appreciate that you confessed that your support of ethanol was motivated by buying the votes of farmers in Tennessee where you were Senator and buying votes in Iowa where you were running for President.
Al, I am sure this confession will not hurt you with your fans. After all what is a wasted $45 billion and a bunch of people people starved to death? You were making people feel good about "doing something." You were promoting "green" alternatives. Feeling good about doing something is what is really important, right? Your fans will still love you.
While you are at it Al, are there any other mistakes you would like to confess? You didn’t embellish and exaggerate the threat of global warming just to win a Nobel Peace Prize or become a movie star did you? You didn’t engage in fear mongering and sensationalism just to make a point did you? If so, now would be a good time to say so. Just asking.
Labels: Al Gore, ethanol, Global warming
Higher Taxes Won't Reduce the Deficit
An article in yesterday's Wall Street Journal explains why higher taxes will not reduce the deficit. The draft proposal of the President's Commission on the Deficit calls for various tax increases along with spending cuts to produce a balanced budget and to began the process of reducing the deficit. If the deficit is not reduced, simply paying interest on the debt will eat up a greater and greater share of tax revenues and the GDP. We are headed the way of Greece. Almost everyone agrees we must do something.
However, raising taxes may be worse than doing nothing. Raising taxes will likely make the deficit worse; not better. History has shown time and time again that every time taxes are raised so is spending and borrowing.
The article says that, "the only era in modern times that the budget has been in balance was in the late 1990s, when Republicans were in control of Congress. Taxes were not raised, and the capital gains tax rate was cut in 1997. The growth rate of federal spending was dramatically reduced from 1995-99, and the economy roared."
We need to cut spending and grow the economy. To grow the economy we need to cut taxes, especially the capital gains taxes and the corporate income tax. Raising taxes curtails economic growth and feeds the beast. Raising taxes should be a nonstarter for Republicans.
Labels: Deficit, National Debt, tax policy, taxes
Report from the West Nashville Summit with Sheriff Daron Hall
From Matt Nemeth
Thank you to those in attendance this morning to hear Davidson County Sheriff Daron Hall speak about immigration. Today was very informative and provided great clarity as to how Nashville uses 287(g) as a tool to combat illegal immigration. 287(g) is designed to provide relief to Federal officials looking to detain illegal immigrants by allowing local law enforcement the opportunity to question anyone arrested about their residency status.
According to the Sheriff, 287(g) has been very effective. Less than 1% of illegals found in Nashville appear in any other part of the country. This means that the job that our elected officials are doing is resulting in either the proper jailing or deportation of those in this country unlawfully. It would be difficult to find another city in this nation with such a track record.
Let's continue to stand behind Sheriff Hall who openly decided to use (even against the will of critics) 287(g) to the benefit and safety of Tennesseans. He was sworn to protect the citizens of Davidson County and it is clear that he will use any legal means necessary to do so.
Any other city in this great country should be as honored as we are to have someone like Sheriff Hall watching over them.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Matt Nemeth
Labels: Eggs and Bacon Summit, Matt Nemeth, Sheriff Daron Hall
Murfressboro Mosque Circus makes The Economist.
The Murfressboro Mosque story has made the news all over the world including the prestigious Economist magazine. The Economist article offers no special insight but presents a factual summary of events.
This trial has brought publicity to Murfressboro and Tennessee that we did not need. It has tarnished the image of Tennessee almost equal to the Scopes monkey trial. The only thing that could have made it worse is if the judge in the case had not followed the rule of law and had ruled in favor of the plaintiffs.
I am sure that many others observers share the view of one reader who left this comment on the Economist website:
Ahh Tennessee, birthplace of the Ku Klux Klan, what a welcoming and inclusive club of reasonable, well-intentioned people. I sure am glad that the international community can look upon America and see our greatness and the strength of our democracy at work in Tennessee. Bravo Tennessee, keep representing the best America has to offer, I'll be sure to wave hello as I pass over this backwater flyover state.
The plaintiffs are threatening to appeal the case. On what grounds, I don't know. This has already cost Rutherford County over $50,000 and probably much more in damage to the good name of Rutherford County, Murfressboro, and Tennessee. This is not going to help with MTSU student recruitment or business recruitment. If I were the CEO of a large firm looking to relocate my corporate headquarters, I would probably mark Murfressboro and maybe Tennessee off my list. I hope this circus does not have a return engagement.
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Labels: First Amendment, Islam, Murfreesboro Mosque, Muslim
chancellor sticks to law, First Amendment applies to Murfreesboro and mosque must can be built
Judge denies request to stop work on Murfreesboro mosque
By Stephen George, City Paper, Wednesday, November 17, 2010 at 3:53pm
After a trial that stretched more than two months and devolved into what many spectators called a circus that garnered international attention and ridicule, Rutherford County Chancellor Robert Corlew denied plaintiffs' request for a temporary injunction Wednesday afternoon.(link)
Comment: Thank God this circus is over and thank God we still have freedom of religion in America.
If chancellor sticks to law, Murfreesboro mosque must be built
by Gail Kerr, The Tennessean, November 17, 2010
Now it's up to Rutherford County Chancellor Robert Corlew III.
Will this end up being one of his finest hours, ruling that a Murfreesboro mosque can be built — whether he personally likes it or not — because it legally met all local planning and building criteria?
If he is an impartial member of the judiciary who follows the rule of law, instead of a rogue judge who makes it up as he goes, then the mosque will get built. You may disagree with that. If you think judges should be activists who reinterpret the law as they see fit, based on the political winds of the day, you'll love it if the judge rules against the mosque. (link)
Comment: Amen. I agree and could not have said it better. I am glad this circus is leaving town. I just hope the Judge rules for the rule of law. I am embarrassed an appalled that there are so many local "conservatives" opposing property rights, opposing the Constitutional First Amendment right to Freedom of Religion, advocating big government and judicial activism. I am not that kind of conservative.
Labels: Freedom of Religion, Gail Kerr, Islam, Murfreesboro Mosque, Property rights
Is that a bomb in your pants or are you glad to see me?
Ever since 9-11 flying has been no fun. I remember the good old days, when you did not have to arrive an hour or two early, when your loved ones could walk you to the departure gate and be there at the gate to greet you when you returned, when there were no baggage searches or removing of your shoes or pat downs and you could carry your toothpaste, shampoo, aftershave, a pint of bourbon and a Swiss army knife.
Now, The Transportation Security Agency has rolled out new rules that require full-body scans, which can see through your clothes and leave nothing to the imagination. They can detect nipples and pubic hair and tell if a man is circumcised or not. If one does not want to be seen virtually nude by strangers one can instead opt for the body search. The new body search will not be a gentle pat down using the back of the hand but a real search with groping of the breast and the groin. There will be a good ole squeeze to see if what is there is all that should be there.
Now, I am not that modest of a guy. I am not going to mortified if someone sees me naked. And, if it was an attractive women doing the search I might even opt for the search instead of the scan, but I think it will be men groping men and women groping women. I will put up with the indignity of the nude scan because I really am not bothered by my own nudity and if some guy gropes my groin I am not going to freak out.
Many people are however going to be uncomfortable with this. I would bet that nude pics of celebrities will find their way to the Internet. With people being human and technology the way it is, I just do not believe all those nude pictures will be kept secure.
Will this make us more secure? Probably. Is it worth it? That is a judgment call. One should not just assume that because it will make us more secure, that it is worth it. There is a trade off between security and safety, and convenience. As individuals and as a society we have to decide the proper balance. Sometimes the trade off is not worth it.
I remember when the interstate speed limit, in an effort to save gas, was reduced to 55 miles per hour. I didn't like it. I could not drive 55. People objected and the government argued that the lower speed saved X number of lives. The number of lives saved by driving the slower speed limit was simply not worth it as far as I was concerned. Some people find that statement abhorrent but in reality we all accept a certain number of deaths for our own convenience.
You often hear people say about expenditures for safety or inconveniences for safety, "if it saves just one live it is worth it." I don't think anyone really believe that. It sounds nice, but people don't really believe it. Driving 55 saved lives. Driving 35 would have saved even more. Drive 5 MPH and we could end all highway deaths. What is the magic number at which the additional saved life is not worth it. For me it was 74MPH.
The new security measures will probably make us safer. It we all had full body cavity checks and all flew naked, and could take no baggage with us we would be safer still. Like I said, I am not going to be that bothered by these new regulations but there are still some modest people in this country who are going to be very offended. This is much like the speed limit. The higher level of security may not be worth the cost.
Labels: National Security, Nudity, terrorism
Conservative candidates needed to run for Metro Council.
In Metro's 40-member Council there are about 10 "good" council members. One of them, Jim Gotto, got elected to higher office and his seat is an open seat. Some of the good ones, like Robert Duvall, have a target on their back and the liberals are going to do all they can to defeat them. We need to help Robert Duvall and other conservative keep their seat.
Several of the "good" councilmen are term-limited out and unless we have other good candidates to run for those seats, they could be lost to liberals. The good news is that some of the most liberal council member are also term-limited out of office and those seats could be won by conservative candidates if we have good candidates. Some of the liberal Council Members who are not term-limited out of office could be vulnerable and need to be challenged by strong conservative candidates.
To find out who has already declared for election and to read The Tennessean's take on the August 4th Council race, follow this link.
If you are thinking about running, if you are a conservative, have integrity, care about Nashville, and think you have the skills that would make a good council member , I would like to meet you and share what I know. I served in the Metro Council for two full terms and part of another term and won an election against overwhelming odds. It does not have to take a lot of money to run for Metro Council if you are willing to work hard. I would be glad to meet with you, give you some advice and connect you to other people who may be able to help you. Contact me.
Metro Council Candidates Workshop
If anyone is considering running for the Metro Council, I recommend you attend this workshop. Yes, I know the sponsors are labor unions and the presenter are liberal leaders and the workshop is a project of community organizers. Nevertheless, the workshop appears to be about nuts and bolts stuff that any candidate for Metro Council needs to know.
If you are already a conservative, I doubt spending a day at a liberal workshop will corrupt you. I suggest you leave your argumentative nature and your politics at the door and learn all you can about the operation of Metro Government. At only $20 a person, including a box lunch, you are not going to be enriching the oppositions by attending this workshop so don't feel guilty about paying the modest fee. In addition to what you might learn at this workshop about the function and operation of Metro Government, you will better know your opposition by attending.
Also you may make some contracts that would support you in your campaign. While many neighborhood organizations have been co-opted by liberals, not all neighborhood leaders are liberal. While we may think of unions such as MNEA and firefighters and FOP as being liberal, you may be surprised to find that sometimes you can compete for their support without compromising your values or at least your may be able to keep them from endorsing your opponent.
This looks like good training for anyone thinking about running for the Metro Council.
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Bob Corker talks national debt at Belmont town hall.
Senator Bob Corker takes questions form the press following the town hall meeting.
Senator Bob Corker held a town hall meeting tonight at Belmont University in the 1000-seat Massey Performance Arts Center to a near-capacity crowd. He presented a 20-minute, 19-slide, slide show presenting a gloomy picture of America's debt crisis. This is the fourth-sixth time he has made the presentation across the state. The program was MC'd by Ralph Bristol and broadcast live on Supertalk 99.7.
Senator Corker said the national debt is scheduled to increase to 146 percent of gross domestic product by the year 2030 unless drastic action is not taken. Today the debt is at an all time high of 62 percent of GDP. Unless something is not done, the growing debt will push interest payments on the federal debt up from today's 6 percent of all federal spending to 25 percent by the year 2035. Colored pie charts drove the point home.
Corker proposed that congress place a cap on spending of somewhere between 18 percent to 21 percent of GDP, stating he preferred a cap closer to the 18%. He said that in January he intends to introduce debt capping legislation.
Following the presentation Senator Corker took questions from the audience. While the audience was polite and mostly supportive, their appeared to be an organized effort to ask rehearsed questions that focused on abolishing or auditing the Federal Reserve. Several questioners asked questions along this vein.
Matt Collins, former first vice chair of the Davidson County Republican party, who some may recall was ousted from his leadership roll in the Party last year, was the only person to ask a question or make a comment that some may consider crossed the line from simply being passionate to being insulting. Matt asked Senator Corker if he would support a "full and unrestricted" audit all of the gold held by the Federal Government and the Federal Reserve. Corker said he had never thought about it but would consider it and would respond to Matt in writing. Matt then said something to the effect that since Corker votes contrary to the constitution and had apparently never read the constitution, could he give him a copy. Matt's comment was met with both limited cheers and boos from the audience.
Obviously annoyed, Corker said, "I have read the constitution and carry a copy with me at all times." He said he found the comment "very offensive."
In the press conference following he meeting, Corker was asked his reaction to the just released draft proposal from the U.S. bipartisan deficit reduction commission. Senator Corker said, "I think we have a spending problem and not a revenue problem." He said however that he thinks the commission has taken some "bold steps" in pointing out the problem and it is a "good start." "Every group in America is upset about it," he said, "so it can't be all bad." "At least they have looked at some things and proposed some serious cuts that we all know have to take place."
Labels: Bob Corker, National Debt
Help Save the Tennessee State Fair and Fairgounds. Join the FHPG.
I just joined the newly chartered non-profit organization Fairgrounds Heritage Preservation Group and encourage you to do the same. You can join for as little as $5 and it is quick and easy.
I just visited the FGHPG website and read an 18 page report by FGHPG attorney Dr. Lewis Laska. In this report Dr. Laska points out the legal and accounting tricks being used to destroy the fairgrounds. Now, I don't know all the details of the fairgrounds operations nor the accuracy of this report from Dr. Laska, but it sure looks like we are not being told the whole story of the fairgrounds. It looks like we are being fed deliberate distortions to build a case for destroying the fairgrounds.
Did you know that the Farmers Market received about $1.2 million tax dollars in 2009 and the Convention Center received about $2.8 million and yet the Fairgrounds did not cost the tax payers anything? If you want to learn more about the accounting tricks used and the half-truths being told in order to build a case for destroying the fairgrounds, click here and read the report.
The FHPB site is full ammunition you can use to help make the case for saving the fairgrounds. You can learn about the historic nature of the fairgrounds, the economic impact, and how to get involved to effectively let your voice be heard.
Tonight! Bob Corker's Town Hall Meeting on America’s Debt Crisis comes to Nashville
In an excerpt from a presentation delivered August 18, 2010 to the Chattanooga Chamber of Commerce, Senator Corker uses charts and graphs to illustrate Washington's spending trends and mounting debt.
Below are excerts from The Jackson Sun covereage of Corkers presentation in Jackson.
The rate of spending in America is similar to families going on lavish vacations and eating at expensive restaurants only to leave the tabs to their children, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker says.
The national debt is at a record $13.5 trillion and rising, Corker said. The current level of federal spending is akin to households making $48,000 a year but spending $70,000, he said.
Bob Corker will be bringin his Town Hall Meeting to Nashville Thursday, November 11. Below are the details:
SuperTalk 99.7 WTN’s Town Hall Meeting on America’s Debt Crisis
Moderator: Ralph Bristol, host of “Nashville’s Morning News”
Time: 6:00 p.m. CT - Doors open. The audience is asked to arrive no later than 6:45 p.m. CT.
7:00 - 8:30 p.m. CT - Town Hall and Q & A.
Location: Belmont University
Massey Performing Arts Center
1900 Belmont Boulevard
For more information, contact Sen. Corker’s Nashville field office at 615-279-8125
Labels: Bob Corker, budget, National Debt, spending
Reagan at Brandenburg Gate - "tear down this wall"
In observance of the fall of the Berlin Wall, which effectively ended the Cold War, it is appropriate to recall Ronald Reagan's appeal to the Soviets to "tear down this wall."
Labels: Berlin Wall, Communism, Ronald Reagan
November 9th Should be a Worldwide Day of Celebration
November 9th should be a National holiday. Or better yet, it should be a worldwide holiday. It should rival a combination of New Years’ Eve and the 4th of July. There should be concerts, dancing in the street, Champagne toast, ringing of church bells, and fire works.
On November 9, 1989 the Berlin Wall fell and the world changed forever. As the world watched, we did not know if Russia would send in troops to put down the rebellion or not. We did not know if East Germans guards would fire on their fellow citizens. In 1958 an uprising in Hungary was crushed. In 1968 the Czech rebellion was likewise suppressed. As we watched in 1989 it was hard to believe that the East German rebellion would end differently, but there was reason to hope.
It would still be a couple more years before the other Communist dominoes fell, but one by one they did, except for the two dysfunctional teetering states of North Korea and Cuba. China did not fall, but morphed into a state that Marx or Mao would not recognize. While still nominally communist, China became a capitalist state with an authoritarian government that daily continues to change.
From the time of the establishment of the first Communist state in Russia in 1917, Communism had steadily grown taking country by county until by the time of the fall of the Berlin wall 34% of the worlds populations lived under Communist domination. And by peaceful means, Communism was gaining ground in much of the west with “Euro-communism” gaining acceptance and becoming parties in coalition governments. For more than seventy years, freedom had been on the defensive and Communism at been ascending.
During that time, between 85 million and 100 million people were killed with a brutal efficiency. Approximately 65 million were killed in China under Mao Zedong, 25 million in Leninist and Stalinist Russia, 2 million in Cambodia, and millions more in Eastern Europe, Africa, and Latin America. This was accomplished by mass murders, planned famines, working people to death in labor camps, and other ruthless methods. From the thousands of Cossacks slaughtered on the orders of Lenin to the victims of Mao’s “land reform” the totals mounted. In addition to the millions of deaths, many more millions spend part of their lives in prison in the Gulag of Russia and the reeducation camps of Vietnam and China. Those who never spend part of their life in real prisons, lived in societies with secret police, enforced conformity, thought control, fear, scarcity, and everyone spying on everyone else.
While the world looked with horror on the approximate 11 million victims of Hitler’s Europe, for some reason less attentions was paid to the 100 million victims of Communist tyranny. While the Nazi era lasted for only 11 years, the Communist terror began in 1917 and continues to this day. The story would be complete if the last Communist regime fell, but the fall of the Berlin Wall is a land mark event. By the fall of the wall, it was clear that Communism was not the wave of the future and that freedom would survive in the world.
Labels: Berlin Wall, Communism
Boehner: We are going to stop Obamacare.
"This health care bill will ruin the best health care system in the world and will bankrupt our country."
"We are going to repeal Obamacare and replace it with common sense reforms that will bring down the cost of health insurance."
"Beyond repealing Obmacare we are going to do everything we can to stop this bill from being implemented."
Damn, I'm glad we won!
I am expecting the Republicans to follow through. I expect a full-fledged effort to stop the implementation of Obamacare. Stopping it is not good enough, however. I expect Republicans to follow through on common sense reform to bring down the cost of health care.
Any Republican who goes wobbly on the effort to derail and repeal Obamacare and who does not work for common sense, market-oriented, patient-centered reform does not deserve to be reelected when running for reelection. I have high expectation of our Republican legislators. We should hold them to a high standard hold their feet to the fire.
Labels: Health care, John Boehner, ObamaCare
Farewell comments from David Hall
Dear Friend of David Hall for Congress,
I wanted to write and tell you that I contacted Congressman Jim Cooper by phone today and congratulated him on his victory. I also urged him to fight the pull of partisanship in DC and to remember the interests of the 75,000-plus voters in the 5th District who had cast a vote against him.
Lastly, I told him that I have always prayed for those in authority over me and that I would continue to do so. It was a very pleasant conversation.
In what is probably going to be my last mass communication with you, I want to encourage you, as a supporter of my campaign, to make this same choice. Though we have disagreed with many of this decisions in the past, and though we worked hard to unseat Mr. Cooper, he is our Congressman, and we still need to pray for him to have wisdom and guidance from God. That's my last request of you, and I am confident you'll do your best to come through . . . you have certainly done so in the past. Thank you again for everything you have done for us.
Labels: David Hall
Fair Play for Keith Olbermann
It looks like my next to favorite liberal to hate, MSNBC's Keith Olbermann, is getting canned for partisan political activity. He has been suspended without pay. His offense is that he made political contributions to three Democratic candidates — Kentucky senate candidate Jack Conway who lost his election to Rand Paul and two Arizona House members.
His political contribution violated an NBC policy that states:
Anyone working for NBC News who takes part in civic or other outside activities may find that these activities jeopardize his or her standing as an impartial journalist because they may create the appearance of a conflict of interest. Such activities may include participation in or contributions to political campaigns or groups that espouse controversial positions. You should report any such potential conflicts in advance to, and obtain prior approval of, the President of NBC News or his designee.
What a joke! Keith Olberman never had any standing as " an impartial journalist." I have never considered him impartial nor a serious journalist or a news reporter and I doubt anyone else has either. He is a spokesman for the extreme left wing of the Democratic Party. He is an advocate for a particular point of view. He is no more an "impartial journalist" than is Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh. When one watches Keith Olberman, one knows what one is watching, just as one knows what one is watching when one watches Rachel Maddow, my favorite liberal to hate.
These people are not mainstream. They don't even pretend to be mainstream. They are not deceiving anyone. They don't even pretend to be fair or impartial. Their nightly hours of TV broadcasting are nothing but liberal propaganda and left wing opinion. Why not let them contribute to the causes they believe in? What is the harm?
I am more concerned about the so-called serious journalist of the main stream media (liberal media? lame stream media? drive-by media?) who pretend to be fair and impartial than I am those who openly advocate leftist positions. I think I know the politics of people like Diane Sawyer, Katie Couric and Charlie Gibson. I would like to know who they contribute money to. It is time to let them come out of the closet. It is time to end this silly pretense that journalist are impartial observers. I would like to let everyone show their bias.
To allow Keith Olberman to have several hours a night to attack Republicans and promote Democrats and then fire him because he contributes money to Democrats is the height of hypocrisy. Keith Olberman deserves to keep his job.
Labels: Keith Olbermann, media bias, MSNBC
Fair Ground deal delayed thanks to Jim Gotto
The city's plans to take over part of Hickory Hollow Mall have been delayed at least two weeks, thanks to an obscure rule wielded last night by Metro Councilman Jim Gotto.
The Tennessean reports that Gotto used "Rule 12" to stop the council from considering the bill for the first of three required votes. The rule says that on nights with public hearings, other bills cannot be introduced. The first vote will now take place Nov. 16, at the earliest.(link)
Despite Jim Gotto's grueling campaign followed by a tremendous victory in winning the State House District 60 election Tuesday, Jim Gotto was back on the job and in top form last night. The skids have been greased and the deal to sell the fair grounds has been moving ahead at top speed with very little analysis and little community input.
Thanks to Jim Gotto's knowledge of the rules and courage to use them, the deal to sell the fairgrounds has been slowed for at least two weeks. The bill that Gotto prevented from being considered last night was a bill to lease 340,000 square feet of the struggling Hickory Hollow mall. The flea market and other fairgrounds activities would be moved from the fairgrounds site to the leased Hickory Hollow space.
What I want to know, why is this a good deal for the city? The fairgrounds is already paid for and it bring in money. Why lease space? What is the economic impact of the fairgrounds? Who is this being done for? What is the plan for the fairgrounds? Why is this really being done? Who does this benefit? You can not convince me that there is not some backroom deal behind this.
Jim Gotto's skill as a legislator will be missed in the Metro Council but will serve him well in the State Legislature.
Labels: Fairgounds, Jim Gotto
We will sing in the sunshine...
"Former Revenue Commissioner Reagan Farr has been laying the groundwork for a new company involving solar energy that would position him, Gov. Phil Bredesen and the state's top economic development official to profit from an industry they have spent more than two years trying to build up in Tennessee."(link)
This may be perfectly legal but it sure doesn't smell right. The Revenue Commissioner, the Governor, and the head of Economic Development lay the groundwork to make Tennessee hospitable to the solar energy industry, including the training of a workforce for that industry, then they leave office and take advantage of what they created, the contacts they have made and what they have learned. Am I the only one that thinks this is unethical?
Also, they incorporate in Delaware, to avoid Tennessee taxes I assume. I don't blame anyone for legally avoiding taxes whenever they can; however, while in office why did they not work to change Tennessee's corporate tax laws to make Tennessee as attractive as Delaware?
Labels: Phil Bredesen
REPUBLICANS MAKE HISTORY IN TENNESSEE
GOP RUNS THE TABLE IN TN, CAPTURES GOVERNORSHIP & INCREASES MAJORITIES IN BOTH CHAMBERS OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY
NASHVILLE, TN - For the first time in modern history, Tennessee will have a Republican governor and majorities in both state legislative bodies simultaneously. Earlier it was announced that Republican Bill Haslam was elected governor of Tennessee and returns are showing that Republicans have built on their current 19-14 majority in the State Senate and razor-thin 50-48-1 majority in the State House. Returns are still coming in, but as of this release, Republicans have made double-digit gains in the State House.
"For the first time in modern history, Republicans are going to lead at every level of government in this state," said Tennessee Republican Party Chairman Chris Devaney. "This is truly a historic day and Republicans are honored that voters have put their trust in our party to lead Tennessee.
"This was 100 percent a team effort," continued Devaney. "I want to thank our Republican Senators and Congressmen as well as the Republican leadership of the State House and Senate Caucuses. These leaders went above and beyond to help elect our candidates and their hard work was critical in our success this year. I also want to thank the thousands of donors, volunteers, and Party leadership members who gave us their support. Clearly we wouldn't be where we are without the critical resources they provided us over the course of this election cycle.
"Lastly, I want to thank all of the Republican candidates who ran this year. Running for office is an extremely difficult task and regardless of the outcome, each one of these candidates should be commended for their dedication and sacrifice over the last months."
Labels: Chris Devaney, Republican Party
The Big Win!
The Republican win was big, very big! We took control of the House, gaining at least 60 House seats. We reduced the Democratic margin in the Senate and we won elections across the country down to the state and courthouse level. This Republican win means President Obama will have to moderate and compromise or face gridlock for the next two years.
The state wins will give Republicans the pen when it comes time to redraw district lines. This can shape the election potential for Republicans for at least the next ten years. When it comes to redistricting, I hope we will be as fair as the Democrats have been.
I am almost not "disgruntled" this morning. I am extremely happy that Jim Gotto won his race and flipped House District 60 to the Republican column. Unfortunately David Hall was unable to defeat lap dog Jim Cooper and we failed to prevail in the other State House races and the State Senate race in Davidson County. Democrats, however had to actually fight to retain their seats and spend money and campaign. This kept them from doing mischief in other people's races. Some of the races were respectably close. Unfortunately for now, Davidson County remains a liberal island in a conservative sea but we are making inroads.
The WSJ said the election was "a titanic sweep beating the Republican tidal waves of 1946 and 1994." There is no shortage of analysis of last night's election. This WSJ article is a good one with analysis of exit polling and statements from Party leaders and analysis of individual state races and highlights of the 2010 mid-term election.
Labels: David Hall, Jim Cooper, Jim Gotto
Congratulations Jim Gotto!
Today is the day: Vote Republican
State House District 60
Jim Gotto
www.jimgotto.com
Charles Williamson
http://charleswilliamson.net
Labels: Republican candidates
"Just Get Me To The Polls On Time." Free Rides
Let's get all GOP'ers to the polls tomorrow!
Do you need a ride? Do you have a family member or friend who needs a ride?
Reservations are being taken right now!
Voters Living In Green Hills, Belle Meade and Forest Hills:
Call Peter and Gail Voysey: (615) 665-0244
Voters Living Elsewhere In Davidson County:
Call Diane DiStasio (615) 364-0422
REMEMBER: GOP WIN 2010!
Labels: Voting
Vote against the Right to Hunt and Fish Admenment
On November 2, 2010 when we go to the polls to cast our vote for the next governor of Tennessee, U. S Representatives, State Senators and State Representatives, on that same ballot will be the opportunity to vote for an Amendment to the Tennessee Constitution guaranteeing our right to hunt and fish.
What? Yes, friends we are being asked to amend our noble and beautiful State Constitution which outlines the functions and responsibilities of State government and limits the scope of state government with a frivolous amendment to protect our right to hunt and fish.
The proposed amendment would add this language to the Constitution:
The citizens of this state shall have the personal right to hunt and fish, subject to reasonable regulations and restrictions prescribed by law. The recognition of this right does not abrogate any private or public property rights, nor does it limit the state’s power to regulate commercial activity. Traditional manners and means may be used to take non-threatened species.
Did you not know that the right to hunt and fish was was being threatened? Well it is not. However, unlike freedom of worship and the right to a trial by jury and the right to navigate the Mississippi, the right to hunt and fish is not specified. It is not guaranteed.
If that alarms you, neither is the right to operate a motor boat on the lakes of this great State, to drive a car, bird watch, eat fatty high calorie food, or watch football on TV in the State Constitutions. If we guaranteed all of our rights in the State Constitution it would be a very long document.
The argument for passing this amendment goes like this: The animal rights folks (PETA) are well funded and passionate about stopping hunting and fishing. If we stand by and do nothing, some day we may no longer have these rights.
OK, I think we can use the same arguments on any number of things. Some tree-hugging environmentalist, especially canoers and kayakers find motor boats offensive. Noisy motorboats disturb the calm quite enjoyment of nature and the wake of a motorboat can upset a canoe or kayak. If we stand by and do nothing, some day we may no longer have the right to motorboat.
A lot of concerned nutritionist and other food Nazis think the world would be better off if we banned all McDonalds and other fast food. If we stand by and do nothing, some day we may no longer have the right to eat at McDonalds.
Remember a few years ago when a report came out that said that more men commit spouse abuse during football playoffs? I think this was proven to be a phony "fact" but the argument was that all of that testosterone and adrenalin made men more violent. If we don't watch it, the feminazis will ban football. If we stand by and do nothing, some day we may no longer have the right to watch football.
This is nuts! My examples are as valid as the proposed amendment regarding hunting and fishing. This amendment was placed on the ballot by our state legislature, passing the house by a vote of 90-1 and the Senate unanimously. This does not mean the proposed amendment has merit; just that we have a bunch of gutless wimps in the legislature who will pander and give in to any pressure group if there is not an equally powerful pressure group on the other side.
In order for this amendment to pass it must get "yes" votes equal to 50% plus one of the number of votes cast in the election for Governor. So, not voting for this proposed amendment is the same as voting no. Please do not vote for this stupid, frivolous, unnecessary amendment.
Politician pay a lot of lip service to respecting the constitution. Respecting the constitution is not only a matter of not passing laws that conflict with the constitution but it is also not cluttering the constitution with meaningless provisions that more appropriately belong in memorializing resolutions.
Labels: constitution, Hunting and Fishing
Desperate Mike Turner Resorts to Dirty Campaign Tactics
Nashville, TN (Nov. 1, 2010) --- House Democratic Caucus Chairman, Mike Turner, has resorted to desperate campaign tactics in his bid to hold onto his position. In an eleventh-hour effort to save a campaign that is falling behind in the polls, Turner has released a direct mail piece that calls out opponent Charles Williamson for a decades-old traffic stop.
The incident occurred more than 20 years ago. Williamson was charged with reckless driving, not DUI, in the 1988 incident. The candidate has openly discussed the topic throughout the campaign.
“It was a long time ago, a frankly a different time,” Williamson says. “I had been at a business function and back then, we all though a little differently about those things. Today, we are more aware of the risks involved.”
The effort by Turner comes on the heels of similarly negative mailers sent by the state Republican party, which Chairman Chris Devaney has acknowledged sending without the consent of Williamson or his staff. The mailers highlight several well-publicized news items about Mike Turner’s questionable ethics. Turner has been accused of abuse of power in his positions with the fire department and state house, driving for more than a year on an invalid driver’s license, calling an on-duty fire engine for a ride after a traffic stop, attempting to sell his discounted UT parking pass for a considerable profit and rumors of participation in dog-fighting.
At a recent breakfast event, both Williamson and Turner referred to the mail campaign with Turner denying all accusations. Williamson remained firm in his desire to run a clean campaign despite negative efforts by the state GOP.
“Early on, our campaign made the decision not to raise old embarrassing issues,” Williamson said.
Williamson was light-hearted at the community breakfast which was held at John A’s Restaurant in District 51.
“If you get to this age and you don’t have something in your past,” Williamson said, “you haven’t been living.”
Bergmann-Cohen race tightens!
Durning this campaign season, I have focused most of my attention and energy and political contributions on our own local Republican candiditates, but I have followed and occationally contributed to other high profile races such as Sharron Angle's race in Nevada where she is challenging Harry Reid and Marco Rubio's race in Florida and a very few others.
One of the races I have been following is the Charlotte Bergmann challenge to Steve Cohen. Memphis Congressman Steve Cohen is by any measure absolutely one of the most liberal members of the U. S. Congress and he is being challenged by a conservative African American female supported by the tea party. I would find it extremely gratifying to see a Black conservative women defeat an extremely liberal white guy. I have had the chance to meet Ms Bergman a couple of times and she is a delightful person. I have followed her race quite closely. I respect her for being willing to take on Cohen but thought she was probably tilting at windmills. I frankly did not thing she had a chance. Her district is overwhelming a liberal district.
Now, however, it looks like that race is tightening if you can believe this report from the Commercial Appeal. She may actually win! I am keeping my fingers crossed. I would be as happy to see Bergmann defeat Cohen as any race outcome in the country.
Commercial Appeal Reveals Race Tightening
Says Charlotte Bergmann Tougher Opponent that Cohen Anticipated
Going into the 2010 election cycle, conventional political wisdom held that U.S. Rep. Steve Cohen, the incumbent 9th Congressional District representative from Memphis, would face his toughest test in the Democratic primary before cruising to victory in November.
After all, it was former Memphis mayor Willie Herenton challenging Cohen in the primary, and the general election would likely pit him against a Republican candidate embracing tea-party philosophy in a district where 77 percent of the voters went for President Barack Obama in 2008.
But that general-election opponent, a rare African-American Republican candidate named Charlotte Bergmann, appears to be galvanizing more anti-Cohen support than Herenton could muster (he got just 21 percent of the vote) and is heading a campaign that in many ways is more aggressively taking on Cohen.
For the complete story in the Commercial Appeal click here.
Labels: Charlotte Bergmann
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Adventures With Words
Exploring storytelling in all its forms.
YA Podcast
Literally Unplanned Podcast
Posted on January 17, 2015 October 22, 2016 by Adventures With Words
Review: No True Echo by Gareth P Jones
Eddie is pretty certain nowhere could be more small-town, more boring, and more inconsequential than his home town of the Wellcome Valley. Unfortunately, he is about to be proved spectacularly wrong.
Eddie’s problems start when he sees his teacher getting shot (possibly with an elastic band) and then promptly vanish into thin air. Or maybe they start just a little bit before then, with the arrival of Scarlett, a new girl in town who seems rather too confident and mysterious for your average schoolgirl. She attracts trouble (and Eddie) like a magnet, and she’s apparently only interested in two very strange things – protecting the local crackpot scientist, Dr Wolf, and telling Eddie absolutely nothing about what on earth is going on. Because things quickly go from weird to worse for Eddie, and he’s about to find himself in the middle of a dangerous battle for the fate of not just himself, Scarlett and the town – but Time itself.
You spend ages waiting for a good time travel book, then two come along at once! After reading and enjoying The Door That Led To Where by Sally Gardner (read my review here) with its mysterious, magical portal from a modern day carpark to a rundown corner of pre-Victorian London, I picked up No True Echo by Gareth P Jones. There’s time travel here too, but we’re not in a gritty London council estate. Instead, we’re tucked away in an apparently quiet, unassuming rural corner of the UK, which is about to become the crucible for an extraordinary – and dangerous – scientific discovery. There are surprising – and shocking – revelations in store for Eddie, as his meeting with Scarlett draws him into what may be a murder mystery.
No True Echo was a thrilling, fast-paced and also funny read, which I found thoroughly enjoyable. The plotting is great, moving between two character perspectives, with some big twists, but I especially enjoyed Eddie, his relationship with best friend Angus, and his approach to life generally. There’s a dry humour running through the book; Eddie has the natural curiosity of a twelve-year-old combined with a long-suffering, philosophical nature when it comes to strange occurrences and risky situations. He was very engaging, and a great companion on this twisting, turning journey, as he relives the same few days apart from a few key details. I loved the hints of espionage, the odd memory lapses that characters experience and the Eddie’s frustrated resignation as he’s told he’s not allowed to know the answers from his perfectly reasonable questions. Scarlett is also a fantastic character, with plenty of brains, bravery and agency. Initially, she’s intriguing to the boys simply as a new – pretty – girl at school, but Eddie soon discovers there’s far more to her than meets the eye; a scene with Scarlett, a stolen car and a panicked cat was a real highlight for me.
While I felt Eddie was the main character, this is actually a dual-narrative book. Our second narrator is Liphook, with whom the story starts. We meet her when she visits something called the National Museum of Echo Technology as an elderly woman with a no-nonsense attitude. When she comments to a museum assistant that the recreation of a room looks different because she remembers there being “more blood”, my curiosity was immediately sparked. This unexpected phrase draw me in, especially as our main narrator is a young boy – I wasn’t sure how the two would fit together, but Jones’ version of time travel means quite awful things can take place with – apparently – few serious consequences.
Jones’ time travel is known as ‘Echo Technology’ – and technically, it’s not really Doctor Who-style free time travel. It allows someone to travel into their own past, but – obviously – making any changes will affect the present and future, thereby creating a new ‘timeline’. Think The Butterfly Effect, but with less Ashton Kutcher. Some writers might spend ages going through quasi-scientific explanations but I really liked that we were told the basics but assured by a number of characters that the details are far too complicated for a layman to understand and not to worry. It avoids making up lots of silly invented terminology but also put the reader on the same level as Eddie, an unwitting part of a bigger process.
I found No True Echo a reading rollercoaster ride. It’s packed with adventure and excitement, humour and also some very moving scenes as Eddie uncovers more about his family and struggles to balance his need to solve the puzzle with looking out for his friends and loved ones. I was completely hooked from the first page and there was a little something hidden at the very end which left me with chills. This really is a masterpiece. Grab it now!
No True Echo is out now in paperback from Hot Key Books, at £6.99. If you enjoyed this, Hot Key also publish Gareth’s books Constable and Toop, and The Society of Thirteen.
Thank you to Hot Key Books for providing me with a review copy.
@magic_kitten
CategoriesBooks, Featured, Kate's Reviews, Reviews, Young Adult Tagsconstable and toop, gareth p jones, Hot Key Books, no true echo, the society of thirteen, time travel, young adult
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A sheet of aluminium composite is cnc-cut to the font and size required before being hand finished and polished. The logo can then be fitted to an internal wall or external wall using either raised fixings or flush to the wall fixings.
Our aluminium composite letters are available in a number of colours and finishes such as matt or gloss and all letters are produced 3mm thick, however if you require an alternative size then please speak to a member of our sales team.
Rim & Return Built Up 3D Letters & Logos
Made typically from commercial quality 304 grade steel, the 3D logos are bespoke and made to order to whichever font or size you need.
A flat sheet of steel is laser-cut to the shape and size of the logo or font. In order to create the depth of the letter a return strip of steel is welded onto the side of the letter which makes it look solid and three-dimensional. The letters can be painted and fitted with a range of coloured acrylic faces.
Our 3D letters are available in a number of thicknesses such as 20mm, 30mm, 40mm, 50mm and even 100mm however if you require an alternative size then please speak to a member of our sales team.
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Fixing your metal letters & logos
There are many ways of fixing the metal lettering in place. One of the most effective is nut and bolt fixings, these can be used on metal letters up to a height of around 60cm. Any bigger than this then your metal sign will be too heavy for these fixings. The option for larger metal letters and signs is to use a threaded rod which is fixed to the rear of the letters - these are then pushed into your fixing holes and held secure with either resin or silicone.
Built-Up Lettering
Built up letters give you a three dimensional feel to your sign which makes them stand out from flat cut lettering. This type of metal lettering is manufactured from a flat metal sheet and fabricated to produce each unique letter.
The built up letters consist of a "letter face" which is displayed on the front of the sign and a "return side" which is also visible when fixed to the wall. This method gives the illusion that the letters are solid when in actual fact they're hollow. The advantages in using this method is it reduces the cost as well as the weight of the shop sign so they can be displayed and fixed to virtually any wall or front of shop.
These type of letters are made to order in a range of fonts, sizes and styles. The shape of the letter is laser cut from a flat sheet of metal. A strip of metal is folded around the side of the letter to create the return side and depth of the letters. This is usually soldered onto the side of the letter and a range of return sizes are used depending on how thick or chunky you'd like the letters to look.
The letters are then fitted to the wall with a two part nut and bolt fixing. The male-part of the fixing is welded onto the back of the letter. The female-part of the fixing is fitted onto the wall. The two parts of the fixing then slot together and are tightened up securely with a spanner to ensure they're securely into position.
A paper-based fixing template is usually used to ensure all the fixings are in the correct position.
Flat-Cut Lettering
Flat cut letters are also design to give you a three dimensional feel to your sign – they’re just not as chunky as the Built Up 3D Metal Letters. This type of metal lettering is manufactured from a flat metal sheet and fabricated to produce each unique letter.
The flat-cut letters consist of a "letter face" which is displayed on the front of the sign and not a "return side". The advantages in using this method is it reduces the cost compared to the built-up letters as well as the weight of the shop sign so they can be displayed and fixed to virtually any wall or front of shop.
These type of letters are made to order in a range of fonts, sizes and styles. The shape of the letter is laser cut from a flat sheet of metal. The letters are then fitted to the wall with a two part nut and bolt fixing. The male-part of the fixing is welded onto the back of the letter. The female-part of the fixing is fitted onto the wall. The two parts of the fixing then slot together and are tightened up securely with a spanner to ensure they're securely into position.
3d Metal Logos Manufacturers often use the above fixings for Custom Metal Logo Signage, Reception Signs UK and Raised Metal Office Signs.
Flat cut raised metal letters painted in orange
Built up 3D brushed gold steel letters
Polished gold 3D stainless steel letters
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3D built up stainless steel letters powder-coated green
Rim and return 3D steel letters painted pink with illuminated acrylic face
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3D stainless steel letters painted hot pink
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SAF-HOLLAND Announces Plans to Open Western Region Aftermarket Distribution Center in Phoenix
Muskegon, Michigan, May 9, 2019 – SAF-HOLLAND, a leading global manufacturer of trailer suspension and axle systems, truck suspensions, fifth wheels, landing gear, and coupling products, announced today that it will open its new western region Aftermarket Distribution Center in Phoenix, Arizona.
The nearly 45,000-square-foot facility, opening later in September, will provide capabilities to more efficiently supply replacement parts to distributors and dealers. In addition to its current DC in Cincinnati, Ohio, establishing a new distribution center in Phoenix will enable SAF-HOLLAND to quickly meet the needs of end-users across the country. This location will improve distributor order-to-delivery time, significantly reducing the time end-users wait for parts.
“After a thorough evaluation, the Aftermarket team selected Phoenix as the site of our distribution center in order to better serve our west coast customers,” said Carl Mesker, Vice President – Sales (Americas). “The new location will not only provide more efficient parts delivery to our current west coast business partners, but allows us to grow and expand in the region.”
Initially, the distribution center will be staffed by 23 people and stock approximately 3,500 SKUs. The facility features seven dock doors to maximize shipping and receiving efficiency, and has direct access to I-10 Freeway via 67th and 59th Avenues.
Orders placed on or after September 9, 2019, will be processed from the new distribution center. The new SAF-HOLLAND Aftermarket Distribution Center is located at 555 S. 65th Avenue, Phoenix, AZ. 85043.
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Time Out Of Mind (1997)
Time Out of Mind songbook
1. Love Sick iTUNES
2. Dirt Road Blues iTUNES
3. Standing in the Doorway iTUNES
4. Million Miles iTUNES
5. Tryin’ to Get to Heaven iTUNES
6. ‘Til I Fell in Love with You iTUNES
7. Not Dark Yet iTUNES
8. Cold Irons Bound iTUNES
9. Make You Feel My Love iTUNES
10. Can’t Wait iTUNES
11. Highlands iTUNES
Liner notes:
Bob Dylan - guitar, acoustic and electric rhythm lead, harmonica, piano, vocals (all songs);
Daniel Lanois - guitar, mando-guitar, firebird, martin 0018, Gretch gold top, rhythm & lead (all songs);
Bucky Baxter - acoustic guitar, pedal steel (3, 5, 7, 8);
Duke Robillard - guitar, electric L5 Gibson (4, 5, 10);
Robert Britt - Martin acoustic & Fender Stratocaster (3, 6, 7, 8);
Winston Watson - Drums (2);
Cindy Cashdollar - slide guitar (3, 5 , 7);
Tony Garnier - Electric bass & acoustic upright bass (all songs);
Auggie Meyers - Vox organ combo, Hammond B3 organ & accordion (all songs);
Jim Dickinson - keyboards, Wurlitzer electric piano & pump organ (1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10, 11);
Jim Keltner - drums (1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 10);
David Kemper - drums (8);
Brian Blade - drums (1, 3, 4, 6, 7, 10);
Tony Mangurian - percussion (3, 4, 10, 11)
All songs written by Bob Dylan.
Produced by: Daniel Lanois... in association with Jack Frost Productions
Engineer: Mark Howard
Assistant Engineer: Chris Carrol (Miami)
Recorded at: Criteria Recording Studios - 1755 N.E. 149 Street, Miami, FL
Mixed at: Teatro Studios - 826 S. Oxnard Bl., Oxnard, CA
Art Direction: Geoff Gans, Santa Monica, CA
Photography: Daniel Lanois, Mark Seliger, Susie Q.
Download sheet music from this and other Bob Dylan albums
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VANSICKLE ENTERS PRESIDENTIAL RACE AT FINAL HOUR AND CLIMBS IN EVERY NATIONAL POLL
Ray L. VanSickle, 50, of Uniontown, Pennsylvania has shocked the political world today as he has announced his independent political campaign for President of the United States of America. He has already climbed to the top of the campaign polls and is ready to pack up and move into the White House in January. There is no doubt that he will win and his family and friends are thrilled for this new venture for him and the nation. Political yard signs and bumper stickers are free at any Apple Store around the country. He has been endorsed by the Pope, Apple, Inc. and all teacher unions. It is suspected that Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will both suspend their campaigns by tomorrow since they are both in single digits in every national poll. Log onto www.vansickleforpotus.com for additional information.
Colaiste Bride,Presentation school in clondalkin set to close untill December
Harry Holmes wanted for touching women inappropriately
Former vermilion man has won a award for most penises deepthroated in the wellington fairgrounds porter potty....
Mexican Uber driver got carjacked for rooting to the Cubs
Ambulance Spotted
Christina Anthony charged with child abuse
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The UK Tour Starts Tonight!
Britney’s first show in the UK starts tonight at the Wembley Arena in London. Britney will be playing 4 times at Wembley (26th, 27th April, 3rd & 4th May). Twice at the SECC International Arena in Glasgow, Scotland (29th & 30th April), once at the Manchester Evening News Arena (MEN) in Manchester (1st May) and finally, the National Indoor Arena (NIA) in Birmingham (5th May – My birthday!)
This is the first time in 4 years that Britney has toured the UK (and Europe). Its great for me, because I never got the chance to see her Oops tour back in 2000, and I get the chance to see Britney for the first time in 5 days, I can’t wait 😀
I will be going to the Manchester date on May 1st (see arena photo to the left). I am going to promise you some great content over the next days, Britney is here also to promote her single ‘Everytime’, and as we are situated in the UK, we will have all her performances and appearences on TV right here!
Also, you can send in your news, reviews, photos, videos, audios and ANYTHING you have from the tour, just send it to danny@britneyspy.com and we will put everything you send (if suitable) on the site!
Im going to try and take a camera, hopefully I won’t get caught! If you manage, to get pics, send them our way 😀
Here is a list of the venue’s websites for you to visit:-
MEN Arena, Manchester
Wembley Arena, London
NIA Arena, Birmingham
SECC Arena, Glasgow
New Picture From Polish Magazine
Thanks to Lena 😀
Showtime Miami Special To Air On E4 and Channel4
Live from Miami will air in the UK on the following dates and times:-
Britney Spears Live from Miami (Music)
Starting: 17:30 on Saturday 1st May. Duration: 1 hour and 40 minutes
Showing on E4.
Starting: 14:30 on Sunday 2nd May. Duration: 1 hour and 30 minutes
Starting: 11:35 on Monday 3rd May. Duration: 1 hour and 50 minutes
Showing on Channel 4.
Thanks to Jack !
Britney's Night On The Town With Blake (Her Dancer) on 22/04/04
More Photos Of Britney Buying Keyboard, and Looking Annoyed at Paparazzi
Britney Buying a Keyboard in Beverly Hills
Click the image to enlarge and read the article.
New Photo Of Britney With Carmen Electra
Cops, handcuffs and paparazzi. Another Michael Jackson scuffle? No, just an elaborately planned stunt, masterminded by Britney Spears to celebrate the birthday of her older brother Bryan, 27 on April 19. Taking time out from her world tour, the pop princess hired actors to pose as FBI agents and arrest Bryan while she and her sibling were near her Santa Monica home. With fake celebrity photographers in tow, the “agents” took a handcuffed Bryan to the local club Space, where 50 or so friends shouted, “surprise!” As go-go dancers entertained and guests snacked on crab cakes, Bryan was surprised yet again when Carmen Electra and her racy Pussyycat dolls took the stage at 9 p.m. for a 20-minute set. Bryan “loved it-he was in shock,” says a partygoer. Then Spears came on to sing “Happy Birthday” a capella clas in the Pussycat Dolls costume of bra, panties, corset, and fishnet stockings. She seemed very comfortable. “She looked in the mirror and said, ‘Oh my God, I love this!” says Robin Antin, creator of the group. “She felt sexy right away-she was getting into it”. Spears, 22, reveled in her costume until 11 p.m. before changing into jeans and dancing to the beat of the music (old school hip hop) played by deejay Pesce until 2 a.m.
Source: People magazine
Britney Has Another New Tattoo
Thanks to U Britney.com ! (I’m not liking this tattoo! lol)
Competition to win tickets to see Britney at the SECC In Glasgow
You can win a pair of tickets to see Britney on her Onyx Hotel Tour next Thursday at the SECC Arena in Glasgow. To find out, and answer the simple question Click Here
'Kill Bill' Director Loves Britney Spears
Kill Bill director, Quentin Tarantino is a huge fan of pop diva Britney Spears, he loves to listen to her tracks whenever he’s driving around in his car.
“I’m a big fan of Britney Spears and I defend her constantly with all these too-cooler-than-thou types,” teenmusic.com quoted him as saying.
“I’m like, ‘Have you ever heard her stuff in a club? If you’re in a club, it’s fantastic,” he further added.
Source: Web India
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6 ways to use the holidays for networking
December 14, 2018 /in In the News /by roaradmin
You’re going to be talking to a lot of people this season anyway, so you might as well get the most out of it.
The holidays are the time for gatherings and good cheer, and that makes them a natural time for networking. Business is about relationships, and sharing kind wishes and getting some face time can help to strengthen them. Since the season is a busy one, make the most of your connections by creating a plan. Here are six ideas for effective holiday networking.
CHOOSE OPPORTUNITIES WISELY
Be smart about the ones you attend, says James Cassel, chairman of the independent investment banking firm Cassel Salpeter & Co.
“[Attend] as many relevant holiday events as possible,” he says. “Taking advantage of them requires being strategic, disciplined, and committed to follow-up. Think of yourself as a smart marathon runner, not a sprinter. That means doing serious research as you target gatherings that you think will draw the people you see as your best prospects.
“In a digital age in which we’re losing the human touch, there’s nothing finer than a handwritten note,” says Cassel. “I begin my follow-up within a day or two after meeting people, and I’m careful to include something specific and personal about the encounter, as well as verbiage that reminds the prospect what it is my company has to offer. Sounds simple, but you’d be surprised how many people fail to execute it completely.”
Create a “meet list” of key individuals you’d like to connect with during the holidays and why, suggests corporate connections consultant Judy Robinett, author of Crack the Funding Code.
“Events can be jam-packed with opportunities,” she says. “Narrowing it down in order to ensure you’re being strategic, and maximizing the time you have with these key individuals, will help to ensure you’re making more lasting than fleeting connections.”
If you’re looking for conversations that can further your business, approach them with mentorship instead of profit in mind, she adds. “Mentors can be valuable players in your future success—and possible investors in the future—so building these early bonds can definitely pay off in the long run,” says Robinett.
HELP OTHERS NETWORK
It’s the season of giving, and being a connector is one of the most valuable things you can do for people in your network, says Kevin Hamilton, SVP of marketing at the restaurant technology platform Toast.
“The holidays are a great time of year to canvas your network and connect individuals that you think could be helpful to each other in the New Year,” he says. “This might include employees looking for a potential mentor, clients looking to break into a new region, or colleagues who want to acquire new skills. Use your wide network for good, and connect people to one another in a way that’s helpful, authentic, and meaningful.”
CONNECT ON THE SPOT
With all the festivities and conversations people are having throughout holiday networking events, it can be hard to remember who’s who, says Solomon Thimothy, CEO of Digital Marketing Agency. Instead, keep your phone on hand and take advantage of LinkedIn.
“Download the app and keep it on your home screen so it’s easy to access,” he says. “Then, as you’re meeting new folks, pull up the app and find them. This enables you to make that real-time connection and is an easy access point to avoid their crowded emails so that you’re able to send a more personalized, direct message.”
Added bonus: You might find out on the spot that you have mutual connections that can help continue to drive the conversation, Thimothy says.
BE INCLUSIVE
Winter holidays of Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanza are often recognized, but the employees of cloud communications provider 8×8 use every holiday as a chance to connect with each other.
“We celebrate diversity and welcome all cultures,” says CEO Vik Verma. “If you’re smart and have good values, you’re of great value to us. We like to create an environment that demystifies different ethnicities. We celebrate Christmas and Diwali. We feel like if our employees can be themselves without having to create some act and be somebody they’re not, we create a safe environment.”
Every Wednesday, 8×8 employees get a chance to relax, mingle, and enjoy a catered lunch. “My general philosophy is that people work hard,” says Verma. “We try not to have evening parties that take them away from family. Why create an obligation to stay late for a beer bash? If we can gather at lunchtime, you’re providing value to employees.”
OR JUST WAIT UNTIL THE NEW YEAR
While the holidays are prime for networking, they’re also hectic. If you’re feeling overwhelmed, why not wait? asks Brian Rowe, CEO and founder of Perceivant, an educational technology company.
“December is such a busy and stressful time for everyone, so wait until the New Year to reconnect with current and new customers,” he suggests. “Thinking in this mind-set helps us kick off the year strong and connect with contacts straight away once January rolls around to stay more top-of-mind.”
Rowe has the same philosophy with his employees. “There are enough holiday parties in December. So, to avoid any added stress, we all gather together as a company in mid-January to celebrate,” he says. “This allows us to reconnect, discuss what happened in the previous year, and get excited about what’s coming ahead.”
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Toddler injured in Hwy. 248 wreck
By Kyle Troutman editor@cassville-democrat.com
Vehicle rear-ended 5 miles east of Cassville
Three Cassville residents, including a toddler, were injured Tuesday in a wreck at 7:49 a.m. on Highway 248, five miles east of Cassville.
According to a Missouri State Highway Patrol report, Shannon Rhea, 25, of Cassville, was driving a 2012 Jeep Patriot westbound when her vehicle struck the rear of a 2002 Chevrolet Silverado, being driven by Carmella Buckner, 41, of Cassville.
Rhea suffered moderate injuries and was transported to Cox South Hospital in Springfield.
Buckner and a passenger in her vehicle, Hailey Buckner, 3, of Cassville, each suffered minor injuries and were transported to Mercy Hospital Cassville.
All were wearing safety devices. The Jeep was totaled, and the Chevrolet sustained minor damage.
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Happy Halloween! We are giving you a chance to win one of the scariest PSVR games of the year, "Home Sweet Home"
October 31, 2018 / Neranjan Bissoon
Happy Halloween Cats And VR Fans and to celebrate we are giving away a PSVR copy of one of the scariest VR games of the year. All you have to do is follow @CatsAndVR & @MastiffGames on Twitter. Make sure you comment on this page what your twitter handle is for a chance to win.
Interesting about Home Sweet Home is that it comes from a company who specializes primarily in high-end video production for commercials and advertising. Developed by Yggdrazil Group, Home Sweet Home got a Steam release as non-VR PC title and was also recently released on X1. Drawing from many of the tropes of horror games like P.T. Home Sweet Home still delivers its own set of unique scares. One of the most nightmarish moments of the game, a woman throwing up bloody nails into a sink, haunted me for several days.
A first-person horror adventure game based on Thai myths and beliefs. The core gameplay focuses on storytelling and stealth to avoid perilous spirits hunting you including your dead wife who has a box cutter and will slit her throat in front of you to say "Hi honey, I'm home".
The level of detail in the game is very impressive for a PSVR title and it does have the ascetic of a thai horror film.
“We are very excited to be working with Mastiff in order to bring the dark, Thai-inspired world of Home Sweet Home to consoles,” shares Saroot Tubloy, Chief Operating Officer of Yggdrazil Group. “The game's real-world lore and mythology is sure to captivate and intrigue players, while its brooding narrative keeps them clinging to the edge of their seat.”
The first in a series of terrifying first-person horror games, Home Sweet Home throws players into a dark and twisted labyrinth, where a miasma of fear fills the air, dread bleeds through cracks in the ceiling and seeps down through broken floorboards, and anxiety grows stronger with every step.
After a long night filled with mourning and sorrow over the recent disappearance of his wife, Tim awakens to find himself in a strange, dilapidated building instead of the comfort of his own home. Naturally confused, he desperately begins to search for a way out while attempting to solve questions that could lead to answers regarding his wife's disappearance. At the same time, he’ll find himself being hunted by malevolent spirits.
There is a dark and sinister secret casting a shadow over this interconnected labyrinth...and without question, it's no longer the happy home that it once was.
● Gripping Thai Horror – A dark narrative inspired by Thai lore, myths, and beliefs that will captivate players while keeping their palms sweating and pulses pounding with fear
● Sharpen Wits, Not Blades – Without weapons to provide defense against the evil spirits, players must keep their wits sharp at all times in order to survive
● Nicely Tied Together – The use of stealth and investigative skills offers gameplay variety and a chance for players to breathe, but not for long....
● Face Your Fears – Experience a new level of first-person fear and terror with PS®VR compatibility
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Ground Runner: Trials speeds and shoots its way out of Early Access to deliver immersive vehicular VR combat
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Tuesday, November 24, 2015 - 00:00
CNC3 News Headlines 3pm Thursday 24th November, 2015
TT national deported from Grenada on 11 charges including manslaughter
Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Ceasar has denied bail to a Trinidad and Tobago fugitive who has been deported from Grenada to answer 11 charges including manslaughter.
Defense Force says it's not to blame in fisherman's death
The Defense Force is seeking to defend its soldiers against allegations that they contributed to the death of fisherman Brian Smith.
Police launch investigation into death of Carenage fisherman
An official police investigation has been launched into the death of 30-year-old fisherman Brian Smith and the police service is giving the assurance that there will be no cover-up of any wrong...
Children returned from T&T to Australia for court hearing after father applies to Hague Convention
The Single Fathers' Association is claiming victory following a court order that the children of a Trinidadian mother and Australian father be returned to Australia.
Water supply and traffic disruptions on Churchill Roosevelt Highway
Monday, November 23, 2015 - 00:00
The Water and Sewerage Authority advises motorists using the east-bound carriageway of the Churchill Roosevelt Highway that there will be a disruption in the flow of traffic due to a broken 30...
Paternal grandmother of sextuplets born in 2013 speaks out on recent baby deaths
Friday, November 20, 2015 - 00:00
The paternal grandmother of sextuplets born to Petra Lee Foon and Kieron Cummings, in 2013 is making a desperate plea for more to be done to save lives of newborn babies at the nation's hospitals...
Opposition Leader challenges PM on treatment of TT national in France
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is challenging the Prime Minister over what she sees as the poor treatment of a T&T national in France.
Opposition Leader questions lack of further Parliamentary sittings; alleges PM ducking questions
Thursday, November 19, 2015 - 00:00
Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar is questioning the lack of further Parliamentary sittings for this month, saying it appears as though the Prime Minister is attempting to avoid answering...
Expiry of non machine readable passports.
The Ministry of National Security’s Immigration Division is advising that, effective Tuesday 24 November 2015,all citizens of Trinidad and Tobago must be in possession of a Machine Readable...
14-year-old girl missing
Police are seeking the urgent assistance of the public in locating 14-year-old Celine Mohammed...
Murder on Charlotte Street
Police are investigating the shooting death of a man on the corner of Belmont Circular Road and...
Tobago double murder suspects appear in court
Six Tobagonians and a Trinidadian have been charged with the murders of pensioner John...
Man shot on Diego Martin Main Road
One man is nursing gunshot wounds following a shooting incident on the Diego Martin Main Road on...
Police officer guilty of raping teenager
A police officer was remanded into custody on Wednesday after he was found guilty of five...
Drunk driver jailed after injuring two women
A drunk driver who plowed into two women and a car in La Romaine has been sent to jail for 17...
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OT: Skeptics vs Alarmist Cage Match unSpectacular!
OT: Moorabal/Lal Lal wind farm
On 25/08/2009 oweng wrote:
>This article was in this weekends Australian. It talks about noise (not
>just audible noise issues) that some local residents claim is an issue.
>http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25964195-5006785,00.html
>Im just posting this as it was an interesting article and I think its
>relevent to the posts above. Not trying to make any points!
The infrasound is interesting. I've heard a theory that it's the cause of jetlag. IE, the very low frequency noise of the engine stuffs your body systems in some way. I've heard of bogans at car shows getting similar symptoms to jet lag, while at loud car stereo competitions.
I've also heard a theory that the cause of jet lag is that your soul can only travel as fast as a camel, and you won't feel better until it arrives. Not sure which theory I like better.
POST EDIT
For those bothering to wade through from the beginning of this thread, wondering why it went on so long, it's not all about this wind farm. It started as an innocuous discussion about planning rules and NIMBYs, but very quickly became an argument about Climate Change and the sceptics arguments. There's some fun stuff in here, particularly the bits about submarines and the general niggle. Good times, good times.
Any of you Victorian residents know anything about this?
http://media.mediamonitors.com.au/ArticlePresenter.aspx?GUID=4dd33071-9569-4862-812d-88a97d0cb631&ArticleID=51201433&output=pdfsearchable
Any ideas on why it was 'controversial', or was it the normal NImby nonsense of noise, flicker and birds?
the usual fantastic idea !!!! but not in my back yard . Origin have just purchased another near ballarat proposal with output of 480MW also going through the planning approval . this one would go close to replacing one of the 8 hazelwood generators which are the most green house polluting in the country yet the gov just approved them to run for another 25 to 30 years
JamesMc
I wonder if they'd prefer the view of a coal fired powerstation or a nuclear powerstation to windmills?
jkane
Ex Federal Minister Ian Campbell attempted to block the Bald Hills windfarm development back in 2006 citing the risk to the endangered Orange Bellied Parrot. The report he cited actually concluded that the effect would be "very small – even barely noticeable - compared with natural mortality". It did say it would have a negative impact but it suggested that it should be offset by mitigation and conservation measures.
We all know the most likely explanation that the OBP will go extinct is habitat loss not because less than one a year might fly in to a wind turbine.
It also turned out his decision went against the advice of his own senior department staff.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2006/04/05/1143916574751.html
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1697953.htm
http://www.environment.gov.au/epbc/publications/pubs/wind-farm-bird-risk-orangebelliedparrot.pdf
Anyway, I think building is supposed to start late this year. The bird thing can be a real issue though. This from the RSPB
"Poorly sited wind farms have caused some major bird casualties, particularly in Tarifa and Navarra in Spain, and the Altamont Pass in California. At these sites, planners failed to consider adequately the likely impact of putting hundreds, or even thousands, of turbines in areas that are important for birds of prey. Tragically, killing many hundreds of birds as a result."
Sarah Gara
On 13/05/2009 JamesMc wrote:
>I wonder if they'd prefer the view of a coal fired powerstation or a nuclear
>powerstation to windmills?
Wind farms are well pretty -I love the dichotomy of them against nature. x
On 14/05/2009 jkane wrote:
>Ex Federal Minister Ian Campbell attempted to block the Bald Hills windfarm
>development back in 2006 citing the risk to the endangered Orange Bellied
>Parrot.
The OBP thing was funny; on the bird forums, virtually all (not quite) were still behind the farm, realising the absurdity of stopping it to prevent 1/1000 years or some such nonsense.
The siting can be a problem, and the RSPB quote is I think from a Spanish wind farm. It's enormous, covering a wholr dige line for miles. Problem is it's on the migration route for some of the raptors, who like to use the ridge lines for gliding... big problem. There have been positive studies on the impact on birds. Some little Harriers in Scotland can tell when the turbines are off, and sit on them to hunt from.
TonyB
>Parrot. The report he cited actually concluded that the effect would be
>"very small – even barely noticeable -
The effect may have been barely noticeable to the minister but I'll bet being smacked in the head by a windmill would be very noticeable to the parrot.
Some years ago I sent a Friend's of the Earth thing on windpower to our local minister (it is a different minister to Lal Lal) and got back one of the more jaw dropping letters I have ever received back from letter writing in my life. It was one of those instrumental in my deciding that writing letters just provided an opportunity for politicians to spout their policy back at you and ignore everything you said. It said that the National Party was opposed to windpower because it had negative environmental, visual, social and economic effects in the local community. I wondered if perhaps he might like to relocate to the Latrobe Valley and tell me about the positive environmental, visual, social and economic effects of his current power source.
On 14/05/2009 TonyB wrote:
>The effect may have been barely noticeable to the minister but I'll bet
>being smacked in the head by a windmill would be very noticeable to the
Of course it would be. However, it would have been noticed by 1 parrot every thousand years. This was actually in the official report.
I would also like to see these debates in context. Sure, in an absolute sense a wind turbine has some asethetic cost, but you needf to compare it to the alternatives, like the La Trobe valley, or the plants on the way to the Wolgan, and the 1000's of hectares lost to coal mining, and compared to the habitat loss aspects of climate change. Like the desal arguments before it, it's a matter of alternatives, not decisions in a vacuum.
There are old wind farms in America that look like this...
Not only are they an obstacle course for birds, but the pylons provide roosting places that attract birds. I think it's reasonable to expect a lot less harm to birds from the modern wind turbines we have in Australia. Especially to orange bellied parrots that fly barely above the ground.
Had a lecture the other night from the one of the engineers who set up the new wind farm just NW of Ballarat. He reckoned that the locals were very happy and that it's just not worth the hastle to have to deal with hostile land owners. Wind farms can go where people appreciate the money and everyone's happy.
You make an excellent point about land owners, and that was the main problem with the windfarm proposals some years ago, including Bald Hills. There was no community unity on the issue, and no weight given to the effect the windfarms would have on decreasing local amenity. I support wind farms generally but couldn't support a wind farm (or 'wind factory' to quote David Bellamy from the meeting in Foster Hall) on the beautiful Porm coast. Sure it is a NIMBY response, but if locals don't fight for their local areas beauty, then who will? It was an incredibly divisive issue for the Sth Gippy community.
Basically wind farms were recommended for where there was the most wind, regardless of the beauty of the area (and tourism areas like the Prom coast do depend on those vista. Now it would seem that other factors like community views and effect on other local businesses carry some weight.
Are you seriously saying that people wont go to the prom because of bald hill wind farm . On the same arguement surely you should pull down all those ugly power lines that criss cross the whole area and are responsible for thousands of bird deaths per year . How many people have stopped going to Arapiles or the Grampians because of the Chalcum ? Hills wind between Ararat and Beaufort . To me the only way viable wind farms should be stopped if the people opposing such development cut their energy consumption to equate to the amount that that development would produce . Do you really think 40,000 homes would commit to say limit their power intake to a maximum of say 1 kw per hour to stop one wind farm then another 40000 for the next one .Believe me primary producers face little ill effect from a turbine yet the financial benefits are huge and greatly improve the viability of their farms allowing more investment in their own enviroment . Every farmer I know has projects to improve his environment but limited funds stop most of this . Lake Bonney in se south australia i think is 5 by 10 km and has a 260 MW capacity . there is 300 km of such coast and is very close to the Major Connector from Portland to the Latrobe valley and the whole of the eastern seaboard grid with normal consumption up to 30,000MW hourly wind could readily replace a few coal fired plants
On 15/05/2009 lacto wrote:
>Are you seriously saying that...
I tend to agree mostly with this rant, but the problem comes from living in a Democracy. Everyone's opinion counts, regardless of how ludicrous and self serving it is. In China, they'd go up in a flash! Do we really want that? And then where does the argument go? People who oppose a uranium mine on environmental grounds can be accused of ignoring the obvious economic benefits. Christ, it's already happening with the sacred coal exports.
You've got to beat them at their own game, work within the system. I listened to a polly talking about life in the party room, and if you've got a good idea, that's great, but it is nothing if you can't convince others it's a good idea. Railing against 'stupid people' (despite the correctness and obviousness) may not solve the problem, but sitting down and reasonning with them might.
wombly
For me, wind farms are a truckload less visually intrusive than a bloody great coal mine and power plant.
This should really be the end of the story, but if you want more then you can try thinking about the
environmental effects of digging up coal and burning it, be that the loss of prime agricultural land for the
mine (in many cases), disposing of the overburden and waste (big acid mine drainage problems for
surface streams), huge water use for the condensers, big aquifer drawdowns from having to pump the
mine clear of water, air quality effects surrounding the power plant, greenhouse pollution ... ... ...
Apperently the electricity is cheap if you don't take responding to the effects of any of that into account!
The difference with wind farms and coal is that wind farms can go in a whole range of places, thus a lot more people are going suddenly complain about them in their back yard. Lots of those places are near prime coastal real estate and pretty rolling hills where people with money, power and education live or holiday and this population is much better at kicking up a fuss about something they don't like than the low socioeconomic groups more typical of the latrobe valley. Plus the coal plants were built years ago when people either didn't realise, or didn't care about the impact of them and there was less of a culture of people having a say. And now they are well and truly established there, their immediate effect is only on a small population who largely have an ambivilent relationship with them (work, money etc vs health and environmental effects) so the rest of the state can blithely ignore the problems whilst jumping up and down at the comparatively minor problems of windfarms which might be in their immediate area.
kieranl
Was out at Tuki near Creswick, the site of a proposed windfarm, late last year.
The protest signs and installations around the place were really ugly. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face.
The owner's son said that every time one of the protest signs fell or blew over (and it's fairly windy around there) the police would could around and ask him if he had interfered with the signs. He thought it was a great joke.
>>Are you seriously saying that people wont go to the prom because of bald hill wind farm
No I'm not saying that. I'm saying that the views of local landowners and small business (mainly tourism) owners should have a say in a project that will have an impact on them.
>>that wind farms can go in a whole range of places
that's the point. The views of the community should have some weight in the planning decisions. The PROM coast is not the only windy place in Victoria. I believe that this didn't happen in the past, and now does. Many (most?) communities will welcome the increased revenue.
Honestly, i think wind farms kinda look futuristic and have some sort of alluring appeal. Granted, i don't live near any, and have to look at them every day, but I hope if i did, i'd put the planet ahead of any personal dislike I might have with them.
I heard there was a proposal made recently to put them on top of Arapiles (amongst other high locations identified), but the wind consistency was still being looked into.
Do tourists have a say in such amenity?
(;-)
dmnz
isnt it better to reduce demand than to find cleaner supply? it's cleaner but still dirty in some sense!
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Dark Rose Valkyrie - PS4 Review
June 07, 2017 CGRreview , Compile Heart , console , Dark Rose Valkyrie , idea factory , playstation , PlayStation 4 , PS4 , review , sony
Dark Rose Valkyrie manages to straddle that difficult balances between familiar and fresh, introducing new ideas while still remaining approachable to fans of the JRPG genre. There are elements of repetitive grinding here, something I personally have no problem with and genre fans will no doubt enjoy as well. That being said, the pace of Dark Rose Valkyrie is a slow burning one that is unlikely to bring new fans to the JRPG genre.
The world of Dark Rose Valkyrie is a fascinating one. Hardly the first game to give us an alternate take on history, we found our protagonists in the late 1920's in Japan after a catastrophic event changes everything. The Chimera Virus is at the crux of the story, a byproduct from a fallen meteorite that has a terrible impact on humanity. As a result of this incident, the Anti-Chimera Interception Division is formed. They are essentially a specially trained team that has to not only protect the remaining human race from this disease, but the story of Asahi and his companions leads them down a series of adventures that reveal a greater truth about the Chimera Virus and its implications.
All of this makes for a fantastic setting, and it is more than just narrative window dressing. One key component to the virus is how it can impact people in ways that always be obvious. Perhaps the coolest consequence of this is once Asahi realizes that there is a traitor among Asahi's companions. this adds in some ownership over the story via a visual-novel-esque series of sequences that impact the game's ending. The stories on these JRPG titles tend to be rather linear, so this is a fantastic touch that I really enjoyed.
Outside of these interrogation sequences, Dark Rose Valkyrie is mostly comprised of missions that tie the narrative together. Waypoints are found and unlocked along the way as more of the map becomes uncovered over time. Of course, this is also where Dark Rose Valkyrie can become a bit on the grindy side, as missions tend to be highly repetitive after a time. They usually consist of killing lots of specific creatures, or doing 'research' on particular infected enemies. This research often consists of using specific attacks to more or less discover the enemy strengths and weaknesses until you can turn in their profile. There is some monotonous trial and error here that can make battles take longer than you might normally like.
Thankfully the combat is well-designed, taking place in the Tactical Field Battle System where turn order blends with turn-based and real-time combat, with character speed being a major component of who gets to act when. Here you have attacks, combos and arts that allow you to deal damage to enemies in a familiar but still fun combat package. Further strategy is required when assigning formations or figuring out how to best use the TCS system, which is a sort of risk versus reward super attack system that has an impact on your characters - and ties neatly back into the aforementioned interrogation system as well.
Character customization is a big part of Dark Rose Valkyrie's allure, but it is a shame that an interesting setting is wasted on characters who are generally likable, but also very typical. You have a lot of stereotypical characterizations that could have used a few extra twists during their enjoyable but generally predictable backstories. However, even if the characters themselves have a tendency to fall a little flat, the ability to upgrade party members is certainly a welcome one. There are some really deep systems at play here, and I found myself giving a great deal of thought to just how I wanted to upgrade character points and equipment.
These complex systems are rewarding, and they merge nicely with the interrogation storyline as well. However, there is a somewhat potentially steep learning curve here for those who are not familiar with the JRPG genre, and a great deal of text to read as well. Combat is fun, but the missions that give it structure and purpose can become somewhat redundant after a while as well. There is a nice mix of new and shiny that works nicely with established JRPG norms to create an experience that I enjoyed the majority of the time - but probably won't be for everyone.
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It will be learned, not without interest, that certain relics or memorials of the fight of Otterbourne are still preserved in Scotland. The story of the battle represents Douglas as having, in a personal encounter with Percy in front of Newcastle, taken from him his spear and its pennon or hanging flag, saying he would carry it home with him, and plant it on his castle of Dalkeith. The battle itself was an effort of Percy to recover this valued piece of spoil, which, however, found its way to Scotland, notwithstanding the death of its captor. One of the two natural sons of Douglas founded the family of Douglas of Cavers, in Roxburghshire, which still exists in credit and renown; and in their hands are the relics of Otterbourne, now nearly five hundred years old. It is found, however, that history has somewhat misrepresented the matter.
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26-Jul-2018 -- During the summer holidays direction Pyrenees I had the chance to visit some confluence points. On the way back to Germany I visited the confluence 46°N 6°E.
I left the motorway A41 near Gran-Gevrier and followed the road D1508 direction north west. From that junction it was a distance of 15 km to the CP 46N 6E. At a distance of ca. 500 m I found a good parking lot on the left side, resp. western side, of the road. From there I started the walk by foot. It was a quite steep curvy road, named "Route Des Raffour", which let direction west. In front of me I found a little traffic jam, because they cut brushwood next to the road with a big service vehicle. After this vehicle drove beside and the cars passed, I could continue my mission.
Two curves later I reached the junction to the pasture. The road is going to be renewed. The upper layer of the road was removed. The "gate" was made of an electrical cord, which is used to for electrical fences around pastures. I stepped over it and reached the confluence point 46°N 6°E very easily. I is located in a "corner" of the pasture, in a shady area, made by the surrounded trees.
After I had taken the pictures I walked 100 meters direction west, to the crossing, with a building next to it. There the "Route Des Raffours", continuing as "Route de Chilly", crosses the road D7. Direction north you can find the village sign "Sallenôves". From here I took the picture of the general location. This visit took place short past noon and it was very hot.
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Public transit systems are slow, inconvenient and lack coverage: Greater mobility improves quality-of-life.
COST Commentary:This is an update of a previous post adding an article, following the initial post below, from “Atlantic Cities” about a new study (Driving to Opportunity: Understanding the Links among Transportation Access, Residential Outcomes, and Economic Opportunity for Housing Voucher Recipients) which verifies the warm, human story in the first posting. “Atlantic Cities” is generally very pro transit and seems to be struggling with reporting the findindings in the study.
The article below about the new study states “The importance of automobiles arises not due to the inherent superiority of driving, but because public transit systems in most metropolitan areas are slow, inconvenient and lack sufficient metropolitan-wide coverage to rival the automobile.“ This clearly indicates Atlantic Cities’ heavy bias and belies the fact that no transit system is competitive with the automobile and can never be. The is technically impossible and the very few transit riders also render this financially impossible for taxpayers to subsidize.
An interesting element to the new study, below, is the reporters reluctance to accept its implications as indicated at the end of the article. He uses the term “shortsighted transportation planning” making cars a necessity in many communities; as opposed to accepting the fact that cars provided a dramatic increase in peoples’ prosperity and quality-of-life due to greatly expanded mobility and convenience.
This is the initial post:
COST Commentary: The short, heartwarming story below is validation of the principles which COST has been promoting from its founding. COST’s goal is to improve transportation and mobility for the entire community recognizing a key foundation to achieve higher quality-of-life is more efficient mobility, providing: shorter travel times and greater access to career opportunity, education, medical needs, recreation, cost-effective retail, entertainment and all of life’s offerings.
Public transit will always play a vital role in the lives of people early in their quest for higher quality-of-life and those unable to support private transportation. As the article below indicates, assistance to many people in achieving private transportation may be the most cost-effective way to achieve a win-win for the individuals and for the community.
A car to get them off welfare and improve their lives in Baltimore
TOLLROADSnews, Posted: Fri, 2011-10-07
The Baltimore Sun’s transport report Michael Dresser has a great story this week about a Baltimore charity called Vehicles for Change (VfC) that is enriching the lives of transit-dependent people by getting them a car. 24-year old Karyn Wilmer a single mother with a 2-year old calls a 1998 Honda she got from VfC “almost a miracle for me,” the car has so radically improved her life. The car had enabled her to get work because transit to the workplace was impossible.
Recipients of the donated cars said that their new mobility enabled them look after children better and to shop better.
Vehicles for Change organized a promotional event recently called “Walk in their Shoes” in the car recipients left their cars at home for one day and retracted their walks and transit rides on typical trips they had to make when carless.
Reporters and officials traipsed along on the long walks to the bus stop and then waited around for the buses which rarely ran to schedule, then the awkward routine of folding the stroller and hoisting it and child up into the bus while maneuvering coins and bills for the fare.
The Sun report quotes a survey that showed 70% of recipients of cars said they made thousands increase in income in the year after they’d got a car. Children benefited in less monetary ways, being able to be taken more places than transit makes convenient.
Recipients rent the cars typically for $75/month. Often after a couple of years they’ve made enough extra income to be able to afford their own. A good rent payment record is accepted by local banks as a credit positive.
No comment from the transit enthusiasts or those who want to “get people out of their cars.”
OUR COMMENT: Carlessness in the modern world is a form of transit-slavery, a scourge which true progressives and liberals will oppose. Programs like Baltimore’s Vehicles for Change enabling people of limited means to get cars deserve support.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/commuting/bs-md-no-car-20111003,0,1131382.story
http://vehiclesforchange.org/
testimonials from grateful recipients of cars:
http://vehiclesforchange.org/testimonials.html
How Access to Cars Could Help the Poor
Rolf Pendall, April 01, 2014, Atlantic Cities
America may be rethinking its love affair with cars.
We’re driving less. Adjusted for population growth, the number of vehicle miles driven per year has dropped 8.9 percent since peaking in 2005. We’re also buying fewer cars. While driving will accelerate as the economy improves, many Americans would rather not have to drive so much.
But a new study co-led by myself; Evelyn Blumenberg from the University of California, Los Angeles; and Casey Dawkins from the University of Maryland suggests there is at least one group that may need help to drive more, not less: low-income residents of high-poverty neighborhoods.
Our evidence comes from two Department of Housing and Urban Development demonstration programs: Moving to Opportunity for Fair Housing and Welfare to Work Vouchers. Both were designed to test whether housing choice vouchers—that is, subsidies that allowed participants to choose where they live—propelled low-income households into greater economic security.
Taken together, data sets from these studies allowed us to examine neighborhood quality, neighborhood satisfaction, and employment outcomes for almost 12,000 families from 10 cities: Atlanta, Augusta, Baltimore, Boston, Chicago, Fresno, Houston, Los Angeles, New York, and Spokane.
The results? Housing voucher recipients with cars tended to live and remain in higher-opportunity neighborhoods—places with lower poverty rates, higher social status, stronger housing markets, and lower health risks. Cars are also associated with improved neighborhood satisfaction and better employment outcomes. Among Moving to Opportunity families, those with cars were twice as likely to find a job and four times as likely to remain employed.
For more than a century, cars have signified status.
The importance of automobiles arises not due to the inherent superiority of driving, but because public transit systems in most metropolitan areas are slow, inconvenient, and lack sufficient metropolitan-wide coverage to rival the automobile.
More research is needed to determine if the relationship is causal or associative, that is, whether the car is the catalyst or if there is something deeper at work, of which the car is simply one manifestation. Cars are expensive to purchase and to maintain, even more so for families with severely limited resources. A low-income household that is somehow able, inclined, or afforded the opportunity to buy a car might also do many other things to get ahead. Motivation, opportunity, or both could be key.
Yet our current findings are enough to raise important questions.
For example, should government welfare programs facilitate automobile access or ownership? In some states, a car would push families over the asset limit for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, making those families ineligible for help.
There are also environmental considerations. How might we balance the apparent benefits of car access for disadvantaged families with serious concerns about climate change and the need to reduce automobile emissions? Car-sharing in locations and at price points that are accessible for the working poor could be part of the solution.
For more than a century, cars have signified status. They became emblems of freedom. And by the 1950s, shortsighted transportation planning made them a necessity in many communities. Even as highly educated millennials and baby boomers fantasize about car-free cities, car access is still indispensable for many families seeking safety and economic security.
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What Will it Be Saved As ?
How Can It Be Saved ?
Development Will Destroy West Coyote Hills
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Friends Petition California State Supreme Court to Uphold Measure W
Angela Lindstrom
Upholding Measure W
On January 15, 2019, the Friends of Coyote Hills filed a petition with the California Supreme Court to request a review of the illegal West Coyote Hills development approvals the City of Fullerton gave Chevron-Pacific Coast Homes, ignoring the people’s referendum that should have overturned those approvals.
At issue is the City of Fullerton’s handling of the people’s 2012 referendum called Measure W. The City wrote a Development Agreement ordinance so that no matter the outcome of the election, the City and Chevron get the last say, regardless of the people’s vote. In November 2018, the 4th District Court of Appeals sided with the City, ruling a business contract is all that mattered in this case and sidestepping the constitutional issue of our referendum right.
The California constitution grants its people the right to make or veto laws through the initiative and referendum process. The right to petition our elected representatives to redress grievances is at the root of the American government. California is one of 24 states that grant voters the referendum mechanism as a check and balance against runaway powers of its local and state government.
In 2011, the Fullerton City Council approved a Development Agreement (Ordinance 2011-3169) that gave Chevron vested right to develop on West Coyote Hills. A terminated Development Agreement triggers the auto-nullification of the other development approvals such as the General Plan and Specific Plan Amendments. Fullerton voters overwhelmingly vetoed the Council’s approval with a 61% vote. Yet the Council refused to act.
For nearly three years after the Measure W election, the City repeatedly refused to clarify what action they would take and when. They even refused to answer what the status of the Coyote Hills development approvals were – such as the zoning change and General Plan.
On October 2015, the City revealed they had agreed with Chevron to move the terms of the Development Agreement into a tract map agreement, thereby evading the 2012 referendum. The tract map is not subject to referendum so the 2012 approval of the Development Agreement effectively moved forward. Chevron gets final entitlement to develop the site. The people’s vote meant nothing.
Our state constitution grants voters the right to referendum, but the language is not prescriptive enough to prevent cities from trying to outsmart voters by playing shell games such as rescinding a law after a referendum petition is filed and then repassing one – practically identical with the first – a short time later. Another version of this game is to pass other laws with parts of the referended law in it to restore the referended law. Compare this to the City of Fullerton moving the referended Development Agreement into a tract map that is not subject to referendum.
In 2016, the State Supreme Court stopped Kern County from repealing an old ordinance that allowed marijuana dispensaries when the people qualified a signature petition to referend an ordinance that prohibited Marijuana dispensaries.
In 2016, the Supreme Court also stopped the City of Orange from trying to outsmart their voters. The City of Orange found a General Plan version that it said was the “real” General Plan so that the people’s veto of the City’s revised General Plan to pass a development approval was moot.
These games infringe on our constitutional right, disenfranchise voters, and rob the public of meaningful participation in land use decisions. The judicial branch of our government must step in to rein in runaway powers of the legislative branch.
We must hold our city government accountable. If not, the City of Fullerton will have legitimized their referendum shell game for itself, other cities and counties to play on its voters.
A generous donor kickstarted a $20,000 challenge grant to support the Friends of Coyote Hills’ continued effort to save Coyote Hills. To help, please go to our donate page or call 657-325-0725.
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This book is an invaluable aid for all those involved in coaching, educating and training. It uses stories of learning relationships taken from film, TV and literature as a tool for reflecting on, understanding and evolving current mentoring and coaching practice.
Storytelling and metaphor are increasingly important in research into leadership and learning. Here they are used as a powerful aid to learning and change by challenging ideas about mentoring in an innovative and entertaining way. The practical, moral and behavioural complexities of the mentoring relationship are explored through stories from Western popular culture, provoking difficult questions, promoting critical reflection and providing new insights through this fresh and enjoyable approach.
Preface: Mentoring in popular culture
1. Turkey, tomatoes and poppadoms: storytelling and its role in making meaning and learning
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Ebola: What IS Terrifying
Uploaded by EVadmin on November 18, 2014 at 10:05 pm
In which John discusses the ebola outbreaks in the United States, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, and how best to deal with them. Sources and res...
In which John discusses the ebola outbreaks in the United States, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, and how best to deal with them. Sources and res…
Tags: ebola, Terrifying
Categories: Ebola Outbreaks
WHO: The Ebola crisis in November 2015, one year after its terrifying peak
5 terrifying facts and secrets you should know about the Ebola virus
Terrifying Facts About Ebola
5 Facts about the terrifying Ebola virus
Ashley Meijer says:
I find that people are joking about this way too much as well. There’s this
kid at my school who is always running through halls and the cafeteria
screaming “I have Ebola!” And it bothers me that people are able to joke
about something so terrible, that isn’t even affecting us much. (Meaning,
we aren’t getting it) there are also people who say that they aren’t going
to use public bathrooms or anything because they are scared of Ebola. As
far as I know, there is no Ebola in Canada.
Shangori says:
Interesting question rises from your last statement, John:
Should we, or should we not enforce vaccinations? Do we allow some people
to opt out because of religious views or should we put our foot down for
the benefit of the health of everyone?
I personally say: yes enforce it.
FarFromFilm says:
Would anyone want to be friends? I want to make friends all over the world,
where are you from? I’m from England :)
Adam the Alien says:
Sometimes I wonder what percentage of Vlogbrothers videos (and perhaps even
Green brothers videos on other, related channels) are themed around the
lesson of “We are all one people; there is no us and them, only us.”
Not that I’m complaining, mind you. It’s a great lesson that needs constant
reinforcement, as evidenced by the fact that many people still need to
learn it. And I think it’s a lesson that ultimately constitutes a
cornerstone of what Nerdfighteria should always strive to be, to live, and
to exemplify to others.
Saiar Ahmed says:
Wait im kinda sure ebola hasnt come yet in bangladesh…….
Btw…..(for the bangladeshis out there YAY ei beta bangladesher nam at
least to bolse AMRA FAMOUS!!!!!!)
vlogbrothers says:
In which +John Green discusses the ebola outbreaks in the United States,
Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Guinea, and Liberia, and how best to deal with them.
Sources and resources below:
This Economist story is a great introduction to where we stand with the
epidemic:
http://www.economist.com/news/international/21625813-ebola-epidemic-west-africa-poses-catastrophic-threat-region-and-could-yet
The WHO’s weekly situation report update:
http://apps.who.int/iris/bitstream/10665/136645/1/roadmapupdate17Oct14_eng.pdf?ua=1
Interview with Bill Gates I paraphrased:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/03/bill-gates-ebola-shutting-down-healthcare-system-african-countries
Oxfam expresses concern that ebola could be “the definitive humanitarian
disaster of our generation.”
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/18/oxfam-call-for-troops-ebola–west-africa-world-health-organisation-accused
John Green says:
A new +vlogbrothers video: Ebola IS terrifying Ebola: What IS Terrifying
Jake Bolton says:
If only there were more people like you in the media John. Or like, actual
scientists that know what they are talking about.
OFFICIALDEATHBYSKILL says:
If infection could surpass 50,000 cases per week why is money even an
issue? Just make the fucking beds and treat the patients and stop whining
about paying eachother with stuff that may have no value in the future,
surely saving the population of earth is more important than that Chevy
dream car that one health worker is saving up for…
This comment brought to you by A random guy on the toilet.
Nick condo says:
I can’t wait for the day people stop talking about it, including the
vlogbrothers. We get it, it’s bad, it kills. SHUT THE FUCK UP ABOUT IT
ALREADY! With a million and a half things we could change in the world,
Ebola and another thing I won’t bring up are at the bottom of the list
TheNameNerd says:
What frustrates me the most is that our first reaction was “Oh no! Save the
50 people in my inner social circle!”, not “Oh no! Let’s help the thousands
of people in West Africa!” We are so incredibly selfish.
LeGioNoFZioN says:
closing borders is a rational response to this kind of an outbreak. this
is one of the tools employed by Senegal and Nigeria to eliminate their
outbreak. Many African countries have bans on travel from affected
countries. Even in the West Indies Jamaica, T&T, St Kitts & Nevis, and St
Lucia have limited bans in effect with stronger bans proposed in their
respective governing bodies. If America closed its borders to commercial
travel from affected countries, it could divert is resources from preparing
for an outbreak in the US, and instead bolster the efforts to control the
epidemic where it is worst.
EmoRainbow says:
I know it’s kind of irrational because there’s no Ebola in Canada and the
Ebola in the USA is very under control, but I’m still terrified. I know all
the facts that are supposed to be reassuring (ie that you can only get it
from repeated exposure to bodily fluids from someone who has Ebola, that
the survival rate in the US is around 80%, etc), but it really doesn’t help
me much. One of my friends kept talking about how terrible Ebola is during
English, and I kept telling her it bothered me, and she kept talking about
it, and I had to literally yell at her in the middle of class to get her to
stop. I especially worried that it will spread either to California (where
I’m going on a school trip this spring) or to Canada. I get the whole
“cutting off places effected by Ebola will just cause more Ebola” thing,
but part or me is still like “why can’t we just not let anyone into North
America who has been to Africa or had other exposure to Ebola?”
Ruth Calendar says:
I had to listen to a report my idiot ethnocentrist classmate gave today on
current events and Ebola and why we should just cut ourselves (Americans)
off from going to Africa. As in, the entirety of Africa. Finally I had to
raise my hand and point out to him that Africa is NOT a country, it is a
continent, and that the whole of Africa is NOT riddled with Ebola. Even
more importantly, cutting ourselves off from the problem or hiding under a
blanket isn’t going to make the problem go away. My classmate just didn’t
get it. *sigh* In other news, he’s also against the marriage equality laws
that were recently passed in six states. And the problems in Ferguson
apparently aren’t a product of racism. *repeated violent headdesk*
Paige Winter says:
I’m calling BS on Ebola. Until I get it, then I’ll believe all the hype
that “Ebola is real” music. There’s a lot more going on in west africa that
isn’t widely known. Like how those publicly shown in videos to have ebola
(some) are later shown walking away with money in their hands.
If anyone stops for a few seconds and turn off the TV and take a moment to
dig deeper into the inter webs, there is a lot that can be found that makes
one suspicious.
I also like to know why there’s already a vaccine for Ebola and undergoing
human trials in Canada.
Hmm…
shivore says:
So your reasoning why not putting travel limitations in place for private
individuals from infected countries isn’t unbelievably stupid is… we
don’t want to impact industry. By placing limitations on individuals.
I’m sorry John, your liberal is showing. It’s okay, you just have to
realize that you don’t have to back up Obama’s terrible policies.
Abby Rosenberg says:
Watching this suddenly reminded me how we are making the history, this like
this can be in text books as it spreads, seeming how we can compare it to
the outbreak of polio. That history is being made. I don’t know what
overcome me, but it’s a nice thought
Mary Pilkinton says:
I am so sad that Australia is dealing with this issue so unmercifully. An
Australian nurse went to help with the effort and came back with Ebola
symptoms. It caused a fair bit of panic but it was quickly discovered that
she in fact did not have Ebola. That didn’t stop one of our ministers
calling her selfish (yes, SELFISH) for going to this part of the world to
assist and then return home. Meanwhile our government is doing hardly
anything to help the effort. Well done Australia, abusing our power as a
wealthy western country once again.
Will Clow says:
John you’re lookin’ great with that beard… Do it for Wheezy.
Lumpyrox says:
I’m curious. If someone dies from ebola, is their body still contagious or
does it die with them?
Anne Warke says:
Did not know I came to this video so early. I have been discussing Ebola
with my brother and he told me it is a much different beast from malaria
and AIDS in that, to be contained, it requires complete isolation and
quarantine of the patient. The only reason it’s not working in the US is
because nurses are not quarantining effectively.
Elizabeth D says:
I’m dealing with illness right now, I’m not sure what it is, but the “She
has ebola” joke is getting really old. It’s rough enough dealing with this,
but having that added joke on top of it is really sucky.
Chris Were Digital says:
I don’t know if I’d use Argentinian beef as an example of a benefit of
globalisation. It’s neither high-quality nor good for the environment.
Rebbecca Robertson says:
you hacked my account
Chloe Donald says:
where are you from? I’m from Scotland :)
Space1258 says:
My teacher call a girl ‘ms. Ebloa’ because she kept coughing
Sims3loser, The Awkward Simmer says:
Quick question if only 3 people have been infected the United States how
can the survival rate be over 80% wouldn’t it be either one third two third
or 100%
Илья Найдов says:
Точно!..
На самом деле причина эпидемии Эбола – полный развал системы
здравоохранения в Нигерии, Сьерра-Леоне, Гвинее и Либерии, из-за тотальной
коррупции в правительстве…
Slpk says:
“Expensive Argentinian beefs in our Big Macs…”
What a sacrilege…
Kate Gallagher says:
Nigeria only had 23 cases and has been cleared. The US get’s 3 cases and we
freak out…I get it it can be scary, but unless you are one of the health
care workers I wouldn’t freak out too much.
Kaija Schmauss says:
THANK YOU. I get so irritated whenever people tell me we should just cut
off all African people from America because, while I get where they’re
coming from, it seems incredibly xenophobic. It’s like saying we should
have booted all the LGBT people in 70’s/80’s because that community had the
highest AIDS rate. Even worse, I’ve seen people blaming Obama for all of
this, as if he had any control over it. People are dumb.
ClemtheRanter says:
Ebola is about as terrifying as AIDS which are diseases transmitted thru
bodily fluids. A person is more likely to die from a drunk driver than
Ebola. Real talk.
Daniel Mongan says:
Remember when swine flu was a thing?
Maria Styles says:
I’m actually terrified
Super Saiyan Kirby says:
I just want to make sure: How do you even get Ebola?
sarahimaggi says:
PLEASE HELP THIS MESSAGE SO HE CAN SEE IT!
Hi I know this might be weird but I really hope you can help us just by (if
you can) talking about what´s going on in my country (Mexico). As you might
know the 26th of September mexican police disappeared 43 students and
killed 6 more in Ayotzinapa, well it´s been almost a month and
“authorities” haven´t found them, Well, how can you help us? I know that
the government wants to give an image of control, specially to other
countries, to let them know that they´re working in the case of Ayotzinapa,
and that this is their first priority but we all know that they´re full of
lies. Please I know that you can reach a lot of people not only from USA
but from a lot of parts of the world, please just take a little bit of time
to talk about this masacre, we as mexicans have had enough of the
repression and of the bad government. So PLEASE HELP US to let the world
know what´s going on here. Thanks a lot for reading this
Joey S says:
How can you not be worried Nigeria dealt better with its outbreak of ebola
than America did. America’s response was piss poor at best. People in
America are not taking it seriously there have been countless cockups in
procedures and protocol. I think it will reach America and the UK soon and
at least to begin with there will be many people infected.
The Lone Aesir says:
I think there is a difference between the notion of “cutting those areas
off” and inhibiting civilian travel between infected areas and non-infected
areas. As we have found the biggest obstacle to containing any outbreak is
human behavior. People who violate quarantine, people who travel after
being exposed etc… I am in favor of inhibiting travel from those areas to
our country, but in the context that we also send aid to attempt to contain
at the source. After All the best defense is a good offense.
mikey gardner says:
Who is that a picture of on the wall and what is written on His Guitar?
(The Black and White Photo to Johns left?)
Rachel Craig says:
I there was only 3 cases of ebola in the united states then how could their
be a survival rate of 80%? the only possible numbers are 0, 33, 67, or
100%. nice math john
Lucas Martins says:
Go cuba!
GlobalTruthNet says:
+vlogbrothers I know that this may be a bit of a grey area in terms of
validity, but I’ve seen a few google hits on some potentially bothering
ebola articles that I would love to get you guys’ opinion on. There’s some
people quoting a NIH study done some years ago that supposedly proved that
scientists we able to cultivate an airborne version of the ebola virus in
low temperature arid atmosphere, and that the reason ebola hasn’t evolved
towards this improvement is the hot climate in Africa. Then I see
fear-driving posts from media like ‘InfoWars’ that Ebola has been evolving
faster as it spreads through different climates.. Personally I think
something like this is a little unbelievable, but for some reason I have
memories of hearing this in class some years ago as to the reason ebola has
been stagnant in Africa cultures.
I would love a reply to myth-bust this and find the pieces of truth to this
story.
Inucat says:
Can’t we, as the nerdfighter community, do something to help? Just remember
how much money we got together for water.org and the planes we chartered
for Haiti.
Kinan Radaideh says:
is there ebola in Dubai?
BF4_Beast27 says:
What’s actually terrifying is that the media will overreact to things like
Ebola and make it seem like it will be as bad as small pox and other
plagues that have wiped out thousands of people. Like when everyone was
freaking out about that one person that came back to life after they
supposedly died from Ebola, and they thought the zombie apocalypse was
near.
John Raymond says:
learn from this? I think that unlikely. Have you seen any unhelpful
politicization of this outbreak? Have you heard anti-vaxxers thinking we
should work towards a vaccination? Fat chance. This country rarely learns
from its mistakes…and in fact seems to unlearn from its successes.
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At the July 1st meeting, the Edgewater City Council gave final approval for development of a marina and restaurant at 2001 S. Riverside Drive in Edgewater. This site was previously a marina but has been sitting unused for several years.
Many of the opponents of the development felt the project was “too big” for the location and were particularly concerned about inadequate parking. The restaurant will seat up to 150 patrons with 56 parking slots available in addition to 40 boat slips. Local residents were also concerned about the increased traffic and truck deliveries on the small streets.
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Watch: EFTERKLANG "The Ghost" Video
In 2011 after spending some time visiting an abandoned Russian mining facility, the Danish musicians who together make up the band Efterklang, had found their inspiration for their fourth full length LP titled Piramida. The band returned to the studio in Berlin, Germany with over a thousand field recordings of oil drums, fuel tanks, poler bears and also a grand piano in a concert hall, which may be the world's northernmost piano. The recently released official video for "The Ghost," is the sixth song from Piramida and can be viewed below.
Also if you have not heard of the group, the story behind the making of this album is very interesting and in my eyes, very inspiring. I strongly encourage you to take a closer look into the making of the album, which can be viewed HERE.
EFTERKLANG - The Ghost - Official Video from Rumraket on Vimeo.
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The Pefection Demanded Different Looks
Thu, 06/13/2019 - 14:14 -- Nick Dager
The Netflix Film The Perfection, which was shot by cinematographer Vanja Černjul, ASC (The Deuce, Crazy Rich Asians), directed by Richard Shepard (The Matador, Dom Hemingway, Girls), and written by Eric C. Charmelo, Nicole Snyder, and Richard Shepard, follows the story of a troubled musical prodigy who seeks out the new star pupil of her former school with shocking consequences.
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Overcoming Equipment Limitations
San Francisco-based cinematographer/colorist Stephen Berke was director of photography for the award-winning short film Snaggletooth, which had its New York premiere at the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival. Berke was also the DP for two additional short films, The Interview (currently showing on the festival circuit and Best in Show winner at the 2019 Albany Film Fest) and The Shepherds of Cat Island, a 10-minute single-take, premiering soon. His camera of choice is the Panasonic VariCam LT.
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Gunpowder & Sky Acquires Lil Peep Documentary Everybody’s Everything
Global content studio Gunpowder & Sky has acquired worldwide rights to Sebastian Jones and Ramez Silyan’s SXSW music documentary, Everybody’s Everything. The film follows the life and career of Lil Peep, the genre-bending rapper who was just rising to fame when he died of an accidental drug overdose at 21 years old. Dubbed the future of emo by Pitchfork, Gustav Åhr was influential in bringing emo and pop-punk to hip-hop through his mixtapes, released via SoundCloud. Ahr’s first mixtape, 2015’s Lil Peep Part One generated 4,000 plays in its first week.
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Thirteen Selected for Film Independent’s 2019 Documentary Lab
Film Independent, the nonprofit arts organization that produces the Spirit Awards, announced the 13 filmmakers and eight projects selected for its 2019 Documentary Lab. The Lab is an intensive two-week program designed to help filmmakers who are currently in post-production on their feature-length documentary films.
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CinemaCon 2019: Netflix and PLF Theatres
Wed, 04/10/2019 - 15:13 -- Nick Dager
From the earliest days of feature length films until the 1980s, the movie going experience typically happened in a very large theatre with a really big screen. Faced with rising costs and increasing competition from television, exhibitors of that sad era cut their buildings into multi-screen complexes to increase ticket sales and maximize profits on concessions. Today, faced with a different set of economic realities, exhibitors around the world are increasingly responding by creating movie palaces that rival all but the most spectacular theatres of the turn of the last century. One trend at this year’s CinemaCon, which wrapped up last week, was the continuing rise of premium large format theatres. Another trend was the almost comical trashing of Netflix. PLF theatres and Netflix are both here to stay; we’ve been here before
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Fathom, 1091 Sign Master Distribution Agreement
Tue, 04/09/2019 - 12:51 -- Nick Dager
Fathom Events has entered into a multi-year master distribution agreement with global independent film distributor 1091, formerly known as The Orchard. Under the agreement, 1091 and Fathom will work to curate and distribute compelling content, including sports and action/adventure films, to cinemas across the United States.
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CineLatino Milwaukee Film Festival Expanding at Marcus Theatres
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Official Secrets Shot with Sony Venice
Boasting an impressive cast including Keira Knightley, Ralph Fiennes and Matt Smith, and captured by cinematographer Florian Hoffmeister BSC, the political thriller Official Secrets was directed by Gavin Hood, and produced by Ged Doherty, Elizabeth Fowler, and Melissa Zuo. Hoffmeister selected Sony’s Venice motion picture camera system for principal photography.
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Yamasong in Select Theatres February 15
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Disney Cruise Line: New Pixar Pals On CA Coastal Cruises
Do you ever WONDER what it would be like to
take your next family vacation with all your favorite Pixar Pals?
Disney Cruise Line Announces Pixar-inspired California Coastal Cruises
Can you imagine booking a Disney Cruise with Buzz, Woody and Mr. Incredible?
Calling all "Brave" fans:
Guests sailing on the Pixar-themed voyages will also receive a commemorative lithograph created by Pixar artist and “Brave” co-director/screenwriter, Steve Purcell.
If you have never cruised on a Disney Ship before, read our 10 Reasons To Book A Disney Cruise
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More Information on Disney Cruise Line Pixar Fun
During these voyages, Disney Cruise Line guests will be able to interact with and explore the world of Pixar and their beloved characters while the Disney Wonder sails to popular port cities along the coast of California. Special entertainment and offerings designed for both children and adults include:
Artists and filmmakers from Pixar Animation Studios will provide an inside look at the creative process used to develop an animated feature which includes a look at the making of Pixar’s newest release “Brave” and a sneak peek at footage of future Pixar films.
Storyboards, character sketches, environment paintings, maquettes and other inspiring concept art used to design Pixar films will be on display in a special art exhibition at sea. This collection of art has only been seen outside of Pixar Animation Studios when displayed at leading art museums around the world.
Guests will be able to enjoy the entire Pixar library of films while onboard, including a selection of delightful animated shorts. The voyages coincide with the theatrical premiere of “Finding Nemo 3D,” which guests can enjoy at either of the two theatres equipped with state-of-the-art Dolby 3D projection systems.
For the first time, more than a dozen Pixar characters will meet with and greet guests throughout the cruise including Mr. Incredible, Remy, Woody, Jessie and Buzz Lightyear. There will be a special Pixar-themed dance parties in the Atrium Lobby and a host of other opportunities for guests to reconnect with their favorite Pixar pals.
Guests sailing on the Pixar-themed voyages will also receive a commemorative lithograph created by Pixar artist and “Brave” co-director/screenwriter, Steve Purcell. These Pixar-inspired California Coastal cruises set sail Sept. 16, Sept. 23, Sept. 30 and Oct. 7 from the Port of Los Angeles. -Disney Parks Blog Author Jonathan Fronado
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The Truth About Wonder Woman
Wonder Woman is the most popular female comic-book superhero of all time. Aside from Superman and Batman, no other comic-book character has lasted as long. Like every other superhero, Wonder Woman has a secret identity. Unlike every other superhero, she also has a secret history. The history of her creation seven decades ago has been hidden away—until now.
A riveting work of historical detection revealing that the origins of one of the world's most iconic superheroes hides within it a fascinating family story-and a crucial history of twentieth-century feminism. Take a look at the very unconventional lives of the man and women who created this iconic pop culture figure.
Series: Secret History of Comics
The Trials of Superman
Superman is really the all-father of superheroes. He is the Odin from which all else springs forward. Without Superman, there's no Marvel or DC, no billion-dollar blockbusters. His logo is one of the three most recognizable symbols on the planet, and it stands shoulder to shoulder with the crucifix and the Jewish star. Superman became a worldwide phenomenon and was created by two working-class kids from Cleveland, Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster.
Superman is for justice and it's kind of ironic that there was a great injustice done to his creators. Siegel and Shuster lost everything, and just like Superman, they demanded justice. They fought for years to receive proper credit and compensation.
Marvel 75 Years: From Pulp to Pop!
Marvel 75 Years: From Pulp to Pop will take new and old fans alike through the decades of Marvel Comics and the Marvel Cinematic expierence experience with exclusive interviews with those who lived them.
Turtle Power The Definitive History of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles
In the spring of 1984, a strange new comic book sat beside cash registers in select shops, too big to fit in the racks, and too weird to ignore. Eastman and Laird's Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles presented a completely original breed of super hero. It was too bizarre, too crazy. It broke all the rules and should never have worked. Until it sold out. Again and again and again. For 30 years. Now, peek under the shell and see how this so-called 'happy accident' defied every naysayer to become one of the most popular and beloved franchises in the world.
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It's the cars, not the cows
Avoiding meat and other foods that come from animals won't save the planet.
By Paul John Scott, Opinion, Star Tribune (MN)
People tend to feel weird about meat, even if for no apparent reason. As Michael Pollan said, “eat food, not too much, mostly plants.” It sounded good, anyway.
In reality, the argument for avoiding animal foods has never been strong. When it comes to health, the case against meat is almost exclusively derived from a scientific methodology known as nutritional epidemiology, a real weakling of the lab. Though it may arrive on the news as gospel, your typical study showing that eggs, butter or beef promotes disease almost always relies on questionnaires, and the unverifiable, approval-seeking recall of participants. Plus, the end result of an epidemiology study can still only show associations, not cause-and-effect.
But you wouldn’t know that from the confidence with which, for five decades now, we have been directed toward the salad bar.
Nor have large controlled trials confirmed the supposed common sense that a “mostly plants” or even a so-called Mediterranean diet leads to better health outcomes. If anything, the dense nutritional content of animal-derived whole foods can prove challenging to replace with the celebrated fruits, vegetables and whole grains of our dietary future.
Beef, eggs and dairy are unquestionably superior to the refined carbohydrates and plant oils at the center of the American diet. But after a long run of blaming the butcher, these sorts of inconvenient details about animal foods remain banished, and it’s safe to say most Americans believe it’s healthier to eat less meat.
You can think of it as our great vegetarian blind spot, and it has left us defenseless to the brassiest escalation yet in the cause against meat, the remarkable assertion that eating meat is bad for the planet. Talk about overplaying your hand. Where eating meat was once bad for a person’s arteries, now we are to do so with the shame that it’s bad for all of life upon Earth.
I suppose one has to give them credit for raising the stakes around steak, but was any of this necessary? Only a monster would deny the followers of vegetarian and vegan diets the moral high ground they are surely owed without reminding us, though many will do so anyway. Choosing to eat all or even “mostly plants” as Pollan put it, is of course a legitimate, wholly admirable personal dietary choice for reasons of ethics if not health — on the part of consenting adults.
But the campaign underway to shame the world into giving up animal foods in the name of climate change is pure vegetarian projection, a low-calorie mixture of facts and assumptions. It piggybacks on our anxiety over rising seas, shifting a worthwhile fear of greenhouse gases onto an unfounded fear of meat.
Mostly, the vegetarian appropriation of the climate crisis is reckless. Climate change will require our focused attention, collective sacrifice and unprecedented political courage. Transformative, disruptive changes will be necessary to make fossil fuels reflect their costs to the environment, then transition society to 100% renewable energy. These will be painful enough without battling the perception that food activism may have hijacked the agenda.
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Meatless Monday has been claiming the carbon argument for a while now, but 2019 was the year Wall Street placed a “buy” rating on the topic. In recent months we’ve witnessed the stock run-up for the makers of plant-based burgers like Beyond Meat (22 ingredients, $240 million raised, Nasdaq: BYND), and Impossible Foods (21 ingredients, $300 million raised, privately held), both of whom place climate messaging at the top of their sales pitch. Edible bugs, and “milk” made from almonds, soy and oats have all been financed with an eye toward environmental consumer preferences. Leaving the climate angle unstated, Cargill has begun growing meat in the lab.
Then there is EAT Lancet, a global initiative launched last January to propose a near-vegan, “planetary health diet,” one that promises a “radical transformation of the global food system.” The campaign, funded by a vegan billionaire from Scandinavia and the Wellcome Trust, a philanthropic organization with family ties to the vegetarian Seventh-day Adventist Church, was lead-authored by the Harvard nutritionist Walt Willet, a longtime sower of anxieties over meat and influential federal nutrition policy boss.
Another co-author of EAT Lancet, the University of Minnesota environmental scientist David Tilman, has promoted a climate-meat message since at least 2014. That’s when, in a widely cited publication for the journal Nature, he and a co-author gained wide attention for “Global Diets Link Environmental Sustainability and Human Health,” a paper trading in the same unproven linkages of meat with chronic diseases and offering a daunting series of calculations to prove that greenhouse gases will level by 2050 if we all just agree to eat “the average of the Mediterranean, pescatarian and vegetarian diets.” It was an extraordinary bit of math.
For a green-signaling campaign, EAT Lancet has the backing of some strange bedfellows. Cosponsors include the chemical manufacturers Dupont, the technology overlord Google, the accounting giant Deloitte, the PR behemoth Edelman, 13 other chemical companies, and 27 food and drugmakers, including refined-carbohydrate merchants Kellogg’s, Nestlé and PepsiCo, and the processed-oil giants Cargill and Unilever. What, one might ask, could possibly persuade these engines of capitalism to advocate the shuttering of every steakhouse, oyster bar and barbecue?
Perhaps the EAT Lancet diet holds a few clues. As envisioned, the organization’s supposedly low-emissions, health-extending diet of tomorrow is a post-apocalyptic plate of cellulose with just a few ounces of meat allowed per month. An anhedonic paradise (“you’ve pretty much had your last piece of pie,” as one critic put it), it does away with everything sensory about food and still manages to be a bit of a climate fraud in the process, mixing all the familiar hardship staples with jetliner-imported fruits and vegetables.
Though it does not say how, under the EAT Lancet plan we are supposed to eat plentiful servings of the so-called PUFAs, industrial plant, bean and seed oils that hold together most forms of processed food, including, surprise surprise, meat substitutes.
But PUFAs are the furthest thing from natural. As Nina Teicholz reported in “The Big Fat Surprise,” these low-quality substitutes for beef tallow, lard and butter cause oxidative particles when heated and require kitchens to purchase special cleansers to remove hardened solids from deep fryers and the clothing of fast-food workers. They probably should have remained restricted to their original use, the lubricating of machinery.
The EAT Lancet diet, no surprise, is also nutritionally deficient. According to an analysis by Zoe Harcombe, a researcher with a doctoral degree in public health nutrition, followers will need to forgo their daily requirements for B12, vitamin D, retinol, sodium, potassium, calcium and iron. The diet is a win, however, for any manufacturer capable of placing a V on its packaging. Ergo the sponsorships.
Cattle do contribute to climate change. They belch the greenhouse gas methane. Ruminants have a second stomach for the digestion of fibrous plants, breaking down vegetation we can’t digest via the anaerobic pathway and thereby expelling methane.
Though more potent than CO2 at trapping heat, methane is relatively short-lived in the atmosphere. Methane is also expelled by Mother Nature through termites, who, like cattle, also have to digest cellulose. Wetlands, another natural digester of cellulose (and a hothouse of biodiversity), are one of the biggest natural sources of methane on the planet. Human sources of methane include landfills, oil fields and, in an unexpected twist, an agricultural practice that will likely increase exponentially should a vegan utopia become real: rice paddies.
The other direct emission by cattle comes from manure, which releases both methane and the greenhouse gas nitrous oxide. But we need manure in the ruminant carbon cycle, a regenerative system that removes carbon from the air over time.
http://www.startribune.com/it-s-not-about-the-hamburgers/512276872/
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Alexander Novak - Settlement between Naftogaz and Gazprom possible
Brussels. Ukraine's Naftogaz and Russia's Gazprom can clinch a settlement deal, Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak told reporters on Monday.
"Gazprom is working [on claims], and we expect consideration by an appeal instance in the Swedish court in near future. This is a critical moment because the balance of interests should be restored in the first instance in order to progress in discussing specific parameters. There is an opportunity also to proceed with discussing, for example, the agreement between two business companies," he said.
Further detailed discussion of the Russian gas transit via Ukraine after 2019 is possible only after settlement of litigation between Gazprom and Naftogaz, Novak added, reports TASS.
"We certainly believe that we need to settle problems and legal proceedings that currently exist, in order to discuss specific details of the contract [for Russian gas transit via Ukraine after 2019]," Novak added.
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Accountability, return to active senior center demand
About two dozen senior citizens attended an impromptu meeting, Monday, May 19th, at the Fillmore Senior Center to voice their concerns over dwindling activities and financial accountability regarding the center budget and use of funds. Many complained to City Finance Director Barbara Smith, Community Services Supervisor Annette Cardona, and Senior Center Board Member Bill Burnett that the center needed to seek more funds and schedule more activities.
By Wanda Castel de Oro — Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
Talk about not going quietly into that goodnight, the Fillmore Senior Center community meeting held Monday, May 19 at 10am was attended by about two dozen feisty 55-plusers, ready to rumble over what many feel is poor activity and financial management.
The hastily thrown together unofficial meeting was originally scheduled to elect new Senior Center Board members, without public announcement. But word of mouth spread through the senior community, resulting in a lively turnout.
Three senior Board members presently serve; Loretta Dunehew, Bill Brunett and Nick Robles, with Dunehew and Robles unable to attend Monday’s meeting. Circumstances in the past year have caused the Board to shrink to three of the required five members, although Bylaws of Fillmore Senior Center, Inc., states “…the corporation shall have not less than seven (7) nor more than fifteen (15) Directors…” (Article III. Directors, Section 3.01 Number*).
Seated at the head table were City Finance Director Barbara Smith, Community Services Supervisor Annette Cardona and Board Member Bill Brunett. City Manager Tom Ristau sat silently at the back of the building, observing the meeting and taking notes. Center Director Lori Nunez spent the first half of the 90 minute meeting in the kitchen, filling in for an ill employee, then joined Ristau at the back of the room.
The meeting kicked off with Smith announcing that a quorum would not take place with only one Board member present. Cardona gave a brief rundown of future center activities to start in June, including Craft Day and Yoga.
Questions hit the ground running with resident Marie Wren asking for a verbal listing of the center’s “chain of command.” Smith stated that the center was an independently run nonprofit corporation under the administration of the City, with Cardona overseeing the operation of the facility from city hall, and Nunez on-site during hours of operation, 9am to 1pm.
The first few minutes were spent with Cardona listing coming activities, with many in the audience asking why activities had dwindled, then ceased in the last two to three years. Cardona explained that it was hard to get instructors to come to Fillmore, stating “they are busy and have children” and “travel” as obstacles.
The crowd protested when Smith said the meeting wasn’t called to answer questions, and stated, “If you want to make public comments you can come up and give your name and address and give us some ideas. There’s no quorum to really answer the questions. If you want to meet with Annette one on one or a group of you, you can certainly do that. I don’t know if Mr. Burnett wants to accept those questions now or not.” The audience reacted negatively to this suggestion and continued to lob questions at the head table.
“I just do the accounting. The Board is in charge of the senior center,” Smith stated, with the city overseeing it, as it does with the Veterans Memorial building. After the meeting, several seniors asked the Gazette why the city finance director and city manager were there if the Board is in charge, and why Smith answered the majority of questions, even suggesting appointments with Cardona, who sat silent during that particular exchange.
Many attending the meeting suggested bringing in quality instructors without going outside Fillmore or spending a lot of money. Volunteerism was a key word throughout the meeting.
Resident Dave Roegner offered to teach a computer class; Sarah Hanson said there are “people willing to offer their time.” She suggested local artists could show their work at the center as a fundraiser for more programs, perhaps joining with the popular Art Walk. A golf tourney was suggested to help fund more activities.
A book club was recommended as was an exercise class, and arthritis class, which at one time in the past drew a large following. Several residents suggested the former arthritis class instructor had been paid by the Arthritis Foundation. A craft class was also a one-time popular attraction with a reported 30 participants who paid a nominal fee to the instructor. But according to one frustrated senior, when the instructor had to resign for personal reasons, “she just simply wasn’t replaced.”
An Alzheimer support group for sufferers and caregivers was also described by one audience member as “very important, very crucial.”
Financial accountability questions were just underway when Bingo, or lack of it, became a hot topic, with Board member Burnett stating the popular game had stopped because people were taking the cards and there were “a lot of complaints.” One audience member asked him what the complaints were about. His answer, “Complaints. About everything.” He said the Board had voted to give up Bingo about three years ago, due to gambling.
Wren offered that the center’s Bingo games were originally intended for fun but several clusters of seniors had wanted the game to involve winnings. She wanted the game to return “just for fun.”
Addressing Finance Director Smith, Hanson said, “Barbara, I’d like to get back to the budget, if we could.” Smith responded, “That’s what I would like to do,” which drew some laughter.
Smith began going down the expense report for the center, stopping occasionally to answer more specific questions. Wren asked that the budget be passed out to the attending audience. Smith promised, “We can have them here once they are published, for people to pick up.”
Financial questions involving the fireworks proceeds, and Cardona’s salary were raised next. Smith gave a verbal breakdown of the fireworks booth monies, stating a $17,000+ profit.
She stated several times that Cardona drew “only 10-percent” of her overall salary from the senior center allotment of $46,000 for “total personnel.” Smith named Cardona’s duties as supervising the operations of the center and writing grants. She named three grants the center is currently receiving: United Way ($10,000), FEMA ($3,000) and Ventura County Area Agency on Aging (VCAAA, $23,000). She reported total revenue at $97,600, with $40,000 city subsidizing (Redevelopment Agency monies).
With VCAAA, The City of Fillmore gets a grant each year for their Senior Nutrition Program. As a successful grantee they are eligible to renew the contract each year for up to three years. The VCAAA just finished reviewing and approving applications for the next three year contract cycle (2008-11), according to Susan White, VCAAA Senior Nutrition Program funding grants manager. Cardona submits the application on behalf of the City of Fillmore along with a budget that determines where the monies will be spent. Each month the City of Fillmore submits an expenditure report and request for funds to the VCAAA for payment under the terms of the grant. Since the City of Fillmore is a government agency, there is no requirement for oversight by a Board of directors; however, as a non-profit center, Board approval is required. In the case of the City of Fillmore, the grant application and budget are approved by City Manager Tom Ristau, according to White.
Several seniors in the audience wondered out loud how a Board containing only three members and holding no meetings in a year, a violation of the Bylaws, was able to approve anything.
Turning back to operations, Jim Higgins, founder of the Higgy Foundation, strongly suggested the Board reach out to all city seniors through a task force, contacting management at local senior apartments. “There needs to be information everywhere,” Higgins emphasized. He also suggested contacting senior centers in other cities to see how they get the word out and operate successfully.
Others suggested joining forces with management at the El Dorado Mobile Home Estates, including senior center activities in the park’s monthly newsletter and distributing flyers to each coach.
Wren asked why the center was not opened as a cooling center during the recent heat wave; no explanation was offered. Several people suggested posting center activities on the Fillmore City website.
More than one member of the audience, including Higgins and Roegner, said the four hours of operations was too restrictive. Another suggested a once a month visit by the Ventura County Visiting Nurse, who already goes to the El Dorado once a month.
Martin Farrell, owner of The Gazette, promised a senior section would be devoted to center news in the paper as well as updates on its website www.fillmoregazette.com.
A June 23 meeting was announced with Gayle Washburn requesting a meeting in the interim. Burnett considered the request and said they would meet again Monday, June 2. The time will be advertised in The Gazette.
Marie Wren summed it up for everyone when she said, “We need a very active Board; taxes, food, health, recreation, transportation. It is a shame to see it [the center] just sitting on the vine, not doing anything.”
*These Bylaws may be amended or replaced by approval of the Board of Directors, as that term is defined in Sections 5032, 7151 and 7222 of the Corporations Code.
(Are you interested in serving the community of Fillmore seniors? The Fillmore Senior Center has two positions open on its Board. The Board of five meets once a month and applicants must be at least 55 years of age. Applications are now available until May 30th from Lori Nunez at the Fillmore Senior Center, 533 Santa Clara St., Monday-Friday, 9am to 1pm; or from Annette Cardona at Fillmore City Hall, Monday-Friday, 8am-5pm.)
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New-Home Recovery Seen as Post-Super Bowl Selling Season Starts
02-09-2011 • Bloomberg.com
Homebuilder executives and economists predict a post-Super Bowl bounce in demand for residential construction as Americans turn their attention from football to another national pastime: house hunting. The chief executive officers of six of the 10 largest U.S. homebuilders cited the potential of a sales comeback in the spring, traditionally their strongest season, during conference calls in the last four weeks. Housing forecasts from Fannie Mae and the Mortgage Bankers Association show the new-home market will begin a rebound that will last through at least 2012. A revival in demand for new houses after record-low sales in 2010 may bolster a U.S. economy that’s 19 months into a recovery. Residential construction is a key factor in gross domestic product because it requires the manufacturing of home components such as stoves, cement, tile and furnaces. Richard DeKaser, an economist at Boston-based Parthenon Group, said he expects the homebuilding industry will this year make its first positive contribution to GDP since 2005. “The spring market is going to be the first test of the proposition that there’s an underlying improvement in new-home fundamentals,” DeKaser said in an interview. “If we don’t see the needle move, it will be very discouraging.” New-home sales probably will rise 20 percent to 385,000 this year, said David Crowe, chief economist for the National Association of Home Builders in Washington. Fannie Mae, the world’s largest mortgage buyer, projected an 18 percent gain, and the Mortgage Bankers Association estimated a 10 percent advance, according to forecasts posted on their websites.
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Prehistoric SEA MONSTER washes up on beach: Its a unique creature
05/07/2018 11:58:14 AM PDT · by BBell · 75 replies
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/ ^ | 5/7/18 | Charlotte Ikonen
The bizarre creature was discovered in Island Beach State Park, New Jersey on May 4. Stephanie Hall discovered the body of the six-foot animal while she was returning from a run. Shed encountered a seal on the way out and wanting to give it a bit more room on the way back she went further up the beach and found the fish. I saw this head of something scary in the sand just over a dune, said Mrs Hall. I thought it was bizarre and cool looking so I took some pictures.Anyway I had no idea what it...
The Meg Trailer: Jason Statham Vs A Giant Shark Chomp On This
04/10/2018 6:03:45 AM PDT · by C19fan · 25 replies
Deadline Hollywood ^ | April 10, 2018 | Nancy Tartaglione
Warner Bros has dropped the first trailer for summer shark pic The Meg. The Jason Statham-starrer is a sci-fi thriller about a prehistoric 75-foot-long predator, the Megalodon, who threatens the lives of a research team trapped underwater and, yes, the fate of the ocean itself. As far as summer popcorn fare, the tagline says it all: Chomp On This.
Melting [Norwegian] mountain ice reveals thousands of stunningly-preserved artefacts
01/23/2018 6:09:22 PM PST · by mairdie · 42 replies
Daily Mail ^ | 23 January 2018 | Phoebe Weston
More than 2,000 remarkably well-preserved hunting artefacts have emerged from melting ice in Norway's highest mountains, dating as far back as 4000 BC. The incredible finds were made by 'glacial archaeologists' in Jotunheimen and the surrounding areas of Oppland, which include Norways highest mountains. They looked at the edge of the contracting ice and recovered artefacts of wood, textile, hide and other organic materials. Included in the archaeologists' haul is a ski with preserved binding from 700 AD - only the second one to be preserved globally - as well as a Bronze Age shoe from 1300 BC.
Scientists reconstruct the face of 'angry' Mesolithic girl
Daily Mail ^ | 23 January 2018 | Cheyenne Macdonald
The last time anyone looked on Dawn's face was 9,000 years ago. Now the teenager can be seen again, after scientists reconstructed her face to show what people looked like in the Mesolithic period, around 7,000 BC. And, according to the experts, this included more 'masculine features' for both men and women. It's thought that Dawn (known as Avgi, in Greek) was around 15-18 years old when she died.
Tufty hair, orange eyebrows, freckles and no roar: What tyrannosaurus rex was REALLY like
Daily Mail ^ | 28 December 2017 | Susie Coen
With a roar loud enough to shake a forest and a green, scaly skin, it has long been regarded as the slickest villain of the prehistoric world. But according to a new TV programme, Tyrannosaurus Rex looked entirely different to the terrifying image so familiar from depictions on the silver screen. According to a new documentary, Tyrannosaurus Rex may not have been as terrifying as its depictions on the silver screen According to a new documentary, Tyrannosaurus Rex may not have been as terrifying as its depictions on the silver screen The dinosaur had black, bristly tufts of feathers and...
Israel says it destroyed Hamas tunnel using new techniques
12/10/2017 6:36:35 AM PST · by BenLurkin · 38 replies
Washinton Post ^ | December 10 at 8:55 AM | Josef Federman
âThe Israeli military on Sunday said it has destroyed a tunnel built by the Hamas militant group that stretched from the Gaza Strip several hundred meters (yards) into Israeli territory, declaring a breakthrough in its war against underground threats from the Palestinian enclave. Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, a military spokesman, told reporters that Israel had used a new set of Âtools developed since a 2014 war with Hamas in order to destroy the tunnel. He said forces had detected the tunnel months ago and continued to monitor construction efforts by Hamas militants before demolishing it. ... Conricus said a new...
The 'fluffy' dinosaur that struggled to fly: cute crow-sized creature
Daily Mail ^ | 28 November 2017 | Shivali Best
It looks like a rather cute fluffy toy. But, in fact, this is an artist's impression of a dinosaur that lived 160 million years ago. Latest research suggests the crow-sized dinosaur Anchiornis had feathers on its four wings that fluffed up rather than lying flat like those of modern birds. The primitive feathers may have actually hampered in its early attempts at flight. They would probably have caused drag when the creature tried to glide between trees, say scientists.
For Peaceable Humans, Dont Look to Prehistory
07/01/2016 9:22:43 AM PDT · by SES1066 · 37 replies
Wall Street Journal ^ | 06/30/2016 | MELVIN KONNER
Along a river in northern Germany, thousands of men lined up for a pitched battle. Some had come great distances, determined to seize or hold this modest waterway. They went at it mercilessly, leaving hundreds dead, many shot in the back while fleeing. Victory was decisive. [1250 BC]
Giant prehistoric lizards co-existed with humans
10/03/2015 7:44:05 AM PDT · by WhiskeyX · 23 replies
FoxNews.com ^ | October 01, 2015 | Walt Bonner
While the concept of men battling 16foot prehistoric lizards sounds like something out of a 50s sci-fi flick, a new discovery in Australia has revealed that such encounters may have occurred. According to a study appearing in Quaternary Science Reviews, researchers from the University of Queensland have found a tiny fossil that belonged to a giant lizard bone 50,000 years ago, indicating that gigantic reptiles and humans once coexisted.
Scientists find evidence of prehistoric massacre in Europe
08/18/2015 6:16:15 AM PDT · by ETL · 61 replies
AP, via Yahoo News ^ | Aug 17, 2015 | FRANK JORDANS
BERLIN (AP) Scientists say they have found rare evidence of a prehistoric massacre in Europe after discovering a 7,000-year-old mass grave with skeletal remains from some of the continent's first farmers bearing terrible wounds. Archaeologists who painstakingly examined the bones of some 26 men, women and children buried in the Stone Age grave site at Schoeneck-Kilianstaedten, near Frankfurt, say they found blunt force marks to the head, arrow wounds and deliberate efforts to smash at least half of the victims' shins either to stop them from running away or as a grim message to survivors. [snip] "What is...
Potential Origins of Europeans Found
11/11/2005 1:09:32 AM PST · by AlaskaErik · 112 replies · 3,276+ views
Yahoo News ^ | November 10, 2005 | RANDOLPH E. SCHMID
A study of DNA from ancient farmers in Europe shows sharp differences from that of modern Europeans results that are likely to add fuel to the debate over European origins. Researchers led by Wolfgang Haak of Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz, Germany, argue that their finding supports the belief that modern residents of central Europe descended from Stone Age hunter-gatherers who were present 40,000 years ago, and not the early farmers who arrived thousands of years later. But other anthropologists questioned that conclusion, arguing that the available information isn't sufficient to support it. Haak's team used DNA from 24...
Woolly Mammoths Are Coming Back, Say Cloning Scientists
03/16/2014 10:39:35 AM PDT · by DogByte6RER · 80 replies
DVICE ^ | March 14, 2014 | Michael Trei
Woolly mammoths are coming back, say cloning scientists In what sounds like it could be the plot for the next Jurassic Park movie, a team of scientists in Siberia says there's a 'high chance' that they will be able to clone a woolly mammoth. The breakthrough comes as a result of last year's discovery of an incredibly well-preserved mammoth carcass, frozen in the permafrost of Siberia's Malolyakhovskiy island. The scientists estimate that the animal is about 43,000 years old, and was 50-60 years old when it died in distress after getting stuck in the ice. In the ten months since...
Sea Monster' Carcass Found On New Zealand Beach [VIDEO]
06/07/2013 3:02:12 AM PDT · by lbryce · 22 replies
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/1790/20130507/sea-monster-carcass-found-new-zealand-beach-vi | May 7, 2013 | James A Foley
Beachgoers in New Zealand got a grim look at a toothy, emaciated carcass that washed ashore recently, prompting speculation that the rotting remains belonged to some sort of mysterious sea monster or pre-historic creature. Beachgoers in New Zealand got a grim look at a toothy, emaciated carcass that washed ashore recently, prompting speculation that the rotting remains belonged to some sort of mysterious sea monster or pre-historic creature. The creature was found by a group driving along the beach in four-wheeled vehicles along the Bay of Plenty near Pukehina, about 250 km (155 miles) southeast of the capital Auckland, Discovery...
Worlds Earliest Figurative Sculpture - Ice Age Lion Man (40,000 Year-Old Mammoth Ivory Statue)
02/08/2013 8:19:54 PM PST · by DogByte6RER · 20 replies
The Art Newspaper ^ | Saturday 9 Feb 2013 | The Art Newspaper
Ice Age Lion Man is worlds earliest figurative sculpture Work carved from mammoth ivory has been redated and 1,000 new fragments discoveredbut it wont make it to British Museum show The star exhibit initially promised for the British Museums Ice Age Art show will not be comingbut for a good reason. New pieces of Ulms Lion Man sculpture have been discovered and it has been found to be much older than originally thought, at around 40,000 years. This makes it the worlds earliest figurative sculpture. At the London exhibition, which opens on 7 February, a replica from the Ulm...
Europe's Oldest Prehistoric Town Unearthed in Bulgaria
11/01/2012 9:42:52 AM PDT · by Red Badger · 13 replies
www.novinite.com ^ | Nov 01,2012 | Staff
Archaeologists in Bulgaria say they have uncovered the oldest prehistoric town found to date in Europe. The walled fortified settlement, near the modern town of Provadia, is thought to have been an important centre for salt production. Its discovery in north-east Bulgaria may explain the huge gold hoard found nearby 40 years ago. Archaeologists believe that the town was home to some 350 people and dates back to between 4700 and 4200 BC. That is about 1,500 years before the start of ancient Greek civilisation. The residents boiled water from a local spring and used it to create salt bricks,...
British archaeologist finds cave paintings at 100 new African sites
09/18/2010 2:55:15 AM PDT · by Islander7 · 23 replies · 1+ views
Guardian UK ^ | Sept 17, 2010 | Dalya Alberge
Striking prehistoric rock art created up to 5,000 years ago has been discovered at almost 100 sites in Somaliland on the Gulf of Aden in eastern Africa. A local team headed by Dr Sada Mire of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London (UCL) made the finds which included a man on horseback, painted around 4,000 years ago one of the earliest known depictions of a mounted hunter.
More prehistoric quakes on San Andreas Fault found (state very overdue for a "Big One")
08/20/2010 7:33:14 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 16 replies · 1+ views
AP on SFGate.com ^ | 8/20/10 | AP
Los Angeles, CA (AP) -- New research has found that more big earthquakes have hit California's San Andreas Fault in the past several centuries than previously thought. The last major jolt to the Carrizo Plain segment of the San Andreas occurred in 1857 when a magnitude-7.9 quake struck. Using radiocarbon dating, researchers from the University of California, Irvine, and Arizona State University found evidence of five other large quakes that occurred before 1857. They calculated that the interval between the last six quakes was 88 years on average.
Prehistoric man went to the movies, say researchers
06/29/2010 1:22:10 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 57 replies
AFP on Yahoo ^ | 6/29/10 | AFP
VIENNA (AFP) Prehistoric man enjoyed a primitive version of cinema, according to Austrian and British researchers, who are currently seeking to recreate these ancient visual displays. Rock engravings from the Copper Age found all over Europe in remote, hidden locations, indicate the artwork was more than mere images, researchers from Cambridge University and Sankt Poelten's university of applied sciences (FH) in Austria believe. "The cliff engravings... in our opinion are not just pictures but are part of an audiovisual performance," Frederick Baker of Cambridge University's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology said in a statement Tuesday. "There was still no...
Stonehenge Builders' Village Found
06/15/2010 2:16:33 PM PDT · by Beowulf9 · 19 replies · 526+ views
National Geographic ^ | June 15 2010 | National Geographic
A prehistoric village has been discovered in southern England that was likely home to the builders of Stonehenge, archaeologists announced on January 30, 2007 (read the full story). The village, located 1.75 miles (2.8 kilometers) from the famous stone circle, includes eight wooden houses dated back to around 2500 B.C. The remains of a cluster of homes include the outlines of floors, beds, and cupboards. Tools, jewelry, pottery, and human and animal bones were also found. The excavated houses formed part of a much bigger settlement dating back to the Late Stone Age, according to project leader Mike Parker Pearson...
Numerous evidence of Pre-Historic Nuclear War exists
10/06/2009 7:13:37 AM PDT · by Nikas777 · 114 replies · 4,835+ views
agoracosmopolitan.com ^ | Tuesday 6. Oct 2009 | Brad Steiger
Numerous evidence of Pre-Historic Nuclear War exists: Columns of Smoke Rose as if from a Mighty Furnaceby Brad Steiger Ancient Indian Epics, especially the Mahabharata, document apparent pre-historic nuclear devastation and destruction, that is being verified by diverse scholars.Then the Lord rained down fire and tar from heaven upon Sodom and Gomorrah, and utterly destroyed them
. Genesis 19:24. My previous article in The Canadian , in which I reflected upon my book Worlds Before Our Own, provoked dozens of inquiries from readers. LINK Some stated that one of the cable channels -- some thought it was the History Channel; others,...
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Where have all the craters gone?
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Ouarkziz Impact Crater.
Impact craters reveal one of the most spectacular geologic process known to human beings. During the past 3.5 billion years, it is estimated that more than 80 bodies, larger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, have bombarded Earth. However, tectonic processes, weathering, and burial quickly obscure or destroy craters. If Earth weren't so dynamic, its surface would be heavily cratered like the Moon or Mercury.
Impact craters reveal one of the most spectacular geologic process known to human beings. During the past 3.5 billion years, it is estimated that more than 80 bodies, larger than the dinosaur-killing asteroid that struck the Yucatan Peninsula 66 million years ago, have bombarded Earth. However, tectonic processes, weathering, and burial quickly obscure or destroy craters. For example, if Earth weren't so dynamic, its surface would be heavily cratered like the Moon or Mercury.
Work by B.C. Johnson and T.J. Bowling predicts that only about four of the craters produced by these impacts could persist until today, and geologists have already found three such craters (larger than 170 km in diameter). Their study, published online for Geology on 22 May 2014, indicates that craters on Earth cannot be used to understand Earth's bombardment history.
Johnson and Bowling write, however, that layers of molten rock blasted out early in the impact process may act as better records of impacts -- even after the active Earth has destroyed the source craters. The authors suggest that searches for these impact ejecta layers will be more fruitful for determining how many times Earth was hit by big asteroids than searches for large craters.
The above story is based on materials provided by Geological Society of America.Note: Materials may be edited for content and length.
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NOVEMBER POP-UP RESIDENT | ANN TILLEY Since last Wednesday we’ve had the pleasure of having Ann Tilley join ArtQuest as a Pop-up Resident. Here’s why we don’t want her to leave: When considering an artist for Pop-up Residence at Greenhill we like to make sure that they possess a certain charm. A charm that I think ArtQuest is known for. Tilley brought just that! Her knitted and crocheted works bring together her love of poetry and typography, as well as symbolism through her own personal experiences. Her rich knowledge of textiles gives you that warm feeling you’re looking for this time of year. Not to mention, her charming knitting machine she uses for ...
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What is an artist residency? ‘Surely,’ you say, ‘I know what that means.’ You’ll probably suggest that it’s when an artistic person stays at some institution under a sort of program that allows them to create work for a period of time.However, in practice, artist residencies focus heavily on cultural immersion. Common questions are: how much can we embed this artist in our community and, as a result, what will they stir up? What will they make? What sort of cultural exchange will occur?Greenhill strives to introduce vastly different artists into Greensboro’s ever-changing artist scene. Our last resident was Allison Luce who combined clay and collage ...
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Allison Luce, Ancient Expanse, Asbury University, Wilmore, KY, 2012,’ fired clay oxides, mixed media, 27.5’ x 10’We are excited to announce our first 10-day Pop-Up resident, Allison Luce. Luce will work in the ArtQuest studios during regular business hours from May 27 – June 5, 2015. In addition to her studio hours she will be available for visitors during Free Family Night on June 3 (5-7pm) and First Friday on June 5 (6-9pm).Luce graduated with dual BFA degrees in Painting and Art History from Ohio University and an MFA from Hunter College, City University of New York. Currently, she lives and works in Charlotte, North Carolina where she is a studio artist and ...
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University of Liberal Arts
She has a huge experience of teaching. She is a mentor for spoken English and is also involved with the co-curricular activities of JVBS, with an aim to develop minds ready to face the fast-changing global scenario.
Md. Shahidur Rahman Khan
Lecturer of Mathematics
B. Sc (Hons.) M. Sc in Mathematics
Jahangirnagar University
M. Phil in Mathematic (Jahangirnagar University)
He is pursuing his M.Phil. in Mathematics under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Md. Sharif Uddin, Head of the Mathematics department- Jahangirnagar University. He was the founder director of very reputed English Version academic coaching named Origin Coaching (Class Six to HSC) in Dhaka from 2007 to 2015. Later he joined as a teacher in Abdul Kadir Molla International School, Narsingdi. Now he is also the Academic Coordinator in Jaflong Valley Boarding School.
Forhad Ahmed
B. Sc (Hons.) M. Sc. in Mathematics
P. G in Information & Communication Technology(National University)
He is a former Assistant Teacher of mathematics in Jalalabad Cantonment Public School & College. He worked as an Academic Coordinator in Jalalabad Cantonment Pubic School & College.
Joyanta Roy
B .Sc (Hons.) M. Sc. in Mathematics
Before joining in this institution he worked as a lecturer in Scholar’s Home School and College in Sylhet. He also worked as a lecturer in Sylhet Science and Technology College.
Md. Saeed Hussain
Lecturer of Islamic studies
B. A (Hons.) M. A in Quranic Science & Islamic Studies
Islamic University, Kushtia.
He has joined JVBS as a lecturer with a view to promoting religious values and Quranic Education to the students. He is also a scholar of Hafizul Quran. He has great interest for journalism. He attended different training program on journalism.
Md. Mofakkar Uddin
Lecturer of Bangla
B. A (Hons.) M. A in Bangla
Dhaka University
He worked as a Lecturer in Bangla at Holy Flower Model College. He was Ex- President of ‘Prothom Alo Bandhushava’ of Dhaka University and was member of Bandhushava National Executive Committee. He was also an editor of ‘Sharothi’ (2012) Literary Magazine and Associate Coordinator of DU ‘Bangla Bibhag Boishakhi Utsob’ .
Amraj Chowdhury
He is a former Lecturer of British Bangladesh International School & College. He worked as a guest teacher at the Department of Theater and Performance Studies in Dhaka University. He is a national gold medalist in performing arts (Drama) under the cultural Ministry of Bangladesh and also the founder of “Theater Sylhet” and “Murarichand Theater”.
Md. Najmol Hoque
Lecturer of Botany
B. Sc.(Hons.) M. Sc. in Plant Biochemistry
Bangladesh Agricultural University, Mymensingh
He dedicates his life towards the pursuit of education and research. He started his career as a “Teaching Assistant & Research Assistant “at Sylhet Agricultural University for 02 years. He has many International Scientific Research Publications and participated in different International Conferences. He was awarded as “Best poster presenter” on 3rd CSD Annual International Conference on Sustainable Development, ULAB, Dhaka and NST Fellowship award by the Ministry of Science & Technology, Bangladesh.
Md.Mahfuzur Rahman
Lecturer of Zoology
B. Sc (Hons.) M. Sc in Zoology (National University)
B. Ed. (National University), PGD in ICT
He is an experienced teacher who worked as a Lecturer in Shimantic College, Sylhet. He is a motivated, enthusiastic teacher who wants all children to be a successful learners.
Mohammad Russell
Lecturer of Chemistry
Lecturer in Chemistry
B. Sc (Hons.) M. Sc in Chemistry
He is a passionate Chemistry Teacher with excellent communication skills demonstrated by six years of teaching experience in different well known organizations (Bangladesh University of Business and Technology, Rajuk Uttara Model College and Maple leaf International School). He is also having six international research papers.
Faruk Ahmad
B. Sc (Hons.) M. Sc Applied Chemistry and Chemical Engineering
He has enjoyed an extensive career as a Lecturer and Research Assistant. He has some International Scientific Publications and has attended different International Conferences. He also believes that his friendly personality and calm temperament are vary harmonious with the requirement of a good teacher.
Noushad Hasan
Lecturer of ICT
B. Sc Engineering in ICE
He is an experienced teacher whose research area is ‘Wireless communication and image sensor network’. Before joining here he worked as a lecturer of ICT in Pakshy Railway College. He loves reciting Bangla poetry and is fond player of football
Hasibul Alam Himel
Lecturer of ICT,Arts & Crafts
Teacher of Bangla, ICT, Arts & Crafts
B.Sc in EEE
American International University of Bangladesh.
He is a teacher with interest in diverse sectors - an Engineering degree coupled with the love for writing, be it songs, poetry or stories with the pure wish to understand the depths of music and art. He is at JVBS to explore the persistent mountain clouds mixed with the fresh perspective of the young minds to learn and to impart from his personal experiences.
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US markets end mostly lower on Thursday
The US markets ended mostly lower on Thursday as manufacturing-related sectors logged big losses. A double-digit decline in 3M Company's stock following disappointing earnings weighed on markets. However, Nasdaq settled higher with gain of around quarter percent on the bank of jumps by shares of Facebook (FB) and Microsoft (MSFT). The social media giant and the software giant surged up by 5.9% and 3.3%, respectively, after both reported quarterly results that exceeded Street estimates on both the top and bottom lines. On the economic front, reflecting a significant rebound in orders for transportation equipment, the Commerce Department released a report showing new orders for US manufactured durable goods jumped by much more than expected in the month of March. The Commerce Department said durable goods orders surged up by 2.7% in March after tumbling by a revised 1.1% in February. Street had expected durable goods orders to climb by 0.8% compared to the 1.6% slump originally reported for the previous month. The bigger than expected rebound in durable goods orders came as orders for transportation equipment shot up by 7.0% in March after plunging by 2.9% in February.
Meanwhile, after reporting first-time claims for US unemployment benefits at a nearly fifty-year low in the previous week, the Labor Department released a report showing initial jobless claims rebounded by more than anticipated in the week ended April 20. The report said initial jobless claims climbed to 230,000, an increase of 37,000 from the previous week's revised level of 193,000. Street had expected jobless claims to rise to 200,000 from the 192,000 originally reported for the previous week. The bigger than expected increase came after the number of jobless claims in the previous week represented their lowest level since hitting 182,000 in September of 1969. The Labor Department said the less volatile four-week moving average also rose to 206,000, an increase of 4,500 from the previous week's revised average of 201,500. Continuing claims, a reading on the number of people receiving ongoing unemployment assistance, also inched up by 1,000 to 1.655 million in the week ended April 13.
Dow Jones Industrial Average declined 134.97 points or 0.51 percent to 26462.08 and S&P 500 was down by 1.08 points or 0.04 percent to 2926.17, while Nasdaq gained 16.67 points or 0.21 percent to 8118.68.
The US markets ended higher on Friday after key negotiators cast a positive glow on trade talks. US Secretary of Treasury Steven Mnuchin indicated that bilateral talks were constructive even though an......
The US markets ended lower on Thursday as trade tensions ramped up after US President Donald Trump threatened tariff retaliation on China, which he claims broke the deal. Anxiety over the prospect of a......
The US markets ended mostly lower on Wednesday as worries over US-China trade talks lingered. A notice in the Federal Register formally laid the groundwork to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese imports......
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Walter Michael Draney
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DEATH Sharp Grossmont Hospital, El Cajon, CA, Friday 11-4-16. Peacefully, following admission 10-28-16, from complications of pneumonia.
Predeceased: his father, Walter Francis Draney, and mother Helen Elizabeth (Scheier) Draney, both longtime residents of Kansas City MO and parishioners of Christ the King Catholic Church, where Helen volunteered as Sacristan and also as an elected PTA president in 1958; Walter Sr. as Chief Usher. Both parents strongly supported the church from its once rural infancy and actively took up positions in fund raising projects over the years through WWII and post war baby boom eras and with a measure of pride witnessed their four children blossoming in a dynamic and vibrant facility for Catholics living on the city's South-side.
Surviving loved ones include sisters Patricia Louise (Draney) Neff, a graduate of Bishop Hogan High School and later schooling in California who focused on special education projects in California for over 40 years, now semi-retired in Ajo, AZ, and Dianne Frances (Draney) Bintner, a graduate of Saint Theresa's Academy and later Avila College focusing on elementary education for over 40 years in the Denver School District, voted national teacher of the year; both women were highly prized teachers in their chosen fields; and, a brother, Daniel Leo Draney, a graduate of Rockhurst High School and UMKC, retired from federal service after 42 years, residing in Clarkson Valley, MO.
Mike Draney was graduated from Rockhurst High School in the 1950's and later obtained a BS degree in Geology from UMKC. He had federal service with the Aeronautical Map and Chart Center in St Louis before eventually relocating to California. Mike loved the US Southwest and toured extensively there as well as in Mexico. He became fluent in Spanish.
By history, like too many others from his generation, Mike contracted poliomyelitis in his infancy. He braved through the terrible effects of this disease which included for him severe spinal kyphosis and pronounced leg muscle atrophy, but with his great effort and family support he ultimately learned to walk independently--a tough job for anyone let alone one first exposed as an infant who then fought his personal battle through the darkest hours of WWII. There was not a big safety net for polio victims at the time as the clear priority was winning a war. Our mom, Helen, had five brothers in active service: one in the Aleutians, four in Europe, all in combat. One brother, SSG Gerald Scheier, as a paratrooper with the 101st Airborne*, made the night drop behind enemy lines at the Normandy D Day invasion, and also made the air drop at Operation Market Garden in Holland. He gave the ultimate sacrifice at Bastogne where he was killed in action at the very close of the historic battle. During this time, while Mike did get love and attention, he was certainly not fussed over. As the years passed he progressed and developed great upper arm strength; he would in later life take up the challenges of mountain climbing. In the interim he continued to be a blithe spirit and learned and enjoyed the wonders of scuba diving. While still in KC he took lessons for his private pilot's license in the 1960's. He passed and took family and friends up for summer flights over his beloved hometown. He tracked the great rivers, geological interests, historical sites and would proudly hawk from the air, for example, Confederate General Sterling Price's route out of town hightailing south with the Yankees hard on his heels. He loved flight and up there Mike was free.
A yarn still proffered among old timers of the South-side Mercier Street Gang has it this way: On a bet our dad, Walter Francis, perhaps sensing a lull in the action on that lazy summer KC afternoon, challenged Mike into dropping out of his plane at altitude a homemade miniature red-bandanna parachute; and he, the family patriarch, guaranteed he would catch it in a peach basket if it dropped anywhere near the street. (There were in those days always red-bandannas and peach baskets around). From then to his last day, headed for the creek bottoms, peach basket in hands, looking skyward, tracking the red target, dad insisted that he could have won that challenge if someone, anyone, had warned him he was about to miss the bridge.
Mike loved his poker games and also in the early days would hole up through a KC winter playing marathon chess matches. But, perhaps, in its own special way, a hobby most exemplary of his character became the favorite: Blockhead** Stacking in rotation among the players those oddly shaped 24 wooden pieces in such a way that your opponent on the next rotation would find it impossible to add another block without collapse of one or all of the other pieces in the structure. A player's task was to, as fiendishly as possible, place a piece that may look secure but indeed was a booby-trap. Mike with great hand-eye coordination was a master; he kept his nerve and didn't give up, finding the perfect piece and just the right spot. The Mercier Gang said of him: "Never was there a Draney that couldn't find at least one nook or cranny."
Our brother bore his condition with great courage and what I believe the French still call elan. He had his own style and took on challenges without any fuss. He is the direct descendant of Hugh Draney and Margaret (Connoly) Draney who helped settle Nemaha County in 1856.
Private services will be held in San Diego, CA.
*502nd PIR; the Skytrain Boys
**not to be confused with modern video games; Mike's came out in 1954 and is in Games Magazine Hall of Fame.
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Courtney Kelly
(Niece)
"What a courageous man Mike was and is certainly flying high enjoying the "nooks and cranny's" of heaven with his mom and dad.
Rest in Peace Mike!
Courtney Bintner Kelly"
dianne Bintner
(sister)
"Rest in Peace, sweet brother. I picture you running gleefully without earthly limitations and joyfully hanging out with mom, dad and all the Scheiers, Draneys, Fangmans and other relatives who have been waiting for us. Be waiting for me. Love, Dianne"
DANIEL DRANEY
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What a courageous man Mike was and is certainly flying high enjoying the "nooks and cranny's" of heaven with his mom and dad.
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Courtney Kelly (Niece)
Rest in Peace, sweet brother. I picture you running gleefully without earthly limitations and joyfully hanging out with mom, dad and all the Scheiers, Draneys, Fangmans and other relatives who have been waiting for us. Be waiting for me. Love, Dianne
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Tag Archives: Star Trek theme
Russo invokes Courage for “Discovery” finale
Composer Jeff Russo showing JB his arrangement of the original Trek theme during a scoring session for the CBS All Access series STAR TREK: DISCOVERY in Los Angeles, Ca. Photo Cr: Lisette M. Azar/CBS © 2017 CBS Interactive. All Rights Reserved.
On January 15, I was invited to the recording session for episode 15 of Star Trek: Discovery, the season finale of the CBS series. It was all very mysterious. All we were told was that something special would happen and that we could not give anything away until after the show aired on February 11. It turned out that the Discovery would encounter the USS Enterprise in the closing minutes of the show; that composer Jeff Russo would, appropriately, invoke Alexander Courage’s original Star Trek fanfare; but even more importantly, Russo was going to conduct 74 musicians in a fresh new version of Courage’s famous Trek theme (complete with wordless soprano solo, beautifully performed by singer Ayana Haviv) that would play under the show’s end credits. Here is that story, published in Variety the next day.
This entry was posted in Composers, Interviews, Television Music and tagged Alexander Courage, Ayana Haviv, CBS All Access, Jeff Russo, Star Trek fanfare, Star Trek theme, Star Trek: Discovery, Variety on February 12, 2018 by Jon Burlingame.
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System Test
This page gives you measured frequency response data for the PHOENIX system. I also added a few pointers for constructing a tone-burst signal source and a receiver with microphone and fast peak meter for those of you, who would like to build some versatile acoustic test equipment.
I must point out that steady-state frequency response curves - magnitude and phase - present only a limited view of a loudspeaker. Hidden in them, and often not discernible to the eye, are further linear distortion data. These are better seen in shaped tone-burst measurements in the time domain. Also, non-linear distortion, which adds its own signature via new spectral components, that were not present in the original, must be made visible with single and multi-tone test signals.
Stored energy and non-linear distortion measurements were performed on a variety of drivers and influenced the selection made for the PHOENIX. The 9800 tweeter exhibits increased decay times above 12 kHz due to the trapped air between dome apex and plastic cup forming a mechanical spring-mass system. Removing the cup rapidly rolls off the response (-8 dB at 20 kHz). The D2905/9700 soft dome tweeter is, in these respects, a more accurate transducer and can be readily substituted. Regardless, the metal dome tweeter was initially chosen for this design based on a slight listening preference. I have since gone back to the 9700 as the more accurate tweeter.
Frequency response must also be evaluated by how it might generate resonances, reverberation and reflections in the playback venue.
And finally, the eye and the ear do not respond in the same way. Often too much, in terms of audible significance, is read into the wiggles of a graphical presentation of the response from a single microphone to the sound pressure at a single point in space. On the other hand, more subtle details and broad trends are often overlooked. Our ear-brain system has its own value scale for sound perception, one that has been honed over a few millennia by what is important for the survival of the species.
With that precaution in mind, here is a limited set of data describing the frequency response of the PHOENIX system.
Crossover / equalizer
The crossover/equalizer corrects for trends in the frequency response. No attempt was made to deal with the remaining fine grain structure in the response, which is primarily caused by diffraction effects. Those were minimized by the shape of the main panel (FAQ8). The drivers were selected for their inherent smooth frequency response, in addition to their low distortion and volume displacement capability.
1 - Buffer output, woofer, midrange, and tweeter drive signal frequency response.
Woofer and tweeter level adjustments are set to midpoint (12:00 o'clock). x1.gif
Note 1 - If you wanted to build the PHOENIX with passive crossovers, i.e. inductor, capacitor, and resistor networks between power amplifier and driver terminals, then you would have to replicate the above frequency response curves - magnitude and phase (non-minimum!) - for the woofer, midrange and tweeter terminal voltages when measured at the output of the corresponding filter network loaded by the driver. This is not a trivial design task. Even if you came close with this part, there would still be another difference, because of the impedance seen by the drivers. In the active crossover/eq case each driver looks back into the very low output impedance of the power amplifier. This provides voltage control over the voice coil motion at all frequencies. In the passive case each driver sees the highly frequency dependent output impedance of a filter network. At larger signal levels, where driver non-linear distortion tends to set in, the passive and active systems will have sonic differences due to the impedance differences which affect the flow of distortion currents.
Note 2 - It would be interesting to build the PHOENIX with current control of the drivers to investigate further distortion reduction. I have observed that the distortion products in the acoustic output spectrum of a driver are highly correlated with the distortion components of its voice coil current waveform, when driven from a voltage source. Using feedback it should be possible to linearize the voice coil current and thereby reduce distortion to some degree. The driver frequency responses would have to be re-measured under current drive conditions and the crossover/eq redesigned accordingly.
2 - Crossover/eq frequency response curves as above but without 100-200 Hz shelving high-pass filter and 2760 Hz notch filter. x2.gif
Main panel
The main panel reproduces a frequency range of about 8 octaves, 4 by the midrange and 4 by the tweeter.
1 - The impedance seen by the midrange amplifier is about 3.5 ohm and 4.5 ohm by the tweeter amplifier. The amplifiers selected must be able to supply the required current without limiting and have a low output impedance. Connecting the 8554's in series would have given a 14 ohm impedance and would require large voltage swing capability from the amplifier, i.e. a high power rating. p1.gif
2 - The following data were taken outdoors with the tweeter 108" (2.74 m) above the ground and the microphone 52" (1.32 m) in front of the tweeter to approach an echo free measurement setup.
In this first measurement the relative output of the drivers is seen. The midranges are about 12 dB higher than the tweeter. The difference is easily corrected with different gain settings in the active xo/eq channels.
For a passive crossover the midranges would have to be connected in series to drop their output 6 dB. The remaining difference would have to be dissipated and reflected by the passive xo.
The measured response curves are the result of driver response, panel diffraction and proximity of drivers to each other. The periodicity of about 1 kHz in the tweeter response is due to the panel width. p2.gif
3 - The horizontal off-axis response of the midranges below 400 Hz shows the typical dipole cos(angle) behavior, e.g. -3 dB at 45 degrees and -6 dB at 60 degrees.
Around 700 Hz dispersion widens due to the phase of the rear radiation having been modified by the basket and rear cavity acoustic low-pass filter. It also causes the bump at 500 Hz and the roll-off at 6.9 dB/oct instead of 6 dB/oct. Above 2 kHz dispersion narrows, but the drivers are not used in this frequency range. p3.gif
4 - Horizontal off-axis response of the tweeter on the panel. Widest dispersion is at 4 kHz. It narrows above this frequency and shows response peaks around 16 kHz. These are due to the cup in front of the dome.
Caution!! A measurement like this, without any high-pass filter, can easily damage or destroy the tweeter and should be performed with adequately low amplifier power. The only safe test signal is the shaped tone-burst. It can actually be used at very high amplifier output voltage swings to hear the onset of clipping distortion and to determine the maximum SPL capability of a driver. p4.gif
5 - Response of the 1400 Hz crossover between midrange and tweeter using the active xo/eq. There is about a two octave wide region of overlap between the drivers where both contribute to the total sound output. p5.gif
6 - The off-axis response of the equalized main panel is dominated by the midranges at the low end and the tweeter at the high end. Note that the dispersion follows essentially dipole behavior up to 1400 Hz, then becomes wider before finally narrowing above 6 kHz. p6.gif
7 - Effect of the 2760 notch filter upon the frequency response. p7.gif
8 - Horizontal off-axis response with the notch filter in place. p8.gif
9 - Off-axis response measured at a larger 86" (2.18 m) distance from the tweeter shows smooth, well controlled behavior of the panel. p9.gif
10 - The vertical off-axis response above and below the tweeter axis is dominated by the overlap region between midrange and tweeter and the relative spacing of the three drivers to each other. The data was taken with the microphone at 52" (1.32 m) in front of the panel and the panel being lowered by 4.5", 9" and 14" to increase the angle from zero to 5, 10 and 15 degrees.
Note the relatively wide dispersion of the system even in the vertical plane. Never-the-less, the tweeter height should be at or slightly above the ear when seated. For psycho-acoustic reasons that I do not fully understand, one can always tell when a speaker's acoustic center is lower than ear height. Tilting back the speaker, as is done for some products, will not correct that impression. We seem to use the floor reflection even to localize a virtual image. It immediately sounds unrealistic to me when the orchestra's sound comes from below. p10.gif
Dipole woofer
The woofer reproduces a frequency range of about 2 octaves.
1 - The impedance seen by the woofer amplifier is greater than 6.5 ohm and includes the driver resonance in the cabinet. Some expensive tube gear has difficulty driving such load. Only solid-state amplifiers should be used. w1.gif
2 - The following data were all taken outdoors on a concrete floor.
First, the acoustic output at the front opening plane of the floor mounted cabinet. No dipole diffraction effects are seen, because the microphone is too close to the source.
The response follows what one would calculate (Ref. 12) from the impedance curve for a closed box woofer with a -3 dB point at 13 Hz for Qts = 0.7. It is also the response of the dipole woofer in the far-field, after the +6 dB/oct equalization has been applied.
The 270 Hz peak and the following dips and peaks are caused by the acoustic impedance mismatch between the transmission line inside the cabinet and the front opening into half-space. The effectiveness of the 290 Hz notch filter in attenuating the first peak can be seen. w2.gif
3 - Response at the same location as above, but with 100 Hz crossover low-pass filter and +6 dB/oct dipole equalization applied. w3.gif
4 - The crossover between woofer and midrange as measured at a horizontal distance of 96" (2.44 m) from the panel and with the microphone on the ground. The tweeter height is 39" (0.99 m). The measurement is influenced by reflections from nearby objects and by ambient noise as seen in the lower traces. The SPL from the midranges is doubled at the ground plane relative to free space. w4.gif
5 - When the microphone is raised to 39" the midrange output drops about 6 dB on average, after smoothing out the floor reflection oscillations in the response. By applying the 100-200 shelving high-pass filter the woofer and midrange levels are gradually lowered relative to the midrange at higher frequencies. If merely the woofer level was lowered by reducing its xo/eq gain by 6 dB, then a step in the frequency response around 100 Hz would result, because the transition from half-space to full-space sound propagation is too abrupt. w5.gif
A high quality measurement and recording microphone with flat frequency response could be constructed using the Panasonic omni-directional back electret microphone cartridge WM-60AY. It was priced at $23.41 for 10 units(!) under Digi-Key part number P9959-ND, but is now obsolete. A replacement is the WM-61A (P9925-ND).
When the cartridge is connected as described by Panasonic it produces fairly high distortion at moderate SPL's and is marginally suitable for serious recording and measurement purposes. The microphone itself is extremely linear, but the built in FET amplifier stage is not configured optimally.
Fortunately, is it possible to modify the external connection to the FET. This involves some delicate work of cutting a trace on the tiny pcb in back of the cartridge and soldering thin, flexible wires to the standard two hookup points, and making a different connection to the capsule housing. The pcb has a circular ring of copper on its outside, which can be exposed by shaving off a small section of the aluminum roll surround with a sharp blade. Then solder a wire from the copper ring to the hookup point that was originally the positive capsule terminal and make it the new ground wire. The terminal with the cut trace becomes the new active output. You might sacrifice some cartridges while learning the process. It is important not to overheat the cartridge when soldering the wires to it, because it destroys the electret. Also, after wires have been connected, the whole backside should be covered with Silicone II Glue to avoid low frequency roll-off due to a broken air seal which might have been caused by the modification. Heat shrink tubing can be used to attach the capsule to a wooden dowel, or the capsules can be glued into the end of a 1/4 inch ID thin metal pipe. Look at the microph1.gif page from my notebook for further details.
The output voltage from the modified WM-60AY capsule can swing 5 Vpp (!) max at 141 dB SPL using a -9 V supply, and easily overload a preamplifier with too much gain. The microphone noise floor measures about 36 dB SPL, 80 Hz to 20 kHz, with a 1/f corner of around 100 Hz. With a sensitivity of 8 mV/Pa (= 94 dB SPL) this translates to 10 uV of noise, or 71 nV/sqrt(Hz) noise voltage density. A-weighted noise is estimated as 30 dB(A). By comparison the equivalent input noise voltage of the OPA2134 opamp is 8 nV/sqrt(Hz), corresponding to the noise voltage from a 3000 ohm resistor at room temperature. Thus the opamp noise will be swamped by the microphone noise as long as the opamp bias and feedback resistor values are not too large.
The above circuit provides buffering of the relatively high output impedance (1-2 kohm) of the microphone capsule. At 140 dB SPL the output voltage is 4 Vrms or 11.2 Vpp and will not clip with a +/-9 V battery supply. Such high SPL levels could be approached when measuring close to the radiating surface of a driver during non-linear distortion tests. The input blocking capacitor can be a small size polar capacitor (Tantalum) because of the applied 9 V bias voltage. The two 200 ohm resistors define the output impedance, provide opamp protection and maintain balance for the XLR connection. Output DC blocking capacitors (e.g. 2.2 uF, 50 V, non-polar capacitors for forming a 7 Hz highpass filter in conjunction with a 10k ohm input impedance) may be needed in series with each of the two 200 ohm resistors, if the connected equipment has no input blocking capacitors or if it puts out phantom power. A single OPA134 or other opamps could be used, a LED could be added to indicate power on/off. If the lead length from the batteries to the opamp is within a few inch, then no supply bypass capacitors are necessary, but if an AC derived supply is used, then 0.1 uF capacitors should be placed from the opamp supply pins to ground. Batteries are preferred, because such supply could cause hum problems due to ground loops.
A more sensitive capsule with a few dB lower noise of 26 dB(A) is the WM-61A. It outputs a maximum 5 Vpp at about 134 dB SPL.
The wiring diagram for a stereo microphone with output attenuator, if needed, and using the modified capsules is shown on the microph2.gif page. Attenuation of the microphone output degrades the signal to noise ratio and should only be used, when the preamplifier gain can not be reduced.
A discussion of microphone issues can be found at the MicDIYers forum.
Lyman Miller, March 2008 I first learned about the microphone modification from Lyman Miller, Palo Alto, a friend and former colleague at HP, who came up with some of the most natural sounding recordings I had heard. Now retired, he is still much involved with recording at Stanford University, mostly for their archives. He uses a sphere microphone of his own design, initially with Panasonic capsules, later with Schoeps and now with Sennheiser commercial microphone elements.
Inspired by Lyman and Russ Riley, I have used the Panasonic capsules in an easily portable and unobtrusive stereo microphone setup for recording a variety of sound events in order to obtain reference material for evaluating my loudspeaker designs. A sampling of such recordings is available on a Demo CD.
Shaped toneburst generator
The shaped toneburst generator is a gating circuit which counts off five cycles of an incoming sine wave and applies a cosine amplitude envelope to them so that the output signal gradually builds up from zero level to a peak and then decreases gradually back to zero. Since the number of cycles is fixed, the signal occupies a constant percentage frequency bandwidth, in this case about 1/3rd octave, centered at the sine wave frequency. The duration of the signal is long at low frequencies and becomes shorter as frequency increases.
The mathematical expression for a 5-cycle burst with cosine envelope is:
f(t) = [0.5 - 0.5*cos(w*t)]*sin(5*w*t)
where w = 2*pi*f and 0 < t < 1/f
Preferably, the burst is repeated once every second. The burst frequency should be stepped in 1/6 octave increments (1.1225*f), starting at 20 Hz for full frequency coverage.
The signal is uniquely suited for speaker and room measurements, because when observed on an oscilloscope, it shows both frequency and time domain aspects of the system under test. Ref. 13. It is also a safe test signal to explore maximum output capability of drivers and power amplifiers.
There are several ways in which you can generate shaped burst signals:
Purchase my Toneburst CD. It provides 4-cycle bursts in 1/3rd octave frequency steps from 20 Hz to 20 kHz.
Create your own CD-R by using the "Expression Evaluator" function of the GoldWave Digital Audio Editor. A procedure for generating burst files was provided by Dave Reite.
Build a simple gating circuit which approximates the cosine envelope as shown in brst_gen.gif. Some of the specified IC components, though, may no longer be available. The circuit has been updated to the extend necessary by Jean Hernan. The gating circuit must be driven from a signal generator, for example the Neutrik Minirator. Burst and signal generator, together, form a very practical, portable test signal source. This is not a pure burst source, because the approximation generates lower amplitude harmonics of the burst.
The most versatile solution for creating shaped tone bursts with all kinds of envelopes and numbers of cycles is provided by the Agilent 33120A Arbitrary Waveform Generator in conjunction with the HP 34811A BenchLink Software. To me this is the ideal solution in conjunction with a storage oscilloscope or MLSSA. It allows safe dynamic tests of speakers and electronics to expose their limits without destroying them.
Download or listen to a 1 kHz, 4-cycle burst with Blackman envelope, 1kblkman4.wav, a test signal which is optimized for time domain observation of the response decay. A 16000 point data file of the waveform is available as blkman_4.prn. Point and amplitude values are separated by a tab. You can open the file in Excel and create a graph. It should be possible to generate from this *.wav files of different frequency.
A signal consisting of four bursts with cosine envelope over 10 cycles of a 100 Hz sine-wave is useful for evaluating low frequency room acoustics, 100mbst4.wav. The loss in audible articulation of the test signal modulation is a measure of the masking due to room modes and other resonances excited by the speaker. Ref.1 & 13. A 16000 point data file of the waveform for a single 10 cycle burst is available as cos_10.prn.
You can download and install a virtual Minirator MR1 signal generator, apparently obsoleted by NTI, to work with your computer's sound card. It provides a limited set of frequencies and signal types but can be useful nevertheless.
Sometimes you may need to know the frequency of a sound. To match a pitch and find its frequency download the Virtual Piano from Mike Marzalek's "CI Theory" website.
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“Managing Online Forums” Coverage Update: Slashdot, SXSW Interactive 2009 and More!
Posted by Patrick on May 18th, 2009 in Managing Online Forums (Book), Press
In the past four months, since I posted my last book coverage update, I’ve been honored by all sorts of coverage for “Managing Online Forums” and I wanted to take a moment to share the interest that has been shown in this period and thank those that were behind it.
One of the biggest things to happen was the Slashdot review, written by JR Peck of GeekBook. It propelled the book into the top 1,500 books on Amazon.com and kept it in the top 10,000 for a number of days. The Slashdot review was mentioned on the AMACOM Books Blog.
There were also reviews by Michelle L. Rodriguez of Mequoda Daily, Rich Villalobos of Cisco Systems, Dr. Natalie T. Wood in the Journal of Consumer Marketing and Richard Millington of FeverBee. The book received it’s first review on Amazon.co.jp, thanks to Kushi-book-reviews and it’s first review on Amazon.fr, thanks to Dominique.
I participated in text based interviews with Commania, AdminQuest, Des Walsh dot Com (also posted on the International Blogging & New Media Association website and Mr. Walsh was kind enough to mention the book favorably on his blog, as well) and sparkBB. There were new podcast interviews on Podcaster Training and WordCast. A previously recorded interview on PerfCast was mentioned on the Splashpress Media blog.
I attended South by Southwest Interactive 2009 from March 13 through 17 and I gave a book reading (really a presentation around a theme in the book) called “The Art of Responding to Feedback from Your Community”. I also had a book signing at the conference’s bookstore. I spent the signing next to Thom Singer, the author of “Some Assembly Required” and “Some Assembly Required: A Networking Guide for Women,” who was kind enough to mention the book, and some kind words, on his blog.
Matt Mickiewicz of SitePoint was at my talk and provided an excellent summary on their site (the summary was highlighted by Valontuoja). The Blog Stump mentioned it and Rebecca Caroe of Creative Agency Secrets and Ryan Buchanan highlighted the talk before the conference, as well. The session was made available as an .mp3 on the conference website, which was subsequently mentioned by Merritt Colaizzi at SmartBlog on Social Media.
During the conference, I met Suzanne Minassian of Lotus to talk about the book and she shared parts of the conversation on her blog. I also participated in podcast interviews and discussions with Talk Social News, PepsiCo’s Digital Speak Easy (which was mentioned by Alan Weinkrantz, who I shared the time with) and Blog World Expo Radio.
Martin Reed of Community Spark gave a trio of talks in Finland recently and during all three, he was kind enough to mention the book. As part of INFORTE’s Web 2.0: How to Build a Successful Online Community? Conference, he led sessions called “Building an Online Community From Scratch – Why, Where, How?” and “Online Community Management – How to Avoid Chaos and Create a Positive Community Environment.” These were on May 5 and 6, respectively.
And on May 7, at a Technopolis event, he hosted “A Practical Guide to Building and Managing a Successful Online Community.” Martin had some incredibly kind words in an interview he did with Manage une communaute. The author of the site, Dominique, was kind enough to mention the book in a seperate post he did, as well. Martin also mentioned the book in an interview with distilled.
adaptiveblue on Twitter mentioned the book in relation to their Glue service. Heidi Miller of Talk It Up!, Jeff Chander of Performancing.com and Tanner Smith mentioned the book, along with some kind words (in some cases, embarassingly kind).
The book was mentioned on the UK Business Labs forums, Young Entrepreneur Forums, at People2People Service, on an episode of the phpBB Weekly podcast, the MyBB Community Forum, an episode of Serious Business, on Female Forum, on BuildaSkill.com, during the Social Media Telesummit, on Community Spark, on phpBB Adept and in a discussion on the Online Community Roundtable Facebook group. Wayne Sutton hosted a giveaway for the book on Twitter, to test out the tweetaways service.
Finally, “Managing Online Forums” appeared on a pair of top X lists: “13 essential reads for community managers, as suggested by … you” by Scott Drummond (which came from a discussion at LinkedIn) and “Top 20 Online Publishing Books to Read in 2009” by Michelle L. Rodriguez of Mequoda Daily. Her list which also was posted as an Amazon.com list.
Thank you so much to all of the people involved in these reviews, interviews, features and other mentions. The support means a lot to me.
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This Submarine Robot Has Detected Tons of Garbage in the Deeps of the Sea Thanks to this Mathematics Algorithm, Videos Inside
The Rómulo project, of the UPCT, is also based on mathematical concepts to find and prepare garbage maps on the seabed; the investigators discarded the Mar Menor for its “low visibility”
Researchers of the group in Ecosystems of the Polytechnic University of Cartagena (UPCT) have demonstrated the effectiveness of a new technology to find and develop maps of garbage in the seabed, based on mathematical formulas and underwater robotics. The Rómulo project, funded by the Biodiversity and Ecoembes Foundation, examines marine currents to detect the accumulation of waste.
“The research has shown the effectiveness of this methodology to detect waste in a useful and effective way, which can serve and apply to other fields of Oceanography and that above all, could help in the future to clean our garbage from garbage,” said Francisco López Castejón, researcher of the project, in a statement issued Thursday by the UPCT.
To verify the existence of garbage and to delimit the coordinates of its location, the researchers use a submarine autonomous vehicle that crosses the depths and recorded the funds without being operated by remote control.
Thanks to the software developer, a map of submerged garbage were made in the Port of Cartagena. “Initially we chose the Mar Menor, but the low visibility of the waters prevented the recording of funds with sufficient quality,” explained López Castejón.
Specifically, in the area of El Espalmador, in a perimeter of 260 meters, they have detected more than 200 objects, among which cans and plastics predominate. “Most of these objects came from the Mediterranean and had been dragged to the port,” said López Castejón.
The researchers have collected on the project website ( ocean.upct.es/romulo ) images and videos of the objects they have detected in the waters of the Port of Cartagena and next to the island Perdiguera, in the Mar Menor.
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Bismarck and Iowa
Re: Bismarck and Iowa
Post by Dave Saxton » Sun Jan 15, 2017 9:01 pm
spicmart wrote: With Bismarck's turrets having really so little armor compared they must have been way more easily knocked out? That must have been a serious disadvantage if one looks at the armor of other BBs' turrets.
Bismarck's turret face plates were 14.2-inches thick. This does not compare badly with European practice. For example, KGV's face plates were 12.75-inches (not counting the backing plate which is not significant to the effective thickness). Vanguard’s were 13-inches. Littorio’s were 14-inches.
Richelieu’s were thicker at 17-inches, but there were only two turrets, and Germans engineers reported that the quality of the French plates were of deplorable quality, so more was needed.
Which reminds me that with thick armour plates, increasing thickness does not provide a linear increase in protective quality. Beyond about 12.75-inches each incremental increase in thickness provides less and less improvement in protection. A 17 -inch plate does not provide 3-inches more protection than a 14-inch plate of the same armour.
Looking at the Bismarck’s turrets starting from the top, the roof plates were 130mm and this is the amount required in keeping with an outer immunity zone of 30,000 meters.
But as Iranon commented, there were trade-offs to consider when it came to protecting turrets rather than just providing an theoretical immunity zone against a particular gun from one range point to another. For example, the infamous angled facets of 180mm homogeneous armour represent a trade- off. They were angled-back 65 degrees from the normal. They did not provide protection from beyond 23,000 meters battle range to plunging fire, where they were unlikely to take such a hit, but they traded that off for better protection, because of the presented obliquity, at ranges of less than 20,000 meters, where they were more likely get hit. This additional short range protection was particularly needed should they find themselves embroiled in battle with light forces slinging smaller caliber higher velocity ordinance.
Likewise, the various angles of the heavy face plates we find on various designs probably has to do with trade-offs, such as improving the chances of breaking up or deflecting high velocity ordinance at ranges that really can't be protected against partial or complete perforation anyway.
spicmart wrote: Bismarck's TDS rating was relatively low, also nominally inferior to Richelieu's iirc. The extensive subdivision of Bismarck to counter that is said to be as effective as the french TDS approach? I always thought that torpedo protection on german ships was outstanding.
But 250 kg TNT does not seem much. How much explosives did ww2 torpedo warheads pack?
If that was more than the torpedo bulkhead was assumed to take, did that mean that it would be breached with great certainty?
Sometimes ratings do not reflect physical realities, or actual performance.
The Japanese did comprehensive testing of various TDS designs, including the type used by the Germans. They found that the Bismarck's system type was equal in performance to that used by the North Carolina class, and these were the better realistic designs. The reason they did not use either similar systems on their own Yamato class was because they did not want any liquid loading to hamper possible counter flooding and pumping strategies. They selected a less well performing system with no liquid loading, anticipating that any system could eventually be overpowered by underwater weapons.
spicmart
Post by spicmart » Sun Jan 15, 2017 10:47 pm
Thanks for the explanation.
They found that the Bismarck's system type was equal in performance to that used by the North Carolina class, and these were the better realistic designs.
Did you mean Richelieu instead of North Carolina? I remember it being Richelieu, also.
alecsandros
Post by alecsandros » Mon Jan 16, 2017 8:54 am
Iranon wrote:
@ alecsandros: I'm not aware of specific American or German views on this, but the British came to the conclusion that the damage potential of a shell scales almost exclusively with the power of its bursting charge (Bismarck ahead of Iowa by 7% or so). There were also concerns that a heavy shell around a small burster may underperform (ability to ensure proper fragmentation, insufficient velocity of splinters).
Exactly, that was the British view on the subject, and thus British 14" APC rounds carried more heavy explosive charge then either German and US APC shells of 15" and 16" respectively.
German tests (of unknown methodology) came to the conclusion that "1 x 380mm APC shell explosion in the machinery area of a BB would leave the machinery completely unusable", whereas "1 x 280mm APC shell explosion would damage the machinery, but it would be repairable. 2 more x 280mm hits would be required to produce same amount of damage as 1 single 380mm shell hit).
Other then that, the essential aspect, IMHO, is kinetical energy.
It's true that velocity matters much more then mass in the kinetical energy typical formula. However, mass is not to be brushed aside... At 500 meters per second, Iowa's shell had a K.E. of 153 Mega Joules, versus 100 Mega Joules for Bismarck's shells (both with cap attached).
That extra 53% more K.E. can be a huge difference, both in perforating impacts, as well as (or more importantly in ?) non-perforating impacts, against rounded surfaces, heavy armor plates, etc. Sustaining a non-perforating hit on a turret, by a shell carrying 153 MJ is more devastating then sustaining a non-perforating hit in the same conditions, by a shell carrying 100 MJ of kinetical energy.
I would add that , according to most metallurgical research that I've read, a bigger shell caliber almost always ensures more actual perforation of plate, then a similarly built projectile, travelling at the same velocity and under the same impact conditions.
spicmart wrote: Bismarck's TDS rating was relatively low, also nominally inferior to Richelieu's iirc.
... Allthough not directly comparable, I can't help saying:
- Bismarck resisted 2 torpedo hits, with the 3rd jamming her rudders, but not causing extensive flooding or endangering the ship
- Richelieu took 1 torpedo hit, that completely wrecked the stern of the ship, extensive flooding caused the ship to settle on the bottom of the harbor.
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Post by Alberto Virtuani » Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:26 pm
Alecsandros wrote: "Richelieu took 1 torpedo hit, that completely wrecked the stern of the ship"
Richelieu (like Littorio at Taranto) extensive damage (ships on the harbor bottom) was much magnified by the shallow water effect, but, for sure, the internal subdivision of Bismarck was superior (and proved to be more watertight).
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Post by alecsandros » Mon Jan 16, 2017 1:33 pm
True ...
Some also say that the shock that damaged Richelieu was amplified by the sympathetic detonation of some floating mines , existing in the vecinity of the battleship. It's possible.
Anyway, as you said, Bismarck apparently took less flooding and damage overall (despite being hit by multiple torps, not just 1)
Hi Alec,
yes I agree.
Even a modified Vittoio Veneto (water-tightness improved compared to Taranto), that took a "similar" torpedo hit at Matapan, did survive, due to the redundancy of her screws and auxiliary rudders system, but took an enormous quantity of water onboard compared to Bismarck.....
Post by spicmart » Mon Jan 16, 2017 7:27 pm
Iranon wrote: @spicmart: Bismarck's torpedo defense system was rated to withstand 250kg of TNT, expectation was that damage inwards of the TDS from larger explosions would be contained rather than prevented - Bismarck featured extensive subdivision. The rating seems quite conservative; German assumptions of the time were generally pessimistic.
Damage inwards of the torpedo belt would mean that vitalia were damaged, right?
Can you elaborate on this? I don't quite understand. So the bulkhead was quite weak?
Post by Dave Saxton » Tue Jan 17, 2017 3:22 am
spicmart wrote:
The bulkhead was not weak. It was constructed of Ww armour plate, which was very ductile and strong. The bulkhead extended from the very bottom to above the main armoured deck as one continuous piece. There was no joint at the point of the main armoured deck or at the double bottom to fail and leak.
The system used a liquid load right against the bulk head and with a void outboard. The liquid load helped slow splinters before reaching the armoured bulkhead. Shear wave components of a shock wave also can not travel through a liquid. It also distributed the load from the shock wave over a wide area of the bulkhead. The energy from the explosion would then be expended by deforming the armoured bulkhead.
Of course any system may eventually be overcome or may encounter a weapon, such as the Japanese long Lance torpedo, that can not realistically be really defended against. It would be foolish not to anticipate and plan contingencies for when the system may be defeated. I believe this is what Iranon is alluding to.
Post by spicmart » Tue Jan 17, 2017 12:58 pm
How can Richelieu underwater protection can be described and rated?
Post by Dave Saxton » Tue Jan 17, 2017 5:06 pm
spicmart wrote: How can Richelieu underwater protection can be described and rated?
The Richelieu featured an internal and sloped main belt which complicated design. There was the outer shell of 10mm Ducol construction steel which wrapped around the keel and covered the sides. Inboard of this, below and outboard of the lower tip of the belt is a void space. The double bottom turned upward inboard of the outer void to meet the point where the bottom of the main belt and the sloped section of the splinter deck meet. The bulkheads making up the double bottom extension were not thick, from 8-13mm construction steel. Inboard of this were fuel tanks making up the liquid load. Inboard of the liquid load were a series of thin bulkheads of 7-10 mm thickness, spaced very close together. This represents, in my opinion, a weakness as the liquid load is not bound inboard by a single heavy armoured bulkhead. Moreover, these thin, weak, bulkheads terminate at the bottom of the splinter deck with joints that could fail and leak. The splinter deck was already below the waterline. If the joint where the double bottom extension, the lower tip of the main belt, and the slopes of the splinter deck, meet should fail, then flooding up and over the TDS system and the splinter deck is likely.
There was a large compartment filled with a type of foam forward of the main magazine to prevent a heavy trim forward in the case of widespread flooding, and some sources say that some voids were filled with the foam to prevent heavy lists. My drawing does not show that. However, given the width of the system of about 7 meters at its widest point it would have been wise to prevent complete flooding of the void spaces in the case of underwater damage.
In my opinion, the system was inferior to the Bismarck's and the North Carolina's, and also the Vanguard's.
Post by Byron Angel » Wed Jan 18, 2017 12:25 am
Re comparison of shell effects, it can also be argued that optimizing the number and velocity of projectile fragments may not be as important as ensuring that a projectile whose detonation can produce a sufficient number of effective fragments is physically able reach a critical location within the target ship.
In other words, a case of the optimal being the enemy of the sufficient.
Post by RF » Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:19 am
alecsandros wrote: In terms of anti-torpedo protection, Bismarck had stronger defense.
But it still failed to stop the ship from being crippled - and ultimately sunk.
paul.mercer wrote:
Iowa, without a doubt, she was a much more modern design with armour at least as heavy if not heavier than Bismarck and of course mounting 9 x 16" main armament and better AA weapons. As for resistance against bombs and torpedoes its hard to say, after all two of the largest battleships Yamato and Musashi which had even heavier armour were sunk by a combination of bombs and torpedoes.
I would agree completely with this assessment.
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US: “Not as divided as we think"
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“The country is not, I don't think, anecdotally, as divided as we think it is. People want community restored. They want calmness restored. As John Heilemann pointed out: This particular president has injected himself into this campaign to the point where he said: ‘I'm on the ballot. This is a vote for me.’ So, we're going to find out a lot about the country, the direction of the country going forward, next Tuesday,” says veteran columnist Mike Barnicle during a conversation with Morning Joe host Joe Scarborough about President Donald Trump’s rhetoric leading up to the midterm elections, following the mass anti-Semitic shooting in Pittsburgh where 11 congregants were killed inside a synagogue. Hear the conversation now.
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Revel in the holiday season, and paint the town red (and green!), during a festive weekend in the Crescent City!
Lunch At: Besh Restaurant Group’s Executive Pastry Chef Kelly Fields and Pastry Chef Lisa White are killing it at one of the Paramount Building’s latest additions, Willa Jean. Located downtown on the corner of O’Keefe Avenue and Girod Street, this bakery/cafe offers goodies all day long, from breakfast to dinner, every day of the week. Dive into the irresistible lunch menu, featuring dishes like croissant-wrapped Pigs in a Blanket; a grilled fish sandwich, topped with tartar sauce and served on a sweet Hawaiian roll; or corn and crab fritters with crab boil aioli. 611 O’Keefe Ave., (504) 509-7334, willajean.com
Step Into the Past At : You can’t travel back in time, but it sure feels like it when you see the historic Beauregard-Keyes House and Garden Museum decked out for Christmas. Built almost two centuries ago, the home was originally designed by architect Francois Correjolles who combined elements of the Greek Revival style with those of a Creole cottage. Although the spectacular home is open for tours all year long, throughout the month of December, the Beauregard-Keyes House and Garden Museum is fully decorated for the holiday season in classic, Victorian-style ornamentation. 1113 Chartres St., (504) 523-7257, bkhouse.org
Sip At: Get cozy and comfortable in the lap of luxury at the elegant Polo Club Lounge at the Windsor Court Hotel. Reminiscent of the private clubs in England, the Polo Club Lounge offers a stately atmosphere with overstuffed wingback chairs, a long wooden bar and a courteous, skilled mixologist behind the stick. Enjoy well-crafted cocktails like The Foiled Scotsman, made with Glenmorangie Original and dark crème de cacao, and munch on stellar bar snacks, like ginger beer-braised short ribs or blue crab gratin. 300 Gravier St., (504) 523-6000, windsorcourthotel.com/polo-club-lounge
Revive At: Start your Saturday morning with a cuppa joe and a toothsome treat at Bittersweet Confections, owned and operated by Louisiana native Cheryl Scripter. Situated in the Central Business District on Magazine Street, this sinfully sweet cafe offers handcrafted, hot or iced espresso drinks — from cappuccinos to Americanos — and drip coffee from Orleans Coffee Exchange. Opt for a frothy, rich cappuccino, or one of many loose-leaf teas, to sip between nibbles of an intoxicating confection, whether it be a decadent chocolate truffle or a strawberry shortcake cupcake filled with vanilla pastry cream and fresh strawberries. 725 Magazine St., (504) 523-2626, bittersweetconfections.com
Frolic At: Ring in the holiday at the 3rd annual NOLA ChristmasFest located inside the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. From Dec. 18 to 27, the convention center will play host to an array of Christmas festivities, including an indoor ice-skating rink, carnival rides, a display of over 70 Christmas trees decorated by local organizations and much more. NOLA ChristmasFest kicks off with a Children’s Lantern Parade down Fulton Street, complete with a local brass band and Santa himself. Bring the whole family, and join in on the fun! 900 Convention Center Blvd., nolachristmasfest.com
Dine At: Opened recently inside the Old No. 77 Hotel & Chandlery on Tchoupitoulas Street, Compère Lapin offers an eclectic combination of French, Caribbean, Creole and Cuban-influenced cuisine in a swanky, yet comfortable atmosphere. Top Chef’s Nina Compton has created a menu that reflects the diversity that has always been present in New Orleans’ cuisine — with dishes like spicy tomato gazpacho with fresh lobster, a jerk shrimp roll with pineapple tartar and coconut tres leches. Don’t forget to get into the spirit with craft cocktails created by stellar bar team Ricky Gomez (previously of Cure), Zac Augustin (previously of Kingfish) and Abigail Gullo (previously of SoBou). 535 Tchoupitoulas St., (504) 599-2119, comperelapin.com
Brunch At: One of the shining stars of the Commander’s Family of Restaurants, Café Adelaide is a supreme spot for brunch in the Crescent City. Named after a true, New Orleans personality Adelaide Brennan, who was known for a theatrical personality and Auntie Mame-like antics, Café Adelaide & the Swizzle Stick Bar is a tribute to her glamorous lifestyle. Talented local chef Carl Schaubhut offers a tantalizing menu with dishes like Shrimp Remoulade Panzanella with crab-boiled corn coulis; a Boucherie Biscuit topped with braised pork shoulder; and a blueberry-citrus Belgian waffle with white chocolate and citrus cream cheese mousse. 300 Poydras St., (504) 595-3305, cafeadelaide.com
Rejoice At: Originally built in 1727, the St. Louis Cathedral fronts Jackson Square in the French Quarter and is easily one of the most recognized landmarks of the city. Every year, both locals and tourists alike attend the St. Louis Cathedral annual Christmas concert, featuring the cathedral’s own concert choir and orchestra performing classic holiday pieces, like Bach’s Cantata, BWV 147 and Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben, and other seasonal selections. Regardless of your religious affiliation, this memorable musical celebration at one of the country’s oldest cathedrals shouldn’t be missed. 615 Pere Antoine Alley, (504) 525-9585, stlouiscathedral.org
Dine At: One of celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse’s most popular eateries, NOLA Restaurant is located in the heart of the French Quarter only a hop and a skip from Jackson Square. Open for almost 25 years, NOLA features a wood-fired brick oven and an open kitchen where you can watch the chefs work their culinary magic. Lagasse works closely with his chef de cuisine Brian Mottola to design a creative menu, offering Southern Louisiana-inspired cuisine like wood oven-roasted oysters with house-cured bacon; shrimp and grits with crimini mushrooms; buttermilk fried chicken with rosemary gravy; and almond bread pudding with chai ice cream. 534 St. Louis St., (504) 522-6652, emerilsrestaurants.com/nola-restaurant
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Woodmont is a high-end community located just over the Potomac River from Washington, DC. Steep hills, Fort C.F. Smith Park and residential streets surround the neighborhood, giving it a nice, private ambiance just minutes away from the action of Washington, DC.
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Situated along Sprout Run Parkway and George Washington Memorial Parkway, Woodmont is placed in a convenient, yet surprisingly serene location. Fort C.F. Smith Park provides a good buffer between the busy roads and the residences. Beginning at the corner of Military Road and Lorcom Lane, the neighborhood continues north up Military Road, east along N Nelly Custis Drive, up along Windy Run Stream, east along George Washington Memorial Parkway, southwest along N Sprout Run Parkway, then west along Lorcom Lane back to the starting point at Military Road. The neighborhood borders the following Arlington VA communities: Lyon Village, Rosslyn, Maywood, Riverwood and Dover-Crystal.
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Home > Contents > People > Photographers > Rolf Aamot
Dates: 1934, 28 September -
Born: Norway, Bergen
Active: Norway
Website: www.rolfaamot.com
Norwegian visual artist and film director.
He studied painting in the Art Academy of Norway and film in the Dramatic Institut of Sweden. Aamot is known for his work as an art photographer, electronic painter and graphic artist, art film director and tonal-image-composer. Much of his work consists of creating electronic tonal images and thus his work contains elements of photography but is hard to pigeon hole. It is frequently a form of performance art with abstract photographic elements.
His "Evolution", 1966, with music by Arne Nordheim, was shown on television in 1967. It was the first time television was used as an independent medium in expressing visual art. In the 1970s Aamot worked with electronic paintings, computer painted on canvas, and digital photographic paintings. He has continued to make film as art and photo and video art, often in collaboration with the painter and composer Bjorg Lodoen and photographer, dancer and choreographer Kristin Linder.
Rolf Aamot has been represented at several international film and art festivals throughout the world.
If you have a portrait of this photographer or know of the whereabouts of one we would be most grateful.
Rolf Aamot
Norwegian Biographic Encyclopedia 2005 volume 10 page 155
AAMOT, Rolf, 1934-, electronic painter, graphician, visual tonal-image-composer, film director and cultural author. Born 28.9.1934 in Bergen. Parents: Entrepreneur Randulf Andreas Aamot (1895-1981) and seamstress Petra Kristine Marie Aspevik (1904-94). Married 1960 to painter and composer Bjørg Lødøen (7.12.1931-), daughter of Chief Physician Olav Arnold Lødøen (1907-97) and Borghild Høyem Dybvik (1909-2002).
Rolf Aamot, has since the 1950`s, been regarded a pioneer within electronically based expressions of art in graphics and photo paintings as well as the scenic and filmatic media. His exploration of experimental innovative technology (data, laser, photo technique) combined with multiple traditional art forms (music, film, theatre, ballet and photo arts) has gained international interest and attention.
While still attending Academy of Arts and Craft 1952-55, Aamot was granted a great decoration assignment for the Paleontologic Museum of Oslo. His traditional education then continued at The Public Academy of Arts 1958-60 with the professors Aage Storstein and Alexander Schultz as masters. Both worked under the impression of cubism and new classicism, and were devoted to the 1920`s efforts to unite figuration and abstraction.
Throughout his artistic endeavor, Aamot has been inspired by the accelerating contemporary electronic development. This led him into exploration and study to express new artistic expressions for concerts, film and television. Among other things, he accomplished a series of classes at Public school of Film studies/Public Centre for film 1969-77 and at The Drama Institute of Stockholm 1973. Through his work, he obtained professional contact and undertook study travels to Austria 1952, Italy 1959 and Spain 1961. During the years 1966-84, his works of art were displayed in Scandinavia, France, Germany, Belgium, Italy, the Soviet Union, USA and Japan.
The modern electronic-technologic development during the years of 1955-65 and the frankness of picture arts towards other art forms, gave Rolf Aamot mind-boggling opportunities. Both artistically and technically, the graphic tone-arts/picture-music evolved through laser- and computer-technology. The tone-arts belonging to music, film and television was expressed in the show Evolution (1966) with music composed by Arne Nordheim. The works was broadcasted in 1967 in Norwegian Broadcasting System Television (NRK/TV), and it then represented a milestone of a new art-form in which the television-medium, for the first time in Europe, was used as an independent picture-artistic means of expression. Inspired by the results, which now existed after 10 years of technical studies in close contact with a rich and complex artistic environment, Aamot continued his work throughout the 1970`s with electronic paintings, art films and video arts for different medias. This often occurred in cooperation with the painter and composer Bjørg Lødøen. In 1986 came their joint picture-tune drama Medusa, in which Lødøen contributed as an actor.
The basis was laid for visual picture-tunes in color, nuance and line; a performance/play for the eye in motion through time and space. In a rare way, Aamot`s sophisticated tune-based colorite manages to provide spatial depth, and simultaneously appeal to the viewers participation in its fiction. This is as much a question of internal, as well as external landscapes in human search for an expression of a contemporary acknowledgement. Even if his motives are in an abstract shape, they will provide associations to landscapes reflected in titles as Before the storm and Dead calm (2003).
Less known in the experimental and explorative art deed featuring Aamot, is his photo arts; with earnest character studies of famous Norwegian personalities such as Erik Løchen, Finn Alnæs and Elisabeth Granneman.
Aamot has had exhibitions in The national Norwegian Autumn Exhibition [Kunstnernes Hus], the Henie-Onstad Art Centre at Høvikodden and Bergen Art Museum, as well as contributing in collective exhibitions domestic and abroad, such as Kalmar Art Museum, Louisiana Museum for Modern Arts, the international biennial «The Masters of Graphic Acts» in Hungary, International Print Triennial in Krakow, Poland, and The Norwegian international Ggraphictriennial in Fredrikstad. In the year 2000 he was especially invited by the jury to participate at the The national Norwegian Autumn Exhibition, besides Contemporary Art Gallery in Opole, Poland 2003 and Old Manage in Moscow 2004.
Among Aamot`s separate exhibitions, the exhibitions in the Henie-Onstad Art Centre at Høvikodden 1995 and The Norwegian Museum for Photo art 2003/2004 should be mentioned. Here, he does not only demonstrate the force of coloritic arts, but a highly skilled knowledge of laser and computer techniques, computer painting on canvas, computer graphics, digital photo paintings and picture-tunes in physical time. The motives are characterized by an exquisite intensity in color, based on the over-tone scale of the color, in which they create an unexpected yet profound feeling of space.
Aamot has created several films, as the cinema films Actio (1980) and Aurora borealis (1991), and a number of TV productions. He has been given many public assignments, among others for National committee for Short Film, Norwegian Broadcasting System, Arts Council Norway and Norwegian Film Ltd. Rolf Aamot is represented in the National Museum of Art, the Henie-Onstad Art Centre at Høvikodden, Bergen Art Museum, Kalmar Art Museum and several other public and private collections, and he has been represented at numerous international film- and arts festivals.
With the work Energi (2003), Aamot received Rune Brynestad`s scholarship 2004. The scholarship was granted by Norwegian Visual Artists association.
Ole Petter Bjerkek
Literary works [Norwegian titles are translated]:
«New Art – a private or social issue? » , in Kunst for mennesket - eller museet? [Art for Man or Museum?], 1969, pg. 62-77; «Visual Dramaturgy», in Spillerom [Free hands]. Norwegian theatre’s Magazine for dance and theatre, no 3 and 4/1990, pg. 54-55; «The world is our body – colour is love», laser painting, the Henie-Onstad Art Centre at Høvikodden 1995; «The laser painting and the secrets of Art» , in Morgenbladet 1.9.1995; «Physical film – tonal-image style», in Rusch Print, no 2 /1996, pg. 32-33; «Visual Dramaturgs», in Rusch Print, no 5/1996, pg. 32-33; Tidal water, Bergen Art Museum, exhibition 9.5-7.6.1998; «Arts-critics crisis in Bergen», in Bergens Tidende 5.6.1998; «Selection of contemporary Arts», in Dagbladet 21.1.2005; «The Director`s might captures Arts», in Klassekampen 1.3.2005; «Strong Master in own House», in Klassekampen 30.5.2005; «Artists is forced silence», in Morgenbladet 27.5.2005;«Tonal-image and visual Dramaturgy in graphic Art», is being prepared to the Arts Council Norway.
Public works: Dinosaurs, mural wall painting, Paleontologic Museum of Oslo, 1955.
TV-productions: Evolutions, 1966; Relief no 2 (together with E. Roger), 1967-68; BSK, 1969; Structure], 1970; Visual, 1971; Progress, 1977; Medusa (together with B. Lødøen), 1986; Pulse, 1986; The extraction, 1987; Sound in close, 1987; The Dream is always, 1988.
Films: Relieff, 1966-67; Kinetisk Energi, 1967-68; Vision 1969; Actio, 1980; Nordlys, 1991; Tid-e-vann (together with K. Linder), 1997-2000; Energi, 2003; Destruksjon, 2004.
Exhibition on the internet: Photo digital painting, Feeling of a deeply grief, www.preusmuseum.no.
SOURCES AND LITERATURE
A. M. Klausen: Kunstsosiologi, 1977; G. Alfsen: biografi i Norsk kunstnerleksikon, [Norwegian artist Encyclopedia] bd. 4, 1986; U. Renberg: «Billedmusikken kommer!», i Arbeiderbladet 21.4.1987; Å. Forfang: «Underholdningsindustrien er vår tids krigsmakt», i Dag og Tid 7.5.1987; MF: «Musikk i TV. Bildemusikalsk revirkamp», i Programbladet 8.-14.5.1987; Allgemeines Kunstnerlexikon, München-Leipzig 1992; C. Wiggen: «Ekspresjonistisk stil» og «Billedmusikalsk stil», i Rusch Print no 6/1993, pg. 14-15; Ø. Hauge: «Elektriske skygger», i Bergens Tidende 2.11.1994; J. Holmelid: «Med laser som pensel», i Bergens Tidende 22.11.1994; O. Fyllingsnes: «Fargesprakande lasermåleri», i Dag og Tid 31.8.1995; H. Flor: «'Myk' laser på lerret», i Dagbladet 10.9.1995; Ø. Storm Bjerke: Rolf Aamot - digitale fotomalerier, Norsk museum for foto [Preuss Museum] 2003; E. Bjørnskau: «Smerte med digitale fargefrekvenser», i Aftenposten 7.11.2003.
[Translated from the Norwegian by Ole Petter Bjerkek and Jens Thomas Bjerkek]
Article from the Norwegian publication "Programbladet" (28th May - 3rd June, Nr. 22, 1967)
"Evolution" - an experiment
TELEVISION - SUNDAY 9:50pm
The Painter Rolf Aamot has for a long time been working with an art form he is labeling "visual-music", compositions where musical tools like color tones relationships, harmony and disharmony, darkness and light, dynamics, contrasts etc. is created for the eye. Rolf Aamot has had "concerts" with such compositions in which color also is a significant part. Rolf Aamot has, as an experiment, made a special composition called "Evolution" for television, of course based on black and white. The translation of his technique from screen to television was an interesting attempt, and the resources of television seem to be well suited for this purpose.
Collaboration with composer Arne Nordheim is new in this television version of Rolf Aamot's "visual music". Arne Nordheim has used the visual music as a source and composed electronic music, independent and parallel to Aamot's composition, neither part is supposed to be secondary as an accompaniment to the other.
The two composers will give a short explanation in conversation with Ole Henrik Moe before the composition is shown.
Magne Malmanger wrote in Dagbladet (Norwegian newspaper) a year ago in relation to a performance of Aamot's "Constellations I" - a visual concert without sound at the Munch Museum: "It seems like Aamot finds the pure painting to be of less power in our time. He wishes to face his audience in a more direct and inescapable way. One has to admit that his visual music in a certain way is active and demands ones attention in a way a painting is hardly capable of doing. Even so, it seems to me that Aamot on an artistic level can seem quite abstract and intellectual, sometimes even a bit cool and distanced. These compositions will likely not appeal to the majority in its current form. We are looking at visual chamber music for specially invited. It is pointless to judge a performance such as this one at the current time. It is also probably by principle impossible to try to give it a meaningful description, simply because it is so far in a category all by itself. The visual music's expression must also for the same reason be rather general, at this early stage. Such a concert cannot yet be met with expectations that will be confirmed or invalidated. Aamot, with his intellectual standing, would likely be the first one to admit that an absolute visual expression hardly exists. But one can investigate new possibilities and effects. One can start building a new language, a new way of communicating. Aamot is still standing at the beginning. We wish him the best with his continued work."
[Translated from the Norwegian by Kristin Lodoen Linder]
Article from the Norwegian publication "Programbladet" (21 - 27 April, Nr. 17, 1968)
Rolf Aamot calls his work "Relief", in which music, dance, costumes and light is integrated. He is calling it a "nonfigurative figurative" form, with human as center focus. (Television - Sunday 9:50pm)
The composition consists of the following elements: Film, soundtracks, dance, light and costume.
The film is a pure visual music recording, and it is making the foundation for the rest of the composition: The soundtrack, consisting of electronic music by Bjørn Fongaard, and the choreography by Edith Roger which is based on the visual music. Finally there is the costume as an important part, as a tonal element, and the light is adapting all parts into a unity.
---- Can You explain a bit about how the film was made?
---- The film is a tonal-instrument -recording, cinematically arranged.
I have constructed the instrument - the first in a series of instruments I would like to make. What is made on the instrument is transformed by filtering, tone combinations etc. This Process can in principle be compared with the lab process when electronic music is made.
The film is in the studio partly an independent unity - it is shown on its own on screen - and it is partly creating a décor and background for the choreography. The movement of this décor-element is closely following the movement of the dance in interplay. The soundtrack is a part of this unity, and the light is transforming everything in transit. During the recording these tonal elements is merging with the costumes, which are an element of its own.
---- Does the different elements resound together in an internal relation in the same way as the notes in chord?
---- The intention is for the different elements to resound together in the same way as for instance the different elements in the performance of an Opera. But with the difference that in this case we are based on a common artistic foundation. The tonal elements can be developed in sound and light in the same way, this can be adapted to include body language and light. This is not a place where several art forms meet, as in the performance of an Opera. We have a common language of picture, sound and movement as a foundation.
---- What is Your purpose with this composition?
---- In an integrated artistic foundation, to get a nonfigurative figurative form. We are based on a common foundation where association-value or the literary is without any value. It is not an external theater, not a literary theater, but a pure visual theater.
---- The term "nonfigurative figurative" seems undeniably a bit self-contradictory?
---- My intention is to lead people into a visual world where the person though expression visually creating in space, purely in terms of color areas and tone relationships.
---- Does this have a purpose apart from the purely aesthetic?
---- Any arts and craft object has its own value. The shapes have in itself a human expression. By using pure lines and nuance and body language, which is solely movement, you will get closer to the singular humane rather than using literary or compromised-solutions in a way you find in the theater all the time. On a purely artistic foundation we get a visual theater performance that is solely dependent on its own values, and the distance in reaching the audience will become shorter - even if they at first react in a negative way. It is not possible to have any disturbing associations because there is nothing to associate with - at least from my point of view.
---- Could there not be less elements, based on the same intentions?
---- This is correct. My first visual music composition, shown in television a year ago, was solely a combination between visual music and electronic music. Buy progressing, by using other means of expression such as - theater, ballet - we are introducing body language into tone relationships. The humane form is expressing the pure abstract. In this way we get further contact with the audience - the subject matter gets stronger humane expression. We get human against human - not only picture against human. A picture where time is added as an artistic element gives us a direct effect of what the picture want to express. Imagine music's and film's way of engaging, exactly because time is an important element in the expression of these art forms. It is though light- and sound-impressions in motion that we comprehend ourselves and the world around us. Sound and light is the most direct media we have in relation to expressing the humane. Light has for thousands of years been used as a musical medium. By using the light we can create an art form mediated though the modern mass-media, particularly television, that will give the artist a new way of reaching a greater audience in a way that will certainly engage.
To reach this objective there will be a need to develop several visual instruments, mechanical and electronic. These instruments can be used alone, as an intermediary of pure visual expression - visual music - but also as a part of equipment used in a performance of a composition, where a synthesis of sound and light is created: Audio -visual concerts. In such collaboration both sound- and visual music will each be an independent art form, but will even so form an artistic unity. One of the purposes of the visual music is to establish collaboration between the different art forms, in which every art form keeps its independence.
Rolf Aamot - Digital Photopaintings
(By Øivind Storm Bjerke)
Rolf Aamot has always been a restless and experimental artist who in particular has realized the potential of developing his figurative language through the use of technological innovations. The technological side of his art alone could form the subject of an entire study. Technique has never been his goal, however; rather it has been a means of creating images. Rolf Aamot has been an active artist for almost fifty years. His first major work was a commission to decorate the Museum of Paleontology in Oslo, which he concluded in 1955, the same year that he graduated from the Norwegian Academy of Art, Crafts and Design. During his time at the Academy, which he attended from 1958 until 1960, Rolf Aamot studied under Aage Storstein and Alexander Schultz - two painters whose roots can be traced to the efforts of the 1920s to unite figuration and abstraction under the impression of cubism and neoclassicism. In other words, Aamot had a very traditional academy education.
Aamot began his career as an artist at a time when young innovative pictorial artists perceived themselves - and were perceived by the general public - as messengers for abstract painting. That is, abstract painting as it emerged in contemporary France. These painters paved the way for the evolution of three different directions: lyrical abstraction in painting, constructivist painting and spontaneous informalism. Irrespective of the choices made by individual artists, there was general consensus among them that images were two-dimensional and that everything in a picture was on one plane. Respect for the fact that an image was flat became a central issue. A successful picture is initially a decorative pattern on one plane, before it appears as anything else - e.g. a tree. A successful picture forms a visual whole consisting of material, color and shape which confirm the image's two dimensions. Contemporary paintings were essentially decorative paintings that sought an ornamental expression. Illusionism was the domain of photography.
Even within the field of photography, the tendency has been that photography in the 1950s and 1960s that wished to appear as "artistic" noticeably attempted to arrange a motif on the surface, so that a picture appears as though it attempts to represent an arrangement of surface figures. Light and dark are transformed into abstract patterns and appear as though their intention was to fulfill a compositional form taken from a recipe book describing good composition in paintings. It is remarkable in any case how such a great deal of photography that has regarded itself as "artistic" has for long periods of time endeavored to capture sections of motifs and carry out cropping, which results in the picture appearing to be a harmonious entity where the format of the picture that is perceived of as a surface is confirmed, whereas amateur photography to a far greater degree perceives the motif as action in space. We can see this as the result of the fact that throughout the period during which photographs have been taken the goal of the most prestigious artistic technique until recently - painting - has been to address the surface.
In his later artistic career, Aamot has moved in the opposite direction of creating images that are flat. On the contrary, Rolf Aamot has been concerned with creating space. In particular, this has made it difficult to pigeonhole him in relation to his contemporaries. Aamot's imagery emerges in an environment where there are dominant references to art history, which to some extent can be claimed to conflict with the content of the ideas that the artist wishes to communicate.
If we use the term "photography" in its literal sense as "drawing with light", then Rolf Aamot has been a photographer who has seldom or never been associated with photography. He is an artist who for almost 40 years has been in the forefront when it comes to experimenting with photo-based forms of visual expression within fields such as film, video and electronic art, which he has materialized in the form of individual images produced as laser paintings and now also as conventional chemical photography. Aamot's pictures raise our level of awareness, through their accentuation of space, that photography is an art form that is linked in equal measure to performance art such as the theatre as it is to paintings.
In 1969, Rolf Aamot presented his works at the Munch Museum, where he applied the term "visual theatre" to his work. On 24 February 1969, in a full-page spread in VG, the Norwegian national daily, it was announced that a new theatre had been founded in Oslo: "The Visual Theatre, instigated by the "never-resting graphic artist and painter Rolf Aamot, 34, a campaigner for the artistic use of our mass media such as film, television and newspapers". According to Rolf Aamot, the basis of "visual theatre" is that our existence is not linear and that life and art fuse to form one entity. The artist's task is to "program so that the onlooker can be faced with choice, and thus take a creative role".
Aamot wanted to bring people back to art. Not in the form of figures taken from baroque paintings, from the romantic period or contemporary modernistic figurative painting. For Aamot, art is not a means with which to decorate, be it for everyday use or for festive occasions; rather it is a means of recognition and acknowledgement. Aamot has chosen to focus on two aspects of recognition: social and political aspects. In his art, people return in the form of these two dimensions. Art should be returned to the people and people should be in art. The best way he as an artist can reach out to the people is through the mass media, since the mass media is the most effective and decisive system in our time for reaching out to people - and thus a network that forms a spider's web that captures unsuspecting visitors. Of key importance in Rolf Aamot's world of ideas are knowledge of how the media exploit images and the visual dramaturgy they use to achieve their goals.
According to Rolf Aamot, good forms of media distinguish between "I" and "we" - they offer a sense of belonging, proximity and intensity, while at the same time respecting individuality and multiplicity. The ideal is to produce a social space that allows both individual and collective autonomy using dialogues as the ideal form of communication. "Interaction in social space has been the forte of the labor movement" (Aamot). For Aamot, culture is interaction and the art he seeks to produce is art that fosters and strengthens interaction. Aamot believes that modern mass media represent new public spaces and the powers that be seek to gain power over this public space. Anyone who today seeks power seeks to control the media. In this perspective, Aamot's artistic project appears as an attempt to counter power. Aamot's pictures contain no mottoes, no figurations that we can identify directly with political figures, events or current affairs - yet his entire artistic practice is deeply political.
In 1966, Rolf Aamot recorded the first "music video" on Norwegian television - using music composed by Arne Nordheim. At the time of its broadcast one year later, it was the first time television had been used as an independent artistic medium.
Art needs to be included in the task of creating our total environment. The places people meet and are attracted to each other and repelled from one another appear as stages where the visual theatre unfolds. It is a dialogue theatre, where the dialogue can be read not in the form of verbal statements, but in the form of visually available shapes and colors. In this theatre what is most important is vision and what one senses through vision. It's not that strange that Rolf Aamot has never received a central position in contemporary art, considering that the dominant trend right from the 1960s has been to deconstruct and to give less priority to vision in deference to words and their power.
Rolf Aamot's own contribution to this genre was his visual music. His visual music consisted of visual tones formed through the mechanical and electronic processing of light. Aamot has experimented with light and movement and how the interaction of these two components can be crystallized in the form of an image. Aamot's pictures in the form of laser painting, film and photographs can best be perceived as presentations of an electronic foundation that forms scores that can be presented in several different ways. Rolf Aamot's pictures have an expression that is enticingly beautiful. The reason why we perceive Aamot's images as being beautiful in the conventional sense has to do with the fact that his artistic style can be related to a generational style which we associate with the abstract paintings of the 1950s and 1960s. If one gets bogged down in these references as a background for understanding the pictures, however, one will often miss out on the fact that behind this visual expression Aamot has quite another frame of reference, one that breaks radically with many ideals on which the Parisian school of abstract painting was based.
Øivind Storm Bjerke
On Rolf's exhibition at the The National Museum of Photography - PREUS PHOTOMUSEUM, Horten, Norway
VISUAL DRAMATURGY By Rolf Aamot
[kindly translated by Kristin Lodoen Linder]
The visual drama has its origin in our strategies of survival.
Our survival is the purpose of experience. Perceiving and feeling we shape the life supporting thoughts of our actions. Our inner and outer energies and moods are the framework of visual dramaturgy. The alternatives are clear:Visual communication or violation of the eye.Time and space control our actions. Surviving with self-respect requires readiness of perception, feeling and action. Our economy has its ground in an economy of love. The purpose of power struggle is, first of all, the domination of others. In this struggle the entertainment industry are weapons of mass destruction: Human beings facing each other in a battlefield.
The media and city centers are the meeting place. Keyword: Communion. Where people meet visual theater is found. Every place of assembly is a stage. We meet and part in the visual dialogue of the Theater of Love. We create and seize intensities. A play of simultaneous and synchronous action where we give and take - time and space. Economy of love. All energy – positive or negative – signals of life or death – converted into intensities. The factors being interchangeable. Power over self or others takes place by control of speed, momentum and connections of streams of intensity. Visual drama originates in, and returns to, the scenography of the human face and the performance of the eyes. Body, color, shade and line are the amplifiers of the eye. The communications of the eye are all embracing. To our experience, knowledge, action, handling of emotion is given image-rhythms. Without eye culture, without power to express self or fathom the expressions of others, without a language of tonal images capable of communicating the inner visions of another human being we would be isolated and impoverished. The world will be threatening. We would be abandoned in the purely physical surroundings in which we were born. Behind it all: Nothingness, emptiness, all-absorbing darkness.
The dramaturgy of the eye is a strategy of survival. The theater of sight is a social phenomenon with roots in the creation of groups. Man needs to see the relevance of his actions. The space of the individual facing space contains the field of tension of the visual theater. Without relating body and space the personality development of the role turns into an autonomous, directionless and empty movement. The seer looks past the seen. Driving force of visual drama: Solidarity of body space of self, openness within bounds – towards the group and space. The totality formed by line, shade and color: Organic progress, closeness, nearness, similarity encountering the intensity of other human beings. Body, bodies, scenography and light as body. The body of the community is “the other human being”, affirming the seer. No one exists, and nothing has happened without the visualization facing us in “the other human being”. The visual drama confirms: We exist. Death is denied.
The primary choice: rebellion or submission. In our mind is waged a war of moods. The individual is facing 2 – two forms of survival experience: Visual communication and the violation of the eye. Visual communication and democracy belong together. Organic visual rhythm carries the pulse of heart and lungs.
The language of the eye braces the personality, and binds us together. Loneliness no longer seems irreparable. We can share our world with others and share our thoughts through actions sensed and felt: In this world we do exist and meet our fellow human beings. Plurality becomes a point of departure - embracing all oppositions. We are facing the unknown and the dissimilar.
The consensual has become suspect. The heteromorphy is a way out of terror, we seek the realization of the isomorphic. Sensitivity towards the different is activated, and the ability to tolerate the incommensurable managed.
One unit of movement represents one “truth”. By relating units of movement their values are in Play.
PLAY for Visual communication and Violation of the eye:
Communication Combat
Will Coincidence
Identity Mask
Intensity Boredom
Communion Loneliness
Safety Anxiety
Wholeness Chaos
Visual dialogue: Bodies meeting and parting.
Gestalt factors giving development of form to the action.
The visual player sees, is seen or overlooked. Focus/Unfocus.
Scenography: The face where eyes act.
The search of its own rule is the rule of visual drama.
Always searching for a rule – rule of visual drama.
The visual dramatist and the visual player seek, test, invent. In short: Experiment.
Artists direct their attentiveness towards the decisive question of the ensontology of the unities of movement: How can one unit of movement be related to another unit of movement? Experimenting is relating – units never related before.
The question becomes: Does it happen? What happens?
The Goal: Winning time. Mastering the insight, anywhere.
Visual communication drama is action. The dramatist shapes time and space keeping his self-respect. Without the language of the eye not even nothingness can be fathomed, grasped and understood. The limits towards the world cannot be set, the elements cannot be set apart. All imagination becomes impossible: An omen, everywhere and nowhere; man cringes in the cave and only ventures out when hunger forces the situation. Through the language of images the distances of time and space were removed. We are humans.
The violation of the eye, the eye violence drama, we have in common with other animals. The struggle between us animals first of all: A visual struggle.
The negation of visual communication, eye violence, raises imaginary borders of time and space. The slave and the pray senses hidden barriers around their lives. The moment of the sublime glare paralyzes. The dramaturgy of Violation-of-the-eye is the dramaturgy of advertising language, the enslaving “here-and-now” of all commercial entertainment.
Man: Object. Spaceship disconnected from earth.
The role of the driver/enforcer consists in the intense search for final suspension of the eternal avalanche. Searching for the shapeless: The Sublime. All things enforcing terror are sublime, transporting the mind into momentous paralysis, inspiring dread, and in the next moment releasing a strange lust.
But all of it originating in terror, the measure depending upon the bracing of self of the individual human being.
All things filling our senses beyond every measure are sublime, or from the opposite end: “filling” them with a measureless emptiness, everything eternal and unmovable, and from the opposite end: a blitz like movement, in short:
Everything exceeding the domain of apprehension of the individual – over and under the threshold of pain. In the sublime experience the individual is made subject to a power, a power stronger than the subject. A Process is conducted – against the individual. The subject is given the sentence: Non-being. Object.
The experience of the sublime arises in the gap between the images that can be seen. Deception of the senses and inner reality escaping attention can call forth impressions, releasing the sublime. Every significance of imagination are annulled. Fed and kept – entertained – in the “here-and-now” of the momentous glare where meeting other human beings mean: Now or Never. The Individual caught in the dizzying power play swindle of art, culture and religion. Power play and entertainment are synonyms.
Eye comedy reduces the world to nothing. Glancing askew, upward, disconnected from our surroundings for a while, we are kept-entertained. All interest, all compassion and all identification are wiped out. The routine and boredom of everyday life finds its resonance in a contrapuntal Play: Disconnection from everyday life - nullifying responsibility. “The King” and “The Scapegoat” serves as bolt and lock in this upside world where every boundary disappears. The dramaturgy of violation-of-the-eye fluctuates between two poles, both of them being there from the very beginning, unfolding in an emblematic pattern of space and time: Converging and diverging. Our longings for convergence and divergence cohere in intricate ways, that cannot be dissolved, but only slowly, as time passes, exposes the “truth” of eye violence dramaturgy, perceived as faith. We encounter two inseparable tendencies: Reconciliation/hope – the growing tensions of the leitmotif – the great story, and on the other hand: dissolution and fragmentation followed trough to its ultimate conclusions – no causal dynamic interconnection – instead: static parallel movement, primarily consisting of context less “climaxes” (maximum intensity). Compounded fullness dissolved and replaced by parallel scenes of conflict/ combat, coincidence, masks, boredom, loneliness, anxiety, displeasure and chaos. Boredom/death converts everything into intensities of negation. The subject is deprived of space and time. The eye kept - entertained by terror.
Suddenly it is all over. The hard and ordinary days when the world is set aright. In this state of transition depression acquires a liberating force with possibilities of rebellion and massacre. Still: The monopoly of brutish power/ violence leads the individual into rosy rituals. Boredom reestablished: Enforcing the respect of the unity of time, place and action. Escapism as only hope: Once again – bewildering the roar of the masses in the One Week of The Slaves, the One Day of Slaves, in the “here-and-now” of a TV-second.
But: The dream keeps on living – always. There are powers in metaphors.
Electronic painting By Per Hovdenakk
Former Director of Henie-Onstad Art Centre, Norway
[kindly translated by Benjamin Eriksen]
Since the early Sixties Rolf Aamot has worked with electronic media, all the while maintaining his commitment to painting, wherein lie his origins. Once again he now returns to painting. Utilising electronic media he has developed his own aesthetic, articulated through the concepts of pictorial music or illustrative orchestration. His work in this field has also impacted on his paintings, which have been holographically composed and digitally transferred to the canvas by the use of laser.
Other artists also employ such painting techniques, quite naturally in an age when new technology presents its temptations and challenges on an almost daily basis.
However, for most other artists this foray into the technological possibilities is fleeting, or at best represents recurring excursions to a new world. Rolf Aamot’s work in this field is a permanent commitment, pervading and influencing the entire body of his artistic endeavour, as well as his attitudes to society, life and death.
A painter usually works in solitude, his means simple and his essential tools unchanged for centuries. Painting is more than a stream of imagery – it is also an overwhelming tradition, an institution. An institution that can be rewarding to partake in, but also one that requires courage to break away from through the addition or alteration of key components.
Working with contemporary electronic technologies forces the artist out of the studio’s solitude, to the others, into society.
This needn’t be simple. When faced with new demands and challenges, society has the capacity to forcefully repel innovation. Rolf Aamot himself experienced strong opposition upon contacting the instances possessing the means of production and the distributive power.
These were not the institutions of pictorial art, but of film-making and the National Norwegian Broadcasting Company (NRK). Both instances met him with powerful bureaucrats, distrustful of Rolf Aamot’s drastic innovation.
He could have chosen to work in a different country with more understanding. Interest manifested in countries like the U.S. and France, both of which invited collaborations with Aamot.
Displaying his trademark obstinacy, Rolf Aamot chose to go the distance in Norway.
In time, he produced seminally important electronic works, making him a pioneer in his field and providing the groundwork for contemporary accomplishments. It has most likely been a costly endeavour.
On occasion, such as in this catalogue, Rolf Aamot has written about his work. Or rather he has written about the ideas that represent his work’s foundation, thereby formulating his life philosophy. Interacting with the world outside the studio has necessitated – and enabled – the articulation of greater thoughts, survival strategies for central human values.
The crux of the argument must be that Rolf Aamot maintains art’s ability to counteract an increasing tendency towards superficial entertainment, particularly in the fields of TV and media, but also in the field of pictorial art.
Rolf Aamot represents dialogue and conversation, as opposed to the one-way communication of the entertainment industry. This is a reflection of social awareness, explaining why he remained in Norway instead of working in a country where his work would be more appreciated. It also explains his commitment to different causes and situations where the rights and wellbeing of individuals have hung in the balance.
There is no divide between life and art in the philosophy of modernism. This is a hard demand to meet. However, Rolf Aamot doesn’t easily do things the easy way.
[Published by Bergen Art Museum 1998]
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HappyBirthdayMadhuriDIxit: Abhishek Bachchan, Riteish Deshmukh send wishes for the 'Dhak Dhak' queen
As actress Madhuri Dixit Nene turned 52 on Wednesday, her husband Shriram Nene penned a heart-warming message and tagged her as the "most beautiful woman on the planet".
"To the most beautiful woman on the planet and my own soul mate, wanted to wish you a very happy bday and many happy returns. Loving the journey we are on and look forward to amazing things in the future," Shriram wrote along with a photograph of himself with Madhuri.
The couple got married in 1999 and share two sons Arin and Raayan.
Madhuri Dixit ventured into Hindi cinema in 1984 with "Abodh" and rose to stardom with the 1988 film "Tezaab".
She made a name for herself in the Hindi film industry with films such as "Ram Lakhan", "Parinda", "Dil", "Saajan", "Beta", "Khalnayak", "Hum Aapke Hain Koun!", "Dil To Pagal Hai" and "Devdas".
She was feted with the Padma Shri in 2008 for her contribution to cinema.
Celebrities from the film fraternity too have wished the actress, who is fondly called the "Dhak-dhak" of Bollywood.
Here's what they have tweeted:
Anil Kapoor: Wish you a very happy birthday Madhuri Dixit! You've always been a wonderful co-star and an even better friend! Working with you has given me memories that I'll cherish forever. Here's to many more! May you stay timeless, fabulous and glamorous as always! Lots of love and light.
Abhishek Bachchan: Wishing Madhuriji the happiest of birthdays. Lots of love and respect always.
Riteish Deshmukh: Happy Birthday my favouritest Madhuriji. May you forever brighten the silver screen. Keep Smiling. Happiness, good health and love always.
Kiara Advani: Happy Birthday to my first most favourite actress ma'am! It's been such an honour to have worked with you and met you, forever inspired by your grace and humility. May this year be your bestest. God bless you! Lots of love always.
Anup Jalota: Madhuriji, no one till date is as graceful on screen and off screen. It's a privilege to have been able to witness your commendable performances. Thank you for being you.
Maniesh Paul: Happy birthday to the woman with the best smile in the world! The most humble superstar and my palluprem. Loads of love.
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Album lyrics Wildcat! Wildcat!
Label: Downtown Records
Produced by: White Sea, Wildcat! Wildcat!
No Moon At All is the debut studio album by Los Angeles based synthpop band Wildcat! Wildcat!, released on August 5, 2014 through Downtown Records. The album was recorded at Bronson Island in March 2014 and was produced by the band together with White Sea.
1.Tower // W.O.H.L.
2.Garden Grays
3.Up & Beyond
4.Hero
5.End Of The World Everyday
6.Holloway (Hey, Love)
7.Circuit Breaker
8.Nothing Below
9.Sentimental
10.Marfa
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WIMBLEDON, England (AP) — All these years later, Roger Federer and Rafael Nadal will meet again at Wimbledon for the 40th installment of their terrific rivalry — and first at the All England Club since their memorable 2008 final.
“Such a long time,” Nadal said.
They moved on to the semifinal showdown everyone’s been thinking about since the tournament draw by each overcoming a tough opening set Wednesday.
A 4-6, 6-1, 6-4, 6-4 victory over Kei Nishikori gave the No. 2-seeded Federer his 100th match win at the All England Club, the first man to reach that total at any Grand Slam tournament. Not long after that ended on Centre Court, the No. 3-seeded Nadal finished off Sam Querrey 7-5, 6-2, 6-2 at No. 1 Court.
Friday’s other semifinal will draw far less attention: No. 1 Novak Djokovic, the defending champion, against No. 23 Roberto Bautista Agut, never before this far at a major.
Looking ahead to what comes next for himself, Federer said: “Obviously, I know people always hype it up.”
Well, why shouldn’t they? These are, after all, two of the greatest players in tennis’ long history, winners of more Grand Slam titles than any other men. Of Federer’s 20, a record eight came at Wimbledon. Of Nadal’s 18, 12 came at the French Open, where he routed Federer in the semifinals last month.
That gave Nadal a 24-15 career edge head-to-head, including 10-3 at the Slams.
But that one was on the red clay Nadal rules. This one is on Federer’s territory: grass.
This is their fourth matchup at Wimbledon — and first that won’t come in the final. Federer beat Nadal for the 2006 and 2007 titles, but Nadal won the title 11 years ago in a 9-7 fifth set as dusk descended.
“Well, we have a lot of information on Rafa, and so does he about us,” Federer said. “So you can either dive into tactics and all that stuff like mad for two days — or you’re just going to say: ‘You know what? It’s grass-court tennis and I’m going to come out there and play attacking tennis.’ And if he can defend that, that’s too good. And if he can’t, well, then, that’s good for me.”
It is the 13th time that the Big Three of Federer, Nadal and Djokovic are in the semifinals at a major tournament together. On 11 of the previous occasions, one of them claimed the title.
There were some shaky moments for each Wednesday.
“The beginning,” Federer said, “was brutal.”
The eighth-seeded Nishikori jumped out to an early edge by breaking in the very first game, enough to give him that set. But Federer quickly turned things around in the second, conjuring up whatever he wanted, exactly when he wanted it.
His approach shots were beyond reproach. His volleys vibrant. His returns were timed so well, and struck so violently, that one knocked the net-rushing Nishikori’s racket plum out of his hands.
And Federer’s serve? Sure, he faced break points, but he never allowed 2014 U.S. Open runner-up Nishikori to convert another.
“Overall, I’m just very happy how I’m hitting the ball,” Federer said. “Feel good off the baseline, too, which is clearly going to be important, maybe, for the next match.”
Nadal, of course, is still a ball-retrieving, shot- whipping machine at the back of the court.
He did have some trouble closing out the first set against Querrey, an American ranked 65th who was trying to reach his second Wimbledon semifinal.
Nadal wasted three set points at 5-3, then another before getting broken when serving for it at 5-4. Again serving for that set at 6-5, he erased a trio of break points for Querrey before holding — and finally was on his way.
“I definitely think he’s a guy that can win it again,” Querrey said about two-time Wimbledon champ Nadal.
Djokovic, eyeing a fifth trophy at the All England Club and 16th overall at Slams, used a 10-game run to transform what was shaping up as an even, entertaining quarterfinal into a 6-4, 6-0, 6-2 romp against 21st-seeded David Goffin.
“I felt,” Djokovic said, “like I managed to dismantle his game.”
Down an early break, the defending champion grabbed control midway through the opening set and never let go.
Djokovic did to Goffin exactly what he does to so many men on so many surfaces and at so many tournaments: He takes their best shot, deals with it and then wears them down.
Bautista Agut, a first-time Grand Slam semifinalist, is supposed to be on the island of Ibiza right now, having a bachelor party with a half-dozen pals ahead of his November wedding. Instead, he will play on after beating No. 26 Guido Pella of Argentina 7-5, 6-4, 3-6, 6-3.
“Well,” the 31-year-old Bautista Agut said, “it feels better to be here in London.”
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“The most amazing thing to me about the sea is the tide. A harbour like St. Ives is totally transformed in a very short space of time by the arrival or departure of the sea.”
— John Dyer —
“I also believe, along with Keats, that the Poetry of Earth is never dead, as long as Spring succeeds Winter, and man is there to perceive it ... And finally, I believe that because all these things are true, Ives' Unanswered Question has an answer. I'm no longer quite sure what the question is, but I know the answer is Yes.”
— Leonard Bernstein
“In any case, Ives encouraged me to go into music even though he himself had such a hard time being a composer.”
— Elliott Carter
“I've known those pieces ever since I was about 16 or 17; I also at that time was taken to meet Charles Ives whom I got to know fairly well. He was the one who wrote a recommendation for me to get into college.”
“I was raised on the Hudson, in a house that had been the stable of the financier and Civil War general Brayton Ives. In midcentury, we had fire pits in the floor for heating, and rats everywhere, because they nested in the hay insulation.”
— Mark Helprin
“Charles Ives was writing radically innovative music, but nobody performed it, and nobody knew about it.”
— Terry Teachout
— John Dyer
“Banion wondered which was worse - being sodomized by aliens, or having to sit through two hours of Charles Ives.”
— Charles Bukowski
“Sweet music It beats love because there aren't any wounds: in the morning she turns on the radio, Brahms or Ives or Stravinsky or Mozart. She boils the eggs counting the seconds out loud: 56, 57, 58 ... she peels the eggs, brings them to me in bed. After breakfast it's the same chair and listen to the classical music. She's on her first glass of scotch and her third cigarette. I tell her I must go to the racetrack. She's been here about 2 nights and 2 days. "When will I see you again?" I ask. She suggests that might be up to me. I nod and Mozart plays.”
“I love St. Ives Apricot Scrub, and you can just get that at CVS - it's so good, though; it's my favorite! Usually I only use that when I shower, because if I don't shower, I'm usually too tired to wash my face and just use Maybelline cleansing wipes. And then I use Chanel Hydra Beauty Lotion. That's so good, I love it.”
— Gigi Hadid
“Nobody here wants Competition,' Ives LeSpark re-entering, shaking his head gravely. 'All wish but to name their Price, and maintain it, without the extra work and worry all these damn'd Up-starts require.”
— Thomas Pynchon
“As she stood there looking about, that radio sound resolved into the bluff baritone of Burl Ives, encouraging all the world to have a holly jolly Christmas, and never mind it was the third week of March. The voice was coming from the attached garage, a dingy building with a single roll-up door and four square windows looking into it, milky with filth.”
— Joe Hill
“Criticism will survive even if no one's paying for it. Obviously it's better if people are paying for it. But the fact that artists weren't able to make a living from their work hasn't detracted from the quality of that work. Charles Ives was the second greatest composer in American history and he worked in insurance his whole life.”
— Ignatiy Vishnevetsky
“The question of art songs always came up with Gastr del Sol. I think Jim O'Rourke had it right in being clear that there's a tradition of art song - Ives being the touchstone for the two of us - and what we do doesn't belong to it. It wasn't important to advance those kinds of distinctions, but clearly he thought it was fanciful for anyone to speak of what we were doing as being in that tradition.”
— David Grubbs
“Casals says music fills him with the wonder of life and the 'incredible marvel' of being a human. Ives says it expands his mind and challenges him to be a true individual. Bernstein says it is enriching and ennobling. To me, that sounds like a good cause for making music and the arts an integral part of every child's education. Studying music and the arts elevates children's education, expands students' horizons, and teaches them to appreciate the wonder of life.”
— Richard Riley
“If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and those who play Chopin. It might seem that they involve different skill sets, but I don't think that's true: whether playing Ives or Bach or Beethoven, you must bring the same imagination, the same sensitivity, and an ability to deal with same kinds of musical problems. The method behind my madness, anyway, is to keep plugging away at this idea.”
— Jeremy Denk
“He [Alan Lomax] started right off trying to find people who could introduce folk songs to city people. He found a young actor named Burl Ives and said, "Burl, you know a lot of great country songs learned from your grandmother, don't you know people would love to hear them?" He put on radio programs. He persuaded CBS to dedicate "The School of the Air" for one year to American folk music. He'd get some old sailor to sing an old sea shanty with a cracked voice. Then he'd get me to sing it with my banjo.”
— Pete Seeger
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Mark Beasley was born in Stourbridge, England, 1969. He studied at Bath
College of Higher Education and the Royal College of Art. He lives and
works in New York.
Stephen Beasley was born in Birmingham. He studied architecture at the
University of North London. He lives and works in London.
A bench has been installed in the former refreshments area and facilities have been provided to playback and listen to a radio play.
A list of questions supplied by Kaavous Clayton via e-mail on 26 February, 2007, with responses by Mark and Stephen Beasley.
Kaavous Clayton: Do you shop for pleasure?
Stephen Beasley: Yes
Mark Beasley B: Yes
KC: Do you visit shopping centres?
SB. No
MB: Yes. Comment: The mall had a big impact upon the place we lived as kids, Merry Hill, in the Midlands was the last 'out of town mall' officially sanctioned before they realised the effect these places have on adjoining towns. Not to say that it was all bad, for an area where the steel industry was recently defunct and unemployment was high the opportunity to join the 'nation of shopkeepers' was just that, an opportunity. Steel mill or Boots checkout? Our parents collect shopping malls, that's to say they've travelled all over the States and Britain in search of the ultimate mall. I figure for that generation the mall provided a safe spot where you never got drowned out by the rain and avoided the 'mugger in the dark' that loomed large in reported tales of the 80's city. Hedbdige covers this idea of the city as malevolent in his collected essays 'Hiding in the Light'. I figure the current image of the mall is more like that of the eighties city, post Bulger and all. To address the question, I recently visited the largest shopping mall in Northern America, in Edmonton, it had a full-scale beach, a working submarine, an ice hockey rink and a full scale roller coaster. What's not to like? I recently moved to New York and live on the island, a place my friends in Brooklyn refer to as Mallhattan. So yes I visit shopping centres.
KC: Are shopping centres architecture?
SB: Yes. Comment: Post-modernist architect Philip Johnson described architecture as 'the art of wasting space'. For me mall architecture is the art of maximising space. Shopping centres have become something like a brightly coloured box that packages a series of experiences or sales points, as interchangeable as the skins on your iPod. This is the new public space, the high street made safe and eventless, but constantly changing it's colour. It exists purely to provide. What becomes important are the contents.
MB. Yes
KC: By describing the construction of a shopping centre are you deconstructing the myth of shopping?
SB: No
MB: No. Comment: It provides an architecture of sorts to the play as it unfolds a useful and relentless backdrop to the melodramatic fantasies of the two central characters: a straight list reminiscent of Judd's description of his sculpture, a monotone rather than emotional response.
KC: Do you make art for pleasure?
SB. Yes/No
MB. Yes/No
KC: Do you think art is a kind of replacement therapy for shopping?
SB: Yes/No
MB: No
KC: Do you see the 'radio play' as a material?
SB: Yes
MB: Yes
KC: Is the use of sound (or rather a soundtrack) in your play purely there to engender a mood?
MB: No. Comment: The play's central teenage characters flirt with the anarchist traditions of free state and self-rule though their individual takes on economic systems change throughout the play. The choice to work with Nick stemmed from a long interest in his music particularly the early anarcho-punk of Napalm Death (formed in Birmingham in 1982 by Nick Bullen and Miles Ratlidge). We conceived the play as being set in the mid to late eighties so it's conceivable that the lead characters would have been listening to Napalm's first demo 'Hatred Surge' (1985) or first vinyl release 'Scum' (1987). I've worked with Nick on a few projects now and it's always proven to be enlightening, his understanding of music, art and literature is staggering. Early Napalm was about flattening the voice and removing explicit meaning, suggesting an energy and force through expression alone. This is how we view the use of music in the play.
KC: Does this work need to be shown in a gallery context?
MB: No. Comment: It benefits from a full spectrum sound system; I have some good leads in the mid-town area on 5th ave if you want them.
KC. It makes me wonder why we're showing it then. LOL
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Hip Hatchet – Hellhound in the House EP
Hip Hatchet put out a wonderful new EP Hellhound in the House on 20th of January. These are all protest songs and we would all be better off, if the world was in a state where there wasn’t a need for these songs to be born. Unfortunately that’s not the case and therefore we must live, love and resist. The poems, songs and arts in general are an important part of this and Hip Hatchet is fighting the good fight by presenting a really powerful EP Hellhound in the House. My biggest favourite is Burden of an Empath that leaves me teary-eyed each and every time. Despite all the overwhelming sadness, I still feel like the beauty, warmness and love is able to overshadow the darkness in that song. That is where the hope lies and that is what we are also seeing taking place. People coming together and standing up against the lack of compassion and empathy. To love is not a weakness. Love is the way.
Hellhound in the House by Hip Hatchet
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Short Story Sharing
Tale of the White Elephant
Thread: Tale of the White Elephant
Steven Hunley
San Diego Calif.
The inmates in County Jail called Reception Center West in Chino, the White Elephant. After finding you guilty The System didn’t know exactly what to do with you. It depended on what kind of criminal you were. If you were some kind of teeny-timer, for instance, a guy, who for some reason was relatively normal, i.e. not a career criminal, you could probably be counted on not to try to escape, and were in for a treat.
You could get sent to doing time in County Jail or outside in a camp in the mountains, building roads you didn’t know where-to, or fighting fires, but only if you were a low-risk prisoner.
To determine your destination, they needed to test you, to see how you ticked. Were you some innocent babe that just this once got caught having some illegal fun? Is that the story you’ve been handing the judge and the DA?
Or were you a true gangster, a law-breaker, a scoffer who laughed at the law because you’d copped the attitude that whatever the law said, it didn’t apply to you? Cutting every corner illegally? No respect for authority figures? Living the Thug Life? The latest Public Enemy Number One? You figure you’re a law unto yourself and don’t need any stinking badge, is that it?
For this kind of attitude they lock you up in a much safer place, one with a barbed wire, gun towers with a bird’s eye view of the yard, and a high wall.
So now I’m on a bus and heading up the Five North. We don’t need seatbelts on this bus, because we’re shackled to the seat with a chain and we’re shackled to each other with another chain. It’s like Ben Hur and the galley scene, but there’s no aqua-blue Mediterranean horizon and no burly drummer. The closest thing to an ocean is Seaworld and Mission Bay whizzing by on the left. It’s summer, and they’re flying Jolly Roger flags. After the dimness of the county jail, the sand and sun make me squint and feel happy. As weird as the destination is, it’s good to be out and see familiar places and the brighter side of things.
Compared to county jail, this is a field trip. Why, it’s in the same direction as Disneyland!
I glanced down when I felt the chain wrapped around both my wrists tighten where it was securely bolted to the floor, and the second one wrapped around my waist, like a hungry anaconda, continued to wrap around the men to my left and right, and all the men on my side of the bus. As varied as we were, I realized we were much the same. We were all grown men, wholly responsible for our present situation, and at the same time reluctant victims of Aretha’s Chain of Fools. It depressed me to think of the ramifications. The mental ones were bad enough, but the physical ones were more at hand.
“I pray I don’t have to pee, or anything more substantial.”
I looked up and swiveled my head around… no problem… no bathroom.
So most of the way north I did my best to recreate the drive to Disneyland my parents took me on when I was ten. This was because when I looked out the screened window at the dry golden hills of California rolling off in the distance, with dark scrub oaks in their cracks; they reminded me of turds sticking out of some alcoholic’s yellowed hepatitis ***. Maybe I was a little depressed even to imagine such an image. So, I’d go elsewhere instead.
I’d pretend I was in the back seat of my Dad’s Ford station wagon, my mom riding shotgun as only she could, breathing the fumes of their twin Marlboro’s as the carcinogenic clouds rushed past me and out through the open window in the back, reading the latest adventures of Donald Duck and Huey Dewey and Louie.
But then the Sheriff’s bus to Hell would run over some bump on the freeway and I’ll snap back like the elastic on my Haines, and see where I really was.
I was on a bus with a bunch of jolly good fellows, going nowhere we planned to go.
We were going to boarding school,
A college of hard knocks,
And jolly good felons,
Whatever the effort,
The time,
Or the cost.
Oh, ****! I was thinking in doggerel poetry. I knew I was getting nervous when the Orange County Sign rushed by like a brain-freeze from a frozen Margarita at Mimi’s.
That Somewhere Nasty I’ve Never Been To lies straight up ahead.
I had my doubts it was going to fun. Scary was more like it, as I wasn’t planning on being somebody’s ***** or dropping the soap either. Not me. No Can Do the Two-Man Rhumba. I’ll wear a sign in the shower if I have to, that says, “Hands Off” and paint artificial pimples all over my butt.
And everywhere else.
Well, we drop off a couple of kids to California Youth Authority, and some girls to a women’s lock up, and now we smell cow poo wherever we go. It’s getting real rural out here, lots of grass and cows, telephone poles, barbed wire fences, a couple of farmhouses, barns , weeds, mail boxes on weird angles, and not much else but sky sky sky.
And there it is, like a white mirage shimmering in the blue haze-cow-****-stinking distance, The White Elephant, home of the miraculous 60 day Observation, and my new accommodations, awaited with warm gun towers and sturdy open arms.
Tall white walls, glistening in the noon-day heat, reminded me of Chateaux D’If, in Marseilles harbor, the one from Count of Monte Christo. Had my picture taken there in 1972, while doing the old-school grand-tour thing. Edmund Dantes, when he was falsely imprisoned, found an old timer who taught him how to escape. In the end he became a rich dude. Maybe that will happen to me. Wonder if they have a library.
On the first day the bulls found out I’d been to college. One approached me in the yard right after they read us their Riot Act of Rules through a loud speaker. He was tall, wore mirrored aviator sunglasses, so we’ll call him Mr. Big.
“Can you type?” says Mr. Big, looking down at me.
I see myself in his glasses looking up, and since we’re standing outside in the yard, the tall white walls standing behind us look like we’re in the Foreign Legion. It’ summer, it’s hot, I’m sweating and uncomfortable, and the Algerian desert smells like camel poo. My imagination is starting to get to me. It’s the ultimate Conradian dilemma, like in Typhoon and Lord Jim where your imagination first gets to you, then f**** you. But as worried as I am, I keep it on the down-low.
“We have a job for you.”
I wonder what kind of job it will be. Maybe they’ll have me stamping out license plates, like in the movies.
I ended up being the ducat clerk, a clerk who typed up where every one of those four hundred men would go every day. They would have to test, or take a physical, or take the dreaded test where you had to talk to a psychologist or psychiatrist or someone in charge of your brain, someone whose intent is to probe all your secrets and uncover your true nature.
To be continued…maybe.
©StevenHunley2018
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That was fascinating and so very well written.
Harry.South1
Cool story, written very naturally and flows really well.
thanks and continuation
Thank you both foer your comments. Around here, comments are rare. This next part is for adult readers.
Sometimes, at night, after I’d finished typing the next day’s assignments, I had free time. On the wall was a binder labeled Irregularity Reports. It seemed like a dull title for a dull subject, but it turned out to be the best read in the Elephant.
If anything unusual happened they had to make a report. Prisons thrive on regularity and order.
One day they suspected one of the full-timers was selling black tar heroin. They sent him off to see the doctor for a shot for the swine virus, and while he was out of his cell, searched it. They found the dope, but didn’t tell him they knew, because they wanted to know where he was getting it. Two days later he was scheduled for a Bone-Yard Visit from Lupita, his main squeeze and pseudo-papered wife, who he’d been seeing regularly for over a year. But on the day of the visit, instead of having her see him right off, they took her aside.
You see, there were two kinds of prisoners. Most were only there for the observation, and within a month or so would be gone. But a few were sentenced there, and were doing real time. The Bull needed people who were there year-round to run the place. Raymundo, the dealer, was one of these, and the true prisoners, if you could call them that, got visits in what was called The Bone Yard, trailers used for conjugal visits, which was the state’s euphemism for the old In and Out.
We got visits too, but only with a phone and through a wire-reinforced glass window in a wall and on a camera. No boning for us. Our 60 day stretches were more like prime rib… boneless.
The day they took Raymundo’s woman aside, one of the Bulls told her she had a choice. “If you want to see Raymundo, you have to submit to a search, or you can turn around right now and walk right back out the door.”
Lupita feared Ramundo would be Jonesing by now, going through withdrawals, and it scared her. She suspected from his demeanor on her last visit he’d been chipping on his own product when he cut the visit short. She suspected he was taking a powder. This thought unbalanced her, and besides, she also thought it’d only be a pat-down search, probably by an inexperienced female officer.
Turned out it wasn’t just a pat-down, and they brought a registered nurse. After she got naked they noticed a string dangling from her muff.
“I’m on my period,” she informed them matter-of-factly.
The nurse pulled a pair of blue Nitrile gloves and a gleaming pair of stainless steel forceps out of a bag and gave the string a tug.
Out came the dope.
Eventually, she went out the door all right, but with her hands cuffed behind her back and under arrest. That’s how it works in the real world. There’s only two kinds of thieves and dope dealers, one’s that have taken their fall, and ones that have yet to take their fall.
Getting arrested and going to jail comes with the occupation.
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MichaelSB
I really enjoyed reading this - your monologue, stream of consciousness opening is style is very effective. Looking forward to reading the next instalment. Thanks for sharing!
I remember coming up with a plan after lunch, and that was to read a book while the light was still good and take a nap. That way, I figured my time would go faster. I’d go the library and read all the Ian Flemings. Funny thing I noticed about James Bond. The bad guys usually catch him, but they don’t kill him at first. They make the mistake of locking him up, and he escapes, and brings down the fortress hideout and all the bad guys with him. Then it was the biography of Harry Houdini. Papillion was next.
After a while I noticed I had some kind of escape-dream theme going, and turned to histories and fiction instead. The history was Nikolas and Alexandra, a fat paperback about the Russian revolution. I’d tried War and Peace one time, but gave up after a few pages when I couldn’t keep the character’s names straight.
Nikolas and Alexandra had all the action; inevitable march of history, drama of a novel, and was many times more moving since it was real. After all, it’s not every day an entire family is murdered, man, wife, four daughters, a little boy. Not every evil villain like Rasputin causes the fall of a dynasty. After a few pages, and after having seen Dr. Shivago, I was hooked.
I’d read during the day, and read again at night before lights out. The Revolution even snuck into my dreams.
I find myself in a freezing snowstorm in St. Petersburg, wandering up and down the length of a hoary cobblestone street. I can’t see my hand in front of my face, but I’m on a mission anyway, one that can change the course of history.
“Where is the black wrought-iron gate with the Romanov two-headed eagle, the main gate of the Winter Palace? I can see the fence itself, the pointed wrought-iron spikes on top, standing bleakly against the white snow, but it’s hundreds of yards long, and the gate must be somewhere, but is it to the right or left? The blinding snow white-outs everything in the distance in both directions as far as I can see.
What to do? What to do?
I must find the Czar and Imperial family, the wife, the daughters, the little-boy bleeder Alexie, and tell them what’s about to happen. They can save themselves and get out of Saint Petersburg before all Hell breaks loose and they’re shot.”
And only I know. Only I know!
I trod through the blinding snowstorm searching and searching for the gate, hiking back and forth, back and forth, until I fall into a stupor and freeze into a catatonic state.
Then I’d awake in my bunk with a start that shook me from head to toe, find myself locked up in a joint where they only gate that mattered swung outward to freedom, not inward to a royal palace, and led to San Diego and a way of life I never really appreciated until I lost it.
Then I knew right where I was. Not in a medium security lock-up in southern California that smelled like a dung-hill, but in the overall scheme of things. And I finally knew who had gotten me there.
It wasn’t the outlaw biker informant…. it was me.
Well, that settled that. You live long enough; you learn to deal with yourself.
Irregularity Report #2 and Oh, was it sweet.
Architects wearing Armani suits, in expensive high-rise offices, show off designs of “inescapable prisons” with building block models resembling Legos gone crazy with design elements that will prove to the world they know what they’re doing, and deserve the fat fees they charge. Every one of these Idiots yearns to be the Frank Lloyd Wright of the Crime and Punishment set. The models look good on paper and even better on a table in the display room with miniature green trees and secure but park-like surroundings.
What they fail to figure is that the setting changes the value of the “inescapability” factor, a factor that can’t be duplicated on their showroom tables over Starbuck’s coffee and chocolate croissants.
In The White Elephant they count you. I believe it’s three times a day. But one day, they sounded the whistle early and we had to return to our cells and sit on our bunk, the only accepted place, so the guard could see you through a window cut out in the center of the big iron door and count your worthless ***. I didn’t mind coming in, I could always read another Bond book, since the only reason I was outside was to cop some sunshine, and the day had turned foggy instead, and it was only getting thicker, so no tan for me.
One of the incident reports told me why they had us in for the count. One really foggy day an inmate on the inside maintenance crew noticed you couldn’t see either gun tower if you stood half-way between them. Remember, these guys were career criminals, not just there for a short time. Short-timers are less of risk. He borrowed a ladder from a tool shed and carried it to a spot half way between the two towers, and climbed up up and away for an extremely self-satisfying early release.
I never read anything about more that happened in regards to this “incident” but Billy told me the bell sending you back to your unit to be counted wasn’t used until after this happened.
This is the kind of story that for obvious reasons, never hits the papers. TV coverage would make the corrections people look foolish or short-sighted, as if they had no imagination. And keep in mind I don’t make these stories up, I just record them.
Lock up is dull and monotonous, and that just the way the man wants it. No irregularities, nothing unscheduled, and everything in its place. Part of this structure comes from the odd circumstance of all these men being together in such large numbers. Too many men together isn’t the normal way of things. For many it makes them growly. They don’t have their woman to complain too, to soothe them when they’re frustrated to keep them on the right course. They don’t have their women or children to touch. They are emotionally deprived. The loving softness only women and children give, that kind of tenderness, cannot be duplicated in prison.
For the 60 day Observation Inmates, there’s no chance of a touchy-feely visit. The most you’re going to get is a glimpse of your significant other’s face through and piece of glass with wire in it and their tinny voice over a handset. You’re having a visit alright, but though your visitor is only about 24 inches away, there is so much iron and steel and reinforced plate-glass between you and your significant other that the overall feeling is they’re so remote you might as well be in Beau Geste with Gary Cooper.
It’s summer, and it’s hot, you’re kind of in this fort, like in the foreign legion, but there’s no sand, and the walls are higher, with four manned towers, and your only contact with the outside world besides an occaisonal visit … is mail. Elizabeth’s letters come with her Apache Rose lipstick print on the back marked SWAK.
The Bulls read all your mail, coming and going. When it comes to writing to Liz, I make the text as juicy as possible, hoping the sensors get turned on while reading it and I tell Liz to make it the same way in her letters to me. After work the Bulls can go home and take it out on their significant other…by making Whoopee.
https://youtu.be/gQNFCRom7c0 The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) - Makin' Whoopee Scene (6/11) | Movieclips
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I’ve got Liz to look after the Triumph GT6. She’s putting her heart on hold for me until I get released. Let’s hope we work out. If the judge who reads the report decides to sentence me to local time, I’ll end up in a fire camp or road camp in San Diego County. If it’s to the big house, I don’t know where it will be, maybe Devil’s Island, which I hear we lease from the French. She’s promised to visit me either way.
My only other visitor is Jim, my childhood friend. He’s the kind of guy you can count on, and he doesn’t judge. Seriously, if this guy had ever been into judging me, I’d be in jail for a life sentence by now.
He’s the closest thing to a brother I’ve got. Seen me through thick and thin. Liz worked for him at the Tux Shop in Hillcrest, and that’s where we met. Oh Jeez, what a guy. We go way back.
When the non-touchy-feely visits are over, it’s back to the barbed-wire and bricks.
Life behind bars is so regular and boring that any small amusement draws a rabid crowd. One day I was on my way down a stairwell when a couple of dudes on the bottom floor were circling each other, one with a broken glass bottle of Tang in his hand. This Jail-bird could see the whole thing from his perch.
Remember that orange-flavored excuse for Orange juice named Tang? Remember the TV told us the astronauts used it? Was that true? Did we believe that **** only because the TV told us so? I believe we did.
A crowd formed and screamed for blood. When I got to the bottom I gave them room, walked on by and didn’t look back. I didn’t even find bother to find out the results. I’ve never been one to encourage violence, especially in a place where it was already so endemic.
Later that afternoon, I got a letter from Bill the Tree Trimmer.
Bill, turned out years later, was a cross-dresser. To me he always seemed so macho! Drove race cars on dirt tracks in Mexico, leaving the rest of the crowd in the dust. At first he lived on Texas St in a converted garage for 60 bucks a month, came into Dad’s Shell station for gas. Near the end he lived at the Palms Hotel downtown and worked as a bank guard.
Talked to a cop who interviewed me after they found him dead of a heart attack in his room at the Palms.
“Did he have anyone close to him? Any relatives?”
“Not that I know of.”
“We found women’s clothes in his dresser drawer.”
“He may have mentioned a girl’s name a few weeks ago, maybe they were hers.”
He shook his head. “They were his.”
I raised my eyebrows.
The guy loved baseball and had a New Jersey accent. He never made a move in my direction. He was a 10 years or so older than me, drove a Mustang, and trimmed trees for a living. Had a pair of strap-on spike climbing spurs in the closet, and was in the Navy just before Viet Nam. Smoked frigggen Malborows, like Kristina, both of my parents, and most of the known world.
When Deb was expecting, and we moved to Chamoune St, we had a garage in the alley in back. He was in charge of a truck crew for Goodwill, one of the big second-hand thrift stores. People with old stuff would donate. Bill and two other guys would drive all over San Diego with a big truck and pick up donations. Of course, many good citizens regard such organizations at trash-haulers, and use them to dispose of their unwanted trash. At the end of their working day, they’d stop by and leave us their hand-picked stuff and we’d stash it for them in the garage. Then they’d drive downtown and unload. Bill gave me a small bookcase with sliding glass door, which if it hadn’t broke during an earthquake I’d still have. Thanks Bill, and RIP. Maybe it was better you didn’t let me in on the cross-dressing bit. Nobody wants to find out their Marlboro man wants to dress like a lady.
I owed Bill. The night I found Kristina dead, I couldn’t go back in the house, so I spent that first long first day after the night of her death with him. Later I moved in with Jim.
Bill lived then in an apartment about a half a block from Morley Field. When I went back a few days later, with sand paper to scratch the burn marks out of the hardwood floor, he was there with me. When they called from Greenwood to tell me they needed a picture because it wasn’t going to be an open casket, he was there, and even answered the door when I was still on the phone, and let in the task force that busted me.
I never blamed him. They were coming in anyway.
Getting busted reminded me I was nothing special and not half as clandestine as I imagined. Here, in the Elephant’s belly, I’m reminded again. I’m nothing special, just another idiot whose wheels were on fire out in the streets. They put me in here to cool off. Here’s how I look at it now.
You’re not a lion anymore, or even a leopard. You’re just another zebra. If you’re sciatica flares up, you’re an injured zebra who draws unwanted attention, so your ears are fine-tuned and your eyes are scanning the horizon. Anyone creeping up too close, who isn’t recognizable, alerts your system with liquid bolts of cortisol coursing through your veins.
You’re happy you’re only here a short time. “Short Timer” they call you. The real sentencing isn’t imposed yet. That’s what the 90 day observation is for, to inform the judge. He’s the one who determines your time. He’s the one who determines your fate because it’s already been determined you’re guilty as sin.
I’m concerned about the length of the sentence. It could be as short as flash fiction or could be a novelette. Might be a short story. Hope it’s not a novel. I don’t have time for a novel. And even if it is, what’s going to be the setting? After all, I’m not the dangerous type.
https://youtu.be/q5yZC7T3qxA The Dangerous Type The Cars
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Billy Two Shoes, a Black Foot, my senior clerk, was the dangerous type, but it was his kindness that showed me the ropes, even though he was here for robbing supermarkets like Piggly-Wiggly. This fossilized Native American had seen many moons and was getting gray; the wire rimmed glasses balanced precariously on his Indian Head Nickel nose gave you the friendly impression of a scholarly uncle. He wore his salt and pepper hair in braids like Willy Nelson, but hated Country Western music with a passion.
“It’s too sentimental and whiny for me.”
“I heard Hank Williams said, “We all had a little cry in our voice.”
It was the only bit of country western trivia I knew. I really didn’t know his favorite music yet, we hadn’t talked about it. But you can bond with people over shared hatreds as easily as shared delights anyway. Joseph Goebbels taught me that one. I want to appear cynical; it’s just that you can learn from both good and evil.
None of the prisoners here seemed evil. Many made rash and ill-informed decisions. Some younger ones stumbled into The System on trails cut by their families generations ago, families ruled by dissention and intimidation, absence, cutoff, and chaos. Love and the true ability to care for each other were shoved out of the frame of those families from substance abuse, mental health issues, poverty, new faces on the block in new colors issues, challenges that only breed contempt from the established classes, who regard them as enemy-others, classes that as far as the new families know, seem to have their **** together and lead well-ordered and productive lives.
That was their victimless crime, Not Having a Plan B, Falsely Imagining You’ve Run out of Options, Lack of Education, the crime against your basic humanity, one that breeds for generations, according to the system. High Tides and Green Grass were beyond their feeble reach. They became marginalized, then Outsiders, and later and irrevocably, Outlaws, Rogues, and Mavericks. That was The Immutable Law of the Concrete Jungle.
Biily and his crew carried heat and had a shootout with the cops. To intimidate the manager/gentleman in charge of the safe, they carried a beautiful shotgun, obtained from an associates’ robbery of a house in Pacific Palisades, a rare Holland and Holland over and under. The silver scrollwork on the side was chased with sweeping meadows of Edelweiss, and the stock was hand-checkered rosewood from Brazil, graced by the image of a mighty Black Forest stag in all his wild-animal glory.
“It was so beautiful and threatening we never had to use it. At least until the night were confronted by the LAPD. Some passing patrol car saw us through a window.”
“Just like that?”
“They called in the whole militia and surrounded the store.”
He took out his regulation handkerchief from his back pocket and blew his nose. I had one too, but wore it tied around my neck like Yves Montand in Wages of Fear just to be different.
“It was sacrilege, cutting off that barrel,” he sniffed, while his chestnut eyes grew misty “You should have seen the scrollwork. But we had to make it fit under my coat.”
I shook my head, “I don’t like it when vandals deface art. Vandalism cost the city millions every year.”
“I cost me my third strike and seven years. That’s what pissed them off. It wasn’t the money. It was the threat of bodily harm.”
“That makes sense. Their job is to protect and serve.”
“That’s true, and there’s the rub.”
https://youtu.be/cmToeytaVoc Wages of Fear
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Billy glanced up the big clock on the wall looming over us. “It never seems to move,” he muttered. “Not the big hand. Not the one that counts.”
Late at night was quiet and there weren’t any windows. The neon lights cast a greenish light that flickered on and off when I typed up the reports for the next day. They’d hooked up one of those office fans on top of a file cabinet where it revolved back and forth by itself. There were a couple of strands of red cellophane flapping in its breeze, left over from the watch captain’s birthday party. Must have been wild. Heard they ate cake.
Time moved slowly if you weren’t fully engaged in the moment. In stir you were never fully engaged in the moment, your head was usually engaged somewhere else, a more private place, one of your choosing, not theirs. If you didn’t have that private sanctuary every once in a while, you were really in trouble.
So they could rule and regulate your body from the outside, but they couldn’t rule or regulate your mind. But sometimes, even the regulating your body was enough to shake you up, like the time I stepped outside after lights out.
Although lights were out at nine, I didn’t get off until ten. I’d have to call up to the gun tower and let them know I was going across the yard back to my unit, since no one else was supposed to be there, not even the guards, without warning the gun towers first. After all, it was dark.
One night I forgot to make the call. I was so sleepy I just walked out the door and started crossing the open space.
Suddenly the six dazzling lights ignited, flooding the entire field with a blast of illumination from so many angles I didn’t leave a shadow. Overhead, elephant- speakers from the heavens bellowed downward with metallic thunder,
“Man on the yard, halt, or you will be shot.”
“Threat of bodily harm” never fails to wake me up, and I understand why I was still shaking twenty minutes later sitting on the edge of my bunk.
Terror ensued when I realized it wasn’t a threat, it was simply someone’s ‘procedure’ and their job, therefore their family was threatened if they didn’t carry out that procedure, and failed to bring home the bacon to the wife and kids.
If there’s one thing I learned from Mahmood, the skinny but fashionable Afghan hound who lived with me once upon a time. Never get between a dog and his food.
https://youtu.be/KIjcNDiaPoM Bringing Home the Bacon Procol Harum
edwardwilson
Really Amazing, Keep up the awesome work!
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Originally Posted by edwardwilson
Thank you, Edward Wilson. And so...
With all this time on my hands, and my inborn inflated sense of grandiosity, I compare myself with others, and come to the conclusion that as bad as I imagined being locked up could be, there are parts of it that have merit, one of them being, you have time to think. Plenty of others have taken advantage of being jailed or imprisoned. Which others?
These others:
Ken Keysey, Bill Burroughs, Dostoyevsky, Mallory, Jean Genet, Oscar Wilde, Verlaine, Solzhenitsyn, Voltaire, Cervantes, O. Henry, Trotsky, M.L. King, Thoreau, Malcom X, John McCain, Marco Polo, Nelson Mandela, Jack London, and two of the Marx brothers. Don't laugh.
Being locked up, away from the hurly-burly outside, gives you time to reflect. How you got here, what changes you must make to your life to insure this never happens again. You’re alone and in charge of your fate, you reckon, not when this short observation time in prison ends, but when you finish your sentence.
“This 90 day observation is only the preview,” I tell myself. “The main attraction will last longer. Right now I don’t know how long, but I’ll be sentenced, and then start the real time, wherever they send me.”
For once in my life I decide to take responsibility for myself. It’s a first step for me, one of the dregs of society at this point, to make positive changes my life. Wipe the slate clean and start over. Society will give me another chance…I hope, since I’ll be an X-con to them. X-con is a label I won’t care to wear, I won’t like the fit. X-con or Angel, which will it be?
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When ships go bang in the night (in orca habitat)
Posted on 2018-09-05 2018-10-15 by Scott Veirs Posted in Uncategorized
Yesterday in the wee hours of the morning (1:38 a.m.), I received an email from Susan Berta of Orca Network entitled: “cannon fire on the hydrophone 955pm sept 2nd?” The text read:
Just found this on our facebook page, passing along fyi, not sure if anyone else heard it?
Ursula Renteria
is the military conducting war games near lime kiln ? I hear cannon fire on the hydrophone 955pm sept 2nd
In the past this would have been hard to investigate because we saved disk space by archiving only acoustic statistics and brief sounds that our automated detectors told us were interesting. But thanks to the 2017 Kickstarter and the automated archiving that our new streaming software is doing, I was able to listen into what Ursula heard immediately.
Accessing Orcasound recorded data
First I had to assume that the times specified were local (Pacific = GMT-07:00) and that the sounds would be audible at Orcasound Lab (5km north of Lime Kiln). Therefore I was looking for recordings from around 04:55 GMT on 9/3/2018. Since the Orcasound audio Data is archived in Amazon’s S3 “buckets” using a UNIX time stamp, I converted the local time to UNIX time at https://www.epochconverter.com/ and got 1535950500.
It took a little searching (and a bit of hacking), but I found the right time period in the AWS S3 archive. There were about 55 minutes of recorded segments available, ending at 10:31 p.m. local time. I was able to play the relevant .m3u8 manifest file in an HLS reference player and listen for possible “cannonfire.”
Eventually, it will be easy to download a lossless, uncompressed archived version (FLAC format) of the live HLS stream for further analysis. But at the moment, the Orcasound Lab test node is only streaming the compressed HLS data, so rather than downloading 300 odd 10-second .ts fragments, I listened to the reference player until I heard the suspect “cannonfire” sounds, then routed the player’s audio data into Audacity and recorded the most-interesting 10 minutes at low-resolution (48kbps).
Bangs in the midst of ship noise
Here is the resulting 10-minute recording:
Audacity waveform and spectrogram of 10-minutes recorded at Orcasound Lab. This clip begins at about 21:53:30 Pacific time on Sept 2, 2018 — 1.5 minutes before the “cannonfire” were reportedly heard — presumably on the Lime Kiln hydrophone (which is not running the current Orcasound streaming/archiving software).
The 10-minute recording (.ogg format)
In a nutshell, I definitely hear a series of “bangs” over an increasing background of ship noise. Listening carefully and looking at the 10 minute spectrogram, it sounds (and looks) like a ship passed the Orcasound Lab, with closest point of approach occureing about 6 minutes into the recording (~22:00 PDT). There are about 15 audible bangs in the first few minutes of the recording, spaced intermittently and without any strong temporal pattern. If not random, they seem to come in groups of 3-5 bangs, the period between successive bangs is rarely less than 5 seconds, and the most intense bangs seem to come in closely-spaced pairs. It’s likely that the bangs continue as the ship passes, but are masked by the ship noise.
Each bang is a short ~50-millisecond sound pulse with peak power near 160 Hz. The most intense bangs show harmonics. Each bang is followed by reverberations which are often pronounced (and fun to listen to in Audacity slowed down). Here is an example — as a spectrogram and .ogg and .mp3 clips:
One of the more intense bangs recorded (at 03:38).
.ogg format
.mp3 format
Here are more examples concatenated in a single file (provided in ogg and mp3 formats):
What is doing all this banging?
While these impulsive sounds are reminiscent of underwater explosions, they are really distinct — mostly because of the tonal peaks they contain. Listen to confirmed detonations in the same oceanographic environment (Haro Strait, off the west side of San Juan Island in Washington State, USA) and I think you’ll agree these are not explosions underwater, nor are they the sounds of surface cannons firing (and then propagating into the ocean).
Example of the sound of an underwater detonation (Canadian Navy).
To my ear these bangs sound like a mechanical noise coming from the passing ship. Is a heavy steel plate getting impacted or slammed occasionally? Is a blade of the propeller intermittently cavitating in an especially violent way?
I’ve heard similar sounds on the live audio streams from Orcasound and my memory associates them most with the sounds of the Washington State ferries heard from the Seattle Aquarium. There I assumed that a door or other large steel plate was getting slammed shut or colliding with something.
Archived AIS data from siitech.com suggests that at least three ships were transiting Haro Strait at the time the bangs were heard and recorded. Here are some screen grabs from their historic playback tool that show two cargo ships southbound, followed by a passenger ship — all moving at about 14-15 knots (SOG):
The cargo ship Santa Rosa has it’s closest point of approach (CPA) just after 9:55 p.m., so I think it is the most likely source of the bangs. It’s possible though that the bangs were coming from the first cargo ship (Ever Uberty) which might explain why no bangs are audible after the CPA of the Santa Rosa.
Importantly, there are no logged AIS locations for military ships in the vicinity at the time. I take this as additional evidence that we can answer Ursula’s question with “No — we’re confident that this time — the military is NOT conducting war games near Lime Kiln” — though both the U.S. and Canadian Navy have long records of conducting training/testing within the Salish Sea…
For now, the source of these bangs may remain a mystery. Listening closely with headphones to the 10-minute recording, I can convince myself that the the (3?) blade rate of the first cargo ship is dominating in the first few minutes, but around minute 6 the second cargo ship (with a 4-blade prop) can be heard more clearly. However, neither blade rate seems synchronized with the bangs, so I must conclude that cavitation is not the most likely source.
Do cargo ships have hatch covers or doors that might be slammed around in Haro Strait? Were there big waves that night slamming randomly against the hull? The historical data from the NOAA buoy at Hein Bank (at the south end of Haro Strait) suggests that there were some pretty intense (~25 knot) westerly wind and (~1.5m) wave conditions at the time:
Conclusion: “bang” goes the ocean against your hull!
I’ll conclude that these bang are caused by rogue waves (in a wave field with mean height of ~1.5m) slamming into the side of cargo ships southbound at about 14 knots. The mean speed of cargo ships in Haro Strait is 14.4±2.3 knots, so maybe this is the sound of cargo ship captains heading out into the Pacific as they normally do (ECHO speed limits be damned!), despite a summer storm blowing winds on the beam.
If anyone has an alternative explanation, please leave your ideas or knowledge in the comments!
5 thoughts on “When ships go bang in the night (in orca habitat)”
2018-09-05 at 10:13 Reply
ursula renteria says:
Thank you for this insight and explanation . The information provided and the research involved …. you are amazing !
Scott Veirs says:
Thank *you*, Ursula, for listening to the live hydrophones!
I guess I should also ask you, Ursula: “Are the bangs I found and discussed the ‘cannonfire’ you initially reported?”
Lewis Johnson says:
I love reading and learning more about this topic. I am a biologist myself and I have always been fascinated with marine biology. The ocean is so mysterious and its home to so many amazing species. The sound could come from the waves as you said or it could be some animal banging on the ship hull.
Cass Ernest says:
did anyone heard the very loud motor sounds in the Orcasound station approx 18:45 Pacific time, today (9/27/18)?
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Premier League Predictions: Manchester City vs Manchester United Preview for Week 10
Oct 30, 2014 / Todd Shenk
Week 10 in the Premier League brings the Manchester Derby with Manchester United traveling across town to the Etihad on Sunday morning. Four points and five places separate the two teams at this time
Manchester United come into Sunday with a well documented list of players out injured. Phil Jones, Falcao, and Wayne Rooney are all questionable for the match, but will hopefully be available.
On the blue side of the pitch there is a chance that David Silva and Yaya Toure will be able to return following midweek injuries in their Capital One Cup match.
Over the past six matches Manchester City has had their fair share of difficulties. They have managed to pick up two wins in this time while going winless in their last three matches. This includes allowing six goals and scoring three.
Manchester United has started to show signs of progress even if their last two matches resulted in draws. The fact that they are beginning to score late goals is a good sign for them.
It will be interesting to see how van Gaal sets his team out this time and I’m expecting another tactical match from him. Marouane Fellaini has put in good performances in the last two games and will most likely start again this weekend, especially with Ander Herrera still struggling to return to fitness from his broken ribs.
Betting Odds via Bovada:
Manchester City win: 5/6; 1.83
Draw: 11/4; 3.75
Manchester United win: 13/4; 4.25
Pick: This match could go either way. After all, it is a derby. I’m predicting that Wayne Rooney will start and Falcao will be on the bench. Rooney has been deadly against Manchester City and will likely score again. This is a match that could be a massive boost for Manchester United with a result of any kind, but especially from a win. Still, Manchester City have a lot of quality players and a deadly attack. If United can win the tactical battle, they will have the upper hand.
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Year : 2016 | Volume : 12 | Issue : 45 | Page : 31-35
Nuclear factor kappa B activation and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor transactivational effects of chemical components of the roots of Polygonum multiflorum
Ya Nan Sun1, Wei Li2, Seok Bean Song3, Xi Tao Yan4, Seo Young Yang1, Young Ho Kim1
1 College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764, Korea
2 School of Biotechnology, Yeungnam University, Gyeongsan, Gyeongbuk 712-749, Korea
3 Gyeongbuk Institute for Bio-industry, Andong City, Gyeongbuk 760-380, Korea
4 College of Pharmacy, Korea University, Sejong 339-700, Korea
Date of Web Publication 10-Feb-2016
Young Ho Kim
College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University, Daejeon 305-764
Background: Polygonum multiflorum is well-known as "Heshouwu" in traditional Chinese herbal medicine. In Northeast Asia, it is often used as a tonic to prevent premature aging of the kidney and liver, tendons, and bones and strengthening of the lower back and knees. Objective: To research the anti-inflammatory activities of components from P. multiflorum. Materials and Methods: The compounds were isolated by a combination of silica gel and YMC R-18 column chromatography, and their structures were identified by analysis of spectroscopic data (1D, 2D-nuclear magnetic resonance, and mass spectrometry). The anti-inflammatory activities of the isolated compounds 1−15 were evaluated by luciferase reporter gene assays. Results: Fifteen compounds (1-15) were isolated from the roots of P. multiflorum. Compounds 1−5 and 14−15 significantly inhibited tumor necrosis factor-α-induced nuclear factor kappa B-luciferase activity, with IC 50 values of 24.16-37.56 μM. Compounds 1−5 also greatly enhanced peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors transcriptional activity with EC 50 values of 18.26−31.45 μM. Conclusion: The anthraquinone derivatives were the active components from the roots of P. multiflorum as an inhibitor on inflammation-related factors in human hepatoma cells. Therefore, we suggest that the roots of P. multiflorum can be used to treat natural inflammatory diseases.
Keywords: Human hepatoma cells, nuclear factor kappa B, peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors, Polygonaceae, Polygonum multiflorum
Sun YN, Li W, Song SB, Yan XT, Yang SY, Kim YH. Nuclear factor kappa B activation and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor transactivational effects of chemical components of the roots of Polygonum multiflorum. Phcog Mag 2016;12:31-5
Sun YN, Li W, Song SB, Yan XT, Yang SY, Kim YH. Nuclear factor kappa B activation and peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor transactivational effects of chemical components of the roots of Polygonum multiflorum. Phcog Mag [serial online] 2016 [cited 2019 Jul 18];12:31-5. Available from: http://www.phcog.com/text.asp?2016/12/45/31/176019
This study presented that fifteen compounds (1-15) isolated from the roots of Polygonum multiflrum exert signifiant anti inflmmatory effects by inhibiting TNF induced NF B activation and PPARs transcription.
Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-κB) is a protein complex that controls DNA transcription. This complex comprises a family of structurally related eukaryotic transcription factors that promote the expression of over 150 genes involved in a variety of cellular processes. [1],[2] It is found in nearly all animal cell types and is involved in several cellular responses to stimuli such as stress, cytokines, free radicals, ultraviolet irradiation, and bacterial or viral antigens. [3],[4],[5],[6] Five members of the NF-κB family (p50, p52, p65/Rel A, c-Rel, and Rel B) form 15 transcription factors through homo- and hetero-dimerization. [7],[8] In the previous study, NF-κB was determined to play an important role in the transcriptional regulation of numerous cytokines and adhesion molecules. It is the most extensively studied transcription factor in the immune system. [9] Furthermore, in most cell types, inactive NF-κB complexes are sequestered in the cytoplasm via noncovalent interactions with inhibitory proteins known as inhibitor kappa B. Therefore, activation of NF-κB causes transcription at the κB site, which is involved in several diseases including inflammatory disorders and cancer. Hence, inhibition of NF-κB signaling is an important therapeutic target for the treatment of such diseases. [10]
Peroxisome proliferator-activated receptors (PPARs) is a member of the nuclear receptor superfamily as transcription factors regulating the expression of genes. [11] It plays essential roles in the regulation of cellular metabolism, inflammatory, and immune responses. There are three isoforms: PPARα, PPARβ, and PPARγ have been identified. PPARs regulate the expression of genes involved in the regulation of glucose, lipid, and cholesterol metabolism by binding to specific peroxisome proliferator response elements (PPREs) in the enhancer sites of regulated genes. [12],[13],[14] Accordingly, modulate the function of PPARs are attractive for the treatment of tissues with high catabolic rates for fatty acids and peroxisome metabolism, and it has become a target for the prevention and treatment of obesity, insulin resistance, metabolic syndromes, inflammation, and cardiovascular disease. [15] In the present study, the effects of compounds 1-15 from Polygonum multiflorum on tumor necrosis factor-α (TNF-α) induced NF-κB transcriptional activity and PPARs transcriptional activity were evaluated in human hepatocarcinoma human hepatoma cells (HepG2) cells.
P. multiflorum belongs to the Polygonaceae family, is one of the most important traditional Chinese herbs, and listed in the official Chinese Pharmacopeia. It has long been used in the preparation of herbal medicines in many oriental countries such as China, Japan, and Korea. [16] This herb exerts many significant effects, such as antioxidant, and antitumor properties, improves cardiovascular symptoms, enhances immune function, reduces cholesterol, and inhibits atherosclerosis. [17],[18] P. multiflorum root extracts and some monomeric compounds isolated from P. multiflorum roots were reported to exert anti-inflammatory, [19] antioxidant, [20] anti-HIV, [21] and liver protective effects. [22] However, the effects of chemical components from P. multiflorum on NF-κB and PPARs transcriptional inhibitory activity have not yet been reported. In the present study, fifteen compounds were isolated from the roots of P. multiflorum and their anti-inflammatory activities were evaluated to determine their therapeutic potential.
General experimental procedures
Optical rotations were determined using a Jasco DIP-370 automatic polarimeter. The Fourier Transform Infrared spectra were measured using a Jasco Report-100 infrared spectrometer. The nuclear magnetic resonance spectra were recorded using a JEOL ECA 600 spectrometer ( 1 H, 600 MHz; 13 C, 150 MHz). Electrospray ionization mass spectrometry was recorded using an Agilent 1200 LC MSD trap spectrometer. Column chromatography was performed using a silica gel (Kieselgel 60, 70-230, and 230-400 mesh, Merck, Darmstadt, Germany), YMC RP-18 resins, and thin layer chromatography was performed using precoated silica-gel 60 F 254 and RP-18 F 254S plates (both 0.25 mm, Merck, Darmstadt, Germany); the spots were detected under ultraviolet light and using 10% H 2 SO 4 .
Plant material
Dried roots of P. multiflorum were purchased from the herbal company, Naemome Dah, Ulsan, Korea, in November 2011, and identified by Prof. Young Ho Kim, College of Pharmacy, Chungnan National University. A voucher specimen (CNU11103) was deposited at the herbarium of the College of Pharmacy, Chungnam National University in Korea.
Extraction and isolation
Dried roots of P. multiflorum (3.0 kg) were extracted with 70% EtOH 3 times under refluxing. The 70% EtOH extract (500.0 g) was suspended in H 2 O (2.8 L) and partitioned with CH 2 Cl 2 and EtOAc to yield CH 2 Cl 2 fraction (a), EtOAc fraction (b), aqueous fraction (c), respectively. The CH 2 Cl 2 extract (14.0 g) was subjected to silica gel column chromatography with a gradient of n-hexane-EtOAc (25:1-0:1) to give five fractions (A1-A5). Fraction A3 was further chromatographed on a silica gel column using a gradient of n-hexane-EtOAc (6:1-0:1) to give three subfractions (A3.1-A3.3), then subfraction A3.3 was chromatographed on a silica gel column with n-hexane-EtOAc (3:1-1:5) to obtain four subfractions (A3.3.1-A3.3.4), further purification of the subfraction A3.3.2 and A3.3.4 led to compounds 1 (20.0 mg) and 2 (917.3 mg). Fraction A5 was column chromatographed over silica gel, eluting with CH 2 Cl 2 -MeOH (10:1-1:1) to provide six subfractions (A5.1-A5.6), then subfraction A5.4 was further chromatographed on a reverse-phase (RP) chromatography column with MeOH-H 2 O (1:1-2.5:1) to give compounds 3 (5.0 mg), 14 (39.0 mg), and 15 (53.0 mg). The EtOAc extract (103.0 g) was chromatographed over silica gel column with a gradient of CH 2 Cl 2 -MeOH (20:1-1:1) to yield 4 fractions (B1-B4). Fraction B1 was chromatographed on a silica gel chromatography column with CH 2 Cl 2 -MeOH (50:1-5:1) to yield 6 subfractions (B1.1-B1.6); subfraction B1.2 was further chromatographed on RP chromatography column with acetone-MeOH-H 2 O (0.2:0.5:1) to yield compounds 12 (210.0 mg) and 13 (40.0 mg). Subfraction B1.4 was separated by a RP chromatography column using acetone-MeOH-H 2 O (0.2:0.5:1-1:1:1) as eluents, further purified by chromatography column over silica gel, to obtain compounds 4 (75.0 mg), 6 (17.0 mg), 7 (180.0 mg), 10 (35.0 mg), and 11 (52.0 mg). Compounds 5 (13.0 mg), 8 (290.0 mg), and 9 (28.0 mg) were isolated from fraction B1.5 using a RP chromatography column with MeOH-H 2 O (1:5-2:1).
Cell culture and reagents
HepG2 cells were maintained in Dulbecco's modified Eagles' medium (DMEM) (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA, USA) containing 10% heat-inactivated fetal bovine serum (FBS), 100 units/mL penicillin, and 10 μg/mL streptomycin at 37°C and 5% CO 2 . Human TNF-α was purchased from ATgen (Seoul, Korea).
Cytotoxicity assay
A cell-counting kit (CCK)-8 (Dojindo, Kumamoto, Japan) was used to analyze the effect of compounds on cell toxicity according to the manufacturer's instructions. HepG2 cells were cultured overnight in a 96-well plate (∼1 × 10 4 cells/well). Cell toxicity was assessed after the addition of compounds in a dose-dependent manner. After 24 h of the treatment, 10 μL of the CCK-8 solution was added to triplicate wells and incubated for 1 h. The absorbance at 450 nm was measured to determine the viable cell numbers.
Nuclear factor kappa B-luciferase assay
The luciferase vector was first transfected into human hepatocarcinoma HepG2 cells. After a limited amount of time, the cells were lysed, and luciferin, the substrate of luciferase, was introduced into the cellular extract along with Mg 2+ and an excess of ATP. Under these conditions, luciferase enzymes expressed by the reporter vector could catalyze the oxidative carboxylation of luciferin. Cells were seeded at 2 × 10 5 cells per well in 12-well plates and grown. After 24 h, cells were transfected with inducible NF-κB luciferase reporter and constitutively expressing Renilla reporter. After 24 h of transfection, medium was changed to assay medium (Opti-MEM + 0.5% FBS + 0.1 mM NEAA + 1 mM sodium pyruvate + 100 units/mL penicillin + 10 μg/mL streptomycin), and cells were pretreated for 1 h with either vehicle (dimethyl sulfoxide [DMSO]) and compounds, followed by 1 h of treatment with 10 ng/mL TNF-α for 20 h. Unstimulated cells were used as a negative control (−); apigenin was used as a positive control. Dual luciferase assay was performed 48 h after transfection, and promoter activity values are expressed as arbitrary units using a Renilla reporter for internal normalization.
Peroxisome proliferator response elements-luciferase assay
HepG2 were seeded at 1.5 × 10 5 cells per well in 12-well plates and grown for 24 h before transfection. An optimized amount of DNA plasmid (0.5 μg of PPRE-Luc and 0.2 μg of PPAR-inpCMV) was diluted in 100 μL of DMEM. All cells were transfected with the plasmid mixture using WelFect M Gold (WelGENE Inc.) as described by the manufacturer. After 30 min of incubation at room temperature, the DNA plasmid solution (100 μL) was introduced and mixed gently with cells. After 24 h of transfection, the medium was changed to (transfection optimized medium, Invitrogen) containing 0.1 mM NEAA, 0.5% charcoal-stripped FBS, and the individual compounds (test group), DMSO (vehicle group), or rosiglitazone (positive control group). The cells were then cultured for 20 h. Next, the cells were washed with PBS and harvested with 1 × passive lysis buffer (200 μL). The intensity of emitted luminescence was determined using an LB 953 Autolumat (EG and G Berthold, Bad Wildbad, Germany).
All measurements were performed independently at least triplicate. Data were expressed as the mean ± standard deviation. Statistical significance is determined by one-way analysis of variance followed by Dunnett's multiple comparison test P < 0.05.
In the current study, five anthraquinones (1-5), two torachrysones (6 and 7), four stilbene glycosides (8-11), two flavanols (12 and 13), and two sterols (14 and 15) were isolated from methanol extracts of P. multiflorum roots [Figure 1]. Their structures were elucidated by comparing spectroscopic data to published data. The compounds were identified as follows: Physcion (1), [23] emodin (2), [24] physcion-8-O-β-D-(6'-O-acetyl)-glucoside (3), [25] emodin- 8-O-β-D-glucoside (4), [26] physcion-8-O-β-D-glucoside (5), [25] torachrysone-8-O-β-D-glucoside (6), [27] torachrysone-8-O-β-D-glucoside-6'-O-gallate (7), [28] (Z)-2, 3, 5, 4'- tetrahydroxystilbene-2-O-β-D-glucoside (8), [29] (E)-2, 3, 5, 4'-tetrahydroxystilbene-2-O-β-D-glucoside (9), [29] (E)-2, 3, 5, 4'- tetrahydroxystilbene-2-O-β-D-xyloside (10), [28] (E)-2, 3, 5, 4'- tetrahydroxystilbene-2-O-β-D-(6'-O-acetyl)-glucoside (11), [28] (+)- catechin (12), [30] (+)-catechin-3-O-gallate (13), [30] β-sitosterol (14), [31] and β-sitosterol-3-O-β-D-glucoside (15). [31]
Figure 1: Structures of compounds 1-15 from the roots of Polygonum multiflorum
Compounds 1−15 were evaluated for cytotoxicity according to the manufacturer's instructions using a CCK-8 (Dojindo, Kumamoto, Japan) assay, as described in "Materials and Methods." Results indicated that compounds 1−15 caused no significant cytotoxicity in HepG2 cells at the tested concentrations [Figure 2].
Figure 2: Cytotoxic effects of compounds 1-15 on human hepatoma cells all values are means ± standard deviation (n = 3,/P < 0.05). Dimethyl sulfoxide as control group. human hepatoma cells 2 were cultured overnight in 96-well plates and treated with 10 µM for 24 h. Cell viability was assessed using MTS assays. The results are expressed in terms of percentage relative cell viability
HepG2 cells were treated with 10 ng/mL TNF-α, which resulted in increased transcriptional activity relative to untreated cells. Transfected HepG2 cells were pretreated with 0.1, 1, and 10 μM of each compound, followed by stimulation with TNF-α [Figure 3]. Apigenin was used as a positive control (IC 50 : 1.64 ± 0.19). The anti-inflammatory activities of compounds 1−15 were evaluated by the inhibition of a TNF-α-induced NF-κB luciferase reporter in HepG2 cells. Compounds 1−5 and 14−15 significantly inhibited TNF-α-induced NF-κB transcriptional activity, with IC 50 values of 30.25, 25.63, 37.56, 24.16, 25.71, 28.78, and 31.56 μM, respectively. In contrast, compound 8 exhibited weak inhibitory activity, with an IC 50 value of 50.20 μM. We continuously investigated the effects of compounds 1-15 on PPAR activity using a nuclear transcription PPRE cell-reporter system. HepG2 cells were treatment with 0.1, 1, and 10 μM of compounds, The results showed that compounds 1−5 greatly enhanced PPARs transcriptional activity with EC 50 values of 18.26−31.45 μM [Table 1], whereas compounds 6-15 were inactive (EC 50 >50 μM).
Figure 3: Effects of compounds 1 − 15 on the tumor necrosis factor-α induced nuclear factor kappa B-luciferase reporter activity in human hepatoma cells. The values are means ± standard deviations (n = 3). Apigenin, positive control (10 μM). Statistical significance is determined by one-way analysis of variance followed by Dunnett's multiple comparison test, P < 0.05 versus control
Table 1: PPARs transactivational activities of compounds 1-15
Consistent with the structure-activity relationship of the isolated compounds (1-15), the anthraquinone derivatives (1-5) exerted significant effect inhibitory activities on NF-κB transcription, with IC 50 values of 24.16-37.56 μM. In addition, the sterol derivatives (14 and 15) also displayed potent inhibitory activities, with IC 50 values of 28.78 and 31.56 μM. These results indicate that the anthraquinone and sterol derivative components from P. multiflorum may play an important role in TNF-α induced NF-κB transcriptional activity. Compared with compounds 9−11, compound 8 is a cis-form stilbene glycoside that displays obvious NF-κB inhibitory activity at the same concentration, suggesting that all cis-form stilbene glycosides exhibit increased NF-κB transcriptional inhibitory activity. Moreover, the anthraquinone derivatives (1−5) exerted obvious activated PPAR transcriptional activity in a dose-dependent manner. Other compounds (6−15) did not exhibit significant activity. It suggests that anthraquinone derivatives from P. multiflorum are the active ingredient for activation of PPAR transcription. These results may be useful for determining the structure − function relationship of the useful components of P. multiflorum.
These results led us to conclude that fifteen compounds (1-15) isolated from the roots of P. multiflorum exert significant anti-inflammatory effects by inhibiting TNF-α induced NF-κB activation and PPARs transcription. Interestingly, the results of this study indicate that anthraquinone and sterol derivatives of P. multiflorum exhibit strong anti-inflammatory activities by inhibiting TNF-α induced NF-κB activation; anthraquinone derivatives from P. multiflorum are activated PPAR transcription. Therefore, we suggest that the roots of P. multiflorum can be used to treat natural inflammatory diseases. However, further studies on potential anti-inflammatory effects and benefits of anthraquinone, sterol, and stilbene derivative components from P. multiflorum are warranted.
This study was supported by the Priority Research Center Program (2009-0093815) through the National Research Foundation of Korea funded by the Ministry of Education, Science and Technology, Republic of Korea.
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Brian Leonard PASK1,2
#6751, b. 9 October 1942, d. 13 June 2011
3rd great-grandson of John PASK
Chart 10: Essex Main Progenitor - John PASK, (1771-1847) Thundersley, Essex #2493
Brian Leonard PASK was born on 9 October 1942, in the St. Pancras registration district.3,4,1 He was the son of Leonard Charles PASK and Gladys TAYLOR.3,4
Brian died on 13 June 2011 in Rugby, Warwickshire, at the age of 68.1
His estate was probated on 9 August 2011 at the Birmingham Probate Registry, Birmingham, Warwickshire.2
[S5005] Website Ancestry: England and Wales, Death Index, 2007-2013
http://search.ancestry.co.uk/search/db.aspx?dbid=60630
Brian Leonard Pask; Birth Date: 09-10-1942; Death Date: 13-06-2011; Residence Place at Death: Rugby, Warwickshire, England.
[S4999] Website UK Government Probate Search Service: PASK, BRIAN LEONARD Date of Probate: 09-Aug-2011; Probate No: 3577153; Date of Death: 13-Jun-2011; Document Type: Grant and will; Registry: Birmingham.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1942/Q4 PASK, Brian L. TAYLOR Pancras 1b 17."
[S2088] E-mail from Lindsay Frische to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 24 April 2006.
Lilian Rosa PASK1
#6759, b. 1898, d. July 1984
2nd great-granddaughter of John PASK
Lilian Rosa PASK's birth was registered in 1898 in the Fulham registration district.1 She was the daughter of John PASK and Mary Elizabeth ATWELL.1 In the census of 31 March 1901 in 13 Filmer Road, Fulham, London, she was listed as aged 2 born in Hammersmith, the granddaughter of Mary E. ATWELL.2
In the census of 2 April 1911 in 5 Hartopp Avenue, Fulham, London, she was listed as aged 12 born in Fulham London, the daughter of John PASK.3
Lilian married Harold A. WATKINS in 1922 in the Fulham registration district.4,5
Lilian died in July 1984 in the Richmond upon Thames registration district.6
Children of Lilian Rosa PASK and Harold A. WATKINS
Joyce E. E. WATKINS
Christine L. A. WATKINS7
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1898/Q3 PASK, Lilian Rosa Fulham 1a 319."
[S2089] Image of the 1901 Census for 13 Filmer Road, Fulham, London: RG13 Piece 0055 Folio 92 Page 33. Indexed incorrectly under the name of PARK.
[S3672] Image of the 1911 Census for 5 Hartopp Avenue Fulham, London: RG14 Piece 289 Schedule 6.
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1922/Q3 WATKINS, Harold A. PASK Fulham 1a 795."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "Lilian Rosa Watkins Birth Date: 15 Jul 1898 Death Registration Month/Year: Jul 1984 Age at death (estimated): 86 Registration district: Richmond Upon Thames Inferred County: Surrey Volume: 14 Page: 1362."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1938/Q1 WATKINS, Christine L A PASK Fulham."
Harold A. WATKINS1
Harold A.'s nickname was Bunny WATKINS.2
Harold married Lilian Rosa PASK, daughter of John PASK and Mary Elizabeth ATWELL, in 1922 in the Fulham registration district.1,2
Children of Harold A. WATKINS and Lilian Rosa PASK
Mary E. ATWELL1
Mary E. ATWELL was born in 1841 in Marylebone, London.1
In the census of 31 March 1901 in 13 Filmer Road, Fulham, London, Mary was listed as the Head of Household, a widow living on own means, aged 60 born in Marylebone. Also listed was her daughter Lizzie B. ATWELL, a Laundrey Shop Manager, aged 19 born in Fulham, also her 2-year old granddaughter Lilian R. PASK.1
Child of Mary E. ATWELL
Mary Elizabeth ATWELL+1 b. 1877, d. 1930
Mary Elizabeth COUSINS1
Mary married Augustus PASK, son of William PASK and Elizabeth Ann ROBERTS, in 1901 in the Pontypridd registration district.2,3,1
Children of Mary Elizabeth COUSINS and Augustus St. Clare PASK
James PASK4 b. 1901, d. 26 Dec 1966
David Augustus PASK5 b. 1907, d. 1909
Clara May PASK4 b. 16 Nov 1909, d. Sep 2001
Eunice Noreen PASK+6 b. 15 Jan 1910, d. Jan 1994
Olive Gwendoline PASK7 b. 11 Feb 1912, d. Aug 2000
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1901/Q4 COUSINS, Mary Elizabeth Pontypridd 11a 945."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1901/Q4 PASK, Augustus Pontypridd 11a 945."
[S415] Website Ancestry Civil Registration - Births: 1901/Q4 PASK, Augustus Pontypridd 11a 945 = COUSINS, Mary Elizabeth.
[S2090] E-mail from Amanda Bellamy to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 6 May 2006.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1907/Q2 PASK, David Augustus Pontypridd 11a 559."
[S2090] E-mail from Amanda Bellamy to Stuart & Teresa Pask.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1912/Q1 PASK, Olive G. COUSINS Pontypridd 11a 1225."
David Augustus PASK1
David Augustus PASK's birth was registered in 1907 in the Pontypridd registration district.1 He was the son of Augustus St. Clare PASK and Mary Elizabeth COUSINS.1
David died in infancy in 1909 in the Pontypridd registration district at the age of 2 years.2
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1909/Q1 PASK, David Augustus Pontypridd 11a 333 age 1."
Eunice Noreen PASK1
#6764, b. 15 January 1910, d. January 1994
Last Edited=1 May 2006
Eunice Noreen PASK was born on 15 January 1910, in the Pontypridd registration district.1,2,3 She was the daughter of Augustus St. Clare PASK and Mary Elizabeth COUSINS.1
Eunice married Iorwerth W. JONES in 1933 in the Pontypridd registration district.1,4,5
Eunice died in January 1994 in the Merthyr Tydfil registration district.3
Child of Eunice Noreen PASK and Iorwerth W. JONES
Elaine Marie JONES1
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1910/Q1 PASK, Eunice Noreen Pontypridd 11a 596."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "Eunice Noreen Jones Birth Date: 15 Jan 1910 Death Registration Month/Year: Jan 1994 Age at death (estimated): 83 Registration District: Merthyr Tydfil Inferred County: Mid Glamorgan Register Number: B77A Entry number: 140."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1933/Q3 JONES, Iorwerth W. Pontypridd 11a 1596."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1933/Q3 PASK, Eunice N. JONES Pontypridd 11a 1596."
Olive Gwendoline PASK1
#6765, b. 11 February 1912, d. August 2000
Olive G. PASK was born on 11 February 1912, in the Pontypridd registration district.2,1 She was the daughter of Augustus St. Clare PASK and Mary Elizabeth COUSINS.2
Olive married Sebert BRAKE in 1932 in the Pontypridd registration district.3
Olive died in August 2000 in the Merthyr Tydfil registration district aged 88.1
Research Note: Olive is believed to be the youngest child of Augustus and Elizabeth, as there are no further children with the mother's maiden name of COUSINS.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "Olive Gwendoline Brake Birth Date: 11 Feb 1912 Death Registration Month/Year: Aug 2000 Age at death (estimated): 88 Registration District: Merthyr Tydfil Inferred County: Mid Glamorgan Register Number: A104A Entry number: 16."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1932/Q3 BRAKE, Sebert PASK Pontypridd 11a 1341."
Iorwerth W. JONES1
Iorwerth married Eunice Noreen PASK, daughter of Augustus St. Clare PASK and Mary Elizabeth COUSINS, in 1933 in the Pontypridd registration district.1,2,3
Child of Iorwerth W. JONES and Eunice Noreen PASK
Sebert BRAKE1
Sebert married Olive Gwendoline PASK, daughter of Augustus St. Clare PASK and Mary Elizabeth COUSINS, in 1932 in the Pontypridd registration district.1
#6769, b. 21 June 1827, d. 1902
Last Edited=7 Jan 2018
3rd great-granddaughter of John PASK
Ann PASK was born on 21 June 1827 in Chevington, Suffolk.1,2 She was the daughter of John PASK and Ellen MORTLOCK.1,3 Ann PASK was baptised on 23 June 1827 in Chevington, Suffolk.2,1 In the census of 7 June 1841 in Hargrave, Suffolk, she was listed as aged 14 a female servant of Francis NUNN, a Farmer.4,1
She was the informant of the registration of the birth of her son Arthur George PASK who was born on 14 November 1847 at Chedburgh, Suffolk.5,6,1,7,8 Ann witnessed the marriage of Kezia BEAVIS and her brother George PASK on 9 December 1848 in Stansfield, Suffolk.9,10,11 Ann married Joshiah ORRISS on 25 December 1849 in Chedburgh, Suffolk. She was a Spinster of full age, residing at Chedburgh. Her father was listed as John PASK, deceased. The marriage was witnessed by Sophia ORRISS and George PASK [Brother].1,3,12
In the census of 30 March 1851 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, she was listed as aged 22 born in Chevington, the wife of Josiah ORRISS (a Shoemaker, living with his wife Ann, and 9 month old son Ebenezer, and George Arthur Pask (wife's son.)13)
In the census of 7 April 1861 in 15 St. Andrews Street, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, she was listed as a Shoebinder, aged 34 born in Bury St. Edmunds, the wife of Josiah ORRISS (a Shoemaker, living with his wife Ann, and children Arthur, Ebenezer, Catharine, Harry, and Frederick.)14
In the census of 2 April 1871 in Marquis Inn, Chedburgh, Suffolk, Chedburgh, Suffolk, she was listed as a Housekeeper, aged 42 born in Chevington, the wife of Josiah ORRISS (a Shoemaker, living with his wife Ann, and children "Ebernezer", Catherine, Harry, and Fredy.)15
In the census of 3 April 1881 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, she was listed as aged 55 born in Chevington, the wife of Josiah ORRISS (a Boot Maker, living with his wife Ann, and children Ebenezer, Kate, and Harry.)16
In the census of 5 April 1891 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, she was listed as aged 62 born in Chevington, the wife of Josiah ORRISS (a Shoemaker, living with his wife Ann, and his son "Ebeneza", and grandchildren Joshua, and John Wm.)17
Her husband, Josiah, died in 1891 in the Thingoe registration district.18
In the census of 31 March 1901 in Porters Farm, Grumbel Street, Chedburgh, Suffolk, Ann was listed as aged 72 born in Chevington, the Head of Household; a widow, a Seamstress, living with her sons Ebenezer, and John W. [grandson]19
Ann died in 1902 in the Thingoe registration district.20
Child of Ann PASK
Arthur George PASK+1 b. 14 Nov 1847, d. 16 Jan 1932
Children of Ann PASK and Josiah ORRISS
Ebenezer ORRISS13 b. 1850
Katharine ORRISS15 b. 1853
Harry ORRISS15 b. 1855
Frederick ORRISS15 b. 1857
[S2091] E-mail from David Pask to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 29 April 2006.
[S384] Website FamilySearch Internet (http://www.familysearch.org) : Batch: C132401.
[S2093] Transcript of the marriage of Joshiah Orriss and Ann Pask, 25 December 1849. Kindly provided by Sandra Stevens - GOONS Marriage Challenge.
[S2092] Image of the 1841 Census for Hargrave, Suffolk: HO107 Piece 1037 Book 6 Folio 7-8. Indexed incorrectly under the name of PARK.
[S1026] E-mail from Hazel to Stuart & Teresa Pask.
[S1025] Image of the 1881 Census for Stanstead, Suffolk: RG11 Piece 1831 Folio 174 Page 7.
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1847/Q4 PASK, Arthur George Thingoe 13 453."
[S3302] Copy of the birth certificate of Arthur George Pask, born 14 November 1847. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S2808] Image of the 1881 Census for Chedburgh, Suffolk: RG11 Piece 1837 Folio 51 Page 10-11.
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1848/Q4 PASK, George Risbridge 12 829."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1848/Q4 BEAVIS, Kezia Risbridge 12 829."
[S3304] Copy of the marriage certificate of Joshiah Orriss and Ann Pask, 25 December 1849. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S2094] Image of the 1851 for Chedburgh, Suffolk: HO107 Piece 1791 Folio 198 Page 30.
[S2831] Image of the 1861 Census for 15 St. Andrews Street, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk: RG9 Piece 1140 Folio 116 Page 28.
[S2830] Image of the 1871 Census for Marquis Inn, Chedburgh, Suffolk: RG10 Piece 1724 Folio 138-9 Page 10-11.
[S2832] Image of the 1881 Census for Chedburgh, Suffolk: RG11 Piece 1837 Folio 50 Page 7.
[S2833] Image of the 1891 Census for Chedburgh, Suffolk: RG12 Piece 1447 Folio 119 Page 8.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1891/Q2 ORRISS, Josiah Thingoe 4a 445 age 63."
[S2834] Image of the 1901 Census for Chedburgh, Suffolk: RG13 Piece 1751 Folio 109 Page 3. Indexed incorrectly under the name of OERISS.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1902/Q3 ORRIS, Ann Thingoe 4a 433 age 75."
Josiah ORRISS1,2
Joshiah ORRISS was born in 1828 in Chedburgh, Suffolk.2 Joshiah married Ann PASK, daughter of John PASK and Ellen MORTLOCK, on 25 December 1849 in Chedburgh, Suffolk. He was a Shoemaker, a Bachelor of full age, residing at Chedburgh. His father was listed as Christopher ORRISS, a Shoemaker. The marriage was witnessed by Sophia ORRISS and George PASK [Brother].3,4,5
In the census of 30 March 1851 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, Josiah was listed as aged 23 born in Chedburgh, the Head of Household; a Shoemaker, living with his wife Ann, and 9 month old son Ebenezer, and George Arthur Pask (wife's son.)2
In the census of 7 April 1861 in 15 St. Andrews Street, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, Josiah was listed as aged 34 born in Bury St. Edmunds, the Head of Household; a Shoemaker, living with his wife Ann, and children Arthur, Ebenezer, Catharine, Harry, and Frederick.6
In the census of 2 April 1871 in Marquis Inn, Chedburgh, Suffolk, Chedburgh, Suffolk, Josiah was listed as aged 43 born in Chedburgh, the Head of Household; a Shoemaker, living with his wife Ann, and children "Ebernezer", Catherine, Harry, and Fredy.1
In the census of 3 April 1881 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, Josiah was listed as aged 56 born in Chedburgh, the Head of Household; a Boot Maker, living with his wife Ann, and children Ebenezer, Kate, and Harry.7
In the census of 5 April 1891 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, Josiah was listed as aged 62 born in Chedburgh, the Head of Household; a Shoemaker, living with his wife Ann, and his son "Ebeneza", and grandchildren Joshua, and John Wm.8
Josiah died in 1891 in the Thingoe registration district.9
Children of Josiah ORRISS and Ann PASK
Ebenezer ORRISS2 b. 1850
Katharine ORRISS1 b. 1853
Harry ORRISS1 b. 1855
Frederick ORRISS1 b. 1857
Ebenezer ORRISS1
Ebenezer ORRISS was born in 1850 in Chedburgh, Suffolk.2,3 He was the son of Josiah ORRISS and Ann PASK.1
In the census of 30 March 1851 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, he was listed as aged 9 months born in Chevington, the son of Josiah ORRISS.1
In the census of 7 April 1861 in 15 St. Andrews Street, Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk, he was listed as aged 10 born in Bury St. Edmunds, the son of Josiah ORRISS.4 In the census of 2 April 1871 in Marquis Inn, Chedburgh, Suffolk, Chedburgh, Suffolk, he was listed as "Ebernezer" aged 20 born in Chedburgh, the son of Josiah ORRISS.3 In the census of 3 April 1881 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, he was listed as an Agricultural Labourer, aged 31 born in Chedburgh, the son of Josiah ORRISS.5 In the census of 5 April 1891 in Chedburgh, Suffolk, he was listed as "Ebeneza", an Agricultural Labourer, unmarried aged 31 born in Chedburgh, the son of Josiah ORRISS.6 In the census of 31 March 1901 in Porters Farm, Grumbel Street, Chedburgh, Suffolk, he was listed as a General Labourer, unmarried aged 50 born in Chedburgh, the son of Ann ORRISS.7
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1850/Q3 ORRIS, Ebenezer Thingoe 13 500."
Beatrice PARKER1
#6772, b. 18 September 1879, d. 18 February 1954
Beatrice PARKER was born on 18 September 1879 in 3 Meaburn Street, West Derby, Lancashire. She was the daughter of Alfred & Fanny PARKER née ROWLANDS, an Auctioneer.2,3,4
Beatrice married Harry PASK, son of Arthur George PASK and Emma CLARKE, on 7 March 1904 in The Register Office, Westminster, London. She was a Spinster aged 24, residing at Carlton Club, 94 Pall Mall. Her father was listed as Alfred Parker, an Auctioneers Clerk. The marriage was witnessed by A.E. Hills & D.H. Martin.1,5,6,3
Beatrice PARKER was the informant of the birth of Arthur George PASK on 12 August 1904 in General Lying in Hospital, York Road, Lambeth, London.1,7
On 19 August 1904, at the time of the birth of their son, Beatrice and Harry lived at 12d Block, Peabody Buildings, Pear Street, Westminster, London.8 At the time of her son's birth registration on 19 August 1904, her husband Harry was listed as a Club Porter. They were residing at 12D Block, Peabody Buildings, Kent Street, Westminster, London.8 As of 7 May 1908,at the time of the registration of the birth of their daughter Ruby, Beatrice and Harry lived at 31 Smithdown Lane, West Derby, Lancashire.9 As of 27 October 1910,at the time of the registration of the birth of their son Alfred Charles, Beatrice and Harry lived at 49 Lissant Street, West Derby, Lancashire.10 As of 5 July 1912,at the time of the registration of the birth of their son Harry, Beatrice and Harry lived at 7 Barret Street, West Derby, Lancashire. Harry was a Hotel Porter.11 As of 9 July 1914,at the time of the registration of the birth of their daughter Laura Beatrice, Beatrice and Harry lived at 3 Holmes Street, Toxteth Park, Lancashire.12 As of 20 July 1916,at the time of the registration of the birth of their son Thomas, Beatrice and Harry lived at 61 Chatsworth Street, West Derby, Lancashire.13 As of 26 October 1921,at the time of the registration of the death of their daughter Laura Beatrice, Beatrice and Harry lived at 61 Chatsworth Street, West Derby, Lancashire.14
Her husband, Harry, died on 21 November 1933 in Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, Lancashire, at the age of 54.15,16
Beatrice died in 18 February 1954 in the Liverpool registration district aged 74.2,17
Children of Beatrice PARKER and Harry PASK
Arthur George PASK+1 b. 12 Aug 1904, d. 1943
Ruby PASK+1 b. 26 Mar 1908, d. Feb 1994
Alfred Charles PASK+1 b. 13 Sep 1910, d. 22 Oct 1991
Harry PASK1 b. 2 Jun 1912, d. 1912
Laura Beatrice PASK1 b. 7 Jun 1914, d. 23 Oct 1921
Thomas PASK+1 b. 20 Jun 1916, d. 20 Jan 1964
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1954/Q1 PASK, Beatrice Liverpool N 10d 194 age 74."
[S3315] Copy of the marriage certificate of Harry Pask and Beatrice Parker, 7 March 1904. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3316] Copy of the birth certificate of Beatrice Parker, born 18 September 1879. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1904/Q1 PASK, Harry Westminster 1a 805."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1904/Q1 PARKER, Beatrice Westminster 1a 805."
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "GRO Online Index: 1904/Q3 PASK, Arthur George PARKER Lambeth 1d 291."
[S3317] Copy of the birth certificate of Arthur George Pask, born 12 August 1904. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3319] Copy of the birth certificate of Ruby Pask, born 26 March 1908. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3320] Copy of the birth certificate of Alfred Charles, born 13 September 1910. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3321] Copy of the birth certificate of Harry, born 2 June 1912. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3322] Copy of the birth certificate of Laura Beatrice Pask, born 7 June 1914. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3324] Copy of the birth certificate of Thomas Pask, born 20 June 1916. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3323] Copy of the death certificate of Laura Beatrice Pask, who died 23 October 1921. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1933/Q4 PASK, Harry Liverpool 8b 71 age 54."
[S3310] Copy of the death certificate of Harry Pask, who died 21 November 1933. Kindly provided by David Pask.
[S3329] Copy of the death certificate of Beatrice Pask, who died 18 February 1954. Kindly provided by David Pask.
Arthur George PASK1,2
#6773, b. 12 August 1904, d. 1943
Arthur George PASK was born on 12 August 1904 in the General Lying in Hospital, York Road, Lambeth, London.1,3 He was the son of Harry PASK and Beatrice PARKER.1 At the time of his birth registration, he lived with his parents Harry and Beatrice in 12d Block, Peabody Buildings, Pear Street, Westminster, London.2
George married Mary May COLLINS in 1925 in the Liverpool registration district.4,5
Arthur died in 1943 at 23 Solway Street, Liverpool, Lancashire. His occupation was given as a Saxophonist (Dance Orchestra.)6,7
Children of Arthur George PASK and Mary May COLLINS
George Thomas PASK+4 b. 22 Jun 1926, d. 22 Jan 2004
Barbara M. PASK4
[S2091] E-mail from David Pask to Stuart & Teresa Pask dated 15 July 2008.
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1925/Q4 PASK, George A. = COLLINS, Mary May Liverpool 8b 272."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "1943/Q1 PASK, Arthur G. Liverpool S 8b 76 age 38."
[S3318] Copy of the death certificate of Arthur George Pask, who died 21 January 1943. Kindly provided by David Pask.
Ruby PASK1
#6774, b. 26 March 1908, d. February 1994
6th great-granddaughter of John PASK
Ruby Black née Pask
Ruby PASK was born on 26 March 1908 at 31 Smithdown Lane, West Derby, Lancashire.1,2,3 She was the daughter of Harry PASK and Beatrice PARKER.1 In November 1933, at the time of the death of her father, Ruby lived at 61 Chatsworth Street, Liverpool, Lancashire; a Hotel Hall Porter.4 Ruby was the informant on the death certificate of her father Harry PASK who died on 21 November 1933 in the Royal Infirmary, Liverpool, Lancashire.5,4
Ruby married John C. BLACK in 1939 in the Liverpool registration district.6,7
Ruby died in February 1994 in the St. Helens registration district aged 85.8
Children of Ruby PASK and John C. BLACK
Ruby BLACK9
Elva M. BLACK9
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1908/Q2 PASK, Ruby W Derby 8b 598."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1939/Q2 PASK, Ruby BLACK Liverpool S 8b 33."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1939/Q2 BLACK, John C. PASK Liverpool S 8b 33."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "Ruby Black Birth Date: 26 Mar 1908 Death Registration Month/Year: Feb 1994 Age at death (estimated): 85 Registration district: St Helens Inferred County: Merseyside Register number: A35C Entry Number: 54."
Alfred Charles PASK1
#6775, b. 13 September 1910, d. 22 October 1991
Alfred C. PASK was born on 13 September 1910 in 49 Lissant Street, West Derby, Lancashire.1,2,3,4 He was the son of Harry PASK and Beatrice PARKER.1
Alfred married Mary W. PALIN in 1947 in the Liverpool registration district.5
At the time of his death, Alfred lived at 21 Eaton Road North, Liverpool, Lancashire.6
Alfred died on 22 October 1991, at the age of 81, and his death was registered in the Liverpool registration district.3,6
His estate was probated on 13 November 1991 at the Liverpool Probate Registry, Liverpool, Lancashire.6
His wife's, Mary, death was registered in October 2002 in the Liverpool registration district.7
Children of Alfred Charles PASK and Mary Winifred PALIN
Christine PASK8
John A. PASK8
[S2] GRO Indexes to Births. "1910/Q4 PASK, Alfred C. W Derby 8b 537."
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "PASK, Alfred Charles 30 Sep 1910 Liverpool 1991 October Volume 36 Page 355."
[S3] GRO Indexes to Marriages. "1947/Q4 PASK, Alfred C. = PALIN, Mary W. Liverpool 10d 775."
[S4999] Website UK Government Probate Search Service: PASK, Alfred Charles of 21 Eaton Rd North Liverpool died 22 October 1991 Probate Liverpool 13 November Not exceeding £125000 9151709496H.
[S4] GRO Indexes to Deaths. "PASK, Mary Winifred 8 Feb 1915 Liverpool 2002 October District 0251B Reg B36D Ent 51."
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PC Videogame Review: Insane Robots
Insane Robots is a new title from Playniac that features card-based battles but proudly takes the expensive CCG purchases and time-consuming deck customization out of the equation. The end result is a game that is very simple and fun to play but ultimately becomes a shallow experience over time.
Insane Robots is not as, well, Insane as the title would imply. There are no crazy endeavors or world-altering gameplay mechanics; instead the story revolves around a series of Robots labelled insane or dangerous because they do not conform. The odd crew of robots is discovered as each arena is completed and cover a host of archetypes not typically associated with mechanical creatures.
As I played through the game, the characters reminded me of the off-the-wall residents of the movie Robots. I have kids so I watched that one a lot and each one had a tremendously unique personality. In Insane Robots the same is true. There are pet, gold mining, chef, and space probe robots among many others. In all 25 robots can be unlocked.
Each robot has distinct benefits, enhanced defense or other bonuses, but ultimately, as the game mechanics have been tightly focused down to a 22-token deck, it will generally be a battle of strategy, attrition, or a lucky card.
The core of the game is the battles, which occur when another robot is encountered in the arena. Once battle starts tokens are assigned and some can be subbed. These tokens are generally attack, defense, and modification or buff abilities. One of the neat twists is that two attack or defense cards need to be placed and a circuit established to be able to defend or launch an attack on the opponent.
This twist is further compounded by the fact that these cards have various strength levels, which can be swapped or decreased by your opponent. Carefully managing your attack and defense while watching out for your opponents’ matching stats is a key focus. Many matches were decided by a quick swap just before an attack was launched.
The simplicity of the decks is deceiving, and I have had some matches stretch for countless turns while a back-and-forth dance is engaged. There are ways to buff your robot during an arena to add an edge by visiting the scattered shops on the playing field. These buffs can be extra health, healing from previous battles, or unlocking and enhancing augment slots.
Each arena is a hex grid with various terrain types that sometimes have fog-of-war or limiting movement variables. As enemies are defeated or random events encountered while exploring, money and parts are gained. These can be spent at the shops for perks or new powers for your robot. All money is lost between arenas, as are perks – but unlocks to your robots for new skill slots are preserved. This encourages some replayability with certain robots between arenas.
The issue with this is the large number of different robots and how often new ones are introduced. I always wanted to try the new robot just to see the little story tidbits, such as how the robot rebellion would unfold. This left me not getting very attached to a particular robot, as I was switching over and over again. The story as well is fun but not terribly compelling; it unfolds in bits and pieces at the start of each arena until the greater story is resolved.
In the end the meat of the game is the overland exploration and battles. Exploration is boring and seems to be designed to take too long, and the battles are fun but ultimately become stale and repetitive because the deck is so curated.
Insane Robots is a very neat concept and a game that is fun to play but lacks a lot of long-term staying power, mostly due, unfortunately, to its elimination of CCG mechanics. When there is a desire to collect more cards or build an Epic deck you keep playing. In this case the battles are interesting and can be very tense, but the compelling collectible side of this game is where Insane Robots falters.
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So.Many.Games
I am in the midst of many games right now, some nostalgic (Temple of Elemental Evil), some average (Afro Samurai), some incredibly shitty (Quantum Theory) and one that is completely blowing me away - Enslaved: Odyssey to the West.
This game is from the talented folks at Ninja Theory who made the ahead of it's time Heavenly Sword. Heavenly Sword was beautiful, had some of the best motion capture and voice acting this side of Uncharted but had framerate and pacing issues that ultimately stalled it and held it back from a blockbuster. It was also really, really short and seemed designed as a rental game.
Enslaved on the other hand shows the maturity of the developer and they bring in many of their strengths from Heavenly sword and few of the weaknesses. It is a true single player game and it features a pair of incredibly real, likeable and human characters in the form of Trip and Monkey. They are both escapees from a slaver ship, but Trip wakes up first and slaps a slave band on …
Whiskey of the Year?
Late in 2015 a relatively inexpensive, frankly cheap, whisky from Canada called Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye won a very prestigious award - Worldwide Whiskey of the Year beating out out champions from Scotland, Japan and the US. In the words of the reviewer Jim Murray:
“Crown Royal Northern Harvest pops up out of nowhere and changes the game,” said Murray of the whisky, which he awarded a record-tying 97.5 out of 100 points. “It certainly puts the rye into Canadian Rye. To say this is a masterpiece is barely doing it justice.”
Naturally as a developing Whiskey connoisseur I wanted to try this $40 bottle of Rye Whiskey myself, but an announcement like that broke the walls of the drinking world and the Northern Harvest Rye has been selling out for nearly 6 months with further accolades coming in the meantime:
In addition to being named 2016 World Whisky of the Year, Crown Royal Northern Harvest Rye received a double gold medal at this year’s San Francisco World Spirits Competition.…
Cool Concept Art
In other gaming news I am a sucker for a great concept picture, this one from the upcoming Bethesda Softworks game Wet was just too cool for school:
Well the game is launching soon and it is described as a highly stylized 3rd person action game. Shoot anywhere, anytime gunplay (think Stranglehold) combined with sword fighting and amazing acrobatics. The story is supposed to be zany, serious and gory, plus the main character is ridonculously hot. I like any game that can turn the concept image above into a near perfect in-game model below. There is a demo live on the UK PSN store, gonna try it tonight!
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Various - Mocambo Funk Forty Fives
Posted on Monday 14 January 2008, 19:28 - updated on 14/04/09 - Music News - Permalink
(CD/LP) Mocambo MCD1001/MLP1001, 2008-01-14
This unique compilation spotlights the best tracks of Mocambo Records' scarce 7inch vinyl releases that took the deep funk scene by storm in summer 2006. Along with the labels own productions (Mocambo Allstars, The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band and Gizelle Smith), the first releases sported new recordings by obscure English groups like The Delta Rhythm Section, The Sound Stylistics and the supreme Vinylizor Productions team (Jay Glover, Gary Crockett & Dominic Glover) as well as unreleased tracks by such greats as the James Taylor Quartet and Speedometer.
01. The Delta Rhythm Section - Funkin' Fever - 2:41
02. Glover, Crockett & Glover - The Prophet - 3:01
03. The Sound Stylistics - Party People - 2:39
04. Mocambo Allstars - Swamp Strut - 3:29
05. James Taylor Quartet - Walkin' the Walk - 2:59
06. Speedometer - Do Watcha Like - 3:18
07. The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band - Look-Ka Py Py - 2:44
08. The Sound Stylistics - Back on the Streets - 3:02
09. Mocambo Allstars - Another Message - 4:00
10. Ian Langley - Chicano Chaser - 3:25
11. James Taylor Quartet - Highway Patrol - 3:19
12. Speedometer - Hustle the Mustle - 2:56
13. The Delta Rhythm Section - The Getaway - 2:59
14. The Sound Stylistics - Get Ya Some - 2:54
15. Gizelle Smith & the Mocambo Allstars - Free Vibes
16. Glover, Crockett & Glover - Listen Up - 3:01
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Mocambo records are my newest and latest love of my life. Having picked up four 45s in one go and being thoroughly amazed at how fantastic they are, the word HAS to be spread. First up is `Funkin` Fever` is a slice of big band jazz funk with the emphasis on funk. Enormous horns, breakbeats and a smokin` rhythm section unite in pure musical perfection. Pete Isaac (Jelly Jazz)
This unique compilation spotlights the best tracks of Mocambo Records' scarce 7inch vinyl releases that took the deep funk scene by storm in summer 2006.
Along with the labels own productions (Mocambo Allstars, The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band and Gizelle Smith), the first releases sported new recordings by obscure English groups like The Delta Rhythm Section, The Sound Stylistics and the supreme Vinylizor Productions team (Jay Glover, Gary Crockett & Dominic Glover) as well as unreleased tracks by such greats as the James Taylor Quartet and Speedometer.
Not only the fact that all of the recordings were previously unreleased gems, it was also the way the 7" inch singles were released that made the records desirable collector's items in their own right. While it would have been possible to sell a 1000 copies of each, the label decided to stick with the charm of obscure and forgotten Funk 45s and not press more than 300 copies of each release. Manufactured at a private pressing plant in Germany, the records not only delivered the sound of rare Funk 45s, but also the look and, of course, the quantity. One of the Delta Rhythm Section's 7inches did not even reach the amount of copies that had been licenced because the stamp did break before the whole edition could be finished.
Needless to say, the records were sold out in a short time. For people who missed the limited vinyl edition, it was still impossible to get hold of the brilliant tunes. Popular request led the label to "re-issue" the best sides of the original 45s on this compilation so that all fans of the material can enjoy the music without breaking the bank.
The selection of tunes included in this compilation is broad variety of styles in the genre of funk.
While the Delta Rhythm Section provides a more perfected version mid seventies big band funk, the Sound Stylistics stand for the raw garage sound of small labels in the early 70s with a wild instrumental style that became known as 'deep funk' (hence the library album title of the same name).
The bonafide productions of Jay Glover, Dominic Glover and Gary Crockett focus on classic vintage keyboard instruments as the Minimoog, Hohner Clavinet D6 and the Hammond B-3.
The Bacao Rhythm & Steel Band brings some West Indian flavour to the mix by performing a classic Meters track with Steel Drums and killer breakbeats, showing that New Orleans is just a stone's throw away from the South Caribbean islands of Trinidad & Tobago.
The UK's primo funk outfit Speedometer round up the compilation with uptempo Latin-tinged dancefloor funk while the Mocambo Allstars pay homage to the late James Brown, the J.B.'s instrumental sound and early rap groups with three of their own productions.
Other artists such as the James Taylor Quartet and Ian Langley represent the cinematic side of funk with their takes on blaxploitation scores, giving the listener a perfect underscore for vintage urban drama, big city hustle and car chase scenes.
Bacao Rhythm and Steel Band
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Won't you help us... Save Our Tappan Zee??
Our not-for-profit apolitical mission is to return the Tappan Zee Bridge its original name, and to preserve the history of the Tappan Indians (Tappan) and Dutch Settlers (Zee is Dutch for 'sea') who inspired the name. The original name of the span crossing the Hudson River between Westchester and Rockland counties must return.
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Hasbro Unveils Plans for My Little Pony G5
It is no surprise, now that G4 shows signs of winding down, that Hasbro is already putting together its plans to revamp the My Little Pony franchise yet again. The new version, which Hasbro executives recently revealed to Entertainment Weekly in an exclusive screening, is designed with a number of arguably conflicting goals in mind.
First, Hasbro wants to maintain the core base of young children, which means the content has to be such that will interest them, and which their parents will approve. Second, Hasbro wants to maintain the audience of older girls by placing more emphasis on romance and adolescent drama. Third, Hasbro hopes to keep the new peripheral fandom by adding more complex themes and storylines. Finally, Hasbro also hopes to bring back to the franchise the older generations of fans and collectors who were turned off by G4; thus, G5 will have a lusher look with more overt fantasy elements, and it will blend components of all the previous generations into a single world.
The pilot of the new series, tentatively entitled My Little Pony: Equestrienne Girls, has almost completed filming, and the production as it currently stands was revealed to Entertainment Weekly in a three-hour session. A complete copy of the script is unavailable at present, of course, but we can piece together most of the content of the pilot, which will take the form of a two-hour movie slated to air on Discovery Kids in the fall of 2017.
The story does not begin in the land of ponies at all, but in a high school. The heroine, fourteen-year-old Megan, is a freshman girl madly in love with horses and all things horse-related. Alas, like many young girls who want ponies, she doesn’t have one. She does however have six friends who are accomplished equestriennes: there’s the bookish Tina, who rides a Dales Pony named Twilight Sparkle; the elegant Rowellina, whose beautiful Fell Pony mare Rarity has won many pleasure riding competitions; the cowgirl Amelia, who rides her hardy Criollo Applejack in Western competitions; the spunky Roxy, who rides a feisty Caspian-Welsh cross named Rainbow Dash; the shy Faith, who rides a gentle Batak named Fluttershy; and the hyperactive Paulina, whose energetic Dartmoor Pinkie Pie has won many jumping contests.
Megan, though she doesn’t have a pony to call her own, nonetheless knows everything there is to know about horses, and she is an excellent rider in her own right, having frequently ridden the horses of her friends. Megan’s passion for the equestrian arts is matched only by her curious penchant for certain anachronisms, which have earned her a reputation as an eccentric. She wears long and frilly dresses to school, keeps a complete tea service in her locker (she brings it out at lunchtime), and speaks in an arch fashion.
Unbeknownst to her, Megan’s strange ways have gained her the attentions of a new boy in town, Spike Hawterson, who was the star quarterback at his former school. So far, on account of her mannerisms, he hasn’t worked up the courage to speak to her. For her part, Megan shows no interest in Spike whatsoever, but Spike has caught the eye of both Tina and Rowellina, who sigh over his chiseled frame and rakish good looks.
The yet-to-be-produced movie introduces this sizable and decidedly cumbersome cast of characters quite rapidly and quickly finds an excuse to bring them together: the Equestrienne Girls are planning for a big riding competition coming up on the weekend, and Megan is planning to watch. Spike, though he has no interest in horses, has an interest in Megan, so he plans to attend as well. The competition is about to start, and Spike confronts Megan behind the stables with the hopes of asking her on a date. Before he can untie his tongue, however, a transdimensional vortex opens, swallowing Megan, Spike, the Equestrienne Girls, and the six ponies.
Screenshot from My Little Pony: Equestrienne Girls.
They come to themselves in a beautiful and fantastic place called Ponyland, the inhabitants of which are various magical creatures, including a race of colorful, talking ponies, who rule over a kingdom called Equestria. To the girls’ surprise, their own ponies, under the influence of Ponyland’s magic, develop the ability to speak; soon after, each pony changes color and takes on the attributes of one of Ponyland’s three breeds, Earth, Unicorn, and Pegasus.
This of course thrills the Equestrienne Girls: they quickly become fast friends with their respective ponies, with whom they even start wearing matching outfits with interchangeable accessories, suitable for children ages three to seven.
Even Spike, though disoriented at first by the interdimensional travel and the strangeness of Ponyland, soon becomes good pals with a Pegasus named Flash Sentry, who teaches him many of Equestria’s martial arts, including the use of spear, broadsword, and poleax. Spike takes readily to this teaching, and his manful exertions often cause him to glisten shirtlessly. After his many bouts in the practice arena, he cools his overwarm flesh by pouring water on his face from a bucket, in slow motion, while doves take flight behind him.
The ponies of Equestria are a friendly lot, and they take the Equestrienne Girls on a whirlwind tour of Ponyland: they visit Ponyville, where they enjoy sweets at the Sugarcube Corner Playset; they visit the sprawling city of Unicornia, where they see Sweetie Belle’s Gumdrop House Playset with its spinning elevator; they go to the beach (each Equestrienne Girl and her pony in a matching swimsuit and sunbonnet) where they cavort with the sea ponies and mermares in the Undersea Castle Playset; and at last they travel to the capital city of Canterlot to see the greatest marvel in the land: the Dream Castle Playset.
Yet, through it all, Megan still hasn’t found a pony friend, and thus she waxes angsty.
At Dream Castle, the Equestrienne Girls and their companions are summoned before the benevolent rulers of this shining land, Princess Celestia and King Sombra. The princess and king officially welcome the newcomers to Equestria, but warn them that this paradisiacal kingdom holds great dangers as well as great wonders.
Leading them up to a high tower, Princess Celestia, with the wind whipping her long and beautiful mane, points to the east, where the girls can spy a high wall of marble and gold, beyond which swirls a dark cloud, in which nothing can be seen.
“A thousand years since,” Celestia intones, “my sister Luna waxed jealous of the ponies’ love for me, and thus she sought solace in the pursuit of profane power. She conjured divels out of Tartaros and had truck with the spirits of the middle air. After the darkness consumed her soul, she prostrated herself before the lords of the House of Silence, and thus she cast all the lands to the east in eternal shadow. If any of her servants catch a pony out after the sun has fallen, they drag her back to my sister’s sunless land. There, by her dark arts, she transforms that hapless pony into one of the slavering Wraiths who serve her.”
Celestia heaves a deep sigh. “The wall you see, which I erected nine hundred years gone, is our only defense against my sister’s malice. On its parapets, my guards stand vigilant, their magical spears charged with power and dripping golden fire. They are ever watchful to turn back any Wraiths who would profane our fair land, but nonetheless, our enemies sometimes slip through. I believe they have grown bolder of late, for, since you first appeared in our land, many ponies have disappeared without a trace, and I fear Luna has already perverted their souls and warped their bodies in her torture pits.”
The other girls listen raptly, but Megan broods on these words and, brooding, descends back into Dream Castle alone. On a winding staircase, she comes upon King Sombra, who nods to her gravely. “I have scried in my glass,” he says, “and have determined that Equestria’s fate is bound up with thine. Come with me.”
Without a word, Megan follows Sombra, who takes her to a lavishly decorated boudoir where a white pony is gazing into a mirror and brushing her bright pink hair.
“Sundance, my daughter,” Sombra says, “is this the strange creature—fair of mane, hairless on its body, and armed with hands—that thou beholdest in thy dreams?”
Sundance carefully lowers her brush. She says not a word, but when she looks at Megan, her eyes shine. She rises from her seat, walks to the girl, and kisses her on the mouth.
From that day forth, Megan and Sundance are inseparable. They wear matching outfits as the Equestrienne Girls and their ponies do, and they often take lavish tea parties in the beautiful gardens around Dream Castle. Megan cannot tell whether she is in heaven or on earth, now that she at last has a pony friend of her own.
Yet from time to time, Sundance turns pensive and taciturn, and Megan often notices Sombra, his grave face never cracking a smile, watching the two of them from corners or through windows.
At last, late at night, Sombra, with a wrinkled and heavily bearded pony by his side, rouses Megan and Sundance from their slumber and leads them down a dark passage into a series of cold and dank caverns beneath the castle.
In a deep cave, they come upon a tiny island in the middle of an underground pool. The pool glows an unearthly green, and seated in the center of the island is a wizened gnome, his eyes closed as if in sleep.
The bearded pony at last speaks, and his voice is dry and husky with age. “This is Moochick,” he says, “my mentor. Five hundred years ago, he entered his meditations and never returned to his corporeal form. His spirit still hovers about us, watching and guiding us. Because of his protections, the Wraiths of the Dark Princess, though they oft transgress our land, never dare to enter Canterlot herself.”
“The talisman, Star Swirl,” Sombra says with a note of impatience. “Test them with the talisman.”
With a grunt, Star Swirl walks to Moochick and lifts from his neck a gold chain from which hangs a heart-shaped jewel, red like blood.
“This is the Rainbow Locket,” Star Swirl says. “It is a great power, and yet no pony can wield it. The prophecies speak of one from another land, one whose heart is pure, who will use its magic to cleanse Ponyland of darkness.” He places the Locket around Megan’s neck. “If you are the one of whom the sages speak, the magic of the Rainbow Locket will lead you.”
“And if I am not?” Megan asks.
Star Swirl merely shrugs, but his eyes look troubled. “I cannot say. But I possess the gift of Far Seeing, and I know that, whether you be the one we have awaited or no, you are destined for the falling and rising of many in Ponyland.” He turns to Sundance and adds, “And a sword will pierce your own soul also.” Then he pulls up his cloak to hide his face.
The morning after this strange interview, Megan is wild with grief, for Sundance has disappeared, and none can find trace of her.
At the news of the disappearance of her only daughter, Celestia tears the beautiful mane from her head and sits in dust and ashes. Sombra remains on his throne, though his brow is furrowed and his eyes are dark with pain. The courtiers and guards cast suspicion on Megan and her companions; some point out that these strange disappearances only began after the humans and these foreign ponies entered their land. A din of accusations fills Dream Castle’s grand audience hall.
A crack of thunder silences the noise, and all turn to stare at Star Swirl, who holds his knotted staff of oak over his head. “Fools!” he cries. “Has this soft and decadent age no reverence for the higher things? Behold, the girl-child wears the Rainbow Locket! Dare you accuse her to her face, you churls?”
At that, the courtiers stand chastened and abashed, and all turn to Megan and do her homage.
For her part, Megan feels some power, perhaps from the Locket, tugging at her heart, leading her and pointing her almost as a compass might.
She gasps, “I . . . I think I know where Sundance is.”
Star Swirl smiles. “Her heart is bound with thine. Go now and seek her. If, in thy journeys, thou losest thy way, remember these words: wither you wander, hither and yonder, let your heart be your guide.”
Megan nods.
Roxy and Rainbow Dash speak up as one and say, “If she’s goin’, we’re goin’ too!” The other Equestrienne Girls and their ponies quickly agree. Spike, struggling to hide his warm blush, gazes at Megan and announces his intention to follow as well. Flash Sentry asks leave to do the same, though his warm blush is not for Megan, but for Tina’s pony Twilight Sparkle.
The friends set forth on a lengthy journey. Megan, guided by the tugging on her heart, leads the way. Having no pony any longer, she rides in the saddle with Spike, whom she considers an untutored and simple fool, he being unable to form but broken sentences in her presence.
The friends range far and wide over Equestria, encountering many dangers, vanquishing many foes, and exploring many playsets (some readily available and some exclusive) until at last they make their way through a dark and mysterious forest to a high and forbidding range of mountains on Equestria’s southern end.
“I don’t get it,” Twilight Sparkle says. “I thought we’d be heading into the Realm of Nightmare.”
Flash Sentry, with his two riders on his back, steps up alongside her and says kindly, “The servants of the Dark Princess take many forms and burrow in many places, milady.”
Twilight turns from him, uncertain why such a simple and polite address should bring heat to her face.
Megan points to a dark cave. “The Locket is leading me there,” she says. Impatient, she reaches back and smites Flash Sentry on the haunch, cutting short his conversation with the fair Twilight and driving him toward the cave.
After many hours of journeying in darkness and beholding strange wonders, the friends at last peer down into a deep cavern, wondering if it might be a pit of hell itself, for down below, many ponies, their necks in chains, are digging at the cavern walls with cracked and bleeding hooves while monstrous cave trolls, their cavernous mouths dripping drool, lash them with whips.
“Oh, how vile, to chain a pony of Equestria!” Flash breathes. Teeth clenched with barely restrained passion, he turns to Twilight and says, “Milady, but grant me some token—a tassle from thy bridle, perhaps—so that, seeing it, I may think of thee and not faint in battle, and I shall slaughter the lot of these beasts in thy honor.”
Twilight, unable to think of what to say, turns her burning face away from him while, on her back, Tina gazes at Spike fondly and thinks of how gallant he looks in the golden armor Equestria’s artificers have furnished for him.
But then Megan leaps from Flash Sentry’s back and screams out, “No! No!” For, down below, she has spotted Sundance. Two great trolls stand over the little pony: one has her crushed against the ground with his enormous knee on her neck, and the other, with a grin of triumph on his hideous face, holds up two small, blood-clotted orbs, which Megan realizes, with a pang of horror sharp as a dagger digging into her innards, are Sundance’s eyes.
The scream has given away the companions’ position, so now they have no choice but to fight. Wave after wave of trolls, all of them bearing truncheons, rush upon the friends. Flash Sentry and Spike both give a battle cry. Flash fixes a lance to his tack, and Spike draws his great ax. Together, working as one, pony and rider smite troll after troll. Flash runs them through their soft underbellies, causing them to scream like wounded pigs, and Spike silences them with the edge of his blade, cleaving their heavy skulls in twain.
The other ponies fight with less skill but much gusto—as well as desperation. Rainbow Dash and Applejack prove strong, and they deliver punishing kicks with their hard hooves. Twilight Sparkle, now a unicorn, and having spent much time already in the tutelage of Star Swirl, casts fearsome spells that burn away the trolls’ faces or cause their innards to bleed out through their lower orifices. Rarity, though less skilled, nonetheless harries the trolls with spells of her own.
In spite of the heroes’ valiant effort, the trolls soon capture them and drag them before their master, a stooped and wrinkled wizard who sits upon a high throne made entirely of glowing, sparkling jewels.
The wizard gazes at them for several minutes, but at last his lips curl into a sneer. “As for the ponies,” he says in a high and reedy voice, “put out their eyes and put them to work with the others. As for the humans—kill them.”
An especially enormous and hulking troll, carrying a truncheon as thick as a tree stump, steps forward, eager to carry out the latter command.
Megan is certain the end is come, and she bows her neck in expectation of the killing blow, but then a voice, Sundance’s voice, whispers from across the chamber: “Megan. Oh, Megan, where are you?”
Then the Rainbow Locket burns as if it has turned to fire. Megan’s chains fall away, and a burst of light from the Locket consumes her, driving back the trolls, who clutch at their eyes and scream.
When the light subsides, Megan has transformed into Magical Girl Mega Megan. Her ordinary clothes have been replaced by jodhpurs, riding boots, a waistcoat, dressage tails, and a felt riding helmet, all of them in gaudy colors and decorated with frills and bows. With her magical riding crop, Mega Megan fires a blast of rainbow-colored light at the wizard.
Early concept art for Magical Girl Mega Megan.
The wizard utters a shrill cry, and the jewels of his throne glow. Mega Megan’s magic is deflected, and then the jewels fire many beams of hard light, all of which strike Mega Megan in the chest.
This magical attack proves so much less effective than a conventional weapon, as Mega Megan merely falls to her knees and looks despondent. She can feel her magic weakening quickly: she realizes her magic is powered by her heart, but her heart has darkened at the sight of Sundance being so cruelly maimed, and she is certain that their friendship must be ended, since she could not save her.
But then Sundance calls out again, “Megan! Megan, I believe in you!” And the Equestrienne Girls and their ponies cry out the same thing.
Mega Megan feels energy surging within her. She leaps to her feet and shouts, “By the power of friendship!” Then she casts another great bolt of rainbow-colored light. This time, the wizard puts up his hands and whimpers. Mega Megan’s attack bursts through his defenses, strikes him full in the face, and topples him into a conveniently placed crevasse.
With another spell, Mega Megan bursts the chains on all the prisoners. The Equestrienne Girls quickly mount their ponies, and Spike mounts Flash Sentry. The trolls, confused and panicking, rush about the chamber. Those that can, escape, but the others Flash and Spike slaughter with great slaughter until Flash’s breath comes in steaming snorts and trolls’ blood mats his fur to his hide.
A loud rumbling comes from the enormous throne of jewels, and the throne is rent asunder from top to bottom. The Equestrienne Girls and their ponies, seeing what is about to take place, duck behind rocks, but the imprisoned ponies of Equestria, all of whom had been blinded, do not know what is happening and make no effort to protect themselves.
The throne explodes, sending fragments of crystal ricocheting throughout the chamber. Then the captive ponies send up a great wailing, for each of them has been struck in her empty eye sockets by the razor-sharp crystal shards.
When the throne erupts, Mega Megan is still exposed. Spike, seeing this, runs to her, clutches her, and shields her with his own body.
Until then, Megan had thought little of Spike and had felt nothing but impatience with the way Tina and Rowellina mooned over him. But now she notices for the first time how his long and delicate lashes frame his kindly eyes, and how firmly his well-formed lips sit one atop the other, giving him a look of strength and determination.
After the blast has subsided, Spike lifts Megan in his thewy arms; she neither complains nor resists as he carries her, with overpowering strength as well as overpowering gentleness, out of the caves and into the sunlight. At the very mouth of the cave, he at last collapses, and now Megan can see that hundreds of crystal shards, each marked by a gush of blood, had pierced his armor and entered his back.
The friends, now weary, lead the rescued ponies back toward Canterlot. The ponies whose eyes had been put out, and who had been struck with crystals, soon heal: the crystals grow, fill the empty sockets, and take the place of their eyes.
Only Sundance, who had not been struck by the crystal shards, remains blinded.
Spike, though he breathes regularly, is senseless throughout the trip, and Flash carries him on his back. The crystals in Spike’s back dig deep and begin to spread; his flesh takes on a violet hue and turns rough.
Megan leads the blinded Sundance gently by her bridle, weeping all the while. “I’m so sorry, Sundance,” she whispers. “Can you ever forgive me?”
“You came to save me,” Sundance answers. “There’s nothing to forgive.”
When they return to Canterlot, Sombra, seeing his daughter maimed, topples from his throne. His servants retire him to his bed, where he lies for many days on the brink of death. Celestia, however, though grief is plain on her face, welcomes the heroes and embraces her daughter.
The guards of Dream Castle quickly place Spike in confinement, for they recognize that the magic jewels are transforming him into a dragon—and dragons are the ancient enemies of the ponies.
Though Megan, the Equestrienne Girls, and their pony friends have returned as heroes, they receive a heroes’ welcome—and a subdued one at that—only from Princess Celestia. The courtiers at Dream Castle are inclined to blame these foreigners for the blinding of the heir to Equestria’s throne, and they are suspicious, too, of the former prisoners who have returned to them, on account of their mysterious, jeweled eyes.
The ponies of the jeweled eyes soon become known as the Twinkle Eyes, and they are given to strange visions, for their eyes reveal to them things ponies were not meant to see: often they quail in fear at sights only they can behold, and one of them, Sky Rocket, even goes mad, murmuring disquieting things about the Pallid Mask and the Slowly Turning Wheel.
As for Megan, she sits before a window and gazes out over Equestria as the sun sets. In the east, the dark cloud over the Nightmare Realm roils and seethes, suggesting that the Wraiths have grown restless. Glancing at Sundance, who lies in bed and sleeps heavily, Megan fingers the Rainbow Locket around her neck as she muses that, perhaps very soon, Ponyland will have need once again of Magical Mega Megan and the Equestrienne Girls.
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Cute Girl with Giant Robot . . . in Real Life
Good old Japan. A reader sent me a link to this video dating to 2012, and though it took me a little time, I came to the conclusion that it's legitimate and not a joke.
This company, Suidobashi Heavy Industry, is apparently selling a mecha, called a Kuratas, armed with BB miniguns and some sort of water bottle rocket thingy.
I have no idea what you're supposed to do with this thing. Drive it to a party? Use it to play Airsoft? It costs 1.3 million dollars, so who has money for this sort of toy?
If Megan Doesn't Appear in Season 5, I'm Gonna Flip a Table
Oh crud, guys, we've cheesed her off!
Seriously, Hasbro, I've been watching your stupid magic pony show for, like, four years now, plus the comic books (which are kinda awesome), plus the chapbooks (which kinda suck), plus the movies in which the talking horses transform into teeny-boppers (WTF?), and you still haven't given me what I want.
I give you one more chance. That is, I give you one more season. If Megan doesn't show up in Season 5, I'm gonna ragequit. In case you don't know, that's internet-speak for getting really angry and quitting.
And make sure you ASK A PARENT FIRST!
So after I watched that video, I did what it said and asked my parents, and they told me to grow up and stop playing with ponies. Now I'm conflicted and confused.
Wait, where was I? Oh, right. Megan. You see, the cartoony show My Little Pony: Friendship Has a Really Long Subtitle for a Kids' Cartoon and It's Kinda Awkward and Only Gets Worse in the Expanded Universe Stuff Where You Sometimes Even Have Two or Three Subtitles Such as the Chapbook My Little Pony: Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks: The Mane Event, and What the Hell Is Up with That? is entering its fifth season this coming spring, and teaser trailers (such as the one shown above) have been coming out . . .
. . . And there's still no sign of Megan!
This table. I flip it for you.
Who is Megan, you ask? Megan was the star of the original My Little Pony, the good one, back in the Eighties. All the best stuff is from the Eighties. Like mullets. And Megan was awesome.
Megan was all, like, cool and stuff, because she, like, flew around on horses. And stuff.
In the last couple of years, I managed to acquire a DVD set of the original My Little Pony. The show was on when I was seven, and my memories of it were vague, so I assumed I only watched it occasionally. Upon rewatching it as an adult, however, I discovered that I recognized something from most every episode, which means I didn't watch it occasionally. I watched it religiously. And I'm pretty sure the main reason I watched it was Megan.
I consider Megan my first magical girl.
Although it has its merits, nobody in his right mind claims the original My Little Pony was a great work of art. The animation quality was on the lower end of what was passable, the writing varied in quality but was mostly so-so, and the musical numbers were an affront to the very existence of eardrums. But Megan, the farm girl who got to hang out with the talking magic ponies, is one of those characters who transcend the inadequate media in which they are depicted. Wise beyond her years, throwing herself into danger for others' sake, motherly yet short-tempered, armed with a deus ex machina device, always ready to give an impromptu lecture on the virtues of love and friendship, and willing to seriously kick butt when necessary, Megan is the best thing the My Little Pony franchise has ever produced.
In all honesty, that's not saying much. But still.
Dangerous when provoked.
The thing is, even Tirek the Centaur, a loser villain from G1—whom Megan killed—got shoehorned into the current generation of My Little Pony; he was the villain in the finale of Season Four. I thought, since Tirek was coming back, that Megan might at least get a small cameo in the same episode, but nooo. It was after viewing the season finale that I flipped my first table ever . . . and found out I liked it.
So this is my ultimatum to Hasbro: Starting with my very own dining room table and moving from there, I am going to flip a different table every day until Megan makes her triumphal reappearance in My Little Pony. The flippings will continue until Megan sightings improve.
In time, I will have, through the repeated flippings of tables, so leveled-up my table-flipping power that I will at last flip the big oaken table in the boardroom of Hasbro's executive offices. That's, like, the final boss or something.
Yeah. Oh yeah. This is gonna be flipping awesome.
I'm coming for you, punk.
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Hugo Nominations and Sad Puppies 3
The Hugo Awards are coming, and anyone interested in nominating and voting for them must register before the end of January. You can go here to do so.
In recent years, the Hugo Awards have been hijacked by "Social Justice Warriors" who hand the awards to lousy fiction that preaches messages they like. A perfect example of this, which sf fans of a more conservative bent spent a lot of time hooting at last year, is the story "If You were a Dinosaur My Love" by Rachel Swirsky, which won a Nebula and was nominated for the Hugo. It's written at about the fifth grade level, is not science fiction, and pretty much all-around suxx. It's about some paleontologist who gets beaten into a coma in a hick bar, and about his fiancée fantasizing about his turning into a dinosaur and getting revenge for the attack . . . unexplained is what he was doing in the bar in the first place, why a paleontologist who moves heavy rocks for a living couldn't defend himself, why some hicks wanted to beat him up anyway, and why the hicks were drinking gin of all things. It's a stupid story, but SJWs like it because the bad guys are white. You can read the story here and revel in the badness. This is how far the Nebulas and Hugos have sunk from their former days of greatness.
The purpose of the Sad Puppies campaign, started by Larry Correia and this year carried on by Brad R. Torgersen, is to get people to register with WorldCon in order to nominate and vote for stuff that's actually good. Not stuff that has any particular message. Just stuff that's good, entertaining science fiction. The ultimate purpose is not to turn the Hugo from Leftist to Rightist, but to turn it back into a serious award.
While I'm at it, I strongly recommend John C. Wright's "Queen of the Tyrant Lizards," which he wrote in response to "If You Were a Dinosaur." It appeared first on his blog here and then again in the collection The Book of Feasts and Seasons . It features brain-bending time-travel paradoxes, and it gives the white hicks an actual motive for attacking that dude. Most importantly, the dude's bereft fiancée really does turn him into a dinosaur because she has way-cool time travel superpower thingies. It's awesome, and unlike the story that inspired it, it's actually science fiction. Read it here.
I invite you to read the two stories linked above, compare them, and then decide for yourself which one really deserves to be a Hugo nominee. Then you will understand the reason for Sad Puppies.
Remember: awarding the Hugo to preachy, poorly written Leftist tripe is the leading cause of puppy-related sadness!
Sad Puppies Announcement and What You Can Do.
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March for Life Goes Underreported as Usual
As discussed over at Little Shop of Words, the March for Life is today and tomorrow. Around 650,000 participated last year, and since the numbers have been steadily growing, the count will probably be even larger this year, but don't expect to hear much of anything about it on most news networks.
Last year, ABC and NBC gave the March for Life a combined 46 seconds of air time, donating nearly 5 times that much to BaoBao, a new panda cub at the National Zoo. CBS didn’t even mention the March. The year before, networks gave 521 times more coverage to Manti Te’o and his fictional girlfriend than they gave to a rally that effectively shuts down Capitol Hill. Whatever your stance on abortion, certainly we can agree that the issue is more important that the birth of a baby panda or some football player’s love life! [More...]
He forgot to mention that most of the networks also underreport the number of people participating.
Larry Correia on Guns
I recently ran into this interview with Larry Correia, the author of Hard Magic and Monster Hunter International , on the subject of firearms in fiction. Correia is a former firearms instructor and knows the subject well.
Most of these really glaring errors can be taken care of with a little bit of cursory research. Technical things can be taken care of by a few minutes on the manufacturer’s webpage, which will keep your characters from dramatically flipping off the safety on a gun that doesn’t have one.
Beyond that, however, is the actual use of the gun. The character using it should have a realistic amount of knowledge based on their skill, knowledge, ability, and training. If you are gong to be writing about a character who is a professional gunslinger, then you need to do some research to make sure that person does what a professional gunslinger would do. [More...]
Correia is a sarcastic fellow, but when gets down to business, I've been impressed by his ability to talk sense. He doesn't get the chance to go into a lot of detail, but his discussion here is a very reasonable overview of the subject of doing the appropriate research for a work of fiction.
Also, remember what kind of story you are telling. If you are writing a techno thriller for the Tom Clancy audience, you can drop a paragraph of detailed information in there about wound ballistics. If you are writing a romance novel and the hero needs a gun, you’re not going to go all nitty-gritty like that. [More...]
This subject is on my mind at the moment because I'm editing my dungeon punk magical girl noir novel Rag & Muffin and rewriting large parts of it. I decided early on that all the small arms in the book would be real, and although I stand by the decision, it's given me nothing but trouble, since I am not a shootist myself. Rag & Muffin probably lies somewhere between a Tom Clancy novel and a romance novel in terms of how much detail is required, but there's also the issue of realism and how much BS I can get away with.
In the end, I think it will probably fall, in terms of realism, somewhere around the same place as the manga Gunslinger Girl, by which I mean the guns will be correct in design, and that will be about it. The actual action will be more like The Lone Ranger, in which the protagonists can shoot with freakishly unrealistic accuracy, and Full Metal Panic? FUMOFFU, in which less-lethal rounds never kill anyone or do permanent damage. Basically, my tweenage characters can shoot rubber bullets with such accuracy that they can hit precise combinations of pressure points, because they have mystical Kung fu skills. I have no idea if I can convince gun aficionados to put up with that kind of crap.
At the very least, I don't want to do anything really stupid, like have the sidekick flicking off the safety on his Glock (I'm looking at you, James Patterson).
Recently, I've been revisiting Miss Rags's firearms. For a while, she's been carrying a pair of Jericho 941s, but I was considering changing that out, and in particular I was looking at the Coonan .357 Magnum automatic, partly because it's a freaking cool handgun, and partly because it's a version of the 1911—and if memory serves, a pair of 1911s were wielded by The Shadow.
On the other hand, that's an awful lot of dang firepower when you're just trying to tap pressure points. Previously, I was hoping she could switch back and forth between rubber bullets for mere mortals and armor-piercing rounds for the heavily armored demon-possessed robots, but I think I'll have to nix that idea, as everything I've been able to find on the subject indicates there's no pistol that can be expected to pierce anything more than soft armor, Battlestar Galactica's depiction of the effective use of pistols on high-tech fighting robots notwithstanding.
So I've decided it would be more realistic if my magical girl heroine, instead of loading her handguns with AP rounds, fought the demon-possessed robots hand-to-hand and ripped their armor off with her fingers. Because she has mystical Kung fu, remember? Then when she shoves explosives deep into their mechanical guts, she'll have to jump away before the blast goes off and cracks the robots' magical Tuaoi Stones, because that will cause them to "go rogue" and attempt to drag any living beings in the vicinity down into hell.
Granted, nothing I originally wanted to do is anything I haven't seen existing comics or movies do, but I decided from the beginning to take as few liberties as possible with the firearms in spite of the story's silly premise. Besides, I hear gun aficionados aren't very forgiving if you make a mistake.
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Love and Friendship! Technical Difficulties! Go!
Gratuitous magical girl picture to mitigate the sting of a post about technical difficulties.
This blog at the moment is loaded with anachronisms and probably dead links. Lately, we've had some problems with the commenting system; comments were getting duplicated onto posts they didn't belong on, and I just discovered that the mobile version of the site was attributing all comments to me.
This appears to have stemmed from some incompatibility between Disqus (our commenting system) and Blogger's built-in commenting system, which arose during my year hiatus.
I just backed up the HTML, crossed my fingers, and reinstalled Disqus in the hopes that this would fix the problem rather than, say, created two versions of Disqus on the site. Near as I can tell, it's working, at least so far.
Let me know if you notice any problems with the comments, or any other problems with the site. I will be gradually going through the various widgets to remove the outdated or useless ones and update the others.
Also let me know any other matters you think ought to be addressed.
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Television Review: 'Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future'
All hail the Machine! All glory to my Lord Dread!
Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future , starring Tim Dunigan, Peter MacNeill, and Sven-Ole Thorsen. Created by Gary Goddard and Tony Christopher. Head screenwriter J. Michael Straczynski. Landmark Entertainment Group, Mattel, and Ventura Pictures Inc., 1987. 22 episodes of 20 minutes (approximately 440 minutes). Not rated.
Jim Bawden of the Toronto Star once called Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future "the most ambitious series ever made for television," and he did not exaggerate. For a short period during my childhood, this show was all the rage, but it lasted only one season: Mattel pulled the money when the toy tie-in sold poorly, so it swiftly fell into obscurity, though it continues to enjoy a cult following. There were VHS releases of all the episodes back in the '80s, but aside from those, Captain Power was for many years available only on fan-made bootlegs, but in 2011 VSC at last produced an official DVD release. This is a great boon, for Captain Power is is a show that should not be lost.
Captain Power's history much resembles that of the similarly ambitious and ill-fated 1979 Battlestar Galactica, though Captain Power has yet to see a melodramatic, humorless, and oversexed remake. There were attempts to remake it, and for a while a new show called Phoenix Rising was in the works, though as far as I have been able to discover, it died in preproduction hell.
Funded by Mattel and billed as children's TV, Captain Power sparked controversy for its high levels of violence. It was expensive, costing a million dollars per episode, with innovative special effects, including the first regular appearances of CGI characters in a live-action TV series. It is of continued interest in part because the lead writer was for a time J. Michael Straczynski, who went on to create Babylon 5. There is a place called Babylon 5 in Captain Power, so Straczynski had that name in mind even back then.
But what really made Captain Power unique is now hard to appreciate: it was the first and last interactive TV show. The Mattel toy line included action figures and a few other items, but the most important toys were the XT-7 and the BioDread Phantom Striker, both futuristic jet fighters. They were light-sensitive, and they would react to certain special colors on the screen. With the toys, you could shoot the villains, and they would shoot back. Hitting them earned you Power Points, and getting hit took your Power Points away. If you lost all your Power Points, the cockpit would eject and send your action figure flying across the room. The toys also had a "room mode" that allowed you to shoot them at each other like laser tag. It was good, clean, potentially-put-somebody's-eye-out fun. Unfortunately, the interactivity hasn't survived the digital transfer, so don't expect to dig out your old XT-7, load in the DVDs, and blast away at BioDreads on your flatscreen.
The premise of Captain Power is a pastiche of science fictional awesomesauce from the 1980s and late '70s. Star Wars and The Terminator are obvious influences, with a concept from Tron thrown in. Environmental designs, especially the frequent miniatures, show influence from Blade Runner. One episode is an homage to William Gibson's cyberpunk novel Neuromancer, and there are also references and nods to old-school science fiction, most especially Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End and E. M. Forster's "The Machine Stops." The pop philosophy underlying the show, especially the idea that humans are defined primarily by emotion, probably comes from Star Trek.
The story is set in the year 2147, shortly after the "Metal Wars," a war between man and machine, which man lost. The earth is in ruins, and the last remaining humans, called Survivors, live by roaming from place to place. The world is overrun with faceless robot mooks called Troopers, which have approximately half the competence of Imperial Stormtroopers, and raining terror from the skies is Soaron (voice of Deryck Hazel), a goofy-looking CGI monstrosity, a "BioDread," which is a living robot with DNA, capable of regenerating when damaged. Soaron is armed with a digitizer ray that can turn humans into computer data, which he then feeds to a supercomputer called Overmind.
Behold the greatest minute and a half of your life.
Leader of the evil robots is a cyborg named Lord Dread, played by a scenery-devouring David Hemblen. Formerly, his name was Taggart, and he dreamt of ending forever all war and crime by taking weak, emotional humans and turning them into perfectly logical machines, for the purpose of which he unleashed his robot armies all over the globe. He got in a fight to the death with his best friend Dr. Power, and he became a cyborg after he fell in a volcano . . . er, I mean, after he got blown up in a geothermal plant, so he is more machine now than man, twisted and evil.
After Dr. Power dies fighting Taggart, his son Jonathan Power carries on the battle, assisted by his Five-Man Band, all of whom are armed with "Power Suits," powered armor that they can call into existence by tapping their badges and shouting, "Power on!" The Power Suits render the Soldiers of the Future immune to the weapons of their enemies, but they can only take so many hits, or function for so long, before they run out of power and deactivate.
Captain Power is campy in the extreme, but it's the good kind of campy. Most episodes are made up largely of scenes of guys in patched-together fiberglass armor shooting pew-pew weapons at each other, and the combat displays not even a rudimentary knowledge of military tactics (I could not count the number of times Power or a member of his team stands up on a pile of rubble, completely exposed before the enemy, to pose dramatically while shooting his laser gun). But even when the show is at its worst, it's bad-good rather than straight-up bad. My favorite scene is the one in which Power uses his rocket pack to do a dramatic backflip over some Troopers in order to blow them away from behind, and then afterwards stretches his arm behind himself to blast a sniper out of a window without looking. Captain Power shoots guys without even glancing at them, because he's just that cool.
The world is ending, but there's always time for Charlie's Angels poses!
Even the special effects and obvious miniatures, which are cheesy by today's standards, lend to the show's overall ambiance, making the series more immersive rather than less, much as the stop-motion skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts or the deliberately employed fakery in Jackson's Lord of the Rings capture an otherworldly feel. Even the primitive CGI used for Soaron and (later) Blastarr serves to reinforce the idea that the BioDreads are a new order of being.
And I just have to add that, when I was a kid, Soaron was my favorite character. I loved his high-pitched metallic Snidely Whiplash voice, and I laughed hysterically whenever he came on screen.
Oh, Soaron, you so silly.
The actors in Captain Power are all likeable, but Tim Dunigan, who plays Captain Power himself, is the weak link, though that's largely because he has little material to work with. While the other Soldiers of the Future all get intriguing backstories sooner or later, Power never manages to be more than the hardened soldier whose stoical façade masks his underlying rage over the death of his father. However, this is fitting, because Captain Power deals in unusually subtle irony for a children's show: although Power ostensibly stands for human life and the full range of human existence, especially emotion, he has trouble getting in touch with his feelings. Meanwhile, Lord Dread, who wants to eliminate emotion in favor of pure logic, is a highly emotional villain, and the BioDreads behave like temperamental children.
Dread is the most compelling character, easily one of the most interesting villains ever to appear in children's TV, and David Hemblen's performance is pitch-perfect. In his dark chamber atop his stronghold Volcania, Dread rages, boasts, and vacillates as he struggles to carry out his plans. As the show develops, Dread enters a cat-and-mouse game with Overmind (voice of Ted Dillon), who frequently corrects Dread for his emotional volatility and even creates a robot, Lacchi (voice of Don Francks), to spy on Dread and keep him in line. Dread's verbal jousts with Lacchi make for some of the best scenes. Dread is a man tortured by conscience: he has convinced himself that he can do evil that good may result, but under his surficial bravado, he knows better.
The worldbuilding of Captain Power is unusually good for the time and the medium. The Survivors are depicted as having developed a gypsy-like culture complete with its own slang, and one episode taking place in a location called Tech City has a unique slang as well, though most of it is pulled from the aforementioned Neuromancer. Dread's move to turn men into machines also comes complete with its own ideology: Dread has an organization called the Dread Youth (based, obviously, on the Hitler Youth) that trains his "Overunits," un-digitized humans in charge of the robot armies. The Overunits are fanatics dedicated to "The Machine," an apparent homage to E. M. Forster's famous dystopia. The Machine of which they speak seems to be no particular machine, but an abstract ideal of machine-ness as such, which they view as a sort of god. To emphasize this, an early scene even features Dread sitting in his evil overlord chair and dictating his own version of the Bible, in which man creates the Machine and is then perfected by the Machine.
My Lord Dread can brood with the best of them.
But I like this show mostly because it is in conversation with Clarke's Childhood's End. I am certain it is no coincidence that the supercomputer who pulls the strings behind Dread is called Overmind. Clarke's novel is a Gnostic parable, depicting a future in which humanity dies out, replaced by our inhuman and amoral but powerful offspring, who are then absorbed into a sort of materialist cosmic soul called Overmind. Serving Overmind are the Overlords, benevolent beings that look like devils, and one of the Overlords' first task in their project to perfect humanity is to eliminate human religion. Captain Power rejects the projected future of Childhood's End or any Transhumanism, exactly because a post-human is by definition not human anymore, and Captain Power takes it for granted that human life is good in itself. Religion gets only passing references in Captain Power, but the famous words of Isaiah 2:4 are presented in a positive context and contrasted with Dread's mission to create a new world by burning the old. There are also hints that the war between man and machine is part of something bigger, as the Overmind computer is as an unambiguously evil force: at one point, Dread asks Overmind how many "voices" are inside it, and it replies, "We are legion." These individual "voices" inside the Overmind are used to create the A.I.s of the BioDreads, and the BioDreads are not built on an assembly line, but appear out of an opening in Overmind as if being birthed from a womb. All this hints, perhaps, that these are not actually machines, but evil spirits given physical form. That would at least explain the BioDreads' rage-filled personalities.
Blastarr has the five-finger laser death punch.
I'll give a spoiler alert before I discuss the end.
The final four episodes of Captain Power are both melancholy and very satisfying. Throughout the series, which was supposed to be only the first season, Dread puts into action what he calls Project New Order while Power and his team fight to discover what New Order is and put a stop to it. They at last discover that Dread intends to put into orbit a long-range digitizer that can digitize people from space. Stopping the satellite for some reason requires them to fly down a trench Star Wars-style, and then they send the satellite crashing into Dread's base, Volcania. Altogether, it involves a lot of elaborate action set-pieces and some very exciting scenes. After this, in the two-parter that closes out the season and thus the series, the BioDread Blastarr (voice of John S. Davies) discovers the location of the Power Base and attacks it. Power's right-hand woman Jennifer "Pilot" Chase (Jessica Steen), shortly after she finally confesses that she's been in love with Power all this time, destroys the base and herself with it to keep its technology away from Dread's forces. The last moments of this sequence are stilted, but the episode overall is well constructed. This episode was also, apparently, the final straw that provoked Mattel to pull the plug.
The Captain and the Pilot.
At the same time (and in my opinion this is much more interesting), Dread makes the decision to shrug off the bonds of weak human flesh—but first he kills Lacchi, perhaps out of spite, or perhaps as part of a larger plan. Overmind sends two Troopers to take Dread to be digitized, perhaps to force him if he hesitates, and Dread walks away between them like a condemned man going to his execution.
Thus the series ends when the Power team has lost an important member as well as its base, which contains the device that can recharge their Power Suits, while Dread goes to his (possible) destruction. The second season was planned but never made, though synopses of the un-filmed episodes are floating around the Internet. My own humble opinion is that the second season probably would not have been very good. Some years ago, I read an interview with one of the series creators (Gary Goddard, I believe), who said they were planning to drastically reduced Soaron and Blastarr's parts because the company doing the CGI could not deliver all it promised. I have also read that the killing off of Lacchi was intended to be permanent because the writers didn't know what to do with him. They also killed off the only female character in the main cast, though they intended to replace her with another. They planned to bring Dread back, but in a nastier and more robotic version.
The second season, then, would have been without much of what made the show so good. If the writers really couldn't figure out what to do with Lacchi, then the writers were crazy, because his interaction with Dread is one of the best things in the show. Reducing the parts of Soaron and Blastarr, the second and third best things in the show respectively, also would have harmed the series. And a robo-Dread without the weaknesses of the human Dread, if that's really what they were planning, would have been much less interesting that the villain we have in the first season. According to an interview with some of the writers and producers in Starlog, they were also going to replace the whole digitizing concept with Overmind and Dread just deciding to wipe humanity out, and Power was going to collapse into psychological issues while his second-in-command Hawk took over.
This would have sucked. Perhaps the series cancellation is a blessing in disguise.
Regarding the DVD collection from VSC, it is good on the whole, but the final disc, which contains the extras and the never-aired made-for-TV movie The Legend Begins will not play. I don't know if this is a problem for others or only for me. Cleaning the disc hasn't helped. In any case, the whole TV series plays with no problems. It is a little grainy, but I noticed no artifacts from the digital transfer.
Originally, there were three animated Future Force Training Videos depicting a first-person fly-through with lots of baddies to shoot at, and who shoot back. These animated films, made in Japan by AIC and Anime R, were designed to be played with the XT-7. Unfortunately, they are not included in the DVD package. Though designed specifically for use with the toys, they are well-made and entertaining animated short films, and they deserve to be preserved with the rest of Captain Power.
This is a fun show, and watching it is a must for any fan of '80s television.
Content advisory: The typical episode is mostly action sequences with plenty of shooting and explosions, but most (not all) of the violence is bloodless. There is one implied sexual encounter (because apparently they wanted to get cancelled). Some characters get killed, and the overall tone is fairly dark, though not oppressively so. In terms of suitability, it hovers between a children's show and an adult show; it's probably too much for young kids, but it's pretty corny for adults. The best audience is child-like man-children.
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The Sci Fi Catholic 2015 Lenten Read-a-Thon
Now that we're getting the blog back in order, I am also starting back up a tradition we used to have here, the Lenten Read-a-Thon.
To put it simply, the Lenten Read-a-Thon is where we set aside novels, short stories, movies, and television for Lent and pick up some edifying nonfiction. Ash Wednesday this year is February 18th, but I am posting about this now so anyone who wants to join in will have opportunity to acquire this year's books. Behold, I have told you before.
The first time we did this, we read The New Complete Works of Josephus , which was some serious marathon reading. Although it was somewhat edifying, in order to finish in time, I had to read so much material that most of it went in one ear and out the other, or in one eye and out the other, as it were. I was considering repeating that folly with The Works of Philo , which, though shorter than Josephus, would still have meant twenty pages a day of tiny print. I'd rather read Philo at a slower and more meditative pace, so I decided to nix that idea.
Instead, I have alighted on two shorter works. The first is my selection and the second was selected for me; that is, it was given to me free by a priest who is urging his whole congregation to read it, and I figure Lent will be a good time to do so.
So the first book is this:
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
And the second is like unto it:
The Call to Joy of Matthew Kelly
Anyone at all is welcome to join in. With the editions I have, given that the forty-day fast of Lent is forty-six days (because that's how we Catholics roll), the reading comes out to a healthy and very do-able eight pages a day. Anyone who finishes early can feel free to start in on Philo.
Everyone is welcome to join. Reading begins next month on the 18th, and everyone is encouraged to finish the books before the Easter Vigil on April 4th.
Anime Review: 'Princess Tutu'
Dude. I mean, seriously, duuuude.
Princess Tutu , directed by Shogo Koumoto. Starring Nanae Kato, Noboru Mitani, and Takahiro Sakurai. Story by Ikuko Itoh. Hal Film Maker, 2002-2003. DVDs produced by AEsir Holdings. 26 episodes of 25 minutes (approximately 650 minutes). Rated TV-14.
After I got an Amazon gift card for Christmas, I thought to myself that I could use it to buy some edifying, uplifting literature, or I could use it to acquire more brain-rotting magical girl junk. It's no mystery which choice I made, and I have no regrets: I picked up a complete DVD set of Princess Tutu, which I knew by rumor and reputation, but had not previously seen myself. Just to warn you, this is going to be less a review than an example of a guy fangirling all over the place, and I might even drool a little bit. So if you don't want to see that, go read something else.
The first time I heard of Princess Tutu, the tale of a clumsy girl who receives the power to transform into a magical ballerina, I assumed it was a saccharine, fluffy, and disposable story on a par with something like Lilpri. I would have been cool with it if that were the case—since I'm totally into that crap—but in fact my assumption was entirely incorrect because HOLY COW IS THIS FREAKING GOOD. Go watch this show. Like, right now. This is easily one of the best anime series I have ever seen. It is the best magical girl series I have ever seen. This is an anime that rises, at least at times, to the level of high art.
Duck in duck form.
As the story opens, a duck watches a boy dancing on the surface of her lake. She wishes she could dance a pas de deux with him, and her wish is granted when a mysterious and menacing figure named Drosselmeyer gives her a pendant that transforms her into a girl. In human form, Duck is clumsy, socially awkward, and blessed with a scratchy voice that sounds like a duck quacking. She studies ballet at an arts academy, where she is the worst student.
Duck in human form with her Obsessive Best Friends.
Duck hangs out with two other students, Pike and Lilie, who simultaneously fill the role of Those Two Girls (normal characters meant to contrast with all the weirdness) and a common figure in magical girl anime that I have come to call the Obsessive Best Friend. As a rule, magical girl heroines have a tall order to fill: on the one hand, they are supposed to be ordinary girls such as might live on your street, whereas on the other hand they are supposed to be ideal personifications of the power of love and friendship. To make sure the audience gets it, the protagonist usually hangs out with another girl who has no purpose in life except to advertise protagonist's pure-heartedness or physical beauty or whatever virtues she's supposed to have. I think these characters are meant to be funny, but I typically find their monomania disturbing. Pike and Lilie, however, are amusing because they live for the sole purpose of watching Duck screw up.
Duck being Duck.
Duck herself is an endearing character, adorably klutzy and spastic. In a riff on the typical technique of displaying a heroine's virtue by depicting her as a friend of animals, Duck opens her window every morning to be mobbed by flocks of birds that knock her to the floor. Furthermore, the town where the story takes place, a town designed to look like the walled village of Nördlingen in Germany, is full of funny animal people, and the most frequently appearing is Mr. Cat, a ballet instructor with the curious habit of threatening to force his worst students to marry him. The most common recipient of this threat, of course, is Duck.
"I will make you . . . mai waifu!"
The mysterious boy from the lake, Mytho, is also a ballet student, and he is furthermore a prince from a fairy tale who escaped into the real world. Having shattered his own heart to defeat an evil raven, Mytho can feel no emotions, but he retains, by force of habit, a compassion that drives him to throw himself into danger to protect others. When he hurls himself out a window to rescue a baby bird, Duck runs to save him and thereby discovers that her pendant contains an additional power—the power to transform her into Princess Tutu, a character from the fairy tale with great magic but a tragic fate. Only Tutu can find and restore the missing fragments of the prince's heart, but she cannot confess her love for him, or she will turn into a speck of light and disappear.
Most of the townsfolk are unaware of Mytho's identity, but Tutu soon finds herself opposed by others who have designs on the prince—Mytho's roommate Fakir and another magical ballerina named Princess Kraehe, both of whose motives remain for a long time obscure.
That prince guy has some serious trouble keeping his pants on.
Princess Tutu takes place in a sort of ballet universe. The soundtrack and many of the plot elements are taken from ballets, especially The Nutcracker and Swan Lake. Tutu uses her magic by dancing ballet, the action sequences are choreographed like ballet, and most episodes climax with a dance sequence, though all but the most important of these are told largely through still frames, the animation budget presumably not allowing for much more. A real ballet studio assisted with the production, and it shows: I do not pretend to be knowledgeable of the artform myself, but at least to the layman, the dancing looks like the real thing, and not simply like the animators put the characters on their tippy-toes and had them bounce around.
Duck and Fakir. Because love triangles.
But strictly speaking, Princess Tutu is not a dance show; that is, the story is not an excuse to showcase dancing. Tutu is first and foremost about good storytelling, and I mean that in two senses: it is good storytelling—really, really good storytelling—and it is also about storytelling. Drosselmeyer, the man who gave Duck her pendant, is also able to watch her every move, and we soon learn he is the author of the story from which the prince escaped. He is intent on finishing his tale, only now he means to use real people in place of the fictional ones. His plan is to create a grand tragedy, but the people forced into his story have other ideas, the question throughout being whether Drosselmeyer or the characters will get the upper hand. In a sense, Princess Tutu depicts a writer as a type of sadist; since stories require conflict, the writer can only do what he does by making his characters miserable. Princess Tutu depicts characters who become aware that they are being manipulated by the author.
Seriously, dude, get some pants.
As its plot gradually develops and its mysteries are gradually revealed, Princess Tutu turns really weird. On account of its surrealism, it is often considered a spiritual successor to Revolutionary Girl Utena, the first of the "deconstructive" magical girl shows, but I am inclined to suppose its dreamlike quality, bizarre visuals, and metafictional concerns are inspired more by the German Romanticism that influences some of the ballet to which it pays homage. The choice of the name Drosselmeyer for Princess Tutu's sinister narrator may be a clue: he is of course inspired by the Drosselmeyer of The Nutcracker, who is himself a mysterious and arguably sinister figure who appears to be manipulating events from the background. The Nutcracker is ultimately based on the short story "The Nutcracker and the Kind of Mice" by the German Romanticist E. T. A. Hoffmann, in which Drosselmeyer is clearly an author self-insert.
Pretty sure he isn't wearing pants in this one, either.
Princess Tutu has a few big ideas on its mind. The characters spend some time digressing on the nature of true vs. selfish love, but the show is most especially preoccupied with the subject of free will and fate. Early in the first act, a strange character named Edel, who shows up at odd times playing a street organ and speaking in riddles, announces, "May those who accept their fate find happiness. May those who defy their fate find glory." That line, in different forms, gets repeated on occasion throughout the series. As the story draws toward its climax, the characters caught up in Drosselmeyer's tale fight to escape the tragic ends Drosselmeyer has mapped out for them. Admittedly, the situation depicted in the show is so singular that I am at a loss to say whether it is trying to make any kind of comment on real life.
Princess Tutu dancing.
Princess Tutu is not without some small defects. It contains dancing mostly in short snippets, and some scenes told through still frames could probably have had more impact if they were animated. There are moments of obvious CGI, though that is, fortunately, limited mostly to water and fog effects. A handful of episodes, particularly in the first half of the second act, are repetitious and feel like filler. These are, however, minor complaints. This is a well-structured show, especially for one having such an ambitious storyline. Unlike some other surreal and self-consciously weighty anime that preceded it, it never collapses into incoherency. By the end, everything is satisfactorily explained and wrapped up.
Say what you like, but I still think Duck and Fakir make a cute couple.
But more than that, this is a show containing much beauty and a heavy emotional impact. I was not far into the series before I was committed to the characters, and the grand finale, though absurd if taken in isolation, had me weeping. I can't describe it; I can only urge you to watch it.
Content Advisory: Princess Tutu is pretty tame. Violence is mild and bloodless. There is some occasional slight innuendo in the dialogue. A running gag involves Duck losing her clothes when she switches from human to avine form and back again, but it isn't particularly graphic. Rating is TV-14.
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Double Book Review: 'Bambi' vs. 'Watership Down'
Sometimes, when I've had a bad day, I just want to watch some cuddly talking animals bleed to death.
Bambi by Felix Salten. Translated by Whittaker Chambers. Grosset and Dunlap (New York): 1929. 293 pages.
Watership Down by Richard Adams. Scribner (New York): 2005 (Reprint). 499 pages.
There's an old joke on the Internet about what would happen if Bambi fought Godzilla. The correct answer, known to anyone who's read the original novel Bambi by Felix Salten, is that Godzilla would get his ass kicked, at least if he made the mistake of standing between Bambi and a doe in rut.
Something similar would occur if Godzilla made the mistake of harassing the lady friends of the bunny rabbits from Watership Down, except the rabbits would mostly likely coerce somebody else into delivering the beat-down for them.
And if Bambi teamed up with the Watership Down rabbits to open a can of whoopass on Godzilla, especially if they maybe, I dunno, used some powered mecha armor that somebody left in the woods or something, that would be freaking awesomesauce. Or maybe the rabbits could all drive armored vehicles that look like giant rabbits that shoot lasers out of their ears, and then Bambi could drive a vehicle that looks like a giant deer, and then they could combine together into a super giant robot, except they would get in a huge fight with one another over which would form the head, and then they would destroy half the world in their quest for domination, so desperate humans would have to get Godzilla to team up with Gigan and Ebirah as the only hope for the planet's salvation. Somebody should look into putting together the rights for that, like, right freaking now. I would totally watch the Bambi vs. Godzilla movie in the theater, like, twenty freaking times.
. . . Sorry, I got a little overexcited there. But my point is that fuzzy talking animals are totally badass, and you definitely don't want to mess with their women.
*Ahem.* I happen to have a copy of Bambi that I picked up several years ago from a church library that was giving away old books, and a few months back I finally sat down to read it. Then I raved about it for weeks afterwards. Bambi reminded me of Watership Down, which I had not read since seventh grade, so I picked it up to compare the two and was pleased to find it had lost nothing. It was just as impressive a novel to me as an adult as it had been to me as a youth.
Both of these are billed as children's books, and thus both can catch a reader unaware; though they are about animals that talk, they are uncompromising depictions of nature red in tooth and claw. Both star characters who are hardy survivors in a deadly world, and who learn to be pragmatic in the face of violence and death. Both are blunt and abrupt in their descriptions of bloodshed.
Both, also, can be enjoyably and profitably read by adults. Of the two, Bambi is probably the easier read for children. Watership Down is a great deal longer and more complex both in plot and in prose, but Bambi is deeper in its themes.
It is worth pausing to note that both have been adapted to animated film. These films are famous for emotional shock, and they demonstrate that what works well in one medium doesn't necessarily work well in another. Walt Disney wisely perceived that a faithful adaptation of Bambi would not go over well with general audiences, so his movie has only a tangential relationship to its source material. That movie is of course a beloved classic that stands on its own merits. The film adaptation of Watership Down, on the other hand, is more faithful to its book, and though considered a classic in its own right, it is well known mostly for traumatizing children. I have several times spoken to people who saw Watership Down as kids, and all told me they found its violence disturbing, and that they avoided the novel because of it.
The kids are gonna love this.
Richard Adams is one of the author success stories that other writers admire and possibly envy. Watership Down was his first book, but it became one of the best-selling novels of the Twentieth Century and has never been out of print. I don't think you usually see it on those "top novels of the century" lists, but that's only because those lists are made by effete pseudo-intellectuals from the English Department who think a novel is no good unless it's depressing and pointless. Lord of the Rings is novel numero uno of the Twentieth Century—deal with it—but Watership Down deserves a spot very close to it, at least in the top ten.
Yeah, I don't remember any rabbits fighting to the death in Ulysses. Your argument is invalid.
Okay, seriously, when I first saw the title of this novel, I thought it was about sinking boats or something, but it's actually an adventure epic about a group of rabbits who leave their home to found a new warren. Our main protagonist is Hazel, a natural leader. His young brother Fiver is a seer, which means he sometimes has plot-relevant visions of the future accompanied by epileptic fits. Fiver is able to sense vaguely that some terrible disaster will soon befall the warren, and because the book is written in the omniscient third-person, the reader knows what Fiver and Hazel do not, that the warren is soon to be gassed and bulldozed for a housing development.
After an ineffective attempt to warn the "chief rabbit" of the danger, these two gather a small band of malcontents and (after an obligatory fight sequence with some guards) set off on a dangerous journey, surviving on a combination of their wits, their good luck, and their claws, until they can start a new colony on the top of a high hill, the Watership Down of the title, which is from the rabbits' perspective something like a natural fortress.
These rabbits are depicted as innovators with an unusual amount of brains. Among the most implausible of their accomplishments, they manage to befriend a gull. And after they're mostly settled into their new home, they come to realize they don't have any females among them, so, along with their gull friend, they hatch an elaborate and harrowing plan to kidnap some does from another warren, whose tyrannical chief rabbit, an especially huge buck named General Woundwort, rules it with an iron paw. The book is peppered throughout with fighting and death and narrow escapes therefrom, and it builds to a bloody and satisfying climax.
Although sometimes breaking from it to make the reader aware of something, the story for the most part remains at a rabbit's-eye view. The geography of the novel is real, and from the human perspective the tale does not cover much ground, but from the perspective of the rabbits has a vast and sprawling landscape. Although Adams takes various liberties for the story's sake, the book is based largely on R. M. Lockley's nonfictional Private Life of the Rabbit, and Adams writes in the foreword of a later edition that he set himself a rule that the rabbits in the book would not be physically capable of anything a rabbit couldn't do in real life, though I'm not convinced he stuck to this rule throughout.
Adams is a polymath and a renaissance man, and his wide reading and familiarity with the classics is evident throughout Watership Down. The tale is suggestive of the Odyssey and the Aeneid, and occurring occasionally through the book are brilliantly written side-stories taking the form of fairy tales: the character Dandelion is storyteller for the band, and several chapters are dedicated to his recitations about the rabbits' legendary ancestor El-ahrairah, the "Prince with a Thousand Enemies," a trickster figure who uses his wits to procure food and get the best of his antagonists. Peopling these tales are supernatural characters such as Lord Frith, the sun-god, and the Black Rabbit of Inlé, who is the rabbits' personification of death.
Seriously, I just know the kids are gonna be totally into this.
The novel has been oft over-analyzed, but Adams insists that he meant it only as an adventure story. According to him, Watership Down began its life as a tale he told to entertain his daughters during a car trip, and which they asked him to write down.
Watership Down was a challenge to me when I read it as a kid, but that was partly why I loved it. I believe I was twelve when I read it the first time, and though I found it difficult, it was well worth the effort. When I revisited it as an adult, I was surprised at how easy it was to read, and at how quickly the pages turned. I finished it rapidly, even though it's just about 500 pages in length. Adams is an extremely talented adventure writer.
Ages twelve and up seem about right for this book. The characters, dialogue, and plot are straightforward, but Adams's prose is sometimes complex and would probably confuse very young readers, but then again, if small children can plow through the later volumes of the Harry Potter series, they can probably handle Watership Down. In any case, this is a must-read for any fantasy lover.
Bambi is a many-layered story. It is first a more-or-less accurate depiction of the life of a deer, with the added flourish that the animals can talk. It is also possible to read it as an allegory for the plight of Austrian Jews in the 1920s, or at least the Nazis thought so, which is presumably why they burned copies of it. It is also a perceptive description of a lifelong spiritual journey reminiscent of Herman Hesse's Siddhartha.
In my humble opinion, the novel Bambi and the movie Bambi should be viewed as if unrelated to each other. It is popular to rag on Disney for grinding off the sharp edges of his source material, and few of his alterations are as severe as in this case. However, Disney was making movies for broad audiences, and the animated Bambi is a worthy work of art in its own right, but its intentions and themes are markedly different from those of the book.
I don't remember any philosophical digressions in Disney's Bambi.
The story follows the titular protagonist through his life. As in the movie, the tale begins with Bambi's birth and his childhood with his mother, and then it continues to his youth when he learns to fight and love, but it also moves past where the movie ends, to Bambi's old age, when he learns wisdom.
Disney made it a point in the animated film to show the animals living in harmony in the forest, their only enemy being man. In the book, however, man is only the worst and most mysterious of the dangers the animals regularly face. Bambi's early childhood is largely idyllic, but when the first winter comes, Salten begins to narrate the casual violence that will characterize the rest of the novel:
Another time the squirrel raced about with a great wound in his neck where the ferret had caught him. By a miracle the squirrel had escaped. He could not talk because of the pain, but he ran up and down the branches. Everyone could see him. He ran like mad. From time to time he stopped, sat down, raised his forepaws desperately and clutched his head in terror and agony while the red blood oozed on his white chest.
The dangers from creatures like ferrets the animals understand, but they cannot comprehend man, whom they refer to simply as He. Early in the book, Bambi's mother teaches him to run away at the sight of a man, and afterward says to him simply, "Did you see Him? That was He." It is much more strange, and much more poetical, than the film version's comparatively mundane, "Man has entered the forest."
One of the novel's greatest scenes takes place during a winter in which the deer gather together and speculate on His nature. Some suggest that He can kill from a distance because He tears His hand off and throws it. Another suggests that it must be a tooth He throws, since it makes only a small hole. But they agree that the inside of His body is fire, since there is a loud crack and a flash when He kills. Then comes this fantastic passage:
"Will He never stop hunting us?" young Karus sighed.
Then Marena spoke, the young half-grown doe. "They say that sometime He'll come to live with us and be as gentle as we are. He'll play with us then and the whole forest will be happy, and we'll be friends with Him."
Old Nettla burst out laughing. "Let Him stay where He is and leave us in peace," she said.
Aunt Ena said reprovingly, "You shouldn't talk that way."
"And why not?" old Nettla replied hotly, "I really don't see why not. Friends with Him! He's murdered us ever since we can remember, every one of us, our sisters, our mothers, our brothers! Ever since we came into the world He's given us no peace, but has killed us wherever we showed our heads. And now we're going to be friends with Him. What nonsense!"
Marena looked at all of them out of her big, calm, shining eyes. "Love is no nonsense," she said. "It has to come."
I'll give here a spoiler warning, and to be clear, I'm going to discuss a lot of stuff not in the movie, so this is a spoiler warning for the book.
Readers are probably aware that Bambi's childhood comes to a close when his mother is killed. But the implied violence of the movie, which is enough to jerk the heartstrings of generations of viewers, is nothing compared to the scene of terror and bedlam in the novel, wherein there is a large-scale hunt during which the deer and other animals flee every which way in terror while being indiscriminately cut down. The death of Bambi's mother happens off the page; Bambi simply never sees her again. More terrifying is the fate of Bambi's friend Gobo, whose leg is caught in hardpack snow, rendering him unable to run.
The story moves from there to Bambi's youth. He spends his first mating season getting his butt kicked by bucks who were formerly his friends while he searches in vain for Faline, a doe he had known as a child, and whose scent now drives him crazy. When his second mating season rolls around, he dishes back out all the punishment he got the first time: to win Faline, he fights two bucks, both former friends whom nature has now made enemies. One of them Bambi drives off, and the other he tears open. Faline is impressed, but though Salten plays this more-or-less like a love story, there are hints that she would have just as readily gone with whichever buck won the fight.
I dunno, Walt. It's an okay little romance, but maybe it needs more blood and guts.
The story's turning point comes when Gobo reappears. As it turns out, he did not die during the hunt; instead, He picked Gobo up, took him home, and made a pet of him. Gobo either escaped or more likely was let go when he grew too big and aggressive to be a suitable playmate for children, but in any case Gobo has lost all ability to survive in the forest, and is quite proud of himself, considering himself a friend of His. When another hunter enters the forest, the other deer wish to flee, but Gobo says, "Run as much as you like. I won't stop you. If He's there I want to talk with Him."
Of course, when Gobo presents himself to the hunter, he gets killed. The reader can easily understand what has happened, but the animals cannot distinguish one man from another; to them, His decision first to make a pet of Gobo and then to kill him looks like mere caprice. This and other scenes emphasize Him as an incomprehensible and increasingly menacing figure.
The most spectacular such scene is one in which a hound hunts a fox, and while the fox lies dying and pleading for its life, all the animals gather round and accuse the hound of treachery for serving Him, to which the hound replies, "What are you talking about? Everything belongs to Him, just as I do. But I, I love Him. I worship Him, I serve Him. Do you think you can oppose Him, poor creatures like you? He's all-powerful."
As Bambi grows older, he leaves Faline behind. He takes up the company of the Old Prince of the Woods, the eldest of the deer who has survived by staying off the well-trodden trails and by living his life alone. He is, it is hinted, Bambi's father, though neither he nor Bambi knows it. He teaches Bambi many things, especially how to survive by avoiding the company of other deer, and that brings us to one of the book's central messages:
Then and afterwards the old stag had revealed much wisdom and many secrets to him. But of all his teachings this had been the most important; you must live alone, if you wanted to preserve yourself, if you understood existence, if you wanted to attain wisdom, you had to live alone.
"Also, your mom gave you a sissy name."
In the final moments, the old stag shows Bambi the truth about Him. We discover in the end that most of the hunting in the woods has been by poachers, and one of these poachers is at last shot and killed. Then the old stag leads Bambi to where the body lies, with a bullet through the throat, in the midst of a pool of blood that slowly melts the snow.
"Do you see, Bambi," the old stag went on, "do you see how He's lying there dead, like one of us? Listen, Bambi. He isn't all-powerful as they say. Everything that lives and grows doesn't come from Him. He isn't above us. He's just the same as we are. He has the same fears, the same needs, and suffers in the same way. He can be killed like us, and then He lies helpless on the ground like all the rest of us, as you see Him now."
There was a silence.
"Do you understand me, Bambi?" asked the old stag.
"I think so," Bambi said in a whisper.
"Then speak," the old stag commanded.
Bambi was inspired, and said trembling, "There is Another who is over us all, over us and over Him."
Felix Salten was an Austrian Jew whose books the Nazis banned in 1936. He fled to Switzerland in 1938. Some interpreters suggest that the hardships of the animals are based on the plight of Jews in Austria during this time, and that the hunting scene in which Bambi's mother dies is an allegorical pogrom. This may indeed be Salten's intent, but it would be a disservice to this novel to limit its allegory to a specific time and place. More immediately accessible to a reader of any generation is its depiction of the phases of life, which, as I mentioned before, mirrors Siddhartha. The book moves Bambi through childhood to a hotblooded youth and finally to an old age in which he is a hermit occupied with spiritual rather than worldly concerns.
I know of few other novels as moving as Bambi, and in fact I teared up simply by hunting for passages to use in this blog post. It is unfair that the book forming the basis of Disney's film is now largely forgotten; indeed, when I told people I was reading this, someone asked me if it was a pop-up book. Although a story about deer, it is really a reflection on man. To the animals, man is incomprehensible: some see him as a devil, others as a god. Salten explores these images from all sides, twisting them every which way until at last the conclusion brings a burst of clarity both simple and profound.
Bambi is superb both as a storybook for children and as a meditation for adults. The violence is frequent and sometimes graphic, but don't let that stop you. Read it.
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An aerial view of the campus and the sunset reflecting on the solar array. Filmed and capture by our Inspire 1 drone.
We just completed a successful film shoot in Barstow, CA for our regular clients Borrego Solar, documenting their recently installed solar array at the Barstow Community College.
Amazing effort by the local communities, and a super fun shoot getting to know the people behind a renewable energy movement at the College.
Levi Pike, our AC, helping setup one of the interviewees.
Interviewing the BCC President, with our FS7 setup.
Video is now entering the post-production phase, and should be ready and uploaded by the end of the month. Stay tuned for many more details.
Film, Behind The ScenesAfonso Salcedo April 5, 2016 barstow, corporate video, borrego solar, shoot, behind the scenesComment
Sarandon
Nothing inspires us more than surrounding ourselves with extremely smart creative people - people who have a zest for life, for fairness and kindness, that it makes all your daily struggles as an artist become all that much worth it. Yesterday, was one of those magical days. To the endless inspiration, we are thankful. More on this shoot later in the year...
A very special thank you to Michael Garlington, Susan Sarandon, Jennifer Raiser, David Reposar, and Lonnie Rivers. And everyone who made yesterday possible.
Susan Sarandon getting ready for the photoshoot by Michael Garlington. David Reposar and Lonnie Rivers did her makeup and hair for the shoot.
Film, Behind The Scenes, AnnouncementsAfonso Salcedo February 8, 2016 susan sarandon, behind the scenes, david reposar, lonnie rivers, fs7Comment
Sony Loves Us!
We are very excited to share an article Sony Pro USA recently published on their industry blog about one of our currently on-going documentary projects following Burning Man, the Temple, and much more.
Take a look at the article below, and tell us what you think!
http://blog.sony.com/press/tossing-sonys-pxw-fs7-into-the-crucible-of-creativity/
Burning Man 2015. Photograph by Afonso Salcedo.
Announcements, Behind The Scenes, Film, Video, PressAfonso Salcedo January 15, 2016 afonso salcedo, burning man, sony fs7, fs7, sony, a7riiComment
One of our favorite things is the pre-production stage where we go to all these potential locations to do some photo/film tests, play with angles, with colors, and test some ideas for upcoming shoots.
It's the blank canvas before you start your first brushstroke.
We recently spent a few hours at the St. Regis in San Francisco, to test some ideas out for a potential upcoming fashion film shoot in December.
Behind The Scenes, Film, UpdatesAfonso Salcedo November 20, 2015 location scouting, st. regis, san francisco, a7rii, natalie crane, charlotte welch, house of borelComment
Keyboardio Kickstarter
Our kickstarter video is now officially a kickstarter staff pick!
Our Kickstarter video campaign for Keyboard.io reached its goal of $120,000 in less than two hours!
With our previous Kickstarter success story of raising close to half a million dollars on GUSTIN jeans, we immediately fell in love with Keyboadio and knew we could help them be successful.
— Afonso Salcedo, Sutro Studios
We are very proud to finally share the work we've been doing for the past six months. Back in January 2015, we started working on a Kickstarter video campaign for Keyboard.io, a small startup from Oakland, CA who was building these amazing ergonomic keyboards, open sourced, with a maple wood enclosure.
From our first meeting, we immediately fell in love with the product, the Model 01 keyboard they had already designed and built. And we knew we had to help them out with their Kickstarter video.
Having worked another hugely successful Kickstarter campaign when we started our business two years ago (GUSTIN Jeans), we knew the kind of story we wanted to create. We wanted to show the passion of Jesse and Kaia, husband and wife, and how they created one of the most comfortable keyboards we have ever used. We started filming almost immediately back in January, and capturing as much footage as we could to use on telling their inspiring story.
The process was extremely intensive. Between some production delays on their end, and working some filming logistics on ours, and of course the back-and-forth of editing a cut together, it eventually finally launched this morning on Kickstarter.
Sutro Studios did all the filming, editing, color grading, and overall creative direction for the video. At one point, we hired our good friends and outstanding collaborators Jayson Carpenter and Max Savage at Noisy Savage here in San Francisco (http://www.noisysavage.com) to film one of the interviews for us, and our good friends and long-time collaborators Scott Mason from Oct28 Productions (http://oct28productions.com) in NYC to capture a couple of interviews on the East Coast. We also hired Sebastian Wendell to cover a user group meeting for Keyboardio, and he captured great footage throughout.
We couldn't be happier to have had access to such a talented team of people to help us out with this project.
Sutro Studios did all the filming, editing, color grading, and overall creative direction for the Kickstarter video.
We always love collaborating and working with other teams of insanely talented artists, and knowing that we could count on Noisy Savage and Oct28 Productions to help us get all the footage we needed, only made everything better.
With a tight deadline fast-approaching, we constantly used frame.io as the main client review system for notes and comments on the video. With its easy- to-use interface, and great feedback system, it was easy to get timecode comments on each version of the video. Our productivity went through the roof with frame.io, and allowed us to create fast iterations.
Towards the end we used Slack as the main chat board for quick comments and discussions, between Sutro Studios and the Keyboardio team. We could immediately comment on everything, discuss ideas for the final cut of the video, and pin items that were urgent to fix. Slack is a super valuable tool to our business, and one that we will use much more in the future.
All editing was done on Mac Pros using Final Cut, and color grading using DaVinci Resolve. These have quickly become our go-to solutions for quick turnarounds and successful storytelling of cinematic content, and we couldn't be happier with our office suite.
So... this creative marathon is done. And another huge success story for Sutro Studios. We couldn't be prouder of Keyboardio, and they have been one of our favorite clients to work with.
We'll be updating this story throughout the campaign, over the next 30 days.
Film, Behind The Scenes, Announcements, UpdatesAfonso Salcedo June 15, 2015 kickstarter, keyboardio, afonso salcedo, noisy savage, oct28 productions, scott mason, jayson carpenter, lifehacker, bloomberg, jesse vincent, kaia dekker, keyboard, crowdfunding, davinci resolve, final cut pro x, final cut proComment
Houghton College
Houghton College and borrego solar have completed a 2.5 megawatt on-site solar energy installation – the largest on a college campus in New York State.
sutro studios was there filming and capturing the story.
The system will generate an estimated 3.15 million kilowatt hours of electricity in its first year of operation—the equivalent amount of energy needed to power 370 homes annually—and will allow the college to realize a 23 percent first-year greenhouse gas reduction and save up to $4.3 million during the 25-year power purchase agreement contract period.
— WXXI News
Atomos Shogun recorder in action at Houghton College, NY.
A screen grab from the shot shown above. We usually quickly apply a simple grade on top of the footage, to just start getting an idea of the feel and mood for the whole video.
Houghton is committed to being carbon neutral by 2050. This new solar array will get us 23 percent of the way there,” he said. “We expect to save $119,000 on electricity during the first year of operation, and $4.3 million during the 25-year power purchase agreement contract period.
— Brian Webb, Houghton College Sustainability Coordinator
The campus of Houghton College is perfect to film.
The FS700 and Atomos Shogun provide a ton of flexibility in capturing great footage if you know the camera well, and understand the power of color grading in post-production. Here we have a very quick and simple grade to test a certain look for the footage.
The solar project reflects both Houghton College’s commitment to renewable energy and our commitment to form creative partnerships for the greater good of our region,
— Shirley Mullen, Houghton College President
Our creative team filming behind the scenes one of the student interviews. Levi Pike of Redbone Media to the left shooting on his 5Dm3 and SmallHD monitor, and Tommy Sunderland (right) of Borrego Solar conducting the interviews.
The students at Houghton College are extremely well spoken, and these were some of the easiest interviews we have ever filmed. We took advantage of a natural shade structure to be able to capture soft lighting outdoors, during a pretty bright sunny afternoon. Simple color grade applied to start testing skin tones, and overall look of the image and interviews.
The project was created and built by Borrego Solar Systems Inc., a designer, developer and installer of grid-tied solar photovoltaic systems, and financed by WGL Energy, through a power purchase agreement that covered the costs.
— Olean Times Herald
Atomos Shogun quickly became our favorite tool in production. That microphone is pretty incredible too, especially for outdoor environments.
Another screen grab of the students we filmed at Houghton. We love playing with composition for the interviews. Outdoors always provides great flexibility and opportunities for cinematic backgrounds, and for guiding the eye in a subtle way.
With this solar installation, Houghton College has taken a leadership role in sustainability in the education space. You’re going to see a lot more 2.5 to 2.6 megawatt solar arrays being constructed all around the state in the upcoming years,
— Amy McDonough, Sr. Project Developer, Borrego Solar
With this project, Houghton College has shown itself to be a leader in clean energy investment in New York State.
— John B. Rhodes, NYSERDA President
Indoors filming an interview with Brian Webb from Houghton College. Litepanels LED are great for this kind of setup and give a nice soft light with great control of color temperature and hardness.
Shooting indoor interviews in office settings is always a challenge. You have to think about composition to make it interesting, and lighting that typically is very artificial and lifeless. Since we're going for a more cinematic tone, you can see here how we planned this composition for the interview. With Brian on the right of the frame, lit by a couple of soft LitePanel LEDs, the key from screen right, we can still take advantage of the outdoor campus to capture some contextual and interesting activity.
This is one way that we can do that with reliable and renewable energy that will remove a significant portion of our fossil fuel usage and create energy with a contract that we have now for 25 years with Borrego Solar to essentially lock us into a solid rate that’ll be economic and hopefully save about $2.5 estimated million dollars for the university over the 20-year period.
— Marshall Green, Public Relations Specialist, Houghton College
Levi Pike from Redbone Media was our assistant throughout the shoot. He's helping with sound testing for an indoor shoot with the President of Houghton College. We only had a couple of minutes available to us to film an interview after the luncheon meeting with the people associated with the solar array project, so we had to plan this carefully. With a very clinical and relatively uninteresting room, we found an American flag in the corner, and quickly realized this could be the perfect setting for an interview background. We used gaffers tape to secure the interview spot to save time in the end, and to extend the flag on the background wall.
And here's the result, with a quick small color grade applied. With two LitePanel LEDs and diffusers, we get a pretty even and attractive lighting effect for this interview. The key coming from screen left, and a soft fill is pointing towards the wall on screen right to fill in the shadows a bit, and create a bit of a vignette around her. For such a simple and challenging shot, we can still get a cinematic look if you take care in observing what's around you before filming.
The solar project reflects both Houghton College’s commitment to renewable energy and our commitment to form creative partnerships for the greater good of our region.
— Shirley Mullen, President, Houghton College
Closeup of one of the thousands of solar panels part of this new solar array at Houghton College, by Borrego Solar.
A screen grab of a shot we did of one of the rows of the array at Houghton College. Thanks to Borrego Solar, this solar array will be one of the largest solar arrays in an American college campus. Here, we set the FS700 filming a bit of a long shot on a tripod, so that we can speed it up in editing/post and capture the reflection of the clouds moving across the array. It's one simple way of adding interest to what typically can be a pretty cold mechanical shot, and it works really well for this perspective. We are also playing with lines to add a more dynamic and richer depth to this shot.
About Houghton College
Houghton College is a liberal arts institution that challenges students to academic excellence in the context of a relevant Christian community and empowers them to enrich the world. The college of 1,000 students is located in Western New York just 65 miles from Buffalo and Rochester. For more information, please visit http://www.houghton.edu.
About Borrego Solar
Established in 1980, Borrego Solar Systems, Inc. is one of the nation's leading financiers, designers, developers and installers of commercial and utility solar power systems. Borrego Solar's photovoltaic systems are efficient, reliable and cost-effective. With more than three decades of experience and more than 1,000 solar power installations completed—totaling over 150 MW—Borrego Solar offers a complete line of solar system design and installation services throughout North America. Borrego Solar was recently ranked as the #2 commercial EPC in the United States and the #2 commercial contractor in California by Solar Power World. For more information, visit http://www.borregosolar.com.
Behind The Scenes, Film, AnnouncementsAfonso Salcedo April 18, 2015 houghton, houghton college, brian webb, shirley mullen, tommy sunderland, levi pike, afonso salcedo, marshall green, borrego solar, fs700, sony, atomos shogun, color grading, behind the scenes, new york, videography, videoComment
Nuke and Resolve
We've been working non-stop over the past couple of weeks in some new videos that we cannot wait to share more details on. Depending heavily on Nuke for compositing, and Resolve for color grading, these have been incredibly challenging to complete, but it's some of the most fun we've had.
The power and flexibility of compositing in Nuke using its 3D environment, mixed with the color grading power of DaVinci Resolve is nothing short of outstanding. And this being officially the first big project we complete in our new office space in Oakland, makes it all even more exciting.
Since we can't yet share details of what this is is, here's a little tease that shows a before and after of a single frame. We were given the green screen plate you see on top, and we created what you see in the bottom frame.
Need some green screen keying? Compositing? Grading? Need to learn any of these things? Let us know. We're soon starting small private lessons and workshops in our office space to teach some of these things. Send us a message in our contact page for more information.
Film, Behind The ScenesAfonso Salcedo February 18, 2015 green screen, keying, compositing, nuke, resolve, grading, color grading, 3d Comment
Interview Shoot
We ended another crazy busy week in the best way possible: our interview shoot with the super talented people behind Keyboardio.
If you haven't been following our recent posts, we have been working on creating a video for Keyboardio's upcoming Kickstarter campaign. This is a highly anticipated crowdfunding event, so we couldn't be more excited to have partnered up with them in creating this video. Friday was the official interview shoot for the video.
With our arsenal of tools ranging from the FS700, the BlackMagic Pocket, a couple of monitors, some Kinos, and more, we filmed for two or three hours and we couldn't be happier about the results. This duo have an amazing story to share, and the keyboard they created and designed is insanely great. We've tried it several times already, and honestly, we cannot wait to have one ourselves!
Stay tuned for more details soon about the video and the campaign. Until then, check out the photo from Friday's shoot!
Behind The Scenes, Film, VideoAfonso Salcedo February 14, 2015 keyboardio, keyboard, kickstarter, videoComment
We <3 Keyboardio
We've recently been working alongside Keyboardio to create a video for their upcoming crowdfunding campaign. We won't go into too many details for now, but we couldn't be more excited about this product.
The work this incredible team (husband and wife) has done over the past couple of years to design, create, and bring this product to reality is staggering to say the least, and the product feels, and looks nothing short of amazing.
We can't wait to have the video ready for all you guys to see, but we're still a couple of shoots away. And of course, we couldn't be more excited to finally get our hands on one of these keyboards ourselves and use them in our everyday lives at home, and at work.
As a quick teaser, check the two video grabs below for today's shoot.
Behind The Scenes, FilmAfonso Salcedo January 23, 2015 keyboard, keyboardio, kickstarter, indiegogo, crowdfunding, gadgets, startup, fs700, atomos shogunComment
Szabo Shoot
Back in November we started filming a short documentary video for online distribution about local artist and sculptor Michael Szabo. It's still an on-going project, and one that we're very excited about.
It's been incredibly inspiring to see Michael and his team work tirelessly in their warehouse in San Francisco, and capturing some great cinematic shots while they build stunning new art.
This project will keep on going over the next two or three months, so we can't share much until then, but for now, check out the two following screen captures from our most recent shoot.
Stay tuned for more...
Film, Behind The ScenesAfonso Salcedo January 19, 2015 michael szabo, szabo, sculpture, sculptor, welding, san francisco, artist, warehouse, working, soldering, fire, slow motion, fs700Comment
We just completed our first day for a shoot with our friends at Torres Studios, at Trulia, one of the leaders in the real estate and rental industries.
Torres Studios hired us to assist with the shoot as a secondary camera. Great way to start the week, working alongside some of our favorite people in the Bay Area!
Behind The Scenes, FilmAfonso Salcedo July 28, 2014 trulia, zillow, film, torres, agency, real estate, rentals, san francisco, bay area, apps, techComment
We started doing some location scouting in San Francisco today, for a potential film Afonso Salcedo might DP this summer.
Always fun doing some tests with a camera, and seeing where we could take the image and the color profile of the images for the film. And of course, figure out the logistics and planning for actually using certain locations for the shoots.
Many more to come... This is only the beginning.
Behind The Scenes, FilmAfonso Salcedo May 19, 2014 filmmaking, film production, scouting, sony a7rComment
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Our Steel Industry Needs European Cooperation
28th March 2016 18th April 2016 Emma.Russell Prosperity
The story of Port Talbot is a classic example of government deceit and incompetence.
Sajid Javid has had the gall to blame the EU for not introducing tariffs on Chinese steel, which is being dumped on world markets and destroying higher-quality European production facilities. But it was the British government that blocked these higher tariffs that were proposed by the EU Commission, arguing for free trade as part of the national kowtow to China. So our government has refused to protect our steel industry in order to attract Chinese cash and is now deceitfully blaming Brussels for failure to act.
So would we be better off outside the EU where we could set our own tariffs on Chinese steel? There are two reasons why this clearly would not be the case. First, it was our government that was blocking the tariffs on Chinese steel at European level so we would be unlikely to see them imposed in the UK. Secondly, we are a small steel producer on our own but much stronger in the world markets when we work alongside the industries of Germany, France, and Italy.
Our government has kowtowed to the Chinese but they have proved themselves to be bad allies, now imposing 46% tariffs on European steel. We would be much better off playing a constructive role in EU and working with our European partners to protect the European steel industry and steel jobs across the continent.
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No. 10s are dying breeds in soccer
July 18, 2019 Rafe Anderson
Mesut Ozil's Arsenal decline shows that the classic No. 10 position is dying in soccer, as ESPN’s Ryan O’Hanlon explains, with the help of TruMedia’s ProVision product…
“Across 35 games [in the 2015-16 Premier League season], Arsenal's Mesut Ozil created 146 total chances -- 20 more than any other player since 2010, according to TruMedia data. His 19 assists are the high-water mark in the Premier League this decade, as are the 28 Big Chances (defined by Opta as "a situation where a player should reasonably be expected to score") he created. From Sept. 26 through Nov. 21, Ozil recorded an assist in seven straight games, something no Premier League player had ever done before and no one's done since. In fact, only 18 other players in the league that year even reached seven assists across the entire season.”
Full article: ESPN.com
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Could Mbappe run down his contract?
ESPN’s Ryan O’Hanlon uses TruMedia’s ProVision product to contextualize the accomplishments of Kylian Mbappe at age 20, and what might happen if Mbappe runs down his contract…
“According to TruMedia data, which goes back to the 2010-11 season, Mbappe's 33 Ligue 1 goals last season were the most of any player age 20 or under in Europe's big five leagues in that time period. When they were in the same age bracket, Lionel Messi topped out at 14 goals, while Cristiano Ronaldo never got above nine.”
Tyler Lockett's outrageously efficient 2018
In his article about Tyler Lockett’s stellar 2018 season, ESPN’s Seth Walder uses a TruMedia-generated arrow chart to illustrate where and how efficiently Tyler Lockett caught downfield passes last season.
“What's noticeable right away, besides how many catches (red) there are for deep passes, is that Lockett has two clear clusters of routes: down the right sideline and across the field from right to left.
But the inverse, crossing routes from left to right, are missing. That was surprising because with a right-handed scrambling quarterback like Russell Wilson, I expected plenty of improvised routes from the left to the right. Part of the reason those routes are missing is because Lockett lines up on Wilson's right 62% of the time. But the other factor is that Wilson is willing to make unconventional throws, running to the right and throwing to the left anyway…”
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Is Barcelona over-reliant on Lionel Messi?
ESPN’s Ryan O’Hanlon uses TruMedia’s product to examine the numbers around Barcelona’s reliance on Lionel Messi…
“According to TruMedia data going back to 2010, Messi created a career-high 24.2% of Barcelona's chances (assists plus key passes) when he was on the field in 2017-18. Barca were even more reliant on him to put the ball on goal, as he accounted for 39.2% of their shots, his second-highest proportion since 2010. This past season, Messi upped his importance as a creator (28.3%) while maintaining a similar proportion of shots (37.9%). If you add both numbers, Messi was responsible for 63.4% of Barca's total shots in 2017-18 and 66.2% last season. This is unprecedented, as the previous high was 55.5% in 2012-13.”
tags soccer, espn
Carr profiled by hometown paper
June 21, 2019 Rafe Anderson
TruMedia Networks’ Paul Carr was profiled in The Topeka Capital-Journal:
“A product Carr used extensively in his work with ESPN ultimately provided an opportunity to continue in sports research, but to work from the home base of his choosing. A web-engineering firm called TruMedia turns mountains of sports statistics and data into user-friendly products, to be used by both media and professional sports teams.”
Full article: The Topeka Capital-Journal
tags trumedia
Is the third-time-through-the-order effect being reduced?
ESPN’s Bradford Doolittle uses TruMedia's research tool to examine how and why the third-time-through-the-order effect may be reduced this season:
“Since 2009, the OPS-allowed progression for pitchers by number of times facing a hitter in a game goes like this: 1. .706, 2. .746, 3. .780. After that, the progression breaks down due to selection bias -- only pitchers throwing especially well are allowed to get into a lineup for a fourth time. …
Thus far, at the aggregate level, the third-time-through effect is not present at this juncture of the season. I wouldn't want to declare why without doing a thorough deep-dig on it, so consider this a theory: The selection bias that we have always seen with fourth-time-through measures has now expanded to the third time. In other words, managers are doing a better job at weeding out those pitchers who aren't effective the third time through opposing lineups, and doing a better job of identifying when pitchers are throwing well enough to take on that challenge.”
Le Sommer scores earliest WWC goal in opener
The first goal of this year’s Women’s World Cup was one for the record books…
“[Eugénie Le Sommer’s] finish was hardly immaculate, but goalkeeper Kim Jung-mi got only a soft hand to it and the ball pinged the underside of the bar and went into the net for the earliest goal in a Women’s World Cup opener, per TruMedia Sports.”
Full article: Yahoo Sports
tags soccer, Yahoo Sports
Carli Lloyd's scoring rate remains high
Anger fuels Carli Lloyd, as she still produces goals and assists while coming off the bench…
“And she has remained productive, even as her minutes have diminished. By the time 2016 ended, Lloyd had started 176 games in 202 appearances for the US. Since the calendar flipped to 2017, she has been a substitute in 28 of 42 matches. And yet she has held steady, notching a goal or an assist every 88 minutes, according to TruMedia analyst Paul Carr. That is nearly the same level of production as Alex Morgan, the team’s designated starter in Lloyd’s striker spot.”
Full article: The Guardian
tags soccer, The Guardian
SHOULD YOU ADD THESE RED-HOT HITTERS?
TruMedia’s site powers Tim Heaney’s ESPN.com article, looking at four hot players to consider adding to your fantasy baseball team…
“After all, [Avisail Garcia’s] top-50 average exit velocity of 91.0 mph from 2017 to '19 ranks higher than those of Mike Trout, Mookie Betts, Juan Soto and Francisco Lindor. Similar to what Tampa Bay faced with Diaz, Garcia's launch angle wasn't clicking; in 2019, he's crept upward at 11.2 degrees, up from 9.3 and 9.0, respectively, in turn increasing his homer potential. He's also targeted the 10-to-30-degree window, which is optimal for homers, 33.1 percent of the time -- a stark improvement from 2018's 24.6 percent.”
tags espn, mlb
Vlad Jr.'s early stats are promising
May 22, 2019 Rafe Anderson
Among the first impressions that ESPN’s Bradford Doolittle has about Vladimir Guerrero, Jr.:
“Guerrero's advanced approach also shows up in his ability to spoil pitches by fouling them off, something that was evident a couple of times over the weekend. As a 20-year-old, he's fouled off 37.1 percent of the pitches he's swung at so far, according to TruMedia, which is a tick below the big league average. The same holds true for his ability to foul off two-strike offerings.”
Are .300 hitters a thing of the past?
ESPN’s Bradford Doolittle wonders if .300 hitters are a thing of the past, exploring increased pitcher velocity and advancements in hitting analysis.
“The frequency with which Pujols now faces high-power velocity hasn't done him any favors, either. Remember that figure of 196 homers he has hit with the Angels? According to TruMedia, only four of them have come against the 1,050 pitches he has seen that have registered at 96 mph or greater. “
Dean Oliver previews Basketball Analytics Summit
April 12, 2019 Rafe Anderson
Our Dean Oliver previews this weekend’s SPEIA Basketball Analytics Summit, where he is a featured speaker:
“We live in a world that’s driven by data,” Oliver said. “Understand this a great opportunity to understand how data is actually making a difference in a very prominent industry that we’re all familiar with.”
Full article: Spectacular Magazine
categories Conferences, In the Media
tags basketball
Is Le'Veon Bell worth $52.5M?
March 14, 2019 Rafe Anderson
The Washington Post’s Neil Greenberg uses TruMedia’s expected-points model to suggest thats the Jets $52 million investment in Le’Veon Bell may not be the wisest use of cap space:
“…when the Pittsburgh Steelers targeted Bell out of the backfield in 2017, the team scored less than a half point more per game than expected after accounting for the down, distance and field position of each throw, per data from TruMedia. On his carries, the Steelers produced 1.7 points per game less than expected.”
Full story: The Washington Post
tags Washington Post, nfl
What to Expect from Marwin Gonzalez
February 25, 2019 Rafe Anderson
Twins Daily, part of ESPN’s SweetSpot Network, uses TruMedia’s site to explore what to expect from Minnesota signing Marwin Gonzalez this season:
“Per ESPN/TruMedia’s data, in 2017, Gonzalez had a .794 batting average on line drives as a lefty. Coincidentally, only Logan Morrison (.805) had a better average. The rest of the league’s left-handed constituency sat at .687. So Gonzalez was performing well above the norm which may have been an indication to expect regression. Last year that number dropped to .613. Part of the reason for this is that his line drives carried a bit further than his previous season. In 2017 his average liner went 257 feet on average but was at 268 feet in 2018, meaning fewer liners dropped in front of the outfielders and infielders. Hitting the ball hard on a line is obviously preferential, however there are some diminishing returns when more liners become midrange instead of short or long.”
tags mlb
Tom Brady Misses Josh Gordon
The Boston Globe uses TruMedia data to explore how the Patriots have adjusted without Josh Gordon:
“With Gordon gone, Brady has made more short, high-percentage throws to his most reliable receivers. His average Air Yards per attempt, according to TruMedia Networks, has dropped about 14 percent from 7.8 to 6.7 Air Yards, and a significant number of throws that had gone in Gordon’s direction have been redirected towards more reliable options White and Edelman.”
Full article: Boston Globe
tags nfl, Boston Globe
Inside the numbers of Wu Lei, Espanyol's new signing
For the OptaPro blog, TruMedia’s Paul Carr wrote about Wu Lei, Espanyol's new signing whose stellar numbers in China may be deceiving.
“Wu’s surface-level statistics look great. After scoring 20 goals in 2017, he led the CSL with 27 goals last season, as his club won the championship and ended Guangzhou Evergrande’s streak of seven straight titles.
Wu has surpassed his expected goals total in six straight seasons, so the 27-year-old may possess above-average finishing ability. However, Wu’s success in 2018 was fueled by an impossible-to-maintain finishing rate.”
Full article: OptaPro blog
tags soccer, OptaPro
Fly sweep gains popularity as shotgun usage grows
January 08, 2019 Rafe Anderson
ESPN.com’s Kevin Van Valkenburg tracks the history of the fly sweep, which has gained popularity in the NFL as use of shotgun offenses grows…
“The NFL a storied history of ignoring (or marginalizing) eccentric football minds like Stitt's. … That may be changing, though, the more the NFL begins to resemble the wide-open nature of the college game. According to ESPN TruMedia tracking, 63 percent of NFL plays this season were run with the quarterback in shotgun. Kansas City led the league, with Patrick Mahomes in the shotgun at the start of 80 percent of its plays. There is a reason offensive wiz kids like Kliff Kingsburry, Lincoln Riley and Matt Campbell have been mentioned as serious candidates for NFL jobs, despite limited experience or mixed results in college. They're seen as the next generation of innovators.”
tags nfl, espn
Saints a big winner on Wild Card weekend
The Washington Post says the Saints were big winners on Wild Card weekend, as they’ll face a relatively weak Eagles secondary…
“The Eagles will travel to New Orleans to face the Saints, the top seed in the NFC, which also features one of this year’s top quarterbacks in Drew Brees. … Bears quarterback Mitchell Trubisky, by comparison, ended the regular season ranked 30th out of 32 qualified passers. That’s quite a difference for an Eagles pass coverage unit who has seen opponents score almost three points more per game than expected based on the down, distance and field position of each throw against them, per data from TruMedia.”
Full article: The Washington Post
tags nfl, Washington Post
Fatal Flaws in Every Playoff Team
Neil Greenberg highlights potentially fatal flaws in each NFL playoff team, using advanced statistics including TruMedia’s expected points added model.
“Passers have completed 67 percent of their throws against the Saints for an average rating of 100.3, roughly the equivalent of Goff’s 2018 number (101.1). Looked at another way, New Orleans allowed three points more per game than expected after taking into account the down, distance and field position of each pass against. Only seven other teams, just one a playoff contender (Chiefs), were worse in 2018, per data from TruMedia.”
Bears defense makes them wild-card favorite
The Bears defense makes Chicago the pick to cover the spread in the wild-card round, says The Washington Post’s Neil Greenberg:
“Chicago was the first team since 2006 to record both 50 sacks and 25 interceptions, plus allowed a league low 1.4 points per drive (league average was 2.0) with the fifth-best red zone defense (50 percent), forcing opponents three-and-out more than a third of the time (36 percent, fifth best). It was so good opponents scored almost 10 points fewer per game than expected based on the down, distance and field position of each play against. No other defense came close per data from TruMedia.”
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Terence Scully
Terence Scully’s principal study is in the field of late medieval and Renaissance food and cookery. In particular he has devoted effort to accurate transcriptions of recipe collections in manuscript and rare early printed volumes in order both to understand the nature of that material and to make it more readily available to scholars (and to all others in whom he can stir an interest).
He considers a meticulously authentic text to be the indispensable basis for any real understanding in this field. For that text, as an impetus to further study by other scholars and fuller appreciation by a general public, he feels that a translation into English may often be useful. His publications offer, as well, his own observations about the ways in which a specific recipe or a collection of recipes may have contributed to the progressive history of Early European food and cookery.
The following are among his books in the genre. They are available from the respective publisher or else their ISBN number can help a local bookstore obtain them.
Principal publications of Terence Scully (March 2015)
The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages,
Woodbridge, Suffolk (Boydell & Brewer), 1995.
viii+276 pp. ISBN 0851156118.
TX645 S39 1995.
The book offers a broad survey of food habits in Western Europe, particularly in the 14th and 15th centuries. At the same time it examines the conditions under which professional cooks practiced their craft and applied the fundamental rules that medical doctrine of the time insisted were at the foundation of good health. During the late Middle Ages fine cookery was the preserve of aristocratic households. To maintain the wellbeing and complete trust of his master a cook had to set out dishes that created no suspicion of harmful effect, whether accidental or deliberate; in a worthy kitchen the court physician’s precepts were the fundamental articles of the cook’s culinary craft. As well, the chef had to prepare common meals and extravagant banquets that accommodated his master’s preferences, regional tastes, seasonal availability of foodstuffs and severe religious strictures about lean and meat preparations.
Early French Cookery. Sources, History, Original Recipes and Modern Adaptations,
in collaboration with D. Eleanor Scully,
Ann Arbor (University of Michigan Press), 1995,
xii+377 pp. ISBN 0472106481.
TX719 S3895 1995 (Nat Lib S389).
Reprint, paperback, 2002; ISBN 0472088777.
Manuscript collections of culinary recipes allow us the most accurate insight into European food and cooking in the late Middle Ages. Only three recipe collections reveal what was commonly eaten by the well to-do of France during that period. This book selects a broad assortment of dishes from each collection and provides information about each type of dish, recipes in a “modern” format using more precise measurements and directions than are found in the early manuscripts.
Following a sketch of the historic circumstances of each book—the royal Viandier of Taillevent, the bourgeois Menagier de Paris and Chiquart’s noble On Cookery — 114 of the best and most typical recipes will allow a present-day cook both to recreate the dishes and to combine them in highly interesting meals. To help identify the nature of each recipe, the material is arranged in categories of possible use today: appetizers, soups, preparations for vegetables, eggs, meats, poultry, fish, sauces, and what at the present-day table we would call desserts. The adaptations here offer expert suggestions for quantities as well as procedures and cooking times, all of which details were normally absent in early recipes that were intended only to guide professional cooks of the day. A segment of the book offers suggestions for assembling these recipes into five common varieties of meal, including a modest banquet with appropriate décor and table manners.
“Du fait de cuisine / On Cookery” of Master Chiquart (1420) (Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, 354),
Tempe, Arizona (Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies), 2010.
viii+327 pp. ISBN 9780866984027.
TX707 C4813 2010.
Medieval Savoy was a relatively small state but one that was wealthy in terms of agriculture, animal husbandry and easy access to both freshwater and sea fish. It offered at hand all the foodstuffs a well-financed cook could desire. When Count Amadeus VIII became Duke Amadeus I in 1416, nominally his status became that of his father-in-law, Duke Philip the Bold of Burgundy, the wealthiest and most powerful man in Europe. It is not surprising that Amadeus, a protégé of Philip from his youngest years, admired and then emulated the sumptuous manner of life that he experienced on his visits to the Burgundian court.
Dining was central in that emulation. Duke Amadeus urged his chief cook, Chiquart, to make a book of his best recipes in order that posterity could appreciate a vital aspect of his glorious Savoyard ducal court. In writing his On Cookery, Chiquart frequently displays his pride in the high regard his master had for both his knowledge and his practice of the craft of cookery. An appendix of his book records the dishes, serving by serving, of an enormous banquet he prepared in 1400 for his master’s reception of the Duke of Burgundy himself. In his recipes, he records not merely lists of ingredients for the dishes but he explains to his reader in a rather personal way all the whys and hows of actually making a particular dish. One may properly claim that Chiquart’s work represents a first step toward a modern cookbook.
The Opera of Bartolomeo Scappi (1570). L’arte et prudenza d’un maestro Cuoco,
Toronto (University of Toronto Press), 2008. vii+787 pp.
Reprint, paperback, 2011: ISBN 9781442611481.
For the breadth of his interest in foodstuffs Scappi is indeed a Renaissance man, but he is first and foremost an ecclesiastical cook. The cardinal to whose kitchen he was appointed became pope as Pius V in 1566, and took Scappi with him to the Vatican. In time Scappi retained his position as personal papal cook to his successor, Pius VI. For more than a generation he held the position of supreme cook in all Christendom. With that status he was supremely able, financially and in every respect, to create succulent magnificence for a prince’s table and palate.
Scappi’s book contains an incredible 1500 recipes and many menus. A series of 27 absolutely unique engravings reveal the layouts of three adjacent kitchens in which a noble’s various foods could properly be prepared; cooking utensils (more than 170 of them); procedures (such as how to move a giant cauldron to or from a fire); equipment for an itinerant kitchen to accompany a lord who travels; the furnishings required in a cardinal’s cell. A fascinating addendum to Scappi’s book is an exposé of arrangements rigorously in place for serving and “proving”—that is, testing —food provided to cardinals during the conclave of November 1549 in which Scappi’s master participated.
This translation and commentary was chosen to be reviewed as the “Book of the Week” by Times Higher Education, London, March 19, 2009. The printed article awarded it critical acclaim.
La Varenne’s Cookery: François Pierre, Sieur de La Varenne, The French Cook, The French Pastry Chef, The French Confectioner. A Modern English Translation and Commentary,
Totnes, Devon (Prospect Books), 2006. 626 pp.
ISBN 1903018412.
The name of François Pierre, Sieur de La Varenne (c. 1615–1678), is attached to three major culinary works: Le cuisinier François (1651), Le pastissier François (1653), and Le confiturier François (1659). Employed by the Marquis d’Uxelles, himself a confidant, advisor and military general of King Louis XIV, the Sun King, François Pierre’s culinary competence was developed to the highest. The publication of his books spread his influence so widely in French and European courts that the name La Varenne became synonymous with the finest cuisine. His work went far to establish “French” cooking as the standard against which gastronomy had to be measured.
Following an Introduction devoted to cookery in France in this period, to La Varenne’s work and on his workday, the translation presents the three texts in their entirety, along with explanations where useful. His major work, The French Cook itself, sets out 750 detailed recipes in 30 chapters: Meat-Day Pottages, Pastries for the whole year, Egg Dishes as Entrées outside of Lent, Entremets in Lent, Thickeners to keep on hand, and so forth. Many recipes supply alternatives for ingredients or preparation, useful to any cook whose master’s palate demands variety. The French Pastry Chef reveals the amazing range of preparations using dough and batter in LaVarenne’s day. The French Confectioner, of unproven attribution but certainly of La Varenne’s day, offers a wide variety of cooked sugar preparations: confections (moist and dry), cordials, syrups, pralines, conserves, dragées, marzipans. Over eight pages—confections and tableware falling within the responsibility of the pantry office — the book lays out 33 paragraphs of detailed instructions for folding table linen to represent various fowl, animals and fish.
The Neapolitan Recipe Collection. Cuoco Napoletano. (New York, Pierpont Morgan Library, MS Bühler, 19).
A Critical Edition and English Translation,
Ann Arbor (University of Michigan Press), 2000. 6+256 pp.
Granted exclusive publication rights by the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Reprint paperback 2015; ISBN 0780472036363.
This early-15th-century collection of recipes, found in a single manuscript, contributed to an extremely rich tradition of Italian cookery. Although Naples had been a Norman (French) possession since the mid-14th century, the cookery that the recipes reveal and develop is richly Italian. In large measure this Italian cuisine influenced French cooks and allowed them in subsequent centuries to boast about being the supreme arbiters of European gastronomy.
For this translation an exhaustive introduction examines the nature of these Neapolitan dishes, their ingredients and preparation. The bulk of the work, here with both the original Italian text and a translation of it, consists of 220 recipes. Furthermore the writer appends a number of historic menus extensively listing dishes actually served to certain dignitaries (the Archbishop of Benevento, Count Jeronimo, the Prince of Capua, ambassadors and nobles). At one long meal a special dramatic entertainment, involving Venus, Jove, Diana, Neptune, Arion, Pan and Pomona, was presented andintermezzi of roasted, “redressed” animals also delighted the diners. The anonymous author of The Neapolitan Recipe Collection outlines two other general purpose menus for a convito at which seventy-six separate culinary preparations would suffice.
The Vivendier. A Fifteenth-Century French Culinary Manuscript (Kassel, GesamthochschulBibliothek Kassel, 4 MS med. 1, ff 154r–164v.),
Totnes, Devon (Prospect Books), 1997. viii+129 pp.
This is a relatively simple gathering of 66 recipes contained in a 15th-century manuscript. Its compiler has aimed at furnishing a reader with an adequate sampling of a variety of genres of dish: sauces, broths, caudels, ways to roast various meats, fish preparations including a fish jelly, egg dishes, sops, flans and pies, a pseudorice dish, vermicelli, and a simple preparation for anyone sick. A few artful “dishes” are surprising among such a basic set of recipes: To serve a roast hen that looks alive; To make a dead chicken sing; A fish cooked each third differently — roasted, boiled and fried; Eggs like a mirror.
The Viandier of Taillevent. An Edition of all Extant Manuscripts,
Ottawa (University of Ottawa Press), 1988. vii+361 pp.
TX707 Y3513 1988.
The name of Taillevent, though found nowhere on the oldest version of this recipe collection, came to stand by itself for the epitome of professional cooking throughout the French Middle Ages. No French recipe collection was more copied, or copies later printed, but each generation added and changed what was written in the very first version that we have of it. By the time the first printed versions of the Viandier were published, textual errors abound to the point of making nonsense of many of the recipes. This edition, in reproducing and translating each of the four manuscript versions of theViandier of Taillevent that still exist, shows clearly and significantly how older dishes were changed from generation to generation and new dishes were added as tastes changed. The earliest manuscript “version” of this set of recipes (anonymous, dating from before 1300) contains 130 recipes; the most recent rendition (from before 1450), skips some of the earlier dishes but still shows 200 recipes, of which 43 are found in that manuscript alone.
The celebrity of the Viandier is certainly based upon its originality — previous to this time neither kitchen work nor gastronomic pleasure warranted the expense of parchment and a scribe’s labour—and on the fact that for more than a century it remained the sole written culinary repertoire. Professional cooks had to have good memories. But the usefulness of the systematic arrangement of its subject matter — into boiled dishes (pottages, broths, sops), roasts, entremets, fish (first freshwater, then sea fish), and (very briefly) pastry—must also have increased its value in the eyes of many professional cooks and their employers.
L’arte della cucina nel medioevo,
Casale Monferrato (Edizioni Piemme), 1997. 334 pp.
This book is an Italian translation of the first item, above, The Art of Cookery in the Middle Ages. The publisher has inserted into it a good number of illustrations, primarily reproductions in colour of latemedieval manuscript illuminations.
© 2015 Terence Scully
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Spotlight On...Josh Fielden
Name: Josh Fielden
Hometown: Knoxville, TN
Education: The Studio New York
Select Credits: The Crucible (John Hale, The New Ohio); Romeo and Juliet (Romeo, Hudson Shakespeare); Things I Found On Craigslist (Dev Barlow, 29th Street Rep)
Why theater?: The arc. There's no greater learning experience then putting myself in someone else's shoes and allowing my body to learn a lesson. The depth in which you have to know a character to perform is greater than any class I ever taken. I love being in a creative environment no matter how painful it is. I am grateful to have the theater, I am grateful for the writes that when it's worth its salt, such as Kitchen Table Plays, it's like velvet coming out of my mouth. It's a great joy of mine and I'm pleasured to share my experience with an others.
Tell us About Kitchen Table Plays?: Kitchen Table Plays is a play about finding personal resolution in each of the plays given segments. We have a wonderful cast that is diverse in personality and life experiense and that in my opinion is the Joy of Theater; What happens when you mix a yellow and green? Our writer, Erin Breznitsky, brings a poetry to a very creative structure that I am honored to play in. Our director, Tamara Winters, has a super clear vision of the story we are telling which helps us as actors to find our freedom. It's simply beautiful.
What is it like being apart of the Kitchen Table Play?: It's thrilling being able to work on multiple characters is one show. It's so pleasing what each character allows me to express and discover about myself, and my my are the experiences varied. There is so much hope at the top and it ends in a sort of destruction.
What kind of theater speaks to you? What or who inspires you as an artist?: Theater is the exploration of the human condition, in my opinion, so to say is there a type of theater I cannot say. Just Committed. I'm just thankful for the opportunity that my life has come to this. I love the poetry of great writers thats all i need./ My inspiration is all around me, New York is my inspiration. There are so many people and characters and music and food and art and parks and New York! I love it hear and appreciate the difference from the north from the south in both directions. Now i get to sit in a happy medium. I am blessed. If there's one actor, Mark Rylance and actress Maggie Smith. They work there asses off.
Any roles you're dying to play?: Katurian Katurian in The Pillowman, Doug in Gruesome Playground Injuries, Every One in The Cherry Orchard, The Baker in Into the Woods. Hey I can dream!
What's your favorite showtune?: Marry Me A Little, Company. Johanna, Sweeney Todd
If you could work with any one who would it be?: David Cromer, Our Town was my favorite play as a kid and the way he brought me into that world made me so so happy. Nicky Silver does great work. I wanna do a scene with Kate Winslet.
Who would play you in a movie and what would it be called?: Haha, Hmm, Samuel L Jackson in The Musical: "Southey Falls for Concrete Halls". I don't know this is a funny thing to think about. Or maybe Leo when i still lived in Tennessee; Oblivious would be a fine title.
What shows have you recommended to your friends?: I took one of my good friends from home to Hand to God. Now this friend has never been to an Off- Off show and not really into theater and it left him speechless. Incredible Show! Fela! Long Days Journey. Book of Mormon.
What's your biggest Guilty pleasure?: Project Runway and Grape Ice-cream. Make it Work!
What's up next?: Web-Series- "Sky of the Damned". I hope to get into a musical next so we will see. My Birthdays August 17th, I think I'm gonna go to the Zoo!!!
Posted by Michael Block at 11:56 AM
Labels: Josh Fielden, Spotlight On
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